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so the spa owner was selling access to Trump via Mar-a-largo to Chinese execs... -- (link) - Remlik Mar 9, 09:48
Captain Marvel Cinemascore A -- (link) - Remlik Mar 9, 09:40 1
- A is for Avenger - Beryllium Mar 9, 09:48
Per Box Office Mojo 61.2 mil for Captain Marvel yesterday - eag Mar 9, 09:17 18
- Non angrry non dudes. - . Mar 9, 16:46
- And everyone saying they were going to see Alita instead? It's on pace to make 3.2 million this weekend. A vocal teeny weenie tiny minority. - Bacon Mar 9, 09:19 16
  - I mean, why Alita? It's another film with a female superhero. - Marlowe Mar 9, 09:39 5
    - so they can pretend they're not doing it for sexist reasons. -- nm - Reagen Mar 9, 09:40 4
      - And they can take their black friend along killing two birds with one stone! -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 9, 09:59
      - Ok, that makes sense in a "it doesn't really make sense" kinda sense. (NM) - Marlowe Mar 9, 09:43 1
        
        there's also some "ha ha and she's a sex robot lol" in there too. -- nm - Reagen Mar 9, 09:46
      - (the actual Alita fanbase seems to be pissed to be associated with this) -- nm - Reagen Mar 9, 09:40
  - marvel's hype train is insane when you put this in context. -- nm - Reagen Mar 9, 09:35 1
    - *tears* -- nm - DC Mar 9, 09:36
  - morons -- nm - Remlik Mar 9, 09:33 6
    - They pulled the same shit on Black Panther and it made gazillions. I will say this. We were going next weekend, but I changed it to this weekend - Bacon Mar 9, 09:36 5
      - Behold the declining power of angry white men! -- nm - David Mar 9, 09:44
      - I personally wonder if these idiots even number in the thousands. -- nm - Reagen Mar 9, 09:37 3
        
