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Trump speechifying on prison reform, decides willy-nilly to nominate acting VA Secretary Robert Wilkie to be VA Secretary. Wilkie had no idea... -- nm - decline May 18, 08:55
Happy 38th anniversary of Mount St. Helens losing its cool. -- nm - Mop May 18, 08:45
Wisely, YouTube is renaming YouTube Red to YouTube Premium. -- nm - Mop May 18, 08:38 4
- yeah, because Redtube is something way different -- nm - groiny May 18, 08:39 1
  - ding -- nm - budice May 18, 08:40
- And yet "cornhole" is a perfectly good name for a game :) -- nm - just oblique May 18, 08:39 1
  - I wouldn't say that, Bob. -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God May 18, 08:55
Baseball season already 25% over. Teams with > +40 run differential and > .600 win % - rollo May 18, 08:35 1
- and one third of the Mariners lineup has had PED suspensions. -- nm - groiny May 18, 08:39
I look at the sky at night and see a few stars here and there (orion,the big dipper,etc.) and then I see a pic like this and realize what I'm misssing -- (link) - decline May 18, 08:30 2
- That is a little more than a night sky, though. -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God May 18, 08:54 1
  - Spawn, I'm basically saying I need to go to outer space -- nm - decline May 18, 08:56
I've spent all week prepping my apt for carpet cleaning today. I am so sore from all the moving and cleaning it's ridiculous. - Baron Breynolds May 18, 08:20 1
- let me know when you dislocate a rib while reaching behind a couch. - groiny May 18, 08:31
Texas shooting: suspect in custody, multiple fatalities -- nm - zork May 18, 07:55 7
- 22nd school shooting this year. Not this school year, just in 2018. -- nm - volnelk May 18, 08:53
- nine fatalities reported -- nm* - budice May 18, 08:32
- Sheriff says that a police officer is among the wounded. One in custody, second one detained. -- nm - zork May 18, 08:17 4
  - multiple shooters??? -- nm - groiny May 18, 08:18 3
    - Possibly but not confirmed. BBC saying at least 8 dead. -- nm - zork May 18, 08:20 2
      - oh god -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God May 18, 08:22 1
        
        I am hoping this is wrong, the one girl they talked to said shooter had a shotgun..... -- nm - groiny May 18, 08:24
national nap hour should be a thing. like everyday. -- nm - Truman May 18, 07:46 3
- siesta! -- nm - Reagen May 18, 07:47 2
  - *deports you* -- nm - Truman May 18, 07:57 1
    - animals -- nm - budice May 18, 08:00
alana is taking all of her direct reports to lunch today in advance of her leaving on the project I'm not doing because she sort of screwed me. - amanda May 18, 07:40 7
- I think skipping could exacerbate an already tough work dynamic, so yeah, go -- nm - ty97 May 18, 07:45 1
  - whatever. be right. see if I care. -- nm - amanda May 18, 07:45
- go and drink heavily -- nm - decline May 18, 07:44
- order lobster with a side of lobster -- nm - just oblique May 18, 07:42 3
  - And roleplay one lobster talking shit to the other lobster. -- nm - Max May 18, 09:28
  - this and the drinks. "WTG Alana. Woo!" *gazes* -- nm* - budice May 18, 07:45 1
    - L3! -- nm - Epiphany May 18, 07:50
V: Deadpool 2 $18.6M Thu Night -- (link) - budice May 18, 07:39 5
- so...? good ? bad? front loaded? -- nm - Epiphany May 18, 07:49 4
  - It's a strong number. (Justice League was $13M, Thor Ragnarok $14.5M, Guardians 2 was $17M) -- nm - Roger More May 18, 08:04 1
    - thanks for the info -- nm - Epiphany May 18, 08:07
  - It's a huge package. -- nm - JaxSean May 18, 07:49 1
    - well, we knew that from the 1st movie -- nm - Epiphany May 18, 07:50
Two Buses Collide at Entrance of Lincoln Tunnel, 31 Reported Injured -- (link) - ty97 May 18, 07:37
