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Liam Neeson vs. The Ice Road. -- (link) - Mop May 18, 14:56 [youtube]
Good game Will... I actually moved up 3 spots in the rankings with the loss. -- nm - Dano May 18, 14:33 4
- Good game. My team played exactly how I needed them to. Inside the arc and pound it inside more. -- nm - Will Hunting May 18, 14:56 2
  - What was the score? -- nm - David May 18, 14:57 1
    - 60-50. I went 0-0 from 3. -- nm - Will Hunting May 18, 15:28
- I'm fairly certain that this is all some elaborate ruse you all have cooked up -- nm - prayformojo May 18, 14:55
Decisions, decisions, do I go to the beer store to get more mega millions tickets, or do I go get more beer? -- nm - znufrii May 18, 14:20 7
- They apparently also now sell Bitcoin. - znufrii May 18, 14:41 1
  - Those ATMs for Bitcoin have been around for years. I've never considered using one. - Beryllium May 18, 14:42
- Go to the salad store -- nm - ty97 May 18, 14:21 2
  - Do they sell lottery tickets there? - znufrii May 18, 14:21 1
    - They sell winning lottery tickets there - ty97 May 18, 14:22
- Yes -- nm - JaxSean May 18, 14:20 1
  - This is of course the correct answer -- nm - znufrii May 18, 14:20
"This sucker's quick" -- (link) - Beryllium May 18, 14:14 2
- "Mr President, can I ask you a question first?" "No, you can't, not unless you get in front of the truck. Just teasing." -- nm - Beryllium May 18, 14:16 1
  - AP, CNN, et al: Biden test drives Ford truck. Fox: "Biden jokes about running over reporter with vehicle when asked about Israel during Ford test" -- nm - Max May 18, 15:01
100 tickets purchased, (claps hands, shows to the camera there's nothing up my sleeves) photos posted on FB good luck everyone - zeitgeist May 18, 14:11
What’s that? You guys are experiencing minimalism backlash? We got you fam. Android12 is all about colors, animations, and big bubble buttons. -- (link*) - IAmQale May 18, 14:06 [youtube]
House GQP will whip against the Jan 6 commission -- (link) - mud May 18, 14:04 11
- *...this page doesn't exist...* -- nm - Diva May 18, 15:00
- duh -- nm - Jovian May 18, 14:10
- *proposes 17 Benghazi commissions instead* -- nm - David May 18, 14:08 6
  - Hunter Biden has still not been brought to justice... -- nm - decline May 18, 14:22
  - I loved the Alpha House joke on this -- nm - prayformojo May 18, 14:20 2
    - "People died!" -- nm - David May 18, 14:26
    - please to remind please -- nm - mud May 18, 14:25
  - investigate blue states for collusion with BLM protestors who must be just as bad if not worse -- nm - zeitgeist May 18, 14:12 1
    - *just flat out goes to find the first black person they see and tell them they ain’t allowed to vote* -- nm - IAmQale May 18, 14:16
- Naturally. -- nm - IAmQale May 18, 14:06 1
  - but they just negotiated all the deets over the last week or two where Pelosi gave them what they wanted! -- nm - mud May 18, 14:24
hey! did you know David Nutter was re-doing Time Traveller's Wife with Rose Leslie & Theo James for HBO?! -- (link) - mud May 18, 13:57 1
- Bootstrap paradox: the series, or (spoils) - znufrii May 18, 14:06
The other thing about those protest alerts tweets is that they aren't great about updating them. -- (edited) - ty97 May 18, 13:49
Krusty - What the P-Rod low dunks? -- nm - JaxSean May 18, 13:39 2
- raffle entered -- nm - JaxSean May 18, 14:20 1
  - Yes and thank you! I was working on the rug and didn't see your post. 😁 -- nm* - Krusty May 18, 14:30
former MuchMusic personality Avi Lewis running for parliament! -- (link) - mud May 18, 13:24
The followers, I get. They're dumb and don't know any different. But the people that start these things, that's who I'm curious about - Reagen May 18, 13:18 19
- After I got vaccinated, my arms got pins and needles. - Beryllium May 18, 14:38
- When you have 95,000 followers, you can get paid to promote things. Next question? -- (link*) - con_carne May 18, 14:30
- I had actually heard of a couple people that had Covid getting shingles shortly after but I am the only that I know of that got them after the vacc. -- nm - Spawn May 18, 13:43 1
  - Let me introduce you to my friends: Correlation and Causation -- nm - ty97 May 18, 13:51
- Hey, after I got vaccinated, I had my worst period ever. Coincidence? -- nm - David May 18, 13:36 9
  - I have questions. -- nm - IAmQale May 18, 13:39 8
    - Question #1: How quickly can be hope to forgot that post every happened. -- nm - ty97 May 18, 13:44 7
      - Sometimes, you have to push boundaries, ty. -- nm - David May 18, 13:48 6
        
