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Quordle 2 7 4 6 - oblique Mar 28, 08:41
Copiague, NY is new town to me -- (edited) - budice Mar 28, 08:38
Duotrigordle 36/37 - znufrii Mar 28, 08:33 1
- sedecordle is a great shuttle activity for me. takes just long enough to get most of the way to work. -- nm - amanda jeans Mar 28, 08:34
Speculation: I doubt Coda gets nominated for Best Picture if there were a five film limit. - Dano Mar 28, 08:28 9
- I didn't know what it was about until this weekend and now I want to see it. Looks like a weeper. -- nm - Baruno Mar 28, 08:40
- People were thinking the extended timeframe and timing of other awards contributed. Front-runner fatigue. -- nm - budice Mar 28, 08:36
- What about Licorice Pizza? -- nm - zunk xometimes Mar 28, 08:35 4
  - My Best Guess on the Top 5 (alphabetically): Belfast, King Richard, Licorice Pizza, The Power of the Dog, West Side Story - Dano Mar 28, 08:40 3
    - do they release the nomination voting at any point in the future? -- nm - Beaker Mar 28, 08:41 2
      - I've never seen them do that. -- nm - Dano Mar 28, 08:42 1
        
        *slams laptop shut* -- nm - Pricewaterhouse Mar 28, 08:43
- Or does it, because Sound of Metal was on the list a couple years ago. -- nm - Max Mar 28, 08:30
- Yep. (NM) - Marlowe Mar 28, 08:28
Weekly Wordle Wrapup (3/21-3/27): 29 - rollo Mar 28, 08:22 2
- I'm happy with my 33 in what was a tough week for me -- nm - prayformojo Mar 28, 08:25
- 25 -- nm - oblique Mar 28, 08:24
DTL: My STI scrims are out. -- nm - spamlet Mar 28, 08:20
CONCACAF qualifying status -- (edited) - Reagen Mar 28, 08:17 5
- I didn’t realize that the World Cup draw is Friday. Wasting no time. -- nm - Volnelk Mar 28, 08:24 4
  - USA has an outside shot at Pot 1. Canada trying to reach for Pot 3. -- nm - Reagen Mar 28, 08:30 3
    - Explain? -- nm - JD Mar 28, 08:33 2
      - Based on FIFA rankings. Portugal has to lose and then a bunch of other things. -- nm - Reagen Mar 28, 08:38 1
        
        We’d have to leapfrog four teams that have already qualified. - znufrii Mar 28, 08:47
Heh, new Kroger eCoupon this morning for SuckerPunch Pickles. -- nm - Meg Mar 28, 08:17
Your top pro wrestling matches of the week -- (link) - Beaker Mar 28, 08:15
I finally signed up for Disney Plus and found this show you guys should check out. It's called WandaVision. - Baruno Mar 28, 08:03
Sao Jorge in the Azores being evacuated after 12,000 earthquakes have rocked the region in the last week -- (link) - Andie Mar 28, 07:54 4
- There's one volcanic island in the Atlantic - I don't know if this is the one - that'll flood the east coast with a tsunami if it ever erupts. -- nm - Mop Mar 28, 08:02 3
  - That one’s in the Canary Islands -- (link) - znufrii Mar 28, 08:07 2
    - And it’s not any eruption, it’s one that also causes either caldera collapse or a (large) landslide. -- nm - mafic Mar 28, 08:13 1
      - And even then there are a whole lot of questions about the model used. - znufrii Mar 28, 08:14
Worldle 1/1! (spoilers) - Dano Mar 28, 07:47 1
- (spoilers) - Baruno Mar 28, 07:51
My Mother Fucking Computer is supposed to arrive today. Time to hit the road and not return to the office for a week! - Mop Mar 28, 07:40
Hey, remember that time someone smacked someone else at the Academy Awards? Why does no one ever talk about that? -- nm - Mop Mar 28, 07:38
the chicken or the egg? - mud Mar 28, 07:32 1
- That's the Play Freebird of anti semitism. - Reagen Mar 28, 07:45
3-28...Sounds familiar. -- (link) - budice Mar 28, 07:26
My first Wordle failure... (spoiler) - Cuzzin Todd Mar 28, 07:19 19
- I also missed it. Oh wait, no I didn’t. N decided to try it out today when I was away from my phone. 🙄 -- nm - kelly Mar 28, 08:22
- Fell into the same trap. - Baruno Mar 28, 07:41 1
  - (spoils) - Baruno Mar 28, 07:45
- i tried a different approach today and it worked (BIG SPOILERS) -- (edited) - Andie Mar 28, 07:29 14
