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There's a streaming service called Rakuten TV. -- (link) - Mop Jun 20, 21:40
Thinking out loud, this turn of events empowers and emboldens K-POP bands to disrupt Trump even more. -- nm - David Jun 20, 21:03 8
- What’s the consequences of countless unfulfilled ticket orders? - Mop Jun 20, 21:20 7
  - They crowed about it in advance. Trump's ego gets crushed. Money spent unnecessarily. People on campaign will be fired adding stress to campaign. Etc. -- nm - Andie Jun 21, 04:27
  - They probably spend more in preparation which wasn't necessary -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jun 20, 22:03
  - Trump expected a full house plus a full secondary area and scheduled an appearance there. This making him appear weak. - Spawn Jun 20, 21:57
  - The consequence of opting in for a ticket is that you get added to a database. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 20, 21:45
  - The argument is that it created a perception of high demand that persuaded some potential visitors not to bother. - David Jun 20, 21:32 1
    - I'm wondering if/how this really made a difference or if it was people concerned about COVID. I tend to think the latter - ty97 Jun 20, 21:51
  - Maybe a few people who decided they were unlikely to get in, so didn't go. -- nm - Meg Jun 20, 21:28
D.L. Hughley collapsed on stage in Nashville last night. Turns out... -- (link) - David Jun 20, 20:56 1
- A hotel's going to let him back in to quarantine there? -- nm - Max Jun 21, 01:01
Oh, Pence was at the rally too? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 20, 20:36 3
- Here -- (link) - Spawn Jun 20, 21:52 [Backboard] 2
  - minding the store? does he look like a shopkeeper to you? -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 20, 21:56 1
    - Trump runs the country like his business, so yeah. -- nm - Spawn Jun 20, 22:00
I think these kids are going to go far in the rap game -- (link) - Remlik Jun 20, 20:13 1
- "They’re like the Wu minus skills, intellect, appeal, memorization, hits, charisma, charm... but i can’t look away." -- (edited) - Krusty Jun 20, 20:26
He literally says he asked people to slow down testing. -- (link) - JaxSean Jun 20, 20:01 3
- So does how he explain why testing is up in New York but cases are down? -- nm - secretslacker Jun 20, 20:55 1
  - Logic has no place in his argument. -- nm - Mop Jun 20, 21:39
- I think it is worse. I think this was meant as a joke. A joke while the deaths keep rising. -- nm - Qale Jun 20, 20:14
Eskimo Pie to get a new name (after first rejecting the idea) -- (link) - zeitgeist Jun 20, 19:52 5
- To what? Polar Bear Patties? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 20, 20:34 1
  - Klondike Bar. -- nm - Mop Jun 20, 21:05
- I had an uncle who was one of the top food advertising collectors. He would be having a field day with everyone rebranding. I am sure all the vintage - Peglegpete Jun 20, 20:22 2
  - a friend had a collection (lots from hong kong) of some outrageous branding... IE: Darkie Toothpaste -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 20, 21:58
  - Poor Cracker Barrel. They’re going to lose all their white nostalgia in the country store! -- nm - Qale Jun 20, 20:28
Twitter seems to think the K-Pop stans were behind a sizable percentage of the ticket requests. - Tim Jun 20, 19:46 1
- I was led to believe there was no benefit to flooding the system with fake ticket requests! -- nm - Mop Jun 20, 21:06
I just bought a ridiculously expensive rug. I don't have a mortgage payment this month so I basically spent half of my mortgage payment on a rug. - amanda Jun 20, 19:28 11
- I understand -- (pic) - Peglegpete. Navajo rug collector Jun 20, 20:17 [Attachment]
- or, you bought a $25 rug and a ridiculously expensive cat perch. -- nm* - Max Jun 20, 20:05 5
  - I do want to get chubs and ollie a nice place to sit in my office. but cat trees are so "cat lady." -- (link) - amanda Jun 20, 20:10 4
    - I've looked at trees and condos, but they always illustrate them with kittens and the Moj needs something bigger. Minnie desperately needs a - Meg Jun 20, 20:20 3
      - this is also very popular for scratching in my house. -- (link) - amanda Jun 20, 20:24
      - I got this one recommended by wirecutter. chubbers doesn't understand it but ollie loves it. -- (link) - amanda Jun 20, 20:23 1
        
