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The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is coming to Nintendo Switch on 4/27 -- (link) - Qale Mar 30, 11:19 2
- Has a Portal vibe to that -- nm - JaxSean Mar 30, 11:24
- *twitch* -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 30, 11:22
I just hate that he is ending his career on such a low note with garbage movies. -- nm - sycor Mar 30, 11:11 4
- On the flip side, that's not necessarily unusual for in Hollywood -- nm - ty97 Mar 30, 11:22
- Jared Leto? Steve Buscemi? Dwayne Johnson? Tom Holland? -- nm - Mop Mar 30, 11:17
- Damnit, this was supposed to be down under the Bruce Willis thread. -- nm - sycor Mar 30, 11:12 1
  - Still true. -- nm - Volnelk Mar 30, 11:13
Thanks for the XM heads up. Renewed for $5/mo plus a free echo dot. - sycor Mar 30, 11:07 7
- Is there a link? I'm late to the party. -- nm - Mop Mar 30, 11:11 2
  - It's just on the sirius homepage. It says The Perfect Bundle. -- nm* - sycor Mar 30, 11:13 1
    - Cool. I wish I had a choice of a Google Home instead. -- nm - Mop Mar 30, 11:18
- That is their best deal, for sure. I pay 12 and change including tax per month for two radios. - Spawn Mar 30, 11:08 3
  - This will be my first echo. I'm typically a Google Home person. But I've been hearing more about Amazon routines for home automation. - sycor Mar 30, 11:13
  - Wait, where is this deal? -- nm - MDH Mar 30, 11:11 1
    - Sirius homepage. The Perfect Bundle. Promo ends tomorrow I think. -- nm - sycor Mar 30, 11:15
Years of Service (with employer): 29.44 -- nm* - prayformojo Mar 30, 11:04 14
- It'll be 12 years on April 7. -- nm - JaxSean Mar 30, 11:26
- Oh and I'm about to go into my annual review. -- nm - spamlet Mar 30, 11:24
- 6.5 + .7 = 7.2 years -- nm - Qale Mar 30, 11:24
- 23 years 6 months -- nm - JD Mar 30, 11:22
- Continual service - 22yr, 11mo, 15days. Since 1st day, 25yr, 13days. Time to Rolex: 2yr, 16days. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 30, 11:20
- 6 years, 2 months -- (edited) - znufrii Mar 30, 11:19
- 5. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 30, 11:17
- I'm at 26 -- nm - decline Mar 30, 11:14
- It'll be 15 this year when combining both of my terms here. -- nm - spamlet Mar 30, 11:14
- I hit 15 in June. Going to try to leverage it into a nice raise this year. Kilbo gotta pay for that new house and car -- nm - oblique Mar 30, 11:09 1
  - kilbo charm offensive -- nm - budice Mar 30, 11:12
- WHOA. (I'm at 22.24 - even though they spun off our division last year, we keep our service history) -- nm - ty97 Mar 30, 11:08 2
  - Newbs. 34. -- nm - Spawn Mar 30, 11:10 1
    - I just so young -- nm - ty97 Mar 30, 11:13
Local Politics News: People's Alliance MLAs cross floor to join Tory government in New Brunswick -- (link*) - Beaker Mar 30, 11:03 1
- THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS! JUSTIN TRUDEAU IS A MONSTER! THIS IS AN UNPRECEDENTED POWER GRAB! -- nm - Default Conservative Reaction Mar 30, 11:21
when I finally resign, I will need to take off six to eight days of my two week notice period. - amanda jeans Mar 30, 11:02 [Attachment] 5
- Man, sorry about the IN job. Though, honestly, it may be a blessing in disguise. - spamlet Mar 30, 11:24
- I am jelly of your benefits though. -- nm - Qale Mar 30, 11:08 1
  - it's taken 3ish years to accrue that. -- nm - amanda jeans Mar 30, 11:17
- ugh, to the IM -- nm - Spawn Mar 30, 11:05 1
