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There was supposedly a shooting in Times Square? I'm looking at the webcam and there's fire and police presence. -- (link) - Mop May 18, 09:06 5
- A car hit pedestrians on the sidewalk. Multiple injuries. Not sure about anything else right now. -- nm* - Krusty May 18, 09:08 4
  - oof. -- (link) - decline May 18, 09:11
  - Terrorism or accident? -- nm - Spawn May 18, 09:08 2
    - No idea right now. -- nm - Krusty May 18, 09:09 1
      - They have the driver. I can't tell if it's an accident and the person lost control or if it was on purpose. -- nm - Krusty May 18, 09:11
Uh oh. "Oklahoma cop acquitted in September killing of unarmed motorist" -- nm - Spawn May 18, 09:02 1
- He wasn't unarmed if he was driving a car. A car is a weapon and it gives police license to shoot you, silly! -- nm - Mop May 18, 09:05
oh Mets, what happened to you? -- nm - ty97 May 18, 08:57 3
- Who's the best in NY now? - Krusty May 18, 08:58 2
  - until you trade prospects for more pitching in a month -- nm - groiny May 18, 08:59 1
    - They've been really good at not taking on older guys with long or bad deals. They've shown patience and I think that'll continue. - Krusty May 18, 09:06
Motherf'ers. Current dew point: 69F. What kind of white nonsense is this??!? -- nm - prayformojo May 18, 08:56
I never thought I would hear these words together. -- (link) - Spawn May 18, 08:56 2
- This is the bf's favorite movie. Thanks! -- nm - MDH May 18, 08:57 1
  - Sweet! This is AWESOME news. - Spawn May 18, 08:59
the only stock I own hit a 52 week high, their latest report was so good that I don't think even POTUS can mess it up - crash davis May 18, 08:55 12
- Which one is this? -- nm - znufrii, definitely not 40 May 18, 08:56 11
  - Its a company most people on ST have an irrational hatey of so I just don't mention their name -- nm - crash davis May 18, 08:58 9
    - *pulls up his Fidelity stock screener* - znufrii, definitely not 40 May 18, 09:12
    - Luckily it is nearly over, as crash has lost this board. -- nm - Spawn May 18, 09:01 3
      - I didn't bring up Der Komissar -- nm - crash davis May 18, 09:04 2
        
        You just did! -- nm - Spawn May 18, 09:06 1
        
        Fake News! -- nm - crash davis May 18, 09:06
    - Let me guess... Disney -- nm - eag May 18, 08:59 3
      - nope -- nm - crash davis May 18, 09:00 2
        
        Apple? -- nm - Remlik May 18, 09:09 1
        
        no, that is rational hatey -- nm - crash davis May 18, 09:10
  - My guess is lumber. ;-) -- nm - Krusty May 18, 08:57
Trump's first reax when he heard of word of special counsel? He wanted to "fight back." And Kushner egged him on. -- (link) - ty97 May 18, 08:53 3
- You should fire someone. -- nm - Kushner May 18, 09:20
- Thats a hella of a first family -- nm - eag May 18, 08:58
- that was in the Gizmodo article I linked on B2, - are you not reading stuff I provide for you, or is it only Twitter that you read? - crash davis May 18, 08:57
If you depose it, he will come -- (link) - Beryllium May 18, 08:49
Breaking - Trump administration sends Congress official letter triggering NAFTA renegotiation: U.S. reports -- (link) - Beaker May 18, 08:45 16
- Distract Hard 2: Distract Harder -- nm - crash davis May 18, 08:52
- Based on his "gimme everything! No? Ok, I fold" negotiating strategy so far, I say bring it on. -- nm - Reagen May 18, 08:51 1
  - Yep. "You all have to pay me $$ if you want to do business with the US!" "Okay, we'll charge you the same for everything you import, this will cost - Andie May 18, 08:58
- Can he do something to Europe tomorrow? I really do need the currency to dip for a week or so. Thanks. -- nm - Andie May 18, 08:46 8
  - He'll be there after his visits to Saudi Arabia and Israel, so... -- nm - Roger More May 18, 08:49 1
    - oh, we'll be in the same country next Friday. Lucky me. -- nm - Andie May 18, 09:01
  - It's so cute that you think you are actually flying -- nm - ty97 May 18, 08:47 5
    - don't freak me out! -- nm - Andie May 18, 08:59
    - I'm glad someone else said it - I was thinking it - Epiphany May 18, 08:48 3
      - oh sure, play good cop...... -- nm - ty97 May 18, 08:50 2
        
