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Sun: Five staff have quit Mission Impossible after a second meltdown by star Tom Cruise. - Diva🎅🏾 Dec 17, 12:04 2
- Normally I don't support mistreatment of employees, but if they're breaking covid protocols they can fuck themselves. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 17, 12:09 1
  - I have friends working on sets right now. It is intense and you follow all the rules. Period. Everyone is tested multiple times a week. I side with - Andie Dec 17, 12:21
Biden picks Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) to be first Native American interior secretary -- (link) - MDH Dec 17, 11:52 2
- That's a good pick. -- nm - Tim Dec 17, 11:53 1
  - Agreed. Only downside, they have a 1 seat advantage in the house now (3 Dem house reps moved to appointed positions) -- nm - MDH Dec 17, 11:54
*emma_watson_scream_smile.gif* -- (link) - Reagen Dec 17, 11:51 2
- Good thing I'm playing Bermuda Triangle so I can rearrange my power structure at will. -- nm - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 17, 12:08
- what's, uh, what's this martial law I've been living under the past three years? -- nm - Max Dec 17, 12:03
Anyone with Samsung household appliances? A coworker bought a new condo and gets to pick from some options. What's the quality like? -- nm* - Name Withheld By Request Dec 17, 11:44 6
- Don't buy smart appliances. Get as dumb as possible. A "motherboard" in my parents fridge went out that controlled the ice maker or water or something - sycor Dec 17, 11:56 1
  - Iirc, it was LG washers that caught fire -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 17, 12:54
- My fridge is a samsung. Ice maker died after three years. Expensive fix and can't get OEM parts unless the party from whom you - amanda jeans Dec 17, 11:55 1
  - My Samsung fridge's icemaker died last month, after less than three years - Edward Havens, Host of The FilmJerk Podcast Dec 17, 12:07
- I had their washer and dryer, no complaints. -- nm - Roger More Dec 17, 11:47 1
  - We have their washer and dryer now. Works well. No issues. -- nm - pmb Dec 17, 11:50
Dec 17. Birthdays: Armin Mueller-Stahl (90), Pope Francis & Tommy Steele (84), Ernie Hudson & Chris Matthews (75), Eugene Levy (74), Wes Studi (73) - Max Dec 17, 11:40
Among Us is coming to Xbox consoles and Xbox Game Pass (updated link) -- (link*) - budice Dec 17, 11:32 3
- console or PC too? -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly 🎅 Dec 17, 11:42
- with cross play? -- nm - tRuMaN Dec 17, 11:41
- thanks, boo dee sus -- nm - JaxSean Dec 17, 11:40
Earlier, I was comparing how HBO Max lacked titles that were in DC Universe. In the middle of it, WB pulled down the DCU app on Roku. - David Dec 17, 11:24 4
- It shouldn't be any bit licensing. Human Target, WW, BoP and all the others were made by some division of Warners - Edward Havens, Host of The FilmJerk Podcast Dec 17, 11:33
- I suspect it's not licensing. They own all of that. But for now as the move everything over to the HBO Max Umbrella.... - Remlik Dec 17, 11:28 1
  - Yeah, that's the other thing. I have too much in My List. It keeps crashing the Roku app. -- nm - David Dec 17, 11:31
- So, blame David. - 🎅Spawnta🎅 Dec 17, 11:28
So, my wife has decided to leave her position at a BigLaw firm to become the in-house privacy counsel at a top gaming company - Edward Havens, Host of The FilmJerk Podcast Dec 17, 11:21 11
- so her job now is to tell people to shut the f. up? -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 17, 13:32
- Just make sure to take her lunch everyday. (NM) - Marlowe Dec 17, 11:51
- But, free games? -- nm - 🎅Spawnta🎅 Dec 17, 11:22 8
  - Actually, yes. One of the perks is a $25 per month credit towards games. And not just their games, any games - Edward Havens, Host of The FilmJerk Podcast Dec 17, 11:25 7
    - Sweet. Just remember, the free yogurt was cursed, and move on. -- nm - 🎅Spawnta🎅 Dec 17, 11:27 5
      - But... but... free froyo!!! -- nm - Edward Havens, Host of The FilmJerk Podcast Dec 17, 11:27 4
        
        If we can move vaccines in cold storage, your wife can bring you froyo -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly 🎅 Dec 17, 11:45
        
        Which comes with your choice of toppings! -- nm - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 17, 11:29 2
        
