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Very funny Flash. -- nm - . Oct 9, 00:13
LYC not bubble bath after all -- (pic) - JD Oct 8, 23:20 [Attachment] 4
- Ooooo - loverly. -- nm - Pippy -Janky Jenkins Oct 9, 06:00
- Sounds like it's supposed to be good, and some reviews advise not mixing it. Good choice by your coworkers, I guess :) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 9, 00:06
- Polish vodka. The proper way to drink it is to take off the cap and throw it away. ;) -- nm - . Oct 9, 00:04
- if it is, that's a new brand to me :) -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 8, 23:23
Phishing spam cleans out accounts of a whole school district. -- (link*) - zeitgeist Oct 8, 23:08 1
- if not for decent morals and no computer skills, that sounds like a lucrative business to get into. -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 8, 23:17
Speaking of strange hockey starts, Matt Duchene already has five assists for us in three games. - David Oct 8, 22:25
"Houston Rockets fan arrested in China after threatening to burn national flag" - David Oct 8, 22:03 7
- So that's what brings down the Chinese Communist Party? The NBA? -- nm - Mop Oct 8, 22:34 1
  - It has certainly caused some stuff to bubble to the surface that they'd like to keep out of the public eye. -- nm - David Oct 8, 22:44
- ... that's a really stupid thing to do in China, with the US government being the way it is right now. No one's gonna go to bat for you, son. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 22:30 4
  - (In hindsight, I took "Houston rockets fan" to mean "American citizen and Houston rockets fan", just in case that needed clarifying) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 22:32 3
    - (Because who else would be a rockets fan) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 22:32 2
      - That's the rub in all of this. Because of Yao Ming, the Houston Rockets are China's favorite non-Chinese sports team. - David Oct 8, 22:43 1
        
        Oh, darnit. I thought I could throw out meaningless sports snark for fun, and it turns out I can't. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 23:25
The U.S. Constitution, as written by the framers, contains seven articles. President Trump’s version goes to 11 -- nm - Local Paper's editorial Oct 8, 21:32
I do kind of love that four different teams are a win away from the NLCS. -- nm - David Oct 8, 21:26 1
- All I want is a Dodgers/Yankees World Series. Been 38 years since the last one. Far too long. -- nm - Mr. Havens Oct 9, 00:10
Well, that was an interesting premiere for Mr Robot. - Beryllium Oct 8, 21:19
heheheh -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 8, 20:59
AEW is doing something that I think makes a lot if sense. - the wrong element, bad guy Oct 8, 20:26 1
- NWA debuted thier show today at 6:05pm on Youtube as well -- nm - Remlik Oct 8, 20:50
A coworker was just notified that his PG&E climate crisis power outage is imminent (sounds like in the next few hours?) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 20:18 7
- This is Edison's list of potential cuts tomorrow. Not too bad in Orange County (easy for me to say) except for those close to the foothills. -- (link) - Meg Oct 8, 22:06
- Yep. Power will probably be out sometime tonight or early tomorrow morning and last through late Wednesday -- nm - Amoxy Oct 8, 20:28 5
  - What an absurd timeline we live in. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 20:35 4
    - I just finished reading this article -- (link) - Bacon Oct 8, 20:37 3
      - I presume they will not have to pay for the time they are without power. - Qale Oct 8, 20:43 2
        
