ST Alpha - Backboarding

SlickerTalk
Search Archives
The Leaderboard
The FAQ

Search Dr. S. Talk
TT/ST Wiki
How Well Do You Know ...

RSS Feed

Hosting by DigitalOcean

Support ST on Ko-Fi

Welcome to SlickerTalk ▲

Kick your heels up, settle in, and get ready for a raucous discussion. The topic is anything and everything: movies, television, politics, music, breaking news, recycled news, orange-colored prediction markets, etc.

Join the Conversation

Suggestions and requests can be sent to team @ slackertalk.com. Or, please use this form to submit a bug report.

Recent News ▲

BlueSky Starter Pack for STers
This is a list of automatic follows when creating a BS account. Special thanks to Kim for setting it up! To bridge your account to the Fediverse, follow @ap.brid.gy (per the Bridgy docs)
the pack

[ SlackerTalk / Beta ] [ SlickerTalk ] [ Dr. S. Talk ]

Live

Down to Post

< Newer

Older >

Posts: 157

UFC in talks of selling promotion, 4 potential bidders -- (link*) - Strongbad May 10, 17:11
"That video isn't NSF.. oh, there it goes." -- nm - Reagen May 10, 17:10 1
- 2 girls 1 cup...how i saw it -- nm - budice May 10, 17:13
Having seen her in at least three movies (that I know of), I'm still not sure I know what Alicia Vikander actually looks like -- nm - prayformojo May 10, 17:07 5
- sorta-like Wednesday, from Addams Family, grown-up---short hair, tan -- nm - Flavorize May 10, 17:18
- This is my favorite performance of her...And the way i picture her -- (link) - amoxy May 10, 17:10
- She's a bit of a chameleon. - ty97 May 10, 17:09 1
  - Wha? -- nm - Will Hunting May 10, 17:15
- i have remained blissfully Vikander-free thus far -- nm - senor dentista May 10, 17:08
By the way (Silicon Valley spoilers from this week's ep) - ralph wiggum May 10, 17:04 2
- huh. that would make sense..... - prayformojo May 10, 17:06
- that was my minute-to-think-about it reaction -- nm - senor dentista May 10, 17:05
Kroger set to hire 14,000 new employees -- (link) - senor dentista May 10, 17:03 1
- They don't pay very well, unfortunately. -- nm - Qale May 10, 17:04
I love this kid. -- (link) - Spawn May 10, 17:02
What are you reading, ST? nm - ralph wiggum May 10, 16:47 26
- Gods of Guilt -- nm - zeitgeist May 10, 17:23
- The Widow: (B-), Follow You Home: (C-). Just started The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival nm - Dignan May 10, 17:04 4
  - did she ask for grades? -- nm - senor dentista May 10, 17:06 3
    - Dignan always gives me grades. How else can I improve my performance? nm - ralph wiggum May 10, 17:07 2
      - I thought he was grading his own actions up there. -- nm - b. May 10, 17:09 1
        
