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i've been cold calling companies today.. i feel jittery after every one. - colin Mar 20, 11:40 3
- Are you trying LinkedIn, too? -- nm - David Mar 20, 11:42 2
  - yep! it's tough - it feels cheaper sending through LinkedIn rather than calling folks.. - colin Mar 20, 11:49 1
    - I am shocked Linkedln is still a thing. I had heard it's time had passed. -- nm - Spawn Mar 20, 11:50
(stealing from Strongbad's thing for a second): Today is last day to register for GA-06 special House election, if you know anyone there. -- nm - ty97 Mar 20, 11:38
Now downloading: Mass Effect Andromeda. - David Mar 20, 11:34 1
- :O -- nm - Max Mar 20, 11:35
So im starting to think that the most annoying Overwatch character to play against is ... - eag Mar 20, 11:32 8
- Huge console update tomorrow. Bastion nerf and Orisa arrives. -- nm - Shaun Mar 20, 11:35
- I don't like that dude with the dragon -- nm - crash davis Mar 20, 11:33 6
  - Pete? -- nm - Spawn Mar 20, 11:51
  - Hanzo has like a 5% pick rate in comp. -- nm - Reagen Mar 20, 11:51
  - ...tattoo? That's a girl. -- nm - JaxSean Mar 20, 11:50
  - I hate the pain in the ass who can deflect bullets with his dumbass swords -- nm - Remlik Mar 20, 11:49
  - Which dragon dude ? - eag Mar 20, 11:37 1
    - DragonDude -- nm - Max Mar 20, 11:38
The POTUS account (not signed -DJT, so it should be Scavino tweeting) has been running edited misleading Comey video/tweets during hearing. Comey was - ty97 Mar 20, 11:30 3
- They subtly keep trying to make the argument about whether the Russians actually hacked voting machines as the determination of whether they - pmb Mar 20, 11:40
- THIS IS FINE -- nm - Spawn Mar 20, 11:32
- Because of Trump, we're going to have to make a federal law requiring official government accounts to be honest. -- nm - David Mar 20, 11:31
where has JenBro been lately ? -- nm - Andie Mar 20, 11:25 2
- She says she's been real busy but hopes to be back with us soon. -- nm - Meg Mar 20, 11:40
- And pixie? -- nm - Spawn Mar 20, 11:33
hot damn, how I do love pickled jalapenas -- nm - Max Mar 20, 11:17 3
- son of a crap I just rubbed my eye -- nm - Max Mar 20, 11:30 1
  - *warm feeling in the heart* -- nm - pixie somewhere Mar 20, 11:32
- this post wore on me and wore on me until I just went to the break room - the only jalapenos I can find are Jalapeno Cheetos -- nm - crash davis Mar 20, 11:29
Kurt Russell pic as Ego from GotGVol2 -- (link) - budice Mar 20, 11:17
I think Reagen alluded to the truth below. This past election is an elaborate viral campaign by FX for The Americans -- nm - crash davis Mar 20, 11:06 10
- Sure, 100 million citizens will suffer, but we might get back up to a million weekly viewers! -- nm - David Mar 20, 11:10 8
  - If they watched from the get-go, they wouldn't have lost their health care. Really, its all the public's fault -- nm - crash davis Mar 20, 11:12 7
    - Think of all the Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys wigs they've missed out on! -- nm - Reagen Mar 20, 11:19
    - I made it 3-4 episodes into Season 1, it just seemed slow? -- nm - MDH Mar 20, 11:18 5
      - When it's on, it's the best show on television. -- nm - David Mar 20, 11:33
      - it is slow. for sure. -- nm - Remlik Mar 20, 11:27
      - you're part of the problem! if you kept on, they wouldn't have resorted to such an outlandish ad campaign -- nm - crash davis Mar 20, 11:23 2
        
