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The US doesn't currently have an ambassador to Canada, so behave you Canucks. - . Jan 18, 23:06 5
- Also seems that Trump is personally responsible for the loss of 660 jobs ... -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 18, 23:19 4
  - how different is this from the norm? I really have no frame of reference here. -- nm - mafic Jan 18, 23:40 3
    - On the ambassadorships, they usually stay until a new one is ready. -- nm - . Jan 19, 00:41
    - Yeah, I have no idea. I'm guessing it's below average, like everything else. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 18, 23:45 1
      - well, there are usually at least a few cabinet positions confirmed on or before inauguration day, apparently. -- (link) - mafic Jan 18, 23:57
So...there's a building company, that wants to have 90 sec SB spot about a wall that immigrants can't climb---It's denied by Fox - Flavorize Jan 18, 22:39 2
- Trump's gonna be pissed. -- nm* - Mop Jan 18, 22:51
- "Joe Hardy". -- nm - Beryllium Jan 18, 22:42
Judge Reinhold pleads 'no contest' to disorderly conduct, saying; "I'm sorry for being such a dumbass with TSA". -- nm - GregW Jan 18, 22:39 1
- somebody wants off the 'pat-downs for life' list. -- nm - mafic Jan 18, 22:53
Hmm, I've already got way more posts this month than last month, and it's barely half over. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 18, 22:39
How did Third Eye Blind not get signed for the inauguration? You know they'd jump at the opportunity to troll the GOP again. -- nm - Mop Jan 18, 22:35
I think maybe I've finally sorted out the bug that was preventing the final step of stripping "old php" from ST. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 18, 22:32
Julian Assange doesn't think commutation and clemency are the same thing. So no deal! -- (link) - Mop Jan 18, 22:29 1
- Well duh. Obama should go back and be "Oh, really? Well, OK then. Let's call your bluff. Again." - Beryllium Jan 18, 22:31
Arlene Dickenson: "Yup, Kevin O'Leary is exactly like that." -- (link) - Reagen Jan 18, 22:15
four damn games lost tonight in OW because someone on my team left. - Reagen Jan 18, 22:08
The Historical Society is buying us dinner tomorrow night at a place where I usually have a beer with dinner. The weather may not - Meg Jan 18, 21:21 11
- I wonder what the Coppola Director's Cut Cab goes for, he produces some top notch stuff -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 19, 00:12
- I'd probably go for whatever the seasonal old orange brewing company draught beer is. -- nm - mafic Jan 18, 21:52 2
  - I'd never heard of them but they're right down the road from me. Certainly worth checking out. -- nm - Meg Jan 18, 22:14 1
    - Local! -- nm - Flavorize Jan 18, 22:17
- When everything else is pretty standard--I go for local--Never had this one, but sounds fun--LOST COAST DOWNTOWN BROWN, EUREKA, CA -- nm - Flavorize Jan 18, 21:52 2
  - Not quite local :) but sounds like my kind of beer. -- nm - Meg Jan 18, 22:16 1
    - that's from Northern California, that like a whole state away -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 19, 01:48
- Oatmeal Stout is a good choice if they have it as is the porter. You might the Newcastle. And you can usually ask for a taste of whatever's on tap. - . Jan 18, 21:27 3
  - Their waitstaff have never steered me wrong. I thought someone here may have a favorite :) -- nm - Meg Jan 18, 21:37 2
    - I don't have a favourite from those, just don't have Stella. -- nm - mafic Jan 18, 21:55
    - On that list it's the Oatmeal Stout. -- nm - . Jan 18, 21:46
Make it stop -- (link) - ty97 Jan 18, 20:58 7
