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This may not have a football to the groin but it’s still pretty good. -- (link) - Roger More May 15, 21:02
A thread on Reddit asked “what’s your favourite one hit wonder” and someone replied “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” - Roger More May 15, 20:44 13
- Everything except The New Radicals "You Get What You Give" is wrong. -- nm - Ender May 15, 23:48
- It's a good song. I bought the entire CD just for it. -- nm - David May 15, 21:09 3
  - Unsurprising. -- nm - Roger More May 15, 21:11 2
    - Why do you hate joy? - David May 15, 21:12 1
      - I like plenty of awful music because it’s still fun. But that song is just awful. -- nm - Roger More May 15, 21:34
- Horrible song. Terrible. -- nm - kelly May 15, 21:06
- Was Lorde’s “Royals” a one-hit wonder? I guess she has some new song but I think Billie Eilish is who everyone thought Lorde would be - Flavorize May 15, 20:52 3
  - She had two top-five hits by the time she was 19. -- nm - David May 15, 21:11
  - Lorde’s had a few songs, just not as successful. Their cover of “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” is solid. -- nm - Mop May 15, 21:02
  - Fridays -- nm - zeitgeist May 15, 21:01
- Well then, that’s the one thing we’ve got. -- nm - Qale May 15, 20:51 1
  - Aaahhhhh -- nm - kelly May 15, 21:06
- i'm unfamiliar with that song. -- nm - Peglegpete May 15, 20:47
Things are going terribly in Brazil! No one saw this coming! -- (link) - Mop May 15, 20:38 3
- For Bolsonaro this isn’t ignorance, it’s design. - mafic May 15, 20:55 1
  - I’m pretty sure this is the recipe for civil unrest and violent overthrow of governments. -- nm - Mop May 15, 21:00
- the way governments do accounting is outdated. they have to find a way to pay for nat. disaster, pandemics & related stuff so it ain't on the books. -- nm - Peglegpete May 15, 20:44
is a Wacom one any good? Deviant Art is giving one away in a caption this contest. of course I think my answer is best and I will win it next week. -- (link) - Peglegpete May 15, 20:22 6
- I only hear my artist friends cursing at theirs. -- nm - Qale May 15, 20:52 1
  - ... Because they all have one... -- nm - Ender May 15, 23:26
- not familiar with that particular model but Wacom is the single most standard of digital arts/photography with photoshop and corel painter built on it -- nm - zeitgeist May 15, 20:51
- the picture is a 20 something woman looking at phone slightly surprised and a few hearts in the air. my caption: Rehoboam next 10 year life projection -- nm - Peglegpete May 15, 20:39
- Kim got one but barely used it. I loved the way it looked and felt. -- nm - ST Draft Analyst May 15, 20:28
- I believe digital artists quite enjoy Wacom products. -- nm - Mop May 15, 20:27
Well this is a horrifying thread. (ICE genocide) -- (link) - Beryllium May 15, 20:00 5
- Hyperbolic nonsense like “ICE genocide” makes me not want to care. - Mop May 15, 20:49 4
  - One reason I try not to use the word “genocide” is that it always leads to arguments like “well, it’s evil but the important thing here is that it’s - Roger More May 15, 21:11
  - UN definition of genocide includes: Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. -- (link) - TWuG May 15, 20:59 2
    - And, by definition, these are concentration camps. -- nm - Mop May 15, 21:01 1
      - Option 2 is for the children to be removed from their parents. The choices are pestilence or genocide. And it's not hyperbole. -- nm - Beryllium May 15, 21:06
Apparently I am no longer negative on the year on the other site, which seems incorrect. -- nm - MDH May 15, 19:58
