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DTL: it’s very hard to win when you go 16-67 from the field including 1-15 from 3. -- (edited) - spamlet Jul 30, 18:25 2
- You got 6 games left -- then you'll start to see some progress on your recruits. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 30, 18:27 1
  - Oh I know. I was just amused by that kind of futility. -- nm - spamlet Jul 30, 18:32
Do you pronounce it "Jull-eye" or "Joo-lye"? -- nm - Beryllium Jul 30, 18:12 4
- Juh-lye -- nm - ty97 Jul 30, 18:20 3
  - This -- nm - Krusty Jul 30, 18:40
  - Yeah, that. I just heard an olympics announcer say ... decidedly not that. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 30, 18:22 1
    - Joo-lye is a very southern US pronunciation -- nm - ty97 Jul 30, 18:24
Raya and the Last Dragon >>> Luca -- nm - Beaker Jul 30, 18:07 5
- just about everything >>> Luca -- nm - Spawn Jul 30, 18:31 2
  - Robocop 3??? -- nm - prayformojo Jul 30, 18:36 1
    - Too close to call -- nm - Spawn Jul 30, 19:22
- Raya and the Last Dragon >>> just about everything -- nm - David Jul 30, 18:09 1
  - tomorrow night's movie! -- nm - prayformojo Jul 30, 18:18
'Love, Victor' Renewed for Season 3 at Hulu -- nm - Beaker Jul 30, 18:05 1
- It’s a pretty decent show. It’s great representation. It could stand to take a little more risk without going all Euphoria. -- nm - Qale Jul 30, 18:25
Joey Votto is the 8th player in MLB history to hit homers in 7 straight games. -- nm - Ender Jul 30, 18:02
Votto homers again. Seventh straight game. Nine in seven. - Volnelk Jul 30, 18:00 3
- Meanwhile Mets fans are chanting "overrated". -- nm - Ender Jul 30, 18:07
- Meanwhile the Angels made the deadline acquisition of literally Junk? - JD Jul 30, 18:03
- nice! -- nm - Beaker Jul 30, 18:00
Looks like Breathed posted his last Calvin and Hobbes on FB. Do with that as you please. -- nm - Mop Jul 30, 17:44 3
- last, LAST. or most recent? -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 30, 18:20 1
  - He seems to imply it’s the end of the story. -- nm - Mop Jul 30, 18:41
- just as well. -- nm - mud Jul 30, 17:50
NFL: 49ers sign TE Jordan Matthews - Strongbad Jul 30, 17:39
deGrom has been shut down until September. That Cy Young race is going to be really interesting. - Will Hunting Jul 30, 17:29
"nearly 25% of all COVID-19 cases in the US in the last seven days were in Florida" - JaxSean Jul 30, 17:09 5
- My fully vaccinated friend got the delta variant. His doctor told him it's so contagious almost everyone is going to get it, but a lot of the - jnine Jul 30, 20:17
- Jax is going to be wearing a mask in the shower -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 30, 17:28 1
  - Thanks for THAT mental image... -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jul 30, 17:31
- You have to wonder how high the numbers would be if testing was at the levels it was earlier this year. Not sure how it is elsewhere but here - Cuzzin Todd Jul 30, 17:27 1
  - Same here. People are waiting hours to be tested, standing in the heat. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 30, 17:34
"You're third leg was just phenomenal." -- nm - Spawn Jul 30, 17:09 2
- Loved that bit. -- nm - ReluctantOptimist Jul 30, 17:12
- Do you guys get the Woody and Wilcox show in the mornings? Each friday, they do "Sports Audio" out of context. This was in today's. - Will Hunting Jul 30, 17:11
Called the Nissan dealer for a service appointment. Ed suggested Monday at 8am! We settled on 9:00 :) -- nm - Meg Jul 30, 16:40
One more cubs post. Even though the 2016 championship core has been moved there are still 3 starters from game 6 on the field vs. The Nats right now. - zunk xometimes Jul 30, 16:23 4
- And 1 of the 3 had come back because they were too cheap to pay him the first time. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 30, 17:05 1
