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*tries to unsubscribe from DSCC mailing list, starts getting three times as many emails from them instead* -- nm - znufrii Jul 30, 10:21 3
- its probably just easier to start a new email account. -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 30, 10:27
- I have never been on their mailing list and I'm still getting a metric eff-ton of emails from them and others. -- nm - Diva Jul 30, 10:26
- sucker -- nm - crash davis Jul 30, 10:24
Guardians of the Galaxy Cast Pens Open Letter in Support of James Gunn -- (link) - Remlik Jul 30, 10:15 2
- Getting the feeling he'll be rehired and asked to take some sensitivity training -- nm - Budice Jul 30, 10:27 1
  - I hope so - this whole thing is so very dumb. nm - Johnny Lawrence Jul 30, 10:31
He'll "never work in Columbus again". Another racist whines that being racist ruined his life -- (link) - TWuG Jul 30, 10:12 5
- Welcome our new Secretary of Labor! (NM) - Scumpf Jul 30, 10:27
- I don't think it was the slur. I think it was the following them all the way home. Holy crap. -- nm - Qale Jul 30, 10:27
- moron. -- nm - Remlik Jul 30, 10:23
- Awwww... poor snowflake. -- nm - Mop Jul 30, 10:22
- "Obviously I don’t know how to explain it." Yeah, bud, inexplicable. -- nm - mara Jul 30, 10:22
Russia dumped 84% of their holdings in American debt in a matter of months. Unleash the conspiracy theories! -- (link) - Mop Jul 30, 10:12
Volnelk, thanks for the heads up on the Freaks and Geeks documentary on A&E. I watched it this weekend. - Mop Jul 30, 10:01 1
- Haha. My pleasure. I’ve watched it twice. -- nm - Volnelk Jul 30, 10:17
Mobs of kangaroos take to streets of Australia's capital over food shortages -- (link) - crash davis Jul 30, 09:59 3
- I love this headline as it makes it seem the roos are protesting in front of the Australian government -- nm - crash davis Jul 30, 10:03 2
  - They're hopping mad, fellas. -- nm - Reagen Jul 30, 10:18
  - DON'T BOX US OUT -- nm - Max Jul 30, 10:04
Looking at the history of A Star is Born, wiki says it was inspired by Barbara Stanwyck, who by 1944 was "the highest-paid woman in the United States" - Max Jul 30, 09:55 7
- The Barbara Streisand version was supposed to star Elvis, but the Colonel said no -- nm* - Amoxy Jul 30, 10:14 1
  - that would have been something. -- nm - Epiphany Jul 30, 10:22
- I love this storyline/plot so much. It has everything. -- nm - Epiphany Jul 30, 10:14 3
  - Despite knowing it's just a character, I can't get motivated to go see a movie about stoking the ego of Lady Gaga of all people. -- nm - Max Jul 30, 10:16 2
    - She seems to want to truly be good actress. She did fine in Hotel but this may be a stretch for a novice. - Epiphany Jul 30, 10:22 1
      - I tend to agree about the persona. -- nm - Diva Jul 30, 10:27
- Heath! Nick! Jarret! The barn is on fire -- nm - Amoxy Jul 30, 10:00
Remaining members of Japan's doomsday cult executed -- (link) - crash davis Jul 30, 09:44 10
- The Wikipedia page for Aum Shinrikyo is worth a morbid read. -- (link) - Mop Jul 30, 09:50 6
  - They're also rumoured to have tested a nuclear device in Australia. -- nm - Reagen Jul 30, 09:59 5
    - Fascinating. Vice has a story on this. -- (link) - Mop Jul 30, 10:06 1
      - My takeaway on this is that you can become a legendary geologist in the Australian outback. -- nm - crash davis Jul 30, 10:24
    - this would be much better as a reply to the kangaroo story above -- nm - prayformojo Jul 30, 10:04 1
      - Kangaroo Jack 2 got *dark*. -- nm - Reagen Jul 30, 10:19
    - "Ha ha. That's not a nuclear device. *That's* a nuclear device." -- nm - Counterproliferation Dundee Jul 30, 10:02
- This was from the 1995 attack. I was shocked that Japan had capital punishment. I was then surprised that it was hanging and not using a sword. - crash davis Jul 30, 09:45 2