        heh - senor dentista May 10, 17:10
- Xeelee Sequence - Stephen Baxter -- nm - Jovian May 10, 16:57
- (R)evolution by PJ Manney -- nm - Covington May 10, 16:56
- Rise of the Rocket Girls -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 10, 16:56
- just finished: the japanese chronicles by nicolas bouvier. just started: private citizens by tony tulathimutte....nm - x May 10, 16:53
- Just finished Bride of the Rat God by Barbara Hambly - TWuG May 10, 16:52 2
  - Have you read Spider's War yet? - Cuzzin Todd May 10, 16:56 1
    - Yep. Ended well. -- nm - TWuG May 10, 16:59
- Three of the worst boards ever. Also Planetary again. -- nm - David May 10, 16:50
- Rollins Sigma series, book 5 now again -- nm - Will Hunting May 10, 16:49
- Woman with a Secret by Sophie Hannah. -- nm - mara May 10, 16:49 1
  - I liked that one. I will probably go and check out more of her books. nm - ralph wiggum May 10, 16:52
- Sound & The Fury (whoo boy), Winesburg, OH, Stories of John Cheever -- nm - senor dentista May 10, 16:49 1
  - Winesburg, OH was interesting, but I'm not clear on why it's considered a great story. -- nm - TWuG May 10, 16:53
- James Rollins second to last book - Sigma series. -- nm - MDH May 10, 16:48
- b2 -- nm - dogbert May 10, 16:48
- This! -- (link) - prayformojo May 10, 16:48 [Backboard] 3
  - What do you think? nm - ralph wiggum May 10, 16:50 1
    - I'm only a little way in. I dig it. It's trippy. - prayformojo May 10, 16:52
  - i mean, yeah, it's a nice post i guess . . . -- nm - senor dentista May 10, 16:49
- The Grand Design - Stephen Hawking -- nm - amoxy May 10, 16:47
fwiw, this is what I use for posting badness comparison. nm but: -- (link) - b. May 10, 16:43 [Backboard] 15
- I had blissfully forgotten about that person. -- nm - ty97 May 10, 16:52
- oh, they were a special kind of stupid. -- nm - groiny May 10, 16:49
- As I clicked on the link I thought, "please don't be me, please don't be me, please don't be me" NOT REDMOND!! Wooohoooo -- nm - Bacon May 10, 16:48 2
  - this. -- nm - Strongbad May 10, 17:08
  - Hee! nm - ralph wiggum May 10, 17:01
- Huh. I never saw that before. That's.... something. -- nm - TWuG May 10, 16:44 7
  - I've come a long way, baby! -- nm - Spawn May 10, 16:54
  - The poster in question didn't last 12 hours after that salting of the earth. -- nm - David May 10, 16:50 5
    - they were not even around all that long before that post IIRC -- nm - groiny May 10, 16:51 4
      - my (notoriously bad) memory concurs. Was a newbie at the time. -- nm - ty97 May 10, 16:53 3
        
        No, Thalia dated all the way back to the-money. -- nm - David May 10, 16:53 2
        
        see also: notoriously bad memory :) -- nm - ty97 May 10, 16:54 1
        
        lol -- nm - groiny May 10, 16:55
- Pol Pot was still evil, just not Hitler. -- nm - Will Hunting May 10, 16:44 1
  - I did include the condition of not hurting oneself/others. -- (edited) - b. May 10, 16:51
*reads backboards, regrets it immediately* -- nm - David May 10, 16:39 21
- Team Dean, Team Jess, Team Logan or Team Paris? -- nm - amoxy May 10, 16:48 2
  - Team New Guy -- nm - kelly May 10, 17:01 1
    - or Team Nobody -- nm - amoxy May 10, 17:08
- I haven't told you this yet today, but I love you -- nm - Bacon May 10, 16:42 11
  - wait, so do we now root against him? it's all very confuzzling. -- nm - b. May 10, 16:43 6
    - All I know is that I love my Trailblazers and I have killed them by healing Curry's knee. -- nm - Bacon May 10, 16:51 5
      - Hehe. He broke your owner's soul. -- nm - Will Hunting May 10, 17:03 4
        
        thank you for posting that link this morning, btw. I was listening and not watching, and wanted to see it. -- nm - b. May 10, 17:07 3
        
