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You're making a sandwich. Your parents are already eating theirs. You discover mold on the bread. Do you inform your parents, or just grab a tortilla? -- nm - Ender Oct 8, 16:49 8
- This is an issue with my mom, she'll munch on something completely molded...and tell me, better finish that, its starting to go bad -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 9, 12:25
- Let me tell you about my mother! -- nm - Leon Oct 8, 17:12
- I tell them and continue making my sandwich after removing the mold. -- nm - zunk xometimes Oct 8, 17:03 2
  - 🤢🤮 -- nm - Krusty Oct 8, 17:20
  - I agree with Zunk. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 8, 17:09
- (Assume the loaf of bread is being disposed of either way.) -- nm* - Ender Oct 8, 16:56
- I tell them. -- nm - The Allfather Oct 8, 16:51 1
  - and laugh -- nm - Beaker Oct 8, 17:04
James Bond collection on Blu-Ray for $60 -- (link) - spamlet Oct 8, 16:49
Geno Smith is now the leader in passing yards for the 2013 draft class, passing Mike Glennon. -- nm - Reagen Oct 8, 16:31 2
- *the* Mike Glennon? -- nm - prayformojo Oct 8, 16:39 1
  - this majestic bastard -- (link) - Reagen Oct 8, 16:44
Good god. Bruce Prichard, WWE 2nd in command, had no idea who Kenny Omega was in 2019; about 3-4 years after Omega was the best -- (edited) - Will Hunting Oct 8, 16:30 5
- unrelated but HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA - Tim Oct 8, 17:00 1
  - Yep, the guys trying to make it hip are 75 and this guy who’s so current, he doesn’t know a best in the world wrestler. - Will Hunting Oct 8, 17:07
- Somebody accurately described him as... - The Allfather Oct 8, 16:42
- 1/4/17: Wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer gave the match a six-star rating in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, adding that Omega and Okada "may have - Tim Oct 8, 16:35 1
  - Bruce: “Yeah but that’s Meltzer. Fuck him.” -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 8, 16:45
My mom (a Virgin River and Sweet Magnolias fan) mentioned she was going to watch Squid Game. That should be interesting. -- nm - Dano Oct 8, 16:19 1
- Uh oh. I don't think she's going to watch beyond the first episode. -- nm - Krusty Oct 8, 16:21
"We are Pakled" -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 16:19
Nerds -- (pic) - Dano Oct 8, 16:10 [Attachment]
Seahawks Russell Wilson may be out, he's in LA seeing a hand specialist ( he jammed his middle finger on a players helmet Thursday night) -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 8, 16:00 2
- No way! -- nm - Strongbad Oct 8, 16:08 1
  - WAY...operated, screws inserted, out six to 8 weeks -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 9, 12:23
Wait. What was that comment? 8( -- (link) - JD Oct 8, 15:59
Let Russ Cook will be out 6-8 weeks. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 8, 15:19 6
- Troy Aikman still confused about which team's QB is injured... -- nm - The Allfather Oct 8, 16:42
- (Ruptured middle finger tendon) -- nm - Strongbad Oct 8, 15:20 4
  - Jets with the Hawks 1st rounder in 2022 -- nm - budice Oct 8, 15:32 3
    - Yup. PHI and NYJ will be the teams to watch in 2022 draft. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 8, 15:47 2
      - We also have Carolina's 2nd and 6th round picks next year. Rooting for them to stink it up the rest of the season. -- nm - Krusty Oct 8, 16:20 1
        
