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YouTube warns us: Rewind is Coming. -- (link) - Mop Dec 4, 11:55
Destiny: Saint-14 lore, if you are interested. -- (link) - Shaun Dec 4, 11:47
Not that anyone cares - but I'm having no issues with ST or the spoiler button. If you're having issues - it's probably you. nm - Turd Ferguson Dec 4, 11:46
Amazon exclusive: LONGEST game edition of Monopoly -- (link) - oblique Dec 4, 11:43 8
- Heh. I have played using one die before. -- nm - Spawn Dec 4, 12:06
- I didn't know there's so many variations. Cheaters edition (cheat cards)...Also one where there's an Alexa-esque banker, instead of paper money -- nm - Flavorize--strolling through Disney+ Dec 4, 11:56 1
  - There is even a millennial mocking edition -- (link) - oblique Dec 4, 11:58
- We asked ourselves... how can we make Monopoly worse? -- nm - Mop Dec 4, 11:52 4
  - Ukrainian Monopoly -- nm - Amoxy Dec 4, 11:57 1
    - Russian monopoly, you jail opponents and wealthy till they agree to sell everything to you pennies on the ruble -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 4, 12:47
  - better ! -- nm - mud Dec 4, 11:54
  - Trump Monopoly! -- nm - Spawn Dec 4, 11:54
LDB Warning: Apparently there is a rendition of LDB on the CMA Country Christmas special that aired last night. - oblique Dec 4, 11:37
So, remember renter that went to Spain instead of paying rent? Can not recall how much updating I did but we evicted, he talked to his friend the... - Spawn Dec 4, 11:37 9
- Yeah right. The owner sounds like a pushover. Make the owner pay the court costs -- nm - Amoxy Dec 4, 11:56
- If he's living like that, someone in the family (wife?) probably comes from money...my guess, he'll catch hell once he fesses up, but in-laws will be - Flavorize--strolling through Disney+ Dec 4, 11:52 2
  - His wife actually "took over paying" after the last court thing. So I guess she is in on it. -- nm - Spawn Dec 4, 11:53 1
    - sheesh -- nm - mud Dec 4, 11:56
- I've never been to Spain, but I kinda like the music -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 4, 11:45
- Though he went to Italy not Spain -- nm - eag Dec 4, 11:42 1
  - spoiler - Spawn Dec 4, 11:51
- burn down the apartment -- nm - Beaker Dec 4, 11:40
- can you just change the locks and leave all his stuff on the front porch? -- nm - decline Dec 4, 11:39
Wheeler to the Phils 5/100+ -- (link) - spamlet Dec 4, 11:34 1
- nice -- nm - decline Dec 4, 11:38
Scientists have gotten predictions of global warming right since the 1970s -- (link) - oblique Dec 4, 11:28 1
- They are wrong as you snowflakes now call it "Climate Change". -- nm - GOP Dec 4, 11:31
if I could find a 3% rate, I would refi. -- nm - amanda Dec 4, 11:12 5
- We’re close enough now that it would likely cost more than the interest saved but I’m still going to run numbers. -- nm - spamlet Dec 4, 11:28
- my broker is one of my insane drunk crazy bitches girlfriend's from college though and she has my back -- nm - JackDawson Dec 4, 11:26 1
  - *snort!* -- nm - Diva Dec 4, 11:27
- I'm sort of stunned -- nm - JackDawson Dec 4, 11:20
- Same here. -- (edited) - znufrii, human scum Dec 4, 11:18
If the world were really flat cats would have knocked everything off by now -- nm - T-Shirt seen at lunch Dec 4, 11:10 1
- well, sure. -- nm - mud Dec 4, 11:21
slickdeals: half off next two orders via uber eats -- (link) - zeitgeist Dec 4, 11:05
These guys just completed the Cannonball Run in a record smashing 27 hours, in a suped-up car that included multiple radar detectors and laser jammers -- (link) - Mop Dec 4, 10:57 17
- The spotters idea is genius. -- nm - Spawn Dec 4, 11:20
- Their average speed is, I think, 15 km/h faster than I've ever driven a car. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 4, 11:12 2
  - I had my old, old 87 Camry up to about 105 once. I thought it was going to shake apart. -- nm - sycor Dec 4, 11:22
  - I wish I knew exactly how fast I got my parents Buick up to. The digital speedometer would just start flashing 80 if you went faster than 80 - oblique Dec 4, 11:14
- *twitch* -- nm - Spawn Dec 4, 11:10
- That's cool and all, but nutjobs who try this risk a lot of innocent lives. -- nm - David Dec 4, 11:06 10
  - "One will be outright indignation that anyone would endanger public safety by traveling at such speeds." -- (edited) - Spawn Dec 4, 11:22 4
    - It’s not their actual speed but their relative speed to everyone else that’s the problem. -- nm - spamlet Dec 4, 11:54
    - Yes, I read the entire article. -- nm - David Dec 4, 11:30 2
      - I figured you did but figure some here might not have. -- nm - Spawn Dec 4, 11:32 1
        
