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propane coming tomorrow. I must be home to receive. since when, amerigas?? (ok I will be home.) -- nm - amanda jeans Feb 5, 08:15 1
- Cash on delivery! -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 08:35
Last nite viewing: Man, I loved No Way Out!... but since this is the Internet, I'll share my one minor quibble sp - con_carne Feb 5, 08:12 5
- I love it, too. My issue looking back (spoils) - Inigo Feb 5, 08:18 1
  - The surprise doesn't work for me. - Max Feb 5, 08:27
- I dug the movie too (No way out) - budice Feb 5, 08:18 1
  - Yes! -- nm - con_carne Feb 5, 08:21
- We watched The Dig. C+ -- nm - oblique Feb 5, 08:15
This is definitely not good -- (link) - TWuG Feb 5, 08:04 7
- Ah yes, the good old company town. Who needs democracy when we can just trust our employers can take care of us? -- nm* - znufrii Feb 5, 08:19 3
  - we're slowly returning to serfdom. -- nm - colin Feb 5, 08:31 1
    - absolutely this - Pippy Feb 5, 08:34
  - Yup, spent my teens in one of those. -- nm - Meg Feb 5, 08:21
- I think this is what Florida did with Disney. -- nm - pmb Feb 5, 08:18
- That's terrifying -- nm - ty97 Feb 5, 08:18
- It really is the best choice, Spacer's Choice. -- nm - Qale Feb 5, 08:06
happy New Foo Fighters Music Day!! -- nm - mud Feb 5, 07:59 4
- No Son of Mine -- (link) - mud Feb 5, 08:03 [youtube] 3
  - That's a good rocker. -- nm - zunkskunk+ Feb 5, 08:39
  - I considered that one for a couple of weeks. But ultimately decided it just didn't make the cut for The Twenty. -- nm - Qale Feb 5, 08:07 1
    - Shame Shame did start off the year though. -- nm - Qale Feb 5, 08:09
This is probably not good -- (link) - TWuG Feb 5, 07:54 6
- It appears this just means 23 and Me is going public without the standard IPO process, if I understand correctly? -- nm - ty97 Feb 5, 08:20 4
  - Correct, it’s called a reverse merger. The other company is already publicly traded, so once the acquisition closes, they just change the name and - znufrii Feb 5, 08:27 3
    - this is a good place for my question. What happens to a put option if the company it is on is bought out by a larger company? -- nm - Pippy Feb 5, 08:29 1
      - Not sure, actually. That’s a really good question. -- nm - znufrii Feb 5, 08:34
    - SPACs are pretty hilarious -- nm - ty97 Feb 5, 08:28
- SPAC! -- (edited) - znufrii Feb 5, 07:55
Dominion Voting Systems have asked Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Parker to preserve all posts about the company from people it is suing -- nm - znufrii Feb 5, 07:50
“It’s like people can only remember thirty names and so they just keep going back to the same people.” -- (link*) - znufrii Feb 5, 07:45
At current vaccination rates, 75% of population of Israel in two months, USA by Dec 2021 and Canada in 10 years....(link) - Walt_Disney Feb 5, 07:34 10
- Balto is rolling over in his grave, not a happy roll. -- nm - Max Feb 5, 08:08
- Canadians been running for the border to get one -- nm - budice Feb 5, 07:44 1
  - how would that even work? the border is technically closed, and don't you need to show residency? -- nm - Andie Feb 5, 07:49
- slow and steady wins the race! -- nm - Canada Feb 5, 07:40 6
  - people are *pissed* -- nm - Andie Feb 5, 07:42 5
    - I get being pissed, but all that will happen when more people get the vaccine is that they think they are immune and 3rd round here we go -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 08:01 2
      - I think you're really underestimating the value of even partial immunity. - Reagen Feb 5, 08:06 1
        
        Yup. Look at Israel. Their numbers are looking great. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Feb 5, 08:32
    - I'm going to fly into Beaver Creek in the Yukon and pass myself off as a local in a town of 100 -- nm - crash davis Feb 5, 07:45 1