        I think I looked at that. They have the flat round one and use that all the time, but Minnie need something she can stretch up to. - Meg Jun 20, 20:45
- pics or it didn't happen -- nm - znufrii, silly old man Jun 20, 19:38 2
  - not my signature, I hope! -- (pic) - amanda Jun 20, 19:47 [Attachment] 1
    - nice! -- nm - znufrii, silly old man Jun 20, 19:57
- But still.....rug! - JD Jun 20, 19:38
Speaking of Billboard and charts, I mentioned that I found the new Lady Gaga /Ariana Grande song fine but kinda meh. - ty97 Jun 20, 19:26 5
- All four of Ariana's #1's debuted there. -- nm - Tim Jun 20, 19:37
- are you out of qt yet? -- nm - amanda Jun 20, 19:28 3
  - Tomorrow! -- nm - ty97 Jun 20, 19:29 2
    - Do they know yet? -- nm - spamlet Jun 20, 19:31 1
      - They do -- nm - ty97 Jun 20, 19:36
Watching a few clips from the Drumpf rally, it is striking just how overweight he has gotten - Brian Jun 20, 19:17 13
- I can’t believe he said Kung flu. -- nm - David Jun 20, 19:32 10
  - Uhm, he has said it on a few occasions. -- nm - Spawn Jun 20, 21:53
  - It's what racists do. However, calling his rally "Coughchella" is hilarious. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 20, 19:59 2
    - I liked "oklacovid." -- nm - amanda Jun 20, 20:03 1
      - Cov Aid -- nm - TWuG Jun 20, 20:10
  - I can. -- nm - znufrii, silly old man Jun 20, 19:50
  - And the funny thing is back in March Kellyanne Conway said that term was "highly offensive" and pressed a reporter to reveal - Brian Jun 20, 19:44
  - You can’t? -- nm - spamlet Jun 20, 19:33 3
    - It definitely surprised me. -- nm - David Jun 20, 19:36 2
      - I guess I figured these things are pure id and that’s what they want to hear. - spamlet Jun 20, 19:37
      - It did? -- nm - ty97 Jun 20, 19:37
- But he grew another inch. -- nm - . Jun 20, 19:25 1
  - ah, because of the bone spurs? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 20, 19:26
I wonder whatever happened to skagnetti -- nm - prayformojo Jun 20, 19:12 4
- I wonder about Fedex every once in a while. -- nm - Strongbad Jun 21, 05:13
- Hmm, I thought there was a chance I still had his old address but I guess not. - Meg Jun 20, 20:17
- ML and I were talking about that a few weeks ago after a comment about being a cultured Korean woman. -- nm - spamlet Jun 20, 19:18
- met the skank of his dreams, settled down, has a used car lot, runs the local office of Donald's campaign -- nm - JK, f' if I know Jun 20, 19:15
Apropos of nothing, Pearl Jam has five US top 40 hits (and two top tens) and none of them are the songs you think they would be. - Tim Jun 20, 19:12 30
- I feel like I’ve entered an alternate dimension. I know Last Kiss because - like Reagen said - they played it non-stop. But... -- (edited) - Mop Jun 20, 21:18 1
  - Then you either watched MTV when they still played videos or listened to alternative radio. - Tim Jun 20, 21:33
- I like Dance of the Clarvoyants and Superblood Wolfmoon off the new album. -- nm - Qale Jun 20, 19:45 2
  - I owned Vitalogy in high school for Better Man and Corduroy, but they just haven't been my thing since. -- nm - Tim Jun 20, 19:50 1
    - I am really happy some of these bands have come back to my listening habits. -- nm - Qale Jun 20, 20:17
- The other answers - Tim Jun 20, 19:33 1
  - Who You Are was the other one I was trying to remember. -- nm - spamlet Jun 20, 19:34
- I got ID -- nm - budice Jun 20, 19:23 1
  - #7, their other top ten song. - Tim Jun 20, 19:25
- big yellox taxi -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 20, 19:18
- That I wish I were a bomb song? - spamlet Jun 20, 19:17 2
  - Wishlist? #47 -- nm - Tim Jun 20, 19:18 1
    - Maybe? -- nm - spamlet Jun 20, 19:18
- Jeremy spoke in class today -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 20, 19:16 1
  - #79 -- nm - Tim Jun 20, 19:17
- Better Man -- nm - Flavorize Jun 20, 19:15 5
  - Was never released as a physical single, which was Billboard's rule at the time. -- nm - Tim Jun 20, 19:15 4
    - Hmmm...I'm guessing there are a bunch of soundtrack songs that we're missing here -- nm - Flavorize Jun 20, 19:26 3
      - A lot of the songs you know weren’t released as physical singles. For them, Black is the big one (along with Yellow Ledbetter which was a B-side) - spamlet Jun 20, 19:30 2
        
