Useless Conversation

[Cyrrex]

Just because we have probably all heard about it and I have no idea where else to post it...the cause of Tiger's accident was that he was driving 83 in a 45 or some shit.

I cannot think of another human who I so once admired who it turns out is just an unbelievably disappointing human being.  Drive that fast in a 45, you deserve whatever the fuck happens to you. 

[Sky]

Aaron Rodgers needs to be the new host of Jeopardy. We like Ken Jennings and have been annoyed at the celeb hosts...until A A Ron. His personality and professionalism are on full display, it's awesome. We're both amazed it works, but it does.

https://www.theringer.com/tv/2021/4/5/22368705/aaron-rodgers-jeopardy-guest-host-q-and-a

Also, we just deleted all the Dr Oz eps (we're on DVR delay a bit). Fuck that guy.

[Khaldun]

The Dr. Oz news was enough to make me stop watching completely until they get their heads on straight. I'm not even very wild about Ken Jennings, and that's before he had his little embarrassments.

Speaking of him, the new version of The Chase with the three Jeopardy big dogs as the guys to beat is fucking woeful--the old version with Mark Labbett (aka "the Beast") had some charm and he was genuine enough. In the new version, none of those guys are really able to do banter in that format well, and cutting to the green room with the two who aren't in the hot seat to hear their dull commentary is just awful. They needed to come up with a twist--say that the contestants could burn a bit of money in order to force a switch between one of the hosts, or maybe if one person was by himself in the chase part, they could burn half their money to recruit one of the two inactive hosts to be on his team. Something to liven it up. They had one episode where none of the contestants could even GET to the chase and then they let them all come back in with a much better pot than they would have had if one of them had made it, which is just stupid--"yeah, you lost, so we're going to reward you for losing so horribly because we don't have a plan about what to do when a team is performing that badly".

[Sir T]

WHat Doctor Oz news is this? It must be something good as google doesn't want to show it to me.

[01101010]

WHat Doctor Oz news is this? It must be something good as google doesn't want to show it to me.

I assume he means when Dr. Oz was hosting Jeopardy.

[WayAbvPar]

He was definitely terrible. Which was no surprise, since he is a gaping rectum.

[HaemishM]

WHat Doctor Oz news is this? It must be something good as google doesn't want to show it to me.

I just assumed it was that Dr. Oz is a goddamn quack who pretends to be medically relevant while peddling Goop-level piles of ridiculous, dangerous and noxiously ignorant medical bullshit.

[Cyrrex]

Am I remembering wrong, or was Oz a guy that actually seemed both credible and intelligent in the early days, and then just turned into an absolute quack once he started getting some celebrity status? 

[Chimpy]

Am I remembering wrong, or was Oz a guy that actually seemed both credible and intelligent in the early days, and then just turned into an absolute quack once he started getting some celebrity status? 

He was portrayed that way but he has always been a quack talking about things he knew nothing about. He was telegenic and was saying stuff that appealed to Oprah’s viewers so she gave him a platform.

[HaemishM]

Yes, Oz has always been right up to the line of "this crystal will reset your chakras, white housewife from the suburbs" without going full "egg in vagina" Goop-level. He is just as phony a medical doctor as Dr. Phil  is as a shrink.

[01101010]

So finally decided to upgrade my tired iPhone8 which has been having more bad days than good. Ordered an upgrade from T-Mobile a few days ago and it was shipped as expected. Was out for delivery yesterday and suddenly I got an update that it could not be delivered due to unknown receiver name/address. Odd. Never occurred before, but went back to the distribution center and was out for delivery again today. Box arrived today about an hour ago, went down and got it from the locker service. Opened the box and surprise, the iPhone box is empty save for the documentation. Lovely call with local T-mobile service here in Denver and started the reporting and replacement process. What a hassle...

I get theft happens, but this whole thing is strange in that it seemed to occur within UPS given the suspicious shipment activity. On top of that, why steal a device that is 1) T-mobile specific device and can theoretically only be used on that network and 2) is tracked electronically, cellular and wifi.

Had to vent...

[Chimpy]

T-Mobile doesn't carrier lock their iPhones I don't think.

[Trippy]

US T-Mobile does lock them but they can be unlocked without T-Mobile's assistance via a 3rd party service.

[01101010]

Can you also also modify the IMEI and Serial from being identified when the phone gets onto any network? Not sure how much effort it would be to unlock the phone from Tmobile's network and also hack all the numbers.

My wife is pushing to notify UPS distribution center here in order to at least get it on file if this is a common occurrence.

[MahrinSkel]

Stolen phones are generally sold overseas, where US investigators won't be able to follow them.

--Dave

[Cyrrex]

Lol carrier locked phones is still a thing? 

