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These are the first tourism numbers I've seen. Where did they come from? -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 6, 09:32 1
- The number doesn't seem plausible. In June, CNN Money said the US tourism is on track to lose $1.3B in all of 2017. -- (link) - mara Sep 6, 09:37
Add in my Facebook feed: New Nokia OZO pricing! *click* Oooh! Only $25,000! - Mop Sep 6, 09:30 1
- you should buy 2 -- nm - decline Sep 6, 09:31
Mother!, the fairy tale fantasy movie where 48-year-old Javier Bardem hooks up with 27-year-old Jennifer Lawrence. - Mop Sep 6, 09:27
OBJ practiced today fwiw -- nm - CQ Sep 6, 09:22 3
- Tyrod also seems good to go for Week 1, sparing us a game of Peterman vs. McCown -- nm - Strongbad Sep 6, 09:25 2
  - good because I'm going to say something I never thought I would: "I'm taking Buffalo in Survival Football" -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 09:26 1
    - I'm starting their DEF in every league I have DEF positions. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 6, 09:29
AP: White Christians represent 43% of the US population -- (link) - Strongbad Sep 6, 09:21 6
- Amazing how they're dropping in numbers, but strangling Congress and the electoral college. -- nm - jnine Sep 6, 09:38 1
  - Single organized voting block. It's fear of organizing African-Americans or Latinos that drives voter ID laws. -- nm - Mop Sep 6, 10:16
- That seems high. Are they counting the soulless motherfucking hypocrites? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 09:22 1
  - I would assume they're individual polls, asking people how they identify themselves. So, yes. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 6, 09:26
- Frankly, that seems too high. -- nm - Mop Sep 6, 09:22 1
  - In 2012, non-Hispanic whites were 63% of the population so that would suggest roughly 2/3 identify as Christian. Think it makes sense to me. -- nm - ty97 Sep 6, 09:25
Incidentally, who is in Chicago? - Marlowe Sep 6, 09:20 4
- Kilbo, groiny-ish -- nm - Mop Sep 6, 09:28 2
  - pmb - speaking of, I wonder how his trip is going? -- nm - decline Sep 6, 09:28 1
    - liioulu -- nm - Mop Sep 6, 09:29
- Abe Froman, Sausage King? -- nm - Strongbad Sep 6, 09:22
Amazon faces complaints of price gouging ahead of Irma -- (link) - Strongbad Sep 6, 09:19 1
- *sells you a bottle of water for $5* -- nm - Walt Disney World Sep 6, 09:22
Frankie Muniz... still alive and Dancing with the Stars! Also Debbie Gibson, Nick Lachey, T.O., Lindsey Stirling. - Mop Sep 6, 09:19
Woman trapped in window trying to retrieve poo after Tinder date - crash davis Sep 6, 09:03 13
- I read that last night and I couldn't believe they're still seeing each other. I would pretend we had never met. -- nm - jnine Sep 6, 09:19 2
  - it would be tough to make eye contact afterwards -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 09:23 1
    - "Try not to fling any poo while on the way to the cab!" -- nm - Dante Sep 6, 09:32
- How about we all just never speak of this again? -- nm - Everyone Involved Sep 6, 09:15
- little rover couldn't hold it. -- nm - CQ Sep 6, 09:15
- good lord -- nm - Epiphany Sep 6, 09:12 7
  - I went past all that other stuff and to the part where he says they had dinner at "a well-known chicken restaurant". Did he take a first date to KFC? - crash davis Sep 6, 09:17 6
    - Nando's most likely -- nm - decline Sep 6, 09:20 4
      - Another story said nandos, yes. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 09:21 3
        
