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Look at don the con's body language as he gives his hell fire message, has he ever crossed arms, clutching his gut so much before? -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 8, 18:03 1
- He needs to take his shirt off! -- nm - Putin Aug 8, 18:08
G'night, everyone! I heading out for the first of my six dates tonight -- nm - prayformojo Aug 8, 18:02
I've been away from the Internet all day. What have I missed? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Aug 8, 17:59 4
- North Korea wants to bomb Guam and Trump threatened them with a rain of fire. On Twitter. -- nm - TWuG Aug 8, 18:03 1
  - Strike that. Reverse it. -- nm* - Jovian Aug 8, 18:13
- groiny joined and we have a full ML Memorial League now -- nm - crash davis Aug 8, 18:00 1
  - This. This is fantastic. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Aug 8, 18:04
So incredibly sleepy -- nm - Beryllium Aug 8, 17:54 3
- coffee. -- nm - budice Aug 8, 17:58 2
  - Oh, this must be why. No caffeine, and only 222mL of 7up -- nm - Beryllium Aug 8, 18:07 1
    - You don't care but Starbucks has a new Horchata drink -- nm - Epiphany Aug 8, 18:12
"So. Where is Guam again? Sorry I never paid attention whenever it was previously mentioned." -- nm - Trump Aug 8, 17:49 3
- Why do I care about Guam? It's not like it's part of the US. -- nm - drumpfy Aug 8, 17:52
- Amelia Earhart's last conversation... -- nm - Mop Aug 8, 17:50 1
  - Hah!! -- nm - Bacon Aug 8, 17:53
I came home from work to a little treat on the DVR. The last half of Patton, right before he slapped the soldier -- nm - crash davis Aug 8, 17:44
The Danger From Low-Skilled Immigrants: Not Having Them. -- (link) - znufrii Aug 8, 17:29 9
- No kidding. The CA agricultural economy would collapse or prices would be 2-3 times as much without them. As the farmers who predominantly voted for - jnine Aug 8, 17:32 1
  - Alabama already had serious farm problems of rotting in the fields following their hard assed status checking -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 8, 18:05
- I worked a bit in the ag fields in high school next to immigrants. They outworked me and are welcome to the job, imo. -- nm - crash davis Aug 8, 17:31 6
  - I tried picking tomatoes in the summer. The heat did me in. Luckily I didn't make it to the snakes and rats. It's brutally hard work. -- nm - jnine Aug 8, 17:33 5
    - I set irrigation lines. One day the farmer got a call from another farmer down the road. He gathered all the Mexicans and gave them extra money and - crash davis Aug 8, 17:38 4
      - And did everything cost a nickel? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Aug 8, 17:48 3
        
        it was a quarter -- nm - crash davis Aug 8, 17:49 2
        
        It was good pay if you were a high school kid looking for summer money, but if you were trying to live on it to support yourself or a family, forget - jnine Aug 8, 17:51 1
        
