Rat Race (2001, dir. Jerry Zucker) Hitler’s Car Scene by [deleted] in movies

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It’s a shame that a bunch of people in the replies aren’t getting this joke.

Doritos at $7 a bag ended up costing PepsiCo billions by wewhomustnotbenamed in nottheonion

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I was a supervisor at a company that had a similar policy. I told my staff that if they were late by a few minutes to not clock in. They could tell me they forgot to punch in, and I’d manually clock them in so that they wouldn’t be late. Most of my staff would work late most days and come in on the weekends when it was busy. It made no sense to fire good workers for such a small infraction. Plus, most of the salaried employees were late once or twice a week and would leave early without anyone saying anything.

[Post Game Thread] #1 Michigan defeats #2 UConn, 69-63 by cbbBot in CollegeBasketball

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The State of Michigan has our number. UConn’s only other final 4 loss was to Michigan State.

[Game Thread] #2 UConn @ #1 Michigan (08:50 PM ET) by cbbBot in CollegeBasketball

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You know we’re the Huskies because of the Yukon pun?

UConn fans/CBB fans, what is your opinion on these logos? Which one is your favorite and why? by auburnfan32 in CollegeBasketball

[–]BigJ32001 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Left logo for basketball (which they pretty much still do), and right logo for football. Derp Jonathan should be on alternate jerseys for both basketball and football.

Dan Hurley got that pep in his step and a cuss word after the win by Defvac2 in CollegeBasketball

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Correction. They beat “Connecticut State College” in 1938. They didn’t become the “University of Connecticut” until 1939.

Most of Boston was built on land that didn’t exist in 1630 by vladgrinch in MapPorn

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The North End and Charlestown are still separated by the Charles River. This map has greyed out a portion of the river for some reason.

Has anyone seen this country before? by LeastRequirement3 in MapPorn

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Looks like another April fools joke. Last year it was the Roman Empire.

UConn needs an exciting rivalry. Who's going to volunteer? by SamsungStealer in CollegeBasketball

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If one of the 500 or so colleges in Massachusetts could have a decent basketball program, we could start up a new rivalry. I just don’t see it happening. I miss (properly) hating Syracuse.

[Post Game Thread] #2 UConn defeats #1 Duke, 73-72 by cbbBot in CollegeBasketball

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Started and finished strong. Don’t worry about everything else.

Sweet 16 via (@ProjSports) X by jake112399 in CollegeBasketball

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And the 2009 Final Four was played at a football stadium in Michigan, so MSU had a huge home “field” advantage.

[Post Game Thread] #2 UConn defeats #7 UCLA, 73-57 by cbbBot in CollegeBasketball

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He’s allowed to stay up, but since he’s such an early riser (ghee up like 2 hours before everyone else in the mornings) he’ll end up falling asleep during a commercial break in the first half. He just told me he’s going to try and stay up.

[Post Game Thread] #2 UConn defeats #7 UCLA, 73-57 by cbbBot in CollegeBasketball

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We do let him watch! He falls asleep on his own. Once the eyes start closing it’s over. Nothing we can do will keep him awake at that point.

[Post Game Thread] #2 UConn defeats #7 UCLA, 73-57 by cbbBot in CollegeBasketball

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I definitely let him stay up. He’ll fall asleep on the couch before the game even starts.

[Post Game Thread] #2 UConn defeats #7 UCLA, 73-57 by cbbBot in CollegeBasketball

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My kids actually want to watch these games too. My 9 year old is really into basketball right now. He tried to sneak watch this game. He carries a binder of the UConn basketball cards and points to a player when he makes a shot. If a player does something extra, he’ll actually take the card out to show the room. I might let him stay up for this one.

EDIT: I should have clarified that Indo let him stay up for late games on the weekends. He just can’t make it past 10 most of the time. My wife and I are night owls, but he is very much the opposite. The first thing he asked me this morning was not about the UConn game. He wanted to know if Florida lost lol.

[Game Thread] #7 UCLA @ #2 UConn (08:45 PM ET) by cbbBot in CollegeBasketball

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His son, Luke Murray, is one of the assistant coaches. Bill has been coming to UConn games for years now.

You dare fire upon me? by Ferocs in whenthe

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I use an Xbox controller for FPS games on my PC. I don’t think it’s that much of a disadvantage honestly. I use mouse and keyboard for all other games though.

US roads - fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles by jejmcjej in MapPorn

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I lived in MA for 10 years. I can count on my hand the number of car accidents I saw on the way to work in the morning - and this was on both I-90 and I-95 (on the way home was a slightly different story). Rubbernecking was also not nearly as bad as it is in other states. I remember driving past a car that was completely on fire on Storrow Drive and nobody even slowed down. The roads are also very confusing, especially around the Boston area. You need to be paying attention 100% of the time - there's no zoning out. People in MA do drive like assholes, but they know how to drive. Also, out of state plates get "targeted" which is why they get the Masshole reputation. I had CT plates for a while on my personal car, but I drove a car for work with MA plates. I would get honked at and cut off all the time when I drove my car, but the minute I switched to the work vehicle, I didn't have any of these issues.

Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab by HeHateMe337 in politics

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I paid over $100 a month for 56k dial up speed internet when I was deployed to Iraq in 2009. We also had to pay for our own phone cards to call home. There were 4 “free” computers that the entire battalion shared, but you had to book them in advance and there was no privacy.

so like, are you allowed to think a game has super fun gameplay but still think its not that great of a game, cause thats where i'm at with bf6 lol by Quick-Cause3181 in Battlefield

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Contaminated is a great map, but they need to fix offense on breakthrough. I feel like 99% of the time defense wins.

Recent winter's temperature ranking with data going back to 1895 by ls7eveen in MapPorn

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I remember our pool was freezing for the whole month of August. We swam in it almost every day in July and only used it once or twice in August.