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Friday yet? -- nm - Beaker Jan 23, 08:46 2
- It is "Friday Eve." -- nm* - Andie Jan 23, 08:55
- Ask again tomorrow. -- nm - Magic 9 Ball Jan 23, 08:47
A map of CO2 emissions per household in some of the Northeast. -- (link) - Krusty Jan 23, 08:21 1
- Link to see the rest of the US... -- (link) - Krusty Jan 23, 08:24
we give a $3k award to a faculty member every year. the granting organization wants to give a check at a ceremony, and getting a check is a really - amanda Jan 23, 08:19 15
- Nicer to hand someone an award certificate for ceremonial purposes anyway. -- nm - Max Jan 23, 08:45 1
  - Yeah, hanging a pay stub on the wall just isn't the same. -- nm - Spawn Jan 23, 08:52
- We finally started to do this for bonuses a couple of years ago. Made no difference to anyone. -- nm - spamlet Jan 23, 08:33 2
  - Back in the day, bonuses were cash. Now *that* was good. -- nm - Spawn Jan 23, 08:36 1
    - Just dawned on me, I have never had a job that ever gave out a bonus. Ever. nm - Amos Burton Jan 23, 08:42
- you should give them a giant check instead - decline Jan 23, 08:30
- GIANT NOVELTY CHECK! (but actual money through payroll, obvie.) -- nm - Andie Jan 23, 08:20 8
  - *adds it to the others in the trunk* -- nm - Happy Gilmore Jan 23, 11:55
  - Cash it at your giant novelty bank aka Bank of America. -- nm - Beron Cherry Jan 23, 08:47 2
    - unless you're black. Then they'll charge you with fraud -- nm - Beaker Jan 23, 08:47 1
      - And for once they'd be right! -- nm - Beron Cherry Jan 23, 08:49
  - right? -- nm - prayformojo Jan 23, 08:44
  - heh -- nm - decline Jan 23, 08:30
  - A tattoo of a check! -- nm - Spawn Jan 23, 08:25
  - This. -- nm - Krusty Jan 23, 08:22
When a Man Took a Joke in a Pepsi Ad Seriously, Chaos Ensued - JD Jan 23, 08:15 1
- That concept in your IM is exactly my life in math class right now. -- nm - Reagen Jan 23, 08:42
(UGH) I have made the decision to look for apartments (UGH) - ty97 Jan 23, 08:05 8
- I'm glad you're going for a bigger place but I don't envy your upcoming search. -- nm - Krusty Jan 23, 08:23
- move in with Dawson! The Odd Couple reboot!! -- nm - Beaker Jan 23, 08:08 4
  - YES!!! -- nm - David Jan 23, 08:15
  - No. -- nm - ty97 Jan 23, 08:08 2
    - YES!!! -- nm - Spawn Jan 23, 08:20
    - Why do you hate us? -- nm - spamlet Jan 23, 08:18
- Hoboken! -- nm - decline Jan 23, 08:06 1
  - No. -- nm - ty97 Jan 23, 08:08
I'd like to thank wiggum for saying something I've been thinking for a while now. nm - Amos Burton Jan 23, 07:53
Lol, ManU - znufrii, human scum Jan 23, 07:49
Ontario teen calls police when his online order doesn't arrive... The order? A fake ID -- (link) - Beaker Jan 23, 07:44 1
- Drugs are bad, mmkay? -- nm - Beron Cherry Jan 23, 07:48
God has spoken. -- (link) - Shaun Jan 23, 07:31 5
- gone -- nm - Spawn Jan 23, 08:19
- He speaks again! -- (link) - Shaun Jan 23, 07:37
- Wow! - Pippy bone collector Jan 23, 07:37
- Also, if you eat bat soup, you gonna die. -- nm - Mop Jan 23, 07:33
- Daaaaaamn. -- nm - Mop Jan 23, 07:32
"Australians warned of increase in highly-venomous spiders following flash floods" -- (link) - Andie Jan 23, 07:23 3
- Venomous spiders, snakes, God and bat soup. This is the Plague Board. -- nm - Diva Jan 23, 07:36
- Australians also cautioned to be on the lookout for smooching Spaniards. -- nm - Mop Jan 23, 07:29
- Highly venomous when compared to animals from other continents. In Australia, only about a 2 out of 10. -- nm - Beron Cherry Jan 23, 07:25
So Nadal sexually harassed an underage girl? -- nm - Mop Jan 23, 07:17
Jodie Whitaker confirmed to Entertainment Weekly she plans to return for another season of Doctor Who next year -- nm - Beaker Jan 23, 07:16 2
