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For the first time in 124 years, the Boston Marathon (originally delayed from April to September) is officially cancelled for this year -- (link) - decline May 28, 11:59
pA demo say GOPleadership sat on legislators testing positive while promoting it was safe to open up again -- nm - msnbc May 28, 11:58 1
- Dem Rep Brian Sims going off on the PA GOP for this (it's quite the rant - and well deserved) -- (link) - decline May 28, 12:00 [youtube]
The only thing that was bad about Dynamite last night was Inner Circle related. *spoiler* - Qale May 28, 11:46 5
- yeah the Inner Circle/Tyson thing was blah. But it got them all over ESPN this morning -- nm - Remlik May 28, 11:56 4
  - Along with cornole and the Magic tournament? -- nm - Spawn May 28, 11:58
  - I thought it was brilliant because it accomplished something important. - David May 28, 11:57 2
    - It is a WWE rerun. Meh. -- nm - Qale May 28, 12:12
    - ok yeah I can see that, but some of it just dragged. -- nm - Remlik May 28, 11:58
Pete Townsend doesn't like Led Zeppelin and says he created Heavy Metal -- (link) - Peglegpete May 28, 11:42 4
- Nope, it was Jethro Tull. -- nm - Ba'rona Beast May 28, 11:57 1
  - that's some nice flutin' boy -- nm - Beaker May 28, 11:58
- ... and the internet. -- nm - Spawn May 28, 11:45 1
  - Whoa whoa wait a minute there -- nm - Al Gore May 28, 11:47
Here's a doozy from reddit r/relationships -- (link) - decline May 28, 11:40 7
- I want to call bullshit on this poster -- nm - Pippy - Flip Flop Maven May 28, 13:22
- Fuck the doorman? -- nm - David May 28, 12:02
- "There are plenty of fish in the sea..." - znufrii, silly old man May 28, 11:52 1
  - "Also, you might want to hear the second part of that: there are plenty of oceans on the planet. You might want to find a different one." -- nm - Beryllium May 28, 13:06
- This is gonna lead to a hell of a first date questionnaire for her from now on. -- nm - Reagen May 28, 11:43
- i read the headline question and then stopped reading as fast as I possible could -- nm - prayformojo May 28, 11:41 1
  - This. The answer to that question is "NO." -- nm - Mop May 28, 11:41
zombie fire? Zombie fire?!??! Zombie Fire!!!!! -- (link) - prayformojo May 28, 11:36 1
- If what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger, we're all gonna be fucking Hercules by the end of 2020. -- nm - David May 28, 12:04
Quebec reports 74 new COVID-19 deaths, 563 more confirmed cases -- nm - Beaker May 28, 11:31
Man secretly happy co-worker who scored Hamilton tickets can’t use them -- (link) - Beaker May 28, 11:28
"HBO Max hits 90,000 mobile downloads on day one" - David May 28, 11:26 22
- That's just PR smoke and mirrors. I don't know what that means, since - like I said - my "HBO Now" app on my iPad is now a "HBO Max" app. - Mop May 28, 11:41 2
  - If their PR team is presenting it as a positive, they should be fired, into the sun. -- nm - Reagen May 28, 11:44 1
    - I'm aware of HBO Max, I knew it was coming, but had no idea of the launch date and saw no marketing until yesterday, when I saw the ads on YouTube. - Mop May 28, 12:03
- *laughs in Quibi* -- nm - Reagen May 28, 11:32 7
  - Quibi Me? Did you Quibi? Send me a Quibi? Loop me in the Quibi? -- nm - Quibi CEO May 28, 11:42
  - Quibi did 300k, and it's a total failure to date. -- nm - David May 28, 11:34 5
    - That's what I'm sayin'. -- nm - Reagen May 28, 11:35
    - Who knew a mobile only service that you have to pay for that *HAS* ads would be a failure?!?! -- nm* - Shaun May 28, 11:35 3
      - Everyone: "Man, I just binged 8 hours of Tiger King in one session." Quibi: "Ha ha, these kids with their short attention spans! Have 7 minute shows!" -- nm - Reagen May 28, 11:52 2
        
