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Major Netflix news. Queen! -- (link) - oblique [220] Feb 5, 09:56 3
- great band...good choise -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Feb 5, 09:58
- I don't think MDH is a big fan of Latifah -- nm - ty97 Feb 5, 09:57 1
  - MROW! - oblique [220] Feb 5, 09:58
Watched Winter's Bone and didn't understand why characters did what they did (except JLAWR), so most of the movie made no sense (spoilers) - ceregon Feb 5, 09:51 8
- item #2, usually jedi wavy hands can distract the silly female mind from asking more questions, but this girl is of exceptional normal intelligence. -- nm - Max Feb 5, 09:59 1
  - There was also a lot of "shut up and accept this answer or you'll regret it". -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 10:02
- cause meth! -- nm - charlie Feb 5, 09:53
- most of these questions are answered by "because they have a fucked up sense of honor and tribalism" -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 09:52 4
  - the most inauthentic authentic appalachian poverty movie ever -- nm - charlie Feb 5, 09:54 3
    - that's because they're in the Ozarks, not the Appalachians. -- nm - znufrii Feb 5, 10:09
    - I'm starting to think that the surest way to oscar nom's is to show extreme poverty in culture that hasn't had much screen time. - ceregon Feb 5, 10:01 1
      - Down and Out in Beverly Hills -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 5, 10:12
about 400 layoffs at Lego over the next 2 years - DaneDukeNuuk Feb 5, 09:51
Anne Hathaway FYC -- (link) - Reagen Feb 5, 09:49 [youtube] 1
- That was awesome. I still love that scene though. -- nm - Inigo Feb 5, 09:55
Does your work computer have a Blu-ray player? -- nm - prayformojo Feb 5, 09:45 4
- Yep. -- nm - MDH Feb 5, 09:49
- no -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 5, 09:47
- yes -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 09:46
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Does ST have suggestions for dealing with dry skin? - ty97 Feb 5, 09:45 32
- Tell her to use what's in the basket or else it gets the hose again. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 5, 10:04
- Amlactin -- nm - znufrii Feb 5, 09:56
- sulphuric acid - zork Feb 5, 09:56
- you have email from me re this. (I have terrible problems with dry skin in winter because I walking commute.) -- nm - amanda Feb 5, 09:54
- Baby oil in the shower and Carmex lip balm for spot touchup. Honestly though, a cracked toe seems like the least likely place to see dryness. - Max Feb 5, 09:54 10
  - This probably goes back, in part, to the footwear conversation below. - ty97 Feb 5, 09:57 9
    - I honestly think a lot of your trouble with the cold climate goes back to not wearing proper clothes. -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 09:58 8
      - alternatively, some people just don't like the freaking cold. -- nm - TFox Feb 5, 10:00
      - ???? -- nm - ty97 Feb 5, 09:58 5
        
        like sneakers in slush. I can't think of anything more miserable. You need waterproof boots with a good tread. -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 09:59 4
        
        yeah, I realize my footwear is not right, but my clothing is appropriate -- nm - ty97 Feb 5, 10:01 1
        
        ok, I may be misremembering. sorry. -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 10:02
        
        and steel toes so they can be used to kick in zombie heads when the time cones -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 10:00 1
        
        well, that's a given. -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 10:00
      - He really should put on pants if he's going to fight crime today -- nm - oblique [220] Feb 5, 09:58
- move to Miami -- nm - peglegpete Feb 5, 09:53
- also, to heal the skin now, slather vaseline on your feet, before bed, wear *loose* socks over top. -- nm - Andie Feb 5, 09:51 1
  - overshare spoilers - ty97 Feb 5, 09:54
- pick and scratch at it -- nm - charlie Feb 5, 09:50 2
  - It's not a scab, silly -- nm - ty97 Feb 5, 09:52 1
    - then Windex. -- nm - Max Feb 5, 09:54
- (1) moisturize right out of the shower, before you are completely dry (2) Body Shop Hemp hand cream -- nm - Andie Feb 5, 09:48 5
  - I just sent 97 the links to this -- it's 50% off today. so we are maluna kayala kakua on this. -- nm - amanda Feb 5, 09:57 3
    - I use it for everything (the hand protector stuff). my shins get super dry and itchy, i use this, etc etc. - Andie Feb 5, 10:00
    - (there's hemp foot balm too.) -- nm - amanda Feb 5, 09:57 1
      - Pa! Pa! I've got the Hemp Foot, Pa! -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 09:59
  - this reminds me, don't use a harsh soap (like most commercial bar soaps). -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 09:49
- oh, and believe it or not, taking fish oil is great. -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 09:47 2
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    - this! plus fish oil is great for muscle pain and relief. -- nm - Remlik Feb 5, 09:52
- Vitamin A&D gel. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 5, 09:47
- for all over, lubriderm. for feet and hands, neutragena norwegian hand cream. -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 09:46
I was going to seduce that female billionaire for her money but 16 bathrooms makes me think she has an IBS thing I don't want to be near. #notworthit -- nm - Max Feb 5, 09:35 7
- it's a function of how many other rooms there must be in that house, and how big each is. how far do you want to walk from the theatre or gym? - zork Feb 5, 09:39 1
  - no WAY. -- nm - Max Feb 5, 10:01
- In-N-Out got named the same way Wendy's did. -- nm - TWuG Feb 5, 09:37
- sometimes, you just gotta eat a little shit. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 5, 09:37
- Given her marital history, don't bother seducing her; just sit on the drag strip in your kickass Maxima and wait. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 5, 09:36 2
  - *winner* -- nm - ty97 Feb 5, 09:41
  - And whatever you do, don't you dare mention anything as classy as Formula 1. - MDH Feb 5, 09:39
hmmm....is it worth 2-stopping a flight at half the price of a 1-stop? -- nm - znufrii Feb 5, 09:34 8
- Depends on where you are going, how quickly you need to be there. -- nm - TWuG Feb 5, 09:36
- Depends on the airport(s), delay time, and cost. Sometimes I'm all for it. -- nm - MDH Feb 5, 09:35 6
  - 2-3 hour layovers Houston and Denver (Denver is a given, regardless) -- nm - znufrii Feb 5, 09:36 5
    - (flying into Durango, CO for a wedding in Telluride over Memorial Day weekend) -- nm - znufrii Feb 5, 09:36 4
      - it would have to be a MASSIVE savings for me to make 2 stops for a weekend long trip. -- nm - Andie Feb 5, 09:50 2
        
