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Does ST seem slower to any of you or just me? -- nm - oblique Feb 11, 12:45 7
- Just because my posts aren't as witty as they used to be is no reason to call everyone stupid -- nm - crash davis Feb 11, 12:52
- The NH field offices are trying to submit their results. Can everyone stop interneting for 12 hours? -- nm - Mop Feb 11, 12:49
- Kid your face is slower -- nm - Pippy - Janky Jinx Feb 11, 12:47
- The entire internet seems sluggish for the past half-hour or so. -- nm - David Feb 11, 12:46 3
  - this -- nm - decline Feb 11, 13:02
  - Trump! -- nm - Mop Feb 11, 12:48 1
    - 10,000 MAGA bots churning out "BLACKS FOR DONNY" posts all over social media -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 11, 12:51
First time in the gym in 2020. My first reaction when walking into the locker room... - Mop Feb 11, 12:28 19
- our Y took out half a row of lockers to install 2 private changing rooms (for trans, really shy?) besides the room of 'family' change rooms -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 11, 12:37 2
  - Shy, right. - znufrii, human scum Feb 11, 12:51 1
    - Seriously. - kelly Feb 11, 13:12
- Good job! -- nm - Pippy - Janky Jinx Feb 11, 12:33
- If there are girl guides selling cookies, you've got the wrong locker room. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 11, 12:31 9
  - If there are girl guides selling cookies, you've got the wrong country. -- nm - crash davis Feb 11, 12:32 8
    - scouts. whatever. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 11, 12:32 7
      - I'm now trying to envision a group titled Girl Whatevers -- nm - crash davis Feb 11, 12:34 6
        
        That's the club down the street with the drag queen performers. -- nm - Beron Cherry Feb 11, 12:36
        
        Scout Whatevers would be open to all sexes. -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 12:34 4
        
        Are they whatever about everything? "Orienteering. Here's a compass. Go that way, or whatever." -- nm - Beryllium Feb 11, 12:37 2
        
        Well, lets just say they don't believe in compasses. -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 12:39 1
        
