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This certainly seems like a political liability -- (link) - Reagen Aug 11, 09:32 4
- Oh that guy. He'll almost certainly still win. -- nm - ty97 Aug 11, 09:39
- and from the opposing candidate -- (link) - JD Aug 11, 09:37
- Well, in that district.... -- nm - Dano Aug 11, 09:34
- should have left out what party and let us all guess between him being a republican or a republican. -- nm - colin Aug 11, 09:34
Speaking of Letterkenny, Jared Keeso is Chris Pratt's hotter Canadian cousin. -- nm - Dano Aug 11, 09:32 2
- that beard is a huge no for me. -- nm - colin Aug 11, 09:35
- "Grant Macklin, you Mounted son of a bitch." -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 09:35
I also forgot something from the weekend: I visited Harve Bennett's grave site. -- (pic) - ReluctantCynic Aug 11, 09:29 [Attachment] 1
- huh. interesting -- nm - Remlik Aug 11, 09:31
2020 keeps it coming. -- (link) - Shaun Aug 11, 09:27 3
- Also Not the Onion: Last Remaining Blockbuster Converted Into Airbnb -- (link) - the ice Aug 11, 09:31 1
  - not the last blockbuster.. (this twitter account is fantastic) -- (link) - colin Aug 11, 09:37
- I kind of LOVE that. -- nm - Andie Aug 11, 09:30
IN Daily totals: 747, 855, 927, 658, 734, 763, 954, 1011, 934, 860, 561, 809, 630, 960, 912, 989, 748, 582, 836, 740, 1051, 1253, 1036, 1048, 673, 884 this is me testing yet again to add to the original post. -- (edited) - Spawnsy Aug 11, 09:12 2
- Hmm. It has some limit as I got it again, though. - Spawnsy Aug 11, 09:13 1
  - you must not have executive access. 300 445 499 726 760 548 447 653 700 735 747 747, 855, 927, 658, 734, 763, 954, 1011, 934, 860, 561, 809, 630, 960, 912, 989, 748, 582, 836, 740, 1051, 1253, 1036, 1048, 673, 884 -- nm* - decline Aug 11, 09:26
2020 - The Year the Nickel is Back -- (link) - the ice Aug 11, 09:11 10
- I'm actually completely open to this being better than anything Cardi B. -- nm - Max Aug 11, 09:36
- Hating Nickleback is sooooo 2005. Seriously. -- nm - Shaun Aug 11, 09:21 1
  - If they would just die already we wouldn't have to. It is like someone said 2020 was not bad enough, so why not? -- nm - Spawnsy Aug 11, 09:25
- Wasnt that prophesied after plagues as being the last of days -- nm - eag Aug 11, 09:17 1
  - Book of Armaments IIRC -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Aug 11, 09:26
- can we just swap in the murder hornets instead? -- nm - prayformojo Aug 11, 09:14
- Way to stay on brand 2020! -- nm - rollo Aug 11, 09:13
- we really are in Purgatory -- nm - decline Aug 11, 09:12 1
  - This is how you remind me. -- nm - Spawnsy Aug 11, 09:17
- NOT NOW -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 09:11
**KRUSTY SIGNAL** Retail Chains Abandon Manhattan: ‘It’s Unsustainable’ (that's hyperbole, but true to a point) -- (link) - ty97 Aug 11, 09:06 2
- Written by a Parler user in Connecticut... -- nm - David Aug 11, 09:27
- Without reading it because I can't, I'm not surprised. Without foot traffic and business from workers in the area there are going to be a lot - Krusty Aug 11, 09:24
Whenever Indiana numbers are still not there at noon I worry it is because it is going to be a shitshow. - Spawnsy Aug 11, 09:01 3
- CNN just had Indiana on the RED MAP! -- nm - Remlik Aug 11, 09:08 2
  - And they tend to lag. When we started exploding they had us green for a while. -- nm - Spawnsy Aug 11, 09:21 1
    - 884 new cases, 25 additional deaths -- nm - Remlik Aug 11, 09:34
Hey, meant to post this the other night, but went camping this weekend and forgot. Tornado footage from Friday night. Check this out. -- (link) - Name Withheld By Request Aug 11, 08:55 2
- i sure wouldn't be able to turn my back to make selfies, I'd be wide eyed unable to turn away -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 11, 14:17
- Good lord -- nm - JaxSean Aug 11, 09:30
Florida: 5,831 cases and 276 deaths. -- (link) - Inigo Aug 11, 08:48 7
- In encouraging news, the seven day average Covid deaths in the city of Chicago is now 0. -- nm* - pmb Aug 11, 09:18
- I find the rapidity with which the FL new cases fell a little suspicious -- nm - prayformojo Aug 11, 09:06
