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s-l-o-w -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 14, 22:58 1
- -i-n-g d-o-w-n -- nm* - Peglegpete Sep 14, 22:59
"dare you to google it" of the evening: botfly! -- nm - mr monkey Sep 14, 21:54 1
- ... -- (link) - . Sep 14, 22:16
I know I'm a few days late on this, but for those who care, Gymkhana 9 came out a few days ago. -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Sep 14, 21:22 [youtube] 1
- Love these videos. - IrishStephen Sep 14, 23:20
one silly thing, its gratifying to see the Jaws love....I think we'll need a bigger boat -- nm - crash davis Sep 14, 21:18 3
- I brought the wine -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 14, 21:31
- are there people who don't love Jaws? -- nm - mr monkey Sep 14, 21:19 1
  - I dunno, I thought most people liked at least some movies from the 70s before tonight -- nm - crash davis Sep 14, 21:20
Under the Dome is actually quite good. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Sep 14, 21:08 10
- Season1 was ok, but after that is goes down hard -- nm - Karl_S Sep 14, 23:34
- What they should have done was have Zoo *inside* the Dome. -- nm - Max Sep 14, 23:19
- No, RC, just no. - IrishStephen Sep 14, 23:17
- I would agree if it was an Iron Chef type show and the meals were covered when served to the judges. -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 14, 21:34
- no. just no. This is akin to saying Persons Unknown was quite good. -- nm - Jovian Sep 14, 21:11 1
  - Well, it was better than Under the Dome. - the wrong element, bad guy Sep 14, 21:14
- Is this your TV Hot Take? -- nm - Reagen Sep 14, 21:11 2
  - That's my TV Hot Take. But I will admit, I'm only 4 episodes into the first season. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Sep 14, 21:23 1
    - *waits* -- nm - Reagen Sep 14, 21:25
- I enjoyed the first season but I ... can not recall if I watched any of the second. -- nm - Spawn Sep 14, 21:10
So if he's Mr Monkey it means .. (spoiler) -- (edited) - . Sep 14, 20:53
I'd have been off by almost a decade on Olivia Coleman's age. -- nm - Reagen Sep 14, 20:31 1
- Okay, that's just weird. She's in the episode of Midsomer Murders that I'm watching and I *just* now looked her up on IMDB. - TWuG Sep 14, 20:48
Good lord, I leave you people for a couple of hours and you create that abomination on B2...` - Mel Profit Sep 14, 19:58 24
- The only Hot Take I can make today is that you all were worse than Facebook with your posts. Worse than goddamn Facebook! -- nm* - Qale Sep 14, 21:17 2
  - I POSTED THE WARWICK ROWERS!!! -- nm - ReluctantCynic Sep 14, 21:22 1
    - That's probably not allowed on Facebook. -- nm - Qale Sep 14, 21:30
- B2? Hell, B1 alone is replete with heresy. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Sep 14, 20:36 10
  - I love that the thread turned into people listing classic movies from the 70s. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 14, 20:48 6
    - And we hadn't even gotten to Dirty Harry or Death Wish or Harold and Maude. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Sep 14, 21:02 5
      - and Halloween created a whole new genre -- nm - crash davis Sep 14, 21:03 4
        
        Maybe I'm out of line here, but I would say that the 1970s were at least close to a Golden Age of cinema. - ReluctantCynic Sep 14, 21:09 3
        
        More indie cinema, and more indie cinenas. -- nm - . Sep 14, 21:21
        
        more than that. the textbook definition -- nm - mr monkey Sep 14, 21:10 1
        
        So, you're saying, yet again, David is wrong. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Sep 14, 21:23
  - Nebraska has always been overrated. - crash davis Sep 14, 20:39 2
    - Heretic! Outcast! Unclean! - ReluctantCynic Sep 14, 20:53 1
      - I don't know about the first two, but I probably could use a shower -- nm - crash davis Sep 14, 20:55
- It's fine if I say that there were 20 movies better than Gladiator the year it won the Oscar, right? - the wrong element, bad guy Sep 14, 20:31 7
  - That's a highly dubious claim! -- nm - IrishStephen Sep 14, 20:47
  - You might be right. I hated Gladiator. -- nm - Krusty Sep 14, 20:39
  - I count 7. -- nm - Reagen Sep 14, 20:37
  - twenty seems like a lot, I'd challenge you to name them -- nm - crash davis Sep 14, 20:33 3
    - Granted, these are just the movies I'd rather watch than Gladiator. - the wrong element, bad guy Sep 14, 20:58 2
      - you must really hate it if you've got stuff like Legend of Bagger Vance up there -- nm - crash davis Sep 14, 21:03 1
        
