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I am waiting for the Onion article: "NBC ends relationship with Trump after being shocked to learn he is an asshole -- nm - ty97 Jun 29, 12:18
Everyone should be watching Unreal. -- nm - Todd Manning Jun 29, 12:18 2
- Ariana from my group livetweeted her episode last week. - jangles Jun 29, 12:20
- yeah, I watched the first four this weekend. pretty great. -- nm - fabulous squad Jun 29, 12:19
*looks left - looks right* (whispers ... I haz TastyKakes) - JenBro Jun 29, 12:17 3
- it's so weird to me that tastykake isn't everywhere. I take them so for granted that I don't eat them. -- nm - fabulous squad Jun 29, 12:18 2
  - exactly. -- nm - decline Jun 29, 12:24
  - they are a throw back to childhood when my PA cousins would visit us in the Summer - JenBro Jun 29, 12:22
This is apparently a thing that exists: a dating website for prisoners -- (link) - Reagen Jun 29, 12:04 8
- If you like it then you better put an ankle monitoring system on it. -- nm - ty97 Jun 29, 12:09
- Of course. Can you think of people who have more trouble meeting people outside their usual social networks? -- nm - Roger More Jun 29, 12:06 2
  - Gay republican congressman -- nm - z on the go Jun 29, 12:41
  - People from India. -- nm - con_carne Jun 29, 12:08
- The sad part is those dudes are probably getting more dates right now than I am... -- nm - decline Jun 29, 12:06 2
  - Preach it, brother -- nm - jangles Jun 29, 12:10
  - "The funny thing is - on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a lothario." -- nm - The Decline Redemption Jun 29, 12:09
- lockhimdown.com -- nm - Max Jun 29, 12:04
ICYMI over the weekend: CNN Mistakes Dildos for ISIS -- (link) - ty97 Jun 29, 11:59
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- At least he still has his dignity -- nm - jangles Jun 29, 11:59
I don't understand currencies at all. Not one iota. But: "Reverting to Drachma May Send Greek Currency at Least 40% Lower" -- (link) - ty97 Jun 29, 11:57 9
- If Greece has its own currency, it's guaranteed by the Greek government - which is about to default on its creditors -- (edited) - Roger More Jun 29, 12:00
- not that i wish economic ruin on an entire nation to save a few euros, but.... -- nm - Andie Jun 29, 11:59 5
  - The exchange rate benefits will probably be offset by inflation :( -- nm - Roger More Jun 29, 12:01 2
    - there's that. i think at this point we've pretty much resigned ourselves to dealing in cash-euros while there. -- nm - Andie Jun 29, 12:02 1
      - Canadian Tire Money! -- nm - Reagen Jun 29, 12:04
  - Andie's needs! -- nm - jangles Jun 29, 12:00 1
    - i mean, obviously. -- nm - Andie Jun 29, 12:00
- If they're on the Euro, its value is tied to the union as a whole. The drachma rises and falls on Greece's economy alone -- nm - jangles Jun 29, 11:59 1
  - more accurately, Greece's ability to pay back debts - Reagen Jun 29, 12:01
Vault 10 continues to grow. 26 dwellers who now have a gym to grow stronger in - Beaker Jun 29, 11:56
Sell, sell, sell. Markets are going into hysterics because a leap second is being added -- (link) - zork Jun 29, 11:55 3
- "The previous leap second... brought down Reddit, Yelp, LinkedIn, FourSquare, Gawker and StumbleUpon, among other sites and apps." - ML Jun 29, 11:56 1
  - We'll still be here! -- nm - SexyPDFs.com Jun 29, 11:59
- Y2K part deux -- nm - Beaker Jun 29, 11:56
I expected some things from that Lionel Richie Glastonbury video. Event staff choreography was not one of those things. -- nm - con_carne Jun 29, 11:50
I so wish pippy lived near me so we could go see magic mike together. -- nm - fabulous squad Jun 29, 11:49 1
- me too!! we got a crew of about 5 going - my boss, my fabulously gay coworker and a few adventurous girls -- nm - Epiphany Jun 29, 11:53
Now I'm trying to book hotel rooms, wherein I discover that a suite is often cheaper than two rooms. -- nm - Mop Jun 29, 11:42 2
