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Pearl Jam & Foo Fighters might headline Woodstock 50th Anniversary show. -- nm - Spawn Jan 3, 12:39 2
- not the real Woodstock show apparently... -- (link) - Remlik Jan 3, 12:41
- *twitch* -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jan 3, 12:40
Congratulations NYT Politics, you won a ratio -- (link) - ty97 Jan 3, 12:31 1
- Post is gone. -- nm - Mop Jan 3, 14:05
Just won Jeff Dunham tickets for next week. Should be fun, I suppose. -- nm - Andie Jan 3, 12:28 16
- *pass* -- nm - Spawn Jan 3, 12:36
- I don't know why I like some redneck comedy and not others - Epiphany Jan 3, 12:32 14
  - Dunham's a hack and racist to boot. -- nm - Reagen Jan 3, 12:37 11
    - i dont agree. but to each their own. -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 3, 13:58
    - This -- nm - Krusty Jan 3, 13:02
    - yup -- nm - Spawn Jan 3, 12:39 3
      - I find him funny. *shrug* -- nm - groiny Jan 3, 12:39 2
        
        You just like his dolls. -- nm - Spawn Jan 3, 12:43 1
        
        for a dude who sticks his hand in things, he is funny. -- nm - groiny Jan 3, 12:47
    - well, great. *selling* -- nm - Andie Jan 3, 12:39 3
      - you could watch a Netflix special of his and decide for yourself. -- nm - groiny Jan 3, 12:48 2
        
        the show is next Wednesday, i was on the fence already. it's not a hard decision, really. -- nm - Andie Jan 3, 12:51 1
        
