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What the Fark 4: It's not unusual to be strange anymore

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Kepler said:
We've all been there, man.
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My argument was something like, "Yes, but...coffee is still HOT. We all know that. And yes, that particular McD's had been cited several times for serving coffee above the permitted temp, but, but still...why did she hold the cup between her legs knowing, as we all do, that coffee is served HOT? She bought her coffee, she knew what she was getting into...I say, let her burn!"

It's sort of funny that nowadays, as a tea/coffee snob, I have a whole system of brewing temps based on tea type, or coffee/roast level.

Imagine the mindfck of "cold-brew coffee" today.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/am...poppy-field-discovered-north-carolina-n764801

I thought someone fat-fingered the $500 million amount on a teleprompter when I heard it on the morning news. Holy ****!

ETA: LOL! North Carolina Dept of Revenue levied a $186 million illegal drug tax on the field.
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I was supposed to be on a project in the Catawba Valley last year, but it got cancelled. When in Savannah for another project, I was at lunch with a couple guys and mentioned I was supposed to go on this project in Hickory, NC and they both laughed. "I can't imagine who would use ServiceNow in Hick'ry, there's not much there!"

Good place to grow poppies, apparently.
 
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All politics is local real estate.

Apropos of nothing, just a great piece summarizing local politics, as Dr. Mrs. & I prepare to re-enter the land of the living after 13 years' self-imposed exile in Flyover Maryland.

Next time you get a 24-hour visa to visit Wegmans or the particleboard home of a friend who "graduated" to Loudoun County, be sure to ask the local citzenry what keeps them up at night. "Well, the value of our particleboard home has fallen at least 30 percent since the peak of the housing boom, and traffic to DC is terrible and my husband might be losing his job strapping bombs to dolphins with a government contractor because of budget cuts, which will lead to foreclosure proceedings against said particleboard home, just like the other 12 identical particleboard homes for sale by lenders in our neighborhood, but what really upsets me is that a Project Labor Agreement will provide an undue scoring advantage during a competitive bidding process for a public works project that will give one massive construction firm an unfair advantage over another massive construction firm, and that's why we elected our local board of supervisors to focus on a national policy issue promulgated by right-wing think tanks instead of local needs" will be the invariable answer.
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Kepler said:
All politics is local real estate.

Apropos of nothing, just a great piece summarizing local politics, as Dr. Mrs. & I prepare to re-enter the land of the living after 13 years' self-imposed exile in Flyover Maryland.
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And Loudon County will soon get the Redskins! And a minor league hockey team! And more traffic!!

Are you sure you and Dr. Mrs. want to move??
 
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Kepler said:
All politics is local real estate.

Apropos of nothing, just a great piece summarizing local politics, as Dr. Mrs. & I prepare to re-enter the land of the living after 13 years' self-imposed exile in Flyover Maryland.
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You know that article's from 5 years ago, right? And correct me if I'm wrong, based on my recent trips back East, but they are working on phase 2 already, right (assuming phase 2 is to the airport, which is a no-brainer)? Apropos of nothing, but my mom lives in a particleboard home in Ashburn and loves it and her local Wegmans; of course, after 35 years in Haymarket she just loves not being over 25 miles from anything of note.
 
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joecct said:
And Loudon County will soon get the Redskins! And a minor league hockey team! And more traffic!!

Are you sure you and Dr. Mrs. want to move??
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Minor league hockey? Are you maybe thinking of the failed attempt to get the minor league Loudoun Hounds over at Loudoun One? The fun part about that was that any home run would go right onto Route 7.
 
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French Rage said:
Minor league hockey? Are you maybe thinking of the failed attempt to get the minor league Loudoun Hounds over at Loudoun One? The fun part about that was that any home run would go right onto Route 7.
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There is talk of a 5,000 seat barn + auxiliary rink somewhere around Leesburg. IIRC a Russian figure skating husband & wife are involved.
 
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French Rage said:
You know that article's from 5 years ago, right? And correct me if I'm wrong, based on my recent trips back East, but they are working on phase 2 already, right (assuming phase 2 is to the airport, which is a no-brainer)? Apropos of nothing, but my mom lives in a particleboard home in Ashburn and loves it and her local Wegmans; of course, after 35 years in Haymarket she just loves not being over 25 miles from anything of note.
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I drive by (through) the Phase 2 construction along 267 every day; I am intimately aware of every inch of progress. Currently Wiehle is the terminus but it will run through CIT to Ashburn with a spur down to Dulles. Our house is 3 miles north of the Wiehle station in the '94.
 
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joecct said:
There is talk of a 5,000 seat barn + auxiliary rink somewhere around Leesburg. IIRC a Russian figure skating husband & wife are involved.
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That wouldn't make any sense. It sounds like one of those white elephants used to steal public money for private real estate development. Plus Russian so, you know, criminal.

c.f., Charles Wang's Lighthouse Project on L.I., which the taxpayers thankfully stopped
 
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