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And just so I can complete my transition to old fuddy duddy, I'm really sick of all the swearing in music these days. It's just been so overdone. - pmb Aug 26, 08:24 8
- USA shows too. wtf, Suits? -- nm - Max Aug 26, 08:47
- Fuck you. - Krusty Aug 26, 08:27 4
  - I don't mind it in movies. It's in a different context. Music is different to me. -- nm - pmb Aug 26, 08:34 1
    - I get where you're coming from. - Krusty Aug 26, 08:39
  - *puts you on the list* -- nm - NYPD Aug 26, 08:31
  - see?^ hoodlums. nm -- nm - groiny Aug 26, 08:28
- Damn fucking straight. -- nm - Spawn Aug 26, 08:27
- well, rap songs are for hoodlums, ,so..... nm -- nm - groiny Aug 26, 08:26
The NYPD goes further than the NSA when it comes to spying on Americans. *smh* -- (link) - Krusty Aug 26, 08:23 3
- time to MOVE! -- nm - groiny Aug 26, 08:26
- That CC camera grid it operates is frightening. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Aug 26, 08:25 1
  - They're installing more and more every day and in all the boroughs. - Krusty Aug 26, 08:29
jim, I emailed you my last pick for BF in case I am in a meeting this morning - amoxy Aug 26, 08:11 1
- yep, got it -- nm - Jim Aug 26, 08:20
Tesla Model S is the safest car *ever*. NTSB doesn't have a rating high enough. It broke a testing machine. -- (link) - Mop (200 lbs) Aug 26, 08:10 [youtube] 9
- when they get a sub-50k model that they can mass produce the company is going to be worth it's weight in gold -- nm - decline Aug 26, 08:18 1
  - They also need to get the mileage up to around 300 or 400 miles per charge. -- nm - Inigo Aug 26, 08:22
- "cancer cells removed" -- nm - Tesla Model E-lysium Aug 26, 08:15 2
  - just saw that movie. holy crap, it was bad. -- nm - colin Aug 26, 08:21 1
    - *drives you to see The World's End for free* -- nm - Elon Musk's The Chauffeur Aug 26, 08:24
- No matter how many times we ran other cars into it, it refused to burst into flames! -- nm - NTSB Aug 26, 08:11 3
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  - we can help with that... -- nm - Mythbusters Aug 26, 08:12
  - This is *literally* true. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Aug 26, 08:12
tRu, Shaun, Josh P -- nm - amoxy Aug 26, 08:07
There's about 95% more discussion here about the VMAs than I would have expected. -- nm - prayformojo Aug 26, 08:04 4
- Meh. There's a flurry of discussion every year. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Aug 26, 08:20
- right? -- nm - amanda hk Aug 26, 08:17
- slow news weeekend. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 26, 08:09
- really, pfm? how long have you been here... -- nm - colin Aug 26, 08:06
today's VHS rip: Robot in the Family. it looks glorious. -- (link) - colin Aug 26, 08:01
ika q: navy battle - spamlet Aug 26, 07:59 6
- The total number of ships on his side was finally not over the "garrison" number. -- nm - Spawn Aug 26, 08:01 5
  - It's going to take forever to grind out his navy at this pace. -- nm - spamlet Aug 26, 08:02 4
    - Is he forged? -- nm - Spawn Aug 26, 08:19 3
      - No. But he has about 20 rounds worth of paddle boats at the rate that I can kill them. -- nm - spamlet Aug 26, 08:24 2
        
        Thnaks.. Building a second forge temple and it is pulled down to level 4. Still better than what he has going. -- nm - Spawn Aug 26, 08:28
        
