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So any thoughts on the new Xbox dashboard did anybody try the backward compatibily yet? -- (edited) - eag Nov 13, 11:46 2
- I did not even notice a change. -- nm - Spawn Nov 13, 11:48 1
  - You should have - eag Nov 13, 11:55
For those that care, the NPR politics podcast is back with Ron Elving and others. -- nm - spamlet Nov 13, 11:42 2
- Excellent. This is good news. And the relatively new podcast, The Weeds, with Ezra Klein, Sara Kliff, and Matt Yglesias is pretty good, too. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 13, 11:51 1
  - Thanks, I'll check it out. -- nm - spamlet Nov 13, 11:54
Heh. -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 13, 11:38 [Image] 1
- well, Bieber has ruined Mackenzie Davis for me. -- nm - Max Nov 13, 11:39
Some SW:TFA spoilers here, straight from JJ. Even the link address gives some so avoid if you do not want to know. -- (link) - Spawn Nov 13, 11:35
FWIW, the bottle of wine I bought costs me 12.99 in NYC. It's 7.97 here. - ty97 Nov 13, 11:35
WWE has future endeavored Mr. Ass for wellness violations. -- (link) - Qale As Folk Nov 13, 11:29
remember the good old days when you had to drive past people's houses in dark cars and sunglasses if you wanted to stalk them? - Andie Nov 13, 11:24 13
- Andie I'm in Irish embassy bar intersection yonge and wellington...quit work let's go drinking! -- nm - Loyola Nov 13, 11:30 11
  - ha - - Andie Nov 13, 11:34 10
    - Ok cool. Toronto is a fine city, I'm impressed! -- nm - Loyola Nov 13, 11:38 9
      - what did you do all day? -- (edited) - Andie Nov 13, 11:40 8
        
        I went up the cn tower and wandered around the aquarium to pass a bit of time. I like the gold coloured building of rbc bank. I think it's the finest - Loyola Nov 13, 11:49 7
        
        heh, my seflie as a reflection in that building may be the only photo from that trip I still have around. -- nm - Spawn Nov 13, 11:55 1
        
        Isn't it gorgeous! I couldn't stop looking at it. -- nm - Loyola Nov 13, 11:57
        
        Plans for tomorrow. Hit the drink. I've done enough walking :-) -- nm - Loyola Nov 13, 11:52 4
        
        great - let me know where you end up tomorrow night. :) -- nm - Andie Nov 13, 11:53 3
        
        Ok will do. Supposed to meet up with two others tomorrow in dora keogh pub. Met them last night. Don't know will I yet though. Hard to make them out. - Loyola Nov 13, 11:56 2
        
        oh, Dora Keogh is great. go there, we can meet you. -- nm - Andie Nov 13, 11:58 1
        
        Ok good stuff -- nm - Loyola Nov 13, 11:59
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I've implied to my boss that it might be best that I not be allowed to talk to clients... or people, really... for a while. -- nm - Mop Nov 13, 11:12 5
- Oh. We will see you when you return. -- nm - Spawn Nov 13, 11:13 4
  - I think of you all as less than people. -- nm - Mop Nov 13, 11:13 3
    - I am beginning to see why you told your boss that. -- nm - Spawn Nov 13, 11:14 2
      - I think we have all been there at some point. -- nm - eag Nov 13, 11:35 1
        
        what the hell did mop say or do? something all zeity? -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 13, 12:12
POLL: Did you see HGAM3 in theatre? Will you see HGAM4 opening weekend? -- nm - Andie Nov 13, 11:11 19
- No and no. I don't think I've been in a theater this year more than once. -- nm - Covington Nov 13, 11:50
- no/no -- nm - Beaker Nov 13, 11:34
- Yes (pub theater). No, I'll wait 'til it hits the pub theater. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 13, 11:34
- Yes/yes. -- nm - Dark Callisto vs. Evil Dead Nov 13, 11:30
- No. Probably not, but I'd sort of consider seeing it in theatres at some point. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 13, 11:29
- no, no. -- nm - znufrii Nov 13, 11:29
- Of course and absolutely -- nm - David Nov 13, 11:26
- Yes and Yes -- nm - JD Nov 13, 11:21
- lol/lol nm - Dignan Nov 13, 11:21
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- No and no, the first one was more than enough for one lifetime -- nm - jangles Nov 13, 11:17
- nope and nope. -- nm - decline Nov 13, 11:16
- No, no. -- nm - Shaun Nov 13, 11:14
- yes - no but sometime before it leaves the theater -- nm - Pippy Nov 13, 11:13
- Opening weekend for HGAM3. We will at some point for HGAM4 but not opening weekend. - spamlet Nov 13, 11:13
- No. I saw #2 and I'm done. -- nm - Mop Nov 13, 11:12
- no, no. -- nm - gravy Nov 13, 11:12
- Yes. No. Probably second weekend. -- nm - MDH Nov 13, 11:12
- no, no -- nm - Spawn Nov 13, 11:12
friday hax chat q: she was jilted by ex-bf for another woman. fast forward 10 years: the other woman is . . . dead - jangles Nov 13, 11:06 23
- A dead chick ain't gonna make you any prettier. -- nm -- nm - CQ Nov 13, 11:42 1
  - Unless you get her right when she dies and all her parts are fresh for harvesting. -- nm - Max Nov 13, 11:49
- semi-tangent: Nancy Irsay just passed away. -- nm - Spawn Nov 13, 11:40
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- yes, you're a horrible person. next! -- nm - znufrii Nov 13, 11:18
- to what end? gloat over someone's death? feel smug that you are still here? -- nm - Andie Nov 13, 11:13 3
  - suggest that the ex might have KILLED HER? -- nm* - gravy Nov 13, 11:18 2
    - This is it. Has no one ever watched a damn Lifetime movie? -- nm - jangles Nov 13, 11:35 1
      - My Ex Will Kill: The Crazy Hax Letter Writer Lady Story. -- nm - gravy Nov 13, 11:38
- Sure she didn't look up the ex at all. Sure. -- nm - Inigo Nov 13, 11:13 5
  - ik, r? -- nm - gravy Nov 13, 11:13 4
    - I think she wants to hit up the ex one more time - at least -- nm - Pippy Nov 13, 11:22 2
      - or, tie him to a bed in a cabin in the woods -- nm - decline Nov 13, 11:23 1
        
