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dammit ender & ty97, I'm feeding that troll. Ajax! Snow in Arizona -- (link) - decline Nov 16, 07:15 2
- better get your Storm Chips and load up on toilet paper people! -- nm - Beaker Nov 16, 07:16 1
  - Hehe can't wait for the first Frankie report. -- nm - Shaun Nov 16, 07:23
Victor Cruz to have season-ending surgery on calf -- nm - Beaker Nov 16, 07:14
Dear Stalker/Giftgiver to me. Meh.com has a little drone from 25 bucks and it has a camera. - Roo and Peas Nov 16, 07:01 15
- just so you know the chances of it being shot down in Texas are pretty high - Pippy Nov 16, 07:17 1
  - But you could have video of the bullet. -- nm - Bacon Nov 16, 07:18
- You are not my stalkee, but three members of my family are thankful to you now. -- nm - Spawn Nov 16, 07:16
- i would absolutely buy that for my brother - but they don't ship to Canada. - Andie Nov 16, 07:09 9
  - oh wait. do you need me to buy as well bc billing address? I can. -- nm - fabulous squad Nov 16, 07:11 7
    - thanks but i got it at Amazon.ca - shockingly not a bajillion more dollars (plus spare propellers. - Andie Nov 16, 07:17 6
      - Can you linky? A drone sounds fun. -- nm - Shaun Nov 16, 07:18 5
        
        here - -- (link) - Andie Nov 16, 07:18 4
        
        wait - ti think that was the non-camera one. -- nm - Andie Nov 16, 07:19 3
        
        THIS one. -- (link) - Andie Nov 16, 07:20 2
        
        That's looks about as good as you could expect for ~$30 I guess. -- nm - Shaun Nov 16, 07:22 1
        
        yeah, it's a cheap toy. -- nm - Andie Nov 16, 07:23
  - ship to me; I'll ship to you. -- nm - fabulous squad Nov 16, 07:10
- "4-8 minutes of flight time on a 15-20 minute charge" -- nm - decline Nov 16, 07:04 1
  - That way it does not fly away too far. -- nm - Spawn Nov 16, 07:17
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- my one complaint - kinda minor spoiers - Beaker Nov 16, 07:13 3
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  - spoils.... - groiny Nov 16, 07:13 1
    - Spoils - Krusty Nov 16, 07:16
- it is basically picking up during the time Rick is in his coma. nm -- nm - groiny Nov 16, 07:10 5
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    - no, I think he was out like 3 months. -- nm - groiny Nov 16, 07:13 3
      - spoils - don't read Jack - Pippy Nov 16, 07:18
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      - Yup. -- nm - Krusty Nov 16, 07:16
Winter Storm Ajax -- (link) - decline Nov 16, 06:43 5
- Note: Not the Dutch football club. -- nm - Green Baron Casserole Nov 16, 07:10 2
  - nor the Greek mythological hero -- nm - Beaker Nov 16, 07:11 1
    - Nor the cleaning powder. -- nm - Green Baron Casserole Nov 16, 07:20
- PDFTWC -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 06:44
- PDFTT -- nm - Ender Nov 16, 06:44
The Adventures of Young Ben Carson (for the non-weekend crew) -- (link) - Beaker Nov 16, 06:37 [youtube]
Peyton Manning, partial tear plantar fasciitis, I'm sure speech to text messed that up, I'm - Spawndroid Nov 16, 06:22 12
- That woulda have impacted the betting line. The NFL will be all over this. - Will Hunting Nov 16, 06:31 9
  - This is why Medical staffs need to be independent. Like concussion docs. -- nm - budice Nov 16, 07:04
  - Because that's what's important, the betting line. - znufrii needs a job Nov 16, 06:57 1
    - I know, everyone knows is about Fan Duel! -- nm - Bacon Nov 16, 07:14
  - Chiefs (-15) -- nm - Dano Nov 16, 06:41
  - I totally understand fudging the injury report. Teams have done that forever. What I don't understand was playing him when he was not ready to play. - Jim Nov 16, 06:37 1
    - Elway gonna be Elway. -- nm - Spawn Nov 16, 07:18
  - Bench him! - Pippy Nov 16, 06:36
  - they are going after the Bears as well due to their shenanigans with their injury report I guess -- nm - Beaker Nov 16, 06:33 1
    - Well, their 'shenanigans'. They told the Rams the players were out so there was no competitive advantage to be had. - Will Hunting Nov 16, 06:33
- owie -- nm - decline Nov 16, 06:31
- It's partially face saving, I'm sure. -- nm - volnelk Nov 16, 06:25
Marriott bought the Starwood hotels in a $ 12 billion dollar deal -- (link) - Pippy Nov 16, 06:16 12
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  - Umbrella Corp. -- nm - zork Nov 16, 08:35
  - yup -- nm - Pippy Nov 16, 06:50 4
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      - probably too busy caring about "social issues" to notice. -- nm - znufrii Nov 16, 07:21
      - Getting rich off of the deals. They don't really care about competitiveness and never have. - Krusty Nov 16, 07:20 1
        