        word -- nm - crash davis Aug 8, 17:52
my parents are home from vacation & mom is catching up on the last 3 GOT. she has watched since s. 1 ep. 1. she just asked mini soils -- (edited) - peglegpete Aug 8, 17:29 1
- Ha!! I hope your father is doing well -- nm - Epiphany Aug 8, 18:14
Please don't shoot the Big Foot warning given by cops. -- (link) - jnine Aug 8, 17:24 2
- that is why I need tranq gun training.....and a tranq gun -- nm - crash davis Aug 8, 17:26 1
  - Just take the tranks -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 8, 18:06
Has anyone here watched Friends From College? I want to like it...but after 2.5 episodes I think I'm done. -- nm - kelly Aug 8, 17:06 8
- May I suggest Mary Kills People? Also thanks for the honest feedback - Epiphany Aug 8, 17:23 2
  - I had seen it a few years back and rated it 2 stars. I saw your rating and decided to give it another chance. - kelly Aug 8, 17:25 1
    - Lol!! I don't disagree. I liked the quirky circle of friends. Never cared for mIchelle m -- nm - Epiphany Aug 8, 18:16
- I'm 5 in but it doesn't get much better. The characters aren't likeable -- nm - Epiphany Aug 8, 17:21 2
  - It's like the only reason these people are all still friends is that they can't possibly make other friends. So they're stuck with each other. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Aug 8, 17:25
  - The only one I like is Fred Savage. -- nm - kelly Aug 8, 17:23
- I felt that way after two eps. Fantastic cast but it tries too hard or something. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Aug 8, 17:13 1
  - What about that will arnett one? -- nm - Beryllium Aug 8, 17:17
days of rage: in the mundane version of astrology, the one that cops and EMTs swear by, full moons bring out the crazies, well eclipse periods are - zeitgeist Aug 8, 17:04
Ok, ST: Share some pop culture recommendations with your fellow STers. - ralph wiggum Aug 8, 16:54 37
- Last Chance U is an excellent TV documentary that you aren't watching. Even if you don't like sports, you'll like Last Chance U. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Aug 8, 17:59
- I am hooked on the game ballz -- nm - Amoxy Aug 8, 17:29
- F is for Family (Netflix) -- nm - Jovian Aug 8, 17:23
- watch Game of Thrones -- nm - peglegpete Aug 8, 17:21 3
  - Never heard of it, what's it about? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Aug 8, 17:27 2
    - Well see, there is a throne and then there is this really crazy game they have to play to get to sit in it. -- nm - Jovian Aug 8, 17:28 1
      - Kind of like musical chairs - Amoxy Aug 8, 17:30
- Watch The 100. -- nm - IrishStephen Aug 8, 17:18 1
  - this! -- nm - Jovian Aug 8, 17:22
- I found Lost City of Z to be worth a B (movie). What other film can unite Downton Abbey & Sons of Anarchy fans? Also watching Shooter season two. -- nm* - crash davis Aug 8, 17:17 4
  - Charlie Hunnam just kills it, in this movie. Fantastic performance -- nm - Flavorize Aug 8, 17:26 3
    - What kind of accent did he have? -- nm - Amoxy Aug 8, 17:31 1
      - I think he used his real voice. Or slightly modified. Upper middle class central Britain. -- (edited) - crash davis Aug 8, 17:32
    - He definitely did well portraying a man obsessed -- nm - crash davis Aug 8, 17:29
- American Dad's The Bitchin' Race is one of the best things they've ever done. - David Aug 8, 17:11 5
  - Oh, and Daredevil season one was solid but not as great as I'd hoped. - David Aug 8, 17:12 4
    - ... have you seen daredevil season 2 yet? -- nm* - Beryllium Aug 8, 17:14 3
      - I've watched the season premiere. That's it. - David Aug 8, 17:15
      - I got bored and wandered off half way through Season 2. nm - ralph wiggum Aug 8, 17:14 1
        
        Hmm. How about Agents of Shield? -- nm - Beryllium Aug 8, 17:21
- West Wing Weekly (podcast) is great. Preacher has been excellent this season. Reading Mr. Mercedes, by Stephen King--basically 1uping Patterson -- nm - Flavorize Aug 8, 17:11 3
  - I'm intrigued that Mr Mercedes has gone to series (by David E. Kelley?!) nm - ralph wiggum Aug 8, 17:14 1
    - It drives me crazy that Picket Fences isn't widely available. -- nm - David Aug 8, 17:16
  - Spoilers for Preacher this season - Beryllium Aug 8, 17:13
- Also: Wet Hot American Summer: 10 Years Later is not for everyone, but I found it absurdist fun. (very mild spoiler) - ralph wiggum Aug 8, 17:04
- the 'Days Between' end tomorrow. Listen to some Jerry - peglegpete Aug 8, 17:01
- The Two-Up Podcast: 36 Questions. It's a musical featuring Jonathan Groff and Jessie Shelton. - Callisto Buffalomeat Aug 8, 16:59
- I am bereft of ideas and adrift on the waves of crippling exhaustion. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 8, 16:58 1
  - Oh, but unrelatedly, Ozark is great. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 8, 16:58
- We wouldn't all be in this mess if more of you had watched Angie Tribeca! -- nm - prayformojo Aug 8, 16:55 7
  - Fun facts: The dude who plays Jay Geils is married to Ali Larter and is the great nephew of Disney great Helen Hayes. nm - ralph wiggum Aug 8, 16:59 6
    - Fascinating - Epiphany Aug 8, 18:11
    - He was great on Go On. Then again, everyone was. -- nm - David Aug 8, 17:21 3
      - great show, don't remember him (it's been 5 yrs) -- nm - mud Aug 8, 17:26 2
        