        yeah...the low thousands but yeah... -- nm - Remlik Mar 9, 09:39
        
        My guess is bots are involved -- nm - Bacon Mar 9, 09:38 1
        
        *whistles innocently* -- nm - Putin’s troll farms Mar 9, 10:03
  - but if they counted Confederate money it would of been $100 Million easy! -- nm - Beaker Mar 9, 09:25
WWE: Ronda trashes Canada, the Leafs, Poutine after an event... -- (link) - Remlik Mar 9, 09:16 2
- I mean, the leafs I can understand, but the rest? That's just being a bad heel. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 9, 09:18 1
  - Though if she's in Toronto, she's right to trash their poutine -- nm - Roger More Mar 9, 10:49
Captain Janeway wishes Captain Marvel well and -- (link) - Remlik Mar 9, 09:14 1
- Way to glom on to someone else's true success, poser! -- nm - David Mar 9, 09:24
1987 U2 released The Joshua Tree today. -- nm - Remlik Mar 9, 09:07 1
- Yeah, I remember standing in line. -- nm - spahn Mar 9, 09:17
I think I liked Captain Marvel more than a lot of you. I'll go to A- territory. I thought Brie was good in several places and fine in some others. - pmb Mar 9, 09:07 1
- I thought it was made to play for kids. Not as edgy or brutal. Respect the decisions made. -- nm - budice Mar 9, 09:09
Captain Marvel: NIN re-releasing the white shirt she wears in the movie....and a specially designed one... -- (link) - Remlik Mar 9, 08:58
Season 1 of GOT rewatch. A. Great action, great story, but it did introduce one of my least favorite character - Amoxy Mar 9, 08:53 3
- An actress that did porn before that roll. Crazy!! -- nm - Bacon Mar 9, 08:57
- Not sure how far along you are but (spoils) - TWuG Mar 9, 08:57 1
  - Agreed on im, but the character is so obnoxious to me -- nm - Amoxy Mar 9, 09:02
I'm pretty sure that the Little Sisters of the Poor could manage at least a draw about Tottenham -- nm - prayformojo Mar 9, 08:52 1
- Until last week, nobody could. -- nm - Volnelk Mar 9, 10:06
I love that when Amazon uses their delivery people and the package is out for delivery, you can see where the driver is and - prayformojo Mar 9, 08:24 4
- Yes. I use that so I can be at the door so they don't just throw the package over the fence and into the bushes. - Abby Normal Mar 9, 08:36 3
  - I swear we share a brain and a life :/ -- nm - Meg Mar 9, 10:00
  - For as many complaints like this as I've heard, we've never had any problem at all -- nm - prayformojo Mar 9, 08:39 1
    - We can't trust UPS or USPS to get us packages these days. -- nm - David Mar 9, 09:38
I just now realized that Captain Marvel is directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck -- nm - Dano Mar 9, 08:14 4
- This explains Ben Mendelsohn's presence. -- nm - David Mar 9, 09:52 2
  - Well, that and the fact that he is contractually forced to be in every movie nowadays. (NM) - Marlowe Mar 9, 09:59 1
    - I like that contract! -- nm - David Mar 9, 10:01
- Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris are gonna get Squirrel Girl. -- nm - Reagen Mar 9, 08:28
Death Is a Jaguar Warrior -- nm - prayformojo Mar 9, 07:47
Zion Williamson out vs. UNC 5th straight game -- nm - budice Mar 9, 07:46
Pickford 🙄😃 -- nm - JD Mar 9, 07:33
AT&T’s new HBO chief criticizes Netflix, says it "doesn’t have a brand" - budice Mar 9, 07:05 1
- He's not wrong in theory, but people have been saying it since 2009. -- nm - David Mar 9, 09:39
Meanwhile, in Australia -- (link) - Reagen Mar 9, 06:53 4
- Get off my lawn slash landing pad! -- nm - Abby Normal Mar 9, 08:34
- Ha! -- nm - Krusty Mar 9, 08:15 1
  - He had to go out of his way to do that. Fuckin' roos. -- nm - Reagen Mar 9, 08:30
- just mafic's normal day at the workplace -- nm - budice Mar 9, 07:02
Oh whee. That Florida madam in the Kraft prostitution sting was selling access to Trump -- (link) - Reagen Mar 9, 06:42 6
- Now we know why rich and powerful men felt the need to go to a strip mall rub-n-tug -- nm - Super Daddy Princess Mar 9, 09:02 1
  - An excellent observation. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 9, 09:30
- Shocked that she would sell access to someone who will fuck you. -- nm - TWuG Mar 9, 08:13
- this is outstanding -- nm - prayformojo Mar 9, 06:46 2
  - I love that the respect for the classics like influence peddling is still around. -- nm - Reagen Mar 9, 07:23 1
    - Drain the swamp -- nm - Bacon Mar 9, 09:02
Name withstanding, I'm *loving* Money Heist -- nm - prayformojo Mar 9, 06:22 4
- this keeps getting better and better -- nm - prayformojo Mar 9, 07:22 1
  - spoiler - prayformojo Mar 9, 07:28
- show or a movie? -- nm - Beaker Mar 9, 06:28 1
  - show. Spanish-made series acquired by Netflix -- nm - prayformojo Mar 9, 06:35
Giants will not extend Eli Mannings contract after this 2019 season. -- nm - budice Mar 9, 05:36
Hee -- (link) - Reagen Mar 9, 05:02 2
- *LOVE* -- nm - David Mar 9, 09:44
- And once you've invited a man into your home, anything he takes from you is nice and [winks] legal -- nm - Beaker Mar 9, 05:08
SMILF cancelled -- nm - Beaker Mar 9, 04:40
TV PSA: Boxing (FOX), Live PD, Ransom, Say Yes to the Dress, NBA, HNIC, SNL (Idris Elba), Duke/UNC, other stuff -- nm* - Beaker Mar 9, 04:38
modern medicine, man told he's going to die by robot.... -- (link) - zeitgeist Mar 9, 01:57 1
