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It's Snyder Cut Week!!! All of ST rejoices! -- nm - Shaun Mar 15, 07:07 2
- "And it was never spoken of again" -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 07:09 1
  - I just assumed that's why we were rejoicing. -- nm - spamlet Mar 15, 07:21
Trailer for NF series The Irregulars -- (link) - decline Mar 15, 07:04 2
- I'm sorry but "what the actual f-" is a recent expression and I will not believe anyone ever said it in any other era. -- nm - mud Mar 15, 07:09
- Looks cheery. -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 07:08
Introducing: The Kia EV6 -- (link) - oblique Mar 15, 07:00 2
- that actually looks pretty nice. -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 07:01 1
  - Styling looks good but having never been in one of these types I wonder if back seat space is any roomier than a 2+2 sports car. - Max Mar 15, 07:04
This might be the best map infographic I’ve ever seen. -- (link) - mafic Mar 15, 06:52 15
- You have no idea how many sleepless nights I've spent wondering what their names were in Faroese. Thank you so much mafic! -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 07:03 4
  - There's 50000 people living there. It's like having a different name for them in Utica. -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 07:06 3
    - "We've got to distinguish ourselves from Denmark and Iceland!" -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 07:08 2
      - Now I'm going to have sleepless nights wondering how the different spelling changes the pronunciation in Iceland vs Denmark -- nm - crash davis Mar 15, 07:10 1
        