- excellnet! -- nm - Remlik Jan 23, 08:12
- Nice! -- nm - znufrii, human scum Jan 23, 07:42
So overnight/this morning, this happened on my local PoGo discord (good story, no drama) - ty97 Jan 23, 07:15 4
- That's great! -- nm - Krusty Jan 23, 08:28
- This might be a good reason to hold off on handing it over to police right away. You can still do it later. But once you turn it over, its contents... - Qale Jan 23, 07:43
- that's awesome. -- nm - Andie Jan 23, 07:21
- The Internet is evil and should be shut down! -- nm - Mop Jan 23, 07:19
does anyone here know charleston SC well-ish? -- nm - amanda Jan 23, 07:05 8
- I know Danny McBride lives there. -- nm - LMS Jan 23, 07:35
- I've been there probably 10 to 12 times. I know parts of it well. -- nm - Inigo Jan 23, 07:09 6
  - I have to go to a conference there. the conference is at the francis marion hotel and it's a week long. the hotel is just super expensive so I want to - amanda Jan 23, 07:23 5
    - I asked my neighbor here that goes every year. She said the city center is further south and east of there closer to the port. - spamlet Jan 23, 07:35 3
      - Go with this advice. Whenever I went I stayed with relatives. So, I don't know the hotels/air bnbs very well. -- nm* - Inigo Jan 23, 08:12
      - that looks like less than a mile; thanks. -- nm - amanda Jan 23, 07:56
      - I've stayed at that Days Inn. It was inexpensive and just fine. -- nm - Diva Jan 23, 07:39
    - I've only been to Charleston for part of a day once so no expert, but that's the area I explored and it felt like the hub of the city / city center -- nm - ty97 Jan 23, 07:31
Man sues employer for racial discrimination and settles. He goes to the bank with the check, bank calls cops and initiates fraud investigation -- (link) - ty97 Jan 23, 07:03 9
- He was an Enterprise employee. -- (edited) - spamlet Jan 23, 08:50
- That’s a tough case if both sides are telling the truth. It’s a jury I’d actually want to be on because it’d be fascinating. -- nm - Qale Jan 23, 07:51 5
  - I agree. As presented, there are enough details that you can see why the bank might be dubious. But then another bank went ahead and took the checks. - Beron Cherry Jan 23, 08:01 4
    - The VOID thing is apparently damning to the bank - Reagen Jan 23, 08:11 3
      - To a larger point, when the two cops confirmed his story, they still wouldn't cash it. That's why they're gonna have to write him a check. -- nm - David Jan 23, 08:29 1
        
        To: VOID -- nm - Beryllium Jan 23, 08:53
      - Oh, now that's fascinating. I did not know about that. -- nm - Beron Cherry Jan 23, 08:19
- he'll make a good living out of these discrimination lawsuits it seems. -- nm - Beaker Jan 23, 07:10 1
  - its big business. people are getting paid simply to go away - Pippy bone collector Jan 23, 07:23
Whoa. Andie is a Frenchie? -- nm - ty97 Jan 23, 06:59 4
- we lived in Montreal (suburbs) till I was 5, but my parents are anglo. -- nm - Andie Jan 23, 07:01 3
  - Here, read this aloud. We'll make the call: "We went out and about again and again in our Ford Falcon." -- nm - Beron Cherry Jan 23, 07:05
  - Ok, SPY -- nm - ty97 Jan 23, 07:04 1
    - Daywalker -- nm - Mop Jan 23, 07:11
i feel like its all spawn's fault. - tRuMaN Jan 23, 06:55 3
- I got through all four of my meetings unscathed. I am bullet proof! -- nm - Spawn Jan 23, 08:36
- not unreasonable -- nm - decline Jan 23, 06:59
- It usually is -- nm - Krusty Jan 23, 06:56
Bat soup is the likely culprit for the start of the virus. Warning: pictures you can’t unsee. -- (link) - spamlet Jan 23, 06:49 10
- God is saying this is wrong. -- nm - Mop Jan 23, 07:20