        he is not for everyone, but it is your call. -- nm - groiny Jan 3, 12:56
    - silence, I keel you. -- nm - groiny Jan 3, 12:38
  - Yeah, I can't say I am a big fan. I had to google to see who he was, even though I knew the name. -- (edited) - Andie Jan 3, 12:33 1
    - His Comedy Central specials were ubiquitous -- nm - con_carne Jan 3, 12:36
This will go over well (Provincially) -- (link*) - Beaker Jan 3, 12:25
Times have changed. No longer just the Bible for swearing in CongressPeople? -- (link) - amoxy Jan 3, 12:24 10
- You can also just affirm on nothing, but I can see why the Constitution would be a good placeholder there. -- nm - Reagen Jan 3, 12:35 1
  - Trump used a 30 year old copy of Hustler -- nm - Beaker Jan 3, 12:36
- I understand the palestinian congresswoman was gonna use Thomas Jefferson's Quran. how cool is that -- nm - mud Jan 3, 12:33 1
  - Ellison used that one as well. All of these swearings ins on Bible, etc, are actually ceremonial. - ty97 Jan 3, 12:34
- one of Quaran's is Thomas Jefferson's own copy -- nm - Remlik Jan 3, 12:32 1
  - :-) -- nm - mud Jan 3, 12:33
- One could swear on a cookbook for flying spaghetti if they so preferred. -- nm - Max Jan 3, 12:28
- is there some sort of Jedi bible they could use? -- nm - Beaker Jan 3, 12:26 1
  - Yes...there is.... -- (link) - you really can find anything on amazon Jan 3, 13:04
- Keith Ellison used a Quran in 2006. -- nm - colin Jan 3, 12:25
Alderman Ed Burke charged with attempted extortion. Federal charge. -- nm - . Jan 3, 12:22 2
- He's a scumbag. But I like his wife. She was the person who created the Special Olympics. -- nm - pmb Jan 3, 12:32
- another former Trump lawyer... -- nm - decline Jan 3, 12:24
Maine's new Governor, Janet Mills, sign executive order to move forward with Medicaid expansion -- (link) - ty97 Jan 3, 12:20
Jnine reporting on FB - she's in the middle of that pursuit :/ -- nm - Meg Jan 3, 12:19 7
- old news: Storm chasers. New hotness: Crime chasers. -- nm - Max Jan 3, 12:29
- is she the chaser or the chasee? -- nm - decline Jan 3, 12:22 2
  - Do Pastafarians have a text? -- nm - . Jan 3, 12:27 1
    - How the..did this land here? -- nm - . Jan 3, 13:45
- You'll never take jnine alive, coppers! -- nm - prayformojo Jan 3, 12:21 2
  - He just passed up Hwy 22 so he's not coming my way. He'll be in Huntington Beach in a couple of minutes. -- nm - Meg Jan 3, 12:35 1
    - Wonder if he thinks he can get to the border? -- nm - Meg Jan 3, 12:36
Does anyone want 2 free tickets to the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta ... can be used any time but you have to name the date now? -- nm* - rollo Jan 3, 12:19 6
- Where is it? -- nm - con_carne Jan 3, 12:19 1
  - I'm gonna guess in Georgia -- nm - decline Jan 3, 12:20
- when do you have to use them by? because i love that place. -- nm - colin Jan 3, 12:19 3
  - It was impressive -- nm - rollo Jan 3, 12:22 2
    - it's just hitting it's stride.. it takes so many years for the coral and plant life to grow and establish... it's pretty well grown out now. -- nm - colin Jan 3, 12:23 1
      - We were there last year, it was fantastic. -- nm - Super Daddy Princess Jan 3, 12:25
Geez, I hope this doesn't derail AOC's political career as it's just starting... -- (link) - decline Jan 3, 12:18 3
- Pretty much the worst 'gotcha' ever -- nm - ty97 Jan 3, 12:22 1
  - i mean.. baptists will be upset at the dancing. - colin Jan 3, 12:24
- ohh nooo. - colin Jan 3, 12:21
I paid 9 cents per mile for car travel last year (24,745 miles driven). Only gas and oil changes this time around for maintenance costs. - colin Jan 3, 12:13 1
- 29.6 MPG lifetime. WOO! -- nm - colin Jan 3, 12:35
While the House in now controlled by Dems, DOD will be run by a former senior Boeing executive. EPA is run by a former coal lobbyist. HHS is run by a - decline Jan 3, 12:08 4 1
- DOD exec's claim to fame was $20 billion in profit on $100 billion in contracts over his tenure.. which is insane. - colin Jan 3, 12:16
- (this is fine) -- nm - mud Jan 3, 12:09 2
  - embrace the swamp, mud -- nm - decline Jan 3, 12:12 1
    - $$$$$$ -- nm - mud Jan 3, 12:23
ST Work life poll: Do you have any kind of regular meeting with your boss to discuss weekly tasks/priorities, etc? - oblique Jan 3, 12:01 24
- I'm my boss and I talk to myself often but rarely about business. -- nm - Krusty Jan 3, 12:35
- I just had one laying out our tickler system for the month. -- nm - Max Jan 3, 12:30 2
  - "this month I am the ticklee you all are the ticklers...dress appropriately" -- nm - Beaker Jan 3, 12:32 1
    - *water through nose* -- nm - Max Jan 3, 12:43
- Yes, we have a regular meeting - usually 2x week. I'm in TN and he's in FL, so I think it's really helpful. - Dark Callisto Jan 3, 12:26
- My company uses a program called Stand Out which is lame. - zunk xometimes Jan 3, 12:25
- Used to -- nm - amoxy Jan 3, 12:23
- when i was a boss, yeah.. i'd do a weekly stand up meeting. it's nice to just chat officially at the start of a work week. - colin Jan 3, 12:22
- Work? Boss? (NM) - Marlowe Jan 3, 12:18
- I take a bathroom meeting with myself at the start of each day, if that counts. -- nm - Spawn Jan 3, 12:13 2
  - and everything usually works out alright? -- nm - mud Jan 3, 12:15 1
    - Indeed. -- nm - Spawn Jan 3, 12:16
- We have weekly division managers meeting, and a monthly 1-on-1 over lunch. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 3, 12:12
- Yes daily 15 min call -- nm - JaxSean Jan 3, 12:11
- I have weeklyish 1:1's with my direct sup in the corp controller's office and with my counterpart in financial ops here. I have monthly 1:1s - amanda Jan 3, 12:08
- no - mud Jan 3, 12:08
- Partners in my group meet every Monday morning to discuss staffing our matters and any other issues that we need to address. -- nm - pmb Jan 3, 12:08
- yes every week. I have a weekly meeting with my team as well. -- nm - Beaker Jan 3, 12:07
- Not nearly as frequently as I would like. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jan 3, 12:07
- Just what I need. Another meeting. - Super Daddy Princess Jan 3, 12:06
- we do a 20 minute daily scrum meeting every morning. -- nm - groiny Jan 3, 12:06
- I occasionally give my partners an update on what I'm working on -- nm - decline Jan 3, 12:05
- We have a brief (15 min) team huddle every Monday. Nothing regular one-on-one -- nm - Roger More Jan 3, 12:04
- no. -- nm - Epiphany Jan 3, 12:04
Sidney Crosby gets heckled like mad by Rangers fan. Reacts in an appropriate manner. -- (link) - Shaun Jan 3, 12:00 1
- hockey players are the best -- nm - Beaker Jan 3, 12:08
That ocean garbage collector thing (which wasn't doing a good job) also now has broken -- (link) - oblique Jan 3, 11:58 4
- isn't there like some genetically engineered plastic eating super-amoebae they can create and then dump on these giant patches of plastic? -- nm - decline Jan 3, 12:09 1
  - What is the worst that could happen? -- nm - Spawn Jan 3, 12:40
- Need this, then. -- (link) - Spawn Jan 3, 12:08
- gotta walk b4 U run -- nm - mud Jan 3, 12:04
I got one of those new front pocket wallets for Christmas. In transferring my stuff over, I found 2 gift cards, one for Melting Pot and one for Target - oblique Jan 3, 11:52 1
- i have sooooo many gift cards and gift certificates right now. I mean, this is not a bad problem, but i need to use them before i forget about them -- nm - Andie Jan 3, 11:57
Chase of the day - 4 PITTs so far and he's still running. -- nm - Meg Jan 3, 11:49 1
- He's already lost his back bumper... -- (link) - Meg Jan 3, 11:52
I don't know how they made Inherent Vice into a movie. They'd have to cut out half the book, and add in a half hour of trippy visuals and dreams. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 3, 11:36 2
- I haven't read it but I loved the movie. -- nm - mud Jan 3, 11:39
- They cut out half the book. - Spawn Jan 3, 11:37
I switched a lot of my outlets at home to ones that have USB in them as well. it's *so* nice. I want to replace all my GFCIs with USB+GFCI but $$$$ -- nm - amanda Jan 3, 11:29 6
- Switch your bathroom and kitchen to a GFCI breaker instead. That's the new standard over the plugs with the reset. -- nm - colin Jan 3, 12:30 1
  - $40 for the breaker vs $4 for a normal one, but saves a lot on the plugs. -- nm - colin Jan 3, 12:32
- I am rather annoyed. I bought plug-ins with them way back in the summer for Christmas gifts. It appears the USBs are not functioning. -- nm - Spawn Jan 3, 11:41 1
  - the one we tried to install in my fireplace had a terrible hum. uninstalled immediately. I buy the best rated ones now. -- nm - amanda Jan 3, 12:02
- Have these. Dual QC ports and a usbC port -- (link*) - budice Jan 3, 11:37 1
  - I still need my outlets. I don't have overhead lighting in my house. -- nm - amanda Jan 3, 11:40
LYC: Friend of mine volunteered to host a trivia night for VoteTogether a few months ago. He was surprised to receive this in the mail last week. -- (pic) - Strongbad Jan 3, 11:20 [Attachment] 15
- Sweet~! -- nm - amoxy Jan 3, 12:01
- wow! -- nm - Andie Jan 3, 11:55
- Phenomenal! -- nm - David Jan 3, 11:41
- nice! -- nm - Remlik Jan 3, 11:34
- I find some of the [people in the IM] love obnoxious, but I applaud the confidence and choice of image. - Name Withheld By Request Jan 3, 11:31 5
  - I'd put that on my desk at work with pride, regardless of political affiliation. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 3, 11:33 4
    - I would from any president, except Trump. - Spawn Jan 3, 11:39 2
      - ayup -- nm - Uhtred Jan 3, 11:40 1
        