        ... that is a lot of figuring. (I hate responding while talking on the phone!) -- nm - Spawn Dec 4, 11:34
  - True. Speed limits aren't about annoying people. They're about making people safe. -- nm - Mop Dec 4, 11:10 3
    - The other responses will be from another crowd—Cannonballers and motorheads of all stripes who believe that driving skill, and not traffic law... - Spawn Dec 4, 11:25 2
      - They were, at times, driving over 300 kilometers per hour. There's a certain amount of physics involved in that which no amount of driving skill can - Beryllium Dec 4, 11:29 1
        
        Agreed. But open highways in the middle of the night with thermal imaging, I could see it. Granted, a bit faster than my max highway speed, though. -- nm - Spawn Dec 4, 11:40
  - yup -- nm - prayformojo Dec 4, 11:06
- that's averaging 100mph -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 4, 11:00
~I feel it in my fingers...I feel it in my toes...~ -- nm - Diva Dec 4, 10:52 4
- Christmas is all around us! -- nm - David Dec 4, 11:03 2
  - Kids, don't buy drugs -- nm - prayformojo Dec 4, 11:06 1
    - She was rubbish! -- nm - David Dec 4, 11:14
- Here's the shorter version of the Canadian Tire commercial. -- (link) - Shaun Dec 4, 10:58 [youtube]
New York City peeps: The Jax's will be invading your city next week. - JaxSean Dec 4, 10:44 2
- I'm so sorry to miss you guys!! I am literally not in town for any of those days. Hopefully new apt soon though! -- nm - JackDawson Dec 4, 11:21
- Sweet! I'll email you later -- nm - Krusty Dec 4, 10:58
FFS, all my Xmas shopping done, feeling good about my LBD chances and I’m out. Fuck you, Korean take out. -- nm - Roger More Dec 4, 10:37 29
- I love these. -- nm - Diva Dec 4, 10:47
- If you got Korean BBQ, you're still a winner. -- nm - David Dec 4, 10:43 6
  - It should be a safe space. -- nm - Roger More Dec 4, 10:52 4
    - actually lots of korean immigrants are very Christian (IE moonies) and many of the restaurants here have Christian music playing year round - zeitgeist Dec 4, 10:58
    - If it’s not a safe space for the dog, it’s not for you either. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 4, 10:58 2
      - Ok Jay Leno. - zunkskunk Dec 4, 11:23
      - *gaze* -- (edited) - SyrDragon Dec 4, 11:16
  - yep -- nm - Diva Dec 4, 10:47
- And now it’s playing loudly at the Starbucks I walk by back to work - Roger More Dec 4, 10:43 20
  - You're double out -- nm - oblique Dec 4, 10:46 9
    - venti out -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 4, 10:52
    - the second one within the hour puts him back in doesn't it? it is like they cancel each other out -- nm - Beaker Dec 4, 10:47 7
      - Wait, that works? Sweet! -- nm - Spawn Dec 4, 11:08
      - Yes. And anal sex reinstates your virginity -- nm - oblique Dec 4, 10:48 5
        
        Then you should update your handle to “kilbo, virgin” — nm - Roger More Dec 4, 10:54 4
        
        Someone is taking being knocked out of LDBC kinda hard. -- nm - Diva Dec 4, 11:10 3
        
