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Attention, America: Here Are All of the Valid Historical Reasons to be Furious With Canada -- (link) - ty97 Feb 21, 08:30 2
- Totally leaves out the Pig War. -- nm - Reagen Feb 21, 08:33
- blah blah blah... okay, the last one is war worthy. -- nm - Spawn Lord Feb 21, 08:32
Will I be shot if I ask the question, "What is Black Adder?" - JaxSean Feb 21, 08:27 5
- I bet the majority of ST has not seen it, but i know what it is at least. -- nm - ty97 Feb 21, 08:31
- I watched it for the first time like five years ago. - con_carne Feb 21, 08:30
- No clue, just hearing about it the last few days -- nm - groiny Feb 21, 08:29 1
  - It's been going around. Try not to catch it. -- nm - Mop (205 lbs) Feb 21, 08:30
- O.M.G. -- nm - Spawn Lord Feb 21, 08:28
There are at least 44 things Ted Nugent considers more offensive than calling the President a 'Subhuman Mongrel, -- (link) - Remlik Feb 21, 08:26 6
- isn't he supposed to be dead or in jail by now? -- nm - Reagen Feb 21, 08:31
- Ted Nugent is Unamerican. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 21, 08:28 4
  - he is a pos -- nm - Jovian Feb 21, 08:29 3
    - I honestly now turn the station when one of his songs come on (and I used to like some of them). -- nm - pmb Feb 21, 08:31 2
      - me too. and it kills me when it comes to Stranglehold. I *love* that tune. -- nm - Jovian Feb 21, 08:32 1
        
        Yup. -- nm - pmb Feb 21, 08:34
Buzzfeed visits the U.S. Army's museum warehouse. Looks suspiciously like the warehouse at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. -- (link) - Mop (205 lbs) Feb 21, 08:25
CNN/Money banner: Detroit bankruptcy plan: Up to 34% cuts in pensions, slashed payments for retiree health care and bondholders. -- nm - ty97 Feb 21, 08:25
Remlik is the bringer of death. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 21, 08:24 3
- (except when he gets tricked) -- nm - Spawn Lord Feb 21, 08:25 2
  - Oh by the way you're going to need to buy GenCon tickets for you and your wife as that author you like will be there. -- nm - Remlik Feb 21, 08:26 1
    - Jim Butcher! Or it might be shades pretending to be him. -- nm - Spawn Lord Feb 21, 08:28
the Last Medal of Honor winner who stormed Normandy Beach passes away at 92... -- (link) - Remlik Feb 21, 08:23 1
- I bet *he* watched Black Adder. -- nm - Spawn Lord Feb 21, 08:24
NBC newsman Garrick Utley passes away -- (link) - Remlik Feb 21, 08:21
Trying to convince 3 little toddlers that olympic hockey is more important than Yo Gabba Gabba is gonna be a tough sell. -- nm - CQ Feb 21, 08:20 3
- split screen! -- nm - JenBro Feb 21, 08:24
- Why do you lie!?! -- nm - Spawn Lord Feb 21, 08:23
- would be cool if you had an advanced TV that just converted the American and Canadian players into Yo Gabba Gabba characters on ice. - Jovian Feb 21, 08:22
If you're going to do something, do it well. Netherlands is in 5th place overall with 22 medals to date.... - Will Hunting Feb 21, 08:13 2
- The Olympic version of swimming. They need to bring in backwards speed skating. -- nm - Reagen Feb 21, 08:23
- and then there's Poland. Only 4 medals in total but all of them Gold. -- nm - Diva Feb 21, 08:16
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- Where is this from? -- nm - David Feb 21, 08:22 2
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  - MLNN -- nm - Spawn Lord Feb 21, 08:23
Pictures are lost, now have a new phone. The stuff on my SD card was saved, but for some reason the more recent stuff was saved on the phone itself. - Andie Feb 21, 08:07 11
