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does that mean Gronk got hit with the Madden Curse? -- nm - Mel Profit Dec 1, 12:16 2
- your better half already beat you to this -- nm - ML Dec 1, 12:17 1
  - and on this same page even -- nm - decline Dec 1, 12:17
ST Poll -- Rank your HGTV shows - znufrii Dec 1, 12:13 17
- Flip or Flop, Fixer Upper, Property Brothers, -- nm - Epiphany Dec 1, 12:21
- I think Love It Or List It is my least favorite. The guy host is just annoying. -- nm - ty97 Dec 1, 12:17
- I do not have HGTV, I have only ever been forced to suffer through House Hunters. -- nm - Ender Dec 1, 12:16 4
  - "House Hunters International " might as well be called "Americans Want to Live in an American House in a Different Country." -- nm* - Andie Dec 1, 12:17 3
    - "And have already bought one of the houses when they go through the other two and pretend to consider them all" -- nm - Ender Dec 1, 12:18 2
      - But are such convincing actors you would never know! -- nm - Andie Dec 1, 12:19 1
        
        Especially when they complain about the paint colors -- nm - znufrii Dec 1, 12:20
- N/A -- nm - Beaker Dec 1, 12:15
- I've never seen any of those. I don't even know if I have HGTV -- nm - decline Dec 1, 12:15 2
  - HGTV is what i put on on the weekend when i have stuff to do around the house and am not sitting watching, but want something on. it's mindless, but - Andie Dec 1, 12:16
  - oh! wait. An ex-gf watched House hunters. I saw that once -- nm - decline Dec 1, 12:16
- Property Brothers. House Hunters International. Tiny House. at the bottom the original Toronto Love it or List It. -- (edited) - Andie Dec 1, 12:15 2
  - Forgot Love or List, that's just above flip or flop -- nm - znufrii Dec 1, 12:16 1
    - I enjoy the crossover, Fliplist or Loveflop -- nm - ty97 Dec 1, 12:17
- I find those Canadian twins so smarmy -- nm - ty97 Dec 1, 12:14 2
  - 'cause, Canada -- nm - decline Dec 1, 12:16
  - oh, they are. but still. -- nm - Andie Dec 1, 12:15
Ummmmm -- (link) - ty97 Dec 1, 12:13
Indiana University is canning their head football coach. -- (link) - ML Dec 1, 12:12 3
- I missed the Helfrich news. It happened so fast, he can sue them for whiplash. -- nm - Mop Dec 1, 12:14
- Hire Mad-Eye Zimmer -- nm - budice Dec 1, 12:13
- send in Trump-Pence! -- nm - decline Dec 1, 12:12
shoveling wet snow is the fucking worst -- nm - Beaker Dec 1, 12:11 5
- Ha ha -- nm - JaxSean Dec 1, 12:19
- Need that snow Roomba -- nm - budice Dec 1, 12:16
- try doing it without a shovel -- nm - decline Dec 1, 12:12 2
  - one trick I did use, sprayed WD40 on the front and back of the shovel last night. Snow slips right off! - Beaker Dec 1, 12:15 1
    - damn fine officier thinking -- nm - Remlik Dec 1, 12:18
Christie trying for the RNC chair now? -- (link) - decline Dec 1, 12:03 2
- Come on guys, throw me a bone here. -- nm - Christie Dec 1, 12:04 1
  - OK. -- (edited) - Jim McGreevey Dec 1, 12:06
LYC: Guys, I've been dating someone and I'm really happy about it - con_carne Dec 1, 12:02 14
- Next month: whatever happened to con Carne? -- nm - zeit spiced geist Dec 1, 12:54
- Fun times! (NM) - Marlowe Dec 1, 12:37
- this is great news! -- nm - ty97 Dec 1, 12:15
- right on! -- nm - Remlik Dec 1, 12:14
- Good. Grab every ounce of joy that you can in life whenever it's available to you. -- nm - David Dec 1, 12:12 1
  - And try to be a source of joy. It's a limited resource -- nm - con_carne Dec 1, 12:27
- must introduce her to ST -- nm - Beaker Dec 1, 12:11
- Fantastic! -- nm - iSpam Dec 1, 12:10
- Nice! -- nm - znufrii Dec 1, 12:10
- Fantastic!! can we call her con caliente? - Epiphany Dec 1, 12:09 3
  - That would be fitting... especially since she can cook! -- nm - con_carne Dec 1, 12:11 2
    - I'm very happy for you. You are the best and you deserve to be happy -- nm - Epiphany Dec 1, 12:14 1
      - *blushes* -- nm - con_carne Dec 1, 12:18
- good for you! -- nm - decline Dec 1, 12:02
BuzzFeed’s hit piece on Chip and Joanna Gaines is dangerous -- (link) - Strongbad Dec 1, 11:52 26
- Having read both stories, this is the sentence that registered with me. - David Dec 1, 12:14
- "Are you now, or have you ever been, a Baptist?!" -- nm - Ender Dec 1, 12:09
- You lost me at "Buzzfeed" -- nm - znufrii Dec 1, 12:04 3
  - I think it's fair to say that Buzzfeed is to this generation what CNN was to people in the early 90s. -- nm - David Dec 1, 12:17 2
    - I would argue that social media (FB, Twitter, etc) are -- nm - ty97 Dec 1, 12:18 1
      - Distribution networks vs. content generators. -- nm - znufrii Dec 1, 12:20
- I'm honestly not sure I every would have heard about this article if not for the crazy loud blowback from right-leaning sites - ty97 Dec 1, 12:00 10
  - They same blowback they gave in 2008 when Obama was criticized for the church he went to because of the pastor's beliefs? - znufrii Dec 1, 12:06 2
    - This occurred to me too, but they run a home makeover show, he was running for president. -- nm - Roger More Dec 1, 12:19
    - The comparison crossed my mind, but I don't think it's a direct parallel. - ty97 Dec 1, 12:10
  - I'm honestly not sure I every would have heard about this article if not for ST -- nm - decline Dec 1, 12:01 6
    - FB's horrible algorithm thinks it's a very important topic for me. -- nm - David Dec 1, 12:17 1
      - that's why people shouldn't fb -- nm - decline Dec 1, 12:18
    - I came upon a reaction tweet on Twitter last night that sent me googling about the story. (this tweet) -- (link) - ty97 Dec 1, 12:08 1
      - If not for that tweet, this thread would have been news to me too -- nm - ty97 Dec 1, 12:08
    - i wuld never have heard of this show if it wasn't for this page of st....nm - x Dec 1, 12:04 1
      - it's wildly popular as cable shows go -- (link) - ML Dec 1, 12:10
- Who? -- nm - MDH Dec 1, 12:00 5
  - Married couple, lives in Waco area, star in a popular HGTV house makeover show Fixer Upper - ty97 Dec 1, 12:01 4
    - shiplap! shiplap! shiplap! shiplap! - Andie Dec 1, 12:02 3
      - I only see it on rare occasion when visiting my brother - ty97 Dec 1, 12:05 2
        
