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Locke & Key Season 2 is official. -- (link) - Shaun Mar 30, 08:21 3
- It's pretty much got to be better than the first season. -- nm - David Mar 30, 08:30 1
  - I can't remember a show or movie like this where the people who read the book vs the people who haven't are in total disagreement - Turd Ferguson Mar 30, 08:32
- Wherein they hope we forget everything that happened in season 1? -- nm - Mop Mar 30, 08:23
Billy Joe Saunders has boxing licence suspended after domestic abuse 'advice' video -- (link) - LMS Mar 30, 08:12
The youngest just finished the Stranger Things Lego set. it is awesome - Beaker Mar 30, 08:01 9
- I’ve never built Lego sets before, I just recently picked up the Friends set and Trafalgar square to give us something else to do while we’re home -- nm - J Mar 30, 08:09 7
  - "British Friends" -- nm - con_carne Mar 30, 08:21
  - You're entering a black hole. :) -- nm - loosilu Mar 30, 08:10 5
    - Hopefully not cause the Millennium Falcon I was looking at is $900 -- nm - J Mar 30, 08:14 4
      - That's the biggest and priciest set they offer. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 30, 08:33 1
        
        I would never spend that but it’s impressive -- nm - J Mar 30, 08:37
      - Lego is way more expensive than it has any right to be. -- nm - Krusty Mar 30, 08:27 1
        
        It’s crazy, I never knew -- nm - J Mar 30, 08:37
- now smash it and make them start over -- nm - decline Mar 30, 08:02
Whatever to do when stuck at home? Well, John Krasinski has kicked off a new YouTube channel with a web talk show. First guest: Steve Carell. -- (link) - Mop Mar 30, 07:56 [youtube]
Remember weeks ago when the fed gov't told the US we'd be getting 4 million tests? As of this weekend only 890K tests had been completed. da fuq. -- nm - Diva Mar 30, 07:55 2
- "anyone who wants a test will get one" - Houston, the 4th largest city in the US has been allotted 250 tests/day... -- nm - decline Mar 30, 08:02 1
  - I’m sure it has nothing to do with our Democrat mayor at all. -- nm - Qale Mar 30, 08:13
STAY THE F**K INSIDE! - zunkskunk with the bad take Mar 30, 07:52 [youtube] 2
- Well, "stay inside" is only good advice if you have to take an elevator to get outside. For everybody else, get outside every day if possible, just - mara Mar 30, 08:13
- That's pretty fucking awesome. -- nm - Mop Mar 30, 08:02
actor Leslie Jordan has some fun videos -- (link) - Remlik Mar 30, 07:52 3
- Where's he posting his videos? I'm not seeing anything in his Twitter since 2019. -- (link) - Mop Mar 30, 08:21 2
  - must have moved to Instagram -- (link) - Remlik Mar 30, 08:24 1
    - YES! Thank you! -- nm - Mop Mar 30, 09:08
Last night my family (4 households) had a 1 hour Zoom teleconference. I highly recommend this during this quarantine period. It was great - Bacon Mar 30, 07:51 4
- We need another game night! -- nm - Mop Mar 30, 08:17 1
  - Asbolutely. (And to the origianl point, we have been facetiming with my sister a lot. Not may more people to add, alas.) (NM) - Marlowe Mar 30, 08:23
- I've scheudle a conference call "birthday party" with my folks and bothers/csister-in-law for Wednesday. - Cuzzin Todd Mar 30, 08:15
- did a zoom jackbox party with a few other friends followed by some visiting. it was good. -- nm - colin Mar 30, 08:10
Project conference call this morning, one of the participants is an ID doc at BJC hospital. Gave us some info on the status there. - Ba Baron Ron Ron Mar 30, 07:49 8
- bjc? -- nm - prayformojo Mar 30, 07:51 7
  - The biggest hospital in STL -- nm - spamlet Mar 30, 08:01
  - Barnes-Jewish and Children's. -- nm - Ba Baron Ron Ron Mar 30, 07:55 5
    - Or possibly the C stands for Christian. I'm never sure which one the C is supposed to stand for. Both are relevant. -- nm - Ba Baron Ron Ron Mar 30, 07:58 4
      - It's Christian. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Mar 30, 08:00 3
        
