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"A recent campaign to stop the phenomenon known as "manspreading" on New York's transportation system has men's rights organizations in a tizzy, especially in Canada, where one "advocacy group" is demanding men be allowed to spread their legs as far and wide as they want to to avoid a pain more awful than anything women have ever known." - rønin

OMFG. - rønin

Not even a little surprised. -------> - vicster.

plastic doors? that's just wrong. - Big Joe Silenced

I have seen those before. Sadly it's to bring in the people who want the LOOK of stainless, but don't want to spend as much for actual stainless. Personally, I am not a fan of stainless appliances...which could be the non-comformist in me coming out >.> - Chris Topher

Aaaand it just shut down by itself. Now I remember why I left it alone for so long. :p - rønin

My father had a huge stack of 80G IDE drives that he had no use for any more. He wiped them, popped them into USB enclosures, filled them with jazz music, and gave them as gifts to his jazz loving friends. - April Russo (FForever!)

And Adrien Brody. Now that's a cast I never thought I'd see together. - rønin

There's probably more lying dormant in toy bins somewhere. I kept wondering why I have to continuously buy AA & AAA batteries when I was sure I had already bought a bunch of rechargeables previously. - rønin

I have a bunch of Eneloops that seem to disappear. Ended up getting more at Costco. - Rodfather

I heard on the radio that Chinese restaurants have 150% more business on xmas. - Rodfather

Yeah that's not surprising. - rønin

A few years ago, I ended up staying home for Christmas, so I went looking for a Chinese restaurant. All I could find that was open on Christmas afternoon were Indian and Pakistani restaurants. - bentley

That's the tradition, yup. - Spidra Webster

This morning at 6am I was able to convince the oldest that it was still dark, therefore too early. She actually went back to bed. - Stephan Planken

They were actually incredibly good this morning and didn't wake me up until after 9. Apparently my son was up at 7:30, didn't wake up her sister until 8:30 and then finally got me up after 9 to prepare breakfast for them. - rønin

Nice - Rodfather

Wow level 86. - Rodfather

"Imagine you live on a floating lake house. Open air. Chirping crickets. Clear, starry nights. Everything seems great until you need to use the bathroom. The natural instinct might be to make a deposit in the water. But that wouldn't be safe. Microbes in your feces would contaminate the water and could cause outbreaks of deadly diseases, like cholera. A group of engineers in Cambodia wants to solve that problem for the floating villages of Tonle Sap Lake, the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia. Over a million people live on or around it. Exposure to wastewater spawns diarrhea outbreaks each year. In Cambodia, diarrheal diseases cause 1 in 5 deaths of children under age 5." - rønin

"Goofing around in the office has been taken to a whole new level by a couple of guys who work for Squarespace, a website creation company in New York City. Chris Limbrick and Francesco Fragomeni started making what they call "painting remixes" in early November. The side-by-side mashups of everything from Michelangelo's "The Creation of Adam" to Frida Kahlo's 1943 self-portrait "Thinking About Death" have gathered thousands of followers on their website, Tumblr and Instagram pages. The project they've dubbed "FoolsDoArt" began on a whim, and got an unlikely assist from Limbrick's mother." - rønin

Haha! <3 - Jenny H.

LOL. "I'm actually a hygrothermograph." - rønin

I lost it there. "I'm actually not a clock" - Rodfather

If you buy two (or more) bunches, you could make a decent amount of tabbouleh, though! - Andrew C (✔)

I was considering buying a bunch of different herb plants as a gift for my stepmother...then remembered how it's not nice to buy someone perpetual homework as a gift. - April Russo (FForever!)

Last version was about $40/book, though you could often find them for less online. - Jennifer Dittrich

I've never liked most food chains, but Red Lobster & Olive Garden used to be edible. Now, everything is salty & greasy. I sort of stopped eating at chain restaurants about 20 years ago, because there were none around & better options. I wonder if it's that distance than makes it taste bad. - Anika

I am glad to live in NJ where we have Charlie Brown's (although my main attraction to it is still their awesome salad bar). - April Russo (FForever!)

Maybe some year they'll make it out to the East coast. =p "Taiwan-based EVA Air has announced that starting in June, they'll send their brand-new Hello Kitty jet on a route from Taipei to Houston, meaning a whole new swath of the U.S. will get to see those tricked-out planes with Hello Kitty luggage tags, Hello Kitty pillows, Hello Kitty soap and inflight meals where every last melon slice, cheese morsel and rice patty is shaped like Kitty's adorable head." - rønin

There used to be, but the term was deprecated. - Big Joe Silenced

Oh yeah? What're they called now? Streets? =) - rønin

functionally, back roads. sometimes un-named, but often numbered. paved alleys qualify. - Big Joe Silenced

"But the truth is, despite its many, many flaws, Marco Polo actually does follow many of MANAA's suggestions, including the following: Asian names or racial features as no more "unusual" than those of whites. More Asian and Asian American lead roles. Until the proverbial playing field is truly level, Asian roles—especially lead roles—should be reserved for Asian actors." - rønin

A musical? Oookkk... - rønin

"There's a weekly trial on the Internet about who may be stealing culture from whom. Earlier this week, the defendants were Iggy Azalea and white gay men. A while back, it was Macklemore and the Harlem Shakers. Now, we have come across a story from the Jim Crow era about cultural mimicry between people of color." - rønin

Urrr... this must be a relatively recent thing. Cause my wife & I have never heard of or even seen this before. "Found around Taiwan’s famous night markets, the ice cream wrap features peanut candy shavings and a spring-roll crepe cover. There is a savory version of this with pork, cabbage and ground peanuts that is a long-standing, traditional dish. However, it’s the tart ice cream and crunchy peanut candy that makes the sweet version such a hit, starting from its origins in Yilan to trendy settings in Taipei." - rønin

LMAO. Although that is a pretty massive drop. "A crackdown on spam Instagram accounts has triggered a cataclysm in the world of low-grade social media celebrities. The event, which began today after the photo-sharing service made good on its promise to start deleting millions of fake accounts, has been dubbed the "Instagram Rapture" after the follower counts of apparently popular Instagrammers were savaged. Jenni Farley, maybe better known as Jersey Shore's JWoww, saw her followers drop from 2.6 million to 115,000, while rapper Ma$e committed Instagram's version of seppuku, deleting his account after freefalling from 1.6 million followers to around 100,000." - rønin

I was thinking the same, April. :-) - Stephan Planken

"Here’s a short clip from the Smithsonian Channel‘s series “Hunt for the Super Predator.” It shows an encounter a team of photographers and scientists had with killer whales at Bremer Canyon off the coast of Western Australia. Using a special camera rig he designed, wildlife cameraman David Riggs shot some amazing underwater footage of killer whales that looks too good to be true (you can find it at 1:35 in the video)." - rønin

Besides being old it doesn't actually look too horrible. Plus the ability to fold down the chair in front of you if it's not taken is pretty awesome. =p - rønin

Even the food looks about normal for airline food. - rønin