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I feel personally attacked by Ben Wyatt. -- nm - spamlet Nov 24, 18:44 1
- Ha! -- nm - Andie Nov 25, 06:12
Positive coronavirus test forces some John Wayne OC Airport air traffic controllers to quarantine -- (link) - budice Nov 24, 18:39
heh -- (link) - Jovian Nov 24, 18:27
I did not realize there was a Cowboy Christmas sub-genre. But I guess some people dig it. This is the ultimate example I've seen so far. -- (link) - crash davis Nov 24, 18:06 2
- I would watch the Hallmark movie in a second. -- nm - zunkskunk+ Nov 24, 18:51
- that is quite a lot of fetishes rolled up into one. -- nm - loosilu Nov 24, 18:45
Since it'll just be me I wasn't planning on doing anything different meal-wise for Tgiving. Then I was at the store and thought "F*ck it." -- (edited) - Green Bean Cuzzinrole Nov 24, 18:03 7
- Perfection -- nm - Pippy Nov 24, 18:34
- now I'm hungry -- nm - crash davis Nov 24, 18:08 5
  - I'd invite you over but you know... COVID. - Green Bean Cuzzinrole Nov 24, 18:09 4
    - Stupid sexy cross country living -- nm - Pippy Nov 24, 18:36
    - COVID ruins everything -- nm - crash davis Nov 24, 18:11 2
      - Next year. Next year we'll all show up at CT's place unannounced. -- nm - prayformojo Nov 24, 18:38 1
        
        I like that idea. I do. -- nm - crash davis Nov 24, 18:40
Hey Jovian, re: your response the other day when I'd posted Trump had wanted to ask out Princess Di. She told a friend that Trump gave her the creeps. -- nm - crash davis Nov 24, 17:46 5
- SO not surprised. He asked out many stars. -- nm - loosilu Nov 24, 18:34
- ha. love it. -- nm - Jovian Nov 24, 18:08
- what I totally thought he'd have had a shot I'm beyond shocked -- nm - Reagen Nov 24, 17:50 2
  - I was shocked by anyone thinking he did. -- nm - crash davis Nov 24, 17:51 1
    - Narcissism for the Narcissism God - Reagen Nov 24, 17:52
Somehow I never made the connection on both of these. -- (link) - Tim Nov 24, 17:43 1
- The first one is because they wanted people to drive more. -- nm - Reagen Nov 24, 17:50
today: TX: +19,758; CA: +16,563 -- nm - prayformojo Nov 24, 17:39
One thing about those sales figures for Obama's book. It is a $45 book. Let that percolate for a moment. -- nm - crash davis Nov 24, 17:28 17
- Which is a price not one single person who purchased a copy has paid. -- nm - Green Bean Cuzzinrole Nov 24, 18:01 1
  - Which Beanie, means that even at a discount, you're paying a price much higher than other books (which also get discounted) -- nm - crash davis Nov 24, 18:04
- Barnes and Noble asks for $34.99. Not sure if membership gets you 40% off that, or the original asking price of $45. -- nm* - Qale Nov 24, 17:54 4
  - Also: You could buy 3 of my books for that list price! -- nm - Qale Nov 24, 17:55 3
    - Tell your family this holiday season that you're changing your last name to Obama to increase book sales. -- nm - crash davis Nov 24, 17:57 2
      - Qale Hussein Obama. It does have a nice ring to it. -- nm - Qale Nov 24, 18:00 1
        
        QHO is sort of a cool set of initials. I like it. -- nm - crash davis Nov 24, 18:07
- I paid about US$20, but in Australian. I imagine a lot of the sales were at a reasonably steep discount. -- nm - mafic Nov 24, 17:33 4
  - Amazon wants $27. But usually a book comes out for $27 and you can snag it at $16 -- nm - crash davis Nov 24, 17:36 3
    - There's likely kindle and PDFs online as well -- nm - budice Nov 24, 17:39 2
      - Kindle $17.99, but that is probably a much higher % profit than a hardcover. -- nm - crash davis Nov 24, 17:42 1
        
