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US Cellular Field will now be known as...... - groiny Aug 24, 14:01 2
- But The Cell is such a fitting name! -- nm - iSpam Aug 24, 14:03 1
  - 13 year deal on that awful ass name. -- nm - groiny Aug 24, 14:04
NC police shooting of the white deaf guy is now a criminal investigation -- (link) - shaolin fantastic Aug 24, 13:56
"I don't want to sound like a scrooge but maybe we should reinstitute charging for kitchen sodas" says the highly paid employee with free parking here -- nm - Max Aug 24, 13:52 2
- do the workhouses not have tap water? and the prisons, how much do they pay at the soda machine?? -- nm - shaolin fantastic Aug 24, 13:55 1
  - I was immediately reminded of David Justice fighting with the locker room vending machine. - Max Aug 24, 14:00
Spawn....WTHR says Bloomington is now in play -- nm - Remlik Aug 24, 13:47 1
- rotation in the area. -- nm - Remlik Aug 24, 14:06
Large, confirmed tornado on the ground near Indianapolis, at I-70 and 465. -- nm - ML Aug 24, 13:31 8
- NWS confirming -- (link) - ML Aug 24, 13:32 7
  - south and east of where I am at right now. but that's near the area I live -- nm - Remlik Aug 24, 13:35 6
    - Where is Mike Pence in comparison to you? If you see the tornado, run towards him. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 24, 13:54 2
      - Fuck.him. -- nm - Remlik Aug 24, 13:59
      - ~ when doves cry ~ -- nm - Beryllium Aug 24, 13:56
    - ::looks at map... looks at you... shakes head:: -- nm - Lex Luthor Aug 24, 13:43 1
      - You've manage to destroy everything around me Luthor. But like a poor marksman you keep.missing.the.target. -- nm - Remlik Aug 24, 14:01
    - stay safe everyone... -- nm - Andie Aug 24, 13:35
so, is terminally-ill people getting to see a Star Wars film before its theatrical release the new Make a Wish Foundation thing? -- nm - call me Ishmael Aug 24, 13:29 3
- Work that system, kids -- nm - shaolin fantastic Aug 24, 13:35
- I *cough* want to see the Rihianna and Kate Upton sex tape before I leave this *hack* Earth. -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 24, 13:33 1
  - I want to MAKE a Kate Upton sex tape before I leave this Earth. - groiny Aug 24, 14:05
LYC: EVE Online had another milestone today. The first "Keepstar" was killed which is an XL player made structure. It takes about 300B of in game - oblique Aug 24, 13:29 6
- Sounds like the PhD level of ikariam...but oh so much more geeky. - Mel Profit Aug 24, 13:54 3
  - I don't think people that start now are at a disadvantage in terms of advancement (the game doesn't quite operate that way) - oblique Aug 24, 13:56 2
    - I've had my fill of playing with others in alliances, etc. - Mel Profit Aug 24, 14:00 1
      - and really - I don't want to get sucked into an addictive game... - Mel Profit Aug 24, 14:00
- there should be college courses taught on this game's economy. -- nm - Tim Aug 24, 13:43 1
  - They had an economist on staff for a long time. He's like the chancellor of a university in Iceland now IIRC -- nm* - oblique Aug 24, 13:47
This morning Bryan Stork was being released by the Pats. Then he was being traded to the 'Skins. Now he's supposably retiring. - Diva Aug 24, 13:24 1
- he'd rather retire than play for Dan Snyder? can't blame the guy -- nm - ML Aug 24, 13:25
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- you're missing a comma or two - Max Aug 24, 13:32 1
  - This man lives in a world where a mo foing mofo can get off death row because some dumb sonoffa bitch missed a comma -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 24, 13:55
- I'm giving up. I just can't anymore. (and of course the 429 escape bus is 6 minutes late...) -- nm - university of amanda jones Aug 24, 13:26
- "I said bitch, mfer!" -- nm - shaolin fantastic Aug 24, 13:19 2
  - Did I stutter -- nm - JD Aug 24, 13:22 1
    - say what again. i dare you. i double dog dare you! -- nm - call me Ishmael Aug 24, 13:26
- Hit the mall. -- nm - Spawn Aug 24, 13:17
- yikes -- nm - Epiphany Aug 24, 13:17
- time for a donut. -- nm - Diva Aug 24, 13:13 3
  - He needs one of them green metal suckling shakes -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 24, 13:23 2
    - what did you smoke today? -- nm - Diva Aug 24, 13:25 1
      - Not sure, I live below chem trail city, and they're having a party this weekend, thunderbirds, ww2 antiques, jumbo cargo jets -- nm* - zeitgeist Aug 24, 13:29
hunker down, Indy friends--tornado-warned storms are nigh -- nm - ML Aug 24, 12:56 12
- OMG!! the Market Square Arena is gone :) -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 24, 13:01
- Downtown Indy is being targeted. Kokomo has been drilled. -- nm - Remlik Aug 24, 12:59 10
  - I'm watching video online now. It was a big ol' wedge tornado that hit Kokomo (this is where Mrs. ML grew up) - ML Aug 24, 13:10
  - Yeah, had planned to work late. I see the Watch is until 9pm. - Spawn Aug 24, 13:09 8
    - be safe, but if you see one take a picture for us - decline Aug 24, 13:10 7
      - Heh, I tweeted some threatening clouds the last time I went through this. - Spawn Aug 24, 13:18 6
        
