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30 Years Ago today....REM Losing My Religion was released -- nm - Remlik Feb 20, 16:10 4
- And in case you've never heard it in a major key -- (link) - znufrii Feb 20, 16:17 [youtube]
- Ah, changing the channel as fast as I can for 30 years! -- nm - Dark Callisto Feb 20, 16:11 2
  - you chose to confess that? -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 20, 18:01
  - :( -- nm - Tim Feb 20, 16:12
I have emerged from the CSS mines with a completely rewritten board jumper bar. - Beryllium Feb 20, 16:09 1
- Also, TIL, we're over 5 million posts -- nm - Beryllium Feb 20, 16:10
And in bird flu news, humans have been infected with H5N8 for the first time, but no evidence of human-to-human transmission -- (link) - znufrii Feb 20, 16:06
I started New Girl from the beginning. It’s a top 5 show for me. Every character is note perfect. -- nm - Volnelk Feb 20, 15:55
Dusty Gooch -- (link) - Reagen Feb 20, 15:47 4
- Sounds like a stripper name -- nm - zork Feb 20, 16:07 1
  - a *retired* stripper's name -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 20, 18:02
- Deputy Gooch needs a TV show -- nm - Beryllium Feb 20, 16:00 1
  - Gooch is crazy -- nm - Beaker Feb 20, 16:04
Honk. -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 20, 15:41 1
- no way -- nm - mud Feb 20, 16:03
Three people are dead after a gun store shooting in a New Orleans suburb, -- (link) - Beaker Feb 20, 15:33
Now playing: I Care a Lot - prayformojo Feb 20, 15:11 1
- :O -- nm - Dark Callisto Feb 20, 15:31
There's vax appointments available in Walla Walla fair grounds, only 4.5 hour drive for me, I'd have done it but I have a wedding booked - zeitgeist Feb 20, 15:08
I'm used to not recognizing who the musical guest on SNL is these days. But tonight I have no idea who the host is either. - Cuzzin Todd Feb 20, 15:01 15
- Bad Bunny is maybe the biggest artist worldwide. He was the most streamed artist on Spotify of 2020. 8.3B worldwide. -- nm - MDH Feb 20, 15:36 3
  - Whoa, he made like 13 dollars then! -- nm - Tim Feb 20, 15:44 1
    - Heh -- nm - prayformojo Feb 20, 15:45
  - *shrug* -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 20, 15:44
- It's literally the #1 streaming show. -- nm - Reagen Feb 20, 15:08 4
  - I like history but Historical Sex Club isn't my thing. -- nm - Max Feb 20, 16:25
  - I would have got this wrong though. I’d have guessed Queen’s Gambit. - IAmQale Feb 20, 15:11
  - Looking below, it's not with ST. -- nm - Krusty Feb 20, 15:10
  - *shrug* -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 20, 15:10
- no clue here. -- nm - loosilu Feb 20, 15:08
- Bad Bunny is a real mercurial guy in hip hop / dance. WWE recently tapped him for cross-promotion with the 24/7 title at The Royal Rumble. -- (edited) - IAmQale Feb 20, 15:06
- I don't know the host but Bad Bunny I know. Not a fan but I know his music. -- nm - Krusty Feb 20, 15:04 1
  - Same. -- nm - zunk xometimes Feb 20, 15:55
- I also have no idea. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 20, 15:02 1
  - tbh I think that makes it a really good reason to watch -- nm - Beryllium Feb 20, 15:03
Woot! I'm getting $28 back from the state! Almost as much as it cost me to file the form. :P -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 20, 14:48 3