        *pushes this particular boundary back* -- nm - ty97 May 18, 13:50 5
        
        Quitter. -- nm - David May 18, 13:55 4
        
        Day 26, in fact. -- nm - ty97 May 18, 13:58 3
        
        👏🏻👍🏼 -- nm - Krusty May 18, 14:42
        
        Nice! -- nm - spamlet May 18, 14:13
        
        *tips cap* -- nm - David May 18, 14:00
- They think they're on to something that other people aren't. -- nm - mara May 18, 13:24 4
  - Yep. And people who get their news from social media are just begging to be messed with. How many inaccurate celebrity deaths have we posted here? -- nm - con_carne May 18, 14:02
  - And it’s an explanation that fits their current rigid worldview rather than challenging it. - znufrii May 18, 13:56 2
    - Most people don't go on social media to gain new opinions based on new information and a desire to make the world a better place. - con_carne May 18, 14:06
    - remember the UK doc that started the vax causes autism thing was proven to be a liar. most of the time the fool on the hill is just an asshole -- nm - zeitgeist May 18, 14:05
survey found 64% of unvaccinated adult Latinos said they were worried the side effects would cause them to miss work. -- (link) - ty97 May 18, 13:18 5
- This isn’t a solution, but getting them on to that J&J one dose might be a good idea. -- nm - IAmQale May 18, 13:30
- honestly a legit concern. (although I had zero side effects) -- nm - Reagen May 18, 13:18 1
  - very legit, we need to address it -- nm - ty97 May 18, 13:19
- our tax accountant didn't want to get vaccinated during tax season because he didn't want to miss a day. he ended up infected and in bed for a week. -- nm - Andie May 18, 13:18 1
  - I don't know that I'd trust an accountant who goofed that equation. -- nm - Beryllium May 18, 13:48
Y'all know what today is? Do you know? Do you? - ty97 May 18, 13:11 8
- not a fan of their subs -- nm - Peglegpete May 18, 13:33 2
  - Yeah, that commercial where the soccer player convinces 2 guys to forego burritos to get Subway instead is absolutely insane to me. - Cuzzin Todd May 18, 13:40
  - Not a fan of their former spokesman either. -- nm - IAmQale May 18, 13:36
- Please save NYC subways. -- nm - IAmQale May 18, 13:30
- Wooooooooo! -- nm - Krusty May 18, 13:21
- Bingo at the parlor with your friends? -- nm - David May 18, 13:12 1
  - Highlight of the week other than meatloaf on Sunday! -- nm - spamlet May 18, 13:15
- Here we go! -- nm - Barontronic May 18, 13:12
Ha! I just got an email from Treasury Secretary Stephen T. Muchin. I'm being given an ATM card with $4.800.000.0 already loaded onto it. -- nm - Edward Havens May 18, 13:07 8
- That's less than 20% of Clerks, before accounting for 25 years of inflation. I thought Mnuchin was in the movie business? -- nm - Roger More May 18, 13:36
- But folks like you and me who were tortured by the unemployment process deserve it! -- nm - IAmQale May 18, 13:31
- Maximum withdrawal limit is $1000/day. It'll take a while to spend all that. -- nm - Beryllium May 18, 13:09 1
  - I'm financing a sequel to Me, You, Madness. I won't need more than $1,000/day -- nm - Edward Havens May 18, 13:12
- $4.80 will charge your car! -- nm - Spawn May 18, 13:08
- Niros for everyone! -- nm - spamlet May 18, 13:08 2
  - Except Andy Dick. :) -- nm - Beryllium May 18, 13:09 1
