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here's a poll: how do you answer your phone? - amanda jones May 31, 12:08 3
- Hellow. -- nm - loosilu May 31, 12:09
- "hello", no matter who it is. -- nm - Don Homer May 31, 12:09
- "Hello" -- nm - lileve May 31, 12:08
:( I just found out a couple I'm friend with was (barely) pregnant. - ty97 May 31, 12:03 4
- that's harsh. sounds like it was ectopic. -- nm - loosilu May 31, 12:06 2
  - stuff i'll never get: why is "that's sad. here's my diagnosis of your friend." preferable to "that's sad."? - TFox May 31, 12:09 1
    - because everything I say is wrong. -- nm - loosilu May 31, 12:12
- :( -- nm - lileve May 31, 12:05
dear prudence chat q: what's the new phone etiquette with caller ID? still answer "hello?" or just say "hi, so and so" - moles May 31, 11:59 27
- The clear compromise is to switch to "A-hoy-hoy." -- nm - con_carne May 31, 12:07 3
  - "Oh, it appears you are having some trouble operating your telephone machine ..." -- nm - Beryllium May 31, 12:08
  - This was my thought. -- nm - Mop (204 lbs) May 31, 12:08
  - YYYYellow. -- nm - loosilu May 31, 12:07
- I do the same. I just say "hello?" -- nm - Don Homer May 31, 12:07
- OFFS -- nm - Spawn May 31, 12:06
- Holy crap. Why do you care? -- nm - ty97 May 31, 12:04 4
  - I think David got it right. It must be about something else. -- nm - loosilu May 31, 12:05 3
    - Good point. Let's brainstorm bigger issues: He forgot to cut her sandwich in triangles. He chose plastic over paper. He bought fat-free mayo. -- nm - ty97 May 31, 12:07 2
      - she fucked the doorman. -- nm - loosilu May 31, 12:07 1
        
        he fvcked the doorlady -- nm - Beaker May 31, 12:08
- I can't trust the etiquette opinion of anyone who uses all caps three times in one paragraph. -- nm - TFox May 31, 12:04 1
  - But Jesus man, this ISSUE is INCREDIBLY important!! -- nm - Beaker May 31, 12:05
- She needs a cell phone to the side of the head. -- nm - JaxSean May 31, 12:03
- Screening and not answering is rude, if I know the person saw my name and still answered I'm like "Holy fuck I'm looooved!" -- nm - Guigue May 31, 12:01 3
  - how could you possibly know whether the person hears the ring, screens it, and chooses not to answer? -- nm - loosilu May 31, 12:02 2
    - I frequently test my friends by following them in a trenchcoat, call them and see if they answer -- nm - Guigue May 31, 12:03 1
      - I think I hear my phone ring about 1/3 times. -- nm - loosilu May 31, 12:06
- I think that this fight *HAS* to be about something else. -- nm - David May 31, 12:01 1
  - You would hope so. Otherwise, this woman is ten notches past FWP. -- nm - ty97 May 31, 12:08
- I wish my life was perfect enough to care about crap like this. -- nm - Strongbad May 31, 12:01
- she should obviously divorce him cause this issue is massive1 What a bitch. -- nm - Beaker May 31, 12:01
- "hello" -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) May 31, 12:01
- Whenever I call my wife, she answers "What do you want?" I think she's dropping a hint. -- nm - Mop (204 lbs) May 31, 12:01 2
  - followed by "again??" -- nm - loosilu May 31, 12:01 1
    - "My BMI says I'm no longer 'obese'. Will you love me now?" -- nm - Mop (204 lbs) May 31, 12:09
- I think they both need to chill, ffs. -- nm - loosilu May 31, 12:00
SITWAP: Food Pyramid replaced with Pie Chart, will be unveiled Thursday -- (link) - Strongbad May 31, 11:59 9
- There are plates like that with pie charts based on different diets. -- nm - lileve May 31, 12:08
- WTF am I supposed to do with a food pyramid tattooed on my arm!?! -- nm - Spawn May 31, 12:07 1
  - WINO FOREVER -- nm - loosilu May 31, 12:08
- I can already see this backfiring disastrously - con_carne May 31, 12:02 1
  - They should appoint a project figurehead with the last name Shepherd ... Shepherd's Pie Chart -- nm - Beryllium May 31, 12:03
- Banana Creme for breakfast, Strawberry for lunch, and Apple for dinner. -- nm - JaxSean May 31, 12:01
- yum -- nm - Beryllium May 31, 12:01
- mmm, pie. -- nm - loosilu May 31, 12:00
- I like pie! -- nm - Mop (204 lbs) May 31, 12:00
Yikes! Plants vs. Zombies is the free app on Amazon Appstore today! -- nm - Mop (204 lbs) May 31, 11:57 1
- *plants a sunflower* -- nm - Beaker May 31, 12:00
Weather's going from mid-60s and pissy today to mid-80s and sunny on Saturday. I'd say it's a pretty dramatic change. - Mop (204 lbs) May 31, 11:56
Looks like Auburn has found themselves a QB - Strongbad May 31, 11:50 5
- who is a perfect system fit - David May 31, 11:52 3
  - re: system, I've gotta wonder how long Malzahn stays there. - Strongbad May 31, 11:56 1
    - A worse coach just got the Florida job, so I completely agree. -- nm - David May 31, 11:59
  - IMO, they've gone from a below .500 team to 8-9 wins with him. -- nm - Strongbad May 31, 11:55
- :( - peglegpete May 31, 11:52
someone shoot me. the tv in the car dealership is shwoing nancy grace swift justice - Truman May 31, 11:47 15
- My local Honda dealership is always tuned to Fox News. There isn't a less likely place for this. - Mop (204 lbs) May 31, 11:53
- Signs I'm getting old: I hate TVs in public places. I want them all to be muted. - ty97 May 31, 11:49 8
  - me too. makes it all the more difficult to have a conversation. -- nm - loosilu May 31, 12:00
  - I want a cone of silence to follow me around. -- nm - Beryllium May 31, 11:53
  - I hate TV in public places (except sports). I avoid restaurants that have them (unless I'm watching sports). -- nm - amanda jones May 31, 11:53 3
    - Yes, I think this is exactly it. -- nm - ty97 May 31, 11:56 2
      - And they just seem to be everywhere now: Doctor waiting rooms, Waiting for the plane at the airport, The Oil Change Place. - ty97 May 31, 11:57 1
        
