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NBA Finals: Obama @ Game 2 -- (link) - budice Jun 2, 16:43 1
- :-D -- nm - mud Jun 2, 16:49
Dave Bautista, LGBTQ friend -- (link) - budice Jun 2, 16:30 3
- That Bishop is almost at Trump level trolling with that tweet right there. -- nm - Qale Jun 2, 17:02
- Bishop Thomas Tobin was bishop in Pittsburgh during the height of the Catholics diddling children scandal. But I’m sure two same-sex adults sharing - Will Hunting Jun 2, 16:40
- That is awesome :) -- nm - Beryllium Jun 2, 16:32
The only good thing about all this bad weather is lots of Rob Marciano on my tv. -- nm - Dano Jun 2, 15:47
The YouTube a-hole who tried to feed a toothpaste Oreo to a homeless person is getting 15 months in prison & has to pay the person $20K -- nm - Beryllium Jun 2, 14:59 2
- Did Google also remove their channel? -- nm - Qale Jun 2, 17:05
- Good. -- nm - zunk xometimes Jun 2, 16:03
Inside Out Ride about done -- (link) - budice Jun 2, 14:50 4
- and I cannot believe this is an actual real place you can go to now -- (link) - Jovian Jun 2, 15:31 2
  - It's no Quarks -- nm - JaxSean Jun 2, 15:36 1
    - Yeah, Blue/Green Milk are veggie smoothies -- nm - budice Jun 2, 16:27
- Rock reports Jungle Cruise wrapped -- (link) - budice Jun 2, 14:53
Waterpark day. -- (pic) - Beryllium Jun 2, 14:37 [Attachment] 1
- That's Declan in the spider-man hat at the extreme left, as far from the water as he can be. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 2, 14:39
Deadwood was goooood. My initial reaction to the first five minutes. Spoilers. - Volnelk Jun 2, 14:17
I hate when I have to do performance reviews of people who think they're amazing but who are in actuality barely average. - amanda Jun 2, 14:08 9
- Capitalist societies require one to be one's own advocate and fiercest ally. No one else is going to do it. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 2, 15:17 1
  - "Particularly so for this employee." -- nm - Beryllium Jun 2, 15:32
- I resemble that remark -- nm - con_carne Jun 2, 14:28 1
  - Yeah, I feel attacked here. -- nm - Qale Jun 2, 15:14
- Actually that admin could be considered exceptional; just not in a good way -- nm - JD Jun 2, 14:17 2
  - There used to be a great list of honest recommendations for bad employees that sounded good. Like "You will be lucky to get this person to work for - pmb Jun 2, 14:53 1
    - oh man. I would love to see this. (unf pam will never apply for another job for me to use such things.) -- nm - amanda Jun 2, 15:48
- lol. I just worked this morning. Now off til Thursday. yay. -- nm - budice Jun 2, 14:11 1
  - I generally work all day sunday. it's my "getting shit done" day. I think that'll stop soon -- I was able to break the glass on a long-painful project - amanda Jun 2, 14:18
order of 600 chicken fingers, stolen! -- (link) - peglegpete Jun 2, 13:52 2
- Hate to break it to them, but chickens do not have fingers. -- nm - GregW Jun 2, 15:20 1
  - they do just as much as buffalo's have wings -- nm* - peglegpete Jun 2, 15:22
Google - Gmail/etc Outage -- (link*) - budice Jun 2, 13:25 5
- It's too bad The Verge never seems to experience an outage. They're only behind Forbes on my list of no-goes. -- nm - Qale Jun 2, 15:16
- Google Status Page -- (link) - budice Jun 2, 14:00 1
  - Good news, Google+ is still operational! -- nm - Reagen Jun 2, 14:06
- also -- (link) - budice Jun 2, 13:25 1
  - also -- -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 2, 13:39
dear Nepal & Tibet. Put tracking devices on all people who came to climb or Sherpas, like cops have. You just lost 8 more climbers. -- nm* - peglegpete Jun 2, 13:09 3
- And then what? They can’t go get them. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 2, 13:18 2
  - but everyone else like family & friends will know what glacier they'll be stuck in for 4000 years -- nm - peglegpete Jun 2, 13:27 1
    - I understood that reverence. -- nm - Captain America Jun 2, 15:16
WWE: Kofi is in Ghana and visited the birthplace of his family... -- (link) - Remlik Jun 2, 12:09
"Uh oh - fireworks fire! Do we put it out, or see what happens? Put it out, or see what happens?" -- nm - Beryllium Jun 2, 12:05 1
- Chernobyl is going overboard on its cross promotion -- nm - Reagen Jun 2, 14:05
Piano and cello cover of Better Man -- (link) - prayformojo Jun 2, 11:46 [youtube]
so Ava DuVernay is some kinda genius, David Tennant is some kinda thespian, and Deadwood is brilliance everywhere. - mud Jun 2, 11:01
WWE: Kairi Sane posted to Twitter to reveal that she ended up in the ER due to a case of anaphylactic shock credits Io Shari for helping her -- (link) - Remlik Jun 2, 10:52
Roger Stone: Brennan "must be" charged and convicted and "hung for treason." -- (link) - mud Jun 2, 10:52
IRS agent charged with leaking Cohen incorporation papers related Stormy Daniels payoff -- (link) - zeitgeist Jun 2, 10:17
that Ali Wong movie "Always Be My Maybe" has a fun cameo. -- nm - Remlik Jun 2, 09:47 6
- I read about it one of the reviews. Nwme and all. -- nm - . Jun 2, 15:22
- Best cameo ever. Sorry Matt Damon. -- nm - Shaun Jun 2, 11:02
- Netflix made the unusual choice of putting the cameo on its twitter feed. And, I mean, it's amazing ... but an odd choice to put it on twitter. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 2, 10:04
- It's a breezy fun kind of film. (NM) - Marlowe Jun 2, 09:48 2
  - yeah it is. it's nice. -- nm - Remlik Jun 2, 09:53 1
    - The end credits song really should get an Oscar nomination. (NM) - Marlowe Jun 2, 09:54
Endgame is now at 2.713 billion worldwide. It needs another $75 million. -- nm - David Jun 2, 09:40 27
- Is that to beat Avatar for Worldwide? Man, that'd be funny if that didn't happen. -- nm - Qale Jun 2, 11:56 2
  - Yes. And it's going to happen. The question is how much Disney has to cheat. - David Jun 2, 11:58 1
    - It's not like Cameron's the type of egomaniacal person who would be insulted by that gamesmanship. - Will Hunting Jun 2, 12:48
- Probably 25-30 more domestic. -- nm - Reagen Jun 2, 09:45
- I can't believe it's not getting to $900 million domestic. - Tim Jun 2, 09:44 22
  - It has definitely burned off at a rate none of us could have predicted. -- nm - David Jun 2, 09:54 17
    - It's the 3 hours. I'd watch it again, but paying $40 to watch it again is a bit much. - Beryllium Jun 2, 13:40 3
      - it's the 30 minutes of trailers up front -- nm - peglegpete Jun 2, 14:08
      - If I could bring my laptop and do some work while watching it, then I'd be game. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 2, 13:41 1
        
