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Re: Chicago Bears...from July -- (link) - Flav/Shower Inspector 👩 🚿 🔪 🩸 Oct 9, 06:04 [Backboard]
Wow, my instagram feed is crowded. Happy birthday John Lennon, Sean Lennon, and John Entwistle. Happy anniversary Paul McCartney. -- nm - 👽Scully👽 Oct 9, 05:18 2
- Also my kid is 2. -- nm - mafic Oct 9, 06:10 1
  - Don Homer! -- nm - Boooooker Oct 9, 06:11
TV PSA: NBA, MLB, Below Deck Med, Bering Sea Gold, Jimmy Kimmel, Smackdown, Masters of Illusion, Greatest #AtHome Videos, World's Funniest Animals, -- nm - Booooker Oct 9, 05:17 4
- Undercover Boss, Bill Maher, The Boys (Amazon), The Haunting Of Bly Manor (Netflix), The Great British Baking Show (Netflix), The Right Stuff (D+), -- nm - Booooker Oct 9, 05:19 3
  - The Forty-Year-Old Version (Netflix), Fast & Furious Spy Racers (Netflix), Ghostwriter (Apple), Room 104 (HBO), Deaf U (Netflix), -- nm - Booooker Oct 9, 05:20 2
    - Madness In The Hills (Peacock), The Graham Norton Show (BBC America), The Amber Ruffin Show (Peacock), Wilmore (Peacock), other stuff -- nm - Booooker Oct 9, 05:21 1
      - 3 - MLB, Bly Manor and Bake Off -- nm - Krusty The Anarchist Oct 9, 05:41
Ahead of #WorldPostDay, we have a very important message from your friendly local mail carrier. -- (link) - Boooooker Oct 9, 04:38
Titans/Bills to Tuesday assuming no further positive tests -- nm - Booooker Oct 9, 04:29 1
- No positive tests for either the Titans or the Patriots this morning. -- nm - VolnHELLk Oct 9, 05:08
Happy birthday, con_carne and Qale! Woo hoo!!! Have a great day and birthday weekend! -- nm - Krusty The Anarchist Oct 9, 04:24 14
- Hurray! The one day of the year when I get to be the evil birthday twin! -- nm - Qale Oct 9, 07:30
- Happy b, guys! (NM) - Marlowe Oct 9, 06:34
- Happy Birthday! Have fun and stay safe! -- nm - BloodyAxeSean, Anti-Pumpkin 🚫🎃🚫 Oct 9, 06:18
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - MDH Oct 9, 06:17
- Hope you both have a great day! -- nm - Strongbad Oct 9, 06:14
- Happy Birthdays! Rip it up fellas! -- nm - Flav/Shower Inspector 👩 🚿 🔪 🩸 Oct 9, 06:03
- Happy birthday! -- nm - ty97 Oct 9, 05:55
- Happy birthday!! -- nm - decline Oct 9, 05:49
- Happy birthday! -- nm - Diva Oct 9, 05:40
- Happy birthday! -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Oct 9, 05:27
- Happy birthday gents! -- nm - spamlet Oct 9, 05:25
- Happy birthday! -- nm - 👽Scully👽 Oct 9, 05:17
- Don Homer! -- nm - Booooker Oct 9, 04:29
- Happy Birthday! Hopefully you're both younger than John Lennon (and still alive)! -- nm - secretslacker Oct 9, 04:29
So, in the case of the Wolverine militia, does that make the FBI Ohio State? - Will Hunting 🧠’s Oct 9, 04:05 1
- 🤣 -- nm - Flav/Shower Inspector 👩 🚿 🔪 🩸 Oct 9, 04:19
Has anyone travelled domestically in the past few months? - secretslacker Oct 9, 04:02 6
- You can bring on liquid sanitizer in more than 3 oz. Check your airline to see how much. I'd wear a plastic shield and a mask. -- nm - jnine Oct 9, 12:32
- There could be temperature checks. -- nm - Qale Oct 9, 07:31
- I’ve heard/read that small airlines are terrible and Delta is a good experience. -- nm - Even Darker Callisto Oct 9, 05:37
