ST Alpha - Backboarding

SlickerTalk
Search Archives
The Leaderboard
The FAQ

Search Dr. S. Talk
TT/ST Wiki
How Well Do You Know ...

RSS Feed

Hosting by DigitalOcean

Support ST on Ko-Fi

Welcome to SlickerTalk ▲

Kick your heels up, settle in, and get ready for a raucous discussion. The topic is anything and everything: movies, television, politics, music, breaking news, recycled news, orange-colored prediction markets, etc.

Join the Conversation

Suggestions and requests can be sent to team @ slackertalk.com. Or, please use this form to submit a bug report.

Recent News ▲

BlueSky Starter Pack for STers
This is a list of automatic follows when creating a BS account. Special thanks to Kim for setting it up! To bridge your account to the Fediverse, follow @ap.brid.gy (per the Bridgy docs)
the pack

[ SlackerTalk / Beta ] [ SlickerTalk ] [ Dr. S. Talk ]

Live

Down to Post

< Newer

Older >

Posts: 159

Worf -- nm - Beakor Clegane Apr 11, 18:38
Pan. (Oops, repost) -- nm* - Beryllium Apr 11, 18:34
Pete Alonso just hit the hardest home run in MLB so far this season. And almost the last four as well. -- (link) - Tim Apr 11, 18:32 3
- Damn! I wish they could go back and track the balls of older guys so we could see how hard guys like Gary Sheffield hit the ball. - Krusty Apr 11, 18:39 2
  - Yeah, the exit velo from guys like Bonds would be impressive I bet. -- nm - Tim Apr 11, 18:40
  - Albert Belle is another. -- nm - Krusty Apr 11, 18:40
IMPORTANT -- (link) - ty97 Apr 11, 18:28
whoa, this will change my neighbourhood! ..or the one over the bridge anyway : -- (link) - mud mud Apr 11, 18:09 4
- I'm all for it, and would be if I still lived in Kits. - mafic Apr 11, 18:12 3
  - There's a similar thing that just happened here - Reagen Apr 11, 18:29 2
    - indigenous land? -- nm - mud mud Apr 11, 18:34 1
      - not indigenous, just grandfathered. - Reagen Apr 11, 19:13
Oh good, they let Kushida keep his Back to the Future gimmick in NXT. (he debuted during last night's taping.) -- nm - Tim Apr 11, 18:05 2
- Don't pretend like you care about New Japan guys when they get to NXT!!! - David Apr 11, 18:08 1
  - I am surprised they put the title back on Okada. -- nm - Tim Apr 11, 18:14
tomorrow night in San Francisco is a pop up Game of Thrones restaurant -- (link) - PegleggedRaven Apr 11, 18:02 1
- At the end, you all die. -- nm - Mop Apr 11, 19:15
Jay Bruce is 10 for 49 on the season and has 7 home runs. -- nm - Tim Apr 11, 17:49 3
- Chris Davis is sobbing uncontrollably. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 11, 17:52 2
  - From the video of him on the deep out to center he looked rather okay. He was smiling as if to say, "What else could I do?" - Krusty Apr 11, 18:42
  - I’m still available for half of what they’re paying Davis. -- nm - Tim Apr 11, 17:53
WaPo: WH pushed plan to punish political rivals by busing ICE detainees into sanctuary cities & releasing them on streets: -- (link) - mud mud Apr 11, 17:41 4
- No way. That sounds like something the Mob would do and that not what Trump is all about, right? -- nm - Qale Apr 11, 18:10 1
  - Teflon Don, who's been mobbed up to the ears for over 30 yrs? nah -- nm - mud mud Apr 11, 18:15
- disgusting. -- nm - Remlik Apr 11, 18:01 1
  - I mean, look at this sweet face. Does he look like someone that'd concoct such a plan? -- (link) - mud mud Apr 11, 18:04
Time to transfer some more Blu-rays on Vudu. $5 credit on 10 transfers. -- (link) - GregW Apr 11, 17:35 1
- Thx! -- nm - Mop Apr 11, 19:16
Normally Top Charting lists are whatever but Tomorrowland really nails it with their Top 1000 EDM songs. -- (link) - Qale Apr 11, 17:24 2
- There is nothing on earth that needs a list that goes to 1000. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 11, 17:42 1
  - I skimmed through it and I imagine it’s a datamine of all the DJ’s and Producers that have played at their festivals/shows. And then voted on somehow. - Qale Apr 11, 17:48
playoff penalty shot!! -- nm* - Beakor Clegane Apr 11, 17:10 1
- Drink? -- nm - Baron Mormont Apr 11, 17:45
DisneyPlus $6.99/mo includes 30 seasons of Simpsons. Launches Nov 12 -- nm* - budice Apr 11, 17:02 7
- any talk of Disney buying Paramount? -- nm - Remlik Apr 11, 17:08
- WE DECLARE WAR ON ALL OTHER STREAMERS! -- nm - Disney Apr 11, 17:08
- wow. -- nm - Remlik Apr 11, 17:04
- That...is unexpected. - David Apr 11, 17:04 3
  - I bet the 4k stream will be more -- nm - Remlik Apr 11, 17:08 2
    - nope all same price -- nm - budice Apr 11, 17:54 1
      - oh really. excellent! -- nm - Remlik Apr 11, 18:17
Okay, ST! Impress me! Name the artist OR song that "has set a new YouTube record for the fastest music video to reach 100 million views." - David Apr 11, 17:02 19
- I saw a headline that I think is related to this, so this may be cheating... - ralph wiggum Apr 11, 17:11 9
  - This was the other thing the Billie Eilish dudes I was teamed up with were obsessed about. -- nm - Reagen Apr 11, 17:14 5
    - (It's not the worst thing I've ever heard, and Billboard Streisand Effected it to #1 by kicking it off the country charts.) - Tim Apr 11, 17:17 3
      - This is what happens when you have horses in the back, Tim. Horses. In the back. -- nm - Qale Apr 11, 17:51
      - That's great -- nm - con_carne Apr 11, 17:19 1
        