- I’ve probably said this before, but in years when I made enough dough to move into the actual first tax bracket? I felt kinda good about it. - IAmQale Feb 20, 14:55
- lunch is on you...oh wait, that's not deductable -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 20, 14:52 1
  - And Gregory FX Daly owes me $0.01 but I bet he won't pay it. -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 20, 14:54
Wouldn't want to be driving a high profile vehicle out there this afternoon/evening. Wind warning starts at 6:00pm and they say it's - Meg Feb 20, 14:43 6
- Everyone knows, it’s windy. -- nm - IAmQale Feb 20, 14:58 1
  - snort -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 20, 15:05
- And likely just as well the Disney SuperPOD is closed. Those tents don't stand a chance. -- nm - Meg Feb 20, 14:46 3
  - I wonder why they haven’t constructed something a little more semi-permanent. They’re going to be doing immunizations for at least 9 months, right? -- nm - IAmQale Feb 20, 15:00 2
    - there's a lot of convention space available, Mom got her's at the Military that way, indoors, remember medical staff got theirs first -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 20, 15:06 1
      - Yes. I believe here in H-Town they’re using NRG Park, but like the convention center portion. -- nm - IAmQale Feb 20, 15:09
NHL: Vegas/Colorado outdoor game at Lake Tahoe will be continued tonight at 9 p.m. PT/12 a.m. ET. -- (link*) - budice Feb 20, 14:28
the new mocha Kit Kats are excellent and highly recommended -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 20, 13:03 3
- I’m addicted to the lemon. Addicted. -- nm - Volnelk Feb 20, 15:54
- Duh? -- nm - IAmQale-Kun Feb 20, 15:00
- yup -- nm - budice Feb 20, 13:12
There are reports of airplane debris falling from the sky into several neighborhoods outside of Denver, according to Broomfield Police. -- (link) - Remlik Feb 20, 12:57 23
- When I think of debris I generally think of small pieces. Not THIS. -- (link) - Cuzzin Todd Feb 20, 14:58
- Dashcam of the engine explosion -- (link) - TWuG Feb 20, 14:53
- Better look at the impacted engine while in the air -- (link*) - budice Feb 20, 14:06
- Been following this. Here's the landing from inside the plane. -- (link) - zunk xometimes Feb 20, 13:18 2
  - CNN should have this any minute -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 20, 13:24
  - Folks were on their way to Honolulu from Denver. Not the start they expected to their vacation -- nm - ty97 Feb 20, 13:19
- United 328, a Boeing 777-200, appears to have had an uncontained engine failure (the engine exploded) after takeoff. It landed back at DEN safely. -- nm - ty97 Feb 20, 13:14 16
  - Uh the last -200 was made while I was in high school - JD Feb 20, 14:06 2
    - Buddy, there are planes over the ocean that were built in the 80s. - ty97 Feb 20, 15:47 1
      - And while this specific 772 was delivered in 1995, 772s were being delivered after that. I think you can *still get a new 772 today -- nm - ty97 Feb 20, 15:48
  - ! -- nm - prayformojo Feb 20, 13:16 11
    - do you want to know? - ty97 Feb 20, 13:18
    - They’re designed to land minus one engine for this reason. -- nm - spamlet Feb 20, 13:17 9
      - yep, you don't continue onto your destination on one engine, but you can certainly get to *an* airport. -- nm* - ty97 Feb 20, 13:24 3
        