        I am, I'm just lashing out at everyone. I'd hate to be working for me right now. -- nm - Roger More Dec 4, 11:11 2
        
        I'm gonna go watch the No Time To Die trailer and see if that helps. -- nm - Roger More Dec 4, 11:12 1
        
        that should help some. -- nm - Diva Dec 4, 11:25
  - The Bowie/Bing version is a classic! -- nm - Beaker Dec 4, 10:45 1
    - it's better than that Macca and Wings song. But not by much. -- nm - Diva Dec 4, 10:48
  - Because we like Christmas music, Scrooge dude. -- nm - David Dec 4, 10:45 6
    - Christmas music makes no sense. There isn’t specific music for anything else except maybe July 4th -- nm - Qale Dec 4, 10:58
    - Christmas music is like all music - there’s good music and bad music. Billy Mack recognizes this. -- nm - Roger More Dec 4, 10:50
    - Many Christmas songs are wonderful. LDB is a pox upon society. -- nm - Reagen Dec 4, 10:47 3
      - In the Christmas movie vernacular, you sit on a throne of lies. -- nm - David Dec 4, 11:03
      - Don't even get me started on those Beatles abominations. - Shaun Dec 4, 10:56 1
        
        I agree--those songs are brutal -- nm - JackDawson Dec 4, 11:26
  - So effing mad right now. -- nm - Roger More Dec 4, 10:44
New Year's Resolution: Get Mad -- nm - Golden Doodle Dec 4, 10:34
B2: the spoiler problem: if the show spoiler button doesn't work for you, just highlight the spoilers; that works fine to see them -- (edited) - Beaker Dec 4, 10:33 4
- I'm getting a few HTTP 500 errors today but the spoilers thing is working for me -- nm - oblique Dec 4, 10:38
- Yeah that's what I've been doing. Just less convenient. But I get it from Bery's point of view. - sycor Dec 4, 10:38 2
  - I'll find a way to make it work without javascript ... -- nm - Beryllium Dec 4, 10:42
  - pretty much same here. some sites are almost unreadable now -- nm - Beaker Dec 4, 10:40
Sushi at Walgreens? -- nm - ty97 Dec 4, 10:32 4
- What could go wrong? -- (pic) - Ender Dec 4, 10:44 [Attachment]
- "oonagi on Aisle 5" -- nm - SyrDragon Dec 4, 10:36 2
  - unagi - oblique Dec 4, 10:37 1
    - "Danger!" -- nm - SyrDragon Dec 4, 11:22
Killing the Paramount Decree might be the best thing to happen to movie theaters since... I dunno... IMAX? FIGHT ME! - Mop Dec 4, 10:27
Star Wars Hotel will open in 2021, a year ahead of schedule. -- nm - David Dec 4, 10:22 1
- I look forward to your review! -- nm - Remlik Dec 4, 11:34
A couple of comments about Frozen 2 (spoilers, duh) - Mop Dec 4, 10:16 14
- My niece, who is 10 and brilliant, texted me: "Uncle, I saw you gave Frozen a B. I liked it more than you did." and then went into a long discussion - JackDawson Dec 4, 11:21 1
  - PFM's daughter, who is 13, will ask me detailed questions about my books. She started doing this when she was 11, so I can relate. -- nm - David Dec 4, 11:29
- spoiler - Diva Dec 4, 10:18 11
  - I heard that song and a certain part is like dead in impression of Peter Cetera in The Glory of Love. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 4, 10:51 2
    - yep. -- nm - Diva Dec 4, 10:51 1
      - I didn’t even read kilbo below. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 4, 10:57
  - This (spoilers) - oblique Dec 4, 10:22 4
    - Hunnert percent. I hope they threw him a couple bucks. -- nm - Reagen Dec 4, 12:56
    - Me too. -- nm - Diva Dec 4, 10:33 2
      - btw, thank you for recommending the film. I don't think my wife really wanted to see it but she left very happy with the music -- nm - oblique Dec 4, 10:37 1
        