- You should totally get the auto-backup to Google going on. -- nm - Shaun Feb 21, 08:15 1
  - Yeah, I thought that was auto. As in, you had to work *not* to. -- nm - Spawn Lord Feb 21, 08:17
- Like spamlet said, use the google auto save feature in google+. As soon as you take a picture it uploads it to G+ for sharing - J Feb 21, 08:15 3
  - It's Ok MiMi! -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 21, 08:16 2
    - When I see an in.... - J Feb 21, 08:20
    - NO!!!!!! -- nm - meems Feb 21, 08:17
- sorry :(. I lost a ton of picture last year when my SD card failed. Make sure you have an auto-backup thing setup -- nm - decline Feb 21, 08:12
- Very sorry. Check the new phone's save set up. Make sure is saving to card (and that the car is not near full, as it will divert to phone when that - Spawn Lord Feb 21, 08:11 2
  - yeah, i guess i will. :( -- nm - Andie Feb 21, 08:19 1
    - I lost 80% of the last day in Florida (Universal Studios) when my phone died. It had backed up the photos earlier in the day, so I feel for you. -- nm - Spawn Lord Feb 21, 08:22
- oh, and of course it all wasn't cheap. -- nm - Andie Feb 21, 08:09
Security failings in home routers exposed -- (link) - DaneDukeNuuk Feb 21, 08:03
I'm not sure I get the business model here: Pay bathrooms coming to Midtown Manhattan - ty97 Feb 21, 07:54 17
- Yeah, questionable model, but I'm amazed as I get older how "Access to a bathroom" has moved up my chart of potential concerns. -- nm - volnelk Feb 21, 08:15
- I'm waiting for their CBGB-themed remodeling -- nm - con_carne Feb 21, 08:07
- Is it really that hard to find a bathroom? -- nm - CQ Feb 21, 08:00 12
  - No, but you have to do your research. -- nm - George Costanza Feb 21, 08:30
  - I never found it that difficult (Just go up to lobby level of the Marriott Marquis, for example) - ty97 Feb 21, 08:14 4
    - ha, i use big hotels for this all the time when travelling. plus, they have nice bathrooms! -- nm - Andie Feb 21, 08:26 3
      - true. -- nm - loosi in the sky with diamonds Feb 21, 08:30
      - this -- nm - Diva Feb 21, 08:29
      - Target bathrooms tend to be nice enough. -- nm - Spawn Lord Feb 21, 08:27
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  - yes. -- nm - loosi in the sky with diamonds Feb 21, 08:01 2
    - Never an issue -- nm - CQ Feb 21, 08:18 1
      - Well, guys usually do not need the same facility. -- nm - Spawn Lord Feb 21, 08:20
  - I'd just go to a hotel. -- nm - Diva Feb 21, 08:00 1
    - heh. American Hustle flashback. -- nm - Spawn Lord Feb 21, 08:01
- that's totally stupid. -- nm - loosi in the sky with diamonds Feb 21, 07:58
- Pay by the minute? -- nm - Spawn Lord Feb 21, 07:57
Hey Dawson, final FATCA regs were issued yesterday. - spamlet Feb 21, 07:54 4
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  - I haven't gone through them yet. It's still July 1 as the start date. - spamlet Feb 21, 07:59 1
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- Fatcat regs? -- nm - Spawn Lord Feb 21, 07:54
I lol'ed at this. Relating to the women's gold medal game. -- (link) - Shaun Feb 21, 07:53 [Image]
Inside the Conservative Campaign to Launch "Jim Crow-Style" Bills Against Gay Americans -- (link) - Mop (205 lbs) Feb 21, 07:51 2
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  - I'd say there's a good chance. -- nm - Mop (205 lbs) Feb 21, 08:16
Happy birthday, slimder! -- nm - David Feb 21, 07:50
