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Is it wrong that I have a big belly laugh when my old company posts a half billion dollar loss for Q1 and the stock dives? - colin May 11, 06:29 4
- I love it when karma bites people/companies right on the ass -- nm - Pippy May 11, 06:34 1
  - Yep. The billions made raising the stock by waves of firings has been wiped out plus some. -- nm - colin May 11, 06:36
- Until you realize you have savings still tied up in their stock... - znufrii May 11, 06:33 1
  - Hell no. The companies I've worked for and have stock in are doing great. I feel bad for a friend that was heavily invested in Linn Energy though.. -- nm - colin May 11, 06:34
Biden: 'I would have been the best president' -- (link) - budice May 11, 06:26 2
- then you should have run, dumbass -- nm - ML May 11, 06:32 1
  - Biden also thinks he would have been the best NFL quarterback... -- nm - colin May 11, 06:33
wicked, I get to but new boots and work is paying! CSA and Omega, steel toed. sweetness -- nm - Beaker May 11, 06:19
Oh, good gravy. Mail Slot Jr. is now using a new tactic to try and get food during every waking minute. - kelly May 11, 06:11 9
- he's a Hobbit and it is time for second breakfast obviously -- nm - Beaker May 11, 06:15
- *laughing* its not funny but its sort of cute. -- nm - Pippy May 11, 06:13 7
  - His tactics include the following: - kelly May 11, 06:22 6
    - you'll walk into the kitchen one day and find him and Will each with a hand in a bag of flour -- nm - Beaker May 11, 06:23 1
      - I've already had to hide the bag of chocolate chips, so it's possible. -- nm - kelly May 11, 06:26
    - this is fascinating - good grief - the antics! maybe he has a future as an actor? - Pippy May 11, 06:23 3
      - professional eater! -- nm - Beaker May 11, 06:24 1
        
        Joey Chestnut better look out! -- nm - Shaun May 11, 06:26
      - Or a chef? -- nm - znufrii May 11, 06:24
ST Song Poll -- what song are you really enjoying these days? -- (link) - znufrii May 11, 06:09 11
- "That's Some Dream" by Good Old War -- nm* - volnelk May 11, 06:41
- my recent purchase was: Nobody to Blame - Chris Stapleton - Pippy May 11, 06:35
- *hangs head* No by Meghan Trainor. - Will Hunting May 11, 06:32 5
  - she did an acapella song on Howard Stern yesterday - she has a very beautiful voice - Pippy May 11, 06:36
  - Ouch. -- nm - Shaun May 11, 06:34 3
    - I replaced that 7 Years song with this so it's a step up. -- nm - Will Hunting May 11, 06:35 2
      - please please listen to his other songs - they are way better - Pippy May 11, 06:37 1
        
        So like Bruno Mars filled with fruit, wrapped in puff pastry, and glazed? -- nm - colin May 11, 06:39
- Last Chance by Idiot Pilot... -- nm - colin May 11, 06:21
- Nothing lately has lit me up but I've been listening to a lot of Exile in Guyville lately. -- (link) - spamlet May 11, 06:17 [youtube]
- Also -- (link) - znufrii May 11, 06:10
Huh. Equity Crowdfunding (for regular investors) to begin next week. -- (link*) - znufrii May 11, 05:56
Hey SportChek: I get that it's the Friends and Family Sale, but using FFS2016 as the promo code should be slightly reimagined. -- nm - Shaun May 11, 05:47 1
- After how 2016 has treated humanity so far...let's not be took quick on this. -- nm - Will Hunting May 11, 05:53
We are currently at the worst place in the entire world. - David's iPad May 11, 05:28 31
- So am I. Where are you? -- nm - colin May 11, 06:09 12
  - A24. You? -- nm - David's iPad May 11, 06:13 11
    - C3. I board in 10 minutes or I'd come find you... -- nm - colin May 11, 06:14 10
      - * I picture Colin & David racing through the airport towards each other, where they stop and twirl around* - Pippy May 11, 06:17 3
        
