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ST Soothing and Reparative Poll -- what's your retreat? - znufrii, dad. Jul 8, 07:00 9
- My dog. -- nm - jnine Jul 8, 08:46
- Screaming, arms flailing in the air, running a zigzag pattern until I hit the treeline. -- nm - Ender Jul 8, 07:05 2
  - you should really talk to the Starks -- nm - groiny Jul 8, 07:09
  - Heh. :-) -- nm - Krusty Jul 8, 07:05
- TV/Movies, video games, long walks and dutches of the sticky green. -- nm - Krusty Jul 8, 07:02
- Metallica and Guns N' Roses. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 8, 07:02
- my basement, Xbox, Margarita. -- nm - groiny Jul 8, 07:02
- Blood Feud drafting -- nm - Strongbad Jul 8, 07:01
- ST -- nm - Roger More Jul 8, 07:00
The Secret Life of Pets did $5.3M on Thursday night -- (link) - LMS Jul 8, 06:50 12
- Mike & Dave - $1.6M last night from 2,560 locations -- nm - LMS Jul 8, 06:56
- Convert this into OW? -- nm - Strongbad Jul 8, 06:52 7
  - nevermind, didn't realize it was in the article -- nm - Strongbad Jul 8, 06:55 2
    - (that number is based on tracking, not a projection from the Thursday #s) -- nm - Roger More Jul 8, 06:56 1
      - yeah, that tracking seems super-conservative based on Thursday IMO -- nm - ty97 Jul 8, 07:01
  - Big if true. -- nm - Diva Jul 8, 06:52 3
    - big big? mega big? ultra huge big? -- nm - Strongbad Jul 8, 06:53 2
      - yonh. big. -- nm - Diva Jul 8, 06:57
      - Mega big. $80M+ -- nm - Roger More Jul 8, 06:56
- *paging RogerMore* -- nm - ty97 Jul 8, 06:51 2
  - Well, that's a huge number -- nm - Roger More Jul 8, 06:52 1
    - Good number for MDWND as well -- nm - Roger More Jul 8, 06:53
This just should be part of a - this is how life is - training video for Millennials -- (link) - Capstern Jul 8, 06:49 [youtube]
"Our nation has become too divided." - znufrii, dad. Jul 8, 06:47 6
- Why am I so cynical that I think he didn't write it and that hate will again spew out of his mouth later today -- nm - amoxy Jul 8, 06:56 1
  - Because water is wet? -- nm - znufrii, dad. Jul 8, 06:58
- You know what freaks me out. The movie Trigger Effect. -- nm - oblique Jul 8, 06:50 3
  - Also: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street - znufrii, dad. Jul 8, 06:53
  - *laughing* I first read this as The Tigger Movie -- nm - ÜMLaut Jul 8, 06:51 1
    - that thing is unnatural -- nm - oblique Jul 8, 06:51
Good news: Capitol lockdown over. -- nm - ty97 Jul 8, 06:45
I guess I need to read The Dark Tower series since the film(s) will be different than the books - Krusty Jul 8, 06:45
Dirty Larry Brown stepping down at SMU. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 8, 06:37
And I'll take a bit of heart in this -- (link) - ty97 Jul 8, 06:36
frz in ofc again. -- nm - unbreakable mandy jones Jul 8, 06:33 1
- start a fire to stay warm -- nm - decline Jul 8, 06:36
I'll take this tweet as my spokestweet -- (link) - ty97 Jul 8, 06:33 2
- Yup. -- nm - Krusty Jul 8, 06:39
- right. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 8, 06:36
Pokemon count: 10, 1 evolved - decline Jul 8, 06:32 7
- Caught 48. Still have 18. Evolved 3. -- nm - Ender Jul 8, 06:45 4
  - True. I should say my son gave me a good tip. I only keep the best version of any particular pokemon I find and Transfer the rest to the professor - oblique Jul 8, 06:46 3
    - yup, read last night that you should do this (I didn't know) -- nm - decline Jul 8, 06:47 2
      - I left the game running while I drove to work (at least until I got on the interstate) and was impressed by the density of locations overall - oblique Jul 8, 06:48 1
        
