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Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash - budice Aug 8, 07:13
*shaking fist at decline* *starts rooting against effing Sweden* NMBES - mara Aug 8, 07:08 2
- **kisses** -- nm - decline Aug 8, 07:16
- every chance I get where the US beats Colombia in something I take the opportunity to rub it in on our Colombian guide from our trip. -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 8, 07:10
Rocket League Rumble trailer. -- (link) - Shaun Aug 8, 07:06 [youtube]
NFL: WR Lance Moore announces his retirement -- nm - budice Aug 8, 07:00 3
- That didn't take long. -- nm - David Aug 8, 07:02
- Wentz's "jumpy feet" evident again in overthrow of Deon Long. Footwork not consistent yet but making progress. -- nm - budice Aug 8, 07:00 1
  - Sammy Watkins cleared for practice -- nm - budice Aug 8, 07:04
Heh: Russian para athletes banned from Rio Paralympics for political reasons, 14-year-old archer Tatyana says -- (link) - decline Aug 8, 06:58
Old and busted: lobbying, new hotness: think tanks. -- (link) - znufrii, dad. Aug 8, 06:53
This is adorable -- (link) - ty97 Aug 8, 06:52 1
- 7'1" with the fro -- nm - decline Aug 8, 06:58
Hulu to End Free Streaming Service -- (link) - LMS Aug 8, 06:40 3
- I didn't even realize they had a free service still. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 8, 06:55
- TWuG to End Hulu Streaming Consumption - TWuG Aug 8, 06:50 1
  - Check out the British comedy series Spy before you go. -- nm - LMS Aug 8, 07:09
Following the Paul Pogba Money (soccer/football post) -- (link) - Beaker Aug 8, 06:40
Synchronized gifs -- (link) - Shaun Aug 8, 06:38
14.5 hours until No Man's Sky! -- nm - Ender Aug 8, 06:30 7
- The good: Amazon has charged my card and still claims I'll have it tomorrow. The bad: It's not shipped as of now. - Shaun Aug 8, 06:59 2
  - mine shows as shipped -- nm - decline Aug 8, 07:18
  - They were three days late with Kim's Harry Potter book. -- nm - David Aug 8, 07:02
- Woo! -- nm - Strongbad Aug 8, 06:44
- delayed! -- nm - Beaker Aug 8, 06:35 2
  - It's already downloaded on my PS4! -- nm - Ender Aug 8, 07:09
  - nah, we'll just see the servers crash at 12:01 and nobody will be able to play tomorrow -- nm - decline Aug 8, 06:35
RG3 is your Cleveland Browns QB. That Browns QB jersey can be again updated. -- nm - ML Aug 8, 06:26 2
- who's the backup ? -- nm - decline Aug 8, 06:26 1
  - the Dumpster Pool from Philly -- nm - Beaker Aug 8, 06:28
So that Philly dumpster pool from last week? Local Philly radio station just made their own, but bigger -- (link) - decline Aug 8, 06:25 4
- I don't understand why this is just getting press. People have been doing this in cities for years. -- nm - MDH Aug 8, 06:27 3
  - Yup. -- nm - Krusty Aug 8, 06:28
  - we're a little behind the times -- nm - decline Aug 8, 06:28 1
    - Are you guys just getting rap music and cd's? -- nm - Krusty Aug 8, 06:30
My claimants are making me " kill them with kindess" today. - Epiphany Aug 8, 06:24
First cast picture from the Are You Being Served remake -- (link) - LMS Aug 8, 06:19
Dismaland Art Deco fountain demolition sparks anger. Really? Have you seen it? -- (link) - LMS Aug 8, 06:19 1
- If Banksy had made it I could see keeping it but it's just a really old and broken fountain. People get attached to the oddest things sometimes. -- nm* - Krusty Aug 8, 06:26
Hot deal at Amazon for the Battlefield 1 Exclusive Collector's Edition. -- (link) - Shaun Aug 8, 06:16
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Journalism -- (link) - Beaker Aug 8, 06:07 [youtube]
Uber driver will see his son compete in Rio Olympics, thanks to a passenger's kindness -- (link) - Beaker Aug 8, 05:57
Suicide Squad - B- - It wasn't bad, but it felt like it was edited by Michael Bay. -- nm - Inigo Aug 8, 05:25 13
- Olympics - B+ (NBC's primetime coverage will probably always be ass, but I enjoyed channel surfing the other networks), Great British Baking Show - A -- nm* - Diva Aug 8, 06:57 2
  - Primetime coverage is awful. -- nm - Krusty Aug 8, 07:11
  - New series of Bake Off returns in the UK on the 24th August. -- nm - LMS Aug 8, 07:01
- I Saw the Light: ZZZZZZZZZZZ -- nm - kelly Aug 8, 06:53
- April and the Extraordinary World - B - spamlet Aug 8, 06:40
- Drive - A (I forgot how good that movie is ) -- nm - decline Aug 8, 06:33
- Now You See Me, B - znufrii, dad. Aug 8, 06:32 1
  - why were you watching Trump on TV plus the movie? -- nm - Beaker Aug 8, 06:34
- Olympics: B+ I didn't watch anything else this weekend. -- nm* - Krusty Aug 8, 06:27
- C+, the dropping of accents throughout was irritating. Its definitely a Will Smith vehicle which I was okay with -- nm - Epiphany Aug 8, 05:42
- Batman: Bad Blood (cartoon): B (they've done a great job with their Batman animated movies, mostly all inter-connected) -- nm - Beaker Aug 8, 05:29 2
