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the main problem with a zimmerman acquittal isn't riots afterwards...its more george zimmermans -- nm - fb post Jul 13, 21:47
Giants v. Padres. -- nm - Stephen Jul 13, 21:39
An Xbox player messages me: "I was bannd for 30 years. Could it be changed to like 30 days or something so I can play online with my friends?" - Max Jul 13, 21:19 2
- I would think a ban would deny them message sending abilities? -- nm - Beryllium Jul 13, 21:21 1
  - just banned from a game, not from Live. -- nm - Max Jul 13, 21:23
Curious: Do people see a distinction between the Transformers movies and Pacific Rim? -- nm - Dano Jul 13, 21:07 23
- not at first and certainly not by the trailers...but the movies are very different -- nm - Remlik Jul 13, 21:37
- Both are Robot pr0n. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 13, 21:21 2
  - But the robots in transformers are designed to be visually distracting and chaotic, which makes them harder to visually comprehend. - Beryllium Jul 13, 21:23 1
    - Oh, Pacific Rim was a vastly superior film, especially to the last TForm movie. - JaxSean Jul 13, 21:25
- I talked about this in my forecast. Why you would see a Transformers movie but not this is beyond me. - Reagen Jul 13, 21:13 5
  - My thought was having seen both was that the quality was pretty similar. -- nm - Dano Jul 13, 21:19 4
    - visually? or visually and story/drama wise? -- nm - Max Jul 13, 21:21 3
      - Both -- nm - Dano Jul 13, 21:22 2
        
        I think? it was an intentional stylistic choice but the acting in Pacific Rim was horrible. -- nm - Dano Jul 13, 21:30 1
        
        Not compared to Sharknado (how the eff did my iPhone know this autocorrect?) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 13, 21:31
- for purposes of choosing how to spend my $15? no - charlie Jul 13, 21:09 11
  - couldn't be more wrong. It's done really well. It really nails the feeling (I thought) of watching Robot movies when I was a kid that Transformers - Remlik Jul 13, 21:12 3
    - also, rewatching Ultraman (which i worshiped as a kid) they're pretty fucking awful - charlie Jul 13, 21:15 1
      - yeah they are to our jaded eyes. Del Toro with todays tech makes it look great -- nm - Remlik Jul 13, 21:17
    - good for it -- nm - charlie Jul 13, 21:14
  - Having seen the Hellboy movies, I find it hard to call GdT's work "CGI bullshit", although it does grate on me the wrong way most of the time. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 13, 21:11 6
    - i really liked hellboy(s) and labyrinth was very cool -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 13, 21:18
    - Hellboy was almost 10 years ago, before the CGI bullshit reached its current excesses -- nm - charlie Jul 13, 21:13 4
      - Transformers CGI was cluttered chaotic noise and bullshit. That was battleship's *plot*. I think pacific rim, by its very nature, avoids both issues. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 13, 21:20 3
        
        they all look like "Video Game: The Movie" at this point. -- nm - charlie Jul 13, 21:21 2
        
        Which is ironic, because the accompanying video games are SHIT. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 13, 21:24 1
        