  - Hard mode or bust. -- nm - mafic Mar 28, 08:23
  - My second word often uses none of the letters of the first but I got got today. -- nm - Tim Mar 28, 08:03 1
    - i do that on Octordle and up. Not on Wordle, if i have a letter, i continue to use it, unless it is strategic not to. -- nm* - Andie Mar 28, 08:04
  - I've never thought of that before - neat trick. I did not make it today. :( -- nm - St. Epiphany Mar 28, 07:51
  - Pic (spoilers!!!!) -- (pic) - Andie Mar 28, 07:31 [Attachment] 9
    - Hard mode won't allow for that... but really, it doesn't make scenarios like this any more challenging. Just makes is come down to a lucky guess. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 28, 07:47 3
      - Hard Mode is the only way to play. Unfortunately you can get trapped but what's life without risk? -- nm - Baruno Mar 28, 07:52 2
        
        In the future, if I come across a similar scenario (and it comes up fairly often) I'll turn it off. Cause really, it's not "hard" at that point. - Cuzzin Todd Mar 28, 07:57 1
        
        i generally play by the Hard rules, i don't make moves that aren't legitimately possible, i don't see the point, but guessing is dumb if there is a - Andie Mar 28, 07:59
    - I've done this strategy before -- nm - zork Mar 28, 07:34
    - Legit! -- nm - Inigo Mar 28, 07:33
    - wicked smaht -- nm - decline Mar 28, 07:32
    - that's a terrific approach -- nm - prayformojo Mar 28, 07:32
    - This is what Wordle "hard mode" was made for :) -- (link) - oblique Mar 28, 07:32
- yours looks like mine. -- nm - amanda jeans Mar 28, 07:26
There sure is a lot to unpack here... -- (link) - decline Mar 28, 07:13 4
- There's a BB link I posted that expands and adds to all that. It somehow gets crazier. -- nm - TWuG Mar 28, 07:20
- Huh, Errol Morris's documentary Tabloid is about her. -- nm - Reagen Mar 28, 07:18
- She has to live in Florida. -- nm - loosilu Mar 28, 07:14 1
  - Even Florida couldn't contain get for long -- nm - zork Mar 28, 07:37
I need a vacuum sealer. Anyone have one they can recommend? -- nm - sycor Mar 28, 07:10
"Zach Snyder won more Oscars than Jane Campion last night" -- (edited) - Beaker Mar 28, 07:03 1
- If only everyone had told the Academy this idea was stupid. -- nm - Reagen Mar 28, 07:47
Detroit Lions to be featured in 2022 training camp version of "Hard Knocks" -- nm - Beaker Mar 28, 06:58
I still say Free Guy was robbed. -- nm - sycor Mar 28, 06:52
Shaheen Holloway is going home. He'll be the new head coach of Seton Hall. -- (link*) - Krusty Mar 28, 06:45 9
- It’s amazing that they beat a 2, a 7 and a 3, and then the 8 seed mops the floor with them. -- nm - Tim Mar 28, 07:28 1
  - UNC had extra motivation. -- nm - Baruno Mar 28, 07:59
- I’m so glad Maryland hired their last guy. 1&5 in the Tourney…that’s high quality -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 28, 06:50
- They've made the tournament 5 of the last 6 years, but hopefully he can push them further than the opening round. -- nm - MDH Mar 28, 06:47 1
  - They've been so mediocre they haven't registered as a team to pay attention to in years. I forgot they've made it that often. -- nm - Krusty Mar 28, 07:20
- Not finalized yet, so I could see where teams might be willing to make an offer -- nm - budice Mar 28, 06:47
- Surprise level: negative 5 -- nm - Baruno Mar 28, 06:46 2
  - Yup but happy for him. Wishing him the best back at Seton Hall. -- nm - Krusty Mar 28, 06:47 1
    - Yep, good on him. This is how you work your way up the ladder in college hoops. -- nm - Baruno Mar 28, 06:49
Other Oscars: Kenneth Branagh won his first after 7 previous noms. Diane Warren is 0/13. -- nm - MDH Mar 28, 06:44 16
- Branagh's speech was so sterile. -- nm - Mop Mar 28, 07:39 4
  - I appreciated the composure and genuine thanks. - Mel Profit Mar 28, 07:49 2
    - But Olivia Colman is still OK, right? -- nm - Baruno Mar 28, 07:53 1
