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"I was on King of Queens" -- nm - Beryllium Mar 16, 17:20
A few good men -- (link) - JackDawson Mar 16, 17:19
trending on twitter #TWUG -- (link) - zeitgeist Mar 16, 17:15
Heeeeey... this isn't going to delay my tax refund, is it? IS IT?! -- nm - Mop Mar 16, 17:08 1
- Mines delayed -- nm - JackDawson Mar 16, 17:15
the recorder's office only lets in so many people at a time, when couple's get marriage license, they go in one at a time, kids have to stay with othe - zeitgeist Mar 16, 17:07 1
- oh, they have these seat rows, every other one has a sign Don't Sit Here so people space apart (though really people that come together...well u no -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 16, 17:13
astounding -- (link) - Jovian Mar 16, 17:04 2
- it's not like any of them would ever see the inside of a US courtroom, but I still believe one day .. - mud Mar 16, 17:25
- Just some but wow -- nm - JackDawson Mar 16, 17:15
*DING* All theaters and clubs now closed in NY, NJ, CT. Delivery/carry-out only at restaurants. -- nm - ty97 Mar 16, 17:01 3
- Same in Houston. I called work to see if they wanted me after my two regular off days and they said no. So, not sure what’s up with that. I don’t like it whatever it is. -- nm* - Qale Mar 16, 17:21
- Motion to allow Bars to carry out -- nm - JackDawson Mar 16, 17:16 1
  - You mean ‘stores’? Bars don’t have a monopoly. -- nm - Volnelk Mar 16, 17:18
Credit where due. I moved apartments a week ago. Old lease runs through 3/31. - ty97 Mar 16, 16:58
I.. just can't. - Marlowe Mar 16, 16:54
Is this a taste of millennial Dadaism as has been talked about? -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 16, 16:49 1
- Haha. It's perfect. ("Nearer My God to Thee") -- nm - Dark Callisto Mar 16, 17:06
Fox News has apparently had a tectonic shift in their virus coverage, in line with Trump's shift, which is a good thing -- (link) - ty97 Mar 16, 16:45 1
- PsOS. -- nm - Diva Mar 16, 17:12
See? It's a thing -- (link) - ty97 Mar 16, 16:43
Best picture I've seen today. -- (pic) - zunkskunk with the bad take Mar 16, 16:41 [Attachment]
The UFC has postponed its next three events, the last of which was scheduled to take place on April 11 -- nm - Beaker Mar 16, 16:40
Instant Pot peeps, WWYD? I cooked a meal that included 3 chicken breasts. They were pretty frozen when I put them in the IP. Timer beeps, I take the - kelly Mar 16, 16:38 3
- I would throw in some water or stock and do one minute again, honestly. maybe PIP the chicken. -- nm - amanda Mar 16, 16:39 2
  - I got another burn warning so I let that sit for a minute. I could hear the stuff boiling so hopefully that's enough. -- nm - kelly Mar 16, 16:56 1
    - yeah if you can hear it, whatever all bets are off. -- nm - amanda Mar 16, 17:00
is there a transcript of orangina's speech from today? also should I go to the liquor store? -- nm - amanda Mar 16, 16:37 5
- yes to liquor store. went and loaded up tonight -- nm - Beaker Mar 16, 16:37 4
  - Christ I should do this. -- nm* - Shaun Mar 16, 16:42 1
    - ATV News dropped the "no plans for the liquor stores to close...yet" bomb. Was busier than Walmart and Costco. Bud Light pallet was empty -- (edited) - Beaker Mar 16, 16:44
  - they close tomorrow. I wonder if they'll have anything. -- nm - amanda Mar 16, 16:40 1
    - I went. we went after work and it was mobbed. it was pretty dead just now. I think I have enough liquor to last three months or more. -- nm - amanda Mar 16, 16:59
And the band played on... -- (link) - Remlik Mar 16, 16:33 5
- Oops, you beat me to it -- nm - Beryllium Mar 16, 16:55
- I saw Titanic with my first boyfriend and his family. Oh they had no idea... -- nm - Qale Mar 16, 16:55
- ASSberg right ahead!!!! -- nm - Night Watch Mar 16, 16:37