        I'm wrong, it's their 4th round pick and not the 6th. We also have late round picks from the Steelers, SF and Bucs. -- nm - Krusty Oct 8, 16:23
What If maybe wasn't amazing, but it sure tied things together better than I expected. -- nm - Reagen Oct 8, 15:17 1
- it was well done, yes, i thoroughly enjoyed it -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 15:33
I really need to get my head examined. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 8, 15:08 5
- Which one? -- nm - Qale Oct 8, 16:26
- Phrenology -- nm - Peglegpete Oct 8, 15:35 2
  - Retrophrenology. *grabs his hammer* -- nm - znufrii Oct 8, 15:45
  - "Hmmm, you have a very large nodule in the suggestability zone." -- nm - Full Size Candy Baron Oct 8, 15:41
- But really, who doesn't? -- nm - JD Oct 8, 15:17
Friday news dump: no federal charges against officer who shot and paralyzed Jacob Blake -- (link) - znufrii Oct 8, 14:58
Charlie Morton curveball -- (link) - budice Oct 8, 14:47
Weekend Warrior's 20th anniversary article -- (link) - Beaker Oct 8, 14:43
Two parents convicted in the college admissions cheating scandal. The earlier sentences were for those who pleaded (plead?) guilty. - Meg Oct 8, 14:43 3
- Pleaded, pled and plead are all correct in one way or another. -- (link) - . Oct 8, 15:03 2
  - And then we come to the past tense of read, which is not readed or red :/ -- nm - Meg Oct 8, 15:41 1
    - Isn't English fun? Has something to do with all those words from other languages it absorbed and when -- nm - . Oct 8, 17:13
President has marked Monday as Indigenous Peoples' Day. This on top of restoring the boundaries of Bear's Ears National Monument. 👍👍 -- (link) - Meg Oct 8, 14:34 8
- Honestly, why not make Indigenous People's Day its own day and not a shared one with Columbus Day? - Krusty Oct 8, 14:42 7
  - Columbus Day needs to stop being a day. Indigenous People's Day is what replaces it. -- nm - TWuG Oct 8, 15:06 3
    - That's not the answer. They're taking away a holiday from a group of people and replacing it with one for another group without - Krusty Oct 8, 15:36 2
      - Where's German Day? -- nm - . Oct 8, 17:14
      - Meh who cares as long as Biden takes the day to go surfing, cowabunga -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 16:35
  - I guess the ultimate goal is to get rid of Columbus Day. -- nm - Meg Oct 8, 14:43 2
    - I'm okay with that as long as they replace it with one that is similar but far less controversial. -- nm - Krusty Oct 8, 15:38 1
      - The best proposal I've seen lately has been "Explorer's Day." - ReluctantCynic Oct 8, 16:17
Jon Gruden used racially insensitive language in referring to NFLPA head DeMaurice Smith in 2011 email -- (link) - Beaker Oct 8, 14:31
Sweet, new high in seasonal wins! 17&7 after a 2&4 NTT. - Will Hunting Oct 8, 14:24 4
- Huzzah! That's awesome! I managed to go 12-12 and moved up one level to the RTT. Now I'm gonna hit the books this weekend. - ReluctantCynic Oct 8, 16:20
- Nice! I ended up 15-9 going 3-3 in the tournament. -- nm - spamlet Oct 8, 14:26 2
  - Dropped the finale in rather disappointing fashion. Still Top 4 finish nothing to sneeze at. - Full Size Candy Baron Oct 8, 15:25 1
    - Somehow I missed your PTT final four run - way to go! -- nm - Rollo Oct 8, 17:07
Sorry America -- (pic) - zork Oct 8, 14:13 [Attachment] 3
- Alternatively - Full Size Candy Baron Oct 8, 14:14 2
  - Captain Texas. -- nm - Mop Oct 8, 14:23 1
    - I thought of that but the multiple stripes disqualified that option -- nm - zork Oct 8, 14:40
Oh. The arthouse theater has Lamb, Titane, and Eyes of Tammy Faye -- nm - Dano Oct 8, 13:59 3
- Ours does too. I may try to get to ETF but the others are a haaaard pass for me. -- nm - spamlet Oct 8, 14:04 2
  - ETF is alright. Titane can be a bit much. -- nm - budice Oct 8, 14:07 1
    - My only question is how anti-religion is it? - spamlet Oct 8, 14:09
We are triple-boosted and ready to dose strangers! -- nm - David Oct 8, 13:54 3
- Nice!!! -- nm - Krusty Oct 8, 14:32
- 👍👍👍 -- nm - prayformojo Oct 8, 14:01
- Watch out, doorknobs! -- nm - Dano Oct 8, 13:57
looters blast open 2500 year old tomb in Turkey :(((((( -- (link) - Peglegpete Oct 8, 13:49
This headline got me for a second -- (link) - Reagen Oct 8, 13:41
"Official Crypto App of the MLB" -- this reality is stupid, I want a new one. -- nm - Reagen Oct 8, 13:35 3
- I assume the broadcast team is now talking about how cash is the only way to pay for things? - spamlet Oct 8, 13:37 2
  - “Gimmie 5 bees for a quarter, you’d say.” -- nm - Tim Oct 8, 13:44
  - I would pay quite a lot to see someone try to explain Crypto to Jim Kaat. -- nm - Reagen Oct 8, 13:42
So after seeing a forced apology (maybe at gunpoint?) on Twitter for earlier comments, I turned the sound back on the broadcast. - spamlet Oct 8, 13:24 14
- Buck Showalter at age 65 is the youngest in the 3 man booth. I'm not at all against old dudes announcing baseball. - zunk xometimes Oct 8, 13:58 5
  - Sean McDonough was 30 when he made some all time calls in the MLB playoffs. -- nm - Reagen Oct 8, 15:20
  - Steve Stone is older than 2 of the 3 in the booth, I believe. He's fine because his knowledge didn't stop in 1985. - spamlet Oct 8, 14:06 2
    - It’s Atlanta’s broadcast team? -- nm* - David Oct 8, 14:36 1
      - Bob Costas is the *good* one. - spamlet Oct 8, 14:42
  - Amen. -- nm - David Oct 8, 14:03
- Kaat said something kinda racist. -- nm - Tim Oct 8, 13:26 4
  - What did he say? -- nm - David Oct 8, 13:54 2
    - “Get a 40-acre field full of ‘em.” -- (link) - mara Oct 8, 13:56 1
      - Thank you. We are going to see a wave of announcer retirements in the off-season. Old guys can’t be on hot mics. -- nm - David Oct 8, 14:02
  - Oh I heard the comment but not the apology because it was muted. I just posted it. -- nm - spamlet Oct 8, 13:27
- Apology in question for saying he wanted a 40 acre farm full of guys like Yoan Moncada. -- (link) - spamlet Oct 8, 13:26 2
  - That apology really needed a deep drive to left from Castellanos. -- nm - Tim Oct 8, 13:27 1
    - ML said the same thing. -- nm - spamlet Oct 8, 13:27
Snoop has a 19 Crimes wine? OK, I'm not made of stone. -- nm - Reagen Oct 8, 13:17 2
- Cali Red - it's quite good -- nm - rollo Oct 8, 13:18 1
  - (to this non-wino's palate) -- nm - rollo Oct 8, 13:18
The Dead South - You Are My Sunshine -- (link) - Beaker Oct 8, 13:11 [youtube]
DTL Recruiting: I don't know what I'm doing this season. I have some clear leads, but I'm not going to put PP on anyone. Let the computer decide. -- nm - Dano Oct 8, 12:49 19
- In my grading (by percentile stats and their grading), I have a 1/1 on #1, a 5/5 on #7, a 4/4 on #24, a 1/1 on #61, and CL on #72 and #149 - Will Hunting Oct 8, 13:21
- 2 x 1/1, 2 x 3/3, 3 CL as backups that would be fine but not stupendous. - spamlet Oct 8, 13:03 5
  - That's my entire roster! - Full Size Candy Baron Oct 8, 14:10 4
    - My 1/1 are 60 and 63 and my 3/3s are 7 and 19 in my scoring system. The CLs are in the 200-300 range - spamlet Oct 8, 14:15
    - That's been my team for several cycles now ... well, 1 tie winner but everyone else is a net guy -- nm - rollo Oct 8, 14:14 2
      - The last tie I won is about to graduate (and he was a reserve for 3 years) -- nm* - Full Size Candy Baron Oct 8, 14:15 1
        