        don't be silly, I only play " Bad Cop, Worse Cop". -- nm - Epiphany May 18, 08:55 1
        
        That's the prequel to Bon Cop, Bad Cop. -- nm - Shaun May 18, 09:02
- *sells every stock* -- nm - ty97 May 18, 08:45 3
  - "DOW crashes!" -- nm - Spawn May 18, 08:46 2
    - Up 15 bps in midday trading -- nm - znufrii, definitely not 40 May 18, 08:52 1
      - Wait for it... -- nm - Spawn May 18, 08:59
Jason Kenney apparently pulling the MacKay-me-do with the Alberta PCs and Wild Rose - Reagen May 18, 08:43 3
- ??? -- nm - Name Withheld by Request May 18, 08:45 2
  - Agreeing to merge the two parties -- nm - Reagen May 18, 08:47 1
    - Well, that was always the play. Everything else was just dancing to get to the spot. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request May 18, 08:54
My niece back in Colorado had her HS graduation yesterday. The ceremony was at Red Rocks. I just talked to my dad and today.... - prayformojo May 18, 08:38 7
- okay, the snow sucks, but seriously, graduation at Red Rocks? Awesome. -- nm - Andie May 18, 08:39 6
  - Yeah, I was really jealous. Pix that my sister sent us last night were great. -- nm - prayformojo May 18, 08:41 5
    - so...what is the typical graduation present these days?? - Epiphany May 18, 08:42 4
      - As mentioned yesterday, G'son received a substantial check in lieu of a cruise :) Portion of it went to his computer build. -- nm - Meg May 18, 08:50 1
        
        Not saying that was typical - I haven't had much chance to spoil the grandkids over the years. -- nm - Meg May 18, 08:51
      - Finger spinners. -- nm - Roger More May 18, 08:43 1
        
        hmmm -- nm - Epiphany May 18, 08:49
6 Scary Realities Of Working With Actual Psychopaths -- (link) - Beaker May 18, 08:37 1
- Those are interesting facts about psychopaths, but I'm not sure they quality as "scary realities". -- nm - Mop May 18, 08:54
Lol, John "torture memo" Yoo, writing in the NYTimes... -- (edited) - znufrii, definitely not 40 May 18, 08:37 4
- I'm good with that. -- nm - jnine May 18, 08:43
- I don't wish waterboarding on anyone save for John Yoo. -- nm - Mel Profit May 18, 08:38 2
  - And Hannity. Don't forget Hannity. -- nm - Reagen May 18, 08:39 1
    - Yep. "step right up, tough guy." -- nm - Mel Profit May 18, 08:54
Foodies: The Fresno Grizzlies have stuffed hot chicken in a pickle and called it a Chickle -- (link) - Remlik May 18, 08:32 6
- Thanks Remlik, I'll return the favor and tell you of a magical land called Calgary and the Canadian bacon Pickle Balls - crash davis May 18, 08:41
- KILL IT WITH FIRE -- nm - Beaker May 18, 08:38
- that's just gross -- nm - decline May 18, 08:33 2
  - As is anything with a pickle. -- nm - Spawn May 18, 08:38 1
    - WRONG!!!!! -- nm - groiny May 18, 08:39
- I may throw up a little. -- nm - Mop May 18, 08:32
ST lawyer types, what happens next: Burr tells reporters that Flynn's lawyers have told Intel committee their client "will not honor the subpoena" -- (link) - decline May 18, 08:29 7
- Contempt charges could be filed if he ignores it. -- nm - TWuG May 18, 08:36 6
  - Burr tells reporters that Flynn's lawyers have told Intel committee their client "will not honor the contempt charges". -- nm - Spawn May 18, 08:36 5
    - throw his ass in jail - Epiphany May 18, 08:38 4
      - Burr tells reporters that Flynn's lawyers have told Intel committee their client "will not honor the jail". -- nm - Spawn May 18, 08:40 1
        
