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Huh. This is really interesting: how to gift a knife to someone -- (link) - decline Dec 9, 06:54 5
- Do people not already know this? -- nm - znufrii, boosted Dec 9, 06:59 4
  - I did not -- nm - decline Dec 9, 07:02
  - Never heard of it. Also never gifted a knife to someone. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 07:00 2
    - Interesting. I have, once. We are still friends 15-ish years after the fact, I guess. (NM) - Marlowe Dec 9, 07:04 1
      - Knife of Marlowe is the poor cousin to Sword of Damocles. -- nm - Baron Please Come Home Dec 9, 07:10
Happy The Expanse season 6 Eve everyone! What are you doing to celebrate? -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 06:51 2
- Hitching my tits and puckering up -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 06:56
- Wearing my daisy dukes (ex-pants)! -- nm - con_carne Dec 9, 06:54
Just throw this out there, but I think Kate Bishop is the most gorgeous female character in the MCU -- nm - Jovian Dec 9, 06:37 1
- Yep. (NM) - Marlowe Dec 9, 06:39
Reagen how was Snowagheddon? Snowpocalypse? -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 06:31 4
- ~8 inches. Respectable. -- nm - Reagen Dec 9, 06:33 3
  - (because of our dumb schedule, I will have lost 15 classes in one section compared to another) - Reagen Dec 9, 06:35
  - Isn't that the standard unit of snowfall in Canada? 8 inches to the spec? -- nm - Baron Please Come Home Dec 9, 06:34 1
    - Considering they used to measure it in caribou penis, this is an upgrade. -- nm - Qale Dec 9, 06:45
Apparently, Letitia Wright is unwilling to return to the MCU due to refusal to get vaccinated. - Will Hunting Dec 9, 06:28 18
- Is Lon Chaney available? -- nm* - budice Dec 9, 06:44
- Right because she's gonna get that kind of money doing a different movie - eag Dec 9, 06:38 1
  - quite literally rejecting the Brinks truck that would pull up to her house for years. -- nm - Jovian Dec 9, 06:39
- Okay, at least she ain't pulling an Aaron Rodgers and lying about it. -- nm - Pippy Dec 9, 06:38 3
  - Yep. I can strongly disagree with her and respect her decision. You can make choices, but they may have consequences. -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 06:46
  - Yep. Or posting a bunch of nonsense on social media (*ahem* Gina Carano) and getting yourself sh*tcanned from a flagship franchise. -- nm - Jovian Dec 9, 06:43 1
    - she was apparently VERY vocal on set. Telling people not to get the jab, sending links shit like that if reports are to be believed -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 06:44
- Time to go with Plan B: Todrick Hall -- nm - Baron Please Come Home Dec 9, 06:33 2
  - I don't think anyone would know the difference. -- nm - Qale Dec 9, 06:47 1
    - Black Panther 2, directed by John Waters. -- (pic) - Baron Please Come Home Dec 9, 07:09 [Attachment]
- is the BP sequel already in production? Because if not, I can see them just scrapping it entirely. -- nm - Jovian Dec 9, 06:32 2
  - It was, she got hurt in some way and it was more serious than expected and now she likely can’t get back to the US if she wanted to -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 9, 06:33
  - what Will said, forgot the injury part that led to the whole thing -- nm* - Beaker Dec 9, 06:32
- don't let the door hit your dumb ass on the way out. "Shuri died on the way back to her home planet." -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 06:30 3
  - Wonder if she be pulling this crap if Chadwick was still around -- nm - eag Dec 9, 06:54
  - Opening scene of BP2: spoils - Will Hunting Dec 9, 06:33 1
    - kill her off screen "I can't believe someone blew up Shuri and Panther!!" Make BP2 about finding a Panther/ Wakanda leader. Done and Done -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 06:34
- well, bye -- nm - Reagen Dec 9, 06:30
