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LYC: I got roped into judging some submissions for a conference. They include apps, iBooks, games... and "look at our new submission form". - Mop Mar 31, 13:50
British TV ads are surreal. Particularly the one where the teddy bear complains about being violated anally by batteries. -- nm - Reagen Mar 31, 13:34 4
- And the British Trivago person is waaaaaaaaaay hotter -- (edited) - Reagen Mar 31, 13:50
- No wonder Paddington bear ran away -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 31, 13:45
- So they are remaking The Pit? -- nm - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Mar 31, 13:42
- ?!?!?!?!?!?!?! -- nm - crash davis Mar 31, 13:35
That's it. I struck out with Comcast. I believe I'm suffering from high expectations. What are you paying for cable? - Mop Mar 31, 13:33 16
- 130 for internet and cable with all the movie channels -- nm - decline Mar 31, 14:26
- Haven't had TV in, uh, 14 years? -- nm - Tim Mar 31, 14:10
- Paying for cable? -- nm - Ender Mar 31, 13:59
- We have hd cable and internet through Comcast. $90 for internet, $70 for cable. -- nm - JaxSean Mar 31, 13:50 1
  - OK. Yeah. I need to leave well-enough alone. -- nm - Mop Mar 31, 13:50
- We were billed just over 200 for xfinity cable hd, two regular, and internet, bill fixers git it down to 159 -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 31, 13:47 1
  - We get hbo, extended cable channels, and if we wanted to, a phone -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 31, 13:53
- $74 per month for 25mbps internet, networks, pbs, home shopping, hbo. Your expectations are insane. - Amanda Mar 31, 13:45 3
  - AT&T fiber by us is 1GB for $80 (probably promotional). Is it by you? -- (link) - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Mar 31, 13:48 1
    - NOTHING is by her. -- nm - Ender Mar 31, 14:00
  - Conversely, you're not getting your money's worth! -- nm - Mop Mar 31, 13:47
- $0 I quit a long time ago. $5/mo for Hulu. $8(?) for Netflix. Amazon is kinda free because I'd have it either way. I think - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Mar 31, 13:41 2
  - I'm on $30 promotional pricing for 40mbps (CenturyLink fiber) -- nm - psilotum Mar 31, 13:44 1
    - I'm hoping AT&T lights up their 1GB fiber service by us soon. I'd totally switch to that. It's in most of the cities around us - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Mar 31, 13:47
- Spectrum as a bundle but broken out - $ 70 for two premium channels HBO/Showtime - Epiphany Mar 31, 13:35
- I haven't had cable in at least 6 years. I pay Time Warner, errr, Spectrum, far too much for Internet though -- nm - ty97 Mar 31, 13:34
Tivo $100 lifetime service transfer -- (link) - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Mar 31, 13:32 2
- Holy shit. -- nm - Mop Mar 31, 13:34 1
  - Hey David, I guess I'm buying a Bolt (or a Bolt+, actually). Please don't tell me I have to call Comcast to switch my cablecard. -- nm - Mop Mar 31, 13:38
oh -- (link) - ty97 Mar 31, 13:23
I just posted this on facebook but is anybody else having issues with there Vudu group - eag Mar 31, 13:17 5
- nope, I see that shitty Passengers movie, which I did not buy. -- nm - groiny Mar 31, 13:20 4
  - you're welcome -- nm - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Mar 31, 13:27
  - well i just notices that my ultra violet account had somehow unlinked - eag Mar 31, 13:22 2
    - This happened to quite a few people this week. -- nm - kelly Mar 31, 16:39
    - Fixed it -- nm - eag Mar 31, 13:32
LIR: Hey crash, that table would really tie together the whole "Scandinavian modern farmhouse" style of look I'm going for. - ReluctantCynic Mar 31, 13:14 1
- Poker Night at RCs! -- nm - crash davis Mar 31, 13:20
Some guy outside is caterwauling 'A Whole New World' -- nm - ty97 Mar 31, 13:11 1
- Retaliate with Let It Go...... -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 31, 13:28
ST Poll: how often do you change your desktop background photo? -- nm - Epiphany Mar 31, 13:08 23
- never it is on a timed rotate with one of my picture files -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 31, 13:41
- it depends on when something catches my fancy enough to do so. the last time it was caught, apparently, was june 2015. - i.b.! Mar 31, 13:35 [Backboard]
- Every now and again. It's Chococat right now. -- nm - Dark Callisto Mar 31, 13:23 1
  - I had to look that up - they even have socks! I had tulips for a few months - Epiphany Mar 31, 13:27