CA rationing out the remdesiver meds says hospitals might have to have lotteries to see which patients get it -- (link) - zeitgeist May 15, 19:58 2
- It’ll be televised. -- nm - Mop May 15, 20:50 1
  - Survivor ICU -- nm - zeitgeist May 15, 20:52
Wait. Super duper missile? We have a Space Force making a Super Duper Missile? This shit has gone plaid. -- nm - Volnelk, Caveman and Survivor # Picking Champion. May 15, 19:57
Looks like JCPenney Bankruptcy was finalized this afternoon. After NYSE close. -- (link) - budice May 15, 19:46 1
- Another bankruptcy, another restructuring, more store closings, more layoffs. We’ll be back here in 12-18 months. -- nm - Mop May 15, 20:34
Survivor Finale, whoa -- nm - budice May 15, 19:42
So...Spence Dinwiddle says if fans raise $24M (in BitCoin) for his GoFundMe, he'll sign a 1 yr deal with whatever team the fans decide - Flavorize May 15, 19:41
Selfie time -- (link) - Beryllium May 15, 19:22 [flickr] 6
- Are we Corona, cutting our own hair, twins? - Flavorize May 15, 20:20 2
  - I haven't cut my hair yet. Maybe next week. This haircut is from ... many months ago -- nm - Beryllium May 15, 20:32 1
    - Yeah—On second look it actually looks 1000X better than mine. Longer than I first thought too. -- nm - Flavorize May 15, 20:47
- you're supposed to protect yourself from the 'rona, not schmear it across your face -- nm - zeitgeist May 15, 19:53
- Please don’t hurt me. I’ll give you all my money. -- nm - Mop May 15, 19:34 1
  - Hurt you? That's a good idea. I like that. -- nm - Mr Bane si May 15, 19:46
Does the birthday slacker want some AEW Sneakers? -- (link) - Qale May 15, 18:54 2
- Heh. :-) - Krusty May 15, 19:20 1
  - They have a pair for Jurassic Express, but they kind of all look meh. -- nm - Qale May 15, 19:25
Some insane person on a Disney forum just compared Disney masks to the end of apartheid (don't ask). Now, all I can think about is... -- (link) - David May 15, 18:35 [youtube] 8
- Like, we definitely know shame isn't fatal. -- nm - Reagen May 15, 19:14 1
  - Boycotting Disney over face masks is *exactly* the same as boycotting South Africa over racial injustice. - David May 15, 21:13
- Mickey = Nelson Mandela -- nm - Beaker May 15, 18:46 4
  - No, Mickey *is* the apartheid in this scenario. -- nm - David May 15, 18:52 3
    - You’re gonna have to draw that one out for me chief. -- nm - spamlet May 15, 19:20 1
      - I stared into the mouth of madness. I didn’t say I talked to it. - ST Draft Analyst May 15, 20:26
    - Oh, I was just trying to figure out which character was Steve Biko. -- nm - Open Baron May 15, 18:58
- ya dumb sonofabitch! -- nm - Max May 15, 18:38
$3T bill passes, 208-199. -- (link) - mud May 15, 18:31 6
- I mean, that’s great... but where is this money coming from? -- nm - Mop May 15, 19:40 3
  - It's all just bits -- nm - JD May 15, 20:09
  - your grandchildren. -- nm - mud May 15, 19:47
  - Mexico will pay for it. -- nm - Max May 15, 19:41
- It's higher ground for the Dems. They're ready to approve more aid for people/business, GOP? -- nm - budice May 15, 18:44 1
  - It’s over, GOP! We have the high ground! -- nm - Dems May 15, 20:44
The Bigger Plate from Panda Express is going to feed me for a couple more nights. Or one night and a couple of lunches. -- nm - Meg May 15, 18:27 1
- One bigger plate?!? Eat more, woman! -- nm - JaxSean May 15, 19:00
The ST D&D folks are wondering if Mop's Virtual Cocktail Hour will be occurring tonight? -- nm - ReluctantCynic May 15, 18:22 6
- Hadn’t planned it. It was only me and Zeit last week. We can do this next Friday. -- nm - Mop May 15, 19:36
- cocktail? oops. -- (pic) - Peglegpete May 15, 18:45 [Attachment]
- I'm drunk right now -- nm - Beaker May 15, 18:22 3