  - Oh yeah! He was awesome with the Phillies!!! - zunk xometimes Jul 30, 17:19
- OlHoss knows what up with the Cubs -- (link) - budice Jul 30, 16:52
- Four if you count the manager! -- nm - David Jul 30, 16:48
The cake decorating post below reminded me of this. I know a number of you already saw it on FB. -- (pic) - Meg Jul 30, 16:17 [Attachment]
My old car has been titled in its new state, so i can tell this story now. - Baron of the Rings Jul 30, 16:07 7
- You don't have to get it notarized? -- nm - Ender Jul 30, 17:18 1
  - Nope, not required. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Jul 30, 17:25
- You're a criminal!! -- nm - decline Jul 30, 16:47 1
  - I'm clearly the victim here, your honor. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Jul 30, 17:15
- You can do Heather's handwriting as well as your own, right? 🙄 -- nm - JD Jul 30, 16:38
- "we've also updated your will!" -- nm - Beaker Jul 30, 16:14 1
  - Joke's on them. I left it all to Marta. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Jul 30, 16:40
Triathlon mixed relay! -- nm - Dano Jul 30, 15:53 4
- That sounds like a fun event (to watch) on paper. Super sprint distances for each competitor. I'd probably be dead after the swim even at the relay - JD Jul 30, 15:56 1
  - I think I'd be at about a 32 minute lap time. -- nm - Reagen Jul 30, 16:24
- Watch the handoff. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Jul 30, 15:56 1
  - It’s Olympic getting dressed -- nm - Dano Jul 30, 16:00
Two Americans fined 20k each for presenting fake vaccine documents on entering Canada -- (link) - Reagen Jul 30, 15:39 3
- Now they'll never make it to the Grammar Rodeo. -- nm - David Jul 30, 16:12
- How would they even know? -- nm - Mop Jul 30, 15:50
- THIS IS AMERICA, THEY CAN'T DO THAT TO ME IN CANADA! -- nm - Beaker Jul 30, 15:43
well, thats unfortunate. One of my clients large annual event is in St. Louis in a month. - tRuMaN Jul 30, 15:38 1
- I'll be in St. Louis in September, too! - ReluctantOptimist Jul 30, 16:21
Walmart Inc., the largest private employer in the U.S., is requiring its headquarters and regional staff to be vaccinated by Oct. 4. -- (link) - ty97 Jul 30, 15:26 2
- Yay. Now require all the employees -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jul 30, 16:20
- third times the charm... heheh :) -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 30, 15:29
LOL. Coach Deion asking for the Big 12 to call him regarding Jackson St joining. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 30, 15:15 1
- I'd like to see them reach out to the Dakota schools, but they won't because there's no money in it. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Jul 30, 15:18
Gerard Butler hops on the bandwagon, sues for $10 million over Olympus Has Fallen profits -- (link) - Beaker Jul 30, 15:11 7
- But he'll settle for $3.50 and a few steaks. -- nm - Qale Jul 30, 17:04 1
  - So you're saying Gerard Butler is the Loch Ness Monster?!?! -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jul 30, 17:55
- I think he trained as a lawyer so he probably knows exactly what was in the contract. -- nm - LMS Jul 30, 16:18
- I'm sorry, but we had to pay ourselves $50M for distribution so your movie was a huge money loser. -- nm - Studio Accountants Jul 30, 15:24
- "this business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it." -- nm - mud Jul 30, 15:16
- Judge: I've seen your films. Give the Studio $25M -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 30, 15:15 1
  - "You should've stuck with Mission Impossible" - Beryllium Jul 30, 15:20
The Reese's Dark Chocolate Thins are delightful straight out of the fridge. That is iall. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Jul 30, 15:08 2
- have you tried one frozen yet? there's several chocolate candy's I like frozen. no I have not tried Reeses frozen yet. -- nm* - Peglegpete Jul 30, 15:11 1