- I always knew the robots would turn on us. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 9, 04:19
This is getting added to my bucket list: Raccoon+Bathtub+Bubble Gun -- (link*) - Flavorize Mar 8, 22:44 2
- "Oh man, oh man, the bubbles got loose, they're getting everywhere, why is nobody helping, okay I got this one..." -- nm - Max Mar 9, 01:25
- Don't know what that was but it was great -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 9, 00:07
An NFL player needs to do this (instead of quitting while smoking a blunt)--say, "the NFL prescribes me opioids for my chronic pain, I choose weed -- (edited) - Flavorize Mar 8, 22:41 4
- I read the NHL is doing best with weed and are basically allowing it with no regular testing for it. They do screen for it randomly when doing -- (edited) - Krusty Mar 9, 05:14 3
  - 60% of its players come from and 22% play in a place where it's 100% legal. - Reagen Mar 9, 05:20 2
    - Plus another 22% where it’s essentially entirely legal and you’re getting into “why bother?” territory. -- nm - mafic Mar 9, 05:57 1
      - Seems like the other sports need to look to the NHL on this and stop penalizing and suspending their talent. - Krusty Mar 9, 06:07
Star Wars Blaster. Used in A New Hope. can be yours for only $46K -- (link) - peglegpete Mar 8, 21:54 2
- They have Raiders Of The Lost Ark Storyboards! -- nm - Flavorize Mar 8, 22:02
- Any waiting period while they check my background? -- nm - FN-2187 Mar 8, 21:59
Kentucky will pay you to drink...they need 50 people to help Highway Patrol to do sobriety tests, you get $100, a meal and free drinks. -- (link) - zeitgeist Mar 8, 21:10 7
- They need to get Dr. Johnny Fever -- nm - Dano Mar 9, 04:17 1
  - wow, great callback -- nm - prayformojo Mar 9, 04:50
- no mention if they ply you with good or cheap booze. -- nm - peglegpete Mar 8, 21:55
- "About our money for tonight..." "Right. $100, and you boys racked up $500 in moving violation fines." -- nm - The Blotto Brothers Mar 8, 21:54 1
  - "Chicken wire?" -- nm - con_carne Mar 9, 02:07
- they don't offer to pick you up & drop you off afterwards? -- nm - peglegpete Mar 8, 21:30
- This reminds me of that Pacino movie, where he traps people, who have warrants, by telling them they're going to have breakfast with the Yankees -- nm - Flavorize Mar 8, 21:16
Captain Marvel isn’t bad, but unfortunately it doesn’t do the job that Black Panther did on multiple levels, not the least of which was girl power. - Qale Mar 8, 21:09 8
- it had plenty of "girl power" - B++ -- nm - mud Mar 9, 07:12
- I'll list some Marvel movies, you/ST tell me if it's better/worse than that movie: Thor 3, GOTG2, Ant-Man, Iron Man, CA-CW, Deadpool, Venom, Av-IW -- nm - Flavorize Mar 8, 21:43 6
  - Worse, worse, better, much worse, worse, about the same, better, about the same -- nm - David Mar 9, 09:46
  - better, better, better, worse, worse, better, better, worse -- nm - mud Mar 9, 07:10
  - It is about on par with Thor 1. But not quite a Winter Soldier. -- nm - Qale Mar 9, 07:09 3
    - I said Thor 1 yesterday, too. -- nm - Dark Callisto Mar 9, 09:47
    - There's a big gap between those two. - the wrong element, bad guy Mar 9, 08:05 1
      - I agree with your IM, and Winter Solider is the best Captain America movie. -- nm - Qale Mar 9, 13:47
God's twitter acct says look at the bright side of Daylight savings...its one hour less of the Donald's administration.... -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 8, 20:26 3
- If he resigns before November. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 8, 20:58
- only if you die before november when the time changes again -- nm - peglegpete Mar 8, 20:32 1
  - *looks up at the night sky for SMOD..... -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 8, 21:11
something completely different - make your own joke time: the largest millipede in tanzania is called the... - b. Mar 8, 20:03 3
- "placed in a newly erected genus of its own" -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 8, 22:41
- least cringeworthy Millennial in the world! -- nm* - Flavorize Mar 8, 21:14
- It's no Leghump. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 8, 20:13
I’m looking forward to Max’s 20 years ago post in two weeks -- nm - Dano Mar 8, 20:01 2
- You must wait! -- nm - Max Mar 8, 20:05 1
  - I looked it up because I knew something was coming up but wasn’t sure exactly when. -- nm - Dano Mar 8, 20:09
I didn't really need something else to get outraged about this week, but here we are. whoever lied to police (or that the police are lying), this is -- (edited) - b. sweary Mar 8, 19:38 6
- here's a news report about it with more details. security reported smelling it, then an officer said it, too; but no way with what was used. nm but: -- (link*) - b. sweary Mar 8, 19:45 5
  - Years ago when Bill was on chemo his nurse told him if he needed a little 'private time' she'd put a 'do not disturb' sign on his door. - Meg Mar 8, 19:54 4
    - I was a kid when one of my brothers dated a girl who was undergoing cancer treatment at stanford. - b. sweary Mar 8, 20:00 3
      - At the same time there were a couple of hippies renting the guest house out back of our place. When they knew he was going in for treatment he'd -- (edited) - Meg Mar 8, 20:11 2
        