    - Yeah! -- nm - Edward Havens May 18, 13:13
Former Assistant University of Louisville basketball coach Dino Gaudio has been federally charged with extortion -- nm - budice May 18, 13:07
Verizon: $440 on my trade-in, if I switch to unlimited. It'll cost me about $30 more/month. Doesn't seem worth it. -- nm - Mop May 18, 13:03 1
- Yeah, their pressure to switch was one of the reasons I did. - Spawn May 18, 13:05
yeah, he seems nice. -- (link) - mud May 18, 12:58 5
- I can’t believe that guy that was on The Wonder Years turned out so awful. - IAmQale May 18, 13:42
- But Michael Moore said he was a Very Intelligent Person™️! How could this be?! -- nm - Beryllium May 18, 13:00 3
  - i still think he's highly intelligent. Doesn't mean he isn't a terrible terrible person. -- nm - Andie May 18, 13:03 2
    - Yes. But also, Moore is an idiot. :) -- nm - Beryllium May 18, 13:08 1
      - to be fair, he probably didn't try to grope Michael Moore -- nm - zeitgeist May 18, 14:08
Leslie Odom Jr. joins 'Knives Out 2'. -- nm - Diva May 18, 12:57 7
- Who's next? Orlando Jones? -- nm - Beryllium May 18, 12:59 4
  - Lamar Odom -- nm - Dano May 18, 13:15
  - Surely they can find room for Sam Jackson, Woody Harrelson, and Michael Caine. -- nm - Barontronic May 18, 13:11
  - I was keeping it quiet, but I have been offered a role in Knives Out 2. -- nm - Spawn May 18, 13:02
  - Probably the kid from Everyone Hates Chris. -- nm - spamlet May 18, 13:01
- kiddo was psyched enough about this *before*! -- nm - prayformojo May 18, 12:58
- He's gonna be in the room where it happens -- nm - ty97 May 18, 12:58
Guys, guys, it's okay, you can *both* lose -- (link) - ty97 May 18, 12:56
Monsters at Work teaser. -- (link) - Mop May 18, 12:56 [youtube]
A cease-fire has been proposed -- (link) - mara May 18, 12:50 5
- Our old friend, Duke Fleed, sent me this image. -- (pic) - David May 18, 13:04 [Attachment] 2
  - that chart is a bad joke that's been kickin around for over a decade. Throw it away. -- nm - mud May 18, 14:26 1
    - Agreed. -- nm - pmb May 18, 14:33
- Hopefully this one is the same time for both sides. -- nm - Spawn May 18, 12:52
- Hope it works -- nm* - ty97 May 18, 12:52
My cousin's band is playing Suwannee Hulaween this year. -- (edited) - Diva May 18, 12:46 1
- something runs in the family and it rhymes with nusic -- nm - mud May 18, 12:49
A timeline of AT&T's disastrous foray into media. -- (link) - Mop May 18, 12:42
So is Samsung dropping Tizen and moving back to WearOS? Not exactly... Tizen is being merged into WearOS. -- nm - Mop May 18, 12:39 1
- I still have my Gear S2 around here somewhere. I should wear that more. Oh yeah, I rarely leave the house. -- nm - sycor May 18, 12:45
Get vaccinated, win Knicks/Nets playoff tickets? -- (link) - ty97 May 18, 12:38
I swear I did not hit Ms Jeans' car. -- nm - Barontronic May 18, 12:27 8
- Yeah. That was my car you hit. -- nm - Edward Havens May 18, 12:46 5
  - I blame Katamari Damacy. -- (link) - Barontronic May 18, 12:54 1
    - Katamari Damacy upset the Shivakamini Somakandarkram -- nm - Edward Havens May 18, 12:59
  - Hopefully the old one. -- nm - spamlet May 18, 12:50 2
    - Yes, the old one. I am super safe in my new dad car. The stats onboard say I drive 90% economical, 10% normal and 0% aggressive. - Edward Havens May 18, 12:55 1
