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I called TD Ameritrade just to ask for some general information, got on hold and kept multitasking. Realized 55 minutes later that I was still on hold - Max Feb 10, 08:09 4
- *looks at acct balance, puts on permahold* -- nm - TD Ameritrade Agent Feb 10, 08:13
- TD Ameritrade will soon enough be Schwab. Fact is, hold times for *all* the brokerages are absurd right now. - ty97 Feb 10, 08:11 1
  - Schwab took about 10 minutes, which is longer than my limit if I weren't already just working at the desk. -- nm - Max Feb 10, 08:20
- I miss Scottrade. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 10, 08:10
So I purchased the dogs I occasionally dogsit a New Year's Gift -- (edited) - JD Feb 10, 08:08 [Attachment] 4
- She..... does not seem pleased. -- nm - Dano Feb 10, 08:13 2
  - I need to talk to the cats. They know all about murdering people in their sleep. -- nm - Dog Feb 10, 08:16 1
    - That would require a new truce. They very vocally wake up when the cats start to audibly move around.....at 230 AM -- nm - JD Feb 10, 08:18
- ha! -- nm - Andie Feb 10, 08:12
prosecutors have opened up an investigation into Trump's attempts to overturn the election results in GA -- (link) - mud Feb 10, 08:06 4
- Where are all the NY investigations we were told were primed and ready for the moment he left office? -- nm - Max Feb 10, 08:07 3
  - They had to wait for him to be out of office to get access to certain things and to start prosecutions so it will take some time. -- nm - Krusty Feb 10, 08:24
  - They're waiting for the senate trial to be over, and then they'll activate. Believe in the plan. - Beryllium Feb 10, 08:12
  - yeah ! ! ! -- nm - mud Feb 10, 08:09
The winter corollary to "it's not the heat, it's the humidity" is "it's not the cold, it's the wind" -- nm - Dano Feb 10, 08:05 1
- it's all about heat transfer, and the conditions for heat transfer -- nm* - rollo Feb 10, 08:09
Yay - a new series of Toast of London has been announced. I really hope Clem Fandango is in it again. - LMS Feb 10, 07:59
"How many letters in the alphabet?" "How'm I supposed to know?" "Guess." "Uh, 51." "You were closer than he was." "How? I said 25." - Classroom Transcripts Feb 10, 07:52 7
- Given my current flavor of nostalgia, I suggest the book be called: Back of the Class -- nm - JD Feb 10, 08:16 1
  - This needs to be published soon so I can give it to my nephew's wife when she graduates with her ed degree. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 10, 08:20
- "Are you counting ampersand?" (This response would be worth bonus points.) -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 10, 08:13
- That kid's going to face off against Terence Howard for the Mathematics Nobel Prize -- nm - Roger More Feb 10, 08:00 1
  - Sadly, Howard is over the age limit for the Fields Medal. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 10, 08:18
- He has a future as a Trump lawyer. -- nm - Dano Feb 10, 07:59
- Eventually that'll take care of itself. -- nm - Volnelk Feb 10, 07:57
My English sister-in-law has just adopted this cute rescue pup from Portugal. -- (pic) - Meg Feb 10, 07:47 [Attachment]
Oh no... The Krispy Kreme on Ponce burned down. -- (link) - Dano Feb 10, 07:46
Holy tracking error, Batman! -- (edited) - znufrii Feb 10, 07:42
ST Survey: Have you heard of the clothes brands Gant and/or Sand, and if yes, could you place their HQs, without googling? -- nm - ori-o Feb 10, 07:40 7
- Gant... somehow I associate them with sansa belt type stuff -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 10, 11:09
- nope -- nm - decline Feb 10, 08:03
- Have not heard of either. -- nm - Dano Feb 10, 08:01
- Nope -- nm - JD Feb 10, 07:59
- I think I've heard of Gant, very high end right? No idea on HQ. -- nm - MDH Feb 10, 07:50 1
  - A bit high-end, I'd say - not sure about very -- nm - ori-o Feb 10, 07:52
- Never heard of either. -- nm - znufrii Feb 10, 07:43
Why can't they pick one of my stonks that I took a bath on and am still holding because it's not worth the bother of selling? -- nm - Dano Feb 10, 07:25 2
- stanks -- nm - Max Feb 10, 07:45
- I have one in mind that they could go for! -- nm - ty97 Feb 10, 07:29
Y’all are great. Nathan has raised over $800 for Kids Heart Challenge. He may be the top online fundraiser at the school. Thank you so much!! -- nm - kelly Feb 10, 07:22 4
- VNFR! -- nm - Dano Feb 10, 07:29
- subcontransulation! -- nm - crash davis Feb 10, 07:27
- outstanding! -- nm - prayformojo Feb 10, 07:26
- ST rocks -- nm - JaxSean Feb 10, 07:24
Tom Holland Says He'd 'Love' to Play a 'Really Short' James Bond -- (link) - budice Feb 10, 06:49 1
- When Glenda the Good Witch crosses MI6, we'll know who to call. -- nm - crash davis Feb 10, 07:03
Vaccine #s: 9.9% have received at least 1 dose, 3.0% received both (up .4/.2% from Mon). Expected 50% vaccination date 7/5, 70% date 9/15, 90% 11/26 -- nm - MDH Feb 10, 06:45
Less than two years after its launch, LVMH and Rihanna have agreed to close down her Paris-based fashion line Fenty. -- (link) - budice Feb 10, 06:42 16
- That's pretty huge news considering how well her Fenty Beauty line has done. -- nm - MDH Feb 10, 06:44 15
  - yep. and I love that stuff. -- nm - Diva Feb 10, 06:56
  - That will stay but the clothing is ending. Her fans weren't buying high end fashion. -- nm - Krusty Feb 10, 06:53 13
    - doesn't show own some lingerie line? Savage X or is that Beyonce? -- nm - Pippy Feb 10, 06:54 12
      - The articles says the lingerie is a big hit and staying but the clothing and accessories are gone. And yes, it's Savage X Fenty according to the - Krusty Feb 10, 06:58 11
        