- I haven’t but as far as I know nothing has changed in regards to procedures for flying other than the masking. -- nm - spamlet Oct 9, 05:26
- I would check the airline. They all should have similar rules but being the US who the fuck knows anymore...maybe they ban masks or some shit -- nm - Booooker Oct 9, 04:30 1
  - LOL! I have a feeling that someone has stopped giving two fucks... :) -- nm - secretslacker Oct 9, 05:17
"My mom buys this off brand of iced tea, Lipton?" "That's *the* brand of tea!" -- nm - Classroom Transcripts Oct 9, 03:58 1
- It’s no snapple. Is snapple still a thing? -- nm - mafic Oct 9, 06:12
World Food Program wins 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for efforts to combat hunger and food insecurity around the world. -- (link) - ⏲👻 Oct 9, 02:38 2
- RIGGED! -- nm - Trump Oct 9, 05:50 1
  - I am definitely looking forward to the day when every event doesn't have to be filtered through what this asshole thinks about it. -- nm - Reagen Oct 9, 05:52
The start of Dwayne Haskins’s NFL career puts him in the company of some all-time busts - crash davis Oct 9, 01:45 4
- That O-line is terrible. I will say, something is happening with him...most QBs with his talent fail because lack of studying. K Allen will be the - Flav/Shower Inspector 👩 🚿 🔪 🩸 Oct 9, 04:14
- I didn't put this article up to dump on Haskins. It has some new metrics that I hadn't seen before that I found interesting -- nm - crash davis Oct 9, 01:47 2
  - They did kinda humiliate the kid at practice, this week. Made him watch...and that’s all he got. It’s up to him to respond. - Flav/Shower Inspector 👩 🚿 🔪 🩸 Oct 9, 04:18 1
    - It’s DC. Don’t believe any stories you don’t hear direct from players. The organization will undermine him by spreading gossip. -- nm - Will Hunting 🧠’s Oct 9, 05:49
TIL: Uber has an Uber Freight service. -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 8, 23:53
Pretty sure that no matter how the election turns out, I’ll be using it as an excuse to shotgun mimosas -- (edited) - Flav/Shower Inspector 👩 🚿 🔪 🩸 Oct 8, 23:51
"We are officially in the 4th quarter of 2020. Man, I hope we're playing the Falcons." -- nm - New, Better David Oct 8, 22:57 2
- Julio highlight reel -- (edited) - Flav/Shower Inspector 👩 🚿 🔪 🩸 Oct 8, 23:23
- "Hold up! What if WE are the Falcons???" -- nm - New, Better David Oct 8, 22:57
I'm seeing lots of videos of people in the Gaslamp District of San Diego partying and celebrating in the streets, without masks. They know the Padres -- (edited) - jnine Oct 8, 22:54
Re: Deadline, it's standard operating procedure for sites to prep stories they expect to break soon. - New, Better David Oct 8, 22:41 5
- Yup... you do it when you expect news to come... but you don't put it somewhere that it can be insta-published. - secretslacker Oct 9, 03:45
- can't be worse than the guy who accidentally sent out the early warning that No Korea launched a nuke you have 30m to live -- nm - ⏲👻 Oct 9, 02:42
- Happens with obits sometimes. nm - ralph wiggum Oct 8, 22:48 1
  - double obits even -- nm - 🎃 Bud S. Pumpkins 🎃 Oct 8, 22:55
- On a glorious [insert date]'s night, the Detroit Lions ascended football's Mount Olympus and seized the Lombardi Trophy... -- nm - prep for anything Oct 8, 22:44
