Evening Reading

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  How many times do you get the checks that come with your credit card bills? We had some that were torn u... : Ratalon
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    fucking christ i hate those things >:( : Dave-A
    • no shit, this is a serious pet peeve of mine. : zebrigazi
  • You can call and ask them to stop sending the checks. I just did this for a new Visa card. : afty
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  I use my shredder all the time but I also live in Boston with a shared dumpster that is frequented by the... : Horn
  • Good call. I have a shared dumpster too. : The Key
• Yes you should, I use mine all the time. : boarder2
• Yup, I use mine all the time. I shred pretty much everything. : asylumn
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  I use my fists : gmd
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    What don't those work on : Horn
    • his fists : ermac
• i got a cheap one at wal-mart, use it a few times a week and i say it's worth it. : the rizzo
• Get a pico-cut shredder. : Warlock
• Bought a cheap one I use it to shred all receipts, all mail offers with my info on them, etc.. : H@rvester
• you should. : Flynn
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  i have one and use it on occasion to get rid of junk mail, unless its the winter, then i just use my fire... : Dschinghis Khan
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    Hey, I have a fireplace too. I wonder if it's possible to make a woodblock out of shredded newspaper flye... : The Key
    • if you can find a way to keep it all together, or just pile it up under the wood and use it for kindling. : Dschinghis Khan
• I use a burning barrel which is a 55 gallon drum to get rid of all my trash mail. Yeah its redneck but I... : mikefr24
• I use one once a year for all the receipts I've stuffed in a drawer for the last year and are now ready t... : DOOManiac
• every CC offer and every set of checks the CC's give me so I can be charged 200% or whatever. yea, I shre... : epit
• I use my paper shredder all the time. All receipts I don't keep in my records, credit card offers, docume... : Serpico74
• What happens if there's some cheese left on it? : Shivawn
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  I have one, but have never used it. : voodooraze
  • Scared of the sound it makes? :O : The Key
• i use mine all the time because it's fun i have no life :( : qwpeoriu
• Hell yes. : smoove
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  The amount of credit card offers I shred alone made up for the purchase of my shredder rather quickly. : justsayno
  • So, you um, never accept them, I assume? : The Key
• i have a firepit : deviantpaul
• C-C-C-C-CROSS CUT SHREDDER! Use it all the time. : Prototype
• I use it daily. Anything with my name on it, anything with a full or partial credit/debit card number. ... : UselessHack
• yes they're good, clean, sober, Dilbert fun : NastyNorman
• I get so much crap in the mail that I finally got one a week ago. I am already happy with the $25 I spent... : shred.
• my fireplace is my shredder. : cpt_gloval
• I have one and it comes in handy when i finally clean my room and have a crapload of mail to get rid of. ... : hrdwregk
• yes ... I got one as an xmas gift from my Aunt after someone went through her trash and stole her identit... : cap n KRUNCH
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  man this has to be the most mundane "should I buy this thing, shacknews?" post I have ever seen. most pe : mikecyb
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    i'm thinking of buying a book of stamps but i don't know if i should just buy an individual stamp please ... : electroly
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      man fuck that shit stamps are expensive. only a moron would buy a stamp. what you do is put down the ad... : mikecyb
      • My mom who works in USPS says those letters that originate in mail boxes or not the same ZIP code as sen... : Sailor of Fortune
  • stop trying to write like haiku. : Morgin
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    Am I the only one who just puts paper in to the recycling bin? Where the fuck are you living with people ... : aeg1x
    • well ill be by shortly to rummage through yours, do you have a good credit rating? : alphablu
• A shredder and a fujitsu scansnap are how I roll. Fuck paper. : cdbeckman
• I use mine about once a month to shred up the 8000 credit card offers i get every day, then i pile the sh... : alphablu
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  How come no one has posted links to any good shredders yet? : pulse2115
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    http://tinyurl.com/6q2kqm : DOOManiac
    • But that's an evil shredder. The song says so. : SiW73
• Oh yeah, love mine. Shred credit card offers, old bills I don't want. Check stubs. Basically anything ... : spazzium
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  You're going to want to spend a minimum of 800 dollars on a paper shredder. Any less than that and the qu... : ArB
  • You scare me. : KxRook
  • LOL : Serpico74
  • WTF is this. I'm lol'ing and inf'ing this. : spazzium
  • this is awesome : Mr.Fusion
  • if you wrote this then you are my new favorite person ever : JINKY
  • awesome post : mwasher
  • you mean.. a woodchipper? : Megara9
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    is your name dwight schrute? : fsck
    • Hahaha thats what I thought of too. : aznboysix
  • hahahahaha nice. : rasputinreborn
  • yes, yes. this post rules. : Foxhawk
  • Yes but does it also do corpses? : DarkWolf5
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    I admit it, I googled the Rawlings-Chamberlain MK220 : ventro
    • Dammit you made me try just now too. : aznboysix