        You can tell I moved here after the merger. :) -- nm - Ba Baron Ron Ron Mar 30, 08:03 2
        
        lol - yeah, the Christians are (or were) up in North County. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Mar 30, 08:05 1
        
        There’s still one right? -- nm - spamlet Mar 30, 08:40
Anyone else watched Antman for inspiration on what to do when stuck at home yet? -- nm - LMS Mar 30, 07:48 6
- We, the latch key generation, realized a while back being isolated with nothing to do is not a problem for us -- nm - con_carne Mar 30, 07:50 3
  - Back then, No streaming movies, no internet, only pizza delivery, no streaming music, it was Cartoons on television, and macaroni and cheese. -- nm - Bacon Mar 30, 07:59 2
    - *Dad's porn collection achievement unlocked* -- nm - con_carne Mar 30, 08:07
    - And cereal. Lots and lots of cereal. -- nm - Diva Mar 30, 08:01
- Antman 2? -- nm - Spawn Mar 30, 07:49 1
  - You're right. -- nm - LMS Mar 30, 07:52
Caption this, please -- (pic) - prayformojo Mar 30, 07:43 [Attachment] 1
- Is this isolated enough? -- nm - spamlet Mar 30, 07:45
Hot rumour: Nintendo planning Super Mario re-releases/remasters to celebrate Super Mario Bros. 35th anniversary -- (link) - Shaun Mar 30, 07:42 1
- guys, I need a switch stat. -- nm - amanda Mar 30, 07:46
Non-covid poll: Can you name Netflix's Top 10 "discs" (yes people still do this) currently? -- nm - MDH Mar 30, 07:40 26
- This is going to be too tough, so here's the top 20 of Netflix's Top 100 if you care: - MDH Mar 30, 07:56 1
  - Hey, one of my films made the list! -- nm - LMS Mar 30, 08:32
- Hints: 1 TV show, all movies from 2019, 5 of the movies made over $100M at the Box office (a 6th was very close), 1 movie with a female lead -- nm - MDH Mar 30, 07:46 14
  - The Office, obviously. -- nm - loosilu Mar 30, 08:01
  - Rocketman, Knives Out -- nm - JaxSean Mar 30, 07:54 1
    - #7, #92 -- nm* - MDH Mar 30, 07:56
  - IT 2, Zombieland 2 -- nm - JaxSean Mar 30, 07:50 1
    - #18, #49 -- nm* - MDH Mar 30, 07:53
  - John Wick 3, Captain Marvel -- nm - JaxSean Mar 30, 07:48 1
    - #8, No Disney or Marvel in the Top 10. -- nm - MDH Mar 30, 07:49
  - Friends -- nm - Shaun Mar 30, 07:47
  - oh, friends is offline, so friends. -- nm - amanda Mar 30, 07:47 5
    - Nope. The showed just wrapped in the last year or so I believe. -- nm - MDH Mar 30, 07:49 4
      - big bang? -- nm - amanda Mar 30, 07:50 3
        