        that is disappointing, I wanted it to be KFC -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 09:22 2
        
        is KFC even in the UK ? -- nm - decline Sep 6, 09:27 1
        
        Yes. -- nm - Roger More Sep 6, 09:31
    - Miss Millies prob -- nm - CQ Sep 6, 09:20
And the USA Today Minor League Player of the Year is...Ronald Acuna! - David Sep 6, 09:02 3
- I heard you. - Krusty Sep 6, 09:10
- In other news, Luiz Gohara makes his ML debut this afternoon -- nm - Strongbad Sep 6, 09:10 1
  - 16 hours after I was ready to watch! -- nm - David Sep 6, 09:12
Canadians, all the analysis I read this morning about the rate hike suggests another is imminent by the end of January. - Name Withheld by Request Sep 6, 09:00 4
- *Marge grumble* -- nm - Reagen Sep 6, 09:15
- thanks, will hold off buying most of our US $ till next year -- nm - Beaker Sep 6, 09:03
- Yeah, our mortgage is good for a few more years, but we want to buy a house:( -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 09:01 1
  - we were variable until January and locked in there. I was glad our term came up when it did. -- nm - Andie Sep 6, 09:10
My girls are watching Once Upon A Time and I caught an episode last night. Spoilers - Mop Sep 6, 08:55
Witness: Teens giggled throwing fireworks off cliff, sparking gorge fire (mop - the Eagle Creek fire) - crash davis Sep 6, 08:55 3
- People want to string these kids up. They should be in protective custody. -- nm - Mop Sep 6, 09:20
- fuck.those.guys -- nm - Remlik Sep 6, 09:10 1
  - indeed -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 09:17
Happy Hump Day -- (link) - budice Sep 6, 08:55 2
- too much. for me for me. Go right ahead yourself. Shakira Shakira -- nm - CQ Sep 6, 09:04
- whoa -- nm - Epiphany Sep 6, 08:58
"Wow, Oakland can’t even keep their Civil Rights attorneys from heading to Vegas." -- (link*) - Beaker Sep 6, 08:49 3
- Coming this fall from CBS: Gamble. About an unorthodox Vegas lawyer who plays against the odds on every case and always manages to get the best comps - Max Sep 6, 08:54 2
  - make it NCIS Gamble and you get a 18 episode order -- nm - Beaker Sep 6, 09:05 1
    - Looks like he rolled...sunglasses rip....snake eyes -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 6, 13:49
I can't with these effing airlines, their 'loyalty' programs and their 'tarded websites which were designed by 6 yr. old idiot savants. - Diva Sep 6, 08:49
Ummm...Delta, we need to talk -- (link) - ty97 Sep 6, 08:43 18
- baggage claim gonna be a bitch though -- nm - CQ Sep 6, 09:12 1
  - It's a bitch normally. I spent a full half hour trying to find my friends at San Juan baggage claim. -- nm - Ender Sep 6, 09:32
- My co-worker just said her friend's sister just texted, as a flight attendent for Delta, in San Juan, waiting for a pla - Will Hunting Sep 6, 09:09
- this is like that original Star Trek where they fight that matter eating machine thingy -- nm - Beaker Sep 6, 08:52 6
  - yea, that really narrows it down. -- nm - mud Sep 6, 08:58
  - The Thorian Web? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 08:56 4
    - Tholian. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 08:57 3
      - No, I think he means The Doomsday Machine. -- (pic) - Ender Sep 6, 08:59 [Attachment] 2
        
        whoa -- nm - mud Sep 6, 09:00
        
        yup -- nm - Beaker Sep 6, 08:59
- don't do it. -- nm - Diva Sep 6, 08:50
- That tweet elevated it from *facepalm* to hilarious. -- nm - Max Sep 6, 08:47