        (Given the size of the battle) -- nm - spamlet Aug 26, 08:26
I think that Bruno Mars performance last night was the only one not lip synced. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Aug 26, 07:59 9
- I think most of them were not lip syncing in the purest sense but were often singing over background vocal tracks that could overwhelm their live - pmb Aug 26, 08:19
- can you lip sync whining? -- nm - groiny Aug 26, 08:00 1
  - Hey, don't knock it! If it works for Bruno Mars, I'm banking that it works for me! -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Aug 26, 08:09
- Thicke was not. -- nm - Spawn Aug 26, 08:00 5
  - True. The entire Miley set appears to be live audio. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Aug 26, 08:05 1
    - I failed to notice because I was distracted... by the crazy. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Aug 26, 08:13
  - what rhymes with hug me? ~Stop trying to drug me~ -- nm - Beaker Aug 26, 08:02
  - Hey hey hey. -- nm - Shaun Aug 26, 08:02 1
    - Everybody get up! - Spawn Aug 26, 08:07
I don't find the Miley stuff outrageous so much as confusing. It would be absolutely fascinating to know what her thought process has been recently. - Ender Aug 26, 07:58 7
- I completely don't get what all the twitter/FB noise was about. Her performance was essentially a live version of the video (that was up for video of - JaxSean Aug 26, 08:14 2
  - I would not say "outshinning" it. -- nm - Spawn Aug 26, 08:15 1
    - Well, there's a limit to how much you can shine a foam finger by rubbing it between your thighs... -- nm - Ender Aug 26, 09:55
- she's 20 and trying to completely shed her childhood image, that was probably not really her to begin with. not really so radical. - Andie Aug 26, 08:09
- All I see is a chick who recently discovered she really, really likes banging. kudos, I guess. - Max Aug 26, 08:05 1
  - See, I think it goes a level deeper, that's a chick who wants us to think she recently discovered she really, really likes banging. - Ender Aug 26, 08:09
- word -- nm - Amanda Bynes Aug 26, 07:58
Just got into work, give me a second to make my pick -- nm - amoxy Aug 26, 07:56
local news is reporting that Lamar Odom has been missing for 72 hours. -- nm - Remlik Aug 26, 07:56 10
- he's just off banging some strippers someplace -- nm - decline Aug 26, 08:00 1
  - i think this is his true addiction. bangin' strippers. -- nm - Diva Aug 26, 08:21
- Keep in mind that the Kardashians are involved - Brian Aug 26, 08:00 2
  - true -- nm - Remlik Aug 26, 08:11
  - I mean, who would *not* hide form them? -- nm - Spawn Aug 26, 08:01
- I can't even remember - Is he still an active player in the NBA for a team? -- nm - Diva Aug 26, 07:58 4
  - He's on the Clippers. -- nm - Krusty Aug 26, 08:03 2
    - oh, yeah, i'm wrong. -- nm - colin Aug 26, 08:05 1
      - Might not be a valuable piece but they're paying him. -- nm - Krusty Aug 26, 08:06
  - don't think so. -- nm - colin Aug 26, 08:03
BIlls QB Kevin Kolb was having difficulty answering questions like "where are you" and "what's your name" after his latest concussion - Brian Aug 26, 07:54 6
- Puddin'. -- nm - Diva Aug 26, 07:57
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  - best commercial ever. nm -- nm - groiny Aug 26, 07:59
  - No. - Kevin Kolb Aug 26, 07:58
  - sure it would, there would just be some outrage. -- nm - colin Aug 26, 07:58
- *checks roster* - oblique Aug 26, 07:55
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yahoo's new fantasy sports page design is just terrible. really really terrible. -- nm - Don Homer Aug 26, 07:49 14
- *secretly hopes this change angers enough Feuders that we migrate to ESPN next year* - Name Withheld By Request Aug 26, 07:52 8
  - forget that.. do it pen and paper, like a game of D&D. -- nm - colin Aug 26, 07:58 3
    - Caveman hits Astronaut with a Club +5, game over -- nm - Beaker Aug 26, 07:59 2
      - A wild DB appears. - colin Aug 26, 08:00
      - Astronaut nukes Cavemen from orbit, game over. -- nm - Spawn Aug 26, 07:59
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    - I've had two other leagues on there for over half a decade and have always found it miles ahead of Yahoo. - Name Withheld By Request Aug 26, 08:05 1
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  - but what if they find us too sensational like PBS? -- nm - Beaker Aug 26, 07:53
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  - flickr was really slow when they put in the new interface, but its sped up. -- nm - colin Aug 26, 07:56
  - yeah, just went to add my new players after vacation and took forever to come up -- nm - Beaker Aug 26, 07:52 2
    - David/Jim, I'm around tonight but will be gone most of the afternoon. Please feel free to pick for me again. Thanks alot -- nm - Beaker Aug 26, 07:57 1
      - Jim, sent you a small change if a certain player is there for my next pick. -- nm - Beaker Aug 26, 08:01
my 2 cents' worth (adjusted for inflation) on Taylor Swift ... - i'm not dead yet ! Aug 26, 07:45 3
- Fascinating that you'd consider one 'tag' a relationship . . . - OAE -- Explorer, Antarctica, Old Aug 26, 08:05
- Thankfully all I can think of when I see her now is goats. -- (link) - Qale Aug 26, 07:49 [youtube]
- she needs to become a lesbian, so that her level of obsessiveness and clinging becomes acceptable. -- nm - Reagen Aug 26, 07:46
My age is showing. When did "twerk" become a word? -- nm - oblique Aug 26, 07:45 7
- A long time ago but older white people are just starting to hear it and use it. -- nm - Krusty Aug 26, 08:05
- My first. -- (link) - Spawn Aug 26, 07:52 [Backboard]
- Urban dictionary has a entry from 2003. -- nm - Qale Aug 26, 07:51 1
  - they were created in 1999, didn't really get going until 2001 or so, right? -- nm - colin Aug 26, 08:04
- "Whistle While You Twurk" was released 13 years ago. -- nm - mara Aug 26, 07:50
- The wikipedia page was first created on December 20 of last year. -- nm - Ender Aug 26, 07:48
- 3(?) months ago - Reagen Aug 26, 07:46
Jennifer Hudson coming out? She's married to a WWE wrestler. -- nm - Remlik Aug 26, 07:42 2
- maybe that's the new gay? -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Aug 26, 07:47
- Aren't they coming out now? -- nm - Spawn Aug 26, 07:43
Hmm, re: Miley, my cousin (who has a daughter around 8 years old) posted to FB - ty97 Aug 26, 07:41 2
- Miley Cyrus. Not even once. - colin Aug 26, 07:45 1
  - it was a career move that served britney well -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 26, 12:37
CIA files reveal that the US told the Iraqis where the Iranians were in waning days of the war so that the Iraqis could gas their troops. -- (link) - spamlet Aug 26, 07:41 1
- shocker -- nm - znufrii Aug 26, 07:42
DH, amoxy, tRU, Shaun, Josh, beaker - can we actually finish this today??? -- nm - Jim Aug 26, 07:40
Ok, just caught up on some of the performances... - Jim Aug 26, 07:38 3
- Bruno Mars annoys the shit out of me. - groiny Aug 26, 07:49 2
  - That boy's good *clapping and grinning* -- nm - Shaun Aug 26, 08:03 1
    - *tiny snort!* -- nm - Diva Aug 26, 08:22
I guess one of the losers of last night were all those DJ songs. Calvin Harris, Avicii, Skrillex, Zedd, etc. -- nm - Qale Aug 26, 07:36 6
- I'm really digging that song 'I Need Your Love' by Calvin Harris -- nm - decline Aug 26, 07:46 5
  - Ellie Goulding's 'Lights' is better, but also older. -- nm - Qale Aug 26, 07:47 4
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    - oh, yeah, that is excellent :) -- nm - decline Aug 26, 08:02
    - Yep. -- nm - Jim Aug 26, 07:50 1
      - And that Zedd/Foxes track Clarity is one of my recent favorites. -- nm - Jim Aug 26, 07:51
You people need to take it to the music board! -- nmbh - oblique Aug 26, 07:35 1
- can we quote you? -- nm - OAE -- Explorer, Antarctica, Old Aug 26, 08:06
i don't think miley cyrus could have looked more silly. - colin Aug 26, 07:31 12
- Was it KIDS Fund episode two bad? -- nm - Qale Aug 26, 07:32 2
  - way worse. -- nm - colin Aug 26, 07:33 1
    - Party in the USA! -- nm - Qale Aug 26, 07:38
- Not sexy. And no short bleached blonde haricut, or hot pants or see through anything...will ever make her sexy. -- nm - Jim Aug 26, 07:32
- "Look at me! I'm being naughty and controversial!" -- nm - nubby Aug 26, 07:32 7
  - it looked like a parody of.. something. -- nm - colin Aug 26, 07:34 6
    - It was no worse than Brit Brit. - Spawn Aug 26, 07:37 5
      - I thought Britney was the pinnacle of desperation...til last night. -- nm - Jim Aug 26, 07:38 4
        
