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Patton Oswalt ‏@pattonoswalt 1h1 hour ago Milo (wakes up): Crumpets and jam, I'm TRENDING! (sees why) Buggers and bangers! -- nm - Spawn Feb 20, 11:20 1
- one of our cats is named Milo -- nm - Beaker Feb 20, 11:21
Apropos of nothing: It might surprise Hollywood to learn that Peter Stormare is Swedish, not generically Eastern European. -- nm - Mop Feb 20, 11:15
Had to cancel my holiday tomorrow as my friend's dad is in hospital. Sitting at my desk at work drinking whisky waiting for pizza to arrive. -- nm - LMS Feb 20, 11:13 8
- what is pizza in England like? -- nm - Remlik Feb 20, 11:14 7
  - Not bad. -- nm - Spawn Feb 20, 11:16
  - Only one I ever had included eggs on top. -- nm - Meg Feb 20, 11:16 2
    - those crazy bastards put eggs on everything -- nm - groiny Feb 20, 11:16 1
      - But no hot sauce :( Savages!! -- nm - Meg Feb 20, 11:17
  - Nachos in UK is not too good either. -- nm - groiny Feb 20, 11:15
  - Thin crust is fine -- nm - LMS Feb 20, 11:15
  - Tombstone. -- nm - groiny Feb 20, 11:14
Police shootout in Whittier this morning - one officer killed :( - Meg Feb 20, 11:07 1
- Suspect is known gang member and was driving a stolen car. -- nm - Meg Feb 20, 11:14
John Wick 2: I REALLY enjoyed the Sommelier scene. Spoilers - Mop Feb 20, 11:02 6
- I wasn't going to see JW2 this weekend until I heard Serafinowicz was in it. - LMS Feb 20, 11:11
- I like how spoil - Spawn Feb 20, 11:04 4
  - There's something a little fantastical about that. Spoilers - Mop Feb 20, 11:11 3
    - spoiler - Guigue Feb 20, 11:19
    - Video games have never made me want to kill people. spoilers - Spawn Feb 20, 11:15 1
      - right spoilers for JW2 - Beaker Feb 20, 11:18
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword trailer - LMS Feb 20, 10:52 [youtube] 5
- I feel like I saw a trailer for this like 2 years ago. -- nm - groiny Feb 20, 11:16
- I'll see it, but this is going to flop bigtime, and Richie isn't going to be making the 5 planned sequels -- nm - MDH Feb 20, 11:09
- Better than the original trailer, which was clearly "King Arthur visits Game of Thrones". -- nm - Mop Feb 20, 11:03
- Jax Teller as King Arthur. I can dig it. -- nm - crash davis Feb 20, 10:58 1
  - and Guy Ritchie directing? oh yes. -- nm - Epiphany Feb 20, 11:02
Heh, Uber's response to the blog post Bery linked last night. -- (link) - Meg Feb 20, 10:52 12
- The HR department that perpetuated the discrimination will be looking into it. -- nm - mara Feb 20, 11:14 1
  - Right. - znufrii, not a sociologist Feb 20, 11:21
- thanks for posting this - I was curious - Epiphany Feb 20, 10:58 8
  - The c-suite has joked about "Boob-er" and the data science team once mapped one night stands using customer data. - Beryllium Feb 20, 11:05
  - If there's any truth to the comment on the leather jackets........sheesh! -- nm - Meg Feb 20, 11:03 6
    - But see, it wouldnot be fair and equal to give the women a jacket that cost a little more! - Spawn Feb 20, 11:06 3
      - It's not the greatest injustice in the history of the world... but try and find a better example of implicit bias. -- nm - Reagen Feb 20, 11:27
      - right?! -- nm - Epiphany Feb 20, 11:08
      - I am reminded of the "Equality vs Justice" comic ... -- nm - Beryllium Feb 20, 11:07
    - that does seem to be a viable thread they can pull on - Epiphany Feb 20, 11:05 1
      - And the dropping percentages of women in the section along with the numbers of women who asked for transfers. -- nm* - . Feb 20, 14:17
- They'd have to hire an external HR department & fire the entire existing one. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 20, 10:53
Cool personal John Wick tidbit (no spoiler) - Guigue Feb 20, 10:48 12
- That's even cooler than watching Mothra stomp on the vegas theatre you're watching it from. -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 20, 11:40
