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Have we checked to see if ty97 is okay after that Arkansas poll today combined with the Iowa poll? -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 11:33 1
- Happy Birthday ty! -- nm - Loyola Jun 14, 11:34
Next: What city had the audacity to brand itself: America's Finest City? -- nm - rollo Jun 14, 11:24 7
- Shiner, Texas? -- nm - Qale Jun 14, 11:35 1
  - I was going to change to Dallas. -- nm - Loyola Jun 14, 11:37
- Vancouver -- nm - budice Jun 14, 11:32
- I want to say San Francisco, but that is not right. -- nm - Spawn Jun 14, 11:31
- Detroit? -- nm - JaxSean Jun 14, 11:30
- Seattle? -- nm - Loyola Jun 14, 11:29
- Minneapolis, at the request of their police department? -- nm - Roger More Jun 14, 11:27
Gen Z not having any of the millennials crap -- (link) - Remlik Jun 14, 10:56 1
- Heh, I just read that. -- nm - Dark Callisto Jun 14, 10:56
N.J. man’s attic yields treasure trove of signed vintage baseball cards potentially worth millions -- (link) - Remlik Jun 14, 10:44
Angela Davis on "defund the police" -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 14, 10:28
If I asked you for the name of the city nicknamed The Big Easy, you would (easily) say New Orleans. How about The Big Friendly? -- nm - rollo Jun 14, 10:20 14
- Yes, but I had seen the story on how it came about. -- nm - Spawn Jun 14, 11:23 3
  - I haven't yet researched the history on it ... what's the scoop in 25 words or less? -- nm - rollo Jun 14, 11:25 2
    - Looks like it was started in 2007ish. They were just trying to give the city a brand/moniker, but it's never really caught on. -- (link) - JaxSean Jun 14, 11:30
    - It is a slogan that is official, but not official. Some there love it, some hate it. -- nm - Spawn Jun 14, 11:29
- spoiler answer - rollo Jun 14, 11:23
- No, but I would guess something - JaxSean Jun 14, 11:22
- St Louis? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 14, 10:24 6
  - I just looked it up. (Semi-spoils) - Beryllium Jun 14, 10:26 4
    - um, OK - rollo Jun 14, 10:28 3
      - Well, maybe my search was wrong. It did keep getting tripped up on The BFG. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 14, 10:29 2
        
        You are cartographically correct but ... and also I was being punny -- nm - rollo Jun 14, 10:32 1
        
        *facepalm* I'm quite embarrassed that I didn't notice that. -- nm* - Beryllium Jun 14, 10:39
  - no -- nm - rollo Jun 14, 10:26
- nope -- nm - prayformojo Jun 14, 10:23
Anonymous has claimed responsibility for taking Atlanta PD's website down today. -- nm - Strongbad Jun 14, 10:09
“Oh, there’s a blood drive today? Let me make an appointment. Hmm, no food in the house, guess I’ll grab a breakfast sandwich on the way.” - Tim Jun 14, 09:47 6
- Yikes! -- nm - Epiphany Jun 14, 10:49
- What in the Blue Hell did you eat??? -- nm - David Jun 14, 10:11 3
  - Egg McMuffin -- nm - JD Jun 14, 10:19
  - *wonders if there is actually a breakfast sandwich called the Blue Hell -- nm - prayformojo Jun 14, 10:18 1
    - Maybe at Pizza and Porn? -- nm - David Jun 14, 10:32
- Was it an IV breakfast sandwich? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 14, 10:03
'member when I said they'd just lie about numbers? -- (link) - Reagen Jun 14, 09:16 16
- Because of Trump/Tulsa/Juneteeth lots of people are talking about Watchmen again. Sold 25 copies this past week between all 3 stores. -- nm - Remlik Jun 14, 10:57 1
  - cool. -- nm - mud Jun 14, 11:01
- what is this regarding? -- nm - prayformojo Jun 14, 09:54 2
  - Trumps tulsa rally -- nm - eag Jun 14, 09:55 1
    - Tulsa’s population is 401,190. For the record. - Volnelk Jun 14, 09:57
- I ‘member! -- nm - Member Berries Jun 14, 09:39
- I very much suspect that many of those registrations are people trolling the campaign. -- nm - Mop Jun 14, 09:32 6
  - loosi! -- nm - Spawn Jun 14, 11:05 1
    - she can't really go. She gets lost in her carpet clutter. -- nm - Remlik Jun 14, 11:16
  - They're not reserved seats, so I'm not sure what that accomplishes. Seems like registration is basically an email harvest. -- nm - mara Jun 14, 09:47 3
    - The campaign manager (who Lincoln Project people say is fleecing Trump blind), admits as much. He’s not smart. -- nm - Tim Jun 14, 09:50 2
      - “Data haul” -- nm - Volnelk Jun 14, 09:57 1
        