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- oh good, more mega mergers :/ -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 06:47 3
  - some of the comments were about how the rewards points will get diluted per the usual merger muckity muck - Pippy Nov 16, 06:49 2
    - That'd be a shame if Marriott started losing customers over that...I know some places they can stay. -- nm - Jim Nov 16, 07:00
    - Undoubtedly the will be diluted. Just like American Airlines is prepping to announce their post-merger dilution this month. -- nm* - ty97 Nov 16, 06:50
- Ooh, that means Swan and Dolphin are now part of our credit card rewards program. -- nm - David Nov 16, 06:31
Where the H is everybody this morning -- nm - prayformojo Nov 16, 06:14 1
- still asleep -- nm - NFL teams week 10 Nov 16, 06:15
My ddfense had 50% of Cosby's Sleepers touchdowns this week. - Will Hunting Nov 16, 06:05 1
- Over the past three weeks, outside the QB position, I've had zero TD scored in this country. (1 from Kelce in London.) - Green Baron Casserole Nov 16, 06:58
FF: while I enjoyed the Bears win, it destroyed me in BF because I started the Rams D - oblique, Head Astronaut Nov 16, 06:01
Who was the actress playing Seth Rogen's wife in the DFS bit on LWT? -- nm - prayformojo Nov 16, 06:00
If the Bengals win tonight, have we ever had 3 teams all start 9-0 in a season? -- nm - Strongbad Nov 16, 04:44 5
- Nope. "According to the NFL, this is the first time the league has had three 8-0 teams. Ever." - Beaker Nov 16, 04:50 4
  - During the Super Bowl era, all 21 teams that went 8-0 made it to the playoffs. Twelve of them made it to the Super Bowl. Eight have won the Super Bowl -- (link) - Beaker Nov 16, 04:50 3
    - Three-way SuperBowl! -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 05:42 2
      - Won't matter, but if the Bengals and Patriots finish undefeated, who gets the tiebreaker? Apparently it's "strength of victory". What's that? - volnelk Nov 16, 06:25 1
        
