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Took longer than I expected, but an argument in a texas bar turned into a mass shooting since everyone and anyone can carry anywhere - zeitgeist Aug 15, 18:54 1
- ... oh, I thought it was *the* texas bar. Like, a lawyer shootout. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 15, 18:59
The truly horrific and sad story of the weekend is the death of 1300 people in Haiti. (NM) - Marlowe Aug 15, 18:43 8
- I'd bet you more died in Afghanistan... -- nm - Ender Aug 15, 18:53 3
  - -52 Qale Points for unnecessarily being a dick. -- nm* - Qale Aug 15, 22:44
  - You are right. Never mind, this is great news, that at least 1300 people died in Haiti. Thanks for putting me in my place. (NM) - Marlowe Aug 15, 18:55 1
    - I apologize. I read your post as minimizing the suffering going on in Afghanistan. -- nm - Ender Aug 15, 22:53
- This quake was much stronger, but the one in 2010 killed some 200,000 (I didn't know it was so bad, didn't remember anyway) -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 15, 18:49
- oh man a 7.2? -- nm - Remlik Aug 15, 18:49
- yeah. between the hurricanes, the earthquake 10 yrs ago, and the politicians Haiti's citizens havent had a fair chance -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 15, 18:45 1
  - And the assassination last month -- nm - Beryllium Aug 15, 18:58
Holy shit, that episode of Ted Lasso. -- nm - Mop Aug 15, 18:41
Me to my sis-in-law last Sunday: "Based on your due date and my schedule it would be most convenient for me if you could have your baby September 1st" - Max Aug 15, 18:21 3
- Mom said that when we stationed in Nagoya Japan, deliveries were scheduled and if you don't show up, MPs came to get you. -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 15, 18:23 2
  - the weird (possibly unintended) consequence of the public/private medical system here is a very large number of scheduled inductions and c-sections. -- nm - mafic Aug 15, 18:31 1
    - She's been planning to hold off going as late as possible because she heard the earlier you arrive the more likely they are to induce - Max Aug 15, 19:01
"Forrest Tower" is the name of the person giving us a wildfire update on the nightly news. Not a reporter. He helps fight the fires. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 15, 18:11
i never thought about it, but 2012 is a movie that wants you to laugh when millions of people are dying. - tRuMaN Aug 15, 18:04 7
- I've never watched it. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 15, 18:13 1
  - total B movie. But Woody Harleson is terrific in it. -- nm - Remlik Aug 15, 18:22
- probably several billion. but really the key takeaway is that you should always listen to geologists. -- nm - mafic Aug 15, 18:12 4
  - by geologist you mean a crazy guy with a home built radio living out of a van? -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 15, 18:21 2
    - you say that like it's a bad thing. -- nm - mafic Aug 15, 18:29
    - Is that not typical of all geologists? -- nm - Beryllium Aug 15, 18:22
  - I feel like Tremors already should have taught us that. -- nm - Qale Aug 15, 18:17
Afghans are being airlifted out. The tweet only list one aircraft and 800 people, but it's multiple aircraft - TWuG Aug 15, 17:59 2
- Are we evacuating everyone in Afghanistan? -- nm - Mop Aug 15, 18:40 1
  - only those ballsy enough to carry all the evidence that would get them sumarily executed, employment contracts, ID cards etc. -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 15, 18:55
WWE: Sasha Banks and Bianca Belair have missed 2 live events due to 'unforeseen circumstances' -- nm - Remlik Aug 15, 17:31 5
- That sounds not at all suspicious in 2021. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 15, 17:48 4
  - in quarantine until summerslam I bet -- nm - Remlik Aug 15, 18:18
  - Sick with Covid, kidnapped by sex cult, mental health break, secret wedding, tiktok injury. Could be anything. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 15, 18:09
  - I'm hoping for some Hot Lesbian Action. -- nm - Qale Aug 15, 18:08
  - right? -- nm - Remlik Aug 15, 17:59
Ted Lasso: Does British soccer really go through the winter? When is soccer season? -- nm - Ender Aug 15, 17:24 11
- It almost perfectly mirrors a school year. Some leagues take a ‘winter break’. -- nm - Volnelk Aug 15, 18:05
- Now to May for national leagues. A match a week until may. Then the ancillary competitions in the midweek iirc. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 15, 17:49 1
  - Broadly speaking, this. -- (edited) - znufrii Aug 15, 18:36
- It's basically never not soccer season but Aug-May is the typical national league run. -- nm - Reagen Aug 15, 17:28 7
  - yeah, when it's not Premier League season it's probably Champion's League or UEFA or World Cup qualifying. -- nm - mafic Aug 15, 17:42 3
    - Season 1 spoilers - Beryllium Aug 15, 17:44 2
      - spoilers I guess? - mafic Aug 15, 17:48 1
        
