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And that's why I always sit in the same seat of the same car of the train when I come into work - znufrii Jul 11, 06:42
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#BB16: Post HOH, Pre Noms spoils - Ender Jul 11, 06:30
40 parrots on the telephone lines behind our house, sure are noisy, squak, squak, squak... -- nm - BAD Jul 11, 06:26 3
- They start squaking at 6 a.m. and at 7 p.m. in the evening...don't see them for the rest of the day... -- nm - BAD Jul 11, 06:37
- picture! -- nm - Andie Jul 11, 06:32
- target practice! -- nm - decline Jul 11, 06:29
Our film Pride has picked up US distribution with a 19th Sept release in time for an awards push. Trailer attached, let me know what you think. -- (link) - LMS Jul 11, 06:21 [youtube] 3
- That looks like so much fun. I'll be there. -- nm - MDH Jul 11, 06:40 1
  - I'm seeing it in a couple of weeks time, but I did get to do a set visit last year and watch the gays in action. -- nm - LMS Jul 11, 07:08
- Looks really fun and I'll definitely check it out. I really like some of the cast. -- nm - Krusty Jul 11, 06:25
This you know won't end well. Ole Miss Senior pens op-ed "Dear White Gays: Stop Stealing Black Female Culture" -- (link) - MDH Jul 11, 06:20 4
- offs. -- nm - znufrii Jul 11, 06:56
- Nonsense like this is what right wingers use to tear factions apart. -- nm - David Jul 11, 06:44 1
  - She isn't going to know what hit her. -- nm - MDH Jul 11, 06:47
- she should have gone big game hunting. people love when girls to that -- nm - Beaker Jul 11, 06:23
Lebanon has joined in the fun and is being used as a place to shoot rockets at Israel. -- nm - Beaker Jul 11, 06:15
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- a friend of a friend who is friend's with a psychic says it is 50/50 he signs with someone -- nm - Beaker Jul 11, 06:13 2
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    - "I'm taking my talents to....MacDonalds" -- nm - Beaker Jul 11, 06:16
- Heh -- nm - amoxy Jul 11, 06:13
Wow, the decrease in viewers for Covert Affairs is staggering this season. -- nm - MDH Jul 11, 06:11 2
- Piper is amazingly unconvincing as a super spy with lethal skills. Seriously. -- nm - Shaun Jul 11, 06:30 1
  - I like her though! But when a show goes from Top 10 on it's not to not in the Top 100, you have a big problem. -- nm - MDH Jul 11, 06:31
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- fishin' -- nm - decline Jul 11, 06:56
- Joining half marathon training group @ 7AM tomorrow. Not sure after that - JD Jul 11, 06:46
- Dawn of the Apes, Friends rooftop party, Ikea, and maybe bowling? -- nm - MDH Jul 11, 06:41
- Pop-Up Beer Garden Happy Hour tonight -- nm - znufrii Jul 11, 06:33
- Hoping for power mostly. But I'm sure we'll find a few things to do. It's supposed to be quite nice out. -- nm - Shaun Jul 11, 06:29
- Touring 3 Micro-Breweries then neighbourhood poker tournament. -- nm - ajrimmer Jul 11, 06:27
- I'm going to Boston! Hanging out with Mel, Diva, Kelly, Will and Nathan. - Krusty Jul 11, 06:26 6
  - Likes!! -- nm - Valdo DiZeni Jul 11, 06:45
  - All good peeps. -- nm - Inigo Jul 11, 06:44 1
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  - *jealous* -- nm - znufrii Jul 11, 06:43
  - Have fun, everyone! -- nm - David Jul 11, 06:43
  - Very nice -- nm - JD Jul 11, 06:42
- going to visit my mom in Belleville. probably have lunch by the Bay, see a movie, etc. -- nm - Andie Jul 11, 06:26
- I've got about 6 films I need to screen and judge by Sunday for an upcoming festival. -- nm - Ender Jul 11, 06:23
- tonight: celebrate EOFY. celebrate the crap out of it. tomorrow from 8am to noon: make sure EOFY worked perfectly. then celebrate that. then celebrate - peggy ann m Jul 11, 06:18
- Cleaning, shopping and hosting some friends for World Cup on Sunday. -- nm - Valdo DiZeni Jul 11, 06:16
- heading to the Lake tomorrow to clean out the fridge and freezer as still no power down there. likely have a swim then home -- nm - Beaker Jul 11, 06:12
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, not sure what else -- nm - amoxy Jul 11, 06:11
The West Virginia chemical company that caused that spill at the beginning of the year was fined a couple of days ago -- (link) - amoxy Jul 11, 06:09
Love xkcd today -- (link) - oblique Jul 11, 06:05
Luis Suarez: ex-Liverpool player -- (link) - Reagen Jul 11, 06:01
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- yeah, the Kurds pulled out after the Iraqi PM accused them of hiding terrorists...he smrt -- nm - Beaker Jul 11, 06:02
I don't understand how in this city a driver can run someone over and kill them but not get charged with a crime. The laws of this state in regards - Krusty Jul 11, 06:00 20
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  - I had read the laws weren't strong enough but either way something is very wrong when people are getting away with killing pedestrians and aren't - Krusty Jul 11, 06:16 1
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  - I've read (a little) about this in NYC - ty97 Jul 11, 06:13 6
    - According to this site, only one sober driver was charged in 2013 with killing a pedestrian../ - Inigo Jul 11, 06:23 4
      - 178...honestly given the number of people in NY, the number of cars and walkers that strikes me as low... -- nm - Beaker Jul 11, 06:25 3
        