- and the bats may have given it to snakes while they were both being sold in the food market. there are just *so* many wrong things in that sentence. -- nm - Diva Jan 23, 07:17 1
  - Yeah, I totally meant bats, not birds. -- nm - Michael Stipe SI Jan 23, 07:20
- Plus, there's no cure for soup! -- nm - prayformojo Jan 23, 07:03 1
  - You rang? NO SOUP FOR YOU! -- nm - The Soup Nazi Jan 23, 07:06
- I'm all for trying unusual foods, but yeah, no way no how. -- nm - decline Jan 23, 06:59 1
  - I would try it without THE ENTIRE BAT SITTING IN THERE AND STARING AT YOU. -- nm* - spamlet Jan 23, 07:03
- Feels like some kind of Joker made the soup as a prank. -- nm - Inigo Jan 23, 06:57
- the best part of waking up -- nm - ML Jan 23, 06:51
- {slurp} Wait, there's absolutely nothing wrong with this bat sou....oh -- nm - Gwinnie P Jan 23, 06:50
Help me with an idiom, ST. It describes fixing one problem only to create another. Something like "installing a round rug in a square room" -- nm - Beron Cherry Jan 23, 06:46 2
- Out of the frying pan, into the fire ; kicked over a Hornet's Nest ; volatile solution? ; Band-Aid solution? ; paper over the cracks -- nm - Beaker Jan 23, 07:09 1
  - stop gap -- nm - Beaker Jan 23, 07:10
I don't understand what NBC is doing with Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist... The pilot aired Jan 7, but episode 2 doesn't air till mid February... -- nm - Ender Jan 23, 06:42 2
- My kids fucking loved the pilot and won't stop asking about the next episode of "that singing show". - Mop Jan 23, 07:26
- Yeah I thought I read that wrong when it came up on the Hulu ad -- nm - spamlet Jan 23, 06:42
Inside No. 9 has a broadcast date - 3rd February 10pm on BBC2. David Morrissey is excellent in ep 1. -- (link) - LMS Jan 23, 06:28 1
- yes! -- nm - mud Jan 23, 08:07
When you hear how many people watch a show on Netflix they count you if you watched two minutes of a show or movie. -- nm - spamlet Jan 23, 06:25
$5 Fridays: some games and knick knacks, Funkos (soccer players, Shazam, NSYNC, Harry and Meghan) -- (link) - Beaker Jan 23, 06:14 2
- Only 4 N*SYNC members. Lame. -- nm - Shaun Jan 23, 06:29 1
  - if the 5th isn't on their site he won't show, but he might be available in store -- nm - Beaker Jan 23, 06:33
ST poll: when was the last time you visited your home town? -- nm - Pippy bone collector Jan 23, 06:13 35
- 25-30 years ago....45 years ago to birthplace -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 23, 10:56
- Last weekend, Christmas, and Thanksgiving. -- nm - Max Jan 23, 09:01
- Christmas Eve. My 87-year-old mother cooked a delicious meal for 11 people. She's not normal. -- nm - David Jan 23, 08:16
- Last September. -- nm - Qale Jan 23, 07:56
- Still live here. -- nm - pmb Jan 23, 07:46
- about 10 years. I think. -- nm - Diva Jan 23, 07:18
- I still live in my hometown and I love it so much! -- nm - Krusty Jan 23, 07:05
- I lived here when I was 2-7, so.... right now? -- nm - amanda Jan 23, 07:04
- Town where I grew up: last month. Town where I was born: 2007, I think. - Dark Callisto Jan 23, 07:02 2
  - Portillos is there now! That’s a reason! -- nm - spamlet Jan 23, 07:03 1
    - And Giordanos, too! (I had Giordanos while I was there last month, and Avanti's, too!) -- nm - Dark Callisto Jan 23, 07:12
- Last April and doing it again in 2 weeks -- nm - eag Jan 23, 07:01
- 5 or 10 years ago probably -- nm - decline Jan 23, 06:58
- Even though I'm pretty close, haven't done a "tour" since last summer. I'll be commuting through there again this spring and summer. -- nm - zunkskunk Jan 23, 06:46
- July. In your *face*, court order! - prayformojo Jan 23, 06:42 1
  - oh my. -- nm - Pippy bone collector Jan 23, 06:51