- yup. -- nm - Beaker Jun 29, 11:43 1
  - Tell me I should splurge and spend absurd sums of money for hotel rooms for my parents. - Mop Jun 29, 12:09
ha! Dolphins PK Caleb Sturgis is missing OTA's due to an injury (strained quad) suffered during a team-sanctioned kickball event. -- nm - Strongbad Jun 29, 11:41
S&P just downgraded Greece’s credit rating to CCC-. - ML Jun 29, 11:41 7
- Way to be on top of things, S&P -- nm - spamlet Jun 29, 12:06
- *sings it to Beethoven's 5th* -- nm - Baron Bing Bong Jun 29, 11:54
- Defined: "Default imminent, with little prospect for recovery" -- nm - ML Jun 29, 11:43 3
  - "Living to envy the dead, electricity to cease to function as a scientific concept" Oh come on now! -- nm - Reagen Jun 29, 11:48 1
    - Wait for it... -- nm - ML Jun 29, 11:50
  - "sees > 50% chance of exit from euro" -- nm - ML Jun 29, 11:44
- CCCPoop -- nm - Max Jun 29, 11:42
call centre people are dumb... calls that no-one knows what to do with always end up with me.... -- (edited) - Andie Jun 29, 11:35 5
- "No, I don't think we have a manager of Outdated Technology." -- nm - Reagen Jun 29, 11:46 1
  - "hold on, let me put you through to our Fax Department" -- nm - Beaker Jun 29, 11:48
- BUT THE YELLOW PAGES! How will anyone find you!! -- nm - Beaker Jun 29, 11:39 2
  - we don't actually want to be found. -- nm - Andie Jun 29, 11:40 1
    - but....Yellow Pages! -- nm - Beaker Jun 29, 11:43
NBC is ending business relationship with 2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump after his comments on immigration -- (link) - decline Jun 29, 11:35 37
- who should host the apprentice now, do we think? -- nm - fabulous squad Jun 29, 11:41 21
  - Lobo from DC comics -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 29, 11:52
  - Kevin O'Leary - Beaker Jun 29, 11:49 4
    - Winner is the one who gets to *not* work for him -- nm - zork Jun 29, 11:58 1
      - L3! -- nm - Epiphany Jun 29, 12:02
    - Let me tell you about this great royalty deal. -- nm - Strongbad Jun 29, 11:54
    - first season to have every contestant quit en masse. -- nm - Reagen Jun 29, 11:51
  - Jane Fonda -- nm - Max Jun 29, 11:48
  - Martha Stewart -- nm - jangles Jun 29, 11:46 6
    - "It's a bad thing, bitch." -- nm - con_carne Jun 29, 11:53
    - i would so watch that. -- nm - Andie Jun 29, 11:47 1
      - oooh yeah. you're right. -- nm - fabulous squad Jun 29, 11:48
    - Bethenny Frankel -- nm - Strongbad Jun 29, 11:47
    - Or, for the Empire demo, Jay Z or Russell Simmons -- nm - jangles Jun 29, 11:46 1
      - Lucious Lyon, in character! -- nm - prayformojo Jun 29, 11:48
  - Brian Williams. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 29, 11:44 1
    - "I remember when I closed my first billion dollar deal..." -- nm - Max Jun 29, 11:45
  - and who0 will air the Beauty Pagents he owns? -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 29, 11:44
  - If he wasn't already on ABC, Mark Cuban would be good. -- nm - Strongbad Jun 29, 11:43
  - I thought Trump owned that. I assumed it would be gone with him -- nm - Beaker Jun 29, 11:42 2
    - burnett owns it. I listened to a burnett pod on KCRW this weekend. it had never occurred to me how much dude is doing. shark tank, survivor, apprent - fabulous squad Jun 29, 11:47 1
      - interesting. thanks! -- nm - Beaker Jun 29, 11:47
- They didn't mince words in their statement. -- nm - Mop Jun 29, 11:39
- I should punch myself in the nose for reading the responses but I like me. -- nm - Diva Jun 29, 11:37 1
  - People really don't understand free speech haha -- nm - MDH Jun 29, 11:44
- countdown till he joins FOX 3-2-1 -- nm - Beaker Jun 29, 11:35 11
  - he can't--not while he's a candidate -- nm - ML Jun 29, 11:37 10
    - Has he actually filed the paperwork yet? - Will Hunting Jun 29, 11:39 8
      - yep--a week ago -- nm - ML Jun 29, 11:40 6
        
