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Chills -- (link) - znufrii Jun 12, 10:58 1
- nice -- nm - mud Jun 12, 11:03
Let's look in on the pillow party that mypillow guy is having.... -- (link) - Remlik Jun 12, 10:23 5
- Sadly, it did grow to a bit over 1k. - Spawn Jun 12, 12:33
- So, who’s feeling dumber? Him for setting this up or those ten people for being dumb enough to be there? -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 12, 10:35 3
  - More show up later. But none of them do one another’s hair, paint nails, or talk about boys. -- nm - IAmQale Jun 12, 11:08
  - Those 10 are family of the sound, light crew, food vendors -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 12, 10:57
  - They're too dumb to feel dumb. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 12, 10:37
:-( Awful situation. -- nm - Krusty Jun 12, 09:58 31
- So glad that the ref stopped things and waved the medical people on so quickly -- nm - zork Jun 12, 10:39
- Checked twitter to see what was going on. Glad I wasn't watching. Hope he'll be OK. -- nm - zunk xometimes Jun 12, 10:23 7
  - I was outside with it on the radio. They made it sound like he was hit in the head so after a few minutes I went in to rewind. - zork Jun 12, 10:43
  - If you were watching the match you couldn't miss it as it was zoomed in on him as he was about to have an in-bounds pass thrown to him. - Krusty Jun 12, 10:26 5
    - I wasn’t watching this time, but I was watching in 2012. Never a good feeling. -- (link) - znufrii Jun 12, 10:37 4
      - Yeesh -- nm - Krusty Jun 12, 10:48 3
        
        In 2008 a player collapsed on the pitch and died -- nm - zork Jun 12, 10:52 2
        
        I felt certain that's what had happened here. -- nm - mud Jun 12, 10:54 1
        
        Me too -- nm - zork Jun 12, 11:10
- word is that he's been stabilized. -- nm - Reagen Jun 12, 10:13 20
  - Danish football association reports that he is awake in the hospital. -- nm - znufrii Jun 12, 10:41 2
    - what a relief. -- nm - mud Jun 12, 10:44
    - From the guardian live blog -- (link) - znufrii Jun 12, 10:43
  - What are we talking about? -- nm - David Jun 12, 10:26 3
    - Soccer - znufrii Jun 12, 10:28
    - Danish soccer player collapsed on the pitch. -- nm - Reagen Jun 12, 10:27 1
      - Thank you both. -- nm - David Jun 12, 10:29
  - Oh good. Where did you hear that? -- nm - zork Jun 12, 10:15 12
    - Photos going around of him awake and responsive -- (link) - Reagen Jun 12, 10:19 11
      - That's not his hand btw - zork Jun 12, 10:46
      - No contact at all. He was jogging to get a throw in and collapsed as the ball was in the air towards him. It was very scary to see. - Krusty Jun 12, 10:24
      - I don’t get the delete comments. He’s awake…that’s not worth sharing? Wtf people. It’s not his death photo. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 12, 10:21 8
        
        The BBC apparently zoomed in while he was getting CPR. I think a lot of people started off upset about that. -- nm - Dark Callisto Jun 12, 11:01 1
        
        None of the broadcasters have independent feeds, FWIW, it's all FIFA/UEFA operators - Reagen Jun 12, 11:04
        
        There's a horde of Twitter people that are hyper-sensitive to "decorum" and "trauma". -- nm - Reagen Jun 12, 10:24 4
        
        They are very concerned right now about whoever made the choice to air video of his wife in tears. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 12, 10:26
        
        And, as a corollary, oblivious to context. -- nm - znufrii Jun 12, 10:25 2
        
        Also I think there's a bunch of people that have developed this idea that everyone posts things only for likes and clout - Reagen Jun 12, 11:00
        
