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Me to a coworker: "It was hot here today." Coworker: "How hot? Don't tell me 75." - Beryllium Jun 22, 22:13 7
- Sounds about the same as here - wish it would warm up :) -- nm - Meg Jun 23, 08:15
- I was just in a call with the Bristol office. they were talking about how hot it's been, in the 20s. - mafic Jun 23, 01:59
- it's still over 90 now. -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 22, 23:15
- 84, and humid. -- nm - . Jun 22, 22:41
- brrr -- nm - JaxSean Jun 22, 22:19 2
  - But I swear it was hot! Maybe the 45% humidity contributed. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 22, 22:26 1
    - 67%, well...closer to 100, rain. -- nm* - . Jun 22, 22:41
amateur fireworks has been rampant and unpoliced this year, so protestors are driving slow by Gracie Mansion honking their horns, hundreds of them.. -- (link) - zeitgeist Jun 22, 22:06 4
- This has been going on since April where I live. Every night. They're quick and for some reason my dog hasn't noticed, usually he goes crazy. I was - jnine Jun 22, 22:37 2
  - for the 4th we'd go to Mt Rainier, have dinner, hang out in the lobby till midnight, not a sound. Its legal here with dozens of parties, - zeitgeist Jun 23, 00:24 1
    - It's like that after they have fireworks at Dodger Stadium. It just hangs in the misty air. We watch them from the car through the sunroof and get out - jnine Jun 23, 07:44
- defund the police, fund the fireworks police -- nm - Beryllium Jun 22, 22:11
Penn & Teller Fool Us is back tonight and as always, fun -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 22, 21:58
Local report on the fireworks surge mentioned by Mop. Also confusion between fireworks and gunshots. -- (link) - Meg Jun 22, 21:46 1
- Citizen's Alert has so many gunshot calls every night and they're all fireworks. -- nm - jnine Jun 22, 22:38
Wear a mask while gambling and some casinos will give you $20 free play/credits -- (link) - zeitgeist Jun 22, 21:41 3
- "Weren't you just here?" - Spawn Jun 22, 21:48 2
  - you could change your mask, change your tshirt, how would they know (actually don't you have to use your guest card?) -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 22, 22:05 1
    - Yup that card thing would be the way to control things -- nm - JD Jun 22, 22:22
For the cruise crew......... -- (pic) - Meg Jun 22, 21:25 [Attachment]
Man, there was a LOT at WWDC. Mac OS... 11?! -- (link) - Mop Jun 22, 21:17 [youtube]
"Most movies are boring in the first hour, but it was good in the first ten minutes!" - Beryllium Jun 22, 21:17 4
- I don't think the physics of the bungee jump quite work -- nm - Beryllium Jun 22, 21:30
- Boy do I have a streaming service for you then, young man. -- nm - Jeffrey Katzenberg Jun 22, 21:22 1
  - Oh, he liked the whole movie. It grabbed him right away. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 22, 22:10
- "And that's the whole movie!" *click* -- nm - Mop Jun 22, 21:18
Well here's a delightful WTF -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 22, 21:09 3
- that is some Eraserhead level shit -- nm - Jovian Jun 22, 22:05
- Well, I'm not gonna sleep tonight. -- nm - Mop Jun 22, 21:59
- Kinda cool -- nm - JaxSean Jun 22, 21:44
I forgot, I do know two trans folk. Well, I assume one is, I met him after he transitioned. The other I met around when he/they started. - . Jun 22, 20:48
Steve Bing, producer of many films and major Democratic donor, jumps from 27th floor of Century City apt.. He was depressed over lack of social - jnine Jun 22, 20:46 6
- He was the father of Elizabeth Hurley’s lookalike son. -- nm - kelly Jun 22, 20:52 3
