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Mideast calls out hypocrisy of world reactions to Russian invasion vs response to similar in nonwhite countries -- (link) - zeitgeist Feb 27, 15:38 5
- The linked article is not about the Mideast. It is about Twitter. Twitter sucks -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 16:19
- I think the Iraq invasion is comparable in that it was basically “we just really don’t like the government,” but now without even the WMD veneer. - mafic Feb 27, 15:51
- They are not wrong. I decided to not have this fight with a cousin I hadn't seen in more than 5 years about this just last night. (NM) - Marlowe Feb 27, 15:44 2
  - Yeah, it's completely true. Yemen standing there with hands on hips. -- nm - Reagen Feb 27, 15:48 1
    - Nuclear powers etc. and you couldn’t really call the Houthi moderates. -- nm - mafic Feb 27, 15:54
Stocks: Futures Down, Oil Up (might want to fillup before tomorrow) -- (link) - budice Feb 27, 15:09 2
- Apparently gas prices jumping now is just greed. Crude wouldn't effect pump prices for a couple weeks if not months -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 15:58 1
  - Silly zeitgeist. That logic is only true when the price of crude goes down. -- nm - Dano Feb 27, 16:03
Russian Chief of General Staff reportedly fired. -- (link) - TWuG Feb 27, 15:09 2
- …out of an artillery launcher. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 27, 15:11 1
  - watch those open windows -- nm - Beaker Feb 27, 15:34
because I hate you, Farro, Kale, and Peanut Butter Soup - crash davis Feb 27, 15:00 1
- I would eat this, although maybe add some chorizo. -- nm - Reagen Feb 27, 15:02
Alexandra Daddario at the SAG Awards -- (link*) - budice Feb 27, 14:55 37
- Notable for all the below: plenty of piano black, and it doesn't look like anyone's come up with a solidarity ribbon yet. -- nm - Max Feb 27, 16:38
- Billy Crudup with Naomi Watts -- (link) - budice Feb 27, 16:19 2
  - I'm not a fan of Billy's tux. -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 16:36
  - In a few years he should be ready to play Lincoln. - Max Feb 27, 16:30
- Elle Fanning -- (link) - mud Feb 27, 16:18 1
  - She needs to get the number of Michelle Pfeiffer's stylist. -- nm - Max Feb 27, 16:29
- Cate Blanchett -- (link) - budice Feb 27, 16:16 3
  - vid: -- (link) - mud Feb 27, 16:26 2
    - Dear editors of Variety, you do not spell Lothlorien "red carpet". Get a spell check -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 16:32
    - Yep. -- nm - Max Feb 27, 16:27
- LMM -- (link) - budice Feb 27, 16:14 1
  - NCIS: Hollywood -- nm - Max Feb 27, 16:27
- Jeremy Strong -- (link) - budice Feb 27, 16:13 2
  - Nope. - Max Feb 27, 16:26 1
    - As a menswear expert, all I can say is "Yeesh" -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 16:37
- Oscar Isaac -- (link) - budice Feb 27, 16:13 1
  - Jacket stolen from Brick Tamland's closet. -- nm - Max Feb 27, 16:25
- Jessica Chastain -- (link) - budice Feb 27, 16:08 2
  - Thumper rules -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 16:25
  - If she keeps trying one day she's bound to get it right. -- nm - Max Feb 27, 16:24
- hailee steinfeld -- (link*) - budice Feb 27, 15:56 1
  - Thumper rules -- nm* - crash davis Feb 27, 16:26
- Kerry Washington -- (link) - budice Feb 27, 15:42 1
  - Solely as a fashion expert, Kerry looks absolutely gorgeous -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 16:25
- Selena Gomez -- (link) - budice Feb 27, 15:40 1
  - Theme song -- (link) - Max Feb 27, 16:22 [youtube]
- Vanessa Hudgens -- (link) - budice Feb 27, 15:39 1
  - Don't take selfies near mirrors. If you aren't Vanessa Hudgens, they could provide a distraction in the image -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 16:23
