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JD - you know the band Wild Ones? - rollo Aug 1, 13:50
Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act was struck down on narrow technical grounds in court -- (link) - zork Aug 1, 13:48
A cautionary tale about Wikipedia: college students' prank edit lives on in published sources -- (link) - mara Aug 1, 13:32 1
- This is great read, thanks for posting. - ty97 Aug 1, 13:44
The Rock answers the hard hitting questions. -- (link) - Shaun Aug 1, 13:32 [Image]
Obama On Post-9/11 CIA: "We Tortured Some Folks" -- (link) - amoxy Aug 1, 13:30 1
- Oh. OK then. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 1, 13:32
i have just decided to buy some prosecco on my way home tonight and just sit on my balcony and drink it, and eat some cheese and crackers. - Andie Aug 1, 13:29 13
- I feel like like I would be 80% less anxious to move if I had any outdoor space. I feel caged somehw. -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Aug 1, 13:51 1
  - really it was 100% non-negotiable when we bought. i needed a balcony or a deck. -- nm - Andie Aug 1, 13:52
- I'd also recommend a nice meat to top it off. -- nm - Shaun Aug 1, 13:41
- Sounds lovely -- nm - JD Aug 1, 13:39
- Nice. Do you face the sunset? -- nm - amoxy Aug 1, 13:32 2
  - yes. although i don't actually see it *set*. -- nm - Andie Aug 1, 13:33 1
    - (and it looks like i might be watching a rain storm, which is fine._ -- nm - Andie Aug 1, 13:42
- What kind of cheese? -- nm - con_carne Aug 1, 13:32 2
  - whatever looks good at the store! :) -- nm - Andie Aug 1, 13:34 1
    - should drink prosecco while selecting the cheese -- nm - Broot Aug 1, 13:36
- I think we'll be drinking Moscow Mules tonight, the Mrs. has asked me to pick up some limes on my way home. -- nm - znufrii Aug 1, 13:30 1
  - Margaritas! -- nm - Broot Aug 1, 13:31
- *high five* You go girl! :) -- nm - Broot Aug 1, 13:30
Which Dessert matches your personality? -- (link) - amoxy Aug 1, 13:28 4
- no idea. half the answers I would not do or like and passed, then it said I had to sign in to see my results -- nm - peglegpete Aug 1, 13:36
- Is there one that has everything piled into it, with no consideration to balance or subtlety? - Beryllium Aug 1, 13:32 1
  - o'farrels fire alarm bannana split? where some guys come running out and around the place with a hugh load ? -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 1, 13:41
- I'm surprised this isn't Clickhole. -- nm - David Aug 1, 13:30
Photos, Then & Now: the Western Front, 1917-1919 -- (link) - znufrii Aug 1, 13:22
Guardians of the Galaxy - A - Jovian Aug 1, 13:16 2
- Your IM is proof that every guy is turned on by bodypainting whether they admit it or not. -- nm - TWuG Aug 1, 13:19 1
  - This is fine. fine. Nothing to see here. :) -- nm - Broot Aug 1, 13:25
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- The bf's grandmother is in town so depends on her, maybe Guardians? -- nm - MDH Aug 1, 13:50
- Sat: Run @ 7AM, If fast enough then GotG at 9:30AM. Burger A Go Go that aft/eve. Sun: Drive to Nor-Cal - JD Aug 1, 13:46
- Museum tour Sunday. Otherwise prepping for next week's road trip. -- nm - Meg Aug 1, 13:41
- I've been having a *time* lately so I'm kind of hoping to do not very much. I think I need to hang out by myself and listen to some podcasts. -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Aug 1, 13:39
- led zepmen fri, high rollers (rnb by highschool teachers showing us how its done) sat, and a pagan fund raiser where a ceremonial egyptian dagger i - zeitgeist Aug 1, 13:31
- Listening Room concert tonight, off day tomorrow, Disney Quest on Sunday. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 1, 13:27
- Seeing Guardians in Real IMAX and 4 more times. -- nm - Broot Aug 1, 13:26 2
  - Is that the reason for the nic change? - Krusty Aug 1, 13:30
  - Ill be on the Paramount lot in HWood for TMNT tonite -- nm - Broot Aug 1, 13:26
- Last couple of days in TX visiting brother. Fly home Sunday. -- nm - ty97 Aug 1, 13:25
