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• I entered 250 instead of 215. So it's more like $270 US. Still, only $20 more would get you a 5850. : Visceral Monkey
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  That does seem too high, I paid 280 for my 5850.. : Ender.Wiggin
  • The Euro figure might include their insane VAT crap, so it might be $20 or more less in the States. : Visceral Monkey

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  yea try that if you have one lying around then oncce you get it replaced you can see if the dead one fuck... : RogerDandy
  • If after you replace power it still doesn't post, probably CPU/mobo damage as well. Hopefully it's just p... : LoioshDwaggie
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  The name of the game is basic troubleshooting. : Jinxplayer
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    Indeed. It's a love/hate game really. Hopefully, it's just the PSU and not a motherboard problem. I r... : hatelull
    • Well more than likely your PSU did crap out on you if the fan inside of it isnt moving. if you dont have... : Jinxplayer
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  Might try removing & re-inserting the BIOS battery. : vitaminzach
  • Eh, maybe. However, if it's not posting anything I doubt that will fix it. However, I'll try that in a ... : hatelull
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  AAAAAAANNNNNDD it's the motherboard. I tossed in a fresh new 600W Antec power supply and I don't even g... : hatelull
  • could be CPU too? : RogerDandy
• I have an old asus P4P board that will eat powersupplies, something like 3 in the last 16 months. : Haxim

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  you broker the deal with the software company, your client brokers the deal with you : zerog83
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    need more specifics though, for instance is there a standard contract/NDA agreement I want signed with th... : grandmasterlee
    • I guess what I'm trying to do is ensure my position and avoid letting the vendor go around me directly to... : grandmasterlee

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• Use google reader and then add the feed from that to igoogle. : digital_d

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  oneitis : dirge23
  • Thank you! : zuga

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• I thought Season 2 was decent. : trOmblyj
• Season 2 was better than 1, but the resolution was kinda meh. : Mad Brahmin Disease
• Season 2 wasn't bad but it was rushed to conclusion because of the whole canceling thing. :) It seemed... : Salad Sammich
• it's okay but it feels very abrupt, kinda like the final season of Rome, because they had to cram an endi... : dirge23
• I really miss that show : sm00v3d

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  Hm I played on the same specs but with a 2.8ghz Core2Duo pretty smoothly on high details. Even with the ... : Barnahog
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    What driver version did you use? : amrbean
    • Whatever was the latest stable version was 2 months ago or so, sorry that isn't super helpful, I don't ha... : Barnahog
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  Windows 7 with 2 GB of RAM is probably your problem. Vista and Windows 7 eat a decent amount of RAM. You ... : deveus1
  • Ok, I ordered another stick, but I am not optimistic that this will solve all my problems. : amrbean

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• Wang_or_die : kanix

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• excellent : aurealis
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  We need more quantum technology in everyday things! I want Quantum Toast! : GloriousCow
  • quantum foam mattress that allows you to wake up in any time period you wish! : aurealis
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  None of these spiky balls actually touch Good, I was worried my phone would be gay : Yanks
  • if your balls are tunnelling, thats pretty super gay : GloriousCow
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  Quantum mace The image of mace in his own version of "Quantum Leap" is now in my head. : DHAvatar
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    lol every episode is some broad that needs a good dicking, and mace needs to find out how to give it to h... : papaskot
    • All so he can get .... home. : ra1n
    • VOODOORAZE, add this one to ... the list. : CrustaR
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  mace-shaped particles? O_o : CrustaR
  • they punch through the wall cock-first. : papaskot

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• someone done fucked up : GloriousCow
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  You break it, you bought it. : silent prophet
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    What fool would buy this pla : manero
    • Hold on, gf overlords! Don't force him into the hole. He was only joking. Really. I promise we won't disp... : silent prophet
    • television, had quite a bit of work experi... : deject
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  No, it doesn't. : Alice O'Connor
  • Nothing to see here, people, move along! : zuff
  • Well now its fixed ;) : Shadowdane
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    Alice's flour-dusted motherly hands fix every issue with grace and poise. : GloriousCow
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      GC what's with you and alice? : boomstickah
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        We are witnessing beautiful and natural process of a boy's infatuation meeting a girl's restraining order... : silent prophet
        • Bhahahahahah : Rotten Deadite
      • Unlike most of you fags, he likes girls. : Xevo
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        don't you spoil this beautiful thing by insinuating something creepy :( : GloriousCow
        • GC, I am starting to become concerned!! : CrustaR
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          Does she have double jointed thumbs? If you can answer this question please seek help. : r_picmip 5
          • in my dreams or in reality : GloriousCow
        • like alice? : Slowtreme
      • Shackers love to stalk the fuck out of whoever is posting the news. I was stalking Steve Gibson for awhil... : askedrelic
• <-- it went that way : c0bra
• fay-LOOOOOORRRRR!! : dantastic