        love will find the way - zeitgeist Feb 11, 12:48
        
        I could finally get a merit badge in being a newly minted fashion expert. -- nm - crash davis Feb 11, 12:35
- why would they swap the locker rooms? -- nm - crash davis Feb 11, 12:30 4
  - Just to mess with Mop, obviously -- nm - oblique Feb 11, 12:39 3
    - RIGHT? I don't trust them! -- nm - Mop Feb 11, 12:48
    - I mean, anyone that has not set a foot in a gym by now in 2020 deserves *something* to happen to them. -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 12:40 1
      - Signed, Brazzers -- nm - David Feb 11, 12:41
" The Boston Red Sox will name Ron Roenicke interim manager Tuesday -- a day before the first scheduled workout for pitchers and catchers" -- nm - David Feb 11, 12:27 10
- I hereby choose them as our Playoff contender!! - Jovian Feb 11, 12:49
- I bet they had to get Manfred's sign off on this that he wasn't involved. If not, and he's involved, everyone in the decision should be removed. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 11, 12:35 3
  - I'd love to hear how he didn't know what was going on yet he sat next to Cora on the bench. This whole thing stinks. - Krusty Feb 11, 12:39
  - In 2020, Manfred's proved beyond the shadow of doubt that he's unfit for his role. - David Feb 11, 12:38 1
    - 100% He's failing the game -- nm - Krusty Feb 11, 12:40
- How do the bench coaches get away with cheating? Are we supposed to believe they didn't know? - Krusty Feb 11, 12:32 3
  - I hadn't even realized that the rest of Boston's staff remains intact. That's garbage if true. -- nm - David Feb 11, 12:34 2
    - Were they previously with the Astros as well? I don't even know who they are. -- nm - crash davis Feb 11, 12:50
    - Yup. It's garbage -- nm - Krusty Feb 11, 12:37
- 1 day until pitchers and catchers report! 1 day! -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 12:29
The Hunt is back on the release schedule -- (link) - Reagen Feb 11, 12:19 7
- Coincidentally (?), "The Most Dangerous Game" just entered the public domain last month. -- nm - Max Feb 11, 12:25 5
  - so we can all go ahead with our SlackerTalk-based versions now without worrying about royalty issues? -- nm - mud Feb 11, 12:29 4
    - Lit Dynamite Tennis. -- nm - Reagen Feb 11, 12:39 1
      - You do NOT want to be the ballboy in this game. -- nm - David Feb 11, 12:41
    - in the ST version it will turn out that yahtzee is the most dangerous game -- nm - Beryllium Feb 11, 12:34
    - AMBUSH NUBBY!!! -- nm - znufrii, human scum Feb 11, 12:32
- white people rage -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 12:24
An interesting example of how things have changed in the age of Trump. A client of ours is looking to make loans to a sizeable privately owned - pmb Feb 11, 12:18
So I know that no one on ST is into Biffy Clyro as much as I am, but they went cryptic as of yesterday, driving the fan club puzzle solving crazy - JaxSean Feb 11, 12:13
From backboards: I am ruling myself a True Neutral. While not technically a proper book mark, I use a Magic: The Gathering forest card. -- nm - Qale Feb 11, 12:12 6
- I went and found that. I'm most firmly Chaotic Good -- nm - crash davis Feb 11, 12:16
- That's basically a leaf, so whatever that option was. -- nm - Shaun Feb 11, 12:13 4
  - The bottom right corner of that chart (NE, CE, CN) were spot on. The leaf in particular made me laugh. -- nm - Beron Cherry Feb 11, 12:25
  - Illustratively yes, but texturely, definitely not. -- nm - Qale Feb 11, 12:14 2
    - LEAF! -- nm - Shaun Feb 11, 12:14 1
      - SCRAP PAPER! -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 12:30
prosecutor Aaron S.J. Zelinsky just resigned from Roger Stone’s case -- (link) - mud Feb 11, 12:09 5
- How many Zelinskies do we have running this ship? -- nm - Qale Feb 11, 12:22
- wow. and not just from the case. from the DOJ as well. -- nm - Jovian Feb 11, 12:19 1
  - nope, rumor. Not from the DOJ. -- nm - Jovian Feb 11, 12:29
- Honey I Shrunk The Case -- nm - Beron Cherry Feb 11, 12:12
- more -- (link) - mud Feb 11, 12:11
68GB is trending on twitter - decline Feb 11, 12:05
Mind boggled...interviewing voters at 45 rally last year voted for Bernie, this year donny..how do they reconcile these 2extremes -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 11, 12:00 2
- Trolling. -- nm - TWuG Feb 11, 12:02
- Its unfocused populist disenchantment with the established order. -- nm - crash davis Feb 11, 12:01
I just saw D&D dice in the toy section of Walmart. I wonder if the orange monster has driven more people like me into fantasy worlds. -- nm - crash davis Feb 11, 11:59 7
- Gritty? -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 12:02 1
  - You just know that Gritty lives in a house with people buried in the crawlspaces like Gacy. -- nm - crash davis Feb 11, 12:05
- Marvel movies, Disney movies way up, wrestling way up..yeah fantasy world is up -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 11, 12:01 4
  - I've noticed that the things I enjoy posting about the most are astronomy and swords & sorcery. Posting about earth ... not so much. -- nm - crash davis Feb 11, 12:08 3
    - ... -- (pic) - Batman Feb 11, 12:12 [Attachment] 2
      - *two thumbs up* -- nm - crash davis Feb 11, 12:14
      - :-D -- nm - mud Feb 11, 12:13
CDN people: The Samsung Galaxy S20 base model is $1319.99. *Base* model. - Shaun Feb 11, 11:57 11
- What does this phone do $1000 better than another phone? -- nm - Reagen Feb 11, 12:06 8
  - All the specs! -- (link) - Shaun Feb 11, 12:08 7
    - But I repeat myself. -- nm - Reagen Feb 11, 12:10 6
      - I got this! I got this! - Spawn Feb 11, 12:13 5
        
        It's weird because the part you mentioned was COMPLETELY visible and readable. - Shaun Feb 11, 12:14 4
        
        Why look at things that are incomplete? -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 12:17
        
