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Spring Break Poll: When you were the right age (~20ish), did you ever go on a real spring break, to Florida, or wherever? -- nm* - Andie Mar 20, 08:44 19
- Lived on Venice Beach, it was just more crowded than usual -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 20, 12:48
- Drove from NJ to Orlando to go to the movie theme parks and watch a rocket launch. -- (edited) - Max Mar 20, 08:58
- nope. always wanted to though. Had to work. -- nm - Diva Mar 20, 08:54
- For sure. -- nm - volnelk Mar 20, 08:53
- Nope -- nm - SyrDragon Mar 20, 08:53
- No - not even remotely - I went on a girls trip to Mexico in my 30's - I consider that my spring break - Epiphany Mar 20, 08:50
- one year yeah. it was fun to do once. once. -- nm - Remlik Mar 20, 08:49
- Nope. -- nm - Krusty Mar 20, 08:47
- No. I didn't even know that was a thing until there started being "MTV Spring Break" back in the day -- nm - con_carne Mar 20, 08:47
- Oh yeah. Big group one year, solo one year. -- nm - Spawn Mar 20, 08:46
- like a woohooo party trip? no. we went to hilton head because my friend's mom lived there. we woohooed some - amanda jones state university Mar 20, 08:46
- I never had any interest whatsoever. -- nm - David Mar 20, 08:46 1
  - I mainly went to watch. - Spawn Mar 20, 08:47
- nope -- nm - Beaker Mar 20, 08:46
- Nope. -- nm - mara Mar 20, 08:46
- No, I got a good job. -- nm - budice Mar 20, 08:45
- nope. always worked -- nm - decline Mar 20, 08:45
- i did not. in my second year of university my parents offered to pay the super cheap money for a bus trip to Fort Lauderdale, but i was already over - Andie Mar 20, 08:45
- Never. *he says sadly and with regret* -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Mar 20, 08:44
NSA: We didn't ask the UK to spy on Trump. -- nm - Diva Mar 20, 08:44
Of course, existence of an investigation does not equal evidence of wrongdoing. -- nm - ty97 Mar 20, 08:35 9
- It doesn't? -- nm - Republicans everywhere Mar 20, 08:36
- in Trumpland it sure does -- nm - Epiphany Mar 20, 08:36
- Like emails! -- nm - Spawn Mar 20, 08:36 6
  - paid speeches! -- nm - Remlik Mar 20, 08:36 5
    - unflattering pantsuits! -- nm - Epiphany Mar 20, 08:37 4
      - how dare you. some of those pantsuits were awesome. - Diva Mar 20, 08:42 1
        
        hee! -- nm - Epiphany Mar 20, 08:49
      - vagina! -- nm - Beaker Mar 20, 08:37 1
        
        Her voice! -- nm - mara Mar 20, 08:38
Richard Hammond 'Not Dead' After Serious Motorcycle Crash During Grand Tour Filming -- (link) - Beaker Mar 20, 08:32 1
- Wow. And he had that huge one ten years ago. Get well Hamster!!! -- nm - Spawn Mar 20, 08:34
Walking Dead ending spoilers - Beaker Mar 20, 08:30
"Investigation began in late July, Comey says" Holy SHIT -- nm - ty97 Mar 20, 08:29 14
- Have I mentioned there was a coup d'etat? -- nm - David Mar 20, 08:39
- Fuck. Him. -- nm - Spawn Mar 20, 08:35
- That's where my alarms go off. I get not publicizing active investigations, but you have to be consistent. -- nm - volnelk Mar 20, 08:34
- so he makes a statement during the election re: the clinton investigation but fails to mention that there's a russian thing with the other candidate? -- nm - amanda jones state university Mar 20, 08:33 8
  - Worse. The FBI waved the NYT off the story in October. -- nm - ty97 Mar 20, 08:35 6
    - I thought they just discouraged reporting on the server connection to the bank. The rest just sounds like NYT's choice. -- (link) - mara Mar 20, 08:42
    - how so? -- nm - amanda jones state university Mar 20, 08:36 4
      - with tiny little hands -- nm - decline Mar 20, 08:38 3
        