        Nope, different genre -- nm - MDH Mar 30, 07:50 2
        
        Game of Thrones -- nm - JaxSean Mar 30, 07:52 1
        
        #1 -- nm - MDH Mar 30, 07:53
- My parents always have a disc on the coffee table every time I’m there so I’m not surprised. They watch streaming stuff as well. -- nm - Tim Mar 30, 07:45 1
  - I still get them (I know, I know) -- nm - MDH Mar 30, 07:47
- Star Wars, 1917, Outbreak, Contagion, some Avengers movie ? -- nm - Don Homer Mar 30, 07:42 6
  - No, Not on Netflix Disc yet, No, No, and No. No Marvel or Disney in the Top 10. -- nm - MDH Mar 30, 07:44
  - Is there a movie version of The Stand? Kind of a popular book right now. -- nm - mara Mar 30, 07:43 4
    - Mini series way back. (More than one, maybe?) -- nm - Andie Mar 30, 07:45 2
      - Quite a good mini-series too, with Lt. Dan, Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Patrick Star, Parker Lewis, and scores of others. -- nm - Ba Baron Ron Ron Mar 30, 08:05
      - There's one currently in production. -- nm - Reagen Mar 30, 07:48
    - There was a TV mini series -- nm - Bacon Mar 30, 07:44
Holy shit...this is kinda insane, when you think about it. -- (link) - Turd Ferguson Mar 30, 07:40 1
- Probably because the Oscar were almost two months ago. February 9th. :) -- nm - Inigo Mar 30, 07:42
the big AV industry show in late June just cancelled. they were getting to that point of no return with booth's needing to be built. - colin Mar 30, 07:38
Apparently the 3000 beds at Javits and the 1000 on USNS Comfort are all meant for non-COVID patients? -- nm* - ty97 Mar 30, 07:36 5
- yes -- nm - decline Mar 30, 07:38
- Yes, correct. Three hospitals (so far) are going to be converted to COVID only. The temporary hospitals are to keep other patients healthy. -- nm - loosilu Mar 30, 07:38 3
  - It seems impossible to keep COVID out of these temporary hospitals, but what do I know -- nm - ty97 Mar 30, 07:40 2
    - They have a better chance of it, though. -- nm - loosilu Mar 30, 08:18
    - Once they get that 45 minute result test up and running it will get better. -- nm - Bacon Mar 30, 07:41
Rocketman: A- (I liked it more than Bohemian Rhapsody) and the fact that Skipper does all his own singing in it is amazing. He was awesome -- nm - Beaker Mar 30, 07:28 8
- also, the video for I'm Still Standing tried to make me gay. -- nm - Beaker Mar 30, 07:56
- What do you think of Sunshine on Leith? It's a practice run for the director but on a tiny budget. -- nm - LMS Mar 30, 07:49
- I liked BR better, especially the performance scenes. I also thought Egerton was much better than Malek. Good points on RM being more of a musical. -- nm - zunkskunk with the bad take Mar 30, 07:45
- I did too. Rocketman is a musical and BR is a bio. -- nm - Andie Mar 30, 07:29 4
  - Yeah, that was why I skipped it. Not fond of musicals. -- nm - Spawn Mar 30, 07:36
  - Rocketman is a musical and BR is a high-toned Christmas episode of VH1 Behind the Music. I enjoy BR a lot but I think Rocketman is special. - Diva Mar 30, 07:36 1
    - huh, that last line I had no idea he was involved with both -- nm - Beaker Mar 30, 07:53
  - yup, that was how we described it to friends. BR is a movie that has music in it, Rocketman is a musical -- nm* - Beaker Mar 30, 07:33
USNS Comfort arriving in New York, passing WTC -- (link) - ty97 Mar 30, 07:27 2
- Are you going to go down and wave hi to them? -- nm - decline Mar 30, 07:38
- It's like 9/11 all over again! *nostalgia* -- nm - loosilu Mar 30, 07:32
Maybe znufrii is right to dislike Instacart. Nationwide walkout today. And get a load of the very extremely basic shit they're asking for. - con_carne Mar 30, 07:25 1
- It's part how their workers are treated, and part how I hate having to dodge their shoppers in the store when I go. -- nm - znufrii Mar 30, 07:29
Anyone live in Atlanta area? Emory is looking for volunteers to test COVID vaccine. -- (link) - loosilu Mar 30, 07:21 3
- Wow. Surprised they have one to test this soon. -- nm - sycor Mar 30, 07:33 2
  - Based on the article, it's an RNA-based vaccine, which can be developed faster. -- nm - loosilu Mar 30, 07:37
  - I mean, this is how superhero movies start. -- nm - Tim Mar 30, 07:36
The European Union's first dictatorship: -- (link) - mud Mar 30, 07:20 4
- This is very sad -- nm - JackDawson Mar 30, 07:51
- Parliament voted to suspend Parliament?! -- (edited) - ty97 Mar 30, 07:22 2
  - Hungary has been only a nominal democracy for about a decade now. -- nm* - Reagen Mar 30, 07:23 1
