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Jake Virtanen on leave from the Canucks after sexual assault allegations -- (link) - Reagen May 1, 12:45
Tonight, kinda late, I’ll be bringing the dance to SlackerTalk’s Turntable room. BYOGS. - IAmQale May 1, 12:39 1
- Ok I will bring the Kayne to go with that. -- nm - tRuMaN May 1, 12:47
seeing reports that Olympia Dukakis has passed away -- nm - Beaker May 1, 12:10 3
- Moonstruck rules -- nm - mud May 1, 12:34 1
  - Are you in love? Oh that's too bad -- nm - zeitgeist May 1, 13:07
- She was 89. -- nm - Will Hunting May 1, 12:25
May 1 Birthdays: Stephen Macht (79), Rita Coolidge (76), Arthur Max & Joanna Lumley & John Woo (75), Paul Teutul Sr. (72) - Max May 1, 12:04
Speaking of Kermode after Wittertainment's movie roadtrip around the US states, next week is Canada starting with British Columbia if you have a film - LMS May 1, 12:02 5
- Supernatural gives a good view of BC as well. ;) -- nm - . May 1, 12:50
- Better Than Chocolate (1999), Hollow in the Land (2017) -- nm - mud May 1, 12:29 1
  - Rumble in the Bronx -- nm - Reagen May 1, 12:38
- I think I’m still around Christmas with episodes -- nm - spamlet May 1, 12:09
- My American Cousin. -- nm - Reagen May 1, 12:06
Former 1st Overall NHL pick Nail Yakupov has probably retired from hockey after suffering long term COVID symptoms -- (link) - Reagen May 1, 11:59
Shaun, how did you get a $25 off referal code? -- nm - Beaker May 1, 11:51
FL passes law fining social media companies up to quarter million a day if they ban state elected officials from posting -- (link) - reddit May 1, 11:15 6
- Please please please love us Trump. Please! -- nm - Florida GOP May 1, 12:24
- stupid. and the article does not say former politicians are covered. it implies only current. -- nm - Peglegpete May 1, 11:52
- All this does is cost Florida tax payers as the state will try and defend this in court and lose. There's no chance it gets to stand. -- nm - Krusty May 1, 11:22 2
  - or get everyone in Florida banned from social media. - Reagen May 1, 11:29 1
    - Lol -- nm - Krusty May 1, 11:43
- "This bill is about the 22 million Floridians and their First Amendment rights." should be all it takes to get that tossed. -- nm - Max May 1, 11:17
The crazy in this story just builds and builds -- (link) - Reagen May 1, 11:04 6
- I only have one question. - Spawn May 1, 15:32
- Not often we have Kansas going for a "hold my beer" with Florida. -- nm - . May 1, 12:46
- Batshit Crazy -- nm - Pippy May 1, 11:44
- That doesn’t sound real. It sounds like a rejected script from the Disturbing Behavior and The Faculty batch of films -- nm - JD May 1, 11:16 2
  - "Don't knee your students in the balls" is like, Day 2 in teacher's college. -- nm - Reagen May 1, 11:17 1
    - *timidly raises hand* What's Day 1...or 3? -- nm - Will Hunting May 1, 13:08
The only thing this is missing is Paul giamatti -- (link) - Beryllium May 1, 11:01 1
- fuckin choosy beggar at the Shiraz -- nm - Reagen May 1, 11:04
Was this past week's Streaming Hams the first use of the bleep? -- nm* - IAmQale May 1, 10:58 2
- We used one pretty early on. -- nm - Tim May 1, 11:07 1
  - Ah. My podcasts have been stacking up, but I blew through 3 of yours in a row. They were all quality. Definitely felt like a hitting of stride. -- nm - IAmQale May 1, 11:10
Mitchells vs the Machines slight spoiler (some of this is in the trailer) - Reagen May 1, 10:55
This umpire had a bad case of Wanttogohomeitis -- (link) - Reagen May 1, 10:41 8
- How does that bad of a catcher's arm jerk fool him 3 times? - Will Hunting May 1, 11:56 4
  - It doesn’t. The last two are because the batter argued balls and strikes. It’s punishment, and the hitter knows it. -- nm - Ear Victim May 1, 12:10 3
    - Bring on the robots -- can 90% of them. - Will Hunting May 1, 12:21 2
      - Amen, brother. -- nm - Ear Victim May 1, 12:33
      - Yup -- nm - Krusty May 1, 12:24
- Awful -- nm - Krusty May 1, 10:59
- That was smart pitching to keep throwing them in that area, knowing the hitter was screwed. -- nm - Ear Victim May 1, 10:54 1
  - Yup. Gotta at least swing at the 0-2 pitch in the same spot. -- nm - Reagen May 1, 10:56
David, are you making TikToks now? -- (link) - Reagen May 1, 10:39 3
- I don't have any tattoos! But...yeah. -- nm - Ear Victim May 1, 10:41 2
  - I did a double take. -- nm - Reagen May 1, 10:42 1
    - There aren't a lot of people with my eyes, but he's one of them. -- nm - Ear Victim May 1, 10:44
