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Picard season 2 new trailer spoilers - Beryllium Sep 8, 20:45
I feel like you can see Trudeau weighing how strongly he should respond. And then he pulls out the blade of Hanzo. -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 8, 20:36 4
- There's also a clip of Jagmeet shutting them down (en français, even), but it's a solid minute of them talking, and then five seconds of him saying - Beryllium Sep 8, 20:49
- Dayyymnnnn - Pippy Sep 8, 20:44 1
  - I still have the Rolling Stone with him on the cover on my table. I can't seem to put it away. It's years old. -- nm - jnine Sep 8, 22:27
- :-) -- nm - mud Sep 8, 20:41
Alicia Vikander confirms she secretly had a baby with Michael Fassbender -- (link) - budice Sep 8, 20:22 4
- That’s going to be one good looking kid. -- nm - spamlet Sep 9, 03:40
- That kid is gonna be some action star someday. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Sep 8, 20:52
- oh, pff, husband Michael Fassbender. I'm still waiting to find out who knocked up January Jones. -- nm - Max Sep 8, 20:27 1
  - Me too. That is a scoop -- nm - Pippy Sep 8, 20:44
This has been a flat out embarrassing week and a half from the USMNT. -- nm - Volnelk Sep 8, 20:17
I'm home from Paris. My knee is still a mess. -- (edited) - ty97 Sep 8, 20:12 1
- Je suis knee? -- nm - budice Sep 8, 20:23
Which one of you is the father to be? Olivia Munn is pregnant. -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 8, 20:11 9
- John Mulaney -- nm - Mop Sep 8, 20:21 1
  - As confirmed in the Mulaney clip posted on the backboards. -- nm - TWuG Sep 8, 20:54
- It’s someone you least expect -- nm - Pippy Sep 8, 20:13 6
  - Aaron Rodgers? -- nm - Nice, Calm David Sep 8, 20:39
  - great Pete Davidson ruins another one for me -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 8, 20:24
  - House? -- nm - Qale Sep 8, 20:22
  - But I bet it'll be a gorgeous kid. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 20:17
  - Congrats Pippy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 8, 20:13 1
    - Heh -- nm - Pippy Sep 8, 20:20
“AEW tried to acquire the rights to “The Final Countdown” for Bryan Danielson’s entrance theme but Europe wanted too much money.” - Tim Sep 8, 19:51 15
- Good, now I don't have to hear it almost every week. - the wrong element Sep 8, 20:32
- It was $50,000 per show. That's probably north of $2 million per year for one song. -- nm - Nice, Calm David Sep 8, 20:18 13
  - But then they'd have to be associated with wrestling - ty97 Sep 8, 20:20 12
    - It was the song Bryan Danielson used in the indies before signing with WWE. - Tim Sep 8, 20:58
    - they would have made bank in itunes sales -- nm - Remlik Sep 8, 20:31 4
      - it was used in a commercial featuring them singing it, most who would have wanted it got it then -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 8, 20:37 3
        
        A guy made one appearance at a ppv and his song hit #1 on the iTunes jpop chart. - the wrong element Sep 8, 21:05
        
        You're old. -- nm - Nice, Calm David Sep 8, 20:39
        
        that was then. this is now, they would have reached a whole new 18-35 demo -- nm - Remlik Sep 8, 20:38
    - As long as Living Colour and Rancid do, we're fine. -- nm - Nice, Calm David Sep 8, 20:23 5
      - I don’t watch wrestling but just found out about Ruby Soho tonight - J Sep 8, 20:37 4
        
        One of the band members asked her to take that name and use the song after the WWE did her wrong. - Nice, Calm David Sep 8, 20:39 3
        
        That would be Lars, huge wrestling fan and bff with CM Punk -- nm - J Sep 8, 20:48 2
        
        Yup. It got a massive crowd reaction, too. -- (link) - Nice, Calm David Sep 8, 20:55 [youtube] 1
        
