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I feel attacked by this headline. -- (link*) - znufrii Sep 22, 06:50 1
- my colonoscopy came back all clear. I credit the combo of Diet Pepsi and beer -- nm - Beaker Sep 22, 06:53
What is ST's opinion on turboprop planes? -- (edited) - ty97 Sep 22, 06:39 5
- I mean, thats like multiple instances of engine failures for a movie scene, seems legit. -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 22, 06:46
- The idea of electric aviation makes me really nervous. -- nm - znufrii Sep 22, 06:42 3
  - Airbus seems to be betting on hydrogen as the future -- nm - ty97 Sep 22, 06:43 2
    - And that shouldn't make anyone nervous! -- nm - Mop Sep 22, 06:44 1
      - Hydrogen isn't nearly as dangerous as people think. Gasoline is more dangerous. -- nm - Krusty Sep 22, 06:51
Is it possible to roll you ankle while your sleeping? - ty97 Sep 22, 06:37
Netflix buys Roald Dahl’s catalog -- (link) - mud Sep 22, 06:33 6
- do they get the existing shows and movies too? or just new stuff produced? -- nm - Beaker Sep 22, 06:49
- That's... different for Netflix. -- nm - Mop Sep 22, 06:43
- Wonka is just the thing to be made into a series—can do like the Infinity Train and every room is an episode -- nm - flavorize Sep 22, 06:41
- Prolly buy Picasso's catalog next. Ha, take that Cubists. -- nm - budice Sep 22, 06:35
- What are they going to do with an old Sears & Roebuck? -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 22, 06:35 1
  - Come out with a NetFlix Christmas Catalog -- nm - budice Sep 22, 06:36
Poll -- (link) - ty97 Sep 22, 06:31 18
- Arcade Fire, New Pornographers, Broken Social Scene. -- nm - mafic Sep 22, 06:55
- Not sure who would win now, Lowest of Low would have back in the day (just wanted to give them a shoutout.) -- nm - Andie Sep 22, 06:50 2
  - "back in the day" for me would be Breeding Ground & Crash Vegas (ah, T.O. in the 80s ..sigh) -- nm - mud Sep 22, 06:54 1
    - and way way back: Scrubbaloe Caine & A Foot In Cold Water -- nm - mud Sep 22, 06:57
- Likely Sloan. Headstones receiving consideration. I Mother Earth and Watchmen in the defunct club. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Sep 22, 06:48 2
  - Excluding Sloan -- nm - Krusty Sep 22, 06:52 1
    - Whoops. Well, the rest offer potentials.... -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Sep 22, 08:15
- Blue Rodeo. #2 would be Great Big Sea, #3 The Trews, #4 The Rankin Family -- nm* - Beaker Sep 22, 06:47
- Broken Social Scene -- nm - rollo Sep 22, 06:41
- Metric -- nm - mud Sep 22, 06:40 1
  - Certainly up there. -- nm - Reagen Sep 22, 06:44
- Maybe New Pornographers? Blue Rodeo feels like the "right" answer though. -- nm - Reagen Sep 22, 06:40
- Guess Who -- nm - VMan Sep 22, 06:40 2
  - ugh, can't you just tell us? -- nm - ty97 Sep 22, 06:42 1
    - Rhymes with Boverloy. -- nm - VMan Sep 22, 06:49
- Bran Van 3000 -- nm - Qale Sep 22, 06:39
- Arcade Fire -- nm - flavorize Sep 22, 06:33
- Half Moon Run -- nm - JaxSean Sep 22, 06:32
Germany’s Merkel makes final campaign push for stumbling political heir -- (link) - ty97 Sep 22, 06:28
Couple asked to leave restaurant because they were wearing masks. Of course the owner is antivax and mask. And of course Texas. -- (link) - sycor Sep 22, 06:18 12
- Rowlett is a suburb city of Dallas. So, yanno... that's a thing. -- nm - Qale Sep 22, 07:01
- Stupid that they got kicked out. But do they think you can't get covid while eating? They were going to have to take their makes of at some point. -- nm - Todd Manning Sep 22, 06:45 2
  - The whole situation is so wrapped up in illogic it's best not to think about it too hard. -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 22, 06:52
  - we can eat indoors here but need to wear masks while walking in restaurant. Also, our tables needs to be further apart than normal. I think the idea - Andie Sep 22, 06:49
- "OK." Leave. (The friends seem like dicks for staying.) -- nm - JaxSean Sep 22, 06:24 2
  - agreed...but they also weren't wearing masks to begin with (why the masked couple went out with them to begin with is another story) -- nm - Beaker Sep 22, 06:30 1
    - Yup. They shouldn't have been with those "friends" and if their kid is at risk they should be dining outside and not indoors. - Krusty Sep 22, 06:55
