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Avengers AoU spoiler thoughts (with some actual spoilers) - Beryllium May 4, 12:10 3
- A couple things (spoils) - TWuG May 4, 12:19
- the first Avengers battle was so enormous, it was going to be hard to top it. nm -- nm - groiny May 4, 12:12 1
  - This is true of almost everything in The Avengers. It really is The Dark Knight Rises all over again. -- nm - David May 4, 12:17
the Riviera casino is now closed for good -- (link) - Peglegpete May 4, 12:03 1
- Vegas is headed the way of Atlantic City! -- nm - Max May 4, 12:04
Why We're Doomed, Part #81341: People review Yelp's app thinking it's where Yelp reviews go. -- (link) - Tim May 4, 11:59
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- the Union's silence on it is deafening -- nm - Beaker May 4, 12:06
- honestly, out side of NYC I don't think anyone cares either way -- nm - decline May 4, 12:05 1
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So I'm busting out a slip and slide at practice to teach 10 year old girls how to slide. This is either genius or will end in lawsuits. - spamlet May 4, 11:52 2
- and an ankle bracelet -- nm - z on the go May 4, 13:41
- Why not both? -- nm - Der Frühlingshafterbaron May 4, 11:54
Best part of Mad Men last night -- (link) - amoxy May 4, 11:49 [Image] 7
- I must have dozed off at the end. Who is that? -- nm - Max May 4, 11:52 2
  - Roger and Peggy -- (link) - amoxy May 4, 11:53
  - Spoils - pmb May 4, 11:53
- That was spectacular. -- nm - pmb May 4, 11:50 3
  - No I am wondering (spoils) - amoxy May 4, 11:52 2
    - I stopped watching around season 4 but (spoils?) - spamlet May 4, 11:54 1
      - spoils - amoxy May 4, 11:59
okay FAST8, you can start falling now. anytime. -- nm - Andie May 4, 11:42 5
- No! I have some serious losses to recoup! -- nm - IrishStephen May 4, 12:01
- Is it worth switching, or just holding to delist? -- nm - MDH May 4, 11:52 2
  - usually i just buy and hold, but i figure based on the massive losses saturday that a lot of people bought than cannot possibly hold. -- nm - Andie May 4, 12:02 1
    - alternately, people freed up Avengers 2 money. -- nm - Tim May 4, 12:04
- Not yet! I'm still -%0.5 MTD. -- nm - Max May 4, 11:43
Avengers thoughts: it's probably just me, but maybe the choice of Ultron as the villian turned people off? - MDH May 4, 11:35 23
- I'm not a comic geek. I do not know who Ultron is in the Avengers universe. Avengers vs Terminator does not interest me. I know Terminator always - Covington May 4, 11:54
- Even though I'm sure it's a minute piece of the pie, not selling Black Widow action figures likely turned some people away. -- nm - Shaun May 4, 11:48 1
  - I like how Ruffalo has been asking for BW stuff -- nm - Beaker May 4, 11:48
- It should have been marketed as The Avengers vs. Terminator. - David May 4, 11:45 9
  - I agree with this -- nm - groiny May 4, 12:10
  - Neon Genisys Avengelion? -- nm - Beryllium May 4, 11:48 7
    - *hearty applause* -- nm - Der Frühlingshafterbaron May 4, 11:51
    - I have no idea what any of these words mean in this order. -- nm - David May 4, 11:49 4
      - Neon Genesis Evangelion is a popular anime, Terminator Genisys is an upcoming film, and Avengers is currently in theatres. -- nm - Beryllium May 4, 11:53 2
        
        NGE is people in giant robots fighting giant creatures. Like Pacific Rim before GDT stole the idea. -- nm - Roger More May 4, 11:55 1
        