        Oh, I do. I find it very boring. - the wrong element, bad guy Sep 14, 21:12
- It's lazy lazy trolling -- nm - Bacon Sep 14, 20:17
- Crazy Angry Mel -- nm - budice Sep 14, 20:12
does anyone have a link to the st pick'em and the password? - crash davis Sep 14, 19:45 3
- link -- (link) - mud Sep 14, 19:47 [Backboard] 2
  - gracias, you are a gentleman (but I won't tell anybody) -- nm - crash davis Sep 14, 19:50
  - Thanks. And like I said, it is set to throw out your worst week so if you did not join last week there is still time to get in and win. -- nm - Spawn Sep 14, 19:48
Steph Curry: I'm with her -- nm - mr monkey Sep 14, 19:35
LPT: if you're ripping off your meth clients, don't tell them to call the cops and report that you stole from them. They just might. -- (link) - iSpam Sep 14, 19:30
Thinking back to the early crazy happenings on HSX - did anyone else apply to work on Truman's chipmunk ranch? - Meg Sep 14, 19:19 2
- Meg, protecting the world from Poltergeist! -- nm - JenBro Sep 14, 21:46
- I think I was just a wrangler. -- nm - JaxSean Sep 14, 19:27
if anyone cares ... America's Got Talent winner announced a few minutes ago ... *(spoiler, obviously...) - call me Ishmael Sep 14, 19:09 8
- Great season. Spoils - Name Withheld By Request Sep 14, 20:28 1
  - Spoils - . Sep 14, 21:02
- I think I saw that person audition on the webs. -- nm - Spawn Sep 14, 19:37 1
  - Spoiler. - the wrong element, bad guy Sep 14, 21:01
- I can agree with that. spoil - . Sep 14, 19:24 3
  - i really liked (spoiler) - call me Ishmael Sep 14, 19:28 2
    - Any winners are automatically his clients. It's part of appearing on the show. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Sep 14, 20:11 1
      - that makes sense, and i'm not surprised (and i'll just refer back to my comments above) ... - call me Ishmael Sep 14, 21:39
Incredible match. (CWC spoilers) - Tim Sep 14, 18:55 1
- Nice! (spoilers) - Tim Sep 14, 19:27
Big Brother eviction spoiler - Peglegpete Sep 14, 18:52
I love the everybody-but-Dre-gets-sick episode of blackish - prayformojo Sep 14, 18:49
The Million Dollar Duck..about artists making the Federal Duck Stamp is on Animal Planet now and rerun in 45 minutes. -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 14, 18:48
O's win, hon! -- nm - mr monkey Sep 14, 18:46
STIS: easiest way for me to get my ITunes music from my old computer onto my new one. -- nm - Beaker Sep 14, 18:46 5
- Copypod. -- nm - Remlik Sep 14, 19:16 1
  - OR back them all up to dvd. and then reload them on the new computer -- nm - Remlik Sep 14, 19:16
- ALL IS LOST! ALL IS LOST! ALL IS LOST! - iSpam Sep 14, 19:14
- Move 'em to an external drive -- nm - decline Sep 14, 19:02
- maybe follow apple's instructions? :) - nm but: -- (link) - b. Sep 14, 18:52
bonus bonus hot take: The French Connection is boring as shit. -- nm - Reagen Sep 14, 18:37 22
- Partly disagree, but not entirely. The scene with the car teardown was alright. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 14, 19:58
- Gosh, I should start another self-imposed exile..(NM) - Marlowe Sep 14, 18:55 1
  - may as well. this place is beyond hope...nm - x Sep 14, 19:05
- Absolutely. People who praise 70s cinema mystify me. -- nm - David Sep 14, 18:45 16
  - Jaws -- nm - Bacon Sep 14, 20:43
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  - Godfather one and two, Apocalypse Now.... -- nm - crash davis Sep 14, 19:35 10
    - Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Jaws. Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Chinatown. The Exorcist. Taxi Driver. Deer Hunter. - ReluctantCynic Sep 14, 19:57
    - That's just one director though. (But Chinatown, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Jaws, Exorcist, Clockwork Orange, Taxi Driver, Sting, Deer Hunter..) -- nm - Roger More Sep 14, 19:52 2
      - I realized that and was saving Scorcese and Spielberg for a rebuttal to a DLC response -- nm - crash davis Sep 14, 19:59 1
        
        "Rommel, you magnificent bastard... I read your book!" -- nm - Roger More Sep 14, 20:06
    - Omen. Star Wars. -- nm - Remlik Sep 14, 19:49 5
      - Making my point for me. -- nm - David's iPad Sep 14, 20:15 1
        
        2016 the year David continues to be wrong! -- nm - Remlik Sep 14, 21:12
      - Star Wars is like the first Rocky. It was good and maybe should have just ended there. - crash davis Sep 14, 20:01 2
        
        but then there would have been no Empire. I like Star Wars...but c'mon...it's no Star Trek -- nm - Remlik Sep 14, 20:53 1
        