        It's my opinion and it may have gotten there eventually,but the song had been kicking around for a few weeks, this made news, two weeks later it's #1. -- nm - Tim Apr 11, 17:21
    - Cowriter credit to Trent Reznor! -- nm - Tim Apr 11, 17:14
  - Though now that I look at the Youtube count, my guess seems to only have about 1.5 million views. So that was way off. nm - ralph wiggum Apr 11, 17:13 1
    - The remix with Billy Ray Cyrus (so it can get back on the country charts) has 30M in a week. -- nm - Tim Apr 11, 17:15
  - That was my guess as well. -- nm - Tim Apr 11, 17:12
- spoils - zeitgeist Apr 11, 17:11 4
  - I'm like 97% sure you cheated but yes. -- nm - David Apr 11, 17:14 3
    - twitter hot topics had several mentions yesterday, but they've been eclypsed by the black hole -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 11, 20:51
    - If I answer it right, it could only be by cheating. -- nm - PegleggedRaven Apr 11, 17:16
    - I claim credit for what I think is ST's first and only previous BlackPink reference! -- (link) - David Apr 11, 17:15 [Backboard]
- billie eilish? - Beakor Clegane Apr 11, 17:06 1
  - Nope! And I thought it was a dude, too. -- nm - David Apr 11, 17:09
- JLo. (NM) - Marlowe Apr 11, 17:04 1
  - Nope -- nm - David Apr 11, 17:04
Captain Sisko would have named Deep Space Nine after himself if he were smart. -- nm - Gul Dukat Apr 11, 16:55
Love Don's marvel suit. wow. awesome -- nm - Beakor Clegane Apr 11, 16:51
Amazon's Hanna adaptation gets a second season -- nm - Beakor Clegane Apr 11, 16:43
"Cassian said I have to." -- nm - Beryllium Apr 11, 16:43
Ozzie Albies’s New Deal Could Be the Worst an MLB Player Has Ever Signed -- (link) - Beakor Clegane Apr 11, 16:39 2
- His agents are terrible. - Will Hunting Apr 11, 16:49 1
  - Albies is much less of a sure thing. - David Apr 11, 16:52
now I'm starting to worry that it was actually Assange's life-sized crochet double that was arrested -- (link) - Walder Freyformojo Apr 11, 16:13
ST Poll: From what you recall ( no googling) who started the Birther movement? -- nm - Epiphany Apr 11, 16:09 12
- I don't remember her name, but wasn't it a Russian woman who is now a US citizen? -- nm - GregW Apr 11, 17:27
- some nutcase whose name I can never remember. I do remember that he's abandoned that, but says Obama's father is someone else (a journalist?). -- nm - mafic Apr 11, 17:21
- Bannon? -- nm - Qale Apr 11, 16:58
- Man, I don't know. Roger Stone -- nm - con_carne Apr 11, 16:54
- No idea. It just seemed to pop up at one point and was talked about by people I don't pay attention to. -- nm - Krusty Apr 11, 16:38
- Hillary -- nm - Dano Apr 11, 16:34 1
  - Pretty sure it was her campaign -- nm - Amoxy Apr 11, 18:43
- It goes back at least to the 2008 primary. -- nm - Baron Mormont Apr 11, 16:23
- Ned Stark after King Robert died, because he found out about Jaime & Cersei. -- nm - PegleggedRaven Apr 11, 16:17
- Glenn Beck? -- nm - Super Daddy Princess Apr 11, 16:11
- Obama, by being born in Kenya. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Apr 11, 16:10 1
  - His parents by giving birth to him in Kenya. (NM) - Marlowe Apr 11, 16:14
Full Pixar Catalog to be available on DisneyPlus -- nm - budice Apr 11, 15:56 5
- any word if this will be in Canada? -- nm - Beakor Clegane Apr 11, 17:13
- All StarWars movies to be made available on DisneyPlus with most on Day One -- nm - budice Apr 11, 16:12
- Scarlet Witch and Vision show on Disney+ is called WandaVision -- nm - budice Apr 11, 16:07 1
  - Could've been worse. -- nm - The Wanda Years Apr 11, 16:08
- Captain Marvel on Day One with Endgame in Year One -- nm - budice Apr 11, 16:02
I just took a signed letter from my boss for a client, made a copy, kept the copy and on mental autopilot shredded the original letter. - Max Apr 11, 15:54 2
- Ha and sorry! -- nm - Krusty Apr 11, 18:01
- Ooops.. (NM) - Marlowe Apr 11, 15:58
Nailed it! SpaceX recovered all 3 boosters! -- nm - TWuG Apr 11, 15:45
Watching the side by side landing of side boosters of the Falcon Heavy is just one of those jaw dropping, smile inducing events -- nm - JD Apr 11, 15:45 1
- I'm like a 12 year old again watching this stuff. -- nm - TWuG Apr 11, 15:46
*Masters Spoilers* - Sir Robert Strongbad Apr 11, 15:06 2
- That guy frankly bores me. (NM) - Marlowe Apr 11, 15:56
- Whole bunch of elite within a couple shots -- nm - budice Apr 11, 15:08
ST Sneaker Help: Anyone up for trying to help me buy a pair of sneakers tomorrow morning at 10am? - Krusty Apr 11, 14:56 2
- didn't you JUST get a pair today? Or Yesterday? -- nm - groiny Apr 11, 15:01 1
  - Today! 😁 But I got those for free in a giveaway. I didn't even have to pay for shipping. - Krusty Apr 11, 15:06
from 2016....... - groiny Apr 11, 14:53 [Backboard]