        thanks. I should have read the article. :) -- nm - Pippy Feb 10, 07:17 1
        
        I only said that because I didn't know before reading it. - Krusty Feb 10, 07:19
        
        Fast Company literally had an article this morning that it rivals Victoria Secret, or will at least. -- (link) - Volnelk Feb 10, 07:04 5
        
        "The male gaze" is one of the most stupid expressions in the current idiom. -- nm - crash davis Feb 10, 07:09 2
        
        Maybe in the overly broad way it is sometimes used, but it is a necessary term when discussing media. - ❄TWuG 🚀 Feb 10, 07:54 1
        
        yup. -- nm - Remlik Feb 10, 08:24
        
        Good for her! Nice to see competition and a woman getting that sweet lingerie money. -- nm - Krusty Feb 10, 07:07 1
        
        nm -- nm* - crash davis Feb 10, 07:18
        
        I like walking into LV or Burberry just to find a thin scarf is $200 -- nm - budice Feb 10, 07:00 2
        
        Heh. You should go into a Hermes store -- nm - JD Feb 10, 08:01
        
        Yup, it's crazy. I still go and look around at the clothes and bags but they know I'm just looking. No real effort is made to ask if I need help. - Krusty Feb 10, 07:06
"Anything gives me munchies. You should know that. I would become a blimp on pot" - ty97 Feb 10, 06:28 3
- Go ahead and spoil her on Mother's Day anyway. -- nm - Max Feb 10, 08:37
- *scratches out ty's mom on the list of ways I can get rid of some of this pot.* -- nm - Diva Feb 10, 07:07
- ! -- nm - prayformojo Feb 10, 06:29
I currently have $94.87 available to invest in my Roth. -- nm - ty97 Feb 10, 06:26 13
- That'll get you quite a few shares of PINK2. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 10, 06:33 1
  - And almost as many GME! -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 10, 06:37
- Who is it with? -- nm - colin Feb 10, 06:30 2
  - Are you trying to social engineer me?! - ty97 Feb 10, 06:46 1
    - oooh. well, i'd say put it into the zero fee mutual funds.. easy money... they've performed well since start. -- (link) - colin Feb 10, 06:58
- I would divest some from Philip Roth and put more into Eli Roth -- nm - crash davis Feb 10, 06:29 5
  - And then subcontransulate some of those to David Lee Roth -- nm - prayformojo Feb 10, 06:31 4
    - I love learning new words. Unfortunately, the google machine thing isn't helping me here. -- nm - crash davis Feb 10, 06:35 3
      - How does Google not know who David Lee Roth is?!? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 10, 06:42
      - in layman's terms.... - prayformojo Feb 10, 06:41 1
        
