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BWAHAHA! (nmblink) - ralph wiggum Jul 24, 17:14 6
- L4! -- nm - Amoxy Jul 24, 17:21
- Don't you worry about Blank! -- nm - David Jul 24, 17:17 3
  - We're more like Germany: ambitious and misunderstood. nm - ralph wiggum Jul 24, 17:23 2
    - Look, everyone wants to be like Germany, but do we have the force of will? - David Jul 24, 17:25 1
      - OK, we've got the hot tub hot, the wine coolers cool. It's Hammer Time! nm - ralph wiggum Jul 24, 17:30
- ! -- nm - budice Jul 24, 17:16
MLS rejects $4 Billion TV rights deal -- (link) - Beaker Jul 24, 17:06 3
- I would love for a system in the US to use relegation and promotion. It's such a cool concept. -- nm - Volnelk Jul 24, 17:27 1
  - The NBA desperately needs it. -- nm - David Jul 24, 17:29
- Reading the article, it sounds like they didn't. Someone offered something they knew the other party couldn't accept, and it wouldn't trigger... -- (edited) - David Jul 24, 17:11
Trump at Boy Scout jamboree tells scouts he is going to kill Obamacare, -- (link) - Amoxy Jul 24, 17:05
Trump's speech to the Boy Scouts may be the most horrifying thing Ive witnessed yet. -- nm - Jovian Jul 24, 17:04 2
- I am just seeing tweets about it, sounds very scary -- nm - Amoxy Jul 24, 17:06
- I was just reading about this; was the an attempt to convert them into the Trump Youth? -- nm - Tim Jul 24, 17:05
He was just using Space Travel as a metaphor for beating his wife. -- nm - Amoxy Jul 24, 16:59 2
- And the Crushinator -- nm - Amoxy Jul 24, 17:09 1
  - And that's the flag from MTV -- nm - Amoxy Jul 24, 17:17
That was a massive turd sandwich of a PPV last night. -- nm - Tim Jul 24, 16:53 4
- Once you realize that Vince doesn't like you, it's far easier to just ignore him. He's kind of like Donald Trump in that way. -- nm - Qale Jul 24, 16:55 3
  - At least one of the Bollywood Boyz/Singh Brothers died for our entertainment. -- (link) - Tim Jul 24, 16:58 [Image] 2
    - Who was the wiseass who put a water bottle on that table? -- nm - David Jul 24, 17:01 1
      - Smackdown PPV so my guess is John Bradshaw Layfield. -- nm - Qale Jul 24, 17:15
RC takes that fraternity shit waaaaaaaay serious. -- nm - David Jul 24, 16:51 4
- Guilty as charged. -- (edited) - ReluctantCynic Jul 24, 16:55 2
  - Electoral college fiasco? -- nm - David Jul 24, 16:57 1
    - More like election-related shennanigans. - ReluctantCynic Jul 24, 17:33
- Man is a Tri-Delt -- nm - budice Jul 24, 16:52
*ack* I can't believe I'm as old as Bacon!!! - Cuzzin Todd Jul 24, 16:46
Kirsten Wiig doing Pizza Hut commercial? -- (link) - Amoxy Jul 24, 16:41
Gal Gadot for Basic Instinct -- (link) - budice Jul 24, 16:39 1
- Damn -- (pic) - Amoxy Jul 24, 16:51 [Attachment]
Derek Rose signed with the Cavaliers -- nm - budice Jul 24, 16:23 9
- For how long? -- nm - Amoxy Jul 24, 16:52
- That's like hopping on the Titanic 10 minutes after it hit the iceberg. -- nm - Bacon Jul 24, 16:30
- Byyyyyeeee Kyrie :) -- nm - budice Jul 24, 16:29 6
  - Kyrie was way too injury prone, this is a huge upgrade. - Bacon Jul 24, 16:30 5
    - I can't decide if you're aware of the irony of this statement or not. -- nm - David Jul 24, 16:37 3
      - I put the PFFFFFT in my IM to make my intentions known. Or so I thought. -- nm* - Bacon Jul 24, 16:40 2
        