        ha ha this is how I feel about the overlong marvel movies too. "I have things to do!" -- nm - amanda Jun 2, 13:50
    - Nothing seems to have legs right now. We just went through a Memorial Day weekend where no holderover had a less than 40% dropoff. - Inigo Jun 2, 12:35 2
      - Of course Disney would, with a big opening out of their property every 2 weeks. (NM) - Marlowe Jun 2, 13:08 1
        
        Anyone bitching about it "only" making $850 million should think about their expectations. -- nm - Reagen Jun 2, 14:14
    - to many screens for these movies on opening weekends. -- nm - Remlik Jun 2, 10:53 1
      - Studios are crying all the way to their 90% first weekend demands. -- nm - Reagen Jun 2, 12:43
    - I saw it, I loved it, but I can wait for it to show up on Vudu before I watch it again. -- nm - Bacon Jun 2, 10:36
    - I certainly don't pay attention like I once did, but it seems like you could expect this one to be the front-loadediest of all. - Cuzzin Todd Jun 2, 10:21 6
      - Most of these mega-opening movies end up having 'legs' based on the idea that they are an event in and of themselves. - Will Hunting Jun 2, 10:26 5
        
        Except for Dark Knight those are all "firsts." First Avengers, first in a new Jurassic series, first in a new Star Wars series. This was a last. - Cuzzin Todd Jun 2, 11:21
        
        I wonder if multipliers didn't break because of the massive size of the opening AND of the sheer size of its opening circuit. - Marlowe Jun 2, 10:36 3
        
        No doubt. -- nm - Spawn Jun 2, 10:46
        
        Maybe, people already had the event feel built in so they showed up immediately. But the losing screens is solely because it dropped off - Will Hunting Jun 2, 10:42 1
        