- is he running for office? -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 18, 21:00 6
  - That's the speculation. If Trump can do it with no political experience, why not? -- nm - Meg Jan 18, 21:13 5
    - Billionaires running for office. This all started with Bloomberg! -- nm - Mop Jan 18, 22:08 1
      - they all saw Silvio Berlusconi and thought they couldn't possibly throw under that. except Trump, who appears to be actively pursuing it. -- nm - mafic Jan 18, 22:55
    - It would be nice to have someone competent, although I fear that zuck has never really connected well with people ... -- nm - Beryllium Jan 18, 21:34
    - I would take him in a heartbeat over Trump. - pmb Jan 18, 21:22 1
      - I'd take a turnip over Trump. -- nm - TWuG Jan 18, 21:34
RC imagine the millions of Trump protesters changing tacticts and sent a letter to the White House every day instead. that would increase the daily - Peglegpete Jan 18, 20:51 1
- white house mail is opened off site and scanned. they'd hire a few postal workers, OCR software would sort and report and the staff could ignore -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 19, 00:15
Thanks to David, these are the first five items that pop up under "Inspired by Your Shopping Trends" when I visit Amazon.com ... - ReluctantCynic Jan 18, 20:39
Time for the late night crew -- nm - Dano Jan 18, 20:38 1
- ...to hit the sack -- nm - mud Jan 18, 20:46
Have you all voted for GDT making Hellboy 3? If not--do so! -- (link) - Flavorize Jan 18, 20:32
Sir Paul is sueing Sony to get his Beatles catalogue back -- (link) - Peglegpete Jan 18, 20:28 2
- Sony just paid nearly a billion for complete control. No way the 1978 copyright law survives their lobbying in congress. - Mop Jan 18, 22:22 1
  - he was stupid for not buying them back in the 80's when Michael Jackson got them for 150m? anyway he got his money back in under 2 years - zeitgeist Jan 19, 00:18
This is like a conversation you'd have with a 4 year old. -- (link) - Reagen Jan 18, 20:25 1
- He certainly learned those lessons from the Couric-Palin interview. -- nm - Roger More Jan 18, 20:36
Kinda terrified that we have a new admin on Friday and um.....they haven't staffed it at all. -- nm - ty97 Jan 18, 20:19 2
- don't be. this has happened before -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 18, 20:24 1
  - ummm, good? -- (link) - ty97 Jan 18, 21:01
Fantastic -- (link) - ty97 Jan 18, 20:16 1
- Well, but the second line... -- nm - Roger More Jan 18, 20:17
In attendance at the Trump party at Library of Congress tonight: Jon Voight and John Elway. -- nm - MDH Jan 18, 19:59 6
- Fitting. Elway is such a prick. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 18, 20:38 1
  - Yep. Always has been. -- nm - diva Jan 18, 20:47
- *THE* Jon Voight?! -- nm - Mop Jan 18, 20:01 3
  - He is MCing the festivities tomorrow night. -- nm - Spawn Jan 18, 20:08 1
    - Real star power! -- nm - Mop Jan 18, 20:11
  - did he show up in a LeBaron convertible? -- nm - mafic Jan 18, 20:07
I haven't watched the Fire Emblem Nintendo Direct, but the Fire Emblem Heroes ios and android game is coming out Feb 2nd. -- nm - Qale Jan 18, 19:46 2
- Reportedly, Android is getting it first... for a change. Looks like a turn-based tactical strategy game? - Mop Jan 18, 19:50 1
  - If it's loyal to the original concept, yes it would be a turn-based tactical strat game with perma-death. -- nm - Qale Jan 18, 19:52
1,981 movies on Vudu, and nothing to watch. That'll change when I hit 2,000, right? -- nm - Mop Jan 18, 19:27 1
- I'm at 1,754. How about Nerve? -- nm - David Jan 18, 19:30
I can't get sleepy, only 7:30 in real time -- nm - Bacon Jan 18, 19:27 5