        He was the boyfriend/fiancee of Laura Benanti, the main female character/group leader. -- nm* - David Aug 8, 17:31 1
        
        oh right -- nm - mud Aug 8, 17:37
    - whoa, punching above his weight! -- nm* - mud Aug 8, 17:15
Holy smokes. Abby just showed me a card trick and I *cannot figure out show the flip this works* - prayformojo Aug 8, 16:49 3
- Clearly the M.C. Escher drawings unlocked the other 90% of her brain. -- nm - Max Aug 8, 17:55
- even after she showed me how to do it, I cannot get my head around how this comes together -- nm - prayformojo Aug 8, 16:50 1
  - time to buy more magic books -- nm* - peglegpete Aug 8, 16:52
I watched Passengers today. I liked it a lot more than I expected to. -- nm - kelly Aug 8, 16:41 9
- yes. I believe it is very underrated. -- nm - Jovian Aug 8, 17:27
- The criticism of the choice he makes is completely valid, but I think it's an entertaining movie. -- nm - David Aug 8, 16:42 3
  - Yeah. Agreed. (Spoilers) - kelly Aug 8, 17:05 2
    - Spoilers -- (edited) - David Aug 8, 17:08 1
      - I'm with you on the 2nd paragraph. -- nm - kelly Aug 8, 17:13
- so was Nathan wiped out when he got home? -- nm - Remlik Aug 8, 16:41 3
  - It was only a half day, so no. I was wiped out though, from the 4:45 am wake up time. - kelly Aug 8, 17:01
  - He is still going strong. - Will Hunting, King of Astronauts Aug 8, 16:49 1
    - good man. -- nm - Remlik Aug 8, 16:53
Pasek & Paul have found their way to EGOT in a year. A Christmas Story musical live this December. - MDH Aug 8, 16:31
July 1st -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 8, 16:28 [Backboard]
After all of the casting drama/ordeal, The Great Comet will close on Broadway 9/3. -- nm - MDH Aug 8, 16:26 3
- I might even finish reading War and Peace by that time. - Callisto Buffalomeat Aug 8, 17:54
- Damnit. - znufrii Aug 8, 16:28 1
  - It looked to be really neat. -- nm - MDH Aug 8, 16:29
I just met the guy who stars in the HEB commercials. No, not JJ Watt the nerdy looking one. -- nm - Qale Aug 8, 16:23
Hey ST - What you feel is what you are. And what you are is beautiful - crash davis Aug 8, 16:11 8
- what did you take? -- (link) - peglegpete Aug 8, 16:21
- Well, I feel like a great big black ball of rage and hatred all the time. -- nm - Mop Aug 8, 16:16 2
  - At least you're not a Blood Feud Ruiner. -- nm - Strongbad Aug 8, 16:26
  - But we're working on it. Here, go find a picture, gif, or video of an adorable puppy for ST. -- nm - David Aug 8, 16:17
- I wanna wake up where you are. - David Aug 8, 16:13 3
  - until he shoots you in the ear? -- nm - prayformojo Aug 8, 16:15 2
    - That's why I slide. -- nm - David Aug 8, 16:16 1
      - Well....I won't say anything at all. -- nm - Remlik Aug 8, 16:37
~this is all we are - it's a sabotage~ -- nm - Strongbad Aug 8, 16:04
Also, can we do away with the tedious "if you disagree with something you're automatically RAAAAAAAAAAAGING" against it nonsense? -- (edited) - IrishStephen Aug 8, 16:02 33
- "You go first." -- nm - znufrii Aug 8, 16:22
- Here's the thing and why there's frustration with these things. A favorite approach of the right is to take some anecdotal piece of information, some - pmb Aug 8, 16:17 2
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    - Yeah, it's all part of the same thing. -- nm - pmb Aug 8, 16:25
- I'm more of the Reagen camp than the David camp on this one. But either way. - Mop Aug 8, 16:15 3
  - I don't know how my camp is different from his. -- nm - Reagen Aug 8, 16:55 2
    - David's focusing more on the merits - or lack thereof - of grading and so addressing the substance. - Mop Aug 8, 17:49 1
      - You... might have us mixed up. - Reagen Aug 8, 17:51
- Respectfully, no. This sort of story has a specific purpose in right-wing media. - David Aug 8, 16:10 16
  - Ok, so, don't express "wrong opinion" unless you want to be accused of being full of rage and an alt-right with all of the negative connotations that - IrishStephen Aug 8, 16:18 15
    - "Alt Right" is the new "Neo Con" -- nm - Strongbad Aug 8, 17:10 1
      - no it's not! they may overlap on a venn diagram but equating them is ...incorrect, IMO -- nm - mud Aug 8, 17:13
    - That's a glib reply to an honest, accurate evaluation of why that story is in play today. - David Aug 8, 16:21 4
      - It's not meant to be glib at all. I see value in good education, I think grades, and stress, and performing under pressure have value. - IrishStephen Aug 8, 16:42 3
        