        oh, i like *them*. -- nm - Andie Dec 1, 12:06 1
        
        yup - he's goofy adorable. -- nm - Epiphany Dec 1, 12:10
- not dangerous, just inane - ML Dec 1, 11:56
- before i read it, my first reaction to the photo was 'well, that's a lot of airbrushing.' -- nm - Andie Dec 1, 11:54 1
  - man, you are not kidding -- nm - Epiphany Dec 1, 12:13
I hate this time of year. Yummy food starts randomly appearing in the office. -- nm - Strongbad Dec 1, 11:41 4
- Portion control! It allows you to enjoy all food all the time. - con_carne Dec 1, 11:46 2
  - *cuts the cookie into 4 pieces, leaves 3 on the tray* -- nm - Strongbad Dec 1, 11:47 1
    - (cut with your teeth) -- nm - Spawn Dec 1, 11:49
- The horror. -- nm - Starving kids in Africa Dec 1, 11:42
"Jay Cutler will have surgery Saturday and go on IR. Season over and Bears career likely over." -- nm - ML Dec 1, 11:40 4
- can't say I am surprised, but he was stistically the Bears best QB ever. -- nm - groiny Dec 1, 11:43 3
  - Which says more about the Bears than about him. -- nm - iSpam Dec 1, 12:00
  - He looked *awesome* after Kyle Orton and Sexy Rexy. -- nm - Strongbad Dec 1, 11:45
  - he's no Sid Luckman -- nm - ML Dec 1, 11:44
"Our next theme: YoSaffBridge" - David Dec 1, 11:26 2
- Is that the next, next one? Because I thought the next one was supposed to be Serenity (the ship) themed? -- nm - IrishStephen Dec 1, 11:28 1
  - I just got an email for this one, saying I needed to sign up by January 15 to get it. - David Dec 1, 11:37
MLB: The 15 day DL will be dropped to 10 days with the new CBA. -- nm - Krusty Dec 1, 11:22
what do we think Prince harry is looking at in this photo? -- (link) - Diva Dec 1, 11:17 2
- I think they make a cute couple. A bit awkward, but that's endearing -- nm - con_carne Dec 1, 11:52
- Her pants. -- nm - Spawn Dec 1, 11:50
I am pretty sure my first two picks in Super Feud were Gronk and Jamaal Charles. - Will Hunting Dec 1, 11:15
Heh. Jesse Jackson Jr. calls on President Obama to pardon millions of ex-inmates (which would include him and his wife) -- (link) - ML Dec 1, 11:13 1
- Wait, what? Oh, really? Huh. -- nm - Jesse Jackson Jr. Dec 1, 11:21
Martin Shkreli's $750 life-saving drug recreated by high school students for $2 (oops!) -- (link*) - Andie Dec 1, 11:12 20
- "The second pill cost 'em four cents; the first pill cost 'em four hundred million dollars." - Baron More Dough Dec 1, 11:55
- We just accept that medicine costs a lot of money. It's really sad. -- nm - con_carne Dec 1, 11:38 17
  - Of course, that $2 doesn't include actually making it in pill form, distributing it, and getting approvals from all of the government entities... -- nm - Ender Dec 1, 11:40 16
    - As well as the years of research that go into developing a drug. They just recreated work that likely took years and hundreds of millions of - Krusty Dec 1, 11:52 4
      - the drug already existed when he bought it and upped the price too. he didn't develop it. -- nm - Andie Dec 1, 11:54 3
        
