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halo 4 note - tRuMaN Feb 19, 11:54 1
- How many dlc's are there? All 800 points? - Krusty Feb 19, 12:02
I'm surprised I haven't heard much complaining here or in the media about how much gas prices have gone up lately -- nm - prayformojo Feb 19, 11:50 7
- is that the Fox news version, them lame stream liberal media ain't gonna tell you how obama is jacking up the gas prices? - zeitgeist Feb 19, 12:02
- It was a lead story on theNBC nightly news last night -- nm - decline Feb 19, 11:56
- Limbaugh was blaming Obama today for the lines people had to wait in for gas during Hurricane Sandy - Jovian Feb 19, 11:54
- It was the lead story on the news here yesterday and is a main page story on NBCnews.com right now. -- nm - pmb Feb 19, 11:53
- that's because you haven't been in my car, pfm. - b. Feb 19, 11:53
- Still below earlier highs. Exceeds that, and we will hear some about it. -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 11:53
- Election is over. -- nm - TWuG Feb 19, 11:52
so I subscribed to what I thought was a monthly healthier snack box - only $7 a month, looked like things I could keep at work - b. Feb 19, 11:49 2
- It doesn't jibe with their About Us page either -- nm - con_carne Feb 19, 11:54 1
  - yup. so odd. - b. Feb 19, 11:57
what made the 'water bottle' blow up was that the moment was sorta like a groom interupting the vows to go pee -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 19, 11:46 4
- It's actually not uncommon for a speaker to take a sip of water. -- nm - mara Feb 19, 11:50 3
  - But usually their assistants/handlers make sure it's right there on the podium in front of them. -- nm - Meg Feb 19, 11:57 2
    - Exactly. A, it should be within reach; B, it's probably a smoother sip if it's a tumbler rather than a bottle. -- nm - mara Feb 19, 11:58 1
      - ^this. or a glass of water. It just looked so awkward and unprofessional. -- nm - Remlik Feb 19, 12:01
Arsenal or Bayern Munich, who've you got? - znufrii Feb 19, 11:46 6
- "Who've?" -- nm - con_carne Feb 19, 11:50
- When teams like Arsenal lose, everybody wins. Bayern 2 Arsenal 1 -- nm - CQ Feb 19, 11:47 4
  - of course I hate that scouser Ribery. French scum -- nm - CQ Feb 19, 11:50
  - oh, I'm not saying I *want* them to win, I just think Wenger will have lit a fire under their asses after their shameful FA Cup debacle this weekend. -- nm - znufrii Feb 19, 11:49 2
    - or maybe not... -- nm - znufrii Feb 19, 11:54
    - I like when Wenger cries. douche -- nm - CQ Feb 19, 11:51
SITWAP: Falcons GM believes Tony Gonzalez returning next year is about 50/50. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 19, 11:46
What are you reading? What is the grade (thus far) ? -- nm - Andie Feb 19, 11:41 15
- Our Mutual Friend...C, maybe? Kind of a slog (and I like Dickens). Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz - B. -- nm - Kim Pine Feb 19, 11:58
- Lost Horizon - James Hilton - B+ -- nm - Jovian Feb 19, 11:56
- Just finished Mr. Churchill's Secretary and really enjoyed it. It was set in London at the beginning of the war and although - Meg Feb 19, 11:55
- Just finished The Twelve. B+. -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 11:51 3
  - F yea. Loved that book. (wish we didnt have to wait an entire year for the final book) -- nm - Jovian Feb 19, 11:56 2
    - Was kinda surprised how far this one got, but yeah. -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 11:57 1
      - Anyone particular in your head who played Guilder? - Jovian Feb 19, 12:00
- My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf. I just started it today so no grade yet. -- nm - Krusty Feb 19, 11:49
- An author suggested by an STer. I won't name either since I think the book is awful. -- nm - TWuG Feb 19, 11:48 1
  - You should know by now that you hate every book I like. ;) -- nm - Kim Pine Feb 19, 11:58
- Elseerian by Ben Hale - decline Feb 19, 11:47
- Daemon: A+ -- nm - oblique Feb 19, 11:46
- Foundation series (asimov) for a 2nd time, I'm on book 4 of 6. A -- nm - Strongbad Feb 19, 11:43
- Doc by Mary DorianRussell. Grade A. -- nm - mara Feb 19, 11:42 1
  - Well, shucks, meant to delete the N and deleted the space. -- nm - mara Feb 19, 11:43
Rascall & Flatts are approaching 3 hours of napper. It's time to divide and conquer -- nm - CQ Feb 19, 11:41
Jets release Calvin Pace. -- nm - David Feb 19, 11:35 3
- I knew this was coming. So many holes to fill and not enough cap space. -- nm - Krusty Feb 19, 11:51
- (and mega-bust Jason Smith) -- nm - David Feb 19, 11:35 1
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Weekend movies (since today is my first day of the week): Pitch Perfect: A, Tremors: B (still funny), Mission Impossible: C -- nm - oblique Feb 19, 11:31 3
- Skyfall: B-, Hoodwinked: FFFFFFFFFFFFF -- nm - Stephen, Signing his NLI to play for ST Feb 19, 11:33 1
  - The animated one? I kinda liked that to a degree -- nm - oblique Feb 19, 11:37
- Die Hardest: C- -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 11:32
So what's the inactivity auto shutoff time for the new Xboxes? - Reagen Feb 19, 11:27 4
- I thought it was six hours by default. -- nm - Krusty Feb 19, 11:29
- Clearly, you do not love me like you should. -- nm - X-Box Feb 19, 11:29
- I think you can disable it altogether -- (link) - oblique Feb 19, 11:28
- I have mine set for six hours, I think. -- nm - Max Feb 19, 11:28
BTW, since CAG sucks, if anyone comes across a code for Pitch Perfect, let me know - oblique Feb 19, 11:26
David Axelrod, NBC Political Analyst -- (link) - znufrii Feb 19, 11:21 5
- since some time last week, all links to ny times crash my work IE. so annoying. -- nm - b. Feb 19, 11:26 3
  - yeah, they've fixed the paywall exploit I was using, now I have to google each individual headline to read the article. -- nm - znufrii Feb 19, 11:27 2
    - Curious: have you tried browsing incognito (Chrome)? -- nm - con_carne Feb 19, 11:44
    - I should have added that my trying just nytimes.com crashes it, too. -- nm - b. Feb 19, 11:30
- Niiiice. -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 11:22
The only southern states Mitt won were Florida, NC, Arkansas and Texas, the latter three being after everything was all over already. -- nm - Reagen Feb 19, 11:21 7
- If you win TX and Florida, the rest of the deep south is pretty much washed out. - ty97 Feb 19, 11:28
- I agree with David on B2. FL and TX are not representative of the South. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 19, 11:22
- Virginia is still technically part of the South, no? -- nm - znufrii Feb 19, 11:22 4
  - but then again, his only opponent in VA was Ron Paul... -- nm - znufrii Feb 19, 11:31
  - Oh yes, Virginia, sorry. -- nm - Reagen Feb 19, 11:23 2
    - but I'd probably put it in the same category as TX and FL -- nm - znufrii Feb 19, 11:24 1
      - I'm going off the Confederate states - Reagen Feb 19, 11:25
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- BACON! - JenBro Feb 19, 11:29
- you can look at cheapassgamer forums, or family video, or blu-ray com forums -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 19, 11:22 1
  - here is one link -- (link) - tRuMaN Feb 19, 11:24
- My Skyfall Blu-Ray has been lost in the mail. I'm over an hour of phone calls in with Vudu Shipping. -- nm - David Feb 19, 11:20 7
  - your fucking mail system blows. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 19, 11:23 5
    - So Vudu is telling me. - David Feb 19, 11:24 4
      - at least you did not open up an empty box. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 19, 11:25 3
        