        SoV is based on 2015 records, SoS is based on 2014. -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 06:35
Nov 16, 1885 – Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba" Louis Riel is executed for treason. -- nm - Beaker Nov 16, 04:39 4
- One of my first university classes was discussing whether he was should have been hanged or not. - Walt_Disney Nov 16, 04:43
- 1904 – English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube). -- nm - Slow Donnie Nov 16, 04:40 2
  - 1945 – UNESCO is founded. -- nm - Beaker Nov 16, 04:40 1
    - 1992 – The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk. -- nm - Beaker Nov 16, 04:43
TV PSA: Crazy Ex-GF, MNF, DWTS, Gotham, Supergirl, Voice, Raw, Jane the Virgin, Minority Report, Scorpian, NCIS LA, Blindspot, Fargo, Castle, -- nm - Beaker Nov 16, 04:36 1
- Lego Marvel Superheroes Avengers: Reassembled!, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Nov 16, 04:36
i watched SPECTRE tonight. it was alright. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 16, 02:09 9
- I watched Amy last night. A-. Such a sad portrait, but a tiny bit more detail about the people around her could have helped. -- nm - Andie Nov 16, 06:18 4
  - I'm curious about your last sentence - Pippy Nov 16, 06:24 3
    - more like... -- (edited) - Andie Nov 16, 06:32 2
      - I see your point about Blake. I thought the Pete from Baby Shambles storyline was down played as well. -- nm - Pippy Nov 16, 06:38
      - and, yes... - Andie Nov 16, 06:33
- I saw it last night: I give it a C. It was very meh had there were glaring issues with it for me (spoilers) - oblique, Head Astronaut Nov 16, 05:57 2
  - Dude, he's Bond! -- nm - CQ Nov 16, 06:00 1
    - Even so, it was just dumb -- nm - oblique, Head Astronaut Nov 16, 06:45
- watched it yesterday. I really liked it. It was fun Bond -- nm - CQ Nov 16, 05:48
Ugh. This is b.s. I've been sick all weekend. Finally popped a pseudo-ephedrine and I'm feeling a thousand times better. A cold! I had a fucking cold! - Mop Nov 16, 00:09 1
- Pop it and lock it, I always say. -- nm - Max Nov 16, 03:34
Dammit. I forgot that today is the 7th day of Pizzamas. -- nm - Mop Nov 15, 23:01
Sears describes a fridge as "garage ready." What do you suppose that means? -- nm - Meg Nov 15, 22:39 6
- Here's an explanation -- (link) - TWuG Nov 16, 04:28
- it's better built so when it is over 100 outside, and the garage heat is higher, it is not driving up your electric bill -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 15, 22:59 4
  - I'd also never before seen a fridge with a 'Sabbath Mode' - learn something every day. - Meg Nov 15, 23:02 3
    - IIRC, its the flicking of the light switch is the problem, you can have a light on, but you must turn it on before sunset and leave on all next 24hrs - zeitgeist Nov 16, 00:45
    - Is it kosher? -- nm - Mop Nov 15, 23:17
    - yeah, but you need a shabbos go to actually open and close -- nm - sweet baboo Nov 15, 23:10
10 pm news. there was more money bet in Vegas at the casino's this weekend on Holly Holm than Rousey -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 15, 22:20 3
- wouldn't the betting line move to reflect that?, or did it start are out much higher? maybe they meant more money was won but # of bets was lower - zeitgeist Nov 16, 00:50
- Sure. The public always loves the underdog. "Lay $10 to win $60? Sign me up!" -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 15, 22:37 1
  - Plus who's bothering to put money on a -1400 favourite? -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 04:34
All humans are vermin in the eyes of Morbo. -- nm - David Nov 15, 22:10
Alabama, Michigan Governors Vow to Bar Syrian Refugees From Their States -- (link) - Mop Nov 15, 21:55 4
- I am reading a book about the Japanese-Americans interred during WWII. Their comments are eerily similar -- nm - amoxy Nov 15, 22:05 3
  - I recently read Return to Manzanar for the first time - and was it an STer that linked the Ansel Adams Manzanar photos on FB ? - Meg Nov 15, 22:08 2
    - In my book, "Infamy", Ansel Adams states he was frustrated because the internees show everything as the best - amoxy Nov 15, 22:11 1