    • Me too. They are damn sexy. I just might have to get one. : jccalhoun
    • Me too, I just had to know :( : antareus
  • this post = 100% awesome : dromo5
  • wow.... well done, sir! : Wheatloaf
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    i also like your advice here: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=15314538 : fletch_
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      OMFG that is classic! : thetangent
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        ArB is my new favourite shacker. : ventro
        • holyshit me too : Megara9
    • God damn I have to say those are 2 of the best posts I've read. : sigpro
    • I'm liking this subthread, one of my all time favs right here: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=131897... : spazzium
    • Good luck, and have fun! : aethyr
    • OMG hilarious. : aznboysix
  • I lost it at "3mm parallelogram with bilateral fiber separation." : notd665
  • That is 102% awesome, ArB. I actually Googled for your shredder, heh. : Bean
  • This is turning me on, keep going. : Agrona
  • you subscribe to "Shred Quarterly" and "The Cutting Edge" don't you? : steelsamurai
  • It's..... it's beautiful... : Begawkiness
  • ....I really wish this was made because it sounds so awesome. : nyranger66
  • We have this one that can fit a man's arm in it at my reserve unit, it's nicknamed the "Enron Shredder." : Sailor of Fortune
  • Oh god I hope you're serious, it'd be so much sweeter that way! : thetangent
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    i love this post so much i printed it out and ate it so it could become part of me : GloriousCow
    • I hope you shredded it first. : yourGarbageMan
    • Hahahahashitkjdfhg : tfboc
  • *golf clap* : dopefish
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    inspiring : haiku
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      I had to break the rules and make this potm. Sorry shack. : haiku
      • Nobody will know. We can shred the evidence! : ArB
  • I think I'm gay for you ArB : drbriefs
  • Why does this remind me of Bateman from American Psycho? : Koral06
  • hahaha this is just as good as the removing spraypaint! more more! : podizzle
  • ....my god you're good. : PlanetPerfecto
  • Holy fuck this post is amazing : TastyWheat
  • I want to buy you a beer : ColoradoCNC
  • This is solid gold right here haha. Holy shit I'm cracking up. : tfboc
  • Magic. : Cliffzorz
  • Oh dear god, I pray this is serious : jbury
  • I love the shack : Nitrium
  • you, sir, have a brilliant mind. : biskits
  • fucking priceless : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • Oh jeez this is fucking genius. : aznboysix
  • This is pretty close to the most amazing thing I've ever read : zerog83
  • You have anything to do with this? http://www.shredderwarehouse.com/destroyit/destroyit_shredder_4005smc.... : pulse2115
  • this is the best damn overkill comedy I've ever seen on the shack : Postal
  • best post I've ever read : Thomas Hace
• I've never heard of anyone regretting a paper shredder. In fact, if you got one, you'd find reasons to us... : uglysad
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  I got one of those cheap ones under 20 dollars that you can just stick over your trash can. : Koral06
  • I was thinking about buying one of those 24 strip sheet strip cut shredders, but I'll go with the cross-c... : The Key
• I spent ~$250 on my current one since I killed all the previous ones. My goal was to be able to shred lar... : festivalman
• I have a shredder, the type that produces short strips. What I really want is a confetti-type shredder, ... : Ride-My-Rocket

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  OH YES JESUS!!! : Megara9
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    If you were a man you would be cleaning your keyboard now. : Fred Garvin
    • i'll be in my bunk : Megara9
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  Who's the chick going to be? And will there be awkwardly worn metal bikinis? : Sailor of Fortune
  • as long as she takes a grinder to her crotch plate and shoots off sparks ill be happy : -=kodiak=-
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    In the picture? I think that's just someone from makeup or costume department. The girl in the movie ... : K1Bond007
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      Try Reece Witherspoon : Sirus2400
      • (in the picture) : Sirus2400
      • lol, I can't tell. She .. looks average. : K1Bond007
    • someone from makeup or costume Reese Witherspoon : My Documents
  • If there aren't, Jake will smolder with generic rage: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/12/03/ : Matt Burris
• He looks very much like a hobo in that picture. I like it. : Ctrl-Phreak
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  wait, what? the fuck happened to donnie? : AbortedFetusChristi
  • He had to make up for the gay performance in one of his movies. : Matt Burris
• BEEFCAAAAAKE! : radula
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  I just don't find the Gyllenhaal family that attractive. :( I know what's wrong with me? : Koral06
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    You need to smell him first. : The Key
    • O_o : Ctrl-Phreak
    • SMELL HIM IN THE BALLS : Penis Brittle
• lol he looks like a bad WWE character. : skinlab133
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  Wow, looks closer to the part than I would have thought. This seems like it will either be PotC good or S... : ColoradoCNC
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    PotC? : GodZilly
    • pirates : Maarten Goldstein
    • Pirates of the Caribbean I'm guessing : marmite
    • Planet of the Cock : gakera
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    I actually enjoyed the first Pirates for its novelty and i though of it as a Monkey Island Film despite i... : Hoax