        what's even worse is the reason why its still that way -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 8, 20:23
        
        :) - -- nm - b. Mar 8, 20:21
We'd about given up on this year's Barn Owl nest as the male was not living up to his husbandly duties. This morning she (finally) laid an egg. - Meg Mar 8, 19:05
I too have seen 17 Jude law films. -- nm - Amanda Mar 8, 18:53 4
- 21, but nothing since Spy. -- nm - mafic Mar 8, 22:13
- 26. I would have guessed he started earlier than Gattaca. -- nm - Max Mar 8, 20:08
- 15 -- nm - Beryllium Mar 8, 19:08
- 20 -- nm - Dano Mar 8, 18:58
10 years ago in theaters: Watchmen - Max Mar 8, 18:51 [youtube] 19
- Zack Snyder's one and only masterpiece -- nm - Jovian Mar 8, 19:06 8
  - Dawn of the Dead -- nm - David Mar 8, 19:16 6
    - I always forget this. Why do I always forget this. That was his first right -- nm - Jovian Mar 8, 21:01
    - yeah -- nm - prayformojo Mar 8, 19:18 4
      - 300 -- nm - Remlik Mar 8, 19:43 3
        
        I wonder how that movie would be with different cinematography. -- nm - Max Mar 8, 19:48 2
        
        shite -- nm - mud Mar 8, 19:52 1
        
        Guy Ritchie? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 8, 19:52
  - If you don't count his imaginary cut of that superhero movie he didn't finish... -- nm - Ender Mar 8, 19:09
- 15 years ago: Starsky & Hutch, Hildago - Max Mar 8, 18:51 [youtube] 9
  - 20 years ago: Analyze This, Cruel Intentions - Max Mar 8, 18:52 [youtube] 8
    - Can we still put it anywhere? -- nm - Qale Mar 8, 20:45
    - 25 years ago: Greedy, The Chase, Angie, (ltd): China Moon - Max Mar 8, 18:55 [youtube] 6
      - 30 years ago: Lean on Me, Dream a Little Dream, Skin Deep - Max Mar 8, 18:56 [youtube] 5
        
        35 years ago: Against All Odds, Harry and Son, Sahara, (ltd): Repo Man, This is Spinal Tap - Max Mar 8, 18:58 [youtube] 4
        
        40 years ago: Starcrash (terrible Star Wars ripoff with David Hasselhoff and Christopher Plummer) -- (link) - Max Mar 8, 19:02 [youtube]
        
        I am not familiar with that Sahara -- nm - Beryllium Mar 8, 19:02 2
        
        Brooke Shields and John Rhys-Davies -- (link) - Max Mar 8, 19:04 [youtube] 1
        
        sadly no African War Zone nor a Ship of Death... -- nm - Beaker Mar 8, 19:27
10pm are you going by yourself or the wife and you getting a sitter? -- nm - Bacon Mar 8, 18:46 1
- Going with a friend -- nm - Beryllium Mar 8, 19:03
Watching MI:Fallout, about half-way thru and have come to one conclusion: Henry Cavill just isn't believable as a human being. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 8, 18:36 2
- I wouldn't complain if Matt Bomer replaced him in some things -- nm - Beryllium Mar 8, 19:04 1
  - Me either -- nm - Epiphany Mar 9, 06:43
The Citadel has been eliminated from the Southern Conference tournament. -- nm - Dano Mar 8, 18:34

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