- You're in international waters...there is no real time - Flavorize Jan 18, 20:09 1
  - the cruise terms and conditions require him to party every night or be thrown overboard. -- nm - mafic Jan 18, 20:16
- You slept 11 hours, no wonder. -- nm - Spawn Jan 18, 19:59 1
  - True -- nm - Bacon Jan 18, 20:02
- I find that horrible stress often makes me want to curl up in a fetal position and want to go to sleep. - Mop Jan 18, 19:28
"Thank you for keeping Nerve a secret." - David Jan 18, 19:18 4
- Did you see Casey Neistat? -- nm - Mop Jan 18, 19:19 3
  - I'm only 20 minutes in. Also, I have no idea if that's even a guy or a girl. -- nm - David Jan 18, 19:23 2
    - You wound me, sir! -- nm - Mop Jan 18, 19:23 1
      - You spin me right wound, right round? -- nm - JD Jan 18, 19:46
My aspirations to be like Gatsby are bearing fruit. I'm hosting a party Friday night that's barreling towards 50 RSVPs. - Mop Jan 18, 19:17
Cibulkova just cannot stand still -- nm - prayformojo Jan 18, 19:10 1
- 'roid rage -- nm - mud Jan 18, 19:16
Next Overwatch event is Chinese New Year, starting next Tuesday. -- nm - Reagen Jan 18, 19:04
What's the oddest thing you have in your work space? - Mel Profit Jan 18, 18:29 [Image] 20
- A fossilized oyster shell. We (the State of MD) are spending millions to quarry them in Florida, and ship them up here to feed to our oyster beds. -- nm - landbeck Jan 18, 23:49
- A funko Ted the Geek figure from Sixteen Candles. -- nm - Volnelk Jan 18, 19:54
- A 30-year-old fireman's axe handle that used to reside in Portland Fire & Rescue Station 1. - ReluctantCynic Jan 18, 19:37
- Old Mole Richardson 2000w fresnel spot light on a heavy u yoke light stand. -- nm - Z2G2 Jan 18, 18:35 5
  - Nice. -- nm - znufrii Jan 18, 18:44
  - Mine doesn't light up, if I plugged it in I'd take down the power grid for the neighborhood -- nm - Z2G2 Jan 18, 18:39 3
    - you should use it to rob a casino. -- nm - mafic Jan 18, 18:49 2
      - I'm busy! -- nm - Basher Jan 18, 18:56
      - Awesome, there is in fact a card room casino across the main street - Z2G2 Jan 18, 18:52
- probably a chunk of orbicular granite. -- (link) - mafic Jan 18, 18:34
- blue/black/white striped, pink faced, bobble-head wooden armadillo. -- nm - b. Jan 18, 18:34 2
  - b! -- (edited) - budice Jan 18, 18:39 1
    - :) - - b. Jan 18, 18:52
- this. it lights up. -- (link) - znufrii Jan 18, 18:32 5
  - on that front, I have a matlab Rubik's cube -- (link) - mafic Jan 18, 18:38 4
    - it's actually a degree of difficulty harder to solve, because the faces all have patterns. -- nm - mafic Jan 18, 18:39 3
      - but mine lights up. -- nm - znufrii Jan 18, 18:44 2
        
        I actually haven't properly solved it either. the colours are all on the right faces, but some are rotated. -- nm - mafic Jan 18, 18:47
        
        is it cursed? -- nm - mafic Jan 18, 18:45
- me - ty97 Jan 18, 18:31
I finally caught Hacksaw Ridge and it is a great movie. I just wish they had spent less time on the historically inaccurate drama and at least - GregW Jan 18, 18:25 2
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  - yeah - that was clunky at best. - Mel Profit Jan 18, 18:48
OFFS -- (link) - Reagen Jan 18, 18:23 8
- These four years are going to just fly by -- nm - Roger More Jan 18, 19:32
- Like we were supposed to believe he writes his own speeches. For that matter... - Mop Jan 18, 18:51 3
  - the speechwriting is one thing, but.. not poking at you at all, but this is such an odd one. - b. Jan 18, 19:05 2
    - Looks like the concierge desk at Mar-a-Lago. "Jenna, that's a nice desk. Get your shit off of it for a minute." -- nm - Mop Jan 18, 19:10 1
