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Best deodorant ever!

All images from Walgreens.com.
Let’s talk pits. If personal hygiene makes you queasy, move on dear reader.
So, I’ve always known that I have some sensitivity to deodorants. I’ve never been able to use antiperspirants, and up until a few months ago the only deodorant that didn’t give me a rash was Right Guard. I’ve […]

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I found this question Yahoo! Answers a few months ago, and wrote a response that turned out a little longer than I thought it would be. I figured it might be useful to some folks, so I’m posting it here. My knowledge comes from my experience as an employee of a major insurer.
Here’s the […]

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Am I right in thinking that $6 for window washer fluid is a total scam?
Here’s what happened: my 2004 VW Passat broke down a few weeks ago. I have no idea what the problem was, but it had something to do with “coils.” I asked them to do my 50,000 mile service, as well. […]

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IT people sure are punchy!

So, I had to go ahead and close the comments on my last post, “10 Things the Techno-Retarded Want the IT Guy to Know” (a response to Think Smarter’s “10 things your IT guy wants you to know“, which was linked-to from Dumb Little Man) because it (apparently) was not apparent that this was satire.
My […]

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(In response to “10 things your IT guy wants you to know“.)
1. Please don’t talk down to me just because you know everything about everything. Just because I am not a Level 110 in Warcraft does not mean I am complete moron — I just don’t spend my entire day making love to a computer […]

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While prisoners in the United States are selling crack, starting riots, and killing each other, the prisoners in the Philippines are busy choreographing 80’s pop dances!!

Not just a one-time thing, either. Here’s a group performing the Algorithm March:

… and a group performing a dance from Sister Act:

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Power struggles

I am, admittedly, one bull-headed sonofabitch. I get it from my father, who rarely ever changed his mind about anything when I was a child. (He has mellowed with age, fortunately.) On top of this stubbornness, I also have a massive entitlement complex. I don’t know whether this was caused by being spoiled as a […]

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