ST Alpha - Backboarding

SlickerTalk
Search Archives
The Leaderboard
The FAQ

Search Dr. S. Talk
TT/ST Wiki
How Well Do You Know ...

RSS Feed

Hosting by DigitalOcean

Support ST on Ko-Fi

Welcome to SlickerTalk ▲

Kick your heels up, settle in, and get ready for a raucous discussion. The topic is anything and everything: movies, television, politics, music, breaking news, recycled news, orange-colored prediction markets, etc.

Join the Conversation

Suggestions and requests can be sent to team @ slackertalk.com. Or, please use this form to submit a bug report.

Recent News ▲

BlueSky Starter Pack for STers
This is a list of automatic follows when creating a BS account. Special thanks to Kim for setting it up! To bridge your account to the Fediverse, follow @ap.brid.gy (per the Bridgy docs)
the pack

[ SlackerTalk / Beta ] [ SlickerTalk ] [ Dr. S. Talk ]

Live

Down to Post

< Newer

Older >

Posts: 151

"Contains Lead" -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 20, 15:14
from b2, yes, it was a gym. -- nm - b. Sep 20, 14:58
krusty, any news on the little girl hit by the foul ball? - groiny Sep 20, 14:47 5
- I saw that she went to the hospital. -- nm - Remlik Sep 20, 14:48 4
  - foxnews says she is hospitalized. - Jovian Sep 20, 15:05
  - fuck, she looks like she might be 5 or 6 years old? -- nm - groiny Sep 20, 14:54
  - yeah, I got that much. There is another video of it floating around - groiny Sep 20, 14:50 1
    - She was hit in the mouth is the most I've heard besides that she's in the hospital. - Krusty Sep 20, 15:14
A coworker who is in his late 20s and engaged just mentioned that he's never opened a credit card account, or any credit account. - Max Sep 20, 14:40 9
- Same. I've never had a credit card of any kind or even a store credit card. -- nm - Krusty Sep 20, 15:16 1
  - F'n Krustys. -- nm - JaxSean Sep 20, 15:25
- I wish I could've said the same in my late 20s. - Cuzzin Todd Sep 20, 15:07
- Trust fund baby? -- nm - Meg Sep 20, 14:57
- iirc, there's at least one ster who's said the same for themselves. -- nm - b. Sep 20, 14:55 1
  - Me. :-) - Krusty Sep 20, 15:17
- F'n Millennials. -- nm - JaxSean Sep 20, 14:46 1
  - They're killing credit! -- nm - Mop Sep 20, 14:58
- Does he even exist?!?! -- nm - Reagen Sep 20, 14:45
Oh, this is good. -- (link) - mara Sep 20, 14:40 3
- *golf clap* -- nm - Mop Sep 20, 14:59
- :) - -- nm - b. Sep 20, 14:56
- heh, points -- nm - Max Sep 20, 14:41
Why is Gizmodo calling this a phishing site? It's fake, but it's not trying to dupe people out of info, is it? -- (link) - mara Sep 20, 14:38 2
- The guy whose site it is described it as "my fake phishing version of the Equifax site" -- (link) - Roger More Sep 20, 14:42 1
  - Huh. -- nm - mara Sep 20, 14:46
Are Ed Sheeran’s songlike secretions actually holding the universe together? -- (link) - prayformojo Sep 20, 14:15 5
- I'm willing to risk the fate of the universe to ban Ed Sheeran and his music from existence. -- nm - David Sep 20, 14:23 1
  - I dunno man, without Gary Gygax... -- nm - Reagen Sep 20, 14:34
- What... what is this article from the Washington Post? Is this a review? I find it difficult to get through it. -- nm - Mop Sep 20, 14:22 2
  - Looks like a concert review. -- nm - mara Sep 20, 14:29 1
    - yah, there's a brush at one buried in the clickbait-y, SHP-y mess. maybe more than a brush, but I stopped reading along the way. -- nm - b. Sep 20, 15:07
L&O SVU: look who's back.... -- (link) - Remlik Sep 20, 14:07 2
- If you abbreviate the character's name, you get "joy". -- nm* - Mop Sep 20, 14:23
- Orbach? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 20, 14:09
Nambia is the latest gaffe... I get that. I’m a fan of Zamibia, myself. -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 20, 14:06