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• Holy Jesus that is some line-up : sonicdeathwalrus
• I wanted to go last year and didn't. any chance I'll make the effort this time? : Slowtreme

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• that software was preinstalled on my brain : slickdoody
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  It came preloaded with me. : sheepraper
  • yah me too : Shadowdane
• I'm the development platform where they test all new updates. : ieGod
• Shacknews is the web app version. : Arcanum

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• Added! Also, paging disdainmsh; I'm getting impatient to take my turn :( : MercFox1

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  Turn that off in Madden before you start a game. I like it in Forza. It's to prevent you having to res... : LoioshDwaggie
  • Yeah, in Forza 2 the 45+ lap races were so annoying. : Freezerr85
• When I get my review of F3 up (It's nearly there) I'll praise and rant on it. In general, it is a good... : Masem
• Haha, rewind works in multiplayer? That's a big no-no. I like it in Forza 3 and it has greatly increased ... : aggressor

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  Dude you need to do something about your situation. Get some freaking chains or trade the box in for some... : geedeck
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    Chains and studded snow tires are illegal in VA. We ain't used to this. : jasonepowell
    • Insanity! : geedeck
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    1. No. Not gettin rid of the box. 2. Every day I've stayed home, it wasn't my choice. My Supervisors ha... : g0nk
    • I had no clue Ohio was that much better at handling snow. But, touche. : geedeck
• Are you taking off because you can't get there or because they are not open due to the weather? : aggressor
• We got a couple inches overnight, but currently have a blizzard warning and it looks like we are supposed... : skizl
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  That shoebox is fwd, you should be fine. I've taken my rwd with all seasons out in that. : FormerHPB
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    there are 4 inch "shelves" of snow pack and ice layers on the roads around me. My front bumper almost got... : g0nk
    • I've never seen hard pack ice shelves on roads days after a storm like I have in VA. The plowing in this ... : Delusional
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  Bright and sunny here in Chicago. : not work safe
  • It's really quite weird that we have had much LESS snow here in Chicago this year (and a really quite mil... : Arctic Fox
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  my office emergency line left me a message, closed ! : gmd
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    My office doesn't even call. I sent out a status report for this project yesterday and said that I was st... : ateam311
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      Our office is so rarely closed for bad weather (we're an ISP - when the weather gets bad we usually have ... : jasonepowell
      • Hahaha yeah, replace AIM with Skype and that's pretty much it. : ateam311
  • Federal government: closed every day so far this week, probably closed tomorrow, and I've got pre-approve... : umcpwintermute
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  dude, I drove through 8 inches of snow in my rear-wheel drive BMW on Saturday. that makes you a pussy. : zerog83
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    I too rode my rear wheel drive mountain bike through however much snow we got yesterday here. g0nk is a p... : not work safe
    • Oh yeah. I'm a pussy. I'll admit to that. On top of me having close to no experience driving in winter co... : g0nk
  • I'm sure I could get to work right now. I've got a WRX with new tires and the road looked like it was at... : DinK
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    Honestly everyone else is so bad at driving in the snow down here that it is not worth going out in even ... : Evil Benius
    • oh don't get me wrong... I'm working from home, too :D : zerog83
  • What the fuck ever. : pres589
• Its probably easier to go to work since no one is going out. But then again its also easier to slide i... : NukemFornever
• got stuck. went back home and called off. : sm00v3d
• Do you guys get paid for snow days? : mrvandelay
• it wouldn't be so bad if the plows didn't shove all the snow up against my parallel-parked car, but what ... : Veegeezee
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  Blizzard conditions here, just cooped up indoors. I haven't seen any good figures about accumulation so ... : umcpwintermute
  • I love how they won't fucking say officially if the records have been broken. They just keep saying "WE P... : ateam311
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  Where do you live that 4 inches of snow shuts everything down? : Anti_dentite
  • This is on top of the big storm we go on Saturday that still has not been cleaned up. : Evil Benius
  • Vagina town : dewdman

