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"Your Come From Away tickets have been rescheduled to March 2022" - oblique Jan 28, 11:11
Vaccine: Disneyland Super POD will be closed tomorrow (Friday, 1/29/21) due to anticipated heavy rain. -- (link) - budice Jan 28, 11:08 3
- you guys are getting quite the storm out there, huh? -- nm - decline Jan 28, 11:14 2
  - Starting tonight around 6pm for 24 hours it looks like -- nm - budice Jan 28, 11:16 1
    - Yup, there's a lot of walking between the tents. Wouldn't be fun. At least they got a few days in after they were ripped up the windstorm. -- nm - Meg Jan 28, 11:40
Kim Alert. -- (link) - Shaun Jan 28, 11:03 1
- where's Lilo? -- nm - decline Jan 28, 11:15
Fox News editor responsible for calling AZ for Biden speaks his piece -- (link) - znufrii Jan 28, 10:57 2
- this guy single handedly stopped DJT from declaring he won at 9-10pm - Jovian Jan 28, 10:58 1
  - That’s incredible to consider, but you’re probably right. - znufrii Jan 28, 11:02
Excellent. Our district has begun vaccinating staff -- (link) - oblique Jan 28, 10:52
"The Collected Shanty'd Works of Andrew WK" -- nm - prayformojo Jan 28, 10:47 2
- I'd like to hear a shanty version of Ievan polka -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 10:52
- Are any of them about partying? -- nm - Dano Jan 28, 10:48
I think missing in the GameStop Stonks Situation is that it started out as a legit opportunity. But then became interjected with the same jokey... -- (edited) - Qale Jan 28, 10:42
Related to below: If you had to guess which group has the Most UK #1s and which has the Most UK Top 10s what would you guess? -- nm - MDH Jan 28, 10:39 13
- Spoilers with the full list inside: Most #1s - Spice Girls 9 (only 1 Top 10 song didn't hit #1). Most Top 10s - Girls Aloud - 21. -- (edited) - MDH Jan 28, 10:55 3
  - I missed that this correlated with “girl groups”—so, guessing Robbie Williams was a poor choice -- nm - Flavorize Jan 28, 10:59
  - Dano hit on it below: Spice Girls were massive hits, but didn't last long at all. -- nm - MDH Jan 28, 10:56
  - I thought the question was just the girl groups but then I read the other answers and figured I misread. -- nm - spamlet Jan 28, 10:55
- The Beatles -- nm - spamlet Jan 28, 10:54
- Oasis -- nm - Volnelk Jan 28, 10:47 1
  - *clapping*—good answer, -- nm - Flavorize Jan 28, 10:48
- Queen or Robbie Williams -- nm - Flavorize Jan 28, 10:47
- Girls Aloud -- nm - JD Jan 28, 10:43
- Spice Girls for both, I suppose. -- nm - VMan Jan 28, 10:41 2
  - They were huge but I don't feel like they had the longevity to have the most. -- nm - Dano Jan 28, 10:43
  - same -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 10:42
- All Saints -- nm - Dano Jan 28, 10:40
ST Pop Survey: Have you heard of these UK Girl Groups? Spice Girls, Girls Aloud, Sugababes, All Saints, Little Mix, Atomic Kitten, B*Witched, Eternal? -- (edited) - MDH Jan 28, 10:33 20
- just the first two -- nm - crash davis Jan 28, 11:46
- YYYYNYNN -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 11:21
- Of the list the Spice Girls, B*Witched, All Saints, Little Mix, and Eternal charted in the US. - MDH Jan 28, 11:01
- YYNYYNNN -- nm - David, Horny New Guy Jan 28, 10:57
- all except Eternal -- nm - mud Jan 28, 10:48
- Just the Spice Girls -- nm - Krusty Jan 28, 10:41
- Yes: Spice Girls, Girls Aloud, All Saints, Little Mix. No to the rest. -- nm - Dano Jan 28, 10:39 2
  - Maybe it's protective memory loss as C'est La Vie seems like something I would have tortured you with in the IRC days -- (link) - JD Jan 28, 10:42 [youtube] 1
    - I have heard this but wouldn't have recalled the name - Reagen Jan 28, 11:22
- Spice Girls, Girls Aloud, All Saints - none of the others -- nm - Pippy Jan 28, 10:37
- Not Atomic Kitten and Eternal, yes to the rest -- nm - JD Jan 28, 10:37 4
  - Exact same. Now, that doesn't mean i know any of the others songs necessarily, but i have heard of them. -- nm - Andie Jan 28, 10:37 3
    - Sugababes Biggest Hit: Push the Button -- (link) - MDH Jan 28, 10:48 [youtube] 1
      - I'm apparently with Andie as I while I've heard of the Sugarbabes, I couldn't have named that song -- nm - JD Jan 28, 10:51
    - It's OK -- (link) - JD Jan 28, 10:40 [youtube]
- spice girls, All Saints -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 10:36
- 2 or 3 -- nm - VMan Jan 28, 10:35
- Spice Girls and B*Witched (spell it right, dammit!) -- nm - Mop Jan 28, 10:34 2
  - I had character count issues, which I fixed! :-) -- nm - MDH Jan 28, 10:36 1
    - ❤⭐❤ -- nm - Mop Jan 28, 10:37
MT Greene promoted a conspiracy theory that a space laser beam -- possibly fired by "Rothschild Inc" -- was used to intentionally start the deadly 2018 Camp Fire in California -- (link*) - decline Jan 28, 10:32 2
- oh good. We've moved into the anti-Semitic part of the program. -- nm* - spamlet Jan 28, 10:44
- prove that it didn't! -- nm - prayformojo Jan 28, 10:38
Biden ending abortion gag rule. -- (link) - TWuG Jan 28, 10:29
"Michael Burry, an investor and the central villain in The Big Short" -- CNET - David, Horny New Guy Jan 28, 10:25 13
- Anti-villain, maybe? - znufrii Jan 28, 11:05
- The quality of journalists at some of the establishments is somethin -- nm* - budice Jan 28, 10:26
- ha! -- nm - prayformojo Jan 28, 10:25 10
  - Here. - David, Horny New Guy Jan 28, 10:28 9
    - (he was played by Christian Bale, so never a great sign) - ??????? -- nm - Dano Jan 28, 10:42 3
      - That Batman was a bad man that terrorized Gotham -- nm - Krusty Jan 28, 11:13
      - Patrick Bateman. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 11:08 1
        