        Fuck Amazon! But yes, the Apple Store version is also $17.99. -- nm - Qale Nov 24, 17:51
- Means he can finally quite the second shift job. -- nm - Reagen Nov 24, 17:32 4
  - Actually, based on her 2018 sales, it means he can quit asking Michelle for some money. -- nm - crash davis Nov 24, 17:39
  - I imagine Penguin Random House is out buying turkeys for all their employees and whoever the agent was that landed him is going to have a merry Xmas. -- nm - crash davis Nov 24, 17:34 2
    - Obamas got $65M Advance on the Book Deal -- (link) - budice Nov 24, 17:38
    - still gotta earn back that $65 million! - mafic Nov 24, 17:38
I was not aware that Sarah Huckabee Sanders wrote a book. It was released on EArth 2 in September. -- (link) - loosilu Nov 24, 17:24 7
- As with many of these celebrities/politicos I do wonder how many write their own books, or if they're dictated and cobbled together by someone else. -- nm - Qale Nov 24, 17:58 4
  - Almost exclusively the latter, I’d imagine. -- nm - znufrii Nov 24, 18:07 3
    - Barack hinted that his book took so long compared to Michelle's because she had help. He didn't openly say anything that would - crash davis Nov 24, 18:10 2
      - He's definitely someone I would peg as an exception. -- nm - znufrii Nov 24, 18:19
      - Haha! -- nm - Qale Nov 24, 18:15
- We've got it. -- nm - crash davis Nov 24, 17:27 1
  - The non-fiction part of our "New" section is about a quarter Trump. Both pro and con. -- nm* - crash davis Nov 24, 17:32
this is great (with even a shout-out to A Tribe Called Quest) -- (link) - mud Nov 24, 17:21
Mmm, pie -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 24, 17:09 2
- An apple pie that won't make you sick and kill you -- nm - Roger More Nov 24, 17:35
- that is what RC needs for the holidays -- nm - crash davis Nov 24, 17:20
The Queen’s Gambit casting spoilers... - Mop Nov 24, 16:57 8
- My wife got the 1st one, I got the 2nd one (despite her being a much bigger fan of you know what). Some good acting by both. -- nm - flavorize Nov 24, 20:13
- I didn't realise your second spoiler was the big bad in old guard until well after either. -- nm - mafic Nov 24, 17:26 2
  - I recognized him right away, oddly enough. -- nm - Dark Callisto Nov 24, 17:38
  - he seems to do a ton of netflix stuff. Devil All The Time, old Guard, Queen's gambit -- nm - Beaker Nov 24, 17:33
- yes, and no. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 24, 17:23
- I spotted neither. Please elaborate. -- nm - loosilu Nov 24, 17:23 2
  - he's referring to Harrison from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and Jojen Reed from Game of Thrones. -- nm - mud Nov 24, 17:28 1
    - First Order Officer from The Force Awakens? -- nm - mafic Nov 24, 18:02
To the mighty ST, sincerest thanks for existing and letting me know I can finallt watch my one HBO inside of another. - con_carne Nov 24, 16:56
Ready Player Two purchased and in hand. -- nm - Jovian Nov 24, 16:56 4
- I need reviews of the book. So don't post that you have the book when you should be reading it. - Krusty Nov 24, 17:14 2
  - lol was omw home and had stopped at Shake Shack when I posted that - Jovian Nov 24, 17:23 1
    - Enjoy both! -- nm - Krusty Nov 24, 17:44
- Like as an actual book-booK? - Green Bean Cuzzinrole Nov 24, 16:58
Google Play Movies has Mad Men Series for $20, Cheers $30, Dexter $35 -- nm* - budice Nov 24, 16:44 3
- It looks like all the streaming services have sales on complete series, but still... no MA means your content is trapped in that ecosystem. -- nm - Mop Nov 24, 16:47 2
  - Also, they're probably already on a streaming service. -- nm - Ender Nov 24, 16:50 1
    - Or you just switch apps to watch on a streaming device. No a big jump. -- nm - budice Nov 24, 17:06
Parler been hacked, exposing user Social Security Numbers - TWuG Nov 24, 16:43 19
- I find that hard to believe. Let me ask a Parler person -- nm - Pippy - Nov 24, 16:44 12
  - Parler is nazis. Doomed to fail -- nm - loosilu Nov 24, 16:56 2
    - Welcome to America! - Green Bean Cuzzinrole Nov 24, 17:06 1
      - uGH. -- nm - loosilu Nov 24, 17:53
  - She says fake news -- nm - Pippy - Nov 24, 16:47 8
    - "For people who choose to join the app's "influencer network," the company may ask for information "such as your Social Security number (SSN) or your - Krusty Nov 24, 16:50 4
      - Apparently she was able to get an account without giving it. *shrug* -- nm - Pippy - Nov 24, 16:58 3
        