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• That is pretty neato. : aggressor
• i think he's an artist though : Slowtreme
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  That's slick but he ruins it with that Yahoo email address. : prime8
  • yea thats a pretty huge oversight there for such a slick piece : aurealis
• Eye catching. : davantalus
• excel has a donut chart but not a 3d one like this. probably used something else or a 3rd party excel cha... : multisync
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  First question on this guy's interview: Why have you been so lazy since graduation in 2003? short answ... : henrikb
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    Seems like his independent study went up a bit after school. How is that lazy when combined with a job? : aggressor
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      There's a disconnect between employment during and after school, since he had jobs during school as well ... : ieGod
      • Yea, I guess a simple horizontal line signifying hours per week would have been good. What the hell is th... : aggressor
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    The value of his graph at any point in time is kind of meaningless. It's not quantified and communicated ... : ieGod
    • Art people will eat that up. (Remember that Pepsi logo thing?) Those kind of people. : LoioshDwaggie
• Can't even use gmail? Terrible. : NFXFSX
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  2007 has a raised chart in the 3d section that is sort of close. : twifosp
  • yea but no - these are raised based on their value, that one raises all sections. maybe with VBA you ca... : multisync

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  My biggest issue was the use of depth of field. It strikes me that a film made for 3d shouldn't need to b... : marmite
  • Yeah I was thinking the same thing, that effect has a great impact in 2D film, but totally does not work ... : dumb.
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    they are still using cameras to capture this stuff how do you propose to remove depth of field : boring gegtik
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      Cramp the aperture down to a pinhole. They can do this easily for the most part with the crazy nice lense... : dumb.
      • with the amount of work he did on the visuals I would guess he at least ran a single test scene with a di... : boring gegtik
    • my iphone has shitty depth of field. : marmite
  • they this really messed me up for about the first 30 minutes of the movie. i kept trying to focus in on t... : hatchet165
  • It kind of gave me a headache for the first 15 minutes when I kept trying to view the 3d scene as a whole... : jet-poop
• I didn't care for the absurdly large and awkward Imax 3D glasses. Looking forward to seeing what Tron doe... : Jonathan
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  my son threw up during the final scene of the movie. definately motion sickness related : cptstern
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    I bet he was just horrified from the destruction wrought upon the Navi. : lolpatrol
    • He realized how shitty the storyline was : boring gegtik
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  This wouldn't happen if they gave us the option to adjust the FOV. Pre-order canceled. :( : silent prophet
  • well-played, sir. : Xevo
• i don't think i'll watch another 3d movie until it is entirely new technology. : ass-street

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• http://clearwiresucks.com/blog/ Never tried it myself. : MeenMunky
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  http://www.dslreports.com/reviews search clearwire wireless in your zip code : boomstickah
  • thanks, seems like it sucks. :) : kainen1
• I had the guy come out to install Clear a few months ago in the hopes of ditching Comcast forever, but th... : Topsiderover
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  I had clearwire for about a year, It was not that great but not the worse either. It was acceptable fo... : mastermike569
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    How was the latency : boomstickah
    • Was anywhere between 75-150 range. Was playable. Xbox games normally indicated 1 out of 3 bars, I norma... : mastermike569
• I think it's horrible for gaming, but my area is pretty spotty. The signal goes to crap inside most build... : TrptJim

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  I haven't had either problem, don't know what to tell you. : Xevo
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    It's also happening on the map screen - Cursor seems to move just fun left-right, up and down, but if I t... : freak!
    • I heard people saying stuff like that yesterday, but again I've been fine. : Xevo
• Working as designed! : jingletard
• There's nothing wrong with the controls, you're wrong! : boarder2

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  How do you save an image of your iphone screen like that? : action roommate
  • Power button + Home button : EricZBA
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    hold home button and press the power switch : pancake humper
    • 10 minutes late the the party. Like always, eh soothe babies? : action roommate
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  It used to just crash the App. Now you can at least hit OK and reload a bunch of times and eventually the... : EricZBA
  • Yeah, after tapping the thread 4 or 5 times it works. : jingletard

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  i hated the ending: ICE DOESNT FUCKING SINK : GloriousCow
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    Hah I just watched that cinematic abortion King Arthur, had a similar misunderstanding of the way ice wor : dumb.
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      Oh goodie, it's on YouTube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuPo2tYa3Rg : dumb.
      • i bet that chick got cold : GloriousCow
      • What was with that shittastic music? : Dschinghis Khan
    • i just wonder how the scriptwriter thought ice forms ontop of water in the first place : GloriousCow
  • Having heard about that scene, I did pick up where someoone says "there's x feet of steel and ice above u... : theargent
• The only good things about that movie are (in order) Sienna Miller, Ray Park, CGI sequences. Everything e... : ieGod
• Oh man, don't do this. It was terrible :( : r_picmip 5
• If that movie had better actors, that is actors and not models, and the production design was better, and... : SpaecKow
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  Channing Tatum needs to quit acting and Marlon Wayans needs to not be tossed in as comic relief. : prime8
  • I thought for sure his performance in the Dungeons & Dragons movie would relegate him to b-list status. ... : r_picmip 5
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  Sienna Miller is genetically superior : tomservo
  • Genetically different baby. Whoo. : ieGod