        "How would Bjork say this?" -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 07:12
- This is great. -- nm - Krusty Mar 15, 07:00
- Belgium: just give ‘em normal names. -- nm - mafic Mar 15, 06:56 5
  - Faroe Islands: "we're individuals!" -- nm - Roger More Mar 15, 07:03
  - Netherlands: "Fuck it. Make all the names sound like 'quack"' nm - ralph wiggum Mar 15, 07:00 1
    - Also, tell me you can't picture the Swedish chef saying the Norway names while tossing vegetables about. nm - ralph wiggum Mar 15, 07:03
  - I believe this was the issue that actually led to the Velvet Divorce of Czechoslovakia. -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 06:58 1
    - and the Catalans just gotta be difficult about everything. -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 07:00
- outstanding. -- nm - mud Mar 15, 06:55
- Latvia like "fuck them ducks" -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 06:55
- But you still haven't explained why they put on trunks to go swimming. -- nm - Baron on the Cairn Mar 15, 06:54
Drew Brees moving to NBC Sports -- (link) - decline Mar 15, 06:51
weekend viewing: -- nm - mud Mar 15, 06:48 10
- The 100 season 6 first 3 epis: B -- nm - Beaker Mar 15, 06:54
- Finished S1 of The Newsroom: A, except for the Jeremy/Natalie subplot. -- nm - spamlet Mar 15, 06:53
- A Cuba Libre Story, B- for production value, A for teaching me a whole lot more about the history of Cuba than I knew. -- nm - znufrii Mar 15, 06:52
- I Care A Lot: B -- nm - oblique Mar 15, 06:50 5
  - I thought there were good performances, but I felt weird activity rooting for virtually everyone to die horribly. nm - ralph wiggum Mar 15, 07:05 2
    - right? -- nm - Andie Mar 15, 07:08 1
      - At times they tried to make us sympathetic to the 2 women by making them lovers and GirlBosses, but they were both entirely awful. nm - ralph wiggum Mar 15, 07:12
  - we watched this on saturday. I really enjoyed it. I thought the pacing was just great. -- nm - amanda jeans Mar 15, 06:51 1
    - Yeah. It didn't really even falter in the final act. -- nm - oblique Mar 15, 06:53
- Swimming Pool (2003), Extinction (2018), Tim Hortons Brier, Grammy Awards, finished S1 of Travelers .. -- (edited) - mud Mar 15, 06:48
Two new trailers for In the Heights dropped -- (link) - oblique Mar 15, 06:44 1
- In the Heights vs West Side Story -- nm - stim-mie Mar 15, 06:47
Canada Cable Deal: Rogers buying Shaw in $26-billion deal -- (link) - stim-mie Mar 15, 06:39 4
- Isn't this going to be really bad for competition? -- nm - spamlet Mar 15, 06:42 2
  - Bell is their main competitor -- nm - Beaker Mar 15, 06:57
  - spectacularly bad. Decent chance it gets blocked. -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 06:43
- This is basically the east territory buying the west. -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 06:40
LYC: Kid got a music scholarship (on top of academic) to Butler in the mail on Friday when we returned from our on campus visit - oblique Mar 15, 06:34 12
- nice! -- nm - Remlik Mar 15, 07:09
- excellent! -- nm - ty97 Mar 15, 07:05
- Neechay! -- nm - Strongbad Mar 15, 06:57
- Don Homer! -- nm - Beaker Mar 15, 06:54
- great! no dining hall job for her! -- nm - decline Mar 15, 06:47 3
  - The room and board by itself is kinda insane - oblique Mar 15, 07:07 2
    - she can busker outside the dining hall for food! -- nm - decline Mar 15, 07:09 1
      - I tried to convince her to look at becoming an RA (some schools do free room/board) but she's not all that interested :) -- nm - oblique Mar 15, 07:11
- Nice!! -- nm - Krusty Mar 15, 06:44
- yeah!!! -- nm - prayformojo Mar 15, 06:40
- Nice! -- nm - spamlet Mar 15, 06:37
- I hope she remembers us when she's famous! She can plug SITV at the Grammys! -- nm* - Baron on the Cairn Mar 15, 06:36
Stimmy - IRS Status Site is Live (GetMyPayment) - Update Direct Deposit / Date Expected -- (link) - stim-mie Mar 15, 06:28 9
- I didn't think we were getting anything with the new limits. We got a partial stim mie over the weekend. - Diva Mar 15, 07:05
- Wednesday. Whoohoo! -- nm - znufrii Mar 15, 06:44
- Scheduled for Wed deposit. -- nm - Baron on the Cairn Mar 15, 06:43
- Payment Status - Not Available -- nm - Krusty Mar 15, 06:36
- I received snail mail notification last week re: my $600 received ages ago. Way to give me a heart attack, IRS. - Baron on the Cairn Mar 15, 06:33 2
  - yeah I got that notice too -- nm - decline Mar 15, 06:41 1
    - Same and had a bit of a heart attack as well -- nm - Krusty Mar 15, 06:44
- Note: The IRS is sending these out in batches by bank. For instance Wells Fargo clients will get theirs Wednesday -- nm* - decline Mar 15, 06:31
- meh, at least I have the "Where's The Refund" link I can check (which doesn't even know yet because I just filed late last week) -- nm - ty97 Mar 15, 06:30
Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson Become the First Black Women Nominated for Hair and Makeup Oscar -- (link) - ty97 Mar 15, 06:28
"Vatican bars gay union blessing, says God ‘can’t bless sin'" - David, Horny New Guy Mar 15, 06:25 8
- You mean *besides* the other thing? -- nm - IAmQale Mar 15, 06:52
- I read that news this morning and was surprised it was even a question that was posed to be answered. The Catholic Church position is clear. -- nm - ty97 Mar 15, 06:27 6
  - I'm heartbroken that the Pope signed off on it. -- nm - David, Horny New Guy Mar 15, 06:28 5
    - I would have been shocked if there was any other outcome. -- nm - ty97 Mar 15, 06:28 4
      - Revolutionaries don’t get to be Pope. -- nm - mafic Mar 15, 06:55
      - Yup -- nm - Krusty Mar 15, 06:31 2
        
        It derives naturally from the position that nookie-nookie is only for married couples making babies - Baron on the Cairn Mar 15, 06:52 1
        