        That still pisses me off. -- nm - David Feb 19, 11:28 1
        
        you and me both. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 19, 11:29
        
        Super Bowl tickets! -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 11:26
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- where do I buy codes? like what do I search for? (sorry, I'm sure this has been covered. I'm new here.) -- nm - amanda Feb 19, 11:20 2
  - sorry, i replied above. i messed that up big time. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 19, 11:25
  - basically - oblique Feb 19, 11:23
so, i will ask, do i need to know what the "water bottle incident" is, or is it as stupid as it sounds? -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 19, 11:17 56
- It's stupid and it speaks to a guy being exposed on national tv as not ready for prime time. - Will Hunting Feb 19, 11:24 1
  - I mean, sweating a little on TV shouldn't matter to the highest office in the land. Until you are Nixon debating JFK. -- nm - con_carne Feb 19, 11:40
- There a couple things about this that strike me as funny or interesting. - mara Feb 19, 11:22
- and also at the end of the day? If the Right really thinks Rubio is their man for 2016? then they are dumb as F -- nm - Jovian Feb 19, 11:21
- I'd ignore anyone taking it seriously, but I'd also ignore anyone who wasn't amused by it. -- nm - Roger More Feb 19, 11:21 2
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    - Trust the lawyer to point out the gray area in my post -- nm - Roger More Feb 19, 11:35
- It's devastating. Absolutely devastating. nm - howard dean Feb 19, 11:21
- Need to know? No. Want to know? Here's a video of it (only 9 seconds long) -- (link) - ty97 Feb 19, 11:21 [youtube]
- Though SNL parodied it perfectly this weekend on Weekend Update -- nm - Jovian Feb 19, 11:20 1
  - It was really funny. -- nm - pmb Feb 19, 11:43
- No. Yes. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 19, 11:19
- imo - it really was a non-issue. The left blew it up and now that fact is all the right talks about. -- nm - Jovian Feb 19, 11:19 12
  - The left? Try EVERY GODDAMN COMEDIAN ON TV -- nm - con_carne Feb 19, 11:25 11
    - (spoiler) - znufrii Feb 19, 11:25 10
      - the Right has a sense of humor? -- nm - Jovian Feb 19, 11:26 9
        
        this is so odd to me. there's been a lot of discussion about this over the years, and even research done about it. - b. Feb 19, 12:01
        
