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Just finished it and by far Rick Flair comes off the worst followed by the Dreamer guy and Jim Ross who did nothing to stop anything - Krusty Sep 17, 12:24
Wow. We have really hit the movie release dead zone, eh? -- nm - Spawn Sep 17, 12:16 8
- I am back to doing my weekly BO bet with my coworker. This week we did it differently, we each picked a movie (Copshop vs Cry Macho) as to which does - Andie Sep 17, 12:20 2
  - i predict victory in your future (although on HSX Macho is 18 and Cop is 12) -- nm* - Beaker Sep 17, 12:21 1
    - I would consider seeing CM before C. - Spawn Sep 17, 12:22
- Dear Evan Hansen next week -- nm - oblique Sep 17, 12:19 2
  - See what I mean? -- nm - Spawn Sep 17, 12:21
  - MDH will cut you -- nm - Beaker Sep 17, 12:20
- Copshop at 82%...shocking I know (Frank Grillo and Gerard Butler); but it looks like fun -- nm - Beaker Sep 17, 12:18 1
  - NA. I have heard studio sliced it up too much. -- nm* - Spawn Sep 17, 12:18
Boston Dynamics continues to work toward humans' inevitable demise. -- (link) - Tenetennbaron Sep 17, 12:13
Local Florida GOP org can't access it's financial data because the only person with knowledge of the accounts died of, yes, Covid. -- (link) - TWuG Sep 17, 12:07 8
- I find no joy in this -- nm - ty97 Sep 17, 12:22 4
  - They are killing people with their money and now they can not access it due to the very reason. -- nm - Spawn Sep 17, 12:23 3
    - Yes, but ty is right. That's not a joyous thing. It's a delicious thing, but not joyous. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 17, 12:24 2
      - fineline -- nm - Spawn Sep 17, 12:25 1
        
        That's what ironing is for. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 17, 12:25
- I wonder if those extreme right wingers who say it's all God's will if you die or not as an excuse for not getting vaccinated have realized they're - jnine Sep 17, 12:21
- no loss at all. he was spreading the very garbage that killed him, entirely his own doing. -- nm - Andie Sep 17, 12:12 1
  - But what about the rest of the Florida GOPers!?! - Spawn Sep 17, 12:13
Only 106 days left - ty97 Sep 17, 11:46 4
- How many days till the next election -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 17, 12:11 1
  - The last was 318 days ago! -- nm - Spawn Sep 17, 12:12
- *twitch* -- nm - znufrii Sep 17, 11:48
- Guess I had better get my 2021s done. - Spawn Sep 17, 11:48
In my latest: Duh Moment... I am planning to go to the drive-in, after all. Taking earbuds and using my MP-3 player's radio. - Spawn Sep 17, 11:30 1
- 👍👍👍 -- nm - prayformojo Sep 17, 11:31
Today's COVID stats at my brother's hospital: 42 hospitalized (38 unvaxed), 38 acute COVID care at home(33 unvaxed). -- (edited) - loosilu Sep 17, 11:24 6
- I watched the video, his obvious despair was so touching. - Marlowe Sep 17, 11:30 5
  - They left last night. -- nm - loosilu Sep 17, 11:38 4
    - Or getting them back somehow? (NM) - Marlowe Sep 17, 11:55 3
      - Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like it. -- nm - loosilu Sep 17, 12:03 2
        
        Sounds like there is a national guard troop, I guess it not a medical staff,msnbc said nurses are getting 1,000 a day at some hospitals -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 17, 12:14 1
        
        The NG has medical units they deploy. -- nm - loosilu Sep 17, 12:23
Impact told Tommy Dreamer not to show up for work this weekend. - No Longer Calm David Sep 17, 11:23 14
- Weird. The two reviews I just read didn’t portray him as a bad guy, as much a moderate Neanderthal. Flair and Hall and Hennig seem to be bad people. - Will Hunting Sep 17, 11:43 7
  - He defended Flair. -- nm - Dark Callisto Sep 17, 11:45 6
    - ….oh. Yeah, he needs to disappear. The recaps undersold his idiocy. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 17, 11:47 5
      - Here's one. -- (link) - No Longer Calm David Sep 17, 11:48 4
        
