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Hurray, my BP is coming down. 148/100. I ran out of one of my two BP meds yesterday. My second reading at 11 am was 163/108. First was 170/110. - loosilu May 22, 15:42 2
- yeow -- nm - prayformojo May 22, 15:44 1
  - I'm the only one out of my 4 siblings and 5 paternal cousins who has it. I got every single bad gene. -- nm - loosilu May 22, 15:46
TOnight, starting Monty Python in chronological order. Never occurred to me to do this. Thanks, Spawn! -- nm - loosilu May 22, 15:26 5
- I did this a few weeks ago. I still love it and still remember... well, most lines. -- nm - Dark Callisto May 22, 15:35 1
  - I'm only on ep 1, I definitely saw this. I'm sure I will find many I didn't. -- nm - loosilu May 22, 15:36
- Enjoy! I started Supernatural with the last two episodes of S1. VERY glad I did! 5 into S2 now. -- nm* - Spawn May 22, 15:30 2
  - Did you never see the beginning? -- nm - loosilu May 22, 15:33 1
    - Yes. I watched the first six or so when they aired. Was too monster-of-the-week. -- nm - Spawn May 22, 19:13
Canada! -- (pic) - Reagen May 22, 15:24 [Attachment] 2
- This weather report brought to you by IcyHot. - Max May 22, 15:32 1
  - "You've taken the metric system and used it for good!" -- nm - Open Baron May 22, 15:41
That Yahoo list ... okay, they got the top 5 close. #1 is wrong and 4 is just wrong but so close. - Will Hunting May 22, 14:30 9
- I was going to start a poll about #1 vs. #2. After Kim and I discussed it, she made a compelling argument that Biles should be close to unanimous. -- nm - David May 22, 14:38 8
  - Best ever trumps amazingly great imo and it’s not close. -- nm - Will Hunting May 22, 14:49 6
    - Can we .... retire that verb? -- nm - loosilu May 22, 15:05 5
      - No. Because it’s a word that means things and I’m not easily triggered. -- nm - Will Hunting May 22, 15:12 4
        
        It instantly takes me out of the sentence. -- nm - loosilu May 22, 15:15 3
        
        Me too. All I can think of is bridge. And cheetos. -- nm - zunkskunk May 22, 15:32
        
        I’m not changing my legitimate words so you don’t feel comfortable. - Will Hunting May 22, 15:17 1
        
        That's fine. I'm informing you how it hits some people. It's not about discomfort. For me it just derails the message. -- nm* - loosilu May 22, 15:18
  - (And I had the same thought about Zion, whom I adore.) -- nm - David May 22, 14:38
NHL, NHLPA close on agreement for 24 team playoff -- (link) - Reagen May 22, 14:20 4
- The stat I read today is that 1 out of 6 NHL players are not in North America right now. -- nm - David May 22, 14:30 1
  - I wouldn't be surprised at higher - Reagen May 22, 14:34
- So do just the teams that don’t make it get in the lottery #askingtherealquestions -- nm - spamlet May 22, 14:25
- Not sure why they don’t like the format...top 8 are automatically into a normal 16-team bracket. -- nm - Will Hunting May 22, 14:25
Oregon GOP Senate campaign denies candidate is QANON follower, candidate disputes denial -- (link) - Reagen May 22, 14:17 3
- Thanks asshats for bringing ruin upon the letter Q. May John De Lancie have mercy on your lack of souls! -- nm* - Qale May 22, 16:11
- But is she a witch? -- nm - Open Baron May 22, 15:41
- My favorite part is where she compares Q to Jesus. - spamlet May 22, 14:25
Michael Jordan vs Michael Scott: A Comparison -- (link) - prayformojo May 22, 14:11
watch Top Chef last night? Who was the judge in the blue dress, seen here -- (link) - prayformojo May 22, 14:02 [Image] 3
- It's Nilou Motamed from Food & Wine. -- nm - David May 22, 14:36 2
  - yeah, that's right. thanks. -- nm - prayformojo May 22, 14:42 1
    - I fast-forwarded through the episode to match dresses. -- nm - David May 22, 14:43
Karen ain't paying an $80 ticket. -- (link) - Shaun May 22, 14:01 34
- was the arresting officer Bill Paxton? - Jovian May 22, 15:42
- best thing Ive seen today. Thank you. -- nm - Jovian May 22, 15:13
- Past a certain point, I started to feel sorry for her. - David May 22, 14:42 18
  - I have to think there was a better option than chasing her down. Maybe just drop the ticket in the mail with a court summons? -- nm - znufrii May 22, 15:02 17
    - She fled. You don’t let the people fleeing just drive off. - Will Hunting May 22, 15:14 10
      - That's not really true. In most police departments they are supposed to make a risk assessment of whether this person poses a danger to others. If -- (edited) - pmb May 22, 15:18 8
        