        true dat -- nm - crash davis Sep 14, 20:58
  - It's like I don't even know you ... . -- nm - ReluctantCynic Sep 14, 19:26
  - It was no golden age, but there are plenty of fine films from the 70s. - TWuG Sep 14, 18:50 1
    - I think the thing people miss is that these films used to be studio tentpoles (well, the 70s equivalent) - Roger More Sep 14, 19:55
- agreed -- nm - Beaker Sep 14, 18:40
- 70s films were blabby (there I said it, as a fan of Woody Allen) - con_carne Sep 14, 18:39
Truth on B2 :) -- (link) - con_carne Sep 14, 18:34 [Backboard]
Gausman threw 120 pitches tonight. His final one was clocked at 99 MPH. -- nm - David Sep 14, 18:34 1
- Is that good? It sounds like it might be good. - the wrong element, bad guy Sep 14, 20:29
Now I want a Klondike bar. - David Sep 14, 18:31 6
- What would you do? -- nm - Spawn Sep 14, 21:09
- I will be vomiting up six of them any minute now. -- nm - Dano Sep 14, 18:40 3
  - He's like a bird feeding his ST Nest -- nm - budice Sep 14, 18:49
  - '/~I would do anything for a klondike bar... but I won't do that..'/~ -- nm - b. Sep 14, 18:44
  - "I'm not a bulemic. I'm a bulemist" -- nm - mr monkey Sep 14, 18:43
- I had one for the first time in years a couple of weeks ago. -- nm - b. Sep 14, 18:36
Jack, we all saw you eat poutine! -- nm - Andie Sep 14, 18:25 3
- Which time? Because that "German style" Poutine with the Sausage in it was really lame Poutine if you ask me. (Now that I've had real Canadian - JenBro Sep 14, 22:01
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- Did the poor man get his stomach pumped immediately afterward? - David Sep 14, 18:29
Remember this shit? -- (link) - Dignan Sep 14, 18:24 15
- phew, it's not a bb link. (yes, yes I do - I also remember both of us creating ridiculous american singles ads for $H.. and getting responses.) -- nm - b. Sep 14, 18:25 13
  - Oh wow, I can just barely remember that. nm - Dignan Sep 14, 18:30 6
    - you're not even american -- nm - mr monkey Sep 14, 18:35 5
      - I would have voted for Trump for Cold Cash. nm - Dignan Sep 14, 18:38
      - he's north american. -- nm - b. Sep 14, 18:38 3
        
        hopefully none of the real American Singles you two duped suffered any serious trauma -- nm - mr monkey Sep 14, 18:40 2
        
        Dig. actually had exchanges with at least one woman - his profile was hilariously offputting, and I think - b. Sep 14, 18:43 1
        
        . . . and that's how amanda joined HSX -- nm - mr monkey Sep 14, 18:44
  - hey, you have a good memory for hsx/tt things - do you remember this guy's username? nm but: -- (link) - b. Sep 14, 18:29 [Backboard] 5
    - Doesn't sound familiar. nm - Dignan Sep 14, 18:32 4
      - no biggie, just brain-testy. it'll probably randomly come to me at some point. -- nm - b. Sep 14, 18:40 3
        
        his name began with a "g" I think -- nm - mud Sep 14, 18:44 2
        
        are you thinking of geckoidol? his mention is what prompted the other poster to come up. - b. Sep 14, 18:49 1
        
        no -- nm - mud Sep 14, 18:53
- March 29, 2000? can't say that i do -- nm - mr monkey Sep 14, 18:25
I'm both relieved and disappointed that no one chose Dr Lecter -- nm* - TWuG Sep 14, 18:23 1
- or Dr. Giggles -- nm - mr monkey Sep 14, 18:24
How about TV? Deep Space 9 is the best Star Trek. -- nm - Beaker Sep 14, 18:17 11
- After the first two seasons. -- nm - . Sep 14, 18:43 2
  - The last two being my favorite and perhaps some of the best they've ever done. But they backed into it... - Mel Profit Sep 14, 20:08 1
    - They also let Avery Brooks have more input. -- nm - . Sep 14, 21:34
- Scrotal Recall is a better title for a show than Lovesick. -- nm - Dano Sep 14, 18:42 3
  - Yeah, Lovesick is also a pretty terrible title. - kelly Sep 14, 19:01
  - Lovesick is a terribly limp title, but Scrotal Recall was just poison. nm - ralph wiggum Sep 14, 18:46 1
    - it should be called "Abigail & Dylan" -- nm - mr monkey Sep 14, 18:47
- Keith Olbermann is the greatest performer in the history of ESPN *and* cable news television. -- nm - David Sep 14, 18:34
- agreed. -- nm - Remlik Sep 14, 18:32
- No good. TV is more subjective cause it's more to do with you and your sorry surroundings . Movies are communal -- nm - con_carne Sep 14, 18:25
- John From Cincinnati deserved at least as many seasons as Deadwood -- nm - mr monkey Sep 14, 18:21
WWE: Cruiserweight Classic finals live now on the Network, before they start having matches on Raw on Monday. -- nm - Tim Sep 14, 18:14 3
- I apologize for the worst first ever. #hottake -- nm - Tim Sep 14, 18:14 2
  - Qale, the Kota Ibushi match is starting now. -- nm - Tim Sep 14, 18:32 1
    - Even though he did gay themed wrestling in the past, I think Hoho Lun is cuter. -- nm - Qale Sep 14, 20:16

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