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I like watching pro Overwatch, but the red/blue issue is significant. - Reagen Aug 6, 15:10
Golf:Hideki Matsuyama smokes a top20 OWGR field to win by 5. -9 final round -- nm - budice Aug 6, 14:55
PSA: New GoT tonight, youre gonna wanna watch :) spoils - budice Aug 6, 14:43 1
- Valar Morghulis -- nm - peglegpete Aug 6, 14:44
Jeez, Bill. You're all over the place with this social justice stuff... -- (link) - Mop Aug 6, 14:03 1
- Of course if he's in the pool, it's swim with the whales, amirght, don't even get me started -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 6, 15:13
Halsey showing during Charli XCX's set...ok..I can see that. The Spice Girls Wannabe though.. I didn't really see Halsey for that. -- (edited) - JD Aug 6, 13:52 6
- Did you record Closer for me? -- nm - David Aug 6, 13:59 5
  - Well that would be in a Halsey set - JD Aug 6, 14:17 4
    - I read that as you seeing Halsey. -- nm - David Aug 6, 14:45 3
      - Halsey keeps me thinkin of... -- (link) - budice Aug 6, 14:48 2
        
        "Your conclusions were all wrong, Ryan. Halsey acted stupidly" *steers directly into oncoming torpedo* -- nm - Marko Ramius si Aug 6, 15:45
        
        I think of Jimmy Cagney and the Gallent Hours -- (link) - peglegpete Aug 6, 14:58 [youtube]
here is a site live streaming tomorrows mid day lunar eclipse from the other side of the earth so we can actually see it -- (link) - peglegpete Aug 6, 13:42 1
- Hmm... live streaming an eclipse... -- nm - Mop Aug 6, 14:43
Guardians Inferno... Just watch it. -- (link) - Mop Aug 6, 13:38 [youtube]
this guy needs a network cooking show -- (link) - Remlik Aug 6, 13:05 [youtube] 1
- Net... work? That's that new streaming service right? -- nm - con_carne Aug 6, 14:51
Tee hee. Today in Expectation vs. Reality: At the new local Starbucks. The barista did not know what a cafe au lait is. - con_carne Aug 6, 12:46
Hey Tim, you should watch OK K.O. on Cartoon Network. - David Aug 6, 12:45
Science World. -- (pic) - Beryllium Aug 6, 11:49 [Attachment] 2
- Should something a child is straddling be labeled "Move the balls?" I think not. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Aug 6, 11:51 1
  - RIGHT? Better that than lick_theballs, though. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 6, 12:02
Forbes article comparing amazon jobs to those in china, its not pretty -- (link) - zeitgeist Aug 6, 11:25 8
- Wtf Forbes? Are they attacking Amazon or the low minimum wage and lack of benefits? -- nm - Mop Aug 6, 12:02
- So...12.75 an hour...I'm having trouble getting outraged when this is 60% more than minimum wage. - Will Hunting, King of Astronauts Aug 6, 11:51 6
  - A. Hours deliberately held to under 30, so no benes, no health insurance, retirement. This is walmart method -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 6, 15:11
  - Which would be fine if the comparable cost of living was only 50% higher in the US. And if China was a paragon of good wages. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Aug 6, 12:19 3
    - Bezos is gonna fly over there but get taken hostage in the factory -- nm - prayformojo Aug 6, 12:22 2
      - Please. He doesn't even have a Triangle of Success. -- nm - David Aug 6, 12:27 1
        
        But ... it's a square. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 6, 12:40
  - America should be held to a higher standard... oh wait... Trump... never mind. -- nm - Spawn Aug 6, 11:55
The Mariners have aquired Boog Powell. - Reagen Aug 6, 11:20
The elephant bird laid eggs weighing 10kg and containing 8L of liquid. But it's extinct. - Beryllium Aug 6, 11:12 8
- remember, two for the perfect omlete. -- nm - Reagen Aug 6, 11:15 6
  - Many people add milk for density. This is a mistake! -- nm - prayformojo Aug 6, 11:22 5
    - It's this, Saffron standing on her wetsuit and... that other thing in a three-way tie for what I remember most from this film. -- nm - Reagen Aug 6, 11:25 4
      - Was it ... - zork Aug 6, 13:16
      - I do often wish the sequel had happened. - Cuzzin Todd Aug 6, 12:36 2
        