        Nice 👍 -- nm - J Sep 9, 04:12
Because of course. The UAW not keen on EVs because they take less labor to produce. Legacy auto is dead if the UAW succeeds in slowing the - TWuG Sep 8, 19:46 1
- That only impacts domestically manufactured cars, right? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 20:04
a modern spin on deez plums -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 8, 19:39 4
- Oh no. -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 8, 20:20 2
  - "documentary" ruins it. -- nm - Max Sep 8, 20:25 1
    - Documentaries can have reenactment vignettes. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 20:27
- Oh, that’s good. -- nm - znufrii Sep 8, 20:07
Star Trek Strange New Worlds cast reveal -- (link) - Remlik Sep 8, 19:19 4
- Star trek Discovery November 18 -- (link) - Remlik Sep 8, 19:23 3
  - Star Trek Prodigy trailer... -- (link) - Remlik Sep 8, 19:24 2
    - Star Trek the Motion Picture Directors cut 4k exclusive to Paramount + -- (link) - Remlik Sep 8, 19:49 1
      - Star Trek Picard new trailer...will debut in Feb. Season 3 in production -- (link) - Remlik Sep 8, 20:30
Apparently, "darties" are a thing college students do now? -- (edited) - znufrii Sep 8, 19:14 12
- I will only allow it if there is a recitation of the works of Dumas. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 19:42 1
  - By either Oliver Platt or Charlie Sheen, as appropriate for the crowd. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 19:43
- signed 1991 when i went (at least). I remember drinking at 9 AM before a parade...at which... - Beaker Sep 8, 19:25 9
  - Can’t drink all day if you don’t start early. -- nm - Volnelk Sep 8, 19:36 1
    - Early bird gets the tequila worm. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 20:00
  - But did you call it a “darty”? -- nm - znufrii Sep 8, 19:28 6
    - no, because I wasn't an idiot. -- nm - mafic Sep 8, 19:30 5
      - Thank you for proving my point. :) -- nm - znufrii Sep 8, 19:38 1
        
        it's the children who are wrong. -- nm - mafic Sep 8, 19:46
      - This. -- nm - MDH Sep 8, 19:35
      - Heck. I WAS an idiot and I still didn't call it that. -- nm - Dano Sep 8, 19:33 1
        
        ok, I was an idiot, but not that much of an idiot. -- nm - mafic Sep 8, 19:35
Midnight Mass | Official Trailer | Netflix -- (link) - Beaker Sep 8, 18:28 [youtube]
JLaw expecting -- (link*) - budice Sep 8, 18:25
jeez, 11 more deaths attributed to the 7 nursing homes' residents sent to a warehouse to ride out the storm...previously it stored pesticides.... -- nm - NBC Sep 8, 18:09 2
- Is the issue the warehouse/neglect, or the pesticides? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 18:33 1
  - well sending them to the warehouse was to keep them from drowning like in Katrina, abandoning them 3 days? pesticides just icing on the shit cake -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 8, 20:27
Go Matteo! -- nm - Dano Sep 8, 18:02
Spanish bishop resigns after falling in love with Satanic-erotic fiction writer -- (link*) - budice Sep 8, 17:36 11
- Good for him. I hope they're happy together. -- nm - Ender Sep 8, 19:59
- is the writer male, female, or some new term I have never heard of? -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 8, 18:12 5
  - Xe says xyr gender is irrelevant to the matter at hand. -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 8, 18:35 4
    - (I'm entirely joking. Given that her name is Silvia I'm guessing it's a woman.) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 18:42 3
      - Life ain't easy, for a boy named Sue -- (link) - Johnny Cash Sep 8, 18:48 [youtube] 2
        
