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Cuomo getting ready to address New Yorkers. Bet he triples down. -- (link) - TWuG Aug 10, 08:51 4
- "In times past I would have revered nigh unlike a GOD! And you bother me with these petty grievances? You should thank me for acknowledging your - Reagen Aug 10, 08:58
- You nailed it. He's tripling down. Impeach him immediately. -- nm - Krusty Aug 10, 08:55
- "I am going to hug, kiss and pat every one of you on the top of the head. Then you'll see." -- nm - Cuomo Aug 10, 08:53 1
  - Eyes up here, big boy. -- nm - Baron and Barratry Aug 10, 08:55
UNTOLD: Malice at the Palace | Official Clip: Thugs | Netflix -- (link) - Beaker Aug 10, 08:49 [youtube]
anyone wanna help me give create a list of code words for a 4 CPE class in a couple of weeks? I was thinking random 80s/70s movie references. - tRuMaN Aug 10, 08:39 24
- ImWalkingHere -- nm - LMS Aug 10, 09:11
- Hand, Rooney, Strickland, Vernon, Belding, Skinner, Hathaway, Wormer, Ballbricker - Max Aug 10, 09:02
- Clark, Rusty, Audrey, CousinEddie -- nm - rollo Aug 10, 08:59
- Jason, Michael, Freddie, Leatherface -- nm - Jovian Aug 10, 08:55
- Tron, Videodrome, Wanda, Falken (or Falcon, Snowman), WOPR -- nm - VMan Aug 10, 08:53 2
  - Noonan, Smales, Fletch, Bluto, Flounder, Otter, D-Day -- nm - VMan Aug 10, 08:55 1
    - Vader, Fredo, Bernie -- nm - VMan Aug 10, 08:59
- Socrates (but you have to pronounce it "So Crates" -- nm - Dano Aug 10, 08:53 1
  - Excellent -- nm* - JaxSean Aug 10, 08:53
- Wonkavision -- nm - JaxSean Aug 10, 08:50 1
  - Beetlejuice, Meatballs, Highlander -- nm - JaxSean Aug 10, 08:51
- Goose. Maverick. Iceman. Viper. Ripley. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 10, 08:47 4
  - Venkman. Stantz. Spengler. Winston. Gozer. Slimer. Janine. Vigo. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 10, 08:50 1
    - Splinter. April. Donatello. Michelangelo. Raphael. Leo. Shredder. (Technically this one was 1990, going by the film) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 10, 08:52
  - Terminator, Connor -- nm - chicken daddy Aug 10, 08:49 1
    - Bueller -- nm - chicken daddy Aug 10, 08:50
- make him an offer he can't refuse ; But, I'm funny how? Funny like a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? -- nm - Beaker Aug 10, 08:47 1
  - ohhh, I keep these for second list -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 10, 08:48
- Dangerzone -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 08:46
- Shermer. Bueller. Bushwood. -- nm - Volnelk Aug 10, 08:45
- Inconceivable! Yippie-Ki-Yay. Khan! -- nm - TWuG Aug 10, 08:44
- Like, MartyMcFly or SnakePilskin type phrases? -- nm - JaxSean Aug 10, 08:44 2
  - just one word references, could be a phrase, or just an inconic name (Corleone, Montoya, etc.) -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 10, 08:48 1
    - say hello to my little friend -- nm - Beaker Aug 10, 08:49
Infrastructure bill about to pass in the Senate -- (link) - TWuG Aug 10, 08:37 6
- 69-30 -- nm - mud Aug 10, 08:53
- McConnell voted to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill -- nm - budice Aug 10, 08:43
- It finally, really, actually is infrastructure week? -- nm - ty97 Aug 10, 08:40 2
  - Not yet. The House is too busy fucking around to vote on this. - Will Hunting Aug 10, 08:43 1
    - They can't because the progressives won't vote for it until the bigger bill gets over to them. - spamlet Aug 10, 08:46
- final final final final final vote -- nm* - budice Aug 10, 08:38
Maude is about to run out of what is apparently prescription dog food and I'm unable to buy more without a vet's recommendation. - Krusty Aug 10, 08:33 14
- Update: Food has been ordered and is on its way to me. -- nm - Krusty Aug 10, 08:59 1
  - woot -- nm - JaxSean Aug 10, 09:05
- You can't contact her family to get the name of her regular vet? -- nm - Meg Aug 10, 08:35 11
  - They're in Canada and I believe their vet is away as well. They knew it would run out and told me to just to give her dry food in the evening. -- (edited) - Krusty Aug 10, 08:41 10
    - Fun fact! We have phones in Canada! ;) -- nm - Andie Aug 10, 08:44 9
      - Since when?!? Touch tone or rotary? - Krusty Aug 10, 08:50 2
        