        Ah. The first one, then. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 15, 17:56
  - yeah, based on some comments I've read - spoils - Beaker Aug 15, 17:34 2
    - 38 or 39 game season for english footy -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 15, 17:40 1
      - 38. -- nm - znufrii Aug 15, 18:38
whats the best buddy cop/ buddy crime solving movie of the last decade? - tRuMaN Aug 15, 17:03 8
- Detective Pikachu -- nm* - Peglegpete Aug 15, 17:23
- Does The Hitman's Bodyguard count? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Aug 15, 17:15
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang or The Nice Guys -- nm - Beaker Aug 15, 17:13 1
  - This. -- nm - Marlowe Aug 15, 18:05
- The Other Guys just misses out so 21/22 Jump Street -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 15, 17:13 1
  - and these are fantastic. I'll watch anytime they come on -- nm - Beaker Aug 15, 17:13
- 2 Guns (2013). Very rewatchable. The Other Guys, Happytime Murders, Wind River, Hell or High Water, Zootopia, Spy, The Man from UNCLE -- nm* - Max Aug 15, 17:10
- I’m partial to 22 Jump St— -- nm - flavorize Aug 15, 17:08
92% of LGBTQ+ Americans have received at least 1 Covid vaccine shot -- (link) - TWuG Aug 15, 16:37 8
- Moderna and Astra-Zenica are just their stage names -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 15, 18:22
- The vaccine makes you gay! -- nm - Dano Aug 15, 16:44 6
  - Correlation is not causation! - Baron and Barratry Aug 15, 16:46 5
    - Suddenly people start noticing Baron -- nm - budice Aug 15, 16:49 4
      - I am pretty noticeable. *does the hippy hippy shake* -- nm - Baron and Barratry Aug 15, 16:58 3
        
        *looks respectfully* -- nm - Qale Aug 15, 18:10
        
        *evocative gaze* -- nm - ReluctantCynic Aug 15, 17:15
        
        *watches as Baron breaks something in his hip and falls to the floor* -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 15, 17:09
Huh. TMobile offering $10 off/mo for Youtube TV -- (link) - budice Aug 15, 15:36 3
- Will that offset this massive customer data breach? -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 15, 16:08 1
  - Great. 🤬 -- nm - Krusty Aug 15, 17:36
- I mean, I know cellphone bills are expensive, but I don't think Google would agree to those takeover terms -- nm - Beryllium Aug 15, 15:48
I can't believe I'm putting any thought into F-Boy Island, but here I am (major spoilers - like the entire show summary recap) - Dano Aug 15, 15:33 4
- I feel dumber for having read that -- and yet I couldn't not. Question (spoils) - Baron and Barratry Aug 15, 16:46 1
  - This show was so obviously scripted it's not relevant but my guess for reality show twists in general are in my response to Max. - Dano Aug 15, 17:01
- I didn't watch and don't know how these shows work behinds the scenes, but - Max Aug 15, 16:35 1
  - I would think that as long as twists are pre-decided so they aren’t made up to target someone specifically it’s okay that they aren’t known up front. -- nm - Dano Aug 15, 16:44
Ted Lasso spoilers - Beaker Aug 15, 15:25 2
- i need to start watching that dont I know that I have access to apple tv+ -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 15, 16:53
- Ted Lasso re-established my faith in sitcoms. It's the first one I watch in decades. - Marlowe Aug 15, 16:02
Huh, so there were 10 EPL matches. No ties. That's uncommon. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 15, 15:22 2
- I feel like that has to be super rare. -- nm - Volnelk Aug 15, 15:33 1
  - Last year, out of 380 matches, there were like 84 draws. So, about 22%. 10 non-draws is just over 8% which seems really high to me. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 15, 15:37
Now watching Malice at the Palace Ep 1 -- nm - ReluctantCynic Aug 15, 15:20
Good news, pedophiles with only 29 images in your iCloud account! -- (link) - Mop Aug 15, 15:17 6
- Those don’t exist. It’s always like 7255826 terabytes in stories. -- nm - Qale Aug 15, 15:28 5
  - I used to work with someone who got arrested for that. Not even sure if he spent any time in jail; I saw him walking around with his kids a year later -- nm - Beryllium Aug 15, 15:36 4
    - (I assume it means that charges were dropped ... or else the justice system is extreeeeeemly slow.) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 15, 15:50 3
      - Oh, he pled guilty and the facts didn't line up with a hoard situation - oh man, he's lucky that landed before the me-too thing, he'd have been - Beryllium Aug 15, 16:02 2
        