- If that ever happened here (unlikely as masks indoors are law unless you are sitting at your table in a restaurant) i would happily leave. Wouldn't - Andie Sep 22, 06:22 3
  - Agreed. It would make me wonder if the restaurant follows other health safety guidelines. - sycor Sep 22, 06:23 1
    - also yup -- nm - Beaker Sep 22, 06:23
  - yup. -- nm - Beaker Sep 22, 06:22
- “Sorry for trying to protect your customers, asshole.” -- nm - znufrii Sep 22, 06:19
Brazilian health minister tests positive for COVID-19 while in New York for UN meeting -- (link) - Beaker Sep 22, 06:08 2
- He shook hands with Boris Johnson and borrowed his mask to Bozonaro. He is also the second person to test positive - Marlowe Sep 22, 06:34
- because of course. -- nm - mud Sep 22, 06:15
Had a religious experience at Eyes of Tammy Faye screening. Older lady a couple seats over had the scriptures read and songs sung aloud b4 actors did. -- nm - budice Sep 22, 06:02 3
- amusing to read, would drive me INSANE if it happened to me in a movie. -- nm - Andie Sep 22, 06:22 1
  - 100% -- nm - prayformojo Sep 22, 06:42
- Ya dawg I heard you like shows so here's a show in your show. -- nm - sycor Sep 22, 06:19
Happy mother effing Survivor day, bitches!!!!! - Turd Ferguson Sep 22, 06:02 1
- 2 hour episode ! ! -- nm - mud Sep 22, 06:17
The point was made that it wasn't Simmons' responsibility to increase his trade value, - Will Hunting Sep 22, 05:49 7
- fuck the bench, let him sit out and don't pay him -- nm - Beaker Sep 22, 05:51 6
  - Sure, and lemme just burn my house down because nobody will pay what I’m asking. -- nm - mafic Sep 22, 06:04 5
    - He'd need at least one other person to light the match. -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 22, 06:11 1
      - "Jesus Christ Ben, stop lighting the match and throwing it to me; pass me the match unlit" -- nm - Beaker Sep 22, 06:23
    - if we won't show up to practice or play how do you get him on the bench? -- nm - Beaker Sep 22, 06:07 2
      - I mean he’s obviously not gonna play for them, but they can only sit on him for so long before his value starts to drop. -- nm - mafic Sep 22, 06:11 1
        
        what's less than dogshit? If their GM can get more than a ham sandwich for him he deserves GM of the year -- nm - Beaker Sep 22, 06:15
$25 parlay that would’ve cashed $726K with a Lions win Monday: “Due to the amazing picks and unlikely odds, BetMGM made an exception and cashed $100k" -- (link) - budice Sep 22, 05:27 4
- It just saves the bettor the hassle of initiating a hedge, and probably saved the casino $250k -- nm - rollo Sep 22, 06:27 1
  - Not sure how you figure the latter, the payout is about what he would have cleared if he’d fully hedged his position, more or less. -- nm* - znufrii Sep 22, 06:35
- seems like a bad precedent but I guess the free advertising was worth it to them -- nm - Beaker Sep 22, 05:40 1
  - Definitely coming out of the marketing budget, I’d think. -- nm* - znufrii Sep 22, 06:09
Scott Kazmir is coming back up to the big leagues. Giants still see 10k of tread on a 50k tire. -- (link*) - budice Sep 22, 05:15
TV PSA: Chicago x 3, Masked Singer, Goldbergs, Riverdale, AEW Dynamite, Survivor, Wonder Years, Alter Ego, Conners, In the Dark, Home Economics, -- nm - Beaker Sep 22, 04:33 14
- Masked Singer is back? Yaaaaay! -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 22, 06:29
- Survivor ST players and owners (and tonight is 2 hours too): -- (edited) - Beaker Sep 22, 04:47
- The Connors got another season?!? -- nm - Krusty Sep 22, 04:42 6
  - I think the ratings actually went up without her. -- nm - spamlet Sep 22, 04:45 5
    - American's will watch anything it seems and nostalgia is a hell of a drug. -- nm - Krusty Sep 22, 04:48 4
      - (Says the guy watching the Wonder Years reboot) - spamlet Sep 22, 05:03 3
        
        Yup. Nostalgia gets us all. Though, I'm really curious about the story they're going to tell with this cast. -- nm - Krusty Sep 22, 05:05 2
        
        Oh I know. I just thought it was funny back-to-back posts. - spamlet Sep 22, 05:07 1
        
        It was. You got me. :-) I loved the original. LOVED! Winnie Cooper was crush #2 for a young Krusty. Alyssa Milano was #1 and always will be! -- nm - Krusty Sep 22, 05:09
- No there's a mash-up - Survivor: the Wonder Years -- nm - liioulu Sep 22, 04:38
