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Decide my TV: Which should I start tonight: Season 3 of Fargo or Season 3 of True Detective? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jan 16, 19:08 4
- Fargo -- nm - Jovian Jan 16, 19:09 3
  - and its not even close. (but only cause I cant judge TD season 3 yet) -- nm* - Jovian Jan 16, 19:10 2
    - You win 77 RC Points for your advice. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jan 16, 19:12 1
      - seriously, its a fantastic season. David Thewlis and Mary Elizabeth Winstead are stellar. - Jovian Jan 16, 19:18
The Predator is a *weird* movie...it's like a bunch of first drafts were thrown together -- nm - prayformojo Jan 16, 19:07 1
- It's very Shane Black. I liked it. -- nm - Max Jan 16, 19:22
It should be either the Unicorn or the Deer -- nm - Dano Jan 16, 18:52
March 19. Red Hot Chili Peppers will play at the Great Pyramid of Giza -- (link) - peglegpete Jan 16, 18:33 1
- But will they perform while wearing an animal mask? -- nm - Dano Jan 16, 18:37
The Masker Singer (spoilers) - Jovian Jan 16, 18:27 5
- Definitely agree on the deer. -- nm - Dano Jan 16, 18:29 2
  - spoilers -- (edited) - Jovian Jan 16, 18:38 1
    - extra side note on the above that goes off topic: Jovian was a good looking 27 year old lad. -- nm - Jovian Jan 16, 18:44
- I agree. And the Peacock is clearly...... - Volnelk Jan 16, 18:27 1
  - yupp -- nm - Jovian Jan 16, 18:28
giuliani: “I never said there was no collusion on the campaign” -- nm - mud Jan 16, 18:15 6
- He’s trying to convince us that others in the campaign were criminals but Trump didn’t know. Trump surrounded himself with crooks but he had no idea. - Mop Jan 16, 18:36 3
  - Oh, yes, the "I didn't know anything" line. I heard it a lot in the past 2-3 years. (NM) - Marlowe Jan 16, 19:02
  - Not a good signal to those folks either. Trump will throw them under the bus, so they have incentive to turn on him. -- nm - TWuG Jan 16, 18:48 1
    - Eventually he’ll turn against Giuliani too. It’s “everyone but me”. And eventually there will be no one left for him to blame. -- nm - Mop Jan 16, 18:54
- Bat. Shit. Crazy. (#senileninjalawyer) -- nm - mud Jan 16, 18:16 1
  - twit -- (link) - mud Jan 16, 19:14
China sent plants to the moon. they are all now dead from: lack of sunlight -- (link) - peglegpete Jan 16, 17:52 2
- "Or ARE they??" -- nm - Beryllium Jan 16, 18:25
- Better than the alternative: Zombie Killer Plants from Outer Spaaaaace. -- nm - Qale Jan 16, 17:59
Sorry, gang: Costco Is Already Sold Out Of Those 27-Pound Tubs Of Mac-N-Cheese -- (link) - prayformojo Jan 16, 17:49 4
- *uproar* -- nm - fraternities Jan 16, 19:23
- this has 180 servings. a normal box has 3. ad in the cost of milk & butter with the 60 boxes needed, and the costs come out about even. - peglegpete Jan 16, 18:03
- Stop bogarting the tub, tubby. -- nm - Baron Squirrelbane Jan 16, 17:54
- MOTHERFUCKERS! -- nm - Beaker Jan 16, 17:50
I'm currently enjoying looking through the government of Alberta baby name database from 2018. Game of Thrones edition: - mafic Jan 16, 17:44 28
- 2 Katniss, 0 Peeta. I'm not sorry for subjecting you all to this. -- nm - mafic Jan 16, 18:48
- oh no. M-jeigh. -- nm - mafic Jan 16, 18:42
- 1 Anger, 1 Courage, 4 Temperance. -- nm - mafic Jan 16, 18:37
- Nick played baseball against a team that had both a "Dallas" and a "Boston". nm - ralph wiggum Jan 16, 18:16 2
  - Also, 1 Chicago, 12 Boston, 10 Dallas. -- nm - mafic Jan 16, 18:40
  - Adelaide: 25 (Adalaide: 1); Sydney: 22 girls, 1 boy; Darwin: 1; Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth: 0. -- nm - mafic Jan 16, 18:33
- this section might be a war crime. -- (pic) - mafic Jan 16, 18:12 [Attachment] 5
  - "Jcjay and the ______" is surely the name of a band in an animated tv show. -- nm - Max Jan 16, 18:29 1
    - I just remembered where I'd heard that name before. Canadian winter Olympics gold medallist Jasey-Jay Anderson. -- (link) - mafic Jan 16, 18:34
  - BO-gans!! nm - ralph wiggum Jan 16, 18:14
  - I love the third one from the bottom -- nm - prayformojo Jan 16, 18:13
  - Just report directly to child services. -- nm - Reagen Jan 16, 18:13
- the hyphenated ones get weird. girls named Keely-Remington, Kavannah-Blue, and Saffron-Kyle, and Sharleene-Kate? -- nm - mafic Jan 16, 18:09 1
  - oh no, there's a Summer-Heart AND a Summer-Sky. -- nm - mafic Jan 16, 18:09
- Mythical edition. Zeus: 2, Ares: 7, Thor: 0 (Thorin: 6?), Odin: 18, Loki: 3, Orion: 21. -- nm - mafic Jan 16, 17:58 7
  - There's a Kal'El! -- nm - Reagen Jan 16, 18:08 6
    - Qale? -- nm - Qale Jan 16, 18:22 1
      - I'm sorry. I can offer you Kale, Cale, Quiel, or Quill. and you didn't ask, but Qynton. -- nm - mafic Jan 16, 18:53
    - Lestat -- nm - Reagen Jan 16, 18:12 3
      - Rambo! -- nm - mafic Jan 16, 18:14 2
        