- And then your mind exploded in a cloud of pink mist? -- nm - Max Feb 20, 11:17
- It's like you're in the Matrix or something! -- nm - LMS Feb 20, 10:54 2
  - Spoilers - Beryllium Feb 20, 10:55
  - My life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix - Guigue Feb 20, 10:55
- Ha! -- nm - Mop Feb 20, 10:54
- nice -- nm - budice Feb 20, 10:49
- that's pretty cool -- nm - Andie Feb 20, 10:49 3
  - An hour before the movie, we were talking about how bright and pink the nearby Victoria's Secret is - Guigue Feb 20, 10:51 2
    - Did you see the Place des Arts metro station? -- nm - Mop Feb 20, 10:54 1
      - Ahah yeah definitely. Then it magically transformed into a New York subway station :) -- nm - Guigue Feb 20, 10:56
- COOL! -- nm - Epiphany Feb 20, 10:48
Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, died suddenly Monday after falling ill in his office at the mission, Russian officials said -- (link) - Beaker Feb 20, 10:46 6
- That's at least two since the election. - David Feb 20, 11:04
- Ah, the classic Russian heart attack to the back of the head. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 20, 10:52
- anyone seen two twin Ukrainian girls with poisoned pens wearing shirts that say Ржунимагу? -- nm - Epiphany Feb 20, 10:48
- Shortly after participating in a Japanese game show. -- nm - Mop Feb 20, 10:47
- LOL -- nm - tshirt assassin Feb 20, 10:46 1
  - at least we all went for the same joke - Epiphany Feb 20, 10:48
This is what we need: "Va. Democrats to challenge GOP state lawmakers in each district Clinton won" prev they ran 21, now 45. -- (link) - MDH Feb 20, 10:43 1
- And run GOP primary opponents in all the others. Heh. -- nm - mara Feb 20, 10:43
Milo's invitation to speak at CPAC has been rescinded. -- nm - Tim Feb 20, 10:40
speaking of that other site, i totally forgot about yesterday's IPO ... - call me Ishmael Feb 20, 10:37 4
- it's so cute and funny that you don't just say "hsx." ha ha ha ha. -- nm - university of amanda jones Feb 20, 12:44 1
  - it's my thing, I guess. i just prefer saying "that other site." and most all of you know what i'm talking about anyways, right? -- nm - call me Ishmael Feb 20, 13:49
- Is this Unbreakable 2? -- nm - Loyola Feb 20, 10:40 1
  - well, that wasn't the one i was refering to ... - call me Ishmael Feb 20, 10:44
Ghost in the Shell tix for Thu night, should be interesting -- nm* - budice Feb 20, 10:26 3
- is that the partial screening preview or the whole thing? -- nm - Andie Feb 20, 10:27 2
  - whole dealio -- nm - budice Feb 20, 10:27 1
    - nice -- nm - Andie Feb 20, 10:36
WWE: DDP to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. -- nm - Tim Feb 20, 10:22 6
- is he still married to same lady he was when he wrestled? she was smokin -- nm - Beaker Feb 20, 10:36 1
  - no. but they are VERY good friends. She attended his wedding to his new wife and he attended her wedding to a new husband -- nm - Remlik Feb 20, 10:42
- spoilers ... - call me Ishmael Feb 20, 10:35 1
  - *Crash* Stone Colds Music hits....out comes Steve to adminsters stunners all around.... - Remlik Feb 20, 10:43
- nice. -- nm - Remlik Feb 20, 10:33
- SELF HIGH FIVE!!!! -- nm - groiny Feb 20, 10:23
anyone looking to be on the Ghost Recon Wildlands Beta this week, you might have to register for it first - groiny Feb 20, 10:14
LYC: We blew up all that guys shit in EVE. Total take: 12B ISK. For reference, it takes about 1B ISK to pay for 1 month of game time in game -- nm - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Feb 20, 10:11 11
- you vile fiends! -- nm - Remlik Feb 20, 10:19 9
  - he never showed up, not once over 5 days -- nm - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Feb 20, 10:24 8
    - Evil bullies -- nm - decline Feb 20, 10:42
    - he plays on the weekend! -- nm - Remlik Feb 20, 10:33 5
      - we shot him over the weekend! :) -- nm - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Feb 20, 10:43 4
        