        "You are no Trivia King because I am the trivia king, but good job anyway." -- nm - Spawn Jan 3, 11:46
    - No doubt. -- nm - Baron Barium Jan 3, 11:36
- nice! -- nm - Beaker Jan 3, 11:30
- Whoa! When I volunteer to do that shit, I get like a QT gift card or some shit. That's fucking incredible. -- nm - Uhtred Jan 3, 11:29
- woot! -- nm - Spawn Jan 3, 11:28
- neat! -- nm - Diva Jan 3, 11:27
- that's great. -- nm - amanda Jan 3, 11:27
sitwap: CW orders Batwoman pilot... -- (link) - Remlik Jan 3, 11:12 18
- They didn't already? Maybe they can fix the wig. -- nm - . Jan 3, 12:24
- Fantastic, pretty soon the Arrowverse crossover is gonna be like 40 shows. -- nm - Uhtred Jan 3, 11:31 4
  - "DC's Second Tier: Look, it's this or more Justice League movies." -- nm - Reagen Jan 3, 11:33 3
    - Legends is second tier and is their best show and the one I look forward to the most every week -- nm - Beaker Jan 3, 11:38 2
      - We tried Legends and it didn't do enough to make us care. In fact, Arrow is the only one that's kept our interest. nm - Uhtred Jan 3, 11:39 1
        
