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the last photo in this set is wow -- (link) - prayformojo Jun 21, 11:56
So Trump claims to be 6'3". Biden an even 6 feet. How close do we think they will think they will actually be? -- nm - Spawn Jun 21, 11:20 10
- I won’t hold my breath, but if there’s any debates, given Trump’s frail physical and emotional state, I look forward to him getting creamed. - Mop Jun 21, 11:46 1
  - what would be the point of a debate? would any Donald polices sway anyone to vote for him despite *everything*? -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 21, 12:41
- in his 20's...you shrink an inch or two in your seniors -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 21, 11:27
- Trump is 6'3" with the lifts, prolly. -- nm - Dark Callisto Jun 21, 11:22 5
  - which would make it hard to walk down a ramp -- nm - Dano Jun 21, 11:43 3
    - somebody should Mythbusters this! -- nm - prayformojo Jun 21, 11:54
    - True. -- nm - Dark Callisto Jun 21, 11:43 1
      - That was a Lincoln Project argument. He’s wearing heels which makes the ramp steeper going down. -- nm - Volnelk Jun 21, 11:47
  - and stilts under the pant legs -- nm - budice Jun 21, 11:24
- 5 foot on the dot -- nm - budice Jun 21, 11:22
K-State suspends workouts for 14 days -- (link) - prayformojo Jun 21, 11:13
Just God and Ricky Gervais having a nice Father's Day conversation. -- (link) - JaxSean Jun 21, 11:05
Let's go Blues! - JD Jun 21, 11:05
Wrestling: Joey Janela says allegations against Joey Ryan are 100% true - Remlik Jun 21, 10:52 3
- I saw. -- nm - Dark Callisto Jun 21, 11:01
- Hard to believe a man who made a career from dick power is a sexual creep. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 21, 10:55
- Well, so much for sleazy being a gimmick. -- nm - Tim Jun 21, 10:55
Happy International Yoga Day everyone! What are you doing to celebrate? -- nm - prayformojo Jun 21, 10:40 2
- Yoda Day :) -- (pic) - Peglegpete Jun 21, 10:44 [Attachment]
- here is one acceptable answer -- (link) - prayformojo Jun 21, 10:41 [youtube]
172 foot dive -- (link) - Remlik Jun 21, 10:37 2
- The people in the stands are *way* too calm. -- nm - Max Jun 21, 13:52
- Okay, one of my board members shares the same name. - Spawn Jun 21, 11:13
What a photo. (Lone trump supporter in a sea of blue) -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 21, 10:37 2
- that the seats are blue is a fun bit of symbolism. -- nm - Reagen Jun 21, 10:40 1
  - Yes, let's hope it is statistically accurate. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 21, 10:42
holy fucking shit. The tagline on this. -- (link) - Reagen Jun 21, 10:32 11
- It's like we're actually living in Thank You For Smoking. -- nm - Max Jun 21, 13:55
- Amazing. -- nm - kelly Jun 21, 12:10
- All 47 people that were live in the arena were enthralled by his tale, I'm sure. (NM) - Marlowe Jun 21, 12:03
- True. -- nm - Mop Jun 21, 12:00
- Someone needs to register isdonaldtrumpawhinybitch.com -- nm - znufrii Jun 21, 11:26 1
  - Maybe. I won't, but someone might. -- (pic) - Beryllium Jun 21, 11:29 [Attachment]
- FTW -- nm - Spawn Jun 21, 10:53
- The beauty in letting Trump sink his own ship. No need for the Left to reinforce it, just let it speak for itself. -- nm - budice Jun 21, 10:40
- *snort* -- nm - prayformojo Jun 21, 10:39
- "(not referring to p*ssy)" is great as well. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 21, 10:38
- There is genuine glee in these ads. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 21, 10:35
"Say hi to bye.fyi" -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 21, 10:27 1
- puppy dog head tilt...not sure if this is a spoof or a real thing -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 21, 12:45
mmmm.....Heather's making me shrimp & grits for dinner tonight -- nm - prayformojo Jun 21, 10:23 1
- Yummy! -- nm - JenBro Jun 21, 11:57
And there is the retconning of his “stop testing” as just a joke. -- (link) - Will Hunting Jun 21, 10:23 10
- Take my virus, Please -- nm - Henny Youngman Jun 21, 10:28
- *6 hours later* "No, I actually meant slow down the testing" -- nm - Reagen Jun 21, 10:28
