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Disney To Boycott Georgia If Gov. Signs Anti-Gay Discrimination Bill -- (link) - Remlik Mar 23, 09:25 2
- I read the other day that the NFL won't place the superbowl there if the law is passed -- nm - decline Mar 23, 09:26 1
  - Good. I like that the NCAA did this with similar laws in other states. -- nm - Krusty Mar 23, 09:31
It begins: Pornhub just launched a free VR channel. -- nm - Shaun Mar 23, 09:24 1
- "Lil Wayne in a three way with Wesley Snipes..." -- nm - Lil Wayne Mar 23, 09:29
If you are still interested, Bungie is having a Twitch stream today in about 40mins about all the new stuff to do in the spring update. -- nm - Shaun Mar 23, 09:22
I see that in the wake of the chaos, CNN is focusing on what's important. Top stories: possible MH370 wreckage found. -- nm - Mop Mar 23, 09:21
ST Poll: Heart Attack/Stroke or Destroyed Shoulder? - Beaker Mar 23, 09:20 13
- I had a pinched nerve in my neck, which was making my shoulder go numb all the way down my arm. - groiny Mar 23, 09:22 6
  - yeah, this is it I think. Also getting Celebrex for me knee and acid reflux pills for my gut tomorrow. I am an old mess! -- nm - Beaker Mar 23, 09:24 5
    - dude, I dislocated a rib reaching for a plug. You don't have to tell me. -- nm - groiny Mar 23, 09:26 2
      - and how are those bunions, grandpa? -- nm - decline Mar 23, 09:27 1
        
        now that, I do not have. -- nm - groiny Mar 23, 09:28
    - ST is getting old. - ML Mar 23, 09:24 1
      - I am gonna get so much nursing home puss! -- nm - groiny Mar 23, 09:27
- good news - if it was heart attack or stroke - you'd be dead already - its shoulder impingement. - Epiphany Mar 23, 09:22 4
  - yeah, the left shoulder/arm though is freaking me out. We donated a futon to a Syrian family and I think that must have been when it happened - Beaker Mar 23, 09:23 3
    - no good deed goes unpunished - nerves can be pinched then inflammed. - Epiphany Mar 23, 09:25
    - Damn Syrians -- nm - decline Mar 23, 09:24 1
      - Always impinging on our arm nerves! Shut the borders! -- nm - Ender Mar 23, 09:44
- Brain Cloud -- nm - decline Mar 23, 09:21
Ahahahaha, so the guy I hated enough to register to vote against in our County Executive race in 2014 got popped for prostitution. - Will Hunting Mar 23, 09:12
Right then, "If you’re not already a fan of Batman, Superman, and/or Wonder Woman, Batman v Superman may well make you loathe them. - Andie Mar 23, 09:02 3
- I don't have anything invested in the characters but this movie's clips in particular make it look like Grumpy Cat vs. Larry David. -- nm - Max Mar 23, 09:17 1
  - and now the Supergirl/Flash crossover hits Monday and it is all light and smiles. -- nm - Beaker Mar 23, 09:21
- Poor pixie. -- nm - Spawn Mar 23, 09:11
For those interested, here's Silver's analysis of last night for Dem and GOP. - MDH Mar 23, 09:00 1
- Wouldn't it be something if the nomination came down to the uncommitted delegates in the territories? -- nm - Cadbarony Creme Egg Mar 23, 09:08
Here's your multi-round FMK for hump day -- (link) - ty97 Mar 23, 08:54 3
- who has the driest mouth? Buzzfeed is going on the do not view list for a week for that heinous mind crime they perpetrated against the internet -- nm - Epiphany Mar 23, 09:03 2
  - Between this and Virgin America I'm winning The Pippies -- nm - ty97 Mar 23, 09:15 1
    - damn straight you are -- nm - Epiphany Mar 23, 09:21
ST Poll: So with early WOM being mostly bad, does SUPE2 still rake in the Top March OW of all-time? -- nm - Shaun Mar 23, 08:46 21
- I think it still does really really well. -- nm - volnelk Mar 23, 09:06
- well it's not mostly bad. It's certainly mixed for sure. -- nm - Remlik Mar 23, 09:05 15
  - I consider less than 50% on RT to be 'mostly' bad. -- nm - Shaun Mar 23, 09:08 14
    - *shrug* I look at movie reviewers. -- nm - Remlik Mar 23, 09:19 5
      - and what are they saying? - groiny Mar 23, 09:20 4
        