- We can make it... we can make it... we can make--- nope. -- nm - Mop Sep 6, 08:47
- Due to land in under 20 minutes. (Stupid flightradar24 needs me to sign up for 7-day free trial to see weather overlay on map) -- nm - Roger More Sep 6, 08:46
- how the hell did that even take off? I flew into PR the day before Irene hit in 2011 - that was an experience -- (edited) - decline Sep 6, 08:46 3
  - i guess it has to fly in so it can fly people out? but... -- nm* - Andie Sep 6, 08:48 2
    - Checking it out, DL302 is scheduled to leave at 1:05, and their late afternoon flight is cancelled. -- nm - Roger More Sep 6, 08:55 1
      - yeah, 302 is the return of that plane we see going in as 431. -- nm - ty97 Sep 6, 08:56
thousands of dollars of fire equipment stolen from ORegen firefighters as they slept... -- (link) - Remlik Sep 6, 08:43 10
- Poll: You're on the jury and get to decide the punishment. What do the convicts get? - Max Sep 6, 08:46 8
  - White House Press Secretary (unpaid) -- nm - Strongbad Sep 6, 09:12 1
    - It is an honor to serve! -- nm - Mop Sep 6, 09:22
  - you are all soft on crime. -- nm - Beaker Sep 6, 09:04
  - 2 years of prison, assigned to work crews fighting fires. -- nm - Mop Sep 6, 08:48 1
    - 3 years but yup. -- nm - Remlik Sep 6, 09:02
  - they have to put the equipment on and take the frontline against the fires -- nm - decline Sep 6, 08:48
  - burnt at the stake -- nm - Beaker Sep 6, 08:47 1
    - "Fortunately we're prepped and ready immediately." -- nm - Max Sep 6, 08:48
- WHAT. THE. FUCK?! -- nm - Mop Sep 6, 08:44
Last 8 days of AC runtime: 3.5 hr., 4.5, 0,0,0,4,1.5,0 -- nm - prayformojo Sep 6, 08:38 3
- It's much cooler today than the last few, but with the smoke, no way I'm opening any windows. Still running A/C -- nm - Mop Sep 6, 08:43 1
  - your filters are probably getting all cloggy -- nm - decline Sep 6, 08:44
- It can run way more than that. You should turn it on more often -- nm - decline Sep 6, 08:39
and of course today I'm stuck with an earworm of...... - prayformojo Sep 6, 08:32 4
- You can really taste the Olaf! -- nm - David Sep 6, 08:40 2
  - don't forget the snowballs. -- nm - Olaf Sep 6, 08:44
  - heh -- nm - prayformojo Sep 6, 08:43
- and no more brownies -- nm - JD Sep 6, 08:38
Gas Prices: 1.076 a litre at Costco (109.7 elsewhere); expected to go up 14 cents tonight -- nm - Beaker Sep 6, 08:31 1
- I went to Costco to gas up last night and it was a freakin' zoo as word had spread of the coming increase -- nm - Beaker Sep 6, 08:32
In other news, the USMNT still sucks. - znufrii Sep 6, 08:23 1
- well yeah, duh. - Diva Sep 6, 08:25
Member of Aquaman film crew stabbed outside St. John's bar after wrap party -- (link) - Beaker Sep 6, 08:17 15
- "A trident has three prongs you motherf*cker!!!" *stab stab stab* -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Sep 6, 09:13
- I wouldn't be surprised if this is somehow over Amber Heard. She's minxy. -- nm - Diva Sep 6, 08:27 10
  - Amber Heard, Margot Robbie, and Scarlett Johansson walk into a bar. The bartender says nothing and gets ready for the mother of all bar fights. -- nm - Max Sep 6, 09:02 2
    - Gal Gadot tries to break it up and ends up just making it worse. -- nm - Diva Sep 6, 09:11 1
      - Or better depending on how you view it. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 6, 09:19
  - my guess, he was chatting up some locals and a male local didn't appreciate the attention -- nm - Beaker Sep 6, 08:51 2
    - My guess is that Amber was flitting about flirting and being seducty and some guys got stabby over it all. -- nm - Diva Sep 6, 08:52 1