  - Is that the one where he fights Taylor Swift? -- nm - Reagen Aug 8, 05:31 1
    - This joke is terrible, even for a Monday morning. -- nm - Shaun Aug 8, 06:47
August 8, 1963 – Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal £2.6 million in bank notes. -- nm - Beaker Aug 8, 05:07 2
- 1990 – Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward. -- nm - Beaker Aug 8, 05:07 1
  - 2000 – Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea - Beaker Aug 8, 05:08
TV PSA: Olympics, Bachelor in Paradise, Angie Tribeca, Raw, UnReal, Mistresses, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Aug 8, 05:05
Mafic and RC you are both Inactive on Ikariam -- nm - Beaker Aug 8, 03:43
Delta Air Lines has grounded flights scheduled to leave today after experiencing unspecified systems issues. -- (link) - Beaker Aug 8, 03:35 5
- Delta ground stop lifted. -- nm - iSpam Aug 8, 06:02
- Oh. Goodie. (Didn't this just happen to Southwest a couple of weeks ago?) -- nm - ty97 Aug 8, 06:01
- ALL flights, EVERYWHERE - iSpam Aug 8, 04:03 2
  - your IM is correct - something is going on and no one is telling the public - Epiphany Aug 8, 05:43
  - EVERYWHERE! -- nm - Stansfield Aug 8, 04:30
"Suicide blast" at an emergency room in a Pakistani hospital as lawyers gathered to support a colleague, who had been shot hours earlier. -- (link) - zeitgeist Aug 8, 00:06
Huge if true: Japan's Emperor Akihito hints at wish to abdicate -- (link) - zork Aug 7, 23:32
Olympic gold medal vault 1932 vs 2012 -- (link) - Max Aug 7, 22:51 1
- Did springboards just get that much better? -- nm - JaxSean Aug 8, 06:08
"Everything makes sense again" -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 7, 22:02
Trump's economic policy tomorrow will focus on the following seven areas -- (link) - ty97 Aug 7, 21:32 10
- I love how much the economist dislikes him -- (link) - mafic Aug 7, 23:04 1
  - pfft what have "experts" ever done for us? -- nm - Beaker Aug 8, 04:31
- Making money, losing money, talking about money, using other people's money, paying little money in taxes, spending money, and making money -- nm* - Max Aug 7, 22:50
- the Kingdoms of: Dorne, The North, the Mountain & the Vale, the Reach, the Rock, the Isles & Rivers and the Stormlands -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 7, 21:56
- Plus Hillary is sick and crazy plus the elections will be rigged -- nm - amoxy Aug 7, 21:49
- What does "15% corporate tax" refer to? -- nm - Beryllium Aug 7, 21:37 4
  - Federal corporate income tax in the US is graduates, with a top rate of 35%. A popular Republican idea is to cap that at 15% -- (edited) - ty97 Aug 7, 21:38 3
    - Oh, good luck funding the military and the CIA after that ... :-) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 7, 21:40 2
      - naw they'll just cut kid's lunches, (free loaders) and food stamps (bums just buy beer with it anyway) OSHA, FDA, EPA FEMA and national parks -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 7, 21:56
      - This must be why he wants countries to start paying more. - Beryllium Aug 7, 21:42
God dammit. - Beryllium Aug 7, 21:29
Gay Man Stabbed on New York City Subway in Suspected Hate Crime -- (link) - ty97 Aug 7, 21:25
I am going to be on a plane with no live TV Tuesday night and that is going to hurt. -- nm - ty97 Aug 7, 21:13 4
- WTF scheduled that? - Spawndroid Aug 7, 21:23 1
  - As my assistant, you are fired -- nm - ty97 Aug 7, 21:39
- No internet either? -- nm - Krusty Aug 7, 21:21 1
  - Can't stream on in-flight wifi -- nm - ty97 Aug 7, 21:39
I do miss McKayla Maroney's smirky face. -- nm - ty97 Aug 7, 21:13 3
- And you people are mocking Icelandic names. -- nm - Dano Aug 7, 21:15 2
  - I'm sure they make fun of how boring some of our names are. -- nm - . Aug 7, 21:25 1
    - "Tim? Kim? Jim? This is so confusing!" -- nm - Beryllium Aug 7, 21:27
When are the sailing events? -- nm - Beryllium Aug 7, 21:10 1
- Qualifying events 8/8-8/13. Medal Events 8/14-8/18 -- (link) - ty97 Aug 7, 21:11
Olympics tennis spoils - JaxSean Aug 7, 21:07 4
- Spoils - Beryllium Aug 7, 21:09 3
  - They seem to suffer from an Olympic curse. - liioulu Aug 7, 21:22 2
    - They had won 3 doubles golds prior to this and were unbeaten in doubles at the Olympics. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 8, 03:44 1
      - this. -- nm - Diva Aug 8, 03:59
You are very committed to a Canadian identity if you are wearing a toque in Rio. -- nm - Reagen Aug 7, 21:04 9
- It's winter there. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 7, 21:04 8
  - yeah, it's barely gonna hit 25 all week. - mafic Aug 7, 21:08 5
    - Australia's best kept secret: it gets cold. we'll have low single digits later this week. - mafic Aug 7, 21:13 3
      - The hottest it'll be here in the next two weeks is 21C on Friday. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 7, 21:17 2
        