        According to this link, New York rates 13th worst in fatality rate per 100,000 people. - Inigo Jul 11, 06:36 1
        
        I've now met my quota of saying "According to this" for the day. -- nm - Inigo Jul 11, 06:40
        
        We're on pace to have more people killed by cars than murdered. So we've got that going for us. - Krusty Jul 11, 06:28
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- without addressing specifics, it's easy to imagine a vehicle-pedestrian accident where the driver wouldn't be at fault. -- nm - Reagen Jul 11, 06:02 9
  - Sure, it's easy to imagine. But how it is (by far) the *norm* -- nm - ty97 Jul 11, 06:09 7
    - (the norm in NYC. I can't speak to other locales) - ty97 Jul 11, 06:11 5
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        Why? Is it harder to prove a case like this? - Krusty Jul 11, 06:21 3
        
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        Dashcams! -- nm - Shaun Jul 11, 06:32 1
        
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    - Yup. Nearly every time the driver gets away with no charges for the death. -- nm - Krusty Jul 11, 06:11
  - Sure but very often the driver is and nothing is charged. This guy won't be charged and he hit a woman with his car and killed her. - Krusty Jul 11, 06:05
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July 11, 1914 – Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball. -- nm - Beaker Jul 11, 05:36 7
- Overrated. *clap, clap, clapclapclap* -- nm - David Jul 11, 06:07
- 1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States. -- nm - Beaker Jul 11, 05:37 5
  - 1174 – Baldwin IV, 13, becomes King of Jerusalem, with Raymond III, Count of Tripoli as regent and William of Tyre as chancellor. -- nm - Beaker Jul 11, 05:43 4
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      - "Tell my lord Saladin that Jerusalem has come" -- nm - Beaker Jul 11, 05:56
    - 1889 – Tijuana, Mexico, is founded. -- nm - Beaker Jul 11, 05:44 1
      - 1922 – The Hollywood Bowl opens. -- nm - Beaker Jul 11, 05:44
still around 25k customers without power. over16k in the Fredericton area. looking like some won't get it back till next Friday -- nm - Beaker Jul 11, 05:13 4
- i missed it - did Shaun get his back? how long were (or still are?) you out? - Andie Jul 11, 05:50 2
  - Power = 0. -- nm - Shaun Jul 11, 06:27
  - we were out 2 days (Saturday morning till Monday afternoon). Shaun is still out as of yesterday. -- nm - Beaker Jul 11, 05:55
- (althought hopefully the longest waits will be for cottages, one ofs in the boonies and such) -- nm - Beaker Jul 11, 05:14
Wake up - prayformojo Jul 11, 05:10
Cogeco Cable bringing TIVO to Ontario and Quebec -- (link) - Beaker Jul 11, 04:33 1
- ! ! ! -- nm - Andie Jul 11, 06:42
poor bumper sticker placement -- (link) - con_carne Jul 11, 02:27 [Image]