[Chimpy]

Lol carrier locked phones is still a thing? 

Shut it, filthy socialist.

[Cyrrex]

It's just that, for being such a free country, I am not even sure you are in the top 10.

[01101010]

Its a capitalistic freedom... not your normal freedom. 

[Sky]

Make indentured servitude great again!

[Sir T]

Hey, Hong Kong was the free-est place on Earth.

[Sky]

Get a gmg promo email with a nice discount on RDR2 

DRM: Epic store 

The wait for a Steam sale continues. Kinda sucks how this has started happening, I think I've hit my limit on launchers. Also, I actually play EA and Ubi games, I haven't played an Epic game since....UT4?

[Sky]

The fiancee just had what might possibly be the greatest reference question of our careers.

"What is the phone number for 911?"

And some wonder why I want to be a hermit on a remote mountain.

[Trippy]

That's hilarious but not unexpected since phones don't have "FOR EMERGENCY DIAL 911" stickers on them anymore so it's not hard to imagine some people thinking that "911" is just a term / expression rather than an actual phone number.

Edit: also people don't dial 411 anymore for directory listings anymore, I don't believe, so they aren't used to punching in 3 digit phone numbers

[Mandella]

I've called up and asked when the Midnight Movie started.

IN MY DEFENSE sometimes the damn things would start early depending on length and special features, dammit.

[Sky]

So what the fuck has happened to all the Weber grill grate cleaner spray?

I'm getting close to the end of the last unit of spray cleaner from a 3-pack I bought last year (may even have been 2019). It's unavailable for Internet purchase pretty much everywhere and not in stock locally at all. I'm going to try the one other option (a citrus based thing), but it just seems bizarre that the grill cleaner I've been using for years has suddenly completely disappeared.

It's been weird lately with seemingly unrelated items disappearing from shelves or price spiking online.

[Rendakor]

You don't clean your grill by just getting it hot and scraping it?

[Sky]

You don't clean your grill by just getting it hot and scraping it?

I used to before I found grill brush hairs in a burger, I always thought I was being careful enough and any shed fibers just landed down in the lower area. I was wrong. I moved over to a stiff synthetic brush, but that had to be used on a cold grill and it sucked. Before I found the spray/pad combo, I went through a dozen or so different scraper/brush designs.

The spray + nylon pad worked great and kept the grate looking almost new with very little effort...and no risk of hospitalization! Like I said, I'm going to have to try the one available spray, hope it's as effective (the weber spray was a good degreaser and food safe) and this particular tiny frustration is for naught. But it just seems weird that a product has completely disappeared from availability without a recall or something.

We grill pretty much every night from April - December, so having a safe and easy cleaning method is an important part of my day!

[Chimpy]

A green scotchbrite pad + a little vinegar on a still warm but not burn you level hot grill will clean just about anything off. Then just rinse with water.

[01101010]

Just use half an onion while the grill is still hot. Sheesh... 

[Sky]

Not really looking for tips, folks 

Just venting about weirdly spotty product availability. I thought things might stabilize a bit at some point, but I guess we're in a new era of dysfunctional globalism. I'll just get the citrus version of degreaser and carry on.

Anyway, heard a coon fight and one dropped out of the neighbors tree just now. They can fuck right off to the woods as far as I'm concerned, but I felt wicked bad for the poor little dude, getting your ass kicked and then falling 20 feet. My heart sank when I heard the thump. Couldn't see if he was limping, but he did make it back to the woods by the sound of it. Wish they'd stop feeding wildlife on their back patio.

[Samwise]

The raccoons have been pretty quiet lately, but the crows (or a particular one maybe) finally discovered the bird bath I installed in the front yard, and I've learned that similar to raccoons, they really like to "wash" their food, so now I keep finding random food scraps in there that I have to hose out periodically to keep it from getting too gross.  Less destructive than the raccoons by a lot, but it's a little annoying having to wash dishes for the wildlife.

(edit) motherfucker just dropped an ENTIRE ENGLISH MUFFIN in there. 

[calapine]

Welp. Considering it's body weight that must be like a human eating a 20,000 kcal "snack"

[Trippy]

Still not as much food as Mr. Squirrel eating a steak:

https://old.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/nwa8fw/i_saw_a_squirrel_eating_a_steak_on_the_roof_today/

[Khaldun]

The one time I stupidly decided to grow corn in a high-fence garden (successfully keeping deer out) I had squirrels going out on a thin tree limb above, geronimoing their way into the garden, getting a nearly-ripe whole ear (if necessary bending the whole stalk over) and then climbing out with an ear corn about as long and heavy as themselves and la-di-dahing their merry way back into the brush.