        Exactly. No one should ever expect the head of the Catholic church to come out in favor of gay marriage in any way. They're not even really okay with sex -- (edited) - Krusty Mar 15, 06:55
Beijing had a sandstorm yesterday -- (link) - decline Mar 15, 06:23 2
- [Darude liked this.] -- nm - IAmQale Mar 15, 06:52
- Mission Impossible 4 did it better. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 15, 06:26
BRUSSELS (AP) — EU says it is taking legal action against the United Kingdom over the way it is implementing the Brexit divorce deal. -- (link) - ty97 Mar 15, 06:23 1
- bastards -- nm - decline Mar 15, 06:24
Is 2 female director nominees a record? It shouldn't be, but is it? -- nm - ty97 Mar 15, 06:14 3
- "Breaking News: Netflix’s “Mank” led the Academy Award field with 10 nominations, and two women were on the list for best director for the first time. - David, Horny New Guy Mar 15, 06:22
- Yes. It also increases the # of female director nominees by 40% -- nm - Roger More Mar 15, 06:17
- Yes -- nm - spamlet Mar 15, 06:17
Today in Canadian mergers - Rogers to buy Shaw -- (link) - Reagen Mar 15, 06:11 1
- Ha, ha. One more down and soon we will have complete domination over all of Canada!! -- nm - Bell, Rogers, Telus Mar 15, 06:48
There's a real chance Ohio beats Virginia by forfeit. -- nm - David, Horny New Guy Mar 15, 06:09 6
- I think this would be our best result in two decades! -- nm - Max Mar 15, 07:00
- They can slot them out up till tomorrow. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 15, 06:11 4
  - So does everyone just move up a seed from lik 10 up? -- nm - eag Mar 15, 06:18 2
    - The teams from one-bid conferences are replaced by someone from their own conference. -- nm - Baron on the Cairn Mar 15, 06:22
    - Wtf knows? I’d bet no because you are already game planning. - Will Hunting Mar 15, 06:19
  - First replacement team up: Louisville. -- nm - Baron on the Cairn Mar 15, 06:15
That attempt from the British press to make Markle look 'calculating' by saying she's running for President in 2024 is hilarious - Reagen Mar 15, 06:07 1
- Then the king of England could just walk in there and start pushing them around. -- nm - mafic Mar 15, 06:48
So, how many Oscar's is Borat up for? -- nm - Things that should not be said Mar 15, 05:58 17
- It really benefited from nothing else being out. -- nm - spamlet Mar 15, 06:05 14
  - Meanwhile SITV just told me this was a great year for movies. -- (edited) - Krusty Mar 15, 06:16 13
    - I suppose it depends what you look for in movies - Reagen Mar 15, 06:22 8
      - I don't usually care for the big blockbusters, I'm way behind on every superhero movie for example. I just don't think we had many, if any, great - Krusty Mar 15, 06:25 7
        
        Have you seen Promising Young Woman? For better/worse, it's the title that provokes the strongest reaction. -- nm - David, Horny New Guy Mar 15, 06:27 1
        
        Not yet. -- nm - Krusty Mar 15, 06:28
        
        I would say Chicago 7 was the best movie I saw last year and I'm not sure if it's best picture worthy. -- nm - Krusty Mar 15, 06:27 4
        
        It was good-ish. It felt like a collection of scenes more than a coherent film. -- nm - Inigo Mar 15, 06:32 3
        
        I enjoyed it a lot but still wouldn't call it the best picture of 2020 even though I can't think of a film that deserves the award. -- nm - Krusty Mar 15, 06:35 2
        
        We had 6 months or more where no films came out. That severely affected the quantity and quality of the overall film industry. -- nm - Inigo Mar 15, 06:43 1
        
        Which bring us back to my original post about SITV and them saying it was a great year for movies. - Krusty Mar 15, 06:47
    - FWIW, Kim and I just had this debate in the car a half-hour ago. - David, Horny New Guy Mar 15, 06:19 3
      - It’s 1996 all over again without the benefit of Jerry McGuire to be in the mix. - Will Hunting Mar 15, 06:24 1
        