- Big Brother, Archer, A Million Little Things, Samantha Bee, Star Wars: Visions (D+), Nine Perfect Strangers (Hulu), What If? (D+), -- nm - Beaker Sep 22, 04:36 3
  - Dear White People (NF), Circle (NF), Doogie (D+), The Challenge, AHS: Winter Kills, Awkwafina is Nora From Queens, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Sep 22, 04:41 2
    - 3) Masked Singer, The Wonder Years and Archer -- nm - Krusty Sep 22, 04:56
    - 8: Archer, Survivor, Goldbergs, What If?, SW Visions and the 3 Chicagos for the wife (although she is getting sick of them she says) -- nm - Beaker Sep 22, 04:46
Good morning. Spelling Bee. -- (pic) - prayformojo Sep 22, 04:28 [Attachment] 5
- Civ IV tic - znufrii Sep 22, 06:28
- Clitvicinity - You'll know when you get there -- nm - VMan Sep 22, 04:48 1
  - Well there's no topping that -- nm - rollo Sep 22, 06:25
- vinyltic - that twitch a LP collector get when they se a garage sale with records. -- nm - . Sep 22, 04:34
- LitCityVin -- nm - budice Sep 22, 04:31
Judy Woodruff asked Bill Gates about his meetings with Jeffrey Epstein yesterday -- (link) - budice Sep 22, 04:07
Family Guy with a Vaccine short -- (link) - Beaker Sep 22, 03:16
The server host for Parler and other controversial sites was hit by a major hack with login and personal info downloaded. -- nm - local news Sep 22, 01:52
Youtube just told me what pasta sauce to buy. Rao's Homemade Marinara. Anyone tried it? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 21, 23:54 12
- First I ever heard of it was a couple of days ago. E-coupons from Ralphs for pasta sauce, soup, and frozen meals. -- nm - Meg Sep 22, 06:49
- Yes, we get it at Costco all the time. -- nm - JaxSean Sep 22, 05:40
- we tend to Classico cause we keep the jars as they are mason jars and good for bottling -- nm* - Beaker Sep 22, 04:58
- Yes and it's really good. They're an old school NYC restaurant that's impossible to get a seat at for any meal. -- nm - Krusty Sep 22, 04:44 1
  - Someone gave it to us in a care package last year and it was the first time I've ever liked a jar sauce of any kind. -- nm - Krusty Sep 22, 05:06
- Just make your own. It’s super easy with a crock pot. - spamlet Sep 22, 03:40 1
  - It's super easy in a regular pot too. :-) I have a sauce I make that only takes about an hour to cook that's really tasty. - Krusty Sep 22, 05:07
- It’s really good, it’s expensive (close to $10),but you can taste the difference. -- nm - flavorize Sep 22, 02:34
- It's definitely the most expensive supermarket pasta sauce. -- nm - Ender Sep 22, 02:02
- I've heard about this from a couple sources, -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 22, 01:25
- Rao's is a major NYC & Vegas Italian restaurants. their meatballs are supposed to be some of the best in the world -- nm* - Peglegpete Sep 22, 00:26
- That rec was from a year-old video. Next it recommended an 8 year old funny or die video (which, I might add, is a must-watch) -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 22, 00:05 [youtube]
I decided to subtweet some people. -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 21, 23:26
Oof. Fatality. -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 21, 23:10
Some 20 firefighters in Redmond WA will loose their jobs rather than vax (despite claimed 'religious' exemption) -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 21, 23:06 3
- I love that even church leaders are coming out and saying, Nope. No exemptions from us. Get the shot. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 22, 04:31 1
  - Even Christian Science, who I would've expected if anybody, has said "Nah, you can get it." -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 22, 05:55
- OK. -- nm - Ender Sep 21, 23:13
Erph. I hope that whatever came home from school is just a cold. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 21, 22:50 1
- Allergies are also a good bet. Ragweed really ramping up. -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 22, 06:04
TikTok'rs are investing by following Nancy Pelosi's investment disclosures (well her husband's) as its the most consistantly profitable -- (link) - zeitgeist Sep 21, 22:28 2
- They'd better be ready to zero everything out when the sell-off begins. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 21, 22:47