      - "and where's my goddam eagle statue?" I'm gonna miss the White House photo feed on flickr. that was good. -- nm - mafic Jan 18, 19:33
- his real house wasn't gold enough. -- nm - mafic Jan 18, 18:26
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  - yah. the other one was taken at mar-a-lago. -- nm - b. Jan 18, 18:30
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- "this was the best pull quote we could get" -- nm - Reagen Jan 18, 19:41
- ooOOOooo I can't wait to see it now. -- nm - Remlik Jan 18, 19:38
- But the new one is crap! -- nm - Mop Jan 18, 18:21
- Exxxcellent! -- nm - Beryllium Jan 18, 18:18
So fucking doomed. Wow. -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 18, 18:13 7
- I wish an understanding of the job was part of the job requirement, but evidently it's not. -- nm - Mop Jan 18, 18:54
- The energy department has not made one bit of energy their entire existence. -- nm - Z2G2 Jan 18, 18:50
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- Although I suppose it's a form of poetic justice that he'll be the one to blame for the department he forgot about. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 18, 18:14 3
  - and which he wanted to eliminate completely misunderstanding its function. -- nm - Reagen Jan 18, 18:19 2
    - Rick Perry's gonna end up being the hardest *working* man in Trump's cabinet. -- (edited) - Mop Jan 18, 18:54
    - he probably doesn't want to get rid of it anymore though. -- nm - mafic Jan 18, 18:27
Joss Whedon political commentary ... -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 18, 18:11
Morn Porn. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 18, 18:09
So Jude Law's character in The Young Pope, is exactly what we should expect from Trump, tight? -- nm - MDH Jan 18, 18:09 2
- I don't get it -- nm - KellyAnne Conway in an I'm a Virgin T-shirt Jan 18, 18:29
- I've seen that parallel drawn. -- nm - Reagen Jan 18, 18:26
for anyone who's watched "the bachelor" this season, dillon francis* has been cracking me up with his snapchat - b. Jan 18, 18:09 [youtube]
Your top 10 songs: Shape of You, Bad and Boujee, Black Beatles, Starboy, Closer, Castle on the Hill, 24K Magic, Don't Wanna Know, Side to Side, Bad Th - Tim Jan 18, 18:02 [youtube]
I share a storage unit in Vancouver with my mom that I haven't inspected in probably 2 years? - mafic Jan 18, 18:02
you will form an orderly line -- nm - Beaker Jan 18, 17:59
Dignan you would be wrong, in Quark's Holosuite the Vulcan Love Slave series was quite popular... -- (link) - Remlik Jan 18, 17:57 3
- I'd need to see some numbers. nm - Dignan Jan 18, 18:03 2
  - Also, shut up. nm - Dignan Jan 18, 18:05 1
    - NERDS! -- nm - Spawn Jan 18, 18:08
Have we discussed the Pussyhat Project? I could have been knitting all this time. -- (link) - Meg Jan 18, 17:55 7
- I knitted two. My mom, however, knitted ... - ReluctantCynic Jan 18, 20:40
- I have at least one FB friend who's done some knitting for this. -- nm - Mop Jan 18, 19:25
- I applaud the effort but that's just wacky. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 18, 18:52 4
  - It's worn on the head. -- nm - Mop Jan 18, 19:26
  - And that differs it from all the other current wackiness how? :/ -- nm - Meg Jan 18, 19:08 2
    - not a bit I guess. It's funny how people are so off kilter. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 18, 19:13 1
      - Sometimes you just gotta go sideways. It's more fun. -- nm - . Jan 18, 20:26
Sonny Perdue (former GA Gov) gets Ag Sec nomination -- nm - decline Jan 18, 17:53
~/ I told you from the start just how this would end /~ -- nm - iSpam Jan 18, 17:49

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