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Happy Monday everybody! -- nm - ty97 Jan 26, 06:04
Weird. Chrome 64 must have changed something with fonts. Now anything that breaks the underline on links interrupts it instead of overwriting it. - just oblique Jan 26, 05:53 2
- Yeah, same here.. (NM) - Marlowe Jan 26, 06:08
- Glad it isn't just me, saw this yesterday. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 26, 06:05
The new hottest ticket in town is a fresh donut bar that opened on Saturday. They open at 7:30am on weekdays and sell out the first batch by 9:15am. -- (edited) - Shaun Jan 26, 05:46 5
- There is no doughnut in the world worth waiting behind 20 people for - Reagen Jan 26, 06:07 1
  - I've had donuts worth the wait of 20 people. -- nm - Krusty Jan 26, 06:10
- A well made and high quality donut is worth the wait. - Krusty Jan 26, 06:06
- and the hottest new club in New Brunswick is The Donut Hole! -- nm - Stefon Jan 26, 05:57
- where is this? -- nm - Beaker Jan 26, 05:56
So, I'm pretty sure I got screwed (and not in the good way). - Dano Jan 26, 05:45 4
- This kind of thing is in part why we're in Halifax - Reagen Jan 26, 06:10
- Sadly, this seems to happen often. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 26, 06:04
- That sucks and I wouldn't be happy about the situation either. - Krusty Jan 26, 06:03
- arg arg arg - prayformojo Jan 26, 06:02
USOC Gives USA Gymnastics An Ultimatum Over Scandal. If board’s 21 directors don’t resign by Wednesday, will lose its certification. -- (link*) - budice Jan 26, 05:12 1
- Good. Gut it and start over. -- nm - Krusty Jan 26, 06:09
College Football Fact of the Day: Our last 10 National Champions (2008-2017) - Strongbad Jan 26, 05:10
TV PSA: Andi Mack, Blindspot, Child Support, Crazy Ex-GF, Mosaic, Hell's Kitchen, Jane the Virgin, Stuck in the Middle, SHIELD, Taken, Gold Rush, -- nm - Beaker Jan 26, 04:03 1
- Bill Maher, Graham Norton, Gold Rush White Water, One Day At A Time drops on Netflix, other stuff -- nm* - Beaker Jan 26, 04:04
So, here's my understanding of Trump's latest immigration proposal - Strongbad Jan 26, 03:49 5
- FIFY: "end family reunification" -- nm - TWuG's windchimes like you Jan 26, 05:53
- And immigrants from shithole countries will be required to wear poop emoji badges. -- nm - znufrii Jan 26, 05:49
- How different is this from the 2013 Senate bill that passed and was stopped in the House? -- nm - Dano Jan 26, 04:03 2
  - I have no idea. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 26, 05:01
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400 prop bets for the Super Bowl -- (link) - Beaker Jan 26, 03:03
Hail Satan! -- (link) - Reagen Jan 26, 02:49
Nutella 'riots' spread across French supermarkets - because it went on sale -- (link) - Covington Jan 26, 01:53
Bioware's Anthem, the game that caused them to throw Mass Effect under the bus, just got delayed a year. - David Jan 26, 01:36 1
- Duh. -- nm - EA Jan 26, 05:43
Joseph Kennedy the Third will give the Democratic response to the State of the Union -- (link) - zeitgeist Jan 26, 00:28 1
- Pasty gingers FTW! -- nm - Strongbad Jan 26, 05:03
Hmm. At this point I'm fairly certain that Amazon/USPS has lost the final piece of declan's birthday present. - Beryllium Jan 25, 23:20 1
- (eh, it'll probably arrive on monday.) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 25, 23:28
This is a bit pricey for a truck, but it's pretty darn photogenic. Something someone could build a personal brand around. -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 25, 23:10
It's the time of the year when I go blind and crazy looking for archaeology faculty emails... - Meg Jan 25, 21:20 3
- I gave up on the pipe dream of running a scholarship after I learned how much work it would be. -- nm - Mop Jan 25, 22:51
- does their timing and how they reply reflective of their specialty [Iron age, Steam, etc.]? -- nm - peglegpete Jan 25, 21:32 1
  - That's my problem, there's no feedback. We get applications but don't know how they heard about the scholarship. - Meg Jan 25, 21:36
