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NASCAR Team Penalized For Wing Mod After Fans Call Out Their Shady Behavior On TV -- (link) - Beaker Sep 20, 08:28 1
- Oh, i was wrong...the France's could figure out a way to make Nascar worse. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 20, 08:39
I have a Good Place question but I'm sure it's a spoiler so I'll put in IM. Simple question though. - Tommo97 Sep 20, 08:24 13
- nope (spoils) - Jovian Sep 20, 08:37
- Not me. -- nm - Mr. Peanutbaron Sep 20, 08:32
- No. -- nm - Dark Callisto Sep 20, 08:31
- We had our suspicions. -- nm - Spawn Sep 20, 08:31
- Yes, my wife did. -- nm - TWuG Sep 20, 08:28
- No. -- nm - Ender Sep 20, 08:27
- I did not. -- nm - znufrii Sep 20, 08:26
- answer - Andie Sep 20, 08:25
- no, spoilers -- (edited) - Beaker Sep 20, 08:24 4
  - spoilers - Tommo97 Sep 20, 08:29 3
    - Really? I found that part more confusing on rewatch. *spoils* - Ender Sep 20, 08:36 2
      - spoils - Tommo97 Sep 20, 08:53
      - spoils -- (edited) - Andie Sep 20, 08:41
Jake LaMotta, portrayed in Raging Bull, has died, per BBC -- (link) - zork Sep 20, 08:19 3
- Honesly, I figured he was dead long ago. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 20, 08:25 1
  - yup -- nm - Beaker Sep 20, 08:27
- :( -- nm - budice Sep 20, 08:20
How a 37-year-old Virginia native became a cult star who is redefining the wrestling heel -- (link) - Beaker Sep 20, 08:15
Ender, re B2 and climate controls in cars. My next car's HVAC system can be controlled - TWuG Sep 20, 08:13 4
- My last bmw had a setting to keep the heat on after you left the car. It was great for brief trips into a store and such -- nm* - decline Sep 20, 08:18
- .by a Bond supervillian -- nm - crash davis Sep 20, 08:16 2
  - Not surprisingly, I'm fine with this. - TWuG Sep 20, 08:19 1
    - Oddly, all those things in your IM are his funding mechanisms to buy out the prior ideas once they go broke. - Will Hunting Sep 20, 08:26
First reactions to Star Trek: Discovery are very positive. -- (link) - Ender Sep 20, 08:05 17
- Positive enough for people to pay 6 bucks a month just to watch it? -- nm - decline Sep 20, 08:12 7
  - This is what cable ala carte would be. 15+ streaming services, all with a subscription fee. - TWuG Sep 20, 08:16 1
    - yup. DC Streaming, Disney and Marvel services, MGM digital platform, they're all going to do it. -- nm - Remlik Sep 20, 08:29
  - According to several of the tweets. -- nm - Ender Sep 20, 08:16
  - I guess you're just not a real fan -- nm - con_carne Sep 20, 08:13 3
    - For 72 bucks a year? Not that real -- nm - decline Sep 20, 08:22 2
      - only 13 episodes. cancel after the 13th week. -- nm - Remlik Sep 20, 08:31 1
        
        or move to canada! -- nm - Beaker Sep 20, 08:32
- So by all means they should hide it on their app instead of broadcasting it. -- nm - Mr. Peanutbaron Sep 20, 08:07 8
  - I think a couple of things...clearly if you subscribe to CBS on cable, you should get the app for free... - Remlik Sep 20, 08:25
  - Canada gets it, suckers!! -- nm - Beaker Sep 20, 08:11 4
    - my old boss' son is working on it in, in the modelling department. He looooooooooves it. -- nm - Andie Sep 20, 08:14 3
      - ooh, tell him I'm available. I can hit Blue Steel upon demand. -- nm - crash davis Sep 20, 08:17 1
        