- Reese Witherspoon -- (link) - budice Feb 27, 15:38 3
  - I like the dress and the blue, don't like that shade of lipstick. - Max Feb 27, 16:19 2
    - The dress is awesome, the lipstick works, and the IM is a cry for help. What help can I give you Max? -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 16:21 1
      - I can't help it! I normally try to cast every celeb biopic with an actor, and now I've drifted into actor on actor casting! -- nm - Max Feb 27, 16:23
- The final flourish -- (link) - budice Feb 27, 15:32 2
  - For a brief second she has Nia Vardalos eyes. - Max Feb 27, 16:18
  - Soul stealers -- nm - Spawn Feb 27, 16:12
- solely as a fashion expert, I approve of this dress -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 14:57 1
  - As a horny dude, I also approve this dress. -- nm - Todd Manning Feb 27, 15:03
Uncharted $23.3 ($83.4), Dog $10.1 ($30.9), Spider-man NWH $5.8 ($779.9), Death on the Nile $4.5 ($32.8), Jackass Forever $3.2 ($52.1) -- (link*) - Beaker Feb 27, 14:54 1
- After my third viewing of SM, my biggest "problem" with it is spoil - Spawn Feb 27, 16:09
Belarus gettin' some too -- (link) - Reagen Feb 27, 14:51
Peaky Blinders has returned so watch out for spoilers although episodes are being broadcast weekly. -- nm - LMS Feb 27, 14:46
February books: The best-reviewed titles of the last month - crash davis Feb 27, 14:45 2
- I was reading about the Mad Max book earlier. Charlize and Tom Hardy haaaaaaated each other. -- nm - Dark Callisto Feb 27, 15:08 1
  - I heard an interview with the author. He'd sit in his trailer trying to "get into it" while Charlize was seething in a hot truck - Reagen Feb 27, 15:35
"a bad bet" -- (link) - mud Feb 27, 14:41 1
- ref: -- (link) - mud Feb 27, 14:43
Taxes: Filed -- nm - Mop Feb 27, 14:38
Cnn reports that the world's largest cargo jet from Russia was destroyed on a Ukrainian airport -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 14:31 1
- I was following this earlier in the week. Apparently survived the initial attacks but it was just a matter of time. -- nm - zunk xometimes Feb 27, 15:21
U.S. considering following EU, Canada in barring Russian airlines from its airspace but has made not decisions. -- (link) - ty97 Feb 27, 14:27 4
- Almost certainly what they must be contemplating: Russia will close their airspace right back, making many US-Asia flights quite a bit longer. - ty97 Feb 27, 14:29 3
  - U.S. to Asia flights from the East Coast, right? Doesn't the rest of the country fly West? -- nm - zunk xometimes Feb 27, 15:27 2
    - Great Circle routes to Beijing, Thailand, India, go over northern Russia. -- nm - Reagen Feb 27, 15:33 1
      - Ah, ok. -- nm - zunk xometimes Feb 27, 15:44
Ali Marpet (Pro Bowl guard for the TB Bucs) is retiring at 28 -- nm - Flavorize Feb 27, 14:25
Leonard Kessler, children’s author whose books endured, dies at 101 - crash davis Feb 27, 14:23
I'm seeing a lot more things on social media that I'd classify as "cry moar, Nazi" from asshole right wingers - Reagen Feb 27, 14:14 3
- bile toward trudeau's 'fascism' egged on by you-know-hoo last night at CPAC? -- nm - mud Feb 27, 14:24 2
  - more your Dineshes and Sohrabs. -- nm - Reagen Feb 27, 14:29 1
    - d'souza is insane -- nm - mud Feb 27, 14:31
Abe at Coney Island = Me at Disney World -- nm - Mop Feb 27, 13:52 1
- Haha! :) -- nm - Dark Callisto Feb 27, 14:07
If you subscribe to the MLB Network, it automatically renews tomorrow. I don't imagine much game content for the next couple of months so might as - zunk xometimes Feb 27, 13:42
Green Day Cancel Stadium Concert in Russia Over Ukraine Invasion -- (link) - Remlik Feb 27, 13:29 10
- I mean ..it is now a pariah state and no one is going there for a very long time. -- nm - mud Feb 27, 13:46
