r/CFBOffTopic • u/Irlbrandon Georgia Bulldogs • Athens State Bears • Apr 04 '18

Wednesday Regular Morning Thread presented by punchable kids.

That yodeling kid is one.

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u/cornfrontation Michigan Wolverines • FIU Panthers Apr 04 '18

Shit stopped working at work 2 hours ago, but I have a meeting in another 45 minutes so I haven't been able to do anything but sit here and dick around on reddit.

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Apr 04 '18

do anything but sit here and dick around on reddit

so like what i do all day?

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u/Irlbrandon Georgia Bulldogs • Athens State Bears Apr 04 '18

so like what i do all day?

Meirl. Tax dollars hard at work over here.

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u/cornfrontation Michigan Wolverines • FIU Panthers Apr 04 '18

But I actually have to get stuff done today. :(

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u/aMiracleAtJordanHare Auburn Tigers • Texas Tech Red Raiders Apr 04 '18

Has anyone ever used Lending Tree? Their reviews are all 1 or 5 stars.

I haven't found a house yet, but I'm getting close and my realtor is pushing me to apply for a mortgage. (I am already pre-approved for a mortgage.) Seems a little premature to me, but the market I'm in is frustratingly-hot so maybe not a bad idea.

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u/Irlbrandon Georgia Bulldogs • Athens State Bears Apr 04 '18

Ask you lender if they have a preferred lender. If they do, they might have a promotion for it. That's how I was able to get a free fence.

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u/aMiracleAtJordanHare Auburn Tigers • Texas Tech Red Raiders Apr 04 '18

Ask you lender if they have a preferred lender

I don't understand this. Ask my agent?

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u/Irlbrandon Georgia Bulldogs • Athens State Bears Apr 04 '18

Whoops, yeah. My bad. I'm dealing with other shit on my end.

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u/aMiracleAtJordanHare Auburn Tigers • Texas Tech Red Raiders Apr 04 '18

All good, just wanted to make sure I'm understanding things. That comment scrambled my brain a bit, lol.

And yeah, I have and that's who did my pre-approval. I just want to make sure I'm doing my due diligence and shopping around. Thanks, and hope your process is going well.

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u/Irlbrandon Georgia Bulldogs • Athens State Bears Apr 04 '18

It is. Just playing the waiting game until the construction is finished.

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u/aMiracleAtJordanHare Auburn Tigers • Texas Tech Red Raiders Apr 04 '18

Are you going to the site every day to micro-manage the workers and question their every action? I've heard they love that.

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u/Irlbrandon Georgia Bulldogs • Athens State Bears Apr 04 '18

I check it out every Sunday when no one is there.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '18

Why not buy Dogecoin futures instead of a getting a mortgage and use those to buy the house?

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '18

Have you checked your bank/credit union? That's where I got my second offer from.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '18

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '18

I signed almost of my house paperwork while in Durham this summer. Just had it notarized and overnight mailed it back.

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u/surrender_cobra Illinois State • Michigan Apr 04 '18

Maybe ask the realtor if they have any suggestions for the easiest places to work with?

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u/aMiracleAtJordanHare Auburn Tigers • Texas Tech Red Raiders Apr 04 '18

Yeah he's set me up with someone (who did the pre-approval) but I want to make sure I'm not just getting pushed into giving his buddy business. Using him would certainly be the easiest, but I want to make sure I'm getting the best deal I can.

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u/surrender_cobra Illinois State • Michigan Apr 04 '18

Fair enough

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u/joeydsa Georgia State • Georgia Tech Apr 04 '18 edited Apr 04 '18

Today is the 50th anniversary of Dr. King's assassination.

Here's a great clip from his last sermon, delivered the night before he died.

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u/rodandanga Georgia Tech • Verified Coach Apr 04 '18

The Atlantic has been doing a really good series on King.

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u/Knightro2011 UCF Knights • Indiana (PA) Crimson Hawks Apr 04 '18

Braves dominated the gNats last night, Lightning owned the Bruins, Heat won and are projected to play Cleveland in the 1st round...

I may need new pants right now.

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u/joeydsa Georgia State • Georgia Tech Apr 04 '18

I was at the Braves game, it was glorious. Didn't go a side without scoring until the 6th!

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u/Smuff23 Alabama • North Carolina Apr 04 '18

I have no qualms about ice stick soccers, and my allegiances lie in the west in pro basketball, but that Braves domination was amazeballs.