        Mycroft -- nm - Reagen Jan 16, 18:15 1
        
        1 Stark, 2 Snows. -- nm - mafic Jan 16, 18:35
- I know a couple who were ahead of the curve on that first name. Their daughter was 6 or 7 by the time the show came along. -- nm - Baron Squirrelbane Jan 16, 17:49
- any: abcde ? -- nm - peglegpete Jan 16, 17:48 2
  - nope. the girls' 'Jaz' section is horrifying though. - mafic Jan 16, 18:06 1
    - Those birth certificates have pre-printed cabaret licenses on the back. -- nm - Baron Squirrelbane Jan 16, 18:12
- semi-related my cousin was one of 2 people to name her daughter Oria (I do not like it, but don't tell her). -- nm - mafic Jan 16, 17:45 1
  - Osha? -- nm - mud Jan 16, 17:59
SyFy cancels horror anthology Channel Zero -- nm - Beaker Jan 16, 17:11
Walk off the Earth Bohemian Rhapsody tribute to Beard Guy. -- (link) - David Jan 16, 16:50 [youtube] 1
- awww, man. that was really nice -- nm - prayformojo Jan 16, 17:10
It's the mother of all movie days at LA schools - con_carne Jan 16, 16:41 2
- You get what you pay for. -- nm - Volnelk Jan 16, 18:23
- But fortunately it was all historical films like Lincoln, Selma, and Black Panther. -- nm - Baron Squirrelbane Jan 16, 17:02
we won our first game 21-18...woo hoo!! -- nm - Beaker Jan 16, 16:36 5
- ... football? -- nm - Spawn Jan 16, 17:30
- Very nice coaching! -- nm - Baron Squirrelbane Jan 16, 17:08 3
  - You Strawberry, hit a basket. *swish* I told her to do that -- nm - Beaker Jan 16, 17:11 2
    - Strawberry? Are we coaching rabbits? -- nm - Baron Squirrelbane Jan 16, 17:46 1
      - Fiver just sits on the bench, twitching, already knowing how the game's gonna end -- nm - prayformojo Jan 16, 17:50
Downloaded my entire instagram history. 36 megabytes. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 16, 16:22
Does the SEC investigate CEOs who scam their own company? (Asking for WeWork) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 16, 16:07 13
- Not unrelatedly - the CEO claimed that its $20b valuation was based not on forecast revenues but the energy and spirituality of its people -- nm - Roger More Jan 16, 18:42 2
  - "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- nm - Beryllium Jan 16, 19:02
  - Source -- (link) - Roger More Jan 16, 18:46
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  - See my reply below. But this is a story about it. -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 16, 17:49
- they at least do directors here. I know a director that got done for basically funnelling company money to one of his other companies for 'services'. -- nm - mafic Jan 16, 17:16 1
  - you mean ToysRus and Bain capitol? -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 16, 18:53
- Not during a shutdown! -- nm - Spawn Jan 16, 16:21
- Having worked some with them, I'm not surprised. They shady. -- nm - David Jan 16, 16:12 4
  - They sound like the company in Sorry to bother you. -- nm - Reagen Jan 16, 16:25
  - It sounds like it's not entirely as shady as I was expecting, just raw capitalism at work. The CEO is invested in the buildings that are being leased. - Beryllium Jan 16, 16:16 2
    - Wait. Is that bad? -- nm - Eddie Lampert Jan 16, 16:32
    - Self-dealing! If the President can do it... -- nm - Mop Jan 16, 16:18
I guess I should get back into learning PostgreSQL ... that'll be fun. - Beryllium Jan 16, 16:04
HQ WWE trivia right now -- nm - Remlik Jan 16, 15:57 9
- "Name the people that have beaten HHH over the past decade" is a trick question! -- nm - David Jan 16, 16:06 7
  - the 1st question knocked out 50,000 people. -- nm - Remlik Jan 16, 16:11 6
    - "Does anyone think John Cena can wrestle." "In a shocker, one guy on ST thinks so!" -- nm - David Jan 16, 16:13 4
      - Knocked out at Q9 :what wrestler won the royal rumble from being the 2nd entrant. Ric Flair, Steve Austin or Vince McMahon -- (edited) - Remlik Jan 16, 16:17 3
        