- I haven't been watching the numbers recently for Florida. Cases down from the peak it looks like? But deaths definitely up :( -- nm - ty97 Aug 11, 09:00 3
  - Here's my spreadsheet tracking for Hospitalizations & Deaths -- (pic) - JaxSean Aug 11, 09:36 [Attachment]
  - deaths are a trailing indicator so it's within the realm of the possible. -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 09:11
  - Kentucky numbers are a joke. -- nm - Spawnsy Aug 11, 09:08
- It’s a record number of deaths today. 😪 -- nm - David Aug 11, 08:49
LIR: Tree removal is crazy expensive. Seriously, how do people have that kind of disposable cash for a stupid tree - oblique Aug 11, 08:28 14
- I could ask my brother to drive up with a Cat D8. - ReluctantCynic Aug 11, 09:24
- heh. I have written over $100k in checks already this summer for tree removal. -- nm - Spawnsy Aug 11, 08:56 1
  - I can give you my address :) -- nm - oblique Aug 11, 09:00
- This is an in progress take down of our ash tree in 2014. It cost $1000 including grinding the stump. -- (pic) - zunkskunk scared stupid Aug 11, 08:49 [Attachment]
- Right after college I worked as a landscaper and we often worked with a tree guy. You should have seen his house -- (edited) - decline Aug 11, 08:44
- Correction: Safe tree removal is crazy expensive. I could put you in touch with my sister’s Kid Rock Husband if you want. -- nm - Qale Aug 11, 08:40 2
  - I think I'll just move -- nm - oblique Aug 11, 08:55
  - I've got some really cool fireworks. I think we can blow it up. -- nm - Kid Rock Boyfriend Aug 11, 08:46
- We're still trying to figure out what to do with the branch on our roof (and hanging over the sidewalk. I think it's the city's responsibility, but - pmb Aug 11, 08:34
- my friend jus had his trees pruned (is that the word?). five freaking grand. -- nm - amanda Aug 11, 08:33 1
  - yikes -- nm - Epiphany -Letterkenny groupie Aug 11, 08:51
- I just get my FIL. we take down a bunch at the lake every year :) -- nm - Beaker Aug 11, 08:30 2
  - If there's nothing in the way, it's simple. -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 08:31 1
    - heh, we did one near the SIL's trailer earlier this season. me and cousin pulling on rope; uncle pushing FIL going at it with chainsaw - Beaker Aug 11, 08:33
"Brian Blessed: Flash Gordon is the Queen's favourite film" -- (link) - Remlik Aug 11, 08:22 2
- YEAH! -- (link) - Flash Aug 11, 08:34 [youtube]
- Queen's, as well! -- nm - Spawn Aug 11, 08:24
I'm not sure if Disney needs theaters but I do think they will have them. I think the model will be the El Capitan as opposed to Disney Quest - JD Aug 11, 08:20
A.Petri: Team Biden wishes it had known something was slightly wrong with every woman before promising a female VP -- (link) - prayformojo Aug 11, 08:19 6
- “ a vice presidentess as refreshingly unambitious as Burr surely must have been before he literally murdered a guy” - David Aug 11, 08:41
- They’ll never stop Coronavirus like Pence has! -- nm - David Aug 11, 08:38 1
  - Pray the 'Vid away! -- nm - Beaker Aug 11, 08:39
- *laughs* -- nm - Michelle Obama Aug 11, 08:25
- HaHa!! -- nm - Diva Aug 11, 08:20 1
  - It's nice to know she reads ST -- nm - prayformojo Aug 11, 08:25
B4: B11! -- nm - rollo Aug 11, 08:17
I'm adopting a hockey handle. -- nm - Mopsy Aug 11, 08:17 9
- Wait, are the Letterkenny guys an *accurate* representation of hockey!?! - Spawn Aug 11, 08:20 7
  - Jared Keeso (Wayne... and Shoresy) is a former hockey player, so, yeah. Some experience in that arena. - Beryllium Aug 11, 08:52 1
    - barn. -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 09:00
  - Easily representative. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Aug 11, 08:48
  - Shoresy is a slight extreme, but like Reagen said, basically yeah. -- nm - Shaun Aug 11, 08:42
  - Small town, livin the dream hockey, yeah. -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 08:23 2
    - Sweet! -- nm - Spawnsy Aug 11, 08:31 1
      - Fuck you Spawnsy, I made your mom cum so hard that they made a Canadian heritage moment out of it and Don Mckellar played my dick. -- nm - Shaun Aug 11, 08:45
- which is also an old slang term for a slovenly girl - so you go girl! -- nm - decline Aug 11, 08:20