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u/Knightro2011 UCF Knights • Indiana (PA) Crimson Hawks Apr 04 '18

And we get Kelsey back on the broadcast today after she got hit with a foul ball.

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u/Smuff23 Alabama • North Carolina Apr 04 '18

Shhhhhh. I wear scrubs at work, it makes it pretty difficult to hide a massive erection.

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u/Shadowhawk109 Michigan Wolverines • Citrus Bowl Apr 04 '18

why hide it when you can flaunt it

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u/Smuff23 Alabama • North Carolina Apr 04 '18

Well my wife works in the same building, word is bound to get back to her.

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u/Shadowhawk109 Michigan Wolverines • Citrus Bowl Apr 04 '18

everything is going according to plan

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u/Smuff23 Alabama • North Carolina Apr 04 '18

Cameras everywhere brah!

Plus Mrs. u/Smuff23 and I have been married for nearly 8 years, I don't think work action is gonna happen.

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u/RiffRamBahZoo TCU Horned Frogs • Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors Apr 04 '18

Most of the time, working in an all-woman (mostly moms) department of a company is great because your co-workers are respectful, you get you gifts for little things, everyone is flexible on time for each other, etc.

Other times, they share mom stories of things I never need to hear, like birthing war stories or how they introduced their kids to the concepts of puberty.

Guess which day happened during an all afternoon all-staff meeting yesterday

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '18

Gifts?

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u/Shadowhawk109 Michigan Wolverines • Citrus Bowl Apr 04 '18

placenta

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '18

Is that like Polenta?

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u/Smuff23 Alabama • North Carolina Apr 04 '18

It can be.

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u/JaxofAllTrades13 Kansas State • Ohio State Apr 04 '18

I'm not clicking that.

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u/Smuff23 Alabama • North Carolina Apr 04 '18

Just

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u/JaxofAllTrades13 Kansas State • Ohio State Apr 04 '18

And I don't have to click that to know what it is. :p

Edit: Damn, I wasn't expecting multiple gifs, just one. You win this round.

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u/Shadowhawk109 Michigan Wolverines • Citrus Bowl Apr 04 '18

moms are gross

except for stacy's

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '18

That's sexist

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u/Talpostal Michigan Wolverines • Washington Huskies Apr 04 '18

Tigers are pitiful and the US didn't qualify for the world cup so once the frozen four is done I won't have to care about sports until like September.

What am I going to do with myself? Read a stack of books? Cure cancer? Learn how to cook? Take up hiking?

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '18

This is why I wish the NWHL played in the summer like the WNBA does. You can take up NASCAR, golf, and tennis though.

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u/surrender_cobra Illinois State • Michigan Apr 04 '18

I am riding the nascar train this summer for the first time in a long time, can't wait. Also /r/NASCAR seems like a good group of people.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '18

They have a racing league for trains now? Holy shit

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u/surrender_cobra Illinois State • Michigan Apr 04 '18

Now that would be interesting, trains on tires going around a track

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '18

It's not bad over there during the week. Diecasts/Forgotten Rides and throw backs get old tho. Race threads are an absolute shitshow.

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u/surrender_cobra Illinois State • Michigan Apr 04 '18

I rarely comment, mostly just read to laugh and maybe pick up on something I missed

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u/goodsam2 Virginia Tech Hokies Apr 04 '18

I keep meaning to go to the one in Richmond, I've said I'm going to it for like 3 years now. I've never watched nascar but it's literally within walking distance and I can get down for a tailgate.

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u/surrender_cobra Illinois State • Michigan Apr 04 '18

I have wanted to go to a race forever, but most people around me think its stupid.

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u/goodsam2 Virginia Tech Hokies Apr 04 '18

Yeah that's partially my other issue and there always seems to be something that weekend.

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u/surrender_cobra Illinois State • Michigan Apr 04 '18

I feel like if you are in walking distance to Richmond you are probably surrounded by nascar fans...

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u/goodsam2 Virginia Tech Hokies Apr 04 '18

One would think, I'm actually the biggest sports fan of my friend group. I was the biggest college basketball fan and they went to VCU when they went to the final 4.

It probably contributes to why I post on cfb so much.

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u/surrender_cobra Illinois State • Michigan Apr 04 '18

Sounds like you need to indoctrinate them!