    • The first Pirates movie was fantastic! : Ellissd
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  His face is way off though. : pigvomit
  • Well that and that his hair looks like a roadkill. : Hoax
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  how many belts does a dude need?? : smax
  • *lick* One. *lick* Two. *lick* Three. *bite* *crunch* Three! : Bean
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  Fatty : red2lucas
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    In that case I was I was a fatty! : GodZilly
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      fuzzy wuzzy was a fatty? : jbury
      • I meant to say: "In that case I want to be a fatty!" I never finished 3rd grade :\ : GodZilly
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  jesus fuck how did get so big. i need to get on that program. : xxiv
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    Did you see the training videos for 300? You do NOT want 5 months of HELL. : GodZilly
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      yeah wasn't it some variation of crossfit? 5 months of hard training for a payoff like that is comple... : xxiv
      • it was something like 4-6hrs of training per day, good luck managing that and a job! : GodZilly

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• i don't care for swimming and all that, but that was impressive, if just for how badly he defeated the re... : Clay
• he's unstoppable : anthonybean
• yeaaah. he's not human : johngloid
• He didn't even look like he pushed himself much. Wow. : pyrogen
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  It's amazing how easy he makes it look, yet he's so far ahead of everyone it's ridiculous. : Matt Burris
  • kind of reminds me of when Vince Young would tuck the ball and run when he was at Texas. : fatman
  • reminds me of when I take my pants out and people see my wiener, same reaction. : Jackass1233
• womenz added a gold : [fry]
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  wonder how long they start screaming he's on HGH or something... he's breaking the records by a lot. : Antilles_Prime
  • LZR not HGH : cltcprd
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    I heard the announcers say they're extremely tough on drug use now, I'm betting they screen him everyday ... : Matt Burris
    • he signed up for a voluntary program along with some other US atheletes. The program is like twice as str... : buzzbat
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    new suits, everyone's breaking them : lakren
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      ^^^ correct answer, estimates are that the suit should cut a swimmer's time by 2% : zebrigazi
      • I've heard it's 0.5s for every 60s in the water. : cltcprd
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      Is everyone wearing the same style suit? : .sticks.
      • Yep. The time improvements provided by the Speedo swimsuits are so good that athletic sponsors such as Ni... : Scoots06
      • yeah, it's available to everyone, but some nations have/had contracts with other companies. One Japanese ... : edgewise
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      Isn't he only using the half body suit? : Sirus2400
      • He wears different ones depending on the race. : eXcess
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    He is from Baltimore, it is just strength from dodging bullets and Ray Lewis stabbings : gmd
    • he probably just mutated from years of swimming in the harbor : qwpeoriu
    • Fuck YOU Baltimore That internet video ruined that city for me. : Turd Ferguson
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    Actually he is one of a couple of US athletes undergoing "Supertesting" where they basically took blood a... : DonarUDL
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      SPARTAN-II Project Candidate : Sailor of Fortune
      • Seriously. Secret government project to engineer a race of superhumans. : Vincent Grayson
      • Hah, this is awesome. : SqueegyTBS
    • Dara Torres also volunteered to do it. : edgewise
    • I feel like utter shit after a blood test, how the fuck can these people compete being tested so frequent... : Zolneirz
  • I think most of these athletes have to realize at this point they will get caught and when they do ( if i... : snowwolf
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    It's the suits, in combination with a "fast pool" (extra empty lane on each side) and his textbook perfec... : smoove
    • yup. suits, fast pools, and relaxed stroke rules is what i've read. : wvuong
  • http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/11/sports/olyrecords.php : Luminair
  • next olympics they are going to allow flippers and subdermal foam inserts, maybe a little motorized ducky... : Luminair
  • FYI hGH doesn't boost performance. You didn't say it did, but I'm just putting that out there because so... : Amadan
  • FOXHOUND : ermac
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    Doesn't he have exercised induced asthma? Where he's at 40% lung capacity after long periods of stress? : deathofrats
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      i dont believe i have ever heard that he does have a freakishly low lactate level after his swims though : andrew``
      • genetic engineering, i knew it! : ucanbfuzzy
• f swimming, handball is on. : ibrokn
• Man I stepped out to take a shit and missed it... And that's the race I wanted to see. Boo me : devnullgt
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  damn it. i'm tivo-ing this. where are the fucking spoiler tags? : elwood00
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    we went over this the past few days. No one is going to spoil live sports. : cltcprd
    • i meant, "No one is going to use spoiler tags for live sports" : cltcprd