- AJR cancels Russian tour....lots of acts scheduled for Russia and Eastern Europe over the next few months -- (link) - Remlik Feb 27, 13:31 8
  - who? -- nm - mud Feb 27, 13:40 6
    - a popular music group. -- (link) - Remlik Feb 27, 13:43 5
      - I didn't think they were that popular, though I do know two songs by them that I think were hits? (also I'm old so what do I know?) -- nm - ty97 Feb 27, 13:52 2
        
        Bang went to #8, and they have a few other songs that got alternative or "adult pop" airplay. - Tim Feb 27, 13:57 1
        
        Bang is the one that was everywhere for a bit. - ty97 Feb 27, 13:59
      - First I have heard of them, but good for them. -- nm - Spawn Feb 27, 13:45 1
        
        they were just in town for the College Football Championships a few weeks ago -- nm - Remlik Feb 27, 13:50
  - I mean you don't want to play "Bang" in a warzone. -- nm - Reagen Feb 27, 13:34
fuck these guys -- (link) - mud Feb 27, 13:23 6
- They should have picked up a few pointers from Iraq resistance, dig bombs under the pavement and wait for them to drive over. -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 14:34
- "If you could line up all your vehicles in nice, straight lines, that'd be great." -- nm - Ukraine Feb 27, 13:51 1
  - Remember. If you blow up the first vehicle and the last vehicle... the rest are like fish in a barrel. -- nm - Chechan Rebels Feb 27, 14:27
- Ukraine needs this weapon -- (link) - Max Feb 27, 13:34 [youtube] 1
  - nice -- nm - tyrion Feb 27, 13:37
- Alas, this is war, it will get ugly before it gets even uglier. (NM) - Marlowe Feb 27, 13:25
arent the russian casualty estimates 10X this? -- (link) - mud Feb 27, 13:20
One of the paramilitary Chechens supplementing Russian forces complains about Ukrainian resistance. - Remlik Feb 27, 13:16 5
- Yeah, bud. You are not recovering an abandoner car, you know? (NM) - Marlowe Feb 27, 13:24
- I would like to see more consumer-level drone footage. This is a very odd war so far. No embedded press. No footage of active shooting. -- (edited) - Max Feb 27, 13:18 3
  - Zelensky specifically called out Tiktokers as being able to help, so maybe that's where the footage is -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 14:08
  - I think it's a mix of both with your IM. -- nm - Remlik Feb 27, 13:21 1
    - I also don't how reliable this is but this guys thread of videos is fascinating.... -- (link) - Remlik Feb 27, 13:26
CPAC Attendee Poll Repug Pres. Nominee: Trump 59%, DeSantis 26%, Pompeo 2%. -- (edited) - Diva Feb 27, 13:12 1
- of course. I can't wait for Desantis and Trump to start fighting -- nm - Remlik Feb 27, 13:14
What’s made of leather and sounds like a sneeze?… - Flavorize Feb 27, 13:03 [Attachment]
Russian Conductor Valery Gergiev Dropped by His Management Over Ties to Vladimir Putin -- (link) - Remlik Feb 27, 13:01
nm -- nm* - budice Feb 27, 12:49 1
- 4 posts down, by .. Remlik! -- nm - mud Feb 27, 12:51
FedEx stops all shipments to Russia -- (link) - Remlik Feb 27, 12:38 6
- Tom Hanks is preparing for Castaway 2 -- nm - zork Feb 27, 13:03 1
  - Castaway: ODST (Orbital Drop Shipping Transport) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 13:20
- I mean logistics, if nothing else. -- nm - Reagen Feb 27, 13:00
- When it absolutely positively has to be there never. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 27, 12:41 1
  - So, basically nothing's changed? -- nm - Qale Feb 27, 12:42
- "The Fed lowering interest rates" -- nm - budice Feb 27, 12:39
Eff FIFA. -- (link) - Marlowe Feb 27, 12:20 10
- Damn paywall -- nm - zork Feb 27, 13:10 1
  - From ESPN -- (link) - Diva Feb 27, 13:14
- I'm shocked, SHOCKED this is the response. -- nm - spamlet Feb 27, 12:43 1