        and as long as they continue to sell they will stay shit -- nm - Bacon Jul 13, 21:43
- Sure, I do. Just like I see a distinction between Transformers and Battleship. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 13, 21:08
The shark was...not bad. - Stephen Jul 13, 20:53 2
- I love grilled shark on top of a big green leafy salad -- nm - Pippy Jul 13, 20:55
- nado? -- nm - Spawn Jul 13, 20:53
B2 Poll: name any top 5 experience in your life. - Volnelk Jul 13, 20:49 20
- 4 out of 5 are personal interactions. The event candidate would be the feeling I had when coming back from my first chess tournament in NYC. - Max Jul 13, 21:34 1
  - "Sweep the Pawn!" -- nm - charlie Jul 13, 21:36
- Nathan's birth. Wedding day. Nathan saying daddy. First quarks bar visit. Can't settle on fifth. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 13, 21:31
- Beating Spawn for top speed in an Indy Car. - Remlik Jul 13, 21:23 2
  - then getting a speeding ticket -- nm - loosi at home Jul 13, 21:24 1
    - yeah this has the virtue of being true. not an hour after we were done racing I got a ticket. -- nm - Remlik Jul 13, 21:32
- easy number one. Age 15, school trip to Paris, I paid for it myself. Stepped upstairs into Sainte Chapelle church. - loosi at home Jul 13, 21:22
- I am not kidding when I say this. I can remember my 5 worst experiences better than I can try and remember 1 of my best experiences. - Bacon Jul 13, 21:19
- driving straight down the whole baja to cabo to see the 7m eclipse then turning around and driving back -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 13, 21:13
- Watching the sunrise on Easter at the top of Stone Mountain with my daughter. - JaxSean Jul 13, 21:05
- attending Len Barker's perfect game -- nm - peglegpete Jul 13, 21:04
- The day I was born. Ah what a day for the world -- nm - Bacon Jul 13, 21:01 3
  - aka the closest you ever came to bungee jumping. -- nm - Spawn Jul 13, 21:02 2
    - It would have happened too if that damn doctor didn't have such good hands -- nm - Bacon Jul 13, 21:03 1
      - man I was a mega fast birth as well. 2.5 hours after breaking water. -- nm - loosi at home Jul 13, 21:25
- Vacation in Rosarita/ Ensenada -- nm - Pippy Jul 13, 20:55 1
  - There is the 5th. Scotland. Thanks. -- nm - Spawn Jul 13, 20:57
- Birth of my son. Driving an Indy car. Sex for the first time. Finally finding peace with myself. -- nm - Spawn Jul 13, 20:51
- The births of my sons and taking my dad to Notre Dame. -- nm - Stephen Jul 13, 20:50
- Birth of my son. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 13, 20:49
The Great and Powerful Oz. It had some highs and lows. I give it a B. The 3D was great for the first 30 minutes then they kind of forgot about it. -- nm - Bacon Jul 13, 20:48 1
- Spoilers - Bacon Jul 13, 20:49
one of the CDAN blind item reveals today is pretty epic - charlie Jul 13, 20:39 5
- The money thing made me think (spoils) - JaxSean Jul 13, 20:56 1
  - The mumbles made me think Dustin Hoffman. -- nm - Max Jul 13, 21:45
- Reading it, I imagined Sean Connery. -- nm - nubby, Astro-lord Jul 13, 20:52 2
  - with lifts?? -- nm - Max Jul 13, 21:40
  - There was one paragraph that made me think Russell Crowe, for some reason -- nm - Beryllium Jul 13, 21:05
Common knowledge test: The third van Pelt sibling is named... - Reagen Jul 13, 20:37 6
- La Grange? -- nm - Beryllium Jul 13, 20:50
- Chuck -- nm - charlie Jul 13, 20:49
- Rerun. nm - Dignan Jul 13, 20:46 2
  - Like, I thought everyone knew this. -- nm - Reagen Jul 13, 21:17 1
    - If you look around the table and can't pick out which one is the nerd... -- nm - Max Jul 13, 21:18
- as in Peanuts? -- nm - prayformojo Jul 13, 20:45
@DwyaneWade: "How do I explain this to my young boys????" -- nm - budice Jul 13, 20:28 1
- Derrick Coleman: "I guess they paying us back for O.J." -- nm - budice Jul 13, 20:28
in other Florida news...woman gets 20 years for firing warning shots -- (link) - Remlik Jul 13, 20:24 5
- *laughs* -- nm - Zimmerman Jul 13, 20:53
- ps this happened over a y ear ago, just to be clear -- nm - loosi at home Jul 13, 20:25 1
  - ah -- nm - Remlik Jul 13, 20:37
- george takei beat me to it by 2 minutes. -- nm - loosi at home Jul 13, 20:25 1
  - Phrasing! Boom! - Beryllium Jul 13, 20:39
@MileyCyrus: "No justice. No peace." -- nm - budice Jul 13, 20:23
I know Zimmerman is responsible for Trayvon's death but having followed the trial, i don't see how he could be convicted. -- nm - Mop on Nook Android Tablet Jul 13, 20:17 4
- Anyone who followed the trial isn't surprised. The prosecution just had no case. -- nm - nubby, Astro-lord Jul 13, 20:18 2
  - i wouldn't say "no case" - charlie Jul 13, 20:19 1
    - knock knock -- nm - Beryllium Jul 13, 20:21
- because you're not entitled to assert self-defense if you initiated the confrontation? -- nm - charlie Jul 13, 20:18
Multiple reports of large crowds and a large police presence now in Brookyln following Zimmerman verdict. -- nm - budice Jul 13, 20:16
#ifIeverseeZimmerman now trending -- nm - David Jul 13, 20:12 1
- People seem to need reminding that vigilante justice is not justice, it's vengeance. - Beryllium Jul 13, 20:17
Falcons' Roddywhite: " F**king Zimmerman got away with murder today wow what kind of world do we live in" -- nm - budice Jul 13, 20:04 2
- Then tweets that the jurors should go home and kill themselves... -- nm - Stephen Jul 13, 20:14
- The safest one possible, Roddy -- nm - The NRA Jul 13, 20:05
Al Sharpton: Zimmerman Not Guilty Verdict 'an Atrocity' -- nm - budice Jul 13, 19:41 4
- " I will convene an emergency call with preachers tonight to discuss next steps and I intend to head to Florida in the next few days" -- nm - budice Jul 13, 20:07
- Under Florida law, Zimmerman will get back this gun which he used to kill Trayvon Martin -- nm - budice Jul 13, 19:43 2
  - He'll be under Fox News' White Protection, otherwise I'd be srunned if he makes it a month. -- nm - MDH Jul 13, 19:49 1
    - Sarah Palin & a shotgun? -- nm - peglegpete Jul 13, 19:56
Well, at least he'll lose his shirt in the civil case. -- nm - nubby, Astro-lord Jul 13, 19:40 5
- yeah, florida is the best state to escape financial judgements, oj moved there cause of that -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 13, 21:16
- no one wants to see that -- nm - loosi at home Jul 13, 20:24 2
  - speak for yourself -- nm - charlie Jul 13, 20:24 1
    - I expect she's speaking in the literal sense. -- nm - Reagen Jul 13, 20:33
- a fair trade -- nm - charlie Jul 13, 19:42
Bernie de la Rionda seems to at least have the right mindset for prosecuting this case -- nm - budice Jul 13, 19:34
"Trayvon got the death penalty for buying Skittles in a hoodie." -- nm - Don Homer Jul 13, 19:18 16
- Beyond the obvious outrage, this basically legalizes vigilantism. -- nm - Reagen Jul 13, 19:27 5
  - (When the victim is a scary black guy.) -- nm - Don Homer Jul 13, 19:31 2
    - Isn't that the original definition of vigilantism? :) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 13, 19:32 1
      - iirc, town 'vigil' in san fran during the height of the barbary coast when chinese tongs and euro gangs owned the town -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 13, 19:38
  - ... in Florida. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 13, 19:28 1
    - And elsewhere -- nm - Bernie Goetz Jul 13, 19:30
- Twitter: Folks are openly threatening Zimmerman's life -- nm - budice Jul 13, 19:24 9
  - keep standing your ground, George - charlie Jul 13, 19:31 8
    - home address posted -- nm - budice Jul 13, 19:32 7
      - Given the tendency for the Internet to be wrong about this info, I hope no one fucked up -- nm - Beryllium Jul 13, 19:54
      - saw that. horrified. -- nm - loosi at home Jul 13, 19:48 5
        
