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So the part to finish our built-ins is ready... but the fabricators built it too small. By like 6 inches. -- nm - Reagen Jul 26, 04:37
mom's bff said that it was 120' in Palm Springs today -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 26, 02:44
What do soybean farmers have in common with Stormy Daniels? They’re being paid to keep quiet after getting screwed by Donald Trump. -- nm - slate Jul 26, 00:50
Trump campaign materials hit hard by tariffs -- (link) - zeitgeist Jul 26, 00:37
Explosion, police vehicles and lots of smoke outside US Embassy in Beijing. -- (link) - jnine Jul 25, 23:24
Family out of town in San Diego got an intruder warning on their phone. Turned on the video and - Meg Jul 25, 23:11
the guy who smashed Donald's Hollywood star turned himself in: the guy who smashed it 3 years ago is raising bail money -- (link) - zeitgeist Jul 25, 22:42
Just got back from a short bikeride. On the way back, there was a dude who seemed lost. - Beryllium Jul 25, 22:13
Is National Inquirer and public corp? cause if they spent 150k to buy and hide a saleable story, they defrauded the investors.... -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 25, 21:44 2
- Enquirer, and owner is friend and supporter of the president. May be only paper he reads. -- nm - . Jul 25, 22:11
- American Media, Inc is private -- (link) - ty97 Jul 25, 21:47
A joke from Kieran ... - Beryllium Jul 25, 21:26
I feel like 9 to 5 The Musical is the one that should be a movie these days. Also, I am completely assuming there was a 9 to 5 musical. -- nm - con_carne Jul 25, 20:53 2
- Allison Janney was in it on Broadway. VERY short lived show. - ty97 Jul 25, 20:59 1
  - Shortish. Very short would be less than a week. -- nm - . Jul 25, 22:16
How long does it take for finch chicks to go from open mouth hatchling to fledgling and out of here? - zeitgeist Jul 25, 20:52 5
- Month tops, but probably less. -- nm - . Jul 25, 21:41 4
  - soooo, more than a week? sigh -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 25, 21:42 3
    - 11 to 19 days after hatching. -- nm - . Jul 25, 22:18 1
      - oh ok, then maybe they did make it out on their own -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 26, 01:30
    - The last finch nest at Starr Ranch was taken out by an Acorn Woodpecker. Surprised and shocked those watching...live on the webcam :( -- nm - Meg Jul 25, 21:51
Just to prove ST's point, Ryan Reynolds will star in the Home Alone re-imaging: Stoned Alone. - Spawn: I AM Blood Feud Jul 25, 20:41 10
- Been there, done that -- nm - Jodie Foster Jul 25, 21:10
- So we cast Doug Bensen as one of the bad guys right? -- nm - Qale Jul 25, 21:07
- Ryan Reynolds doesn’t age, does he? How long ago was Van Wilder? -- nm - Mop Jul 25, 20:42 7
  - A full year after his 4-season TV show ended. -- (link) - Ender Jul 25, 20:58 [youtube] 4
    - Fuck I loved that show. Man, Nathan Fillion, too. It needs more consideration. -- nm - Mop Jul 25, 22:51
    - Traylor Howard is 11 years older than Ryan Reynolds and she didn't look it either, at least last when we saw her on Monk. -- nm - Tim Jul 25, 21:02 1
      - more trivia: his male costar was formerly engaged to Tiffani Thiessen. -- nm - Max Jul 25, 22:09
    - Hell, it's been six years since his second comeback in Safe House. - David Jul 25, 20:59
  - Go look at Van Wilder, he was definitely fresh faced then and you can see a difference, but he ages well -- nm - ty97 Jul 25, 20:46
  - The late 1800s. -- nm - Spawn: I AM Blood Feud Jul 25, 20:43
I don’t know what Jovian is smoking, but Big Brother Kaitlyn is scary ugly. She’s got Margaret Keane mutant big eyes and a Philip IV forehead. -- nm - Mop Jul 25, 20:39 8
- Sam turning heel is something I didn't expect to happen. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 26, 04:10