        *with* ads!!! And you pay for it!!!! What a great idea! -- nm - Shaun May 28, 11:53 1
        
        when you are sick of 24 minute shows with commercials on regular cable, we give you 7 minute shows also with commercials!! -- nm - Beaker May 28, 11:57
- Come for Friends, stay for Big Bang Theory -- nm - Beaker May 28, 11:30
- Does that include the people who got auto-upgraded from HBO Now? If so, I'm one, and my acct isn't even active atm. -- nm - Ba'rona Beast May 28, 11:29 8
  - I'm still trying to figure out what's included and what's not, but that's a debacle number. Disney+ had 5 million. - David May 28, 11:32 7
    - I guess I hereby admit I don't really understand what HBO Max is. I thought it was just another platform with the same HBO stuff and would not expect - Spawn May 28, 11:48 4
      - From what I understand it has all of the HBO stuff, but it also has a lot of other stuff like Friends, South Park (starting in a month or two) and - sycor May 28, 11:50 3
        
        That is why expecting even a fraction of that D+ number was a pipe-dream. Not sure I see the point in paying to watch Friends yet again. -- nm - Spawn May 28, 11:55 2
        
        Since I don't have cable, I'd get HBO Now, but it's way overpriced for what it is. At this point though I think I may be cancelling Hulu soon. - sycor May 28, 12:03
        
        It was the most watched show on Netflix. That company paid $100 million for 2019 alone. HBO Max's launch is a total failure. -- nm - David May 28, 12:00
    - we may have reached streaming services overload -- nm - decline May 28, 11:35
    - I was being facetious and assumed it didn't, but imagine if it did. Oh lawd. - Ba'rona Beast May 28, 11:34
- SNYDER CUT!!! - Spawn May 28, 11:27
The University of CT student accused of killing two people, kidnapping another and leading police on a six-day manhunt was arrested in Maryland -- (link) - decline May 28, 11:25
Is oblique around? I have some really sexy news to share. - ReluctantCynic May 28, 11:20 1
- how will you be able to carry so much extra weight? -- nm - zeitgeist May 28, 11:23
Supernatural. Finished season 4 last night and started 5. For a moment I thought ST told me to watch just 3 & 4 and was like, "F- that!" - Spawn May 28, 11:20 2
- Nah 5 is the natural ending, but you can keep going, it definitely has it's fun moments. -- nm - sycor May 28, 11:41
- such a fun show -- nm - Remlik May 28, 11:29
University Of Minnesota Will No Longer Use Minneapolis Police As Event Security -- nm - Remlik May 28, 11:14
Got a battery case. It was supremely satisfying to slot all the batteries away. It's just a plastic case with a foam insert, but man, I need that. -- nm - Mop May 28, 11:14
Kansas Senate is in play if Kobach is the nominee -- (link) - Reagen May 28, 11:08 12
- I just spent several minutes trying to figure out how Klobuchar as VP on the ticket would flip the KS state senate control -- nm - ty97 May 28, 11:34 3
  - gawd, I have to connect the dots for *everything*. -- nm - Reagen May 28, 11:39
  - right? -- nm - prayformojo May 28, 11:37
  - I don't know but I'm sure it involves the reverse vampires. -- nm - Ba'rona Beast May 28, 11:36
- The Kansas Senate, or Kansas's Senate seat? -- nm - Mop May 28, 11:11 7
  - The Roberts seat I assume. -- nm - Ba'rona Beast May 28, 11:13 6
    - *lebron gesturing.gif* Link! -- nm - Reagen May 28, 11:14 5
      - It's a poorly written article which assumes readers know a lot. - Mop May 28, 11:17 4
        
        apologies for assuming some political literacy. -- nm - Reagen May 28, 11:19 3
        
        Did you say "Kansas Senate" in your post? Or "Kansas Senate Seat"? - Mop May 28, 11:25 2
        
        There's one whole nominee for the Kansas Senate? Wow! -- nm - Reagen May 28, 11:25 1
        
        I haven't seen folks this passionate about KS politics since Quantrill. -- nm - Ba'rona Beast May 28, 11:30
Autotune's origins come from oil prospecting research. -- (link) - Mop May 28, 11:07 [youtube]
The MLBPA will pretend like the MLB's offer never happened. Kim has suggested that the players should present their own "Musubi offer." -- nm - David May 28, 11:06
LYC: Pool worker update. I emailed the board before lunch we might have to replace her. She called just now. - Spawn May 28, 11:00
my 'm's (I gotta go out and don't want to miss the poll): - mud May 28, 11:00 1
- drop kick murphy's -- nm - zeitgeist May 28, 11:23
NB: Who had the under? 3 new cases in Zone 5. All linked. -- nm - Shaun May 28, 10:54 11
- the story will be when someone burns that dudes house down. -- nm - Beaker May 28, 11:15 1
  - Or when it eventually spreads again over the entire province and back to the fucking red zone we'll all go. -- nm - Shaun May 28, 11:20
- IN spiked. 646 new cases. Biggest since exactly one week ago, 676 (that seems fishy). This week had been. 354, 373 and 370. -- nm - Spawn May 28, 11:12 6
  - maybe increased testing? -- nm - decline May 28, 11:13 5
    - We had been in the 600s for quite a while and then we opened a couple weeks ago. This week was when I was expecting to see the surge. - Spawn May 28, 11:22 3
      - If the numbers don't support my theories about what is going on, they are fake -- nm - JackDawson May 28, 11:23 2
        