        Oh, that would bring new meaning to "Avengers Assemble" ... -- nm - Beryllium May 4, 12:10
      - I think it's pot smoking hippy west coast Canadian slang... - Shaun May 4, 11:52
    - *smacks the namers of the Terminator movie* ... that second e should be an i. -- nm - Beryllium May 4, 11:48
- The only thing I would say they didn't do (and this might be my viewing of tv)...there wasn't a kick-ass commercial series. - Will Hunting May 4, 11:44 1
  - Right. -- nm - David May 4, 11:45
- Ultron's mouth annoyed me. nm -- nm - groiny May 4, 11:42
- Spader was great, but I just don't think the plot around Ultron was concise or menacing enough. - Inigo May 4, 11:40 4
  - Yes. Agreed on both counts -- nm - amoxy May 4, 11:43
  - haven't seen it but spoiler question about content - Beaker May 4, 11:42 2
    - spoil - amoxy May 4, 11:42 1
      - ahh, merci -- nm - Beaker May 4, 11:44
- Terminator is finished, then. -- nm - TWuG May 4, 11:36 1
  - dammit, Triple H! -- nm - Tim May 4, 11:49
Jered Weaver is broken....his fastest fastball this year is 87.8mph - Will Hunting May 4, 11:28 2
- pfft, he was about the same last year. He has never been 94-96, -- nm - groiny May 4, 11:28 1
  - He's actually down about 2-3 mph from last year. - Will Hunting May 4, 11:30
Joss Whedon has apparently deleted his Twitter account. -- nm - Tim May 4, 11:21 24
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  - Jassman! -- nm - Roger More May 4, 11:58
  - Grant! -- nm - Diva May 4, 11:57
  - Jackman! -- nm - Shaun May 4, 11:53
- a Twitter friend says "TL,DR: Whedon has joined the Moffat School Of White Pissbaby Who Can't Take Criticism To His Sexist Bullshit." -- nm - Tim May 4, 11:35 8
  - Yeah, damn you Joss Whedon and your sexism! Why won't you write strong female characters?!?! -- nm - Ender May 4, 11:36 7
    - I think he's real life sexist, iirc. -- nm - Shaun May 4, 11:38 6
      - You're probably thinking of a psychopath who famously declared for no reason that Whedon "rapes his wife". -- nm - David May 4, 12:16
      - He's been militantly feminist throughout his career. -- nm - Ender May 4, 11:40 1
        
        A section of his wikipedia page is titled "Feminism and activism" -- (link) - Ender May 4, 11:42
      - I don't think he'd maintain the following of famous folks that he does if he was. -- nm - Beaker May 4, 11:39 2
        
        Money talks, bullshit walks -- nm - con_carne May 4, 12:00 1
        
        I don't think Fillon and that crowd need to worry about money, yet they keep doing projects with him. -- nm - Beaker May 4, 12:06
- What prompted him to do this? Has he been behaving poorly with the tweets? -- nm - TWuG May 4, 11:27 2
  - I don't have any context but I'm guessing he gave up dealing with whiny nerds. -- nm - Tim May 4, 11:31 1
    - More likely he gave up dealing with whiny radical feminists... - IrishStephen May 4, 11:56
- I wonder how many death threats he got. -- nm - Shaun May 4, 11:26 4
  - for what? -- nm - groiny May 4, 11:26 3
    - For ruining GFBs lives by making a good but not great Avengers movie. -- nm - Inigo May 4, 11:29 1
      - *ding* Internet nerds are scum. -- nm - Shaun May 4, 11:30
    - Link -- (link) - iSpam May 4, 11:28 [Backboard]
- *drops 10%* -- nm - TWTR stock May 4, 11:25
- I'm liking him less and less. -- nm - Max May 4, 11:24 1
  - he seems really unhappy about a lot of different things in general. -- nm - Diva May 4, 11:25
Charlotte Elizabeth Diana -- nm - zeitgeist May 4, 11:15 2
- I wonder if those bookies had bets for place and show too -- nm - zeitgeist May 4, 11:16 1
  - good point. I wonder if they just payout for the first name or if it is any combination of the 3 -- nm - Beaker May 4, 11:44
Fill in the blank, please: The best song Duran Duran ever recorded is: ___________________ -- nm - prayformojo May 4, 11:09 32
- Probably a ska cover of one. -- nm - spamlet May 4, 12:05
- Wild Boys or Hungry Like a Wolf, or Save A Prayer... -- nm - IrishStephen May 4, 12:03
- Come Undone -- nm - Covington May 4, 11:29
- I'm amazed so many know the name of any Duran Duran song. -- nm - Loyola May 4, 11:29 5
  - You must have missed the 80s. -- nm - David May 4, 11:44
  - They're pretty much at the top of the current eighties nostaligia mania -- nm - con_carne May 4, 11:42
  - Rio was the first cassette I ever owned. -- nm - Max May 4, 11:41
  - I have a cd of theres plus ive seen them in concert -- nm - eag May 4, 11:39
  - I got Sirius radio and they are played regularly. - Epiphany May 4, 11:33
- Notorious -- nm - David May 4, 11:28
- The Reflex - eag May 4, 11:20
- Come Undone -- nm - Epiphany May 4, 11:19
- ...not worth listening to. -- nm - Ender May 4, 11:18 7
  - This is so wrong I don't even know what to say... -- nm - IrishStephen May 4, 12:05
  - ding....its not like you see any DD tribute bands or hear them on the 'classic' rock stations -- nm - zeitgeist May 4, 11:21 5
    - *checks batteries on sarcasm detector* -- nm - JD May 4, 11:24
    - people just do not appreciate the 80's just yet. nm -- nm - groiny May 4, 11:23 3
      - their later songs are more listenable today than Def Leppards - Epiphany May 4, 11:24 2
        