        She kicks him. - Will Hunting May 22, 15:19 7
        
        I absolutely agree that he gave her plenty of chances, and I also agree that an African-American might have died in the same circumstance. -- nm - David May 22, 15:27 4
        
        two points: yes if an african-american pulled this, they could have easily ended up dead. But secondly, most african-americans would not act like this -- nm - Jovian May 22, 15:38 2
        
        (Because they would be afraid they might end up dead.) -- nm - Dark Callisto May 22, 15:39 1
        
        exactly. exactly my point! -- nm - Jovian May 22, 15:44
        
        Yep. And then the focus would have been on the escalation. - pmb May 22, 15:35
        
        After he escalated it. He screwed this up way earlier. She actually offered to sign it and leave and he refused that. - pmb May 22, 15:25
        
        She will be lucky if she gets off without a resisting arrest, assaulting a police office, and god only knows what other charges they could lay out -- nm - Jovian May 22, 15:22
      - goddamn right. She got off lucky. -- nm - Jovian May 22, 15:15
    - Exactly. And then go boot or tow her car. - pmb May 22, 15:13
    - I feel like the source of this was that she couldn't afford to pay $80. -- nm - David May 22, 15:13 4
      - What is the list price on that giant pickup truck these days? 50 60k? I think she could afford the $80 bucks -- nm - Jovian May 22, 15:16 3
        
        I had a friend who was 22 and bought a truck that he later realized had car payments exceeding what he earned in two weeks. -- nm - David May 22, 15:25 1
        
        The loan officer got a vacation to Hawaii. It’s like Marcy D’Arcy loaning Al Bundy the money for the shoe God told him to make. -- nm - Will Hunting May 22, 15:32
        
