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Cuomo vs Cuomo -- (link) - ty97 Mar 17, 07:08 2
- I hate when he does things that make me like him. -- nm - Krusty Mar 17, 07:18
- (The replies to this are hilarious: "That's every Italian family") -- nm - ty97 Mar 17, 07:14
For students: free broadband from Spectrum, free publix wifi from Xfinity and AT&T. -- (link) - Mop Mar 17, 07:03
I'm not sure why Marketwatch needs a Tom Brady news bulletin. Also, expected market to bounce this morning, guess not? -- nm - ty97 Mar 17, 06:55 2
- The buyers moving in are getting crushed. This isn't a typical downturn. All the rules are out on this one -- nm - Bacon Mar 17, 07:13
- -200 Dow ... in 19,000 territory -- nm* - budice Mar 17, 06:56
So. How are YOU celebrating St. Patrick's Day? -- nm - Andie Mar 17, 06:48 31
- Me and about 200 of my closest friends are doing a pub crawl tonight. Should be epic! -- nm - Turd Ferguson Mar 17, 07:15
- I did a fun quiz with my team. - Dark Callisto Mar 17, 07:09
- Cleaning house thoroughly and doing some D&D prep work. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 17, 07:09
- In the office working. -- nm - JaxSean Mar 17, 07:07
- By hiding in ty97's apartment -- nm - Mop Mar 17, 07:04
- Going to work -- nm - Bacon Mar 17, 07:03
- by hiding in my apartment. - ty97 Mar 17, 06:59 10
  - how's the new place? -- (edited) - decline Mar 17, 07:02 9
    - I love the new place, though I've been so anxiety ridden lately with this whole virus thing that I have barely unpacked. - ty97 Mar 17, 07:11 8
      - "...someone in to assemble my couch" Huh? Why can't you do it yourself? Do you not have any tools? -- nm - Krusty Mar 17, 07:14
      - you can assemble your own couch. I promise. -- nm - amanda Mar 17, 07:13 4
        
        It will wind up looking like an Escher drawing if I try -- nm - ty97 Mar 17, 07:13 3
        
        It's not difficult. There are instructions, I'm sure. -- nm - Krusty Mar 17, 07:14 2
        
        God, I wish I could go there and do it for you. I love assembling furniture. Not sure why but I enjoy it. -- nm - Krusty Mar 17, 07:15
        
        Just don't forget the slotted spoon. very important for couch assembly. -- nm - znufrii Mar 17, 07:15
      - And the closest have SO MUCH SPACE!!!!! -- nm - ty97 Mar 17, 07:12 1
        