        Wrecked democracy a fair price to pay for quality TV -- nm - con_carne Mar 20, 11:29 1
        
        yeah, and a wave of blood baths will engulf the South unless people start watching Hap and Leonard -- nm - crash davis Mar 20, 11:32
- or House of Cards -- (link) - budice Mar 20, 11:09
Caught: 156 Seen: 161 -- nm - ty97 Mar 20, 11:02 4
- 201/217 -- nm - Mop Mar 20, 11:30
- 138; 156 -- nm - psilotum Mar 20, 11:09
- you let 5 get away?!? -- nm - decline Mar 20, 11:06 1
  - I'm still mad about the Dragonite and the Gyarados -- nm - ty97 Mar 20, 11:10
Brady's missing jersey from SuperBowl has been found -- (link) - Diva Mar 20, 10:52 3
- It's worth $500,000? Huh -- nm - JaxSean Mar 20, 11:54
- Time to build that wall. -- nm - Spawn Mar 20, 11:36
- IM: If the FBI arrested Trump, I'd forgive them for the election -- nm - budice Mar 20, 10:54
Gorsuch nomination could (rightly, in the author's mind) threaten judicial deference to the so-called "administrative state" -- (link) - znufrii, definitely not 40 Mar 20, 10:48
a little farm I like got baby lambs (a redundancy but that is how cute they are) a few weeks back, today I saw giant white bunnies in their field - crash davis Mar 20, 10:46 5
- Tell us about the rabbits, crask, tell us about the rabbits -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 20, 10:59
- theres some chicken crosses the road joke in there somewhere -- nm - budice Mar 20, 10:49 1
  - I made it a couple weeks ago and groiny told me that I needed more friends -- nm - crash davis Mar 20, 10:50
- vorpal? -- nm - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Mar 20, 10:48 1
  - They aren't scary bunnies. I'm not Anya -- nm - crash davis Mar 20, 10:49
So adjusting my Final Four after the weekend debacle Arizona, Wisconsin, Kansas ,NC -- (edited) - eag Mar 20, 10:43 6
- Adjusting!?! -- nm - Spawn Mar 20, 11:12 3
  - Well i mean just playing out the rest oif the games based on what my bracket had - eag Mar 20, 11:20
  - I know? I've only lost one of my Final Four - Villanova. What's with this "adjusting"? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 20, 11:20 1
    - Oh, I lost half my Final Four. As I said over the weekend... -- (link*) - Spawn Mar 20, 11:23
- per 538, there will be a Gonzaga-Kansas final with the Zags winning. -- nm* - Strongbad Mar 20, 10:45 1
  - I have Arizona and Kansas in my final now - eag Mar 20, 10:49
Unfortunately the Pandora Premium service which effectively marries Spotify and Pandora is mobile only for the time being. -- nm - Qale Mar 20, 10:31
"this is interesting. comey leaves open someone could be working for agent of foreign power without realizing it" -- (link) - ty97 Mar 20, 10:25 14
- Trump is too stupid to know he's a puppet. -- nm - Mop Mar 20, 11:32
- What does "cut-out" mean? -- (link) - mara Mar 20, 10:35 2
  - *cut it out hand gesture* -- nm - Dave Coulier si Mar 20, 10:55
  - Quit reading educational stuff and read more spy novels! - crash davis Mar 20, 10:51
- huh. do you think he says that without there being *some* indication that that is, in fact, happening? -- nm - Andie Mar 20, 10:30 4
  - Dunno, but wondering why he'd even mention it if not -- nm - ty97 Mar 20, 10:31 3
    - He's a very strange man. - David Mar 20, 10:34
    - that's what i'm thinking. he doesn't want to go on record about it, but it's now *out there*. -- nm - Andie Mar 20, 10:31 1
      - That, or *puts on spy tinfoil hat*, he just want to mess with somebody's head -- nm - ty97 Mar 20, 10:33
- "It can even be a romance, he says. The US person thinks they're in love, and the foreign person is just using them." -- (link) - ty97 Mar 20, 10:26 4
  - That's pretty much how they turn everyone in The Americans. You're still betraying your country, whether wittingly or not. -- nm - Mop Mar 20, 11:32
  - "On an unrelated topic, how about that show The Americans?" -- nm - Reagen Mar 20, 10:34
  - Who could he possibly be speaking about? -- nm - pmb Mar 20, 10:29 1
    - Honestly, it could be anyone (I mean that) -- nm - ty97 Mar 20, 10:31
ST Thoughts: Papa John's piloting “priority fee” that allows guests to move to the front of the line. $2.99/order, max 5 orders/restaurant/night -- nm - MDH Mar 20, 10:12 9
- And if enough people pay it, what's the point? Then there's a line of priority customers. -- nm - Meg Mar 20, 10:40 2
  - Then they raise the priority fee! -- nm - mara Mar 20, 10:42 1
    - Double-secret priority! -- nm - Dean Wormer Mar 20, 11:13
- Because being better at your job is too hard. -- nm - Reagen Mar 20, 10:15 1
  - *pauses for a moment* that is actually kind of a hard thing -- nm - con_carne Mar 20, 10:23
- real thought: it saddens me that there are enough people ordering that dreck to constitute lines -- nm - decline Mar 20, 10:15 2
  - You should've seen the lines when they had their NFL promo here for the first year. Monday's discount was the high point total from Sunday. -- (edited) - Shaun Mar 20, 10:19
  - how bad do you need a pizza you need to cut a line? I get it for Stubs/AMC as it actually makes sense because you want to get in and out fast - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Mar 20, 10:18
- ~privilege~ -- nm - decline Mar 20, 10:14
39/55 today. He's rebounding! -- (link) - ty97 Mar 20, 10:09 11
- I wonder how low it would have to be for the GOP to impeach him before the mid-terms. - mara Mar 20, 10:14 8
  - Low polls don't actually qualify as a high crime or misdemeanor, despite what the political flacks might think. -- nm - Ender Mar 20, 10:56 1
    - Well obviously the grounds for impeachment would be emoluments clause violations or some such. I'm just saying they're not going to impeach until they - mara Mar 20, 11:10
  - They're tied to him regardless. Impeachment won't help matters, imho. -- nm - znufrii, definitely not 40 Mar 20, 10:17 5
    - Even if it's mind-bogglingly low, like 20? -- nm - mara Mar 20, 10:38 4
      - Would be shocked to ever see it get that low, but they are (mostly all) intertwined with him now. Hard to unravel/disassociate -- nm - ty97 Mar 20, 10:42 3
        