        EXACTLY!!! -- nm - Edward Havens, Host of The FilmJerk Podcast Dec 17, 11:34
        
        That's good. -- nm - 🎅Spawnta🎅 Dec 17, 11:30
    - That's awesome. -- nm - David Dec 17, 11:26
5 ways to increase happiness fast. Most important, value time over money. -- (link) - jnine Dec 17, 11:12 3
- A wise man once said, "No amount of money ever bought a second of time." -- nm - 🎅Spawnta🎅 Dec 17, 11:19
- Counterargument - I value time over money and I get increasingly upset because of people wasting my time. -- nm - Roger More Dec 17, 11:14
- I'll buy that for a dollar! -- nm - 🦌sleighformojo🛷 Dec 17, 11:13
HBO Max is now on my Roku! (it looks to have taken the place of the existing HBO app...I dropped and readded it, and now it shows up as HBO Max) -- nm - 🦌sleighformojo🛷 Dec 17, 11:01
The casting of Alan Alda in West Wing was an inspired choice. He's excellent. I'd vote for him. -- nm - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 17, 10:54 2
- It was down to him or Sheen as Jed Bartlet in the beginning. -- nm - Remlik Dec 17, 11:29 1
  - I did know that. You get points! Would've been a completely different feel. Has Alda ever played someone from New Eng-- oh, right.... -- nm - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 17, 11:32
I've watched three episodes of Ted Lasso and it's quickly becoming one of my favorite shows of the year. - Krusty Dec 17, 10:54 26
- It will end that way also. A+ all around. -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly 🎅 Dec 17, 11:44
- Strangely not even the first sitcom Nick Mohammed has done with a big US comedy actor this year - LMS Dec 17, 11:22 5
  - I love him! He's so good in this. I know him from something else but I can't think of it without looking him up -- nm - Krusty Dec 17, 11:27 4
    - He's popped up in loads of things (just saw him do a cameo in Yonderland), I know him mostly from Uncle. -- nm - LMS Dec 17, 11:31 1
      - Might be a panel show like 8 out of 10 cats. 🤷🏻‍♂️ -- nm - Krusty Dec 17, 11:41
    - The Martian. I wouldn't have known if I hadn't looked it up last month. - David Dec 17, 11:30 1
      - Could be this as well -- nm - Krusty Dec 17, 11:52
- Would non sports fans enjoy it? -- nm - spamlet Dec 17, 10:59 11
  - It's not about sports. So definitely. -- nm - Mop Dec 17, 11:03 10
    - It's Bill Lawrence so it's as much about sports as Scrubs was about medicine or Cougar Town was about horny old women. -- nm - Mop Dec 17, 11:04 9
      - as I recall, I was the one who didn't make fun of it and pointed out the Bill Lawrence bit. -- nm - Reagen Dec 17, 11:05 1
        
        *deletes this from the podcast* -- nm - Mop Dec 17, 11:18
      - Or Sports Night was about sports? -- nm - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 17, 11:05 5
        
        it taught me everything I need to know about boxing. -- nm - 🦌sleighformojo🛷 Dec 17, 11:16 4
        
        And archery. -- nm - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 17, 11:28 1
        
        The one that always sticks out for me is the long jump. I think about it every time I see Derek Webster in anything. -- nm - David Dec 17, 11:32
        
        Nonsense. Fustigation came from The Simpsons! -- nm - David Dec 17, 11:20 1
        
        Fustigation aside, Moe... -- nm - 🦌sleighformojo🛷 Dec 17, 11:24
      - Do tell? -- nm - Barb Dec 17, 11:05
- It gets you like that. - Yuletide Callisto 🎄🎄 Dec 17, 10:56 5
  - Seriously. From that moment on the airplane, you're hooked. -- nm - Mop Dec 17, 11:03 4
    - I think Coach Beard really makes the show. He's like Lasso's inner monologue. Without him, it wouldn't work. -- nm - Mop Dec 17, 11:18 3
      - He's the show's brick and mortar. -- nm - David Dec 17, 11:36
      - I love him. Imagine my joy to learn he's a fellow Redbird. -- nm - Yuletide Callisto 🎄🎄 Dec 17, 11:27 1
        