        Though they still had to pay for the rights to it. -- nm - Ender Dec 1, 12:18
        
        True, I forgot that part. -- nm - Krusty Dec 1, 12:15
        
        plus he already had a company to do the manufacturing. His gouging was purely for profit -- nm - decline Dec 1, 11:56
    - Because that's what was driving up the cost of the original, right... -- nm* - znufrii Dec 1, 11:43
    - Food is pretty cheap. Why is food so cheap and medicine so expensive? There's no reason for this. -- nm - con_carne Dec 1, 11:42 1
      - Because food literally grows on trees. -- nm - Ender Dec 1, 11:45
    - Interestingly, just yesterday the House passed a FDA streamlining bill that should get signed. -- (link) - ML Dec 1, 11:42 2
      - Hope this works. Typically when FHWA streamlines something it takes twice as long. -- nm - Strongbad Dec 1, 11:44 1
        
        "To get approved you now need to dig a stream and line it with your product first. DON'T ASK WHY!!!" -- nm - Ender Dec 1, 12:04
    - (Or the required quality control.) -- nm - Ender Dec 1, 11:41 4
      - (And my point isn't that whatever they're charging is justified, just that it's not apples to apples. It's more apples to apple pies.) -- nm - Ender Dec 1, 11:46 3
        
        So, why are they charging $750 for an apple pie, when apples literally grow on trees? -- nm - znufrii Dec 1, 11:52 2
        
        "And my point isn't that whatever they're charging is justified" -- nm - Ender Dec 1, 11:52 1
        
        Eh, I prefer blackberry pie anyway. - znufrii Dec 1, 11:55
- outstanding. -- nm - mud Dec 1, 11:16
Jeff Fisher on Gronk injury: "Good for us, but we still have to worry about Aaron Hernandez." - ML Dec 1, 11:05
Madden 2017 cover curse intact. -- nm - Diva Dec 1, 11:03 4
- this -- (link) - Doctor Spawn Dec 1, 11:36 1
  - And this. -- (link) - Doctor Spawn Dec 1, 11:37
- +1 likey -- nm - budice Dec 1, 11:08
- oooooh, good point -- nm - ML Dec 1, 11:03
Talked to one of our local judges today who has had detached retina surgeries a la Mike Zimmer, he expects Zim will be told to be out at least a month - ML Dec 1, 10:58 2
- He should wear an eye patch and be Pirate Zimmer -- nm - Strongbad Dec 1, 10:59 1
  - Aye -- nm - budice Dec 1, 11:01
GOP may delay Obamacare replacement for years -- (link) - Strongbad Dec 1, 10:58 33
- semi related: Majority Whip is pretty much the best political title. -- nm - Andie Dec 1, 11:35 1
  - oh, i dunno. i like shadow cabinet minister....nm - x Dec 1, 11:42
- “I think once it’s repealed, you will have hopefully fewer people playing politics and [instead] coming together to try to find the best policy,” - pmb Dec 1, 11:04 3
  - This is the guy who threw away the speaker's chair by letting it slip that Benghazi was all political. -- nm - Reagen Dec 1, 11:38
  - HOLY SHIT BALLS - Epiphany Dec 1, 11:30
  - BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! -- nm - Diva Dec 1, 11:06
- Drain that swamp -- nm - budice Dec 1, 11:02
- Lol. -- (edited) - znufrii Dec 1, 11:00
- Republican aides predicted the entire repeal, done through so-called reconciliation, will be finished in the first 100 days of Trump’s presidency -- nm - Strongbad Dec 1, 10:59 24
  - so, all talk and no action -- nm - decline Dec 1, 11:00 23
    - They claim that the insurance companies needed several years to implement the Obamacare rollout, they will likewise need several years - Strongbad Dec 1, 11:02 22
      - hmm. Just read something interesting. The Ins companies have no incentive to stick with the exchanges once the repeal happens. The GOP may not have - decline Dec 1, 11:30 3
        
