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14 hours ago, SVNBob said:
Do you mean this one?
It's the pinnacle example of how well Reeve understood the duality of Clark/Superman, and shows in real time the difference between the two halves.
It's also the pinnacle answer to the question of "How come no one can tell Clark Kent is just Superman wearing glasses?"
Or this one:
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What was the original bombing he was a suspect in? Something at UCLA maybe?
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1 hour ago, kili said:
I don't know where Harper got her law degree, but I got mine from Law and Order. I thought garbage was fair game for a warrantless search only when it was placed curbside because it meant that it was now firmly abandoned property. The squirrel-feeding bomber hadn't put out the trash for collection yet, so I don't think the evidence she collected could have been used.
I don't remember where I learned it, but I worked for a newspaper, so possibly I learned it from a legitimate source (although possibly Law and Order), but my understanding is that if the trash can is on private property, you can't go through it. If it's on public property -- set out on the street or kept in an alley or on a right-of-way that is not private property -- it's fair game. Now that I think about it, I think I learned it through work, not in relation to police, but in relation to people scavenging through dumpsters. If the dumpster is kept on the business's property, it's illegal to go through it, but if it's in the alley, it's legal. I would assume the same would apply to police searches without warrants. So the question is where exactly the trash cans were. I couldn't tell. Were they in a driveway or an alley or near the edge of the property in what might be a right-of-way?
12 minutes ago, Clanstarling said:Yes, cops do show pregnant women (and spouses) how to install car seats. Our department even has special clinics so the cops can install car seats - and anyone can crop by one of the stations to get theirs installed. We're a small town, so the stations are likely closer than the hospital, so I can see cops actually doing this as part of community policing in a big city. But our hospital and clinics do offer a lot of seminars like that.
They do it here too (also relatively small town). The police and firefighters have a clinic once or twice a year at least to install car seats and do other kid things. I don't know for sure, but I suspect you can stop by the police station or a fire station for help also.
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18 minutes ago, magicdog said:
I was present when the head of the NV DMV announced they were giving driver's licenses to illegals because "it would make them drive better". So, yeah, it's BS.
Because that works so well for everyone else.
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On 11/7/2019 at 8:12 PM, tessaray said:
And a quarter-life crisis? I guess that makes it perfect for the CW?
Maybe she just found out that her college degree is useless for finding a job?
Is anybody else watching for Netflix's "Virgin River"? The start date is Dec. 6, but no episode titles or descriptions are up yet. I don't know how early Netflix does that stuff. It's based on Robyn Carr's books and stars Alexandra Breckenridge and Martin Henderson.
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Just now, Nordly Beaumont said:
One Christmas my sister was at Costco and saw a big display of all different razor sets. She got sets of razors for everyone and we all loved them! Razors just seem to be one of those things most people use, but hate to buy!
My sister-in-law did that one year. It was great, except for the one she gave my husband (her brother). He has a beard and mustache.
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1 hour ago, Raja said:
I would assume a Pee Wee or Pop Warner football team. The officers would be the "celebrities" helping out the neighborhood men who are the normal coaches. Why Watts when you would think that South Wilshire,, wherever that might be, would have their own teams of youth? My only guess is that the real kids are used and an actual NFL Ram makes a cameo.
I have no idea where Watts is exactly or South Wilshire or anything about the geography of Los Angeles without looking it up, but my guess is they are using Watts because that name means something to the rest of the country. We've heard of Watts.
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We must either have the best kids ever that come to our neighborhood or almost no kids coming because we put out a bowl full of candy when we take our son out, and when we get back an hour or hour and a half later, it's at least half full. It's possibly some of both. I know we do have trick-or-treaters because I see them out.
I did find a piece of candy in the yard a day later, but I suspect it fell out of some child's overful bucket (possibly my child's overfull bucket).
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1 minute ago, Katy M said:
While that's true, it makes it easier on everybody when everybody is on the same page. You don't want people knocking on your door 3 nights in a row for candy.
It would keep me from eating the leftovers.
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I've never really understood how cities (or whoever) can decide to postpone trick or treating or hold it on a certain day. It's not really an organized, sponsored event. It's kids getting dressed up in costume and going door to door. If kids decide to go and people answer their doors and give out candy on a particular night, that's when trick or treating is, regardless of what people who may or may not be in charge of other things decide.
I also don't understand parents being upset about it being on a school night. If you don't want your kids to stay out late trick or treating, don't let them. Give them a time they have to be home. (Or take them and bring them home at what you consider a reasonable hour.) It's called being a parent. It's your job to set the limits you deem reasonable.