        I thought you were calling Kyrie a troll. -- nm - David Jul 24, 17:03 1
        
        I got nothing -- nm - Bacon Jul 24, 17:06
    - SayinKyrie is injury prone is making Rose a cripple -- nm - budice Jul 24, 16:32
Celeb Bdays: Anna Paquin (35), Summer Glau (36), Jennifer Lopez (48) -- nm - budice Jul 24, 16:10 6
- KMF -- nm - Spawn Jul 24, 17:18
- MFK -- nm - Jovian Jul 24, 16:59
- FMK -- nm - Beaker Jul 24, 16:23 3
  - MFK -- nm - Amoxy Jul 24, 16:38 2
    - This -- nm - Bacon Jul 24, 16:43
    - She's bendy. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 24, 16:39
Meg! Vandalism is happening at Mesa Verde & other National Parks -- (link) - peglegpete Jul 24, 16:01 4
- *smh* -- nm - znufrii Jul 24, 16:20
- And this surprises you? If our leadership doesn't respect the NPS why should anyone else? :-( -- nm - Meg Jul 24, 16:13 2
  - no, i am not surprised. just saddend parents are not teaching better values to kids -- nm - peglegpete Jul 24, 16:25 1
    - "Grab them by the petroglyph, son!" -- nm - TWuG Jul 24, 16:29
lyc: Screening Entebbe tonight. Sounds interesting. -- (link) - budice Jul 24, 15:22
18 year old drunk driving livestreams herself singing and driving, crashes, kills 14 year old sister and then livestreams talking to her dead body. -- (link) - jnine Jul 24, 15:22
Clavell's Shogun e-book is $1.99 right now. -- (link) - Mop Jul 24, 15:17
So considering its late July the lack of Fantasy Football talk on here is suprising but I guess Trump is to blame for that -- nm - eag Jul 24, 15:11 2
- I generally wait until August 1st, but I actually debated making a post today. -- nm - David Jul 24, 15:23 1
  - START THE DRAFT!!! -- nm - Spawn Jul 24, 16:50
POkemon folks, have you ever submitted a complaint? How did you contact? Is there a way other than through the app? - kelly Jul 24, 15:03 1
- I contacted through the app, but here's their CS email address from subsequent messages about issues. - b. Jul 24, 15:14
Anything's possible. -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 24, 14:58 5
- Someone did mention all of the dogs started howling at once. -- nm - jnine Jul 24, 15:07
- IMHO, he is one creepy mfer -- nm - mud Jul 24, 15:00 3
  - He breaks my Creepy-Meter. There's something totally not right about him. like he has a... - Mel Profit Jul 24, 15:17 2
    - Damien: Omen II -- nm - Diva Jul 24, 16:23 1
      - That's the picture my friend posted on fb of him. He's very pasty. -- nm - jnine Jul 24, 17:23
fascinating, yet what you would expect. President Trump has averaged a job approval rating of 50 percent or higher in 17 states - tRuMaN Jul 24, 14:52
Ruh roh. Ryan is trending negatively because he didnt defend Trumpo -- nm - Jovian Jul 24, 14:16 3
- It was because that kid who looks just like him is a victim of Obamacare. -- nm - jnine Jul 24, 14:28
- He sold his soul to the devil... -- nm - Amoxy Jul 24, 14:20 1
  - ...and he had nothing left to sell to Trump. -- nm - Mop Jul 24, 14:24
I've been less than productive today. -- nm - Mop Jul 24, 14:13
Food Network Production Assistants Prep Guy Fieri With Dry Rub -- (link) - Mop Jul 24, 14:08
This is terrible artwork. If someone said it was supposed to be Shakira I'd believe them. -- (link) - Max Jul 24, 14:02 5
- It looks like a whitewashed Mariah Carey. -- nm - jnine Jul 24, 17:27
- The Channing Tatum tweet is great -- nm - MDH Jul 24, 14:23
- I'm not sure I've ever seen a good waz figure -- nm - crash davis Jul 24, 14:10
- yeah,. that's pretty terrible. -- nm - Andie Jul 24, 14:09 1
  - (I mean, it's not a defaced Jesus fresco, congrats on sculpting a beautiful woman, but still. Terrible job!) -- nm - Max Jul 24, 14:15
jeebus hussein kee-riste - USA Today's NFL season predictions *smh* -- (link) - crash davis Jul 24, 13:55 22
- They've got the NFC East about right -- nm - decline Jul 24, 16:07
- don't worry, crashie. that lil west coast team out there you like is still a perfectly cute little team -- nm - prayformojo Jul 24, 14:25
- LOL Washington -- nm - MDH Jul 24, 14:24
- :-( -- nm - Krusty Jul 24, 14:22 3
  - don't worry, I'm on your side when they face the Pats - crash davis Jul 24, 14:28 2
    - Literally everyone is. -- nm - David Jul 24, 14:43 1
      - Heh. :-) -- nm - Krusty Jul 24, 15:06
- Woohoo! The niners arent predicted to have the worst record - Amoxy Jul 24, 14:18
- sorry Mel and Diva - but hype like this and I'm cheering for the Jets at least two times this year -- nm - crash davis Jul 24, 14:06 3
  - A perfect season is likely the last achievement left for the Pats. After 28-3... - Mel Profit Jul 24, 15:15 1
    - They should go ahead and trademark it. -- nm - Spawn Jul 24, 16:59
  - even with out the hype, the Trump thing does it for me -- nm - crash davis Jul 24, 14:06
- Hmm, I was just now wondering if MNF will be worth watching this year. - Meg Jul 24, 13:58
- Yeah, I can't believe they don't pick the Cardinals in the NFC West, either. -- nm - David Jul 24, 13:58 8
  - the Cardinals are one slowing aged quarterback's health away from 3-13 -- nm - crash davis Jul 24, 14:01 6
    - Given the paucity of decent QBs under 30, that's true of... - David Jul 24, 14:06 4
      - Ryan hasn't shown any injury proclivities, has he? I still think of him as a young QB -- nm - crash davis Jul 24, 14:09 3
        
