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For those who missed it last night, link Google Play to your Disney Movies Anywhere and get Wreck It Ralph for free. -- nm - Mop Nov 5, 08:25 1
- Cool. Thanks -- nm - oblique Nov 5, 08:30
Poll: We just had one of those popcorn tins with three flavours delivered: Cheese, caramel corn, salt and vinegar. You can only eat one. - Andie Nov 5, 08:24 13
- salt and vinegar -- nm - decline Nov 5, 08:38
- cheese -- nm - Diva Nov 5, 08:32
- So hard to choose. I guess caramel. white cheddar cheese is SO good though. -- nm - Strongbad Nov 5, 08:27
- Never tried salt & vinegar popcorn. I might go for that -- nm - prayformojo Nov 5, 08:27 1
  - Ditto. -- nm - Loyola Nov 5, 08:30
- I'd probably enjoy the salt and vinegar, but you can't take caramel away from me. -- nm - Mop Nov 5, 08:27
- cheese -- nm - Pippy Turkey Stuffer Nov 5, 08:26 2
  - will you let me lick your fingers when you are done? -- nm - groiny Nov 5, 08:26 1
    - absolutely - Pippy Turkey Stuffer Nov 5, 08:27
- cheese please -- nm - groiny Nov 5, 08:26
- ALL THE CARAMEL CORN -- nm - droidlet Nov 5, 08:25
- Caramel -- nm - budice Nov 5, 08:25
- Caramel -- nm - Bacon via Google Phone Nov 5, 08:25
Exercise extreme caution with this list. It's very powerful. The 20 catchiest songs, according to science. -- (link) - Mop Nov 5, 08:22
Vermont Legislature To Pick Governor After No Candidate Wins Majority -- (link) - Strongbad Nov 5, 08:21 1
- They should add UFC Octagon to the ways to break ties. -- nm - budice Nov 5, 08:23
Cumberbatch still going with that whole "not gay" thing, 'eh? -- nm - Mop Nov 5, 08:19 7
- it is working ok for you so far....... -- nm - groiny Nov 5, 08:24
- Because he is not, from stories I have heard. -- nm - Spawn Nov 5, 08:22 3
  - Psst. You wouldn't believe the stories I've heard about him. He's *SO* totally hetero. -- nm - Mop Nov 5, 08:24
  - yeah, pretty sure... not gay. -- nm - Andie Nov 5, 08:22 1
    - man, Canadian women have *stories* -- nm - Max Nov 5, 08:32
- Make sure you're Gaydar is set to "Brit"...sometimes they throw it off. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 5, 08:21 1
  - it threw me for a loop -- nm - Pippy Turkey Stuffer Nov 5, 08:26
Chrome Extension Encrypts Facebook, Twitter, and Gmail Messages -- (link) - budice Nov 5, 08:17 2
- But then I wouldn't be able to read Facebook! -- nm - Mop Nov 5, 08:19 1
  - its a win/win! -- nm - Pippy Turkey Stuffer Nov 5, 08:27
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- score! -- nm - Andie Nov 5, 08:22
Quiz time: Who is the current President Pro Tem of the US Senate? Who will almost surely be in January? -- nm - CranBaronies Nov 5, 08:15 1
- I'll give you a hint inside. By tradition.... - CranBaronies Nov 5, 08:20
If SyFy is trying to get back to their sci-fi roots, this ain't a bad way to do it. -- (link) - Mop Nov 5, 08:12 1
- I would watch the heck out of that. that was a surprisingly good book. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 5, 08:15
ST poll: could you pay your cousin to keep their mouth shut? -- nm - Pippy Turkey Stuffer Nov 5, 08:05 18
- I cant even pay my bills -- nm - Bacon via Google Phone Nov 5, 08:26 1
  - I have a cousin named william. ironic -- nm - Bacon via Google Phone Nov 5, 08:27
- depends on which side of the family... - Mel Profit Nov 5, 08:13
- Nope. I have way too many cousins and some are just mean pricks. -- nm - Krispy Nov 5, 08:12
- No. He should do that anyway. -- nm - Loyola Nov 5, 08:11