        You’d be amazed at how many redneck-mobiles exist that worth more than the person clears in 2 years. -- nm - Will Hunting May 22, 15:18
- This is literally like arguing with my five year old (minus the tasering) - Reagen May 22, 14:27 3
  - Yeah, but it's also probably a needless police escalation. There are better ways to handle this. -- nm - pmb May 22, 15:12
  - "You have twenty seconds to comply." "I can count to one hundred." -- nm - Max May 22, 14:40 1
    - have you bugged me? -- nm - Reagen May 22, 14:41
- I don't have speakers, what was the reason she was pulled over? not wearing a mask or a traffic vio? -- nm - zeitgeist May 22, 14:21 2
  - I’m guessing driving on expired tags for six months. - Will Hunting May 22, 14:23 1
    - "busted tail light" where that means the entire back end was crushed in. -- nm - Reagen May 22, 15:01
- Karen woke up in a free country. Karen's going to bed in a jail cell in a free country. -- nm - Max May 22, 14:09
- That escalated quickly. -- nm - znufrii May 22, 14:06
- A black person would not have survived that confrontation. -- nm - TWuG May 22, 14:05 1
  - I dont believe that is true, but the stereotypical thing would be that you are right. -- nm - tRuMaN May 22, 14:16
- SHOOT HER -- (edited) - JaxSean May 22, 14:03 1
  - She got stunned at least lol. -- nm - Shaun May 22, 14:04
Speaking of needle drops, what are the most famous uses of "She Sells Sanctuary" in film and tv? - Max May 22, 13:43 2
- I only remember it in a car commercial. -- nm - loosilu May 22, 13:49 1
  - aha, the Budweiser Super Bowl ad from 2012 -- (link) - Max May 22, 13:57
Judge Tosses OAN Defamation Suit Against Rachel Maddow, (she said it “really, literally is paid Russian propaganda.") -- (link) - mud May 22, 13:43
Around 5-ish minutes til static fire test of the Crew Dragon/Falcon 9 -- (link*) - TWuG May 22, 13:26 [youtube] 1
- Another view -- (link) - TWuG May 22, 13:29 [youtube]
C'mon, Ticketmaster. I appreciate that my tickets will still be valid, but at least tell me *what* event you're talking about. -- (pic) - JaxSean May 22, 13:12 [Attachment] 6
- For most people this isn’t an issue -- nm - Ticketmaster May 22, 14:13
- right? I've got a bunch of those. irritating -- nm - Remlik May 22, 13:53
- David’s Backyard Adventures LIVE!? - znufrii May 22, 13:41
- Wiggles on Ice. -- nm - Open Baron May 22, 13:35
- Uhm, all of them? -- nm - Spawn May 22, 13:19 1
  - Some are cancelled, but most are postponed. -- nm - JaxSean May 22, 14:02
10 years ago in theaters: Shrek Forever After ($70m), MacGruber, (ltd): Kites, Solitary Man - Max May 22, 12:51 [youtube] 13
- 15 years ago: Star Wars III - Revenge of the Sith ($108m), (ltd): Dominion - Max May 22, 12:52 [youtube] 12
  - 20 years ago: Dinosaur ($38m), Road Trip, (ltd): Small Time Crooks - Max May 22, 12:52 [youtube] 11
    - 25 years ago: Die Hard With a Vengeance ($22m), Forget Paris - Max May 22, 12:52 [youtube] 10
      - nice trailer! -- nm - mud May 22, 13:27
      - 30 years ago: Bird on a Wire ($15m), Cadillac Man - Max May 22, 12:54 [youtube] 8
        
        35 years ago: no new releases (Rustler's Rhapsody and Rappin' top the chart in their second week) - Max May 22, 12:54 7
        
        40 years ago: (ltd): Star Wars V - The Empire Strikes Back ($4.9m), The Shining, The Gong Show Movie - Max May 22, 12:55 [youtube] 6
        
        45 years ago: The Eiger Sanction, The Other Side of the Mountain, French Connection II, The Return of the Pink Panther, Breakout -- (link) - Max May 22, 13:02 [youtube] 5
        
        50 years ago: The Landlord -- (link) - Max May 22, 13:05 [youtube] 4
        
        good picture, Ashby's 1st -- nm - mud May 22, 13:22
        
        60 years ago: Pollyanna (Hayley Mill's first film for Disney) -- (link) - Max May 22, 13:08 [youtube] 2
        
        I just checked, she's still alive. -- nm - loosilu May 22, 15:21 1
        
        I think she was probly my 1st "celeb crush" when I saw The Castaways (1962) She would've been 15, I was 7 -- nm - mud May 22, 15:43
Jets are signing former Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco to a one-year deal -- nm - decline May 22, 12:49 2
- That's a smart move. We need a legit backup -- nm - Krusty May 22, 13:47
- Elite -- nm - budice May 22, 12:51
"I shouldn't have been such a wise guy," -- (link) - mud May 22, 12:35 2
- Nice try, B, but Trump is already the self-declared "least racist person there is anywhere in the world." -- nm - Max May 22, 13:21
- Oh, a wise guy, eh? -- nm - Curly May 22, 12:42
Supposedly, all remaining PA counties are going yellow as of June 5th -- (link) - znufrii, silly old man May 22, 12:27 17
- ~look at the stars...look how they shine for you~ -- nm - Dano May 22, 12:39 1
  - ... -- (link) - David May 22, 12:42 [youtube]
- Do you know if this includes liquor stores opening? Asking for a friend -- nm - decline May 22, 12:35 11
  - They were closed? -- nm - loosilu May 22, 12:42 3
    - Been closed since the lockdown started. PA has state-run liquor stores -- nm - decline May 22, 12:43 2
      - Fortunately the beer distributors stayed open. -- nm - znufrii, silly old man May 22, 12:55
      - So does VA, they never closed. -- nm - loosilu May 22, 12:46
  - A drunken friend! -- nm - David May 22, 12:38 5
    - true story. I've had 1 drink in the past 8 weeks - decline May 22, 12:43 4
      - I be had more in the last 8 minutes. -- nm - Will Hunting May 22, 14:24 1
        