ST is utterly bereft of amateur theologians. - ReluctantCynic Sep 20, 13:59 6
- I'm a professional atheist, doesn't that count? -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 20, 14:54
- my passion for Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts don't count?????? -- nm - peglegpete Sep 20, 14:43
- I'm as amateur as they come! -- nm - Mop Sep 20, 14:24
- Why, was one of them a Presidential Scholar at a religious institution? - David Sep 20, 14:01 2
  - I served up the most excellent softball that you -- of all people -- could imagine on B2 and you didn't even swing at it! - ReluctantCynic Sep 20, 14:05 1
    - Was it "I agree with Remlik"? Because that's a super-weird thing to do. -- nm - David Sep 20, 14:09
Kristen Bell: "You guys, WINTER IS COMING." -- (link) - mud Sep 20, 13:57 2
- Kim *better* stay awake until 11 tonight. I'm NOT waiting until tomorrow to watch. -- nm - David Sep 20, 13:59 1
  - its perfect this comes on right after the season finale of BB -- nm - Jovian Sep 20, 14:21
Dig: NFL Week 3 broadcast maps -- (link) - prayformojo Sep 20, 13:45 1
- and college football week 4 broadcasts -- (link) - prayformojo Sep 20, 13:47
Didi Gregorious passed Jeter today for most home runs in a season for a Yankee SS. He's having a career year despite the injury earlier. - Krusty Sep 20, 13:42 3
- Give him the gold glove! -- nm - CQ Sep 20, 16:41
- he was out an entire month. his numbers are incredible. -- nm - Jovian Sep 20, 13:46 1
  - Yup. He's been fantastic for us since coming over and this is easily his best year yet. -- nm - Krusty Sep 20, 14:03
WWE: Ric Flair vows that he will not drink alcohol again.... -- (link) - Remlik Sep 20, 13:36 4
- ...tonight. -- nm - Mop Sep 20, 14:24 3
  - Well, this afternoon. -- nm - Mop Sep 20, 14:24 2
    - OK, before noon. -- nm - Mop Sep 20, 14:24 1
      - Fuck it. -- nm - Mop Sep 20, 14:24
ARKit sudoku solver -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 20, 13:24 9
- Holy sh*t. -- nm - Mop Sep 20, 15:01
- WTF? This is like magic. -- nm - mara Sep 20, 13:54 2
  - Here’s the real magic. -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 20, 13:57
  - yeah. if that's a genuine demo, whoa -- nm - prayformojo Sep 20, 13:56
- See. not to diminish how cool that is, but that Wolfram Alpha math thing has been doing that for equations for a while as well as Google's translate -- (edited) - oblique, SuperFeud Champion and Eleventh Astronaut Sep 20, 13:26 4
  - Yeah, that is true. But I think the key part here is how attainable and approachable the tech & frameworks are. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 20, 13:32 3
    - I mean, technically speaking, I could make an augmented reality SlackerTalk app. - Beryllium Sep 20, 13:35 1
      - American Vandal AR app - oblique, SuperFeud Champion and Eleventh Astronaut Sep 20, 13:36
    - Yeah. I'm guessing coding wise it was far easier -- nm - oblique, SuperFeud Champion and Eleventh Astronaut Sep 20, 13:34
WWE adding a premium tier...inquiring if we would be interested in special one time events, TNA, RIng of Honor and original scripted shows -- nm - Remlik Sep 20, 13:16 7
- Wait, what? - pmb Sep 20, 13:25 6
  - you'd think. right now it's just a survey they sent out -- nm - Remlik Sep 20, 13:29 5
    - They need more money since television ratings are in sharp decline. -- nm - David Sep 20, 13:39 4
      - Yeah I saw that. Ratings for smackdown dropped again. -- nm - Remlik Sep 20, 13:41 3
        
        It's not like they're doing anything wrong. It's just that television is a dying medium. -- nm - David Sep 20, 13:58 2
        
        Well...they did have the following 3 main story lines -- untalented foreign World Champion, Cena vs Rusev as foreign menace - Will Hunting Sep 20, 14:02 1
        