        you can NOT be serious! -- nm - j mudEnroe Aug 6, 12:57 1
        
        I am serious. - Cuzzin Todd Aug 6, 13:10
- "But it's extinct." Damn! -- nm - Mop Aug 6, 11:13
You'll have Jay Cutler to kick around again this season. - David Aug 6, 11:06 4
- As a Bears fan I'm reasonably sure he will lead the Dolphins to the Super Bowl. - Cuzzin Todd Aug 6, 11:30 1
  - I agree with Cuzzin Todd. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Aug 6, 13:20
- Charmed life -- nm - budice Aug 6, 11:25 1
  - Semi. -- nm - Third Eye Blind Aug 6, 11:25
'Terrifying' turbulence injures 10 on American Airlines flight to Philadelphia -- (link) - Mop Aug 6, 11:05
Here's Chris Cornell's 12-year-old daughter singing Hallelujah with One Republic. -- (link) - Mop Aug 6, 10:53
9 year old applies to be NASA's planetary protector: "‘My sister says I am an alien’:" -- (link) - prayformojo Aug 6, 10:31 1
- Sure, meet the fox into the henhouse. -- nm - Reagen Aug 6, 10:55
Local Dipshit Planning On Fighting Trump Administration Through His Art -- (link) - con_carne Aug 6, 09:39
3000 year old Russian warrior Burriel -- (link) - peglegpete Aug 6, 09:14
Imagine Me and You was pretty terrific. In addition Lena Headey playing future version of Keira Knightley, the movie pulled off the impossible - prayformojo Aug 6, 09:13
It may have been posted here already, but this Uber-related headline is grrrrreeaaatt -- (link) - prayformojo Aug 6, 09:05 5
- Sweet. What's it uber-related to? -- nm - con_carne Aug 6, 14:53
- LOL -- nm - Mop Aug 6, 10:43
- I am available to give your company exploding growth. -- nm - Marissa Mayer Aug 6, 09:34
- Speaking of - for this weekend's music festival down on the Village Green they had a dedicated lot for Uber and Lyft pickup and dropoff. - Meg Aug 6, 09:21 1
  - This was the festival in question - Google says it would have been a 13-minute walk for me -- (link) - Meg Aug 6, 09:24
what why -- (link) - Reagen Aug 6, 08:32 [youtube] 9
- "Simply shake your phone to dispense salt." LMAO -- nm - Jovian Aug 6, 09:35 1
  - well otherwise you would have to put DOWN your phone in order to pick up the dumb analog salt shaker -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 6, 11:18
- Thought for sure this was a joke - Amoxy Aug 6, 09:06
- I'm disappointed in the lack of video evidence about how difficult it is to salt your food using traditional means. -- nm - Dano Aug 6, 09:03
- From the makers of Smepper -- nm - Bacon Aug 6, 08:41 1
  - LOL -- nm - Mop Aug 6, 10:33
- I'm out. -- nm - Everyone on Shark Tank Aug 6, 08:38 1
  - It's like they wanted to make that "unplug your book so I can charge my cigarette" phrase dumber. -- nm - Reagen Aug 6, 10:26
- no -- nm - mud Aug 6, 08:34
Wolf Warrior 2 looking to become the #1 movie of all time in China. -- (link) - Dano Aug 6, 07:40 [youtube] 1
- Co starring Frank Grillo. -- nm - MDH Aug 6, 07:44
Speaking of a long time ago, I finally finished this past season of Agents of Shield. Nearly all of the LMD episodes binge watched yesterday - JD Aug 6, 06:50
"People need to chill out and stop killing each other." - Cuzzin Todd Aug 6, 06:05
I ended up going to the reunion. was actually a decent time. a lot of "you look the same!" comments. (and more than one person thought I got taller) - Tim Aug 6, 05:44
Good morning - Amoxy Aug 6, 05:40 2
- Mornin' -- nm - budice Aug 6, 05:51
- *waves hello* -- nm - kelly Aug 6, 05:42
"It's this story about a guy who was journeying from London to Canterbury and he'd meet different monsters along the way and he'd fight them and make - Abby, mixing up a couple of 10TaW definitions Aug 5, 22:52 1
- Good list. -- nm - Volnelk Aug 6, 08:29
Here's a CNN story from 2009 highlighting Big Brother Raven's rare medical condition. -- (link) - Mop Aug 5, 22:44 [youtube]
I loved Wonder Woman -- nm - Bacon Aug 5, 22:29 1
- But that was a long time ago. -- nm - Mop Aug 5, 22:34
Residents of New York's lower east side complaining that guests at a new hotel won't stop having sex in plain sight. -- (link) - Mop Aug 5, 22:01 8
- They're getting free entertainment. That's gonna raise the rent. -- nm - Krusty Aug 6, 07:10
- And if anything will get a new yorker - or even a visitor to NYC - to stop doing something, it's complaining about it. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 5, 22:18 6
  - Complaining is our city sport. We do it well and often. - Krusty Aug 6, 07:10 5
    - I'm a born New Yorker. -- nm - Mop Aug 6, 10:38 1
      - Can you play stickball? ;-) -- nm - Krusty Aug 6, 12:57
    - But NYCers are also legendarily stubborn, is what I am saying. So the complaining won't get the people to stop. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 6, 09:47 2
      - True. At that point you've just challenged them to do it more/louder/longer etc. -- nm - Krusty Aug 6, 12:57 1
        