        nice. -- nm - budice Mar 20, 08:42
        
        Ha! - David Mar 20, 08:41
        
        *snort* - Epiphany Mar 20, 08:38
  - It's really astounding. -- nm - pmb Mar 20, 08:34
- Yep, they are awful. 1970s - Watergate, 1980s - Iran Contra, 1990s - Monica. What are we calling this one? -- nm - MDH Mar 20, 08:31 1
  - Putinesca -- nm - Beryllium Mar 20, 08:39
ST #imgettingmyfinghaircuttoday Poll: What do you need to do that you've been procrastinating on? -- nm - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Mar 20, 08:26 8
- #imold ordering new glasses - I get progressives! -- nm - Epiphany Mar 20, 08:34 1
  - My glasses got bent playing bball...need to do this but figure I might as well get the whole exam and new pairs but haven't -- nm - SyrDragon Mar 20, 09:40
- Same as you, a haircut. I've got a big mess of hair under my hat right now. -- nm - Krusty Mar 20, 08:28 4
  - Yep me too -- nm - eag Mar 20, 08:29 3
    - Growing mine back out some. -- nm - Spawn Mar 20, 08:29 2
      - Hippie! -- nm - eag Mar 20, 08:34 1
        
        heh. I realized my hair was shorter than my father's. - Spawn Mar 20, 08:35
- Change the address on my driver's license, and my voter registration. -- nm - mara Mar 20, 08:27
I just realized there are 8 Marvel movies due to come out in 2018. This seems crazy, right? -- nm - MDH Mar 20, 08:26 1
- Almost enough. -- nm - Spawn Mar 20, 08:27
Comey has 'no evidence' to support Trump's wiretapping tweets -- nm - ty97 Mar 20, 08:22 15
- can comey be fired? -- nm - amanda jones state university Mar 20, 08:31 5
  - "[F]ixed term doesn’t limit how or why a president can remove an FBI director, and, according to U.S. law, a firing doesn’t have to be “for cause"" -- (link) - ty97 Mar 20, 08:34
  - Yup. -- nm - mara Mar 20, 08:33 3
    - how long till he's fired, do we think? -- nm - amanda jones state university Mar 20, 08:34 2
      - Not that Trump is logical, but didn't firing the guy who was investigating eventually lead to Nixon's downfall? -- nm - ty97 Mar 20, 08:36
      - New director of the FBI, Steve Bannon. -- nm - pmb Mar 20, 08:36
- Come on ty, The president obviously has accesses to security information not available to the FBI, DOJ or NSA -- nm - decline Mar 20, 08:23
- You're a bit behind, dude! (Are you following anyone in particular for tweets about the hearings?) -- nm - mara Mar 20, 08:23 7
  - just my usual Twitter feed, which is rife with journalists glued to the meeting - ty97 Mar 20, 08:24 6
    - Do you follow Jake Tapper? I don't, but it's one of the people I'm looking at this morning. I was amused that he retweeted a Sesame Street video in - mara Mar 20, 08:26 5
      - Tapper is great to follow -- nm - decline Mar 20, 08:37 2
        
        Yeah, he is the only one I follow. -- nm - Spawn Mar 20, 08:41
        
        " Trump you ignorant fuck" -- nm - Tapper SI Mar 20, 08:38
      - I do follow him, though most of the journos I follow are print. - ty97 Mar 20, 08:30
      - Julia rocks! -- nm - Spawn Mar 20, 08:29
So I guess the GOP strategy is to pretend the hearings are about the leaks. -- nm - mara Mar 20, 08:21 2
- That was the Trump trolling this morning. The best part being that he's arguing that the committees are wasting time on these issues when he made one - pmb Mar 20, 08:27
- They gotta find something to try to grab onto -- they can't defend his made-up tweets or the actual Russia links -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 20, 08:23
Who's cooler, Dan or Casey? -- nm - prayformojo Mar 20, 08:09 9
- Secret answer: Cut Man. -- nm - David's iPad Mar 20, 08:21
- Why is that show back in the spotlight? I saw a reference to it on Twitter the other day. -- nm - mara Mar 20, 08:09 7
  - The Guardian wrote an article last week calling it Sorkin at his best and I guess it got people talking about the show. -- (link*) - Krusty Mar 20, 08:11 6
    - Actually that's an old article but it's the one I saw being circulated on FB. Sorry. -- nm - Krusty Mar 20, 08:12 5
      - related Lawerence O'Donnell on the West Wing Weekly in a 2 parter about the Two Cathedrals episode -- nm - Remlik Mar 20, 08:15 4
        
        Yeah, I have it in my queue. Can't wait to hear those. -- nm - Krusty Mar 20, 08:19
        
        Still the single greatest hour of network television ever. - Will Hunting Mar 20, 08:18 2
        