        Oh, that guy! I loved his vocals on Eruption -- nm - crash davis Feb 10, 06:44
- Buy 3 shares of something priced at $31.25 -- nm - Max Feb 10, 06:28 1
  - I recently had a limit order to buy something if it fell to $31.25. Alas, it did not. -- nm - ty97 Feb 10, 06:29
35% of Americans say they will definitely get vaccinated against COVID-19 and 13% say they have already received the vaccine -- (link) - ty97 Feb 10, 06:09 18
- Why does my age bracket have the fewest vaccinations? WTF, gimme my shot! :) -- nm - crash davis Feb 10, 06:33 4
  - Generation X always gets screwed. We're used to it by now. -- nm - Dano Feb 10, 07:40
  - Agreed. I would go anywhere anytime to get it. Wife gets hers today, mine is Friday. -- nm - Volnelk Feb 10, 06:51 2
    - Yay!! -- nm - Pippy Feb 10, 06:55
    - 😺🍩 -- nm - crash davis Feb 10, 06:51
- 32% definitely or probably will not. :( -- nm - znufrii Feb 10, 06:11 12
  - At this point, let em die. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 10, 06:42 1
    - When you were young and life was an open book, you used to say live and let live. -- nm - Paul McCartney Feb 10, 06:45
  - Not surprised. You have the normal anti-vaxxers and add the Plandemic people and seems about right. -- nm - spamlet Feb 10, 06:23 8
    - I see the occasional "not taking the vaccine is a measure of my faith" people and I'm wondering what the fuck they're on. -- nm - Reagen Feb 10, 06:50 3
      - I lumped them in with the plandemic people. They give the same reason for not wearing masks. - spamlet Feb 10, 07:08
      - Eventual conversation with God: "Why are you here now? I sent scientists and a vaccine!" -- nm - TWuG Feb 10, 07:00 1
        
        yup -- nm - Beaker Feb 10, 07:04
    - and young people with the typical young "i'm immortal" type of thinking as well -- nm - crash davis Feb 10, 06:38
    - eh, the people I know who aren't getting it - their # 1 issue. " don't know the long term side effects of the vaccine" - Pippy Feb 10, 06:37 2
      - When Trish complained to me of her arm hurting, I said "I bet a ventilator hurts even worse!" -- nm - crash davis Feb 10, 06:39 1
        
        You don't remember anything after that.... -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 10, 06:47
  - Historically those numbers change as more people get vaccinated and more people know someone that has been vaccinated. -- nm - Krusty Feb 10, 06:13
At first cat lawyer was embarrassed. Then he realized we all could use a laugh. - crash davis Feb 10, 06:08 6
- I give it about 12 more hours before we find out Cat Lawyer is some awful person and all of your joy is ruined -- nm - ty97 Feb 10, 06:10 5
  - Too late -- (link) - znufrii Feb 10, 06:14 4
    - We can't have nice things -- nm - ty97 Feb 10, 06:17 3
      - Thinking about this, lawyers are in an adversarial occupation. What are the chances of an attorney being 100% liked? -- nm - crash davis Feb 10, 06:59
      - It doesn't make it not funny. -- nm - Reagen Feb 10, 06:47
      - We can. We just have to change our ways of thinking about them and the world. -- nm - crash davis Feb 10, 06:27
Lost in the Super Bowl: the NFL moves to a 17 game season next season -- nm - Beaker Feb 10, 05:09 4
- There are 32 teams and 16 games played each. Expansion to 17 games must means the NFL will be adding two more teams. The logic is infallible. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 10, 06:08 3
  - I prefer 17 teams and a 34 game schedule -- nm - r💔ll💔 Feb 10, 06:24 2
    - with home and home and no playoffs? -- nm - JD Feb 10, 08:02
    - Just make it two teams and let them play 4 games. Highest aggregated score wins. (NM) - Marlowe Feb 10, 06:56
It is way too early to want to kill this many people. -- nm - spamlet Feb 10, 04:54 12
- Reply all? -- nm - Max Feb 10, 05:03 10
  - Emergency 6:30am conference call with Europe. They are completely disorganized and we haven't even gotten to the point of the meeting 35 minutes in. -- nm - spamlet Feb 10, 05:04 9
    - 55 minutes in I fixed the issue in 5 minutes with their tax people. FFS -- nm - spamlet Feb 10, 05:34 8
      - "So, how's the weather in-" "NO." -- nm - Max Feb 10, 06:13 7
        
        Tax people don’t eff around on conference calls. We’re there for a reason and want to get it done and be left alone. -- nm - spamlet Feb 10, 06:14 6
        
