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ST Poll: Name one overrated and one underrated show currently on TV. - Jovian Feb 17, 10:02 26
- Over - Downton Abbey, Wolf Hall, Under - Plebs -- nm - LMS Feb 17, 10:18
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  - US or UK? -- nm - Ultron Feb 17, 10:18
  - Oooh, good answer. -- nm - Inigo Feb 17, 10:17
- From a critics/awards standpoint -- Overrated = Modern Family ; Underrated = Parks and Rec. - Will Hunting Feb 17, 10:15
- Overrated: Arrow, Underrrated: The Flash -- nm - Inigo Feb 17, 10:14 1
  - Flash is everything that groiny gripes that SHIELD is not. -- nm - Ultron Feb 17, 10:23
- Overrated: CSI and NCIS, Underrated: Faking It -- nm - David Feb 17, 10:11 2
  - NCIS is just completely pandering to the grumpy old white dude demo now. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 17, 10:20 1
    - yup. -- nm - Remlik Feb 17, 10:26
- Overrated, Breaking Bad. I gave up after 5 episodes. Underrated, Veep. -- nm - Loyola Feb 17, 10:08 3
  - There's your problem. You need to give Breaking Bad at least a full season. The first half season is just plain depressing. -- nm - Ender Feb 17, 10:12 2
    - Breaking Bad must be consumed in concentrated amounts. If not for Netflix, this show would never have survived. -- nm - Mop Feb 17, 10:15 1
      - It starts out slow, but damn if it does not go. -- nm - Ultron Feb 17, 10:17
- Overrated: Mad Men Underrated: Vikings -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 17, 10:08
- Subjective. Overrated/underrated by who? -- nm - Mop Feb 17, 10:07 3
  - "ST Poll" -- nm - Ultron Feb 17, 10:09
  - Bro do you even Internet -- nm - con_carne Feb 17, 10:08 1
    - "Some people say..." -- nm - Mop Feb 17, 10:09
- Overrated: GOT Underrated: 12 Monkeys, Orphan Black -- nm - CQ Feb 17, 10:07
- Is 2.5 Men still on TV? -- nm - Ender Feb 17, 10:07
- Underrated: Bluebloods -- nm - con_carne Feb 17, 10:05
- Brooklyn Nine Nine is way way underrated -- nm - prayformojo Feb 17, 10:05 2
  - Preach! It's pretty fantastic for a sitcom. -- nm - Shaun Feb 17, 10:21 1
    - They figured out the characters really quickly, even the obnoxious ones - Will Hunting Feb 17, 10:24
- overrated: BBT (it makes me hate TV). Underrated: Justified. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 17, 10:04
Born today in 1981, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. You're welcome. -- nm - God Feb 17, 10:01
If anyone is looking for a Kiva loan to fund - this one has $100 left. (I just contributed to this one) -- (link) - kelly Feb 17, 09:52
Can't stop picturing a lot of "of color" people boinking now -- nm - con_carne Feb 17, 09:41 5
- Just stick with it; eventually you will get past the opening sequences of the Bond movies. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 17, 10:21
- That's pretty tame by porn standard these days. -- nm - Mop Feb 17, 09:42
- Now tell me, when did these visions start? -- nm - Sigmund Freud si Feb 17, 09:41 2
  - Well, I went to ty97's apartment once... -- nm - con_carne Feb 17, 09:43
  - Just before he headed for his bunk. -- nm - TWuG Feb 17, 09:42
I have finally got something from Ikea in the house. Am I the last holdout? Their photo wire display is perfect for my card stock pics -- nm - CQ Feb 17, 09:38 10
- I've been to IKEA about three times. But still have yet to buy something. Yet I really want to buy everything there. -- nm - Qale Feb 17, 09:50
- I have nothing from Ikea. I have never been in an Ikea. I'm not sure I've ever even seen an Ikea - TWuG Feb 17, 09:41 8
  - i read these things and my mind goes 'but where to people buy their inexpensive modern lamps? and how do they have kitchens?" -- nm - Andie Feb 17, 10:20 3
    - Cost+ (cost plus) world market for little tables, plant stands, odd crockery -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 17, 10:40
    - Billy bookcases! Pojang chairs! -- nm - Reagen Feb 17, 10:25 1
      - right! Billy bookcases! essential. -- nm - Andie Feb 17, 10:29
  - Same for me. -- nm - Kim Pine Feb 17, 09:51 1
    - They tend to not be centrally located stores -- nm - con_carne Feb 17, 09:52
  - You're so deprived. They probably even have Ikea in Ethiopia ... -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 09:42 1
    - St. Louis is supposed to get our first one this year. -- nm - spamlet Feb 17, 09:44
Don't piss off Bostonians. -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 17, 09:33 7
- "According to the Mayor, if you shovel out a spot it is yours for 48 hours". So that's codified in law or just B.S.? -- nm - Mop Feb 17, 10:06 4
  - It's an official policy that was implemented, though the rule is "48 hours from the end of the snow emergency", not 48 from when you shoveled it. -- nm - Ender Feb 17, 10:20 2
    - "Dont... [use] space savers more than 48 hours after a snow emergency has been lifted." -- (link) - Ender Feb 17, 10:22 1
      - *laughing* -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 17, 10:25
  - "Read your town charter, boy!" -- nm - Reagen Feb 17, 10:11
- and by " marker" he meant ....lawnchair - Epiphany Feb 17, 09:38 1
  - there was a set of pictures showing what we used for markers. I've seen a few things... - Mel Profit Feb 17, 10:11
Oklahoma Teen, Surprises All 1,076 Girls At His School With Valentine's Day Gifts -- (link) - Mop Feb 17, 09:28 9
- He "worked all summer" to pay for his Valentine's surprise? 1,076 dum dum pops and computer print-outs? -- nm - Ender Feb 17, 09:34 6
  - I'm going to guess that they were sent through a fundraiser the school had. - TWuG Feb 17, 09:40 2
    - Nah, these printouts were specific to him. -- nm - Ender Feb 17, 09:44 1
      - I think the message was, but it the bottom where it said "ValGram" makes me think it was sent through some fundraiser. -- nm - pmb Feb 17, 09:46
  - 18 square miles with a metal detector for coins. -- nm - pmb Feb 17, 09:36
  - minimum wage sucks! -- nm - decline Feb 17, 09:35 1
    - This works out to, maybe, 11 hours of minimum wage pay. -- nm - Ender Feb 17, 09:36
- In other news, an Oklahoma teenager really hopes this is the year he gets laid. - pmb Feb 17, 09:30
- That's not trying too hard, that's winning epically. -- nm - TWuG Feb 17, 09:29
Some good Champions League match ups today and tomorrow. -- nm - CQ Feb 17, 09:26 10
- Might catch PSG match later. -- nm - Loyola Feb 17, 09:41 9
  - You'll get a kick out of this. My first ever GAA shirt is arriving tomorrow. Ciarrai, baby! heh - CQ Feb 17, 09:49 8
    - Heh nice. Cork folk will despise you, but nice :) -- nm - Loyola Feb 17, 09:56 5
      - My mother's side of the family is all from Valentia so I had to represent -- nm - CQ Feb 17, 10:01 4
        