        The best three talents in the company, Owens and Styles and Strong Style, are on the Smackdown roster. - David Sep 20, 14:03
Sunglasses aside, Girl Who Died/Woman Who Lived is the best of the NuWho that we've watched so far - Reagen Sep 20, 13:11
McConnell: Senate will vote on Graham-Cassidy next week. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 20, 13:10 25
- This is so scary. Who the hell thinks this is a good idea? Why are they just continuing to try and try and TRY?! Give up you bastards! - Epiphany Sep 20, 13:17 24
  - Personally, - Strongbad Sep 20, 13:20 19
    - I'm sure that having states run individual healthcare systems will work seamlessly. -- nm - David Sep 20, 13:41 7
      - It's how it's done in other federal countries like Canada and Australia. Of course there's massive redistributing of funds from the federal to the - Roger More Sep 20, 13:44 6
        
        And explicit standards of care. -- nm - Reagen Sep 20, 13:58 1
        
        Yep - though looking into it, even then there's wiggle room. In Canada, the provinces have to ensure that all medically necessary healthcare services - Roger More Sep 20, 14:18
        
        Our systems are pretty similar from provinces to provinces though. Not like the difference between a purely market driven system and single payer -- nm - Guigue Sep 20, 13:50 3
        
        Sure, but we also have general agreement across the country on how healthcare should be provided. - Roger More Sep 20, 13:58 2
        
        It makes less sense due to that lack of consensus. -- nm - David Sep 20, 14:00 1
        
        Not if the solution is a system that you don't like though. -- nm - Roger More Sep 20, 14:07
    - But it will dramatically cut the money have to do that with (or even if they leave the existing system in place). Not to mention all the rest of the - pmb Sep 20, 13:26
    - what do we lose in order to gain it? Is it a certainty that CA would pass their own system? what happens if they don't? - Epiphany Sep 20, 13:25 1
      - The repairs are simple and straightforward. The proposals will make everything way worse. Hence the CBO analysis of these plans. -- nm - pmb Sep 20, 13:27
    - It specifically prohibits them from doing so. -- nm - Reagen Sep 20, 13:22 7
      - That doesn't seem to be the case - though there's a Senator actively pushing for the bill to include this explicitly -- (link) - Roger More Sep 20, 13:27
      - That's not what I'm hearing, but ok. We'll all find out once we see the actual bill. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 20, 13:24 5
        
        link -- (link) - Roger More Sep 20, 13:39
        
        And we probably won't see the bill until an hour before they vote -- nm - amoxy Sep 20, 13:35 3
        
        We have to pass it to find out what's in it! -- nm - Strongbad Sep 20, 13:37 2
        
        Something that's been a war cry for voters who now aspire to do exactly the same thing, only without the unmistakable positives. -- nm - David Sep 20, 13:40
        
        Meh, there hasn't been death panel-style hysteria to hide what's in it. -- nm* - Roger More Sep 20, 13:39
  - and the attempt to do this in a bipartisan fashion was summarily thrown down the stairs. -- (link) - Diva Sep 20, 13:19 2
    - From my POV - Strongbad Sep 20, 13:37 1
      - Nobody on the dem side will support Graham Cassidy because it is not a solution for anything and is really just more of the same that's been proposed - pmb Sep 20, 13:41
  - Hopefully McCain, Collins and Murkawski stand fast - amoxy Sep 20, 13:18
a NM man assaults customer, tries to steal his green chili burger, goes to jail -- (link) - peglegpete Sep 20, 13:04
Oh. Today I'm working in a closed office across the desk of a girl I matched with on a dating app a few months ago - Guigue Sep 20, 12:55 6
- whip[ it out. -- nm - groiny Sep 20, 13:03 5
  - It's a pretty small office... -- nm - Guigue Sep 20, 13:05 4
    - this is not a ' no'. - Epiphany Sep 20, 13:06 3
      - I'm just worried we'll need more room for all the awesome sex we're about to have -- nm - Guigue Sep 20, 13:14 1
        