        Oh good. :) -- nm - Diva Dec 4, 10:38
  - Ah, yes. I see it now. Also, maybe if I watched the whole video I linked below, I would have known that. -- nm - Mop Dec 4, 10:22
  - sample -- (link) - Max Dec 4, 10:21 [youtube] 1
    - Hell yeah. -- nm - Diva Dec 4, 10:34
Well this looks smashy. -- (link) - Beryllium Dec 4, 10:13
This is a very cute Xmas advert for a small independent hardware store and much better than most of the ones that cost millions. -- (link) - LMS Dec 4, 10:13
We apparently know a whole lot less about the Sun than we thought -- (link) - oblique Dec 4, 10:12 5
- FEAR MY... -- nm - Sol Dec 4, 10:22
- It's actually flat. And it orbits the Earth. -- nm - Mop Dec 4, 10:21 1
  - WE WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG! -- nm - Catholic Church Dec 4, 10:30
- For instance, it enjoys mystery novels set in the Steampunk era, and it totally has a favourite planet (not you, Jupiter). -- nm - Reagen Dec 4, 10:19 1
  - It was miffed when the Beatles spoiled its sneak attack - zeitgeist Dec 4, 10:35
I've been burning through my digital "must watch" TV recently. I thought I was running on empty, then I remembered... Good Omens! -- nm - Mop Dec 4, 10:11 1
- I've made it to Castle Rock after finishing Jack Ryan S2 recently -- nm - oblique Dec 4, 10:13
Is there anything fun to do in New Orleans? I'll be there in January. -- nm - Mop Dec 4, 10:08 12
- you can punch Senator Kennedy in the face for just $10 -- nm - Jovian Dec 4, 10:39 2
  - Ted or Robert? -- nm - Mop Dec 4, 10:44 1
    - I assume he means John. -- nm - Ender Dec 4, 10:46
- bang some voodoo bitch. -- nm - groiny Dec 4, 10:35
- show random people your boobs? -- nm - Beaker Dec 4, 10:31
- I highly recommend getting engaged. - Spawn Dec 4, 10:30
- The Free Tours by Foot walking tour of the French Quarter was fun and very informative. Beignets at Cafe du Monde. Live Jazz on Frenchman St - znufrii, human scum Dec 4, 10:28
- There's a couple things to do. I guess you could say they're fun. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Dec 4, 10:20
- MOP going to NOLA (or vegas) is like an atheist making a pilgrimage to Mecca -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 4, 10:13 1
  - WOO! HAJJ, BABY!!! SHOW ME YOUR T*TS! -- nm - Mop Dec 4, 10:17
- I hear they have a big festival in February if you can stay a little longer... -- nm - Ender Dec 4, 10:10
- It's not really a party kind of town. -- nm - Reagen Dec 4, 10:09
To be fair, Willie Nelson's issue is with smoking, not with marijuana. I assume edibles are still OK. -- nm - Mop Dec 4, 10:07
Let's be frank. This link is only for David. Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez talk about writing music for animated musicals. -- (link) - Mop Dec 4, 10:01 [youtube] 2
- Reagen, they speak about the inspiration for "The Next Right Thing" (spoilers) - Mop Dec 4, 10:19
- That's really more Kim's thing. -- nm - David Dec 4, 10:02
Yes I am going to watch the Bungie reveal stream for the Season of Dawn. -- nm - Shaun Dec 4, 09:59 1
- Also, I know that almost no one here is still playing, but you should really check out the trailer for Season of Dawn. It's dope. -- nm - Shaun Dec 4, 10:04
It looks as though Microsoft is going to go ahead with the 2nd SKU for the next-gen Xbox. -- (link) - Shaun Dec 4, 09:58 3
- English me? They having a monster and a value version at release? What is 10tf? - Will Hunting Dec 4, 10:55 1
  - Yes, teraflops. So the Anaconda don't want none of the 4TF action, it's going to go to 10+, making it the clear choice for quality and speed. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 4, 11:02
- *@#&^@!!!!!!! -- nm - Mop Dec 4, 10:00
All this proves is that the government is the real thief - stealing their hard-"won" cash and then their lives. Right? -- (link) - Beryllium Dec 4, 09:57 1
- casinos feature prominately in the reasons why many folks embezzle millions from their employer/girl scouts - zeitgeist Dec 4, 10:11

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