If you are going to be hauling a huge shipment of drugs, you need to have one of these as your trailing vehicle (auction of historical tanks/military -- (link) - zeitgeist Jul 11, 00:17 1
- Velocity has a 1 hour preview of it -- nm - peglegpete Jul 11, 01:06
Truck pulled over for running a red light in Bakersfield - carrying $76 million in pot..... -- (link) - Meg Jul 10, 23:19 7
- any fool knows you obey the traffic laws when driving with that mu...I've said too much... -- nm - Beaker Jul 11, 04:29
- ok, think about this for a minute (besides the You had ONE job, aspect) can you get 70 million in bills into a UHAUL? - zeitgeist Jul 11, 00:12 3
  - the first legal retail pot store charged 25 a freaking gram, that's more than 2x the medical prescription rate, but includes a LOT of taxes -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 11, 00:14 2
    - 3 times the black market rate. -- nm - Under the Influence Jul 11, 00:28 1
      - Really, it's only double. The news likes to exaggerate. $8 a gram would be really cheap weed. -- nm - Krusty Jul 11, 06:10
- [tomorrows headline] Bakersfield PD to open up their own Pot dispenseries -- nm - peglegpete Jul 10, 23:50 1
  - "Get Baked in Bakersfield!" -- nm - Beryllium Jul 11, 00:05
Don't know about Bastille Day but just received word that the 2015 Pecos conference will be sponsored by Ft. Lewis College.... - Meg Jul 10, 23:08 1
- You'd dig Durango - prayformojo Jul 11, 05:27
ok, what's everyone's Bastille Day plans? -- nm - peglegpete Jul 10, 22:42 9
- "I know where we can get baguettes!" -- nm - Reagen Jul 11, 06:05
- listen to Pompeii on a continuous loop -- nm - Beaker Jul 11, 04:30
- Going to a hockey game. -- nm - mafaça Jul 11, 00:42
- No idea, but my weekend plan is to go camping tomorrow night and the night after, then go to a rock concert sunday night. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 10, 23:03
- some friend's 25th anniversary in the afternoon (after a ceremony of my own) and the Tacoma Old Town blues fest all night (if I can walk, my back is.. - zeitgeist Jul 10, 22:51
- Heck, I'm not sure what I'm doing tomorrow....you want me to look ahead 'til Monday? :) - Meg Jul 10, 22:49 2
  - my mind was mis-thinking it was saturday -- nm - peglegpete Jul 10, 23:08 1
    - Oh well, that's.......different :) -- nm - Meg Jul 10, 23:08
- watch the parade and then TDF -- nm - Dándukini Jul 10, 22:48
The man who stole the Tesla and crashed it at 100+ mph, breaking it in two? He died. -- (link) - TWuG Jul 10, 21:33 8
- Teslas kill people! -- nm - Mop (210 lbs) Jul 10, 21:36 7
  - *throws another million dollars at a museum* -- nm - Elon Musk Jul 10, 21:39 6
    - By-the-by, I know someone who used to work at Tesla. Musk is a genius, but he's not a people person and more than a bit of a dick. -- nm - Mop (210 lbs) Jul 10, 21:40 5
      - I think that's pretty much understood. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 10, 21:43 4
        