        No, the two Thursdays thing signifies a conspiracy! -- nm - Spawn May 28, 11:28 1
        
        Confirmed: Indiana sucks! -- nm - Shaun May 28, 11:32
    - they keep holding drive up testing at the Tacoma dome, but also a couple nursing homes are hot spots, my area will be slow to reopen -- nm - zeitgeist May 28, 11:19
- Nuke the site from orbit. -- nm - Ba'rona Beast May 28, 11:03 1
  - In nineteen minutes, that area is going to be a cloud of vapor the size of Nebraska -- nm - prayformojo May 28, 11:05
Apparently selling our old kids stuff that A has grown out of is our new household quarantine hobby. -- nm* - znufrii May 28, 10:50 3
- Same. We've cleared out a decent amount of items. Some of them were big items too, so our shed is a lot less populated now. -- nm - Shaun May 28, 10:57 1
  - We’re probably buying as much as we’ve sold, so it’s pretty much a wash on space. -- nm - znufrii May 28, 11:01
- Yup. Just before I moved, I sold a bunch of stuff. If not for quarantine, I probably would have just thrown it all out. -- nm - Mop May 28, 10:56
"49% of Americans would get a COVID19 vaccine." How f*cking stupid are the other 51%??? - Cuzzin Todd May 28, 10:40 18
- "31% simply weren’t sure if they’d get vaccinated. Another 1 in 5 said they’d refuse." -- (link) - ty97 May 28, 10:58
- NORC is actually in my elevator bank at work. I believe it's related to the University of Chicago. -- nm - pmb May 28, 10:55 2
  - My mom worked for them once upon a time. -- nm - . May 28, 11:38
  - "NORC at the University of Chicago is an independent, non-partisan research institution" -- nm - Mop May 28, 10:58
- I think a lot of that is "we'd really like to see it tested first" and that could take a while. -- nm - Meg May 28, 10:51 9
  - *inject themselves with whatever snake oil the President is pedaling today* -- nm - Trump Supporters May 28, 10:59 2
    - In sue lin, millions of American take it daily, what have you got to loose? -- nm - zeitgeist May 28, 11:17 1
      - It legitimately makes me wonder if he knows that specific drugs have specific purposes and aren't all just vitamin pills. - Reagen May 28, 11:37
  - I would guess this. Some people are likely saying they wouldn't take a vaccine right *now* based on the status of vaccine development -- nm - ty97 May 28, 10:57 5
    - Really my only concern is about effectiveness. I'm not aware of any vaccines that cause harm in and of themselves other than allergy issues. -- nm - Reagen May 28, 11:02 4
      - There have been some, historically. -- nm - loosilu May 28, 11:15 3
        
        Like this. I didn't read in depth so I'm not sure if this was an inherent problem or just a bad batch. - Meg May 28, 11:30 2
        
        And no, Thalidomide wasn't a vaccine but the same rules apply... -- (link) - Meg May 28, 11:41
        