    • yes we did go over this, and it was decided that you should use spoiler tags since its not live on the we... : skunk_ape
  • Phelps wins 8 gold medals : deviantpaul
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  Grevers and Pierson wins Gold and Silver! Wow! : Matt Burris
  • Piersol won gold actually. : cltcprd
• And another world record by pierosol. : devnullgt
• haha what. Russia and Australian just got equal bronze. I thought they would have just gone more accurate... : aeg1x
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  He's still a knucklehead. I hope he gets seven gold medals. : five_percent
  • Yea them he would only be subpar : devnullgt
• Is this online yet? : eXcess
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxRj5uWyngI&feature=related <--- the official song of the 2012 Olympic gam... : spdon
• are you a phleps phan also? : oHnOES
• Spoilers >:( : yosemiteclimber
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  I love watching the gymnastic shit. Absolutely amazing what they do on the rings. : rosewood
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    Why are they bitching about these judges trying to get it right? : rosewood
    • and lol at all those Dell laptops with all the Dell logos taped over. : rosewood
    • ok that was snazzy : Clay
  • Seriously, Id be afraid Id tag a nut on something the way they swing their legs. : Wolfanoz
  • Holy fucking shit this is amazing to watch : rosewood
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    usa men are cocky fucks... which is awesome yeeehaww : buzzbat
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      Jonathan HORTON, that kid that did the 3 twist dismount was amazing to watch. : rosewood
      • Justin SPRING was just as awesome. : rosewood
  • the iron cross takes so much strength to do it is insane. : gmd
  • Yeah, I was totally like "Fuck YEAH!" when they were sticking their dismounts. : smoove
  • Yeah, that was absolutely astounding to watch. The sheer athleticism is amazing : ColoradoCNC
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  much of it is the new hightech pools. : steelsamurai
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    Can someone explain this? How is it not just a hole with water in it? : rosewood
    • They go downhill. : owly
    • deep pool keeps the waves created by the swimmers from reverberating back up into them the extra lanes o... : andrew``
    • the amount of waves that a swimmer encounters directly effects his time. If you can design a pool to mini... : steelsamurai
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    this is absolutely incorrect the basic design of the pool has remained the same the nbc announcers migh... : andrew``
    • it's the new pool smell : johngloid
    • it is a beautiful facility with an incredible pool that is conducive to fast swimming Yes, that's my p... : steelsamurai
  • lies, it's the new water, H3O : Enigme
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  So, are these Olympic games going to hit Blu-Ray? Hopefully divided by event so I don't have to pay for ... : Ebu
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    haven't in the past. for some reason i doubt they are starting any time soon. : FrayLo
    • Well, for the first time they have all of it shot in HD, so... : Ebu
  • yes, it will come in a set of 1800 discs. : edgewise
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  Has anyone read this guy's bio? 6'7", 6'10" wingspan, 195lbs. He MUST be around 6-8% body fat range and... : sukabljat
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    Phelps is only 6'4" : mechanicalgrape
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      Only? : magistersmax
      • Only, when compared to someone who is 6'7" : mechanicalgrape
    • Outside of the water. : Sailor of Fortune
    • I'm 6'2". I could take him. : SqueegyTBS
  • His kids will probably be born with webbed hands and feet. Grandkids will have gills added. : pulse2115
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    He eats like a black hole too. Did you see the clip with him? His breakfast alone is fucking insane. : K1Bond007
    • he'll probably turn in to a huge fatty when he stops swimming : aeg1x
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      link? : c0bra
      • I don't have any. It was a 5 minute little feature on NBC right before he swam. : K1Bond007
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        They were saying he eats 8,000 - 10,000 calories per day. : malevolence
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          probably because he works out so hard : FrayLo
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            nope, tapeworm : c0bra
            • Companionship! : davantalus
          • Imagine if you can have so much sex to need to eat that much. : Sailor of Fortune
    • Said he eats 8k-10k calories a day. : FPSDavid
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      IIRC Lance Armstrong eats like three big plates of pasta during the Tour de France. : Sailor of Fortune
      • Three plates during the entire 23 day race? That's hardcore! : mojo the helpr monke
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  Pommel horse :( x 10 : Ovate
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    I was trying to figure out how the first two guys got such awful scores, and then I saw the third guy and... : rosewood
    • Well, no silver :( But to take a bronze a least is pretty cool. Those high bar routines were awesome. : rosewood
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      Heh yeah that guy was like :-| how he is doing that. So cool to watch. The second guy looked okay, bu... : Ovate
      • we're lucky to have gotten that with our busted up team. They did great. : edgewise
