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Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 5:52 pm**

hepcat wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 9:33 pm I don’t think I’ve ever heard of that divide before.

It was our local (Atlanta suburbs) manifestation of the Nerd vs Cool divide.

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 6:07 pm**

Hold that thought, this thread has 43,000 replies.

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 7:15 pm**

Forty Three Thousand and

FIRST!

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 11:59 pm**

Holman wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 5:52 pm
hepcat wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 9:33 pm I don’t think I’ve ever heard of that divide before.
It was our local (Atlanta suburbs) manifestation of the Nerd vs Cool divide.

KISS sucks and Star Wars is overrated

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 12:00 am**

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 5:16 pm

got up to 91F in Seattle and everyone is dying of heatstroke here

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 12:11 am**

hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 12:00 am
Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 5:16 pm
got up to 91F in Seattle and everyone is dying of heatstroke here

Stop Drop and Roll?

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 1:46 am**

hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 11:59 pm
Holman wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 5:52 pm
hepcat wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 9:33 pm I don’t think I’ve ever heard of that divide before.
It was our local (Atlanta suburbs) manifestation of the Nerd vs Cool divide.
KISS sucks and Star Wars is overrated

I don't like Star Wars and will thank y'all for not posting anymore memes. Kthxbye.

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 7:49 am**

Kraken wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 1:46 am I don't like Star Wars and will thank y'all for not posting anymore memes. Kthxbye.

All you wanna do is bicycle?

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 10:00 am**

Getting people to do their jobs now days is almost impossible. I have to do half their job for them. Its almost like I need to pay them just to take money from me. "Heres $20 to take $40 from me"

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 12:58 pm**

It was only a few months ago I thought Deahawk was crazy spending as much as he does for eggs. Now I can't seem to find them for under $3 a dozen for merely large eggs. I love eggs but it's getting hard to buy them. Even in bulk they're still at that $3 mark. Is that local or national? Between that and bread my egg sandwiches are starting to actually cost money.

Edit, the beauty of the Internet

https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/ ... erview.pdf

The Midwest wholesale price for Large, white, shell eggs
delivered to warehouses increased $0.14 to $3.16 per dozen with a firm undertone. Prices
paid to producers in the Midwest for Large cartoned shell eggs rose $0.08 to $3.05 per
dozen with a firm undertone.

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 1:10 pm**

On top of all the other supply chain disruptions, eggs (and other poultry products) have been impacted by widespread outbreaks of avian flu this year.

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 1:12 pm**

whats that undertone thingy? is there an overtone?

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 1:26 pm**

Daehawk wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 1:12 pm whats that undertone thingy? is there an overtone?

Undertone seems to be used to refer a price trend when the market is unsettled -- i.e. they're hedging on whether or not the trend is real.

How to Read Market Reports

3) Price Trend: Refers to the direction that prices are moving in relation to trading in the previous reporting period(s).
Higher: When the majority of sales are at prices measurably higher than the previous trading session.

Firm: Prices are tending higher, but not measurably so.

Steady: Prices are unchanged from previous trading session.

Weak: Prices are tending lower, but not measurably so.

Lower: Prices for most sales are measurably lower than the previous session.

6) Undertone: Situation or sense of direction in an unsettled market.

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 1:45 pm**

I started using the Illinois Lottery website to buy the occasional lottery tickets (I do this whenever the pot hits astronomical heights...like now). I love it because you don't have to stand in line at a counter at the store, and you can just log in to view the results.

However, one of the downsides I just realized is that it sends an email if you win. An email I saw while at a stop light on my drive to work this morning. Visions of being a multi millionaire danced through my head as I frantically looked for somewhere to pull over. When I did, I logged into the site on my phone and saw that I'd won a whopping 4 dollars.

400 cents.

1/5th of 20 dollars.

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 2:40 pm**

LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 12:58 pm It was only a few months ago I thought Deahawk was crazy spending as much as he does for eggs. Now I can't seem to find them for under $3 a dozen for merely large eggs. I love eggs but it's getting hard to buy them. Even in bulk they're still at that $3 mark. Is that local or national? Between that and bread my egg sandwiches are starting to actually cost money.

Edit, the beauty of the Internet

https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/ ... erview.pdf

The Midwest wholesale price for Large, white, shell eggs
delivered to warehouses increased $0.14 to $3.16 per dozen with a firm undertone. Prices
paid to producers in the Midwest for Large cartoned shell eggs rose $0.08 to $3.05 per
dozen with a firm undertone.