- well, my plans got cancelled. so, hanging out here, getting some stuff done. seeing GOTGX. -- nm - Andie Aug 1, 13:21
- Rearranging my bedroom. It'll take all weekend. -- nm - Krusty Aug 1, 13:16 1
  - Cancel that, forgot I'm going to a block party in Brooklyn tomorrow. Yay! -- nm - Krusty Aug 1, 13:23
- Board games/house warming on Sunday, dinner and a movie with friends tonight -- nm - con_carne Aug 1, 13:16
- chillin' -- nm - znufrii Aug 1, 13:15 2
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    - nah, helping the Mrs. recuperate from 2 weeks in Southeast Asia. -- nm - znufrii Aug 1, 13:21
Rolling Stone's 20 worst movies of 2013. Some surprised me. -- (link) - zork Aug 1, 13:12 9
- Solid list, solid list. Except for Iron Man 3. - Beryllium Aug 1, 13:27
- the list ... - zork Aug 1, 13:20
- #4, Seriously? - amoxy Aug 1, 13:19
- Their reader's polls are absolutely worthless. nm - Dignan Aug 1, 13:15 2
  - This was brought to my attention recently -- (link) - con_carne Aug 1, 13:20 1
    - That's just inexcusably dumb. - Dignan Aug 1, 13:24
- I stopped at #11 when I realized they were trolling. -- nm - David Aug 1, 13:15 2
  - #12 here for the same reason. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 1, 13:15 1
    - The problem with reader polls is that they are prone to such manipulation. -- nm - David Aug 1, 13:16
then there is this Toronto case where a police officer shot a teenager with a knife on a streetcar. - Andie Aug 1, 13:06 1
- I saw that -- nm - Groiny Aug 1, 13:25
Token GOTGX post....carry on -- nm - Broot Aug 1, 13:04
Wow FL: "Judge Orders Special Session To Adopt New Voting Map" Special Elections to be held for every congressional seat -- (link) - MDH Aug 1, 12:55 4
- I honestly believe the quickest way to settle most political issues is to ban gerrymandering. -- nm - David Aug 1, 12:59 3
  - I'm not a fan of gerrymandering but wouldn't getting rid of it cause election results to skew way to the white? -- nm - zork Aug 1, 13:05 2
    - No, that is why gerrymandering is in place right now. It artificially protects the legislative power of the white. - David Aug 1, 13:13
    - Yup, part of the Voting Rights Act essentially states "Thou shalt gerrymander." -- nm - Was Bar Was Aug 1, 13:09
Force on a guy possibly selling illegal cigarettes? There has to be another way, another option. But with cops today it's easier to knock the guy - Krusty Aug 1, 12:54 58
- We had a cop fired for this exact behavior (he didn't kill the guy, but he definitely was choking him). -- nm - Kim Pine Aug 1, 13:10 2
  - Cops don't usually get fired here. I'm glad your city is good enough to take that action. -- nm - Krusty Aug 1, 13:32 1
    - Our cops are... kind of awful. - Kim Pine Aug 1, 13:41
- Crime is down yet the police seem to be marching fairly quickly into militarization. nm - Dignan Aug 1, 12:56 4
  - PDs love military and the military is downsizing like half, so most current and new recruits are iraq vets -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 1, 13:36
  - Yup. SWAT teams are used way too often for low level crimes. Police forces have too much power today. -- nm - Krusty Aug 1, 13:01
  - and it's a different thing, but I've read soooo many stories about officers killing dogs basically because they can. -- nm - Reagen Aug 1, 12:59 1
    - for sure, a cop here just got fired for killing the family dog for no reason. - groiny Aug 1, 13:00
- what is the option krusty? what do you do as a police officer when you ask someone to put hands behind their back - groiny Aug 1, 12:56 49
  - what do you do as a person not feeling you've done anything wrong to warrant being confronted by the cops? - znufrii Aug 1, 13:01 17
    - Even innocent...swinging at a cop (open handed or not) is stupid. At the very least, we should be able to agree on that. -- nm - Jim Aug 1, 13:02 16
      - He never swung at the cops he just refused to let them cuff him for a crime he says he didn't commit. - Krusty Aug 1, 13:05 11
        