        still must be quite a frightening experience though. -- nm - ty97 Feb 20, 13:25 2
        
        Oh i can’t imagine. A loud bang and flames on take off is not good. Especially out of Denver -- nm - spamlet Feb 20, 15:18
        
        The airline came out ahead by selling the diamonds the pilots shit out from the clenching. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 20, 14:35
      - But uncontained in the description has the possibility of high speed debris going everywhere - JD Feb 20, 13:22 4
        
        I mean, *I* am calling it uncontained because, ya know, debris in people's yards. I'm not expert on this, but I call that uncontained :) -- nm - ty97 Feb 20, 13:23 3
        
        Video of the front cowling ring, size of a kids wading pool, crushed an SUV roof -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 20, 13:32 2
        
        hmmm, can't tell if the SUV has a crushed roof or we're just seeing a pickup truck through bare branches of the trees. -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 20, 14:51 1
        
        Local news says it missed the house, doesn't mention the truck. -- nm - Meg Feb 20, 14:53
  - That's what I'm seeing reported so far at least. -- nm - ty97 Feb 20, 13:15
the outdoor NHL game (on NBC) at Lake Tahoe is gorgeous -- nm* - Beaker Feb 20, 12:55
I’m in favor of the idea, but wouldn’t cancelling student debt via executive order (as has been suggested) - Tim Feb 20, 12:38 16
- I am not in favor of forgiving student loan debt wholesale. I am in favor of restructuring debt and payback terms to be extremely forgiving. - IAmQale Feb 20, 15:18
- I'm all for cancelling student debt. IF cancelling mortgages is included. -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 20, 12:44 6
  - Right? I quit school largely because I refused to get student loans and could not afford to continue. - Spawn Feb 20, 12:48 5
    - I stayed in school by taking out loans, which I paid back years ago. And I don't begrudge debt cancellation at all. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 20, 14:54
    - People are gonna crab bucket their way to feudalism. There's always a last one out. -- nm - Reagen Feb 20, 13:31 3
      - “It doesn’t help me, so we shouldn’t help anyone.” -- nm - znufrii Feb 20, 13:35 2
        
        Well, we are talking forgiving 10k vs forgiving 50k vs forgiving all of it, though. -- nm - Spawn Feb 20, 14:20 1
        
        critical distinction, I'd say -- nm - mud Feb 20, 15:48
- If those who benefit receive a notification of debt paid, then that's that. Also accounting would account for debts paid -- nm - budice Feb 20, 12:40
- I'm not even sure it's legal. - Will Hunting Feb 20, 12:40 6
  - you can cancel what a person owes. BUT someone still has to pay the debt holder. where will that money come from??? idiots. -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 20, 12:50 2
    - I’m guessing it might only apply to money lent directly by the federal government? - znufrii Feb 20, 13:04 1
      - Yeah, I assume it’s only federal loans, not private, which there are lots of. -- nm - Tim Feb 20, 13:06
  - But let say he does. Would anyone have the political will to challenge it? Bunch of voters have their debts wiped from the books, how's that not favorable -- nm* - budice Feb 20, 12:42 2
    - Hell yes. There's a lot of people who'll look at refunding billions and billions of dollars to people who knowingly took loans - Will Hunting Feb 20, 12:49
    - The GOP will do their pearl clutching about the deficit, and there’s lots of jerks who take the stance of - Tim Feb 20, 12:45
"Russia is trying to solve the mystery of its blue stray dogs, which appeared in industrial areas hundreds of miles apart." -- (link) - prayformojo Feb 20, 12:34 1
- Someone is washing them with a hair dye,you can see how they avoided the eyes -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 20, 12:47
Rewatching Top Chef Colorado. It's bittersweet to see Fati. -- nm - prayformojo Feb 20, 12:26 2
- PBS here is replaying Great British Bake with Luis. -- nm - . Feb 20, 13:32
- :( -- nm - Diva Feb 20, 12:53
Rumor: Jennifer Lawrence cast in the Fantastic Four movie -- nm - Remlik Feb 20, 12:20 13
- And it will still suck? -- nm - . Feb 20, 13:33
- yes please -- nm - Jovian Feb 20, 12:58
- After she slept walked through the last 2-3 XMen movies...pass. - Will Hunting Feb 20, 12:27 3
  - I blame the Fox executives for a lot of that. -- nm - Remlik Feb 20, 12:54
  - that's why she will be Sue. she will be invisible the whole film -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 20, 12:30 1
    - *golf clap* -- nm - budice Feb 20, 12:32
- Wallace Shawn MUST be Moleman!! -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 20, 12:24
- nm -- nm* - budice Feb 20, 12:22
- As a gender-flipped The Thing, excellent. -- nm - con_carne Feb 20, 12:22 4
  - So the Thing won't have a thing? - Cuzzin Todd Feb 20, 12:26 3
    - Sure the Thing will have a thing. - Will Hunting Feb 20, 12:40 2
      - The thing is you shouldn’t be concerned about what thing Thing has. -- nm - IAmQale Feb 20, 15:23
      - but what about - Beryllium Feb 20, 13:14
Now playing: Titanic. Oh ST, you enrich my life so. -- nm - con_carne Feb 20, 11:48 7
- You have to listen to Filmjerk Sigourney Weaver podcast as I'm fairly sure I heard him describe a Titanic play that Sigourney was in - JD Feb 20, 13:30
- next? the German version made during WWII. -- (link) - Peglegpete Feb 20, 12:49
- Oh, and LYC my mom just fried me up some bacon flavored Spam slices. Tasty, I liked it even better than diner ham steaks. -- nm - con_carne Feb 20, 11:53 4
  - have you tried the Tabasco flavored one? Hot and Spicy? - Pippy Feb 20, 12:20 3
    - You guys are determined to have me fall off the points cart :/ Guess one can wouldn't hurt me ;) -- nm - Meg Feb 20, 12:30 2
      - The salt content is nutzo but yes try it once! -- nm - Pippy Feb 20, 13:11 1
        