        "IMPD Control confirmed Tornado on the ground 21st and Ritter." -- nm - mara Aug 24, 13:19 5
        
        I am down in Bloomington where it is "safe"! - Spawn Aug 24, 13:22 4
        
        Looks like there's a cell west of you now? -- nm - mara Aug 24, 13:47 1
        
        Thanks. Yeah, may go ahead and wrap it up. Have to stop in town and get my comics. - Spawn Aug 24, 13:56
        
        For now! Is Amy at work? -- nm - mara Aug 24, 13:26 1
        
        Yes. Greenwood (luckily). -- nm - Spawn Aug 24, 13:31
LYC: 19GB left to go on my massive OneDrive upload. Since this weekend I've limited it to 125KB/s upload as it was taking up all my bandwidth for a - oblique Aug 24, 12:49 1
- So that's why they couldn't find hillarys emails -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 24, 13:01
This is funny - British Olympics team all has same luggage. Good luck finding your bag! -- (link) - Andie Aug 24, 12:43 6
- Didn't they all realise this on the flight out and think "I'd better tie something unique to my bag for the flight back"? -- nm - Roger More Aug 24, 12:48 5
  - "OK, so maybe the medal wasn't the best idea." -- nm - Reagen Aug 24, 12:52
  - do they all fly out together? don't they arrive more staggered? -- nm - Andie Aug 24, 12:50 3
    - They still arrive in large groups, teams (like, the hockey team + coaches, etc) arrive together, etc -- nm - Roger More Aug 24, 13:00
    - the swimmers were probably fine since they ended their events a week earlier and most were home -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 24, 12:51 1
      - They had an extra week to sort them out. -- nm - . Aug 24, 13:40
Missouri Sup. Ct. nullifies felony thefts since 2002 because of drafting error in state law -- (link) - shaolin fantastic Aug 24, 12:36 1
- Comeon, Duke, let's go do some crimes -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 24, 13:35
The Nazi Gold Train has gone the way of Al Capone's vault. -- (link) - ML Aug 24, 12:34
B2 follow-up: The American Film Institute has tabled Friday’s planned screening of The Birth of a Nation -- (link) - ML Aug 24, 12:33 2
- those are really the same movie when you get down to it. -- nm - Reagen Aug 24, 12:34
- Speaking of, Jack Reacher was the last movie I saw. -- nm - Roger More Aug 24, 12:34
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- The DNC has sort of a schedule, price sheet, contrib so much, get invite to state dinner, Lincoln room , best b n b ever - zeitgeist Aug 24, 12:39
- Besides, didn't a bunch of people contribute and then just get a phone call? Or nothing at all? -- nm - mara Aug 24, 12:22 1
  - yes, but that sort of thing is not really sexy to trumpet in social media. -- nm - Diva Aug 24, 12:24
- I've been trying to figure that out. Maybe it's different because she's in the state department rather than an elected position? But even then it - pmb Aug 24, 12:20 9
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    - In the case of elected officials, aren't the contributions in question to their campaign or related organization rather than a third party? - znufrii, dad. Aug 24, 12:30 7
      - In any case, even if it is the innocuous social lubricant of the world they inhabit, it's a world the Joe Normal doesn't have access to. - znufrii, dad. Aug 24, 12:34 6
        