        Yup, they've learned a bad rule stupidly. -- nm - Reagen Jun 12, 10:26
        
        I was just about to say the same. -- (edited) - znufrii Jun 12, 10:22
- I hope he's even alive. Wow -- nm - zork Jun 12, 10:13
"Faster, Humpback! Krill! Krill!" - Jonah a Movie -- nm - Beryllium Jun 12, 09:52 1
- Baby Beluga Driver -- nm - Beryllium Jun 12, 10:05
Hey Central IL folks and ex-pats. Guess where we are… -- (pic) - spamlet Jun 12, 09:45 [Attachment] 2
- Enjoy! -- nm - Dark Callisto Jun 12, 09:56
- I'm gonna guess....Central IL? -- nm - ty97 Jun 12, 09:47
holy shit moment in Copenhagen -- nm - mud Jun 12, 09:45 1
- They've been doing CPR on him for a while -- nm - zork Jun 12, 09:49
There was a mass shooting on Sixth Street in Austin last night -- (link) - ty97 Jun 12, 08:44
Grrrr, we ordered a Wyze robot vac and hand-held. They shipped it together (they say). We got only the hand-held. - Will Hunting Jun 12, 08:37 1
- I emailed them when we got two vacs, and they answered back within a day or so. - JaxSean Jun 12, 09:06
Record Store Day today...here's the list of items -- (link) - Remlik Jun 12, 08:36
No winners for lotto max again. (Although I did win a free play ...) -- nm - Beryllium Jun 12, 08:33 1
- and $1 on the extra, too -- nm - Beryllium Jun 12, 08:36
JFC this is a stupid idea. -- (link) - Reagen Jun 12, 08:20 12
- A similar approach doesn’t work all that well in college either as it is. -- nm - Qale Jun 12, 09:41
- dee yoo ehm dum -- nm - mud Jun 12, 09:37
- It’s like uber but for teachers! Where’s my billion dollars? -- nm - mafic Jun 12, 09:02
- He clearly has no idea how educating works. It's not "here's info, now you're educated" -- nm - TWuG Jun 12, 08:57 3
  - Teaching kids and feeding cattle, it's the same thing. Shovel it in front of them. -- nm - Reagen Jun 12, 09:32 1
    - Works every time -- nm - zork Jun 12, 10:48
  - Exactly this. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 12, 09:09
- *smh* -- nm - znufrii Jun 12, 08:47
- *smh* I really hope the voters surprise me. - Krusty Jun 12, 08:23 3
  - who looks at the last year of education and says "yup, more of that!" -- nm - Reagen Jun 12, 08:25 2
    - Yup but also class sizes of 300 is insane. 30 is too much. -- nm - Krusty Jun 12, 08:27 1
      - I can manage 30 HSers but at the lower grades, it should be max 20-22. -- nm - Reagen Jun 12, 08:29
Happy Loving Day! -- nm - ty97 Jun 12, 08:15 2
- ~Love to love you baby~ -- nm - zunk xometimes Jun 12, 08:28
- ~Loving you is easy 'cause your beautiful~ -- nm - Krusty Jun 12, 08:21
No extra time? Booo. You play to win the game! ;-) -- nm - Krusty Jun 12, 07:56 1
- It’s the group stage, so no. :) -- nm - znufrii Jun 12, 08:00
Nicola Jokic deserves better. Puts up the 2nd 30-20-10 triple double in playoff history….loses by 20+ -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 12, 07:51
Nice set piece! -- nm - Krusty Jun 12, 07:34 2
- "Y'all got anything like trick plays, or..." "Here they're called 'elaborate set pieces'." -- nm - Reagen Jun 12, 07:42 1
  - :-) -- nm - Krusty Jun 12, 07:46
The Swiss are in total control of this match. -- nm - Krusty Jun 12, 07:12
Let's go, Wales! - Krusty Jun 12, 06:26 4
- Blaidd Drwg! - Barontronic Jun 12, 06:44
- I am endlessly amused that the Swiss uniforms use Helvetica font. -- nm - Reagen Jun 12, 06:32 2
  - Heh. -- nm - znufrii Jun 12, 07:12
  - It's only right. :-) -- nm - Krusty Jun 12, 06:37