        “Suckers” -- nm - znufrii Jun 14, 10:40
- In a building that holds, like, 11,000? -- nm - Tim Jun 14, 09:23 1
  - 19,000 I think, but yeah -- nm - ty97 Jun 14, 09:31
- epic! -- nm - mud Jun 14, 09:20
Most career earnings by a RB: Adrian Peterson - $101.8M Edgerrin James - $68.9M Reggie Bush - $63.2M Frank Gore - $62.2M LeSean McCoy - $62M -- (link) - budice Jun 14, 09:12 1
- I’m guessing that once every NFL had a salary cap and/or analytics dept that that’s when RB salaries went way down -- nm - Flavorize Jun 14, 09:31
Nm -- nm* - Flavorize Jun 14, 09:10
So I'm a decently optimistic fellow but I don't believe this poll for a second -- (link) - Reagen Jun 14, 08:37 13
- Is that a poll *just* of Independents? or??? - ty97 Jun 14, 09:32 2
  - The only thing that makes it seem somewhat reasonable is that the Republican governor is still popular in the poll. -- nm - Dano Jun 14, 09:44
  - Not according to the article linked. (47 to 45 overall, 40 to 46 among independents) -- nm - mara Jun 14, 09:42
- This is reminding me of the polls saying Hillary was competitive in AZ and TX and that she might take 50 states. Polling doesn't capture enough older -- (edited) - jnine Jun 14, 09:29 5
  - Shy Tory effect, perhaps, though I might expect more undecideds if that were the case. -- nm - znufrii Jun 14, 09:44
  - I continue to say it won’t take much for polling to become largely useless without developing new/updated methods. - Tim Jun 14, 09:43
  - I don’t buy it either -- nm - JackDawson Jun 14, 09:40
  - This isnt 4 years ago - eag Jun 14, 09:39 1
    - Has it? - Cuzzin Todd Jun 14, 10:54
- did you catch Brian Stelter vs Jenna Ellis this AM? -- (link) - mud Jun 14, 09:26 1
  - I generally don't watch cable news. -- nm - Reagen Jun 14, 09:36
- Its possible just saw a recent poll that has Biden within 8 in Missouri - eag Jun 14, 08:54 1
  - Yes, but the same polls were low by 10 in 2016 - Reagen Jun 14, 09:14
NewYorker: early look at next week’s cover, "Say Their Names," -- (link) - mud Jun 14, 08:24 3
- The main thing I just can't wrap my mind around is... - Cuzzin Todd Jun 14, 09:26 1
  - Collectors Edition -- nm - Spawn Jun 14, 11:37
- Wellington, NZ! -- (link) - mud Jun 14, 09:14
Fiona Hill is a fascinating person -- (link) - znufrii Jun 14, 07:51 1
- she's brilliant -- nm - mud Jun 14, 08:00
From b2: Super Size Me 2 is available to stream on Tubi. -- nm - Qale Jun 14, 07:43 10
- I was pleasantly surprised by Tubi. Selection was better than I expected and ads weren’t as intrusive as I feared. -- nm - Dano Jun 14, 09:27
- 👍 -- nm - Mop Jun 14, 08:16
- There’s a Super Size Me 2? -- nm - znufrii Jun 14, 07:44 7
  - It’s release got swept under the rug when Morgan Spurlock was identified in the #MeToo movement. -- nm - Qale Jun 14, 07:54 2
    - Yeah, I must have missed that one. -- nm* - znufrii Jun 14, 07:57 1
      - In case you wanted a refresher on his moment in the #MeToo spotlight. He actually shined it on himself. -- (link) - Qale Jun 14, 08:26
  - There’s a tubi? -- nm - spamlet Jun 14, 07:46 3
    - Yes! It’s excellent. It has commercials, but they seem hand-placed in appropriate places. And there aren’t a ton. Enough to get a drink, or refresh ST -- nm - Qale Jun 14, 07:55 2
      - I’ll check it out. This is literally the first I’ve ever heard of it. -- nm - spamlet Jun 14, 08:41 1
        