        Sure, we'd all be shocked. I'm just wondering if there is a low that they'd find intolerable. -- nm - mara Mar 20, 11:09 2
        
        Things would get crazy long before then, it would be impossible to predict. - znufrii, definitely not 40 Mar 20, 11:17
        
        It's not a number in a vacuum though, it's "could impeaching a GOP president help the Dems?" because they hate that as much as anything. -- nm - Max Mar 20, 11:16
- I think it's fair to say that he's at ~40/~-15 right now. - David Mar 20, 10:11
- #Trumpmentum -- nm - Strongbad Mar 20, 10:10
PSA for Canadians: You have seven days to buy a CPC membership to vote for the next leader. - Name Withheld by Request Mar 20, 10:08 5
- I would prefer not to be included in their database. I would also prefer not to fund them financially. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 20, 11:11 2
  - Oh, you're surely in the database. Just not receiving mail. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Mar 20, 11:47 1
    - And I'd like to keep it that way. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 21, 19:48
- In an unrelated idea, there's this $15 graphic novel I'd like... - Reagen Mar 20, 10:14 1
  - Like I said, if moderates don't participate.... -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Mar 20, 10:21
Andie, how well is your cat adapting to the transfusions? - David Mar 20, 10:06 7
- he's actually okay about it. he doesn't like it, but it's really just the needle going in that seems to pinch a bit -- (edited) - Andie Mar 20, 10:12 6
  - Tamara has us switching water bowls like every three hours. - David Mar 20, 10:32 4
    - My brother has a cat that demands ice water. -- nm - Reagen Mar 20, 10:35 1
      - we give Harvey a bowl of ice cubes in the morning, in the summer. he *loves* it. -- nm - Andie Mar 20, 10:36
    - ftr, we call it "watering the cat". As in 'is today the day we have to water the cat?' -- nm* - Andie Mar 20, 10:33 1
      - Hee. -- nm - mara Mar 20, 10:39
  - My cat loves to drink from the dogs water dish. -- nm - mara Mar 20, 10:14
Ok, we were probably going to skip SVCC this year, but with the announcement of Gina Torres (Zoe - Firefly) last week and Grant Gustin (Flash) today, - IrishStephen Mar 20, 10:02 12
- Gustin doesn't do conventions very much. that's big. -- nm - Remlik Mar 20, 10:51 1
  - They announced it as his first ever comic convention appearance. -- nm - IrishStephen Mar 20, 11:22
- We're getting Daredevil ,Punisher and Matt Murdock's pal coming to our comicon - eag Mar 20, 10:08 2
  - From the Netflix Marvel series -- nm - eag Mar 20, 10:09 1
    - Nice! -- nm - IrishStephen Mar 20, 10:38
- You were never really skipping. -- nm - psilotum Mar 20, 10:04 1
  - Before the Torres announcement we absolutely were. - IrishStephen Mar 20, 10:12
- Watch The Catch! They just added Torres to an already-amazing cast. -- nm - David Mar 20, 10:03 4
  - Never even heard of it before today, but it looks interesting. -- nm - IrishStephen Mar 20, 10:37 3
    - Season One was terrific. -- nm - David Mar 20, 10:39 2
      - was it? The lead guy said he wasn't real happy with it. -- nm - Remlik Mar 20, 10:52 1
        