I can accept the violence in The Boys but something that really annoys me is the jump in volume from whisper scenes to explosions or yelling. - Max Oct 8, 22:40 3
- Do you have a 5.1 system? -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 8, 22:42 2
  - Not since my receiver died. -- nm - Max Oct 8, 22:46 1
    - It's always been one of my peeves with blurays/dvds, and it's aggravated by 5.1 systems (which is why I asked). Lately I tend to watch with headphones - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 8, 23:13
The GOP senator incumbent here has an ad of him uncomfortably carrying a shotgun. So the Dem challenger's latest ad has her popping off shots with a -- (edited) - crash davis Oct 8, 22:40 5
- There are Democrats in Idaho? I read one of the Whitmer conspirators was the Weaver's neighbor on Ruby Ridge. He was a teenager and close to the -- (edited) - jnine Oct 8, 22:44 3
  - . . . -- nm* - jnine Oct 8, 22:52
  - Trish made a joke about the militia people leaving Idaho and moving to Michigan. This will make her happy :) -- nm - crash davis Oct 8, 22:46 1
    - She's always ahead of the curve. -- nm - jnine Oct 8, 22:53
- Uhm...yeah. -- nm - .👀 Oct 8, 22:43
Remlik was right. The Star Trek Lower Decks finale was great -- nm - crash davis Oct 8, 22:12 1
- Yup. I loved the TOS thing. -- nm - New, Better David Oct 8, 23:19
As a Biden voter, y'all are fucking exhausting... -- nm - Ender Oct 8, 22:11 4
- The place could definitely use some decaf. However, to be fair, someone tried to blow up a sitting governor and we're barely talking about it. - New, Better David Oct 8, 22:30 2
  - It's effectively been a DDoS of the body politic. -- nm - Reagen Oct 9, 03:53
  - the group had the name Wolverine Watchmen and I didn't even try to break it down -- nm - crash davis Oct 8, 22:37
- like the pipes coming out of a diesel engine? -- nm - crash davis Oct 8, 22:13
The Russo brothers produced a series for Quibi on the book Slugfest, about the battle between Marvel and DC. Here’s the first episode. -- (link) - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 8, 22:07
John Cusack does the “breaks down his career” bit for GQ. -- (link) - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 8, 22:02 [youtube]
This video about the bodysuits used in the Bill & Ted movie is pretty entertaining. -- (link) - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 8, 21:41 [youtube] 1
- I'll put that goop on Keanu for them. -- nm - jnine Oct 8, 21:43
Election is over. Taylor Swift endorsed Biden. We should just all vote now. -- nm - crash davis Oct 8, 21:38 15
- Well who else was she gonna endorse? Kanye? -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 8, 21:38 14
  - You never know. Britney endorsed W at the height of her fame. Kanye endorsed Donald at the end of his meds. -- nm - crash davis Oct 8, 21:41 13
    - We're at the point now where I half-expect Jayne Cobb to turn on Trump. -- nm - New, Better David Oct 8, 22:12 3
      - When they were tearing down all the Confederate monuments, I wonder if they tore his down in Mudville -- nm - crash davis Oct 8, 22:16
      - ... I'm surprised he wasn't FOX -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 8, 22:15 1
        