        Neither. You just pick up the receiver and ask for Sarah. -- nm - Baron and Barratry Aug 10, 08:56 1
        
        Fancy! -- nm - Krusty Aug 10, 08:58
      - Although it's a pain in the ass saying everything twice, once in English et encore en francais. -- nm - Reagen Aug 10, 08:49 4
        
        See? You should just let Quebec declare independence. - spamlet Aug 10, 08:55 1
        
        I loves me some Qweebeckers. -- nm - Reagen Aug 10, 08:56
        
        Oui, yes. - Beryllium Aug 10, 08:53 1
        
        Depends how far east/west you are :) -- nm - Meg Aug 10, 08:57
      - I'm not calling no socialist phone! -- nm - Dano Aug 10, 08:45
New Bad Waitress! -- (link) - Dano Aug 10, 08:30 [youtube] 2
- That's not horrible. Somewhat of a Hole/L7 vibe -- nm - JaxSean Aug 10, 08:36 1
  - I like them a lot and they have more music out than Wet Leg. This 3-song playlist is a good sampling. -- (link) - Dano Aug 10, 08:40 [youtube]
Oh boy, 2021 is bringing another one back: Marburg virus. You know, the hemorrhagic fever that's worse than Ebola. -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 10, 08:30
Every time I watch Deadliest Catch, I am overcome with the idea that there HAS to be an easier way to do what they do. - Volnelk Aug 10, 08:29 6
- I think cost is the big thing. just to redo their old boat is like a million bucks. to redo with new tech would be massive costs -- nm - Beaker Aug 10, 08:34 5
  - I get that. But I don’t see why a new boat with a new system never shows up. -- nm - Volnelk Aug 10, 08:36 4
    - Because of the commercial crabbing licenses costing a million bucks or more. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 10, 08:37 3
      - (And they are carefully governed, may not even be available for a new boat without having first bought a retiring boat's license) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 10, 08:38 2
        
        Sounds like NYC taxicab medallions. Only perhaps more important to avoid over-fishing. -- nm - Meg Aug 10, 08:56
        