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  Alexander Artamov or however you spell it is a FREAK on the horse. : rosewood
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    Or Sasha or whatever. He is just a freak. : rosewood
    • I think Sasha is to Alexander like Dick is to Richard. : ZombieAcademy
• our swimmers are rocking : gyokuro
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  less than a second? I'd hardly call that "destroyed" : Trips
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    In swimming, a second is as long as in racing : EvilDolemite
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      Well I know as much about swimming as I know about racing. (nothing) : Trips
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        He swam 200 meters in under 1:43. Try it sometime! : EvilDolemite
        • he's the only guy to have ever swum it in less than 1:44. crazy. : edgewise
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    why say something like that when you know nothing about the sport? : moshman
    • WELCOME TO SHACKNEWS : Trips
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  Modern pharmacy. Amazing. : MatzL.E.
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    The Germans don't have modern pharmacies? : Matt Burris
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      ur a pharmacy : TastyWheat
      • you're the only farm I see <3 <3 <3 : Spezzer
    • pharmaceutics. : MatzL.E.
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  Where's Thorpedo? Where's your god now? Seriously, I bet he regrets quitting after watching this. : pieman
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    yeah sucks he retired. The Thorpe - Phelps thing was shaping up to be one of the best rivalries in sport. : aeg1x
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      Fuck, you guys are oblivious. Phelps was pushed out for doping, but the Aussies let him "retire" to save... : treefingers1
      • err.. I meant THORPE was pushed out for doping. But the second sentence still stands. : treefingers1
      • lols is this a troll? Thorpe is like the most militant anti-drug campaigner in swimming. He's even called... : aeg1x

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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehalem_(microarchitecture) : kill9
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    Yeah, but nothing until late 2008 or 2009. Only gonna be up to 30% improvement. I'm ready for my 1000% ... : persecutor
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      it is late 2008. core i7 is coming soon. and there has never been a 1000% increase in performance so yo... : Luminair
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        People who deliver the impossible are the ones who win. : persecutor
        • people who deliver the impossible are comic book characters : Luminair
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    AMD's Fusion architecture is what I'm most interested in. With two CPU cores and two GPU cores on the sa... : IndigoAK
    • Yeah, we'll see how good that does. What cracks me up are all these companies that state these massive g... : persecutor
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      i've pretty much written off AMD at this point since intel's decided to take things seriously again : Bantis
      • I have no brand loyalty. I typically go with who has the fastest at the time I'm ready to buy. If AMD ... : persecutor
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        That is just ignorant. : rosewood
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          I never said I wouldn't go back; I had written off intel back with the P4 too; but Intel continues to mak... : Bantis
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            The AMD Phenom 9950 x4 isn't all that bad. Not that it's faster, but it is slightly cheaper... and perf... : persecutor
            • I just got a 9600 (slightly faster than a 9550). It's only about 15% slower than the q6600, but I got tha... : qwpeoriu
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          AMD is in serious trouble. Rumor has it they're selling off Dresden manufacturing and will do solely IC d... : pap26
          • That is just ignorant. : rosewood : Bantis
    • yeah good luck with AMD producing anything to compete with intel : kill9
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  holy crap dude almost all your posts contain or end with several dots! : [fry]
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    And then................? : persecutor
    • Additional damage over time starts to decrease once three are concurrently applied by a single toon. : RomSteady
    • NO and than!!!! : spazzium
  • I love ellipses... : SeaLlama
• i know, we should be: beyond jupiter, flying cars, teleporting across the galaxy, using conveyor belts to... : cygnus
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  I'm ready for RAM speed hard drives. I think thats much more of a bottle neck than cpu at this point. : epit
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    Well, they are kind of out already: http://www.superssd.com/products/ramsan-300/ : High-g
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      Not for Joe Blow they aren't. : persecutor
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        There are rumors of a new type of storage nicknamed 'racetrack ram' that is supposed to have the speed o... : jasoncrowley
        • I'll take it as long as it's affordable, stable, and faster. : persecutor
  • Yep. Velociraptor is a step in the right direction, but it's just more of the same. Things are moving ... : persecutor
  • There's also the PCI-E "ioDrive": http://www.fusionio.com/products.aspx : SlamDunk
• We're probably never going to see 10 GHz processors, which is why we are seeing 4/8/16 core processors in... : afty