- So we can add shitty comic to his list failures. Shitty comic, shitty President, shitty businessman, shitty husband. - Will Hunting Jun 21, 10:24 7
  - That was always his rally persona, AFAICT -- nm - con_carne Jun 21, 10:32 2
    - I mean shitty comic in the way he doesn’t know if it is or isn’t a joke. Not like Dane Cook is a shitty comic. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 21, 10:37 1
      - Having a paid audience when first starting out as a standup really leads one astray. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 21, 11:09
  - At least he's less molesty than many comics. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 21, 10:28 3
    - In your heart of hearts, do you believe that? -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 21, 10:31 2
      - Well, maybe "less" is an overreach. Equally as molesty, at least. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 21, 10:38 1
        
        I would question that, easily. -- nm - Spawn Jun 21, 11:15
Now, all that said, look at how much free exposure he's getting. No press is bad press, right? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 21, 10:12
They’ve shifted to “It doesn’t matter how many people came. What’s important is 5.3 million people WATCHED it. Tremendous reach.” -- nm - Volnelk Jun 21, 10:04 7
- This is a funny search on the audience size ... -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 21, 10:10
- Oh, and all that data they have on Koreans and teenage girls now. -- nm - Strongbad Jun 21, 10:09 2
  - They’ve monetized the latter via Roy Moore. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 21, 10:12
  - Binders full. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 21, 10:11
- So, 5 million people watched him get humiliated? And they're saying that's a good thing? -- nm - David Jun 21, 10:07
- That still seems...low. -- nm - Tim Jun 21, 10:06 1
  - Yeah. 3.6 million watched the Stonehenge sunrise this morning, for comparison. -- nm - Volnelk Jun 21, 11:30
huh...apparently Islam is going to detonate a nuclear device in Nashville.... -- (link) - Remlik Jun 21, 10:02 16
- Why would Cat Stevens want to nuke Nashville? -- nm - The Mogul of the Rings Jun 21, 10:37
- you buried the lede: LOCAL PAPER SELLS A FULL PAGE AD May Stay Solvent Another Week -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 21, 10:14
- What the shit. Someone I know is gonna get fired. -- nm - Dark Callisto Jun 21, 10:10 8
  - I haven't touched this (I don't deal with print at all) but looks like heads gonna roll. - Dark Callisto Jun 21, 11:21 4
    - Oof. Tough time for someone to lose their job. -- nm* - Krusty without grass Jun 21, 11:25 3
      - Honestly, I don't know how the account executive accepted it. - Dark Callisto Jun 21, 11:39 2
        
        Don’t worry, they’ve launched an investigation of themselves. -- (pic) - Volnelk Jun 21, 11:46 [Attachment] 1
        
        I know. This is the problem with 1) furloughs 2) putting the account execs under extreme pressure 3) moving so much stuff to a central location. -- nm - Dark Callisto Jun 21, 12:01
  - is that your paper? -- nm - Remlik Jun 21, 10:19 2
    - She's had employees from this paper, but she's currently transitioning to Florida. -- (edited) - David Jun 21, 10:21 1
      - ah! -- nm - Remlik Jun 21, 10:30
- Okay but why would they nuke *Nashville*? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 21, 10:08 3
  - Taylor Swift used to be about the music, man. -- nm - Max Jun 21, 13:56
  - Fallout 76: Next expansion we go south to the Blue Ridge Mountains -- nm - Qale Jun 21, 11:39
  - They don't like country music. At all. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 21, 10:35
- I look forward to the FBI investigating and the subsequent press conferences. -- nm - Mop Jun 21, 10:04
For today's race, FedEx has removed their logo and colors from Hamlin's #11 in order to recognize the National Civil Rights Museum. -- nm - Strongbad Jun 21, 10:01
Watching a documentary about Monaco. Guess what the ratio of police officers to residents is? -- nm - LMS Jun 21, 09:59 7