        That's a terrible story, but not really in line with what I was talking about. That's a lecherous fool, not a pedophile. -- nm - Qale Aug 15, 18:12 1
        
        Exactly. But when he was first arrested and charged, it was made to sound like what you meant, and that was what I had remembered -- nm - Beryllium Aug 15, 18:21
"2nd fastest 3-5km bike ride" - short ride, better than no ride. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 15, 15:15
It's sad that after 20 years, this may be the best available outcome. There are surely things that could be done better right now - TWuG Aug 15, 15:13
I’m more excited for the White Lotus finale than I expected to be. It’s a quirky show, but I dig it. - Volnelk Aug 15, 15:00 3
- We just started watching it yesterday. Strange but interesting show. -- nm - Krusty Aug 15, 15:13 2
  - Yep. Difficult to classify. It’s funny but awkward but serious and a mystery. -- nm - Volnelk Aug 15, 15:22 1
    - Yes. That's a good way to put it -- nm - Krusty Aug 15, 17:16
TV PSA: Chesapeake Shores, Big Brother, Celebrity Family Feud, Naked and Afraid, Legends of Tomorrow, Wellington Paranormal, Animal Kingdom, Chase, -- nm - Beaker Aug 15, 14:21 2
- Love Island, Dead Pixels, Love Life, To Tell the Truth, White Lotus, The L Word: Generation Q, Tuca & Bertie, Heels, Power Book III: Raising Kanan, -- nm - Beaker Aug 15, 14:23 1
  - The End, Godfather of Harlem, UFO, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Aug 15, 14:24
Now playing: Ted Lasso S2E2, in which my usually-very-on-top-of-things wife learns - prayformojo Aug 15, 14:13
Kokoruda says hi. -- (pic) - David Aug 15, 13:51 [Attachment] 8
- 🌊👍 -- nm - Dano Aug 15, 15:35
- 😻😻 -- nm - Krusty Aug 15, 14:18
- 👍👍👍 -- nm - prayformojo Aug 15, 13:52
- Is that a Roy Kent glare? -- nm - Beryllium Aug 15, 13:52 4
  - No, Roy doesn’t really glare. -- (pic) - David Aug 15, 13:54 [Attachment] 3
    - So big so fast! -- nm - Baron and Barratry Aug 15, 15:22 2
      - Roy’s 4. -- nm - David Aug 15, 15:33 1
        