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  Unless you do video editing, photo editing, or extreme database crunching, processors at the moment are a... : Shivawn
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    Gaming will always require faster processors along with faster video cards unless some whiz bang fancy ne... : persecutor
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      Right now most games that aren't huge RTS or simulations are GPU limited. : h o s t i l e
      • Depends on the month and year. Once GPU's catch up, then the CPU will be lacking and then vice versa all... : persecutor
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        living worlds will need CPU though : Enigme
        • Honestly, the GPU cost of highly dynamic envs is a bigger issue, at least pre-Vista/whatever comes next. ... : cannelbrae
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  So you know the speed isn't everything but you want it to be a big number. Well, alright. CPUs should als... : A Sponge
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    What I'm saying is, give me a Core 2 Quad for example... (new cpu type) and then find a way to bring it t... : persecutor
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      What if, instead of making this Core 2 Quad run at 10GHz, it ran at 3000000000Hz? That's an order of magn... : A Sponge
      • Nice try. : persecutor
    • Do you understand that the average 2.5ghz core2duo is basically the equivalent of like a 4-5ghz pentium-4... : Prozium
    • You do know that they decide the clock speed based on how stable a chip comes out right? Overclocking is ... : terath
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  Just liquid nitrogen cool a CPU if you really want that. Otherwise, I'm certain by then we'll all need... : Sailor of Fortune
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    Who doesn't have atleast 600W these days? : FPSDavid
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      your girlfriend : Luminair
      • statement contains undefined variable(s) : Luminair
    • 550 here. It's close. : persecutor
    • I have 1200W : Sailor of Fortune
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      People who don't want to spend more running their computer than they do running a clothes dryer. : Ebu
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        Newer video cards these days require a minimum of 550W power supplies. : FPSDavid
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          My Radeon 4870 along with other various hardware (3GHz Core2Duo CPU, 3 HD's, etc.) runs just fine on 520W... : High-g
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            EVGA GTX 280 specs say requires minimum 550w power supply. : FPSDavid
            • The 520W PSU might be enough even for single GTX 280 card: http://techreport.com/articles.x/14990/15 : High-g
          • I thought you needed the overhead? : Sailor of Fortune
      • Power supply uses what the system needs, not their rated wattage : shirif
    • my iMac uses about 100W apparently. : electroly
    • I only have 430W. : K1Bond007
    • 450W FPS : EvilDolemite
    • I'm running 380 and a 9600gt. Figure that one out. ;) : terath
  • 500W here. : disposition
• i7 comes out in September. : ant_hillbilly
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  where's my fucking jetpack. I want that first. : g0nk
  • Hoverboard! : persecutor
  • http://www.spike.com/video/2797787?cmpnid=716&pt=sr&refsite=7103 : industro
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  what we need are faster hard drives and longer lasting batteries : Flynn
  • CMOS batteries last long enough thanks... : persecutor
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  I have the hardware knowledge of your average 3 year old but what about the cell processor? : doozer667
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    It's not running Windows. : persecutor
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      It's incapable of it? Howso? : doozer667
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        It's not incapable of it. Microsoft just doesn't care to make it work on it. : terath
        • Why would they? It's not a consumer processor : EvilDolemite
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    didn't Toshiba flaunt some laptop that had a cell processor in there? : Drakoniac
    • Yes, but it isn't in place of the Intel processor... it runs along side with it. : persecutor
  • It's such a specialized processor that i don't see it succeed in anything else than video games and resea... : Enigme
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    I'm guessing the instruction set is not x86 based. : pap26
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      It's PowerPC. : IndigoAK
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        Yes, and not only does MS have a PowerPC NT kernel, which they're using on the Xbox 360, but they used to... : rock elf
        • I honestly don't think it'd be all that great in a consumer desktop environment anyways. It's a great ch... : IndigoAK
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    Larrabee is a little bit cell-like and is coming to wintel. I can see this kind of CPU becoming more comm... : jcupitt
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      Because larrabee will be a LOT more than double the performance of the main processor... AND that same 18... : Toraz Chryx
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        I do a lot of image processing (and maintain my own image processing library) so I have looked at this a ... : jcupitt
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          That's the rub though, Larrabee basically IS a big cluster of SMP'd x86 cores, so support is pretty easy,... : Toraz Chryx