        The only way to win is to not play the game. -- nm - Krusty Aug 6, 12:57
George Will is beside himself describing the GOP race to fill Jeff Session's sat in Alabama. -- (link) - Mop Aug 5, 21:50 2
- It's a long shot but I'd laugh and laugh if the ultimate consequence of appointing Sessions is a grand jury and a Dem senator - Reagen Aug 6, 10:32
- Roy Moore should get it, a racist should replace a racist. -- nm - jnine Aug 6, 00:53
It would be a terrible idea to buy this boat that just came back on the market. Yet, I like it. -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 5, 21:38 5
- 1977, which is the last time it was upholstered. -- nm - Mop Aug 5, 22:26 1
  - Rich, corinthian leather. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 5, 22:26
- Looks like you could cook an omelet and wash the dishes all while driving -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 5, 21:56 2
  - Until the Chevy died -- nm - Beryllium Aug 5, 21:58 1
    - but was the levee dry? -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 5, 23:45
Him. 5/3 bank site is down. -- nm - Spawndroid Aug 5, 21:33
The town is totally filled with smoke. Either the desert is on fire or Kamloops moved down to us. -- (edited) - crash davis Aug 5, 21:28 4
- The wind picked up in Oregon and blew the smoke inland. Enjoy! -- nm - Mop Aug 5, 21:29 3
  - I think we get it back tomorrow -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 5, 21:57 2
    - The weather was nice today, which turned out well for the last day of the county fair. -- nm - Mop Aug 5, 22:32 1
      - Where the girls "won" goldfish. So... yeah. -- nm - Mop Aug 5, 22:33
Very cool. "Superconducting Quantum Levitation on a 3π Möbius Strip" -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 5, 21:21 [youtube] 1
- That's spectacular. -- nm - Mop Aug 5, 21:25
If you happen to just quickly glance at this store's sign, you might end up having to do a double-take. -- (pic) - Beryllium Aug 5, 21:09 [Attachment] 1
- I had to stop and look at the SFU shop in the mall. Our tour guide couldn't understand why I was giggling. -- nm - Meg Aug 5, 21:24
I feel cheated! The smoke completely obscured the sunset. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 5, 21:01 1
- Demand your money back. -- nm - Mop Aug 6, 10:44
Playing it Cool is a rom com from 2015 that you've never heard of 16% rotten tomatoes - Pippy Aug 5, 20:57
The task force Sessions put together to crack down on marijuana says they shouldn't crack down on marijuana -- (link*) - Reagen Aug 5, 20:46 3
- Gonna need a task force to crack down on that task force -- nm - prayformojo Aug 5, 20:54 1
  - Stop the leaks from getting stoned -- nm* - Pippy Aug 5, 20:57
- FakeNews -- nm - Spawndroid Aug 5, 20:47
Wait. If Rapunzel and Eugene were at Elsa's coronation, couldn't they have done something to help during the chaos? -- nm - Mop Aug 5, 20:30 6
- Not my circus, not my icemonkeys. -- nm - Rapunzel si Aug 5, 20:41 1
  - This. Why would they have been any more willing / able to help? They're not the heroes of that story / world -- nm - JD Aug 5, 20:47
- what film I did not see are you referring to?? -- nm - peglegpete Aug 5, 20:31 3
  - Frozen -- nm - Volnelk Aug 5, 20:34 2
    - oh, I saw it, just don't remember much. thanks -- nm* - peglegpete Aug 5, 20:58 1
      - It's kind of a cross-film deep dive. Not a plot point of Frozen. -- nm - Volnelk Aug 5, 21:17
Catching on Big Brother, Jessica really is a Mean Girl (spoilers) - Mop Aug 5, 20:01 11
- Jessica is the star of the show. - Jovian Aug 5, 20:05 10
  - You're Mop-levels of wrong. Spoilers - Mop Aug 5, 20:23 9
    - My big Paul question is what tattoo did he get first, to get that awful, huge, almost all black eagle cover-up -- nm - peglegpete Aug 5, 20:30 8
      - Yeah, it's pretty obvious that it's a cover up tattoo, isn't it? -- nm - Mop Aug 5, 20:44 7
        