Bret Easton Ellis is the poster boy for why cynicism doesn't work past, say, 35 -- (link) - Reagen Apr 11, 14:43 2
- Bret Easton Ellis is the poster boy for why Bret Easton Ellis doesn't work past, say, 35 -- nm - Beryllium Apr 11, 14:57 1
  - Speaking of which, I had a meeting yesterday where I'm like 80% sure the partner on the other side was coked up. nm - ralph wiggum Apr 11, 16:56
So let’s start a conspiracy theory. Julian Assange is in the latter stages of sypholis that went untreated in the embassy over the last 7 years. -- nm - Qale Apr 11, 14:27 16
- LOL that you guys believe that's the real Julian. -- nm - Reagen Apr 11, 15:18 3
  - I just assume that "Julian Assange" is a ceremonial title like the Dread Pirate Roberts. nm - ralph wiggum Apr 11, 17:22
  - Arya Stark plying her trade? -- nm - PegleggedRaven Apr 11, 15:25
  - Julian Assange doesn't exist as such. "He's" a sentient AI being that lives in the internet and created Wikileaks to cause chaos before he takes over -- nm - pmb Apr 11, 15:25
- He's terrified of Mueller, who is in fact a flerken. -- nm - Max Apr 11, 15:17
- I just wagered $1000 on him at 1000:1 odds to rule Westeros. -- nm - Sir Robert Strongbad Apr 11, 15:04
- He is going to reveal Seth Rich *was* murdered because he hacked into the DNC. - Jov Arryn Apr 11, 14:54
- he was about to release all 6 episodes of GOT season 8 -- nm - PegleggedRaven Apr 11, 14:52 2
  - 7 episodes. The 7th is just for the elite. -- nm - Beakor Clegane Apr 11, 15:20 1
    - /*faint*/ -- nm - PegleggedRaven Apr 11, 15:24
- he ordered his martini's stirred, and blasted Hanson from his stereo. -- nm - PegleggedRaven Apr 11, 14:51
- He impregnated Ecuador's consulate daughter - Amoxy Apr 11, 14:45 1
  - You jest...but maybe -- nm - Epiphany Apr 11, 16:10
- The deep state in the Justice and State depts. coerced Ecuador to release him so they could flip him to provide impeachment evidence -- nm - Super Daddy Princess Apr 11, 14:44
- Trump convinced Ecuador to wait until after the Mueller probe was over to kick him out so he couldn't be subpoenaed. -- nm - jnine Apr 11, 14:37
- The Julian Assange that was arrested today was really Pamela Anderson in disguise. The real Assange died in 2017 of syphilis... - Mr. Havens Apr 11, 14:30
Went out for a bit, left a cinnamon roll on the nightstand in a paper bag. When I got home, dog ripped up half the bag - Amoxy Apr 11, 14:27
Disney WebCast underway outlining Disney+ , etc -- (link) - budice Apr 11, 14:17 6
- I wonder if I am in a major region and when my major region will be contemplated. (NM) - Marlowe Apr 11, 16:28
- The Disney Twitter has a thread with the highlights. -- (link) - Mop Apr 11, 15:50 3
  - Apparently not a joke: Elizabeth Olsen and @Paul_Bettany star as Wanda Maximoff and The Vision in a new #DisneyPlus series, WandaVision -- nm - Mop Apr 11, 16:18 2
    - Also: Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan are teaming up in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, a @Marvel series on #DisneyPlus. -- nm - Mop Apr 11, 16:18 1
      - I wish Anthony Mackie would team up with Olaf and star in... -- nm - Mop Apr 11, 16:20
- When they say ad-free, I have to laugh. It's impossible for Disney not to sell its own products. - David Apr 11, 14:42
Re: The song on The Rookie - nowhere on the net yet, but these are the (incomplete) lyrics that were in the subtitles. - GregW Apr 11, 14:17 2
- Heh, I did this last night when I was searching. - David Apr 11, 14:28 1
  - weird IM - I mean the freaking band was playing it! - Lady Pippy of the Stormlands Apr 11, 14:36
SpaceX launching first commercial Falcon Heavy tonight. Launch window begins at 6:35 Eastern. Will attempt to land all 3 boosters. -- nm - TWuG Apr 11, 14:11 2
- 14 minutes to launch -- nm - TWuG Apr 11, 15:21
- Hopefully they fare better than today's moon landing. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 11, 14:17
County is in talks to buy Southwest Museum, LA's oldest. Its public transit proximity makes it smexy -- (link) - con_carne Apr 11, 14:10
0 fer 32. - groiny Apr 11, 14:07 19
- I feel like I'd fluke into one hit after 58 at bats. -- nm - Reagen Apr 11, 14:24 18
  - Like you could just throw your bat at it and maybe make enough contact to squeeze out a base. -- nm - Baron Mormont Apr 11, 15:01
  - you would be able to look for 1 pitch in 1 area for every pitch, and accidentally get into one. -- nm - groiny Apr 11, 14:26
  - It's why pitchers hit .100 instead of zero. -- nm - David Apr 11, 14:26 15
    - He's managed to drop his career average 3 points in this streak which is amazing for two reasons - Reagen Apr 11, 14:33 14
      - I was thinking when he broke the record that if he hit .400 for his next 50 at bats, his average would still be the Mendoza Line. - David Apr 11, 14:36 13
        
