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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #285 on: February 14, 2016, 06:11:12 AM »
Why not just find somewhere with catch-up/on demand viewing, or do your postwhoring after breaking bad finishes?

  It's just that I only have so many waking hours, and I want to do both at the same time.  :P
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #286 on: February 14, 2016, 06:24:12 AM »
My cell phone doesn't work in my basement
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #287 on: February 14, 2016, 06:26:11 AM »
My cell phone doesn't work in my basement

If I try to send a picture message from my phone while at work, I have to step out into the parking lot.  :'(
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #288 on: February 14, 2016, 05:27:01 PM »
The wifi is really unreliable at the hotel.

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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #289 on: February 14, 2016, 06:43:52 PM »
  Dry donuts.  The struggle is real!  :'(
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #290 on: February 14, 2016, 09:54:02 PM »
  Dry donuts.  The struggle is real!  :'(

PA prefers stale cake doughnuts.
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #291 on: February 15, 2016, 01:54:48 AM »
  Dry donuts.  The struggle is real!  :'(

PA prefers stale cake doughnuts.

  These went past stale into hard.  Donuts must not be hard!  :laugh:
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #292 on: February 15, 2016, 07:50:24 AM »
  Dry donuts.  The struggle is real!  :'(

PA prefers stale cake doughnuts.

  These went past stale into hard.  Donuts must not be hard!  :laugh:
Fry them in butter. Works especially well with apple cider donuts from Atkins in Hadley. I used to let mine get stale for that reason.
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #293 on: February 15, 2016, 07:52:03 AM »
My cell phone doesn't work in my basement

If I try to send a picture message from my phone while at work, I have to step out into the parking lot.  :'(
Cell phones are really annoying here, they work in the metro and most of the underground city shopping mall but not in some stations and if you're on the train, it has to be moving.
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #294 on: February 15, 2016, 01:26:49 PM »
  Dry donuts.  The struggle is real!  :'(

:hug:

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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #295 on: February 15, 2016, 04:10:07 PM »
My cell phone doesn't work in my basement

If I try to send a picture message from my phone while at work, I have to step out into the parking lot.  :'(
Cell phones are really annoying here, they work in the metro and most of the underground city shopping mall but not in some stations and if you're on the train, it has to be moving.

Here the problems seem to be along the coastline the companies don't want to spend money sending signal out over the water
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #296 on: February 15, 2016, 04:53:16 PM »
My cell phone doesn't work in my basement

If I try to send a picture message from my phone while at work, I have to step out into the parking lot.  :'(
Cell phones are really annoying here, they work in the metro and most of the underground city shopping mall but not in some stations and if you're on the train, it has to be moving.

Here the problems seem to be along the coastline the companies don't want to spend money sending signal out over the water

Last year kid had an accident with her bicycle on a bridge. She had quite some wounds on her leg and her bike was not the way it should be either. She could not call home. There is no signal at all on the bridge. If she had needed it she would not even have been able to call the emergency number.
Pretty weird, because accidents do happen to happen on that bridge.
 
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #297 on: February 15, 2016, 06:50:56 PM »
Lol, I thought I'd be the only one who actually doesn't think stale donuts not worth eating. Although the actual chances of a donut coming within my sphere of influence, and ever leaving it again in one [undigested] piece, are very slim indeed, I'll quite happily scarf an entire pack to myself, more than one, if I'm really hungry.

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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #298 on: February 15, 2016, 09:57:56 PM »
Lol, I thought I'd be the only one who actually doesn't think stale donuts not worth eating. Although the actual chances of a donut coming within my sphere of influence, and ever leaving it again in one [undigested] piece, are very slim indeed, I'll quite happily scarf an entire pack to myself, more than one, if I'm really hungry.

PA prefers stale cake doughnuts.  It's annoying to pay full price for something to get stale before he'll eat it.
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #299 on: February 16, 2016, 10:06:16 AM »
  Dry donuts.  The struggle is real!  :'(

:hug:

Be strong now, you hear.

  With the help of the Lord and the fresh donuts I just bought, I shall prevail!  :'(
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