    - and even 'normal' feels like a stretch I guess -- nm - ty97 Mar 30, 07:25
I’ve been doing a lot better the last couple days but am inexplicably still waiting for my test result. It’s now been a week as of an hour ago. -- nm - Tim Mar 30, 07:13 2
- That’s crazy -- nm - JackDawson Mar 30, 07:19 1
  - We can add him to the tested not positive list. -- nm - President Dump Mar 30, 07:20
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch museum says Vincent van Gogh painting stolen in overnight raid. -- (link) - ty97 Mar 30, 07:07
Help, please: our neighborhood is doing a "Chalk Walk", where we decorate our driveways. Kids are drawing themed pics; adults are asked to put an - kelly Mar 30, 07:05 22
- "Trump Sucks" - Bacon Mar 30, 07:39
- STOP PLAYING TOGETHER AND TOUCHING EACH OTHER MORONS -- nm - ty97 Mar 30, 07:38 4
  - Yup. -- nm - David Mar 30, 08:31
  - oh, don't I wish... -- nm - kelly Mar 30, 08:12
  - heh -- nm - JaxSean Mar 30, 07:56
  - I vote this one. -- nm - Dark Callisto Mar 30, 07:44
- "Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies." -- nm - JaxSean Mar 30, 07:37 1
  - borrowing this for instagram - great choice! -- nm - JenBro Mar 30, 08:02
- "It's chaos, be kind." -- nm - Reagen Mar 30, 07:26
- "If you're kind and polite, the world will be right." -- nm - LMS Mar 30, 07:25
- What about something from Harry Potter? Like, "After all this time?" , "Always." Just something sweet. - Andie Mar 30, 07:25
- It's pining for the fjords. -- nm - loosilu Mar 30, 07:22
- Do you smell what The Rock is cookin? -- nm - Shaun Mar 30, 07:16 1
  - oh i like this -- nm - colin Mar 30, 07:29
- "The only time I set the bar low is for limbo" -- nm - oblique Mar 30, 07:11
- "Have you got anything without spam?" -- nm - decline Mar 30, 07:10
- I'm the one who knocks - Walter White -- nm - Beaker Mar 30, 07:09
- Keep it simple. "Always look on the bright side of life", with some music notes around it. -- nm - Andie Mar 30, 07:07 2
  - Bring out your dead -- nm - Beaker Mar 30, 07:09 1
    - *needle scratch* -- nm - oblique Mar 30, 07:11
- Always look on the bright side of life. -- nm - pmb Mar 30, 07:07 1
  - Heh -- nm - Andie Mar 30, 07:08
This is apparently the source of all the rosy thinking in the WH about COVID (it is a bonkers interview, by the by) -- (link*) - Reagen Mar 30, 07:03 10
- “Would you like to compare your [penis] to mine?” -- nm - Qale Mar 30, 08:32
- Why is a legal scholar writing about epidemiology models? -- nm - loosilu Mar 30, 07:36 2
  - There's a funny part where it's clear he's mistaken the meaning of "naive" to mean "unaware" instead of the intended "not exposed to" - Reagen Mar 30, 07:48
  - The same reason all non-epidemiologists are? -- nm - spamlet Mar 30, 07:44
- I read only a small part of it. Only question I have: is this dude self-isolating? - ty97 Mar 30, 07:18
- “Looking at the costs, the public commands have led to a crash in the stock market, and may only save a small fraction of the lives that are at risk.” -- nm - mud Mar 30, 07:08
- Epstien was trending on twitter yesterday so I read it then. Nut job -- nm - Bacon Mar 30, 07:08
- Just got this texted by one of my Trump freakout friends. Heh. Literally 2 minutes -- nm - JackDawson Mar 30, 07:05 2
  - I read it yesterday but it took me a while to digest just how insane this guy is in his misread of things - Reagen Mar 30, 07:08 1
    - The "everything is economics" crede has rotted capitalism for a long time, to the point of it being unsalvageable. - JackDawson Mar 30, 07:16
Interesting source for this tweet -- (link) - ty97 Mar 30, 07:00 1
- They can take out a loan, of course. -- nm - JaxSean Mar 30, 07:03
One other thing, the grocery store last night was well stocked. - ty97 Mar 30, 06:54 2
- Paper products overall cleaned out, Cleaning products, water, meat/dairy thinned out -- nm - budice Mar 30, 06:55 1
  - Meat and dairy looked good. I didn't need eggs so didn't check that. - ty97 Mar 30, 06:57
"They do it and we do it... Every country does that." -- (link) - mud Mar 30, 06:52 4
- Why did I know who said that, before looking? -- nm - loosilu Mar 30, 06:53
- Everyone who works in the White House is going to get COVID from facepalming -- nm - ty97 Mar 30, 06:53 2
  - it's okay, he's just trolling. It's all part of his grand scheme, the old trickster. -- nm - mud Mar 30, 07:12
  - ha! -- nm - prayformojo Mar 30, 07:00

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