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God Hates Renoir -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 5, 20:48 6
- People are stupid -- nm - decline Oct 5, 21:01 5
  - God hates stupid people -- nm - Bacon Oct 5, 21:02 4
    - what evidence do you have for that? -- nm - jangles Oct 5, 21:03 3
      - Florida? -- nm - decline Oct 5, 21:04 2
        
        see, i think that proves the opposite -- nm - jangles Oct 5, 21:06 1
        
        He loves them so much he created a sinkhole that acted as a siren for them -- nm - Beryllium Oct 5, 21:14
*shakes fist at David* - crash davis Oct 5, 20:45 1
- Why? Because David won B1? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 5, 21:07
Kaley Cuoco's BBT's credit is now Sweetening free -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 5, 20:38 1
- On a diet. -- nm - Mop Oct 5, 20:47
I guess you can't knock the ball out of the endzone intentionally, - crash davis Oct 5, 20:35
Well, this is uncomfortably close to home. -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 5, 20:33 2
- Krusty is in Canada? -- nm - Remlik Oct 5, 20:38 1
  - Hey! -- (edited) - Krusty Oct 5, 20:46
Just won 93.8-93.35 when Chancellor forced that fumble and got me a point. -- nm - Volnelk Oct 5, 20:22
Your all-Canadian top 4 songs: The Hills, What Do You Mean?, Hotline Bling, Can't Feel My Face - Tim Oct 5, 20:18 10
- if I have to pick songs that say Canada to me, #1 is most definitely Courage by The Tragically Hip -- nm - crash davis Oct 5, 20:25 1
  - heh, I misunderstood the post - shows how much attention I pay to the charts -- nm - crash davis Oct 5, 20:42
- Bryan Adams, Alanis Morrisette, Shania Twain, Celine Dion -- nm - Mop Oct 5, 20:23 2
  - It's as though Canada is passively-aggressively making terrible music to make the rest of the world suffer. -- nm - Roger More Oct 5, 20:38 1
    - Spread your tiny wings and fly away! -- nm - Mop Oct 5, 20:50
- Can't Feel My Face - Doctor's Orders -- nm - Beryllium Oct 5, 20:22
- I've been burned by songs from the Weeknd at pub trivia so often, you'd think I would know they were Canadian. -- nm - Mop Oct 5, 20:22 1
  - (he) -- nm - Tim Oct 5, 20:22
- You cannot stop us. But you probably should. -- nm - Reagen Oct 5, 20:19 1
  - The Hills is quite possibly one of the darkest and least commercial songs to ever hit #1. -- nm - Tim Oct 5, 20:22
thank you Kam -- nm - crash davis Oct 5, 20:15 1
- He just punched six points in the face -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 5, 20:44
Ye gods. -- nm - Reagen Oct 5, 20:15 5
- Calvin Johnson Touchback: Most Lions Thing This Year? Or Most Lions Thing Ever? -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Oct 5, 20:17 3
  - It might not even be the most inexplicable Calvin Johnson thing ever - Reagen Oct 5, 20:21 2
    - I dunno. That was Game One of the year when all hope is not lost. But the tease of beating Seattle at home to save 0-4? - Name Withheld By Request Oct 5, 20:23 1
      - And now it's pretty much 100% that the bat out of the endzone was against the rules and it should have been Lions 1 and goal on the 1. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Oct 5, 20:48
- And that's why they should pay Kam Chancellor every dime he asks. -- nm - David Oct 5, 20:16
Spoil me on Blindspot please since I just caught the ending tonight - Max Oct 5, 19:57 2
- Still blind in that one spot -- nm - jangles Oct 5, 20:03
- ML can't. he's still waiting for someone to get him the remote :(( -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 5, 19:58
I gotta finish this beer and get out of here. The leathery skinned female barfly discoursing on human decomposition rates being a flaw in the Walking - JD Oct 5, 19:48 3
- That's at least two reasons that I needed to get out of there. - JD Oct 5, 20:38
- Don't forget to get her digits before you leave -- nm - decline Oct 5, 19:55
- Just out if curiosity, ask who she's voting for -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 5, 19:53
they can just drop those boxes off at my house - Reagen Oct 5, 19:44
The Bengals offense against this Seattle defense is going to be interesting. -- nm - Volnelk Oct 5, 19:35 1
- Seattle's ordinary on defense in 2015. -- nm - David Oct 5, 20:12
Do I want to see Keoki slumming it at my old stomping ground Heretic. It's the night I fly in, so there's that... -- nm - Qale Oct 5, 19:31 2
- Has he stopped doing K while he spins? -- nm - jangles Oct 5, 19:38 1
  - Is this a stupid questions only thread I started? -- nm - Qale Oct 5, 19:40
Colts without Luck against the Texans in a Thursday game which are usually poorly played? That may be unwatchable. -- nm - Volnelk Oct 5, 19:27 2
- And yet... -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Oct 5, 21:23
- Hasselbeck may be old and lame but ain't toothless -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 5, 19:40