- I wouldn't say she's ugly (before the "completely insane" deduction) but she's at best the 5th or 6th most attractive woman in the house. -- nm - Ender Jul 25, 21:08 2
  - And the 2nd or 3rd best looking man. -- nm - Mop Jul 25, 22:48
  - (Angie being the clear "Riker in a coma clip show" of this cast.) -- nm - Ender Jul 25, 21:11
- Maybe he likes his hookers ugly. Who are we to judge? -- nm - David Jul 25, 20:49
- no question this is one of the few times the viewer got screwed since the show finally switched to hidef a few years back -- nm - peglegpete Jul 25, 20:45 1
  - LOL -- nm - Mop Jul 25, 22:49
- She's cute but almost a dead ringer for Nicole Richie at one point -- nm - J Jul 25, 20:45
Kieran changed my Netflix icon to one of the new ones. Hmm. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 25, 20:16 2
- "You picked the wrong day to start sniffing glue, little man." -- nm - Max Jul 25, 20:18 1
  - He set me to some troll/dragon guy. I changed it to Count Olaf. -- nm* - Beryllium Jul 25, 20:22
Someone on my twitter feed just said that Den of Thieves was better than Heat. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 25, 20:12 10
- Wait ... what? - ReluctantCynic Jul 25, 21:24
- I'm not sure you can rewatch Den of Thieves over and over---Heat, for me at least, is a yearly watch--Just so amazing -- nm - Flavorize Jul 25, 21:03
- It's a solid movie but ya, way wrong -- nm - J Jul 25, 20:46
- The presence of Gerard Butler immediately disqualifies this opinion. -- nm - Mop Jul 25, 20:40 1
  - Why, yes. Yes he did post it. -- nm - Spawn: I AM Blood Feud Jul 25, 20:42
- 13 year old? - Max Jul 25, 20:17 4
  - No - 40s? 50s? He’s a rabbi. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 25, 20:21 3
    - Rabbi, with respect, put the crack pipe down -- nm - Flavorize Jul 25, 21:05
    - The last sentence was unexpected in it's nonsequiterness -- nm - ty97 Jul 25, 20:42 1
      - Hey hey. We all support Bery on his new spiritual journey. -- nm - con_carne Jul 25, 20:48
I must have missed this Swear Trek the first time. -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 25, 20:11
Episodes 1 and 2 of Castle Rock on Hulu: A-. Very interesting. It's like RP1, but for Stephen King fans. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 25, 20:05 1
- Episode 3: B -- nm - JaxSean Jul 25, 22:09
I just watched the debut of Kevin Owens in NXT. Man, Juice Robinson messed up huge. - David Jul 25, 20:02 2
- It was a palm strike that broke Owens' nose and left a gash in Juice's hand. - Tim Jul 25, 20:47 1
  - Sami Callihan is getting there, too. He's a natural heel. -- (link) - David Jul 25, 20:51 [youtube]
Hmm. If you call someone a nitwit, are you also saying that they are lousy? Asking for a house elf. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 25, 19:39 3
- Scatterbrained, foolish, silly, stupid. - . Jul 25, 19:45 2
  - :) I mean, because “nit” means “lice”. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 25, 19:46 1
    - “you have the wit of a nit” -- nm - mud Jul 25, 20:01
Guess I'm not a true Potter fan. Was puzzled by the inscription on a cake I've been asked to order...... -- (link) - Meg Jul 25, 19:29 4
- Hah, the one Dudley ate when he got his little piggie tail. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 25, 19:32 3
  - (From the spelling I pinned it as Hagrid, but I wouldn’t have remembered which movie without the link) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 25, 19:33 2
    - The order came from a children's librarian and was approved by the managing librarian so I didn't want to make a fool of myself by - Meg Jul 25, 19:49 1
      - Good idea for the picture - I mean, the first movie came out 17 years ago. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 25, 19:54
“Ruby” Rod Rosenstein = L4 -- nm - Max Jul 25, 19:28