Yes, Spammy, I literally pulled those numbers from an article about the most profitable blockbusters of 2019. - David Aug 11, 08:13 8
- I still think that post-covid, when theaters return to normalcy, people will again believe that something straight to PVOD will be a "lesser" film and - pmb Aug 11, 08:32 3
  - As a business, Disney only cares about profitability. Those Lion King 1 1/2 checks still cleared. So, I hear what you’re saying, but this new model is - David Aug 11, 08:36 2
    - Oh, I definitely think there are profitable options. A lot of the DTV things like the Lion King 1 1/2 can do well. Even more mid-sized movies may be - pmb Aug 11, 08:45 1
      - It depends on the split Disney takes from exhibitors when it renegotiates. - David Aug 11, 08:49
- You're ignoring the cost of making the movie itself. I assumed $200m for the film and $50m for marketing in a reduced way. - spamlet Aug 11, 08:24 3
  - I’m definitely not. Those costs get split among investors, but at $37, Disney brings in $444 million. - David Aug 11, 08:34 2
    - you mention it and I'd be interesting in how this will affect the pay scale of talent. what of the times actors/actresses/directors get a share of the - Beaker Aug 11, 08:38 1
      - There have been several stories lately about how producers are trying to move away percentage gross with talent. - David Aug 11, 08:43
The life of a reporter -- (link) - ty97 Aug 11, 08:07 1
- Was he far from Norfolk? -- nm - Mop Aug 11, 08:16
California judge sides with drivers in landmark case against Uber and Lyft -- (link) - Beaker Aug 11, 08:03
Seattle Chief of Police Carmen Best is retiring. -- (link) - Blue Punch Baron Aug 11, 07:56 2
- after budget cut -- nm - the ice Aug 11, 07:57 1
  - after *minimal* budget cut. - colin Aug 11, 08:01
Disney has unveiled 20th Television, ending the storied era of 20th Century Fox TV. -- (link) - the ice Aug 11, 07:52 9
- I presume it’ll also just become Searchlight? Ahh, I link-hopped and found it was killed off back in January. -- nm* - Qale Aug 11, 08:48
- Keeping 20th and dropping Century makes no sense, and some how makes less sense in light of the sense 21st Century would make. -- nm - Max Aug 11, 08:26
- We I daydreamed about becoming a director, it was the 20th Century Fox fanfare that opened my daydreamed movies. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Aug 11, 08:22
- I feel they could have gone with 20th Century Television or even Fox Television but I guess they want to drop the Fox label. -- nm - Mop Aug 11, 08:13 3
  - With Fox News and Fox Sports out there, they didn’t have a choice. -- nm - David Aug 11, 08:18 2
    - Cause people would mentally truncate 20th Century Movies to uh...wait. That's not the point I was trying to make - JD Aug 11, 08:22 1
      - Decades of branding. -- nm - David Aug 11, 08:24
- I would've stayed away from that just to avoid the ..and predicting their ranking position jokes - JD Aug 11, 07:55 1
  - And here I thought us having *four* tvs was a lot. -- nm - Spawn Aug 11, 08:03
And honestly, watching a group of white men pick over, examine and criticize a group of well-regarded women - many of them POC - - Diva Aug 11, 07:45 18
- Seriously. - ReluctantCynic Aug 11, 09:26
- I completely understand this take. It’d be great if we kept finding reasons to vote *for* something, instead of *against* or *rather than.* -- nm - Qale Aug 11, 08:54
- Yeah. -- nm - Judge Bane Aug 11, 08:39
- Another example how one side only needs one reason to vote for their own side, the other needs only one reason to vote against theirs. -- nm - znufrii, drinking heavily Aug 11, 08:23 1
  - Again, we're just seeing behind the scenes jockeying brought to the forefront. No one's up or down decision is hinging on this. -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 08:29
- I respect your view, and obviously I'm a white man, but I think we are only voicing concerns we would also voice about a man. -- (edited) - ty97 Aug 11, 07:54 5
  - I agree with some of this, but your own criteria had you (and others on ST) eliminating Biden as a candidate. -- (edited) - Inigo Aug 11, 08:29 1
    - I'm not eliminating any of the VP candidates, only discussing what could be political downsides to their choice. - ty97 Aug 11, 08:58
