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Hornets Venom win game 2 of the series on a last second shot. That was fun. -- nm - pmb May 14, 17:55
Run sure took a turn this week. -- nm - Reagen May 14, 17:49 1
- No kidding. -- nm - pmb May 14, 17:54
Ken Levine staged a script reading of a Cheers script with MLB and NFL announcers....and George Wendt. -- (link) - Remlik May 14, 17:36
Local news reporting on a restaurant went with that idea of filling seats with mannequins, only they went with blow-up dolls..... - Meg May 14, 16:57 1
- manakins was kinda weird...but really blow up dolls, and even though you didn't link, we all know its the creepy pervert sex dolls -- nm - zeitgeist May 14, 17:57
ST Imaginary Legal Team, Assemble!: United States v. Barack Hussein Obama: The Obamagate Indictment -- (link) - prayformojo May 14, 16:53
There is rumor that Pence is sick with COVID. -- nm - loosilu May 14, 16:45 6
- He looks like a disgruntled former healthy person, and frankly a lot of people were saying he wasn't doing a good job anyway. -- nm - POTUS May 14, 17:19 2
  - I don’t know the guy. -- nm - Trumpy May 14, 17:24
  - He looks like a model for a bowling trophy. -- nm - loosilu May 14, 17:23
- No, not him, the other one! Stupid virus, you had ONE job. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 14, 16:53 1
  - Um. No. It’s both. -- nm - Qale May 14, 17:05
- Probably just wants some time away from Mother -- nm - Beryllium May 14, 16:53
MLB19: Home Run Derby time! -- (pic) - Shaun May 14, 16:43 [Attachment] 1
- Lost in Round 1 11-8. Lame. -- nm - Shaun May 14, 16:52
the dumbest congressman -- (link) - Jovian May 14, 16:29 12
- As God is my witness I thought this was the private GOP talking points Zoom meeting. -- nm - Devin May 14, 17:25
- Is this worse than the Guam is going to tip over and capsize guy? -- nm - Strongbad May 14, 17:15 3
  - I have literally nothing to say here other than, I really really liked going to Guam for 2 weeks. -- nm - loosilu May 14, 17:26
  - Not understanding islands isn't admitting to election fraud on live tv. -- nm - Reagen May 14, 17:21 1
    - *wonders what the Venn Diagram of those 2 circles would look like* -- nm - Strongbad May 14, 17:24
- I dunno. Let's not forget Iowa still has Steve King. - Cuzzin Todd May 14, 16:56
- Not going to watch the video right now. What did he say? -- nm - znufrii May 14, 16:36 5
  - suggested performing something illegal in 49 states to win an election - tRuMaN May 14, 16:39 4
    - And said *exactly* that in the same sentence. -- nm - Spawn May 14, 17:48
    - But it's legal in CA, where Mike Garcia is running. -- nm - Open Baron May 14, 17:44
    - A Cleveland Steamer? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 14, 17:03 1
      - +10 Qale Points -- nm - Qale May 14, 17:06
RC, a BBC documentary you have to see. Lucy Worsley's Fireworks for a Tudor Queen. -- (link) - Peglegpete May 14, 16:23 [youtube]
Bery, it could be on my end, but embedded twitter videos do not play for me anymore in the post. Mac/chrome. -- nm - rollo May 14, 15:53 6
- Mine don't either but when I switch them to incognito mode they do. - . May 14, 16:22 1
  - Got that wrong. I open the twitter link in incognito mode to get it to play. -- nm - . May 14, 16:33
- The one below plays fine. On my driod tablet. -- nm* - Spawn May 14, 16:16
- I think this has been the case for a couple months for me, I figured it was a Twitter restriction. -- nm - Max May 14, 15:59
- Same -- nm - Reagen May 14, 15:54 1
  - Same same. -- nm - Dark Callisto May 14, 16:17
~teach ..your children well~♪ -- (link) - mud May 14, 15:43 1
- they really are all fascists. All these people would cheer if he was declared Supreme Ruler for Life tomorrow. -- nm - Jovian May 14, 16:05
I mean, this tweet ... it's true for most people, but not for me. I was doing distance education. I'd have been as unaffected then as I am now. -- (link*) - Beryllium May 14, 15:23 5
- Mail order courses existed. Is it normal for people on Twitter to lack so much imagination? -- nm - con_carne May 14, 17:45
- Noobs. - Spawn May 14, 15:25 3
  - Heh. Internet? I shared the family phone. (I feel like this is heading into a Monty Python skit) -- nm* - JD May 14, 15:31 2
    - Our phone was in a call box at the end of the street :) -- nm - Meg May 14, 15:39
    - My freshman year of college we had a shared dorm hall phone. -- nm - Dano May 14, 15:35
Charlie Brooker's Antiviral Wipe tonight was hilarious, including the end credits. -- nm - LMS May 14, 15:23 3
- did you watch Lucy Worsley too? -- nm - Peglegpete May 14, 15:27 2
  - I didn't, it was comedy night - B99, Cunk, Rick & Morty, Harley Quinn. -- nm - LMS May 14, 16:04 1
    - there's a new Cunk??? thank you. Diane is great -- nm - Peglegpete May 14, 16:19
So say that everything is OK between MLB and players, how does the proposed 82 game season change things? -- nm - JD May 14, 15:22 2
- If enough players sit out, does that mean I have a chance to be a Major League baseball player? -- nm - Dano May 14, 15:25 1
  - Sure? Kind of like war times but the numbers are a bit different this time -- nm - JD May 14, 15:27
here's an easy one: - mud May 14, 15:20 [Attachment] 19
- muddy, I thought about it, changed my mind. Woodstock totes legit choice as soundtrack. -- nm - loosilu May 14, 16:47 1
  - sweet -- nm - mud May 14, 17:21
- That depends... who are most of them? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 14, 16:45 1
  - don't be a pest. -- nm - mud May 14, 17:22
- I will keep Young and ditch CSN. -- nm - Spawn May 14, 16:18 1
  - thread win. -- nm - mud May 14, 17:22
- The only thing I can recall Nash doing out side of csny was invented the term giclee' for digital photography inkjet prints -- nm - zeitgeist May 14, 16:12 3
  - Nash Editions. I was with Graham at the offices many times -- nm - Peglegpete May 14, 16:21
  - I dislike that word. YOU'RE OUT, NASH! -- nm - Beryllium May 14, 16:16 1
    - story is, he looked up the French word for squirter, as in jet of ink, he chose the wrong one -- nm - zeitgeist May 14, 16:17
- Nash probably a better songwriter but I like Crosby's voice so bye Graham. -- nm - zunkskunk May 14, 16:02 1
  - stills wrote the best songs as did Young, Crosby wasn't bad, nash did the syrupy stuff -- nm - zeitgeist May 14, 16:14
- Looks like Earl Hickey. -- nm - Beryllium May 14, 16:00
- Nash. He dumped Susan after almost 40 years of marriage for a girl 1/3 his age. -- nm - Peglegpete May 14, 15:58
- Crosby. My preference is: Y>S>N>C -- nm - rollo May 14, 15:47 4
  - They should have gotten Harry Nilsson - Reagen May 14, 15:52
  - Y>S>C> ..N -- nm - mud May 14, 15:49 2
    - Long may you run -- nm - rollo May 14, 15:51 1
      - :-] -- nm - mud May 14, 17:23
The Blues Brothers is a great soundtrack that went unmentioned -- nm - rollo May 14, 15:20 5
- Indeed. -- nm - Strongbad May 14, 16:29
- Could've sworn it was on there but I misread O' Brother. -- nm - . May 14, 16:23
- That would be the second of my three. At the moment, I will throw Valley Girl on there, but that could change. -- nm* - Spawn May 14, 15:26
- Also, Magnolia -- nm - Dano May 14, 15:24 1
  - Dreams can come true. -- nm - ST Draft Analyst May 14, 15:25
Totes cray - Dano May 14, 15:09 1
- But there's all that time you're not spending going back and forth from the office and with home/office being the same can't you work all the time? - JD May 14, 15:12
NY Times: He Was a Science Star. Then He Promoted a Questionable Cure for Covid-19. -- (link) - Mop May 14, 15:04
Every video on twitter seems to be tik-tok. Why did they get rid of vine for it to be replaced by tik-tok? -- nm - JaxSean May 14, 14:59 7
- 'They' didn't. Twitter purchased it before their debut and apparently had no idea what to with it - JD May 14, 15:06 4
  - Yeah, but now everything is TikTok. Seems like they killed it off, and a new Vine came along to fill the void. -- nm - JaxSean May 14, 15:37 3
    - There are probably differences between Tiktok and Vine that are not obvious to the "hey they both make short videos so they are the same" crowd - rollo May 14, 15:50 2
      - TikToks can be edited afterwards I think, while Vines were in-camera edit only - Reagen May 14, 15:54 1
        