        That's not the time to argue; at the station or in court is. I do not condone the cops' actions but you wait for the right time to fight your battle. -- nm - zork Aug 1, 13:07 4
        
        I agree. I'm not saying he is right for resisting arrest. -- nm - Krusty Aug 1, 13:10 3
        
        This is all I'm saying. Seems like it should be something we all can agree on...resisting arrest is not the way to go. -- nm - Jim Aug 1, 13:11 2
        
        That's not what the story is about. That was put forward as a reason the choke hold is okay and most here are saying that's untrue -- nm - Bery si Aug 1, 13:13 1
        
        SFAN (again?) -- nm - con_carne Aug 1, 13:13
        
        I never said he attacked the cops. -- nm - Jim Aug 1, 13:06 5
        
        When you said swinging at a cop that leads me to believe he threw a punch or slap and that didn't happen. - Krusty Aug 1, 13:08 4
        
        So, in your opinion...it's ok to swat a cops' hands away if you feel you're innocent? That's what you're saying? - Jim Aug 1, 13:09 3
        
        That's not what I'm saying at all. I was clearing up that he didn't take a swing at the cops. - Krusty Aug 1, 13:12
        
        i don't think anyone thinks that is the right call, but we don't feel that that transgression should be dealt with an (again) illegal chokehold. -- nm - Andie Aug 1, 13:10 1
        
        I didn't say anything about that. All I said was swinging at a cop is stupid. That's all. nm -- nm - Jim Aug 1, 13:12
      - that's a fair point, and I haven't seen the video, but from the descriptions here I wouldn't consider slapping their hands away equivalent - znufrii Aug 1, 13:04 3
        
        watch the video then, argue when you are better informed. nm -- nm - groiny Aug 1, 13:05 2
        
        he wasn't ever a danger to them, -- nm - Andie Aug 1, 13:07 1
        
        In hindsight, we know this, in the moment? Not so sure -- nm - Groiny Aug 1, 13:22
  - Taser? Anything but choking him to death. I'm not an expert or a cop but I know that guy shouldn't be dead for what they thought he did. - Krusty Aug 1, 13:00 1
    - Because he was not cooperating - Groiny Aug 1, 13:30
  - Hold him down and cuff him. - Dignan Aug 1, 12:57 26
    - (whatever the cops do in the tens of thousands of these situations where no one dies.) nm - Dignan Aug 1, 13:00 12
      - there's an amazing video of Hamilton police dealing with a *highly* resistive woman for several minutes where they were able to subdue her - Reagen Aug 1, 13:03 10
        
        this one -- (link) - Reagen Aug 1, 13:06 [youtube] 4
        
        I know I sound like a hypocrite, but I feel the cops would have been justified in choking him out for filming in portrait mode. - Dignan Aug 1, 13:11 3
        
        I believe so. for me it's an example of a cop taking the extra time to do his job correctly and safely. -- nm - Reagen Aug 1, 13:16
        
        That I'm okay with. :-) -- nm - Krusty Aug 1, 13:14
        
        heh -- nm - zork Aug 1, 13:13
        
        was she 350 pounds? -- nm - groiny Aug 1, 13:04 4
        
        What I'm not getting is how resisting arrest is stupid, but constricting the passage of oxygen to the guy's lungs is not stupid -- nm - Bery si Aug 1, 13:08 1
        