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            Hehe, that's true. You need to use the vector units to get the speedup though, and there's still the prob... : jcupitt
            • It's less work than writing for Cell, as you don't need to absolutely micromanage what data goes where : Toraz Chryx
• ya but who's gunna fly it kid? you? : XchumpoX
• 100 core 1ghz would do it for me. : batkiwi
• i think multicores becoming commonplace was a HUGE leap forward. I'm pretty pleased with the progress. Wh... : gyokuro
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  Guys, If my research goes well we will have transistors that operate at sub 500 mV supply voltages with f... : pap26
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    Where can I invest in said research? : Medster
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      Its a pipe dream. DARPA is funding us with big bucks but at this point so many unknown questions on the p... : pap26
      • Whoa! Now that is novel! : terath
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  Complain to God we hit the thermal wall. He/She's the one that wrote the rules of Physics. Intel/AMD co... : slambast
  • ^^ The hardware folks hve been telling software devs 'this is it' for a few years now. Basically, clock s... : cannelbrae
  • The "thermal wall" will be dealt with (at least temporarily) via doping, changing the substrate (see my b... : Hiro
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    Once we get the Nuclear Winter going around the world, we'll have a lot easier time keeping our chips coo... : PlanetPerfecto
    • And by we I mean the idiots in power, thank you global echelon surveillance this is not a rogue transmiss... : PlanetPerfecto
• There's some serious materials research that's going to enable some very high speed processors through th... : Hiro

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  could anyone do devious things with said ids? just seems like everyone gave them over : grifter
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    http://apple.com/WebObjects/explodeDevice.action?deviceID=a0c06fbc44e39d55e8cdb0471dab1602bdc3a607 Cli... : SqueegyTBS
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      holy cow my device just exploded WHO CLICKED IT : Chandler55
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        i did. I clicked it. : Mmmmmoo
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          it was me gegtik : datoo
          • I am the one who clicked it : datoo
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    the correct answer is the device id only allows me to create a code signature that gives you access to an... : SqueegyTBS
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      gotcha. also thanks a lot. also i clicked : grifter
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        Did your iPhone explode? : SqueegyTBS
        • Mine did and I don't own an iPhone! That's a hardcore script he's got running. : .sticks.
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    Shouldnt you be worried about running code you haven't looked at above anything else? I mean, I trust Sq... : rosewood
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      Yeah. I could have code that submits all data in your address book to my database, if I wanted. Good th... : SqueegyTBS
      • Squeegy is going to ILTC all of our moms for Christmas. : DOOManiac
    • i totally agree. a shacker is one thing, but we've also got threads upon threads of IDs. it was a questio... : grifter
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  Just id's though right? No code changes? BTW, do you know if an unprovisioned app can run if it's thro... : DOOManiac
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    The app works jailbroken, but you can't set any settings. So you can't post. The jailbreakers haven't f... : SqueegyTBS
    • and yeah, same app. just a new provision. : SqueegyTBS
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      Yeah, one of the things I always thought was neat about app store apps was how preferences were just load... : DOOManiac
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        Actually it's not a common theme, but I think due to minimal UI choices (like not wasting space on a big ... : ovrlrd
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          Yep button real estate is precious. This is more of an iPhone convention. : SqueegyTBS
          • Ah okay. I don't use mac's that much but I remember seeing some MySQL stuff in the control panel equivale... : DOOManiac
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  I just installed it. Nice job! : cltcprd
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    also do i want the filters on or off? : cltcprd
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      on = show : SqueegyTBS
      • cool, Thanks again. : cltcprd
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  2 questions... 1) is this where i find my device id? C:\Documents and Settings\andres\Application Data... : El Tigre
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    1. I've pasted this a bunch already and Im lazy right now. Search my history for "Identifier". 2. No. : SqueegyTBS
    • 5887e703443584a8eda1404f1a4b6c34e08edcb4 thank you sir! : El Tigre
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  feature request: double-tapping in the upper pane of the comment display should be the same as pressing t... : manero
  • Hmm. I suppose that could be useful : boarder2
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    That's a gopd idea. Maybe even replace the button. : SqueegyTBS
    • Please keep the button, cause I will forget we can double tap as a shortcut. : DOOManiac
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    feature request 2: Can you make it so tapping the status bar scrolls to the very top like in Safari? : DOOManiac