  - No, but you just gave me fond memories of childhood at the local pool where you could buy your candy bars frozen. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Jul 30, 15:16
DeSantis: "You must open the schools!" "..you are going to make masks mandatory?!?" *witholds funds so schools are forced to close* -- (link) - JaxSean Jul 30, 15:04
I don’t feel sympathy, and I don’t have joy… I only have seething anger at the unvaccinated. -- nm - IAmQale Jul 30, 14:38 10
- Doesn't pass the "shit I could've done jack squat about anyway" test for me. -- nm - con_carne Jul 30, 16:04 1
  - Their inaction now causes my proaction to be negated. -- nm - Qale Jul 30, 17:07
- I’ll allow it. -- nm - Mop Jul 30, 15:57
- At the willfully unvaccinated. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 30, 14:40 6
  - Those who cannot are little kids who I couldn’t possibly hate and a very smol number of adults who… - IAmQale Jul 30, 14:45 5
    - There's all the big kids who are still under 18 who are kind of in a special hell as they understand why they should be vaccinated but can't convince - JD Jul 30, 16:06 3
      - A lot of pregnant women haven't been vaccinated yet as the initial official advice was not to and don't know it has now changed. - LMS Jul 30, 16:26 2
        
        These are all still very small groups as compared to the vast majority that have raised my ire to the point of hatred. -- nm - Qale Jul 30, 17:09
        
        That one I actually get. There wasn't the testing numbers so nobody could definitively know and I'm not really sure how one would get the numbers - JD Jul 30, 16:46
    - You wrote my thoughts. - ReluctantOptimist Jul 30, 15:00
Showing Adventures in Babysitting to the kids, and it's basically White Flight: The Movie. -- nm - Reagen Jul 30, 14:34 7
- lots of yippie ki yay mister falcon edits too. -- nm - Reagen Jul 30, 14:54
- The new one or the original? -- nm - David Jul 30, 14:36 5
  - There's a new one??? -- nm - amanda jeans Jul 30, 15:19 1
    - 2016 remake. It's on Disney+. -- nm - David Jul 30, 15:59
  - original. -- nm - Reagen Jul 30, 14:38 2
    - stress, above all things, that that's not what Vincent D'Onofrio usually looks like! -- nm - prayformojo Jul 30, 14:49 1
      - The next film in the Vincent D'Onofrio Film Festival at Reagen's house is Full Metal Jacket. -- nm - Mop Jul 31, 10:01
Now playing: USA/Netherlands Olympic soccer - David Jul 30, 14:25
Walmart becomes latest company to mandate vaccines -- (link) - budice Jul 30, 14:24 1
- insert killfile joke here. - tRuMaN Jul 30, 14:40
That Bryant clip. I'm not crying, he's crying. - zunk xometimes Jul 30, 14:12
The Cubs made a trade today ... and then this happened -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 30, 14:02 2
- They got nothing for Kimbrel, I really wanted him more than Scherzer. -- nm - jnine Jul 30, 14:12
- Too soon. -- nm - zunk xometimes Jul 30, 14:04
loosi, from B2, I disagree with "Some people are misinformed by no fault of their own." - Cuzzin Todd Jul 30, 13:56 5
- I disagree with an assumption underlying your disagreement. - ReluctantOptimist Jul 30, 14:22 4
  - I make no assumptions to people's underlying critical thinking skills. In fact, it's the thing most of them lack. - Cuzzin Todd Jul 30, 17:21
  - As in "one should always respect the President of our country" :/ -- nm - Meg Jul 30, 14:53 2
    - "Unless HE's a Democrat." -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jul 30, 17:56
    - More than respect. Abject fealty. - ReluctantOptimist Jul 30, 16:25
Update from Bob Odenkirk... -- (link) - Krusty Jul 30, 13:49 1
- yay -- nm - JaxSean Jul 30, 13:51
We'll, I've now seen The Suicide Squad and it was pretty good. - LMS Jul 30, 13:48 3
- :-] -- nm - mud Jul 30, 15:08 2