        or both -- nm - znufrii Nov 13, 11:30
    - She is just curious if they had suspects. -- nm - Spawn Nov 13, 11:14
- GET THERAPY -- nm* - ty97 Nov 13, 11:11
- how you type that out, read it and don't immediately feel embarrassed (and maybe place yourself on a Psych-Hold) is beyond me. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 13, 11:11 1
  - I have moved on. I have a satisfying career and a good life. - ty97 Nov 13, 11:14
- 'I wasn't exciting enough or pretty enough' - Shaun Nov 13, 11:10 1
  - ...or sane enough -- nm - Pippy Nov 13, 11:15
- creepy stalker lady -- nm - decline Nov 13, 11:10
- What a ghoul. -- nm - David Nov 13, 11:09
- she crazy -- nm - Beaker Nov 13, 11:08
So I have an asshole living on my street (most of us do, but this one is especially assholey) - Covington Nov 13, 10:59 5
- I know your area is not conducive but there are a ton of reasons I refuse to own a home that does not have an attached (private) garage for parking. - Spawn Nov 13, 11:24 1
  - I own a parking space. While it would be nice to have a garage other factors made this place ideal, the ability to walk to work being one of them. - Covington Nov 13, 11:49
- that does sound suspcious - why all of a sudden now the cops care? Old people can be bigoted - Pippy Nov 13, 11:20
- you should burn his house down. nm -- nm - groiny Nov 13, 11:07 1
  - burn all their houses down! -- nm - Beaker Nov 13, 11:08
Two thoughts about the songs "exes and ohs" - ty97 Nov 13, 10:59 16
- +100 Baron points for spelling. -- nm - Green Baron Casserole Nov 13, 12:00
- do we like the girl who sings " Here"? Alessia Cara -- nm - Pippy Nov 13, 11:21 2
  - Don't think I've heard it -- nm - ty97 Nov 13, 11:25 1
    - you will. its a free flow type song with a small hook. -- nm - Pippy Nov 13, 11:36
- Who's Elle King? -- nm - decline Nov 13, 11:19 2
  - Singer of one of my newest earworms. -- nm - Spawn Nov 13, 11:21
  - Rob Schneider's daughter -- nm - Beryllium Nov 13, 11:19
- It's been playing for over a year ... :-) -- nm - Beryllium Nov 13, 11:18 2
  - Yeah, it's been heavy into airplay for ages. I don't think there's any Christmas music design to it. -- nm - Dark Callisto vs. Evil Dead Nov 13, 11:31 1
    - I've never heard it -- nm - decline Nov 13, 11:39
- Weren't you talking about her a few days ago? -- nm - Spawn Nov 13, 11:03 5
  - That was me, but I'll say ditto on #1. -- nm - Max Nov 13, 11:04 4
    - No, wait. I misread. I do not think it sounds much like Trainor, at all. In that I can tolerate it. - Spawn Nov 13, 11:06 1
      - See below re: Trainor -- nm - ty97 Nov 13, 11:08
    - apparently Meghan's latest is a duet with John Legend where she seems far less annoying than her previous tracks -- nm* - ty97 Nov 13, 11:05 1
      - She also is on the Derulo CD. -- nm - Spawn Nov 13, 11:07
Fallout 4shipped 12 million copies and earned Bethesda $0.75 Billion at launch. Meanwhile... -- (link) - Max Nov 13, 10:55 3
- So Fallout 4 lovers are also porn lovers? -- nm - eag Nov 13, 11:02 1
  - That's a fairly wide middle in the Venn diagram -- nm - spamlet Nov 13, 12:07
- for comparison: CoD: Black Ops. did $550M and Halo 5 did $400M -- nm - decline Nov 13, 10:58
#FreeTheSpiders -- nm - Green Baron Casserole Nov 13, 10:51 2
- #SetFiretoTheSpiders -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 13, 11:02
- arachnophobia haiku - mud Nov 13, 10:59
LIR: I had a glass of my wine with my cousin (who is visiting) last night. -- nm - ty97 Nov 13, 10:49 9
- 6 bottles of Strongbow - playing " Waterfalls" -- nm - Pippy Nov 13, 11:22
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  - Vaporize might be easier than injections -- nm - JD Nov 13, 11:07 4
    - wine enema -- nm - groiny Nov 13, 11:09 3
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        no idea, I have heard it is a quick high though. nm -- nm - groiny Nov 13, 11:12 1
        