- It's one officer per seventy people. -- nm - LMS Jun 21, 10:33 3
  - Sounds like a lot until you realize it's just 2 guys. - Reagen Jun 21, 10:35 2
    - And their dog. -- nm - Spawn Jun 21, 10:54 1
      - Do not impugn Lieutenant Fifi! -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 21, 10:56
- none, they are all rich white people so there's no one to arrest -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 21, 10:11
- 1:1. Each citizen has an officer assigned -- nm - prayformojo Jun 21, 10:08
- Undefined. All residents are technically deputized officers of the law. -- nm - Reagen Jun 21, 10:00
Confirmed with from the Tulsa, Oklahoma fire marshal’s office: “just under 6200” people attended last night’s Trump rally. -- (link) - budice Jun 21, 09:54
Why did he throw the glass? Is it difficult for him to properly put the glass back down? -- (link*) - Beryllium Jun 21, 09:48 3
- “If your main message about Biden is he’s old & senile, maybe don’t spend 15 minutes of your speech talking about drinking water & walking down ramps” -- nm - Volnelk Jun 21, 09:59
- "My 'I can drink water just fine' speech has people asking a lot of questions answered by my speech." -- nm - Reagen Jun 21, 09:52
- I mean, if people bring this up on twitter hard enough, he might do it again. He's already proven that he's a puppet. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 21, 09:49
Parscale says that fake registrations didn’t impact planning at all (huh?) and blames the media for the turnout. -- (link) - Volnelk Jun 21, 09:47 3
- They scanned people and had a .6% turnout after they filtered out the dummy requests. - Will Hunting Jun 21, 10:10
- Is that really their best narrative? -- nm - Mop Jun 21, 10:08 1
  - It’s all they got -- nm - Epiphany Eggs and Bacey Jun 21, 10:13
I was going to ask if NYC was ever featured in star trek, but I researched it first and found something very funny. - Beryllium Jun 21, 09:29 5
- Kirk and Spock went back in time to NYC as well in "Assignment Earth" -- nm - Remlik Jun 21, 09:51 4
  - Capt'n we are going to need a cubic yard of platinum -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 21, 10:17
  - Teri Garr! -- nm - mud Jun 21, 10:00 1
    - yup. was a backdoor tv pilot that didn't get picked up. -- nm - Remlik Jun 21, 10:01
  - Yes, I was just pulling out the bits from Memory Alpha that amused me :) -- nm - Beryllium Jun 21, 09:55
So, when does he declare war on South Korea for political interference? -- nm - LMS Jun 21, 09:24 5
- He doesn’t understand that the KPop Fans are vast and mighty -- nm - Epiphany Eggs and Bacey Jun 21, 10:10
- Does he know that south korea exists? Maybe he thinks the K-Poppers are sent by Kim. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 21, 09:46 3
  - His friend Rocketman? -- nm - LMS Jun 21, 09:56 2
    - Yes, with the autographed CD jacket -- nm - Beryllium Jun 21, 09:58 1
      - it took too long to realize that it wasn't ELton John's autograph on it, it was Donny's no wonder Un dodged him -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 21, 10:18
Here is a lovely wrestling thread. -- (link) - David Jun 21, 09:21 1
- aww -- nm - Remlik Jun 21, 10:24
Magic the gathering artist Noah Bradley comes forward -- (link) - Remlik Jun 21, 09:16 1
- I had a bad, incomplete take here. I do feel the situation is more complicated than the simple ‘now we must cancel you’ vibe we’re doing these days. -- nm* - Qale Jun 21, 09:22
“Millennials were promised something then had the right pulled out from them. Zoomers didn’t even have a rug.” -- nm - Tim Jun 21, 09:03
CQ, wherever you are, I’m pulling for your boys today. -- nm - Volnelk Jun 21, 09:00
hey guys, if you have 5 minutes, give a listen to this Hawaiian Ukele performer at today's Rotary International Convention - starts at the 1.18..03 & -- (edited) - JenBro Jun 21, 08:58 [youtube] 2
- that's pretty cool -- nm - prayformojo Jun 21, 09:02 1
  - a different version of the Stone's Let's Spend the Night Together for sure! - JenBro Jun 21, 09:08