        That makes sense. -- nm - Volnelk Aug 10, 08:44
Definitely and hopefully, the dumbest thing you'll hear see/today. -- (link) - Jovian Aug 10, 08:25 3
- Looks like we need to teach a whole lot more than Critical Race Theory in school. -- nm - Julian Aug 10, 08:28
- Yeah, it's right in the title - Mein Kampf = My Struggle. That's what it's about. -- nm - VMan Aug 10, 08:28
- it sounds a lot like Das Kapital, Jovian. -- nm - mud Aug 10, 08:27
120 mph on the freeway, yank the steering wheel 90 deg into the barrier, all in one crypto tweet -- (link) - Reagen Aug 10, 08:18 8
- *Nathan_Fillion.gif* -- nm - Mop Aug 10, 08:57
- Must be a GameStop employee -- nm - budice Aug 10, 08:31
- "You need to stop taking drugs...or take more drugs. Either way the amount of drugs you are on is wrong" -- nm - Beaker Aug 10, 08:22
- I probably won't read the thread, but is it as tenuous and nonsensical as I would expect? -- nm - Beryllium Aug 10, 08:20 4
  - Government having your financial information is bad, m’kay? - znufrii Aug 10, 08:25 1
    - In a later tweet he thinks they're taxing unrealized gains as well. Not surprised he doesn't have a grasp on this. - spamlet Aug 10, 08:27
  - He's probably at least partially right about the financial motives of the Holocaust, but the genocide/crypto connection is total fearmongering, IMO. -- nm - mara Aug 10, 08:24
  - There is not even a hint of how reporting and taxes on crypto would lead to this, nor how using crypto would prevent this. -- nm - Reagen Aug 10, 08:22
my wife is nuts. we have a chipmunk who comes to our deck door looking for seeds. will eat from your hand, run around your feet - Beaker Aug 10, 08:17 4
- *considers* what you have there my friend, is a pet chipmunk -- nm - rollo Aug 10, 08:56
- aaawwwww -- nm - ty97 Aug 10, 08:18
- Why is she nuts? - Spawn Aug 10, 08:18 1
  - wish he was as big as the groundhogs, good eating when Satan launches his attack...unless QANON is wrong this time of course -- nm - Beaker Aug 10, 08:20
Does anyone here use Arq 7 or Arq Premium for backup? -- (edited) - Beryllium Aug 10, 08:17
awww -- (link) - mud Aug 10, 07:59
Woo-hoo! Summer Stalked! Thank you Volnelk! -- (pic) - prayformojo Aug 10, 07:51 [Attachment] 5
- nicey -- nm - JaxSean Aug 10, 08:27
- No sweat. I was already there drinking so it was the least I could do. -- nm - Volnelk Aug 10, 08:09
- Forgot to post - I was too last week, thanks Tru! I should probably go to the post office for related reasons... -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Aug 10, 08:01 1
  - thanks, - tRuMaN Aug 10, 08:05
- very nice ! -- nm - mud Aug 10, 07:53
Really pretty song (Sevilla by Albinez) on classical.. but what i love the most about any classical performance is the lack of facial control. - chicken daddy Aug 10, 07:45 [youtube]
So PSG brought in Messi, Ramos, Wijnaldum and Donnarumma without paying a dime in transfer fees. That’s……unreal. -- nm - Volnelk Aug 10, 07:40 2
- and man city is gonna spend how much on two strikers? -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 10, 07:44
- Meanwhile ManU offers $100M in transfer fees and noone will bite -- nm - budice Aug 10, 07:43
At the pandemic's peak in January, hospitals averaged 217 pediatric covid admissions per day. Last week, the average was 216. -- nm - mara Aug 10, 07:33 15
- i thought we would never see refrigerator trucks and tents at hospitals again after last year, but here we are. - chicken daddy Aug 10, 07:40 13
  - I'm getting some pressure to go to a conference in october. I just think it's nuts. -- nm - amanda jeans Aug 10, 07:42 12
    - tell them there are these cool new things called computers and conference Zoom calls. you'll be a hero when you save them thousands in travel costs -- nm - Beaker Aug 10, 08:18
    - demand hazard pay -- nm - decline Aug 10, 07:53 2
      - Why does Andie have to pay? -- nm - TWuG Aug 10, 07:57 1
        
        she knows what she did -- nm - JaxSean Aug 10, 07:58
    - i was getting pressured to go to one in October in ORLANDO FLORIDA. hell no. -- nm - chicken daddy Aug 10, 07:46 7
      - We'll be at MegaCon at the Orlando Convention Center starting Thursday. I'll let you know how that goes. :D -- nm - JaxSean Aug 10, 07:54 6
        
        Don't forget to grab your shirt reading "I attended a Superspreader event in Orlando and all I got was this damn t-shirt" -- nm - decline Aug 10, 07:58 4
        