      - the accent helps admittedly. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 28, 07:56
  - He should've brought back out his Wild Wild West character and made more inappropriate jokes at Will Smith's expense. -- nm - Baruno Mar 28, 07:43
- Diane should write a different song one of these times. -- nm - Reagen Mar 28, 06:45 10
  - That not one of her trio of songs in 97/98/99 won is kinda shocking. -- nm - ty97 Mar 28, 06:48 4
    - She wasn’t beating Celine…and Mariah/Whitney….limited chance there so that leaves 99. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 28, 06:53 3
      - One of the songs WAS a Celine song! -- nm - ty97 Mar 28, 08:03
      - 99 was Phil Collins' Tarzan song, so she had no chance there either. -- nm - MDH Mar 28, 06:54 1
        
        In reviewing, she should have won (with her Celine song) over Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita song. -- nm - MDH Mar 28, 06:57
  - At the very least a good one. Her songs are, to my ears, always the worst of the bunch. (NM) - Marlowe Mar 28, 06:46 4
    - I love Aerosmith but "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" is an awful song, and now I know who to blame. -- nm - Inigo Mar 28, 06:58 1
      - And it was their first #1 hit. Warren writes absolute treacle that sells. -- nm - loosilu Mar 28, 07:13
    - Very "generic movie soundtrack" songs. -- nm - Dark Callisto Mar 28, 06:52
    - Up until the early 2000s her soundtrack songs were massive sellers, they just aren't songs that win awards. -- nm - MDH Mar 28, 06:48
So I guess I should do my taxes. - ty97 Mar 28, 06:43
First cold in over two years (neg Covid antigen test). I was just getting over the constant cough from my bout of Covid - TWuG Mar 28, 06:41 1
- get well soon! -- nm - mud Mar 28, 07:25
Pardon my brain dump but just need to sort out some things in my head (EV related) - oblique Mar 28, 06:38 20
- You also need to take into consideration order time. Most of those you wouldn't get before May. -- nm - spamlet Mar 28, 06:53 4
  - Yes. The tesla is not immediate delivery. The others I've seen listed online in inventory but I know that may be misleading in the current market - oblique Mar 28, 06:59 2
    - You'd probably be able to get the Tesla by then or shortly thereafter. The rest of the new ones? I highly doubt it. -- nm - spamlet Mar 28, 07:01 1
      - It's hard to know without calling but I find this kind of thing pretty easily -- (link) - oblique Mar 28, 07:02
  - also that $52k on the EV6 is unlikely to be true. again, huge markups at many dealers. -- nm - amanda jeans Mar 28, 06:57
- A couple things. Any EV, even a used one, is going to be hard to find. They are selling very quickly and wait times on orders are long. - TWuG Mar 28, 06:52 3
  - I always appreciate your input. I just have some weird hangups on the Tesla. Some musk, some the interior design (i'm not a big fan of the center - oblique Mar 28, 06:57 1
    - I adapted to the center screen verrry quickly. It's my favorite feature. - TWuG Mar 28, 07:03
  - Also, it's stunning to me that the majority of the used cars at that link are going for significantly more than the cost of a new car with the same - TWuG Mar 28, 06:56
- I'd take a flier on the polestar, honestly. -- nm - amanda jeans Mar 28, 06:52
- Or Give EV a couple more years to develop and find something for now -- nm - budice Mar 28, 06:45 3
  - This is my thought. My next car won't be an EV, but I suspect my next next car very well may be. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 28, 06:58
  - the thing about "find something for now" is that everything is so expensive currently but likely won't be in two years when EVs are more ... - amanda jeans Mar 28, 06:57 1
    - taking a bigger bath given the huge demand for EV now and the scarcity of materials for them. -- nm - budice Mar 28, 07:01
- 1) No Mustang or F-150? Or even a Hummer? 2) Don’t count on that tax credit unless you do something highly tax-inducing. - Mop Mar 28, 06:41 5