        They’re only interested in ... - Beryllium Sep 20, 08:35
      - I'd love working with models too -- nm* - decline Sep 20, 08:16
  - If their goal is to increase subscriptions then the show being good is an even better reason to leave it on the app... -- nm - Ender Sep 20, 08:09
  - They *are* broadcasting. Sunday! -- nm - Spawn Sep 20, 08:07
The Deuce gets season 2 from HBO -- nm - Beaker Sep 20, 08:00
Former NFL All-Pro cornerback Charles Tillman is training to become an FBI agent -- (link) - Beaker Sep 20, 07:56 2
- *Secret* agent. -- nm - Spawn Sep 20, 07:59 1
  - Hiding in Plame sight. -- nm - Mr. Peanutbaron Sep 20, 08:05
Hmm, rumor has it Google may be buying HTC's smartphone business. HTC shares will halt trading tomorrow. -- nm - Ender Sep 20, 07:52 3
- It worked so well last time! -- nm - spamlet Sep 20, 07:56 1
  - The analysis I saw suggested last time they were really just after the patents. Now they actually want the hardware business and production capability -- nm - Ender Sep 20, 08:05
- If you read ST you would already know this. -- nm - Spawn Sep 20, 07:52
Caption this (NFL) photo -- (link) - prayformojo Sep 20, 07:50 [Image] 1
- “I can't really hear you, because I got my two Super Bowl rings plugged in my ears” - Beaker Sep 20, 07:52
Yeah, and also, when I was a kid I didn't realize my grandmother was Irish. I just thought grandparents sounded like that. - Tommo97 Sep 20, 07:47
I didn't think I had to spell out that a spreadsheet designed to be printed should be legible when printed. - spamlet Sep 20, 07:43 4
- 11x17 sixed paper FTW! It is also one of my pet peeves I always set the page so it prints properly before sending along -- nm - Beaker Sep 20, 07:50 2
  - Non-formatted Excel sheets are the bane of my existence. -- nm - Andie Sep 20, 07:58
  - Worse. It's Tahoma 8 and 65% ratio. You literally can't read the numbers because they are one blob. - spamlet Sep 20, 07:51
- I am currently using their crap Icloud site to get some documents open to convert them to something real people can use. -- Spawn Sep 19 '17, 17: - Spawn Sep 20, 07:48
Things I've watched on Youtube in the past 24 hours: - Tommo97 Sep 20, 07:41 3
- classic Tommo -- nm - prayformojo Sep 20, 07:43 1
  - I can't help thinking about that character from Lovesick. -- nm - Tommo97 Sep 20, 07:45
- You may need to mix it up. -- (link) - Spawn Sep 20, 07:43 [youtube]
NYPost story on MoviePass. -- (link) - Mop Sep 20, 07:39 1
- it explains why AMC was all pissy -- nm - Beaker Sep 20, 07:49
The concept of Senator Roy Moore makes me want to vomit. -- nm - Tommo97 Sep 20, 07:37 1
- Let's replace a senator judged too racist to be a judge with a man removed from the bench twice! -- nm - Reagen Sep 20, 07:42
What's really happening in these 29 famous photographs -- (link*) - Beaker Sep 20, 07:27 1
- Cracked. "Now there's a website I've not clicked in a long, long time." -- nm - con_carne Sep 20, 07:33
Jimmy Kimmel slams GOP senator for "lying to his face" about healthcare bill -- (link) - Beaker Sep 20, 07:23
Destiny 2's leveling system is like opening all your Christmas presents on Christmas Eve. - groiny Sep 20, 07:23 39
- and of note, I am not complaining about it, but there are a lot of people who are. - groiny Sep 20, 07:27 28
  - I didn't rush to get to level 20 and got there rather easily. I still have two more campaign missions to finish. - Krusty Sep 20, 07:38 27
    - no, not you, everyone who played D1 rushed to get to a hgh enough light level so they could run the raid when released. - groiny Sep 20, 08:08
    - You should absolutely prioritize the remaining campaign missions. -- nm* - Shaun Sep 20, 08:01 3
      - That's the plan for tonight. -- nm - Krusty Sep 20, 08:14 2
        
        do you know where you are at in the campaign missions? -- nm - groiny Sep 20, 08:21 1
        