- probably not - they have morals - Pippy Turkey Stuffer Nov 5, 08:11
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  - 39 and 5 for me, respectively. - znufrii Nov 5, 08:12
- Eh, my cousins only know what I want them to know. - Kim Pine Nov 5, 08:10
- all of them? - znufrii Nov 5, 08:10
- yes -- nm - decline Nov 5, 08:09
- i have three first cousins. i actually think they wouldn't take any money, but they could all keep their mouths shut. -- nm - Andie Nov 5, 08:09
- Nope. Too many cousins. They'd all want some. -- nm - CranBaronies Nov 5, 08:09
- I do not really have cousins. - Spawn Nov 5, 08:08
- no. hell no. -- nm - Diva Nov 5, 08:08
- People think they're cray anyways, who'd believe em. - budice Nov 5, 08:07
- I could probably just intim- ooh, wait, Tina's gonna get us all pinched. -- nm - Max Nov 5, 08:06
- No. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 5, 08:05
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- pirate booty to balance the budget! -- nm - Beaker Nov 5, 08:12
- 'Merica! -- nm - decline Nov 5, 08:10
- Whenever I see uncontested races, especially for smaller offices, it always makes me think that if someone just got their name on there, would all the - oblique Nov 5, 08:09
Star Wars: Mark Hamill Owes His 'Star Wars' Role to Robert Englund -- (link) - budice Nov 5, 08:00
My bank brought in this little pie chart on my online banking current account to show monthly spending and I'm trying to see how far into November I - Loyola Nov 5, 07:50 7
- Speaking of Ireland and Euros: CNBC host confused why Ireland has Euro, doesn't realize it isn't part of UK -- (link) - ty97 Nov 5, 07:53 6
  - I heard that. People here think it's funny and I'm like, he's smarter than the whole lot of us because even he can see the folly of us using the euro. -- nm - Loyola Nov 5, 07:55 5
    - no, he's just stupid. -- nm - mafic Nov 5, 07:57
    - You are giving him far too much credit. I've watched him before. He is slllloooowwww -- nm - ty97 Nov 5, 07:56 3
      - I give him a pass on that one though. He was actually being profound without realising it. -- nm - Loyola Nov 5, 08:00 1
        
        Irish unity! -- nm - CranBaronies Nov 5, 08:08
      - Kernen is awesome. He's totally clueless all the time :) -- nm - decline Nov 5, 07:59
ARod: Full Article from Miami Herald -- (link) - budice Nov 5, 07:47
With 14,104 of 15,178 election districts reporting, Cuomo has won 52.86% (total across all lines) - ty97 Nov 5, 07:44
Once again, the New York Times is embarrassingly clueless and condescending when writing a lifestyle piece about Los Angeles - con_carne Nov 5, 07:44 13
- Thank God someone has finally developed a service where someone will come pick you up in a car and drive you somewhere. Maybe they could paint the cars yellow... -- nm - Ender Nov 5, 08:13
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  - Recently I have posted about the changes in Downtown LA life. Part of the appeal of the area is precisely that you don't need a vehicle to live - con_carne Nov 5, 08:17 1
    - you should write a rebuttal piece. i am completely serious. telling how those stereotypes are changing and give those examples. -- nm - Andie Nov 5, 08:21
- *likes* -- nm - gruiny Nov 5, 08:03 1
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- you live there so you know better. no reason to be butthurt. -- nm - Diva Nov 5, 07:48 3
  - New York Times is not the boss o' me! -- nm - con_carne Nov 5, 09:24
