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NASCAR: Spotters predicted this late-race caution -- (link*) - budice Jul 5, 17:35
Loosi, I am buying carbon fiber cloth [I'll explain inside] from a company in China on Alibaba. The woman I am working with is named Lucy Li - Peglegpete Jul 5, 17:34 [Attachment] 1
- hilt it's going in -- (pic) - Peglegpete Jul 5, 17:35 [Attachment]
now playing: The Jerk -- (edited) - prayformojo Jul 5, 17:22 1
- You're IM just floored me. -- nm - Spawn Jul 5, 17:32
SoCal air-quality unhealthy due to fireworks. -- (link) - Meg Jul 5, 17:12 3
- I took some pictures of my street. Nobody even bothered to pickup their remnants -- nm - budice Jul 5, 17:16 2
  - At least we did that. We had random strangers pulling over and parking to watch ours :) -- nm - Meg Jul 5, 17:19
  - shithole country -- nm - Spawn Jul 5, 17:18
it's FB, but here's The Room Where It Happened in Lego! -- (link) - prayformojo Jul 5, 16:53
anyone know a good written Alexander Hamilton biography? -- nm* - Beaker Jul 5, 16:50 10
- is...this a joke? -- nm - ty97 Jul 5, 16:50 9
  - book. loving the show (literally we are all watching now) -- nm - Beaker Jul 5, 16:51 1
    - If I still had Logan's report from a few years ago I would send it to you. -- nm - Spawn Jul 5, 17:19
  - Hamilton is not a biography -- nm - Marquis de spamulette Jul 5, 16:50 6
    - What I mean is, we all know the source material was Ron Chernow's biography, right? -- nm - ty97 Jul 5, 16:51 5
      - Kindle price is $14.99. Bought it this morning. -- nm - Herkellys Mulligan Jul 5, 17:21
      - ....now i do! -- nm - Beaker Jul 5, 16:52
      - Nope i had no idea. -- nm - Marquis de spamulette Jul 5, 16:52 2
        
        oh thought that was common knowledge. The way the story goes, LMM was going on vacation, needed a book to read - ty97 Jul 5, 16:53 1
        
        On vacation from performing In the Heights. -- nm - Tim Jul 5, 17:53
thanks for cat art help guys. I ask because someone I know whose name starts with "ch" and ends with "bbers" broke her dining room art - amanda Jul 5, 16:44 [Attachment] 7
- Important thing to know, I paint kitties, and I have samples. -- nm* - loosilu Jul 5, 17:05 1
  - obviously she can't have a portrait of herself (that would be a vanity) and we need something playful-ish. we're willing to look. -- (edited) - amanda Jul 5, 17:12
- KITTEH -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 17:05
- IMPORTANT TOPIC CHANGE - ty97 Jul 5, 16:46 3
  - I'll go tomorrow or tuesday. I think they may pushed back "menu simplifcation" to e7: "E7 (8/13 - 9/2): $5 Grande Nacho Box, Menu Reductions Possible" - amanda Jul 5, 16:54 2
    - I had the most terrible chalupa, but I ate it anyway because I was starving. I should get TacoBell tomorrow. -- nm - Qale Jul 5, 17:29
    - Thank you! This was important to know. -- nm - ty97 Jul 5, 16:58
My mom wanted to get a few things from Target today so I took her. As we were walking in she said - ty97 Jul 5, 16:37 1
- Good news! You didn’t because I quit that job due to unsafe working conditions. (Among like a laundry list of other cons on the pro/con list.) -- nm - Qale Jul 5, 17:26
Columbus Your Enthusiasm -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 5, 16:28
Um, what? -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 5, 16:00
Looks like about 30 mins of Assassin's Creed Valhalla leaked on YouTube. Twitter reactions are...not favourable. - Shaun Jul 5, 15:35 1
- I wish they’d go back to the original combat mechanics - J Jul 5, 16:24
ooooh, topical! Dos and Don’ts For Finding the Right Snowpiercer Train Car for Your Child -- (link) - prayformojo Jul 5, 15:30
Door Dash trial run ends in us buying our friend’s neighbors dinner. - pip Jul 5, 15:22 6
- Nice! -- nm - David Jul 5, 15:23 5
  - (Well, the idea was nice.) -- nm - David Jul 5, 15:24 4
    - We will try again later this week -- nm - pip Jul 5, 15:33 3
      - I like to kind of think you randomly bought some other family dinner. -- nm - Qale Jul 5, 17:27 2
        
