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Sevy!!! -- nm - Krusty Oct 3, 18:30 2
- Lets get this kid Trivino in pinstripes. -- nm - Jovian Oct 3, 18:34 1
  - Heh. :-) -- nm - Krusty Oct 3, 18:38
Severino hit 100 on the gun to end the top half there. -- nm - budice Oct 3, 18:28
Suspicious Packages Mailed to Pentagon Contained Only Castor Beans, Not Refined Ricin -- nm - Beaker Oct 3, 18:15 3
- And the guy who sent them apparently put his return address on the envelopes :/ -- nm - Meg Oct 3, 18:40
- A friend of mine had a serious allergic reaction to castor beans while working in a lab. He wasn't allowed anywhere near them after that. -- nm - Chez Baronnaise Oct 3, 18:27 1
  - I bet he is the one that sent it. -- nm - Spawn Oct 3, 18:28
This is some ridiculous shit -- (link) - TWuG Oct 3, 18:15 11
- Wait. Isnt this always how they do it? - Jovian Oct 3, 18:34
- It’s going to be printed on a CVS receipt, what? -- nm - Qale Oct 3, 18:20
- leaks during the day? y/n poll? -- nm - mud Oct 3, 18:18 8
  - no cell phones allowed. any notes taken remain with the report. -- nm - Remlik Oct 3, 18:22 7
    - leaks from elsewhere. -- nm - mud Oct 3, 18:42 2
      - WH gets it first then over to them -- nm - Remlik Oct 3, 18:44 1
        
        from the FBI! -- nm - mud Oct 3, 18:49
    - And a memory wipe is done at the door. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 3, 18:23
    - Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Report. -- nm - Chez Baronnaise Oct 3, 18:23 2
      - Do not give side-eye to Happy Fun Report. Do not leave Happy Fun Report in the sun. Happy Fun Report is a recovering alcoholic. - Beryllium Oct 3, 18:41 1
        
        Happy Fun Report likes beer. Happy Fun Report has never been blackout drunk. Do not boof Happy Fun Report -- nm - TWuG Oct 3, 18:48
This Lacrosse fight is all kinds of fucked up (one bench rushes the other) -- (link) - Beaker Oct 3, 18:09 1
- Good times at the Bunny Barn. -- nm - Spawn Oct 3, 18:31
Stop, Washington Capitals, they're already dead! -- nm - prayformojo Oct 3, 18:04
I swear this is my life any more -- (link) - Dano Oct 3, 18:03 [youtube]
Kaley Cuoco is Harley Quinn...for DC Universe...1st look -- (link*) - Remlik Oct 3, 18:03 [youtube]
tomorrow is National Taco day. here is a list of nationwide restaurant chains with free tacos -- (link*) - peglegpete Oct 3, 18:01 1
- thank you! -- nm - crash davis Oct 3, 18:12
Ooh, the penny drops (but the stock price rises). -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 3, 17:59
This is a very good (non-scolding) essay about the internalized privilege of white, affluent college kids. (nmblink) - ralph wiggum Oct 3, 17:58 1
- yes it is a good essay -- nm - crash davis Oct 3, 18:11
This is the most accurate thing I have read this year. -- (link) - Jovian Oct 3, 17:57 3
- Related - it’s why, say, refusing to serve Sarah Huckabee Sanders in your restaurant doesn’t bother me much. -- (edited) - Roger More Oct 3, 18:33
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  - Oh no worries, this is me "and treasonous white men who empathize with any of those who would steal their birthright." -- nm - Jovian Oct 3, 18:22
US Capitol Police make arrest in recent doxing of Senators Graham, Hatch and Lee -- (link) - Strongbad Oct 3, 17:55
The Mandalorian will arrive on the Disney streaming service in 2019. -- (link) - Beaker Oct 3, 17:36 2
- I read that as "Midichlorian" and was about to pitch a fit. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 3, 17:45 1
  - I read that as "Mandarin" and thought 'it's about time that someone took Disney down a peg.' -- nm - Max Oct 3, 18:02
this -- (link) - Reagen Oct 3, 17:26 2
- too bad they're known for that, rather than the greatest reggae song. Ever. -- (link) - mud Oct 3, 17:44 [youtube] 1
  - all these years and you still can't link properly -- (link) - crash davis Oct 3, 17:49 [youtube]
I remember the olden days, when we would gather around the glowing TV and listen to the latest breathless breaking mass shooting news. - Beryllium Oct 3, 17:26 4
- Aaaaaah, the good old OJ car "chase" days. -- nm - VMan Oct 3, 17:28 3
  - "Pining for Columbine" -- nm - Beryllium Oct 3, 17:50 2
    - watching Lee Harvey Oswald being shot on live tv -- nm - peglegpete Oct 3, 17:57 1
      - Might not have seemed like it at the time, but that was a tiny tragedy of its own. Think of how many people have since wasted their lives because he - Beryllium Oct 3, 17:58
Kaley Cuoco has signed on to voice Harley Quinn in the upcoming Harley Quinn animated series to stream on DC Universe -- nm - Beaker Oct 3, 17:23 2
- Doom patrol to land December 12th -- nm - Beaker Oct 3, 17:44
- looks like a really good cast -- (link) - Beaker Oct 3, 17:27
"I'm gonna lay low, and get along with people." -- nm - Strongbad Oct 3, 17:22
Gibson Guitars bankruptcy reorganization approved, new CEO to be named -- (link) - con_carne Oct 3, 17:21 1
- it's wiping $500 Million in debt. UH, what about all those companies the debt was owed to, now not getting paid, permanently???? -- nm - peglegpete Oct 3, 17:25
One of the things I've really been wrestling with in the current news cycles is how much I need to re-evaluate my feelings about Bill Clinton. - ralph wiggum Oct 3, 17:21 10
- I had a conversation about this earlier today. - Spawn Oct 3, 18:32
- Boxers or briefs? -- nm - Max Oct 3, 18:03
- that, and also my feelings about the 80s -- nm - crash davis Oct 3, 17:54
- Slate's Slow Burn podcast is very good at letting you see some of the parallels between then and now without beating you over the head with it. nm - ralph wiggum Oct 3, 17:23 6
  - My thoughts exactly. And I'm right there with you. -- (edited) - ReluctantCynic Oct 3, 17:25 5
    - There are some aspects where I'm still pretty consistent--I don't care who the President bones if its consensual. - ralph wiggum Oct 3, 17:31 4
      - Though I’d add it’s bad judgment to bone someone from work when you’re the President and bad character if it’s the intern. -- nm - Roger More Oct 3, 17:54 2
        
