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April Foods: Which food is/are among your favorite(s)? (Pick up to three)

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Hollywood Cannon

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Cody Webster said:
How was the show last night? I see you updated your avatar to Mark wearing a Gritty jersey
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Thought they put on a good show. Tom wasn’t actively a shithead mailing it in like I’ve seen him do more than a time or two so that’s always nice.

I almost got in a fight before the show and I’m the last person on earth who would ever get in a fight, lol.

We were tailgating sitting in the spot behind our car for a good while and it was getting semi close to showtime so the parking lot was starting to fill up. A car pulls up, starts backing in to the spot we’re sitting in. Guy sticks his head out the window “yeah, there’s no other spots in this lot or any other lot so you guys are going to have to move and we’re taking this spot.”

My collective friend group was like “uh, there’s literally a spot right there and there.” We get up because it was close to showtime anyway but the guy continues to back up into us as we’re trying to clean up so I went up to the guy’s door and was like “dude, stop backing up. We’re moving. Give us a second.” He hops up knocking his bong over that was in his cup holder and gets out of his car and starts getting right up in my face. I tell the guy, “You were backing into people. So just get back in your car. We’re moving the stuff. Give us a second.” He goes with the “don’t tell me what to do” crap and I’m just like whatever man. Eventually he gets back in his car and proceeds to back up a bit further to where we still had a little bit of room to finish up our putting stuff away and his friend says “we’re good here, let’s pregame.” One of my friends and his wife had to get something from their car across the aisle before we headed in. She said something to the guy along the lines of “that was really not cool” and the guy apologized to her.

On our walk into the stadium we proceeded to see countless other available parking spots.

Le sigh.
 
Cody Webster

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Hollywood Cannon said:
Thought they put on a good show. Tom wasn’t actively a shithead mailing it in like I’ve seen him do more than a time or two so that’s always nice.

I almost got in a fight before the show and I’m the last person on earth who would ever get in a fight, lol.

We were tailgating sitting in the spot behind our car for a good while and it was getting semi close to showtime so the parking lot was starting to fill up. A car pulls up, starts backing in to the spot we’re sitting in. Guy sticks his head out the window “yeah, there’s no other spots in this lot or any other lot so you guys are going to have to move and we’re taking this spot.”

My collective friend group was like “uh, there’s literally a spot right there and there.” We get up because it was close to showtime anyway but the guy continues to back up into us as we’re trying to clean up so I went up to the guy’s door and was like “dude, stop backing up. We’re moving. Give us a second.” He hops up knocking his bong over that was in his cup holder and gets out of his car and starts getting right up in my face. I tell the guy, “You were backing into people. So just get back in your car. We’re moving the stuff. Give us a second.” He goes with the “don’t tell me what to do” crap and I’m just like whatever man. Eventually he gets back in his car and proceeds to back up a bit further to where we still had a little bit of room to finish up our putting stuff away and his friend says “we’re good here, let’s pregame.” One of my friends and his wife had to get something from their car across the aisle before we headed in. She said something to the guy along the lines of “that was really not cool” and the guy apologized to her.

On our walk into the stadium we proceeded to see countless other available parking spots.

Le sigh.
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Man, what a douche. It's times like that where you could just throw a punch with no repercussions. Guy was probably stoned out of hit mind, wouldn't have been much of a fight

I wish I would have went. When I originally got the tickets, 4 of them, my brother and his gf still ended up going, we had a side stage view, and tickets were only $90, but they then decided to do a 360° stage, so the seats turned out to be great

In other news, our 1:30 flight to Charlotte was delayed until 3:30 and we're still in the process of boarding. It's ok though, we got upgraded to first class. We were second and third on the upgrade list with 11 open seats...not too bad
 
Appleyard

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With moving country twice, changing jobs, and lots of other shitty life things...

basically did not work out properly in a year. And tbf before then was not killing myself, just doing maybe 2 5km runs and 2 2km swims a week for the previous 2 years...

My god it is incredible the amount of fitness you lose. Almost depressing level incredible ahaha.

Went from still running 5km in sub-20 minutes a year ago without "properly training" to struggling to hit 29 minutes today. (albeit it is 100f)

Supposed to be doing a sprint triathlon in around 6 weeks to motivate myself to get back to a good level of fitness... not sure if I want to now ahaha.
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Crisis semi-over... 5 days later and ran 26:30 pace with a section that has 50m of climbing in 800m... so probably a 25:30 or so on flat.

Still a long way to go but feel like by the time the sprint tri comes around should probably be around 21-22 minutes (so 22-23 after the swim and bike) and that feels respectable enough for me.
 
ajgoal

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JojoTheWhale said:
I forgot. I booked a long weekend to Dublin for my wife and I at $385/person direct from PHL. It’s deal season for the fall, gents. Score points and do it cheaply. Same flight is 700 today.
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Hypothetically, if I was planning to go to Europe in the spring, when should I be looking?

Gonna catch up with @Appleyard in Portugal.
 
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ajgoal said:
Hypothetically, if I was planning to go to Europe in the spring, when should I be looking?

Gonna catch up with @Appleyard in Portugal.
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Skyscanner is pretty good still... albeit not as good as it used to be. Can get some bargains. Especially if dont have "set" dates before you look.