Last night I finished reading "The Long Fall" by Walter Mosley. Great book. I should get the next one in the series. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 21, 08:58
Interesting deep dive on the whole “Military equipment funneled to police departments” thing. -- (link*) - Volnelk Jun 21, 08:50 1
- Huh. The Pentagon actually recalled some of the stuff after Obama's order. -- nm - Mop Jun 21, 09:20
I'm fine with no statues of anybody, to be candid -- nm - rollo Jun 21, 08:49 19
- They should put one of the black Olympian with raised fist on the roof of every cop station. -- nm - Loyola Jun 21, 09:33
- But Richard E. Grant only recently got one of Barbra Streisand! -- nm - LMS Jun 21, 09:27
- *disasembles my statue honoring Rollo, ST Poster of the Year* - prayformojo Jun 21, 09:03 3
  - prank the cat? -- nm - rollo Jun 21, 09:13 2
    - so now i gotta buy a cat? -- nm* - prayformojo Jun 21, 09:16 1
      - Yes. It’s not so bad - Epiphany Eggs and Bacey Jun 21, 10:15
- I can't agree. I like The Thinker, Venus de Milo, and the big green chick in front of NYC -- nm - crash davis Jun 21, 08:52 11
  - Art is different, and yes I do understand it creates a blurry line in some cases -- nm - rollo Jun 21, 09:11 1
    - Do you mean monuments in the Civilization sense then? *REMINDER WHO'S BOSS 'ROUND THESE PARTS* -- nm - con_carne Jun 21, 09:16
  - Gaila in Star Trek? -- nm - David Jun 21, 08:59 2
    - You'd think her statue would be in SF 🤔 -- nm - Beryllium Jun 21, 09:00 1
      - Touché. -- nm - David Jun 21, 09:22
  - Wait ... aren't two of those sculptures? And what's the difference? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 21, 08:55
  - Then, no statues of anyone previously famous, except by coincidence. -- nm - mafic Jun 21, 08:54 4
    - I'm pretty sure the Goddess of Love had a rep long before her statue. -- nm - crash davis Jun 21, 08:55 3
      - Sure, but what did she look like? That statue’s probs the guy’s lover or something. -- nm - mafic Jun 21, 08:57 2
        
        Couldn't be the guy's lover. I heard he was into handjobs. -- nm - crash davis Jun 21, 08:59 1
        
        And now the torch is phallic. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 21, 09:03
- There's going to be a lot of constipated birds -- nm - Flavorize Jun 21, 08:49
For the longest time, I thought ham could not be too salty. I'd like to thank an Arby's breakfast sandwich for letting me know that I was wrong -- nm - crash davis Jun 21, 08:42 2
- You'd know this if you watched Kids in the Hall -- (link*) - Reagen Jun 21, 09:18 [youtube]
- Mmmm...I can actually dig on that. I had some brisket fries (with cheese) that were overly salty...man, it was heaven. -- nm - Flavorize Jun 21, 08:47
"Trump allies see a mounting threat: Biden’s rising evangelical support" - David Jun 21, 08:41 1
- Rats leaving a sinking ship. Bad news begets bad news. No one wants to be the last ones left supporting Trump. -- nm - Mop Jun 21, 10:06
Krusty, I have been typing a big long response but I realized the board will roll and I have to go to work. - crash davis Jun 21, 08:40 6
- I’ve nothing to say to defend Christopher Columbus except I wonder if the people tearing down the statues are willing to actually give up the privileg - JackDawson Jun 21, 09:19 3
  - I, for one, support giving back the land that is being pulverized for oil and timber. BEFORE it gets pulverized, that is. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 21, 09:24 2
    - Where is the line drawn? Does the land the Aztecs took from the Zapotec go back to the former or the latter? What year is the demarcation? -- nm - JackDawson Jun 21, 09:30 1
      - I can really only speak to the situation here in BC. And even then, I'm inappropriately biased in my thinking. - Beryllium Jun 21, 09:36
- This. People are complicated. We can and should draw lines at some truly horrendous things but trying to impose today’s values on every society is per - JackDawson Jun 21, 09:15
- I get all that and with some people it's difficult to come to terms with their many deeds, both good and bad. -- (edited) - Krusty Jun 21, 09:11

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