        Well, I'm not dumb but I can't understand Why she walked like a woman but talked like a man -- (link) - zeitgeist Sep 8, 20:33 [youtube] 1
        
        one of my favorite live acts. I saw the Kinks live about half a dozen times since 1975 -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 8, 20:36
- There goes the Missionary Position. -- nm - Qale Sep 8, 17:54
- Luke, I'm not your Father...anymore -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 8, 17:47
- Satan's Alley -- nm - Beaker Sep 8, 17:38
- christ, what an apotheosis -- nm - Max Sep 8, 17:37
Which of the DC Shorts films would you want to see most? -- (link) - Max Sep 8, 17:29 6
- Coded looks pretty interesting. I'd also put Haven in the Booth on the list. - ReluctantCynic Sep 8, 18:52
- Shorts are hard to know. I would pick a bunch of random things. (NM) - Marlowe Sep 8, 17:59
- Oh, not that DC. -- nm - Reagen Sep 8, 17:37 2
  - heh, got me to click too -- nm - Beaker Sep 8, 17:43 1
    - I'm a... clickbaiter? -- nm - Max Sep 8, 17:44
- "In a world without human beings, stray shopping carts search for purpose and companionship. - Max Sep 8, 17:36
I interrupt your regular Slackertalk for an announcement: Pokémon Oreos. That is all. -- nm - Mop Sep 8, 17:29 1
- I’d Lickatung those. -- nm - Qale Sep 8, 17:54
didn't think it was possible but the first FF movie is better than the newest one. -- nm - Beaker Sep 8, 17:25 9
- If you took the best from both you would have a pretty okay movie. -- nm - Spawn Sep 8, 18:14 3
  - Okay, so, a movie starring Jessica Alba and Kate Mara? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 18:36 2
    - ... in bed -- nm - Beaker Sep 8, 18:45 1
      - Debating whether a "camgirl" or "OnlyFans" plot would work better -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 18:49
- is that true for Fast and Furious -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 8, 17:49
- The origin of their powers shouldn’t take up so much of the movie—just back door the origin in another Marvel movie— - flavorize Sep 8, 17:44
- the Miles Teller Mr Fantastic would make for a great The Maker though -- nm - Beaker Sep 8, 17:40
- Josh Trank: "People say a Fantastic Four movie should be fun. My theory is: what if it wasn't?" - Reagen Sep 8, 17:36 1
  - What if we made a DC movie...only even not so good -- nm - Beaker Sep 8, 17:38
Cowlitz Co WA (north of Portland) requests emergency funds for cold storage of bodies, the coroner's office is over capacity...more worrysome.... - zeitgeist Sep 8, 17:11 2
- Great. Anyone wanna guess where I'll be spending all day Monday conducting a mediation session? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Sep 8, 19:00
- Probably should have got the vaccine... -- nm - Ender Sep 8, 17:24
ooooph this one is a doozy -- (link) - Jovian Sep 8, 17:01 2
- That’s some lazy ass gaslighting. -- nm - Qale Sep 8, 17:56
- nice: -- (link) - mud Sep 8, 17:03
repost: alt. link to use for Pick 'em that you may find easier (group no. 31745, pw = 312.50) JOIN! : -- (link) - mud Sep 8, 16:57
September 8 Birthdays: Bernie Sanders (80), Aimee Mann (61), Brad Silberling (58), Kimberly Peirce (54), David Arquette & Martin Freeman (50) -- (edited) - Max Sep 8, 16:54 1
- My dad (89) -- nm - jnine Sep 9, 02:52
So far this election the only thing that annoys me more than Trudeau’s Liberal letterman jacket is Erin o’Toole. -- nm - mafic Sep 8, 16:54 3
- Trudeau’s Letterman what now? -- nm - mud Sep 8, 16:59 2
  - This thing. -- (link) - mafic Sep 8, 17:03 1
    - heh -- nm - mud Sep 8, 17:05
ST Poll: Have you heard of The Somerton Man Mystery? -- nm - Dano Sep 8, 16:52 6
- Yes -- nm - decline Sep 8, 20:32
- Nope. Doesn't ring a bell at all. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Sep 8, 17:47
