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American Airlines said that unless federal aid is extended, its workforce will shrink by 40,000 in October, including 19,000 involuntary cuts -- (link) - the ice Aug 25, 20:16 4
- Who are those 21,000 voluntary cuts? -- nm - Mopsy Aug 25, 20:27
- oh to remember the days -- (link) - ty97 Aug 25, 20:23 1
  - Should anyone ever have bragged about that? -- nm - Mopsy Aug 25, 20:27
- That's a lot of people freed up to play Flight Simulator. -- nm - Max Aug 25, 20:18
"The thread claimed that "malevolent Jewish forces in the banking industry are out to enslave non-Jews and promote world wars," -- (edited) - ty97 Aug 25, 20:08 1
- is pedophile rings in pizza parlors the new draining blood of virgins for matzos -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 26, 01:09
I'm sorry, there is a real place in Australia named Marangaroo? -- nm - ty97 Aug 25, 20:03 10
- It’s no Prominent Nob. -- nm - mafic Aug 25, 20:25
- I've been to Oodnadatta Australia, Wagga Wagga, Uluru, and Coober Pedy. Marangaroo is not so odd. - nm - howie Aug 25, 20:15 3
  - Uluru AND coober peddy? I'd like to see those. - Beryllium Aug 25, 20:17 2
    - You can still go to Uluru, but you can no longer climb on the formerly named 'Ayers Rock.' - howie Aug 25, 20:24 1
      - Ah, fair - i'd only want to take pictures, not climb it. So if that's allowed, I might try to get in view of it. As for coober peddy, - Beryllium Aug 25, 20:27
- "Marangaroo means place of blue flowers in the local aboriginal language." - ty97 Aug 25, 20:12
- Huh? That must be a new suburb, subdivision. I've lived in Bayswater and Scarborough that are nearby but never heard of that one. -- nm - Meg Aug 25, 20:09 2
  - Yeah, newer than your Perth tenure. Northern suburb kinda near Hilary’s. -- nm - mafic Aug 25, 20:22
  - It's in WA (Perth suburb) -- nm* - ty97 Aug 25, 20:11
- It's probably near Mooloolaba -- nm - Beryllium Aug 25, 20:06
Liberty U confirms Falwell Jr has resigned. Up to $10.5M owed him. -- (link) - the ice Aug 25, 19:57 4
- Who knew cuckolding was so lucrative? -- nm - Qale Aug 25, 20:09
- Seems to me, an institution like Liberty University would have a morals clause to prevent them from having to pay out in such cases. -- nm - Mopsy Aug 25, 20:02 2
  - Morals for thee, but not for me! -- nm - znufrii needs to update his handle Aug 25, 20:03 1
    - Blessed be the forbidden fruit -- nm - the ice Aug 25, 20:04
Re: Shingles. Turns out I just learned I have it yesterday. Must be about a week now. No pain yet, but itches like a sumbitch, EVERYWHERE. - GregW Aug 25, 19:53 4
- I vaguely remember Letterman getting it. -- nm - Qale Aug 25, 20:10 1
  - I remember that well. He had a very painful version that was near his eye. It was the second time he had guest hosts. -- nm - GregW Aug 25, 20:26
- Pro tip: When it gets extra itchy, use a cheese grater. -- nm - Mopsy Aug 25, 20:03
- 8( Get better soon - JD Aug 25, 19:55
Whatever you’re watching is the wrong thing. The Sox game is the free game on MLB.tv and you should turn it on. -- nm - spamlet Aug 25, 19:27 4
- red or white? -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 25, 19:28 3
  - The good one. - spamlet Aug 25, 19:28 2
    - 26 miles across the sea ...... -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 25, 19:36
    - 😊😊 -- nm - amanda Aug 25, 19:29
The crazy thing in the Clippers - Mavs series is that after last game, the Mavs could be thinking...well we've been here before -- nm - JD Aug 25, 19:10 1
- Though maybe not here 8( -- nm - JD Aug 25, 19:22
and the weekend’s purchases become tonight’s meal -- (pic) - JD Aug 25, 19:01 [Attachment] 2
- Yum -- nm - Epiphany- What’s upppp? Aug 25, 19:03
- nice -- nm - the ice Aug 25, 19:02
Star Wars but with better dialog -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 25, 18:57 1
- the only film dubbed into Navajo -- (pic) -- (link*) - Peglegpete Aug 25, 19:26 [Attachment]