I hadn't heard about this recall, so here: if you bought chicken (frozen/raw/breaded/etc.) recently, and haven't yet eaten it, you should check this. -- (link) - b. Oct 5, 19:24 1
- though this didn't affect me, I wanted to thank you for posts like this. One day it just might affect me -- nm - crash davis Oct 5, 19:36
CM Punk on WWE's annual choice to go all in on Komen for a month. (he's right, but still.) -- (link) - Tim Oct 5, 19:16
ugh why did they change the opening credits to The Leftovers? - Jovian Oct 5, 19:15
Fantasy sports to be regulated like online gambling in 3... 2... -- nm - Mop Oct 5, 19:00 2
- I dunno. If they treat them like the various folks involved in stock insider trading, I figure they've nothing to fear in the long run -- nm - JD Oct 5, 19:23 1
  - JackDawson just died a little. -- nm - Mop Oct 5, 20:10
Ugh the story of the 11 year old TN Boy who shot/killed the 8 year old is brutal. -- nm* - MDH Oct 5, 18:59 1
- :( - I hadn't yet heard about that. the intentional nature + access makes it just.. no words. -- (link*) - b. Oct 5, 19:02
1st half just flew by -- nm - budice Oct 5, 18:46
Pope Francis expected to fire the Archbishop who tricked him into meeting Kim Davis -- (link) - Remlik Oct 5, 18:44 8
- That's all speculation. -- nm - Mop Oct 5, 20:04
- He gets busted back down to altar boy? -- nm - Krusty Oct 5, 19:19 1
  - How horrible! -- nm - Bacon Oct 5, 19:20
- 3 Hail Marys, 5 Our Fathers -- nm - budice Oct 5, 18:52
- "You may go back to your office now." "Wait, so I'm not fired?" "You misunderstood "fire." It's a delayed punishment." -- nm - Max Oct 5, 18:48
- I don't know that site; but, just in case, it was in the nyt the other day. nm but: -- (link) - b. Oct 5, 18:47 2
  - Looks like the article's speculation is based entirely on this NY Times article. -- nm - Mop Oct 5, 20:19
  - "should not be considered a form of support of her position in all of its particular and complex aspects" - Beryllium Oct 5, 20:16
heh, RAW was trending on twitter for a minute - the teaser post was for a vegan/raw recipe. -- nm - b. Oct 5, 18:44 1
- unrelated, but I came across this recipe video recently - might be fun for kids or a date. easiest way to make rose-shaped apple tartlets I've seen. -- (link) - b. Oct 5, 18:55 [youtube]
How was that 4th and goal at the 33? Not watching the game just saw the stat -- nm - Bacon Oct 5, 18:38 3
- Now that's what a kicker is supposed to do -- nm - budice Oct 5, 18:38 2
  - He just gave me 6 more points to keep you away -- nm - Bacon Oct 5, 18:41
  - Still Seattle not totally right at the moment -- nm - budice Oct 5, 18:39
Margo Martindale versus Alan Cumming. -- nm - toblerone Oct 5, 18:29 1
- Well, it's not really a contest. -- nm - Margo Martindale Oct 5, 18:36
Happy Birthday belatedly Pegleg!!! -- nm - tobor.2 Oct 5, 18:23
ST What are you reading/read? -- nm - Beaker Oct 5, 18:23 36
- stephen king's the wind in the keyhole . . . it's basically The Dark Tower 4.5 in the series . . . -- nm - call me Ishmael Oct 5, 20:12
- Just finished House of God -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Oct 5, 20:03
- The Second Amendment: A Biography, by Michael Waldman, and The Alienist by Caleb Carr. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 5, 19:22 5
  - I really liked The Alienist. -- nm - Krusty Oct 5, 19:30 3
    - Ditto. I'm so stoked they're making it into a TV series. -- nm - Mop Oct 5, 20:18 1
      - Ooh, nice! I didn't know that. -- nm - Krusty Oct 5, 21:12
    - I'm really into it this time. Tried reading it a couple years ago, but didn't really like it. - ReluctantCynic Oct 5, 19:58
  - Oh, and tonight, I'm reading county election reports for every election since 2000. - ReluctantCynic Oct 5, 19:24
- Reading the new Judy Blume, In the Unlikely Event. Finished Ready Player One - nurse Pippy Oct 5, 19:18
- Just finished 5th wave. Looking for a new book now :) -- nm - decline Oct 5, 19:10
- The Girl in Apt 6E (cam girl, college age would be serial killer). The Killer Within (HS girls would be Serial Killer), Proof: Science of Alcohol all - JD Oct 5, 19:03
- I finally finished Spook Country. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 5, 19:02
- Reading: Death Troopers (Star Wars + zombies!), Finished: Aftermath: (D) nm - Dignan Oct 5, 18:46
- Just finished Ready Player One - really quite enjoyed it which surprised me :) -- nm - Meg Oct 5, 18:44 7
  - Nice! -- nm - Krusty Oct 5, 18:52 6
    - My daughter was a teen in the 80s so I was familiar with the Commodore 64 and D&D and the like. Also sometime - Meg Oct 5, 19:02 5
      - So it wasn't all unfamiliar. That's helpful and keeps you in the story. I'm glad you liked it. -- nm - Krusty Oct 5, 19:17
      - That's some savvy corporate training to use Adventure as training tool -- nm - JD Oct 5, 19:05 3
        