        still level 4. I did the same thing this morn. Most of my drive is too fast though - decline Jul 8, 06:54
- I have 11 with I think 2 or 3 evolved. My son has like 42 - oblique Jul 8, 06:38
- 1, 0 I need to get out more -- nm - CQ Jul 8, 06:38
I shouldn't be surprised, but some people are already blaming Obama recognizing BLM for this. - ty97 Jul 8, 06:23 19
- you leave, it will be here when you come back tomorrow. -- nm - groiny Jul 8, 06:29 17
  - and they will still be throwing the crazy and the hate, so don't let them win by leaving -- nm - Beaker Jul 8, 06:30 16
    - this is kind of my point, leaving accomplishes nothing -- nm - groiny Jul 8, 06:34 15
      - But some days it just gets so hard - ty97 Jul 8, 06:38 14
        
        Unplugging for a few days can ease your mind and maybe help you cope with it better when you get back. - Epiphany Jul 8, 06:43 13
        
        but wikipedia is my happy place! I can't unplug. (I almost died when I was "camping" two weeks ago. how am I supposed to remember that UWV is - unbreakable mandy jones Jul 8, 07:05
        
        The first line of your IM makes me smile. Thank you for that. - ty97 Jul 8, 06:44 11
        
        Wait. Your family is soothing and reparative? -- nm - zork Jul 8, 06:55
        
        I love Pippy. -- nm - Diva Jul 8, 06:53 2
        
        yonh! -- nm - ty97 Jul 8, 07:02 1
        
        :) -- nm - Diva Jul 8, 07:22
        
        Let's go camping! - Krusty Jul 8, 06:46 6
        
        *cat hiss* -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 8, 07:04
        
        But I don't want to stay at a Motel 6! - ty97 Jul 8, 06:52 4
        
        Tents and a warm fire at night. Lots of wandering around the woods, some fishing and lots of relaxing. -- nm - Krusty Jul 8, 06:54 3
        
        STOP IT, I DON'T LIKE HORROR MOVIES! - ty97 Jul 8, 07:02
        
        Count me in! Actually, I'm going to a friend's cottage next weekend. Woo -- nm - zork Jul 8, 06:56 1
        
        Nice! I'm always jealous when someone I know heads out of the city for a break. - Krusty Jul 8, 07:01
- Of course they are. -- nm - znufrii, dad. Jul 8, 06:26
July 8, 1099 – Some 15,000 starving Christian soldiers begin the siege of Jerusalem by marching in a religious procession around the city - Beaker Jul 8, 06:21 4
- 1776: Church bells (possibly including the Liberty Bell) are rung after John Nixon delivers the 1st public reading of the Declaration of Independence - Beaker Jul 8, 06:22 3
  - 1889 – The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published. -- nm - Beaker Jul 8, 06:22 2
    - 1932 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22. -- nm - Beaker Jul 8, 06:23 1
      - 1947 – Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident. -- nm - Beaker Jul 8, 06:23
Just to clarify, 1 shooter is dead and 3 others in custody? -- nm - amoxy Jul 8, 06:18 4
- That's what I heard and that they won't release names because they believe there are accomplices and they don't want them - Krusty Jul 8, 06:39 1
  - The one guy who was shot claimed he worked alone, so he wasn't with the other 3 - amoxy Jul 8, 06:46
- if that's confirmed - that's crazy. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 8, 06:35
- correct -- nm - decline Jul 8, 06:19
"Capitol and CVC both in lockdown, per alert sent to House and Senate staff" - ÜMLaut Jul 8, 06:18 1
- Wait for it... -- nm - SMoD Jul 8, 06:22
Here's The Moment Daniel Cormier Learned The Jon Jones Fight Was Off -- (link) - Beaker Jul 8, 06:09
In good news for the US, the jobs report came out today and it was huge. 287k jobs which is 100k more than expected. -- nm - Krusty Jul 8, 06:03 13
- And the unemployment rate ticked up, which will confuse a lot of people. -- nm - TorBaron Jul 8, 06:11
- Canada lost 700 jobs so "unchanged" but Jobless rate inches down to 6.8% as fewer people looking -- nm - Beaker Jul 8, 06:05 11
  - The last time the number was really low (200), it came out a couple of weeks later that there was an error and it was really 40k or something -- nm - zork Jul 8, 06:22
  - I had no idea that your jobless percentage was higher than ours. -- nm - ty97 Jul 8, 06:11 4
    - it's not an apples to apples comparison though, as it's counted differently. -- nm - Reagen Jul 8, 06:14 3
      - do we count 'underemployed' somehow? i know i have read before the difference, but i really don't remember. -- nm - Andie Jul 8, 06:20 1
        