        Holiday weekend! -- nm - Spawn Feb 20, 11:03
        
        surprised no bigger fish came along to try and jump your find and go after you...(or can that happen?) -- nm - Beaker Feb 20, 10:44 2
        
        happens a lot. we were pretty good about shutting down the system during our operations to keep that kind of thing out -- nm - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Feb 20, 10:52
        
        ..next on Big Fish Jumping -- nm - Cable Announcer Feb 20, 10:46
    - he probably had a heart attack, and if he survived, he is gonna have another after he logs in. -- nm - groiny Feb 20, 10:26
- vnb! -- nm - Beaker Feb 20, 10:13
Trump's ticked back up to 42/53/-11. -- nm - David Feb 20, 10:06
Weekend movies: Lion A+, La La Land B+, Moonlight B, Hacksaw Ridge B, Hell or High Water B, Adult World C. - kelly Feb 20, 09:58 2
- John Wick 2, B, Edge of Darkness B- -- nm - Loyola Feb 20, 10:29
- The Girl on the Train: C; Hell or High Water: B+ -- nm - Mop Feb 20, 10:00
Have I mentioned lately how I'm not fond of vendors? - Mop Feb 20, 09:39 2
- ... you have a Ferrari? -- nm - Spawn Feb 20, 09:41 1
  - We have best in class in regards to the product we're using. Largely because we've made it what it is. I'm not gonna sugarcoat it. - Mop Feb 20, 09:45
Anyone watching Imposters? Not sure what I think about it. It's like 2 different shows smooshed together. -- nm - Dano Feb 20, 09:22 1
- Unrelated: my friends are suddenly raving about impastor, which was on tv land. Appar it's like banshee -- (edited) - Amanda Feb 20, 09:33
Josh Gad tries to get more Last Jedi info out of Daisy and this time he has friends -- (link) - Remlik Feb 20, 09:08 5
- "Why don't you answer my damn questions?" *extremely long pause* "OK." - Beryllium Feb 20, 09:40 3
  - You'd think they couldn't top that except for the last person in the last video. -- nm - Mop Feb 20, 09:41 2
    - the only way it gets topped is if Gad can get George Lucas involved.... -- nm - Remlik Feb 20, 10:01
    - Yep. And the smile. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 20, 09:41
- This is great. -- nm - Mop Feb 20, 09:13
did Dellin Batances come down with a freak arm injury yet? -- nm - groiny Feb 20, 08:59 2
- ~BATDANCE!!!~ - Spawn Feb 20, 09:07
- I think he's come down with a case of the "yeah, that inning doesn't work for me"'s - Will Hunting, King of Astronauts Feb 20, 09:04
WWE Paige Movie "Fighting with my Family": hires former TNA Knockout Champ Rosita as the WWE Diva Champ for the movie... -- (link) - Remlik Feb 20, 08:58 1
- they filmed at Raw today...the Rock is there....might he beon the show tonight? -- (link) - Remlik Feb 20, 09:02
Taboo minor spoilers for ep 7 - LMS Feb 20, 08:56 8
- is the season really only 8 episodes ? or is this some crappy break or something? -- nm - Epiphany Feb 20, 08:59 7
  - Just 8 eps this season. - LMS Feb 20, 09:06 6
    - Besides 8 eps is long for a British show! -- nm - LMS Feb 20, 09:06 5
      - "It ran for 16 years and had almost 30 episodes!" -- nm - znufrii, not a sociologist Feb 20, 09:16
      - its maddening to the Americans! heh -- nm - Epiphany Feb 20, 09:12 3
        