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  - I am helping to supply the chili cook-off with drinks. Since last night, I have bought -- (edited) - ty97 Nov 13, 10:53 1
    - so you're covered. What about everybody else ? -- nm - decline Nov 13, 10:53
This is awesome -- (link) - decline Nov 13, 10:39
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- Your job is starting to make me a fan of limited government. -- nm - David Nov 13, 10:40 3
  - I'm beginning to think we need better hiring standards (current governmental employee company excepted) -- nm - ty97 Nov 13, 10:47 1
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There will be a giant taco in the NCAA this year. - David Nov 13, 10:36 4
- Indeed. -- (link) - Spawn Nov 13, 10:59 [Image]
- that sounds like a Mexican wrestling move - Reagen Nov 13, 10:38 2
  - Jesse Ventura used to call a Latin wrestler's finisher the flying burrito. - David Nov 13, 10:39 1
    - LOL, Tito Santana. nm -- nm - groiny Nov 13, 10:52
LIR: Kill all the spiders. All of them. *shudder* And tequila with my tacos on Tuesday. -- nm - sycor Nov 13, 10:31
Heh. Digging through the bottom of amsterdam's canals ... -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 13, 10:28 [youtube]
The ruling was baseless, indefensible, and bigoted. I don't know if that counts as pure evil, but it certainly was some kind of cruelness. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 13, 10:25 3
- How did he reverse his ruling? Was there an appeal? Or did he just write a memo? What? -- nm - Mop Nov 13, 10:44 1
  - he sat down at the bench and said 'oops, my bad' -- nm - decline Nov 13, 10:54
- They took a child from its home because of a dispute over biblical interpretation. - David Nov 13, 10:26
DraftKings and FanDuel each filed a lawsuit Friday in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan to try to stop NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman -- (link) - Beaker Nov 13, 10:22 10
- "1.3 percent of the players who played daily fantasy baseball games up until the All-Star break won 91 percent of the money" -- nm - Beaker Nov 13, 10:24 8
  - Given the prize structure, this makes sense. - Inigo Nov 13, 11:19 2
    - although a more interesting thing to look at would be taking out the big money pools - Reagen Nov 13, 11:24 1
      - The biggest issue actually is multi-entries. SKEK -- (edited) - Spawn Nov 13, 11:25
  - And half them work for the opposing site. -- nm - Spawn Nov 13, 10:57 1
    - L4! - Pippy Nov 13, 11:24
  - I don't see the problem with this. -- nm - Bernie Madoff Nov 13, 10:39
  - one born every minute. - znufrii Nov 13, 10:28
  - WOW - groiny Nov 13, 10:27
- Entirely separate from each other and without any collusion whatsoever. -- nm* - Mop Nov 13, 10:22
"Florida woman arrested after calling 911 seeking cigarettes and chicken wings" - ML Nov 13, 10:18 2
- Hey, when you need wings *you need wings* -- nm - spamlet Nov 13, 10:26 1
  - Right? What part of EMERGENCY don't you understand? -- nm - Florida woman Nov 13, 10:27
Destiny PSA : Trials of Osirus now gives packages on bounties complete. - groiny Nov 13, 10:16 5
- Trials bounties. -- (link) - Shaun Nov 13, 10:23
- Okay, you sold me. -- nm - Spawndroid Nov 13, 10:17 3
  - they made it much more rewarding even if you do not win your matches. nm -- nm - groiny Nov 13, 10:18 2
    - Gear can go up to 320 as well. -- nm - Shaun Nov 13, 10:20 1
      - We did NF again last night. Got a 303 primary. Then we ran the mission non-NF for a truman quest and I got an ex engram that broke into a 4 Horsemen. -- nm - Spawn Nov 13, 10:56
disappointing sushi is disappointing. -- nm - Andie Nov 13, 10:15 4
- Few things have a steeper ramp of disappointment than disappointing sushi. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 13, 11:03 3
  - The ramp is perfectly vertical. -- nm - Spawn Nov 13, 11:04 1
    - word -- nm - Pippy Nov 13, 11:11
  - chawl. smh. -- nm - gravy Nov 13, 11:04
Any babies available in Utah? -- nm - Spawndroid Nov 13, 10:13 1
- Plenty of gay Mormon babies, apparently. -- nm - Mop Nov 13, 10:21

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