        Why, you should listen to the latest episode of Streaming into the Void for opinions on these topics! -- nm - David, Horny New Guy Mar 15, 06:26
      - I'm with you in thinking we had a lot of very good to good movies and very few great movies, if any. -- nm - Krusty Mar 15, 06:22
- Without knowing the actual number I'll say "Too many." -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 15, 06:02
- Bakalova is legitimately great. -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 06:00
This is, in total, the previous acting experience of one of this year's Oscar nominees: - Reagen Mar 15, 05:46 1
- Huh, he got the role because - ty97 Mar 15, 05:50
Oscar Noms - Complete List - stim-mie Mar 15, 05:46 24
- I mean, it worked, and they will probably take one, but to campaign both leads of JatBM as Supporting Actors feel a bit as a category fraud. - Marlowe Mar 15, 07:03
- Do not fear wild girls and wolves. -- nm - IAmQale Mar 15, 06:57
- So now both Borat films have Oscar noms for screenplay, which has got to be a record for things written on napkins. -- nm - Baron on the Cairn Mar 15, 06:20 6
  - That the Eurovision parody movie got a nom for Best Song is the pinnacle of ironic comedy. - Baron on the Cairn Mar 15, 06:27 5
    - It's sort of Ferrell's A Mighty Wind - Reagen Mar 15, 06:47
    - I loved Eurovision. Judge me as you will. And, the song is great. -- nm - Andie Mar 15, 06:31 3
      - Same. Though really, they should have nominated Lion of Love or Ya Ya Ding Dong. :) nm - ralph wiggum Mar 15, 06:56
      - Ooof. I think it was one of the worst films I've seen in a long time, and so unfunny. -- nm - Inigo Mar 15, 06:47
      - I judge you not as I keep meaning to watch it myself. -- nm - Baron on the Cairn Mar 15, 06:34
- Totals: 10 - Mank 6 - Judas, Minari, Nomadland, Sound Of Metal, The Father, Chicago 7 5 - Ma Rainey's, Promising Young Woman 4 - News Of The World -- (edited) - stim-mie Mar 15, 05:54 12
  - *looks at what Mank is* Oh, that’s your winner. - Will Hunting Mar 15, 05:57 9
    - Dawson says it has no chance at BP -- nm - ty97 Mar 15, 06:05 4
      - I agree with him. -- nm - Dark Callisto Mar 15, 07:22
      - It's an awkward conversation if they give BP to a film whose screenwriting didn't even get a nod. -- nm - David, Horny New Guy Mar 15, 06:07 2
        
        Titanic was the last one, but this isn't Titanic. -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 06:08
        
        Yeah, I was texting him about that. (I think he was in the 'no chance' category prior to that too) -- nm - ty97 Mar 15, 06:07
    - I think Mank is the type of film that the Academy always nominates but no one loves it enough to win. -- nm - Inigo Mar 15, 06:05 3
      - Could be where Fincher gets a win though. -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 06:06 2
        
        Yeah, I can see Fincher getting his career director Oscar this year. -- nm - Inigo Mar 15, 06:08
        
        My Chloe Zhao is already thanking the Academy in her head. -- nm - David, Horny New Guy Mar 15, 06:07
  - 10, but no Screenplay. Bizarre. -- nm - Reagen Mar 15, 05:56 1
    - Yeah, I was wondering if it might get Director/Picture snubs when I saw it get passed over for a writing. - David Mar 15, 05:58
- Ma Rainey got 5 nominations including 2 in the marquee categories but not Best Picture? -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 15, 05:51 1
  - Two acting, but nothing in screenplay, editing, OR directing so not a huge surprise for no Picture nom. - ty97 Mar 15, 05:52
Super Soldier Serum acquired. - David Mar 15, 05:45 9
- 👍 -- nm - Meg Mar 15, 07:43
- John Cena fears David. -- nm - IAmQale Mar 15, 06:59
- Yay!! -- nm - Krusty Mar 15, 06:37
- I got mine on Friday at my local Ingles via appointment. I’ll be super-soldier complete by the 2nd. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 15, 06:17 3
  - Dude, that's terrific! How did you get in? -- nm - David, Horny New Guy Mar 15, 06:26 2
    - Kelly called and they had spots. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 15, 06:28 1
      - it's really opening up here. I had signed up for "let me know if you have spare" at several places and have had that ticket punched five times so far. - amanda jeans Mar 15, 06:39
- Welcome to the party, pal. -- nm - Volnelk Mar 15, 06:15
- Nice! -- nm - spamlet Mar 15, 06:05
I worked on no Oscar nominated films this year (it was a long shot). -- nm - LMS Mar 15, 05:44 1
- Yeah, same here.. (NM) - Marlowe Mar 15, 05:49

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