South Carolina legislators want to punish two public colleges for assigning books on homosexuality to freshmen. -- (link) - Mop (205 lbs) Feb 21, 07:47 1
- OFFS -- nm - Spawn Lord Feb 21, 07:48
Anyone a fan of Helen McCrory? She's playing Queen Elizabeth I in our film Bill. -- nm - LMS Feb 21, 07:46 5
- Skyfall! -- nm - Roger More Feb 21, 08:28
- So Bill's going back in time with Ted this time? -- nm - Mop (205 lbs) Feb 21, 08:19
- she`s great in Peaky Blinders -- nm - mud Feb 21, 07:47 1
  - Sure is. -- nm - LMS Feb 21, 07:48
- I dig her. -- nm - Diva Feb 21, 07:47
Heh, I love the biathlon. Take her gun off before the celebratory hug. -- nm - mafic Feb 21, 07:41 1
- If it is the chick from yesterday I have to say, ~You can leave your [gun] on~ -- nm - Spawn Lord Feb 21, 07:42
Curling spoils - Shaun Feb 21, 07:37
curling spoiler - Mop (205 lbs) Feb 21, 07:37
The FCC wants to regulate newsrooms to "ask questions about story bias" and "how the decisions about which stories are covered are made" -- (link) - spamlet Feb 21, 07:37 7
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- Sounds more like the FCC wants to see how things happen within the newsrooms - TWuG Feb 21, 07:43 1
  - i think the first line of your IM is the worry. -- nm - spamlet Feb 21, 07:53
- If this paves the way for them to regulate reality tv, I am all for it. - Spawn Lord Feb 21, 07:41
- This is timely: 5 Disturbing Reasons Not to Trust the News (From a Reporter) -- (link) - Beaker Feb 21, 07:40 1
  - The gist: alot of the "news" is coming from shills and PR groups playing up their side of an issue -- nm - Beaker Feb 21, 07:41
- I love it! -- nm - Putin Feb 21, 07:39
Ukrainian president willing to give in to early elections, coalition government, and reduced presidential powers. -- (link) - zork Feb 21, 07:34 7
- anything short of the president departing isn't going to end anything. -- nm - colin Feb 21, 07:38 6
  - The Ukrainian voters will have their say if the early elections happen. -- nm - TWuG Feb 21, 07:44 5
    - his version of early: "The deal reached Friday instead leaves Mr.Yanukovych in power until for at least the end of the year." - colin Feb 21, 07:47 4
      - And? You can't expect the opposition to find a candidate and mount a campaign that would be at all - TWuG Feb 21, 07:51 3
        
        Sure, but the point is that these concessions are not what protesters were asking for, so this might not be the end of the protests. -- nm - mara Feb 21, 08:26
        
        Isn't it almost certainly going to be Klitschko? -- nm - Reagen Feb 21, 07:58
        
        *votes "TBD"* -- nm - 95% of Ukarine Feb 21, 07:53
Hold on, Remlik has never see Black Adder? -- nm - LMS Feb 21, 07:31 8
- just added it to Amazon prime! -- nm - Remlik Feb 21, 08:21
- *slams on the brakes* what? -- nm - loosi in the sky with diamonds Feb 21, 07:50 1
  - I know, right? - Spawn Lord Feb 21, 07:51
- I have a cunning plan. -- nm - Mop (205 lbs) Feb 21, 07:38
- Yeah, I am re-assessing our friendship over that one. -- nm - Spawn Lord Feb 21, 07:34 1
  - just tell him he`s gotta. mention that it`s really really really really really really really really really really really really funny. -- nm - mud Feb 21, 07:52
- I feel shame that I've never watched it either. It's on my re-visit list. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 21, 07:32
- huh? -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Feb 21, 07:32
The battle line has been drawn for this afternoon's Canada/USA hockey game -- (link) - Beaker Feb 21, 07:29 1