  - Yeah, me too. I was expecting them to at least let the team use the colors. That really showed them. (NM) - Marlowe Feb 27, 12:52
- IIHF by contrast... -- (link) - Reagen Feb 27, 12:39
- They're gonna get themselves a World Cup with Russia, Qatar, Saudi, Brazil, Iran and the African teams. -- nm - Reagen Feb 27, 12:35 4
  - We'll start our own World Cup, with hookers and blackjack! -- nm - Tim Feb 27, 12:43 3
    - I was literally going to ask where the Hookers and Blackjack Cup would be hosted. -- nm - Reagen Feb 27, 13:06
    - We can call it the XFL -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 12:49 1
      - XXXFL . Now those are Tight Ends. -- nm - budice Feb 27, 12:51
Every time I open a catalog - "Darn, I wish I'd drawn (xxx) as a stalkee." May have to 'just do it' :) -- nm - Meg Feb 27, 12:18
Russian soldiers temporarily left their MT-LB amphibious armored vehicle on a dirt road. Local villagers hooked it up and towed it away... -- (link) - Remlik Feb 27, 12:16 2
- Ukrainian villagers standing up to a Russian tank. -- (link) - Mop Feb 27, 14:43
- a used weapons site has an old on for sale at $100,000. this had to be a $500K or more loss :) :) :) -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 27, 12:20
I think is how I should end all posts to Spawn and Remlik -- (pic) - crash davis Feb 27, 12:13 [Attachment] 3
- No that's how every Halo game should end if you're driving -- nm - Remlik Feb 27, 12:16 2
  - I'm driver. I drive. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 12:41
  - oh! -- nm - mud Feb 27, 12:18
EU closes airspace to Russian planes, bans pro-Kremlin media outlets and pledges arms to Ukraine -- (link) - budice Feb 27, 12:11 1
- 'fighter jets'! -- (link) - mud Feb 27, 12:30
Zelenskyy is the Ukrainian voice of Paddington Bear. -- (link) - budice Feb 27, 12:07 1
- The Russian bear taken down by Paddington Bear! -- nm - TWuG Feb 27, 13:14
Someone should do this ... with ellipses. -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 27, 11:54 2
- it's like the world's most literate 3 year old. -- nm - Reagen Feb 27, 12:16 1
  - I would pay Jonathan Frakes to narrate it -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 12:27
Today (or yesterday) happens to be the anniversary of the 100hr ground war phase of Desert Storm. Interesting to hear Bush's SOTU topics then. - Max Feb 27, 11:51 [youtube]
Carabao Cup Finals spoilers. - Volnelk Feb 27, 11:45 2
- *spoils* - JD Feb 27, 11:46
- Yeesh -- nm - budice Feb 27, 11:45
Question of the day -- (pic) -- (link*) - prayformojo Feb 27, 11:40 [Attachment] 7
- Answer (spoiler) -- (pic) -- (edited) - prayformojo Feb 27, 11:40 [Attachment] 6
  - This answer does not actually contain the answer. *confused cat gif* -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 11:45 1
    - sorry - above post now includes the answer -- nm - prayformojo Feb 27, 11:47
  - Bonus question -- (pic) - prayformojo Feb 27, 11:41 [Attachment] 3
    - Answer (spoiler) -- (pic) - prayformojo Feb 27, 11:41 [Attachment] 2
      - 1/2 -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 27, 13:03
      - 1/2 -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 27, 11:58
You can now write your own name in the style of The Batman's logo -- (link) - budice Feb 27, 11:39 5
- ! -- (pic) - mud Feb 27, 11:49 [Attachment]
- I swear I had a movie poster from Premiere mag 30yrs ago that featured Bullwinkle's antlers in Batman logo style but can't find it online - Max Feb 27, 11:44
- Hmm. -- (pic) - Beryllium Feb 27, 11:43 [Attachment] 2
  - huh? -- nm - mud Feb 27, 11:50 1
    - It's a confusing pun, because it could either refer to assaults by Batman or Batman's personal bathsalts -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 11:55

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