      - heh - only works if you are rich -- nm - Pippy Feb 5, 08:30
“Why is it called chutes and ladders?” “Because the chutes are the slides and the ladders are the ladders.” -- nm - znufrii Feb 5, 07:32 2
- "Crap chute": still funny -- nm - con_carne Feb 5, 07:40 1
  - That's what Andy Dufresne used to escape Shawshank -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 5, 07:43
I'm watching the latest 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and Jimmy Carr's new haircut is weirding me out. - Krusty Feb 5, 07:25 5
- he's able to branch out in hairstyles now that he doesn't have an audience heckling him. -- nm - colin Feb 5, 07:36 4
  - It's got to be inconvenient for him going around person by person calling himself a pedophile. "Is the court ordering you to do this?" -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 08:03
  - The guests heckle him enough. :-) - Krusty Feb 5, 07:40 2
    - noah fielding and richard ayoade always really lay into him. -- nm - colin Feb 5, 07:45 1
      - It seems that Richard broke his arm. He's wearing a cast on Countdown -- nm - Krusty Feb 5, 07:51
GME dead cat is bouncing. Don't spend my blimp coins just yet. -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 07:18 8
- please don't use a derogatory term like "cat" -- nm - PETA Feb 5, 08:17
- Qalong -- nm - Max Feb 5, 07:26
- Yahoo Finance, please explain yourself -- (pic) - ty97 Feb 5, 07:23 [Attachment] 2
  - Lol, technical analysis. -- nm - znufrii Feb 5, 07:25 1
    - What if chicken entrails, but stonks -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 07:28
- WSB is basically Qanon for stocks. Conspiratorial market manipulators, short attack ladders, dark pools of off book trading all working against the - oblique Feb 5, 07:20 1
  - and with memes. -- nm - JD Feb 5, 08:15
- These coins are postdated! -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 5, 07:19
There is precipitation falling from the sky. - ty97 Feb 5, 07:14 9
- God is crying -- nm - budice Feb 5, 07:18
- The white stuff will be back on Sunday -- nm - Krusty Feb 5, 07:17 6
  - Let me have my moment of dreaming that all the snow will melt and wash away today. - ty97 Feb 5, 07:21 5
    - Those drivers are the best! -- nm - Krusty Feb 5, 07:26
    - Bright sunshine here to the south of ya' -- nm - decline Feb 5, 07:23 3
      - Clear blue skies and sun yesterday, was actually pretty nice during the day -- nm - ty97 Feb 5, 07:24 2
        
        Yup. And the sun felt oddly warm for February. -- nm - Krusty Feb 5, 07:26 1
        
        It really did -- nm - ty97 Feb 5, 07:29
- Precipitation, Precipitation, Precipitation! -- nm - Evaporation Feb 5, 07:17
"Let's... not have the [liquor board store] website open in class, ok?" -- nm - Classroom Transcripts Feb 5, 07:13 3
- It has prices and measures and liquid solutions - all sciency! -- nm - Max Feb 5, 07:15 1
  - and I bet teacher could come up with algebraic test questions involving liquids with different proofs -- nm - crash davis Feb 5, 07:19
- "Unless your buying a gift for your teacher" -- nm - Classroom Transcripts Feb 5, 07:15
Considered Bad movie you actually liked. Watchmen. -- nm - budice Feb 5, 07:05 64
- Burlesque -- nm - rollo Feb 5, 08:49
- Thor 2 -- nm - Pippy Feb 5, 08:34 1
  - It had a lot of good but among other things suffered from - Spawn Feb 5, 08:37
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi. It has 90% at RT, it's just viewers that are morons. -- nm - con_carne Feb 5, 08:21
- Equilibrium (Christian Bale). Saw it in the theater and will watch it occasionally. - JaxSean Feb 5, 08:19
- Ishtar, The Postman -- nm - mara Feb 5, 08:12 1
  - You want a war?1 I'LL GIVE YOU A WAR!!! (love that scene) -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 08:18
- Death to Smoochy -- nm - kelly Feb 5, 08:11 1