        at the Oil Change Place, they seem to all be tuned to Fox News. -- nm - loosilu May 31, 12:01
  - I hate them in restaurants -- nm - peglegpete May 31, 11:52
  - That's a sign you're human. -- nm - psilotum May 31, 11:51
- this sounds like something Steve Carrell would have to go endure in the first act of a movie. -- nm - Diva May 31, 11:49 2
  - Hmmm. Has anyone ever seen Steve Carrell and truman in the same place? -- nm - Spawn May 31, 11:50
  - heh. -- nm - Truman May 31, 11:50
- never heard of it. but it sounds bad. I pity you. -- nm - sycor May 31, 11:47
- just get someone to shoot the TV -- nm - Beryllium May 31, 11:47
Guh. Someone take my man card away. - Dr.Vermin May 31, 11:43 17
- What were you feeling as you said those words out loud? Was it humiliation? Self-loathing? - TFox May 31, 12:06
- That happened long ago. -- nm - Spawn May 31, 11:47 1
  - He just hasn't need to get into the club lately, so he didn't notice his card was missing -- nm - Beryllium May 31, 11:47
- I consume about 2400 calories a week, all of it in yummy, sugar-full McDonald's caramel frappes! Yum. - Mop (204 lbs) May 31, 11:45 11
  - Mmmm, shake mix. -- nm - loosilu May 31, 12:05
  - replace that with a fat-free iced coffee and you save yourself 3 *pounds* worth of calories a month. (36 pounds a year.) -- nm - Andie May 31, 11:54
  - 342 liquid daily calories won't kill you. Maybe not ideal with the sugar, but not the end of the world. -- nm - ty97 May 31, 11:47 5
    - It will if that's *all* I'm eating. -- nm - Mop (204 lbs) May 31, 11:47 4
      - If you're only eating 342 calories a day, there's a problem. -- nm - ty97 May 31, 11:48 3
        