        And Eugene Batman. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 11:09
    - I wouldn't say PCMag is Cnet. -- nm - Mop Jan 28, 10:39
    - " Quick question. In Die Hard, who are you rooting for?" -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 10:30 3
      - "Asian Dawn D-A-W-N" -- nm - budice Jan 28, 10:34 2
        
        I always liked that they put in the FLQ. -- nm - VMan Jan 28, 10:36 1
        
        Not going to lie, me too. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jan 28, 10:37
Honeybee transport co. -- (link) - Jovian Jan 28, 10:19 2
- Do you like reposts from the same page? What about Jazz? -- nm - Qale Jan 28, 10:21 1
  - lol damn. busy. didnt even check. :( -- nm - Jovian Jan 28, 10:27
WHAT?? -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 28, 10:12 3
- A comment is saying it's likely a margin call -- nm - Krusty Jan 28, 10:19 1
  - Yeah, liquidating someone's long position has zero justification. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 10:21
- Pretty sure they’re not allowed to do that. -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 10:16
Quite a year we are having this month. -- (link) - Volnelk Jan 28, 09:59 1
- ~we didn't start the fire~ -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 10:00
Damn - AOC is savage AF. -- (link) - Clarence Beeks Jan 28, 09:52 34
- I don't know why he keeps @ her. It's like he wants to be destroyed. -- nm - loosilu Jan 28, 10:22 11
  - It’s a win-win, he either gets populist cred for taking her side or pwn-teh-libs cred when she bites back. -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 10:26 1
    - The problem for Teddy boy is that no one on his side is like WOO HOO! I LOVE YOU TED CRUZ!! And that drives him bananas. -- nm - Qale Jan 28, 10:31
  - I would say why I think it is, but then I'd have to think about Ted Cruz enjoying things in a sexual way and I still need to eat lunch. -- nm - Qale Jan 28, 10:26
  - As she said, clout-chasing. He thinks it makes him look good -- nm - Krusty Jan 28, 10:24 1
    - It does on his "side." They hate AOC, so they think he's destroying her. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 28, 10:28
  - Its almost like a crush or something -- nm* - eag Jan 28, 10:23
  - Nm -- nm* - eag Jan 28, 10:23 4
    - Spit it out already! ;-) -- nm - Krusty Jan 28, 10:24 3
      - Typing on my tablet -- nm - eag Jan 28, 10:25 2
        
        Just having fun. I laughed to myself that you were somehow stuttering while typing which I hope isn't a thing and I'm terrible - Krusty Jan 28, 10:31 1
        
        Nah just my screen on my tablet is sensative -- nm - eag Jan 28, 10:36
- so basically she saying "F off forever Ted" -- nm - Jovian Jan 28, 10:16
- Excellent :) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 10:01
- The enemy of my enemy is...my enemy. -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 10:00
- wow. excellent. -- nm - prayformojo Jan 28, 09:58
- And more... -- (link) - Clarence Beeks Jan 28, 09:56 11
  - "a second Capitol police officer lost their life yesterday" I missed this news. Anyone know anything about this? -- nm - Krusty Jan 28, 10:18 5
    - And of course, the MAGA crowd says you can't prove either of them did it because of the riot. -- nm - loosilu Jan 28, 10:23
    - Suicide. -- (edited) - Qale Jan 28, 10:19 1
      - :-( -- nm - Krusty Jan 28, 10:20
    - The second suicide of an officer who was working that day since Jan 6th. -- nm - Andie Jan 28, 10:19 1
      - Damn. :-( -- nm - Krusty Jan 28, 10:20
  - Shit - she wasn't done. -- (link) - Clarence Beeks Jan 28, 10:03 4
    - Damn. -- nm - loosilu Jan 28, 10:24
    - she dog walked him - Pippy Jan 28, 10:07 2
      - Well, first he's going to have to ask his daughter what that means while she awkwardly squirms away from him. -- nm - Qale Jan 28, 10:16 1
        