        *throws him a Milwaukee jail* -- nm - ty97 May 18, 08:42
      - same - ty97 May 18, 08:39 1
        
        they never did - Epiphany May 18, 08:41
ahh here come the Marc-Andre Fleury is shit hot takes. Forgetting how well he played against the Caps -- nm - Beaker May 18, 08:27 1
- He's taken a shit tonne of heat over his career, some of it might be justified, but certainly not all of it. -- nm - Shaun May 18, 08:31
Cornell's last FB post.... -- (link) - Remlik May 18, 08:23
I'm throwing the BS flag on this sporcle quiz. Name the 197 countries of the world and the average score is a 67%?!? No way. -- (edited) - volnelk May 18, 08:15 16
- 143. I couldn't spell some that I knew and the tags covered up some of the map. I couldn't remember the ones in the caribbean or most in the Pacific -- nm - Covington May 18, 14:45
- 95. meh. - ty97 May 18, 08:44
- Its not finding them on a globe. Its just naming countries, plus its probably attempted by a non-average selection of citizens - crash davis May 18, 08:35 1
  - I'm not, at all. - ty97 May 18, 08:45
- Burkina Faso! - Mop May 18, 08:26 1
  - I did better in Africa than Central America where I had brain freeze. -- nm - Krusty May 18, 08:35
- It's self-selecting. People tend to take on quizzes they are likely to do well on. People who can only name, say, 50 countries wouldn't take the quiz - Roger More May 18, 08:18 9
  - "self-selecting" - thank you! that was the term I was searching for -- nm - crash davis May 18, 08:36
  - That makes sense. Still seems high compared to other quizzes. -- nm - volnelk May 18, 08:22 7
    - I think only people who are acing it finish it as it is long and needing the exact spelling is a pissoff -- nm - Beaker May 18, 08:25 1
      - If you spell it wrong spell check should offer you the correct spelling. I needed it for the Czech Republic. -- nm - Krusty May 18, 08:33
    - FWIW, the "name all the countries in alphabetical order, without a map" quiz has an average score of 66% -- nm - Roger More May 18, 08:24 4
      - (9.6% of quiz-takers got 100%, 25.4% scored above 188. No way are these average quiz-takers) -- nm - Roger More May 18, 08:27 3
        
        Or they cheated which makes no sense but I'm sure they rationalized it somehow. -- nm - Krusty May 18, 08:34 2
        
        Sounds like someone's jealous! (But also, remember how hard pfm worked to learn all of the elements for a Sporcle quiz. This is the same thing) -- nm - Roger More May 18, 08:41 1
        