        The per screen average is not that far away from the others, not enough to justify it losing - Marlowe Jun 2, 10:56
  - Maybe they’ll give it the “ Disney Treatment “ -- nm - Epiphany Jun 2, 09:51 1
    - I actually expect a December awards rerelease. -- nm - Tim Jun 2, 09:54
  - and btw, Gunner was about a foot too far back. - Tim Jun 2, 09:47 1
    - It's a glass half-full thing, but they would have practiced that a lot. I'm confident that's where Gunnar was supposed to stand. - David Jun 2, 09:58
fun vid: -- (link) - mud Jun 2, 09:37 2
- So third time I watched this on Twitter, I noticed the smaller ship in front two people fall down (into the water?) as the plank falls out - Bacon Jun 2, 11:10
- Jason Patric's gotten better at this. -- nm - Reagen Jun 2, 09:38
Nathan is going to see a Space Shuttle today. Given he touched a moon rock on Friday, this trip is going well for him. - Will Hunting Jun 2, 09:30 1
- he's going to love. Plus a look a the old Apollo engines...those thins are MASSIVE -- nm - Remlik Jun 2, 09:31
I love heavyweight boxing when they decide to just let their hands fly. Round 3 clip from last night's fight. -- (edited) - Will Hunting Jun 2, 08:53 1
- It just hit me who he looks like - Bobby Moynihan. -- nm - Reagen Jun 2, 09:43
Mick Mulvaney said it was a reasonable request to the Navy about the USD John McCain -- (link) - Amoxy Jun 2, 08:41 4
- It of course is a reasonable request. Given this is a man that always prefer to dishonour his own countrymen abroad. (NM) - Marlowe Jun 2, 09:31
- an audience of one -- nm - mud Jun 2, 08:50 2
  - Plus roughly a third of the country. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jun 2, 08:59 1
    - who all share the same single brain cell and are beyond persuasion. fuck them. -- nm - mud Jun 2, 09:16
Britain will be chopped up for spare parts if Brexit goes through -- (link) - Reagen Jun 2, 07:34 2
- "Dick swinging American" - Amoxy Jun 2, 08:17 1
  - America First!!! -- nm - Spawn Jun 2, 10:45
Good Omens final grades (maybe spoils) -- (edited) - Super Daddy Princess Jun 2, 07:24
The Bruins power play went 4-4 last night. On 4 shots. -- nm - Diva Jun 2, 07:01 2
- wicked efficient -- nm - prayformojo Jun 2, 07:21
- Puck bounced their way last night. In every respect -- nm - budice Jun 2, 07:16
The heavyweight champion of the world looks like a border-area truck driver. - Will Hunting Jun 2, 06:56 1
- He took a couple shots straight to the chin and said "more please". -- nm - Reagen Jun 2, 07:00
French Open spoilers - Dano Jun 2, 06:47 5
- I'm realizing I like the men's tennis so much better than the women's simply because the best men play the best - Will Hunting Jun 2, 07:07 3
  - And then you have Osaka who wins back to back Grand Slams and then fires her coach. - Dano Jun 2, 08:12 2
    - I'd be interested in a line chart of the rankings for any women who've reached the Top 5 over the last 15 year - Will Hunting Jun 2, 08:36 1
      - There have been hiccups (often due to injury). A year ago Djokovic was outside the Top 20. -- nm - Dano Jun 2, 09:11
- Spoiler - Diva Jun 2, 06:49
Why people hide ducks on cruises. -- (link) - Harry Tuttle Jun 2, 05:11 [youtube] 1
- That guy needs to think “why would people watch me for eight minutes when they can google the answer?” -- nm* - Roger More Jun 2, 05:48