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    - There's a kind of big city core where I'm saying it's not necessarily so, but as you radiate out from there yes its absolutely true - con_carne Nov 5, 08:32
- So, wait. You're not a car-oriented city? -- nm - ty97 Nov 5, 07:45 1
  - Huge parts of the city aren't. Fittingly, you start needing a car more and more the farther away from the city you live (hence, not Los Angeles) -- nm - con_carne Nov 5, 07:57
- And -- (link) - con_carne Nov 5, 07:45
I'm pretty sure this is a sign that this is it for me. For the past 15 minutes, I've had, as an earworm - prayformojo Nov 5, 07:39 3
- ~What does Guy Fawkes say~~ -- nm - Max Nov 5, 08:05
- Just think of Maya Rudolph. -- nm - mara Nov 5, 07:43
- Try this on for size -- (link) - Roocrow Nov 5, 07:41 [youtube]
Interesting take on the US election results (sans blaming Obama) as one writer calls it "A Victory for the Left" - Loyola Nov 5, 07:37 5
- I'm not sure why this would be comforting to the Left....their message got used to win (so they know it can be done) - Will Hunting Nov 5, 07:40
- Yeah, we properly mocked that article last night. (Slate has its head in its ass) -- nm - ty97 Nov 5, 07:38 3
  - S(it)WAP. -- nm - Loyola Nov 5, 07:40 2
    - Oh I don't mind the repost, but I can't avoid mocking the article/Slate again :) -- nm - ty97 Nov 5, 07:41 1
      - Mock away, it's entertaining :) -- nm - Loyola Nov 5, 07:45
St Poll: How well did you sleep last night? - Roocrow Nov 5, 07:35 28
- I am suspicious of this poll. -- nm - Mop Nov 5, 08:27
- C - I had a pretty big presentation this morning and I was anxious about it. - Kim Pine Nov 5, 08:09 4
  - awesome! -- nm - Pippy Turkey Stuffer Nov 5, 08:26
  - ::fist pump:: -- nm - Spawn Nov 5, 08:22
  - Nice! -- nm - Krispy Nov 5, 08:21
  - Win!! -- nm - decline Nov 5, 08:11
- C -- nm - groiny Nov 5, 08:03
- E) Flu shot hurt like hell, so weird sleep. -- nm - Spawn Nov 5, 08:01 2
  - My flu shot oddly hurt this year, it normally isn't like that. - ty97 Nov 5, 08:03 1
    - It is fine when they gave it and is fine today but last night it felt like my shoulder had been hit with a ball pein hammer. -- nm - Spawn Nov 5, 08:05
- C -- nm - Shaun Nov 5, 07:45
- B. Sleep at 1:45, woke up sneezy at 6:45 -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 5, 07:44
- A. I had some Benadryl and that always knocks me out cold. -- nm - CranBaronies Nov 5, 07:43
- I only got an hour of sleep the night before and got home late because of the movie, so A/B. -- nm - spamlet Nov 5, 07:41
- C woke up at 3:50 am -- nm - Pippy Turkey Stuffer Nov 5, 07:40
- A, plus had a funny dream about an STer!! - mara Nov 5, 07:40
- A. 7 hours -- nm - budice Nov 5, 07:39
- c. and i have a headache because of it. -- nm - Andie Nov 5, 07:39
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- A. Always been that way. -- nm - Loyola Nov 5, 07:37
- B - Diva Nov 5, 07:37
- C. (I'm always C and D) -- nm - decline Nov 5, 07:37 2
  - Same here -- nm - amoxy Nov 5, 07:52
  - Ditto. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 5, 07:39
- B, but woke up around 4am again, for the third morning in a row. -- nm - znufrii Nov 5, 07:36
- A. I had a very busy day and was exhausted last night so I slept very well. -- nm - Krispy Nov 5, 07:36
- Pretty much A) -- nm - ty97 Nov 5, 07:36
- a -- nm - Beaker Nov 5, 07:36
Also, haha WFP. That's what you get for cowtowing to Cuomo -- (link) - ty97 Nov 5, 07:34 4
- Ugh! -- nm - Krispy Nov 5, 07:38 3
  - They easily got the 50K so are still on the ballot, they just lost priority order. - ty97 Nov 5, 07:41 2