        Yeah, it doesn't appear that you have to give it for a general account but you do if you're an "influencer." -- (edited) - Krusty Nov 24, 17:02 2
        
        I will let her know. She would be an influencer of cat photos if she wanted to have a title. -- nm - Pippy - Nov 24, 17:11 1
        
        Ha! -- nm - Krusty Nov 24, 17:13
    - That's just what she would say, isn't it? Regardless of the news? - Green Bean Cuzzinrole Nov 24, 16:49 2
      - Yeah. She would say something like "No, this is not true" if it was actually untrue. (NM) - Marlowe Nov 24, 16:56 1
        
        Buwhaaaa -- nm - Pippy - Nov 24, 16:58
- good grief -- nm - mud Nov 24, 16:44
- They asked for SSN#s?!? Why? -- nm - Krusty Nov 24, 16:44 3
  - So Trump can figure out who to hit up for cash. -- nm - crash davis Nov 24, 17:07
  - Because it’s easier for the Russians running the service to spy on you if they have that info. -- nm - Mop Nov 24, 16:47 1
    - Ha! -- nm - Krusty Nov 24, 16:51
- why in the world would you give them that information? -- nm - mafic Nov 24, 16:44
someday this week, do we determine if crash is sus? -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 24, 16:20 17
- Okay, I'm free to play Wed through Saturday night. How about tomorrow night, and Friday night for sure? -- nm - crash davis Nov 24, 17:26 2
  - yeah. maybe I can be imposter this time. -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 24, 17:37 1
    - Yeah, and I didn't get to be the impostor last time either. -- nm - crash davis Nov 24, 17:40
- I'm down to help out. I'll be available to play most late afternoons/evenings this week through Saturday night. -- nm - ReluctantCornucopia Nov 24, 17:02
- I am down! Just got it on Steam, so theoretically I can host too -- nm - con_carne Nov 24, 16:48 1
  - Sweet! -- nm - Krusty Nov 24, 16:52
- please explain sus? -- nm - loosilu Nov 24, 16:34 7
  - Sus being short for suspicious or suspect from a game called Among Us. - Krusty Nov 24, 16:42 1
    - ah ok thanks to you and mafic! -- nm - loosilu Nov 24, 16:55
  - I'm always surprised people don't know this. suspicious/untrustworthy. in this case in regards to a game we've been playing. - mafic Nov 24, 16:42 4
    - "Sus" seems very Australian to me. One of the few Australianisms I find *delightful* nm - ralph wiggum Nov 24, 17:18 1
      - Goolies seemed Australian to me until I looked it up and Google said it was British. -- nm - crash davis Nov 24, 17:30
    - Sus is new. Among Us is new. All new. New new new. -- nm - con_carne Nov 24, 16:54 1
      - con_carne is sus. -- nm - mafic Nov 24, 16:55
- I've got a care conference with the hospital in just a little bit. Then I'll know more. On the plus side, the mayor just - crash davis Nov 24, 16:22
- Can we also determine that water is wet? -- nm - znufrii Nov 24, 16:21 1
  - water is sus. -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 24, 17:19
Barstool reviews my local pizza place, chronically butchers the name of the place and our town. -- (link*) - znufrii Nov 24, 16:15 1
- Nothing Barstool says should be considered. Period. They're awful people. -- nm - Mop Nov 24, 16:24
Here are the Brady stats I was talking about earlier, via Rapport -- (link) - Flavorize 🎄 Nov 24, 16:12
Fred Saskamoose, one of the first Indigenous NHLers, passed away at 86 from COVID -- (link) - Reagen Nov 24, 16:06 2