  - Yeah, he was also involved in a paternity suit with a tennis player. She was claiming a billionaire was the father or her daughter, but it turned out - jnine Jun 22, 22:23 2
    - so isolation wasn't the problem.... -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 22, 22:31 1
      - That was years ago. If that's what he's used to, isolation would be a problem. I had dinner at a table next to him, Mick Jagger, Warren Beatty and - jnine Jun 22, 22:48
- If anyone here feels depressed over a lack of social interaction, I am willing to listen. -- nm - crash davis Jun 22, 20:48
- holy fuck -- nm - loosilu Jun 22, 20:48
Wow, just saw the Batman news. - Mop Jun 22, 20:36
everyone from b2 who personally know trans people. Wow that's amazing. You are all awesome. I am not USED to my friend being female. -- (edited) - loosilu Jun 22, 20:31 16
- You'll get used to it, it took me years to get used to my ex just changing her name ( her whole name, she was never mrs.) -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 22, 21:29
- I know a few. Friend, different friend’s son. Brother’s partner is non-binary. -- nm - mafic Jun 22, 21:18
- It's obviously an adjustment, no question, for people who know her. -- nm - ty97 Jun 22, 20:39 3
  - I 10,000 percent support. And also, niggly feeling. I wish she hadn't. I feel horrible about that. -- nm - loosilu Jun 22, 20:40 2
    - It upends something in your world, that's not something anyone enjoys. Channel that into sympathy (empathy?) for how she's been feeling her entire lif -- nm - ty97 Jun 22, 20:42 1
      - She told me how much it hurt her all her life. I can't personally understand but I empathize. -- nm - loosilu Jun 22, 20:44
- Generally, they were never female. But that is just it, isn’t it? -- nm - Qale Jun 22, 20:37 9
  - They were strongly male for 25 years. it's jolting. -- nm - loosilu Jun 22, 20:38 8
    - They *presented* strongly male -- nm - ty97 Jun 22, 20:39 7
      - Right. Just like I present as a total dweeb. - Qale Jun 22, 20:45 5
        
        present as a total dweeb but are actually a lovable dork -- nm - ty97 Jun 22, 20:56 1
        
        I don’t know if I can put that many characters on my dating profile. -- nm - Qale Jun 22, 21:13
        
        But your our total dweeb that we love -- nm - JaxSean Jun 22, 20:48 1
        
        *raising my hand* full blown dweeb -- nm - loosilu Jun 22, 20:49
        
        *awkward silence* -- nm - loosilu Jun 22, 20:45
      - we talked about it. Yup. -- nm - loosilu Jun 22, 20:42
Y'all -- (link) - ty97 Jun 22, 20:24 5
- sued only 9 times, what an amateur -- nm - Donald Jun 22, 22:10
- I want to know more about what she did at Kohl's -- nm - crash davis Jun 22, 20:46
- Looks like it's a primary race between two horrible Republicans? Let them fight. -- nm - Mop Jun 22, 20:38
- So Jersey Shore VS Pro-Trumper? Tough choice. - JaxSean Jun 22, 20:35 1
  - I mean 'banned from Kohls for life' makes me want to see her win, just to see what she would do in Congress. -- nm - ty97 Jun 22, 20:37
So I finished the Food War anime and obviously not bowling so in a decision I might regret, now playing: Underworld - JD Jun 22, 20:22 3
- Your move Dano -- nm - rollo Jun 22, 20:50
- Hey! This is the Mythbusters shoot an opening in the floor scene 8-) -- nm - JD Jun 22, 20:45
- Lol! -- nm - Epiphany Eggs and Bacey Jun 22, 20:40
"Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea will reopen on July 1!" - David Jun 22, 20:17
One million Americans have now recovered from COVID-19. -- nm - David Jun 22, 20:15 6
- We shall call them InHumans. -- nm - Max Jun 22, 21:33
- I wonder what shape they're in. I'd like to see more stats on what residual issues remain. -- nm - jnine Jun 22, 20:48 3
  - Yup. That is a great question that we don't have a good answer. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jun 22, 20:52 2