        I have 2 ties won on my roster. A 3/3 freshman and a 1/1 senior. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 8, 14:17
- This is where I need branching logic for my priority points. - Full Size Candy Baron Oct 8, 13:02
- 4 ties, 2 CLs. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 8, 12:55 10
  - 2 ties, 7 CLs ... 2 of my leads are in the top-100 ish for stats so if I win a tie I'm thinking top-20 class -- nm* - rollo Oct 8, 13:04 9
    - Who are you CL on in your top 100? I want to see how I rank them. - Will Hunting Oct 8, 13:31 5
      - Matthew Monroe in C1 and Samuel Wilburn in C30 -- nm - rollo Oct 8, 13:47 4
        
        Hmmm you've got me rethinking my prioritization of Wilburn. For reference I have him at #75 stats only and Monroe #110 stats only -- nm - rollo Oct 8, 14:00 1
        
        I try to balance out some of the stats for positional - Will Hunting Oct 8, 14:02
        
        I have Monroe at 98 and Wilburn at 130. It's funny we're all so different on him. -- nm - spamlet Oct 8, 13:57
        
        Monroe in my method ranks (95 Overall - 264 Attributes / 62 Stats) and Wilburn (527 - 641 -333) -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 8, 13:51
    - :-o -- nm - Full Size Candy Baron Oct 8, 13:05 2
      - This is why I've been trying to give away dudes this cycle, my net was ridiculous -- nm - rollo Oct 8, 13:09 1
        