        If they don't have it they can't use it. No charge :/ - Meg Oct 8, 22:08
        
        I presume that if a fire starts regardless of the precautions, then the power will be turned back on for everyone's safety. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 20:44
Blake Snell with the save! -- nm - Tim Oct 8, 19:59
important microbiological science ancient stuff, found in Australia -- (link) - Peglegpete Oct 8, 19:56
Lady here has a "service dog" I feel sorry for. Too much noise and smells for him. - . Oct 8, 19:48
Syria Kurdish official told us, reacting to Trump’s overnight decision. “The Americans are traitors. They have abandoned us to a Turkish massacre. -- (link) - Remlik Oct 8, 19:37 1
- Man never met a treaty or agreement he didn't want to drop out of. -- nm* - . Oct 8, 19:50
Man. Just out of curiosity, I watched about fifteen minutes of Fox News. That is......not very professional. - Volnelk Oct 8, 19:36
Bray Wyatt got a concussion from that nonsense. -- nm - David, Earth’s Mightiest Hero Oct 8, 19:27 1
- he's lucky that's all it was. -- nm - Remlik Oct 8, 19:37
Long day at work. Got lots done, though, and managed to help out a coworker. Now I just want to sleep. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 19:26
Hole has reunited....at least for a jam session.... -- (link) - Remlik Oct 8, 18:48
Shaun: Joker is at the Base theatre Oct 25th weekend FYI -- nm - Booooker Oct 8, 18:45
An interesting thread about narcissistic sociopaths and how that pertains to people working in the administration. -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 8, 18:36 1
- Pretty spot on. -- nm - pmb Oct 8, 19:39
Have you ever seen a Grade B egg? -- nm - Dano Oct 8, 18:09 1
- yah, farmers market; also I have a memory from kidhood of seeing them at a store that had LDS supplies. -- nm - b. Oct 8, 18:31
Granted it's only been a week, but I'm truly enjoying Shadowkeep so far. -- nm - Shaun Oct 8, 18:04 1
- i have another 4-6 months to get through BL3. I'll catch up on Shadowkeep next year probably. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 8, 18:12
Blizzard had suspended a Hearthstone player and rescinded all his prize money and he expressed support for Hong Kong protesters. -- (link) - Mop Oct 8, 17:51 4
- I think they’re a bit harsh to do this several times today. -- nm - Qale Oct 8, 18:55
- Everyone please unkillfile me. -- nm - Tim Oct 8, 17:52 2
  - Who said that? -- nm - Mop Oct 8, 17:55 1
    - Possibly ty. -- nm - David, Earth’s Mightiest Hero Oct 8, 19:17
Always disappointing to find out your childhood beliefs are wrong (spoils) - znufrii Oct 8, 17:48 1
- Ah, no. - Beryllium Oct 8, 17:49
Ben Simmons shot a 3... -- (link) - decline Oct 8, 17:28 2
- whoa. Xanadu! -- nm - prayformojo Oct 8, 17:41 1
  - The whole world is going flippity flop -- nm - decline Oct 8, 17:45
Miami, Jets, Washington, Cincy - who wins last? -- nm - Reagen Oct 8, 17:21 3
- I think Washington. Miami takes them Sunday -- nm - Booooker Oct 8, 17:23 2
  - Agreed. I was cracking up listening to Matthew Berrys podcast. He went on a 20 rant about how the Redskins - Amoxy Oct 8, 17:27 1
    - Right. The Bengals are terrible but act like a team that isn’t. The Dolphins are acknowledging it and moving forward. -- nm - Volnelk Oct 8, 17:50
Did I mention the Niners are 4-0? - Amoxy Oct 8, 17:17 2
- shhh, don't jinx it, they need to get to 5-0 -- nm - crash davis Oct 8, 18:24
- Yes OG! -- nm - Pippy- Oct 8, 18:24
James Neal scored 7 goals last year for Calgary. They traded him to Edmonton for human cap poison Milan Lucic. Neal has 5 goals in 3 games this year. -- nm - Reagen Oct 8, 17:15 4
- make it 6 -- nm - Reagen Oct 8, 18:07 2
  - That's good right? -- nm - Shaun Oct 8, 18:10 1
    - depends if you're a Sav-On Foods exec or not. -- nm - Reagen Oct 8, 18:11
- hey Lucic has...21 penalty minutes this year in 2 games....!! -- nm - Booooker Oct 8, 17:21