        same as you I don't recall, I just know it's done differently. -- nm - Reagen Jul 8, 06:40
      - mmmm, granny smith apples - ty97 Jul 8, 06:14
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    - I think they go by Employment Insurance claims, or maybe something tax-related -- nm - Beryllium Jul 8, 06:42
    - They closed a Tim Horton's in Moosejaw. -- nm - TorBaron Jul 8, 06:12
  - "Fuck it, i'll go live off the land." -- nm - Andie Jul 8, 06:07 1
    - "Brampton does not count as 'the land'." -- nm - Reagen Jul 8, 06:15
BBC has video of a shooter in Dallas. He's on the street level. - Covington Jul 8, 05:43 1
- I was just coming here to ask -- can anyone find a recording of the press conf? I can't find one and want to watch. or would it not be up yet? -- nm - unbreakable mandy jones Jul 8, 06:19
Damn. They took out the suspect with a bomb placed on the arm of their robot and detonated it to kill him. -- nm - TWuG Jul 8, 05:41 1
- The suspect said "He was upset with BLM*. With police shootings. With white people." DPD Chief in current statement. -- (edited) - TWuG Jul 8, 05:43
Perhaps this is not the time, but these 'deadliest day (for police officers) since September 11' headlines feel opportunistic and disgusting. -- nm - ty97 Jul 8, 05:30 10
- media being media -- nm - Strongbad Jul 8, 05:42
- Like, why play off 9/11 like that just for ratings/shock value. -- nm - ty97 Jul 8, 05:30 8
  - For the ratings/shock value, duh. -- nm - znufrii, dad. Jul 8, 05:31 7
    - Or to give perspective of how deadly this incident was to police -- nm - zork Jul 8, 06:19 6
      - It's not a useful comparison. The scale of the events is still vastly different. - znufrii, dad. Jul 8, 06:20 5
        
        Of course they are but it shows that you don't get many incidents where more than one or two officers are killed. -- nm - zork Jul 8, 06:23 4
        
        I'm not ready to credit the news media as a whole with that level of nuance. - znufrii, dad. Jul 8, 06:25 1
        