Look, this is all Trump wanted from his cabinet meetings, press conferences, or really just every time he entered a room. -- (link) - mafic Jun 12, 04:28 2
- The magically moving briefcase -- nm - Strongbad, Champ Champ Jun 12, 06:17
- I love how high they keep their hands during that -- nm - zork Jun 12, 06:12
I get happy every time Nikki Cross comes on screen. She's such a little ball of energy. -- nm - Ender Jun 12, 02:28
Oh everybody wants to know what does a poor boy do? A poor boy sews patches on his clothes And stuffs newspapers in his shoes -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 12, 02:14
I can't help but notice that PFM never reviewed Better Off Dead. -- nm - David Jun 12, 01:07
Billie Eilish or Dua Lipa? -- nm - ore-o Jun 11, 23:27 6
- Lorde or Donna Summer? -- nm - con_carne Jun 12, 10:10
- Eye gouge, or paper cut with lemon juice? -- nm - znufrii Jun 12, 08:31
- Dua Lipa in a landslide -- nm - Pippy Jun 12, 08:21
- Arsenic or cookies? -- nm - ty97 Jun 12, 07:43
- Dua Lipa and it’s not even close enough to be a conversation. -- nm - MDH Jun 12, 06:28
- Maybe Billie Eilish IS Dua Lipa. Has this whole Hannah Montana thing going on. -- nm* - mafic Jun 12, 04:30
Authorities are going after illegal grow-ops in the California desert. -- (link) - Meg Jun 11, 23:26 4
- When trying to read this article, I get this pop-up window and pay-wall: - ore-o Jun 12, 00:24 3
  - another link -- (link) - zeitgeist Jun 12, 00:41 2
    - thanks - unfortunately, got the exactsame pop-up there, too.. -- nm - ore-o Jun 12, 01:18 1
      - This one? -- (link) - . Jun 12, 03:42
In case you didn’t know, Disney+ has extras on some movies. Most notably Marvel content. So, deleted scenes, commentary… -- nm - Qale Jun 11, 22:26 2
- What? Wait a second - Spawn Jun 11, 23:07 1
  - Nope. It has MARVEL content. -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 12, 06:24
I can't believe how great Four Seasons were back in '75. Just getting into it now. -- nm - ore-o Jun 11, 22:16 6
- Check this out, if you wish -- (link) - ore-o Jun 11, 22:26 [youtube]
- You can thank Joe Pesci. -- nm - ty97 Jun 11, 22:19 1
  - Yes - and Bob Gaudio, not least -- nm - ore-o Jun 11, 22:39
- Oh, and btw, I just found out this very minute that Joe Long - bassist - passed away now on April 21st. R.I.P. -- nm - ore-o Jun 11, 22:17 2
  - He was 88 - died from COVID-19. Tommy DeVito died September 21 - also from COVID - at age 92. -- nm* - ore-o Jun 11, 22:47 1
    - I had known about Tommy, not Joe -- nm - ty97 Jun 11, 23:04
I previously mentioned that the great-grand-daughter of the Stanley Ranch family had their house painted. Guess the Schnitger family must have - Meg Jun 11, 21:41 [Attachment]
Okay Waba - why on earth would I need three forks and 8 packs of sauce with a single dinner?? - Meg Jun 11, 21:20 1
- Admittedly it will likely last me 3 meals but I have my own silverware :/ -- nm - Meg Jun 11, 21:21
Survey: Can you remember which movie was the first one you went to see not once, not twice, but THREE times in movie theatres.. ? - ore-o Jun 11, 21:02 29
- Jedi. I had to watch the second time because I drank so much soda in excitement before the 1st showing that I missed most of it in the bathroom. - Max Jun 12, 17:27
- I've mentioned it before but a neighbour just a couple of years older than me went to Jaws at least 50 times -- nm - zork Jun 12, 10:51
- I guess it was "Fried Green Tomatoes", of all things. - Marlowe Jun 12, 06:11