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  Stop... saying.... stuff like this. It kills me. : TheVietSpecial
  • Well you must've missed the last big beta rumour "Feb 1'st honest!!!!!!" It's not like I have a fucking ... : abrasion
• I heard if you transcribe the numbers of the letters in starcraft 2, it tells you the date of the beta ... : geedeck
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  What above video? : Neech
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    http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/62302 : pancake humper
    • also Neech, check your SM's please. : pancake humper
  • Sorry I C&P'd from another thread., this video came out this morning http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.... : abrasion
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  BONER REACHING CRITICAL MASS. abrasion, I really hope you get into the beta so we can play each other.... : pancake humper
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    I'd actually bet good money you'd whip me, I'm terrible at Warcraft 3 and 10x worse at SC :( I'm just ... : abrasion
    • Well I look forward to playing you. Im probally in your league : supermonkeyballz
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      I really don't think this is going to get bnetd'd anytime soon. Probably not for 1-1.5+ years. : pancake humper
      • SHUT UP I WILL KILL YOU. It so better, those guys will never add me to the beta, I only have 2 beta prof... : abrasion
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  I know there was a trick to getting the SC Beta Icon to appear in your battle.net profile. I used no tri... : supermonkeyballz
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    The trick was to log in to the kr.battle.net initially - now it's rolled out everywhere - nothing special... : abrasion
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      Let me believe its real :( : supermonkeyballz
      • You have to opt-in to their beta tests in your battle.net profile to see that icon. That's all it is. : pancake humper
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  is there a place that we can sign up for the beta already? : conandan
  • www.battle.net - make a profile, you'll be 'in the draw' which is probably over a million people at a wil... : abrasion
• Just to add... a friend works for EB Games and they were asking their employees about interest in partici... : wtNORTHMAN

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• i want to go to there : slickdoody
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  Wait, so this guy http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/02/05/style/CAMPUS0207_5.html and this guy http:/... : sonicdeathwalrus
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    I think it's clay's duty to organize a ladies night shackmeet. : hbalce1
    • I think it's clay's duty to let me come sleep on his couch. Wait...married....FUCK. : Scotty22
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  Those girls should stop bitching and start going to engineering schools. : Evil Benius
  • Their lack of foresight is some shacker's opportunity. : hbalce1
  • and hang out w/mostly dudes in WoW t-shirts? /stereotype : FrayLo
• Dude's wearing an old school Montreal Expos hat! Sweet! : Utopia
• Pantana Bob's. Man, that place sucked. : tashtego
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  I don't think I could hang out with girls singing taylor swift songs though : bozer
  • sign me up : Slowtreme
  • With a deal this good you wouldn't even have to hang out with them until they're ready for action. : ieGod
• My undergrad school was 67% female. It was glorious. : zohar79
• There's lots of hot ass in Chapel Hill. : prime8
• mikecyb, does dahanese know? http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/02/05/style/CAMPUS0207_6.html : kgargs

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  Hot Totty! Also Zinc will help. : helvetica
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    Hot Totty made me the sickest I've been in my life, I've never thought I might actually die before seriou... : abrasion
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      abrasion on whiskey is mighty risky, but abrasion on beer is a beer engineer. *bongos* : helvetica
      • iawtp cut-cut-cut-cut-cut-cut-cut-cut-cut-cut-cut-cut-cut-cut-cut-cut-cut-cut-cut-cut : boring gegtik
    • Pussy, the only way to steer a cold off is with excessive alcohol. : Vincenoir
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    If my British slang is up to snuff, I believe it's a "hot toddy". A tottie is a provocatively dressed you... : Dave-A
    • Oh you're right! I'm not very good with this whole English thing. : helvetica
  • Alcohol would kill me right now, but im trying to OD om Zinc : zuff
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  Load up on Contac-C, vitamin C and water. At night, use Vaporub under your nose and a vaporizer. : Lone Swordsman
  • Nice, definitely busting out the humidifier now. : zuff
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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoephedrine It's more commonly known as Sudafed, but don't be fooled... : kek
  • Definitly get the real stuff. This new "No Pseudoephedrine" shit is for the birds. You mean I can have al... : Clasifyd

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• no pics; DR : Slowtreme
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  probably not true, though who knows I guess : jcupitt
  • http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/10/bollywood_star_scan/ : jcupitt
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  I like how they claimed the images were never stored or viewed on-site. Makes me wonder why no one tru... : MagicWishMonkey
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    it's all a silly joke and not actual fact, erm, probably : jcupitt
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      This particular instance is probably a joke/hoax, but I really doubt they are destroying the images. (... : MagicWishMonkey
      • I imagine they are deleteing them, there's too much stuff to store to keep them all. The computers are no... : jcupitt