        Welcome. -- nm - Will Hunting May 10, 17:14
        
        you monster -- nm - senor dentista May 10, 17:08 1
        
        *hangs head* pollyanna meets cruella. -- nm - b. May 10, 17:10
  - "Can we go back to the haunted house, because this is really freaking me out?" -- nm - David May 10, 16:43 2
    - Aww, who's afraid of the little fear demon? -- nm - Will Hunting May 10, 16:45 1
      - "No, it's just tacky." -- nm - Reagen May 10, 17:16
  - This shit gets worse. -- nm - Will Hunting May 10, 16:43
- You miss Primary Tuesday ty97 already. -- nm - ty97 May 10, 16:40 3
  - Isn't West Virginia doing something today? -- nm - Bacon May 10, 16:42 2
    - Maybe snowing? It is that time of year now that it's November 2016 and Hillary has is president-elect. -- nm - ty97 May 10, 16:48
    - Cousin fucking most likely. -- nm - Will Hunting May 10, 16:43
- and Halo sucks too! -- nm - groiny May 10, 16:40 1
  - It's not the game's fault you're terrible at it. -- nm - David May 10, 16:43
So it is /keɪl/ ? - JD May 10, 16:38 10
- That US pronunciation person sounds drugged. -- nm - Qale May 10, 16:48
- The ty in ty97 is a shortened version of my original Prodigy id when I first joined the internet in 1993 - ty97 May 10, 16:46 6
  - But why 97? -- nm - mara May 10, 16:48 4
    - College class year. -- nm - ty97 May 10, 16:48 3
      - Ah. (I've wondered this forever!) -- nm - mara May 10, 16:50 1
        