The Greek Freak just joined a list with Kevin Garnett, Hakeem Olajuwon, Michael Jordan and David Robinson. -- nm - David Aug 25, 18:36 3
- I'm surprised that list is so small -- nm - prayformojo Aug 25, 18:44 2
  - I'm surprised Kawhi Leonard isn't on it. -- nm - David Aug 25, 18:48 1
    - MVP is really hard and he didn’t have the big stats they love. - Will Hunting Aug 25, 18:54
Your thoughts and prayers are requested. My wife is going to tear me a new asshole. I let the 8-year old watch ‘The Crow’ and she let it slip. - Name Withheld By Request Aug 25, 18:34 21
- I mean, if you’re gonna show an inappropriate movie at least show her a good one. -- nm - mafic Aug 25, 19:44 1
  - aye. -- nm - mud Aug 25, 19:51
- You were going to have this conversation now or in two years when you watch Robocop with the kids. -- nm - Roger More Aug 25, 19:14
- Flip on Downton Abbey quick -- nm - Max Aug 25, 19:01 1
  - But not the Turkish diplomat episode. -- nm - loosilu Aug 25, 19:10
- OFFS she's fine. Kids all over the world witness actual war. Coddled kids are failed adults. -- nm* - loosilu Aug 25, 18:55 2
  - I say this as a coddled kid. Horrible disservice to the kid. It made my life so, so much harder. -- nm* - loosilu Aug 25, 18:57 1
    - not incorrect. -- nm - amanda Aug 25, 19:27
- Listen, you wanna make a future gothie girl, you’re gonna break a few eggs. -- nm - Qale Aug 25, 18:45
- Eek dude that opening scene is rough - Epiphany- What’s upppp? Aug 25, 18:43 5
  - I let my 8 year old watch the South Park movie not knowing what it was - Epiphany- What’s upppp? Aug 25, 19:14 4
    - NmbPippy. - Qale Aug 25, 20:13 1
      - Giggling ! - Epiphany-What’s uppppp? Aug 25, 21:48
    - The number of parents I had come in to Hollywood Video when I worked there in college complaining about renting South Park for their kids... - Cuzzin Todd Aug 25, 19:33
    - But it's not real..see - JD Aug 25, 19:20
- tell her it was that, or Cuties -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 25, 18:40 3
  - or Oogieloves -- nm - JD Aug 25, 18:43 2
    - WTF is an Oogielove? -- nm - znufrii needs to update his handle Aug 25, 18:57 1
      - It's fine if you don't know. It's probably for the best even. -- nm - . Aug 25, 19:30
- "Hey, you didn't object when I showed her John Wick last--- you didn't know about that either, did you?" -- nm - Mopsy Aug 25, 18:37
- Conversations kill. -- nm - David Aug 25, 18:37
LIR: I'm a contractor and worked many places. Based on observation, it gets announced when co workers family members die, if that co worker is popular -- nm - loosilu Aug 25, 18:21 2
- If I have family business, my coworkers can fuck right off and I'll see them when I'm done. -- nm - Mopsy Aug 25, 18:35 1
  - My two works (the new one and old one) sent me a signed card when my mother died. I am SO much more popular than you. -- nm - loosilu Aug 25, 18:45
new research moves the origins of the British Navy prior to King Alfred, who has been accredited with founding it for centuries -- (link*) - Peglegpete Aug 25, 18:12 13
- It's widely known that the first dreadnought class battleship was built by King Arthur in c.500AD -- nm - Mopsy Aug 25, 18:33
- The hell you say! I'm descended from that particular king. - Judge Bane Aug 25, 18:24 11
  - +kneels+ Your Highness -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 25, 18:35
  - for real? -- nm - loosilu Aug 25, 18:25 9
    - Yeah. Lots of that in my genealogy, esp. Scottish royalty. -- nm - Judge Bane Aug 25, 18:36 8
      - Most exciting thing I’ve found in mine is a daughter of an Austrian baroness who was disowned for marrying a commoner. -- nm - znufrii needs to update his handle Aug 25, 20:11
      - I have none. I'm all peasant. But I have traced my lineage to all of the founding Quebec settlers, most of them multiple times. They are very inbred. -- nm - loosilu Aug 25, 19:12 2
        