        But it's still silly. For what? To get their passport quicker? You can get it pretty damn fast. If you're in a foreign country and need help? You - pmb Aug 24, 12:42 5
        
        It's completely silly, on the merits, but yet.... -- nm* - znufrii, dad. Aug 24, 12:50 4
        
        but yet . . . it will be a distraction that will be manipulated and exaggerated and scrutinized beyond any similar issue. I know. -- nm - pmb Aug 24, 12:59 3
        
        The kicker is that if Trump were a similarly situated donor, you know damn well he'd expect that level of access. -- (edited) - znufrii, dad. Aug 24, 13:01 2
        
        "Donate $100,000 and the Clintons will attend your wedding" -- nm - Spawn Aug 24, 13:22 1
        
        Bill will sleep with the bride for free! -- nm - Epiphany Aug 24, 13:28
- even Obama (gasp) does it -- (link) - shaolin fantastic Aug 24, 12:17 1
  - Mr. Trump, have you met with any of your donors? Oh, you have? Shocking!! -- nm - pmb Aug 24, 12:21
If you haven't seen the Blood Feud announcement yet and are a participant, please read... - David Aug 24, 12:13 4
- SuperFeud add-on: I need one more volunteer to help be the holder of draft cards and I need participants to email me if you have not already done so. - Name Withheld by Request Aug 24, 12:14 3
  - I volunteer. - Spawn Aug 24, 12:17 2
    - Thanks. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Aug 24, 12:26
    - as tribute. -- nm - Andie Aug 24, 12:18
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- Are you even allowed to delete anything? -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 24, 13:16
- He told you to "just delete it" -- nm - Roger More Aug 24, 12:20
- that's nbd. you're just having a rough couple of days. Take a moment and breathe deeply. -- (edited) - Diva Aug 24, 12:16 3
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    - sure, you didn't. -- nm - Lisa Aug 24, 12:31
  - be happy you're not Lisa -- nm - shaolin fantastic Aug 24, 12:19
- I've done that before. :) -- nm - David Aug 24, 12:14 3
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    - ~don't take it personal~ -- nm - Epiphany Aug 24, 12:34
  - me too, it's kind of hard to avoid in that situation. -- nm - Andie Aug 24, 12:14
a travel based instagram i follow just posted a pic of Jack's office building! (aka, mall.) -- (link*) - Andie Aug 24, 12:12 2
- I can almost make out his Hot Topic. -- nm - spamlet Aug 24, 12:15
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this is probably stating the obvious, but bank-issued CDs have abysmal rates of interest ... - call me Ishmael Aug 24, 12:12 16
- Buy GOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLD -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 24, 13:09 2
  - don't think i haven't considered gold or silver. both are up nicely percentage-wise for the year -- nm - call me Ishmael Aug 24, 13:27 1
    - A fool and his money...I mean, do whatever you think is best :) -- nm - znufrii, dad. Aug 24, 13:31
- Just buy GE stock, earn 3% yield and maybe get a little growth. -- nm - KuBaron and the Two STrings Aug 24, 12:41 3
  - Can't imagine a worse idea for a short term savings vehicle that the stock market, tbh. - znufrii, dad. Aug 24, 13:05 2
    - Perhaps I should've read the original message. Six months? Oh yeah, ignore what I said *sheepish* - KuBaron and the Two STrings Aug 24, 13:21 1
      - That does remind me, I need to get some of my own savings into a brokerage acct. -- (edited) - znufrii, dad. Aug 24, 13:27
- I use Discover Bank. They generally have some of the best rates out there. - Meg Aug 24, 12:28 1
  - "ask for the Meg Rate" -- nm - shaolin fantastic Aug 24, 12:58
- G Fund is down to 1.5. :-( -- nm - mara Aug 24, 12:20
- Give it to me. I'll get you 8% - decline Aug 24, 12:17
- Synchrony Bank has 1.25% apr on a twelve-month CD. 1.05% on high yield savings. -- nm - znufrii, dad. Aug 24, 12:15
- because interest rates are essentially zero -- nm - shaolin fantastic Aug 24, 12:14
- can't you just put it in a savings account - Ally, or Tangerine or something, and do better? -- nm - Andie Aug 24, 12:13 2
  - you probably won't get a better rate in a savings account -- nm - decline Aug 24, 12:16 1
    - we can get about 0.85% from that type of account, not there? -- nm - Andie Aug 24, 12:17
David, you still need to give my team to CQ in Yahoo. I got the message, not him. -- nm - spamlet Aug 24, 12:09 2
- I am aware. -- nm - David Aug 24, 12:11 1
  - Ok, just wanted to make sure. -- nm - spamlet Aug 24, 12:12
Ryan Lochte got songifyed.... -- (link) - Remlik Aug 24, 12:07 [youtube]
David, it does not really matter if the gear is crap in 3 weeks. - groiny Aug 24, 12:05 18
- Let me know a rough time and I'll be there, I want to run it through. -- nm - J Aug 24, 13:22 1
  - I would be up for it Saturday night. -- nm - Spawn Aug 24, 13:23
- I have been through all of it except for the final round. - Spawn Aug 24, 12:21 5
  - other than one time that david brought in a guy on Crota, I have never joined a random who talked about streaming the raid on twitch, etc. - tRuMaN Aug 24, 12:23 4
    - I realized I was playing against thegeekchic, who I follow on Twitch, yesterday. - David Aug 24, 12:26
    - yeah, everyone has to learn at some time. -- nm - groiny Aug 24, 12:25 2
      - I was refering to the guy that claimed he would be awesome and did nothing but die. - Spawn Aug 24, 12:49 1
        