ok this is voodoo: if you think of the word “brainstorm” you hear the word brainstorm. if you think of the words “green needle” you hear green needle. -- (link) - Remlik May 18, 07:36 4
- Worked at first listens. Now it's random when I watch but I don't get brain needle. If I scroll up so I don't see it I get green storm nearly always. -- nm - Covington May 18, 08:55
- Thought of green needle and heard that. Thought of brainstorm and heard brain needle. -- nm - zork May 18, 07:48
- nope. at best I hear "brain needle" -- nm - just oblique May 18, 07:41
- THAT is the shit -- nm - Bacon May 18, 07:41
racist Aaron Schlossberg calls for help after local press asks him questions... -- (link) - Remlik May 18, 07:29 4
- I got no love for reporters acting like paparazzi though either. -- nm - Qale May 18, 09:08
- I love that he's trying to hide his face. He wasn't that shy when he was calling out Spanish speakers. -- nm - Mop May 18, 08:28
- What times. You can't even be a racist xenophobe in peace. Not what one expected after electing Grand Wizard Drumpf.. (NM) - Marlowe May 18, 07:52
- The one where he just sprinted up the street away from the reporter is hilarious. -- nm - Volnelk May 18, 07:36
"Twitter is updating its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy" - ty97 May 18, 07:29 3
- I've seen scads of these already -- nm - prayformojo May 18, 07:33 1
  - Indeed -- (link) - Reagen May 18, 07:35
- Effing GDPR... -- nm - Ender May 18, 07:32
ffs, Twitter trends are telling me there's a reported active shooter at Santa Fe High School in Texas. -- nm - Shaun May 18, 07:27 2
- shooter reportedly in custody -- nm - decline May 18, 07:29
- ST had it first!! Suck it Twitter! -- nm - Bacon May 18, 07:28
Diva alert: WB to pay $50M for rights to In The Heights. -- (link) - Baron Breynolds May 18, 07:18 3
- saw that yesterday on The Old HSX site. -- nm - Diva May 18, 08:07
- *buys all the tickets* -- nm - just oblique May 18, 07:27
- WOW -- nm - ty97 May 18, 07:21
A local game store, Epic Loot Games (I play D&D here), is getting sometimes hundreds of complaint calls a day intended for Epic Games, the makers of Fortnite. -- (link) - Ender May 18, 07:04 4
- Crazy. In Centerville or Springfield? -- nm - volnelk May 18, 07:12 3
  - Both -- nm - Ender May 18, 07:20 2
    - Nice. Centerville is where I grew up. That store is about 100 feet from my dentist's office. -- nm - volnelk May 18, 07:25 1
      - Centerville's closer to my work, so I buy more stuff there, but Springfield runs more Adventurers League games. -- nm - Ender May 18, 07:33
We had Deadpool 2 tickets for 10:30 — we got here and they have a 10:15. - can we switch or is it packed? “1% full”. — there are 5 of us here. - Will Hunting, Emperor of Blood Feud May 18, 07:03 13
- You, the Mrs, N, David and Kim? -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God May 18, 08:17
- yay Jax! -- nm* - Diva May 18, 08:09
- ~$15M in previews last night -- nm - Roger More May 18, 07:39
- "'Deadpool 2' Smashes Records With $18.6 Million on Thursday Night" -- nm - JaxSean May 18, 07:39
- Probably 'Show Dogs' stealing a lot of attention. -- nm - volnelk May 18, 07:17
- OK, but it's 10:30 in *the morning*. -- nm - Reagen May 18, 07:10 1
  - Movies can be shown in the morning? Weird. -- nm - Baron Breynolds May 18, 07:15
- That seems... normal for Friday morning for almost any movie... - Ender May 18, 07:09
- oh my. -- nm - Epiphany May 18, 07:07 2
  - I heard it made 312.50 Thursady night. - Spawn: Blood Feud God May 18, 07:09 1
    - I shorted the opening derative - I can't spell it and I don't care -- nm - Epiphany May 18, 07:34
- Solo!!! is coming, that will be packed -- nm - Bacon May 18, 07:03 1