        I figure my ancestors were a bunch of monsters. ;) - Judge Bane Aug 25, 19:46 1
        
        Sounds about right. -- nm - David Aug 25, 19:56
      - I'm sure there were some very colorful relatives in your tree. -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 25, 18:39 3
        
        Very. - Judge Bane Aug 25, 18:45 2
        
        I just read Edwards history. If he lived another 20 years, you would be the Queen if England right now. -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 25, 18:52 1
        
        Ain’t that always the way? -- nm - Judge Bane Aug 25, 18:59
Bed Bath & Beyond Cuts 2,800 Jobs in Restructuring Move -- (link) - the ice Aug 25, 17:59 3
- ... changes name to, "Bed Bath" -- nm - Spawn Aug 25, 18:01 2
  - No steps beyoooond. -- nm - Madness Aug 25, 18:03 1
    - I always call them Bed, Bath & Beyonce -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 25, 18:12
I’m watching the Very Brady Renovation on HGTV. Barry Williams and Maureen McCormick are both in their mid-60s. - Mopsy Aug 25, 17:59 3
- are you saying the ST Seniors new slogan is: MOPS LIFE DOESN'T MATTER -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 25, 18:09 2
  - Oh, I'm sure you could knock down a wall. But would you WANT to? -- nm - Mopsy Aug 25, 18:30 1
    - not after we bricked you in it :))) -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 25, 18:36
TTIS: mid 1980s solo singer/guitarist with a couple hits, tall, skinny, dark haired, high cheekbones, age 16/17 - Max Aug 25, 17:52 11
- Johnny Lang? - Judge Bane Aug 25, 17:57
- Chris Gaines? -- nm - Beryllium Aug 25, 17:55
- I kind of misread that and thought it was a police blotter listing about some musician teaming up with two others to beat some poor teenager -- nm - JD Aug 25, 17:54
- Charlie Sexton? -- (link) - Remlik Aug 25, 17:54 [youtube] 7
  - that's the one, thank you -- nm - Max Aug 25, 17:59 6
    - Obviously we can barely be friends now. Beats so lonely plays at a pivotal part of some kind of wonderful. -- nm - amanda Aug 25, 18:44 2
      - I know I know! I knew it my brain was just crosswired tonight. -- nm - Max Aug 25, 20:06
      - if anyone wants to do a some kind of wonderful watch party, let me know. -- (link) - amanda Aug 25, 18:46 [youtube]
    - OMG, I Remliked Remlik. -- nm* - Spawn Aug 25, 18:02 2
      - Kill yourself now. -- nm - loosilu Aug 25, 18:16 1
        