        They either love it or hate it. There is no inbetween. -- nm - Remlik Mar 23, 09:22 3
        
        and, much like here, the reviewers are looking at things that I would not be looking at. -- nm - groiny Mar 23, 09:23 2
        
        Some of it you can not help but see, though. -- nm - Spawn Mar 23, 09:28 1
        
        possible. I doubt that would ruin the movie for me though. -- nm - groiny Mar 23, 09:29
    - This is a movie that is mostly RT proof. -- nm - groiny Mar 23, 09:10 7
      - For me I think it is, and I really hope I feel that after seeing it tomorrow. - Shaun Mar 23, 09:12 6
        
        It is like Transformers or Pacific Rim, it is superhero fights first and foremost. - groiny Mar 23, 09:14 5
        
        *laughs* -- nm - Deadpool Mar 23, 09:16 4
        
        that is exactly my point. Deadpool is what it is, they did not dress it up to be anything but what it is. -- nm - groiny Mar 23, 09:17 3
        
        I meant that Deadpool was more and shattered records because of it. -- nm - Spawn Mar 23, 09:23 2
        
        well, you can't really compare, because Marvel gets it. - groiny Mar 23, 09:25 1
        
        (not Marvel, though) -- nm - Spawn Mar 23, 09:31
- advance sales for opening night/Friday are already baked in, largely -- nm - pixie ninja Mar 23, 08:49 3
  - i checked my closest theatre - all the reserved seating theatres are essentially sold out Thurs and Fri. Odd seats here and there still available. -- nm - Andie Mar 23, 08:57 2
    - As far as I can tell, all showings tomorrow at the local theatre are not sold out. -- nm - Shaun Mar 23, 09:02
    - Saturday and Sunday, still lots and lots of seats. -- nm* - Andie Mar 23, 09:00
Virgin America Weighs Sale After Receiving Interest -- (link) - ty97 Mar 23, 08:44 15
- GD!!!! I knew - KNEW it was too good to last - someone wants to buy them so they don't have to compete with their prices NMB cussing - Epiphany Mar 23, 08:50 14
  - This is basically Virgin's business model. Create a business popular with customers that disrupts competitors, then sell it before it goes bad. -- nm - Roger More Mar 23, 09:21
  - i like VA but it seems when i price them, all the flights i want have to go to SFO first - pixie ninja Mar 23, 08:55 12
    - that would drive me crazy - I think its so small of an operation, so few gates, it causes less hassle at security check ins - Epiphany Mar 23, 08:58 6
      - They could get bought by an equity firm and keep operating independently. - ty97 Mar 23, 09:18 4
        
        I am hopeful - but its looking grim. Equity firms want return, that means trimming expenses and raising fees -- nm - Epiphany Mar 23, 09:20 3
        
        Some (random, non business) folks speculating if Jetblue buying them would make sense -- nm - ty97 Mar 23, 09:24 2
        
        you.are.not.helping - Epiphany Mar 23, 09:27 1
        
        Cussin' is one way to approach HumpDay. -- nm - Diva Mar 23, 09:29
      - they're definitely putting out feelers it seems. -- nm - Diva Mar 23, 09:11
    - SFO is their main hub, LAX is, at best, a 'focus city' -- nm - ty97 Mar 23, 08:57 4
      - i get that but it doesn't make it any less annoying -- nm - pixie ninja Mar 23, 08:58 1
        
        If I want to fly them to Austin, I have to fly JFK-SFO-AUS - ty97 Mar 23, 08:59
      - (and their LAX terminal is *shitty*) -- nm - ty97 Mar 23, 08:57 1
        
        F' it, I'm just going to stop traveling. -- nm - Epiphany Mar 23, 08:59
Good thing SHIELD has already been renewed. #s were a series low. - Spawn Mar 23, 08:44
Paul Ryan just kicked off his 2020 presidential campaign... -- nm - znufrii Mar 23, 08:43 9
- he told the Freedom Caucus to go fuck themselves and will work across the aisle with Democrats in the House to get things done? -- nm - pixie ninja Mar 23, 08:45 1
  - Not in so many words, and with enough ambiguity to maintain the illusion that both sides are equally culpable. - znufrii Mar 23, 09:05
- *snork* -- nm - Spawn Mar 23, 08:45
- (2016) -- nm - David's iPad Mar 23, 08:44 5
  - Doubtful he wants any piece of that dumpster fire. Let it burn itself out, and rebuild. -- (edited) - znufrii Mar 23, 08:46 4
    - I absolutely think he'll take the brokered convention nod if it works out. -- nm - David's iPad Mar 23, 08:53 3
      - Yep. You don't turn down that job if it's handed to you. And now's the exact wrong time to show any interest at all. - Roger More Mar 23, 09:09
      - I'm not convinced - znufrii Mar 23, 09:07 1
        