        Up to that point my (and most peoples) data processing experience was limited to typing information onto punch cards. -- nm - Meg Oct 5, 19:11 2
        
        I, uh, remember punchcard as something to cut into thirds? and use as raw material to create flash cards ;-) -- nm - JD Oct 5, 19:21 1
        
        And every data-processing department used them to make Christmas Trees for holiday decorations :) -- nm - Meg Oct 5, 19:25
- The Aeronaut's Windlass and The Girl on the Train -- nm - Ender Oct 5, 18:40
- I'm about to start White Teeth by Zadie Smith. I just finished Killing Floor, the first Jack Reacher book. -- nm - Krusty Oct 5, 18:39
- Still on ReamDe. I've been busy and it's super long. -- nm - Volnelk Oct 5, 18:28
- just finished the Mistborn trilogy...not sure what's next -- nm - ML Oct 5, 18:27
- Black Mass -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 5, 18:26
- The Silkworm by Galbrath. I think this will be the last book I read of his. -- nm - CQ Oct 5, 18:25 3
  - sub-poll: authors who've made you "just say no more"? nicholas sparks, john grisham, dan brown, toni morrison, cormac mccarthy. -- nm - b. Oct 5, 18:35 2
    - So done with Patterson -- nm - nurse Pippy Oct 5, 19:16
    - zombie Tom Clancy, james Patterson et al, zombie Robert Ludlum -- nm - Beaker Oct 5, 18:42
- Post Captain (O'Brian) -- nm - mud Oct 5, 18:25
- Just finished End of All things by Scalzi (not his best, B); Saga TPBs 1-4: A- ; going to start Armada by Cline next. -- nm - Beaker Oct 5, 18:25 2
  - You lie. End of All things is fantastic. - David Oct 5, 20:15
  - I've seen some Locke and Key TPBs at the library too, think I will check them ut -- nm - Beaker Oct 5, 18:29
- The Sunday New York Times -- nm - toblerone Oct 5, 18:24
- Bonfire of the Vanities, mostly -- nm - jangles Oct 5, 18:24
The law firm representing Kim Davis, er...using her, has been labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center -- (link) - zeitgeist Oct 5, 18:22
I don't really care for profanity on publicly-worn clothes, but I appreciate this one. nm but: -- (link) - b. Oct 5, 18:21 2
- speaking of profanity - G-d just went there vs. michele bachmann. maybe He didn't rest enough yesterday? nm but: -- (link) - b. Oct 5, 18:45 1
  - Pulled or deleted already -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 5, 19:50
Looks like everyone in the southland is getting rain except us :( -- nm - Meg Oct 5, 18:02
Guys, I want to turn on the TV but the remote is way over there. Ideas? -- nm - ML Oct 5, 17:56 21
- Call Monica and Rachel from across the hall to come change the channel. Lie to them and say they need to come over for a different reason -- nm - Bacon Oct 5, 18:46 1
  - Order delivery to their address and when they come over to complain, get them to change the channel. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 5, 19:02
- What phone do you have? Galaxies can do that. -- nm* - Ender Oct 5, 18:44
- Heat a piece of metal with you lighter till it glows red, point it at the TV -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 5, 18:25 1