        Nope, but all it takes is one planted foot on the ground and you've blown an ACL. - Will Hunting Jul 24, 14:14
        
        He's been largely healthy (knock on wood), but he's 32. -- nm - David Jul 24, 14:13 1
        
        you just won the "what post will make me feel old today" contest -- nm - crash davis Jul 24, 14:27
    - but a lot of team's chances hang on one QB's health -- nm - crash davis Jul 24, 14:03
  - ha ha -- nm - nelson Jul 24, 14:00
they must have found out my first order ships Thursday - Blue Apron shares surge on Wall Street's upbeat outlook -- (link) - crash davis Jul 24, 13:49 4
- q: why is the pictured apron white? apron racism? -- nm - windows jones Jul 24, 14:22
- I order from there all f the time. They've changed the recipes lately, they're way faster to make, although they use fewer herbs. -- nm - jnine Jul 24, 13:58 2
  - still tasty, right? -- nm - crash davis Jul 24, 14:29 1
    - I like them. I spice them up sometimes. -- nm - jnine Jul 24, 15:13
Meet an elusive, tragic, and incredibly bizarre new species of fish -- (link) - crash davis Jul 24, 13:40 6
- Because of the embedded animations and auto-start video, that web site is almost unnavigable. -- nm - Mop Jul 24, 13:45 2
  - believe it or not, I picked the best of three options I was given. some websites (especially some of the UK news) are so busy nowadays -- nm - crash davis Jul 24, 13:46 1
    - The blame is certainly not yours, and I do appreciate you seeking out the best option. -- nm - Mop Jul 24, 13:47
- The video is important for context. They're huge. -- nm - Max Jul 24, 13:43 2
  - so far I've been unable to figure out how to copy Giphy clips directly off pages and on to ST -- nm - crash davis Jul 24, 13:44 1
    - link 'm in a tweet first -- (link) - mud Jul 24, 13:49
Arcade Fire is making it mandatory that you dress hip and trendy for the album release party -- (link) - Remlik Jul 24, 13:36 6
- whattoweartoanalbumreleaseparty.com -- nm - oblique Jul 24, 13:48
- Sidebar: Bieber cancels the rest of his stadium tour. -- (link) - Mop Jul 24, 13:46
- Update: The band has since tweeted, “Wear whatever you want to any show,” adding, “This has been an actual band announcement.” - Krusty Jul 24, 13:41 3
  - right on. Plus with baggy clothes you can hide your....medicine... -- nm - Remlik Jul 24, 13:42 2
    - True that! - Krusty Jul 24, 13:46
    - the fact that they said 'no logos' makes it pretty clear they are filming and didn't want people wearing stuff that doesn't fit or would be a problem - Andie Jul 24, 13:43
Former LDS bishop found guilty of polygamy, 27 wives, 145 children -- (link) - zork Jul 24, 13:32 2
- 27?! I just want one! And... I mean, look at him and look at me! -- nm - Mop Jul 24, 14:43
- 27 wives? That sounds like a *lot* of work. -- nm - David Jul 24, 13:35