my two fave twitter-ing senators giving another example of why that's the case in this exchange. nm but: -- (link) - b. Oct 8, 17:12 2
- :) -- nm - Tim Oct 8, 19:02
- Nice. -- nm - znufrii Oct 8, 17:39
If a president say defies a scotus ruling that it can’t put in a citizenship question in the census would anyone doubt democracy as we know it is over - JackDawson Oct 8, 16:43 8
- There's a lot of laws about what they are supposed to do...but who ever thought the Pres would say, NO what are you going to do about it? -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 8, 19:26
- we had citizenship questions on the cencus for decades. how different is the new one from the one removed 20 or so years ago? -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 8, 16:47 2
  - Yeah but we *know* that Nazi Schmuck Miller will use that info to round up non papered residents as fast as the reports are turned in. -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 8, 19:28
  - Very, it had never been in the short form and long form (it was removed 60 years ago) - JackDawson Oct 8, 16:50
- Did - then - democracy end when Andrew Jackson defied SCOTUS? -- nm - Mop Oct 8, 16:45 3
  - Was democracy over when the germans attacked perl harbour? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 16:51 1
    - Or when Captain Kangaroo started the Kangaroo court? -- nm - Amoxy Oct 8, 17:24
  - Well we had a weak scotus for decades and the rights that they were created to protect - of unpopular voting minorities - went u checked for a century - JackDawson Oct 8, 16:48
Chinese Officials Respond To NBA Controversy By Moving Millions Of Citizens To NHL Re-Fanification Camps -- (link) - Booooker Oct 8, 16:21 1
- "The team of the captain vancouver ca-nook is my favo-u-rite." -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 17:07
Funko's Next Darth Vader Pop! is the First with Lights and Sound -- (link) - Booooker Oct 8, 16:09 1
- cool -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 8, 16:18
*uses episodes of The Grinder to teach life lessons to my kid* - prayformojo Oct 8, 15:51 2
- Better than using Grindr I suppose. -- nm - Qale Oct 8, 17:21 1
  - +1 -- nm - Mr. Havens Oct 9, 00:12
This warrants a wheeze-laugh. -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 8, 15:47 1
- haha. -- nm - b. Oct 8, 15:54
Duh. -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 8, 15:43 1
- Por que no los tres? -- nm - Ortega taco girl Oct 8, 15:48
Remember that crane collapse back in June that destroyed a parking garage? They just started pulling vehicles out yesterday. Many have no damage. -- nm - GregW Oct 8, 15:15 2
- can you imagine making car payments for all that time with no car? -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 8, 15:25 1
  - Can you imagine having groiny as your boss?? - con_carne Oct 8, 15:30
So what now? Does Pelosi call a vote? Or does this Impeachment inquiry end as soon as it began? -- nm - Jovian Oct 8, 15:14 4
- Carry on. Their refusal to cooperate will be seen for what it is my voters. -- nm - Mop Oct 8, 16:18
- Because the WH is stonewalling? Issue subpoenas and carry on with the hearings -- nm - TWuG Oct 8, 15:24 2
  - The WH has been issued subpoenas already am I missing something here? -- nm - JackDawson Oct 8, 16:42
  - Don McGhan is laughing at that one. -- nm - Jovian Oct 8, 15:26
groiny: My current position I got pretty screwed (eventually) - JaxSean Oct 8, 14:59 16
- they gave me a verbal offer yesterday, I said I would sleep on it and get back to them today.... - groiny Oct 8, 15:05 11
  - Is it a position where you can find salaries pretty easily online? - spamlet Oct 8, 15:17 6
    - like even if it were my exact current job, and you just throw in managing 2 people, it should be more than what they offered. - groiny Oct 8, 15:20 4
      - Are they doing this to test out how well you can be a manager? - JaxSean Oct 8, 15:23 3
        
