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Basketball folks, anyone recognize any of these names? -- (link*) - Reagen May 18, 14:41 1
- enjoy. -- nm - budice May 18, 14:47
ST Poll: Do you think we'll see gun control in the US in your lifetime? - Shaun May 18, 14:13 25
- Sorry to say, No, but then I'm old. Maybe the kids in school will eventually make a difference when they begin running for and winning office. -- nm - Covington May 18, 15:07
- Yes. -- nm - budice May 18, 14:44
- You mortals clearly intend to live short lives. -- nm - Max May 18, 14:36
- - -- nm* - Reagen May 18, 14:26
- 20 years ago, how many of you would have answered yes to gay marriage or legal pot? -- nm - Reagen May 18, 14:25 9
  - there is no money in it for government to ban gay marriage, or restrict it. - groiny May 18, 14:27 8
    - The religious right spent a lot of money fighting gay marriage and made it a litmus test for many candidates, just like the gun lobby. -- nm - pmb May 18, 14:38 2
      - do we have numbers on that? -- nm - groiny May 18, 14:39 1
        
        No, but as Roger Moore notes, the amount of money the NRA spends on campaign contributions is not huge. They do also spend money indirectly, but their - pmb May 18, 14:57
    - The NRA doesn’t actually give that much money, comparatively, though it is consistent. But it can make a lot of noise and push a lot of buttons, and - Roger More May 18, 14:32 4
      - and let's say you do vote those politicians out when you can. The ones who get the most $ from NRA....... - groiny May 18, 14:36 1
        
        Sure, maybe it has no chance. But if it has no chance, it’s not because of NRA cash. It’s because of NRA influence -- nm - Roger More May 18, 15:04
      - compared to what? And if you take their income away, they will be giving politicians ZERO, which is much less than what those politicians get now. -- nm - groiny May 18, 14:33 1
        
        Compared to other donors. In 2016, for example, the NRA contributed $1 million spent across 200ish congressional candidates - Roger More May 18, 14:48
- Yes. 30-40 years is a long time. -- nm - TWuG May 18, 14:24 1
  - has it been 20 years since Columbine? -- nm - groiny May 18, 14:25
- Depends on the extent of the control. I think there is an opportunity to get much better controls on military-style assault rifles, and maybe even ... - ReluctantCynic May 18, 14:21 [youtube]
- Depends what you mean by gun control. Ban all guns? No. Stricter laws than we have? Yes. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 18, 14:21 3
  - Basically the same type of laws like every other first world country. -- nm - Shaun May 18, 14:25
  - oh, I am certain they will put some things in place at some point. - groiny May 18, 14:25
  - *fistbump* -- nm - ReluctantCynic May 18, 14:23
- No. We are in the end days of the United States as we know it. -- nm - Jovian May 18, 14:21
- Nope -- nm - Krusty May 18, 14:20
- nope -- nm - groiny May 18, 14:15
- I think international expansion of the American Imperium would happen sooner. -- nm - Beryllium May 18, 14:14
Whomever it was who put the earworm Kiss On My List in my head, is my sworn enemy for the rest of the day!! -- nm - Jovian May 18, 13:54 2
- but its the best thing of life -- nm - zeitgeist May 18, 14:07 1
  - its honestly been such an effective earworm, that I cant even recall what the previous one was running through my head. -- nm - Jovian May 18, 14:20
Watching Celebrity Mean Tweets on a Friday afternoon is a good way to end the week -- nm - amoxy May 18, 13:47 2
- Jim Parsons looks like a ventriloquist dummy come to life and turned into a sex offender -- nm - Trump May 18, 14:17 1
  - Something in this is redundant, but I’m not sure which. -- nm - Beryllium May 18, 14:19
Kinky Kombucha Presents: Kim & The Created, The Flytraps, The Side Eyes, Slut Island -- nm - JD May 18, 13:46 4
- I'm trying to picture Slut Island -- nm - crash davis May 18, 13:51 3
  - two really hot cool super talented and modest artists -- (link) - JD May 18, 14:00 2
    - Thanks, but really I was just paraphrasing Archer :) -- nm - crash davis May 18, 14:03 1
      - “It’s Norwegian.” -- nm - Beryllium May 18, 14:04
I just looked at the Credit Karma website with a view to changing my email. Seems the only way to do it is.... - Meg May 18, 13:27 2
- it won't let you do that. it'll say "your SSN belongs to another email address." -- nm - amanda May 18, 13:30 1
  - Seems strange they'll let you open an account online but not change it. -- nm - Meg May 18, 13:51
This one looks good. from Ridley Scott, "Strange Angel" on CBS All Access. -- (link) - Mop May 18, 13:24 [youtube] 1
- "from exec. producer Ridley Scott" -- nm - mud May 18, 13:32
LYC: I will say this. On my third "no eating" day, it certainly is getting easier - just oblique May 18, 13:17 7
- I should lose some weight this weekend. I think I'll get a hair cut. -- nm - crash davis May 18, 13:37
- unless the hunger is gnawing at you in the middle of the night and you sleepwalk to the kitchen and gorge without knowing it -- nm - decline May 18, 13:19 5
  - I haven't woken up with a ham yet. So far so good. -- nm - just oblique May 18, 13:20 4
    - Honey, what happened to our throw pillows?" -- nm - Mrs. Kilbo May 18, 13:23 2
      - Didn't we have two cats? -- nm - just oblique May 18, 13:24 1
        