        "Intubate me baby" -- nm - chicken daddy Aug 10, 07:59
        
        “…probably.” -- nm - znufrii Aug 10, 07:59 1
        
        * -- check back in 2-10 days -- nm - JaxSean Aug 10, 08:03
        
        (...I bet that would make a ton of money.) -- nm - JaxSean Aug 10, 07:58
        
        RIP Jax and co. you will be missed. -- nm - chicken daddy Aug 10, 07:55
- Nevermind. Pediatric. Sorry. -- nm* - Inigo Aug 10, 07:39
AMC theaters gonna accept crypto payments -- (link) - budice Aug 10, 07:33 3
- I doubt it but I wonder if they're going to use the Lightning Network which is what this was designed for -- nm - oblique Aug 10, 07:48
- Will your tub of popcorn and small soda be 57 cents or 57 dollars? Spin the wheel and find out! -- nm - Baron and Barratry Aug 10, 07:38 1
  - PPDM! -- nm - VMan Aug 10, 08:20
RIP EBGames. -- (link) - Shaun Aug 10, 07:33 7
- "Come in and get your games while employees are in the back servicing Grindr ads" -- nm - budice Aug 10, 07:36 1
  - That sounds strangely specific. -- nm - Mop Aug 10, 08:42
- BUY GME!!! -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Aug 10, 07:34
- they better still have $5 Fridays -- nm - Beaker Aug 10, 07:33 3
  - I'm sure they will. GS has owned EB for awhile now, but I guess the time was now to officially rebrand. -- nm - Shaun Aug 10, 08:04 1
    - I gather they tried this a few years ago and switched back due to the outrage -- nm - Beaker Aug 10, 08:19
  - LOFL -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 07:33
Sponsored by Bad Idea Jeans... -- (link) - Mop Aug 10, 07:32
I’m sure ESPN is thrilled about the Messi news after spending a literal billion dollars for La Liga. -- nm - Volnelk Aug 10, 07:24 4
- maybe their contract included a no messi discount? -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 10, 07:32
- "Get In on the action now of La Liga featuring Messi and Barcelona" -- nm - budice Aug 10, 07:32 2
  - Haha. They just ran this article. -- (link) - Volnelk Aug 10, 07:36 1
    - I mean there's still Arriaga, Barriaga, Arriaga II and Pizoza. -- nm - Reagen Aug 10, 07:40
I ran a little experiment growing a potato plant in a plastic tree pot only covering it with grass clippings. It "worked", in that - Reagen Aug 10, 07:23 3
- 5 gallon bucket potatoes have a pretty hefty yield, if you want to try that method. -- nm - chicken daddy Aug 10, 07:24 2
  - I have a bunch in my community bed. This was just me having one left over seed potato and one plastic pot. -- nm - Reagen Aug 10, 07:29 1
    - ah ha. well, now you know? - chicken daddy Aug 10, 07:30
mafic, what did Anne of Green Gables ever do to you?!!?!? -- nm - Shaun Aug 10, 07:17 2
- probably yakked his frickin' ear off. -- nm - Reagen Aug 10, 07:18 1
  - Seems legit. -- nm - Shaun Aug 10, 08:01
Question for my Knoxvillian friends: I'm reading Suttree, which is largely set in Knoxville. Is this a well-known fact there? - Baron and Barratry Aug 10, 07:14 13
- poll: Cormac you've read. me: Child of God, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horsess -- nm - mud Aug 10, 07:27 10
  - I read The Road I guess -- nm - ty97 Aug 10, 07:56
  - Blood Meridian, No Country for Old Men, The Road -- nm - decline Aug 10, 07:43
  - Apparently none -- nm - Krusty Aug 10, 07:42
  - All the Pretty Horses -- nm - Dano Aug 10, 07:39
  - No Country for Old Men, The Road. -- nm - Dark Callisto Aug 10, 07:35 1
    - I loved the movies. -- nm - mud Aug 10, 07:51
  - Just The Road, about which I was pretty meh. -- nm - mara Aug 10, 07:34
  - the road -- nm - chicken daddy Aug 10, 07:31
  - The Road (loved it) -- nm - Beaker Aug 10, 07:30
  - Outer Dark. -- nm - Baron and Barratry Aug 10, 07:30
- Yes. There’s even a Suttree’s Tavern. - Dark Callisto Aug 10, 07:17 1
  - Cool. Thankee-sai. - Baron and Barratry Aug 10, 07:26
Active shooter situation in Church Hill, TN - Dark Callisto Aug 10, 07:12 1
- Unfortunate how the pandemic has deflected the focus on gun control -- nm - budice Aug 10, 07:17
starting sept 1, for the first time in 4 years, i'm on a 40+ hour per week schedule, probably hitting closer to 70. it'll be good, but bad. -- nm - chicken daddy Aug 10, 07:11
this training... -- nm - amanda jeans Aug 10, 07:11 3
- This Corrosion -- (link) - The Sisters of Mercy Aug 10, 08:22 [youtube] 1
  - very nice ! -- nm - mud Aug 10, 08:24
- so. many. jughandles. -- nm - ty97 Aug 10, 07:15
The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf | Official Trailer | Netflix -- (link) - Beaker Aug 10, 07:08 [youtube]
You KICK Turks and Caicos? you kick her body like the football? oh! oh! jail for Mother Canada! jail for Mother Canada for One Thousand Years!!!! -- nm - Turks and Caicos Aug 10, 07:04
Wizard World closes its convention business, selling all cons off to Fan Expo -- (link*) - Beaker Aug 10, 07:03 3
- you gotta love when any industry consolidates. it only gets better. -- nm - chicken daddy Aug 10, 07:05 2
  - All the Con Orgs are sketchy to begin with. Hence Con -- nm - budice Aug 10, 07:07 1
    - there are some rinky dink ones up the east coast here that are consistently a disaster. people still go because there's no other game in town... -- nm - chicken daddy Aug 10, 07:10

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