        Affirmative -- nm - con_carne May 14, 16:44
- Because venture capital is no way to steer technological decisions. -- nm - Beryllium May 14, 15:02 1
  - *ding* The earliest Vine videos I ever saw were corporate. Nobody wants to see that shit. -- nm - con_carne May 14, 16:43
Disney -- nm - MDH May 14, 14:39 4
- Disney’s Frozen to close on Broadway. Will not reopen after covid. -- nm - MDH May 14, 14:40 3
  - You just made Snoop Dog cry. -- nm - Spawn May 14, 14:49 1
    - I'm pretty sure he already took the fam to see it -- nm - JD May 14, 14:52
  - ~Into the Unknown~ -- nm - budice May 14, 14:44
But who doesn't looove data tidbits? 35K COVID cases in LA County. 51% are from "institutional settings." 11% of all tests have been positive. - con_carne May 14, 14:36 2
- Comes back to people who are living in close, crowded environments. Which ties in to the question that was asked about the differences in - Meg May 14, 15:12 1
  - WA had an outbreak of some 55 out of 68 members of a choir who spent a couple hours singing, seems obvious that air trans is more than touch/face -- nm - zeitgeist May 14, 16:00
at the rate I'm seeing it there will be no one either working or, from the privileged classes, living in NYC this summer. Hopefully this helps - JackDawson May 14, 14:33 3
- I've got the I'm no local guy question. How much does that reduce the population? I know that it is relative fortune to live in the city - JD May 14, 14:37 2
  - I've heard that some of the most expensive real estate in the world lies vacant because wealthy just have a dozen flats to visit on whim - zeitgeist May 14, 15:45
  - Mostly commute -- nm - JackDawson May 14, 15:09
here -- (link) - mud May 14, 14:26 6
- This is how he and The General roll. -- nm - Spawn May 14, 14:28 5
  - did you see Hamill on WWDitS last night? -- (link) - mud May 14, 14:54 4
    - last nights was excellent! -- nm - Jovian May 14, 15:08
    - I have not started watching the series yet. - Spawn May 14, 14:57 2
      - duuuuude -- nm - Jovian May 14, 15:08 1
        