        no comment -- nm - groiny May 18, 13:39
    - count your pillows -- nm - Max May 18, 13:21
TX Lt Gov. Patrick suggests reducing the number of doors at schools to prevent this from happening again -- (link) - decline May 18, 13:14 39
- This Is America, where egress/ingress control is easier than gun control. -- nm - Beryllium May 18, 14:02 2
  - #notmyschool -- nm - groiny May 18, 14:05 1
    - If a school has 20 doors, and the US government is being lobbied by a Russian-funded terror cell, what’s cheaper - changing the government’s mind? - Beryllium May 18, 14:12
- Those kids are going to rip these guys some new ones -- nm - just oblique May 18, 13:19
- Chain all the doors. No, wait, cops are coming! Unchain the doors! -- nm - Joe Louis Clark May 18, 13:17 1
  - *finger to nose* My thoughts exactly. -- nm - Baron Breynolds May 18, 13:32
- So, let’s make it harder for kids to escape? Sounds reasonable. -- nm - znufrii May 18, 13:16 32
  - my daughter's High School has somewhere in the vicinity of 20+ doors. - groiny May 18, 13:26 24
    - We drove around an amazing school that looks like hogwarts. It had 52 doors. -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God May 18, 14:36 1
      - my kids getting gunned down in school keeps me up at night...... - groiny May 18, 14:38
    - Until there's a fire. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 18, 13:55 3
      - how many children has been killed in school fires in the last, oh, 30 years? -- nm - groiny May 18, 13:56 2
        
        Not many. Because there's so many exits. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 18, 13:59 1
        
        or better sprinkler systems in schools...... - groiny May 18, 13:59
    - a feature unique to American schools! -- nm - Reagen May 18, 13:39 17
      - clearly this shooter was not aware of the walkout theme. -- nm - groiny May 18, 13:41
      - Oh come *on*... -- nm - Roman Coliseum guard trainee May 18, 13:41
      - I don't know what to tell you....... - groiny May 18, 13:40 14
        
        You guys will sacrifice absolutely everything instead of fixing the one thing that would stop it. -- nm - Reagen May 18, 13:42 11
        
        if they were going to fix it that way, it would have been done already -- nm - groiny May 18, 13:43 10
        
        Indeed, there's got to be dozens of ineffective things to try first. -- nm - Reagen May 18, 13:47 9
        
        gotcha, so do nothing easy in the meantime and just wait for all the guns to disappear. - groiny May 18, 13:49 8
        