- RIP Fred. You had the most Canadian of all Canadian names. -- nm - crash davis Nov 24, 16:23
- *sigh* I don't feel good about it but the first thing that popped into my head was, "Did he do the fandango?" -- nm - Dano Nov 24, 16:11
Middleweight champ Gennadiy Golovkin to fight Kamil Szeremeta on Dec. 18 -- (link) - Beaker Nov 24, 16:05
Batman #1 graded at 9.4 up for auction -- (link) - Beaker Nov 24, 16:03 2
- No reserve? I bid $20 -- nm - crash davis Nov 24, 16:24
- 312.50 -- nm - budice Nov 24, 16:04
BC: record-high 941 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday and 10 new deaths. -- (link) - mud Nov 24, 15:59 1
- Oof. Only 11 on the island, at least. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 24, 16:31
A bunch of Ravens players and staff got the coves and it could 'jeopardize Thursday's game'. (they'll play because the NFL is a plantation.) -- nm - Diva🦃🦃🦃 Nov 24, 15:53
ice hockey sitwap: Several Blue Jackets test positive for coves. 4 Golden Knights test positive. -- nm - Diva🦃🦃🦃 Nov 24, 15:42 3
- Are they currently in training camp or what..? -- nm - Mop Nov 24, 16:40 1
  - players are doing voluntary workouts at team facilities while the league and the players' union iron out an agreement. - Diva🦃🦃🦃 Nov 24, 17:04
- Double Bubble -- nm - budice Nov 24, 16:04
There's always a tweet. -- (link) - mara Nov 24, 15:33 1
- I mean, i know his supporters wont care, but Obama/Biden where gonna be out no matter what, soooooo... yeah. -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 24, 15:36
Headline win of the day: Lame duck pardons turkey -- (link) - znufrii Nov 24, 15:14 9
- on the flip side he's killing as many humans as possible. -- (link) - mafic Nov 24, 16:13 1
  - Not as catchy. -- nm - znufrii Nov 24, 16:16
- Seems like it would have been used already. Every president is a lame duck eventually. -- nm - mara Nov 24, 15:29 3
  - Possibly, but it seems significantly more appropriate this time around. -- nm - znufrii Nov 24, 15:35
  - if only! -- nm - Zach Taylor Nov 24, 15:31 1
    - Well, yeah, except for the ones who die in office. -- nm - mara Nov 24, 15:32
- Lame Duck a l'Orange -- nm - loosilu Nov 24, 15:18 1
  - squeezes some orange marmalade from a fast food packet onto his bucket of KFC -- nm - ⌚👻🦃🏈 Nov 24, 15:29
- *golf clap* -- nm - Green Bean Cuzzinrole Nov 24, 15:15
This is purportedly the Utah monolith -- (link) - prayformojo Nov 24, 15:10 3
- That's just Meg out for a stroll, she casts a big shadow in these here parts -- nm - ⌚👻🦃🏈 Nov 24, 15:49
- like 1 km walk from the road. -- nm - mafic Nov 24, 15:21
- Forget that, "You are currently running an experimental version of Earth"! - Reagen Nov 24, 15:12
[an error occurred while processing this Ad Victoriam directive] -- nm - Qale Nov 24, 15:01
This made me LOL -- (link) - Jovian Nov 24, 15:01 3
- I saw one of his films at SXSW— -- nm - Flavorize 🎄 Nov 24, 16:30
- (Not the actor) - znufrii Nov 24, 15:03 1
  - oh. dang. me too then. lol -- nm - Jovian Nov 24, 15:15
TIME IS RUNNING OUT!!! If you haven't signed up to Not So Secret Stalker yet... why the hell not? Why do you hate Christmas? Details above. - Green Bean Cuzzinrole Nov 24, 15:01
Does anyone here watch The Good Doctor? -- nm - loosilu Nov 24, 14:59 1
- My wife does -- nm - Beryllium Nov 24, 15:22

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