      - This is a question I've had and never really researched - the treatment of Japanese compared to Germans and Italians. -- (link) - Meg Nov 15, 22:19
more Chinese archeology finds -- (link) - Peglegpete Nov 15, 21:50
weapons stolen from Mass Army Reserve armory this weekend -- (link) - Peglegpete Nov 15, 21:47
"Wanna get laid?" -- nm - Alicia Nov 15, 21:41
Halo wins the month of October in sales, but the amusing thing is Yoshi beats Uncharted. -- (link) - Qale Nov 15, 21:41 1
- I think we all know Fallout will win the month of Nov. Might not be close either. -- nm* - Krusty Nov 16, 05:34
Catching up with the Simpsons. The divorce episode cribs from my life. - Mop Nov 15, 21:33 2
- That's my least favorite episode in *years*. -- nm - David Nov 15, 21:50 1
  - My life is not for your entertainment! -- nm - Mop Nov 15, 21:51
I so wanted the Walking Dead RPG to fall and launch straight up. -- nm - Max Nov 15, 21:31 1
- spoiler! -- nm - Spawn Nov 15, 21:46
oh well, five games lost after leading in the fourth quarter... -- nm - crash davis Nov 15, 21:30 1
- Settle down Eli... -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 15, 21:32
Man, that draw play was perfectly executed -- nm - prayformojo Nov 15, 21:16
I do appreciate Arians rocking wardrobe selections from the Andy Reid Collection For The Unstylishly Overweight Head Coach -- nm* - Rollo Nov 15, 21:08
"All right, honky - let's go tonk!" -- nm - Beryllium Nov 15, 21:01
my first watching of CSI Cyber: "He used malware!" *ten minutes of psychological profiling* "We found an IP address!" *worldwide crisis* -- nm - Max Nov 15, 20:54 10
- A show this bad doesn't deserve a thread this long. -- nm - Mop Nov 15, 22:07
- Don't forget that it's not trying to show how computers work - it's trying to show how the average grandmother thinks computers work. -- nm - Reagen Nov 15, 21:02 2
  - Which is what I was referring to below. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 15, 21:08
  - "Dammit, our free AOL hours are about to run out! Hurry up" -- nm - sweet baboo Nov 15, 21:04
- The basic ideas are real though, they just inflate it a little. (Spoilers) - Karl_S Nov 15, 21:02
- My first time watching CSI Cyber: "That's not how it works. That's not how ANY of it works!" -- nm - Beryllium Nov 15, 20:58 1
  - The sad thing is, though, if I were in tech support, I'd have to watch it. Just so I could talk to certain people. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 15, 20:59
- I'm watching now, and just saw this. This show is hysterically bad. -- nm - MDH Nov 15, 20:57 2
  - Hey! let's waste the first 5 minutes with awful office chatter :( -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 15, 21:01
  - it's why i've wept over the thought of losing CSI Las Vegas style to this show, and that Ted Danson jumped ship to this ... - call me Ishmael Nov 15, 21:01
Sheesh, I went away from this game about an hour ago thinking it was almost over. -- nm - Meg Nov 15, 20:46
the Chevy/Hunger Games ad connection seems a little tenuous. -- nm - Reagen Nov 15, 20:40 2
- A bit more than tenuous. It seems absurd. Like... we're the truck of a dystopian future? Is that what they're saying? -- nm - Mop Nov 15, 21:33 1
  - Designed for District 1. Built for District 13. Like a rock. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 15, 22:08
What's that website with the Wikipedia game? -- nm - Mop Nov 15, 20:33
heh -- nm - mud Nov 15, 20:33
Anon has called out Isis... -- (link) - Remlik Nov 15, 20:25 6
- "Look at us! Look at us!" - TWuG Nov 15, 20:36 2
  - yup. -- nm - Remlik Nov 15, 20:57 1
    - From the article: "This isn't the first time the hacker collective has targeted Islamic militants." -- nm - Mop Nov 15, 21:12
- Fuck their social media accounts. Shut down their cash flow. -- nm - Mop Nov 15, 20:34 2
  - Shut down PSN, for starters. -- nm - Spawn Nov 15, 21:59 1
    - They're trying to do something people will notice. -- nm - Mop Nov 15, 22:04
"Titans! Jags! Somehow this has playoff implications!" -- nm - Reagen Nov 15, 20:08

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