Incredible warmth for mid-December is expected especially next week for the central US. Temperatures will likely be 30 to 40 degrees above average -- (link) - decline Dec 9, 06:22 4
- Meanwhile in Colorado -- (link) - oblique Dec 9, 06:28 1
  - sweet -- nm - prayformojo Dec 9, 06:46
- Awesome! I have to be outside all day so this is great news for me. For the earth, not so much. -- nm - Krusty Dec 9, 06:24 1
  - It's going to be 70°F on Saturday... -- nm - decline Dec 9, 06:27
Heh, it's hard to get Twitter ratioed with a doggo pic, but CBS in Dallas has managed it. - Baron Please Come Home Dec 9, 06:21 3
- Oops, that was a repost. This is the original. -- (link) - Baron Please Come Home Dec 9, 06:24
- Cops rob people all the time -- nm - decline Dec 9, 06:23 1
  - That is a lot of damn money, but maybe she was going to buy a Tesla for cash. We don't know. -- nm - Baron Please Come Home Dec 9, 06:26
NYC to pass a bill to ban gas use in new buildings and gut renovations. -- (link) - Krusty Dec 9, 06:05
Two lawsuits seeking $100M each filed against Michigan school district where four students fatally shot, others wounded -- (link*) - budice Dec 9, 06:00
A chronological feed is coming back to Instagram next year. Yay! -- (link) - Krusty Dec 9, 05:59 2
- Oh, nice! That would make it usable! - Dark Callisto Dec 9, 06:16 1
  - Looks like there will be a few options including labeling people favorites. Hopefully it helps to make the feed better because it's a mess. - Krusty Dec 9, 06:23
guys, I thought that peacock ad free was $5 month if you had cable only. $10 if you don't have cable. is that true? - amanda jeans Dec 9, 05:55 2
- I pay nothing for the $5 tier because comcast is my internet provider. I don’t think that answers you though. -- nm - Qale Dec 9, 06:26
- edit: not your question. I have no idea -- nm* - spamlet Dec 9, 05:57
US unemployment claims plunged to 184,000 last week, the lowest level in 52 years. -- nm - decline Dec 9, 05:54 3
- But the gentlemen on the radio this morning said that Biden was the worst President in their lifetimes. - Jovian Dec 9, 06:33 2
  - you listen to some weird radio my friend -- nm - decline Dec 9, 06:56 1
    - its standard AM radio in the NJ/NY/CT area. Outside sports talk radio, they *all* push maga propaganda. - Jovian Dec 9, 07:00
looks like we're getting neeli bendapudi from u of louisville -- (link) - amanda jeans Dec 9, 05:28 3
- Sounds delicious -- nm - con_carne Dec 9, 06:29
- As football coach? -- nm - Baron Please Come Home Dec 9, 05:49
- So they did end up going with a woman -- nm - decline Dec 9, 05:44
Abbott Elementary was pretty good -- nm - prayformojo Dec 9, 05:22 1
- How are their test scores? -- nm - spamlet Dec 9, 05:53
TV PSA: NFL, Young Sheldon, Station 19, Walker, Blacklist, Grey's Anatomy, United States of Al, Shaq Life, Legacies, L&O x 2, B Positive, Bull, Big Sky -- nm* - Beaker Dec 9, 04:40 4
- HBO Max: And Just Like That…, Sex Lives of College Girls ; Paramount+: ST Discovery, Challenge All Stars, The Game ; Hulu: Bloods, Creamerie ; -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 04:44 3
  - And Just Like That is the new Sex and the City show (minus Kim Cattrall) FYI -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 04:54
  - Anne Boleyn (AMC+), Ghosts, Project Runway, Cake, Tacoma FD, Desus & Mero, The Housewives Of The North Pole (Peacock), other stuff -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 04:46 1
    - 3: NFL for me and Grey's and Station 19 for the wife -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 04:53
Happy birthday, H-Mogul! Woo hoo!!!🎂🥳 -- nm - Krusty Dec 9, 04:21 2
- Happy b, sir! (NM) - Marlowe Dec 9, 04:40
- Don Homer! -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 04:38
Good morning. Spelling Bee. -- (pic) - prayformojo Dec 9, 04:21 [Attachment] 10
- DUNELECH, a randy Fremen -- nm - Baron Please Come Home Dec 9, 06:07