- That is utterly awesome. - ReluctantCynic Mar 16, 16:36 1
  - here's her Waking Dead violin video -- (link) - Remlik Mar 16, 16:40 [youtube]
Repeating myself, but the oranges from Stanley Ranch are *so* good this year. Even the Valencias on the tree out front. -- nm - Meg Mar 16, 16:31 2
- So, when I go completely stir crazy in about 4-5 days and hop in the car for an aimless road trip, I should come visit? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 16, 16:37 1
  - I may have eaten them all by then. Gotta get them before the street people do :/ -- nm - Meg Mar 16, 16:48
GoT star Kristofer Hivju (Tormund) has coronavirus -- (link) - budice Mar 16, 16:26 2
- Giant's Milk STAT! -- nm - Beaker Mar 16, 16:29
- No! Is the big nurse still available? -- nm - Max Mar 16, 16:28
Amazon said Monday that it needs to hire 100,000 people across the U.S. to keep up with a crush of orders -- (link) - Beaker Mar 16, 16:23 7
- It’d be a shame if they actually had to pay them what they were worth. -- nm - Qale Mar 16, 16:56 1
  - hmmm 100,000 amazon jobs, 10m people out of work...naw, they can be even more assholes than before -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 16, 20:05
- Some good news. Keep hoarding never mind! -- nm - JackDawson Mar 16, 16:41
- I was just wondering what strip club dancers are supposed to do right now, so, there you go, Hustlers 2. -- nm - Max Mar 16, 16:28
- TRUMP! -- nm - Mop Mar 16, 16:27
- I’ve not read it but there are workers getting laid off who could fill those jobs -- nm - Pippy-with a side eye Mar 16, 16:26
- So I'm NOT getting me new lampshade by Wednesday?!?! - Cuzzin Todd Mar 16, 16:26
Wrestlemania: Canceled in Tampa, will move to the PC. -- (edited) - Remlik Mar 16, 16:18 3
- Hall of Fame and NXT Takeover Canceled. -- nm - Remlik Mar 16, 16:42
- Boy that's going to be the saddest WM ever. -- nm - pmb Mar 16, 16:27 1
  - The Social Isolation Atomic Drop. The People's Elbow Cough. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 16, 16:52
Colts trade 1st-round pick for 49ers DT DeForest Buckner -- nm - Beaker Mar 16, 16:10 4
- How high of a first round? Rookie poster!! -- nm* - Bacon Mar 16, 16:23 3
  - 13th -- nm - Beaker Mar 16, 16:25 2
    - Thanks. I don't like that trade on the surface. I hope there is more pieces to it. -- nm - Bacon Mar 16, 16:31 1
      - Still better than what the Jaguars would have gotten. I am happy for that. -- nm - Bacon Mar 16, 16:31
Maybe I'll get a puppy. Or a couple cats to keep this one company. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 16, 16:09 4
- Don't get cats. Trust me. -- nm - amanda Mar 16, 16:32 3
  - Boooooooooooooooooo!!! -- nm - Bacon Mar 16, 16:34 2
    - She just means that dogs are better eating when you run out of food. -- nm - Mop Mar 16, 16:52
    - Yep, they don't understand WFH. They think it means permanent lap time. -- nm - Meg Mar 16, 16:50
Sometimes Spotify's Made for You Playlists simply hit it out of the park -- (link) - JD Mar 16, 16:00 [youtube]
Dolphins are signing Cowboys FA CB Byron Jones. $17M/year .. most ever for CB -- (link) - budice Mar 16, 15:55 1
- five-year, $82.5 million deal, including $57 million guaranteed, per source. It includes $40 million in first two years. -- nm - budice Mar 16, 16:16
Twilight Saga recommending a rewatch -- (link) - budice Mar 16, 15:47 6
- I’m gonna go mouth-hug CPAC attendees. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 16, 16:07 3
  - You can't spell "grope" without G-O-P! -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 16, 16:11
  - You can't spell "grope" without G-O-P! -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 16, 16:11
  - eww -- nm - mud Mar 16, 16:08
- Ugh, gimme the Corona -- nm - Reagen Mar 16, 15:53
- Ashley! - JD Mar 16, 15:49