        Nice!!! I'm so jealous of that. - Krusty Mar 17, 07:17
- I have a crazy pair of green SB Dunks I'm wearing, a green sweater on and I'm going to spend the day with my Irish fiance making cookies. - Krusty Mar 17, 06:53 2
  - green cookies? -- nm - decline Mar 17, 06:54 1
    - I was going to go with a simple chocolate chip but maybe green sugar cookies would be the better choice. -- nm - Krusty Mar 17, 06:58
- I'm voting. There should be an Irish name on the ballot somewhere. -- nm - zunkskunk with the bad take Mar 17, 06:52
- for the first time in probably 15 years - not going out to a bar for Guiness, corn beef & cabbage -- nm - decline Mar 17, 06:51
- Same way I do most years. Wearing something green and otherwise not really acknowledging it. - Cuzzin Todd Mar 17, 06:50
- I bought some Guiness. (there's a wild rumour they're closing the NSLCs today or tomorrow - you would see the smoke from space) -- nm - Reagen Mar 17, 06:49 4
  - (NSLCs?) -- nm - JaxSean Mar 17, 07:08 1
    - Nova Scotia Liquor Corp. - Reagen Mar 17, 07:08
  - I'll likely hit ours in the next hour or two to grab some supplies. Kilkenny is high on the list. -- nm - Shaun Mar 17, 06:54 1
    - Yeah, it was one of those Irish packs. -- nm - Reagen Mar 17, 06:56
- Board meeting that’s gonna get contentious. -- nm - spamlet Mar 17, 06:49 2
  - Oh work did bring in community doughnuts and bagels. -- nm - spamlet Mar 17, 07:10
  - If anybody gets uppity just cut their stream -- nm - decline Mar 17, 06:50
Boeing stock at $118 -- nm - budice Mar 17, 06:45 7
- Ooops was looking at an ETF -- nm* - Bacon Mar 17, 07:11 1
  - 6.34% dividend!! Weeeeeeeeeee -- nm - Bacon Mar 17, 07:12
- Apple Aerospace -- nm - Mop Mar 17, 07:04 1
  - Apple and Berkshire gonna own everything. -- nm - Reagen Mar 17, 07:05
- Dave & Busters stock at $50 a month ago. Now at $6 -- (link) - budice Mar 17, 06:52
- 52 week high : $398.66 -- nm - decline Mar 17, 06:48
- MRNA up another 15% already today -- nm - oblique Mar 17, 06:48
Arik Armstead, DL, San Francisco 49ers 5 years $85M -- (edited) - Beaker Mar 17, 06:43 2
- Jamie Collins Detroit Lions 3 years $30M (cut after 1 and back to Patriots?….) $18M guaranteed -- nm* - Beaker Mar 17, 06:45 1
  - Running list of NFL signings and trades -- (link) - Beaker Mar 17, 06:48
They are making the teachers in our district email the secretary every day at 7 and 2:30 to clock in and clock out while the school is closed. - spamlet Mar 17, 06:43 14
- It’s foolproof! - mafic Mar 17, 07:02 1
  - Yeah I told my wife if she ends up having to do it (she’s an aide and it’s complicated) than I would just automate it for her. -- nm - spamlet Mar 17, 07:14
- they should carry that over to summer break as well. fucking teachers and their summers off while looking after 30-40 kids at a time -- nm - Beaker Mar 17, 06:44 11
  - (They don’t get paid summers) -- nm - spamlet Mar 17, 06:45 10
    - Really? Here they do and can make extra working summer school. -- nm - Krusty Mar 17, 06:49 8
      - It’s a 10 month contract but they can elect to get it paid over 12 months. - spamlet Mar 17, 06:51 1
        
        When I worked for the BoE we'd get checks on the last day and they were all postdated. If you cashed one early there was a big penalty. - Krusty Mar 17, 06:57
      - Depends how you count it. We get our pay spread out over 12 months, but we're paid for 10. -- nm - Reagen Mar 17, 06:50 5
        
        Makes sense. Do you work summer school? -- nm - Krusty Mar 17, 06:58 3
        
        I'm not permanent so I'm not eligible yet. - Reagen Mar 17, 07:02 2
        
        I don't think I would either. The school year is rough and the summer break is wonderful -- nm - Krusty Mar 17, 07:07 1
        