    - Is COVID all doctors talk about right now, or can you escape it some? -- nm - David Jun 22, 20:57 1
      - There are 2 huge (like 150k members and 35k members) FB groups about COVID. It is dominating my FB. There are like hundreds of new journal articles - James Bond (aka Igor) Jun 22, 21:13
- 330,873,886 to go! -- nm - Qale Jun 22, 20:26
Impact Wresting fired Joey Ryan and Dave Crist. -- nm - Remlik Jun 22, 19:55 1
- Crist had previously been fired for injuring someone but not apologizing. They tried to keep it quiet during the pandemic for his brother's sake. -- nm - David Jun 22, 20:06
STTS (ST tech support): I am giving my mom my kindle fire. it's currently running android. should I revert it to factory settings before - amanda Jun 22, 19:52 3
- What \|/ \|/ \|/ said -- nm - JaxSean Jun 22, 20:36
- Reset -- nm - Ender Jun 22, 20:31
- revert back to factory. -- nm - Remlik Jun 22, 19:54
Tempted to buy the domain "wellactually.so" for correcting right-wing bullshit on the twitters -- nm - Beryllium Jun 22, 19:46 1
- or "wellactually.expert" so I could do "wellactually.expert/says/masks-are-good" -- nm - Beryllium Jun 22, 19:51
this is inter. -- (link) - amanda Jun 22, 19:45 4
- No Alaska or Hawaii? I wouldn't be a dick about it except one of the last Blockbusters was in Fairbanks. -- nm - Mop Jun 22, 21:22
- So Netflix really kicked in around 2004-2007, then streaming taking off in 2009-2011. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 22, 20:46 1
  - (and thank you for the link, I love those things.) -- nm - JaxSean Jun 22, 20:52
- Very inter, yah -- nm - Beryllium Jun 22, 19:53
There were multiple trans students at my school this year. It's sort of unfathomable how impossible this would have been when I was their age. -- nm - Reagen Jun 22, 19:40 6
- jesus, even just being gay was unfathomabole when I was in school -- nm - loosilu Jun 22, 20:36
- And when people say that there are so many now, the reply is: Nah. Before they just had to suck it up and it was awful. -- nm - Qale Jun 22, 20:13 4
  - Like, even gay kids wouldn't have been allowed to be out, forget trans. -- nm - Reagen Jun 22, 20:25 2
    - this, exactly this -- nm - loosilu Jun 22, 20:37
    - It gets complicated y’all. I had a friend I was fancying as he presented male. No longer as of a year ago. -- (edited) - Qale Jun 22, 20:34
  - Exactly. They’re the kids that committed suicide and nobody knew why. -- nm - Volnelk Jun 22, 20:19
well this isn't horrifying, police in Minneapolis have gotten EMS to administer ketamine to many arrestees, causing medical emergencies like ... - zeitgeist Jun 22, 19:29
Poll, is this person G, T or Q: clerk at the liquor store has long hair combed back on one side but forward so it covers have his/her one eye/face -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 22, 19:26 10
- Goth? -- nm - . Jun 22, 20:08
- Depends. Was one of their ears pierced? Was it the gay ear? -- nm - Roger More Jun 22, 20:03 1
  - Ah this takes me back. -- nm - Qale Jun 22, 20:48
- What? -- nm - JackDawson Jun 22, 19:54
- it's none of your damn business. -- nm - Tim Jun 22, 19:51
- Doesn't matter. - JaxSean Jun 22, 19:30 2
  - srsly. "do you have the tequila I want?" -- nm - amanda Jun 22, 19:50
  - this is true which is why I never bothered to ask -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 22, 19:32
- long hair due to lack of haircuts during stay-at-home used as an impromtu PPE mask; uncertain. -- nm - Max Jun 22, 19:28 1
  - actually he's been doing it the last 10 years and stopped now because of having to wear masks -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 22, 19:30