        yeah, but 21C there in summer and 21C here in winter is different. you get a lot more radiative heat from summer sun. - mafic Aug 7, 23:51 1
        
        I was mostly referring to how Perth would be around 38C this far into summer :-) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 8, 06:38
    - I didn't think it got that cold down under -- nm - Beryllium Aug 7, 21:10
  - corner. -- nm - Reagen Aug 7, 21:06 1
    - They have about a 4C temperature swing during the day ... I prefer cold nights. - Beryllium Aug 7, 21:08
So that Dutch cyclist isn't deaded. Three lumbar spinal fractures (small) and one heavy concussion. But conscious & tweeting. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 7, 21:01 4
- Well thank goodness for that. I saw the crash live and it was brutal. -- nm - KuBaron and the Two STrings Aug 8, 06:36
- What is this? the Injury Olympics? The qualifying rounds for the paralympics? -- nm - call me Ishmael Aug 7, 21:21
- That was nasty. -- nm - Dano Aug 7, 21:06
- "Going 4 a ride with Ellie Downie l8r tonite." -- nm - tweet Aug 7, 21:03
How To Train Your Dragon fans might enjoy this -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 7, 20:56
Gymnastics thoughts (spoilers) - ty97 Aug 7, 20:54 21
- I disagree. Multi-team sports would be boring if they were occupied by just one team. - Max Aug 7, 21:01 14
  - We're not talking Top 10. We're talking the 3rd best performer isn't permitted onward. - Will Hunting Aug 8, 04:39
  - If someone wants to win a medal they need to beat the other competitors and not win a medal because a better athlete - Krusty Aug 7, 21:19 5
    - better athletes get left out all the time. there's probably at least 50 NBA players that that would be better than most teams. -- nm - mafic Aug 7, 21:31
    - Then why limit a country to five? Just let them bring however many dozen they want and whoever qualifies competes. -- nm - Max Aug 7, 21:26 3
      - There's a stark difference between limiting the number of entrants per country due to logistics and not allowing the best entrants to move forward. -- nm - ty97 Aug 7, 21:29 2
        