        Now now, we all know that would be the easy way out. No, he should live with this shame... heh -- nm - Beryllium Aug 25, 18:18
I can't watch, did Eric speak yet? -- nm - loosilu Aug 25, 17:47 1
- It was actually Alex Moffat! - Spawn Aug 25, 18:04
STIS: so I’m high risk and have been working from home M-F since April. My office is changing our office schedule back to every other Friday off - Will Hunting Aug 25, 17:32 5
- I’d be pretty pissed...only thing I can think of is that they’re including travel time for giving office people that EOF sched and not you -- nm - Flavorize—Mr Unliiiiiiiiimited Aug 25, 18:59
- Just deal with it. -- nm - loosilu Aug 25, 17:45 1
  - I agree. jobs will be lost in all of this. be as teamplayerish as you can be. -- nm - amanda Aug 25, 19:29
- If you get to stay home, call it a win. -- nm - David Aug 25, 17:40
- Eh, just make quiet adjustments. -- nm - ♤Spawn♤ Aug 25, 17:33
USC is looking for volunteers for their phase 3 trial. I assume they vaccinate you then intentionally expose you to COVID? -- (link) - Mopsy Aug 25, 17:30 5
- Alternately it could be just to test the general safety and possible side effects of the vaccine -- nm - JD Aug 25, 18:45
- UCLA is as well. Many places are participating in trials. They need a lot of people. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Aug 25, 18:41
- (It’s part of the Oxford/AstraZeneca phase 3 trial) -- nm - znufrii needs to update his handle Aug 25, 17:36
- No, they generally don’t unless it’s a challenge trial. That why they have to get so many volunteers for the study, because there’s no way of knowing - znufrii needs to update his handle Aug 25, 17:32 1
  - Purposefully exposing people to the virus is unethical. This trial is as much about testing out the safety as anything. - . Aug 25, 18:05
Former UofAz Coach Lute Olson in hospice care -- (link*) - the ice Aug 25, 17:28
Listening to reports from the conference maybe I should consider moving out of California? Sounds like a terrible, dangerous place to live 🙄 -- nm - Meg Aug 25, 17:24
RNC speaker MaryAnn Mendoza pulled from speaking tonight after posting anti Semitic/Qanon tweet -- nm - Remlik Aug 25, 17:05 14
- What a fucking debacle. -- nm - loosilu Aug 25, 18:17
- "Mendozaaa!" -- nm - McBain si Aug 25, 17:45
- who is she again? -- nm - loosilu Aug 25, 17:45
- Would have been more fun if they'd let her speak first. -- nm - Reagen Aug 25, 17:38
- That wasn't how she became a speaker? -- nm - . Aug 25, 17:24
- Cancel culture! -- nm - Tim Aug 25, 17:18
- RNC knows all about pulling out early -- nm - the ice Aug 25, 17:18 1
  - My dad doesn’t. -- nm - Tiffany Trump Aug 25, 17:24
- I'm still hoping Melania will be live telling people how awful her husband is and to vote Biden. with an exclusive CNN interview to follow -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 25, 17:16 2
  - But who would she plagiarize that from? -- nm - 4 Aug 25, 17:21 1
    - If she just reads anything that's put in front of her... I've got some ideas. -- nm - Mopsy Aug 25, 17:28
- They really should have vetted these speakers. Wait... did anyone vet this Donald Trump guy? We can't let him speak! -- nm - Mopsy Aug 25, 17:12
- We are moving her to Thursday! -- nm - 45 Aug 25, 17:06 1
  - lol exactly. I was just gonna say, "dont tell Don!" -- nm - Jovian Aug 25, 17:07
We don't know how baby eels are made. -- nm - Mopsy Aug 25, 16:53 8
- That's a moray -- nm - Beryllium Aug 25, 18:25 1
  - :-D -- nm - mud Aug 25, 18:25
- See also: whale sharks. -- nm - mafic Aug 25, 17:10
- Google -- nm - the ice Aug 25, 16:58 1
  - WE DON'T KNOW! -- (link) - Mopsy Aug 25, 17:11
- Turn of the Caps Lock. -- nm - Spawn Aug 25, 16:56
- parthenogenesis? -- nm - mud Aug 25, 16:54
- ~in a factory downtooooowwwwnnn~ -- nm - Reagen Aug 25, 16:54
would *never* have placed who plays the male lead (Bowser) in Teenage Bounty Hunter -- nm - prayformojo Aug 25, 16:49 1
- Me either -- nm - Epiphany- What’s upppp? Aug 25, 17:49
underwater Alaskan salmon cam! -- (link) - prayformojo Aug 25, 16:47 [Image] 3
- fishy -- nm - the ice Aug 25, 16:48 2
  - It figures this story would spawn these kinds of comebacks. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Aug 25, 17:19 1
    - Makes me wonder if a boat is going to roe past. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 25, 17:56
Is it possible to set up sub-accounts on Amazon? I've been thinking about getting my parents Kindles and Kindle unlimited accounts - JD Aug 25, 16:40 1
- Yes or can also just add the devices to your account -- (link*) - the ice Aug 25, 16:44
nmb David - Strongbad Aug 25, 16:39 1
- We should sell, not buy. -- nm - David Aug 25, 16:42
It’s been this many days since a post from crash davis: 11 -- nm - Mopsy Aug 25, 16:36 1
- No news is good news? -- nm - loosilu Aug 25, 16:43

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