        FOX bought it in February of this year, so that may have expanded their reach. -- nm - Qale Jun 14, 08:52
Trump says he won’t watch US soccer teams after anthem policy change. - znufrii Jun 14, 07:16 8
- Do we actually think he used to watch *any* sport that was not during a party type situation? -- nm - Spawn Jun 14, 11:23 3
  - hell no -- nm - mud Jun 14, 11:27 2
    - Touchdown! 10 points!!! -- nm - POTUS watching Superbowl Jun 14, 11:36 1
      - Sasquatch! -- nm - znufrii Jun 14, 11:52
- That's like losing half their audience! - Cuzzin Todd Jun 14, 10:55
- The US Soccer team is like Ross on Friends “ uh uh uh FINE BY ME!” -- nm - Epiphany Jun 14, 10:52
- “Name the last US Women’s game you watched. Go.” -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 14, 07:46
- "Well... Bye..." -- nm - Reagen Jun 14, 07:28
I have a friend that is taking a break from Facebook. I know this because she posts every day that she is happier taking a break from Facebook. -- nm - spamlet Jun 14, 06:41 3
- LOOK AT ME! is hard to give up. -- nm - Spawn Jun 14, 10:45
- “That’s not how it works. That’s not how any of this works.” -- nm - znufrii Jun 14, 07:48 1
  - Maybe we need to update the “how do you know someone’s a vegan?” joke -- nm - spamlet Jun 14, 08:43
As a kid I would spend all summer running around the neighborhood barefoot. Just went to the car to grab something without shoes. Most painful thing e -- nm - Dano Jun 14, 06:36 1
- weight / surface area -- nm - rollo Jun 14, 10:15
Ben Carson: “To try to hide that history is probably a bad move,” -- (link) - mud Jun 14, 06:17 9
- That’s why, every morning when I drive to Fort Hitler, I stop for a moment to urinate on the sign. -- nm - Mop Jun 14, 09:34
- May I introduce you to a website called Wikipedia. In fact, if you care that much, you can become a sustaining donor! -- nm - Qale Jun 14, 07:37
- Tapper (after noting all the recent criticism from various generals) "but there are generals Trump does like: dead, racist losers" heh -- nm - mud Jun 14, 06:58 1
  - The Daily Beast: - mud Jun 14, 08:05
- Make a Traitor's Museum. Done. -- nm - ty97 Jun 14, 06:52
- And this is the GOP victory path in their mind. - Will Hunting Jun 14, 06:44 1
  - They're so far down the road that no one to whom it would matter would buy a reversal and they would just piss off the base they have. -- nm - Dano Jun 14, 06:48
- smh -- nm - budice Jun 14, 06:31
- I suppose if your view of history is about memorizing dates and names, statues would seem like the only way know about history. -- nm - Reagen Jun 14, 06:24
Suddenly the fact that he started his run going down an escalator makes all the sense in the world. -- nm - Reagen Jun 14, 04:13 1
- "very steep" -- (link) - mud Jun 14, 06:59
Giri/Haji is everything. -- nm - Diva Jun 14, 03:40 9
- I *really* liked it. -- nm - Remlik Jun 14, 09:33
- yup -- nm - prayformojo Jun 14, 06:08
- Have you watched it all? -- nm - LMS Jun 14, 05:32 5
  - Yes.finished it yesterday. -- nm - Diva Jun 14, 05:38 4
    - So much to love in it, but particularly Will Sharpe. -- nm - LMS Jun 14, 05:51 3
      - I loved everything. So. Darn. Good. And yes, Will Sharpe is a dream. -- nm - Diva Jun 14, 06:06
      - maybe Aoi Okuyama and him can do a spin-off -- nm - mud Jun 14, 06:03 1
        