        Not on my tiny little Samsung S9+ it isn't....AH! -- nm - JaxSean Feb 11, 12:16
        
        That's a list of features - it's not saying how they're $1000 better. -- nm - Reagen Feb 11, 12:15 1
        
        bUt itS NEweR! - Shaun Feb 11, 12:18
- The big one has 16GB RAM and 512GB storage 108MP camera array -- nm* - budice Feb 11, 11:59 1
  - $2,109.99!! -- nm - Shaun Feb 11, 12:01
Amazon Prime now has all 4 seasons of "Banshee" free to watch. -- nm - GregW Feb 11, 11:53 4
- awesome! thank you -- nm - Pippy - Janky Jinx Feb 11, 12:07
- I really enjoyed that show -- nm - decline Feb 11, 11:58
- Cool! -- nm - Shaun Feb 11, 11:57
- cool, thanks for the update....I enjoyed Season One but I don't think I've seen the others -- nm - crash davis Feb 11, 11:56
Ex-Astro Marwin Gonzalez is sowwy. -- nm - Diva Feb 11, 11:48 8
- Sorry he got caught! -- nm - Mop Feb 11, 12:30
- Easy to be sorry with the WS ring on the finger and all the financial incentives already banked -- nm - budice Feb 11, 11:58
- I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm so so sorry. -- (link) - Spawn Feb 11, 11:55 [youtube] 4
  - God as my witness, I had no idea he was in Nice Dreams. -- nm - David Feb 11, 11:57 3
    - And this is why you fail. I quote that more than any of his PeeWee stuff. - Spawn Feb 11, 12:01 2
      - Oh good! Over the year, I've apparently developed the ability to tune you out completely. -- nm - David Feb 11, 12:18 1
        
        I don't do voices much on ST. Wrong medium. But you know, like on my podcast. -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 12:25
- I give him credit for at least admitting it. Nobody else had. -- nm - David Feb 11, 11:50
Netflix just added season 4 of Better Call Saul because AMC is premiering S5 on 2/23. -- nm - GregW Feb 11, 11:47
Mets spent $57m to upgrade the clubhouse of their spring training home they share with one of their minor league clubs. It’s for ST use only. -- (link) - spamlet Feb 11, 11:43 16
- The way that MLB treats minor league players offends me to my core. - David Feb 11, 11:48 4
  - I might as well work at Sears. -- nm* - crash davis Feb 11, 11:54 1
    - What's Sears, boomer? -- nm - David Feb 11, 12:01
  - The Blue Jays just gave their minor leaguers a raise and Theo Epstein indicated the Cubs are likely to follow after being questioned by fans about - pmb Feb 11, 11:53 1
    - I only realize now why Dale Murphy was babysitting a bunch of kids back in the 1970s. He needed the money. -- nm - David Feb 11, 11:54
- *swipes ST keycard* this isn't working -- nm - JaxSean Feb 11, 11:46 1
  - That’s the one to the HSX Executive Restroom. -- nm - Qale Feb 11, 11:52
- "Taxpayers, by the way, kicked in $55 million of that $57 million" -- nm - decline Feb 11, 11:46 1
  - I'm hopefully the internet shames the Mets into doing something. - David Feb 11, 11:48
- We have a clubhouse? -- nm - JD Feb 11, 11:45 4
  - Now we need a bunch of Batman beanbags. -- nm - crash davis Feb 11, 11:47 3
    - And communal showers. -- nm - Beron Cherry Feb 11, 11:48 2
      - I vote we just buy a few cases of Wet Wipes and spend more money on Batman themed decorations. -- nm - crash davis Feb 11, 11:51 1
        