        :) When I shortened it, in college as I recall, I needed to add something because 'ty' was too short and generally not available. - ty97 May 10, 16:54
      - (I think the 97 got added later. I think I may have just been texasyankee originally) -- nm - ty97 May 10, 16:49
  - sure, that makes sense . . . except for the 97 part -- nm - senor dentista May 10, 16:47
- He's full of crap. It's Quayle. - David May 10, 16:42
- All this time I thought foodies were saying I should eat more kale, but they were saying eat more Qale!? -- nm - TWuG May 10, 16:41
Prince's doctor better call Saul -- (link) - senor dentista May 10, 16:37
Well, that's that. Trump just won the West Virginia primary. -- nm - Mop May 10, 16:36 1
- I mean, it has to be the Trumpiest state. -- nm - ty97 May 10, 16:37
I just can't read the stupid anymore. -- nm - Will Hunting May 10, 16:34 6
- seriously. can't we all just get along? or pretend? what the hell am I supposed to do while I work at home if you guys are all fighty? -- nm - unbreakable mandy jones May 10, 16:36 5
  - Perhaps go skirt shopping because the one you are wearing right now is hideous. - ty97 May 10, 16:39 3
    - this is the fourth meanest thing you've ever said to me! as penance, go find me a map! -- nm - unbreakable mandy jones May 10, 16:41 2
      - Map of the day -- (link) - ty97 May 10, 16:51 [Image]
      - check Doras backpack! -- nm - groiny May 10, 16:42
  - I still love you! -- nm - groiny May 10, 16:37
. -- nm* - . May 10, 16:34 17
- Do what you want. I hate to see anybody leave the boards. I will add, I did get a nice selection of T-Shirts from you last year or the year before - amoxy May 10, 16:46 1
  - I apologize. I didn't mean to turn it into the crap it became. I just wanted what I asked for. - nic to be determined May 10, 17:04
- If you'd accept that you've lost the gift exchange debate and shut up about it forever, I'd like to see you stay. -- nm - TWuG May 10, 16:43 5
  - . -- nm* - . May 10, 17:09
  - This is still that? - Cuzzin Todd May 10, 16:57
  - This for me, too. -- nm - mara May 10, 16:48 2
    - I can always go back to just ignoring her. -- nm - groiny May 10, 16:50 1
      - You really need to take your own advice on this. - nic to be determined May 10, 17:11
- I don't want to see you leave. I think there's just one topic that you and others will never see eye to eye on - ty97 May 10, 16:37 1
  - #neverliioulu -- nm - Will Hunting May 10, 16:39
- I will gladly hold the door for you. -- nm - groiny May 10, 16:36
- just like all the other times you quit before? -- nm - senor dentista May 10, 16:35 3
  - Nope. -- nm - nic to be determined May 10, 16:38 2
    - at least you have your backpack with you. -- nm - groiny May 10, 16:39 1
      - nope -- nm - nic to be determined May 10, 16:58
- I vote stay -- nm - Bacon May 10, 16:35
- Leave. - Will Hunting May 10, 16:35
Barry wearing some threads tonite -- nm - budice May 10, 16:32
If you want to watch Deadpool for free, go to Cinemanow and enter the code... -- (edited) - David May 10, 16:30 1
- oo, that was easy - thank you! -- nm - b. May 10, 16:35
I'm terrified to play openers in my baby port. - ty97 May 10, 16:29 20
- I haven't opened it since Friday -- nm - amoxy May 10, 16:47 1
  - Wtf? -- nm - Epiphany May 10, 18:31
- It was the 90s, we were all drunk and stuff. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 10, 16:46 3
  - Some of us newbies didn't join until 2000. -- nm - ty97 May 10, 16:56 2
    - Oh shit my anniversary is coming up. I need to look it up. -- nm - Bacon May 10, 16:57 1
      - is this you? nm but: -- (link) - b. May 10, 16:58
- I freaking hate saturday halt. I loved gut check polls and huge swings. I loved having to take a stand. - unbreakable mandy jones May 10, 16:40 6
  - I definitely miss the real halt. And I'd be happy to play it in my normal port. - ty97 May 10, 16:57
  - You can still do the opening warrants. -- nm - pmb May 10, 16:45 1
    - opening warrants? that's like telling her "you can still do a sample-sized Moe's Smoking Chicken bowl" -- nm - senor dentista May 10, 16:46
  - Yeah, but then I remember the H$3 million or so I lost shorting Tangled on the last ever adjust and I feel fine with it -- nm - Roger More May 10, 16:42 1
    - peanuts compared to what i lost betting on American Psycho. -- nm - groiny May 10, 16:43
  - yeah, it seems like a cheap way to bail out -- nm - groiny May 10, 16:41
- look at my port and see how good I am doing after civil war! -- nm - groiny May 10, 16:31 2
  - Yeah, I dug myself into a little of hole with that one, but I got out Friday so it was irreparable. -- nm - ty97 May 10, 16:32 1
    - Until this port gets bigger, there will be no more three digit priced stocks for me. -- (edited) - ty97 May 10, 16:32
- The fact that they don't halt stocks on Friday is so lame!! How can you not play openers when you can bail before adjust? -- nm - Bacon May 10, 16:30 1
  - What's worse (better? worse?) is that there's free money if you happen to be around when the first estimates come in. -- nm - ty97 May 10, 16:31
- [deleted] 1
  - I just had to google when polls close. That's how much I've ignored this week's primary. - ty97 May 10, 16:31
WWE: Triple H signs new 3 year deal as a wrestler. -- nm - Remlik May 10, 16:28 1
- Do not want. -- nm - Qale May 10, 16:57
Mookie! -- nm - CQ May 10, 16:25
I reject your reality and substitute my own -- nm - dogbert May 10, 16:24 10
- oh shit, that's dogberts music!!!!! -- nm - groiny May 10, 16:28 9
  - I thought meg killed him on a desert hike. Are we sure it's really him? -- nm - Bacon May 10, 16:29 8
    - Guy, Marlowe, Remlik and myself with Meg...We all fell asleep on the drive back to Vegas - amoxy May 10, 16:55 1
      - I do remember Remlik coming back with a bright red melon. And we passed around Guy's boots like they were herpes -- nm - Bacon May 10, 16:55
    - hike? you really don't know me at all, do you? -- nm - dogbert May 10, 16:46
    - i would have to hear him snore to be sure. -- nm - groiny May 10, 16:31 3
      - Are you the guy that slept in the bathtub from his snoring? -- nm - Bacon May 10, 16:34 2
        
        I slept in the bathtub, but not from his snoring.... - groiny May 10, 16:36
        
        Snoring = passed out. -- nm - Will Hunting May 10, 16:35
    - It's probably some kid who found dogbert's head and put it on a stick. -- nm - Roger More May 10, 16:31

Post a message top

< Newer

Older >

(Disclaimer: This website uses cookies to store identifying information. Please practice safe password usage.)