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I'm trying to get into "Hustle" but it's just not gelling for me after 1.5 episodes -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 20:16
Coke Zero Starlight: Grade D+. It's some kind of strawberry cola kind of thing that is unwelcome after about 10 ozs. - Qale Feb 27, 19:51
CNN decided not to air the Alex Jones documentary -- nm - Remlik Feb 27, 19:49 1
- Too much real news, they often dump, delay the weekend filler when real shit happens -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 20:19
The Mrs. Maisel episode with Jackie’s funeral was their Emmy episode even before Lenny Bruce showed up. -- nm - Mop Feb 27, 19:24 1
- it's pretty funny. I love Abe -- nm - mud Feb 27, 19:39
FCC will investigate American media, communications companies, even submarine cable companies for Russian ties -- (link) - zeitgeist Feb 27, 19:20 2
- OMG! Is that Joe McCarthy’s music?! -- nm - Mop Feb 27, 19:24 1
  - If it takes Fox right wing state news off the air - eag Feb 27, 19:47
I think we need to retcon John Wick as Ukrainian -- nm - zork Feb 27, 19:09 1
- According to Wikipedia he is Belarusian by birth, but trained in Mexico and New York -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 19:19
You want an act of war? Here's an act of war! -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 27, 18:59 1
- L5! -- nm - Epiphany Feb 27, 19:00
I thought I was buying a 12 pack of Faygo Red Pop. It was a flavor I've never heard of before: Rock & Rye -- nm - TWuG Feb 27, 18:54 2
- And? How is it? Did you spontaneously juggalize? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 18:57 1
  - It's not bad. Sort of a cherry cream soda, I think. -- nm - TWuG Feb 27, 19:38
Seems the L.A. bomb squad ignored warnings they were putting too much in the containment vehicle. Yesterday was the anniversary of the explosion. -- (link) - Meg Feb 27, 18:53
You know… I’m not seeing a lot of social media about Russian gains in Ukraine. Just sayin’. -- nm - Mop Feb 27, 18:48 3
- They have been gaining plenty of ammunition, tossed at them for free. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 19:01
- [nods] -- nm - mud Feb 27, 18:59 1
  - They have *drones*. I seriously wonder if that convoy captured on satellite still exists. -- nm - Mop Feb 27, 19:00
When the Swiss take a side, you know you done screwed the pooch. -- (link) - TWuG Feb 27, 18:38 2
- Freeze assets… *wink* -- nm - Mop Feb 27, 18:43
- Meh, there are no Russian accounts, just numbered accounts with Cyrillic passwords -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 18:41
I was just thinking how Putin might be Ceausescu'd by week's end, but he'd more likely be .. (Goodfellas spoil) - mud Feb 27, 18:34 8
- I wouldn't underestimate his ability to survive. Not necessarily remain in power but survive. -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 18:49 2
  - True, but if Russia could take a breather from autocracy and make headway on some real democracy, that'd be nice. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 18:54 1
    - yes! ..but first we drink and dance! and drink ..and drink some more! -- nm - yeltsin Feb 27, 18:56
- I want a “how it started/how it’s going” meme. -- nm - Mop Feb 27, 18:44 2
  - oh youre so 2021 -- nm - mud Feb 27, 18:48 1
    - I think it’s time for Julie Nolke to visit her past self from late 2021. -- nm - Mop Feb 27, 18:50
- I… don’t think he was in Goodfellas. -- nm - Mop Feb 27, 18:44 1
  - spoil - mud Feb 27, 18:47
Biden to host meeting on Ukraine on Monday with leaders of NATO, the European Union, the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Japan, Romania - budice Feb 27, 18:34 6
- if China were smart they'd jump all over fucking up Russia's shit. -- nm - Beaker Feb 27, 18:36 5
  - Was it you who said Japan should be revisiting a couple of occupied islands? -- nm - Mop Feb 27, 18:52 2
    - One of those islands had an earthquake today. Send a relief mission! - Beryllium Feb 27, 19:01 1
      - Peace keeping force! -- nm - Mop Feb 27, 19:22
  - Xi made a thing by having Putin at the opening of the Olympics. Now he can't be hasty and lose a lot of face -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 18:38 1
    - fuck it, that was days ago; jump on the hot new thing; otherwise you'll get run over -- nm - Beaker Feb 27, 18:39
Little tuxedo kid is the best presenter of the night. -- nm - Max Feb 27, 18:28
Putin as honourary president of the International judo federation? Not anymore. -- nm - zork Feb 27, 18:25
North Korea's finest news service is on top of things -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 27, 18:18 3
- *SNORK!* I was on the phone with my mom when I read that! -- nm - Mop Feb 27, 18:42
- He's just a cook -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 18:27 1
  - …who taste-tests every dish. Repeatedly. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 27, 18:35
NBC: People with long covid symptoms are being denied medical and disability benefits -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 18:18
Ukrainian soldier has a message for Russian soldiers -- (link) - TWuG Feb 27, 18:14 4
- Geebus -- nm - Epiphany Feb 27, 18:51
- Fuuuuuuuuck. -- nm - Mop Feb 27, 18:47
- Wow -- nm - zork Feb 27, 18:22
- brutal -- nm - mud Feb 27, 18:19
Thank you for Alexandra Daddario on B2. I still don't understand how she wasn't cast as Wonder Woman. -- nm - zork Feb 27, 18:12
Russian ruble continues to drop, now down 41% against the U.S. dollar in early trade -- (link*) - budice Feb 27, 18:12
Alright, I made a thing. -- (pic) - Beryllium Feb 27, 18:03 [Attachment] 13
- good? bad? stupid? Translating it to ukrainian or russian might not work too well. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 18:13 7
  - I don’t think I’d want to compete with Ukrainians in making war memes -- nm - Roger More Feb 27, 18:23 2
    - It's not competition. It's contribution to the effort. :) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 18:33
    - The Chechens apparently fucked off back home, which is like saying you scared the boogeyman. -- nm - Reagen Feb 27, 18:29
  - I like. Is it the right aircraft? -- nm - mud Feb 27, 18:16 3
    - Ukrainian Su-25, photo provided by Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (sourced via Wikimedia Commons) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 18:16 2
      - technically I need to put an attribution bit on it, haven't done that yet -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 18:17 1
        