        Always bet on Vince's narcissism! -- nm - David Jan 16, 16:47 2
        
        I picked FLair...who was a #3 and won the rumble...damniy -- nm - Remlik Jan 16, 18:40
        
        It was such a great angle - Will Hunting Jan 16, 17:00
    - The answer was "Panda". -- nm - Mop Jan 16, 16:12
- DDP co-hosting -- nm - Remlik Jan 16, 16:06
trailer for The Man Who Killed Hitler and then The Bigfoot starring Sam Eliot... -- (link) - Remlik Jan 16, 15:51 [youtube] 3
- "A GORGEOUSLY CINEMATIC TALE." -- nm - mud Jan 16, 15:57 1
  - Reading between the lines, what does that say? :) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 16, 15:58
- Sam Elliott's starting a little late on his "over the hill action hero" career, but this seems like a fine debut. -- nm - Mop Jan 16, 15:55
*sees signal* *digs through special events closet* *rejects a couple of packages* *finds the right one* -- nm - . Jan 16, 15:49 3
- *dons black hoodie and bag* later *waits in shadows for prey* *he approaches, possibly a little twitchy* *I wait for the right moment* -- nm - . Jan 16, 15:52 2
  - *I remove the package tear it open as I fling it, clouds of glitter wafting* HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEL!!!!! - . Jan 16, 15:55 1
    - *golf clap* -- nm - Qale Jan 16, 16:17
He seems like such a fine, upstanding young man! -- (link) - Mop Jan 16, 15:47
Child in carseat falls out of car in Minnesota. Child is OK. -- (link) - Mop Jan 16, 15:44 1
- there was a kid here who got himself out of his car seat and climbed up onto the roof rack on a highway last week. he's fine. -- nm - mafic Jan 16, 17:18
Heh. -- (pic) - Volnelk Jan 16, 15:44 [Attachment]
So...Chris Hansen...why don't you come on in and sit down... -- (link) - Remlik Jan 16, 15:41
Here's a new one: Maybe train your dog to go up to someone's porch and steal their Amazon package? -- (link) - Mop Jan 16, 15:34 3
- That's genius, it's a lot harder to recognize a particular dog than a person, though the dog can't pick up big boxes -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 16, 16:03
- 13/10 - Would aid and abet -- nm - rollo Jan 16, 15:37 1
  - That tail! nm - ralph wiggum Jan 16, 15:41
“What’s the Grammys?” -- (link) - mud Jan 16, 15:09
10 years since the Sully incident -- (link) - budice Jan 16, 14:55 1
- "Can't talk, we've got a plane down in the Hudson." "I know. I'm the guy." -- nm - Beryllium Jan 16, 15:34
My anxiety and depression has very much been kicking my ass lately. -- nm - Todd Manning Jan 16, 14:44 11
- Saw my shrink today and commented that the last couple of weeks have been very peaceful. You may be my Ying and I am your Yang - Bacon Jan 16, 16:10
- I get that. It took a tweak of medication for me. (Along with a tweak of my job.) I hope you fiddle with some knobs. - Qale Jan 16, 15:08 5