- CHUNNLED - how LMS traveled to Calais a few weekends back -- nm - prayformojo Dec 9, 05:55
- DUHNCLE - that uncle that always makes the most obvious comments -- nm - Reagen Dec 9, 05:51
- The scariest night out is one that is CHUN LED. -- nm - znufrii, boosted Dec 9, 05:44
- LUNCH LEDEE - Doris -- nm - rollo Dec 9, 05:33
- Dull Chun - her twin sister who is a nun -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 05:00
- Enchulled - Falling for the woman carved on a boat's bow. -- nm - VMan Dec 9, 04:38 1
  - golf clap. -- nm - amanda jeans Dec 9, 05:36
- CHUD DENCH - the child she won’t talk about - spamlet Dec 9, 04:32
- chudlen - baby chuds -- nm - .📯 Dec 9, 04:29
the first omicron positive in seattle was community acquired, no out of country travel, she's 20ish and fine, mild symptoms -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 9, 02:01
the WORLD'S LARGEST POT BROWNIE -- (link) - Peglegpete Dec 8, 22:57 4
- they're selling an 850 pound brownie to a single patient? -- nm - mafic Dec 9, 00:06 1
  - exactly...that's not a 'brownie' ...its a death by chocolate type block -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 9, 01:58
- First thought upon seeing it: Thanks Marie Callender! -- nm - Ender Dec 8, 23:35 1
  - mine was we can break this record easily -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 8, 23:58
Call from Kaiser with a message from a doctor who "is covering for (my primary) while she's out." Concerned that my RBC is below standard range. - Meg Dec 8, 21:22 2
- its annoying when you know more than the " doctor". Like, get with it DOC -- nm - Pippy Dec 9, 06:20
- please don't let it be the current incarnation of Doctor Who!!! :)) -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 8, 22:47
aww, I think my favourite Australian campground just burned down. bushfire season is here! -- nm - mafic Dec 8, 21:15 7
- :( - znufrii, boosted Dec 9, 06:59
- And the spot I took this photo. I’m sad now. -- (link) - mafic Dec 8, 21:36 5
  - Not a campground, but this was one of my favorite parks. Please tell me it's still there (Araluen, I think?)taken in the early 60's) -- (pic) - Meg Dec 8, 22:09 [Attachment] 4
    - Love that place! I was there in August. Thought I had a photo from the same spot, but not quite. -- (pic) - mafic Dec 8, 22:39 [Attachment] 3
      - awesome -- nm - ty97 Dec 9, 06:57
      - Yup :} -- nm - Meg Dec 8, 22:55 1
        
        they have a tulip festival in the spring, ~200,000 tulips across the park. it's quite something. -- nm - mafic Dec 9, 00:03
ALex Rider: all right bring on season 3. Season 2 was fun -- (link) - Remlik Dec 8, 21:04 [youtube] 1
- watched season 2 in 2 days. Really liked it, left me wanting more for sure -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 04:47
I don't think my local multiplex is going to survive. My visit to the 4:00pm Ghostbusters screening. Details follow: - howie Dec 8, 20:55 4
- Yeesh. I hope they figure things out so you don't lose the theater. -- nm - Krusty Dec 9, 04:23
- That theatre closed 50 years ago! — nm - mafic Dec 8, 22:41 2
  - heh -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 04:48
  - Appropriate it's haunted by Ghostbusters. -- nm - .📯 Dec 8, 23:23
NMBStrongbad -- (edited) - flavorize Dec 8, 20:40 [Attachment] 1
- Well done. My satellite team was awful. I hate drafting that early before the season. -- nm - Strongbad Dec 9, 03:59
Gotta cut/eject 2 QBs—who ya got? - flavorize Dec 8, 20:37 [Attachment] 7
- Favre and Brees -- nm - rollo Dec 9, 05:44
- Cut Favre and Elway -- nm - Krusty Dec 9, 05:43
- Montana and Elway -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 04:49
- Elway and Brees -- nm - Strongbad Dec 9, 04:33
- Elway and Montana. They're super old and shouldn't be anyone's starting QB in 2021. -- nm* - Ender Dec 8, 22:37
- Can I cut Elway twice because he's a gigantic douchenozzle? Otherwise, Elway & Brees -- nm - JaxSean Dec 8, 21:54