- Yup -- nm - Krusty Sep 8, 17:09
- yes. Are you ready to reveal it? -- nm - Max Sep 8, 16:58
- Yep, but only for a couple months. It was in the news here for some reason. -- nm - mafic Sep 8, 16:56
- I'm pretty sure (spoils) - Will Hunting Sep 8, 16:53
Ive concluded that What If is never going to quite reach the absolute greatness of that first episode. -- nm - Jovian Sep 8, 16:50 4
- The Marvel Zombies episode was a LOT of fun. -- nm - Nice, Calm David Sep 8, 21:05
- *shrug* I really liked it -- nm - Beaker Sep 8, 18:04
- You can tell which film/tv critics are in bed with Disney -- nm - budice Sep 8, 16:55 1
  - They would have been better off not even doing a Marvel Zombies episode than expose us to that dreck. -- nm* - Jovian Sep 8, 16:56
Hey gang, guess what? Acting on a hunch, I took it upon myself to see if the Week 1 NFL broadcast map is up, and guess what? It totally is! -- (link) - prayformojo Sep 8, 16:43 1
- Whoa! -- nm - Nice, Calm David Sep 8, 17:33
The lady in the row in front of me is taking video out the plane window - ty97 Sep 8, 16:40 2
- its the way apple phones are designed, easy to hold up, turn landscape and the lens is where your hand wants to hold it securely -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 8, 17:14
- Tell her that if you take the glass out, you'll get a clearer shot. -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 8, 16:54
All Is Not OK in Oklahoma -- nm - prayformojo Sep 8, 16:40
“Pay your goddamn taxes.” -- (link) - znufrii Sep 8, 16:29
"We have changed our company name from SurveyMonkey to Momentive" ... but why? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 8, 16:23 11
- It was exhausting trying to keep people from touching the monkey -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 8, 17:19
- It was aping MailChimp. -- nm - Max Sep 8, 16:59 2
  - Mail...Kimp? -- nm - Tim Sep 8, 17:02 1
    - I use this app several times a week, and I *still* say this every time. - Nice, Calm David Sep 8, 17:43
- SurveyMonkey implies that it's a Monkey doing the work for someone else and that kind of spirals into racism is my best guess. -- nm - Qale Sep 8, 16:57 1
  - I won't buy Jack Links because those sasquatch/ape ads are just too thinly disguised racist -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 8, 17:16
- Meh, still better than Mondelez. -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 8, 16:54
- because MARKETING -- nm - mafic Sep 8, 16:51
- cuz the Monkey wuz gettin spanked -- nm - budice Sep 8, 16:27 2
  - I'm assuming he was SHOCKED by this. -- nm - VMan Sep 8, 16:34 1
    - "We weren't spankin the monkey, the monkey was spankin us. Youse Maniacs." -- nm - Mewes Sep 8, 16:41
‘Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist’ Holiday Movie a Go at Roku -- nm* - Beaker Sep 8, 16:20 3
- Is the Roku channel free or a pay streamer? -- nm - pmb Sep 8, 16:22 2
  - All Roku programming is free but has ads. -- nm - Nice, Calm David Sep 8, 16:26 1
    - Except for the super dirty stuff, but I'm not allowed to tell you how to access that... -- nm - Ender Sep 8, 20:02
Magic Arena: I managed to kill an opponent with an all defender, pillow fort deck that uses Underworld Dreams and plenty of draw/discard spells. - Qale Sep 8, 16:07 1
- Fallout 76: Worlds brings some modification abilities to the game, but largely requires Fallout 1st subscription. A month of such is a Game Pass perk, - Qale Sep 8, 16:17
NFL coverage maps are available, yet PFM hasn't posted them! Harrumph! -- nm - Nice, Calm David Sep 8, 16:07 1
- oh wow. Apparently, I am *not* ready for some football! -- nm - prayformojo Sep 8, 16:42
Malignant nsy, The Card Counter 95% (38/2), Queenpins 42% (5/7), Dune 87% (34/5) -- nm - Beaker Sep 8, 16:04

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