  - No such thing as too many samurai movies.. (NM) - Marlowe Jul 30, 10:15
  - I don't think they are worthy of dying by the sword in Japanese culture. - Jovian Jul 30, 09:49
This is sad -- the Arena Football League is down to only 4 teams. - Will Hunting, King of Blood Feud Jul 30, 09:40 6
- This used to be a lot bigger deal. Sad that Orlando and Tampa don't have teams anymore. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 30, 09:53
- There have been an impressive number of attempts at leagues of this. I love that there was a D-League for it at one point - Reagen Jul 30, 09:52
- I tried to go down the rabbit hole of arena football a while back. Apparently there's multiple leagues. -- nm - Mop Jul 30, 09:43
- How many make the play-offs? -- nm - Spawn Jul 30, 09:42 1
  - All of them, plus a few high school teams from down the street. - Will Hunting, King of Blood Feud Jul 30, 09:43
- conversely 200 teams competed for the World Flag Football Championships.... -- (link) - Remlik Jul 30, 09:42
IJTUIMM -- (link) - Spawn Jul 30, 09:29
wap? Maybe you'll like this RT list better: Best and worst shark movies ranked by Tomatometer -- (link) - prayformojo Jul 30, 09:27 5
- WTH is Deep Blue Sea 2?!?!? - Shaun Jul 30, 10:04
- btw, I'm going to enjoy the hell out of Jason Statham fighting a Megalodon -- nm - crash davis Jul 30, 09:46
- ok, now it is not great, but Jaws 4 is way better than some of those movies. -- nm - groiny Jul 30, 09:33
- Shirley, there has been more than 24 -- nm - crash davis Jul 30, 09:31
- Jaws has only a 97% rating? Huh...lower than I expected. - Will Hunting, King of Blood Feud Jul 30, 09:30
Dolph Ziggler in a Roast Battle for comedians... -- (link) - Remlik Jul 30, 09:17
sitwap - Teen burglar woke up sleeping couple to ask for Wi-Fi access, police say - crash davis Jul 30, 09:08
The AL Republican Party is trying to draft Sessions to run for senate against Doug Jones. -- nm - MDH Jul 30, 09:00 6
- We don't think Pence will want to keep him on as AG? -- nm - Reagen Jul 30, 09:27
- It won't matter who the hell they draft -- they'll win going away. - Will Hunting, King of Blood Feud Jul 30, 09:25 3
  - FWIW, incumbents have inertia. I'm not saying it's insurmountable (especially in AL), but being the incumbent helps. -- nm - Mop Jul 30, 09:43
  - Question 3 is optional, they can most likely wn regardless. -- nm - MDH Jul 30, 09:37 1
    - It is, however, the one thing that's proven to be a loss though so it's gotta be on the questionnaire. -- nm - Will Hunting, King of Blood Feud Jul 30, 09:37
- Ummm. Didn't we just go through that AL election that felt like it went on for 23 years? -- nm - Jovian Jul 30, 09:22
Singer Kate Bush...60 today -- nm - Remlik Jul 30, 08:56 3
- kate, mud (and 3 friends) in 1986: -- (link) - mud Jul 30, 09:06 2
  - nice! man those were some thick glasses back then...mine were just as bad... -- nm - Remlik Jul 30, 09:07 1
    - I still have their album. -- nm - Spawn Jul 30, 09:30
Roy Moore Walks Off Sacha Baron Cohen's Show After Setting Off His 'Pedophile Detector' -- (link) - crash davis Jul 30, 08:49 18
- I just lost my shit at work laughing at the one where he talks about bringing a 300 million dollar Mosque into town. -- nm - groiny Jul 30, 09:25 11
  - I still can't get over what he got that Georgia legislator to do. -- nm - pmb Jul 30, 09:31 6
    - FYI: That GA legislator resigned effective tomorrow, but he had already lost in the Primary and would be losing his seat in November. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 30, 09:52
    - Im dying to see how he clowned Sarah Palin. -- nm - Jovian Jul 30, 09:44
    - no shit. -- nm - groiny Jul 30, 09:31 3
      - I kind of felt bad for that woman from the Bachelor doing that PSA. - pmb Jul 30, 09:44 2
        