        Well said. -- nm - Strongbad Aug 8, 17:12
        
        My point on B2 was that this notion of "it's not preparing them for the real world" doesn't have a lot of support with what goes on in the real world - Reagen Aug 8, 16:54
        
        word -- nm - Beaker Aug 8, 16:43
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      - There's no call for these sorts of posts. They lead us all down the wrong path. Let's talk like what we are, which is friends in a good community. -- nm - David Aug 8, 16:22 6
        
        Thank you for posting this. -- nm - Strongbad Aug 8, 17:27
        
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        If we lead with anger, we receive angry responses. I'm going to steal a page from my late father here and say... - David Aug 8, 16:30 2
        
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        That's anger? - IrishStephen Aug 8, 16:49
        
        A glib for a glib leaves the globe in ashes - Beryllium Aug 8, 16:27
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  - But then just decided to ignore it when it comes to what you post? - IrishStephen Aug 8, 16:10 1
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- no, 1) I'm not sure I know what you are talking about; 2) I have an awesome new rage gif -- (pic) - crash davis Aug 8, 16:05 [Attachment]
- Only if we do away with the notion that all change is to "coddle snowflakes". -- nm - Reagen Aug 8, 16:03 3
  - Sure, not all change is coddling. Allowing students to pick their own grades so they don't feel stressed out... -- nm - IrishStephen Aug 8, 16:08 2
    - has a fair amount of pedagogical support. -- nm - Reagen Aug 8, 16:09 1
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I spent some time looking for my own little rage attachment to post and the board rolled. Well here it is anyways -- (pic) - crash davis Aug 8, 15:58 [Attachment] 5
- My rage involves my office neighbor who will NOT shut the fuck up. nm - ralph wiggum Aug 8, 16:57 1
  - the south side nabes leave their fvking little chihouhou out back and it barks all fvcking day, the north side nabe coughs like this theatrical... - zeitgeist Aug 8, 17:02
- Game of Thrones spoiler - peglegpete Aug 8, 16:06 1
  - I truly believe him -- nm - crash davis Aug 8, 16:12
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a Sharknado Live [stage show] is coming to Las Vegas -- (link) - peglegpete Aug 8, 15:52 3
- Will it include Fonzie with his leather jacket on skis? -- nm - Amoxy Aug 8, 15:57 2
  - if you read the article, you know as much as I do -- nm - peglegpete Aug 8, 16:05 1
    - will they use real sharks or annimatronic ones? -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 8, 17:05

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