        Stephen Colbert! - Strongbad Feb 19, 11:32 6
        
        ummmm.... -- nm - loosilu Feb 19, 11:38 5
        
        His character is the closest we've got. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 19, 11:41 4
        
        He's as much a lefty as Stewart. -- nm - TWuG Feb 19, 11:51
        
        What's PJ O'Rourke doing these days? -- nm - Roger More Feb 19, 11:43
        
        he's making fun of you! -- nm - loosilu Feb 19, 11:42 1
        
        He's the closest we've got. - Strongbad Feb 19, 11:44
        
        oops, should have went one above -- nm - Jovian Feb 19, 11:26
- It makes the "binders full of women" controversy look relevant and newsworthy. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 19, 11:19 18
  - Again, why do STers insist on ignoring the fact that these incidents are funny, and that is a major reason they have traction? -- nm - con_carne Feb 19, 11:42 1
    - Why do you ignore that often times whether something is funny or not depends on who it's happening to? - Stephen, Signing his NLI to play for ST Feb 19, 12:09
  - This is true. Both both make the GOP look like has-been dinosaurs. :) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 19, 11:23 15
    - water? I am no fan of this guy's politics, but this is ridiculous. -- nm - loosilu Feb 19, 11:24 13
      - This is kinda like Hanson Day, loosi. -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 11:26
      - Have you seen the clip? Dude has no business doing that on a national broadcast. It smacks of underpreparedness, like so many dried tongues. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 19, 11:25 11
        
        yes. He looked stupid, but to be still talking about it a week later? -- nm - loosilu Feb 19, 11:26 10
        
        It has traction because it's funny -- nm - con_carne Feb 19, 11:29 4
        
        It has traction because he's a Republican. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 19, 11:31 3
        
        Not to put too fine a point on it, but the Republicans did have a lot more at stake on the night of the SOTU than Obama did - con_carne Feb 19, 11:33
        
        Because of the Liberal Press? -- nm - amoxy Feb 19, 11:32 1
        
        I wouldn't put all the blame on that, no. - Strongbad Feb 19, 11:34
        
        To be talking about *it*, instead of the dogmatic crap he spewed, means that their strategy is working. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 19, 11:26 4
        
        Any press you can walk away from... -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 11:30
        
        Yeah, even by Republican standards the speech was a remarkable collection of empty, cliched platitudes. -- nm - mara Feb 19, 11:29
        
        whose strategy? -- nm - loosilu Feb 19, 11:28 1
        
        The dinosaurs. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 19, 11:32
    - (but both. Whatever. I should be working, anyway.) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 19, 11:23
- Marco Rubio gave the rebuttal for the SOTU. He got dry mouth and had to take a sip from a water bottle -- nm - amoxy Feb 19, 11:18
- If you reach down besides your desk and take a drink of water from a water bottle, you've pretty much re-enacted it -- nm - oblique Feb 19, 11:18 10
  - Add a look of abject terror and a bit of a stretch to the reach and you'll have it. - TWuG Feb 19, 11:25 3
    - And a really dry mouth. Frankly, it reminds one of that Tim Roth "I can tell a liar" show -- nm - con_carne Feb 19, 11:26 2
      - "Lie to ME" -- nm - Beryllium Feb 19, 11:27 1
        
        (I remembered the capitalization wrong: it's "Lie to me*") -- nm - Beryllium Feb 19, 11:28
  - Partially, the fact that it wasn't in arms reach made him look a silly and unprepared for a speech I thought. -- nm - Remlik Feb 19, 11:22
  - ... in the middle of a nationally televised speech. - Spawn Feb 19, 11:20 4
    - It wasn't even the action itself - it was the awkwardness and hesitancy of it. And the undersized bottle. - Beryllium Feb 19, 11:22 1
      - Yup. Plus what Remlik said. -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 11:23
    - not much. -- nm - loosilu Feb 19, 11:21 1
      - But more than enough. -- (link) - Spawn Feb 19, 11:21 [Backboard]
Weirdly, Civ 2 is the only one I never played - Reagen Feb 19, 11:17 4
- I am pretty sure black heroin is less addictive. -- nm - loosilu Feb 19, 11:20 2
  - Civ 1 was definitely not not-addictive. -- nm - Reagen Feb 19, 11:21 1
    - Civ 1 is the only one I played. My goal was to win before AD started. Only managed to do it once. -- nm - Shaun Feb 19, 11:26
- It's the only one I owned -- nm - Beryllium Feb 19, 11:20
Politics is the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex. -- nm - Frank Zappa Feb 19, 11:16
The nose hole is connected to the throat hole -- nm - oblique Feb 19, 11:15 4
- I haven't bb'd yet; but, coincidentally, I just came here to share this item from amazon's gold box today. (warning, ick.) nm but: -- (link) - b. Feb 19, 11:24
- *nose fucks kilbo* nm -- nm - groiny Feb 19, 11:16 1
  - you could fit, i'm sure... -- nm - znufrii Feb 19, 11:32
- human centipede? -- nm - loosilu Feb 19, 11:16

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