        I have three stops coming home from NO. I could *drive* faster. -- nm - amanda Feb 5, 10:01 1
        
        now that's just ridiculous. -- nm - znufrii Feb 5, 10:05
      - 3 Hour layovers are a bit long, if it's super expensive I may wait, but that's a bit fo time. Can you work in the airport? -- nm - MDH Feb 5, 09:39
Anna Kendick is *tiny*. She looks like she's about 3 feet tall -- nm - prayformojo Feb 5, 09:33 20
- That is a monster Freudian slip you have there, mister -- nm - oblique [220] Feb 5, 09:48 1
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- And a total ugmo. Right, Max? -- nm - David Feb 5, 09:34 17
  - Max is craaaazzzzyyyy. -- nm - spamlet Feb 5, 09:42
  - She's hot with dark eyeliner, but she still looks like a chipmunk. -- nm - Max Feb 5, 09:37 10
    - what's wrong with chipmunky girls? cute is as good as glamourous, just different. -- nm - zork Feb 5, 09:41 1
      - Relax, STers be trollin', that's all -- nm - con_carne Feb 5, 09:45
    - If I found a chipmunk that looked like that... -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 5, 09:39 6
      - well, we know it would fit! nm -- nm - groiny Feb 5, 09:41
      - TTPOW! -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 09:41
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        blame groiny -- nm - Roger More Feb 5, 09:41 2
        
        hey, raccoons are hot. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 5, 09:42 1
        