        "easy" - Reagen May 18, 13:50 7
        
        reducing entryways into a school is an easy way to maybe make it more difficult, yes. - groiny May 18, 13:52 6
        
        with zero other effects! It's the perfect answer! -- nm - Reagen May 18, 13:54 5
        
        ok smart guy, what can they do that will actually work then? - groiny May 18, 13:55 4
        
        "What can they do other than the thing that would work?" - Reagen May 18, 13:56 3
        
        jesus man, you know as well as I do that it is not going to happen. - groiny May 18, 13:57 2
        
        No. -- nm - Reagen May 18, 13:57 1
        
        ok, well, we will have this conversation again in a month when the next school shooting happens. -- nm - groiny May 18, 13:58
        
        Usually it makes sense to try something before deciding it doesn’t work. -- nm* - znufrii May 18, 13:42 1
        
        seriously? - groiny May 18, 13:42
  - well, if you keep the bad guys out, they won't need to escape. -- nm - groiny May 18, 13:20 6
    - They're still trying to lift the fire marshall's jaw up off the floor. -- nm - pmb May 18, 13:21 5
      - Right - if it's a real fire and not just a drill..... :/ -- nm - Meg May 18, 13:22 3
        
        they have these newfangled contraptions called one way doors...... -- nm - groiny May 18, 13:23 2
        
        so if there is a fire, the firemen can't get in? -- nm - decline May 18, 13:24 1
        
        well, I give up then. Make the whole school accessible. - groiny May 18, 13:25
      - lol - groiny May 18, 13:22
Another old show revived -- (link) - Covington May 18, 13:10 4
- Faith Ford looks amazing. -- nm - Baron Breynolds May 18, 13:31
- Candice Bergen looks like the only one who's changed. -- nm - Mop May 18, 13:15
- All in the Family? -- nm - groiny May 18, 13:11 1
  - and this time even more politically incorrect! -- nm - Jovian May 18, 13:13
Trump pushed postmaster general to double rates on Amazon and other firms. - Mop May 18, 13:00 1
- well, not the end of USPS, but their losses would increase by billions if Amazon stopped using them -- nm - decline May 18, 13:03
What is your earworm this Friday afternoon? -- (link) - amoxy May 18, 12:37 [youtube] 4
- Hall & Oates - Kiss on my List - Reagen May 18, 12:59 1
  - Either I coincidentally had Say It Isn't So in my head just before reading this or I saw it before I recognized what I was reading. -- nm - Max May 18, 13:03
- ~Shake it, shake it~ -- (link) - Covington May 18, 12:55 [youtube]
- This instrumental -- (link) - Dark Callisto May 18, 12:47 [youtube]
You aren’t going to believe this. The shooter used something called an ‘AR-15’. Who could’ve guessed? -- nm - Volnelk May 18, 12:29 8
- They were his father's guns. His father should already be arrested and in custody. - Jovian May 18, 12:44
- Actually looks like that’s changed. Shotgun. .38 -- nm - Volnelk May 18, 12:34 4
  - NBC says 3 weapons. Shotgun, pistol and an assault style rifle. -- nm - pmb May 18, 12:56
  - So close, and yet so far. -- nm - Baron Breynolds May 18, 12:43
  - yeah, I heard shotgun fairly recently. -- nm - groiny May 18, 12:34 1
    - Earlier, too. -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God May 18, 12:49
- *NRA Donations Increase* -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God May 18, 12:30 1
  - Sales are through the roof! -- nm - Mop May 18, 12:33
for anyone who watched Gotham last night, spoiler question....... - groiny May 18, 12:29 1
- I was wondering the same thing. Not familiar to me. -- nm - Ender May 18, 12:46
nobody cares but I have to buy ponytail holders this weekend because chubbers has stolen all of mine and hidden them. there are only a couple under - amanda May 18, 12:27 15
- Samwise leaves them alone, but Pippin steals so many hair bands that I am starting to think he has stock in the Scunci company. -- nm - crash davis May 18, 13:35
- I saw some in Ross the other day and thought of you :) -- nm - Meg May 18, 13:20
- heh. Fiona was our magpie. -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God May 18, 12:28 10
  - Wait, not a magpie. Which birds steal stuff? -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God May 18, 12:29 9
    - Big Bird was a notorious Clepto -- nm* - Epiphany May 18, 12:52 4
      - pretty sure he took Snuffy's load every chance he got. -- nm - groiny May 18, 12:53 3
        