        Exactly. They want to spread the sports to more countries and they feel that this helps by having more countries in the finals. -- (edited) - Krusty Aug 7, 21:41 1
        
        World Cup is the same way. USA would never make it in if it were only the best teams. -- nm - CQ Aug 8, 03:44
  - but that would be impossible -- (edited) - ty97 Aug 7, 21:07 6
    - No, the rule changes were in 1976. -- (link) - Roger More Aug 7, 21:18 5
      - Don't ask me how, but in 1996, a Ukranian woman won Gold while a Romanian woman won silver an *two* Romanian women tied for bronze -- (edited) - ty97 Aug 7, 21:22 4
        
        That's in the all-round - a max of three athletes per country are allowed in that contest. But only two for each apparatus. -- nm - Roger More Aug 7, 21:29 3
        
        We're talking about the all-around only and as Krusty mentioned that was changed in recent history and I disagree with it - ty97 Aug 7, 21:41
        
        The two only rule is for the all around which is what we're arguing about. It was added in 2004. -- nm - Krusty Aug 7, 21:35 1
        
        Ah, then I'd say (a) that's not fair and (b) plenty of stuff in sport isn't fair, so get over it. - Roger More Aug 8, 04:44
- Agreed. It's complete crap that the third best all around gymnast is left out. Makes no sense. -- nm - Krusty Aug 7, 20:57 2
  - a wild card spot would be cool, so at least one top score can continue dispite being 3rd on his team -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 7, 22:06
  - Completely agreed. -- nm - David's iPad Aug 7, 20:58
- That woman definitely has a concussion. -- nm - MDH Aug 7, 20:55 2
  - Yup and it didn't look like she should be allowed to go back out there. -- nm - Krusty Aug 7, 20:58
  - "I'm okay to drive, gimme the keys" -- nm - Max Aug 7, 20:57
Eythora Thorsdottir! -- nm - David's iPad Aug 7, 20:53 3
- Sinonya Dottirsline -- nm - Max Aug 7, 21:06
- Hrafnhildur Luthersdottir? -- nm - Reagen Aug 7, 20:56
- Beat me to it. -- nm - Krusty Aug 7, 20:55
I'm always amused by the couches at beach volleyball. -- nm - Reagen Aug 7, 20:51
Women's gymnastics spoilers - ty97 Aug 7, 20:46 6
- Spoilers - Dano Aug 7, 20:49 5
  - That's not unusual though is it (spoilers) - ty97 Aug 7, 20:55 1
    - Not unusual but they picked the wrong person. -- nm - Dano Aug 7, 20:57
  - This. Thoughts inside. - MDH Aug 7, 20:51 2
    - Spoilers - Dano Aug 7, 20:54 1
      - Also true. -- nm - MDH Aug 7, 20:56
Balance beam is one of the most impressive skills but the movements are so mechanical and not elegant that it just seems like a waste. -- nm - Max Aug 7, 20:45

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