        That would be fun. I hate saying goodbye to these characters. -- nm - Diva Jun 14, 06:06
- it's something else -- nm - mud Jun 14, 05:23
companies are starting to give Juneteenth a day off, wonder if it will last, we actually need more holidays in the summer -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 14, 01:09 2
- Technically Juneteenth is in spring. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 14, 01:11 1
  - Unless it’s in the fall. -- nm - Qale Jun 14, 07:39
that amazon music commercial with the singing lips, it sets our echo to play that music -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 13, 23:55 1
- Nothing creepy about that at all. - Spawn Jun 14, 11:26
Just watched The Hate U Give and I want to go out and burn everything down. -- nm - Mop Jun 13, 23:03
"Meat contamination" -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 13, 22:15
Happy birthday Trump! WaPo has a story about how Melania renegotiated her prenup after the election. -- (link) - Mop Jun 13, 22:10
Heh. -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 13, 22:05
In calgary, the fire rescue boat is driving down Deerfoot Trail - aka, the highway. Massive flooding from thunderstorms. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 13, 21:57 2
- golf ball sized hail, for the annual razing of the fields. -- nm - Reagen Jun 14, 07:07
- A bit wet -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 13, 21:59
I’m late to the game but I fricking loved Watchmen. So bizarre but so well written. -- nm - Volnelk Jun 13, 21:46 6
- Book, movie or series? -- nm - Spawn Jun 13, 21:56 5
  - Sorry. The series. -- nm - Volnelk Jun 13, 21:57 4
    - I'm going back working my way through right now since it's seems so relevant. I'm up to episode 7. - David Jun 13, 22:03 3
      - I'd love to hear your thoughts on the central command weapon unlock sequence (I think it was in episode 1?) - Beryllium Jun 13, 23:56 2
        
        I found that episode boring and annoying for the most part, although the intro was gripping. -- nm - David Jun 14, 10:33
        
        The timeliness of the entire series is almost TOO on the nose. If it came out now, it would’ve been absurd. - Volnelk Jun 14, 07:53
So, I have a ticket to a live show on the 30th. Guess I'll have to figure out what to wear...and which mask will coordinate with it :-) - Meg Jun 13, 21:41 6
- Buttchugging is the only way Megs. -- nm - Qale Jun 14, 07:40
- Noooo. No! I have concerns. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 13, 21:58 4
  - Audience of 75 people. Social distancing will be observed. I have to do it. -- nm - Meg Jun 13, 22:09 3
    - *crosses arms* *Marge groan* -- nm - JaxSean Jun 13, 22:23 1
      - Let’s send her scuba gear with her own air. - Epiphany Jun 14, 10:56
    - tri-kini -- (link) - zeitgeist Jun 13, 22:10 [Image]
Sounds like Underworld? I don't think I've ever seen an entire one those either. From what I've heard both Pippy and Bery are right -- nm - JD Jun 13, 21:35
we're on a mission from God... -- (link) - zeitgeist Jun 13, 21:28 1
- What a great birthday present! -- nm - Mop Jun 13, 21:50

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