Random Thought Thread

[zuben el genub]

Interesting how my new phone selectively installs apps from my account: if it competes with a pre-installed app, it is not installed.

Better yet, it's not even listed in the My Apps section, even if I'd paid for it in the past.

That's why I'd never go to Verizon. The phone has to be under their control if you bought it from them. That's why their phone updates take so long to be available.

2 of their reps insisted that I HAD to answer the phone at all times. BS.

Go read a forum that deals with all companies.

 

[jefboyardee]

Just because I don't plan for xmas, I accidentally bought myself a present: a 1981 First Edition Hamer Prototype guitar, a hard-to-find classic. Very used and probably the last guitar I'll ever buy.

Never mind. Their site gave me three days to back out, so I did.

 

[kct1975]

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. [emoji14]

Saw them on their Quadraphenia tour in Madison WI, 1976 I think. Just before Keith died. Still unforgettable, forty years later.

Awesome!

I got to see them at the Verizon Center in February of this year!

 

[kct1975]

This got me thinking, and begs the question - was there ever a time when you could get a burger at McDonalds that actually looked as appetising as their advertising? Or was the real product always the thin piece of meat, sandwiched between pieces of flat, sad looking bread, with a bit of processed cheese thrown in?

But I think I already know the answer. It's cheap, and you get exactly what you pay for.

Honestly, when I was a little kid, I swear thst McDonald's food looked better and tasted much better than the crappie stuff they are serving now!

 

[kct1975]

I failed the semester. I...am lost for words.

Man...Sorry to hear that!

All I can is Hang In There!

I am sure that you can turn things around!

As a kid, going to a burger place was a rare treat (for us ... the parents not so much). I really don't recall going to McDonalds much (if at all) until I hit my teen years and then our preference for fast food was Burger King.

Now I don't touch the stuff.

Neither do I, since I was diagnosed with High Blood Pressure a couple of years ago, and had to lose a lot of weight.

I stopped eating the crap, and never went back to it.

My only guilty pleasure, at times is the Bacon Egg and Cheese biscuit for Breakfast on rare occasions.

I'd rather make one of my Homemade Ghetto Burgers , than eat McDonalds Hamburgers

I completely agree!

I'm grilling out burgers tonight. Toasted buns and grilled onions too. No comparison in price or quality.

Yum! Sounds good! [emoji106]

 

[kct1975]

‘Shut up! I hate you! Your mother is a b***h!’‘

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Man...that is one Scarry Lookin B**ch!

 

[zuben el genub]

Honestly, when I was a little kid, I swear thst McDonald's food looked better and tasted much better than the crappie stuff they are serving now!

We had a Carrolls, and their burgers were better. More people went there than Micky D's.

It probably did taste better. The stuff they fried in did taste better, but the oil and sugar was addictive. Since they have had to change oils, the taste probably isn't the same.

http://www.alternet.org/5-unhealthy-foods-engineered-be-addictive

 

[lunatic59]

There was a time when Arby's made these potato-like sticks extruded and deep fried that they presented as their version of fries. I don't know what they put in them, but damn were they good. The day they switched to real potato fries was the day I stopped going there.

 

[zuben el genub]

Just because I don't plan for xmas, I accidentally bought myself a present: a 1981 First Edition Hamer Prototype guitar, a hard-to-find classic. Very used and probably the last guitar I'll ever buy.

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The Vulcan is still mourning his Fender Strat. He must have gotten it in the late 60s'
He still has his Precision Bass, though.

 

[Dngrsone]

I though NFC was supposed to be this easy way to move addresses and stuff... Why doesn't my phone give me the stoopid option?

 

[Dngrsone]

I though NFC was supposed to be this easy way to move addresses and stuff... Why doesn't my phone give me the stoopid option?

 

[lunatic59]

Both phones have to be unlocked at the time with NFC (Android Beam) enabled for it to work.
And then you have to be using an app that supports it, too.

 

[Dngrsone]

Contacts should support it, no?
...maybe I didn't have both unlocked.

 

[lunatic59]

Sure does. I just did that with my wife's S7 Edge from my N6.

When you press the phones' backs together, do you at least get the haptic feedback?

 

[Dngrsone]

Nada. I'll give it another try, making sure both phones are unlocked

 

[Dngrsone]

Looks like that was it... Didn't have the second phone unlocked.

I have too many contacts not backed up to gmail for some reason.

 

[Bg260]

I was really confused about all the Italian and Irish names in Kansas City back when I visited though. I mean it's like the Midwest.. What's up with that?

I think a lot of it was due, in part, to the witness relocation program.

 

[Clementine_3]

Shout out to @Bg260 for making Lilly festive. As he was doing that for me I was in the back yard with the dogs, it's snowing out. Lilly loved the snow so much, I pictured her rolling around and having fun. I was all sad and teary missing her and am really touched that BG did this for me. Thanks so much.

 

[Dngrsone]

He was kind enough to festify my grumpy cat, too. He did a really good job.

Unfortunately, I haven't had access to my computer to make the requisite change.

 

[Dngrsone]

I'm not saying she's an alcoholic or anything... but her idea of a soup and salad is a Bloody Mary.

 

[Bg260]

Breakfast of champions. If you've ever been to an all inclusive resort, you know that at the end of the breakfast buffet is the "make your own" Bloody Mary bar. Ugghh. Nothing like being three sheets at 9:00 A.M.

 

[zuben el genub]

That's why I'd never go to Verizon. The phone has to be under their control if you bought it from them. That's why their phone updates take so long to be available.

2 of their reps insisted that I HAD to answer the phone at all times. BS.

Go read a forum that deals with all companies.

Today's news:
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Samsung-Tries-to-Cripple-Note-7-Verizon-Refuses-Update-138507

 

[psionandy]

About 90% of onions are consumed in their country of origin.

 

[Dngrsone]

About 90% of onions are consumed in their country of origin.

Because they have problems getting passports?

 

[psionandy]

No idea... but it means there is virtually no international onion trade!