Liquor store was not the pit of utter desolation I was expecting - znufrii Mar 16, 15:47 1
- Yeah, I got bananas (green), fat-free milk (3 bottles on the shelf) and frozen green peas. No eggs of any kind. -- nm - Meg Mar 16, 16:05
Olga Kurylenko Bond girl from Quantum of Solace has it -- (link) - eag Mar 16, 15:43 1
- bah...they didn't bother to post a sexay picture of her? what kind of click bait is this? -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 16, 20:12
Mcdonalds has moved to drive thru and takeout only. -- nm - Remlik Mar 16, 15:38 1
- Drive thru? -- nm - Manhattan Mar 16, 16:04
I’m in utter shock disbelief and I simply just cannot believe — WSJ Exclusive: Airlines un talks for $50 billion bailout -- (link) - JackDawson Mar 16, 15:23 8
- won't be the last bailout -- nm* - x si Mar 16, 15:26
- I'm totally fine with it if and only if the government forces them to return to the airplane legroom from 1970. -- nm - David Mar 16, 15:26 6
  - So, change fees went up from $100 to $300 and $700 for domestic and international, they borrowed to about 4 times their capital valuation, they engage - JackDawson Mar 16, 15:28 5
    - We won't, but we should nationalize the industry. -- nm - David Mar 16, 15:56 1
      - Yup -- nm - JackDawson Mar 16, 15:59
    - The *only* thing I'll quip with here is the 'never lose money again' which was Doug Parker who said it and I called it MORONIC at the time -- nm - ty97 Mar 16, 15:30 1
      - What's the quip? Didn't mean to imply they all said it, if that's the quip. - JackDawson Mar 16, 15:31
    - All fleets will standardize on 737 Max planes -- nm - budice Mar 16, 15:30
SITWAP/Discussed? WHO sent COVID-19 tests to 60 countries earlier this year but smart USA refused -- (link) - JackDawson Mar 16, 15:03 7
- We have, but what I want to know is now that they've admitted there still aren't enough tests, why don't we take them now? -- nm - jnine Mar 16, 15:08 5
  - So what you are saying is that if we reelect him and his ilk in November we will literally deserve a wipe out epidemic? Remember folks, it doesn't dot - JackDawson Mar 16, 15:17 3
    - Trump today in his press conference in response to the question "why doesn't the bill cover all workers and exempts out large companies (which employ - pmb Mar 16, 15:37
    - If I were more superstitious I'd say this is already the vengeance. -- nm - Reagen Mar 16, 15:33 1
      - I agree, I mean another -- nm - JackDawson Mar 16, 15:41
  - Hubris, presumably. -- nm - Dark Callisto Mar 16, 15:08
- Oh yeah, no $ in it for Trump to use those. -- nm - Spawn Mar 16, 15:06
I would watch a Scorsese length film of those penguins wandering around the aquarium -- nm - ty97 Mar 16, 15:00 5
- WHAT PENGUINS?? -- nm - amanda Mar 16, 16:34 4
  - Edward and Annie explored Shedd’s rotunda -- (link) - JD Mar 16, 16:37 2
    - 2/3 -- (link) - JD Mar 16, 16:38 1
      - 3/3 -- (link) - JD Mar 16, 16:39
  - I think it must be this. -- (link) - Mop Mar 16, 16:37
I will be sad if this is what kills the movie theater finally -- nm - JackDawson Mar 16, 14:47 18
- I think people will be pretty eager to get out again once they can. -- nm - pmb Mar 16, 15:08 4
  - I wrote yesterday that I think Disney's banking on this. I suspect it's why they haven't delayed Black Widow from May 1st. -- nm - David Mar 16, 15:26 1
    - That is the *one* movie I will break quarantine for. -- nm - Spawn Mar 16, 15:37
  - *cancels Netflix, D+, Hulu, CBS and cable tv* -- nm - Spawn Mar 16, 15:16
  - Good point -- nm - JackDawson Mar 16, 15:13
- Sad?? I'd rather have another 16 years of DJT -- nm - Jovian Mar 16, 15:08 2
  - I knew you were soft on fascism. -- nm - Reagen Mar 16, 15:09 1
    - hehe -- nm - Jovian Mar 16, 15:13
- NFL/ MLB, NHL agreements to show sports on the big screen. Most theaters serve alcohol now and have dine-in. Adding sports seems an easy thing. - TWuG Mar 16, 15:03 2