- Elway Favre -- nm - Volnelk Dec 8, 20:50
Dano alert: Wet Leg is on Seth Myers tonight. -- nm - pmb Dec 8, 20:32
Anyone that dropped The Flash because it went from good to bad should watch this season. Very good. -- nm - Spawn Dec 8, 20:11 3
- spoils - Peglegpete Dec 8, 20:47 1
  - Agreed on all counts but still SO much better than what we had last season. -- nm - Spawn Dec 9, 07:48
- Only watched a bit_but I love what they did with (spoilers) - flavorize Dec 8, 20:12
ST Poll: You buy a 1954 unopened Topps baseball pack (6 cards in the pack)—it cost you $158k—do you open it, in hope of finding, say a Hank Aaron - flavorize Dec 8, 20:09 [Attachment] 7
- open it and eat the gum -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 04:51
- I go to the people who x-ray Dead Sea scrolls to read all the layers in them, and see what cards are I have that way. -- nm* - Peglegpete Dec 8, 20:49
- No way in hell. The odds are really thin, depending on the number of series they had. It’s at best a 1 in 15 or 20 -- (edited) - Will Hunting Dec 8, 20:18 3
  - Plus someone could have easily opened the pack at some point and then resealed it. -- nm - spamlet Dec 9, 03:35 2
    - then you sue the graders as I'd imagine being sealed would be part of a 7 grade -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 04:51 1
      - "these aren't 1954 Topps baseball cards, they are 1991 Score Hockey cards" -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 06:28
- I pay a bunch more money to develop technology to scan it and determine internal structure, from which I extrapolate which cards are inside. - mafic Dec 8, 20:17
You can tell a lot about a news source by how they cover today's Pfizer news. Do they focus on 2 doses not being enough, or on 3 doses being good? -- nm - Ender Dec 8, 20:01 2
- Neither, because that would be opinion, not fact. LAT lays out the facts and leaves the opinion/recommendation stuff to the experts. -- nm - con_carne Dec 9, 06:36
- exactly -- nm - loosilu Dec 8, 20:06
Is Frozen (Disney) a Christmas 🎄 movie? -- nm - flavorize Dec 8, 19:59 3
- No. It takes place in summer. -- nm - znufrii, boosted Dec 9, 05:17
- It's a winter movie, much like how many Christmas songs are actually winter songs. -- nm - Ender Dec 8, 20:03 1
  - this -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 06:46
Next year instead of LDB we should go whamhunting. Bring joy, not hate! -- (pic) - mafic Dec 8, 18:58 [Attachment]
heh. TIL it's possible to get appendicitis a second time even after an appendix has been 'taken out'. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 18:56 1
- Not the hard way, I hope -- nm - spamlet Dec 9, 06:49
Hawkeye episode 4 spoilers - Beryllium Dec 8, 18:38 2
- Spoils - TWuG Dec 8, 19:46 1
  - After tonight's ep, I'm inclined to agree. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 19:54
Bryce Young would be the first Alabama quarterback to win the Heisman? Really? - prayformojo Dec 8, 18:31 3
- Namath didn’t win? -- nm - Volnelk Dec 8, 20:29 1
  - Nope—ND QB won in ‘64 -- nm - flavorize Dec 8, 20:35
- Forrest Gump wasn’t a QB -- nm - flavorize Dec 8, 18:49
Masked Singer finale next week gonna be lit. (spoilers) - Baron Please Come Home Dec 8, 18:27
This is an object someone spent time making. Presumably on purpose and with care. -- (link) - mafic Dec 8, 18:21 6
- people been doing dioramas for decades, using rats, chickens etc. -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 8, 20:43 1
  - iirc, they are freeze dried -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 8, 20:44
- The Cheshire nun is the cherry-on-top -- nm - flavorize Dec 8, 19:34
- I was by there about 2 hours ago. They specialize in taxidermy, uhm, collectibles. -- nm - .📯 Dec 8, 19:31 1
  - buy any sweet sexy dead animals? -- nm - mafic Dec 8, 19:41
- It's clearly a commentary -- nm - prayformojo Dec 8, 18:35

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