        Yes, I have two more missions left. I checked a list yesterday to see where I was up to and how many I had left to do. - Krusty Sep 20, 08:49
    - This is not so much about 20, as it is 270. I am stuck at 269, though. -- nm - Spawn Sep 20, 07:39 21
      - I am stuck at 269 as well. I did slowly climb to that the last two days, but everything I'm getting seems to be lower than 270. -- nm - JaxSean Sep 20, 08:10 16
        
        Are you doing all the milestones? -- nm - Shaun Sep 20, 08:17
        
        BTW, the infusing going to the higher number is not 100%. - Spawn Sep 20, 08:16 13
        
        Did the higher item have a +5 mod on it by any chance? Because infusing ignores mods. -- nm - Shaun Sep 20, 08:18 7
        
        It broke that way, so I guess it is possible. Maybe it was 280, not 281. - Spawn Sep 20, 08:30 5
        
        If you infused an exotic, then yes it had a +5 mod on it. -- nm - Shaun Sep 20, 08:32 4
        
        Spawn, ruining Destiny since 2015 -- nm - groiny Sep 20, 08:32 3
        
        *bows* -- nm - Spawn Sep 20, 08:34 2
        
        this is part of why I have little interest in dismantling exotics right now. -- nm - groiny Sep 20, 08:35 1
        
        Eh, it was another one I would never use. There are too many better options. -- nm - Spawn Sep 20, 08:41
        
        the wha???? -- nm - spwen Sep 20, 08:18
        
        that is how it used to work as well. -- nm - groiny Sep 20, 08:17 4
        
        I posted that because of this. -- (link) - Spawn Sep 20, 08:33 [Backboard] 3
        
        it sometimes works the other way too. - groiny Sep 20, 08:35 2
        
        groiny math! -- nm - Spawn Sep 20, 08:35 1
        
        you should take a lesson! -- nm - groiny Sep 20, 08:36
        
        yeah, it is going to, because only exotics are gonna drop higher than 270 unless you are doing special shit. -- nm - groiny Sep 20, 08:13
      - I think it's hilarious that you only need one Crucible win to unlock the clan Crucible reward. - Shaun Sep 20, 08:00 2
        
        I have not done crucible, yet. Tried early on and got annoyed as I could not get in. - Spawn Sep 20, 08:06 1
        
        Gotta keep rocking the milestones. They reward appropriately. -- nm - Shaun Sep 20, 08:08
      - I seem to get 1 purple drop for every 20 blue drops. -- nm - Krusty Sep 20, 07:42
- opening presents on Christmas Eve is just wrong. My wife tried that till I shot it the F down -- nm* - Beaker Sep 20, 07:24 9
  - I think it's a Latin American tradition, noche buena. That's the day of the feast and everything. -- nm* - con_carne Sep 20, 07:40
  - Grandma's house is Christmas eve. -- nm - Spawn Sep 20, 07:28 2
    - That is fine. Going under th etree on Christmas Eve is the wrongness -- nm - Beaker Sep 20, 07:34 1
      - I buy us all PJs that are under the tree until Christmas Eve. We then sleep in them that night. -- nm - Spawn Sep 20, 07:39
  - We let the kids open one small present on Eve, but we also have a family party on the Eve as well - groiny Sep 20, 07:25 4
    - Christmas Eve is the big day for my family where the whole extended family gets together for dinner. - Krusty Sep 20, 07:35 2
      - allowed, -- nm - Beaker Sep 20, 07:36 1
        