        Instead we both board, look sadly over our shoulders one last time with a tear in our eye, and leave. -- nm - colin May 11, 06:22 2
        
        This movie sucks! -- nm - Airport patrons May 11, 06:24 1
        
        Stupid art films with sad endings. -- nm - colin May 11, 06:26
      - Yeah, we start in five. Wish you'd seen the post earlier. I would have bought you breakfast. -- nm - David's iPad May 11, 06:15 5
        
        Dammit! Next time :) -- nm - colin May 11, 06:15 4
        
        Had a good reason... Saw an old high school classmate and was catching up. -- nm - colin May 11, 06:16 3
        
        No worries. That would have been cool, though. -- nm - David's iPad May 11, 06:17 2
        
        Safe travels! -- nm - colin May 11, 06:18 1
        
        You too! -- nm - David's iPad May 11, 06:31
- dupe -- nm* - iSpam May 11, 06:09 1
  - Spit it out. -- nm - colin May 11, 06:10
- I dunno. It might not even be the worst airport in the country. -- (edited) - iSpam May 11, 06:09 7
  - That's what I hear but we do have plans in the works to make it a modern airport. -- nm - Krusty May 11, 06:14 3
    - Finally switching from pits to toilets? -- nm - colin May 11, 06:17 2
      - Pits to troughs. People like to be treated like cattle. -- nm - Krusty May 11, 06:21 1
        
        NYC...keeping the dream alive. -- nm - colin May 11, 06:25
  - Nobody likes a contrarian. -- nm - David's iPad May 11, 06:14 2 1
    - Everybody loves a contrarian! - iSpam May 11, 06:14
    - well... -- nm - Reagen May 11, 06:14
- Go to the first bathroom you find...you won't find another for another quarter mile. -- nm - Will Hunting May 11, 05:53
- Trump Towers? -- nm - Beaker May 11, 05:50
- I thought you just meant America. -- nm - volnelk May 11, 05:35 3
  - New Jersey.... -- nm - colin May 11, 06:11
  - mmmmm, beer -- nm - CQ May 11, 05:41
  - Get back to me in November! -- nm - David's iPad May 11, 05:37
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  - Dignan's basement -- nm - Beaker May 11, 05:50
Business: Macy's cut full-year earnings estimates by 20% -- (link) - budice May 11, 05:22 3
- their coupon sales are a hot mess. I got tired of trying to figure out if it worked for the item I wanted to buy - -- nm - Pippy May 11, 06:12
- Oh, joy - znufrii May 11, 06:01
- Also...Staples/Office Depot merger off, Disney misses estimates -- (link) - budice May 11, 05:27
May 11, 868 – A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book. -- nm - Beaker May 11, 05:18 8
- This was a good one, thanks! -- nm - mara May 11, 06:31
- 1820 – HMS Beagle, the ship that will take Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage, is launched. -- nm - Beaker May 11, 05:18 6
  - 1927 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded. -- nm - Beaker May 11, 05:19 5
    - 2016 - dead horse flogged to death -- nm* - Beaker May 11, 05:21 4
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        My two cents, pretty damn hard for Kelly and Will. -- nm - mara May 11, 06:33 1
        