        I had let it go as that and at peace with it. Door Dash had other ideas. - pip Jul 5, 17:36 1
        
        They need the good publicity. Much like other gig economy jobs, they’re getting killed. -- nm - Qale Jul 5, 17:40
Covid-fueled spike in gun sales precipitated an 8% rise in guns violence, according to study -- (link) - znufrii Jul 5, 15:16 2
- they shut gun shops here as part of the initial lockdown, and put a hold on the licensing process. -- nm - mafic Jul 5, 17:16 1
  - some states here tried to, but got sued. -- nm* - znufrii, silly old man Jul 5, 17:24
tomorrow the US will cross the 3 million total cases threshold -- nm - prayformojo Jul 5, 15:13 22
- 96,47,29 - Reagen Jul 5, 15:19 21
  - Are we all pretty much just getting this? :( -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jul 5, 15:25
  - Maybe it’ll just go away if we reopen more stuff. -- nm - David Jul 5, 15:23 18
    - I think about this a lot. Just hole up in a remote cabin with WiFi for work and let this run its course - pip Jul 5, 15:42 16
      - Or just hole up at home. At least you can get curb side groceries. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 5, 16:35 4
        
        Why this doesn’t work - pip Jul 5, 17:03 3
        
        ... why do people come over? -- nm - Spawn Jul 5, 17:34 1
        
        Today it was the nephew bearing garage sale gifts. It’s all out of kindness. - pip Jul 5, 17:41
        
        You’re going to have to pull out all of your spiked fetishwear. -- nm - Qale Jul 5, 17:31
      - I'm writing a novel about this approach. It ... won't go well for the protagonist. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 5, 15:55 3
        
        It is because when they prepared they weren’t as Thoreau as they thought? -- nm - Qale Jul 5, 17:31
        
        La Peste didn't include premature reopening. -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 16:06
        
        (And thats *with* the remote getaway being in Canada) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 5, 15:56
      - What do you do about food? -- nm - Marquis de Krusty Jul 5, 15:52 5
        
        Bring 30 days worth with us then once a month trips to town - pip Jul 5, 16:14 3
        
        This is like the 5-second rule of shopping! -- nm - Max Jul 5, 16:48
        
        I could see hunkering down for a few months but by the sixth month I might be losing my mind. -- (edited) - Marquis de Krusty Jul 5, 16:21 1
        