        I would like to subscribe to your newsletter. -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 12:07
- Great. Let's all go down and use it. - pmb Feb 11, 11:45 1
  - "I think you'll see we're on the list." *slips the guard $1* -- nm - Max Feb 11, 12:00
Go Sheltie, go! Westminster finally giving the Shetland Sheepdog some recognition. -- nm - zork Feb 11, 11:33
TIL: Girl Scout rules explicitly say that if a girl cannot legally enter an establishment, she is not allowed to sell there. - Mop Feb 11, 11:32 6
- Your honor, my client was selling on the sidewalk, not at the dispensary. Their adjoining locations are happenstance and opposing counsel can't - crash davis Feb 11, 11:36 4
  - So what you're saying is that the girl was loitering? -- nm - Mop Feb 11, 11:47 3
    - Loitering implies no apparent purpose. We've previously established she was selling cookies. -- nm - crash davis Feb 11, 11:49 2
      - Loitering with intent? Loitering within tent? -- (edited) - znufrii, human scum Feb 11, 11:50 1
        
        Intent to distribute deliciousness. -- nm - crash davis Feb 11, 11:52
- Oh come on, you *know* they toke up. -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 11:32
Geography trivia answers inside: - Beron Cherry Feb 11, 11:27 6
- People who don't know #1 don't know the Internet. - Mop Feb 11, 11:31
- I originally typed Indiana and then changed it to Kentucky. Should've gone with my first instinct. Same thing happened with the Dakotas -- nm - crash davis Feb 11, 11:29 4
  - It was in Ohio last time I read it. -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 11:32 3
    - Spawn is old. -- nm - Beron Cherry Feb 11, 11:44 2
      - he might collect antiquated almanacs -- nm - crash davis Feb 11, 11:46 1
        
        Ironically, that would make him even older. -- nm - Beron Cherry Feb 11, 11:57
what's the answers!? -- (edited) - Beaker Feb 11, 11:24 1
- here - Spawn Feb 11, 11:28
The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip starts at $1380USD. -- nm - Shaun Feb 11, 11:23 21
- So, my choice is a week at a very nice resort in the Caribbean, or, replacing my perfectly functional phone for this one? That seems easy. -- nm - Andie Feb 11, 12:19
- God as my witness, I will not be spending above $ 500 for a phone. Ye Ghads. - Pippy - Janky Jinx Feb 11, 11:31 10
  - Yes you will. -- nm - Mop Feb 11, 12:50
  - Good news! The iPhone SE2 or the 9 whichever they wanna call it, will probably start at $399! -- nm - Qale Feb 11, 11:55
  - I mean you were paying for it before when they were subsidized you just didn't see it. -- nm - spamlet Feb 11, 11:40 2
    - are you saying when my bill was $ 180, most of it was for the phone and now its half that and now the phones are higher? - Pippy - Janky Jinx Feb 11, 11:52 1
      - Basically yes. - spamlet Feb 11, 11:55
  - When we switched carriers we went ahead and did the payments for our phones. Before that we were New Every Two so we would chip ina little to upgarde. -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 11:35 2
    - *sfek* Leaving without edit. Not sure what we will do next. My S8+ is fine, Amy's is cracked. -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 11:36 1
      - S20 Ultra 5G 512GB clearly. -- nm - Shaun Feb 11, 11:58
  - Here Kitty Kitty -- nm - zork Feb 11, 11:34 1
    - the exciting life of SM/Pippy - Pippy - Janky Jinx Feb 11, 11:51 [Attachment]
- Phones should be getting cheaper, but manufacturers are going a different way with it. -- nm - David Feb 11, 11:30 5
  - They're making them more expensive and more disposable at the same time. - pmb Feb 11, 11:39 4
    - Well... FOMO plays a huge part in this. People are upgrading things that they don’t need to as soon as they do. -- nm - Qale Feb 11, 11:56
    - US people are too afraid to buy anything besides Samsung/Apple, so why would they make it cheaper for you? -- nm - Shaun Feb 11, 11:47 1
      - I've got an LG! -- nm - pmb Feb 11, 11:51
    - Yup. For the first time ever, we didn't get an upgrade the first moment that we could. It was mainly out of stubbornness on my part. -- nm - David Feb 11, 11:47
- For that rate, I'll take two! -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 11:24 2
  - $3k for 2 -- nm - Beaker Feb 11, 11:25 1
    - Even better! -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 11:25
zoom zoom -- nm - oblique Feb 11, 11:20 2
- boom boom -- nm - Spawn Feb 11, 11:23 1
  - zoom zoom -- (pic) - JD Feb 11, 11:31 [Attachment]

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