        I still think my favorite sequence was the event that started the run-up to the finale that year: The cold open of 17 People - Name Withheld by Request Mar 20, 08:44 [youtube] 1
        
        That really was excellent storytelling. -- nm - David Mar 20, 08:46
Happy National Ravioli Day! Sounds like I know what's for dinner tonight. :-) -- nm - Krusty Mar 20, 08:07
*looks at the prices for Samsung's QLED TVs* I'm glad I found my Sammy SUHD during Xmas week. - Shaun Mar 20, 08:07
Clapton with Jimmie Vaughn and Gary Clark Jr. at Madison Square the other night.... -- (link) - Remlik Mar 20, 08:07
live now: "Did you engage in McCarthyism, Mr. Comey?" "I try hard not to engage in any isms, including McCarthyism." -- nm - Max Mar 20, 08:05 7
- We like to refer to it a Sean Spicerism. -- nm - pmb Mar 20, 08:37
- What a silly linguistic trope. No capitalism, eh? No realism? -- nm - mara Mar 20, 08:09 5
  - patriotism, altruism, malapropism, anthropomorphism... -- nm - decline Mar 20, 08:12 1
    - Yiff in hell, Comey! -- nm - Qale Mar 20, 08:16
  - It drew a laugh, but my interpretation of it is that he's saying he doesn't approach things with an ideological agenda other than collecting facts. -- nm - Max Mar 20, 08:11 2
    - Oh, yeah, I get what he meant. I just hate linguistic tropes. -- nm - mara Mar 20, 08:12 1
      - You could also look at it as a cute and effective dismissal of a trope-laden question :) -- nm - Max Mar 20, 08:14
Weekend parent Facebook group recap: Elementary school is doing theme week and one day is "Boys wear blue, girls wear pink". Did people: - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Mar 20, 08:00 15
- A slight bit of A, a little bit of B, and a whole ton of C -- nm - ty97 Mar 20, 08:22
- LYC but relatedly: The only time I've ever done drag was in high school during spirit week when it was "opposite day." -- nm - Qale Mar 20, 08:17
- C -- nm - Beaker Mar 20, 08:13
- This has to be C, right? -- nm - MDH Mar 20, 08:09
- A. We're a country of well reasoned people that just move through life on a gentle breeze. -- nm - Krusty Mar 20, 08:08
- C -- nm - Diva Mar 20, 08:06
- C with extreme prejudice -- nm - Epiphany Mar 20, 08:05 3
  - My favorite part now is there is a group of snarky guys who, once a thread reaches epic proportions, start replying with inane topics such as beer - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Mar 20, 08:13 2
    - "Duke is the greatest basketabll team of all-time!!" -- nm - Beaker Mar 20, 08:25
    - *bump it up* heelarious -- nm - Epiphany Mar 20, 08:15
- should be B. but the world we live in says C will be the answer -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 20, 08:04
- C, always C -- nm - decline Mar 20, 08:01
- Oh, dear. -- nm - znufrii, definitely not 40 Mar 20, 08:01
- it's a stupid theme, really. but, not worth (C), which is my answer. -- nm - Andie Mar 20, 08:01 1
  - Right. It's not worth C, but it was poor judgment to create that theme. -- nm - pmb Mar 20, 08:19
This Monday is a being a complete Monday. -- nm - ty97 Mar 20, 07:56
Doctor Who: Eccelston season coming in Blu-ray -- (link) - Remlik Mar 20, 07:55 [youtube]
"FBI Chief James Comey confirms that the FBI is investigating alleged collusion between President Donald J. Trump's campaign and Russia" -- nm - David Mar 20, 07:50 6
- This will cost Trump the election, for sure! -- nm* - znufrii, definitely not 40 Mar 20, 08:02
- here we go....*gets the popcorn bucket* -- nm - Epiphany Mar 20, 07:51 2
  - Another fun one: "I have no information that supports those tweets." -- FBI Director James Comey -- nm - mara Mar 20, 08:05 1
    - *smh* -- nm - Epiphany Mar 20, 08:08
- #FakeNews -- nm - Spawn Mar 20, 07:51
- *shocked* - tRuMaN Mar 20, 07:51
Mass Effect: Andromeda romance guide. -- (link) - Shaun Mar 20, 07:34 3
- sounds like Sara Ryder gets around -- nm* - decline Mar 20, 07:44 2
  - And Asari still like pie or strudel. Good times. -- nm - Shaun Mar 20, 07:53
  - Well you were in cryosleep for 600 years -- (edited) - eag Mar 20, 07:47