Welcome to the Cincinnati Tigers of the NFLSU. -- nm - Volnelk May 1, 10:31
What’s important here is that the Falcons are winning the draft. -- nm - Ear Victim May 1, 10:29
NEW CHAIR! How it started vs How it's Going -- (link) - Beaker May 1, 10:15 7
- I've always wondered if great gaming chairs would work as great seats in cars. - Max May 1, 11:16
- That first picture needs a parental advisory. -- nm - Mop May 1, 10:43
- 😺 -- nm - crash davis May 1, 10:24
- now wife and both kids want one too... -- nm - Beaker May 1, 10:18 3
  - That good huh? -- nm - spamlet May 1, 11:12
  - well they can save up and BUY THEIR OWN! -- nm - Remlik May 1, 11:01
  - usually how it works -- nm - budice May 1, 10:29
What’s the best gunfight movie? - tRuMaN May 1, 10:02 21
- Or maybe A Better Tomorrow, original - . May 1, 12:44
- I love Hard Boiled! Also The Raid: Redemption, The Wild Bunch -- nm - con_carne May 1, 11:52
- Final scene in Django? -- nm - Max May 1, 11:20 2
  - Leon? -- nm - Max May 1, 11:21 1
    - EVERYONE! -- nm - Beaker May 1, 11:56
- Open Range, Tombstone, Hard Boiled (really the Chow Yun Fat cop movies). -- nm - Remlik May 1, 11:02
- for an individual scene: Dirty Harry. Do you feel lucky, Punk? -- (link*) - Peglegpete May 1, 11:01 [youtube] 1
  - I kid clients who want minimal wedding ceremony, the dirty vows, marriage is the single most powerful legal entanglement you can get into... -- nm - Do you feel lucky? May 1, 11:23
- "Free Fire" That movie was 80% shootout. --NM - howie May 1, 10:36 2
  - I burst out laughing 25 minutes in when I realized that's what was happening. Love that movie. -- nm - Max May 1, 10:52 1
    - Yup. -- nm - Ear Victim May 1, 10:55
- Raiders of the Lost Ark. never bring a knife to a gunfight :))) -- nm - Peglegpete May 1, 10:36
- Mr and Mrs Smith -- nm - zeitgeist May 1, 10:34 1
  - I'll second this. The gunfights are so well choreographed. Their gun battle while destroying the house along with the scene - Cuzzin Todd May 1, 12:04
- John Wick; the Longriders has a couple fantastic ones too -- nm - Beaker May 1, 10:30
- Kingsman. -- nm - Beryllium May 1, 10:11
- off the top of my head: Open Range for Western and Heat for Modern Crime -- nm - crash davis May 1, 10:05 4
  - Overall Open Range, but I think I like scenes in Appaloosa more. Plenty of shooting in 3:10 to Yuma ('07). My favorite single scene is Young Guns. - Max May 1, 11:08
  - Yep, I can get behind this answer. (NM) - Marlowe May 1, 11:03
  - good answer -- nm - Beaker May 1, 10:09 1
    - tbf, I have not seen Hard Boiled -- nm - crash davis May 1, 10:10
This headline writer ... hmm. -- (link) - Beryllium May 1, 09:48 2
- 👍 -- nm - crash davis May 1, 10:09
- "Dear NatGeo Forums..." -- nm - Reagen May 1, 09:57
My latest emailed newsletter from the Harvard medical school arrived with a typo in the subject line. Of all the people to point at and call "dumbasses", I think only NASA would beat them for personal enjoyment. -- nm* - crash davis May 1, 09:29 6
- Am I the only one wondering why you’re getting newsletters from Harvard Med School? Are you changing careers or something? -- nm* - JD May 1, 11:02
- Harvard used it so that's how we spell it now. Sorry, those are the rules. -- nm - ty97 May 1, 09:55
- Probably a transcription error. No one could read the handwriting. -- nm - Beryllium May 1, 09:30 3
  - I've done it. -- nm - . May 1, 12:40
  - So, Harvard's editors are idiots...got it. -- nm - Will Hunting May 1, 09:59
  - very good 😺 -- nm - crash davis May 1, 09:33
This morning my Xbox detected “auto-low latency mode” on my TV and asked if I wanted to turn it on. - Mop May 1, 09:24
The Women’s World Curling Championships have a very prominent sponsor with their logo on the ice, LGT.com. I had to look them up. - Mop May 1, 09:22
The Jets drafting all this offense is a bit unexpected but I'm not at all disappointed. -- nm - Krusty May 1, 09:16 1
- Of course not, disappointment is on the schedule for the fall. - crash davis May 1, 09:26
uh oh. 148 cases in Nova Scotia today -- nm - Beaker May 1, 09:08 2
- We have to do something. If they don’t let us into the bubble this year, it’ll be a disaster! -- nm - History Channel May 1, 09:40
- This is supposedly a bunch of backlogged tests so not necessarily "today". -- nm - Reagen May 1, 09:09
"fun fact" -- (link) - Beryllium May 1, 09:02
ROUND 4!! -- nm - Beaker May 1, 09:00
That was weird. Woke up to a failed payment from my server host. - Beryllium May 1, 08:55 1