- i hadn't forever, but just earlier this week i added a bunch of pics i took last year and now they change every 30 minutes. - Andie Mar 31, 13:21 1
  - that sounds pretty cool -- nm - Epiphany Mar 31, 13:26
- never ever -- nm - ty97 Mar 31, 13:13
- Every few months. How often do I see it, though? Rarely. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 31, 13:13
- 3 times a year? maybe four -- nm - Epiphany Mar 31, 13:12
- Rarely and it's always elephants. -- nm - Krusty Mar 31, 13:11 2
  - this is interesting. -- nm - Epiphany Mar 31, 13:12 1
    - I love them! -- nm - Krusty Mar 31, 13:27
- Since I keep mt windows full screen I never see the background except for start up -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 31, 13:11
- every couple months -- nm - decline Mar 31, 13:10
- never but we do a photo contest monthly for our computer lock screens -- nm - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Mar 31, 13:10 1
  - that's cool. -- nm - Andie Mar 31, 13:21
- Every couple of months. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 31, 13:10
- (ty97 can not read) -- nm* - ty97 Mar 31, 13:09 3
  - (ty97 can not post) -- nm* - ty97 Mar 31, 13:09 2
    - (ty97 needs the weekend to be here) -- nm - ty97 Mar 31, 13:10 1
      - weekend started 10 minutes ago -- nm - decline Mar 31, 13:10
- Every time I buy a new computer. - David Mar 31, 13:09
- never -- nm - psilotum Mar 31, 13:08
Our hotel is next to the Albanian consulate. You can imagine what's been going through my head all day. -- nm - Reagen Mar 31, 13:07 2
- go sing to them. I'm sure that never happens -- nm - Beaker Mar 31, 13:45
- ~it borders on the Adriatic. It is most.ly mountainous and it's chief export is Chrome~ -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 31, 13:12
I didn't realize he was quite this prolific...Mike Isabella has become quite the restaurateur -- (link) - prayformojo Mar 31, 13:05 2
- Did you watch the season where his business partner got voted out almost immediately? -- (link) - David Mar 31, 13:08 1
  - i don't think so, but you're right -- nm - prayformojo Mar 31, 13:10
I'm normally against millenial bashing, but yo millenials, what's up with the olds school view? -- (link) - ty97 Mar 31, 13:05
This sounds like Obama's Guantanamo promise to me, but we'll see -- (link) - ty97 Mar 31, 12:55 11
- And not that this will ever happen, but I've seen proposals over the years about expanding LGA if Rikers closed. -- nm - ty97 Mar 31, 13:02
- They're just trying to bring The Avengers together. -- nm - David Mar 31, 13:00
- I can see it eventually happening but the fight over where to put the new prisons in each borough will get ugly. - Krusty Mar 31, 13:00 1
  - yup -- nm - ty97 Mar 31, 13:01
- I just asked somebody the other day if that was still open. - prayformojo Mar 31, 13:00 2
  - Yup and it's a terrible place to be held. A nightmare of a place and it holds every type of criminal. - Krusty Mar 31, 13:07 1
    - That is fD up, here you are entitled to a speedy trial, 90 days from arraignment -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 31, 13:51
- What would they use instead? -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 31, 12:58 3
  - A series of smaller jails spread around the city apparently -- (edited) - ty97 Mar 31, 13:01 1
    - Every family will be responsible to house one inmate. -- nm - Spawn Mar 31, 13:01
  - NYC itself. They're gonna build a wall all the way around Manhattan. Snake Plissken style -- nm - decline Mar 31, 12:59
UFC Rumors: GSP's gunning for 3 belts. Win 185, relinquish and win 170, relinquish and challenge Conor at 155. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 31, 12:47 1
- Eeeeeee. I don't like him fighting at 155. I just think it leaves him too small. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Mar 31, 13:44
The Miz is such a great heel, especially when he gets his teeth in a subject (like Daniel Bryan). I just don't get why they would have - Will Hunting Mar 31, 12:47
In his own way, Zemo's the best comic book villain movie to date. -- nm - David Mar 31, 12:46 20
- Wait for it... -- nm - Thanos Mar 31, 12:49
- somewhere, Heath Ledger just rolled over. -- nm - groiny Mar 31, 12:48 17
  - Second best Joker! -- nm - David Mar 31, 12:52 14
    - you should check your sugar levels. - groiny Mar 31, 12:54 12
      - Either way, The Joker loses in all the movies. (Civil War spoilers) - David Mar 31, 12:56 11
        