        I wanted to text you after that scene! - Krusty Dec 17, 11:39
- It's only going to get better from here! -- nm - David, Horny New Guy Dec 17, 10:56
"PGA Tour commissioner says coronavirus vaccine 'is a choice' for golfers" - David, Horny New Guy Dec 17, 10:46 5
- With as much money as they have, they've probably already gotten it. -- nm - Strongbad Dec 17, 10:53 1
  - Except for Koepka, who is immune because he's a robot. -- nm - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 17, 11:00
- At least in golf - it's possible to play and never come into contact with another human. nm - Johnny Lawrence Dec 17, 10:50 1
  - "their personalities" -- nm - Reagen Dec 17, 10:51
- "Pro-Choice." -- nm* - budice Dec 17, 10:49
Iron takers, I've heard cooking with a cast iron skillet can naturally boost iron levels. -- nm - hohohollo 🦌🛷 Dec 17, 10:40 3
- I bought 2 cast iron pans 25 years ago, and you just reminded me that's why I bought them. - loosilu Dec 17, 11:28
- Yes, a lot...fyi most iron supplements come with unlisted lead, forget where I read that -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 17, 11:04
- Yep--good tip. I take Blood Builder by MegaFood for extra iron for Vertigo like symptoms. Almost all 40+ (or 55+) Women's Multis have added iron too - Flavorize Dec 17, 10:50
Paging David to Discord if you're available. -- nm - Mop Dec 17, 10:32 4
- Eating lunch. Please give me 10-15 minutes. -- nm - David, Horny New Guy Dec 17, 10:36 3
  - you can have 8 minutes - chew OR swallow, but not both mister! -- nm - hohohollo 🦌🛷 Dec 17, 10:41 1
    - Yes, Principal Rollo. -- nm - David, Horny New Guy Dec 17, 10:43
  - 👍 -- nm - Mop Dec 17, 10:38
Biden is poised to nominate Michael Regan, who runs the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, to run the EPA -- nm - decline Dec 17, 10:29 1
- Isn't this the second NC person he's planning to poach from us? - sycor Dec 17, 10:33
Here's another issue that seems to suffer from a branding/messaging problem. Cancelling student debt -- (link) - kilbowl full of jelly 🎅 Dec 17, 10:23 16
- It's mentioned briefly in the article, but the potential regressivity of it is a huge PR roadblock. - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 17, 10:39 1
  - The irony being that the money not going to student loan payments would be going back into the economy in ways that will better benefit all society - Edward Havens, Host of The FilmJerk Podcast Dec 17, 11:23
- the thing I don't get is how this helps students going forward? like, the lending practices won't change. so we do this again every four years? - amanda jeans Dec 17, 10:29 11
  - This issue and health care are ones where the rest of the world is trying to sit you guys down and say "you know it doesn't have to run like this". -- nm - Reagen Dec 17, 10:36 10
    - Universities in the US have to be doing something right, given the influx of students from other countries in graduate programs? -- nm - Strongbad Dec 17, 11:03 9
      - It's not the universities, it's the financing of how to pay for it when you don't have money now. - Roger More Dec 17, 11:08 4
        
        I'm probably in the minority on this. I do think some of it is the universities. - Strongbad Dec 17, 11:21 3
        
        but it's not Trade school (which is not to dismiss the value of trade school). How do we know what's going to advance knowledge? - Reagen Dec 17, 11:47
        
        I don't think that's as big an issue as universities charging the maximum for a degree, based on the student's future earnings in an uncertain jobs - Roger More Dec 17, 11:46
        
        Oh, and one other thing - Strongbad Dec 17, 11:29
      - Some interesting stats for this -- (link) - Reagen Dec 17, 11:08 2
        
        305 people got suckered into Yukon and NWT. -- nm - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 17, 11:10 1
        