  - I'd say it's less than the sum of it's parts but there are a lot of good parts. -- nm - LMS Jul 30, 16:28 1
    - a Polka-Dot Man AND a Calendar Man -- nm - mud Jul 30, 16:56
Disney is requiring that "all salaried and non-union hourly employees in the U.S. working at any of our sites be fully vaccinated." -- nm - Jovian Jul 30, 13:41 11
- Walmart too -- (link) - Reagen Jul 30, 14:09 7
  - HQ and regional staff only. it's a blip. -- nm - amanda jeans Jul 30, 14:22 2
    - oh: "The mandate, unveiled in a staff memo Friday, doesn’t apply to its store and warehouse staffers, the bulk of its workforce. - amanda jeans Jul 30, 14:23 1
      - dang, I thought we had something they find worth getting it for. Goes to show - Epiphany Jul 30, 14:25
  - I showed you guys that tweet the other day "private industry is going to drag us out of this"? it's really true. -- nm - amanda jeans Jul 30, 14:21
  - Immediately, the vaccination rate of hicks increases 27.3% -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 30, 14:16
  - Let's see those idiots Boycott their tried and true almighty BUSINESS above all other BUSINESSES! -- nm - Epiphany Jul 30, 14:15 1
    - Lord help them if Chick F La decides to leak their stance on this -- nm - Epiphany Jul 30, 14:16
- Good - get all the businesses to require it. -- nm - Epiphany Jul 30, 13:48
- cool -- nm - prayformojo Jul 30, 13:42 1
  - the 2024 GOP candidate gonna be mad! -- nm - Jovian Jul 30, 13:42
Last Cubs moments captured when Kris Bryant got the trade call -- (link) - budice Jul 30, 13:34 6
- OK, This got me. -- nm - zunk xometimes Jul 30, 13:45
- The MLB trade deadline summarized... -- (link) - David Jul 30, 13:35 4
  - [Charlie Brown voice] I got an Oriole -- nm - Dano Jul 30, 13:59 2
    - ha! -- nm - prayformojo Jul 30, 14:03
    - LOL -- nm - Jovian Jul 30, 14:00
  - And a Nat also one one of the first times where all the rumored big names who were out there for trades actually got traded -- nm* - eag Jul 30, 13:38
Made a batch of test icings and cake recipes, so had to gussie them up a little for the people trying them. -- (pic) - chicken daddy Jul 30, 13:30 [Attachment] 9
- i let the folks trying them finish off the decorating -- (pic) -- (link*) - chicken daddy Jul 30, 13:30 [Attachment] 8
  - So with the no image in post, opened the image in separate tab and got a super zoomed in view. Moved scrolled bars, well, that's a cute flower, - JD Jul 30, 16:04
  - I probably shouldn't send these to my mother, who is very interested in cakes. I'm sure she'd actually laugh her butt off, though. - Beryllium Jul 30, 13:35 2
    - do it. grow closer to your mother through crass pictures. -- nm - chicken daddy Jul 30, 13:39 1
      - In the words of Sterling Archer, "I would prefer not to." -- nm* - Beryllium Jul 30, 13:44
  - You ain't right. - Epiphany Jul 30, 13:35 3
    - *snort* -- nm - loosilu Jul 30, 14:05
    - everyone got three slices, decorated in the center of the plate with a - chicken daddy Jul 30, 13:40 1
      - *plays Prison Sex by Tool on Spotify* - JaxSean Jul 30, 13:50
rollercoaster. -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 30, 13:28 7
- Of the " L" word? -- nm - Epiphany Jul 30, 13:35 6
  - lust? luxury? lethargy? -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 30, 13:36 5
    - spoiler alert not really - Epiphany Jul 30, 13:40 4
      - I am trying to decide if this means you have failed somehow. -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 30, 13:47 3
        
        I told her to watch it! another spoiler alert - Epiphany Jul 30, 13:50 2
        
        hmmmm, you get a pass this time miss. but we will be watching you. -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 30, 14:03 1
        
        yes sir! -- nm - Epiphany Jul 30, 14:15

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