Cable from tugboat snaps letting cruise ship MSC Opera crash into dock and docked boat in Venice -- (link) - Harry Tuttle Jun 2, 04:37 [youtube]
TV PSA: Fear the Walking Dead, Burden of Truth, Luther, Warriors @ Raptors, Our Cartoon President, Real HW, Spanish Princess, American Princess, -- nm - Beaker Jun 2, 03:56 1
- Billions, D-Day Untold Stories, Vida, Worst Cooks, When Calls the Heart, Chi, Weekly, NOS4A2, Deadwood, Good Omens, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Jun 2, 03:59
Now there are 8 missing Everest climbers -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 2, 01:46
Disneyland fireworks as seen from inside Galaxys Edge -- (link) - budice Jun 1, 22:16
Megamillions $475M for tuesday. Powerball was won tonight. -- nm - peglegpete Jun 1, 22:04
Watched Captain Marvel again, I think it is my favorite origin story. Just really love it -- nm - Bacon Jun 1, 21:56 6
- The bf watched it on the plane just now and said virtually the same thing I thought: Brie Larson is distractingly bad. -- nm - MDH Jun 2, 03:16
- Apparently it’s available on the plane home on Wednesday. Haven’t seen it yet, so it’s on the list. -- nm - mafic Jun 1, 23:49
- I rewatched it earlier this week. It's great. And (spoils) - Beryllium Jun 1, 22:05 3
  - Are you guys talking about Shazam!? - Spawn Jun 1, 22:25 2
    - If Brie Larson and Samuel Jackson are in Shazam then yes -- nm - Bacon Jun 1, 22:41
    - his name is: the Big Red Cheese -- nm - peglegpete Jun 1, 22:37
With Doom Patrol season 1 complete, I've been wandering though the DC Universe content and was introduced to the DC Nation shorts -- (link) - JD Jun 1, 21:43 [youtube]
LOL -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 1, 21:36
Good Omens (ed: finale) spoils -- (edited) - Super Daddy Princess Jun 1, 20:27 2
- Spoilers for which episode? -- nm - David Jun 1, 20:30 1
  - Good question. Finale. -- nm - Super Daddy Princess Jun 1, 20:31
Boxing spoilers - Will Hunting Jun 1, 20:17 9
- He looks like a bouncer at a bar from New Jersey. -- nm - Reagen Jun 2, 05:18
- Scorecard spoils -- (link) - budice Jun 1, 21:13
- One of my fav things...spoilers -- (link) - Flavorize Jun 1, 21:01 1
  - Also--SPoilers inside -- (link) - Flavorize Jun 1, 21:09
- This Forbes round by round recap is amazing. -- (link) - David Jun 1, 20:30
- Spoilers - Flavorize Jun 1, 20:25
- Spoils - Will Hunting Jun 1, 20:21 1
  - spoilers - Flavorize Jun 1, 20:26
- "against replacement opponent" -- nm - budice Jun 1, 20:21
the next NXT UK Takevoer was announced for August 31st, which is the same day as All Out. - Tim Jun 1, 19:57 3
- Dave Bautista "Went Broke" after Leaving WWE -- (link) - budice Jun 1, 20:07 1
  - “It’s safe to say his star has never been hire.” Fucking edit. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 1, 20:16
- There's a real chance that the NXT world champion is married to the AEW women's world champion. -- nm - David Jun 1, 20:00
That's it, wear 'em out. -- nm - Reagen Jun 1, 19:57 1
- Talk about every bounce goin your way. -- nm - budice Jun 1, 19:58
One small spoiler for Godzilla - eag Jun 1, 19:35 1
- I like that he is following Diva. -- nm - Spawn Jun 1, 22:37
She does the weird stuff. -- nm - Reagen Jun 1, 19:29
*rage* -- nm - Beaker Jun 1, 19:28 1
- what? -- nm - Machine Jun 2, 10:56

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