        Heh. -- nm - David's iPad Mar 23, 09:11
$25 Fandango GC for $20. -- (link) - Spawn Mar 23, 08:39 2
- I bought 3! -- nm - oblique Mar 23, 08:42 1
  - With the service fees, you break even! -- nm - Mop Mar 23, 09:21
STIS&F: My XBONE keeps prompting me for my password when using Vudu app, etc. because "I bought it". My son is usually the active XBL account. How - oblique Mar 23, 08:39 4
- Password for each of the apps? -- nm - JaxSean Mar 23, 09:24
- there should be a button on the front of the XBone to turn it off -- nm - decline Mar 23, 08:40 2
  - Correct! -- nm - Shaun Mar 23, 09:13
  - *crotch kick* - oblique Mar 23, 08:41
LA Rams expected to play a home game in China in 2018 -- (link) - Beaker Mar 23, 08:37
Jeff Fisher: RGIII is "something we have to consider." - ML Mar 23, 08:21 3
- 49rs called Kaep's bluff and he's still not trade - RGIII was mentioned in yesterdays 49'rs news but not a real issue - Epiphany Mar 23, 08:28
- If only he hadn't failed miserably with the haul he'd been given... - Will Hunting Mar 23, 08:27
- 8 and 8 or bust! -- nm - Beaker Mar 23, 08:23
That Lego lightsaber joke, though. Priceless. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 23, 08:20
ST Poll: Does Trump get to 1237 or no? -- nm - ty97 Mar 23, 08:19 11
- no -- nm - rollo Mar 23, 09:09
- If I had to pick one, I'd take the no. I think the GOP may have strategies we haven't even heard about yet. -- nm - mara Mar 23, 09:06
- Nate Silver's analysis shows him ending with 1204. -- nm - MDH Mar 23, 08:52 5
  - The analysts seem to be coming down all over the place, thus why I was curious for ST's take. -- nm - ty97 Mar 23, 08:58
  - Cleveland's gonna burn..... -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 23, 08:53 3
    - ~...burn muthaf*cka BURN!!..~ -- nm - meems Mar 23, 09:05
    - and the metaphor of Frankenstein becomes more and more real. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 23, 09:01
    - yup. -- nm - Beaker Mar 23, 08:54
- maybe -- nm - decline Mar 23, 08:20 2
  - definitive -- nm - ty97 Mar 23, 08:22
  - Big, if true. -- nm - Spawn Mar 23, 08:21
Sorry hipsters -- (link) - ty97 Mar 23, 08:18
BvS: 40% at RT -- (link) - budice Mar 23, 08:14
Now with DD S02 out of the way, I can go back and finish JJ. -- nm - Shaun Mar 23, 08:13 1
- I need to rewatch both, I think -- nm - decline Mar 23, 08:21
Wow. Broadway's Chicago (revival) is celebrating its 20th anniversary -- (link*) - ty97 Mar 23, 08:13 7
- Second longest running show in Broadway history. -- nm - ty97 Mar 23, 08:29
- Never actually seen it. -- nm - MDH Mar 23, 08:26 1
  - it remains amongst my top three. possibly #1. -- nm - Andie Mar 23, 08:28
- Chicago was the first show I saw on Broadway. With Bebe Neuwirth and Marilu Henner. -- nm - Andie Mar 23, 08:17 3
  - in 1996 apparently. So, yeah, 20 years ago. I believe Marilu had just taken over from Ann Reinking? Maybe? -- nm - Andie Mar 23, 08:21 2
    - Probably. Ann really wasn't in it very long. I saw Marilu too. -- nm - Diva Mar 23, 08:44
    - Bebe and Anne were the original revival cast, so that would make sense. -- nm - ty97 Mar 23, 08:23
speaking of festivals - I'm going to this one in August - Carnival of Madness - also: What is the Pretty Reckless doing these days? -- (link) - Epiphany Mar 23, 08:13
I still love lego. -- nm - Spawn Mar 23, 08:12 20
- but you hate the colors of the bricks, so a C+ for Lego. -- nm - groiny Mar 23, 08:13 19
  - shades and I are currently discussing the plotholes. You and I will, too. -- nm - Spawn Mar 23, 08:14 18
    - I generally can look past a lot of those in a movie like this. - groiny Mar 23, 08:15 17
      - That's what I don't get. Why tolerate mediocre writing from a film with a budget over a hundred million? - TWuG Mar 23, 08:21 15
        