        The Americans, season 4: 13 episodes. -- nm - Mop Feb 20, 09:20 1
        
        Well at least they do a lot in that show -- nm - Epiphany Feb 20, 10:44
        
        I like it in that I have yet to watch any, though I am recording them. 8 is easier to knock out in a weekend. -- nm - Spawn Feb 20, 09:13
I recognized some Montreal locations in John Wick 2. Parts of the subway scenes, in particular, are very iconic. -- nm - Mop Feb 20, 08:56
"What no one realizes, is that trash heaps all over the nation are already populated by Thunderdome cosplay rejects waiting for an apocalypse " -- nm - Beaker Feb 20, 08:45 6
- oh, with regards to your earlier post about Rick......spoils..... - groiny Feb 20, 08:51 5
  - Uhm... and how did your second example work out? -- nm - Spawn Feb 20, 08:53 4
    - does not matter...... - groiny Feb 20, 08:56 3
      - Oh, I know. spoils - Spawn Feb 20, 09:01 2
        
        I fully expect... spoils..... - groiny Feb 20, 09:02 1
        
        He just wants his booze back. -- nm - Spawn Feb 20, 09:12
Pelicans chances of making playoffs increased to 18%, post trade--- - Flavorize Feb 20, 08:40 11
- I, admittedly, don't follow the NBA so I'm confused. A team well out of the playoffs made a big deal to get a rent-a-player? -- nm - spamlet Feb 20, 08:52 10
  - who went to the same univ as their best player. Calipari next? -- nm - Strongbad Feb 20, 09:06 3
    - Calipari isn't leaving Kentucky unless he gets caught cheating - Will Hunting, King of Astronauts Feb 20, 09:26 2
      - I predict he and Saban will both give the pros another chance. Their egos are too big. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 20, 09:35 1
        
        I think you're right, and it wouldn't surprise me to see John Wall try to force his way onto NO next year. -- nm - David Feb 20, 09:44
  - They got a guy who could be one of the ten-fifteen best players in the league if he isn't insane. - Will Hunting, King of Astronauts Feb 20, 08:58 4
    - He's already top 15. Some GMs consider him the most talented player in the league. - David Feb 20, 09:18 1
      - I get not getting along with Karl, but when you are 1 for 5 with your bosses, you're the problem. -- nm - Will Hunting, King of Astronauts Feb 20, 09:28
    - Ah, okay. I misread. I thought he was a FA after this year. -- nm - spamlet Feb 20, 09:07
    - The upside is now the Pelicans have 2, top 15 players...Ex: David Robinson/Duncan combo -- nm - Flavorize Feb 20, 09:06
  - A two year rental with the option to buy. -- nm - Krusty, baseball fanatic Feb 20, 08:58
Horizon is a technical masterpiece on PS4 and Pro. The best 4K Pro release yet still looks phenomenal on base hardware. -- (link) - Shaun Feb 20, 08:37 1
- Alright! -- nm - No Man's Sky Feb 20, 08:42
Best Comic Con. Ever. -- (link) - Spawn Feb 20, 08:32 1
- That's very cool for them. -- nm - IrishStephen Feb 20, 10:51
Whoa. I just saw a theory for Avengers: Infinity War that makes *so* much sense. spoiler for those that read the comics (but not for the rest) - Spawn Feb 20, 08:24 10
- possibly. link me -- nm - Remlik Feb 20, 08:52 8
  - There was very little there, but the concept seems sound. -- nm - Spawn Feb 20, 08:54 7
    - meh...I mean sure they could do that.... - Remlik Feb 20, 08:55 6
      - spoil - Spawn Feb 20, 08:59 5
        
        his origins haven't been tweaked...and if Steve Rogers can use the gauntlet so can Quill.... -- nm - Remlik Feb 20, 09:04 4
        
        Yes they have. spoil - Spawn Feb 20, 09:04 3
        
        Of course....that's in the comic. -- nm - Remlik Feb 20, 09:09 2
        
        Sorry, that was what I meant. Why the progression of the story from comic to movie could work. -- nm - Spawn Feb 20, 09:11 1
        
        gotcha! -- nm - Remlik Feb 20, 10:19
- I like Patton Oswalt's from Parks & Rec -- nm - Beaker Feb 20, 08:29

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