        Robin Ventura went on a 41 AB hitless streak once, and it was brutal. -- nm - groiny Apr 11, 14:37 12
        
        I remember Ron Gant hit .160 for two months, and Atlanta talk radio was ready to run him out of town. - David Apr 11, 14:40 11
        
        the good news is that the team would still be bad ever if he were hitting. -- nm - groiny Apr 11, 14:41 10
        
        Being the worst Oriole must be like being the Uwe Boll movie that he's ashamed of. -- nm - David Apr 11, 14:41 9
        
        and yet, the Orioles have more wins than the Cubs. -- nm - groiny Apr 11, 14:45 2
        
        The Cubs play defense like they're terrified of baseballs. -- nm - David Apr 11, 14:48 1
        
        and that is with Baez, who is fantastic with the glove. -- nm - groiny Apr 11, 14:49
        
        he can dry his tears with hundred dollar bills that he is making from that stupid contract. -- nm - groiny Apr 11, 14:43 5
        
        It's true, but I honestly believe he's miserable. -- nm - David Apr 11, 14:45 4
        
        Yup -- nm - Krusty Apr 11, 14:50
        
        you would think that the Orioles staff would have done some basic tests.... - groiny Apr 11, 14:47 1
        
        On some level it just smells like he was using PED's pre-contract and he gave them up as he got older. That doesn't explain it all, but I'd be - pmb Apr 11, 15:40
        
        anyone with an ounce of pride would be. -- nm - groiny Apr 11, 14:45
archeologists find 35,000 year old cave art in the Balkans -- (link) - PegleggedRaven Apr 11, 14:00
Word. -- nm - John Murphy Apr 11, 13:50 1
- Life. -- nm - Babe Ruth Apr 11, 14:03

Post a message top

< Newer

Older >

(Disclaimer: This website uses cookies to store identifying information. Please practice safe password usage.)