        That will only prove their assertion that the ACA was a failure. -- nm - znufrii Dec 1, 11:32 2
        
        which won't bother big Insurance one wit -- nm - decline Dec 1, 11:33 1
        
        Right. -- nm - znufrii Dec 1, 11:33
      - real speak: the insurance companies need time to study the new laws and determine how to maximize profits and shaft the account holders -- nm - decline Dec 1, 11:14
      - And we should believe them now, because....? -- nm - znufrii Dec 1, 11:06
      - Come up with the replacement and bring that along at the same time. Sure you can take years to implement it, but that's not what they're doing. They - pmb Dec 1, 11:06 15
        
        They also want to be able to check the box of "repeal obamacare" as quickly as possible - Strongbad Dec 1, 11:12 13
        
        Yes, but that's an empty and lame reason. The actual promise was to repeal and replace Obamacare. They are only accomplishing half of that and - pmb Dec 1, 11:20
        
        Their mantra this whole time has been "repeal and replace@ not "repeal now, replace later if we get around to it." -- nm - znufrii Dec 1, 11:20 11
        
        If you read the article, that's not what they're saying - Strongbad Dec 1, 11:22 8
        
        But not a bad enough idea to have the replacement ready and in effect when they vote to repeal. It's not like they haven't had 6+ years already to - pmb Dec 1, 11:25 4
        
        Yes, they have come up with a meaningful proposal that was introduced multiple times -- (link) - Strongbad Dec 1, 11:27 3
        
        Stupid facts... -- nm - Ender Dec 1, 12:16
        
        So why don't they propose that in conjunction with the repeal? I'm willing to listen, but this is playing games. -- nm - pmb Dec 1, 12:03
        
        " solutions including individual health pools and expanded health savings accounts, tax credits for the purchase of coverage and lawsuit abuse reforms - Epiphany Dec 1, 11:44
        
        Why should I believe a word of what they're saying? -- nm - znufrii Dec 1, 11:23 2
        
        Just believe conservatives when they want to take things away from the blacks and the browns - con_carne Dec 1, 11:29
        
        *shrug* -- nm - Strongbad Dec 1, 11:24
        
        And I was assured constantly that they have a replacement scheme ready to go, what happened to that? -- nm* - znufrii Dec 1, 11:21 1
        
        The most popular one in the House was created by your new Secretary of HHS. -- nm - Strongbad Dec 1, 11:23
        
        I agree with most of what you said, it's obviously a political move -- nm - Strongbad Dec 1, 11:07
TV PSA: Cowboys@Vikings, Legends of Tomorrow, NBA, Rosewood, BBT, Great Indoors, Pitch, Project Runway, Great American Baking Show, Mom, Supernatural, -- nm - Beaker Dec 1, 10:57 5
- Life in Pieces, Falling Water, Pure Genius, Top Chef, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Dec 1, 10:57 4
  - looking forward to this season of Top Chef more than the past few for some reason. -- nm - Strongbad Dec 1, 11:03 3
    - looking forward to this "other stuff" When it finally arrives it should be Great. -- nm - mud Dec 1, 11:08 2
      - and it's on every damn day! -- nm - Beaker Dec 1, 11:31
      - *giggle* -- nm - Diva Dec 1, 11:09
Fireball!! -- nm - ML Dec 1, 10:56 1
- and Redbull! -- nm - budice Dec 1, 10:58

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