        ~bow chicka bow bow~ -- nm - Epiphany Sep 20, 13:16
      - heh-heh... -- nm - Diva Sep 20, 13:10
*sigh* why can't people read and follow simple directions? Email forward to volunteers "We've been invited to (event) please let Laura know if you'd - Meg Sep 20, 12:54 2
- I've sent emails saying "click on *this bolded link* to buy tickets for this event" and gotten responses like "put us down for two tickets please" -- nm - Roger More Sep 20, 12:57 1
  - Exactly. -- nm - Meg Sep 20, 12:58
Small child injured by foul ball during Yankee's game -- (link) - Remlik Sep 20, 12:53 1
- *thumbs down* -- nm - Diva Sep 20, 12:54
First Contact, Khan, Voyage Home, Reboot, Spock, Undiscovered Country, Original, Generations, Beyond, Darkness, Frontier, insurrection, Nemesis. -- nm - Reagen Sep 20, 12:46 22
- First Contact, Khan, Reboot, Beyond, Undiscovered, Generations, Voyage Home (unintentionally hilarious), Darkness, Search for, Original, Insurrection, Nemesis -- (edited) - Roger More Sep 20, 12:54 4
  - Why unintentional? - Beryllium Sep 20, 12:56 3
    - That's intentionally hilarious. But take a look at the scene where (spoils) -- (edited) - Roger More Sep 20, 12:58 2
      - And also because we now know all whale biologists hate whales. -- nm - Reagen Sep 20, 13:00 1
        
        (especially Mushu) -- nm - David Sep 20, 13:03
- "good answer! good answer!" -- nm - Slackertalk Feud Sep 20, 12:52
- I find the reboot fine but hard to watch for all the slapstick. I mean, if I want that I will put in a Will Ferrell movie. -- nm - con_carne Sep 20, 12:50 5
  - Serious question: Did you never watch the original series? Several great episodes were very silly. -- nm - David Sep 20, 12:52 2
    - Not really. I thought Spock was cool, but at the time I hated Shatner. -- nm - con_carne Sep 20, 12:56 1
      - My favorite Star Trek episode is Piece of the Action, which is basically a Naked Gun episode. -- nm - David Sep 20, 14:02
  - *drops on your head* -- nm - Tribble Sep 20, 12:52 1
    - I was gonna say, besides TNG and FC, I have not watched that much ST. - con_carne Sep 20, 12:54
- First Contact, reboot, Khan, Voyage Home, Beyond, Generations, Undiscovered Country, Search for Spock, Final Frontier, and then it's grim. -- nm - David Sep 20, 12:48 7
  - Good/Not Good line gets drawn after Beyond for me. -- nm - Reagen Sep 20, 12:50 6
    - I don't mind Generations. Pretty much enjoy anything with Malcolm McDowell in it. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 20, 12:53 3
      - I like McDowell. I don’t even think generations “sucks”. It’s just hard to watch. - Beryllium Sep 20, 13:12
      - Time is the fire in which we burn. - Spawn Sep 20, 13:09
      - I'm kind of fascinated by much the Star Trek people despised him. -- nm - David Sep 20, 12:57
    - I don't mind Frontier as I kind of view it as a fascinating insight into what William Shatner's ego wanted Star Trek to be. -- nm - David Sep 20, 12:51 1
      - It's watchable, which is more than I can say for Nemesis. -- nm - Reagen Sep 20, 12:57
- I'd move the Original to near the bottom, otherwise close to my list. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 20, 12:48 1
  - this. Cuz original was boringAF. -- nm - Diva Sep 20, 12:48
Here's the type of stuff that I use YouTube for. -- (link) - David Sep 20, 12:44 [youtube] 2
- I think I shall ignore your advice. This video is too cute - surely the other search results are just as cute. - Beryllium Sep 20, 15:18
- I use Youtube for Chris Stuckmann reviews. -- nm - con_carne Sep 20, 12:47
Celebrity Big Brother is going to be an epic train wreck. -- nm - Beaker Sep 20, 12:37 6
- Can't wait, have they released the cast? -- nm - J Sep 20, 12:48 1
  - from prison? -- nm - peglegpete Sep 20, 12:59
- How many of them will bail partway through the season without being voted out? -- nm - Mr. Peanutbaron Sep 20, 12:48 1
  - I am afraid of this also. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 20, 12:48
- Can we get Trump to do it? -- nm - Spawn Sep 20, 12:38 1
  - Only if he's the first one voted out. -- nm - Meg Sep 20, 12:57
Re that font on B2 ... someone pointed out, "why not braille?" - and really, that's where I'd land. - Beryllium Sep 20, 12:35 2
- "Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way." -- nm - Spawn Sep 20, 12:43
- Braille is 2 line wide though, and therefore needs a space between each letter -- nm - Guigue Sep 20, 12:40
Poor dogbert. -- nm - Irwin Mainway Sep 20, 12:34

Post a message top

< Newer

Older >

(Disclaimer: This website uses cookies to store identifying information. Please practice safe password usage.)