        (This thread will be enlightening, in the event you don't know which FOX I am referring to) -- (link) - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 8, 22:18
    - Does Kanye have a VP on his ticket? -- nm - ⏲👻 Oct 8, 21:50 2
      - Michelle Tidball -- (link) - ty97 Oct 8, 23:15
      - yeah, there was a VP there but I've already forgotten the name -- nm - crash davis Oct 8, 21:52
    - Taylor previously made her feelings on Donald well known. -- nm - ty97 Oct 8, 21:49 5
      - I'm really bad at keeping up with celebrities, especially musicians. I'd flame out on a modern pop culture quiz. -- nm - crash davis Oct 8, 21:51 4
        
        I'm only aware b/c it was 'news' when she spoke politically, having avoiding entering the political fray in the past. - ty97 Oct 8, 23:13 1
        
        I am no real Taylor fan (neutral on her) but Miss Americana is absolutely worth watching. -- nm - Andie Oct 9, 03:31
        
        W never stole the microphone from brit-brit to praise Chaka Khan -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 8, 21:55 1
        
        Tf you say so, I'll take your word for it -- nm - crash davis Oct 8, 21:58
You want a rabbit hole? This thread is the very definition. -- (link) - Volnelk Oct 8, 21:32
Given all the old, overweight, white men, I'm surprised we haven't heard of any fatalities from the super-spreader event yet. -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 8, 21:32 2
- Christy is hospitolized, we don't know a thing about Melania -- nm - ⏲👻 Oct 8, 21:52
- Their old ness and whiteness is only rivaled by their access to quality health care. -- nm - Volnelk Oct 8, 21:33
I'm three hours into looking for slippers and I can't find a good pair for less than $70 and that seems like a lot for slippers. -- (link) - Krusty The Anarchist Oct 8, 21:31 18
- I used to feel this way. a good pair of slippers will last you ten years. I love mine so much. I won't hesitate to buy again when mine die. -- (link) - amanda 💃💃💃 Oct 9, 05:57
- I have a pair of Ugg slippers that i love. They were about Cdn $130. I exchanged a gift from my boss' wife for them. If -- (edited) - Andie Oct 9, 03:32 1
  - They get great reviews but are out of my price range today -- nm - Krusty The Anarchist Oct 9, 04:46
- I know what I'm about to propose, but hear me out. The make crocs with fuzzy slipper linings that are really comfortable and only about $50. - pmb Oct 8, 22:32 1
  - Thanks for the suggestion. 👍 -- nm - Krusty The Anarchist Oct 9, 02:39
- Have you tried 6pm? -- nm - .👀 Oct 8, 21:58 7
  - I've been looking at a lot of sites and have read so many review articles and reviews. Most of the affordable pairs fail to last for long, lose their - Krusty The Anarchist Oct 8, 22:18 6
    - I looked at DSW for you, no cheaper. -- nm - jnine Oct 8, 22:28 3
      - Thanks! I think I'll need to lower my standards or find a coupon for Sorel. - Krusty The Anarchist Oct 8, 22:32 2
        
        Sierra Trading, not sure if they've got your size, but they have more than one color -- (link) - .👀 Oct 8, 22:40 1
        
        Damn, not my size -- nm - Krusty The Anarchist Oct 9, 04:46
    - i live in uggs all winter, find some ebay, set a search and eventually you'll get one at the price you are willing to pay -- nm - ⏲👻 Oct 8, 22:26 1
      - I saw Uggs that looked pretty good but they were even more expensive! lol -- nm - Krusty The Anarchist Oct 8, 22:31
- Thread jack!: On a similar note, I had to retire my Chuck Taylor high tops yesterday. *pours one out* and went hunting for a new paid. - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 8, 21:36 4
  - Yes, they're a reseller site. Check eBay, if you haven't already. They don't charge fees for selling sneakers so a lot of people are moving there. - Krusty The Anarchist Oct 8, 21:41 3
    - There was a period where I rotated daily through canvas Chuck Taylors, Nikes, and Vans. - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 8, 21:53 2
      - Hmmm... let me think about high tops that you might like. For Vans you can buy custom made pairs from their site and change the color of everything. - Krusty The Anarchist Oct 8, 22:15 1
        