FWIW, Costco typically sells their Kirkland Grade AA Cage Free Eggs for around $2.00 per dozen (if memory serves, they're just shy of $4 for 24 eggs):

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 2:55 pm**

Anonymous Bosch wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 2:40 pm

I found Costco to be high side average for eggs and then I quit this month. Their pricing has been scaling up comparatively while their reliability of stock had gone down and their sales no longer appealed to me at all. I saw no reason to pay $60 to renew this year. I did open a BJs account which is pretty comparable to Costco, only because the cost of joining was refunded in gift card. So I'll still have a warehouse membership through most of 2023 but again, there's no longer much appeal to them.

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 3:30 pm**

I'm really surprised by your costco experiences. At least out here, there are a number of things they have much cheaper than my grocery store. Eggs, ground been, fruits and cheese are all significantly less expensive. With the executive membership, we always get more back in rebates than we pay for a membership by five or six fold.

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 3:44 pm**

gbasden wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 3:30 pm I'm really surprised by your costco experiences. At least out here, there are a number of things they have much cheaper than my grocery store. Eggs, ground been, fruits and cheese are all significantly less expensive. With the executive membership, we always get more back in rebates than we pay for a membership by five or six fold.

I'm a me so rebates for a more expensive membership are off the table. Ground Beef is considerably more expensive at Costco. Most weeks I can still find 80/20 on sale for $2.99 somewhere and it's always $3.99 if I can't find a deep sale. Costco $4.99. Though I don't each much ground beef any more since getting a stent. Produce is consistently more expensive there. Cheese at Costco wasn't cheaper but it was better. Eggs were high end of average. Milk was expensive. What was cheaper, were things I could buy big and either go through or let set, like the 48oz Folgers can at retail of $13.49 or on sale for $8.99 and then $9.99. But their sales don't do much any more this whole year, so I was down to the $5 rotisserie chicken, Folgers (which was out of stock for three months but only at Costco), and then masses of junkfood like the four pounds of M&Ms for $13. Junk food needs to stay at a minimum. Costco were also really good for cheap clothes. Low quality, barely fit me but the price was right. None of that justified renewal this year.

It's all good. I hold them no malice. I just can't warrant staying a member for what they offer based on what I get out of it.

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 3:57 pm**

gbasden wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 3:30 pm I'm really surprised by your costco experiences. At least out here, there are a number of things they have much cheaper than my grocery store. Eggs, ground been, fruits and cheese are all significantly less expensive. With the executive membership, we always get more back in rebates than we pay for a membership by five or six fold.

Indeed, it's worth remembering that unlike most typical retailers that have 25 to 50 percent or more mark-ups, Costco typically caps its mark-ups at 14 percent for outside brands and 15 percent for Kirkland brands. So, almost every item they sell is available for a bargain price, courtesy of the limited selection of products they carry and the fact they're often sold in bulk. That doesn't mean they're necessarily always cheapest but like gbasden, I find they're hard to beat in terms of getting the best bang for your buck for most staple products (and in my experience, the quality of their meat and produce sections has always been top-notch).

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 4:04 pm**

LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 3:44 pm
I'm a me so rebates for a more expensive membership are off the table. Ground Beef is considerably more expensive at Costco. Most weeks I can still find 80/20 on sale for $2.99 somewhere and it's always $3.99 if I can't find a deep sale. Costco $4.99. Though I don't each much ground beef any more since getting a stent. Produce is consistently more expensive there. Cheese at Costco wasn't cheaper but it was better. Eggs were high end of average. Milk was expensive. What was cheaper, were things I could buy big and either go through or let set, like the 48oz Folgers can at retail of $13.49 or on sale for $8.99 and then $9.99. But their sales don't do much any more this whole year, so I was down to the $5 rotisserie chicken, Folgers (which was out of stock for three months but only at Costco), and then masses of junkfood like the four pounds of M&Ms for $13. Junk food needs to stay at a minimum. Costco were also really good for cheap clothes. Low quality, barely fit me but the price was right. None of that justified renewal this year.

It's all good. I hold them no malice. I just can't warrant staying a member for what they offer based on what I get out of it.