        Bad character by the President, right? nm - ralph wiggum Oct 3, 17:59 1
        
        Oh, yes. Someone in a position of power who then chooses to seduce the new, ambitious and very disposable young person is not a good person. -- nm - Roger More Oct 3, 19:11
      - Well, yeah ... - ReluctantCynic Oct 3, 17:45
Let's f**king go!!! -- nm - Jovian Oct 3, 17:20
Anderson Cooper is talking to Kavanaugh's college freshman roommate. interesting answers. -- nm - peglegpete Oct 3, 17:19
Sylvester Stallone shows a pic of him as cowboy Rambo -- (link*) - eag Oct 3, 17:12 2
- I loved the last one, hope the new one ups the violence a bit though -- nm - Beaker Oct 3, 17:16 1
  - Yeah, not enough people were atomized in it. -- nm - Reagen Oct 3, 17:20
CAQ insists religious symbol ban can’t be Islamophobic if it’s also anti-Semitic -- (link) - Beaker Oct 3, 17:10 2
- Crucifixes still okay? -- nm - VMan Oct 3, 17:22
- I should create a new type of post that is just nathan-fillion.gif -- nm - Beryllium Oct 3, 17:18
"It doesn't mean you have no fuel left, and you have to land right away.....You still have a lot of fuel left." -- nm - Donny Don't in the Air Traffic Control Tower Oct 3, 17:07
When I try to do a drum fill playing Rock Band -- (link) - Reagen Oct 3, 17:06 [youtube]
United flight makes emergency landing in Sydney after reporting low fuel.... -- (link) - Meg Oct 3, 17:04 2
- Just like the fuel light in our car. It comes on with 10 of the 65L left. -- nm - Karl_S Oct 3, 17:10 1
  - True, but I guess it would get them a certain degree of priority in the landing pattern. -- nm - Meg Oct 3, 17:19
Nobel Prize winning physicist wasn't even notable enough for a wikipedia entry six months ago -- (link*) - znufrii Oct 3, 17:04
Who wants a basket of baby sloths? -- (link) - Covington Oct 3, 17:04 2
- We should send that to Loosi ;) -- nm - Meg Oct 3, 17:05
- "That's sleeth. The plural of sloth is sleeth." -- nm - znufrii Oct 3, 17:04
De Blasio: bitch better have our money -- (link) - mud Oct 3, 16:46
5 police officers shot in South Carolina, 1 confirmed fatality -- (link*) - Beaker Oct 3, 16:43
I'll tag this as a great Secret Stalker gift idea right now. (WARNING: Link contains photos of shirtless hunky Irish farmers) -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Oct 3, 16:39 1
- all 12 months are represented and you can copy their images into your own computer. -- nm - peglegpete Oct 3, 16:45
The lady has been talking non stop, a whole dinner with andre' ramble, started w trying to get dogs returned as she was hospitalized - zeitgeist Oct 3, 16:34
I want the beer manufacturers to start issuing press releases asking Kavanaugh not to use their products -- nm - peglegpete Oct 3, 16:32
Orioles also let Dan Duquette go. - Will Hunting Oct 3, 16:32
yeesh today's defending Jeopardy champ is annoying - prayformojo Oct 3, 16:31
Something for Animaniacs fans. -- (link) - the wrong element, bad guy Oct 3, 16:24 [youtube] 2
- Awesome! But it leaves me with a yearning for Brainstem and Cheeses of the World. -- nm - VMan Oct 3, 17:43
- Hellooooo Nurse! -- nm - Chez Baronnaise Oct 3, 16:56
A Star is Born 94% (140/9), Venom 28% (16/41), Halloween 85% (46/8), The Hate U Give 97% (34/1), First Man 88% (67/9), Bad Times at the El Royale 78% - Beaker Oct 3, 16:18 1
- I'm really wanting to see Bad Times at the El Royale -- nm - crash davis Oct 3, 16:30
mysterious flames are blasting out of a hole in ArKansas... -- (link*) - Remlik Oct 3, 16:17 7
- Well shit, someone should slap a taco bell on it. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 3, 17:14
- :) I was looking for a location and wondering if it was anywhere near the OK fracking area. -- nm - Meg Oct 3, 17:02
- Arkansas, not Kansas :) Had me going there for a moment. -- nm - Meg Oct 3, 16:34 1
  - Fun fact: In the state of Kansas, the Arkansas River is pronounced so that it rhymes with the state name. -- nm - Chez Baronnaise Oct 3, 17:12
- Kansas ate a Ghost Pepper -- nm - Bacon Oct 3, 16:30