        Nike makes the Kyrie basketball shoe that isn't bulky and has a really nice look. There are multiple models and hundreds of colorways. - Krusty The Anarchist Oct 9, 04:55
Who the f sold a Pete Seeger song to Nissan for an ad. -- nm - .👀 Oct 8, 21:24 5
- I'm still waiting for Jeep to get the rights to Sugar Magnolia for ads -- (pic) - PumpkinheadPete Oct 8, 22:09 [Attachment]
- Heirs...its not a bad usage, doesn't seem like a sell out, he's not endorsing or even seeming to...one of those folkies wrote a song about his daddy -- nm - ⏲👻 Oct 8, 21:55 1
  - It's something he'd never had done. -- nm - .👀 Oct 8, 22:05
- nothing is sacred -- nm - crash davis Oct 8, 21:27 1
  - Just wait until Trump plays it at a rally. -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 8, 21:31
I can’t sleep -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 8, 21:14 7
- ~who needs sleep~ -- nm - Strongbad Oct 9, 06:15
- I have yet to try. - 💀SPAWN💀 Oct 8, 21:25 1
  - Same -- nm - Krusty The Anarchist Oct 8, 21:32
- I tried going to sleep early. It didn't work -- nm - crash davis Oct 8, 21:22 3
  - I told Amy your good news, "Perfect!" and your sad news, "I love that cat." She is one of the few STers to meet Samwise. -- nm - 💀SPAWN💀 Oct 8, 21:27 2
    - Yes, I forgot that she had met him. Now I remember Amoxy met him twice and I'm more bummed (not your fault) -- nm - crash davis Oct 8, 21:29 1
      - Nope, nope. I'm just thinking of good times :) -- nm - crash davis Oct 8, 21:32
A Disrupted Thanksgiving Leaves the Turkey Business Guessing - crash davis Oct 8, 21:13 11
- I still haven't figured out a way to get leftover turkey without cooking a turkey. -- nm - .👀 Oct 8, 21:52 3
  - show up at plp's house with tupperware -- nm - crash davis Oct 8, 21:53 1
    - I've been going to the same friends for about 20 years. They're still on hard quarantine so I'm on my own this year :/ I should take a trip. -- nm - 👻MonsterMeg💀 Oct 8, 22:23
  - That said I usually cook a duck. -- nm - .👀 Oct 8, 21:53
- I like turkey, but I'm intimidated of cooking it ... so we usually just do ham. -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 8, 21:37 3
  - Turkey is easy. I swear. I sometimes make one, just because. If you don't make stuffing, it is just like roasting a big chicken. (Obvie i do stuffing for holidays) -- nm* - Andie Oct 9, 03:36
  - the turkey isn't that hard, brine in a bucket, slow roast then when it hits the target temp.... - ⏲👻 Oct 8, 21:58
  - you have many friends here who will gladly help with questions and ideas should you decide to undertake this endeavor. -- nm - PumpkinheadPete Oct 8, 21:40
- We get a huge dry aged steak since neither of really likes turkey. Though I love stuffing and Theresa likes the other sides so we just replace - Krusty The Anarchist Oct 8, 21:33
- I may or may not buy a turkey breast. I generally buy a whole turkey when they go on sale but I'll likely get a couple of hams instead. - 👻MonsterMeg💀 Oct 8, 21:22
- I always buy 2 turkeys. it's cheap meat to use the rest of the year. -- nm - PumpkinheadPete Oct 8, 21:19
Bears finally win a game that Trubisky didn’t start -- nm - Dano Oct 8, 21:12 1
- Seems they sewed Mitchell's arm on Nicks body. - zunkskunk scared stupid ♻ Oct 8, 21:28
Heh, guess who had to step away from a Zoom meeting to lock a certain kitty in the den? - 👻MonsterMeg💀 Oct 8, 21:09 10
- I was on a zoom with Jill Biden and Pearl Jam tonight and my dog kept insisting he wanted a walk, now! Not now! -- nm - jnine Oct 8, 21:41 5
  - My last zoom was with RC, Marlowe, and spamlet. I'm not saying your zoom was better, but they probably would trade me for Pearl Jam in a heartbeat -- nm - crash davis Oct 8, 21:43 4
    - I can tell from zooms and stuff they post on media, all of these musicians are dying to be on the road. They've probably spent more time with their -- (edited) - jnine Oct 8, 21:48 3
      - when you consider that musicans have more marriages than a republican congressman.... (cool name drop, are they booking pearl jam 4 election party?) -- nm - ⏲👻 Oct 8, 22:24 2
        
        Maybe? Will there be inauguration parties? Biden doesn't want to be William Henry Harrison. -- nm - jnine Oct 8, 22:31
        
        No, they have these zoom things for Biden's campaign every week. Last week was Hillary and Kamala with Amy Poehler, this week Mr. Kamala and Dr. - jnine Oct 8, 22:27
- Hee -- nm - Epiphany Oct 8, 21:19
- My cats tend to ignore me until I’m on a meeting. I assume they think any time I talk that I’m talking to them. -- nm - Dano Oct 8, 21:13 1
  - Exactly. -- nm - 👻MonsterMeg💀 Oct 8, 21:23
- :) -- nm - crash davis Oct 8, 21:12
Blue whales sing all day -- (link) - PumpkinheadPete Oct 8, 21:05 3
- Gawd, tell me about it! -- nm - Orcas Oct 8, 21:29
- while they're working on the railroad? -- nm - crash davis Oct 8, 21:08 1
  - and dreaming of singing at the Met -- (pic) - PumpkinheadPete Oct 8, 21:17 [Attachment]

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