        Yes there is that -- nm - pip Jul 5, 16:27
        
        amazon prime -- nm - Zeit Geist de Rochambeau Jul 5, 15:55
      - We are the plague-infested shithole of the world. -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 15:48
    - We just have to live with it. - Spawn Jul 5, 15:41
  - that's incredible -- nm - prayformojo Jul 5, 15:22
They have that helicopter video showing all these fireworks going off in LA. I didn't realize people can buy fireworks to shots up high enough to be - James Bond (aka Igor) Jul 5, 14:59 8
- We had some impressive ones in the neighborhood here. We're permitted for 'safe and sane' but I doubt these were either. - Meg Jul 5, 15:26
- For sure. We used to shoot mortars off and those were big and beautiful. They were pricey so we didn't get many. -- nm - Marquis de Krusty Jul 5, 15:22
- you can buy mortar shells here up to ? 2 inch"??? that gets you a professional crysthanemum or dahlia bloom just above tree level, reservations have -- nm - bigger stuff Jul 5, 15:21
- I grew up in Northeast. Every June, everyone knew a dude who would drive to North Carolina to buy big ass fireworks, then sell it out of his trunk. -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 15:09 1
  - There was a guy on my friend's block that had an 18 wheeler show up every year. He had everything and put on an amazing show. -- nm - Marquis de Krusty Jul 5, 15:24
- We had some impressive shells going up near us last night. Probably not as high as they’d go in an actual professional display, but just as big. -- nm* - znufrii Jul 5, 15:05
- Lol. You can buy anything. -- nm - Spawn Jul 5, 15:02 1
  - Yup. -- nm - Marquis de Krusty Jul 5, 15:23
eek -- (link) - mud Jul 5, 14:56 4
- Douchebags -- nm - JaxSean Jul 5, 16:32
- more: -- (link) - mud Jul 5, 15:37 2
  - What could one do to stop them, other than lay on the letters? - JaxSean Jul 5, 16:37 1
    - You gotta Goose Game that shit. -- nm - Qale Jul 5, 17:38
Still funny. -- (link) - Tim Jul 5, 14:49 2
- hee -- nm - mud Jul 5, 15:38
- He wrote Hamlet 2. -- nm - Baron Burr Jul 5, 14:50
I am preforming a heist on Vault 79. It is rumored to be where the treasure of Appalachia is! - Qale Jul 5, 14:45 15
- I did that before you??? - Cuzzin Todd Jul 5, 15:21 5
  - Nice! I get bogged down in 76. I am not nearly as good as I should be considering how much I play. -- nm - Qale Jul 5, 15:42 4
    - I've spent a ridiculous amount of time with vending. - Cuzzin Todd Jul 5, 15:48 3
      - I have no idea what I do with my time in game. Heh. -- nm - Qale Jul 5, 16:00 2
        
        There's a lot of that too. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jul 5, 16:01 1
        
        Super intense. I managed to do it with 3 stimpacks left. I also double crossed the raiders. I’m sure that was a bad idea. - Qale Jul 5, 16:57
- "Huh. So it *was* the friends me made along the way." -- nm - Reagen Jul 5, 15:06 3
  - Gail the Super Mutant and Ra-Ra his 10 yr old playmate. Yup. -- nm - Qale Jul 5, 15:43 2
    - Pay close attention to RaRa - she'll get you a legendary gun you can only get during the Vault 79 run and you can't go back for it. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jul 5, 16:28
    - I apologize. Gail is a female Super Mutant. -- nm - Qale Jul 5, 15:59
- So what is up with the Fall Out TV show? -- nm - Spawn Jul 5, 14:51 4
  - Ask Bezos. Or Lisa Joy. Nothing else is public. -- nm - ML Jul 5, 14:52 3
    - Bastards. -- nm - Spawn Jul 5, 14:54 2
      - If they stay true to Bethesda, it'll be released nine months late and incomplete -- nm - ML Jul 5, 14:55 1
        
        *nods* -- nm - Spawn Jul 5, 15:45
Ralphs stopped giving bag credits when they stopped charging for plastic bags. Today I was given credit for 5 bags before I even - Meg Jul 5, 14:43
Reordering stamps, not sure which design to buy this time. Also, I'm sure this is useful to somebody but if you need this - Tim Jul 5, 14:43 7
- I bought a bunch of john oliver stamps so I won't need to buy again for years. -- nm - amanda Jul 5, 16:06
- you flatter me with philately, the flatter that the stamps may be -- (edited) - From the Postmaster General musical Jul 5, 15:03
- I don't care about stamps, but I like saying "philately." -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 14:43 4
  - You've got a bad case of philatelyphilia. -- nm - Baron Burr Jul 5, 14:52 1
    - flatly, no. -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 14:53
  - It sounds vaguely dirty, so, yes. -- nm - Tim Jul 5, 14:44 1
    - it does! -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 14:49
Re Stone Mountain, and also Rushmore, and other large scale sculptures. -- (edited) - loosilu Jul 5, 14:40
Also in the pilot episode of West Wing... former Colts placekicker Dean Biasucci. -- nm - Baron Burr Jul 5, 14:38 1
- the opening of the pilot is one of the few times you get to hear the whole theme music played thru. -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 5, 14:40
Hamilton was very good! Not perfect but overall well worth the three hours! -- nm - ML Jul 5, 14:33
mandy, re: cat paintings. In my fog brain I had a picture book as a kid that included black cats and kittens, all black silhouettes. - loosilu Jul 5, 14:26 11
- OK!!!! my fog brain plus google identified my picture book, it was called Too Many Mittens, and, no cats were involved. -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 14:50 8
  - Man. Maybe it was japanese or chinese art. I could see that. OHHH. or maybe 1001 arabian nights. -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 14:52 7
    - Update: not that. -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 14:55 6
      - Your description reminds me of Steinlein's Cat Playing With a Frog. -- (link*) - Whatever the Hell It Is You Do in Maracello Jul 5, 14:57 5
        