        He has a habit of laying people off just before their stock options vest. That's uncool. -- nm - Mop (210 lbs) Jul 10, 21:45 3
        
        I'd expect no less from a PayPal founder. - Beryllium Jul 10, 21:47 2
        
        To be fair, he didn't found Paypal. He founded X.com that was bought by Paypal. He then ate it up from the inside like, you know, a genius cancer. -- nm - Mop (210 lbs) Jul 10, 21:54 1
        
        Ah, good point. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 10, 22:05
I don't think I can tolerate this much uncertainty and crazy on The Bridge. I may have to just record them all and then slam 'em back over a weekend. - Mop (210 lbs) Jul 10, 21:31 2
- one of my fav shows of the last years -- nm - Dándukini Jul 10, 21:50 1
  - the euro version or the tex-mex? -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 10, 22:54
Budice, thanks for that Google Map about Comic-Con. That's why it's worth going, even when you don't have tickets. Parties, parties, parties. - Mop (210 lbs) Jul 10, 21:29 2
- wait who's going and wants to buy me exclusives? -- nm - Remlik Jul 10, 21:39 1
  - Budice goes every year. If I could get tickets, I'd go. -- nm - Mop (210 lbs) Jul 10, 21:41
Beautiful evening in the park for our picnic tonight. Almost full moon rising, peacocks and parrots crying. Burgers on the grill. -- nm - Meg Jul 10, 21:23
DotPotA: B (it was good but I preferred Rise) -- nm - Dano Jul 10, 21:13
Hey, can the Facebookers on here help me out really quickly? - Name Withheld By Request Jul 10, 21:12 5
- 27 -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 10, 22:49
- Done, you need 3 or 4 more. -- nm - .... Jul 10, 22:09 3
  - Not sure if it was 21 before or after I liked. -- nm - .... Jul 10, 22:13 2
    - Either way, it is done and I got the URL I wanted. Thanks gang. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jul 10, 22:25 1
      - Okay. Good luck! -- nm - .... Jul 10, 22:32
On the next Murder She Wrote: Who killed West Coast hour? -- nm - ty97 Jul 10, 21:07 6
- I've been super busy -- nm - Beryllium Jul 10, 21:53
- CY just posted to Facebook from a police station. Prime suspect! -- nm - Mop (210 lbs) Jul 10, 21:38 2
  - Apparently he almost got carjacked. -- nm - Mop on Samsung Galaxy S3 Jul 10, 23:39
  - he's driving Mrs. Fletcher -- nm - Carl Denham Jul 10, 21:42
- my computer is a drunk, it keeps blacking out -- nm - POP..and...fizzzzzz Jul 10, 21:18
- It was beauty....that killed the beast. -- nm - Carl Denham Jul 10, 21:13
yikes my desktop keeps blacking out, this time it said going into standby mode, but i can't wake it without a reboot by shutting it off - POP..and...fizzzzzz Jul 10, 21:07 1
- Graphics chip giving up the ghost? -- nm - Mop (210 lbs) Jul 10, 21:30
"The bubble has burst, the chain of pearls has been concluded, and the crowd now standing, giving Clayton a round of applause." -Vin Scully -- nm - Budicio Jul 10, 20:48
A state judge ordered Florida to redraw its congressional districts Thursday after he found them to be gerrymandered. -- (link) - ty97 Jul 10, 20:41 3
- Good. - Strongbad Jul 11, 04:15
- Gerrymandered districts, imagine that. - .... Jul 10, 20:46
- Huh, go figure. Gerrymandering is illegal in Florida. -- nm - Mop (210 lbs) Jul 10, 20:45
get your hands off me, you dirty stinking ape! -- nm - peglegpete Jul 10, 20:41 2
- "You damn dirty apes!" -- nm - Beryllium Jul 10, 21:43
- gives the call for Autobots to roll out -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Jul 10, 21:23

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