        :-] -- nm - mud Feb 27, 18:19
- *this* is strafing -- (link) - zeitgeist Feb 27, 18:13 [youtube] 4
  - holy shit. How tf are there any Taliban left? -- nm - mud Feb 27, 18:40 3
    - I assume when you level a village from the sky, it swells the ranks of the people who might disagree with such an action. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 18:42 2
      - disagree .. from the grave? -- nm - mud Feb 27, 18:50 1
        
        Or from ten nearby villages. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 18:52
“I regret nothing.” -- (link) - mud Feb 27, 17:57 1
- €1 and time served! -- nm - TWuG Feb 27, 17:59
Mayor Glen Jacobs...moron....Hangman PAge with a good response -- (link*) - Remlik Feb 27, 17:50 4
- That's gotta be Kane! -- nm - Qale Feb 27, 19:52
- He’s a fucking idiot. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 27, 18:11
- Hangman’s reply -- (link) - Tim Feb 27, 17:53 1
  - Ratio'd him into oblivion. -- nm - David Feb 27, 18:11
SAG spoiler. - zunk xometimes Feb 27, 17:50
Turkey has confirmed President Zelensky's earlier statement that it has closed the Bosphorus Strait to russian naval assets -- nm - Beaker Feb 27, 17:49
That was a lovely episode of The Simpsons. -- nm - David Feb 27, 17:48
Twisted Sister's Dee Snyder with the truth bomb -- (link) - Beaker Feb 27, 17:47 4
- Hee -- nm - Epiphany Feb 27, 18:56
- That’s great. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 27, 18:12
- I wanna rock! -- nm - JaxSean Feb 27, 18:02
- nice -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 27, 17:48
Sunday NYT crossword clues (spoils) - prayformojo Feb 27, 17:42 3
- Guesses - ralph wiggum Feb 27, 19:00 1
  - yep on everything you guessed. nice job! -- nm - prayformojo Feb 27, 19:04
- answer spoils - prayformojo Feb 27, 18:59
EU sending fighter jets to Ukraine for their use. Guessing EU pilot not included -- (link) - TWuG Feb 27, 17:31 29
- What they could use is one of those gun ships where they can just fly over that convoy unleashing an iron rain from multiple spin barrel machine guns -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 18:08 4
  - Puff the Magic Dragon -- nm - zork Feb 27, 18:13
  - Ah, the good ol' AC-130 from Call of Duty -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 18:09 2
    - apparently obsolete against modern armor. -- nm - Reagen Feb 27, 18:14 1
      - Maybe someone can spare a few C-RAM units - zork Feb 27, 18:16
- EU chief says bloc wants Ukraine as member -- (link) - budice Feb 27, 18:01 8
  - But did she have to add “Not like Poland and Hungary. I mean, right?” -- nm - Mop Feb 27, 18:56
  - Poroshenko pointed out that Ukraine has proven what an asset they would be to NATO. At this point only Putin would argue. -- nm - zork Feb 27, 18:29
  - and Kosovo wants to fast track into NATO, with Sweden and Finland considering it finally. Good work, Putin -- nm - Reagen Feb 27, 18:13 5
    - How quickly can NATO fast track these countries in? -- nm - eag Feb 27, 18:30
    - He should have seen the writing on the wall when Trump thought he was brilliant. - Will Hunting Feb 27, 18:17 1
      - yup -- nm - Beaker Feb 27, 18:28
    - How to Unite Europe In One Military Folly or Less by Vlad Putin -- nm - TWuG Feb 27, 18:17 1
      - This from Iron Man 3 except substitute Tony Stark with the EU and NATO and the Mandarin with Putin -- (link) - eag Feb 27, 18:24 [youtube]
- Seems significant that they can fly jets into Ukraine without being shot down by the Russians, and that Ukraine has pilots. -- nm - Mop Feb 27, 17:48 2
  - well western Ukraine is largely untouched, and that border is about the distance from Boston to Philadelphia -- nm - Reagen Feb 27, 17:53 1
    - Also mostly NATO countries -- nm - eag Feb 27, 17:58
- That road to Kyiv is looking appetizing. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 27, 17:40 6
  - "Get in, losers! We're going strafing!" ... ah shit, I'm gonna go make this image -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 17:42 5
    - Saw on CNN they already use a drone strike on a convoy not sure if it that one -- nm* - eag Feb 27, 17:45 4
      - Drones courtesy of Turkey -- nm - eag Feb 27, 17:49 3
        