- This is starting to look like Trish's Redhead fund, where whatever she bought, dozens of followers did and it jumped in price. -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 21, 22:35
Wyoming woman get Pneumonic plague from her sick cat. authorities are checking on other area residents... -- (link) - zeitgeist Sep 21, 22:09 2
- Oh boy. Can a virus team up with a bacteria to kill again? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 21, 22:11 1
  - I think in real life they team up with a fungus, and together they fight crime, hmmm maybe they are getting revenge for humanity's pillage of earth... -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 21, 22:30
AFC Wimbledon will have their ass ripped open by Arsenal tomorrow. I wonder if I can stream it somewhere. -- nm - Mop Sep 21, 22:01 2
- ESPN+, not sure if they’re streaming every game or just select ones. -- nm - znufrii Sep 22, 05:53
- P0RNHUB.Sports -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 21, 22:08
The Kissing Booth 3: Where the central conflict is their parents selling the beach house. -- nm - No Longer Calm David Sep 21, 22:00 7
- Did this just come out? Because I feel like I've heard about this for weeks on steamed hams and I don't know why you're just now watching it. -- nm - Ender Sep 22, 02:05
- Whoo! Cyndi Lauper music! -- nm - No Longer Calm David Sep 21, 22:03 5
  - It was supposed to be the best. summer. EVER! -- nm - No Longer Calm David Sep 21, 22:28 3
    - Welcome to Dumpville, population: both of you! -- nm - No Longer Calm David Sep 21, 22:47 2
      - Don't do it, Molly Ringwald! Don't do it! -- nm - No Longer Calm David Sep 21, 22:56 1
        
        And they biked happily ever after. - No Longer Calm David Sep 21, 23:01
  - So far this sounds like a delightfully airy escape -- nm - Beryllium Sep 21, 22:08
An explanation of NFTs from The Little Prince -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 21, 21:59
I'm not sure if Ringo knows what a month is, but I'll allow it -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 21, 21:53
These can't be real. -- (link) - Tim Sep 21, 21:32 4
- Checking YouTube their videos have tens of views. Nice scam to get people to donate to a nonprofit and then pay yourself. -- nm - MDH Sep 21, 21:41
- (the one picture looks like Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake from the Dick in a Box video). -- nm - Tim Sep 21, 21:34
- (and more) -- (link) - Tim Sep 21, 21:34 1
  - Dom looks like mid-card heel Kenny Omega. -- nm - Qale Sep 21, 22:45
Might be getting time to upgrade my Kindle Paperwhite, if only to get USB-C charging. - Ender Sep 21, 20:58 2
- We have 3 kindles, some wireless headphones, bike headlights, chromecasts, powerbanks, ... quite a few micro USB things come to think of it. -- nm - psilotum Sep 21, 21:45 1
  - Oh, I do also have Bluetooth headphones. I don't count chromecasts though, only things I need to plug in myself regularly. -- nm - Ender Sep 21, 22:07
Uma Thurman says she had an abortion in op-ed against the Texas ban: 'No one finds herself on that table on purpose' -- (link) - budice Sep 21, 20:56
The acting from the FBI international cast is laughable bad. Who are these people? -- nm - MDH Sep 21, 20:49 3
- Goodness. This acting gets worse. So clearly this was a profit grab. No names and cheap production on a known name. -- nm - MDH Sep 21, 21:23 2
  - Watch me pay my confidential informant in cash in sight of everyone in the club. -- nm - Max Sep 22, 03:24
  - Probably a flimsy cover for the CIA in order to engage in covert actions near the filming locations -- nm - Beryllium Sep 21, 21:27
Police outside of Auckland arrested two men who were trying to sneak into the New Zealand city with a trunk-full of Kentucky Fried Chicken. -- (link) - budice Sep 21, 20:48 5
- three buckets and ten tubs of coleslaw is what they call an Otahuhu Appetizer. -- nm - mafic Sep 22, 00:46 1
  - You could have several yummy sides, Mac n cheese, but you choose wet cabbage? -- nm - Colbert Sep 22, 01:30
- Show me where the crime is! -- nm - Mop Sep 21, 21:12 1
  - The chicken was discarded. -- nm - VMan Sep 22, 04:44
- That is a finger licking paddling right there. -- nm - Qale Sep 21, 20:54
I was going to post a joke about the ceiling - JD Sep 21, 20:40 1
- I’d expect a joke more about the attic. - Qale Sep 21, 20:54

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