  - Theatre employee said there seems to be more interest here in Solo. -- nm - kelly May 18, 07:09
Michael Keaton ends Kent State commencement speech with iconic 2 words -- (link) - eag May 18, 06:57
If you want to hear funk versions of Smell Like Teen Spirit and Killing In the Name Of, this Eurovision themed Trunk of Funk is for you -- (link) - LMS May 18, 06:47
Which one will Trump acknowledge first? Gunman lured officers into ambush shoot-out at Trump's golf club -- (link) - zork May 18, 06:45
Hearing report of school shooting in Sante Fe, TX (east of Houston) -- nm - zork May 18, 06:31 3
- Started during a fire alarm or drill. -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God May 18, 06:59
- Active shooter -- nm - zork May 18, 06:34 1
  - :( -- nm - JaxSean May 18, 06:42
also I made strawberry ice cream the other day for the first time and we ate some last night. if you ever decide to make strawberry ice cream - amanda May 18, 06:23
I woke up today to no water. I checked the news, the boro website, twitter, nothing. I had to call to be told that I won't have water till this aft. - amanda May 18, 06:21 5
- Unless it's some sort of emergency (like the Joker poisoned the water supply) notice should've been given. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 18, 06:56
- seems a good reason not to go to work today -- nm - decline May 18, 06:47 1
  - I didn't want to burn the vacation day. I have on scheduled for next week. -- nm - amanda May 18, 06:53
- Yeah, that's wrong. They need to get that info out to the people through multiple ways. There's no excuse for that today. -- nm - Krusty May 18, 06:31
- Yeah, that's ridiculous -- nm - prayformojo May 18, 06:25
Congratulations, Jeopardy. You taught me a new word. Final Jeopardy question inside. Answer in response. - Baron Breynolds May 18, 06:19 11
- This one was absurd. I'm not surprised no one got it. -- nm - Mop May 18, 08:26
- ---------- -- nm* - jnine May 18, 06:58
- Answer (spoils) - Baron Breynolds May 18, 06:20 8
  - I was going to say that as a joke answer. -- nm - jnine May 18, 07:00
  - That's a pretty lousy Final Jeopardy questions. - Cuzzin Todd May 18, 06:34
  - both of those are new ones for me -- nm - prayformojo May 18, 06:24 1
    - Same -- nm - Beryllium May 18, 08:44
  - pspoils - budice May 18, 06:23
  - I had no clue on that one. Not even an educated guess because everything I though of sounded ridiculous. -- nm - Krusty May 18, 06:23 2
    - Agreed. Even if I had come up with the correct combination, I would've dismissed it as unlikely. After the fact... (spoils) - Baron Breynolds May 18, 06:26 1
      - Definitely one of the more difficult questions for a Teacher's Tournament. - Krusty May 18, 06:30
This kid may very well become the greatest soccer player ever -- (link) - decline May 18, 06:17 3
- Idiot Kicker -- nm - Peyton Manning May 18, 07:03
- Whoa. Not what I expected when I clicked that post. -- nm - volnelk May 18, 06:35 1
  - Word -- nm - zork May 18, 06:37
Early pricing of the LG G7 ThinQ seems to put it way out of my range, even with the TV thrown in as an incentive. - Shaun May 18, 06:10 3
- I would wait anyway because LG has issues with their phones boot looping. I don't know why they have that issue more than others but in the years I - Krusty May 18, 06:16
- wait. they're giving away a TV with a phone? -- nm - amanda May 18, 06:14 1
  - Here, not sure about US. -- (link) - Shaun May 18, 06:50
Well, today is going to suck. - znufrii May 18, 05:58 2
- Sorry, that is the worst. I keep expecting to but so far, so good. - Spawn: Blood Feud God May 18, 07:08
- That sucks. I hate that feeling. Best of luck today. -- nm - Krusty May 18, 06:12