  - That's an amazingly dark and funny movie! - JD Feb 5, 08:13
- Avengers: Age of Ultron -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 08:10
- Sex and Death 101 -- nm - JD Feb 5, 08:04
- Deep Rising, Hudson Hawk -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 07:51
- Flesh Gordon is my pick.. i like a lot of bad movies that are too obscure to be considered mainstream bad from VHS collecting. -- nm - colin Feb 5, 07:44 5
  - I remember watching that at some point years ago and laughing at the "magic laser rays". -- nm - Walt_Disney Feb 5, 07:48
  - not to sound pretentious.. a lot of the hilariously bad 80s movies never made it past 80s theater release and some VHS runs. so much good trash out - colin Feb 5, 07:45 3
    - I think you would have an interest in Haven's recent three part podcast about Empire Pictures - JD Feb 5, 08:09
    - Jake Speed -- nm - Max Feb 5, 07:52 1
      - Eliminators (1986) or Wizard of Speed and Time are my favorites...so random and fun -- nm - colin Feb 5, 08:00
- Eurotrip -- nm - Guigue Feb 5, 07:38 6
  - first mistake was thinking this was a bad movie -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 08:19
  - The problem with Eurotrip being considered a bad movie is a few of us here could work on becoming RT certified and put it over 50% -- nm - crash davis Feb 5, 07:41
  - Yes... and similarly: Fired Up! -- nm - Dano Feb 5, 07:40 3
    - I love that movie -- nm - decline Feb 5, 07:58
    - I vaguely remember liking this but can’t find it to verify. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 5, 07:53
    - "What are they, a knife gang?" -- nm - Shaun Feb 5, 07:41
- Modern Problems -- nm - Jovian Feb 5, 07:35
- Armageddon -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 5, 07:31 1
  - I love Armageddon. - crash davis Feb 5, 07:32
- Freddy Got Fingered. -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 07:27 6
  - absolutely. it's dumb, but hilarious is enough spots that the gross stuff is okay. -- nm - colin Feb 5, 07:37 3
    - It's a savage takedown of Adam Sandler idiot man child films. -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 07:45 2
      - isn't Tom Green... just like that though? it didn't seem like a commentary on anything in particular. -- nm - colin Feb 5, 07:46 1
        
        He's said he wanted to make the stupidest version of that film possible. Hence the love interest who only exists to give oral sex. -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 08:08
  - You could be right because I don't think I made it more than twenty minutes before I quit. The rest could be good, I don't know -- nm - crash davis Feb 5, 07:33 1
    - Same. I hated what I was watching and shut it off -- nm - Krusty Feb 5, 07:36
- since we've mentioned Coyote Ugly and Showgirls, I have to say I liked Burt Reynolds in Striptease and the movie had some Carl Hiaasen flavor -- nm - crash davis Feb 5, 07:26
- Master of Disguise -- nm - eag Feb 5, 07:24
- Showgirls -- nm - groiny SI Feb 5, 07:22 4
  - I saw that on HBOMax the other day. I turned it on and 25 years later, it is still a bad movie. -- nm - crash davis Feb 5, 07:23 3
    - I enjoyed it but not because it was a good movie -- nm - Krusty Feb 5, 07:27 2
      - It never really crossed into 'so bad its good' territory for me -- nm - crash davis Feb 5, 07:29 1
        
        It was a bad movie, no doubt. But there were some scenes that were worth rewatching. -- nm - Krusty Feb 5, 07:42
- Coyote Ugly -- nm - MDH Feb 5, 07:20 3
  - I'm not sure that counts as 'bad' movie as I think the audiences generally liked it - JD Feb 5, 08:02 1
    - Oh I would agree, but 23% on Rotten Tomatoes, ouch -- nm - MDH Feb 5, 08:10
  - I've never actually watched it. I see we have it at the library. Maybe it will be my weekend viewing -- nm - crash davis Feb 5, 07:35