        True. I could also see people taking a peek at a map before doing the quiz. - Krusty May 18, 08:54
From B3 re Trump, I think it's that his particular brand of idiocy and bigotry happens to fit what turned out to be a larger share of the electorate - pmb May 18, 08:15 4
- It's also the culmination of forty years of anti-politician sentiments growing. - Name Withheld by Request May 18, 08:30
- he campaigned saying he was going to turn Washington on it's ear - groiny May 18, 08:23 2
  - Apparently, his supporters have never tried to accomplish anything while turned on their ear, otherwise they'd know it's - TWuG May 18, 08:28 1
    - obviously, it is a concept that a lot of people got behind. -- nm - groiny May 18, 08:35
"also snitches get stitches" -- (link) - Reagen May 18, 08:14 1
- the "or else" is implied -- nm - Beaker May 18, 08:15
I am still skeptical on his suicide. -- (link) - Spawn May 18, 08:13 11
- That's not really how depression and suicide work. - Mop May 18, 08:27 1
  - Yes and no. -- nm - Spawn May 18, 08:31
- He was always a bit mercurial. -- nm - Reagen May 18, 08:20
- I've heard many performers who say the toughest time for them is alone in the hotel room after a show. The show is what they love, feeds them energy - pmb May 18, 08:18
- He doesn't look upbeat in the videos from the show. His eyes look wrong. -- nm - jnine May 18, 08:16 3
  - Yeah, watching now. I am thinking he may have been a bit manic. - Spawn May 18, 08:18 2
    - Throwing in In My Time of Dying during Slaves and Bulldozers as his last song ever is chilling. Neither on the set list, so maybe saying goodbye. -- nm - jnine May 18, 08:42 1
      - Damn it. -- nm - Spawn May 18, 08:43
- *fingers crossed for Russians* - crash davis May 18, 08:14
- David Carradine situation perhaps? -- nm - Beaker May 18, 08:14 1
  - (this was my first thought when I heard about the "something around his neck" rumor, unfortunately.) -- nm - JaxSean May 18, 10:06
George W. Bush photobombs Fox Sports Southwest reporter at a Texas Rangers game -- (link) - crash davis May 18, 08:11
Chaffetz to announce he's leaving early - probably gonna land at Fox News -- (link) - decline May 18, 08:10
Groiny...Axl has dropped a ton of that weight. -- nm - Remlik May 18, 08:10 6
- I know, but my point stands. -- nm - groiny May 18, 08:10 5
  - it does? how so? he's course corrected and isn't that way anymore -- nm - Remlik May 18, 08:14 3
    - it's a fucking joke, mr literal. -- nm - groiny May 18, 08:17 2
      - ah gotcha! It's so hard to tell with you cause you're so rarely funny. - Remlik May 18, 08:26 1
        
        you are lucky I like you -- nm - groiny May 18, 08:27
  - Screaming AC/DC songs takes the donut weight off. -- nm - Spawn May 18, 08:12
Dear office, please fix the regular coffee maker. I will bankrupt you in Keurig -- nm - crash davis May 18, 08:09
let's also consider, that Bautista is also not even hitting his weight right now. - groiny May 18, 08:05 1
- Finger on throat means death! -- nm - Spawn May 18, 08:11
Got about 1/3 recognition when I mentioned Cornell to class, FWIW. -- nm - Reagen May 18, 08:02 15
- I have no idea who he was, FWIW.. (NM) - Marlowe May 18, 08:17 3
  - B2 has a list of 10 of his songs. Go check that out and let us know how many you know. -- nm - Spawn May 18, 08:19 1
    - For sure, just two.. "Black Hole Sun" and "Like a Stone".. - Marlowe May 18, 08:41
  - *sends Marlowe to the penalty box* -- nm - groiny May 18, 08:18
- My daughter (16) is a big fan of his. - TWuG May 18, 08:04 1
  - yeah, mine too, although she likes alot of various music. -- nm - groiny May 18, 08:06
- Dartmouth fans, clearly. - ty97 May 18, 08:04
- That's higher than I'd have guessed. You should have polled this. :-) -- nm - Krusty May 18, 08:03 7
  - Only because Reagen lost his lesson plan for history class. "Kids, let me tell you about something called the grunge movement." -- nm - Roger More May 18, 08:15 2
    - "so we'll begin with The Pixies..." -- nm - Reagen May 18, 08:22
    - Heh. :-) -- nm - Krusty May 18, 08:19
  - Yeah, I would have went with 1/4. -- nm - Spawn May 18, 08:08 3
    - I would have figured the four loners dressed in all black might know of him and that's it -- nm* - ty97 May 18, 08:10 2
      - I teach pre eng. I don't have those. -- nm - Reagen May 18, 08:22
      - I've never owned a duster...... - crash davis May 18, 08:13
UK TV PSA: Final episodes of Three Girls, that OJ Simpson doc, B99, The Good Fight -- nm - LMS May 18, 08:00
~Nothing seems to kill me no matter how hard I try Nothing is closing my eyes~ -- nm - groiny May 18, 07:59
I am not (that) slow! -- nm - Spawn May 18, 07:58

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