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  2. Posted

    On 3/24/2018 at 11:28 AM, Lukemeister said:

    Well i tripled my investment in the first month so i pulled some of it out left some in, now its dropped :dash1:

     

    Glad to hear the first bit at least. Still way too volatile for my liking. But then I don't have a lot of extra cash to be putting on risky bets. 

  3. Posted

    Well, ive invested in ripple, a gamble i know but so far im in the green, rumours are its going to be bigger then bitcoin, if that happens i will be very happy


    So how's that investment working out for you?


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    I have a high maintenance mouse trap called a cat. But lacking one of those, try ammonia or peppermint oil soaked into cotton balls and placed near where you found the mouse. They hate the smell and can drive them out without killing them.

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    16 hours ago, John Flushing said:

    6) The Salvation Army Bell Ringer was ringing the bell at Walmart, and I gave a donation.

     

    I haven't seen them outside as many stores this year. I generally don't walk by a single one without dropping in a couple of dollars. If I pass by a large number of them, this starts to become expensive. Same deal with anyone collecting for veterans or animal charities.

    Most of my expenses lately have been Christmas shopping. But I did just get to spend $240 on a new starter for my car, because it had to die while I was at work, of course...

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    16 hours ago, John Flushing said:

    1) Good for you. I know of quite a few people who refuse to shop on Christmas Day, for similar reasons. These people whom I know, refuse to help the store owner make the employees work, on a day when the customers have the day off (the customers have time for relaxation/time with friends/time with loved ones/time to celebrate).

     

    Whoa. I'm totally with you on that one. Is that really a thing though? Here, there's just a very small number of convenience stores open on Christmas. The Wawa convenience stores are the only ones who stay open all day, and only those that sell gas. The ones that don't close most of the day. Actual gas stations are the only other stores I know to be open. All of the retailers, even all of the fast food is completely shut down here all of Christmas day.

    On another thread related note, buying alcohol in my home state of Pennsylvania.

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    Stores that open on Thanksgiving continues to make my yearly hate list.

    I don't care if the stores are giving things away for free, I DO NOT shop Thanksgiving. Where possible, I've even been looking to spend my money for the rest of the holiday season at stores which respect our holidays and family time. Fortunately a number of stores have the decency to keep shopping out of Thanksgiving. For the others, I can only hope they will fail as financially as they have morally.

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    1 hour ago, Toño said:

    Any good tv series on Netflix?

     

    Good question. Honestly I canceled my Netflix last year, because there were just too many currently airing series I was keeping up with on a weekly basis. They did just send me an offer for another free month, so I might take them up on it soon.

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    14 hours ago, John Flushing said:

    I have never done it. I am not interested in dying a preventable death; therefore, I do not text on the phone while driving, nor do I see why anyone would.

    Driving while texting is like driving with both of your eyes closed. It simply does not work.

    I'm guilty on occasion. Though I do try to rely on voice dictation most of the time now. However, my work has me on local roads during late night hours, so I'm more likely to run into a deer or a tree than a person or another car. 

    I guess I should add, I have thousands of hours behind the wheel and zero at-fault accidents in over 15 years. Like everything else, experience plays a part. Some people can barely even handle having a radio in their car without being too distracted. I remember years ago I used to see a lot of guys headed to work in the morning reading the newspaper, while having breakfast, while driving. And doing a darn fine job of it too.

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    9 minutes ago, TelmoEsteves24 said:

    Nothing lasts forever, also people grew up - not saying that there's a specific age to be in a football forum, lol. But you get me, life happens. Work, family, school/college...

    I know people use reedit but I much rather be in forums like this... Maybe one day this forum or another might get the job done! :)

    Actually, Male, ages 15-25. That was the majority of the SoccerPulse visiting audience. I haven't paid so much attention to that lately, because the sample numbers are far lower now. I was right in the middle of that demographic at 18 when SoccerPulse launched in 2002. But I guess in 15 years the Internet has evolved quite a bit, though not all for the better IMO. 

    As for Reddit, I do browse occasionally. But the structure is kind of a mess. It's really the worlds biggest, more disorganized forum. I think it's sadly resulted in a lot less discussion overall, as you have a few people who do post something of significance while everyone else settles for a "like" or thumbs up.

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    13 hours ago, TelmoEsteves24 said:

    Not trying to disrespect  this site, I actually appreciate SoccerShout for staying active till now. I just remembered yesterday that I still had an account here :lol:

    Technology and money. Discussions lost out to things like Facebook. Most discussion forums that were big in the SoccerPulse days have since closed up completely. I miss the activity as well. 

     

    On 6/24/2017 at 2:32 PM, TelmoEsteves24 said:

    I was just browsing around today to check If I could get to know any good forums, like the old days and found nothing, that's when I remembered to check if I could reach out any SoccerPulse old members. Is there anyone here? It's been so many years since the forumarrow-10x10.png died(probably the greatest community I ever been into).

    Also, after SoccerPulse closed up, a lot of members split up and quite a few ended up at Tiki-taka.org. That site also closed up a year or so ago. I don't know that there was a single place anyone went after that.

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    2 hours ago, John Flushing said:

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    I can't believe I found this at the local grocery store. This morning I had a breakfast of 12 yorkshire puddings with roast beef and mashed potatoes and gravy (and drank one quart of milk). Nothing is better.

    Sounds more like a lunch/dinner to me. I rarely manage more than a bowl of cereal in the morning.

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    My most recent. Vornado fan. It got too hot too quickly here. This thing moves a ridiculous amount of air for something so small.

  19. Posted

    Should you wish to add an additional layer of security to your account, the site now supports the use of Google Authenticator. Using this requires installing the Google Authenticator app to your smartphone. When logging into the site and performing some actions such as changing your email or password, a secondary password provided by the Authenticator app will be required if you enable this security.

    This is totally optional for all users, but if you wish to configure this security for your account, head to the Account Security page.

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  20. Posted

    Individual league discussion boards have been combined into a single Teams & Leagues discussion forum. Should post activity warrant an expansion again in the future it will be considered. But recently there has been little to no actual discussion.

  21. Posted

    15 hours ago, The Next Berbatov said:

    I was glued to Blacklist for a couple of season but then just stopped watching it. May be sometimes watching all seasons in a row doesn't really let me enjoy the series. 

    Watching homeland these days. About to finish season 5. 

    My dad did the same thing. Watched season 1 of Blacklist, got distracted by other shows and hasn't been back to catch up. I did the same thing with Homeland. I'm not even sure if I finished season 1. I was watching it, then just sort of forgot about it. I'd have a lot of catching up to do.

  22. Posted

    Right now, not much. Most shows are still on break. I don't even know yet what's done and what's returning. I just finished season 2 of Man in the High Castle. Also watching Vikings and the Blacklist. 

  23. Posted

    1 hour ago, Toño said:

    Time to clean the house!

    Exactly. Now that we aren't requiring registration just to view links, registrations will be much, much lower. But hopefully those that are taking the time to register prefer to participate, letting guests hit & run if they were only interested in the downloads.

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    Site may be temporarily slowed while massive pruning of the member database takes place. As previously announced, old unused accounts are being removed. Any account that has 0 posted content and has not logged in since Oct. 7, 2015 will be included in the purge. This affects (sadly) the majority of accounts on the site. Approximately 20% of registered accounts will remain.

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