        see i said that about the avengers movies and you guys ripped into me. -- nm - Truman Mar 23, 09:13 9
        
        The Avengers is a great movie. A great film? Umm no. -- nm - Shaun Mar 23, 09:14 8
        
        poorly written is what i meant. -- nm - Truman Mar 23, 09:16 5
        
        and that is where you lose me, in that I don't go to see Avengers for script. - groiny Mar 23, 09:18 4
        
        Yeah if the Hulk/Loki scene was the only redemming part of that movie, I would have been good. - Shaun Mar 23, 09:20 3
        
        between that and the Hulk - Thor punch, it was gold. - groiny Mar 23, 09:21 2
        
        Same. Have you seen The Big Short? It's pretty brilliant. We watched it on the weekend. -- nm - Shaun Mar 23, 09:23 1
        
        not yet -- nm - groiny Mar 23, 09:26
        
        yeah, this is where the people of HSX are disconnected. - groiny Mar 23, 09:16 1
        
        i agree. -- nm - Truman Mar 23, 09:17
        
        see : Michael Bay movies. - groiny Mar 23, 08:25 4
        
        Which is exactly why Bay sucks. -- nm - TWuG Mar 23, 08:34 3
        
        but, you know what you are getting, which is sometimes ok. - groiny Mar 23, 09:06 1
        
        Some of the rotten reviews seem to read like 'They fight the whole movie.' Sweet! -- nm - Shaun Mar 23, 09:10
        
        Bay got really shitty from TFORM2 on. He was fun bad before that, now he's just shit bad mostly. -- nm - Shaun Mar 23, 08:47
      - Yeah, but you could lose your car in these. -- nm - Spawn Mar 23, 08:16
So, is the Wonder Woman movie going to have a fighting chance with Gadot in the role? - Will Hunting Mar 23, 08:11 16
- everything I've read says she's the highlight of BvS -- nm - decline Mar 23, 08:15 7
  - she seems charismatic as fuck. - groiny Mar 23, 08:17 6
    - her bikini scene FF5 was quite charismatic -- nm - decline Mar 23, 08:19 1
      - So, did he like slap dat ass, or was it more like a cupping? - Will Hunting Mar 23, 08:22
    - And also, hot damn. -- (link) - Shaun Mar 23, 08:19 [Backboard] 3
      - I love that they really did nail it. -- (link) - Spawn Mar 23, 08:21 2
        
        Yeah that's more or less a perfect costume design. -- nm - Shaun Mar 23, 08:24
        
        jeebus - they sure did -- nm - Epiphany Mar 23, 08:21
- She was the best thing in BvS. -- nm - Spawn Mar 23, 08:12 7
  - She is very likeable from what I have seen in interviews and stuff.... - groiny Mar 23, 08:14 3
    - Part of me thinks she is too 'lithe' relative to what I consider WW, but if she's been former military being Israeli, she's - Will Hunting Mar 23, 08:29
    - on the otherhand, I read an article on Cavill the other day and he's a total tool -- nm - decline Mar 23, 08:16 1
      - *shocked* -- nm - Spawn Mar 23, 08:16
  - Boobs A+, Legs C -- nm - Spawn SI Mar 23, 08:13 2
    - Flip that and reverse it, as she pointed out on Kimmel. -- nm - Spawn Mar 23, 08:15 1
      - she looks like a stunner to me - would have gone with blue eyes but that is just me - Epiphany Mar 23, 08:18
Rio Olympics pushed to side amid turmoil in Brazil -- (link) - Beaker Mar 23, 08:11 1
- Who knew it wouldn't only be the water events that are going to be a total s**tstorm? -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 23, 08:12

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