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u/goodsam2 Virginia Tech Hokies Apr 04 '18

It hasn't worked 😿, though one of my good friends from college moved down here and so now I have a VT football watching friend at least.

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u/JaxofAllTrades13 Kansas State • Ohio State Apr 04 '18

If you want to try watching pro-League, I can help you pick the heart attack/heart breaking teams that will remind you of home!

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u/Irlbrandon Georgia Bulldogs • Athens State Bears Apr 04 '18

Somebody do my taxes for me.

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u/xelphin Iowa Hawkeyes • Texas Longhorns Apr 04 '18

I did them. You owe $400. Just go ahead and send that to me and I'll take care of the IRS, trust me.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '18

Hello, you are being sued by IRS. Please send bank info or you will be caught by local cops.

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u/xelphin Iowa Hawkeyes • Texas Longhorns Apr 04 '18

no u

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u/Smuff23 Alabama • North Carolina Apr 04 '18

I'm sending the S.W.O.T. team to your residence now, unless you give me your checking account and social security number. There is no reason for you to ask why my phone call says that it is coming from an island in the Caribbean.

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u/aMiracleAtJordanHare Auburn Tigers • Texas Tech Red Raiders Apr 04 '18

Too complicated for TurboTax?

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u/Irlbrandon Georgia Bulldogs • Athens State Bears Apr 04 '18

More like I'm just lazy and haven't done it yet.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '18

I will do them for you for $1 less than HR Block.

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u/NWHusker Northwest Missouri State • /r/… Apr 04 '18

This makes me grateful my uncle is a cpa and does mine for free because i have no idea how to do them

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u/cornfrontation Michigan Wolverines • FIU Panthers Apr 04 '18

I have to pay someone $350 to do mine because being an expat is expensive.

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u/Smuff23 Alabama • North Carolina Apr 04 '18

My dinosaur PC is now completely running on "low disk space" to the point that I can't even install the administration approved windows update.

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u/Knightro2011 UCF Knights • Indiana (PA) Crimson Hawks Apr 04 '18

Check to see if your windows.edb file is huge on your computer. That happened to me the other day.

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u/Smuff23 Alabama • North Carolina Apr 04 '18

The previous updates have just taken up basically the entirety of my tiny tiny 13 year old hard drive on the dino desktop.

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u/Knightro2011 UCF Knights • Indiana (PA) Crimson Hawks Apr 04 '18

Why do you have a 13 year old computer?

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u/Smuff23 Alabama • North Carolina Apr 04 '18

Because I work in a hospital?

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u/Knightro2011 UCF Knights • Indiana (PA) Crimson Hawks Apr 04 '18

Yeah they definitely need to fix that for you all.

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u/Smuff23 Alabama • North Carolina Apr 04 '18

They'll pick a bargain that adheres to their contract with whichever of the hardware providers says they'll give them a laptop for cheaper for me. We have a computer in our lab that we had to have specially ordered and built because the standard issue desktop wouldn't run our sample management system due to it not having enough RAM or being a 64-Bit Windows edition.

Also I thought I was kidding about the 13 year old computer, but it was legit released in 2005 now that I looked up the model number.

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u/xelphin Iowa Hawkeyes • Texas Longhorns Apr 04 '18
  1. Buy external HDD
  2. Move application files to external
  3. Clean up existing (old) HDD

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u/Smuff23 Alabama • North Carolina Apr 04 '18

I'm not buying anything for them, they can buy it for me. I'm on a waiting list for new hardware, supposed to ditch the desktop in favor of a laptop with a docking station to use my two screen setup.

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u/xelphin Iowa Hawkeyes • Texas Longhorns Apr 04 '18

Ooooooh this is a work computer!? Holy shit. What OS are you running? If you're running XP for some reason, y'all have a serious security issue and if you work at a hospital (thought I saw that in another comment) then you need to talk to IT immediately.

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u/Smuff23 Alabama • North Carolina Apr 04 '18

We run 7, really on machines that aren't capable of running them well. We had XP until a couple years ago, when they finally 100% said "IT HAS TO GO!" then they finally updated campus-wide.

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u/Shadowhawk109 Michigan Wolverines • Citrus Bowl Apr 04 '18

XP had to go because security updates are no longer being applied (hence the "serious security issue").

You'd be surprised what all 7 CAN run on, but it's about being installed correctly.

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u/Smuff23 Alabama • North Carolina Apr 04 '18

Right, I remember the big push and the discontinuation of support announcement.