        Did you hear there's a scene for the new Star wars film filmed on an island off Kerry? It was a big deal in the summer. They had the navy out doing - Loyola Feb 17, 10:06 3
        
        really? that's cool. I need to get back there. It's been too long -- nm - CQ Feb 17, 10:08 2
        
        This one, Skellig Mhicil...there was an old monastic settlement on the island so I guess it'll probably be on another world in the film. -- (link) - Loyola Feb 17, 10:13 [Image] 1
        
        well that's certainly beautiful -- nm - CQ Feb 17, 10:15
    - er Chiarrai -- nm - CQ Feb 17, 09:51 1
      - whichever you choose -- nm - CQ Feb 17, 09:52
Jason Aldean's album Old boots, new dirt is free on Google Play -- (link) - Epiphany Feb 17, 09:26 1
- I'll add some brocountry to my library -- nm - CQ Feb 17, 09:36
Early Kiva payments reinvested...hoping for enough for a second loan later. -- nm - Meg Feb 17, 09:20
One of the perils of all that snow. Teen girl almost doesn't escape house fire in time because of exit blocked by snow. -- (link) - Mop Feb 17, 09:18
Can you name top 10, projected to be, most populous countries in 2050? -- nm - Loyola Feb 17, 09:11 47
- Canada. - Beryllium Feb 17, 09:36 2
  - Mexica is currently in top ten. I'd link but it's on the Economist's twitter page. -- nm - Loyola Feb 17, 09:44 1
    - Account rather. -- nm - Loyola Feb 17, 09:44
- That's the 10. I'd never have guessed Bangladesh or Ethiopia. -- nm - Loyola Feb 17, 09:24 1
  - ethiopia is surprising -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Feb 17, 09:25
- Australia -- nm - budice Feb 17, 09:22 1
  - countries not continents -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Feb 17, 09:23
- Ethiopia -- nm - CQ Feb 17, 09:18 9
  - the famine was 30 years ago, people. - Reagen Feb 17, 09:29 2
    - Yeah, but a few civil wars, and Ethiopian food.....it's not exactly a comeback. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 17, 09:30
    - They also got frisky. -- nm - TWuG Feb 17, 09:29
  - I guess those kids got all the food I didn't eat when I was a child. -- nm - Benevolent Dictator JaxSean Feb 17, 09:21
  - Never woulda happened if we'd just SENT U-HAULS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- nm - Ghost of Sam Feb 17, 09:20
  - "What part?" -- nm - con_carne Feb 17, 09:19
  - (good guess) -- nm - Loyola Feb 17, 09:19 1
    - well, close to Egypt helped -- nm - CQ Feb 17, 09:20
  - #9 -- nm - Loyola Feb 17, 09:19
- One is south east Asia. -- nm - Loyola Feb 17, 09:18 11
  - Nauru -- nm - decline Feb 17, 09:23
  - It's the Philippines, guys. - Loyola Feb 17, 09:22
  - Philippines? -- nm - ty97 Feb 17, 09:21 3
    - Well done :) -- nm - Loyola Feb 17, 09:22 2
      - With no insult meant, I remembered just how Catholic they are and it seemed obvious. -- nm - ty97 Feb 17, 09:24 1
        