        I always thought Flair was creepy as hell after the 30 For 30 when they first said he’d do this stuff but jesus…yeah…. - Will Hunting Sep 17, 11:52 3
        
        I think it's a combination of that, Dreamer thinking people have grown too sensitive, and him having CTE. - No Longer Calm David Sep 17, 11:54 2
        
        It's hard to imagine Mick without it, but he's one of the few that doesn't seem like he does. -- nm - pmb Sep 17, 11:58
        
        I dunno about Flair with CTE … I think he’s a wrestling Ron Jeremy. - Will Hunting Sep 17, 11:57
- Dreamer now suspended indefinitely. - No Longer Calm David Sep 17, 11:38 5
  - I don't even like wrestling and I started to watch it earlier but had to leave before I could finish it. I didn't get to anything about someone named - Krusty Sep 17, 11:44 1
    - I forgot about all the pills they were taking with the liquor. -- nm - Krusty Sep 17, 11:45
  - what did he do? -- nm - decline Sep 17, 11:40 2
    - I haven't watched it, but he apparently made some dumb comments on Dark Side of the Ring. -- (link) - No Longer Calm David Sep 17, 11:44 [Backboard] 1
      - General gist - (Spoils?) - pmb Sep 17, 11:57
Ivey chooses Boozer as McMillan goes to Pot -- (link) - decline Sep 17, 11:10 1
- I thought this was a poker headline. -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 17, 11:40
Small claims court update: - Tim Sep 17, 10:58 1
- you are in hell - decline Sep 17, 11:10
WTAF -- (link) - mud Sep 17, 10:55 13
- he should be and already should have been arrested. Literally still trying to pull of a coup. -- nm - Jovian Sep 17, 12:07
- On a related note, I've also sent a letter to Raffensperger asking him to declare me sole owner of the Braves. -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 17, 10:58 9
  - David will fight you on this -- nm - eag Sep 17, 11:45 7
    - I'm making him GM for Life. -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 17, 11:49 4
      - Pack your bags, Ozuna. -- nm - No Longer Calm David Sep 17, 11:50 3
        
        Find out your budget first. You wanna be Baron’s Liberty-hatchet man? -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 17, 11:53 2
        
        The people who frighten me the most are the Braves fans who defend Liberty as ownership. -- nm - No Longer Calm David Sep 17, 11:56 1
        