- internet tubes are just too full sometimes -- nm - budice May 1, 08:56
Want to go for a swim? -- (link) - Dano May 1, 08:54 5
- I thought it might be one of these videos... -- (link) - Mop May 1, 10:11 [youtube]
- fuck and no -- nm - Beaker May 1, 09:01 1
  - So Beaker's into exhibitionism but not swimming. Got it. -- nm - Will Hunting May 1, 09:59
- That's .... cool -- nm - Will Hunting May 1, 08:57
- that'd be trippy -- nm - prayformojo May 1, 08:55
Newsmax settled a defamation suit brought by Dominion Voting with apology and an admission that the allegations of voter fraud were untrue -- (link*) - budice May 1, 07:51 4
- To clarify, they settled with an executive of Dominion Voting, not Dominion Voting. The executive was personally identified in the story as having - pmb May 1, 08:09
- Until we find out how much money it cost them, I'm not satisfied. -- nm - David May 1, 08:04 1
  - Whatever it cost it was (almost) worth it for them. -- nm - JaxSean May 1, 08:32
- Well I'm glad THAT's settled. No harm done then. -- nm - JaxSean May 1, 07:57
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar was one of the oddest movies I've seen. But it wasn't bad. -- nm - MDH May 1, 07:32 1
- Wasn't particularly good either. -- nm - VMan May 1, 09:07
I miss Instant Pot Talk. My fav recipe in link -- (link) - Pippy May 1, 07:16 5
- This was a hit from this week. (Sweet corn soup) -- (link) - kelly May 1, 10:38 1
  - Thank you -- nm - Pippy May 1, 14:50
- Here's one of my favorites lately ... - ReluctantCynic May 1, 07:58 2
  - It’s pay walled. Is it close to this? -- (link) - Pippy May 1, 08:59 1
    - Hmm, I should try that in the crockpot. I generally just cook the pork in chicken broth and season it after the fact. -- nm - Meg May 1, 09:39
10 years ago: President Barack Obama announces the death of Osama bin Laden -- (link) - budice May 1, 07:16 5
- Was at a tavern listening to a blues band, the TV was silent on a side wall, but everything stopped and we all 🍻 -- nm - zeitgeist May 1, 10:27
- We were watching some recorded movie and when it was over it happened to be on the news channel about 5 minutes before Obama was about to speak - Reagen May 1, 07:17 3
  - The movie you watched was Farenheit 9/11 -- nm - con_carne May 1, 07:33 2
    - exact title is lost to the mists of time. -- nm - Reagen May 1, 07:34 1
      - Thanks for mentioning Mitchells vs. The Machines, it was well done. -- nm - con_carne May 1, 07:43
Happy eightieth birthday second greatest movie of all time Citizen Kane. -- nm - LMS May 1, 06:49 15
- maybe fifth greatest. What's your first? -- nm - mud May 1, 06:57 9
  - Paddington! -- nm - Beaker May 1, 08:14
  - It depends on my mood, but I'll always have time for the little guy from Peru. -- nm - LMS May 1, 07:31 7
    - I've switched over from Kane to Local Hero which is also a great movie. - LMS May 1, 08:14 3
      - That is a great movie. -- nm - . May 1, 12:37
      - Ok Kermode. -- nm - spamlet May 1, 08:36
      - The Lair of the White Worm! World War Z! In the Loop! -- nm - mud May 1, 08:34
    - Inside No. 9 - did you see the title of the 1st episode? - mud May 1, 07:59 1
      - I hadn't, great title. Was tempted to email my source for a link to the series but as it's back on the 10th I can wait. -- nm - LMS May 1, 08:11
    - He is truly delightful. -- nm - Dark Callisto May 1, 07:42
- Not according to Rottentomatoes! - ty97 May 1, 06:55 3
  - Goddamn you Armand White! -- nm - IAmQale May 1, 08:21 1
    - hee -- nm - Beaker May 1, 09:22
  - that's why it's 2nd best. -- nm - Reagen May 1, 06:57
- Needed more scenes involving marmalade. -- nm - Reagen May 1, 06:53
Lol, Liz Cheney. -- (link) - znufrii May 1, 06:45 1
- Republicans are such drama queens. -- nm - mafic May 1, 07:04
The US only had around 600 deaths from the flu over the last year. Normally we have 22k-35k deaths from the flu in a normal year. -- (link) - Krusty May 1, 06:04 3
- you see, vaccines aren't needed! -- nm - Beaker May 1, 06:23 2
  - Undercounting flu deaths to make COVID appear deadlier! -- nm - Mop May 1, 08:51
  - Yeah! - Krusty May 1, 06:38
Young Rock and Kenan renewed for Season 2 at NBC -- nm - Beaker May 1, 05:06 2
- Young Rock makes me miss GLOW even more. -- nm - . May 1, 12:36
- If it was one show called ‘Young Rock and Keenan’, I’d watch. -- nm - Volnelk May 1, 06:55
TV PSA: NFL Draft (rounds 4-7), NHL, UFC, Kentucky Derby, other stuff -- nm* - Beaker May 1, 05:05

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