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      - butbutbut -- nm - iSpam May 11, 05:33
. - . May 11, 04:00 4
- Doesnt sound like you are after all. -- (link) - iSpam May 11, 05:01 [Backboard]
- Without my wife's input or knowledge, please drop this. No one is interested in continuing this. - Will Hunting May 11, 04:39 2
  - spoiler - kelly May 11, 04:59 1
    - . - . May 11, 11:29
TV PSA: Arrow, Heartbeat, NBA, Rosewood, Survivor, Middle, Goldbergs, American Pickers, Criminal Minds BB, Empire, L&O SVU, Modern Family, Blackish, -- nm - Beaker May 11, 03:23 1
- Supernatural, Chicago PD, Nashville, Americans, other stuff -- nm - Beaker May 11, 03:24
Wake up, PFM! -- nm - David's iPad May 11, 02:28
Chinese police uncover huge fake jellyfish 'scam' -- (link) - Covington May 11, 01:52 1
- I loved seeing Fake Jellyfish Scam when they opened for GWAR and the Carson City Pigsty back in '94 -- nm - prayformojo May 11, 04:13
the real lemonade -- (link) - senor dentista May 11, 00:34 1
- I've heard around the corner fudge is made. -- nm - Krusty May 11, 05:08
One of my favorite things about Civil War is that it can tell a great story and bring in a lot of characters without it being the end-of-the-world - Mop May 11, 00:24 2
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- I like how they improved the action sequences, as multiple characters interact---true teamwork, to take someone down or get out of a beatdown -- nm - Flavorize May 11, 00:45
Does SHIELD have Cap 3 spoilers? -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 23:23 9
- I'd say mild spoilers. *spoilers* - Ender May 11, 07:08
- I haven't seen Cap 3 but watched SHIELD and they allude to stuff but nothing spoiled I think -- nm - Beaker May 11, 04:26
- So about Coulson---I'm going to mark spoilers, just in case - Flavorize May 11, 00:31
- From the preview I saw, it boils down to "Hey, there's a law now that requires us to register the super humans!" - Mop May 10, 23:48 2
  - spoiler - Beryllium May 11, 00:11 1
    - Also, Iron Man is in it. -- nm - Mop May 11, 00:22
- Repost ... (and your answer is "yes, there are no spoils") -- (link) - ReluctantCynic (Team Cap) May 10, 23:42 [Backboard] 2
  - Oh, so that's what "Clark Gregg Lied" was about -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 23:55
  - Strictly speaking, yes, they do reference events in the beginning of film - but not much about the outcome. (nm) - howie May 10, 23:48
TRUE AMERICAN! -- nm - Mop May 10, 22:54 3
- Hey! Are you coming for TIFF this Fall? -- nm - JenBro May 10, 23:18 2
  - Probably not. I'm not really feeling it. -- nm - Mop May 10, 23:43
  - . -- nm* - . May 10, 23:36
Station Casino's buy the Palms for....$312.5 Million -- (link) - Peglegpete May 10, 22:28 6
- I love the Palms. -- nm - ReluctantCynic (Team Cap) May 10, 22:46 4
  - really? I love Casinos in general and I was whelmed. Not very big, not all that flashy -- nm - Pippy May 11, 06:15
  - I like it too. I wonder what changes Station will bring besides changing a few restaurants. -- nm - Peglegpete May 10, 22:55 2
    - Wasn't Station the place with the great Prime Rib reputation? -- nm - JenBro May 10, 22:58 1
      - probably not. if the restaurant was in a strip casino, Station does not own a casino on the strip and most of their restaurants are fair+. not super. -- nm - Peglegpete May 10, 23:00
- Well we know where we have to stay next trip :) -- nm - Meg May 10, 22:34
Kelly: we might tell M's parents, but probably not mine. I fear my mother would not react well. - mafic May 10, 21:58 3
- Gotcha. -- nm - kelly May 11, 04:59
- *senses a prime blackmail opportunity* -- nm - senor dentista May 10, 22:01 1
  - eh, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- nm - mafic May 10, 22:10
Ooh, the clouds are lighting up. Disney fireworks time. 35 years and it still surprises me :) -- nm - Meg May 10, 21:46 1
- Well I'm certainly glad Disney can still afford to shoot fireworks. -- nm - Qale May 10, 21:54