- Hell has frozen over and the fire gotta go somewhere...Kansas is the closest to Hell I guess -- nm* - Beaker Oct 3, 16:18 1
  - But I thought Kansas was close to Oz -- (edited) - eag Oct 3, 16:23
Misha Barton joins the Hills new tv seris... -- (link) - Remlik Oct 3, 16:15
TV PSA: Survivor, Chcago Fire/Med/PD, Burden of Truth, Empire, MLB, Goldbergs, American Housewife, NOVA, Modern Family, Property Brothers, Real HW, -- nm - Beaker Oct 3, 16:13 1
- Star, SEAL Team, Single Parents, Million Little Things, AHS Apocalypse, Criminal Minds, Black Ink Crew, South Park, NHL Regular Season, Always Sunny in Philadelphia, -- (edited) - Beaker Oct 3, 16:14
Alright gents, I'm looking for a new preshave solution. Sell me on softening your fibers. -- nm - Max Oct 3, 16:00 10
- I use warm water, then Proraso shaving soap when doing a wet shave (once a week). I think that tub of soap has lasted me five years. -- nm - Roger More Oct 3, 17:00
- What is this "preshave" you mentioned? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 3, 16:46 1
  - It's for men who have a lot of porcuposterone and sprout quills out of their face, unlike us normal folks who don't even manage a decent goatee. -- nm - Chez Baronnaise Oct 3, 16:59
- This works wonders for me, and it's cheap. -- (link) - MDH Oct 3, 16:35
- uh...shampoo in the show, shave right after. closest shave you'll get.... -- nm - Remlik Oct 3, 16:24 1
  - Not to shave his head, his face bro. - Bacon Oct 3, 16:30
- get your face waxed??? -- nm - peglegpete Oct 3, 16:12
- Warm water? -- nm - Strongbad Oct 3, 16:11
- Shower is enough for me -- nm - con_carne Oct 3, 16:10 1
  - Yep, I shower first. I also use a warm shaving cream. -- nm - Bacon Oct 3, 16:22
The American resistance to universal care seems to be predicated on the idea that a bunch of people are going to go to the doctor just for - Reagen Oct 3, 16:00 31
- I think there's a lot of deliberately sown misinformation about the glories of the free market and the evils of socialism. - mafic Oct 3, 18:19
- Actually its based on the fear that *those people* are going to use the healthcare *we* are paying for. -- nm - znufrii Oct 3, 17:03 2
  - I've seen variants of both 1) "I don't want to pay for other people's healthcare" and 2) "Socialized medicine = Soviet grocery stores in the 80s" nm - ralph wiggum Oct 3, 17:14
  - I'm healthy fuck everyone else...till it happens to them -- nm - Beaker Oct 3, 17:07
- Even Democrats want to keep the HMOs in business. Obama used to tout Obamacare as a way to keep your medical biller wife (paraphrase) employed. -- nm - con_carne Oct 3, 16:59
- Everyone I talk to (when I choose to bring it up) has some anecdote along the lines of "I know soandso in Canada and they needed a (insert procedure) - crash davis Oct 3, 16:28 3
  - They probably had girlfriends from Canada back in high school too. - Roger More Oct 3, 16:37
  - "I have a sick girlfriend in Canada" -- nm - Reagen Oct 3, 16:29 1
    - "My friend had a heart attack in Canada and it took six months before they brought out the AED paddles to bring him back to life" -- nm - crash davis Oct 3, 16:31
- Liberals: "The world should be this way." Conservatives: *wiped butt on whatever liberals' dreams for this country might be*. Liberals: -- nm - "I can't believe jerks exist in this world wa Oct 3, 16:25 1
  - aah!" -- nm - con_carne Oct 3, 16:26
- Personally, for me - Strongbad Oct 3, 16:18
- That's a major part of it. Based on the comments at the boss's town halls over the years, another major part are misconceptions about - ReluctantCynic Oct 3, 16:17 6
  - Related question - how many Americans choose their healthcare insurer? -- nm - Roger More Oct 3, 16:23 5
    - That is a great point. I was actually looking up some of those details this past summer. - ReluctantCynic Oct 3, 16:45 3
      - Thanks, I’ve always wondered. Who are the 32% not covered by employer provided plans? - Roger More Oct 3, 16:58 2
        