  - This is my shocked font. -- nm - spamlet May 15, 18:24 2
    - That looks just like your sarcastic font. -- nm - Open Baron May 15, 18:42
    - Heh. -- nm - kelly May 15, 18:40
Reality star spent most of $2M emergency coronavirus loan on jewelry, Rolls Royce, DOJ says -- (link) - Remlik May 15, 18:18 2
- Does he actually have a business, or did he make that all up? Lying on a loan application for a federal program has got to be the dumbest way to end up in prison. -- nm* - GregW May 15, 18:23 1
  - story says he claimed 100 some employees and 1.5m a month of pay, wanted 3m got 2. someone ratted him out -- nm - zeitgeist May 15, 19:34
This tweet wins the day for my money. -- (link) - Volnelk, Caveman and Survivor # Picking Champion. May 15, 17:49 5
- Or: Your goal is to protect yourself and that's it. -- nm - JaxSean May 15, 19:02
- Idea inspired by one of the replies: confederate flag masks. - the wrong element, bad guy May 15, 18:22 2
  - One of the bandanas I pulled out to use as a mask went right back in the drawer. 20 years ago it wasn't a big deal ;) -- nm - Meg May 15, 18:26 1
    - That N.W.A. bandana might be worth something. -- nm - JaxSean May 15, 19:03
- Word. -- nm - znufrii, silly old man May 15, 17:58
Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals: Spiders are insects. - Open Baron May 15, 17:27 10
- So, can we call him Insect-Man? -- nm - ST Draft Analyst May 15, 20:26
- I’d have an insurance claim for a fire if that was the case. -- nm - spamlet May 15, 19:24
- uh, buried in there: the couple knew they had an infestation of brown recluse (yikes) then got the policy so they could make a claim? - Max May 15, 18:31
- waiting for Bill Nye the Science Guy to weigh in on this -- nm - call me ishmael May 15, 18:28
- Liberty biberty, I say. -- nm - Max May 15, 18:26
- Why do I even fucking bother? -- nm - Arachnologist May 15, 17:46
- Pi is exactly 3! -- nm - Reagen May 15, 17:32
- so what now? spiders have *rights* now? if I scoop one up and throw it outside will I get sued for wrongful eviction? -- nm* - zeitgeist May 15, 17:31 1
  - Yes. How's it supposed to crawl inside your open mouth while you sleep when it's stuck outside? -- nm - Open Baron May 15, 17:39
- Well, they’re both arthropods, I guess? -- nm - mafic May 15, 17:31
ST Poll: How many times have you watched Scoob so far? -- nm - Dano May 15, 17:22 1
- We just bought it for $25. - JaxSean May 15, 17:33
yeah, we all really love The 100. My oldest is writing a grade 11 school paper on it :) -- nm - Beaker May 15, 17:21 3
- its really fantastic -- nm - Jovian May 15, 17:32 2
  - You've read the paper? Man, the distribution channels kids have these days.... -- nm - Open Baron May 15, 18:42
  - 3/4 through season 2 and no one has really done anything stupid yet. I gotta respect that. - Beaker May 15, 17:33
The ongoing popularity of remixing the song Midnight (The Hanging Tree) from Hunger Games by DJs is mystifying. -- nm - Qale May 15, 17:20
Watching old tv on DVR. Apparently schools are going to close tomorrow for two weeks because of some virus according to the crawl on the bottom of the screen. -- nm* - Dano May 15, 17:19 1
- good to know! -- nm - Andie May 15, 17:20
Do I want this for above my dining table? -- (link) - tRuMaN May 15, 17:10 5
- Not my taste at all, but it's a cool piece. -- (edited) - znufrii, silly old man May 15, 18:08
- go for it if you like it. I have a vintage Luigi Colani space age light over my table. the round one in red, I couldn't find an oval one. -- (pic) -- (link*) - Peglegpete May 15, 18:05 [Attachment]
- unshaded lights? do these modern bulbs work with dimmers? I'd rather have some kind of shades, maybe art deco rockets -- nm - zeitgeist May 15, 17:36 1