        I'm apparently a homeschooler now anyway. - Reagen Mar 17, 07:08
        
        This is how my SIL is paid in Syracuse -- nm - decline Mar 17, 06:52
    - they should pay me! -- nm - Beaker Mar 17, 06:48
PSA: Johns Hopkins is doing a webcast briefing on COVID-19 at 11:30 am EDT. -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Mar 17, 06:43
I'm so glad they are going to pass this stimulus package to help the average American by bailing out the Casinos -- nm - decline Mar 17, 06:40 3
- I keep hearing about a payroll tax cut, but that doesn't help the people out of work / not getting hours right now. - ty97 Mar 17, 06:41 1
  - That’s the extended unemployment in the first bill -- nm - spamlet Mar 17, 06:42
- I;m going to give them the help I never got. nm - Trump Ferguson Mar 17, 06:41
Every time there’s a new confirmed case they stress it is a travel related case. - spamlet Mar 17, 06:31 1
- Which makes zero sense anymore (to this non-expert at least) -- nm - ty97 Mar 17, 06:34
Euro 2020 postponed till 2021 -- nm - Beaker Mar 17, 06:31
Day 6 of the Shopocolypse. About the same. Still massive crowds at open. Inventory keeps going in and out. - Qale Mar 17, 06:31 8
- there is basically no meat in town. wegman's has said that we shouldn't expect any ore meat for the foreseeable future. this seems fine. -- nm - amanda Mar 17, 06:55 1
  - Sure does. -- nm - Vegetarians Mar 17, 06:57
- You guys are heroes. I'm not kidding. I know it's not easy. I know it's a little risky. Keeping those trucks moving and getting the stuff on the - zunkskunk with the bad take Mar 17, 06:42 1
  - Sure thing. I am looking for the next 3 days off though. -- nm - Qale Mar 17, 06:56
- I stopped last night for peanut butter. Produce dept. looked normal but the meat and bread aisles were basically empty. I did pick up a bag of frozen - decline Mar 17, 06:38
- I'm worried what happens once all the stores get fully restocked... - znufrii Mar 17, 06:36 1
  - I don’t think that is possible. -- nm - Qale Mar 17, 06:56
- yeah the meat Depts here look like we ran out of cows, chickens and intestines -- nm - Beaker Mar 17, 06:32
eek -- (link) - ty97 Mar 17, 06:29 1
- Yep -- (link) - decline Mar 17, 06:41
Tormund Giantsbane has it. -- (link) - mafic Mar 17, 06:28
Texans fans after they see what the Vikings got back for Stefon Diggs -- (link) - Beaker Mar 17, 06:06 3
- That Hopkins trade is maddening. Great land for Arizona, though. -- nm - Inigo Mar 17, 06:10 1
  - even if Hopkins wasn't part of it, it would of been a decent deal just to dump salary but to get him too was insane. -- nm - Beaker Mar 17, 06:12
- WR Randall Cobb joining Texans on 3-year, $27M deal -- nm - Beaker Mar 17, 06:08
As a long suffering Jets fan I am very happy so see Brady moving on to another team. With my luck he'll go to Miami. - Krusty Mar 17, 06:06 5
- NE will be fascinating to observe now ... lots of available QBs for BB to pick from. You know he wants to win w.o. Brady and the other way round too -- nm - rollo Mar 17, 06:53 1
  - Yup. But man do I hope they both fall on their asses this year. -- nm - Krusty Mar 17, 07:00
- It's the Bills turn to shine in that division, imo. -- nm - Inigo Mar 17, 06:08 2
  - Yeah, they've got a good team built up over there. They'll blow it as usual but they should be the best in the division this year. - Krusty Mar 17, 06:14 1
    - Anything can happen in a year in the NFL. If Darnold really steps up in year 3, they could contend. - Inigo Mar 17, 06:19
EU closing its borders for 30 days starting tomorrow -- (link) - Reagen Mar 17, 06:04 2
- Volkswagen to shut down all production -- nm - decline Mar 17, 06:28
- I just got an email from the Russians we work with saying they’ve closed the border until May 1st. -- nm - mafic Mar 17, 06:23
1920 letter from F. Scott Fitzgerald, quarantined in the south of France during the Spanish Flu pandemic - znufrii Mar 17, 06:03
Going back to drip coffee from Nespresso suuuuuucks - znufrii Mar 17, 06:02 2
- Mr. fancypants -- nm - decline Mar 17, 06:18
- The best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup. -- nm - budice Mar 17, 06:03
TV PSA: Love it or List It, Conners, Resident, Bless This Mess, Chopped, mixed-ish, Empire, Biggest Loser, Oak Island, black-ish, This is Us, For Life -- nm - Beaker Mar 17, 05:55 6
- FBI Most Wanted, Project Blue Book, New Amsterdam, Miracle Workers, Legends of Tomorrow, Flash, Supermarket Stakeout, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Mar 17, 05:57 5
  - 4 seasons of Legends of tomorrow on Netflix. Watch it. The first season is not good, but it sets up so many jokes and characters that it is needed. - Beaker Mar 17, 05:58 4
    - Kim's Convenience, Schitt's Creek. -- nm - Shaun Mar 17, 06:35 3
      - New season for Kim's? -- nm - Krusty Mar 17, 06:39 2
        