        That's pretty much it. - ReluctantCynic Oct 3, 17:25 1
        
        Right, the percentage of us folk on Medicare are likely a good part of that. And we have a choice of which plan to go with. -- nm - Meg Oct 3, 17:55
    - also, the phrase "out of network physician" does not have a meaning here. -- nm - Reagen Oct 3, 16:25
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  - I think it’s predicated on the ideal of universal access being fairer and kinder. Canada is just the example that it works and isn’t socialism. -- nm - Roger More Oct 3, 16:18 7
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      - By bad do you mean successful? -- nm - Roger More Oct 3, 16:29 5
        
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        what kind of chips? -- nm - Reagen Oct 3, 17:12 1
        
        flash a bag of ketchup chips at a Canadian hospital and they'll give you whatever you need. -- nm - mafic Oct 3, 18:39
        
        It will get you a bag of chips worth of healthcare, and then you die a pauper! (So my American friend tells me) -- nm - Roger More Oct 3, 17:07
        
        "When kids say 'bad', they mean 'good'! And to shake your booty means to wiggle one's bottom. Allow me to demonstrate." -- nm - Reagen Oct 3, 16:30
- did Tommy Douglas have to put up with this shit from Dief & co? -- nm - mud Oct 3, 16:02 1
  - I'm sure he had to put up with *some* shit. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 3, 16:04
- We've already given them Walmart as their meandering zone, we can't give them ERs *too* -- nm - Max Oct 3, 16:01
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- Fake Law -- nm - Max Oct 3, 15:59 1
  - Slippin’ Jimmy! -- nm - Beryllium Oct 3, 18:33
Largest group of Christian churches in US calls for Kavanaugh to withdraw -- (link) - budice Oct 3, 15:52 8
- Is there a constituency that was on the fence about him before but is now in favour of him? - Reagen Oct 3, 15:56 7
  - He'd be the least popular justice for a minute and then people would forget. I doubt Anita Hill has come up in conversation much in the last ten yrs - Max Oct 3, 15:59 4
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      - This is what Krusty is really going to be doing while you are at the Yankees game. -- nm - Bacon Oct 3, 16:31 1
        
        Probably for the best anyway - eag Oct 3, 16:46
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  - Beer Drinkers maybe? -- nm - eag Oct 3, 15:58
  - “And that would be something to behold.” -- nm - Beryllium Oct 3, 15:58

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