        We can tell -- nm - spamlet May 22, 14:27
      - I've had...more than that. - znufrii, silly old man May 22, 12:46
      - Meanwhile, I've been eyeing our mini-bottle of Jack Daniels pretty hard a couple of times. -- nm - David May 22, 12:44
  - I believe it does. -- nm - znufrii, silly old man May 22, 12:37
- huh. faster than I thought. He must be getting real pressure from the counties still in Red -- nm - decline May 22, 12:33
- I am kinda opposed to the color grade system for this. It hits green when it is 100% safe, right? - Spawn May 22, 12:29 1
  - iirc, for us Green = there's a vaccine and it's available. -- nm - Shaun May 22, 12:39
wa state says unemployment benefits fraud could cost state "hundreds of millions " -- nm - zeitgeist May 22, 12:27 2
- The dead deserve to be paid. -- nm - Spawn May 22, 12:28 1
  - this is the Nigerians who got the info from the Experian hack, and wholesale applied for unemployment benes..what's odd is so few unemp'd can apply - zeitgeist May 22, 14:26
"No masks allowed" -- (link) - znufrii, silly old man May 22, 12:18 9
- The coughers in the video are doing things 5 year olds wouldn't do. -- nm - Reagen May 22, 13:01
- i love all the people who suddenly care about disabilities and discrimination. - colin May 22, 12:39
- Makes it easier to know where NOT to shop. -- nm - Spawn May 22, 12:22 3
  - exactly because you know those shop owners are "spite not cleaning" as well. -- nm - Pippy - blinky May 22, 12:25 2
    - Exactly. I prefer dumbasses to wear a badge... well, not a police badge. A sign. -- nm* - Spawn May 22, 12:26 1
      - Lucky for us, this time they actually are. -- nm - loosilu May 22, 12:35
- This is a good point. If there was a ' mask required' store, I'd go to it instead of being half in and half out. sort of like the non smoking section - Pippy - blinky May 22, 12:20 2
  - Costco -- nm - zeitgeist May 22, 12:24
  - As I said, Menards here has been doing it. Gaining some, losing some. -- nm - Spawn May 22, 12:22
"Universal Orlando has officially announced that it will be reopening all three of its theme parks: Universal Studios Florida, Islands..." - David May 22, 12:11 10
- There are lots of good cruise deals right now too! -- nm - Dano May 22, 12:33 1
  - Poor Riley Tench -- nm - David May 22, 12:34
- Wow -- nm - JackDawson May 22, 12:21
- Well, *we're* not gonna die, but the likely-hood of others will be high. - JaxSean May 22, 12:15
- are you going ? -- nm - decline May 22, 12:14
- I read that as the entire IM being the quote. -- nm - Spawn May 22, 12:13 3
  - Sorry, that was an unfortunate choice of character breaks. - David May 22, 12:41
  - me too. I was like " dang, Florida doesn't even CARE anymore" -- nm - Pippy - blinky May 22, 12:18 1
    - Well, they don't.` -- nm - loosilu May 22, 12:23
- Well if it's one person per island, I'd consider it. -- nm - Max May 22, 12:12
Car chase etiquette seems to be to follow the suspect until he grinds to a halt. -- nm - Loyola May 22, 12:02 3
- There are rules about it for the safety of the cops. -- nm - loosilu May 22, 12:18 1
  - Though that’s not safest for everyone else. -- nm - spamlet May 22, 14:14
- Safest way. -- nm - Spawn May 22, 12:09
THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!! -- nm - Spawn May 22, 11:56 3
- THIS IS AN EX-TRACTOR -- nm - loosilu, pointing at a broken tractor May 22, 11:57 2
  - POINTS A FLASHLIGHT AT IT, INVENTS TRACTOR BEAM -- nm - zeitgeist May 22, 12:10 1
    - Nice. -- nm - loosilu May 22, 12:11

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