        The choices are me, or go outside to hire someone. - groiny Oct 8, 15:40 1
        
        Sounds like you got them. Go for the kill. - spamlet Oct 8, 18:14
        
        No, we are already short staffed - groiny Oct 8, 15:36
    - yeah, it is kinda tough, I would be managing a couple people, and I am pretty sure it is a lowball offer. - groiny Oct 8, 15:19
  - So your "guaranteed" money is much lower, but the "possible" number is higher? That's tough. - JaxSean Oct 8, 15:15 3
    - yeah, basically my current salary plus all hit bonuses would equal my salary without the bonuses of new job. - groiny Oct 8, 15:16 2
      - are you currently hitting all bonuses on your current role? Would you expect to get any bonuses on the new role? -- nm - JaxSean Oct 8, 15:20 1
        
        Yes, in 9 years I have met every bonus criteria. - groiny Oct 8, 15:34
- I keep seeing companies offer people a 'promotion' as a way to get them to do more work for the prestige rather than the extra money. -- nm - Max Oct 8, 15:04 3
  - what the fuck is that shit??? - groiny Oct 8, 15:06 2
    - Agreed to IM -- nm - Pippy- Oct 8, 18:39
    - word -- nm - JaxSean Oct 8, 15:15
Current mood, open-plan office edition: "Yes, it would be totally worth spending $500 on noise-cancelling headphones" -- nm - Roger More Oct 8, 14:54
Re B2: Thanks for the birthday wishes and I check the mailbox nearly every day on behalf of the house since I park all but in front of it -- nm - JD Oct 8, 14:48 1
- Happy birthday JD, you cool kat you. -- nm - Qale Oct 8, 17:47
Follow-Up Poll: When's the last tome you got something worth getting in your physical mailbox? - Cuzzin Todd Oct 8, 14:48 10
- Friday, a book and some buttons from Busy Beaver. -- nm - . Oct 8, 22:54
- today voter's guide, still get bills by mail, lots and lots of catalogs, most we like. even that Weird Shit for old folks is now Hey I *need* that -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 8, 19:24
- Grandma’s death certificate unlocked my inheritance so... -- nm - Qale Oct 8, 17:48
- I still get Amazon loot through USPS. -- nm - Mop Oct 8, 15:57
- Yesterday. I got Shea Serrano’s new book. -- nm - Volnelk Oct 8, 15:52
- Yesterday. It was info about early voting -- nm - Krusty Oct 8, 15:48
- Lizzo -- nm - con_carne Oct 8, 15:42 1
  - I Just Took A DNA Test, Turns Out I'm 100% That Package -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 15:44
- 2 nights ago. -- nm - b. Oct 8, 15:36
- Last Friday: Tove Lo ticket and the Tuesday before that was four tickets for the Hella Mega Tour -- nm - JD Oct 8, 14:50
Winter storm Aubrey to hit the upper Midwest Wednesday to Thursday with at least a foot of snow expected -- (link) - decline Oct 8, 14:48
Biden *must not* be the nominee. This attitude is disqualifying. -- (link) - TWuG Oct 8, 14:45 16
- my favorite Biden moment was on Jay Leno's garage. He told Jay the 1 thing he wanted for 8 years as VP was to drive his 1963 split window corvette -- (edited) - Peglegpete Oct 8, 15:29
- Lol. - znufrii Oct 8, 15:00 3
  - He's right that they do know better. - pmb Oct 8, 15:22 2
    - Fair. -- nm - znufrii Oct 8, 16:01
    - This -- nm - JaxSean Oct 8, 15:23
- He's appealing to the moderate middle, even stunned, shocked republicans who might not want to have a crash reversal of all this "progress" -- nm - Geist Oct 8, 14:53 10
  - Then even more reason not to be the *DEMOCRATIC* nominee. Fuck appealing to the mythical "middle" and doubly fuck trying to appeal - TWuG Oct 8, 14:56
  - Of course the liberals definitely want to reverse, repeal EVERYTHING that's happened as fast as donny destroyed everything Obama did -- nm - Geist Oct 8, 14:54 8
    - it's not so much that I want to repeal what Trump has done as I don't want to be another Obama idiot falling for the conceit that they want to coopera -- nm - JackDawson Oct 8, 15:23 3
      - (Also, it's wild that Republicans are going to bat for the ability for President Warren to enact sweeping changes with no consequence) -- nm - Reagen Oct 8, 16:11
      - let's say we go W-Obama-Trump-Warren. The history books will be like, "Dudes, are you OK?" -- nm - Reagen Oct 8, 15:31 1
        
        Did the Mad Max movies ever mention something about the bi-polar years? -- nm - Roger More Oct 8, 15:57
    - Donny's like a walking butthole ("Oh no! Not the butts!") that sprayed liquid excrement all over that office. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 15:17 3
      - What's the first thing you'll do in the WH? I'm gonna clorox the hell out of the oval office..... -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 8, 15:27 2
        
        pete buttigieg's husband said "sage" ;) - -- nm - b. Oct 8, 15:35 1
        
        various pagan groups were getting people around the country to smudge purify federal buidlings after W left - zeitgeist Oct 8, 19:34

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