        I must have missed the part where he got away. -- nm - groiny Mar 31, 12:58 8
        
        Spoilers - David Mar 31, 12:59 7
        
        winning generally means you are not spoils.... -- (edited) - groiny Mar 31, 13:00 6
        
        Spoilers - David Mar 31, 13:02 5
        
        But only (spoils) - Roger More Mar 31, 13:36
        
        spoilers - groiny Mar 31, 13:04
        
        yep. He had a goal and accomplished it -- nm - decline Mar 31, 13:03 2
        
        the question is, did he set the bar too low. spoilers - groiny Mar 31, 13:05 1
        
        Eh, The Thunderbolts will break him out. -- nm - Spawn Mar 31, 13:06
        
        Wait, The Joker didn't turn Batman into the enemy of the city? -- nm - Spawn Mar 31, 12:58
        
        so you are saying ...spoilers - crash davis Mar 31, 12:57
    - HA HA HA HA HA!!! -- nm - Cesar Romero Mar 31, 12:53
  - oh, and Loki too. -- nm - groiny Mar 31, 12:51 1
    - my 1 and 1a for comic villans. Everything you could possibly want from them. -- nm - groiny Mar 31, 12:52
- (I would have previously said Doc Ock) -- nm - David Mar 31, 12:47
Some people are just never satisfied. -- (edited) - GregW Mar 31, 12:44
Now *here's* a kitchen -- (link) - prayformojo Mar 31, 12:42 1
- not bad -- nm - crash davis Mar 31, 12:43
LIR: David is smart (get out spoilers) - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Mar 31, 12:38 10
- yes his theory makes a lot of sense -- nm - Epiphany Mar 31, 12:39
- FAKE NEWS! -- nm - crash davis Mar 31, 12:39 8
  - ... -- (link) - Dark Callisto Mar 31, 12:51 [Image] 7
    - You're always like that. -- nm - David Mar 31, 12:58 5
      - I assume she is the blonde and you are the green testicle head thing -- nm - crash davis Mar 31, 13:01 4
        
        Wait, you don't know who Morbo is? -- nm - David Mar 31, 13:02 3
        
        A friend of Gort? -- nm - Spawn Mar 31, 13:04
        
        I am probably going to disappoint you. I assume this is Futurama and no, I don't know much at all about it -- nm - crash davis Mar 31, 13:04 1
        
        Dude, watch Futurama starting today. -- nm - David Mar 31, 13:05
    - I like that -- nm - crash davis Mar 31, 12:54
FIFA announces allocations for 48-team 2026 World Cup -- (link) - znufrii, definitely not 40 Mar 31, 12:37 6
- So the entire hexagonal would qualify from Concacaf? - Will Hunting Mar 31, 12:49 5
  - And maybe one more via the playoff. -- nm - znufrii, definitely not 40 Mar 31, 12:50 4
    - We definitely are the equal of the South American roster... - Will Hunting Mar 31, 12:57 3
      - The argument is 'Does being in the World Cup improve team's development? Or does the struggle to qualify improve them?' - Volnelk Mar 31, 13:11
      - Except there are only 10 countries there, versus 30-some(?) in CONCACAF -- nm* - znufrii, definitely not 40 Mar 31, 13:10 1
        