- Maybe with some stakes? -- (link) - mafic Feb 21, 07:35
Emmett Brickowski and Rustin Cohle are like exact opposites of each other. - Beryllium Feb 21, 07:28 1
- hehe. thats pretty funny. -- nm - Jovian Feb 21, 07:31
I'm actually staying in town this weekend. my goal is to clean my apartment and drink some bourbon. -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Feb 21, 07:22 7
- That's almost my plan. Clean, pack (I'm moving next door), watch Olympics. I went to a burlesque cabaret thing tonight. -- nm - mafic Feb 21, 07:27 2
  - oh, speaking of moving, my landlord offered me to move upstairs. - peggy ann mcamanda Feb 21, 07:32 1
    - I'm basically moving for sexy floors. Cheaper rent too, but sexy floors! -- nm - mafic Feb 21, 07:37
- get that second one out of the way right now. -- nm - colin Feb 21, 07:23 1
  - right. the first will then go much faster and be more fun -- nm - Beaker Feb 21, 07:25
- any hijinks? -- nm - Don Homer Feb 21, 07:23 1
  - See bourbon. -- nm - Inigo Feb 21, 07:37
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- why would you have it so early? -- nm - Don Homer Feb 21, 07:21 4
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  - Uh we just had the all-star weekend. -- nm - Spawn Lord Feb 21, 07:21 2
    - thought he was referring to fantasy baseball. -- nm - Don Homer Feb 21, 07:23 1
      - Oh. One would be way late, one would be way early, so yo uare probably right. -- nm - Spawn Lord Feb 21, 07:35
Advanced TV PSA: Graham Norton tomorrow night on BBCA is particularly hilarious, guests are Matt Damon, Bill Murray,Hugh Bonneville & Paloma Faith. -- nm - LMS Feb 21, 07:16 7
- And Ripper Street is back too. -- nm - LMS Feb 21, 07:25
- I need to record this episode. Thanks for the reminder. -- nm - Krusty Feb 21, 07:19
- *plays with Graham's nipples* -- nm - mafic Feb 21, 07:18
- *kisses BBCCanada* Sherlock season 1 recorded. Season 2 Sunday - Beaker Feb 21, 07:17 3
  - You really should get torrenting. -- nm - Shaun Feb 21, 07:21
  - The extras are good on the DVDs though (at least worth a rental). -- nm - LMS Feb 21, 07:20
  - heh, thery are still on our DVR. -- nm - Spawn Lord Feb 21, 07:18
REB2: Pretty sure that parents that just spent a kidless vacation in Mexico *had* a break!!!! -- nm - Spawn Lord Feb 21, 07:15
B2: thanks spamlet tha is interetsing. I always assumed actors/actresses deducted their chefs and such too -- nm - Beaker Feb 21, 07:14 3
- It'd be a tough argument to make. Anytime you have potentially personal expenses being deducted it's a high bar. - spamlet Feb 21, 07:29 1
  - I recall a bcycle messenger winning a case here a number of years ago - Reagen Feb 21, 08:00
- but I can see the logic behind not allowing it now that you mention it -- nm - Beaker Feb 21, 07:15
Curling spoils - Shaun Feb 21, 07:12 5
- Spoils - mafic Feb 21, 07:17 3
  - spoils - Shaun Feb 21, 07:19 1
    - spoils - Shaun Feb 21, 07:22
  - Makes sense. -- nm - Shaun Feb 21, 07:18
- spoils - DaneDukeNuuk Feb 21, 07:13
Ooga chakka ooga chakka ooga ooga ooga chakka -- nm - Spawn Lord Feb 21, 07:10 5
- "Here's a raccoon with a machine gun." -- nm - Mop (205 lbs) Feb 21, 07:13
- thanks - DaneDukeNuuk Feb 21, 07:12 3
  - What, two Ks? That is how I spell it. -- nm - Spawn Lord Feb 21, 07:15 2
    - The spelling variations since the trailer was realeased have been pretty interesting. -- nm - volnelk Feb 21, 07:21 1
      - Ooga chaka, ooga chaka, ooga ooga ooga chaka. -- Spawn Aug 13, 13:59 - Spawn Lord Feb 21, 07:25

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