        This -- nm - JD Jan 28, 10:35
- Good for her. What happened should not be forgotten or brushed aside. -- nm - Inigo Jan 28, 09:56 1
  - That really is the worst part of the timing of it. The further we've moved past that day, the 'it's no big deal' argument sounds better. But false. -- nm - Qale Jan 28, 10:15
- Damn. -- nm - Remlik Jan 28, 09:56
- fearless. -- nm - Andie Jan 28, 09:55
- eep -- nm - mud Jan 28, 09:54
- Can't you take a joke? It was a joke what I said 3 weeks ago! (NM) -- nm - Cruz Jan 28, 09:54
Well that's one way to move a bee colony -- (link) - Remlik Jan 28, 09:51 2
- Newest Avenger -- nm - Spawn Jan 28, 10:19
- I must apologize in advance, but - Beryllium Jan 28, 10:00
Stupid wind has been unnecessarily howl-y since last night. Kept me awake since 2am and is getting on my last freaking nerve today -- nm - prayformojo Jan 28, 09:49 1
- put a turbine and then you can say "that is the sound of money" -- nm - crash davis Jan 28, 09:50
Not for nothing, the two small cap etfs I hold are down about as much as the rest of the market is up today -- (edited) - znufrii Jan 28, 09:49
Stupid creepy Facebook ads -- (link) - oblique Jan 28, 09:46 1
- I don't like the F-word on a natural one. I prefer something like "Bastet's hairballs!" -- nm - crash davis Jan 28, 09:53
ick, Subway: 'We found that the ingredients were not tuna and not fish' -- (link) - decline Jan 28, 09:43 4
- The attorneys declining to say what they found raises my eyebrow -- nm - crash davis Jan 28, 09:47 1
  - "Think smaller... And more legs." -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 10:22
- Tracks as their bread is not really bread either -- nm - Flavorize Jan 28, 09:46
- Oh, and we also knew that our spokesman liked having sex with children back in the day. -- nm - Qale Jan 28, 09:44
I've tried to keep up with # of US vaccinations, but no two sites that I look at have the same numbers. But it looks like there are a little better - prayformojo Jan 28, 09:33 3
- My clinic did .0003% of a million yesterday! -- nm - Tim Jan 28, 09:36 1
  - oh, I factored that in, believe me -- nm - prayformojo Jan 28, 09:36
- The numbers of infections and deaths weren't the same site to site either. -- nm - Qale Jan 28, 09:35
Ted Cruz "totally agrees" with AOC's tweet about Robinhood. Hmm. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 09:31 4
- Oh, fuck! (NM) - AhOuhCee Jan 28, 09:52
- Horseshoe theory? -- nm - Hibernating Baron Jan 28, 09:40
- That’s how you know you fucked up. -- nm - Tim Jan 28, 09:35
- Hooray for populist pandering! -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 09:33
Looks like the UK COVID lockdown is having a positive effect -- (link) - decline Jan 28, 09:31 11
- Here too - Cases were rising in early January and are going down dramatically daily with the Stay at Home orders currently in place. -- nm - Andie Jan 28, 09:34 8
  - Cases are way down in the US and Worldwide when compared to late December. - Inigo Jan 28, 09:52 4
    - i imagine a lot of it is, there was a big holiday bump and now there is less reason to travel/visit/etc. but i don't think that explains it all. -- nm - Andie Jan 28, 09:54 3
      - I do think that MDH is correct that come memorial day, the floodgates open. we have four months to do the biggest push we can and then... -- nm - amanda jeans Jan 28, 10:04 1
        
        I hope by then the most vulnerable are all vaccinated so we at least see hospitalizations and deaths way way down. -- nm - Andie Jan 28, 10:37
      - Down about 40% from the post-thanksgiving peak here, still 6-7x our low in early October. -- nm* - znufrii Jan 28, 09:57
  - ~wait till march Break~ -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 09:37 2
    - Do you think they will do the "MUST stay in a designated hotel at your own cost for two weeks upon return." thing? More... -- (edited) - Andie Jan 28, 09:40 1
      - they should. NB got fucked over Christmas so I envision Higgs laying the hammer down for March Break -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 10:23
- who could of known keeping people away from sick people could keep non-sick people from getting sick??!! -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 09:32 1
  - Unpossible (NM) - Marlowe Jan 28, 09:58
Reagen: Yeah. Eww. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 09:30
Biden Administration re-opens ACA enrollment February 15 to May 15. -- (link) - budice Jan 28, 09:30
Looking good Billy Ray! -- nm - Tim Jan 28, 09:29 1
- Feeling Good, Louis! -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 09:30
Spider-man! -- nm - Spawn Jan 28, 09:28 2
- ? -- nm - mud Jan 28, 09:33 1
  - ah -- nm - mud Jan 28, 09:35

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