        Very few songs from rock/alternative bands were released as physical singles since the assumption was those fans were album buyers. -- nm - Tim Jun 20, 19:35 1
        
        I know Jeremy was and all of Nirvana’s were singles since I had them for the b-sides but never really paid much attention otherwise -- nm - spamlet Jun 20, 19:39
- Is it - Reagen Jun 20, 19:13 5
  - RIGHT?!!! -- nm - Mop Jun 20, 21:08
  - I figured that what it was based on context. -- nm - spamlet Jun 20, 19:16
  - Somehow that went to #2. -- nm - Tim Jun 20, 19:14 2
    - It made *me* want to die in a car crash. -- nm - Reagen Jun 20, 19:15 1
      - Eddie's wife likes it. They started covering it when they were dating. -- nm - jnine Jun 20, 23:14
- yellow ledbetter, amongst the waves, do the evolution? -- nm - prayformojo Jun 20, 19:13 2
  - no to all 3 -- nm - Tim Jun 20, 19:14
  - (where's mel profit for this?!?) -- nm - prayformojo Jun 20, 19:13
LYC: I'm at Seattle Day 2. -- nm - Shaun Jun 20, 19:09
"a manchurian candidate and/or president of the united states" -- nm - Beryllium Jun 20, 19:00
I love Inspector Lewis and the local PBS channel is rerunning the final season, but Laurence Fox has ruined it for me by being a dick IRL. -- nm* - . Jun 20, 18:51 1
- I bought my mom a year of “Britbox,” which streams all that stuff -- nm - Flavorize Jun 20, 18:55
Ah, it’s that part of the cycle when people suddenly get mad that we pay for the president’s travel to campaign. -- nm - spamlet Jun 20, 18:39 3
- and, of course, there's always a tweet. -- (link) - znufrii, silly old man Jun 20, 19:53
- Who was getting mad? -- nm - znufrii, silly old man Jun 20, 19:30 1
  - Mops original posts seemed to be. -- nm - spamlet Jun 20, 19:47
FIL and I built a 16 by 10 deck in 8 hours today. Started at 7:25...I am tired -- nm - anniebecca Jun 20, 18:00 3
- Nice! -- nm - Krusty Jun 20, 19:21
- That's a lot of planks. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 20, 18:28
- coolio "pics or it didnt happen" -- nm* - budice Jun 20, 18:04
"A large number of LSU football players have been placed into quarantine in an effort to curtail the spread of the coronavirus" - David Jun 20, 17:57 6
- Not EVERY week. - Cuzzin Todd Jun 20, 19:06
- AFL season just restarted. Played one week, quarantined a team this week after a player tested positive. - mafic Jun 20, 18:32 1
  - *looks it up* Oh no, not Essendon! -- nm - Roger More Jun 20, 20:27
- Given Clemson has 23 cases, I bet Saban infects 24. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 20, 18:02 2
  - By that logic, Joe Burrow will throw 70 on both of them. - David Jun 20, 18:09 1
    - He has the greatest season ever - Will Hunting Jun 20, 19:28
The president has just consumed water from a glass using *only one hand*. It's a new record! The crowd goes wild! America is saved! -- nm - Beryllium Jun 20, 17:55
Tom:Succession::Kite Man:Harley Quinn -- nm - Reagen Jun 20, 17:54 2
- If I knew Succession, I might understand this. -- nm - David Jun 20, 17:55 1
  - If I knew Harley Quinn I might understand this. - spamlet Jun 20, 18:53
I’m going to post this here...just because I think I’m funny -- (link) - Flavorize Jun 20, 17:52 3
- Buwhaaa -- nm - Epiphany Jun 20, 18:11 2
  - Hey Pippy - eag Jun 20, 18:15 1
    - Lol serious answer inside - Epiphany Jun 20, 18:26
re helicopters! I live in a high rise in Arlington, maybe 4 miles south of Pentagon, right next to 395. This is the main flight path for helos. - loosilu Jun 20, 17:46 12
- I live a walk from McChord, have helos crossing often, including those big double rotor troop carriers, sometimes disgorging paratroops - zeitgeist Jun 20, 19:24
- also I love helos! -- nm - loosilu Jun 20, 17:47 10
  - I love aircraft. I'll never fly in anything small, or a helicopter, but I love them still. You can walk through SAM 26000 - TWuG Jun 20, 17:50 9
    - If I should find myself there, I would love to do this. -- nm - loosilu Jun 20, 18:09
    - The plastic barriers don't help the crampedness. -- nm - Ender Jun 20, 18:08
    - This was my ride from Nashville to Memphis for a meeting. 2 hours each way, flying low, we toured a couple of tornado sites. -- (pic) - loosilu Jun 20, 18:04 [Attachment] 6
      - Nope. I've heard helos described as ten thousand parts trying desperately to get as far from each other as possible. -- nm - TWuG Jun 20, 18:17 5
        