        SHUT UP, JOVIAN! - Spawn May 14, 15:22
omg lol -- (link) - Jovian May 14, 14:06 3
- and this one -- (link) - Jovian May 14, 14:16 2
  - and this one too -- (link) - Jovian May 14, 14:17 1
    - :-) -- nm - mud May 14, 14:32
Something else to watch while HBO is free: Leaving Neverland. -- nm - Mop May 14, 14:05 1
- It is a tough one to get through. We will probably never know the whole truth. -- nm - Qale May 14, 14:37
Speaking of poker. Where can you play online these days? -- nm - spamlet May 14, 13:50 4
- I wonder how effective being 100% tight aggressive would be online these days. -- nm - Shaun May 14, 14:27
- znu won $800 bucks last night. I would go there. -- nm - Spawn May 14, 14:00 1
  - *grumble* - znufrii May 14, 14:45
- The computer -- nm - Will Hunting May 14, 13:56
Norway wants to demolish buildings with Picasso murals. some of the art world is pissed -- (link) - Peglegpete May 14, 13:40 9
- Building looks rather sturdy, should be able to make repairs, i guess its just an ugly as "brutalist" implies and they just -- nm - zeitgeist May 14, 14:21
- So, save the murals. Demo the buildings. Can't be that hard. -- nm - VMan May 14, 14:03 6
  - Looking at the install, it does seem pretty hard. -- nm - Reagen May 14, 14:05 5
    - Could be done though. The argument seems focused on "context" of the installations. -- nm - VMan May 14, 14:07 4
      - ignoring the fact the Norwegian govt can sell them for many many millions -- nm - Peglegpete May 14, 14:09 3
        
        Not sure how many takers you would get. The one's I saw are the whole building wall. Shipping would be a bitch, let alone a reinstall. - VMan May 14, 14:11 2
        
        it's a great billionaire ego piece -- nm - Peglegpete May 14, 14:39
        
        Though somebody bought a bridge -- nm - JD May 14, 14:30
- no! -- nm - mud May 14, 13:55
On the same note, Kroenke wants another $500m from the NFL for his stadium boondoggle and double the time to pay it back. -- (link) - spamlet May 14, 13:39 8
- Hahahaha, you enjoy him LA. -- nm - Open Baron May 14, 17:42
- Also hearing Rams and/or 49ers could play home games in Colorado, this year, if California CoVID isn’t better -- nm - Flavorize May 14, 14:51
- Holy crap - spamlet May 14, 13:41 3
  - It's worth the money since LA fans are so passionate about football. - David May 14, 13:42 2
    - I'm impressed that you typed that with a straight face -- nm - JD May 14, 13:47 1
      - I did...not. -- nm - David May 14, 13:55
- Look, you can't expect the *checks notes* Wal-Mart owners to have extra cash. -- nm* - David May 14, 13:40 1
  - He just married in too! -- nm - spamlet May 14, 13:43
Each IRS Service center receives an average of 2 truckloads of mail every day during filing season (January-April) - spamlet May 14, 13:29 2
- how big are the trucks? -- nm - Peglegpete May 14, 13:36 1
  - 53 foot semis like you see on the highway. -- nm - spamlet May 14, 13:37
C'mon in guys! -- nm - con_carne May 14, 13:26
Let's talk about the baseball thing from Juan Soto's perspective. - David May 14, 13:26 7
- And he will make that 150-200k for 3 months of work. - Will Hunting May 14, 13:42 1
  - Nobody's saying that the pandemic hasn't screwed a lot of people. - David May 14, 13:49
- Frankly, I just don't believe the owners so eff them. - spamlet May 14, 13:32 2
  - White Sox have a deal with the city with loopholes they abuse. -- nm - . May 14, 13:42
  - Oh, that's absolutely right. As I said on the Braves board... - David May 14, 13:37
- (ok, I'm just being fighty) So there's an economic response to my star player decides to sit out question from the other day? - JD May 14, 13:30 1
  - It's definitely his salary that makes him look like a jerk. - David May 14, 13:36

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