- Last night. -- nm - Ender Jan 23, 06:42
- This last October -- nm - JD Jan 23, 06:35
- I work there, so...2.5h ago roughly. -- nm - Shaun Jan 23, 06:28
- Two years ago -- nm - Roger More Jan 23, 06:27
- Saturday and walked past the ward I was born in yesterday. -- nm - LMS Jan 23, 06:26
- 3? years or so - Reagen Jan 23, 06:25
- I haven't left it for more than a few hours in 18 months. I even go near the hospital I was born every once in a while (it's by a movie theater) (NM) - Marlowe Jan 23, 06:20
- Where I lived when I was <5? August 2019. After that was Colorado and it's been almost 30 years. - JaxSean Jan 23, 06:18 2
  - Don’t think I’ve ever been back to where we lived when I was born. We moved when I was 6. -- nm - znufrii, human scum Jan 23, 06:22 1
    - I was counting where i grew up. If we are going back to 'place of birth', i haven't been to the Montreal south shore in about 10 years. -- nm - Andie Jan 23, 06:25
- 20 years or so when my folks still lived there. -- nm - Beron Cherry Jan 23, 06:18
- Christmas. -- nm - spamlet Jan 23, 06:16
- Two and a half years ago. -- nm - znufrii, human scum Jan 23, 06:16
- 19.5 years ago for my 10 year high school reunion - Beaker Jan 23, 06:16
- Define hometown but if it’s where my parents live then Xmas -- nm - JackDawson Jan 23, 06:15
- A couple of years? -- nm - ty97 Jan 23, 06:15
- Thanksgiving (in October, the real harvest festival Thanksgiving.) -- nm - Andie Jan 23, 06:15
- Im due, Chicago -- nm - budice Jan 23, 06:14
- Define visit :) I drive through it pretty regularly. I've had lunch at a restaurant in town within the past couple months - oblique Jan 23, 06:14
Second (and a third) Chinese city shutdown for travel (affecting 18 million people) -- (link*) - Beaker Jan 23, 06:05 8
- I hadn't considered the impact of all of the Lunar New Year travel. -- nm - ty97 Jan 23, 06:14 1
  - Yeah if you were designing a pandemic this is how you’d start it. -- nm - spamlet Jan 23, 06:36
- more -- (link) - Beaker Jan 23, 06:06 5
  - 17 deaths, 634 sick being reported (I'll take the over on both numbers) -- nm - Beaker Jan 23, 06:07 4
    - "the new virus appears dangerous for older people with other health conditions, but doesn't seem nearly as infectious as SARS" -- nm - Beaker Jan 23, 06:08 3
      - Yet -- nm - spamlet Jan 23, 06:18
      - as someone who lived in the city where 41 (i think?) people died of SARS, i am not actually in the tiniest bit concerned at this point. - Andie Jan 23, 06:16 1
        
        i googled, 44 is the correct number. -- nm - Andie Jan 23, 06:17
TV PSA: Star Trek Picard, Last Man Standing, Floribama, NBA, Station 19, Grey's Anatomy, Supernatural, Restaurant Impossible, Good Place, Superstore, -- nm - Beaker Jan 23, 06:02 5
- Good Place: The Antepenultimate Episode! -- nm - Beron Cherry Jan 23, 06:05 2
  - I liked the propreantepenultimate. -- nm - Reagen Jan 23, 06:16 1
    - Squee. I just learned that word this morning and need to start working it into conversations. -- nm - Beron Cherry Jan 23, 06:19
- grown-ish, Everything's Gonna be OK, Outmatched, Deputy, Legacies, Project Runway, Swamp People, Bold Type, Very Cavallari, Ex on the Beach, AndyCohen -- nm - Beaker Jan 23, 06:02 1
  - Will & Grace, Perfect Harmony, Gayle King Grammy Special, A Million Little Things, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Jan 23, 06:03
The Gentlemen 77% (73), The Turning 30% (10), Colour out of Space 91% (74), The Last Full Measure 65% (23), Zombi Child 87% (52) -- nm - Beaker Jan 23, 05:56 1
- Colour Out of Space sounds like peak Nick Cage (based on an HP Lovecraft novel); spoiler review at link -- (link) - Beaker Jan 23, 06:00

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