The Off Topic Topic

[lustindarkness]

I just put dishwashing gel in my laundry.

I can see that happening, I don't think it will damage your clothes.

[CountDeMoney]

It'll lift all that grease he eats out of his clothes.

[merithyn]

I just put dishwashing gel in my laundry.

I use dishwashing gel on my clothes when I get a spot on them. Works beautifully.

[CountDeMoney]

Best thing to clean a police badge is toothpaste.

[PDH]

Best thing to clean a police badge is toothpaste.

That is still on some perp's teeth?

[Ideologue]

I just put dishwashing gel in my laundry.

I can see that happening, I don't think it will damage your clothes.

I wish.

The dishwashing gel has bleach in it.  I took out the top layer of clothes that had been directly touched and washed them separately.  Lot of discolored spots on 'em now, particularly my favorite jeans.

A little managed to get on some other clothes, including my Bad Religion and NASA shirt.

"Why am I having to squeeze the bottle?  I never had to squeeze it bef--oh, shit."

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

I use dishwashing gel on my clothes when I get a spot on them. Works beautifully.

I have rescued several shirts this way.

[MadImmortalMan]

Lots of internet outages over the last few days, and stuff is still running badly. Thursday, most of Microsoft's cloud services and web presence went dark. Google went offline for a while Friday and took 40% of the internet with it. Then Amazon and all of Amazon's cloud hosting services went dark for a while Monday. Netflix has been choking like a bitch for a week, and the internet in general has been shitty. Probably tons of the sites hosted on Amazon, Google et al.

[merithyn]

Lots of internet outages over the last few days, and stuff is still running badly. Thursday, most of Microsoft's cloud services and web presence went dark. Google went offline for a while Friday and took 40% of the internet with it. Then Amazon and all of Amazon's cloud hosting services went dark for a while Monday. Netflix has been choking like a bitch for a week, and the internet in general has been shitty. Probably tons of the sites hosted on Amazon, Google et al.

Huh. We've had spotty service at home, but I put that down to a shitty wi-fi box.

It would be interesting to see what would happen if the entire internet went down for a week.

[Eddie Teach]

It would be interesting to see what would happen if the entire internet went down for a week.

[lustindarkness]

Lots of internet outages over the last few days, and stuff is still running badly. Thursday, most of Microsoft's cloud services and web presence went dark. Google went offline for a while Friday and took 40% of the internet with it. Then Amazon and all of Amazon's cloud hosting services went dark for a while Monday. Netflix has been choking like a bitch for a week, and the internet in general has been shitty. Probably tons of the sites hosted on Amazon, Google et al.

Could it be the sun spot activity?

[Jacob]

Vancouver Police in Non-Lethal Takedown Drame - Man Takes Beanbag to the Nuts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9srgGiDb4Fs

[MadImmortalMan]

I just put dishwashing gel in my laundry.

Oh, btw, do NOT do it the other way around. 

[CountDeMoney]

Wells Fargo Said to Eliminate 2,300 Mortgage Jobs
By Dakin Campbell - Aug 21, 2013

Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC), the biggest U.S. home lender, is cutting 2,300 jobs from its mortgage-production unit because higher interest rates are reducing demand for refinancings, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Other smaller cuts had been made in the past few weeks around the country, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the changes haven't been publicly disclosed. The cuts would equal about 20 percent of the 11,406 mortgage loan officers employed by the San Francisco-based company at the end of March, according to a presentation.

Wells Fargo has said mortgage lending will slow for the rest of this year as higher interest rates make refinancing less attractive. Those loans, which made up 70 percent of the mortgage market during the first half, slid to about 50 percent of applications recently and could fall further in the months ahead, according to a staff memo from Franklin Codel, the bank's head of mortgage production.

"We've had to recalibrate our business to meet customers' needs -- and to ensure we're operating as efficiently and effectively as possible," Codel wrote. "Unfortunately, displacements within our team are necessary."

Quarterly mortgage originations will decline to less than $100 billion in the third quarter, forcing the lender to adjust the size of its staff, Chief Financial Officer Timothy J. Sloan said during the company's second-quarter earnings call.

Employees received 60 days notice today and the bank is trying to retain as many as possible by finding them other jobs at the company, according to Jennifer A. Temple, a spokeswoman for the bank.

Shares of the company slipped 0.5 percent to $42.36 in New York trading, trimming its advance to 24 percent this year compared with the 25 percent gain in the 24-company KBW Bank Index. Wells Fargo was the largest employer among U.S. banks at midyear with about 274,000 people.

Interest rates go up, their KBW Bank Index advance falls 1%, and people lose jobs.  But hey, that doesn't stop CEO John Stumpf's pay from increasing 8 percent to $19.3M last year.

Hope they don't have mortgages with Wells Fargo: all those future foreclosures would necessitate more firings.

[Tonitrus]

I just put dishwashing gel in my laundry.

Oh, btw, do NOT do it the other way around. 

I am guessing it is sudspectacular?