        he better get used to it -- nm - charlie Jul 13, 19:51 4
        
        it's disgusting, I don't care how guilty he is. The wrong address has already been posted for him. - loosi at home Jul 13, 20:25 3
        
        on his worst day, Zimmerman will still be alive for the rest of his life -- nm - charlie Jul 13, 20:44 2
        
        If you're looking to string him up because another man is dead, he at least gets to stand at the back of a long line of bar brawlers and motorists who - Max Jul 13, 21:03 1
        
        most people who wrongfully cause the deaths of others in this country are held accountable - charlie Jul 13, 21:08
Fireworks. Huh. -- nm - Mara Jul 13, 19:13 2
- okay, that's a little over the line Sanford -- nm - charlie Jul 13, 19:17
- Some here too for like half an hour. I *loathe* amateur fireworks. -- nm - Don Homer Jul 13, 19:15
he and his family need to move out of that state asap. -- nm - Jovian Jul 13, 19:04
Good job -- nm - Casey Anthony Jul 13, 19:03 2
- Humans really suck. -- nm - Don Homer Jul 13, 19:17
- "In Florida it's legal to kill children" said someone on my twitter feed -- nm - Beryllium Jul 13, 19:11
Big Brother POV winner spoils - peglegpete Jul 13, 19:03 3
- possible spoils - GregW Jul 13, 19:37
- Riots, I tells ya! Heheh -- nm - Beryllium Jul 13, 19:05 1
  - she'll always have a job with Paula Deen :( -- nm - peglegpete Jul 13, 19:10
Zimmerman verdict reached, court in session -- nm - budice Jul 13, 18:58 6
- Verdict: Not Guilty -- nm - budice Jul 13, 18:59 5
  - Prosecution fucked it up. -- nm - loosi at home Jul 13, 19:17 1
    - this...perhaps deliberately? -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 13, 21:20
  - 'Merica!!! -- nm - Don Homer Jul 13, 19:13
  - oh...shit. -- nm - Remlik Jul 13, 19:04
  - Prep for riots. -- nm - Spawn Jul 13, 18:59
Jury about to come back in the Zimmerman trial.... -- nm - Meg Jul 13, 18:57 1
- Not guilty !! -- nm - Meg Jul 13, 18:59
Where's Nubby? Nike mis-identifies North Carolina. -- (link) - Meg Jul 13, 18:56 3
- They are not the "North Carolina Panthers", though. -- nm - Spawn Jul 13, 18:58 2
  - Might as well be. -- nm - nubby, Astro-lord Jul 13, 19:44
  - No, so maybe they should include both states in the map. -- nm - Meg Jul 13, 19:06
what's with the slow rate of posts today ... is everyone out of town and forgot to tell me or something? -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Jul 13, 18:50 5
- Seems relatively normal for a Saturday. -- nm - Don Homer Jul 13, 19:22
- We are all busy watching the Blurred Lines video. -- nm - Spawn Jul 13, 18:52 2
  - That sounds painful. -- nm - Qale Jul 13, 19:09 1
    - It is muted. And glorious. Fuse it with Pacific Rim and it would have had everything a (straight) boy could want. -- nm - Spawn Jul 13, 19:17
- it's Saturday? -- nm - charlie Jul 13, 18:51
I just wanted to tell you all that it's raining. You know. Again. -- nm - Qale Jul 13, 18:48 1
- Yup -- (link) - Supertramp Jul 13, 18:52 [youtube]
rave on! -- nm - peglegpete Jul 13, 18:46

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