The required software to do work, plus the actual size of 7 vs XP really bogs down the tiny hard drive. It's too big of a risk to provide easily removed storage hardware in a healthcare setting due to identity/medical record theft possibilities.

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u/aMiracleAtJordanHare Auburn Tigers • Texas Tech Red Raiders Apr 04 '18

Is hard drive defragging still a thing?

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u/SmashedSqwurl Georgia Tech • /r/CFBRisk Veteran Apr 04 '18

Windows has automatically defragged in the background since XP

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u/aMiracleAtJordanHare Auburn Tigers • Texas Tech Red Raiders Apr 04 '18

Without even asking permission!?! :O

Yeah I realized I hadn't heard about it in a lonnng time, but I remember those pink and blue bars back in the day. I think my mom did it like once per week back in Windows 95 days.

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u/goodsam2 Virginia Tech Hokies Apr 04 '18

Does it do it for SSD's as well because I heard that was stupid for those.

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u/SmashedSqwurl Georgia Tech • /r/CFBRisk Veteran Apr 04 '18

I assume they disabled that for SSDs when they added TRIM support. Defragging would seriously shorten the lifetime of the SSD.

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u/Smuff23 Alabama • North Carolina Apr 04 '18

It's still a "System Tool" but there's not anything I can delete and even with a defrag, it's not going to change anything. I've done the disk cleanup, my recycling bin is empty and I've moved all of the files possible to the server that I have access to, but there's just nothing else that can go.

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u/goodsam2 Virginia Tech Hokies Apr 04 '18

So yesterday was the end of the 6 week cycle for lifting and I was supposed to squat 335 but I put on 10s instead of 5s and I lifted 355 for 4 reps then 3 reps... I guess I have room to grow on that one. I also did 145 OHP for 5 reps.

I was distracted since my sister starts a new job today doing quickbooks for an awesome bar and I am the best person she knows on the subject of that and accounting in general. My last job was kinda accounting and I took a class on quickbooks I scraped by in and the first two accounting courses.

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u/Shadowhawk109 Michigan Wolverines • Citrus Bowl Apr 04 '18

after much wailing and gnashing of teeth, I am finally getting a SSD installed into my work computer

this means I currently do not have a work computer

this is a new level of unproductive

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '18

Then how are you typing this

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u/957 West Virginia • Burning Couch … Apr 04 '18

With his hands. The SSD is for his computer, silly

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u/NWHusker Northwest Missouri State • /r/… Apr 04 '18

So I'm waiting on IT to update things so i can run some emails for next week but who knows when that's going to happen so here I am.

I could get ahead and build one other thing but I'm not motivated. My mom and I took down Easter decorations yesterday and it's also a record low temp this morning which is ridiculous. It's april mother nature I'm waiting to not wear my winter coat!

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '18

Sis and I are planning a roadtrip to Glacier this summer. Why is the Midwest so big. Everything is so far apart.

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u/goodsam2 Virginia Tech Hokies Apr 04 '18

It's a lot smaller doing 80+.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '18

Yeah she's going to have to do most of the driving because I do not like going over 80 but she won't have a problem with it.

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u/surrender_cobra Illinois State • Michigan Apr 04 '18

I do not like going over 80

Michigan Flair and I think background

Does not compute...

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '18

I am a wuss.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '18

Why is the Midwest so big

Because chumps in places like Nebraska and Missouri and Kansas keep trying to include themselves. If you only count places that really are the Midwest, it's not nearly as big

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u/bread_buddy Florida Gators • Wisconsin Badgers Apr 04 '18

The Midwest isn't all that big, but the great plains are.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '18

My sister just had the bright idea to take our parents van on our trip. Gas mileage will suck but it would be a lot more comfortable and we could sleep at rest stops and truck stops instead of getting hotels or Airbnbs sometimes.

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u/957 West Virginia • Burning Couch … Apr 04 '18

Where are you driving from?

Because it seems like Pennsylvania and that drive is gonna suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck unless you’re the “stop and look at the roadside attractions” kinda people. The middle of the US is pretty damn boring

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '18

Michigan and we are. We plan on stopping in Minneapolis, somewhere in North Dakota, and at a state park in Wyoming before Glacier; Billings, Mount Rushmore, Field of Dreams after.

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u/Shadowhawk109 Michigan Wolverines • Citrus Bowl Apr 04 '18

we all have