  - people pay to see movies they can stream at home, its the crowd experience..but if movies get into sports, I want to see sport bars get movies -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 16, 20:08
  - clever -- nm - JackDawson Mar 16, 15:14
- It would be interesting to see if they could come up with something creative. - Max Mar 16, 14:57 3
  - (but will they have enough content from the studios?) -- nm - JackDawson Mar 16, 15:00 1
    - As long as they are making Marvel movies, cinemas will be fine. -- nm - Spawn Mar 16, 15:19
  - Well the alamo drafthouse concept works and is always packed -- nm - JackDawson Mar 16, 15:00
- Yeah, that has been worrying me. -- nm - Spawn Mar 16, 14:51 1
  - March 1933: -- (link) - mud Mar 16, 14:58
- yeah -- nm - ty97 Mar 16, 14:49
New Mutants prediction. after all the troubles in the past and now theatres shut. Disney+ will have it next month to spur membership. -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 16, 14:46 5
- Maybe Hulu. Not Disney+. -- nm - Dark Callisto Mar 16, 14:46 4
  - I understand why not D+, but not Hulu. -- nm - Spawn Mar 16, 14:57 3
    - Disney has 67 percent ownership of Hulu. -- nm - Dark Callisto Mar 16, 14:59 2
      - I agree, just saying Hulu would be a waste for such content. -- nm - Spawn Mar 16, 15:06 1
        
        Hulu's a tremendous source of revenue for Disney, especially the ad-based one. -- nm - David Mar 16, 15:27
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson now out of Hospital staying in rented home for next 10 days -- (link) - eag Mar 16, 14:43 2
- Yay! -- nm - ty97 Mar 16, 14:45
- They will NOT be getting their security deposit back! -- nm - Spawn Mar 16, 14:45
All US Regal Theaters To Close Down Indefinitely Due To Coronavirus Outbreak -- (link) - Remlik Mar 16, 14:31 1
- Necessary but another set of people without paychecks. GOVERNMENT. I had to go to the pharmacy today and all three cashiers were talking amongst them - JackDawson Mar 16, 14:33
is that SNL news confirmed?? - Jovian Mar 16, 14:29 2
- here -- (link) - Remlik Mar 16, 14:32
- not sure which news you are referring to but variety has this -- (link) - ty97 Mar 16, 14:30
Ok maybe not funny -- nm* - zeitgeist Mar 16, 14:27 1
- BOOOOO! -- nm - Spawn Mar 16, 14:28
The cognitive dissonance among Trumpers is absurd. Even as their President tells them to take precautions, they claim it's a Democratic hoax. -- nm - Mop Mar 16, 14:26 3
- Is he still saying it's a hoax? -- nm - JackDawson Mar 16, 14:34 1
  - Trump? No. I think that changed about two weeks ago. But the deplorables are still saying it. -- nm - Mop Mar 16, 16:05
- He doesn’t really mean it, he’s just saying those things to appease the fake news and keep them occupied. -- nm - znufrii Mar 16, 14:29
Invisible Man out of theaters and streaming Friday. -- (link) - Volnelk Mar 16, 14:25 5
- Available for rental at the low, low price of $19.99! These guys are fucking nuts. -- nm - Mop Mar 16, 14:27 3
  - Yeah, I was extremely surprised by that part of it. -- nm - David Mar 16, 14:55
  - Still kind of cheaper than going to a theater for 2 or more - eag Mar 16, 14:31 1
    - Yeah, but then I would have to watch The Hunted, Trolls: World Tour, or The Invisible Man. -- nm - Mop Mar 16, 16:04
- TROLLS: WORLD TOUR will be available as home entertainment on April 10. Also available on-demand starting March 20: THE HUNT, THE INVISIBLE MAN -- nm - Spawn Mar 16, 14:26
I'm seeking a friend for the end of the world. -- nm - David Mar 16, 14:24 3
- Spawn will understand ... -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Mar 16, 16:27 [youtube]
- "Safety Not Guaranteed" -- nm - Max Mar 16, 14:25 1
  - great picture -- nm - mud Mar 16, 14:26

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