        that's just the rabies. -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 09:48
    - i don't know about the eyeliner but she's super munky -- nm - charlie Feb 5, 09:38
  - you crazy -- nm - zork Feb 5, 09:36
  - *I* have a crush on Anne Kendrick, -- nm - Andie Feb 5, 09:35 3
    - This. Not sure who this Kendick person is, though. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 09:57 1
      - Barbie's dream come true. -- nm - Roger More Feb 5, 10:05
    - Ditto. -- nm - MDH Feb 5, 09:40
why Mary Ingalls really went blind -- (link) - charlie Feb 5, 09:31 3
- My little sister had scarlet fever. The doc had to clarify this exact misconception. -- nm - landbeck Feb 5, 09:40
- cool -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 09:33
- way to be up on the times, scooter. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 5, 09:32
If I'm a rival studio, I hire Nate Silver (or another data guru) to figure out what Sony did differently in their Skyfall marketing campaign. - Inigo Feb 5, 09:30
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- I don't think this is an indictment on the ownership; it's a new owner that was left with *nothing* when he took over - Will Hunting Feb 5, 09:51
- I forget the specific stat, but it's something like their current roster has 3 guys that drove in 60 runs last year. -- nm - volnelk Feb 5, 09:36 2
  - I was wrong. IT'S 40 RBI. They have 3 guys that drove in at least 40 runs. THAT'S IT. -- nm - volnelk Feb 5, 09:40 1
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Thanks for the feedback on the dentist texts. I thought for sure I was going to be odd man out with being annoyed at them. - TWuG Feb 5, 09:30 1
- heh, I still pay for texts. That will probably change when we upgrade, but still. - Spawn Feb 5, 09:32
It occurs to me that Bill and Ted could have done Abe a solid by letting him look at a history book. -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 09:30 5
- I do wonder what the Founding Fathers would really think about the USA in 2013. - TWuG Feb 5, 09:32 1
  - they'd be too busy watching pron on the internet -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 09:33
- Why do you think they knew how his story ended? -- nm - David Feb 5, 09:30 1
  - They did sound more knowledgeable than you'd expect when they give their history report. -- nm - Inigo Feb 5, 09:33
- and Billy -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 09:30
I have lived in the north again for nearly four years and it just occurred to me yesterday that I need snow-friendly footwear -- nm - ty97 Feb 5, 09:25 14
- These are my winter 'boots'. -- (link) - Shaun Feb 5, 09:52
- I never do anything more than hiking shoes. -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 09:37 2
  - and *only* hiking shoes -- nm - charlie Feb 5, 09:38 1
    - The are to Canada as sneakers are to the US. -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 09:40
- After we had that snowmageddon thing I bought a shovel and I'm still waiting for a need to use it. -- nm - Max Feb 5, 09:32 2
  - We just surpassed the snow totals of Dallas, Alabama, Mississippi in the past week. It's been a whimpy snow winter. - ty97 Feb 5, 09:34
  - it can double as a zombie killing device, so you have that crossed off as well -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 09:33
- you want Canadian-made boots -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 09:28 3
  - I haven't owned snow boots since I was a kid, so I just sorta assumed they were a kid thing -- nm - ty97 Feb 5, 09:32 1
    - no, adults walk in snow too. -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 09:45
  - this is real sealskin, I clubbed them myself! -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 09:28
- Sooo... sandals? -- nm - Was Bar Was Feb 5, 09:26 2
  - I understood yesterday why so many elderly slip and injure themselves in winter. -- nm - ty97 Feb 5, 09:27 1
    - You need to walk like a penguin -- (link) - TWuG Feb 5, 09:28
The Robin Sparkles episodes of HIMYM have all ben in the top 10 for that show - spoilers for last night - Beaker Feb 5, 09:25 1
- IT'S ROBIN SPARKLES 4, Y'ALL! -- nm - Tim Feb 5, 09:39
I'm listening to the Gay Marriage debate in the House of Commons, it's so...civilized. - MDH Feb 5, 09:25 2
- The benefits of a classical education -- nm - Hans Gruber Feb 5, 09:26
- "and, the same goes for all the infertile people, you can't get married either." - Andie Feb 5, 09:26
Ace of Cakes star, Duff Goldman, offered to make and deliver the cake for free to the Lesbian couple denied -- (link) - amoxy Feb 5, 09:25 19
- So he decides to do an interview with HuffPo and let us all know about his kind gesture, instead of just shutting up and making the offer. - con_carne Feb 5, 09:33 4
  - (I thought the coolest True Famous Person stat was Steve Buschmi working 12 hour shifts at Ground Zero) - Beaker Feb 5, 09:34 3
    - Not helped by the writers use of "in the wake of the incident." Nobody got stabbed, it's a fucking cake. -- nm - con_carne Feb 5, 09:44
    - I will say that I've heard this story about 6 times now - Reagen Feb 5, 09:39
    - yep -- nm - zork Feb 5, 09:35
- "there�s injustice involving a cake!" To the Cakemobile! -- nm - David Feb 5, 09:32
- I heard that they've been offered free season tickets by the Gay Yankees -- nm - zork Feb 5, 09:32
- The couple got destroyed on facebook/yelp, so they removed their profile. Their business is done. -- nm - MDH Feb 5, 09:29 7
  - man, young people the world so differently than I do. - zork Feb 5, 09:33 6
    - Yelp is what will kill them "The Yelp Effect" its called. -- nm - MDH Feb 5, 09:41 5
      - again, young people see the world differently ... -- nm - zork Feb 5, 09:41 4
        
        nobody I know has ever mentioned yelp let alone said they made a decision based on it. -- nm - zork Feb 5, 09:44 3
        
        Admittedly, I've used it a couple of times to confirm decisions I've already made. - con_carne Feb 5, 10:02
        
        this -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 09:58
        
        thank you, Single Point of Data. -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 09:56
- I wish my name were Duff. -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 09:27 3
  - Fun fact: It's Duff McKagan of Guns n' Roses' birthday today -- nm - con_carne Feb 5, 09:40 1
    - Duff Beer on The Simpsons was named for him. -- nm - jnine Feb 5, 10:00
  - It's not all that. Duffman! -- nm - Duffman Feb 5, 09:27
I nominate Diva's In and Out comment for TTPOW - oblique [220] Feb 5, 09:24
Fast and Furious 6 3 minute trailer -- (link) - Remlik Feb 5, 09:24 [youtube] 7
- a 63 minute trailer? -- nm - prayformojo Feb 5, 09:29
- DOOOOOMSDAY Device! - Will Hunting Feb 5, 09:26 5
  - i keep waiting for rocky to bring vin to the wwe and try to win some belts or something. - tRuMaN Feb 5, 09:37 3
    - They don't wanna make Vin look tinier than he really is. - Will Hunting Feb 5, 09:39 2
      - Dwayne is almost square at this point. -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 09:42 1
        
        Yeah, when he showed up at Wrestlemania last year, it was like....ummm, method acting for a roids movie is not the goal. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 5, 09:44
  - yep. love it. -- nm - Remlik Feb 5, 09:28
deer antler spray for everyone! -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 09:23 2
- fact: i sort of want deer antler spray. -- nm - Andie Feb 5, 09:24 1
  - emailme. -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 09:30

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