        And yet, my 1099 is still not available....... -- nm - ty97 Feb 10, 06:25 4
        
        Trust me. They’re just as mad because they can’t get the information from the damn fund people. -- nm - spamlet Feb 10, 07:09
        
        Hey, what company is supposed to produce a 1099 for you? -- nm - crash davis Feb 10, 06:42 2
        
        IdahoDavis, Inc -- nm - ty97 Feb 10, 07:01 1
        
        I'm proud of myself for building a big Idaho Day display at the library on Monday and not using a single potato -- nm* - crash davis Feb 10, 07:29
        
        Tax People Do It By The Numbers -- nm - Max Feb 10, 06:24
- Consider only maiming them. -- nm - Reagen Feb 10, 05:02
TV PSA: NHL, Chicago Med, Fire, PD, Tough as Nails, Masked Dancer, Goldbergs, WWE NXT, Riverdale, Nancy Drew, American Housewife, Name That Tune, -- nm - Beaker Feb 10, 04:13 1
- Call Your Mother, For Life, Samantha Bee, Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel (Netflix), Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage, Challenge, - Beaker Feb 10, 04:16
“Snow” day #2 due to a glazing of ice overnight. - spamlet Feb 10, 04:13
Ye gods. Aphria up another 25% pre market. -- nm - Reagen Feb 10, 03:43 8
- They're being purchased was my understanding. -- nm - colin Feb 10, 06:29
- Is their a specific reason that one stock is rising so much? Or just euphoria? -- nm - ty97 Feb 10, 06:18 4
  - Reddit, again, it looks like. -- (edited) - znufrii Feb 10, 06:21 3
    - would you want to get out of MJ though? -- nm - Pippy Feb 10, 06:35 2
      - I’d consider it, before the pile-on trade collapses, and try to get back in lower. Of course, market timing has its own risks so, *shrug*? -- nm - znufrii Feb 10, 06:38 1
        
        I see your point -- nm - Pippy Feb 10, 06:55
- Stonks! -- nm - znufrii Feb 10, 06:13
- Buyers need something to calm them down. -- nm - Max Feb 10, 03:45
World's oldest person, 116yo Sister Andre' survives covid -- (link) - zeitgeist Feb 10, 01:57 3
- Was Covid a factor when Roberta McCain passed in October.. ? - ori-o Feb 10, 07:46
- Whatchoo got, Covid? You got nothin'! I own you! -- nm - God Feb 10, 06:09
- So the survival rate of Covid for people over 115 is 100%. -- nm - Dano Feb 10, 05:56
Welp. Carlito's Way aged beautifully. Man, what a movie! -- nm - con_carne Feb 10, 01:33
UK done fooling around, travelers who fail to disclose 'red area' locations, evade quarantine fact $14,000 fines, *years* in prison -- (link) - zeitgeist Feb 9, 23:40
About the cat lawyer. He's an asshole and also worked on Texas Chainsaw Massacre. -- (link) - ❄TWuG 🚀 Feb 9, 23:29
it's tim olyphant, but he's not a sheriff or a lawman or even a gunslinger, he's selling ... boots and lanterns. - Beryllium Feb 9, 23:14 1
- You are in for a fun ride -- nm* - r💔ll💔 Feb 10, 06:02
one of the capitol insurrectionists was not only a vet but a former FBI section chief -- (link) - zeitgeist Feb 9, 22:56
the original Day of the Dead is on HBO. - Jovian Feb 9, 22:56
After seeing a gif of highlights I really want to see that Suzu Suzuki/Tsukasa Fujimoto match. - the wrong element, bad guy Feb 9, 22:25
Travel email spam: "escape to the Gold Coast!" ... as if I'm getting in a tin can for 14 hours, c'mon son. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 9, 22:19 2
- That's why we all need boats! Or a Pacific ocean monorail. -- nm - Max Feb 10, 02:22
- Yup, I'm getting daily emails from everyone I've ever traveled with. Cruise lines, airlines, hotel chains - they can't wait to tell me their deals. -- nm - Meg Feb 9, 22:44
Bought a universal remote which led to a moment of clarity... - JD Feb 9, 22:16 1
- 🙄 -- nm - Meg Feb 9, 22:41
#TWUG had trended to no. 1 -- (link) - zeitgeist Feb 9, 22:13 1
- WHALBERG! - ❄TWuG 🚀 Feb 9, 22:19
.Let's see with our heart these things our eyes have seen and know the truth will still lie somewhere in between... -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 9, 22:11

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