        I'll be Cuban-like with my money, so whatever you need you get. "David vult" -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 17, 12:07
    - I don't care which one owns them as long as we get an ST Party Suite out of it. -- nm - Spawn Sep 17, 11:47 1
      - Clothing optional mezzanine with a pool. -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 17, 11:50
  - The truth must be allowed to come out. -- nm - Spawn Sep 17, 11:34
- letter: -- (link) - mud Sep 17, 10:56 1
  - Still sporting the sharpie -- nm - flavorize Sep 17, 11:05
Boston’s famous Skinny House sells for a nice fat price -- (link) - ty97 Sep 17, 10:46 2
- Omelet? -- nm - prayformojo Sep 17, 10:55
- Where’s the door? 🚪 -- nm - flavorize Sep 17, 10:53
Yikes, seeing rumours that O'Toole and the Conservatives tried to pressure Kenny and Alberta to hold off on their State of Emergency till after - Beaker Sep 17, 10:42 2
- Big, if true. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 17, 12:22
- We're finally here. -- (link) - Shaun Sep 17, 10:44
Netflix signs Dan Levy (Schitt's Creek) to a TV and movie deal -- (link) - oblique Sep 17, 10:42
A small (but growing) burrito chain here offers a Nashville Hot Chicken burrito and it sounds weird but is absolutely fantastic. - Tim Sep 17, 10:35 3
- At what point does it stop being a burrito and only qualify as a wrap? -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 17, 10:55
- I would totally try this -- nm - prayformojo Sep 17, 10:43 1
  - Crispy chicken tenders (chopped up), rice, the hot sauce and pickles (optional but recommended). It's killer. -- nm - Tim Sep 17, 10:47
UPDATE: COVID test came back negative. - ReluctantCynic Sep 17, 10:34 10
- Don Homer! -- nm - loosilu Sep 17, 11:41
- effin' Mop. -- nm - Spawn Sep 17, 11:35
- Blaming Mop is always the right thing to do. (NM) - Marlowe Sep 17, 10:55
- We knew you could pass, er, fail, er whichever this counts as! Sinus infection? -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 17, 10:52
- Yay for subject, boo to IM! -- nm - ty97 Sep 17, 10:39
- excellente -- nm - Jovian Sep 17, 10:38
- That’s good! -- nm - spamlet Sep 17, 10:35 3
  - but the test was cursed -- nm - Beaker Sep 17, 10:37 2
    - That’s bad! -- nm - spamlet Sep 17, 10:39 1
      - Plus, yogurt is overrated. -- nm - Spawn Sep 17, 12:01
DeFi platform SushiSwap hit with "supply chain attack". Really, it boiled down to someone with commit access to their code injecting their own wallet - oblique Sep 17, 10:34 3
- Seems like a wallet is a secret that shouldn't be hard coded, but should be set by config vars or encrypted environment vars -- nm - Beryllium Sep 17, 12:28
- and yes, once again, all the stolen funds have been returned -- (link) - oblique Sep 17, 10:38 1
  - crypto-thieves are dumb -- nm - decline Sep 17, 11:21
Netflix "You" Season 3 full trailer -- (link) - oblique Sep 17, 10:22 [youtube] 1
- esssh this creepy show got a 3rd season. - Jovian Sep 17, 10:38
Question of the day -- (pic) - prayformojo Sep 17, 10:18 [Attachment] 6
- Answer (spoiler) - prayformojo Sep 17, 10:19 [Attachment] 5
  - Bonus question -- (pic) - prayformojo Sep 17, 10:19 [Attachment] 4
    - Answer (spoiler) -- (pic) - prayformojo Sep 17, 10:20 [Attachment] 3
      - 2/2 -- nm - decline Sep 17, 10:39
      - 1/2 -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 17, 10:37
      - 1/2 - znufrii Sep 17, 10:21
Jay-Z's Roc-A-Fella Records is suing Damon Dash over Dash's attempt to sell NFT of the copyright to Jay-Z's debut album -- (link) - oblique Sep 17, 10:02 6
- I prefer to remain entrenched in the old man default position of "If I don't understand it, it must be stupid." -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 17, 10:10 5
  - I still mentally equate it to buying naming rights for stars. -- nm - Max Sep 17, 10:12 4
    - Plots of land on the moon/mars seem equally comparable -- nm - Beryllium Sep 17, 10:13 3
      - That's under maritime law. -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 17, 10:15 2
        