        valid point -- nm - zork Jul 8, 06:53
        
        It's incendiary clickbait. -- nm - ty97 Jul 8, 06:24 1
        
        Your reasoning, while valid, is the exact opposite reason of why the headlines are being used. -- nm - ty97 Jul 8, 06:24
SITWAP: Cruz has accepted Trump's invitation to speak at the RNC. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 8, 05:23 1
- hey, he only called him every name in the book and insinuated his dad killed JFK; all's good -- nm - Beaker, Defending Caveman Champion Jul 8, 05:37
20 things all Americans need to know before visiting post-Brexit Britain -- (link) - LMS Jul 8, 05:23 3
- Diva: this post has been book marked. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 8, 06:37 1
  - very good. -- nm - Diva Jul 8, 06:58
- " Right now you could buy Buckingham Palace. Prince Harry will show you round." -- nm - Epiphany Jul 8, 06:22
What. The. Everloving. Fuck. -- nm - znufrii, dad. Jul 8, 05:09 1
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Poor spammy :( - ty97 Jul 8, 04:39 3
- It ended up not being that close. By the time my gate checked bag got there it was long gone. - iSpam Jul 8, 05:05 2
  - Ah yeah, gate checked bags make it harder - ty97 Jul 8, 05:20 1
    - Nah. You gave me hope. -- nm - iSpam Jul 8, 06:54
Happy Birthday Lii Oulu! -- nm - Beaker, Defending Caveman Champion Jul 8, 04:32 8
- HBD -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 8, 10:51
- Birfday -- nm - zork Jul 8, 06:51
- Happy Birthday. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 8, 06:40
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - JenBro Jul 8, 06:26
- Happy birthday, Liioulu! Woo hoo!!! -- nm - Krusty Jul 8, 06:07
- Happy birthday! -- nm - ty97 Jul 8, 05:34
- Happy birthday! -- nm - Roger More Jul 8, 05:32
- hbd! -- nm - Divs Jul 8, 05:30
Update: Changing planes at IAD in DC. No sleep on the flight from LA. Dead tired. - howie Jul 8, 04:26 1
- Good luck! -- nm - iSpam Jul 8, 04:33
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM -- (link) - Strongbad Jul 8, 03:51
Cormier opens as a -600 favorite vs. Anderson Silva -- nm - Strongbad Jul 8, 03:45
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- I am very interested in seeing the 'how' on this as that's a Joker/Dark Knight level of planning for something on short notice. - Will Hunting Jul 8, 04:46 15
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    - these people would get guns regardless of the laws I would imagine. -- nm - Beaker Jul 8, 04:58 13
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        I'm just getting details, but yes, sounds like they had skills in both weapons *and* how to use them. - ty97 Jul 8, 05:33
      - That wouldn't be a reason to do nothing though. - Will Hunting Jul 8, 05:02 10
        
        Nah, just start blaming the Christians like zeitgeist did on B2. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 8, 05:19 8
        
        christian*ist* seems most religions get those who will kill because others pray differently -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 8, 10:57
        
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        Thank you - Strongbad Jul 8, 05:40 2
        
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        *nods* - Will Hunting Jul 8, 05:53
        
        Here's a helpful hint that has served me wonderfully in times of nuance and reasonable discourse - Will Hunting Jul 8, 05:32 2
        
        *nods vigorously* -- nm - znufrii, dad. Jul 8, 06:04
        
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        That's always the reason to do nothing, haven't you been paying attention? -- nm - znufrii, dad. Jul 8, 05:18
- Yep, awful -- nm - ty97 Jul 8, 04:41
- yes, just heard about it. terrible. -- nm - Beaker Jul 8, 03:40
In other news, Larry Wilmore nailed it, a couple weeks ago he said Gretchen Carlson would get fired from faux because she said something for gun contr - zeitgeist Jul 8, 03:09
Reuters: Suspect involved in standoff with Dallas police is dead according to local media -- (link) - budice Jul 8, 01:28 1
- Damn -- nm - JaxSean Jul 8, 01:31
WA state patrol introduced a new uniform i'll bet will spread around the country, the ballistic shield looks like a button up shirt that fits over a - zeitgeist Jul 8, 00:56
That was weird. A balloon randomly popped in the kitchen, without anything poking it. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 8, 00:41 2
- Ghosts. -- nm - mafic Jul 8, 00:48 1
  - Pointy ghosts -- nm - . Jul 8, 03:43
So is spamlet home yet? I'm in Hong Kong for the next 50 minutes. -- nm - mafic Jul 8, 00:29 2
- And howie's in the air on a red eye, I gather? -- nm - Beryllium Jul 8, 00:34
- didn't make the connection, at a hotel tonight, out first flight in the morning. -- nm - b! Jul 8, 00:32

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