        Oh those are different cats. I'm a dork. -- nm - Baron and Barratry Aug 15, 15:50
In shocking taco news, we are going to lupitas tonight, not yallah. What??? -- nm - amanda jeans Aug 15, 13:41 2
- #tacowars2021 -- nm - Max Aug 15, 16:36
- Traitors! -- nm - Yallah Aug 15, 14:03
The Taliban are in the Presidential Palace now... -- (link) - Remlik Aug 15, 13:35 4
- scary -- (link) - mud Aug 15, 14:02
- Looking for Pelosi and AOC. -- nm - Spawn Aug 15, 13:36 2
  - They look alot more respectful of the place than the idiots of Jan 6 -- nm - eag Aug 15, 13:40 1
    - Acting like they have been there before. - Spawn Aug 15, 13:41
Apparently Twitter's main character today is Internet Explorer - specifically, the working conditions of the team behind IE3. -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 15, 13:07
MAJ, Free Guy was tracking for $13-$16 million. This is a best case scenario. - David Aug 15, 13:05 9
- My thinking with legacy things…would the budget be approved if they knew the current landscape? I think Free Guy still gets 100mil. I don’t think - Will Hunting Aug 15, 13:17 8
  - It is rather amazing that Marvel ended the big phases when they did. Going forward, the movies would have already had much smaller actor budgets. -- nm - Spawn Aug 15, 13:38 2
    - The actors might have been cheaper but the projects wouldn't have been. They spent $150 million on TFAWS. -- nm - David Aug 15, 14:16 1
      - Yeah, but they have better options for budget dial backs now, at least. -- nm - Spawn Aug 15, 14:27
  - Which ones are the others? F9 and AQP2? -- nm - David Aug 15, 13:32 4
    - Space Jam 2. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 15, 13:46 1
      - Yeah, that one definitely gets its budget cut if it even gets made. - David Aug 15, 13:47
    - AQP2 arguably overperformed, right? -- nm - amanda jeans Aug 15, 13:41 1
      - It will make probably less than the original, but it’s still arguably the best pandemic film relative to expectations. - David Aug 15, 13:45
AEW was never going to let an Impact wrestler beat the current AEW world champion. - David Aug 15, 12:58 11
- CHarlotte skipped a live WWE event that she was advertised to be at, she was at Tripplemania -- nm - Remlik Aug 15, 13:30 10
  - Just watched that clip of Rick Flair. I've been reading he wanted to be active back in the ring. The man can barely move. With all his health - pmb Aug 15, 13:39 5
    - He must be short on money again. He’s less successful with money than Trump. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 15, 15:08 2
      - he said the only reason he left WWE was because he disagreed on how earn money -- nm - Remlik Aug 15, 15:22 1
        
        He had a sweetheart deal from them. He's broke again. Hunter's going to be getting some pleading phone calls soon. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 15, 15:24
    - He pretty much claimed that" The Wrestler" movie was kinda about him - eag Aug 15, 13:51
    - The crowd went crazy for,it but yeah. He couldn’t even do the figure four. -- nm - David Aug 15, 13:46
  - It’s gonna get worse, not better. Those pandemic layoffs were a tipping point. -- nm - David Aug 15, 13:31 3
    - Eh...for C list talent yeah. -- nm - Remlik Aug 15, 13:39 2
      - No, they kept Cena. - David Aug 15, 13:43 1
        
        hahah! -- nm - Remlik Aug 15, 17:03
Bhad Babie: remember her? making big $$ on only fans -- (link) - Remlik Aug 15, 12:43 4
- "Bregoli racks up $40,000 a post to her 9 million Snapchat devotees." Is that about a week's worth of salary for a starting baseball player? -- nm - Max Aug 15, 12:54
- I don't think your allowed to say "remember her" about an 18-year-old. -- nm - Ender Aug 15, 12:51 2
  - Because the answer is bound to be no? -- nm - Beryllium Aug 15, 13:01 1
    - She's missing out if not selling tshirts saying "Let me cash you out inside" -- nm - Max Aug 15, 13:08
Amazon's "menu with a person icon" just waved at me when I loaded the site on mobile. - Beryllium Aug 15, 12:12 1
- Sure it did, bery. - Spawn Aug 15, 13:40
Local Veteran's Home, 97% vaxxed, staff? only 50% outbreak kills 1 and over 30 cases. -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 15, 12:06
Brandi Carlile Perform Soundgarden Hits With the Band’s Surviving Members -- (link) - Remlik Aug 15, 11:57 1
- I love her so much. -- nm - zunk xometimes Aug 15, 12:01
Now this is funny. -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 15, 11:42 6
- omg talk about rage -- nm - Jovian Aug 15, 12:55 1
  - Not to play Monday Morning QB, but it is clearly nkta flat road so maybe they should have considered things might go wrong. - Spawn Aug 15, 13:43
- fuu' me -- nm - Max Aug 15, 12:19
- How did it break free from the wench? -- nm - Spawn Aug 15, 11:50 2
  - My guess is he just hooked the tow rope around itself and once it lost tension it came loose. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 15, 12:59 1
    - Good call. -- nm - Spawn Aug 15, 13:42

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