I guess that's my peeve for today: parents who want others to make rules for everyone's kids so they don't have to make the rules they want for their own kids. When their kids say, "But so-and-so gets to do it," do they not know how to say, "Well, so-and-so isn't my child. You are, and I say you're not doing it."
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I have occasionally straightened other people's clothes (besides my husband's and child's), but only after asking if I can. Otherwise, it often comes off as creepy because it involves touching them in ways they may not be comfortable with. I mean, I wouldn't be comfortable with it if someone did it without asking, even if it was just picking a stray thread off my back.
Now, if there's a kick-me sign on my back, everyone has permission to just pull that right off.
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We quit feeding our cats first thing in the morning several years ago because one of them kept moving the time he thought he should get food earlier and earlier until he was meowing for food at about 2:30 a.m.
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5 hours ago, Katy M said:
I like falling back. I don't like springing forward.
I hate the act of springing forward, but I loved the extra daylight in the evening in the summer when I was a kid. I'd still love it if I didn't have to get up and go to work every day just as I do in the winter.
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I might use the one closest to where I was, but I would put the toilet seat back in the position it was when I went in there, along with anything else I moved. And I'd probably tell you about the hand towel if it was particularly dirty.
Now that I think about it, it wouldn't be a bad idea for the homeowner/renter/person who lives there to put away any good towels and put out old towels for handwashing in case workers have to wash and dry their hands.
I guess the good news is that at least the worker washed his hands.
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We still get yellow page phone books (not Bell Yellow Pages, but different books published by random companies) delivered, sometimes several a year. I don't want them. They no longer have coupons in them, and I look everything up on the Internet anyway.
Also, they aren't big enough to use as booster seats for children. (My grandparents used to use their big city phone books for that.)
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Are they not required to give you a lunch break if you work seven hours?
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The Bachelor or Big Brother, although I finally convinced myself to quit watching. Or perhaps I just stopped being able to watch live TV when my son was born. If I still had time to watch, though, I probably would.
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I thought the detective was going to screw over the patrol cops somehow after all the talk about how they do the real work. Is Harold Perrineau staying on the show, or was this a one-time guest spot? Maybe it will build up to something, either Nolan getting to detective really fast or the detective doing shady stuff.
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23 minutes ago, Netfoot said:
If Nolan and Lucy thought they got the 91...
And if all three rookies guessed incorrectly as to their own score...
Then, neither Nolan nor Lucy got 91, so that must have been Jackson's score.
In my head, I am justifying all of this by saying that Lucy wrote down that she got the bottom score, but told Nolan and Jackson that she thought she had the middle score.
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3 minutes ago, Katy M said:
It's hard to believe that less than 30 years ago we had no way to get instantaneous answers. I kind of miss those days in a way.
I was certainly more patient about finding answers then.
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7 minutes ago, Silver Raven said:
I was driving in town a few weeks ago and a caravan of four black SUVs with tinted windshields drove through town like the villains in a spy movie. I had no idea what they were doing.
That was probably the FBI profiling unit. "Criminal Minds" wouldn't lie to me about how they work and what they drive, would it?
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This is the epitome of a first-world problem, but I hate it when I've just thought of a question about something, and the website with the answer is down. It's not like I even need the information right away, but I thought of it now, and I want to know now.
We are tentatively planning a cookout for our Cub Scouts. We have a new Scout, who I think is probably Muslim, although I'm not positive. His father earned degrees in Istanbul, and we're just guessing because I haven't thought of a polite way to ask that question. (When we notify parents about the cookout, we'll be asking about food allergies and dietary restrictions, but for now, we don't know.) So just in case, I'm trying to find out what brands of beef hot dogs or brats he would be able to eat (assuming he's not vegetarian). The brand I know best for brats is Johnsonville, and the website is down apparently.
I don't need to know for another month, but I thought of it now, so I want to know now. I'm not a very waitable person.
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Two options: 1) Does she ever talk? or 2) Does she ever shut up?
I'm really bad at meeting new people and making small talk, so I tend to be really quiet or chatter nervously and share way too much information.
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7 hours ago, Suzy Rhapsody said:
Not only do I not want to do a party for her this year, but I also don’t think she deserves one from the family (and mother!) she has completely ignored and brushed off for a year.
I have never been in a situation anywhere close to yours, so I may not be the best person to give advice. My first inclination, however, is to include something like what you wrote that I quoted. It may be harsher than you want to be, though, and it may close the door in a more permanent way than you want.
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TV Tropes: Love 'em or Loathe 'em
in Everything Else TV
Also, many of the shows that have had it as a plotline are sitcoms, so it's going to be treated in a comedic way. Unless it's a very special episode, pretty much everything is treated in a comedic way, regardless of the seriousness of it.