        Duran Duran as a live act is more listenable today than Def Leppard -- nm - JD May 4, 11:25 1
        
        so you are saying I shouldn't go on the Rock N Roll Cruise with Def Leppard? - Epiphany May 4, 11:28
- Ordinary World -- nm - Tim May 4, 11:16
- I gotta go with groiny on this one -- The Reflex is their best song. But Hungry Like the Wolf is my favorite. - ReluctantCynic May 4, 11:16
- Hungry Like The Wolf -- nm - Inigo May 4, 11:15
- Hold Back the Rain is my vote. -- nm - Max May 4, 11:15
- Tempted (At least it's my fav) - Red Carpet Massacre is a better album than people think. -- nm - MDH May 4, 11:13
- The Reflex. nm -- nm - groiny May 4, 11:12
- Planet Earth -- nm - Andie May 4, 11:12 1
  - Uh huh -- nm - professor smartbrain May 4, 11:16
- The Chauffeur is almost my favorite but maybe not their "best" -- nm - Max May 4, 11:12
- Save a Prayer. -- nm - volnelk May 4, 11:11
- View to a Kill! -- nm - Roger More May 4, 11:10 1
  - this would be my #2 -- nm - groiny May 4, 11:13
The Averngers 2 OW reminds me a lot of Iron Man 2's opening weekend. - Roger More May 4, 11:08 1
- ERMAGERD AVERNGERS! -- nm - Beryllium May 4, 11:15
That's a really solid Monday IPO on the other site. -- nm - MDH May 4, 11:04 4
- Pardon? -- nm - Beryllium May 4, 11:06 3
  - For me, there's one great "Pardon?" scene in movie history, and that's in Real Genius. -- nm - Max May 4, 11:07
  - Kingsman 2. -- nm - Tim May 4, 11:07 1
    - I'd expect them to knock it out pretty quickly too, so not too long to wait on ROI. -- nm - Max May 4, 11:08
It was Russell Simmons all along! -- nm - prayformojo May 4, 10:55
Want to see a cheetah running on a football field? -- (link) - Shaun May 4, 10:55 3
- Yeah but he's got small paws so more likely to fumble. No better than 3rd round. -- nm - Der Frühlingshafterbaron May 4, 11:15
- I give that a B+, marks off for lack of fleeing burly football players. -- nm - Max May 4, 10:57 1
  - ~'Cause the players tried to take the field The marching band refused to yield~ -- nm - Beaker May 4, 10:58
I could not possibly be less interested in Tomorrowland. nm -- nm - groiny May 4, 10:55 24
- You could never be wronger -- nm - amoxy May 4, 11:44
- I probably won't see anything in theaters til Inside Out -- nm - professor smartbrain May 4, 11:17 2
  - I'm going Friday night to that - it looks so fun -- nm - Epiphany May 4, 11:29
  - my next one is Jurassic World on opening night. - groiny May 4, 11:18
- But what about Pixels is anybody here interested in this - eag May 4, 11:04 9
  - I would have been except for 2 things. It was a ripoff of a Futurama episode and the other - amoxy May 4, 11:45
  - Kids loved that trailer in the theater I saw Avengers in. -- nm - MDH May 4, 11:09 4
    - Wait, what? - amoxy May 4, 11:46
    - did they? see my issue with it has always been that the games they reference were the ones middle-aged people played, not today's kids. - Andie May 4, 11:11 2
      - Exactly - eag May 4, 11:16
      - I think they might get it fast than we'd expect. My niece really liked getting a Simon for Christmas. -- nm - Max May 4, 11:13
  - god no, it looks horrible. nm -- nm - groiny May 4, 11:06 2
    - and what blackmail do they have on Tyrion Lanniser to get him to star in this crap? -- nm - groiny May 4, 11:07 1
      - Lannister's gotta eat -- nm - Beaker May 4, 11:34
- The TV spot I saw during golf yesterday sealed it for me. This movie looks awesome. -- nm - MDH May 4, 11:03
- Most anticipated movie of the year for me. -- nm - David May 4, 11:00 2
  - why? -- nm - groiny May 4, 11:06 1
    - Brad Bird's and George Clooney's filmographies. - David May 4, 11:08
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- Really? That last trailer was all kinds of kick ass -- nm - oblique May 4, 10:57
- The new trailer I saw with Avengers has me hooked. -- nm - Inigo May 4, 10:56 3
  - all the ladies in the audience wanted to hop in the tub with The Clooney. - Diva May 4, 11:00
  - Yeah, it looks a lot more interesting than the first teaser -- nm - Beryllium May 4, 10:56 1
    - this last trailer was better but I still have no interest. nm -- nm - groiny May 4, 11:06
Time to get on the Dadbod ladies. -- nm - Beaker May 4, 10:55

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