  - Definitely need something fiddled with. - Todd Manning Jan 16, 15:19 4
    - I am glad you are contemplating this rather than just trying to tough it out. Nice to know thag you know you have options. -- nm - Bacon Jan 16, 16:13
    - Hang in there. Thoughts are with you. -- nm - pmb Jan 16, 15:28
    - There’s good news. Usually the “clothes” there are thin and backless. - Qale Jan 16, 15:25
    - best wishes -- nm - mud Jan 16, 15:22
- I think this time of year can be especially tough. *hugs* -- nm -- (edited) - i.b! Jan 16, 14:51 1
  - Thanks, b.! -- nm - Todd Manning Jan 16, 15:20
- gives you the sincere "that sucks. hang in there. hope this passes soon. and would it make things any better if Jim dropped his pants?" handshake -- nm - prayformojo Jan 16, 14:46 1
  - can't hurt. -- nm - Todd Manning Jan 16, 15:20
So Pence's wife has gone back to work as an art teacher at a Christian school in Virginia that is anti-LGBT. There's a tweet in the linked article th - Covington Jan 16, 14:21 8
- L3. -- nm - Strongbad, Astronauts Champion Jan 16, 15:07 4
  - What’s funny? -- nm - David Jan 16, 15:16 3
    - I'm trying to follow the logic here. - Strongbad, Astronauts Champion Jan 16, 15:23 2
      - No. Should we be paying for costs that her paycheck would normally cover. -- nm - . Jan 16, 15:56 1
        
        We have people at my place of employment that are on spousal health care even though ours is free because it is a better plan. Happens all the time, -- nm - Bacon Jan 16, 16:17
- yes the government should. just because someone doesnt agree with her stances/job doesnt mean - tRuMaN Jan 16, 14:38 2
  - I just looked at it as possibly not paying it because she has a job now. - the wrong element, bad guy Jan 16, 15:13 1
    - An exception to that would be if the security recommendation is for her to live at that location. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 16, 15:21
I think the most important class in culinary school is the clasped hands and point maneuver. -- nm - Reagen Jan 16, 14:20 1
- Finance-305: With a Financial Statement Like This, Can They Have the Duck? -- nm - prayformojo Jan 16, 14:41
Stephen Curry averages 1.43 points per three point shot.... - Will Hunting Jan 16, 14:15 1
- The 4 point shot is coming, and right soon. -- nm - Baron Squirrelbane Jan 16, 15:55
krusty, re b2 - tRuMaN Jan 16, 14:14 4
- I'm hoping so and for a decent price. I haven't given them a good look yet. I looked at snow pants yesterday. -- nm - Krusty Jan 16, 14:29 3
  - go to Canada and find a Mountain Equipment Co-op. -- nm - mafic Jan 16, 17:22
  - just looking at amazon - tRuMaN Jan 16, 14:35 1
    - Thanks! 👍🏻 -- nm - Krusty Jan 16, 14:42
SAY VANDELAY INDUSTRIES!!! -- nm - David Jan 16, 14:08 1
- and you want to be my latex salesman? -- nm - rollo Jan 16, 15:35

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