We don't really have Chik-Fil-As out here. One opened in Bellevue near my office a year ago. On the average night around dinner time there's at least 7 cars deep in the drive thru and like 1 day a week, cars are lined up into the street. I don't get it...

There's one right next to Lucas Oil Stadium, ghetto as fuck. But I went in there during my Final Four trip. Had never been. Thought it was a great burger.

And yeah, Wendy's is great. Haters gonna hate

it's pretty good for fast food, but i don't plan on waiting for it if there's another place that's comparable and is nearby. i always enjoyed wendy's, too.

i dont really eat much fast food, though. one of the only places we go is Wawa, especially since it's on our street.

Anytime I pass through Richmond, I always stop in at Wawa (that's the closest one to me). The misses thinks I go crazy for it because as soon as I see that sign on the interstate, my eyes light up. Great sandwiches there, if I could, that's where I would go.

fuck wendy's and their cigarette burger.

hm?

The Dude wrote:looks Charlie Sheen is the HIV+ dude

Losing!

Slowhand wrote:

The Dude wrote:looks Charlie Sheen is the HIV+ dude

Losing!

The dude did age like 15 years in the past 5. But knowingly and not telling anyone or at least refrain from having sex. lost total respect for the guy. I hope he loses everything.

Can't think of a celebrity less surprising for this news.

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weird list. more britney spears and WWE than i would have thought.

Kane is an odd one.

PrattRules wrote:Kane is an odd one.

He's been around forever, has been in like 1 million different tag teams/stables, had different names, etc.

can't find the home buying thread. Wife and I are shopping. It's kind of miserable. We like where we live and we have a month to month lease so we have a ton of flexibility.

Slowhand wrote:

The Dude wrote:looks Charlie Sheen is the HIV+ dude

Losing!

making the odds 50/50 hot taeks on his situation shove Paris off the top of the news cycle within 48 hrs

some guy walked straight into traffic in the middle of the road (not an intersection) in front of my car the other day. he was on his phone or listening to music or something and only looked the opposite way on a 35 mph road. like...i was in the middle of a line of traffic moving probably 25. i was by no means the only car on the road. fortunately i saw him walking and not paying attention and was already slowing down but he did not see my car until it was a foot away after slamming on the brakes and hitting the horn. this is one of those situations where it's 'safe' to text and drive (straight road, no intersection, traffic moving at a slow/normal pace) but where something totally unexpected could happen and you end up running some idiot over. i definitely don't text and drive often at all but will sometimes be changing music or something like that when it's 'safe' 99.99% of the time. i like to think that no matter what i'd have been aware of him but who knows.

Soren wrote:can't find the home buying thread. Wife and I are shopping. It's kind of miserable. We like where we live and we have a month to month lease so we have a ton of flexibility.

Honestly, renting isn't the worst thing in the world, especially if you have flexibility. When we moved to Delaware back in '09 we had to rent while we dealt with our house in jersey and it was the best thing we could have done. We wound up hating the first place we lived in and got out after 11 months, then we moved to another place, which was a better fit for us and would have basically been the most we could have afforded. Then over the next few years we had another kid, I started making a lot more money and advanced my career to the point where I had a lot more clarity into my and our future plans, we realized what we wanted, like actually WANTED out of life as far as where we lived and the community we wanted to be a part of so when we decided we wanted to buy we could zero in on specific situations that we wanted. The biggest downside of renting is the whole not building equity thing, but in this economic environment, anything you buy right now is not appreciating, re values have been flat and that is really your best opportunity to build equity quickly, when you get a 30 year mortgage your first few years of payments are primarily interest anyway so if you do turn around and sell it, you'll basically be at a break even after re settlement costs for the first few years.

Tl;dr - renting isn't a bad thing, don't rush into buying, wait until you can buy something that you plan on owning for the next ten years and can see meeting the needs of you and your family (and any future additions) for that time.

Bill McNeal wrote:

Soren wrote:can't find the home buying thread. Wife and I are shopping. It's kind of miserable. We like where we live and we have a month to month lease so we have a ton of flexibility.

Honestly, renting isn't the worst thing in the world, especially if you have flexibility. When we moved to Delaware back in '09 we had to rent while we dealt with our house in jersey and it was the best thing we could have done. We wound up hating the first place we lived in and got out after 11 months, then we moved to another place, which was a better fit for us and would have basically been the most we could have afforded. Then over the next few years we had another kid, I started making a lot more money and advanced my career to the point where I had a lot more clarity into my and our future plans, we realized what we wanted, like actually WANTED out of life as far as where we lived and the community we wanted to be a part of so when we decided we wanted to buy we could zero in on specific situations that we wanted. The biggest downside of renting is the whole not building equity thing, but in this economic environment, anything you buy right now is not appreciating, re values have been flat and that is really your best opportunity to build equity quickly, when you get a 30 year mortgage your first few years of payments are primarily interest anyway so if you do turn around and sell it, you'll basically be at a break even after re settlement costs for the first few years.

Tl;dr - renting isn't a bad thing, don't rush into buying, wait until you can buy something that you plan on owning for the next ten years and can see meeting the needs of you and your family (and any future additions) for that time.

Here is an awesome Rent vs. Buy calculator from NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-calculator.html?_r=0

JUburton wrote:some guy walked straight into traffic in the middle of the road (not an intersection) in front of my car the other day. he was on his phone or listening to music or something and only looked the opposite way on a 35 mph road. like...i was in the middle of a line of traffic moving probably 25. i was by no means the only car on the road. fortunately i saw him walking and not paying attention and was already slowing down but he did not see my car until it was a foot away after slamming on the brakes and hitting the horn. this is one of those situations where it's 'safe' to text and drive (straight road, no intersection, traffic moving at a slow/normal pace) but where something totally unexpected could happen and you end up running some idiot over. i definitely don't text and drive often at all but will sometimes be changing music or something like that when it's 'safe' 99.99% of the time. i like to think that no matter what i'd have been aware of him but who knows.

driving in crazy dangerous, i hate doing it anymore, at least around the city.

seems like once a month i see people darting across the main road in my neighborhood(which is 2 lanes both ways) without looking or only looking 1 way. it's an insanely busy road during rush hours. there have been people hit twice on the road since i've moved here. surprised it's not more often, tbh. people are morons and generally have a very low regard for their life, i guess.

can't wait until i accidentally hit one of these idiots then go to jail forever because there's trace amounts of weed in my blood.

I hope that doesn't happen to you

me too. i'm super careful when i drive anymore. never text and drive, always real cautious, especially in city blocks.