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MrBean wrote:

John wrote:

Bleed_DukeBlue wrote:

rayzor6 wrote:

Thanks everyone! Yes, it's with the same company, they added a brand new position to our department.

I'm a bit behind on watching this. Supposedly all AI generated? Kinda insane... And yet feels more like reality than ever before!

Trumps cameo is hilarious though.

https://youtu.be/6dtSqhYhcrs

Living through this myself with the loss of my sister, this hit me hard this morning thinking about all those other families impacted. That red line is fudging awful.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT825uP9j/

I thought it was pretty cool that I was looking up products from a company called Amphora, and when I typed the word amphora, my phone keyboard suggested 🏺

We've had a gnat problem over the past couple of weeks, which is unusual around here. It seems like one or two get in every time we let the dog out. My wife picked up this device and it has been working wonders!

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It works so good, she went and bought a couple more to put around the house.

@citizen_zane we picked up a similar brand last month to knock out some fruit flies... Work amazing!

Works ok for us. We still have a crapton of flies and gnats, but it trapped a couple dozen.

Random Thought: Honeybaked Ham should have a subscription service

The AT&T people at Target are a lot like mall kiosk employees. I don't shop at Target to be hassled.

For gnats: get rid of all fruit/veggie/sweet stuff around the house that is open. Get boiling water and pour it down your kitchen drain to kill the gnats and eggs. Get a small dish of apple vinegar and dawn dish soap. They'll get attracted to it and then get trapped and sink to the bottom. You want to put it in like a larger ramekin style bowl, preferably all glass so you can see the dead ones on the bottom.

Yah apple vinegar is pretty awesome!

Porksta wrote:

I haven't seen them at my local(ish) targets but the Spectrum guy at Walmart is pretty obnoxious.

Second sister is visiting me for her vacation for a month, she arrives on Friday, and I still haven't finished cleaning the house. Augh

Holy fudge ... new record at Costco - 63 items, $850!

MrBean wrote:
How full was your car after loading the stuff in?

nonamesleft wrote:

Filled the good majority of the bed of my truck!

Love Costco, but holy crap we have never left there spending less than $300. This was a ... a record setter though!

@MrBean you ever get that wildly expensive Zelda statue?

theJaw wrote:
Oh, right. Yeah, I'm curious too. What happened in the end with that.

MrBean wrote:
What was the tastiest item for you in the purchase?

MrBean wrote:

How much TP did you buy?

shadyfozzie wrote:

Think quality over quantity.

Wait he said Costco. Think both.

benstylus wrote:
Ha.

I'm not familiar with Costco, but I'm guessing they have good quality items from their brands?

theJaw wrote:

I owe them my final payment. I had the monthly plan on an Amex and for some reason they don't accept Amex for final. It says it will auto cancel if I don't fix and I'm honestly debating letting it fail.

$850 post baby, on a statue, and just bought a $2k projector... I probably don't need the heat of this statue. I also saw an unboxing and Links face looks a bit funky.

Also took my wife out to our first post baby dinner (out now) and dropped $400! Fudge! Should totally bail on Link.

Ugh, decisions.

nonamesleft wrote:

Dude, Costco is legit the single best brick and mortar store! They have everything, including their own brands, which are ultimately just labeled on top of other big brands for lower price (including pretty solid wine and liquor).

nonamesleft wrote:

Short ribs that we'll cook tomorrow probably.

shadyfozzie wrote:

Haha, always gotta get tp! The red Charmin, 30 rolls, always solid.

7 year old - What are those masks they where under water?
Me - Scuba masks.
7 YO - Yeah. I'm going to make a scuba mask that takes in water, separates the oxygen to breath, then pumps the rest back into the water.
Me - 0_0

I don't understand deep dish pizza. What's the point of such a thick slice?

If something is delicious, would you want a thin slice of it or a thick slice?

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KCPenguins wrote:

lol sounds like my son...always coming up with inventions and all sorts of things.

bill wrote:
Depends on what the food is. With pizza, the deliciousness, in my opinion, comes from the combination of sauce, cheese, and bread (and maybe toppings). But, for me, making the bread 3x thicker, yet doing nothing else, doesn't seem to enhance it.

I wasn't being too serious before. Pizza is just one of those things people have strong opinions about.

I do like deep dish pizza (mainly just Uno's since I grew near one). I also like many other kinds of pizza. I mostly grew up eating Greek-style New England pizza (which has a thick/firm crust), so that's my favorite.

I think it's fair to say deep dish is so different it's basically in a category by itself (not even pizza in a sense). Uno's had a thick crust, yes. I think the crust is also coated with cheese (and there often isn't really cheese on top of the pizza). It has a lot more thick veggies and tomato chunks inside of it. The cheesy/crunchy crust gives it a lot of stability to hold a slice in your hand too. Deep dish is the most pie-like pizza.

I imagine you might prefer New York style pizza which has large greasy slices that are very thin and floppy. I can see how a Chicago deep dish pizza would be the antithesis of that. I know NY style pizza is popular, but I prefer Chicago deep dish to that.

I haven't had a deep dish pizza in forever. I don't like a ton of crust, in general.

I loved those grandma slices in NYC, just remembered that, never had one til 2019 i think

DrizzDrizzDrizz wrote:
Is a grandma slice a square slice?

bill wrote:
It is a fair assumption based on my non understanding of deep dish to think I'd like those large, thinner and floppier NY style slices. But that's not actually the case. I don't like those super floppy or greasy slices. And I wouldn't necessarily want a huge slice either.

But there was something I appreciated about the deep dish slice I had. The bread wasn't traditional pizza crust. It had a nice spongelike quality, almost like a focaccia bread.

I haven’t had pizza in like 4 1/2 months, minus a couple of pizza bowls from chains that were nasty crap. I don’t miss pizza except for cravings or when I’m hungry. Like now. I preferred a thin dough for the part with the toppings and cheese and sauce, and a somewhat thick crust for the actual crust. There was a pizza place in my old town in Vermont that I loved so much. They did pizza the best, for my tastes.

I love pizza of all kinds. It's the one food I could serious eat every day and not get sick of. If I ever got unbelievably wealthy...I'd love to travel primarily on the way to try different pizza in the US all in a week's time. A small diner for great breakfasts would be another good one

Those little deep dish pizzas you can get like at Walmart and nuke them in the microwave... LOVE THOSE!!

Jet's Pizza is probably my favorite by far for a deep dish style (sort of) pizza if we're talking a franchise type.

I’m a huge fan of (good) frozen pizza, doesn’t get enough love. Some sourdough Dr Oetker ones here are especially good