What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

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In this thread, we talk about Lisa Ann.

[jinx]

I feel like we've had this conversation before...

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In this thread, we talk about Lisa Ann.

Oh, +1 for Lisa ann. I liked the one chick war machine beat the hell out of also. Dam prick.

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[mjmjr25]

Been playing weekly fantasy with my son on fanduel.com - $2, $5, and $10 leagues here and there, usually 2-3 a week since week 1 of last year. We win about 20% of the time and mostly play tourneys or quintuple ups. So, for those not familiar, that means were pretty much break even. I think I put in $120 last year and cashed out $88 at the end of the football season. So, $32 for quite a few hours of entertainment.

This year has started out slow - didn't do anything the first 3 weeks, won twice, lost 6 or 7, and was down overall like $15. This week we played 2 leagues, a $10 and a $2. In the $10 league we took 135th out of 34,482 and made $150

In the $2 league we took 3rd out of 40,000+ and made $2,000. They boy was happy and suggested I pay off the house. Again, for those unfamiliar, the nice thing about fanduel is you can win "something" just for finishing in the top 15%, so like, in the top 8,000 in a 40,000 person tourney - get like $6 back on a $2 entry.

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That's awesome Mike! I've always been curious about Fanduel but am always leery of gambling with my own money lol. How noble your son was to suggest paying off the house. Are you sure that he didn't want some Hearthstone packs? Like $2000 worth?

[Luke]

Been playing weekly fantasy with my son on fanduel.com

Glad that you and your son are having fun, but the employees at FanDuel and Draft Kings are having much, much more fun.

http://espn.go.com/chalk/story/_/id/138 ... gs-fanduel


But if you are in the black, you're in the black.

[mjmjr25]

lulz - one guy "might" have used compiled data from his company to make a team on another company's site.

Here's the kicker - the compiled data he used...is available to ANYONE who wants it. All rosters are public. Anyone can view anyone else's roster. Anyone can input the data into a program and sift it.

Not to mention - the majority of lineups are submitted in the last 30 minutes before kickoff...sometimes, in my case...the last 90 seconds. Rosters don't lock until just before kick-off which means that "data" is constantly changing.

[Luke]

lulz - one guy "might" have used compiled data from his company to make a team on another company's site.

Gambling, although I don't think it is a sin, will always be shady business. Gambling + Internet = Very shady business.

"Lulz" your head off, but this seems to be leading to a congressional investigation. Apparently our government isn't "lulzing" about this.

Perhaps it is nothing than a filler story between advertisements on ESPN. And ESPN is fairly terrible at everything it does, but I first heard about this on NPR, who I can usually count on.

Again, if you are having fun and making profit, no need to stop.

[fastbilly1]

Hot water heater sprung a leak last night. I saw a puddle around it as I was leaving for work. I opened the access panel, noticed the leak was just a bad gasket, then saw it was installed in 1998 and was only a six year model... So I wrapped it with electrical tape, cut the gas and water to it, and the repair man will be here tonight to quote out replacing it with both tank and tankless options. I knew we had to get it replaced, but I did not realize it was old enough to vote.

So now I work remotely waiting on the repairman, and the exorbitant bill. Luckily they are a Home Depot preferred local contractor so I know how much the waterheater is going to cost, it is just a question of labor.


Update - Yeah, so new codes require either all new piping to the outside of the house, swapping to electric, or replace with something the exact same size. So no tankless...next house I am fixing this before moving in.