        40 lbs down, 30 more to do! -- nm - Mop (204 lbs) May 31, 11:50 2
        
        over half way there! -- nm - ty97 May 31, 11:51 1
        
        Race to see if I die first. -- nm - Mop (204 lbs) May 31, 11:51
  - re your IM: Yes, from malnutrition. heh. -- nm - Beryllium May 31, 11:46
  - (_____!_____) -- nm - sycor May 31, 11:46 1
    - What choice do I have? I threw out all my veggies. -- nm - Mop (204 lbs) May 31, 11:46
- Nonfat? :) -- nm - con_carne May 31, 11:45 1
  - [spittake] Dammit! - Dr.Vermin May 31, 11:46
Look, I get that we're not going to capture all the Iraqis who went out and planted IEDs and killed our troops. But don't f*cking move to the U.S.! -- (link) - Mop (204 lbs) May 31, 11:42
good news for some: the pre-existing condition plan to further lower premiums in several states by as much as 40% -- (link) - moles May 31, 11:39 2
- Should have taken some personal responsibility and not gotten your preexisting condition! -- nm - Don Homer May 31, 11:40 1
  - social darwinist party in 2012 -- nm - moles May 31, 11:43
The last time the Canucks and the Bruins were in the Cup Finals they were both beaten by Mark Messier. -- nm - Beaker May 31, 11:29 2
- I am satisfied with the teams this year. Both would be over the moon if they won. But, then again, I am genetically predisposed to hate Boston. - Mop (204 lbs) May 31, 11:36
- is he going to be the ref this time? :) -- nm - Beryllium May 31, 11:29
Spanish produce suspected in U.S. E.coli outbreak. Napolitano says: Don't rule out those shifty Canadians. -- (link) - Mop (204 lbs) May 31, 11:23 11
- It was probably somebody using dirty kitty litter around the plants to keep the chipmunks away. - Trish May 31, 11:29 1
  - Callback points! -- nm - Mop (204 lbs) May 31, 11:33
- Hold your horses. There is no outbreak in the US. -- nm - loosilu May 31, 11:28 5
  - True. Outbreak is in Europe. Americans should mind their own business. -- nm - Mop (204 lbs) May 31, 11:36 4
    - I just threw out all my veggies because of you. - con_carne May 31, 11:40 2
      - You can thank me later. -- nm - Mop (204 lbs) May 31, 11:41
      - Me, too. Lets have ML do a class action suit against Mop! -- nm - Spawn May 31, 11:40
    - or at least, not talk about the "US outbreak" in their posts. -- nm - loosilu May 31, 11:37
- I think she meant shitty Canadians -- nm - ty97 May 31, 11:28 1
  - that would certainly explain the e.coli -- nm - Beryllium May 31, 11:28
- ohfer. I just ate some of those cucumbers for lunch. -- nm - loosilu May 31, 11:27
George Lucas has 2 seasons of the 'Star Wars" TV show written, but says the technology doesn't exist yet to film it -- (link) - MDH May 31, 11:21 14
- He's the biggest fraud this side of Wall Street. -- nm - David May 31, 11:53
- Jar Jar does interpretative dance for the first three episodes -- nm - Beaker May 31, 11:34
- does he really expect to torture people for 2 whole seasons with his plotlines and dialog? - decline May 31, 11:25 7
  - I saw this as "2 people." I was like, that's how many will watch. -- nm - amanda jones May 31, 11:32 1
    - I hate to say how wrong you are. -- nm - Spawn May 31, 11:39
  - if he gets someone else to run the show then it could be good. -- nm - Remlik May 31, 11:31 3
    - TV shows are a different grind than movies. A lot more strict/scheduled. I don't see Lucas bothering to do this himself. -- nm - con_carne May 31, 11:37
    - agreed. Some of the Clone Wars stuff has been excellent. - Mel Profit May 31, 11:33 1
      - So have the Robot Chicken and Family Guy versions. -- nm - Trish May 31, 11:39
  - maybe he plans to air it in egypt -- nm - Beryllium May 31, 11:29
- "You just can't fit that much shitty dialog in the average person's TV attention span" -- nm - Beryllium May 31, 11:25