        I'm against gift opening before Christmas but this an exception that I'm fine with. - Krusty Sep 20, 07:39
    - pretty sure this is the plot for either Krampus or Santa Claws -- nm* - Beaker Sep 20, 07:28
Wait, Resse's Peanut Butter Cups won't be available after October 1st? *handwaving freakoutery* -- nm - znufrii Sep 20, 07:20 5
- If you believe breakingnews365.net. (And who wouldn't?) -- (edited) - Ender Sep 20, 07:24 2
  - And don't believe Snopes. -- (link) - Cuzzin Todd Sep 20, 07:26 1
    - That George Soros funded shite? -- nm - iSpam Sep 20, 07:34
- #fakenews - Cuzzin Todd Sep 20, 07:23
- what? this better be just a US thing. -- nm - Andie Sep 20, 07:21
This year on my bday the Atlanta Falcons will visit the NE Patriots at Foxboro. It's a milestone birthday for me. I'll be turning 28-3. -- nm - Diva Sep 20, 07:20 1
- killshot. -- nm - Remlik Sep 20, 07:20
So explain to me. Why is 'Jack' a nickname for 'John'? -- nm - ty97 Sep 20, 07:18 33
- And why is Peg short for Margaret? I had an Uncle Jack and Aunt Peg - both English. -- nm - Meg Sep 20, 08:02 4
  - My cousin is Peggie (Margaret really) - Tommo97 Sep 20, 08:04 3
    - My mom insisted my name be pronounced M(ee)gan rather than Meggan because she didn't want Meg and Peg in the same family :) - Meg Sep 20, 08:10 2
      - Ummmm....she could have just named you Mary or Victoria :) -- nm - Tommo97 Sep 20, 08:11 1
        
        why is Troudel short for Gertrude? -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 20, 11:15
- LIR - I always wondered about that " Tomo" thing - Epiphany Sep 20, 07:33 4
  - What's to wonder about, love? -- nm - Tommo97 Sep 20, 07:34 3
    - its sexy -- nm - Epiphany Sep 20, 07:42 2
      - *I'm* sexy - Tommo97 Sep 20, 07:42 1
        
        I do not disagree -- nm - Epiphany Sep 20, 07:44
- Just effing google it... Naw. I think it was mara who posted an interesting article about this (why is Dick short for Richard, etc.) -- (link) - con_carne Sep 20, 07:29
- My fishing buddy is nicknamed Jack - decline Sep 20, 07:28 1
  - My buddy is named Jack - Matt Foley Sep 20, 07:29
- Because in medieval times they didn't have enough names, so people invented diminutive forms of names to distinguish older people from - Roger More Sep 20, 07:24
- Goes back to Middle English, may be related to the french name Jacques. -- nm - Ender Sep 20, 07:22
- I think it is a Southern thing. -- nm - groiny Sep 20, 07:19 17
  - My Dad's parents immigrated from Ireland and that's what they called him. -- nm - ty97 Sep 20, 07:23 8
    - Where do you think a lot of Appalachia came from? -- nm - spamlet Sep 20, 07:42 2
      - Their cousins? My point being, my grandparents immigrated from Ireland to NYC in the 1920s - Tommo97 Sep 20, 07:44 1
        
        No a lot of Appalachia is from Ireland therefore it's the same root. -- nm - iSpam Sep 20, 07:47
    - Yeah, that is where I was going below (phone called me away). -- nm - Spawn Sep 20, 07:27
    - But Southern Ireland, right? -- nm - Ender Sep 20, 07:26 1
      - Republic of Ireland (if that's what you mean) but they were NNE of Galway -- nm - ty97 Sep 20, 07:28
    - well, those Irish are always drunk. - groiny Sep 20, 07:24 1
      - I assume my grandmother drank, but not sure I ever saw her do it. - ty97 Sep 20, 07:25
  - You mean originally? -- nm - Spawn Sep 20, 07:20 7
    - yeah, I have several relatives who go by Jack and they are John, and they are all in the South -- nm - groiny Sep 20, 07:22 6
      - Family of JFK called him Jack. He was from Mass. -- nm - Spawn Sep 20, 07:26 5
        
        But Southern Mass. -- nm - Ender Sep 20, 07:35
        
        I am not saying it is an absolute thing -- nm - groiny Sep 20, 07:29 3
        
        Wheer I was going is that it is an Irish thing, not a southern thing. - Spawn Sep 20, 07:30 2
        
        valid, and we are part Irish and part English, so there you go. -- nm - groiny Sep 20, 08:05
        
        More an English thing - think about English nursery rhymes and fairy tales - half the characters are named Jack - Roger More Sep 20, 07:32
Not clicking it, but this should make David happy. -- (link*) - Spawn Sep 20, 07:16
Everyone should like turtles. -- nm - ty97 Sep 20, 07:16 2
- Turtles all the way down. -- nm - Mop Sep 20, 07:40
- Mine are cute -- (pic) - decline Sep 20, 07:33 [Attachment]

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