        That Happytime Murders trailer has ruined you. -- nm - Baron Breynolds May 18, 12:55 2
        
        Because groiny would never have made a post like this before! -- nm - Roger More May 18, 12:58 1
        
        I thought they were Happy Muppets!!!!! - groiny May 18, 13:04
    - Rocs. -- nm - Baron Breynolds May 18, 12:51
    - Magpies -- nm - TWuG May 18, 12:30 2
      - Ah, okay. Meeting starts in 30 minutes. Stress is eroding my memory. -- nm - Spawn: Blood Feud God May 18, 12:31 1
        
        or just old age -- nm - decline May 18, 12:54
- she puts them all in that crawlspace in the basement -- nm - decline May 18, 12:28 1
  - Just trying to pretty it up -- nm - prayformojo May 18, 12:35
Lol, Jurgen Klinsmann. -- (edited) - znufrii May 18, 12:04
Like a bunny do. -- (link) - Spawn: Blood Feud God May 18, 12:00 [youtube]
"Find peace in the eternal question: “Cui bono?” For whose benefit? What do leaders stand to gain from the destruction of the people they lead?" - David May 18, 11:54
I don't have a cat! There's no predators anywhere in our neighborhood! We're overrun with bunnies and starlings! - colin May 18, 11:51 15
- You should get a cat. -- nm - Baron Breynolds May 18, 12:07 3
  - Wave after wave of Chinese needlesnakes! -- nm - prayformojo May 18, 12:20
  - a mountain lion! -- nm - decline May 18, 12:10 1
    - That's worth at least ten cats! -- nm* - Baron Breynolds May 18, 12:13
- get some snakes to take care of the birds -- nm - decline May 18, 11:53 5
  - And some coyotes to deal with the snakes? -- nm - znufrii May 18, 12:01 3
    - And a roadrunner to deal with the coyotes! -- nm - Shaun May 18, 12:14 1
      - that wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her! -- nm - amanda May 18, 12:26
    - no coyotes either... they're all really far out! -- nm - colin May 18, 12:02
  - we have chickens.. don't need that mess. -- nm - colin May 18, 11:55
- Where there are bunnies, there are birds of prey...keep an eye on the sky -- nm - Flavorize May 18, 11:53 4
  - we have hawks. they've been pretty distant so far. the chickens are pretty brutal on anything that comes in the yard, so I think that's helping. - colin May 18, 11:55 3
    - I got to watch a hawk pick apart a bunny in my backyard last summer, right outside my window. Like my own personal nature show. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 18, 12:10 1
      - I saw a hawk swoop out of nowhere about a year ago and totally destroy a squirrel before flying away with it. -- nm - Jovian May 18, 12:14
    - I'm here to kick ass and lay eggs! -- nm - Tyrannosaurus Henrietta May 18, 11:57
Huh, not Canada. Colour me surprised. -- nm - Baron Breynolds May 18, 11:50 1
- This goes below. -- nm - Baron Breynolds May 18, 11:50
The post office must have lost his package, 'cause he's pissed -- (link*) - decline May 18, 11:46 3
- He missed this month's issue of Bear boy mag, that f'n twink of a postman keeps reading them first -- nm - zeitgeist May 18, 12:21
- Maybe he's pissed about the yellow earrings. -- nm - JaxSean May 18, 11:55 1
  - But they're so fetch. -- nm - Baron Breynolds May 18, 13:04

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