        Color me surprised. - Will Hunting Jun 29, 11:44 5
        
        But I don't think he's had to file any financial disclosures yet. That's the big test. -- nm - spamlet Jun 29, 12:17
        
        Chris Christie should be thrilled he's in the race, FWIW. Trump is the only candidate more hated than he is. -- (link) - ML Jun 29, 11:46 3
        
        The GOP must be swallowing their tongues at the thought of him actually running. - Will Hunting Jun 29, 11:59 2
        
        Not just that - Trump is unafraid to rip into any of his rivals in the primary. -- nm - Roger More Jun 29, 12:03 1
        
        Yep...I wanna see him and Christie on stage...one of them might slug the other. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 29, 12:06
      - I can't wait to see his $9 Billion net worth bullshit torn to shreds -- nm - Beaker Jun 29, 11:40
    - oh for sure, but immediately after -- nm* - Beaker Jun 29, 11:38
the official abbreviation for penn state urban centers pittsburgh? - fabulous squad Jun 29, 11:33 1
- I take it that people actually use ... - zork Jun 29, 11:35
The Pat Gillick era is over in PHI. He's done at season's end, MacPhail to assist now and take over then. -- nm - ML Jun 29, 11:33 2
- I haven't decided if this is a good thing or not -- nm - decline Jun 29, 11:36 1
  - well he won two World Series as GM with the Twins* - ML Jun 29, 11:51
Man, ST got bored of True Detective S2 fast. - ML Jun 29, 11:31 9
- The waitress in the bar with the morose guitar player in Adriana de Portago on Alpha House! -- nm - prayformojo Jun 29, 11:46
- it's still NOT Nate Heller by Max Collins -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 29, 11:45
- No Daddario -- nm - zork Jun 29, 11:39
- haven't started watching it yet -- nm - decline Jun 29, 11:36 2
  - me either. the DVR Dictator said we have to get a few episodes stashed up = then we watch -- nm - Epiphany Jun 29, 11:41 1
    - umm-hmm. -- nm - Diva Jun 29, 11:44
- I like it a lot. I like how wholesale they went with the setting change. - prayformojo Jun 29, 11:35
- Ep. 1 was discussed last Monday. I haven't seen Ep. 2 yet so I can't comment today. -- nm - Diva Jun 29, 11:33 1
  - I was mainly commenting on the lack of discussion of last night's ep. (very vague spoils) - ML Jun 29, 11:34
moving: I found an old hard drive. toss it, right? don't even look? -- nm - fabulous squad Jun 29, 11:31 2
- I'd be concerned a bit over what might be on it. - wipe that sucker first at least -- nm* - Beaker Jun 29, 11:34 1
  - but once you connect to it, you'll end up browsing what's on it for hours. If you are tossing it, take a hammer to it -- nm - zork Jun 29, 11:37
Millions from Phil Mickelson tied to money laundering, gambling case -- (link) - Beaker Jun 29, 11:27
I'm kinda surprised that Canada makes more money off motor vehicles and parts than anything else. Also, it looks like only Denmark and Chile are the o - zork Jun 29, 11:15 3
- It's because they put a guarantee on the box. -- nm - Max Jun 29, 11:19 2
  - "Yeah, makes a man feel good." -- (link) - con_carne Jun 29, 11:25 [youtube]
  - and a dick in it -- nm - zork Jun 29, 11:21
Aparently a twitter war has bropken out between the giants and eagles over the quality of Eagle's Qb's -- (link) - eag Jun 29, 11:15
okay, i'm starting to wonder a little here about my academic situation . . . details IM . . . - call me Ishmael Jun 29, 11:15 9
- that's a little more than 1.5 business days, and you don't want to schedule until next week. relax a little - follow-up tomorrow. -- nm - b. Jun 29, 12:10
- I'm pretty sure you did go into that whole debacle last year, and since email didn't work then or now, I'd call. -- nm - kelly Jun 29, 11:40 2
  - I think I would actually show up. in person. -- nm - fabulous squad Jun 29, 11:42 1
    - with all the information - your schedule, etc etc. -- nm - Andie Jun 29, 11:43
- Email clearly isn't getting you anywhere. Enough with that route. -- nm - Ender Jun 29, 11:38
- my 2 cents - Strongbad Jun 29, 11:24 1
  - yeah, like I said, I am at the very least going to email again this evening so that . . . - call me Ishmael Jun 29, 11:28
- i would call tomorrow. remember, this is your greatest priority, but that doesn't mean it's theirs. -- nm - Andie Jun 29, 11:18 1
  - i know, which is part of why it's so damned frustrating for me . . . - call me Ishmael Jun 29, 11:21
HALP: I just deleted an entire album off of my phone - Lady AnteRoo Jun 29, 11:14 14
- nm but: -- (link) - b. Jun 29, 12:12 1 1
  - even better, samsung has their own. nm but: -- (link) - b. Jun 29, 12:13
- It was a picture album -- nm - Lady AnteRoo Jun 29, 11:21 8
  - Does android have the equivalent of iCloud? - jangles Jun 29, 11:27 7
    - Go to Google Photos and see if it's stored there. -- (link) - Mop Jun 29, 11:31 6
      - Nope... just a single photo from two years ago -- nm - Lady AnteRoo Jun 29, 11:34 5
        