        How many CONCACAF countries would be competitive against the #7 country in CONMEBOL? -- nm - Roger More Mar 31, 13:41
This year's Boston Pops Gospel Night is the 25th Anniversary celebration. Our Guest Artist will be Gospel Legend Cece Winans. - Diva Mar 31, 12:36 1
- wow -- nm - prayformojo Mar 31, 12:36
Groiny, they don't always have GA so I'm not sure. Usually on the website they'll show you the options when you're buying tix. -- (edited) - pmb Mar 31, 12:31 4
- likes -- nm - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Mar 31, 12:32 3
  - little -- nm - crash davis Mar 31, 12:32 2
    - way to eff it up pmb. I hope you think about what you've done when you're in London - crash davis Mar 31, 12:35 1
      - Sorry. I'm running on no sleep. I might actually be able to sleep on the plane tomorrow (I generally can't). -- nm - pmb Mar 31, 12:43
So it's pretty plain that Trump isn't going to do anything in Syria. He is in fact going to pretend like it's not happening. I just got an email - Mel Profit Mar 31, 12:30 17
- Of course he's not, that was the whole point of Putin getting him elected president. -- nm - znufrii, definitely not 40 Mar 31, 12:46 2
  - Daddy bush went to war in Iraq to keep saddam from controlling a quarter of the world's oils supply, the mideast could soon aline cause they know US - zeitgeist Mar 31, 12:55
  - Well, one of the points anyway. -- nm - znufrii, definitely not 40 Mar 31, 12:47
- Jebus, that's awful! -- nm - Krusty Mar 31, 12:37
- It's disgusting that this administration, and the last, won't intervene. - IrishStephen Mar 31, 12:35 9
  - I typed this out several times, deleted and finally came up with this. There's no comparison between this administration and the last. - Mel Profit Mar 31, 12:49 5
    - You're right, of course, but I think it's legitimate to lament that, broadly speaking, the outcomes are similar. -- nm - znufrii, definitely not 40 Mar 31, 13:08
    - That's really the problem with a lot of the Middle East. There is no good or right answer. There is no right person to back and the factions are so -- (edited) - pmb Mar 31, 13:01 3
      - your last sentence is very on point. You want this shit taken care of but it's not that easy. - Mel Profit Mar 31, 13:14 1
        
        Sure. I would too. But the vacuum that is created may be filled by something that is no more palatable and may present more danger to the US. - pmb Mar 31, 13:19
      - It is like healthcare! -- nm - SCPOTUS Mar 31, 13:02
  - I just don't see any easy to swallow solutions there -- nm - crash davis Mar 31, 12:41 2
    - *finger to nose* the most benign interpretation of the Trump policy is distancing the US from Syria because it's too complex. -- (edited) - Mel Profit Mar 31, 12:52 1
      - A bit off tipic, but Tillerson is a bit of joke, imo -- nm - crash davis Mar 31, 12:59
- that is awful -- nm - Epiphany Mar 31, 12:31
- good lord. horrific -- nm - prayformojo Mar 31, 12:31 1
  - right? If you're using bunker buster bombs to get at hospitals after they tried to go underground - you're evil. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 31, 12:32
TV PSA: Grimm, Last Man Standing, MacGyver, Rosewood, Originals, Dr Ken, Bellator MMA, Gold Rush, Hawaii 5-O, Reign, Sleepy Hollow, Blue Bloods, Bill - Beaker Mar 31, 12:29 2
- It's Grimm's Series Finale, FYI. A show NBC wanted to kill, lasted 123 episodes -- nm - MDH Mar 31, 12:39 1
  - and I will have watched every one of them. :) -- nm - Diva Mar 31, 12:53
Doctor Who announces 1st openly gay companion -- (link) - Remlikphone Mar 31, 12:28
The Senate Intelligence Committee has reportedly turned down Michael Flynn's request for immunity -- nm - MDH Mar 31, 12:28 1
- and turned up a request for some sick beats. -- nm - Max Mar 31, 12:31
Hey PFM, where's the 73 cents you owe me? -- nm - David Mar 31, 12:27 2
- can i give it to you in person in June? -- nm - prayformojo Mar 31, 12:28 1
  - ... -- (link) - David Mar 31, 12:32

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