- Return of the Killer Tomatoes -- nm - VMan Feb 5, 07:18
- Blair Witch 2. nm - Johnny Lawrence Feb 5, 07:16
- Most Michael Bay movies -- nm - oblique Feb 5, 07:15 1
  - Hey, even Criterion did an Armageddon edition -- nm - crash davis Feb 5, 07:22
- I'm surprised Flash Gordon's RT percentages are so high. - Max Feb 5, 07:15
- I mean, it did have more blue dong than Avatar ever showed. -- nm - Qale Feb 5, 07:14
- hudson hawk. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 5, 07:14 3
  - Who would consider that a bad movie?!? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 5, 07:29 2
    - pretty sure its been on a few lists of bad movies. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 5, 07:42
    - ✋ -- nm* - Krusty Feb 5, 07:36
- What are we calling a bad movie? Sub 50% on RT? - Will Hunting Feb 5, 07:10 6
  - I wonder how many of us just checked Dune's RT score and were surprised to learn it was over 50 :) -- nm - con_carne Feb 5, 08:17
  - I love Eurotrip. -- nm - pmb Feb 5, 07:38
  - The pick me up bomb in Mom and Dad Save the World makes me giggle just thinking about it. - Inigo Feb 5, 07:20
  - Just Friends is a masterpiece. -- nm - MDH Feb 5, 07:18
  - heh, The Ringer - Max Feb 5, 07:16 1
    - Your IM is short list for best line reading ever for me. I still laugh hysterically at it. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 5, 07:22
- The Chase -- nm - Krusty Feb 5, 07:10
Reminder: Allen West was too crazy for fucking *Florida*. -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 07:05 5
- He just keeps moving around and making trouble. I think he ran for the senate from here as well. -- nm - pmb Feb 5, 07:08 3
  - Are you thinking of Alan Keyes? Ran against some guy named Obama? -- nm - crash davis Feb 5, 07:10 2
    - Yes. Totally mixed them up. Similar stories though. -- nm - pmb Feb 5, 07:12 1
      - Both are nutty, but West has the added bonus of being relieved of command by the Army for a war crime in Iraq. I believe that is TX street cred. -- nm - crash davis Feb 5, 07:15
- The state bird is a chicken finger. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 5, 07:08
friend's post this morning on FB (we're getting hammered finally for snow) she has twin son's ... I think 12 year olds? - JenBro Feb 5, 07:04 2
- That tracks. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 5, 07:37
- very true -- nm - crash davis Feb 5, 07:07
Every single state is vital to the United States. For example, I read Florida news and think "You know, Idaho ain't so bad" - crash davis Feb 5, 07:03
Reminds me, I have the podcast of Louis Theroux interviewing Justin Theroux to listen to. I wonder how hard it was to get that booking? -- nm - LMS Feb 5, 06:59 3
- Heh. :-) I've been saving his episode on Ed Gamble and James Acaster's food podcast. -- (edited) - Krusty Feb 5, 07:06 2
  - Tried Adam Buxton's podcast, he's interviewed loads of people you'll know. -- nm - LMS Feb 5, 07:27 1
    - I'll check it out. I really like Ed Gamble and James Acaster and only learned of their podcast about two weeks ago when I was searching to see - Krusty Feb 5, 07:34
Magic, motherfucker -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 06:56 4
- That movie had one good line and they showed it in the trailer. -- nm - crash davis Feb 5, 06:59 3
  - I only vaguely remember Your Highness as a trailer. I'm pretty sure I didn't see the movie. But hey, Peacock? Sure, why not. -- nm - Qale Feb 5, 07:19 2
    - No! Literally watch anything else. -- nm - spamlet Feb 5, 07:23
    - I want James Franco to come to my house and buy back the DVD I bought -- nm - crash davis Feb 5, 07:21
We are going to watch Songbird on demand tonight. Pricing is $6.99 to own, $19.99 to rent. Umm..... -- (link) - Andie Feb 5, 06:53

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