Could one of the Cavemen let me know who had the third-best non-finalist record last season? (Nudie is out for SuperFeud and I need a new qualifier.) -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jul 25, 19:21
REB2: Brand loyalty may be dead, but GM pensions are paid to my father and stepmother. So that goes a long way with me. -- nm - Spawn: I AM Blood Feud Jul 25, 19:08 8
- Yep. Same with Darigold in our family. -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Jul 25, 19:29
- I know what you're saying, my family as well. GM is literally 5 minutes down the road - J Jul 25, 19:22 6
  - I had an Escort GT back in the day. It was fine but my Sonic is great (before they neutered them). -- nm - Spawn: I AM Blood Feud Jul 25, 20:15 3
    - Specs - J Jul 25, 20:42 2
      - Pretty sure Logan would disown me if I bought a Focus. -- nm - Spawn: I AM Blood Feud Jul 25, 20:45 1
        
        The Focus ST and Fiesta ST were two of Top Gears best rated cars with the Fiesta ST being their car of the year in 2013 - J Jul 25, 20:53
  - They lost my family when they pulled the plug on Saturn. And our loyalty went back to my grandfather. -- nm - . Jul 25, 19:39 1
    - same here -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 26, 01:32
This graphic is so poorly done that it would be an insult to call it a Russian ploy. But the Elon Musk version would end with - Beryllium Jul 25, 19:06 5
- Or written by elves. -- nm - . Jul 25, 19:35 1
  - “Dobby, you nitwit! This is garbage!” -- nm - Lucious Malfoy si Jul 25, 19:37
- That might be the stupidest fucking thing I've ever read and we talk about Trump here a lot. -- nm - Reagen Jul 25, 19:20 2
  - but what if the person who wrote this is the son/daughter of a Wendy's manager? - prayformojo Jul 25, 19:24
  - The graphic? Yes. Very much. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 25, 19:21
this is the first time this cycle I've seen the "does he deserve to be re elected" question asked -- (link) - Reagen Jul 25, 19:01 3
- Yes, but there will be a specific opponent. It's easy to say get rid of him in a vacuum, but when set against someone they consider liberal, those - jnine Jul 25, 22:33
- just showing this on CNN now -- nm - mud Jul 25, 19:25
- That's encouraging. But then so was just about every poll in October 2016. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jul 25, 19:21
Oksana Shachko, one of the three women who founded Ukrainian feminist organization Femen, was found dead in her Paris apartment on Monday. -- (link) - zeitgeist Jul 25, 18:50
Oh, this could turn into an interesting story. -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 25, 18:21 2
- I don't expect the UAW is all that popular in Fremont for precisely the reason she cites: the closure of NUMMI - TWuG Jul 25, 18:58
- she was fighting him from the inside all along! -- nm - mafic Jul 25, 18:28
Oh my god NXT...Ciampa vs. Black is awesome. - Tim Jul 25, 18:21 5
- amazing match. -- nm - Remlik Jul 25, 20:16 2
  - Ciampa is extremely good at diagramming matches. -- nm - David Jul 25, 20:26 1
    - It won't ever happen as long as Vince is alive, but I'd love to see a Network show of two guys and an agent plotting out the spots in a match. - Tim Jul 25, 20:50
- The man gets heat. -- nm - David Jul 25, 19:56
- can't wait to see it -- nm - Remlik Jul 25, 18:29
Jane Fonda Says '9 to 5' Sequel Is Moving Forward With Original Cast -- (link) - Remlik Jul 25, 18:17 8
- I loved the original but shouldn't they all be retired by now? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jul 25, 18:57 2
  - in theory, it should be extremely tough to write a cute musical about a sexual predator for anyone not named Mel Brooks. -- nm - peglegpete Jul 25, 19:21 1
    - Next they’ll remake Blazing Saddles, right? -- nm - Beryllium Jul 25, 19:24