        Do you mean an actor or a showrunner? -- nm - David Mar 20, 11:32
PSA: the Supergirl tonight is Part 1 of the musical cross-over with The Flash -- nm - Beaker Mar 20, 09:58 3
- it is? I thought it was just the Flash episode that she shows up on -- nm - Remlik Mar 20, 10:03 2
  - I think it will be like how they did it for one of their other cross-overs, happens in the last 5 minutes -- (edited) - Beaker Mar 20, 10:05 1
    - Yeah, not falling for that crap again. - Spawn Mar 20, 11:25
Easter candy score: SIL saw flyer ad for 900g bags of Eggies for $3.99. They were supposed to be $13.99. - Shaun Mar 20, 09:58 1
- Flyer error in your favour, collect Eggies. -- nm - Beaker Mar 20, 10:08
B2: Subway, which is gross and I never go there. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 20, 09:55 3
- Yeah, I remember in the mid-90's when Subway was just starting to proliferate around here and I swear it was a faaaaaaaaar stronger sandwich. - Name Withheld by Request Mar 20, 10:03 1
  - Agreed. Zaxby's has gotten that way here, I swear their fingers used to be double today's size. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 20, 10:10
- Its gotten that way here. -- nm - budice Mar 20, 10:01
japchae is my new favorite food. Non-wheat noodles that actually are delicious. - Mel Profit Mar 20, 09:54 1
- *snort!* -- nm - Diva Mar 20, 10:01
Bibibop - JD Mar 20, 09:51 2
- I love bibimbap. Even the authentic version probably has a fair amount of salt. However, it is decidedly not fast, and I don't think I'd want to - psilotum Mar 20, 09:58 1
  - I always misread this as bibimap as if it's some sort of computer code. -- nm - Max Mar 20, 11:19
SITWAP: Huh. Comey said the investigation into Trump & Russia started in July, before the convention. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 20, 09:48 8
- Sorry, missed ty's post on B3. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 20, 09:57
- And they didn't wiretap anybody in all that time? That's sloppy work. He should be fired. -- nm - Mop Mar 20, 09:51 1
  - They didn't say nobody was wiretapped -- nm - ty97 Mar 20, 09:54
- I mean, but it wouldn't have been fair to comment on it at the time - Reagen Mar 20, 09:50 4
  - The more you hear, the more you get the feeling that he's the hidden villain in this. - Mel Profit Mar 20, 09:53 3
    - *starts an investigation on Comey's ties to the Russians* -- nm - Strongbad Mar 20, 09:54 2
      - you snark, but... -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 20, 09:55 1
        
        Eh, seems like he was simply manipulated in this, more than compromised. -- nm - znufrii, definitely not 40 Mar 20, 09:57
Evan McMullin, former policy director for House Republicans has this to say about House Republicans. -- (link) - Mop Mar 20, 09:47 1
- Democrats: Links! - Republicans: Leaks! -- nm - mud Mar 20, 09:50
Did we see that a North Carolina court blocked the Republican legislature's attempts to take power away from their new Dem governor? -- (link) - Mop Mar 20, 09:44

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