I'm consistently offended that I have to mail things to my health insurance company. what is this, the 19th century? -- nm - mafic May 10, 21:44 3
- I have to fax something today and not to the IRS. Welcome to 1975. -- nm - iSpam May 11, 05:02
- I'm convinced it's because they want you to give up and not send the claim. -- nm - Reagen May 10, 21:45 1
  - they're not wrong. it certainly makes me take longer to do it. -- nm - mafic May 10, 21:49
oh oh, ebay now allowing select dealers to sell wine....in related news I'm seriously short on money -- (link*) - zeitgeist May 10, 21:39 3
- highest first -- (link) - Peglegpete May 10, 22:13 2
  - going lowest first finds a bunch of pure auction action, odd lot 30-40 yo starting at one penny -- nm - zeitgeist May 10, 23:29 1
    - dang some have jumped from a penny to $44. this was mentioned in Wine Speculator newsletter so I suppose they got a lot of new shoppers -- nm - zeitgeist May 11, 00:20
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, the Guardian got top actors to do some of his famous monologues. -- (link) - Mop May 10, 21:31
Read on for your daily dose of chemistry humour -- (link) - Reagen May 10, 21:23
Never let it be said the Caps can't find a new level of playoff despair when it is called for -- nm - senor dentista May 10, 21:10 3
- #TeamStark -- nm - Spawn May 10, 21:21
- teasing the comeback is definitely a twist on their usual choking. -- nm - Reagen May 10, 21:13 1
  - wait, Kessel plays for the Pens now? fuck that guy! -- nm - senor dentista May 10, 23:06
Apparently Sweets is the braintrust behind the Hasbro movie universe? ROM, Visionaries *and* MASK? All winners! -- nm - Mop May 10, 21:04 1
- Did he write Battleship? - SGTAmerica #TeamCap May 10, 21:28
Speaking of wiggums ... (nmb wiggums) - ReluctantCynic (Team Cap) May 10, 21:01 3
- Heh. You were on track with the hoofstock guess. It's Elkhart (on the Michigan border). nm - ralph wiggum May 10, 21:02 2
  - That's right! - ReluctantCynic (Team Cap) May 10, 21:10
  - ^points and laughs! Ha-HA! I only lived there...you were born there! -- nm - Remlik May 10, 21:03
Nick's latest thing that has me mentally reaching for the Scotch is that he's started mansplaining things to me. - ralph wiggum May 10, 20:54 14
- oh man, if I had a dollar for every time G asked us if we *really* knew where we were going - Reagen May 10, 21:02 1
  - Oh, he also tries to give me directions to places I've been to many times. nm - ralph wiggum May 10, 21:03
- "Do you want to be the lawyer? Fine with me!" -- nm - Roger More May 10, 21:02
- . -- nm* - . May 10, 20:57 10
  - She's the Grinder. -- nm - Mop May 11, 00:03
  - I am a lawyer! This does not stop him from lecturing me with complete confidence. nm - ralph wiggum May 10, 20:58 8
    - is "Son of a Lawyer!" the hot new epithet in your household? -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 21:02 5
      - (Also, kids are annoying. My son locked me in my room at bedtime tonight because I wouldn't clean up HIS mess.) -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 21:03 4
        
        I had a lovely incident when the kids were little where Zoe locked me out of the house and Nick stabbed me in the ass with a fork. nm - ralph wiggum May 10, 21:05 3
        
        Why'd they leave you in charge of the bees? -- nm - Reagen May 10, 21:06 2
        
        Seriously. I was trying to yell through the door to get Nick to open it, but he was too short and dopey. - ralph wiggum May 10, 21:09 1
        
        :) -- nm - kelly May 10, 21:20
    - Yeah, but you're not a *real* lawyer. Allow me to explain what a real lawyer does professionally ... - ReluctantCynic (Team Cap) May 10, 21:00
    - "You should strenuously object. That's how you get the judge to listen." -- nm - TWuG May 10, 21:00
I'm having issues with Swype randomly doubling words. - kelly May 10, 20:52

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