AND from the US? I would say that if you simply look for the cheapest flights to and from Europe (can be from different places, BUT often the cheapest are return tickets) that is the best way unless you have your heart set on a specific place.

As ~4 months out? You can probably get ~30 euro flights between most big cities in Europe.

For example even right now:

Boston or New York to Barcelona, Lisbon or Portugal? Somewhere around 320-350 dollars return.

www.skyscanner.net

Billigflüge: günstige Flüge und Flugtickets buchen | Skyscanner

Vergleiche Billigflüge von allen großen Fluglinien und Reisebüros und finde die billigsten Tickets zu all deinen Lieblingszielen. Jetzt online buchen.
www.skyscanner.net

www.skyscanner.net

Billigflüge: günstige Flüge und Flugtickets buchen | Skyscanner

Vergleiche Billigflüge von allen großen Fluglinien und Reisebüros und finde die billigsten Tickets zu all deinen Lieblingszielen. Jetzt online buchen.
www.skyscanner.net

And to Ireland, Denmark, France and Germany? Somewhere around the same.

UK is slightly more expensive (say 350-400) BUT the UK has so many airports and with Ryanair, Wizzair, Jet2 and Easyjet having so, so many flights from the UK? Can usually go anywhere you want under 50 dollars one way if book a few months in advance.
 
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JojoTheWhale

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Appleyard said:
Skyscanner is pretty good still... albeit not as good as it used to be. Can get some bargains. Especially if dont have "set" dates before you look.

AND from the US? I would say that if you simply look for the cheapest flights to and from Europe (can be from different places, BUT often the cheapest are return tickets) that is the best way unless you have your heart set on a specific place.

As ~4 months out? You can probably get ~30 euro flights between most big cities in Europe.

For example even right now:

Boston or New York to Barcelona, Lisbon or Portugal? Somewhere around 320-350 dollars return.

www.skyscanner.net

Billigflüge: günstige Flüge und Flugtickets buchen | Skyscanner

Vergleiche Billigflüge von allen großen Fluglinien und Reisebüros und finde die billigsten Tickets zu all deinen Lieblingszielen. Jetzt online buchen.
www.skyscanner.net

www.skyscanner.net

Billigflüge: günstige Flüge und Flugtickets buchen | Skyscanner

Vergleiche Billigflüge von allen großen Fluglinien und Reisebüros und finde die billigsten Tickets zu all deinen Lieblingszielen. Jetzt online buchen.
www.skyscanner.net

And to Ireland, Denmark, France and Germany? Somewhere around the same.

UK is slightly more expensive (say 350-400) BUT the UK has so many airports and with Ryanair, Wizzair, Jet2 and Easyjet having so, so many flights from the UK? Can usually go anywhere you want under 50 dollars one way if book a few months in advance.
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Skyscanner used to be the absolute best for an unplanned weekend. Your airport to All Destinations, sort by price and then make it work. We never would have picked places like Houston that we ended up enjoying quite a bit. Those flights cost us something like $18 each.
 
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Cody Webster

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JojoTheWhale said:
Skyscanner used to be the absolute best for an unplanned weekend. Your airport to All Destinations, sort by price and then make it work. We never would have picked places like Houston that we ended up enjoying quite a bit. Those flights cost us something like $18 each.
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I remember having this app like 10-12 years ago, it was pretty awesome.
 
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@kudymen do you know what pubs could show Global Series in October? We have ticks for Friday, but not Saturday. Google tells me Stridačka (Hockey Bench) and O'Che's Bar as likely options.
 
Danko

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Going through a tough time with my son at the moment, had an MRI recently of his spine to follow the progression of his rare disease after his specialist notice he was Hyper Reflexive and in a couple images they captured of his MRI it revealed that along with brain shrinkage, he may have had a stroke sometime within the last 7 years. He is non verbal and basically an infant in terms of his functionality. I wasn't expecting the news during a routine neurology appointment today and had to tell my wife which was very upsetting.

On top of that, it seems that they may have broken a bone in his upper arm/shoulder area when they did the mri

I think a lot of people take things for granted... and I really urge people to consider how lucky they are to have a healthy kid, not sweat the small stuff and to focus on making memories with your kids.

Not trying to say woah is me, but just remember the small stuff is really big stuff to some people.
 
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Danko said:
Going through a tough time with my son at the moment, had an MRI recently of his spine to follow the progression of his rare disease after his specialist notice he was Hyper Reflexive and in a couple images they captured of his MRI it revealed that along with brain shrinkage, he may have had a stroke sometime within the last 7 years. He is non verbal and basically an infant in terms of his functionality. I wasn't expecting the news during a routine neurology appointment today and had to tell my wife which was very upsetting.

On top of that, it seems that they may have broken a bone in his upper arm/shoulder area when they did the mri

I think a lot of people take things for granted... and I really urge people to consider how lucky they are to have a healthy kid, not sweat the small stuff and to focus on making memories with your kids.

Not trying to say woah is me, but just remember the small stuff is really big stuff to some people.
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Please don't take the love emoji the wrong way. That's for you and your son and family. I can't even imagine what that is like. You're a great dad.
 
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