        Oh, I grew up on it. Spam fritters and baked beans. Wartime fare. -- nm - Meg Feb 20, 13:24
I don't think I'd walked around the block in weeks. It's likely no further than a circuit of Walmart or Target but sure feels like it :/ -- nm - Meg Feb 20, 11:46
thanks bery! for restoring that feature thing that you restored there -- nm - mud Feb 20, 11:44 1
- Yup -- nm - Krusty Feb 20, 11:56
Big tobacco spending billions of dollars to market to young people around the world? That’ll go over well. -- (link) - znufrii Feb 20, 11:35 2
- You talk like that's a new thing and not SOP for half a century. -- nm - zork Feb 20, 11:57
- they always have. it's one of the only ways they got to replace their clients who die. -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 20, 11:53
That's something I'd never seen. Everton wins at Anfield -- nm - JD Feb 20, 11:27 5
- right. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 20, 14:03
- "Well, Liverpool has much to offer...from pubs to clubs to the great Asian pastime of..." - David Feb 20, 11:31 1
  - Thank you... very first thought. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 20, 11:33
- Whoa. -- nm - znufrii Feb 20, 11:27 1
  - Actually, first time I've watched Everton win a Merseyside Derby match - JD Feb 20, 11:34
nominates Devil in a Blue Dress as one of the most underrated movies around -- nm - Beaker Feb 20, 11:25
Ooops -- (link) - znufrii Feb 20, 11:11 3
- That's the district where daughter would have attended 4th grade if we hadn't put her in a private school closer to work. -- nm - Meg Feb 20, 11:44
- I'd hate to see the world if we didn't have open mike problems :)) -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 20, 11:13
- "parents want their babysitters back" - show me the lie -- nm - Reagen Feb 20, 11:13
bringing back an ancient ritual. Next week the state of Texas will have a Wicker Man starring Teddy Cruz. -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 20, 11:09 3
- I like it, a worthy cause for sure. -- nm - Pippy Feb 20, 11:15 2
  - a lot of people can get warm that day :)) -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 20, 11:27 1
    - Ha!! -- nm - Pippy Feb 20, 11:50
Krusty, when I was a kid my family did a couple of those latch hook rugs. One was a big Canadian coat of arms and I did most of it. - zork Feb 20, 11:05 2
- Nice! I was actually looking at doing those before I found punch needle rugs/art. Once you get going it's relaxing as well as enjoyable - Krusty Feb 20, 11:15 1
  - I can't imagine how much that rug would be worth now (both monetarily and sentimentally) -- nm - zork Feb 20, 11:55
Here, have a bunch of money! - AOC Feb 20, 10:48 10
- You can exchange money for goods and services! -- nm - Mop Feb 20, 12:12 1
  - I wanted a peanut! -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 20, 12:30
- These are $2 bills. Are these even real? -- nm - Fozzie Baron Feb 20, 11:28
- *hits da strip club* -- nm - James Harden Feb 20, 11:03 1
  - Is he even still in town? I figured he’d be house hunting by now. -- nm - IAmQale Feb 20, 11:12
- She’s working with the food banks, not randomly distributing cash. -- nm - Volnelk Feb 20, 10:50 4
  - ::throwing bundles of cash out to the crowd:: -- nm - AOC Feb 20, 10:54 3
    - "It's not firewood but it still burns!" -- nm - Beryllium Feb 20, 10:56 2
      - Beats paper towels. -- nm - Puerto Rico Feb 20, 11:01 1
        
        Saucy wenches distributing dueces is not a rational form of government, but we'll take it cause we're soggy, freezing and covered in sewage -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 20, 11:33

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