- Pretty sure I never went to any more than once in the theatre -- nm - zork Jun 12, 06:08
- Empire Strikes Back - and it didn't stop at 3. - Cuzzin Todd Jun 12, 06:06
- I think E.T. -- nm - Andie Jun 12, 03:58
- Casablanca -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 11, 22:23 1
  - It's from 1942. Where was it screened? You have some kind of classics or re-runs theater, there.. ? -- nm - ore-o Jun 11, 22:28
- Fellowship of the Ring -- nm - con_carne Jun 11, 22:19
- Brokeback Mountain. -- nm - kelly Jun 11, 22:12
- *IF* I have seen a movie in the theater three times, and I'm not sure that I have, but *IF* I have, it was - ty97 Jun 11, 21:56 1
  - Christmas tradition? - ore-o Jun 11, 22:06
- Alive or Falling Down - Jovian Jun 11, 21:48
- Star Wars? I think. -- nm - jnine Jun 11, 21:41 1
  - I have the impression that that's a common one. -- nm - ore-o Jun 11, 21:54
- No way. Grew up at my grandparents drive-in. There are literally dozens, most I don't remember. -- nm - Spawn Jun 11, 21:34 1
  - Just consider ones that you paid to go see -- nm - zork Jun 12, 06:07
- The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover -- nm - Dano Jun 11, 21:32
- Probably Roger Rabbit. I saw that like 9 or 10 times in theatres. Don’t remember anything before that. -- nm - mafic Jun 11, 21:30 1
  - Woger Wabbit -- nm - ore-o Jun 11, 21:30
- I'm pretty sure it's Home Alone. -- nm - Krusty Jun 11, 21:27
- I know Gone with the Wind was at least twice, but I think the rest were on TV and tape. -- nm - Meg Jun 11, 21:18
- Tmnt back in 1990 I think it was. -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 11, 21:07
- The Godfather -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 11, 21:06
- Not entirely sure I've ever seen one thrice. First twice was Starship Troopers. -- nm - Ender Jun 11, 21:05 4
  - The LAST one I saw twice was Annihilation. -- nm - Ender Jun 11, 21:36 2
    - the LAST one I saw three times was South Park - Jovian Jun 11, 21:55
    - I don't know that one -- nm - ore-o Jun 11, 21:41
  - Seen that one at least three times in theaters - love it -- nm - ore-o Jun 11, 21:15
It's not the best but Tacoma FD is really funny. It's on HBO Max for those that haven't seen it. -- nm - Krusty Jun 11, 21:01 1
- We *really* like it. -- nm - David Jun 11, 21:25
TIL: Will Arnett was married to Penelope Ann Miller in 1994-95. -- nm - Mop, Montreal Canadiens Fan Jun 11, 20:38
let my inspiration flow in token rhyme suggesting rhythm that will not forsake me till my tale is told and done -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 11, 20:30 8
- The rhythm is gonna get you tonight, No way, you can fight it every day - tRuMaN Jun 11, 20:55 7
  - Come to think of it, I think I went and purchased it after seeing the movie "Stakeout" at the local movie theatre - twice -- nm - ore-o Jun 11, 21:01 5
    - I just don't know, don't know how I'm gonna deal with you - tRuMaN Jun 11, 21:25 4
      - "Doctor, Doctor, I think I'm gonna crash!" Doctor says he's coming, but you gotta pay him cash.. -- nm - ore-o Jun 11, 21:36 2
        
        Come on, shake your body, baby, do the conga, i know you can't control yourself any longer - tRuMaN Jun 11, 21:41 1
        
        Bad Bad Bad Bad boy - you make me feel so good. -- nm - ore-o Jun 11, 21:53
      - Was it a dealer? Or was it a DJ? -- nm - ore-o Jun 11, 21:30
  - I used to have that one on 12" -- nm - ore-o Jun 11, 20:58

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