        Physics also says they shouldn’t fly. -- nm - spamlet Jun 20, 19:32 1
        
        I thought that was bumblebees. -- nm - znufrii, silly old man Jun 20, 20:26
        
        I got to ride in one in Vegas. A+, would do it again. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 20, 18:29
        
        I got to ride in one a few years ago. It's pretty claustrophobic and gave me motion sickness. - Dark Callisto Jun 20, 18:27 1
        
        I always get motion sickness so I took bonine first. -- nm - loosilu Jun 21, 05:38
So, yeah. -- (link) - David Jun 20, 17:44 1
- “... we know it’s real, but then at the same time you don’t know what the facts are.” -- nm - Mop Jun 20, 18:19
Pink FTW! -- (link) - TWuG Jun 20, 17:43 6
- L3 -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jun 20, 18:30
- I don’t want to hear from her until she’s out on the front lines with her antibody fortified ass -- nm - Epiphany Jun 20, 18:13
- Four More Swings! -- nm - Max Jun 20, 18:11
- If that's Ryan Nobles on CNN, he went to my alma mater. - Tim Jun 20, 18:00
- sweet -- nm - prayformojo Jun 20, 17:49
- And hers was NOT free! -- nm - David Jun 20, 17:44
Trump’s rally being ruined by kpop fans and teenagers is the best Father’s Day present I could ever get. So save your cards. -- nm - Volnelk Jun 20, 17:41 1
- .. ah! Very cool! As noted, Brad Parscales may be looking for a new job soon. -- nm* - Spawn Jun 20, 17:44
'Slow the testing down, please.' -- (link) - mud Jun 20, 17:37 8
- I... worked on this story for a month... and he... he just blurted it out. -- nm - press Jun 20, 18:14
- Seriously F this guy. -- nm - Volnelk Jun 20, 18:09
- vid -- (link) - El Presidente Jun 20, 17:48
- “Kung flu” -- (link) - El Presidente Jun 20, 17:40 3
  - ... but in this pic we see him imagining Stormy Daniels in front of him. -- nm - Spawn Jun 20, 17:43
  - I see that Fox News is copying his verbal tic of ending sentences with "ok" -- nm - Beryllium Jun 20, 17:41 1
    - I see what you did there. -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 20, 19:21
- Whoa. -- nm - Spawn Jun 20, 17:38

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