My daughter asked me if I’d ever met Jeopardy champ Rachel Lindgren. - Mop Jan 25, 21:17 1
- P.S. I got the final Jeopardy, while *all three* contestants got it wrong. -- nm - Mop Jan 25, 21:33
Stormy Daniels will be on Kimmel on the 30th. -- nm - Remlik Jan 25, 21:09 6
- Not a fan of TLJ -- (link) - budice Jan 25, 22:16 3
  - Is that how you’re reading that tweet? Because I read it... differently. -- nm - Mop Jan 25, 22:21 1
    - Tiny Lock Jaw must refer to those little battlecry guys. -- nm - Max Jan 25, 22:27
  - I. don't. care. -- nm - Tommy Lee Jones Jan 25, 22:17
- On kimmel’s show. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 25, 21:33 1
  - Broadcast tv? -- nm - Spawn: Six Time Blood Feud Champion Jan 25, 21:57
The United States Olympic Committee says USA Gymnastics faces termination as the sport's governing body after the Larry Nassar scandal.... - Remlik Jan 25, 20:53 2
- GOOD. -- nm - Mop Jan 25, 21:34
- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :::)))))))))) -- nm - peglegpete Jan 25, 21:24
"And you can only play against the Jaguars" - Amoxy-2017 Caveman Champ Jan 25, 20:38
This is practically a work of art. “iTunes Card” -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 25, 20:00 4
- I’d say that bots are ruining Twitter, but that’d imply that Twitter was ever not ruined. -- nm - Qale Jan 25, 20:42 1
  - Huh, good eye. I thought it was SMS. Maybe because I run twitter in dark mode 100%. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 25, 21:42
- The lackadaisical response is an insult to the scammer industry -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 25, 20:33
- L4 -- nm - Max Jan 25, 20:11
I’ve seen Hoosiers about 100 times. Something that never really dawned on me until just now........ - Volnelk Jan 25, 19:50 1
- heh -- nm - Spawn: Six Time Blood Feud Champion Jan 25, 20:34
A local guy died, many of my friends are posting memoriam images, the guest of honor/recently deceased is *liking* them all.... - zeitgeist Jan 25, 19:33 1
- One day, wills might include a tiny little AI-enabled agent to apply personality traits of the deceased to online interactions. A bot of the dead. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 25, 19:52
How effective are moth balls at driving mice out of an attic? -- nm* - kelly Jan 25, 19:27 4
- Not very, otherwise they would call them miceballs -- nm - decline Jan 25, 20:41
- Depends how accurate your throwing aim is. -- nm - Reagen Jan 25, 19:43 2
  - Yeah, you really need to use Great Balls. Or better yet a Dusk Ball since Ratata is Dark type. - Qale Jan 25, 20:45 1
    - Heh. -- nm - kelly Jan 25, 20:58
Vikings mid season finale spoiler - peglegpete Jan 25, 19:22
Snack report - Hershey’s Gold: B+ -- nm - Dano Jan 25, 19:13
I just watched The Shape of Water. - David Jan 25, 19:11 15
- Graphic Splash! -- nm - LMS Jan 26, 06:02
- looks good -- (link) - Spawn: Six Time Blood Feud Champion Jan 25, 20:36
- Based on the ads I've assumed it was a dark creepy update of Splash. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 25, 20:22 3
  - or Free Willy. -- nm - mud Jan 25, 20:40
  - *imagines Sally Hawkins going nuts on a whole lobster* yep, creepy. -- nm - Max Jan 25, 20:29
  - I haven’t seen any ads, so I’m assuming a dark creepy update of You’ve Got Mail -- nm - Beryllium Jan 25, 20:24
- It sounds like you just watched mother! -- nm - Max Jan 25, 19:13 8
  - mother! made more sense given its strong Biblical underpinnings. -- nm - David Jan 25, 19:18 7
    - Er...well assuming one is familiar with the Bible - JD Jan 25, 19:22 2
      - Go to church, JD. It'll help. -- nm - David Jan 25, 19:23 1
        
        I guess if I’m not struck down when I cross the threshold, it couldn’t hurt - JD Jan 25, 19:33 [youtube]
    - I can't sit through an entire sermon without my mind wandering to sex so it's not surprising I never picked up any biblical cues in the movie. -- nm - Max Jan 25, 19:20 3