        You wouldn't if you watched her on the Bachelor. - Jovian Jul 30, 09:51
        
        She read that stuff like a champ, though. There was just one moment where you could visibly see her questioning it. - Reagen Jul 30, 09:51
  - Arizona is an awful place. -- nm - Jovian Jul 30, 09:28
  - I don't know how no one has attacked him ever. -- nm - Reagen Jul 30, 09:26
  - this one -- (link) - groiny Jul 30, 09:26 [youtube] 1
    - Sometimes SBC forces bigotry into his bits when it isn't really there, but not in that one. Whew. That's some base level hatred there. -- nm - Inigo Jul 30, 09:47
- THAT IS SO UNCOMFORTABLE -- nm - groiny Jul 30, 09:02 3
  - oh no, the uncomfortable comes later in the episode with his Israeli counterterrorism characters next bit. -- nm - Jovian Jul 30, 09:27
  - I imagine the most uncomfortable people in America are the ones who have filmed with Israeli counterterrorism expert Erran Morad and it hasn't aired -- nm - crash davis Jul 30, 09:15 1
    - ... crap. -- nm - Spawn Jul 30, 09:17
- This is pretty fantastic. -- nm - Johnny Lawrence Jul 30, 08:59
- man, that Israeli technology is something else! -- nm - mud Jul 30, 08:54
Toto will be covering Weezer's "Hash Pipe" song... -- (link) - Remlik Jul 30, 08:47 1
- 2018 is a great and terrible year. -- nm - Mop Jul 30, 09:26
Somehow it seems like Rudy is getting worse and worse at this. -- nm - crash davis Jul 30, 08:46 10
- He's doing his job of muddling up the entire thing. - Will Hunting, King of Blood Feud Jul 30, 08:50 9
  - But I think his latest statements taken out of context sound like an admission. In context, they sound like he is brain addled. - crash davis Jul 30, 08:56 8
    - From a legal perspective, it's not an unusual approach. From a PR perspective, it's not great. Arguing in the alternative is perfectly normal in a - pmb Jul 30, 09:16 6
      - "Listen: I -thought- the cop was a -prostitute-. *folds arms, satisfied*" -- nm - Reagen Jul 30, 09:36
      - my lay perspective "collusion isn't a crime but conspiracy is" sounds like "murder isn't illegal because they only take people to court for homicide" -- nm - crash davis Jul 30, 09:23 4
        
        There's a lot of fine lines around these issues. I still think it's going to be extraordinarily hard to prove a crime of conspiring with the Russians - pmb Jul 30, 09:29 3
        
        I see what you are saying, but I'm not going to be shocked if a ton of evidence all of a sudden spills out with indictments of the inner circle -- nm - crash davis Jul 30, 09:43 2
        
        Definitely possible. But people are going to have to get comfortable with the concept of circumstantial evidence (which is what you're going to hear - pmb Jul 30, 09:48 1
        