        I'm not sure how soon it's on Netflix for you guys, but yeah. Episode 11 tonight. -- nm - Shaun Mar 17, 06:40 1
        
        Sweet! -- nm - Krusty Mar 17, 06:51
I cancelled my only walk left for the week. I'm officially quarantining for the time being. Now where's my G stack from the gov't! -- nm - Krusty Mar 17, 05:50 2
- About that... -- nm - Yang Mar 17, 05:55 1
  - He's likely running for mayor here so maybe he tries to do it locally if he wins. Though, there's little chance he wins. -- (edited) - Krusty Mar 17, 05:57
Tom Brady may lose this game of musical chairs. -- nm - Spawn Mar 17, 05:50 2
- My first thought was he has to know where he’s going to burn a bridge like that. -- nm - Volnelk Mar 17, 05:52 1
  - yep. I bet it's somewhere warm. -- nm - Diva Mar 17, 06:47
Tom Brady announces via IG that he isn’t going back to the Patriots. -- nm - Volnelk Mar 17, 05:49 1
- Well, at least now we'll find out if it was Brady or Belichick behind all the cheating they've done -- nm - decline Mar 17, 06:23
Tom Brady announces "moving on" from Pats. On St Pats Day. -- (link*) - budice Mar 17, 05:49 1
- Oh thank you! Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou -- nm - ESPN Mar 17, 06:01
Hot on the heels of the massive XSX news yesterday, Sony is having a stream tomorrow. -- (link) - Shaun Mar 17, 05:45
Some state polls today for the primary states - AZ Biden up +3, +1, Ohio, Biden +4, FL Biden -3 - Reagen Mar 17, 05:27
I'm insanely stressed out this week and I'm not even in an industry that has been majorly impacted (yet) by the shutdowns outside of my wife's job - oblique Mar 17, 05:21 8
- I'm sorry you and other are so stressed by all this. Keeping the family sane and together right now has to be difficult. Hopefully as everyone - Krusty Mar 17, 05:53
- I came close to losing it when I had to tell the kids I didn't know when things were getting back to normal. -- nm - Reagen Mar 17, 05:46 3
  - My brother and his family are supposed to be in Mexico on vacation - instead the 4 of them are stuck at home - decline Mar 17, 06:54 1
    - my sister keeps emailing from mexico all casual and shit. I just think it's fiendishly irresponsible. -- nm - amanda Mar 17, 06:57
  - I don’t know that it’s any easier when they are old enough to know that on their own. -- nm - spamlet Mar 17, 05:49
- Yes, it's such a roller coaster. The disruption on my kids lives is getting to me. Woke up, got a cup of coffee, and started crying. -- nm - zunkskunk with the bad take Mar 17, 05:35 1
  - :-( -- nm - Krusty Mar 17, 05:56
- Same. -- nm - budice Mar 17, 05:22
Birds of Prey hitting VOD on the 24th - Reagen Mar 17, 05:19
We needed a new UV lamp and quartz sleeve for our Sterilight water system. I usually buy them from a local shop. Checked Amazon for the items. - Shaun Mar 17, 04:31
WestJet shutting down international and US flights for 30 days starting Sunday. -- (link) - Reagen Mar 17, 04:27
In other news, our contractor is taking off after today because his wife has been told to go home from work - Reagen Mar 17, 04:22 3
- Told as in "Hey, office's closed." or as in "Hey, you, sweaty mc-coughy, go home?" - Will Hunting Mar 17, 05:11 2
  - the first - Reagen Mar 17, 05:12 1
    - That's commitment to getting laid; "No, I think I will bypass my paying jobs for this chance." -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 17, 05:17
Didn't take long for Frozen 2 to be fired up on Disney+ this morning. Not wasting any time here. -- nm - Shaun Mar 17, 04:19 2