        SFAN -- nm - con_carne Aug 1, 13:08
        
        how does that change it? - Reagen Aug 1, 13:07 1
        
        It is much easier to subdue 150 than it is 350 -- nm - Groiny Aug 1, 13:24
      - see have seen a handful of situations where cops detain someone unwilling.... - groiny Aug 1, 13:01
    - IIRC, there was several cops doing this very thing. - groiny Aug 1, 12:59 12
      - And that one guy should face murder charges. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 1, 13:02 1
        
        I am sure he will face charges of some sort, yes. nm -- nm - groiny Aug 1, 13:04
      - Then the uber aggressive one should be punished. nm - Dignan Aug 1, 13:01 8
        
        no, I still believe, if this guys does not resist them at all, he is still alive now. nm -- nm - groiny Aug 1, 13:02 7
        
        "Submit to authority and no one gets hurt." -- nm - TWuG Aug 1, 13:10 4
        
        *ding* -- nm - znufrii Aug 1, 13:13 3
        
        I'm sympathetic to the "just do what the cops say, and sort it out with a lawyer later" mindset, but cops are - TWuG Aug 1, 13:22 2
        
        not everyone has a lawyer. -- nm - znufrii Aug 1, 13:27 1
        
        Lmao -- nm - Groiny Aug 1, 13:31
        
        He should be alive regardless. nm - Dignan Aug 1, 13:04
        
        blaming the victim is a very dangerous precedent, -- nm - Andie Aug 1, 13:03
      - yes, that's the problem, the one who chokeholded him. -- nm - Andie Aug 1, 13:00
  - Grab their hands and execute an S-Lock. It's taught as a yellow belt in most karate. - Will Hunting Aug 1, 12:57 1
    - Yeah, you don't have to automatically resort to the Wuxi Finger Hold -- nm - prayformojo Aug 1, 12:58
I had this very discussion at work on the topic of police force.... - groiny Aug 1, 12:52 4
- I don't get "not feeling strongly" about an innocent man dying. nm - Dignan Aug 1, 12:54
- you should probably watch Fruitvale Station. -- nm - Andie Aug 1, 12:52 2
  - I don't know what that is. -- nm - groiny Aug 1, 12:53 1
    - A movie based on this incident. -- (link) - David Aug 1, 12:54
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- What's a Jared Abbrederis? -- nm - Shaun Aug 1, 12:54 3
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    - Not like GB has a QB anyway... - Shaun Aug 1, 13:00 1
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"I’m surprised to see so very little passion for what is effectively a passion project." Full review of Boyhood is now up on QaTFM.com -- (link) - Qale Aug 1, 12:50 1
- Also from b2, the way I try and grade movies. - Qale Aug 1, 12:59
In a shocking turn of events, Disney has fird Abrams and hired Whedon to helm the Star Wars franchise. -- nm - Shaun Aug 1, 12:50
Some movie release milestones occurring in August - prayformojo Aug 1, 12:50 1
- .....really? - znufrii Aug 1, 12:51
If you don't know those girls...you need to go to Youtube right now and search Garfunkel and Oates. - Jim Aug 1, 12:50 8
- Or watch Scrubs re-runs! -- nm - David Aug 1, 12:51 6
  - but not BBT since she was awful on it -- nm - peglegpete Aug 1, 12:56 5
    - one was good on it and one was horrible. - zork Aug 1, 13:03
    - They're not actresses. They're commedians. -- nm - Jim Aug 1, 13:01 2
      - Actually, the blond is an actress. -- nm - David Aug 1, 13:04 1
        
        They both are. But neither has to be just one thing. - the wrong element, bad guy Aug 1, 14:05
    - 6 words too many. -- nm - Shaun Aug 1, 13:00
- There's one or two of their acts that make me blush a little -- nm - prayformojo Aug 1, 12:50
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- Stop hitting on me. -- nm - Todd Manning Aug 1, 12:50
- I'm on my way. I'm making it. -- nm - Was Bar Was Aug 1, 12:49 1
  - I've got to make it show, yeah. -- nm - mara Aug 1, 12:51

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