        Whitehorse is gorgeous and warmer than you'd expect. A bit dark in the winter though. -- nm - Reagen Dec 17, 11:13
      - that's a weird and weirdly specific measure. -- nm - Reagen Dec 17, 11:05
- Unfortunately he doesn’t have the power to do any of that. They’ll need to pass a bill. -- nm - spamlet Dec 17, 10:28
- Tru dat -- nm - budice Dec 17, 10:25
Fun question I just stole from a podcast. If you could attend any fictional sporting event from a movie, which would you choose? - Volnelk Dec 17, 10:22 28
- One of Nacho Libre's fights, I miss Mexico. -- nm - LMS Dec 17, 11:27
- Black Sunday. - zunkskunk+ Dec 17, 10:57
- AFC Richmond's Premier League final game of the season -- nm - Remlik Dec 17, 10:52
- Eddie Felson vs Minnesota Fats -- nm - mud Dec 17, 10:47
- I don't know - being in the bleachers when Wild Thing comes on in relief to face Clu Haywood would have been awesome. -- nm - Johnny Lawrence Dec 17, 10:46 2
  - My family was in the stands at the game he entered room ML2. - Will Hunting Dec 17, 10:48 1
    - That's awesome. Totally random but a cool thing to say you were there for. -- nm - Johnny Lawrence Dec 17, 10:49
- I don't have a good answer, but the first one that came to mind was Fever Pitch. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 17, 10:45 1
  - We caught that one in real time here and care not to remember it. -- nm - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 17, 10:58
- Roy Hobbs hitting the homer into the lights -- nm - Beaker Dec 17, 10:42
- Yankees/Indians tie breaker game. -- nm - VMan Dec 17, 10:37
- Happy Gilmore Masters. -- nm - Shaun Dec 17, 10:34
- Tin Cup -- nm - David, Horny New Guy Dec 17, 10:31 1
  - One ball. One swing. One....pelican - 🦌sleighformojo🛷 Dec 17, 10:52
- Pod Race, Star Wars :) -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly 🎅 Dec 17, 10:29 3
  - Kessel Run -- nm - 🎅Spawnta🎅 Dec 17, 11:20
  - That's just this side of the Hunger Games and the Running Man, you monster! -- nm - Mop Dec 17, 10:33 1
    - Also, Death Race 2000 would be awesome. -- nm - Mop Dec 17, 10:36
- Dodgeball Tournament Finals -- nm - JaxSean Dec 17, 10:27 1
  - Bold strategy, Cotton. -- nm - Tim Dec 17, 10:27
- The Field of Dreams games. -- nm - spamlet Dec 17, 10:24 1
  - With you. Sitting in those bleachers chatting with Amy Madigan and James Earl Jones. -- nm - zunkskunk+ Dec 17, 11:02
- quidditch cup! -- nm - amanda jeans Dec 17, 10:24 2
  - Yup, Quidditch World Cup. -- nm - Mop Dec 17, 10:27 1
    - I honestly don't understand any other answer. -- nm - amanda jeans Dec 17, 10:30
- The movie's stupid, but the Space Jam game. -- nm - Reagen Dec 17, 10:23 1
  - " You kick it in to the girl bunny. Down in the post. Then you dish it back out to the guy bunny. Swing it around to Mike, over here... - 🦌sleighformojo🛷 Dec 17, 10:55
- Rollerball championship -- (edited) - decline Dec 17, 10:23
Car out -- (pic) - amanda jeans Dec 17, 10:17 [Attachment] 7
- Yeah, mine aren’t getting dug out before tomorrow. -- nm - znufrii Dec 17, 10:20 4
  - our meteorology dept says "do it now because the snow will get heavier as it starts to melt." -- nm - amanda jeans Dec 17, 10:21 3
    - If I didn’t have to spend all day on conference calls and/or wrangling a very excited four and a half year old, I’d have it done already. -- nm - znufrii Dec 17, 10:24 2
      - just have her do it - tell her you'll pay her a dollar a car -- nm - decline Dec 17, 10:25 1
        
        I will paypal her the dollar!!! note that I am not taking out the trash tonight. -- nm - amanda jeans Dec 17, 10:26
- oy -- nm - budice Dec 17, 10:18 1
  - yeah. I'm drenched in sweat and snow. good thing I had a nice longe break to shower (I had six minutes). -- nm - amanda jeans Dec 17, 10:19
City Skylines is the free game at Epic Games this week. -- (link) - Mop Dec 17, 10:12 3
- Oh. You don’t get access to the Steam Workshop with this. I’d honestly pass and pay for it on Steam. - spamlet Dec 17, 10:24
- They know they’ll get you with the DLC. - spamlet Dec 17, 10:16 1
  - Yup. Think Sims 4. EA will give that game away any day of the week. But there's dozens of DLCs you'll have to buy. -- nm - Mop Dec 17, 10:17
My building has a "Deliveries" table in the lobby these days, so Amazon etc don't delivery to our doors any more. This is all good. I was just in the - Andie Dec 17, 10:07 5
- My friend's building collects them at the mailboxes. I've never seen less than 50 packages. He said people just never pick them up -- nm - MDH Dec 17, 10:59
- Our complex does this sometimes. It scares the daylights out of me. -- nm - David, Horny New Guy Dec 17, 10:31
- Lick all the packages. That makes them yours. -- nm - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 17, 10:21
- Tape up empty Amazon boxes you have and add them to the pile. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 17, 10:16
- It's like a White Elephant party! Take your pick... -- nm - Mop Dec 17, 10:08

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