        Yeah, one of my cousins got polio from his sister's vaccine innoculation. -- nm - . May 28, 11:41
- the next step from masks are for pussies is vaccines are for pussies -- nm - Beaker May 28, 10:47
- AP-NORC poll, courtesy of AP. -- (link) - Mop May 28, 10:44
- Deadly stupid. -- nm - Mop May 28, 10:44
- I’ve seen that headline reported elsewhere as well. -- nm - znufrii May 28, 10:44
Teen Vogue explains how to safely and ethically film police misconduct -- (link) - znufrii May 28, 10:40
Existing YouTube/Google Music Premium user? Click here to see if you qualify for a free Google Nest Mini. -- (link) - Mop May 28, 10:39
No-one guessed Lemonjelly? It's as if you've forgotten Spaced ever existed! -- nm - LMS May 28, 10:35 2
- Letterkenny? -- nm - Mop May 28, 10:36 1
  - Over the end credits of the last episode of Spaced -- (link) - LMS May 28, 10:41 [youtube]
My thighs are hot for goat felons -- nm - Beaker May 28, 10:34
Bon Appetit Gourmet Makes: Choco Tacos. -- (link) - Mop May 28, 10:25 [youtube]
NY Times Opinion (from Aaron Carroll): The Coronavirus Has Made It Obvious. Teenagers Should Start School Later. -- (link) - Mop May 28, 10:21
Milestone post from 15 minutes ago: My hair doesn't look bad today! -- nm - David May 28, 10:21 1
- Post-rain update: Never mind. -- nm - David May 28, 10:21
Now my training is complete: Got my Facebook Leader kit today. -- (pic) - Remlik May 28, 10:09 [Attachment] 4
- Zuck? WTF? I wish I had a FB account so I could delete it today. -- nm Posted by Spawn May 28 '20, 11:38 -- nm - Spawn May 28, 10:54 1
  - I've embraced Big Tech! - Darth Remlik May 28, 11:17
- *gets shut down by the federal government* -- nm - Facebook, Tomorrow May 28, 10:22 1
  - right? -- nm - Remlik May 28, 10:23
Spanish monarchs: now in the bag as well. Emperors of Rome: still kickin my butt -- nm - prayformojo May 28, 10:05 2
- This might help -- (link) - Dano May 28, 10:23 [youtube] 1
  - heh, that's great! but also, please give me your phone number so I can call at 3am wake up with this going through my head nonstop -- nm - prayformojo May 28, 10:28
I'm pretty sure that I'm still not drinking Coors Light -- (link) - JD May 28, 10:03 [Backboard] 1
- I'm actually drinking Coors light at this very moment. -- nm - Suppositions May 28, 10:06
LIR: I don't get it. Why would someone WANT to believe that anti-maskers are more widespread than they are? -- nm - JackDawson May 28, 10:02 7
- Speaking for myself, it's not that want to believe it. It's that I'm cynical. -- nm - loosilu May 28, 11:27
- Same old, same old. People only want to confirm their biases about the “other side”, not actually engage in critical discussion about anything. -- nm - znufrii May 28, 10:23 2
  - Yup. -- nm - ReluctantCynic May 28, 11:23
  - Fair -- nm - JackDawson May 28, 10:25
- To portray themselves as a put-upon silent majority and/or straight up denial of reality about the virus. -- nm - Reagen May 28, 10:10 2
  - also the portion of the media that has a reflexive deference to right-wing opinions as the "Real American™" viewpoint. -- nm - Reagen May 28, 10:13 1
    - Oh on the media side I totally understand and agree that they want to make it seem bigger than it is. I read the "we" as including us the people, hen - JackDawson May 28, 10:16
For those with the Chase Sapphire cards, some nice temp bonuses. -- (link) - spamlet May 28, 09:55 3
- heh, LYC. Got a call from their computer at lunch. Thought the card was paid down to zero. Apparently I shorted them $8.14. -- nm - Spawn May 28, 11:51
- Hmm, I still struggle to justify that membership fee. -- nm - David May 28, 10:04 1
  - After I posted I looked at the Preferred actually has the higher bonus so that’s the one I’ll target. - spamlet May 28, 10:09
Sundance favorite Palm Springs will debut July 10 on Hulu . The film sold for $17.5 million -- (link) - budice May 28, 09:54
My ballot has been received. My vote counts! - znufrii, silly old man May 28, 09:52 4
- We'll see about that, criminal! -- nm - Trump May 28, 10:20
- hmm. mine is still listed as pending -- nm - decline May 28, 10:09
- How many did you send though? -- nm - spamlet May 28, 09:54 1
  - Enough. -- nm - znufrii May 28, 10:00
I'm pretty sure I remember there being some Blue October fans here. - sycor May 28, 09:40 4
- Yup, we have done 3 of the 4 he's done, and looking forward to this one. -- nm - JaxSean May 28, 09:41 3
  - I missed the first one, because I didn't know about it so I started with the Foiled show. - sycor May 28, 09:43 2
    - Hmm. Maybe we've done 2 of the 4 he's done. :D - JaxSean May 28, 10:15 1
      - They did a lot of older stuff on the singles show. Including stuff I'd never heard before. - sycor May 28, 10:38
I'm not dead! - Facts May 28, 09:36 3
- We just have alternative versions of you now -- nm - ty97 May 28, 10:10
- You're dead facts, we definitely killed you! -- nm - Suppositions May 28, 10:00
- I'm getting better! I feel fine! I don't want to go in the cart! -- nm - facts May 28, 09:46

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