        the first season of Legends is indeed terrible, but season 2 they just literally said "fuck it" and embraced the crazy -- nm - Beaker Jan 3, 11:51
- OK CW, enough already. -- nm - Beaker Jan 3, 11:27 11
  - nah. It's working. -- nm - Remlik Jan 3, 11:35 1
    - a lot will depend on the tone. as long as no fvcking time travel or brooding downers are involved I will watch -- (edited) - Beaker Jan 3, 11:36
  - CW aka EVERYTHING but Batman! -- nm - Spawn Jan 3, 11:29 8
    - well, that's because batman sucks -- nm - decline Jan 3, 11:29 7
      - Gotham Returns Tonight! -- nm - mud Jan 3, 11:34 5
        
        speaking of third tier shows... -- nm - Beaker Jan 3, 11:39 4
        
        Incorrect. - Spawn Jan 3, 11:39 3
        
        4th tier? -- nm - Beaker Jan 3, 12:14 2
        
        If Gotham is third tier, Arrow is at best 5th. -- nm - Spawn Jan 3, 12:15 1
        
        It's the only DC I watch, and my tastes are exquisite. -- nm - mud Jan 3, 12:17
      - Oooooo. Oh no you di'n't.... -- nm - Joker Jan 3, 11:31
I live in an extremely safe city and would feel less safe with a gun next to my bed -- nm - ty97 Jan 3, 11:12 9
- Yup -- nm - Krusty Jan 3, 11:51
- that is why it would be a "secret" drawer. -- nm - groiny Jan 3, 11:15 7
  - I....would know it was there -- nm - ty97 Jan 3, 11:17 4
    - You could keep condoms and stuff in it instead. -- nm - Spawn Jan 3, 11:18 2
      - wrap the gun in a condom, problem solved. -- nm - groiny Jan 3, 11:19 1
        
        Only you can prevent gunorrhea. -- nm - Baron Barium Jan 3, 11:36
    - can't trust yourself, eh? -- nm - groiny Jan 3, 11:18
  - like this -- (link) - groiny Jan 3, 11:16 [youtube] 1
    - something of this type is going into the new house -- nm - Epiphany Jan 3, 11:56
Walt Disney for president! -- nm - Spawn Jan 3, 11:09 7
- It's already his fault we got Ronald Reagan. -- nm - David Jan 3, 11:40
- Pssst...He is dead -- nm - amoxy Jan 3, 11:11 5
  - No he's not! He's just frozen! -- nm - Remlik Jan 3, 11:16 2
    - Frozen 3 Walt Returns -- nm - eag Jan 3, 11:38
    - Does the 14 year residency requirement include time in a cryogenic tube? -- nm - Baron Barium Jan 3, 11:28
  - Step up from what we have. - Spawn Jan 3, 11:15
  - ~Oooooh....Looks What You Made Me Do~ -- nm - Waaaaalt Disney si Jan 3, 11:14

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