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      Refreshing will take you to the top, but yeah I suppose that'd be decent usability too. : boarder2
      • Do you have any idea how to do that? Can we access the status bar object at all? : SqueegyTBS
    • Holy cow. I never knew that. : Mmmmmoo
• thanks again for all the hardwork! I'll donate asap : Wiley Animagus
• Hello Squeegy!!! 07adf055071bb98af5b053eb7db51cdada2fff84 : stuka
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  Awesome. I replied to a thread yesterday with my device ID, but I have no idea how to tell if I have ... : Ctrl-Phreak
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    I think I figured it out. Is it just me, or is syncing an iPhone about as fun as repeatedly punching y... : Ctrl-Phreak
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      Mine takes like an hour lately. Seriously... : SqueegyTBS
      • Woot, got it working. Thanks. My productivity at work will suffer, but my morale will not. : Ctrl-Phreak
  • 1) Download http://beautifulpixel.com/assets/2008/8/12/LatestChatty.app.zip 2) Drag .provision file into... : FPSDavid
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  Any chance you could add search ? Also maybe change "send" to "post"? Ps when I get paid I'm totally giv... : CoRDS
  • It's not like search works well on the website, much less porting it to an iPhone app : cdbeckman
• My Identifier: 2f686a412b6c0ce57e71ecadc8a7ed6aa7af414b - Sorry I'm late, but will donate if you add me :... : ESchack
• Holy fuck this works! Thanks! : cdbeckman

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• Seasus? : Sailor of Fortune
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  Or Aquaman. : Vincent Grayson
  • Try swimming a mile like that sometime! : davantalus
• Seaman? : Ovate
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  on a semi-related note could the nbcolympics site be any more convoluted? I just want to see a list of ev... : datoo
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    Why the heck don't any of the videos on the site have the commentary. They had the mens cycling race, in ... : mojo the helpr monke
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      because they probably don't have nbc commentators on events that they aren't covering on TV. : FrayLo
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        NBC bounced between mens cycling and some other events, and the commentators were the same that did the T... : mojo the helpr monke
        • oh i get what you're saying. they actually aired that event on tv. yeah i don't know. : FrayLo
  • its a horrific website as far as design is concerned : FrayLo
  • Yeah I hate trying to find anything on the site, it's just terrible. : Begawkiness
  • I have this complaint about most sports sites. There are times when I just want to find out who played to... : Goncyn
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  Let's kill him for a rare drop. : spazzium
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    [Speedo of the Dolphin] : kallanta
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      Hunter item! : GodZilly
      • max crits omg : moe6
      • Naw man, that's 100% a Rogue item! : Lightbulb
    • Speedo of the Frog : Skoal^Fyfan
• That Chinese fucker on the rings was INSANE : EvilDolemite
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  can you imagine if it turns out he's doping? I think they would cancel sports. all of them. : -Panther-
  • oh christ, that would be a massive tragedy and embarrasment. wow... : kallanta
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    Haha, yeah. That's exactly what I said to the woman while she was gushing about Phelps while replaying th : Bean
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      Does it depress you, how much less of a man than Phelps you really are? : Hello Kitty
      • You mean, how much less of a fish than Phelps Bean really is? I wouldn't let it bother me. : Vantage
      • Well, it doesn't exactly keep me up at night except for when I masturbate myself to sleep while imagining : Bean
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      WAIT WAIT WAIT...does she really call you 'Bean?' : notd665
      • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=16150074 : Bean
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      did you actually make a sandwich for her? YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG , BEAN : PlanetPerfecto
      • Oh he made it.. *whip crack* : K1Bond007
      • Yeah, Anti-Freeze, not rat poison. Latter is detectable. : Sailor of Fortune
      • I did. But I was going in the kitchen to make myself one anyway. But I didn't want to miss an opportunity : Bean
  • I sometimes think, it's pretty much a given that many of the top competitors are blood doping or somethin... : PlanetPerfecto
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  Hes so doping, everyone is, its just a matter of not getting caught. : chilln
  • They aren't doping, they're wearing swim suits designed by god himself. It transforms them into fish appa... : Ctrl-Phreak
  • There was a doping news article where Phelps stated he was a super-tester. ie, he voluntarily gets tested... : shyguy74
  • no, he's just superhuman :/ : warpdude
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  doesn't he just have really big feet for his body size or something? : wtf242
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    I HEARD HE HIDES A PROPELLER IN HIS ASSHOLE : Jackass1233
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      he has little propellers all over his body that go VROOOOOOOM whenever he gets in the water : PlanetPerfecto
      • [invisible nano-propellers] : PlanetPerfecto
  • Only size 14 I think. Big but not like total freak. : dooberzoo