Weird. On HSX, I'm $34M ahead of the person behind me and $9M behind the person ahead. It's usually a much smaller gap. - volnelk Mar 20, 07:24 10
- i'm a little late to this conversation, but at least that takes a little of the pressure off of you - call me Ishmael Mar 20, 13:43
- I hit top 100 sometime last night. -- nm - Diva Mar 20, 07:48 7
  - Hey baby. - Spawn Mar 20, 08:42
  - well done, for a new player. -- nm - volnelk Mar 20, 08:33 1
    - also for a player who is so seducty -- nm - Epiphany Mar 20, 08:36
  - Fabulous! -- nm - Jammed Uzi Mar 20, 08:12
  - VNT! -- nm - Epiphany Mar 20, 08:05
  - Bravo! -- nm - Andie Mar 20, 07:59
  - Well done! -- nm - Krusty Mar 20, 07:49
- I don't usually see that large a gap to the next person. Often it's a few million but not 34. -- nm - Krusty Mar 20, 07:32
I wouldn't be surprised if the 34th St Target is actually oriented toward tourist, but the other ones popping up in town are not -- nm - ty97 Mar 20, 07:19 1
- I'm from Bensonhurst and they don't need a Target. They'll use it and it'll do well but that's not the point. - Krusty Mar 20, 07:26
*adds dealing with a baby waking up at midnight with a temp of 105.2 to his list of parenting accomplishments* -- (edited) - znufrii, definitely not 40 Mar 20, 07:15 9
- Dragonella is home today with a fever too - SyrDragon Mar 20, 09:38
- Hyperpyrexia blows. -- nm - Spawn Mar 20, 08:26 1
  - *googles, wishes he hadnt* -- nm - znufrii, definitely not 40 Mar 20, 08:43
- :( hope she's feeling better. -- nm - Diva Mar 20, 08:06 1
  - Thanks! - znufrii, definitely not 40 Mar 20, 08:12
- !!! I'd be running down the street with the baby - freaking out - Epiphany Mar 20, 07:51 3
  - Our pediatrician's office has been great, on call doc is always very responsive. - znufrii, definitely not 40 Mar 20, 07:59
  - nah, he just tossed her in a snowbank for a lil bit -- nm - decline Mar 20, 07:53 1
    - and brandy. always give her brandy -- nm - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Mar 20, 07:55
LIR: Rage against the machine, Krusty -- nm - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Mar 20, 07:14 4
- Yeah!!! ;-) -- nm - Krusty Mar 20, 07:23
- It's not remotely my fight but as an outsider, I don't picture midtown Manhattan next to Madison Square Garden as an area for unique, mom-&-pop stores - volnelk Mar 20, 07:19 2
  - It's not that one specifically I have a problem with but them being here in general. One or two is fine but they're also opening in parts - Krusty Mar 20, 07:23 1
    - Makes total sense. -- nm - volnelk Mar 20, 07:24
Since 2007, my alma mater (do we even use that term up here) has won 6 hockey championships and has been 2nd twice. - Shaun Mar 20, 07:11
Nunes: "Let me be clear, I've been saying this for several weeks, we know there was no wire tap on Trump Tower." -- nm - decline Mar 20, 07:10 8
- Can Obama sue for libel/slander at this point? I mean he likely won't - but could he? -- nm - Epiphany Mar 20, 07:12 7
  - Obama is smart. He knows less is more. By standing up to Trump, Trump's followers would entrench deeper into their stance. - Bacon Mar 20, 07:46 3
    - Trump is trying to bait anyone to be against him so he can look stronger. Media, Former Pres, Mexico. If people can resist the bait he just looks - Bacon Mar 20, 07:48 2
      - hmmm -- nm - Epiphany Mar 20, 08:24
      - Bingo. -- nm - znufrii, definitely not 40 Mar 20, 07:48
  - I think he could. I think he won't but I would love to see it. Especially if Trump won't let it go. -- nm - pmb Mar 20, 07:31 2
    - I don't think Obama has the time. He's too busy running the shadow government -- nm - decline Mar 20, 07:41
    - Better to not, I think. Let him continue to flail against shadows rather than give him an opponent to focus on. -- (edited) - znufrii, definitely not 40 Mar 20, 07:35
doughnut -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 20, 07:09 3
- Shallot -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 20, 12:58
- NASCAR -- nm - Jammed Uzi Mar 20, 07:10
- cronut -- nm - decline Mar 20, 07:09

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