Hal Hartley's Long Island Trilogy restoration box set on Kickstarter -- (link) - Dano May 18, 05:56 2
- holycrap. -- nm - amanda May 18, 06:02 1
  - I think I will get this for ann for xmas. is there a reason to do dvd over blu ray? can I get a film snob to weigh in? -- nm - amanda May 18, 06:28
Prince Charles to walk Meghan Markle down the aisle -- nm - Beaker May 18, 05:49 6
- I kind of love this. After months of rogue relatives doing their best to try to f*ck her up, - Diva May 18, 09:11
- Meeting her halfway down it, but yes. -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God May 18, 07:01
- Every time I see Royal Wedding stuff, I'm briefly amazed that Soleil Moon-Frye is going to be a princess. - con_carne May 18, 06:12 1
  - Yes -- nm - zork May 18, 06:53
- Awesome Sauce -- nm - Epiphany May 18, 05:55 1
  - Just heard that she will walk herself most of the way and Charles will accompany her the last bit. -- nm - zork May 18, 06:33
Huh. No Man's Sky will have multiplayer on July 24th. -- (link) - Shaun May 18, 05:43 8
- I think the NMS ship has sailed. If only they had put all this sh!t into the original version. -- nm - decline May 18, 05:59 7
  - For me it has for sure. But Xboners may want to check it out since it's launching with all the previous updates plus the NEXT update. -- nm - Shaun May 18, 06:02 6
    - the Detroit Becoming Human demo is live -- nm - decline May 18, 06:26 5
      - I still haven't tried it. -- nm - Shaun May 18, 07:01 4
        
        I'll give it a go this weekend. (I'm farming Niflheim in GoW) -- nm - decline May 18, 07:18 3
        
        Farming eh? Story wise I'm at spoils I suppose - Shaun May 18, 07:24 2
        
        sort of spoil - decline May 18, 07:28 1
        
        Good info. -- nm - Shaun May 18, 07:35
Overwatch: Sales of the Pink Mercy skin closing in on $10M. -- (link) - Shaun May 18, 05:27 1
- Huh, that's pretty cool. -- nm - JaxSean May 18, 06:42
Nineteen-ninety-eight changed the course of technology, which is to say that it changed the course of history. -- (link) - Beaker May 18, 04:35
Deadpool 2 84% (157/29), Solo 72% (83/32), Book Club 62% (33/20), Show Dogs 33% (4/8), Dark Crimes 0% (0/19) -- nm - Beaker May 18, 04:05 4
- so everybody is going to see Dark Crimes this weekend? -- nm - decline May 18, 06:00 3
  - ye ghads the trailer is super boring. I'll rewatch Number 23 if I want dark Carrey -- nm - Epiphany May 18, 06:09 2
    - (I honestly have never even heard of it) -- nm - decline May 18, 06:18 1
      - me either and I'm guessing that hokey accent is the reason why - Epiphany May 18, 07:07
Come on, I'm sure there's some context here! -- (link) - Reagen May 18, 03:58 2
- You are the 3rd person I've seen post this today, but it's a year old. I wonder why it's showing up now? -- nm - jnine May 18, 07:06
- So, less than deplorable. Interesting. -- nm - zork May 18, 06:41
TV PSA: Jets/Knights, Battlebots, Blindspot, Ducktales, MasterChef Jr, Undercover Boss, once Upon A Time, Hedy Lamarr, Hawaii 5-O, Life Sentence, -- nm - Beaker May 18, 02:59 1
- Bering Sea Gold, SHIELD, Tesla Files, Bill Maher, a bunch of Royal Wedding stuff, other stuff -- nm - Beaker May 18, 03:00
This train I ride...sixteen coaches long -- nm - zeitgeist May 17, 22:42 3
- well that long black train got my baby and gone -- nm - zeitgeist May 17, 22:44 2
  - train train rolling around the bend, train train rolling around the bend. well it took my baby away from me again. -- (link*) - peglegpete May 17, 23:51 [youtube] 1
    - Yeah, I followed her to the station With a suitcase in my hand Whoa, it's hard to tell, it's hard to tell When all your love's in vain -- nm - zeitgeist May 18, 02:27

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