        Are the drones armed, or are they just supplying targeting info to missiles? -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 17:56 2
        
        Those were armed drones from the looks of it -- nm - eag Feb 27, 17:59 1
        
        Azeri operated drones were monumental in that Azeri_Armenian war RM talked about earlier. -- nm - Reagen Feb 27, 18:00
- Jesus. *Within the hour*. Those are fast jets. -- nm - Mop Feb 27, 17:34 4
  - cruising speed is around 1500 kph. -- nm - Reagen Feb 27, 17:38
  - Let's just hope putin doesn't send a welcome committee of Migs -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 17:37
  - They're coming from old Soviet-bloc neighbors who use the same jets as Ukraine. - TWuG Feb 27, 17:36 1
    - That makes sense -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 17:38
Nearly half of the US's free covid test stockpile remains unclaimed -- (link) - znufrii Feb 27, 17:24 1
- They became available and shipped about two weeks too late for MOST people - Epiphany Feb 27, 18:59
Elway out as “President of Operations” (contract expired)—will be “outside consultant” going forward. Note: he’s in a group trying for ownership too -- nm - Flavorize Feb 27, 17:16 1
- Wow - eag Feb 27, 17:22
José! -- (link) - mud Feb 27, 17:03 6
- Donate to the world kitchen fund -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 17:30
- Can we get him a Nobel? -- nm - Reagen Feb 27, 17:11 3
  - I've been saying this for years. Nobody deserves one more. -- nm - David Feb 27, 17:29
  - co-signed -- nm - prayformojo Feb 27, 17:27
  - dont see why not -- nm - mud Feb 27, 17:20
- While a righteous dude, I think he has looked better on other red carpets -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 17:06
Now Playing: Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom -- nm - Dano Feb 27, 17:03
Lady Gaga -- (link) - mud Feb 27, 16:53 6
- That's really tame for a Gaga dress -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 17:40
- I don't particularly care for the way the top is finished with the triangles. Other than that, Gaga looks great -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 17:01 4
  - What do you have against triangles!?! They are my second favorite shape!!! -- nm - Spawn Feb 27, 17:10 3
    - rhomboids rule!!! -- nm - mud Feb 27, 17:14
    - Triangles should know their place. That isn't their place -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 17:13 1
      - I find some triangles to be obtuse -- nm - Flavorize Feb 27, 17:18
I think these DUNE dudes are coordinating. -- (link) - mud Feb 27, 16:46 3
- I like Bardem's jacket over Isaac's jacket -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 17:09 2
  - Two jackets? That would be weird. -- nm - Spawn Feb 27, 17:10 1
    - It is 20 degrees here! -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 17:12
I'm concerned for crash & max. They may have lost their marbles on B2. -- nm - mud Feb 27, 16:38 4
- Yeah, Jeremy Strong's tux looks like a comfortable one to take a nap in -- nm - Roger More Feb 27, 17:34
- I can't help either of you, boys. I'm taking all the marbles to the grave hahaha -- nm - mud Feb 27, 17:01
- you'll have to prove that I had marbles to begin with before you can accuse me of losing them -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 16:59
- post more pictures of marbles for us to comment on -- nm - Max Feb 27, 16:39
pretty -- (link) - mud Feb 27, 16:34
'50% of transactions were fraudulent' when Steam accepted Bitcoin for payments -- (link) - spamlet Feb 27, 16:32 2
- I am surprised when anything crypto has fraudulent in the same sentence - crash davis Feb 27, 17:03 1
  - next thing he'll be telling us NFT's are shady -- nm - Beaker Feb 27, 17:04
Vasiliy Lomachenko, ESPN's No. 8 pound-for-pound boxer, has joined a territorial defense battalion in Ukraine -- (link) - Beaker Feb 27, 16:29 1
- Watch out Liam, he's gonna punch a tank in the face. -- nm* - zeitgeist Feb 27, 17:45

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