        I don't believe it's a cover-up, just a large chest piece. -- nm - J Aug 5, 21:33
        
        link? -- nm - Spawndroid Aug 5, 20:46 5
        
        google image 'paul big brother' -- nm - peglegpete Aug 5, 20:59 4
        
        Here we go. There was speculation about it last year, too. - Mop Aug 5, 21:29 3
        
        The later picture has a ghost on his chest. -- nm - Spawndroid Aug 5, 21:36 1
        
        AH! - Mop Aug 5, 21:52
        
        I retract my comment above -- nm - J Aug 5, 21:34
In their last 50 games, the Dodgers are 43-7, the first time in history any team has done that. - Tim Aug 5, 19:39 2
- Three of those losses were the Braves! -- nm - David's iPad Aug 5, 20:07
- Since 1912, 4 teams did it before then. I know because I've been hearing it from the /Dodger announcers all day. The LAT asked today if they're the - jnine Aug 5, 19:52
Should a 35-year-old be beating Bolt? That seems unusual for a man of that age. -- nm - Mop Aug 5, 19:16 4
- That was a very slow time. I don't know if it was the track or weather, but it's slow. -- nm - jnine Aug 5, 20:09
- They're long-time rivals. Gatlin is a recent world champion. -- (edited) - David's iPad Aug 5, 19:37 1
  - "How did you prepare for this race?" "Well, to embarrass Bolt on his last race ever, I took twice as many steroids!" -- nm - Mop Aug 5, 22:45
- considering he's been previously busted for drugs? -- nm - Reagen Aug 5, 19:22
London's secret Underground. -- (link) - Meg Aug 5, 19:05 5
- I object to their rather liberal use of the word secret. "Secret" suggests someone wanted us to not know about it. -- nm - Mop Aug 5, 22:27
- Please, nobody tell the reporter about the secret underground rail system under NYC. -- nm - peglegpete Aug 5, 19:22
- He's so dumb, he thought the London Underground was a political movement. -- nm - Wanda Gershwitz Aug 5, 19:19
- If they wanted to keep it a secret, they shouldn't put up all those signs. -- nm - Reagen Aug 5, 19:15 1
  - Oh, the Do Not Enter signs? -- nm - Beryllium Aug 5, 19:44
Is there not some crazed fan site that catalogues every family feud result ever? -- nm - Beryllium Aug 5, 18:58

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