  - Yes, you can use dimming bulbs. -- nm - tRuMaN May 15, 17:51
- i have a 1960's version (very similar) over mine. -- nm - Andie May 15, 17:20
Timothy Olyphant joins 'The Mandalorian' and the Star Wars Universe just got exponentially cooler. -- nm - Diva May 15, 16:47 14
- Was he on some other show people liked? -- nm - con_carne May 15, 18:20 4
  - he voiced Twiki on Buck Rogers -- nm - Peglegpete May 15, 18:49
  - The Grinder! -- nm - prayformojo May 15, 18:38
  - The Grinder. - the wrong element, bad guy May 15, 18:25
  - The Good Place. -- nm - Tim May 15, 18:22
- Is the Jogan fruit worth the squeeze? -- nm - Qale May 15, 17:01
- I hope he is dating Sasha Banks. -- nm - ST Draft Analyst May 15, 16:52
- Woot -- nm - Epiphany May 15, 16:52
- Haaaaaaawt. -- nm - Dark Callisto May 15, 16:51 2
  - IK,R??! -- nm - Diva May 15, 16:55 1
    - Mama like. -- nm - Judge Gen May 15, 17:04
- Almost beginning to ask who isn't in Season 2 -- nm - budice May 15, 16:51 1
  - same -- nm* - Beaker May 15, 16:51
- Space Cowboy! -- nm - Baltimore May 15, 16:50
Happy birthday to the nicest person on ST and possibly 🌎 Earth. -- nm - ST Draft Analyst May 15, 16:43 2
- For reals. -- nm - Diva May 15, 16:45 1
  - Thank you both! 😊 -- nm - Krusty May 15, 17:46
I just drank a bottle of wine by myself. Seems like a good time to start drunk texting and letting people know what I really think of them, yes? -- nm - Diva May 15, 16:38 5
- One bottle is rookie consumption. 2 bottles or gtfo. -- nm - Shaun May 15, 16:50 1
  - Can't do that - gotta sing tomorrow. -- nm - Diva May 15, 16:55
- It’s not Christmas! Save it! -- nm - Epiphany May 15, 16:45 1
  - HA-HAH!! -- nm - Diva May 15, 16:47
- Festivus! -- nm* - Beaker May 15, 16:39
Seattle Times: Antibody tests show COVID cases in the US in December. -- nm - Strongbad May 15, 16:36 5
- Further testing reveals that patient zero for the outbreak resides at the following coordinates: 38.8976763, -77.0365298 -- nm - Mop May 15, 16:52 1
  - Enhance... Enhance... Enhance... -- nm - Qale May 15, 17:04
- Loosi called it! -- nm - con_carne May 15, 16:41 2
  - Yes, and multiple others here too. -- nm - Strongbad May 15, 17:21 1
    - I was firmly in the "nah, not till late jan/feb" group. So... hmm. -- nm - Beryllium May 15, 17:30
"I'll bet the old man forgot about D&D" -- nm - spamlet s.i. May 15, 16:36
Hey Crash, can you play tonight? -- nm - spamlet May 15, 16:36 1
- poorly, I can play poorly -- nm - crash davis May 15, 17:03
Home Run number 74! -- (edited) - Shaun May 15, 16:35 [youtube] 5
- Those graphics are amazing. -- nm - Will Hunting May 15, 17:42
- Your fans suck. - Open Baron May 15, 16:55 1
  - I have. My agent is working on it, in theory. -- nm - Shaun May 15, 17:14
- *trades you to the Mets* -- nm - Baltimore May 15, 16:37
- *bats you 9th* -- nm - Baltimore May 15, 16:36
Happy birthday Krusty!!! -- nm - kelly May 15, 16:35 10
- Thank you all very much! 😁 -- nm - Krusty May 15, 19:22
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - J May 15, 18:16
- K-K-Krusty Combo Breaker!!! -- nm - Qale May 15, 17:22
- happy birthday, K.!! :) - — nm - i.b.! May 15, 17:19
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - Dano May 15, 17:14
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - budice May 15, 16:50
- Happy birthday! -- nm - LMS May 15, 16:44
- Happy birthday! -- nm - ty97 May 15, 16:39
- Happy Birthday!! -- nm - Epiphany May 15, 16:37
- Happy Birthday, Krusty!! - ReluctantCynic May 15, 16:37
In these uncertain times... -- nm - con_carne May 15, 16:32 1
- Suntori -- nm - Peglegpete May 15, 16:38

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