        ok, just found this on Pinterest, for me, it's *chef's kiss*. It's Japanese -- (pic) - loosilu Jul 5, 15:08 [Attachment] 3
        
        I'm going to go ahead and call this my favorite cat painting. It's a real cat. -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 15:34
        
        "Since You're Just Gonna Lay On My Shit, I Might As Well Paint You" -- nm - Reagen Jul 5, 15:20 1
        
        right? In 2020 it would be on a keyboard. -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 15:23
        
        oh I LOVE THAT!!! I don't think i have seen it before. That's awesome. Just my thing. -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 15:04
- I like the first one in Mara's link. Not a lot of action but very 'cat' -- (link) - Meg Jul 5, 14:39 [Image] 1
  - very sweet! very kitteh! -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 14:42
'hundreds' of scientists say c19 is airborne and not dependent on waterdroplets, bad news? or just difference of opinion? -- (link) - Zeit Geist de Rochambeau Jul 5, 14:17 8
- The debate seems to be over the definition of airborne in reality - JackDawson Jul 5, 14:39 1
  - Generally speaking, "airborne" has been used to describe naked virus floating in the air. PS. you get mega points for saying "fomite" -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 14:54
- It's an ongoing debate and has been for the body of the year. -- nm - David Jul 5, 14:22 1
  - I'm on the fence. -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 14:27
- First question, which hundreds? going to check. -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 14:20
- shouldn't be hard to test, put some contagious people in a room, have them cough, vac filter immediately, then again in a half hour, compare -- nm - Zeit Geist de Rochambeau Jul 5, 14:20 2
  - vac filter would remove both droplets and airborne. -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 14:21 1
    - Water droplets settle much faster so you compare virus counts over time -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 5, 14:44
"France, what?" -- nm - David Jul 5, 14:15 14
- That’s a brilliant ad-lib -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 5, 14:31
- Having now watched it twice, this is what I’ve decided. - Volnelk Jul 5, 14:29 12
  - I'm in awe of the rewind thing on the circular stage. -- nm - David Jul 5, 14:37 11
    - yep. brilliant -- nm - prayformojo Jul 5, 15:12
    - that blew my little mind. -- nm - mud Jul 5, 15:12
    - Does Disney+ have a watch party like Netflix and Hulu? -- nm - Marquis de Krusty Jul 5, 14:40 2
      - They already did it, Friday night. -- nm - ML Jul 5, 14:42 1
        
        I was thinking we could do it. -- nm - Marquis de Krusty Jul 5, 14:50
    - I felt the slo mo during Hurricane was technically more impressive - ML Jul 5, 14:39 5
      - They did not win the Tony for set design. I don’t know how. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 5, 15:13
      - That's the one Kim raves about. He's the literal eye of the hurricane. -- nm - David Jul 5, 14:48
      - Philip's death was a nice slo-mo effect too. He gradually leans backward as the stage revolves to move him back. -- nm - Whatever the Hell It Is You Do in Maracello Jul 5, 14:47 2
        
        I loved one of the smaller effects with the stage (spoils) - Will Hunting Jul 5, 15:16 1
        
        Oh, yeah, loved that. -- nm - Whatever the Hell It Is You Do in Maracello Jul 5, 15:17

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