        SPACE LAW! -- nm - spamlet Sep 17, 10:22 1
        
        Space Force gonna evict aliens from my land! -- nm - Spawn Sep 17, 10:29
"Quality of Life/Community Development" -- (link*) - ty97 Sep 17, 10:02 2
- I don't get it -- nm - Beryllium Sep 17, 10:03 1
  - The development was turning Texas into Utah. -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 17, 11:41
The idiot nurse neighbor has, without irony posted back to back, a meme from our dumbfuck County Mayor refusing to comply with Biden *and* a meme - Will Hunting Sep 17, 09:59 3
- Lets admit it,humanity is doomed. -- nm - Spawn Sep 17, 10:25 2
  - The more I see of this, the more I can tell that machines are right to end us. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 17, 12:23 1
    - This thread sounds like a usual ST bit. - Spawn Sep 17, 12:24
September 17 Birthdays: Bruce Spence (76), Phil Jackson (76), Rita Rudner (68), Baz Luhrmann (59), Paul Feig (59), Amy Roloff (57), Bryan Singer (56) - Max Sep 17, 09:53 [youtube]
Artie Lange discusses Norm -- (link*) - Beaker Sep 17, 09:49 [youtube] 1
- the Andy Dick/Chris Farley story "oh my god I hope he's high" -- nm - Beaker Sep 17, 09:59
After Oasis broke up, Liam formed a new band 2009. For some inexplicable reason, Mop constantly mistakes that band - Beady Eye - for a UK girl group formed in 2006. -- (edited) - Mop Sep 17, 09:47 1
- Leela and the Career Chips -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 17, 09:55
DTL: While I'm playing for 5th place, the two teams from my conf who finished ahead of me are playing each other for 9th. - Tenetennbaron Sep 17, 09:40
Excellent. Flu shot at work on the 22nd. -- nm - oblique Sep 17, 09:14 10
- Last year our institution out-sourced flu shots to Kroger's. It went exactly how you'd expect. So this year... -- (edited) - Mop Sep 17, 09:41 4
  - We've been using Walgreen's for years. Works really well. We usually get the same guy administering shots too -- nm - oblique Sep 17, 09:42 3
    - I wonder what the Tim Walgreens's version is like? -- nm - Pippy Sep 17, 09:51 2
      - Probably drinks heavily. -- nm - Tim Sep 17, 10:35 1
        
        I hear dipping into the uh inventory is an occupational hazard -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 17, 10:50
- I guess it's time now? -- nm - ty97 Sep 17, 09:19 1
  - I am usually told to wait until October, but yes. -- nm - Spawn Sep 17, 09:26
- Got ours last weekend. -- nm - Dark Callisto Sep 17, 09:18
- Might just go ahead and get mine this weekend to get it out of the way. -- nm - znufrii Sep 17, 09:18
- Not sure when the local pharmacy will be offering it, but I'll be getting one there. (It's free.) - Beryllium Sep 17, 09:16
LIR: sycor. This link seems to be what you want to follow to expand storage -- (link) - oblique Sep 17, 09:13 5
- That's what I found before but I think I was misreading it. - sycor Sep 17, 09:16 4
  - Yes. That is how I read it. Once you replace 2, more storage will be available but you still only replace 1 at a time. -- nm - oblique Sep 17, 09:17 3
    - Just curious for your opinion. - sycor Sep 17, 09:22 2
      - I always feel bad discarding drives (and we've done that with a lot of them at work) but I don't think I would but a new or expansion NAS - oblique Sep 17, 09:30 1
        
        Yeah I was also starting to wonder how large is too large. I'm not used to super large drives, even the 4TB I'm using seems large. - sycor Sep 17, 10:12
Succession S3 full trailer -- (link) - LMS Sep 17, 09:13 [youtube] 1
- Season 3: The Rise of Greg -- nm - prayformojo Sep 17, 09:17
Weekend plans: Conshy Funfest! -- (link) - znufrii Sep 17, 09:13
so Neil Patrick Harris is definitely involved somehow? -- nm - prayformojo Sep 17, 09:03 1
- With whom? Doogie Hawaii? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 17, 09:06
Apparently people can't read this. Yet, I can. That must mean I'm old. -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 17, 09:01 7
- I think I gave up on pure cursive in junior high. It wasn't efficient for taking notes. -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 17, 09:38
- Does his S, like my S— -- nm - flavorize Sep 17, 09:36
- It appears to be... maybe... some sort of shorthand? -- nm - Spawn Sep 17, 09:16
- It's an old writing style, sir. But it checks out. -- nm - sycor Sep 17, 09:09
- I can read it, but I couldn't write it in cursive if asked - decline Sep 17, 09:03 1
  - I could do part of it. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 17, 09:06
- Darlings.... -- nm - Andie Sep 17, 09:02

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