      - You’d like our local Congregational United Church. We’ve got a smoking hot pastor. -- (link) - Mop Jan 25, 22:12
      - That and JLaw makes a Max confuzzled. -- nm - budice Jan 25, 19:29
      - Spoilers, I guess. - David Jan 25, 19:23
LOFL. The Star Wars game, everyone thought we would get Darth Revan? We get Rose. - Spawn: Six Time Blood Feud Champion Jan 25, 18:33 4
- Rose is great. Shut up, haters. -- nm* - Beryllium Jan 25, 19:14
- The only decent Star Wars character ever? Yay! -- nm - David Jan 25, 19:05
- I doubt we'll ever get Revan. When they did Nilihus last year Disney turned down Revan. He's not cannon -- nm - spamlet, no longer adequate Jan 25, 18:36 1
  - I really didn't want him. Not jumping through the hoops they thought we had to, anyway. - Spawn: Six Time Blood Feud Champion Jan 25, 18:38
Let's check in with the three major news channels and....oh. -- (link) - Tim Jan 25, 18:05 5
- [insert that Jessica Chastain SNL skit here] -- nm - Dano Jan 25, 18:24 1
  - pretty much -- nm - Beaker Jan 25, 18:25
- I think the real question that needs investigating is why this guy's name isn't pronounced Mewller. -- nm - Max Jan 25, 18:14 1
  - John Boner. -- nm - Qale Jan 25, 18:28
- This is fine. -- nm - GOP Jan 25, 18:12
NBA full All Star teams -- (link) - Beaker Jan 25, 17:59 3
- Oladipo has beat Lebron every game this year, so smart of him to take him. -- nm - Spawn: Six Time Blood Feud Champion Jan 25, 18:34
- ? they could pick from East or Wes- oh wait, I don't care -- nm - mud Jan 25, 18:04 1
  - Lebron got first pick of the starters, Curry got first pick of the bench -- nm - Beaker Jan 25, 18:05
I'll take "Dilly Dilly" over ~this red light of mine~ any fucking day of the week - Beaker Jan 25, 17:57 4
- Haven’t seen it yet, but can I assume that the lyrics go like this? - Beryllium Jan 25, 18:06 3
  - can someone explain to me why that memory drug thinks telling us it came from jelly fish is such a great marketing point -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 25, 19:42 2
    - Because it’s exotic, and coming from the root tubers of an Asian tree is no longer marketably exotic enough. (Ginko Balboa) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 25, 19:48 1
      - (And yes, I know that’s not the right spelling. It’s a pirate name, I guess. The pirate who never forgets.) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 25, 19:49
It took 3 tries but it seems like Justin Timberlake finally released a decent song off his new album. -- nm - Dano Jan 25, 17:53
Ok, I LOLed -- (link) - spamlet, no longer adequate Jan 25, 17:41 3
- That doesn't look very sanitary. -- nm - Spawn: Six Time Blood Feud Champion Jan 25, 18:35
- The best part is that he got his wife to take the picture. -- nm - Mop Jan 25, 17:58 1
  - He needed the gear on for when she hurled the phone. -- nm - Max Jan 25, 18:15
The Ravens might have missed the playoffs but they’re dominating this NFL version of America’s Got Talent -- nm - Dano Jan 25, 17:39
FCC is going to overrule courts and make it so utility pole owners can't simply refuse to respond to stop fiber expansion. -- (link) - spamlet, no longer adequate Jan 25, 17:33 2
- I don't know how to react to news from this admin that isn't wrong. -- nm - TWuG, ten-stone griddle-chip Jan 25, 17:40 1
  - They should have done it at the same time but I'm guessing this is the other side of the NN decision. - spamlet, no longer adequate Jan 25, 17:42
NYT: Trump told McGahn to fire Mueller in June. McGahn threatened to resign. -- (link) - mud Jan 25, 17:28 2
- How much should I bet that the GOP/lawyer's next move will be to say that this makes Meuller ineligible to interview Trump because he will be biased? - Max Jan 25, 19:07
- heh, Cuomo just now: McGahn may have saved the Trump Presidency (by stopping that) -- nm - mud Jan 25, 18:07
USA has cancelled something called “Damnation.” Also news, USA had a show called “Damnation.” -- nm - MDH Jan 25, 17:16 2
- What in damnation?! -- nm - Qale Jan 25, 18:32
- I liked it. -- nm - Dano Jan 25, 17:27
