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Eggs Mayonnaise said:
Yes Survivor does 2 seasons a year. Amazing Race is still around too, so is Big Brother. They've all been around for about 25 years.

They're cheaper to produce than scripted shows and people still watch. Done deal.
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Makes sense.
 
Do you think the lawyers would let you have a Styx cover band called "Sticks"?
 
 
Volpone said:
One of the screws holding my 14 year old laptop together is stripped.* How does a screw get stripped on a laptop? Or has it been stripped for 14 years and I just never knew because I never tried the screws before?

*When the speaker/sound card died I started experimenting with what opening it up entails but so far haven't gone beyond accessing the battery and the hard drive. Yesterday I was using it for my weekly bookkeeping (because I can't get any of my software to run on the W11 box) I noticed the screen hinge was very sloppy and there was a gap at the back, where the top and bottom halves of the case meet. If the speaker starts working again after tightening up some screws I will be happy, but I doubt it will. Interestingly, certain sounds will work with headphones plugged in during boot. But once the computer is up, sounds won't work in programs--even with headphones in.
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WIth me, every year or two I want to put a bigger HD in a laptop or some other hack, and I grab the smallest Philips head I can find and start unscrewing the bottom of the laptop, but inevitably the Philips head won't be small enough and it just starts grinding against the screw head. So I stop and think, "hmm I gotta get another PC repair kit at Amazon" and then I forget until way later, when I repeat the process all over again. That's how the screws on MY laptops get stripped...
 
I'm so old that, when I was a techie, I actually built a desktop. So as I was wheeling around Fry's, loading components into a shopping cart, I got a screwdriver kit. Of course that's in the basement or somewhere so I usually wind up using the one that I happened to find laying beside the road that I stuck in my junk drawer, but that's neither here nor there.
 
apnews.com

Netflix walks away from Warner Bros deal, clearing the path for Paramount

Netflix is declining to raise its offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio and streaming business in a stunning move that effectively puts Paramount in a position to take over its storied Hollywood rival.
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Ordered a stuffed crust pizza, payed two quid extra for it, crust was almost completely devoid of cheese.

Not happy, you could say I was completely cheesed off.
 
 
Listening to a local radio talk show and the lady host is talking about how when she was a child she was making toast for breakfast and there was a mouse in the toaster and she could hear it screaming and smelled burnt mouse hair and always checks her toaster to this day.

Something to think about.
 
I DON'T WANT TO WORK ON MY TAXES.*

*(All the "work" I do is fill out a worksheet from my accountant, print out a few reports, and make sure I have all my year end documents, but still...)
 
It'll still taste like masking tape.
 
The rubber beef patty with the painted-on grill marks was the problem all along -- and it's the one thing they didn't change?
 
Such an intolerant world we live in. If it had been duck costumes, this wouldn't have happened.

goats.webp
 
There's something that doesn't come up very often on the bingo card of Life.
 
The Ant and the Aardvark predicted the uselessness of ChatGPT.

 
Today is shaping up to be one of those days where you wake up, smiling, to sunshine, throw off the covers and spring out of bed, announcing "TODAY IS GOING TO BE THE BEST DAY EVER!"...and by 11am you've had enough disappointments that you're ready to go back to bed and try for tomorrow.

(I don't mean horrible "your city has been bombed" things, just "you spill your coffee and while you're cleaning that up and starting a new pot you burn your toast--and then your burnt toast gets cold and as you're throwing away the coffee soaked paper towels you realize the trash can is full so you have to stop and take out the trash" level of disappointment--where every mundane thing you attempt hits at least 1 roadblock.)
 
We're going to a birthday party for a one year old girl this afternoon.

When you're invited to a little girl's birthday party, you just go... and you go with gifts.

There's three girls in that family, and we have a standing invite to their celebrations.

Fuck, we're old.
 
The Beer Hall Pooch said:
The Ant and the Aardvark predicted the uselessness of ChatGPT.

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All these years I thought Joey Bishop voiced the Aardvark... turns out it was John Byner doing a Joey Bishop impersionation.
 
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