      - Your car judges you? -- nm - IAmQale May 18, 13:35
- As I was leaving Omaha I noticed, too late, that I was right near a JONES BROS CUPCAKES -- nm - ty97 May 18, 12:29 1
  - Some would say that name's redundant -- nm - Barontronic May 18, 12:31
LIR zeitgeist I sent payment. But realized I goofed like decline, but only half as bad, the B half. Sorry about that. -- nm - sycor May 18, 12:27 1
- got it, unless otherwise advised i'll assume to roll it over IF the mega rolls over -- nm - zeitgeist May 18, 12:57
Disneyland Can Expand Capacity Another 28% Starting Wednesday As Orange County Moves To CA’s Yellow Tier -- (link) - budice May 18, 12:26 2
- 28 percentage points more, or 28% above current capacity? THIS IS IMPORTANT, PEOPLE!!! -- nm - Mop May 18, 12:38
- I look forward to the days when they are back at 143%. -- nm - IAmQale May 18, 12:29
I stuck with *Nathan Fillion*. -- nm - Spawn May 18, 12:24 4
- huh? -- nm - Beryllium May 18, 12:26 3
  - I mean, you bailed on Justified and stuck with a CBS cop drama. Seems to me, you're just getting what you deserve there buddy *back pat* -- nm Posted -- nm - Spawn May 18, 12:30 2
    - That was just too easy and too recent -- nm - con_carne May 18, 12:41 1
      - Agreed. But I still had to say it. - Spawn May 18, 12:45
I do wish NYC would elaborate on these tweets - ty97 May 18, 12:23 16
- Too many herpetologists -- nm - prayformojo May 18, 12:35
- Ironically it's a protest about traffic delays -- nm - Dano May 18, 12:31
- It's a protest against activity. English motherfucker, do you speak it? -- nm - IAmQale May 18, 12:29
- I think it's a pro-Palestine protest. -- (link) - Krusty May 18, 12:26 7
  - so they're protesting Hamas using Gazan children as human shields while firing 3000 rockets into their neighbor's homes? -- nm - mud May 18, 12:29 6
    - This is not something I'm well versed enough on to have an opinion. Just reporting what the protest is about. There's marches in support of both - Krusty May 18, 12:38 5
      - I know you're not asking, but I found this thread helpful. -- (link) - mara May 18, 12:47 4
        
        I would say that pretty fairly sums up my view of things, with a a couple of caveats that I think are important to fully understanding what's going on - pmb May 18, 13:42 2
        
        Thank you, these are important points. Violence and trauma have long-ranging and long-lasting ramifications. Humans in general need to be less cavalier about it. -- nm* - mara May 18, 13:51
        
        excellent post. -- nm - mud May 18, 13:48
        
        Thanks! Interesting read and analysis. -- nm - Krusty May 18, 13:01
- I assume the bombing of Gaza. -- nm - mara May 18, 12:26
- Doesn't this always happen in Astor Plaza when U.N. is in session? They are meeting because of Israel-Gaza fighting iinm... -- nm - Diva May 18, 12:26 2
  - Makes sense! -- nm - ty97 May 18, 12:28
  - You're correct. -- nm - Krusty May 18, 12:27
- It is people protesting NYC's vague tweets. -- nm - Spawn May 18, 12:24
That lawyer statement, wow -- nm - ty97 May 18, 12:23
dorW -- nm - ty97 May 18, 12:22 2
- .tsrif ysuol a tahW -- nm - mud May 18, 12:24 1
  - .eurT -- nm - ty97 May 18, 12:25

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