        And that's what I appreciates about you. - spamlet Oct 8, 13:28
This is a cool story -- JR Smith, former NBA player earned a college golf tournament spot next week - Will Hunting Oct 8, 12:48 3
- For once the NCAA actually had a brain and allowed it. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 8, 12:49 2
  - It’s not at all different than football and baseball players. Russell Wilson has a pro baseball card before he got to Wisconsin. - Will Hunting Oct 8, 12:54 1
    - Yes. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 8, 14:22
Tennessee Titans to be without Julio Jones; A.J. Brown expected to play vs. Jacksonville Jaguars -- nm - Beaker Oct 8, 12:43 4
- GRONK OUT -- nm - Beaker Oct 8, 12:43 3
  - Will Fuller is on the IR!? Man, the things you never thought you would see... -- nm - Beaker Oct 8, 12:47
  - That's just what he says every time he leaves the kitchen -- nm - ty97 Oct 8, 12:46
  - *fires up Evan Engram's music* - Strongbad Oct 8, 12:45
NYC is not a bureaucracy, how dare you! -- (edited) - ty97 Oct 8, 12:38
Nash Bridges Reunion Movie Gets Thanksgiving Weekend Bow on USA -- (link) - Remlik Oct 8, 12:33 3
- That was our Friday night guilty pleasure. -- nm - zunk xometimes Oct 8, 12:57
- I wish my dad was still here. This was a show we watched together on occasion. (We watched Miami Vice together when we lived together my senior year of HS) -- nm* - Spawn Oct 8, 12:38
- Is this something people were asking for? -- nm - Full Size Candy Baron Oct 8, 12:37
That ’70s Show’ Spinoff ‘That ’90s Show’ Ordered at Netflix, Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp to Return -- (link) - Remlik Oct 8, 12:26 2
- FUCK YEAH. -- nm - Mop Oct 8, 16:45
- "You thought Red hated the 70s... just wait until you see him in the 90s!" -- nm - Pitch Meeting Oct 8, 12:27
I like Casino Royale. I would love Casino Royale with a very easy. It's like watching a soccer show and seeing stupid soccer stuff. (spoils) - Will Hunting Oct 8, 12:23 5
- They needed the K for the opening titles, so the art would look better -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 12:40
- adding Poker to that movie kind of threw it out of whack to me. But remember who big it was then... -- nm - Remlik Oct 8, 12:23 3
  - Yeah, I hated that they put hold em in it because that's "not Bond" -- nm - zork Oct 8, 14:11
  - It's a great dramatic game, full of luck, skill, guts...it's a perfect narrative device that they fucked up because they went Hollywood and served no - Will Hunting Oct 8, 12:26 1
    - Pfft, don't you know being good at poker means you get dealt all the best hands? That's how it works, see. - Full Size Candy Baron Oct 8, 13:16
Mattel/Barbie is releasing a "Ken Doll" from its Creations line. I guess this is Atlantis Cruise Circuit Party Ken? -- (link) - MDH Oct 8, 12:04 6
- That's what happens when you let the internet vote. -- nm - spamlet Oct 8, 12:09
- This is how A prefers hers… -- (pic) - znufrii Oct 8, 12:07 [Attachment] 4
  - Death by snu snu. -- nm - Qale Oct 8, 12:59
  - I nearly posted, "Honestly, is Ken gay?" - Spawn Oct 8, 12:08 2
    - hasn't Ken always been gay? -- nm - Andie Oct 8, 12:38 1
      - 'e's a very happy boy, yes -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 13:45
Live and Let Die & Spy Who Loved Me are probably my top two. Yeah, Moonraker had a great bond girl but the worst song -- nm - zork Oct 8, 12:01 10
- The World Is Not Enough is my only favorite. -- nm - Qale Oct 8, 13:00 1
  - Whooo...Garbage and Shirley - JD Oct 8, 14:09
- Those and View To a Kill are my top. -- nm - Spawn Oct 8, 12:05 7
  - Songs, right? Not movies? - Will Hunting Oct 8, 12:44 2
    - Yes. I thought we had been talking songs but I have been slammed at work today. But I am leaving early, RIGHT NOW!!! -- nm - Spawn Oct 8, 12:47 1
      - Nah, I mean one is solid, I figured ... just wanted to make sure. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 8, 12:48
  - I'd add For your Eyes Only - eag Oct 8, 12:32 3
    - I almost added this exact post to mine -- nm - zork Oct 8, 14:07
    - Thunderball is my perennial favorite. It's not the best Bond movie (by far), but for some reason, I just enjoy it immensely every time I see it. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 8, 12:39
    - word -- nm - Spawn Oct 8, 12:39
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Burt Bacharach! -- (link) - znufrii Oct 8, 11:56 [youtube]

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