        Do you have dropbox set up? -- nm - Ender Jun 29, 11:41 4
        
        Yup. Dropbox and OneDrive (along with Google Photos) can be setup to automatically duplicate your pictures. -- nm - Mop Jun 29, 11:44
        
        Yea but no photos got to it before the deletion -- nm - Lady AnteRoo Jun 29, 11:43 2
        
        Act of desperation: Were the photos on the phone or on the SD card? -- nm - Mop Jun 29, 12:07 1
        
        phone -- nm - Lady AnteRoo Jun 29, 12:17
- You don't have all your music uploaded to Google Music so you can just redownload it? -- nm - Ender Jun 29, 11:16 1
  - Whaa?... - con_carne Jun 29, 11:29
- there's got to be an app for that . . . -- nm - call me Ishmael Jun 29, 11:15
LIR: Wayward Pines. It's gotten pretty good IMO the last two episodes. Glad I stuck with it -- nm - oblique Jun 29, 11:14 8
- I'm enjoying the hell out of it. But they have some holes they have to close up...soon. (Spoils) - Jim Jun 29, 11:20 5
  - Whuh? *spoils* - Ender Jun 29, 11:36 3
    - spoiler - Mop Jun 29, 11:41
    - I see how that can be, however (spoils) - Jim Jun 29, 11:40 1
      - *spoils* - Ender Jun 29, 11:45
  - Similarly... - Mop Jun 29, 11:25
- did you see that it had the highest ever DVR bump? kind of interesting. I like it a fair amount. -- nm - fabulous squad Jun 29, 11:17
- yeah -- nm - prayformojo Jun 29, 11:15
"Bo Ryan to retire after next season" -- nm - David Jun 29, 11:10 1
- Rats. - ML Jun 29, 11:12

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