  - Yeah, the tax credit being subject to the AMT floor is bullshit. -- nm* - znufrii Mar 28, 07:28
  - or not claiming three children. I make relatively pretty small money and would get full EV fed credit bc I don't have kids who reduce my tax liability -- nm - amanda jeans Mar 28, 06:50 2
    - Yeah, they're aged out. I'm very curious how that will work out for us this year with the $4500 credit. -- nm - oblique Mar 28, 06:53 1
      - $4500 is not a lot; I think you'll be fine. -- nm - amanda jeans Mar 28, 06:56
  - Yeah, I waiting to get our completed taxes back from our accountant for this year. We (in theory) should get $4500 from the Niro PHEV. -- nm - oblique Mar 28, 06:44
Canadian PSA: Lotto Max is $70 Million Tuesday night with 26 $1M draws (lump sum, tax free) -- nm - Beaker Mar 28, 06:33
3/6 - Marlowe Mar 28, 06:31 1
- 5 - Shaun Mar 28, 06:58
stupid sneaky interwebs :( -- nm* - decline Mar 28, 06:26 1
- those are not this year. "Moonlight." -- (link*) - Max Mar 28, 06:27
Or, yeah, Chapelle. His initial joke would have been better though -- (link) - Reagen Mar 28, 06:24 14
- I can't help but wonder if it was, say, Tom Cruise vs Rick Gervais, if the Oscar producer would have let TC go up and receive his award. - Marlowe Mar 28, 06:45 1
  - Many swaps: Jada slaps Regina Hall; Will Smith slaps Amy Schumer; Schumer mumbles something to Marlee Matlin; Matlin gives the double bird to... -- nm - Max Mar 28, 07:02
- (ooh, or Mike Tyson) -- nm - Reagen Mar 28, 06:37
- "Damn! ... I'm sorry, Don Cheadle, I didn't mean it like that. It was meant with love." -- nm - Kevin Hart Mar 28, 06:27
- Chris Rock's blink was him deciding how he was going to handle it. And he chose right. -- nm - MDH Mar 28, 06:26 9
  - He went ultra straight for the remainder as he should have... - Mel Profit Mar 28, 06:36
  - Yeah, he may have told a mean/bad joke but he handled Will like the chump Will is. - TWuG Mar 28, 06:34 3
    - I 100% think Will is on the verge of a breakdown over the open marriage stuff. -- nm - Remlik Mar 28, 08:14
    - it's the "hahaha" chuckle you do when getting roasted while fuming inside -- nm - Beaker Mar 28, 06:35 1
      - oh, i am sure it was a fake laugh, they know cameras are on them. -- nm - Andie Mar 28, 06:38
  - He can use this the rest of his career. -- nm - Baruno Mar 28, 06:32 1
    - i bet he doesn't reference it for a *while.* like, a couple of years before it becomes a topic for consumption by Rock. -- nm - Andie Mar 28, 06:37
  - I mean yes, there was nothing he was going to get out of posturing or continuing. -- nm - Reagen Mar 28, 06:32
  - agreed -- nm - Beaker Mar 28, 06:27
When my mother, who doesn't watch/care about the Oscars texts me and says "That was terrible of Will" - I know there's a big problem - MDH Mar 28, 06:24 2
- There's a *bunch* of psychology in all this - Reagen Mar 28, 06:39
- Hence why its difficult to process. Not necessarily a joking matter. Physicality not good. -- (edited) - budice Mar 28, 06:33
Shit, Trump ran for President because of a roast joke. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 28, 06:16 2
- You're a roast joke. - sycor Mar 28, 06:23 1
  - Kid, your face is a roast joke. -- nm - loosilu Mar 28, 06:24
I've never watched The Real Housewives but isn't slapping why its fans do? -- nm - Max Mar 28, 06:16
Any chance this was an Andy Kaufmann/Jerry Lawler type set up? -- nm - Inigo Mar 28, 06:15 3
- I didnt watch, all I heard was the the news and how Jada's has like a - tRuMaN Mar 28, 06:27
- has to be 0% chance. no way they do that at the Oscars. -- nm - Beaker Mar 28, 06:18 1
  - yeah, no way. Will risked his entire reputation doing that, he doesn't do that for something like this. (ie he wouldn't do it for a bit that is meant - Andie Mar 28, 06:21
up till the slap the only thing funny was the Speed Force takes. - Beaker Mar 28, 06:12

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