In his press conference with eyebrow lady, Trump said that that Obamacare "has been wreaking havoc for the last 17 years" -- nm - Mop Jul 24, 13:29 6
- Heh -- (link) - Spawndroid Jul 24, 14:54 [Backboard]
- And he must have said Obamacare is horrible, nightmare at least 17 times -- nm - Amoxy Jul 24, 13:35 1
  - Seventeenth time's the charm -- nm - zork Jul 24, 13:36
- He meant that it has *seemed* like 17 years -- nm - Sarah Huckabee-Sanders Jul 24, 13:34 2
  - The sad thing is that I can no longer tell joke posts from actual quotes given by members of the administration. -- nm - David Jul 24, 13:36 1
    - and I knew that while posting it - zork Jul 24, 13:37
JaxSean, they're filmed that way. The downgrading occurs for television markets. -- nm - David Jul 24, 13:28 7
- So in 1986 they filmed Labyrinth in full 4k? Or is it some type of conversion? - JaxSean Jul 24, 13:42 6
  - In 1986, Labyrinth was filmed on film so the original source material is at least 4K - JD Jul 24, 13:52 5
    - Gotcha. Thanks! -- nm - JaxSean Jul 24, 14:51 3
      - As impressive as it may sound, you shouldn't think of 4K as any type of improvement over film. It's still a degraded version of the original. -- (edited) - con_carne Jul 24, 15:08 2
        
        Were the projectors at that time projecting at better than (or close to) UHD? -- nm - JaxSean Jul 24, 15:12 1
        
        Film theoretically has infinite resolution - Reagen Jul 24, 16:04
    - Right. (And JD knows more about this than I do since he's worked with film projection.) -- nm - David Jul 24, 13:57
Stolen: "Sometimes I read Trump's twitter & recall that for most of American history people were like 'women are too emotional to be president.'" -- nm* - Andie Jul 24, 13:26 2
- heh -- nm - mud Jul 24, 13:29 1
  - What he heh'd -- nm - zork Jul 24, 13:35
James Bond returns in November of 2019. Craig not announced as Bond yet. -- nm - Remlik Jul 24, 13:25 11
- He just posted on ST on Saturday! -- nm - Mop Jul 24, 13:38
- thinkin' of going for it? -- nm - mud Jul 24, 13:28 9
  - I'd watch the shit out of that -- nm - Epiphany Jul 24, 13:43 3
    - I've seen it in Halo. "James Bond" gets cornered and he needs Spawn to bail him out. -- nm - crash davis Jul 24, 13:45 2
      - keep driving off the cliff KnickKnack! -- nm - Remlik Jul 24, 13:59
      - *snort* -- nm - Epiphany Jul 24, 13:49
  - I always wanted to be Bond when I was young -- nm - zork Jul 24, 13:33 2
    - I wanted to be Peter Hook -- nm - mud Jul 24, 13:39 1
      - Well, who didn't? ;-) -- nm - zork Jul 24, 13:42
  - HA! I wish I could get that $150 mill paycheck -- nm - Remlik Jul 24, 13:31
  - Remlik is more of a Blofeld -- nm - crash davis Jul 24, 13:29
The nightmare of Obamacare is nearly over! - FHAA Jul 24, 13:20

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