Man, that's some regional difference. I just bought 5lb of ground beef on Monday for $2.99 a lb. Milk was about $2.50 a gallon in the 2 pack, and it's $3-4 at the grocery store.

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 4:11 pm**

hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 1:45 pm I started using the Illinois Lottery website to buy the occasional lottery tickets (I do this whenever the pot hits astronomical heights...like now). I love it because you don't have to stand in line at a counter at the store, and you can just log in to view the results.

However, one of the downsides I just realized is that it sends an email if you win. An email I saw while at a stop light on my drive to work this morning. Visions of being a multi millionaire danced through my head as I frantically looked for somewhere to pull over. When I did, I logged into the site on my phone and saw that I'd won a whopping 4 dollars.

400 cents.

1/5th of 20 dollars.

How much did you spend on tickets?

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 6:24 pm**

Anonymous Bosch wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 2:40 pm FWIW, Costco typically sells their Kirkland Grade AA Cage Free Eggs for around $2.00 per dozen (if memory serves, they're just shy of $4 for 24 eggs):

I was curious so I looked for my last Costco receipt from last week, but also found one from April, exactly 3 months prior:

24 large eggs - $4.19 in April, $5.19 in July
2-pack of whole milk (1 gallon each) - $6.89 in April, $7.39 in July
Heavy cream (64oz) - $9.99 in April, $10.89 in July
12-pack of Noosa yogurt - $8.79 in April, $9.69 in July
Coffee creamer (2-56oz bottles) - $7.99 in April, $6.89 in July(!)

So the prices are mostly up, but (at least here) they are up more at the regular grocery store... When doing per-unit comparison, yogurt is always cheaper in Costco, even if grocery store is having a sale. Looked up eggs at the local King Soopers, and the cheapest cage-free eggs are $3.69/dozen (regular Kroger-brand large eggs arer $2.29/dozen, but Costco eggs are cage-free, so trying to do a fair comparison). Kroger-brand 1 gallon of whole milk is $3.89, so still more expensive than Costco.

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 7:01 pm**

Holman wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 4:11 pm
hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 1:45 pm Gibberish
How much did you spend on tickets?

475 grand. With a jackpot of over 500 grand, the profit margin was just too good!

12 dollars really. I only play the lotto when the pot gets ridiculously high. I come from a long line of people who don't really have the gambling gene, so it's not something I abuse/will ever abuse. Although I do oftentimes risk losing Hentzau in a bet. Sadly, his wife keeps reminding me I don't own him.

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 7:14 pm**

Re: eggs

I haven't checked our local egg prices, but we have friendly neighbors raising chickens, and they treat their chickens as pets rather than machines. The feed and care are higher quality, and I really believe I can taste the difference between neighbor-chicken eggs and store-bought eggs.

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 7:16 pm**

gilraen wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 6:24 pm So the prices are mostly up, but (at least here) they are up more at the regular grocery store... When doing per-unit comparison, yogurt is always cheaper in Costco, even if grocery store is having a sale. Looked up eggs at the local King Soopers, and the cheapest cage-free eggs are $3.69/dozen (regular Kroger-brand large eggs arer $2.29/dozen, but Costco eggs are cage-free, so trying to do a fair comparison). Kroger-brand 1 gallon of whole milk is $3.89, so still more expensive than Costco.

And there you go. Kroger eggs here are also $3 a dozen. Costco's advantage would be "Cage Free" not price. Kroger have sales on milk every 2 to 3 weeks in their weekly 5x coupons for $1.27 a half gallon. No one else competes for that price around here. Meijer, Aldi, Costco, presumably WalMart, no one. It's going loss liter. If I want/need milk I get it at the once or twice month sale at Kroger. Milk is also around $3 a gallon everywhere. Costco, at best is average. Costco big savings were there sales and generally it takes a deep sale somewhere else to beat their pantry item prices. I do deep sale shopping often, but I did like Costco's $5 chicken. That deal could not be beat but it's not worth the membership and commute for me.

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 7:16 pm**

Can we keep this contained to the egg forum, please?

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 7:47 pm**

Eggs are still bargain even if they are more expensive.

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 7:59 pm**

LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 7:16 pm Costco's advantage would be "Cage Free" not price.

i understand i have the income to do so, but i started feeling kinda disgusted with myself when i bought eggs that weren't 'cage-free' (or even better, 'free range') just because they were cheaper. the pain and misery inflicted on egg-laying hens in confinement is truly not worth me saving a dollar.

but what happens to rooster chicks in chicken produce breeding... i really can't stand that. i would be willing to pay significantly more for eggs where male babies aren't thrown en masse into a wood chipper.