- Three times since Saturday, and counting. -- nm - znufrii Mar 17, 05:37 1
  - I've had it downloaded for awhile, but D+ is more accessible then navigating half a dozen folders deep on a shared network drive. -- (edited) - Shaun Mar 17, 05:42
Most network TV shows won't be finishing their seasons if they haven't already -- (link) - Reagen Mar 17, 03:37 1
- That IM is kinda sad to me. - Will Hunting Mar 17, 04:55
US airlines spent 96% of their free cash on share buybacks -- (link) - Reagen Mar 17, 03:32 5
- Well then they can issue stock to keep going then -- nm - Karl_S Mar 17, 04:03 2
  - Heh. Not in this market they can't. nm - ralph wiggum Mar 17, 04:45 1
    - Man, imagine if billionaires had to deal with losing 2% of their assets to a wealth tax! -- nm - Reagen Mar 17, 04:48
- Yup -- (link) - JackDawson Mar 17, 03:48 [Backboard] 1
  - Damn do I wish we'd nationalize them right now -- nm - Krusty Mar 17, 05:55
Tempted to go down to Westminster Bridge and recreate scenes from 28 Days Later. -- nm - LMS Mar 17, 03:25 2
- the beard is probably the trickiest part. -- nm - Reagen Mar 17, 04:55
- Do it. -- nm - Don Homer Mar 17, 03:43
The Ohio election story is disturbing and precisely why giving in to panic helps potentially really bad actors. - JackDawson Mar 17, 02:58 2
- Yeah. Elections are probably the important thing we do as a society (the census is #2 - be sure to complete if you haven’t!), you can’t fuck with them -- nm - Don Homer Mar 17, 03:42 1
  - Yup. But to accept the notion that we can conduct it safely we have to accept the notion that we can leave the house safely which right now is not - JackDawson Mar 17, 03:50
found out what all that toilet paper was needed for.... -- (link) - zeitgeist Mar 17, 02:17
A few questions about the story of Donald trying to buy the german lab or hire the researcher finding the cure... - zeitgeist Mar 17, 01:45
Freemont Street shut down for 8 weeks, is there anything left in Vegas? -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 17, 00:31 2
- nope. we're shut until Flag Day. -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 17, 00:39 1
  - unless you need more math done :) -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 17, 00:40
It's not that good but an alignment chart of social distancing behaviours -- (edited) - zork Mar 17, 00:18 1
- ok, that checks out -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 17, 00:28
oh boy, Perth's first Costco is having its grand opening tomorrow. it's in the airport complex, as is my office. another reason to be remote. -- nm - mafic Mar 16, 23:51 1
- Thank God! All those poor people without toilet paper! -- nm - Mop Mar 17, 07:08
The Kentucky Derby postponed to September -- (link) - JaxSean Mar 16, 23:48 4
- just have the horses race without jockeys. like giant greyhounds. -- nm - mafic Mar 16, 23:52 3
  - but they would have to do it in an empty stadium -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 17, 00:29 2
    - I don't think the horses would mind. -- nm - mafic Mar 17, 00:31 1
      - the derby isn't about the horses, its about bourbon and ladies in big hats -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 17, 00:48
Okay, we didn't buy a Covid Xbox, but we did order a Covid Printer -- nm - Beryllium Mar 16, 23:16 1
- I've also avoided the temptation to get a shiny new Xbox One X. -- nm - Shaun Mar 17, 04:20

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