      - maybe Elon Musk stabbed Johnny Depp! -- nm - Beaker Sep 6, 09:06
  - Totally effable. (I don't think that word means what you think it means) -- nm - Mop Sep 6, 08:41
  - right -- nm - Remlik Sep 6, 08:40
  - and seducty -- nm - Epiphany Sep 6, 08:35 1
    - so seducty. -- nm - Diva Sep 6, 08:44
- ... with a trident. -- nm - Spawn Sep 6, 08:19 1
  - ...with 5 points. -- nm - Mop Sep 6, 08:27
- Don't fuck with Jason Momoa. -- nm - Mop Sep 6, 08:19
Here's a headline you don't want to read: Eagle Creek and Indian Creek fires merge -- (link) - Mop Sep 6, 08:17 4
- I'm really tired of merger headlines -- nm - ty97 Sep 6, 08:19
- There's a picture here of the fire right behind Multnomah Lodge. Multnomah Falls is burning. - Mop Sep 6, 08:18 2
  - And this is gone :-( -- (pic) - Meg Sep 6, 08:54 [Attachment] 1
    - 😠 -- nm - Mop Sep 6, 09:02
I liked St. Marteen. It was really nice. I'll miss it. -- nm - Mop Sep 6, 08:14
Fantasy Football: Be sure to check your lineups if you have Miami or TB players as starters... -- nm - Beaker Sep 6, 08:14 8
- looks like my backup QB, Carson Wentz gets the start this week -- nm - decline Sep 6, 08:41 3
  - I think he is gonna be a solid play. -- nm - groiny Sep 6, 08:43 2
    - agreed, but having almost all new receivers is a big ? -- nm - decline Sep 6, 08:47 1
      - not if they are good receivers. -- nm - groiny Sep 6, 08:54
- I have Super Bowl LII MVP Jay Cutler, but he's not my starter. -- nm* - Baronnywise Sep 6, 08:40
- when are they rescheduling that game for? -- nm - groiny Sep 6, 08:26 2
  - Week 11 -- nm - volnelk Sep 6, 08:27 1
    - it was luckily both of their bye weeks already -- nm - Beaker Sep 6, 08:34
mafic, what is yor SW name? Are we allies? -- nm - Spawn Sep 6, 08:11 3
- it's mafic (he was in my/our old guild) -- nm - decline Sep 6, 08:16 2
  - nmb mafic - Marlowe Sep 6, 09:16
  - He is not on my list. He needs to apply. -- nm - Spawn Sep 6, 08:19
Current 2017 box office totals inside. - Baronnywise Sep 6, 08:11
Sorry Dawson: Canadian dollar jumps above 82 cents US as central bank raises interest rates again -- (link*) - Beaker Sep 6, 08:10 2
- In other central banking news, Stanley Fischer just resigned from the Fed -- nm - Roger More Sep 6, 08:13
- jerks! Wait a week! -- nm - ty97 Sep 6, 08:10
Florida still in cone, but center line moves east again -- (link) - ty97 Sep 6, 08:08 9
- also, a move east will be good for Miami, but bad for the west coast of FL -- nm - decline Sep 6, 08:35 3
  - ??? how so -- nm - ty97 Sep 6, 08:54 2
    - If I understand it, the strongest winds are on the 'right' side of the storm. if the eye passes east of Miami, the strongest winds will be out to sea - decline Sep 6, 08:59 1
      - *usually* you're better off on the Western side vs. Eastern side -- nm - Strongbad Sep 6, 09:13
- these projections stagger about more than a drunk after Mardi Gras -- nm - decline Sep 6, 08:11 2
  - Hurricane Rick! -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 08:13
  - This sounds like a man speaking from experience -- nm - ty97 Sep 6, 08:12
- Cone of Shame -- nm - budice Sep 6, 08:09
- I do not like the cone of florida -- nm - Dug Sep 6, 08:08
LIR: spamlet: cooling - oblique, SuperFeud Champion and Twelfth Astronaut Sep 6, 08:06 1
- But there's a low profile and a regular for the same card? -- nm - iSpam Sep 6, 08:53
Clear! -- nm - budice Sep 6, 08:05 1
- "shocks heart" -- nm - Doctor Sep 6, 08:06

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