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:07 pm**

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 7:16 pm Can we keep this contained to the egg forum, please?

Does that come before or after the chicken forum?

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:50 pm**

Holman wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:07 pm
Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 7:16 pm Can we keep this contained to the egg forum, please?
Does that come before or after the chicken forum?

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:25 pm**

Tip your server I'll be here all week!

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 10:09 pm**

I can't afford you. I'm tipping my grocery deliverer 20% as it is.

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 10:10 pm**

Strong quake kills 5, injures dozens in northern Philippines

Posted: **Thu Jul 28, 2022 5:02 am**

Just read on our local news that there's an area by the dam where people are dropping dead dogs and cats. Many of whom had been traumatized. And they found in a nearby pond where somebody had thrown a litter of kittens and they had drown. Evidently this is a known area to do this sort of thing. It makes me so fucking mad and sad at the same time.
Damned but I wish I hadn't read that.

Posted: **Thu Jul 28, 2022 2:34 pm**

These taste great!

Posted: **Thu Jul 28, 2022 2:48 pm**

When he's done celebrating (I'm assuming he takes today as a holiday), perhaps hepcat can tell us additional special things about Waterworld - released 27 years ago today.

I saw this in theaters, for reference.

Posted: **Thu Jul 28, 2022 3:05 pm**

I love Waterworld. Seen it two or three times. Always rented it. Or streamed it.

Posted: **Thu Jul 28, 2022 3:45 pm**

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Thu Jul 28, 2022 2:48 pm When he's done celebrating (I'm assuming he takes today as a holiday), perhaps hepcat can tell us additional special things about Waterworld - released 27 years ago today.

I saw this in theaters, for reference.

In a recent Microsoft Teams meeting I made the annoying discovery that they have a very healthy selection of Waterworld animated gifs that can be inserted into chats.

So while the team leader was discussing the Pennsylvania Technical Reference Manual with the rest of the Energy Efficiency team, I was then individually hitting them with

and then

I mean, seriously....this is just the first panel of about a four panel selection for waterworld in microsoft teams

edit: I just noticed that it is apparently connected to giphy. That would explain it all. Although it's far less funny than me thinking that a tech on the Teams team was a huge waterworld fan and had inserted all those.

Also, I do want to make sure that everyone here knows that it wasn't Waterworld I purchased on Vudu that night I was drunk and could remember my google pay PIN number. It was The Postman. And in my defense, I was tired of waiting on a Director's Cut.

Posted: **Thu Jul 28, 2022 3:54 pm**

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 28, 2022 5:02 am Just read on our local news that there's an area by the dam where people are dropping dead dogs and cats. Many of whom had been traumatized. And they found in a nearby pond where somebody had thrown a litter of kittens and they had drown. Evidently this is a known area to do this sort of thing. It makes me so fucking mad and sad at the same time.
Damned but I wish I hadn't read that.

Cruelty to animals absolutely makes my blood boil.

Posted: **Thu Jul 28, 2022 4:19 pm**

A real-life Doogie Howser: This 13-year-old is headed to medical school a year after graduating high school

A 13-year-old girl has been accepted to a medical school program only a year after graduating high school.

Alena Analeigh Wicker shared the news on Instagram with her more than 20,000 followers recently.

"I've worked so hard to reach my goals and live my dreams. Mama I made it," the teenager posted below a picture of her program acceptance letter.

She was accepted into the Burroughs Wellcome Scholars Early Assurance Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Heersink School of Medicine, the school confirmed in a statement to CNN.

The program is a partnership between the medical school and HBCU's across Alabama, and it provides early acceptance to the students who meet the requirements for acceptance and matriculation, according to their website.

Alena posted to Instagram that she graduated high school last year at the age of 12, and she has already accumulated a list of impressive accomplishments.

In an interview with the Washington Post, she said, "I'm still a normal 13-year-old."

But not quite. She's currently a student at both Arizona State University and Oakwood University earning two separate undergraduate degrees in biological sciences, according to the Washington Post.

And yet, how does she do it all at such a young age?

"I just have extremely good time management skills and I'm very disciplined," she told the Washington Post.

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