        It probably won't be pretty -- nm - crash davis Jul 30, 09:58
    - senile ninja lawyer! -- nm -- mud May 2 '18, 19:19 -- nm -- nm - mud Jul 30, 08:57
Simpsons Comics: the comics are coming to a close, Gail Simone got an early comic writing start there. 1 project she pitched was the Lisa Simpson... - Remlik Jul 30, 08:42 1
- Did these ever accrue any value? -- nm - Mop Jul 30, 09:21
Interesting commentary on the men's only Tour De France -- (link) - oblique Jul 30, 08:34
she did not throw her bouquet. I didn't recognize their first dance song -- it sounded kind of boy bandish. something about stealing my heart? - amanda Jul 30, 08:15 6
- Where are they honeymooning? - Max Jul 30, 08:25 4
  - iceland. the troll was super proud of herself for booking a budget honeymoon. "airfare was so cheap." she didn't really look at hotel prices etc. - amanda Jul 30, 08:45 3
    - wow -- nm - Epiphany Jul 30, 09:31
    - OMG hotels in Iceland are so expensive! -- nm - Mop Jul 30, 09:25
    - haha! -- nm - Andie Jul 30, 08:49
- wow the Troll has mad skillz. -- nm - Epiphany Jul 30, 08:17
LYC: Andie's upcoming long weekend forest fire status report: Destination still surrounded by active fires. -- (link) - Andie Jul 30, 08:14 1
- I might go to the gorges in ithaca this weekend. last time I was there, it was a drought so no waterfalls. this time: nothing but rain - amanda Jul 30, 08:16
It's so obvious that Ross shouls never have married Emily. -- nm - Mop Jul 30, 08:10 2
- It’s too early in the morning to be drunk-watching friends -- nm - Beryllium Jul 30, 08:14 1
  - and yet...here we are -- nm - Epiphany Jul 30, 08:16
ST Poll: Weekend viewing grades? Lost in Space (Netflix): A- Mission Impossible Fallout: B+ -- nm - oblique Jul 30, 08:08 36
- The final five episodes of Lucifer. A- (The final gets an A+, though) -- nm - Spawn Jul 30, 09:21
- First 2 episodes of the new season of OITNB. B+. Definitely an interesting turn of the show. Spoils - pmb Jul 30, 09:19
- West Wing Seasons 2 & 3 - A -- nm - crash davis Jul 30, 09:16
- Wynonna Earp S1: B; Wynonna Earp S2: B+ -- nm - prayformojo Jul 30, 08:47
- Oh, and Poldark S4 finale can get an A. -- nm - LMS Jul 30, 08:45
- MI: Ghost Protocol: A - Shaun Jul 30, 08:32 4
  - That's my favorite stunt they've done in any of the first 5. -- nm - Will Hunting, King of Blood Feud Jul 30, 08:36 3
    - It takes your breath away every time Ethan makes the jump. -- nm - Shaun Jul 30, 08:39 2
      - The other scene in #5 that gives me vertigo is him jumping into the water-tank. - Will Hunting, King of Blood Feud Jul 30, 08:54
      - That's what she said! -- nm - Spawn Jul 30, 08:41
- Eighth Grade: B+ -- nm - Max Jul 30, 08:25
- Babylon 5 S2: A+ -- nm - Ender Jul 30, 08:24 1
  - (Also played a lot of No Man's Sky.) -- nm - Ender Jul 30, 08:50
- 1st 4 episodes of Season 2 of "Man in the High Castle" B -- nm* - Amoxy Jul 30, 08:24
- Incredibles 2 - B+, MI: Fallout - B+, Gangster No.1 - B+ (A for one scene with Eddie Marsan), No Way Out - B (it hasn't aged well) -- nm - LMS Jul 30, 08:22
- Secret Life of Pets, B- -- nm - znufrii Jul 30, 08:22 1
  - Also, really enjoying Pose, A so far, with two episodes left to go. -- nm - znufrii Jul 30, 08:43
- "Definitely, Maybe" (which was the first film with the word maybe in its original title I watched in 25 years), cute. MI6 was awesome!! (NM) - Marlowe Jul 30, 08:20
- Teen Titans Go movie C-, Started Justified over from episode 1 A+ -- nm - groiny Jul 30, 08:19
- Teen Titan Go to the Movies B, Mission Impossible: Fallout A, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D Season 5 A -- nm - JD Jul 30, 08:16
- Beach Boys: C. It was rainy and just meh. Glad I saw them one last time. nm -- nm - Johnny Lawrence Jul 30, 08:15
- Super Troopers 2 C, 1-3 episodes of Castle Rock B- - Epiphany Jul 30, 08:14 8
  - I am a big fan of Bill Skarsgaard. - groiny Jul 30, 08:18
  - I started watching Altered Carbon but maybe I should watch Castle Rock instead -- nm - oblique Jul 30, 08:17 6
    - Altered Carbon is terrific -- nm - decline Jul 30, 08:18 5
      - I was underwhelmed by Episode 1 but I still have about 10 minutes left on it I think -- nm - oblique Jul 30, 08:18 4
        
        it's a bit of a slow build, but worth it -- nm - decline Jul 30, 08:25 1
        
        I wasn't going to drop it but I'll stick it out. Better to clear out the older stuff from the list anyways :) - oblique Jul 30, 08:26
        
        Stick with it...you're just getting to the fun part. -- nm - Will Hunting, King of Blood Feud Jul 30, 08:23
        
        yeah, it takes a minute to get into it but its worth it. Its intricate. -- nm - Epiphany Jul 30, 08:21
- I was pretty sick on Saturday (mild food poisoning? stomach virus?) so didn't end doing much. Watched Blockers last night though, B+. -- nm - Andie Jul 30, 08:12 3
  - Blockers was so clever in - spoils for plot - Epiphany Jul 30, 08:16 1
    - Yeah -- for what it was set up to be, it ended up being really a solid movie in addition to being pretty funny -- nm - Will Hunting, King of Blood Feud Jul 30, 08:23
  - Oh, and the first two eps of Handmaid's Tale, Season 2. Rating: Terrifying. -- nm - Andie Jul 30, 08:15
- First 2 episodes of Luke Cage: B+. First 2 episodes of Goliath: A-. -- nm - Baron Starr Jul 30, 08:11
- Teen Titans Go to the Movies: B+, Mission Impossible Fallout: A+, Wynonna Earp season two: A. -- nm - David Jul 30, 08:10
Rudy is going to be the fall guy in order to get the " Russia is our friend" statement out there. - Epiphany Jul 30, 08:08 2
- hehe. 'Trumpers will fall in line.' They are f**king Lemmings. They are forever in line. -- nm - Jovian Jul 30, 08:37 1
  - #truth -- nm - Epiphany Jul 30, 08:45
“Look, if you’re about to propose a threesome, I’m tired, and I haven’t shaved my legs.” -- nm - David Jul 30, 08:05

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