- Hanoi Jane -- nm - Beaker Jul 25, 18:33
- 69 to 85. -- nm - Baron Starr Jul 25, 18:33 1
  - bwhahaha -- nm - Budice Jul 25, 18:35
- Yaaaawn. And I liked the first one -- nm - Bacon Jul 25, 18:32 1
  - word -- nm - Deadpool Jul 25, 19:14
Did we see what the Rays did today? - Tim Jul 25, 18:10
M:I 6: effing A. Probably the best of the franchise. - Marlowe Jul 25, 17:59 7
- Seeing it with Guy and RC on Saturday -- nm - Bacon Jul 25, 18:30
- sweet. cannot freaking wait. -- nm - prayformojo Jul 25, 18:02 3
  - 42 hours to go. -- nm - mud Jul 25, 18:03 2
    - I wanna be sedated. -- nm - Qale Jul 25, 18:13 1
      - gotta stay away from that KRB -- nm - mud Jul 25, 18:26
- whoa -- nm - mud Jul 25, 18:00 1
  - David Ehrlich's review may not be a stretch at all. (NM) - Marlowe Jul 25, 18:09
neat graphic: every Star Trek episode by imdb ranking. there's one clear outlier. -- (link) - mafic Jul 25, 17:54 13
- And it's not even the one where Dr Crusher screws a ghost... -- nm - Ender Jul 25, 18:17 10
  - The one where Janeway and Paris evolve into slugs and mate and have babies? Or the one where Seven of Nine wrestles The Rock? -- nm - Roger More Jul 25, 20:48 2
    - man, I loved space salamanders. -- nm - mafic Jul 25, 23:19 1
      - (I mean it was dumb af, but those salamanders were hilarious) -- nm - mafic Jul 25, 23:21
  - What about all the ones with Pulaski? -- nm - Strongbad Jul 25, 18:24 2
    - the one she falls down the turbolift is awesome -- nm - Beaker Jul 25, 18:27 1
      - That was Law Wars. -- nm - . Jul 25, 19:27
  - I'm pretty sure that's 2nd lowest. -- nm - mafic Jul 25, 18:21
  - SHUTUP WESLEY1 -- nm - Beaker Jul 25, 18:21
  - LOL, I thought of that one too! -- nm - Baron Starr Jul 25, 18:20 1
    - (It's the second lowest in the graph.) -- nm - Ender Jul 25, 18:21
- Surprise! It's not DS9 "Move Along Home" -- nm - Baron Starr Jul 25, 18:13 1
  - ~Allamaraine~ -- nm - Beaker Jul 25, 18:14
ooh, fun trade war thread -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 25, 17:35 7
- his capitalist backers want fewer government regs, taxes, interference and he's given them the first two but doesn't get he's doing the 3rd..badly -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 25, 18:44
- as ever, I can't decide if he really doesn't understand balance of trade, or if it's just a convenient talking point. -- nm - mafic Jul 25, 17:40 5
  - I wonder if anyone has ever said to him .. - mud Jul 25, 18:13
  - He's been categorically opposed to the idea of a fair deal his entire life so I'm gonna go with option A. -- nm - Reagen Jul 25, 17:46 2
    - I mean, I think the man who *invented* the phrase 'priming the pump' knows a little something about economics. -- nm - mafic Jul 25, 17:47 1
      - It's the little lies that bother me the most. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 25, 17:50
  - I don't think there is much of anything he understands. - TWuG Jul 25, 17:42
Someone on my twitter feed is suggesting that FB is a good buy right now due to the expected drop. - Beryllium Jul 25, 17:32 5
- FB gave my amazon shares a 2% haircut after hours, but Amazon has earnings posting tomorrow. - Bacon Jul 25, 18:34
- this will definitely help them. -- (link) - mafic Jul 25, 17:39
- All very good points. -- nm - Pippy Jul 25, 17:33 2
  - He had many good points in favour of buying the stock, and he's generally a smart CEO, so ... he's probably right. But it's kinda blood money. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 25, 17:35 1
    - "First get the money" -- nm - con_carne Jul 25, 17:37
Mission Impossible Fallout 97% (112/3), Teen Titans Go! to the Movies 92% (23/2) -- nm - Beaker Jul 25, 17:15 2
- New asshole count: 5. -- nm - David Jul 25, 17:15 1
  - it's an undercount, to be sure. -- nm - Reagen Jul 25, 17:31

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