        I am well aware. -- nm - groiny Aug 24, 12:53
- yeah! -- nm - Remlik Aug 24, 12:10 9
  - and you, one character running mutherfucker!!!!!!! -- nm - groiny Aug 24, 12:12 8
    - I don't have time to build up others to levels that are decent -- nm - Remlik Aug 24, 12:15 7
      - (it's fine man, just giving you shit) -- nm - groiny Aug 24, 12:19 5
        
        I actually kind of respect it. I keep thinking I will abandon my Hunter but I can not bring myself to do it. -- nm - Spawn Aug 24, 12:22 4
        
        oh I'd like to play a couple of the other characters but I just don't have the game time to *really* do it -- nm - Remlik Aug 24, 12:26 3
        
        its too bad I cant give you my token thing that starts a new character off in the mid-20s with gear to you to save some grind. - tRuMaN Aug 24, 12:29 1
        
        I had planned to kill my Hunter and start a second Warlock with mine. - Spawn Aug 24, 13:20
        
        I've found it saves time in building characters rather than taking more. - David Aug 24, 12:27
      - its ok, we still love you**. - tRuMaN Aug 24, 12:16
spammy, this Falcons picture? -- (link) - ML Aug 24, 12:03 [Image]
Jennifer Holliday to Join Cast of ‘The Color Purple’ -- (link) - ty97 Aug 24, 12:02 1
- yecch. -- nm - Diva Aug 24, 12:03
The Abyss? -- nm - ML Aug 24, 12:01
(T2)Judgement Day. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Aug 24, 12:01
Gronk speak Cowboys -- (link) - budice Aug 24, 11:59
RC turned into a member of ZZ Top so gradually... -- nm - ML Aug 24, 11:58

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