  - There will always be something to object to. There will be things that people don't love about someone. -- (edited) - Diva Aug 11, 08:07 1
    - At most, we're agonizing over how a few news cycles are gonna go. No US election has ever hinged on the identity of the VP. -- nm - con_carne Aug 11, 08:54
  - Also a white dude - but I agree. VP options are vetted to high heaven and back. Hell, more so than the actual presidential candidate. -- nm - Daniel Prime Aug 11, 08:00
- that's well said and a really good point -- nm - prayformojo Aug 11, 07:50
- VEEPstakes is inherently demeaning and degrading. edit to add: which definitely has the magnifying glass on the process this time -- (edited) - Reagen Aug 11, 07:47 5
  - your FACE is inherently demeaning and degrading. - Diva Aug 11, 07:51 4
    - without a doubt, the proverbial "warm bucket of piss" is better than Pence - Reagen Aug 11, 07:56 3
      - agreed. and we can start being the change we want to see in the world by not picking people apart by the one thing some folks find objectionable. - Diva Aug 11, 08:14 2
        
        Who’s said they’re picking Bass or Kamala or Demings apart by the one thing objectionable (which you seem to be implying as either black or woman) - Will Hunting Aug 11, 08:29 1
        
        If that side doesn't get their ammo, they will just make shit up. You know that. It's useless to try and anticipate what conservatives will say/do. -- nm - con_carne Aug 11, 09:15
B2: Qale, that's one of the best things I've woken up to in awhile - JD Aug 11, 07:43 [youtube] 1
- Thank you so much. I am glad it was well received. -- nm - Qale Aug 11, 08:59
Going from a character named Dickon to a character named Luther is one of the bigger upgrades you can have. -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 07:32
"George Washington would have had a hard time beating me before the plague came in," -- (link) - mud Aug 11, 07:32 6
- TBF, George has been dead for 221 years. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 11, 08:19
- So it's a plague? -- nm - Mopsy Aug 11, 08:18 1
  - One that will go away by itself. -- nm - Spawnsy Aug 11, 08:32
- Like he would have even gotten on a boat to lead the troops down a frozen river - eag Aug 11, 07:45
- the Braveheart scene when the Irishman shows up is how I view the US now - Beaker Aug 11, 07:42 1
  - "Stephen's my name! Stephen Miller. I'm the most wanted man in my century; except I'm not in my century, of course. More's the pity." -- nm - Max Aug 11, 08:30
The insects are particularly large this summer -- (pic) - LMS Aug 11, 07:29 [Attachment] 2
- ! -- nm - mud Aug 11, 07:32 1
  - If only that poor man knew. -- nm - Spawn Aug 11, 07:59
Texas Dress Code -- (link) - the ice Aug 11, 07:27 11
- Heh, reminds me of a clip from the movie Bernie I love: The five states of Texas. -- (link) - Blue Punch Baron Aug 11, 08:06 [youtube]
- Austin needs help -- nm - Krusty Aug 11, 07:33 9
  - Huh. I was going to say Houston. -- nm - Spawn Aug 11, 07:57 2
    - It’s a great nod to the rap history of H-Town. Get that lean. -- nm - Qale Aug 11, 09:08
    - That's just how young people dress today. Joggers, long sleeve tee, hat and sneakers. Looks normal to me. *shrug* -- nm - Krusty Aug 11, 08:28
  - Austin rejects your reality and substitutes your own. -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 07:35 5
    - I'm now as confused as the people of Austin when getting dressed in the morning. -- nm - Krusty Aug 11, 07:44 4
      - They have a whole thing about letting your freak flag fly - Reagen Aug 11, 07:48 3
        
        Oh, I get that. :-) - Krusty Aug 11, 07:52 2
        
        eh, probably still works - Reagen Aug 11, 07:56 1
        
        Ha! :-) -- nm - Krusty Aug 11, 08:33
And the Vice Presidential candidate is........ - ty97 Aug 11, 07:25 4
- She's too fabulous for the job and too smart to take it. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Aug 11, 07:50
- You! -- nm - Time Magazine Aug 11, 07:31
- one of the following: - prayformojo Aug 11, 07:29
- she has our votes! -- nm - ST CDN Contingent Aug 11, 07:28

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