2 Guys, A Girl, and A TV Show. I give you 3 characters names, you give me the show - rollo Jun 22, 19:09 32
- 5 - . Jun 22, 20:19
- 2 - . Jun 22, 20:18
- this was fun -- nm - prayformojo Jun 22, 19:28 6
  - how did you not get BoT? aren't you close to my BoT soulmate? (do I need to take applications for a new BoT soulmate??) -- nm - amanda Jun 22, 19:47 3
    - I just got done rewatching it if you're taking applications. -- nm - Ender Jun 22, 21:26
    - indeed. I just skipped over it when I was reading -- nm - prayformojo Jun 22, 19:48 1
      - I mean, should I propose to tim or are you appropriately contrite here? -- nm - amanda Jun 22, 19:49
  - which one would you say was the most medium in terms of difficulty? -- nm - rollo Jun 22, 19:41 1
    - 5 -- nm - prayformojo Jun 22, 19:47
- 9 - JaxSean Jun 22, 19:26
- spoiler for the last one - 9 - rollo Jun 22, 19:26
- 8 - Roger More Jun 22, 19:20 1
  - correct -- nm - rollo Jun 22, 19:22
- 6 - Roger More Jun 22, 19:18 1
  - correct ... this was probably the toughest one -- nm - rollo Jun 22, 19:19
- 1 - mud Jun 22, 19:12 1
  - correct -- nm - rollo Jun 22, 19:14
- 7 - prayformojo Jun 22, 19:12 1
  - correct -- nm - rollo Jun 22, 19:13
- 3 - J Jun 22, 19:11 1
  - correct -- nm - rollo Jun 22, 19:13
- I recognize 0. - Max Jun 22, 19:11 2
  - I only recognized one, but I didn't watch a lot of them. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 22, 19:27
  - 5 -- nm - rollo Jun 22, 19:13
- 10 - prayformojo Jun 22, 19:11 1
  - correct -- nm - rollo Jun 22, 19:12
- 2,3,4,5 - Tim Jun 22, 19:11 1
  - well done -- nm - rollo Jun 22, 19:12
- 3 - prayformojo Jun 22, 19:11 1
  - correct -- nm - rollo Jun 22, 19:11
- 5 - prayformojo Jun 22, 19:10 1
  - correct -- nm - rollo Jun 22, 19:11
Lafayette park is getting tense, secret service is deploying to protect Andrew Jackson statute, press ordered to leave WH grounds -- (link) - zeitgeist Jun 22, 19:07 2
- Protesters have spray painted the columns of St Johns Church -- (link) - Flavorize Jun 22, 19:10 1
  - and the palace guards have painted the faces of the protestors with whatever chemical they want to call it -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 22, 19:31
Y/N: Do you know the origin of the CIA claim "we can neither confirm nor deny?" -- nm - Tim Jun 22, 18:48 7
- N...but I do own the Hank Porter OSS WWII art for their insignia when they were still called the OSS -- (pic) -- (link*) - Peglegpete Jun 22, 19:00 [Attachment]
- nope -- nm - prayformojo Jun 22, 18:57
- I can neither confirm nor deny. -- nm - Dano Jun 22, 18:52 1
  - Ha! -- nm - Epiphany Jun 22, 19:43
- (I did not until I listened to Wind of Change.) -- nm - Tim Jun 22, 18:51
- No, but I'll guess Church Comm. -- nm - Max Jun 22, 18:50
- N -- nm - ty97 Jun 22, 18:49
Jimmy Kimmel is trending right now for an old interview with Megan Fox, and for doing blackface in the 90s. - Beryllium Jun 22, 18:46 2
- I think I’m going to cancel cancelling people. -- nm - Qale Jun 22, 18:59
- Because he’s mean to Trump -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 22, 18:53
Lucifer Season 5 will premiere on August 21 -- (link*) - Beaker Jun 22, 18:33
Nadler plans to subpeona Bill Barr for a July 2 hearing -- (link) - mud Jun 22, 18:20 1
- And then do absolutely nothing. (Nadler's primary is tomorrow, thus this announcement right now) -- nm - ty97 Jun 22, 18:25
Did I mention my cake from yesterday? Heh -- (pic) - Beryllium Jun 22, 18:15 [Attachment] 4
- Nice! -- nm - Dano Jun 22, 18:52
- Whoa! I’ve been a dad for a bit and I’ve never gotten a cake—especially a dad cake. Good work -- nm - Flavorize Jun 22, 18:18
- ! -- nm - mud Jun 22, 18:15
- Nice -- nm - Epiphany Eggs and Bacey Jun 22, 18:15

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