        Exactly. The sad thing is if Miley had toned it down just a bit, she might have pulled it off. - Spawn Aug 26, 07:40 3
        
        Except for the bad singing, yes -- nm - ty97 Aug 26, 07:42
        
        And had she done it with random background dancer instead of Robin Thicke... :) -- nm - Jim Aug 26, 07:41 1
        
        ... Spawn would have never watched! -- nm - Spawn Aug 26, 07:42
LIR: Diva. Yeah and the summer production of Guys and Dolls - oblique Aug 26, 07:28 3
- Semi-tangent. Bub's class did a talent show of sorts. Some sort of performance to win little prizes. - Spawn Aug 26, 07:42 1
  - My son broke that out this weekend as well - oblique Aug 26, 07:42
- Interesting. It's very telling. 'Godspell' was the one that lured me in too. Seriously, after that there really wasn't any turning back. -- nm - Diva Aug 26, 07:36
Hate Song: Taylor Swift -- (link) - Reagen Aug 26, 07:28
Speaking of Macklemore, I recently learned that not only is Kidz Bop still a thing, they do Macklemore songs. Who is the market for that? -- nm - Reagen Aug 26, 07:27 13
- And he is white! -- nm - Inigo SI Aug 26, 07:32 1
  - Carazy. -- nm - Inigo Aug 26, 07:32
- Forget the Macklemore thing...I've never understood who wants Kidz Bop versions of any song. - Jim Aug 26, 07:31 3
  - I think it's for the very young kids whose parents are sick of nursery rhyme songs. - Name Withheld By Request Aug 26, 07:50
  - Right? It's got to be so narrowly targetted - Reagen Aug 26, 07:34
  - The One Direction ones actually sound a little better. -- nm - Spawn Aug 26, 07:32
- Yeah, I was posting about KB a few weeks ago. Locked out of Heaven and such. -- nm - Spawn Aug 26, 07:30 1
  - And was laughing at what words were changed in like, Call Me Maybe. -- nm - Spawn Aug 26, 07:30
- Kidz? -- nm - Diva Aug 26, 07:28 4
  - Do you not know of this? - Reagen Aug 26, 07:29 1
    - (Oh, n/m. I need more coffee) -- nm - Reagen Aug 26, 07:30
  - Done. End. Fin. -- nm - nubby Aug 26, 07:29
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*quickly rolls the board and sprays Qale* -- nm - oblique Aug 26, 07:27 2
- If Justin Timberlake performances last over 15 minutes, please see a doctor. -- nm - Qale Aug 26, 07:35
- LIR - Is your son the one who was in the production of 'Godspell'? -- nm - Diva Aug 26, 07:28

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