Mosaic on HBO is a really unusual project. I thought the first two episodes were really hard to get into. But all of the different perspectives are - prayformojo Jan 25, 17:15 1
- also, over the years I've seen Garrett Hedlund in about a dozen movies, at least. And I still have no idea what he really looks like -- (edited) - prayformojo Jan 25, 17:20
"SpaceXFL" -- (link) - Max Jan 25, 17:09 1
- Space Concussion Protocol - Beryllium Jan 25, 17:11
This should keep the ST germaphobes awake tonight: Are there zombie viruses escaping from the thawing permafrost? - ReluctantCynic - Eagles Fan (at least this year) Jan 25, 17:04 1
- probably. And probably riding the wind with outgassing. -- nm - Max Jan 25, 17:05
The Rock was in my hood filming Ballers yesterday -- (link) - budice Jan 25, 16:59
WWE: All charges against Rich Swann dissmissed -- nm - Remlik Jan 25, 16:44 1
- I guess he could handle it. -- nm - Qale Jan 25, 17:13
Wait. Mussina and Feingold were mentioned on the same board and I missed it? - Dano Jan 25, 16:30
James, Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis, DeMarcus Cousins and Kyrie Irving are Lebron's team. -- nm - Beaker Jan 25, 16:25 9
- this is all so exciting, but then they'll actually play... - x Jan 25, 16:42 4
  - $1M each to the winning team (or $500k to the player and $500k to the charity)...that'll get them going -- nm - Beaker Jan 25, 16:49 2
    - all star games are inherently meaningless...nm - x Jan 25, 17:05 1
      - $ talks. -- nm - Beaker Jan 25, 17:06
  - Kyle Vanden Bosch was like in a Pro Bowl. It freaked all the QBs out. -- nm - David Jan 25, 16:43
- He's just toying with us. -- nm - Reagen Jan 25, 16:30
- Picking second, Curry's starters will be himself, James Harden, DeMar DeRozan, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Joel Embiid. -- nm - Beaker Jan 25, 16:25 2
  - LeBron drafts better. -- nm - David Jan 25, 16:35 1
    - Yup. -- nm - Krusty Jan 25, 17:00
MLB Rumor: Marlins originally wanted Acuna or Guerrero Jr for Yelich, but ATL and TOR declined. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 25, 16:03 4
- That stuff gets overblown. It doesn't hurt to ask, but they knew they wouldn't get either of those guys. - David Jan 25, 16:09 3
  - Milwaukee was a few days from having to sign Lorenzo Cain. - Will Hunting Jan 25, 16:17 2
    - MLBTR says they're still trying to sign Cain. - David Jan 25, 16:18 1
      - they just did. 5 years $80 Million -- nm - Beaker Jan 25, 16:50
KY cop answering call about domestic violence leaves his assault rifle leaning against a car while he goes to the house - for several minutes. -- (link) - Covington Jan 25, 16:01
Did we see that Movie Pass is not working at some AMC locations now? -- nm - Spawn: Six Time Blood Feud Champion Jan 25, 15:39 6
- Wait what? -- nm - spamlet, no longer adequate Jan 25, 15:43 5
  - It has begun. -- (link*) - Spawn: Six Time Blood Feud Champion Jan 25, 15:50 4
    - How do they even get away with blocking that? It's a credit card. This only works if MoviePass agrees to block it. -- nm - Mop Jan 25, 18:02 2
      - It is Moviepass doing it, not AMC. -- nm - spamlet Jan 25, 18:21 1
        
        Exactly. Why are they bending over for AMC? -- nm - Mop Jan 25, 18:37
    - If you're logged into twitter you can see they've been replying all day. Looking at the website they do show eligible theaters. -- (link*) - Max Jan 25, 15:55
Poll sampling of about 170k people on the Doomsday Clock: - Jovian Jan 25, 15:22 1
- I'm still in the mode of hand-waving freakoutery. But that's just me. -- nm - ReluctantCynic - Eagles Fan (at least this year) Jan 25, 16:14
TV PSA: Beyond, Grey's Anatomy, Mosaic, MVP, NBA, Project Runway, RuPaul, Supernatural, Superstore, Four, Good Place, Arrow, Flip or Flop, Million $ Listing, -- nm* - Beaker Jan 25, 15:21 1
- Scandal, Great News, Chicago Fire, HTGAWM, Nashville, Top Chef, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Jan 25, 15:22

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