  - Go on Fivr and hire someone to come over and do it, or Craigslist gigs -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 5, 18:28
- A trained tortoise. -- nm - tobor.2 Oct 5, 18:10
- Remotely hack your microwave to flood your house with super-infrared signals -- nm - Beryllium Oct 5, 18:07
- train the kid to bring it over -- nm - Remlik Oct 5, 18:01
- that's what kids are for -- nm - Beaker Oct 5, 17:59
- stay right where you are. i'll come over and get it for you. -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 5, 17:58 6
  - science needs to develop a remote for the remote - ML Oct 5, 18:06 5
    - you can turn your phone into a remote, but what if your phone is across the room? -- nm - b. Oct 5, 18:07 4
      - Hey Siri, turn on the tv -- nm - Beryllium Oct 5, 18:10 2
        
        Alexa can do this. -- nm - David Oct 5, 18:11 1
        
        Apple's too good for this. - Beryllium Oct 5, 18:13
      - cruel fate--thou art diabolical -- nm - ML Oct 5, 18:08
- dog? or make enough noise to wake a kid, delegate? -- nm - b. Oct 5, 17:58
- Well . . . -- nm - Mark Watney Oct 5, 17:57
- Do you have telekinetic abilities? -- nm - David Oct 5, 17:57 2
  - I wouldn't ask if I hadn't exhausted all possible methods. -- nm - ML Oct 5, 18:05 1
    - People work miracles with ropes and pulleys these days. -- nm - David Oct 5, 18:06
Soooooooooo, Gotham spoils. - Volnelk Oct 5, 17:51
b, thus the IM. Celiac is a real, important thing. "Gluten sensitivity" isn't and I dislike health science frauds. -- nm - ML Oct 5, 17:50 11
- Without the gluten-free fad, coeliacs would still be eating spelt pizza crusts and corn pasta. XP -- nm - Roger More Oct 5, 18:28 1
  - I remember my mom making me spelt biscuits when I was a kid. - Beryllium Oct 5, 19:01
- just because there's a lack of science behind something right now doesn't mean it's not real. - Mel Profit Oct 5, 17:57 2
  - exactly, see Bigfoot -- nm - CQ Oct 5, 18:24 1
    - shouldn't you be pissing in a corner and crying about some second rate sport? -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 5, 18:33
- I agree; but I've seen/heard a lot of comments in various places dismissing the whole deal, when that shouldn't be done. -- nm - b. Oct 5, 17:52 5
  - that's unfortunate - ML Oct 5, 17:54 4
    - from what I've read, it's possible there is a (v. small) percentage of people who may indeed be sensitive. - b. Oct 5, 18:02 3
      - thanks for the link. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 5, 18:07 2
        
        you're welcome. I know we've discussed this before, and I hope you know I don't dismiss anyone finding help from whatever they can. the number of - b. Oct 5, 18:13 1
        
        Do you know what I'd do for a plate of gluten free pasta that didn't taste like the box it came in? - Mel Profit Oct 5, 18:31
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta. -- nm - Spawn Oct 5, 17:47

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