        When they say "the more the merrier"...they really mean it. -- nm - Loyola Feb 17, 09:25
  - Thailand -- nm - con_carne Feb 17, 09:21
  - Malaysia? -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Feb 17, 09:20
  - there are a lot of countries in southeast Asia... -- nm - Andie Feb 17, 09:19 2
    - :) -- nm - Andie Feb 17, 09:19 1
      - America? -- nm - con_carne Feb 17, 09:22
- Turkey? -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Feb 17, 09:18
- Russia? -- nm - ty97 Feb 17, 09:18
- Japan, Egypt -- nm - con_carne Feb 17, 09:17
- Bangladesh -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 17, 09:17
- Egypt. -- nm - Love is in the Baron Feb 17, 09:16 1
  - It's close. -- nm - Loyola Feb 17, 09:17
- Andorra. - Reagen Feb 17, 09:16 1
  - "stop touchin' me!" -- nm - prayformojo Feb 17, 09:18
- Brazil, Bangla Desh -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Feb 17, 09:14 1
  - 7 and 8 -- nm - Loyola Feb 17, 09:15
- Pakistan, Brazil -- nm - CQ Feb 17, 09:14 1
  - 6 and 7 -- nm - Loyola Feb 17, 09:15
- Nigeria, South Africa, India, China -- nm - con_carne Feb 17, 09:13 1
  - India China, 1 and 2 -- nm - Loyola Feb 17, 09:14
- Mexico, the United States, Nigeria. -- nm - Mop Feb 17, 09:12 1
  - No, #4, #3 -- nm - Loyola Feb 17, 09:14
- Indonesia. -- nm - Love is in the Baron Feb 17, 09:12 1
  - #5 -- nm - Loyola Feb 17, 09:13
Wow, that latest Undercover Boss was brutal. (spoilers) - David Feb 17, 09:05 4
- What company? - pmb Feb 17, 09:07 3
  - Peavey Electronics - David Feb 17, 09:11 1
    - Those people are idiots agreeing to do the show when they're struggling. -- nm - pmb Feb 17, 09:21
  - Starbucks in Van Nuys. -- nm - Ultron Feb 17, 09:09
ST poll: monthly subscription - what is the last thing you signed up for? newletter? magazines? box of products? wine club? shaver club? -- nm - Epiphany Feb 17, 09:04 9
- Dollar Shave Club. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 17, 09:38
- Marvel Unlimited -- nm - eag Feb 17, 09:32
- Dollar Shave Club. Got two shipments and going to cancel this month. - Benevolent Dictator JaxSean Feb 17, 09:30
- Nothing recent but I'm thinking of giving the shave club a try. -- nm - Krusty Feb 17, 09:23
- a beauty box -- nm - Epiphany Feb 17, 09:13
- Budice Internet deals posts - con_carne Feb 17, 09:11
- Netflix. On balance, it was worth it. -- nm - Loyola Feb 17, 09:08
- WW, Naturebox. I use Harry's stuff but don't subscribe because I don't shave often enough. -- nm - spamlet Feb 17, 09:07
- Weight Watchers. Netflix. Expertflyer. -- nm - ty97 Feb 17, 09:05
Hey STers with Twitter. Even if you do not like the Colts, please follow this guy for a good cause. -- (link) - Ultron Feb 17, 09:02 4
- done -- nm - Benevolent Dictator JaxSean Feb 17, 09:19
- Done. -- nm - Loyola Feb 17, 09:13
- sure -- nm - decline Feb 17, 09:04
- done -- nm - budice Feb 17, 09:03
Breaking - Customer set himself on fire in a Van Nuys Starbucks.... -- nm - Meg Feb 17, 09:00 6
- The coffee is too damn hot! -- nm - Mop Feb 17, 09:01 5
  - You get Starbucks, self-immolation and the Valley as a setup and that's the best you could do? -- nm - con_carne Feb 17, 09:06 4
    - Those who can, do. Those who can't, critique. -- nm - Mop Feb 17, 09:13 3
      - Not how it goes! -- nm - con_carne Feb 17, 09:15 2
        
        Way to prove Mop's point! -- nm - TWuG Feb 17, 09:17 1
        
        Blast! -- nm - con_carne Feb 17, 09:23
Who IS Andre the Giant? -- nm - Beaker Feb 17, 08:57 1
- This guy. -- (link) - Ender Feb 17, 09:00
Pumpkin. -- nm - con_carne Feb 17, 08:53 1
- Is she the one who said something was 'nasty'? -- nm - Diva Feb 17, 08:55

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