- This is a parody site, right? - psilotum May 31, 11:24 1
  - Sadly no. The site runners have a TV, sports, and movie site. They crack me up. -- nm - MDH May 31, 11:26
- If ever there was a reason for Armageddon... -- nm - Mop (204 lbs) May 31, 11:24
Egyptian military conducted forced "virginity tests" on the female protesters they arrested in Tahir Square to prove that they were, in fact, whores. -- (link) - Mop (204 lbs) May 31, 11:20 3
- dsigusting. -- nm - loosilu May 31, 11:33
- This is a parody site, right? -- nm - Spawn May 31, 11:25 1
  - Well, no one takes Reuters seriously. -- nm - AP May 31, 11:27
If you're a foreign hotshot, a NYC hotel room is not where you want to be chasing tail. -- (link) - Mop (204 lbs) May 31, 11:18 1
- What? Everyone knows that "drop off tissues" is code. -- nm - Spawn May 31, 11:20
SITWAP: It's really bootlegged, but the red band trailer for the US "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" has hit the web -- (link) - MDH May 31, 11:11 11
- Since I haven't read this yet it is probably best I don't watch this. But I am tempted. Very tempted. -- nm - bc/nc May 31, 11:14 3
  - I'm about halfway through the second book. I recommend it. I've seen the original movie and enjoyed it, though not sure how much someone not - Don Homer May 31, 11:32 1
    - Crash read all three books and I didn't read any. I enjoyed the movies, we watched the first 2 in Swedish with subtitles and the 3rd was dubbed. - Trish May 31, 11:37
  - trailer spoil (not really) - Spawn May 31, 11:15
- I don't really get all the praise for the trailer. - TFox May 31, 11:13 6
  - I could do with out (spoilers) - oblique May 31, 11:15 2
    - So. Wrong. -- nm - Spawn May 31, 11:16 1
      - spoil - Spawn May 31, 11:16
  - TURN UP YOUR SPEAKERS!!! - Spawn May 31, 11:14 2
    - The song is rad. The rest is like tricking me into thinking I saw something cooler than I did because every shot was a quarter second long. -- nm - TFox May 31, 11:20 1
      - I loved it mainly cuz of the glimpse here, glimpse there...the entire book is sorta - Will Hunting May 31, 11:24
"Whereas I'm spending my summer composing Pip, Pip, Hooray, the broadway musical about Pippa Middleton." -- nm - Mop (204 lbs) May 31, 11:11 1
- starring Emma Stone and Charles Sheen -- nm - Beryllium May 31, 11:11
Dear allergies: burn in hell. -- nm - Beaker May 31, 11:08
now someone has been arrested for slapping a flight attendant on a flight on its way to Logan Airport. - Diva May 31, 11:08 10
- Not sure I understand the IM ... jeebus that person is an idiot, or jeebus aren't we all arrest-happy? :) -- nm - Beryllium May 31, 11:10 9
  - jeebus he's an idiot and this kind of stuff keeps happening on flights into Boston. -- nm - Diva May 31, 11:22 5
    - That Air Tranny attendant had it coming. - Mel Profit May 31, 11:34 2
      - Do you remember that nutso traveler who asked the other poor Air Trannie desk agent to watch her son while she went to the bathroom? - Diva May 31, 11:46 1
        
        why do crazy people sometimes look crazy? -- nm - Mel Profit May 31, 11:57
    - Probably all the hockey fans, I guess. -- nm - Beryllium May 31, 11:23 1
      - They're all wicked retarded. -- nm - Dr.Vermin May 31, 11:37
  - I'm gonna go with idiot. -- nm - loosilu May 31, 11:18 1
    - there should be a t-shirt for that -- nm - Beryllium May 31, 11:18
  - yes -- nm - Spawn May 31, 11:15
knocking cats! red barons! -- nm - amanda jones May 31, 11:06
Woolly mammoths boned Columbian mammoths. I guess because they didn't have Conservative pastors around to tell them it was wrong. -- (link) - Mop (204 lbs) May 31, 11:06 1
- Well, if they were the mammoth equivalent of Gloria on Modern Family I can understand. -- nm - bc/nc May 31, 11:09

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