    - They lost my vote when they endorsed Cuomo. I voted Howie Hawkins out of protest. -- nm - Tim Nov 5, 07:41 1
      - Same and same -- nm - ty97 Nov 5, 07:42
Happy Hump Day: Drones have found another purpose... -- (link) - budice Nov 5, 07:34
ESPN NFL Power Rankings: Top 5 - NE, ARI, DEN, PHI, IND. Bottom 5 - OAK, JAX, NYJ, TB, TEN -- nm - Strongbad Nov 5, 07:33 1
- Sad to see TEN, TB in the bottom 5. -- nm - budice Nov 5, 07:37
"more people vote for 'American Idolatry!'..." - Mel Profit Nov 5, 07:32
FF LYC: I'm thinking I traded McKinnon at his high point, considering the news on AP. -- nm - Strongbad Nov 5, 07:31
Congratulations Kansas. Enjoy the misery. -- nm - Mop Nov 5, 07:30 6
- Brownback survived? It's kinda comical. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 5, 07:41 4
  - Side note: My father was a HS teacher of his and still receives a Christmas Card every year. -- nm - CranBaronies Nov 5, 07:45
  - Never underestimate the ability of the electorate to vote against their own interests. -- nm - Tim Nov 5, 07:42 2
    - I mean, it's Kansas and it was a huge GOP election...so he probably would have lost under most other situations...but...... - Will Hunting Nov 5, 07:43 1
      - What's The Matter With Kansas, indeed. -- nm - Tim Nov 5, 07:44
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ty - can you buy gift cards to make up your transactions? that is what a friend of mine did to hit a limit she had to spend in three months - Andie Nov 5, 07:28 4
- There's a group of folks that do that to make high spend for offers (whole forums on the internet about it in fact: manufactured spending) - ty97 Nov 5, 07:31
- It depends on the issuer. Some will treat those as cash advances because people have abused it. - spamlet Nov 5, 07:30
- (and, here i am!) -- nm - Andie Nov 5, 07:29 1
  - *waves* -- nm - budice Nov 5, 07:30
Estimate that mid-term turnout lowest in many cycles -- (link) - ty97 Nov 5, 07:27 9
- Everyone was so worried about voter ID? Might want to get the people WITH ID to the polls. - Bacon mobile Nov 5, 07:46 1
  - We are allowed to worry about more than one thing at a time. -- nm - ty97 Nov 5, 07:47
- We get the government we deserve. -- nm - Strongbad Nov 5, 07:29 5
  - It's infuriating sometimes -- nm - decline Nov 5, 07:36 3
    - I know. - Strongbad Nov 5, 07:44 2
      - *volunteers* -- nm - znufrii Nov 5, 07:57 1
        
        Well, you certainly use the vocabulary in regards to proclamations. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 5, 08:05
  - I'm just saying, *I* don't deserve this! :) -- nm - ty97 Nov 5, 07:32
- *sigh* - znufrii Nov 5, 07:28
A-Rod, you moron. -- nm - nubby Nov 5, 07:26 8
- And the post-partisan divide is already starting. - Will Hunting Nov 5, 07:27 7
  - "BREAKING NEWS Alex Rodriguez told DEA agents and prosecutors in January that he bought and used performance-enhancing drugs from Anthony Bosch..." -- nm - nubby Nov 5, 07:31 6
    - So, really...nothing changes for him, right? - Will Hunting Nov 5, 07:42 3
      - I'm assuming that it will have legal consequences. -- nm - nubby Nov 5, 07:48 2
        
        Given the prosecution of Clemens and Bonds....I'm not holding my breath. - Will Hunting Nov 5, 07:50 1
        
        First paragraph of Budice's article -- he had immunity. - Will Hunting Nov 5, 07:51
    - also paid his cousin a $1 million to keep his mouth shut -- nm - Beaker Nov 5, 07:33 1
      - now now, it was only 900K! -- nm - ty97 Nov 5, 07:35

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