  - I KNOW!!!!!!!! -- nm - amanda jeans Mar 30, 11:07
Decline: In other words, Jetblue found a handy excuse to cancel flights that aren't selling well -- nm - ty97 Mar 30, 11:02
Biden lifts Chinese Tarriffs: PC / Electronics prices should benefit -- (link) - budice Mar 30, 11:00 2
- I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I'm in favor of not propping up the US vs China narrative. We truly should be working towards co-domination. -- nm - Qale Mar 30, 11:09 1
  - I have no problem* letting them have half the globe if we have the other half. - Spawn Mar 30, 11:11
Every Ben Affleck performance ranked 1-55. -- (link) - Volnelk Mar 30, 10:59 1
- I can't speak to most of these, but I'm moving Dogma into the top 10 b/c I love that movie. -- nm - Baruno Mar 30, 11:03
ST Poll: Will Tiger play the The Masters? -- nm - Beaker Mar 30, 10:58 4
- No, but Charlie will. -- nm - Baruno Mar 30, 11:22
- ….yes? -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 30, 11:20
- No way. -- nm - Volnelk Mar 30, 11:13
- No -- nm - JaxSean Mar 30, 11:10
Tom Parker: The Wanted singer dies aged 33 -- (link) - Remlik Mar 30, 10:53 1
- The sun goes down, the stars come out. And all that counts is here and now. The universe will never be the same. I'm glad you came. -- nm - Qale Mar 30, 10:57
I like L&O:SVU. I'm finally getting to watch the Chicago crossover episodes? I hate them. Fire is tonally chaos, PD is far too violent. -- nm - Qale Mar 30, 10:52 3
- Yeah, I almost never watch the crossovers to PD. We already watch Med/Fire so that works but we actively make fun of Fire most often for the acting -- nm - oblique Mar 30, 10:58 2
  - The comedy of Fire works very, very well. But then it's like, time to be all white-knuckle tense. I get that's the job, but no thanks. -- nm - Qale Mar 30, 11:10 1
    - The fun part about fire for us is that the new boy-toy guy who is in the house is the son of someone we know. Not in a way that we interact with them - oblique Mar 30, 11:12
What do you call it when you have snippets of a song running through your head, but it's not quite an earworm 'cause you can't recall the song ... - ReluctantCynic Mar 30, 10:51 1
- I'm sure there's a word for it. Happens to me all the time. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 30, 10:52
MIIT reveals BYD Seal Images and Core Specs (EV) -- (link) - oblique Mar 30, 10:48 1
- you should buy it and have it shipped here! -- nm - decline Mar 30, 10:52
Question of the day -- (pic) - prayformojo Mar 30, 10:44 [Attachment] 7
- Answer (spoiler) - prayformojo Mar 30, 10:45 [Attachment] 6
  - Bonus question -- (pic) - prayformojo Mar 30, 10:45 [Attachment] 5
    - Answer (spoiler) -- (pic) - prayformojo Mar 30, 10:45 [Attachment] 4
      - 2/2 -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 30, 10:53
      - 1/2 -- nm - Beryllium Mar 30, 10:52
      - 2/2 -- nm - JD Mar 30, 10:50
      - 1/2 -- nm - decline Mar 30, 10:48
Just came across this (the non-gluten free version) but I'm thinking this looks awesome and will have to make it for my wife -- (link) - oblique Mar 30, 10:42
At least when I eventually wear that Dyson thing, I can feel like Bane. -- nm - The Allfather Mar 30, 10:34 7
- *deep breathing* -- nm - budice Mar 30, 10:42
- "you say it Bane-ton" -- nm - Reagen Mar 30, 10:39 2
  - “We. Built. A. Death. Car!” -- nm - The Allfather Mar 30, 10:40
  - LMAO -- nm - Beryllium Mar 30, 10:40
- "Ah, you think the vacuum is your friend." - Dyson Bane -- nm - Beryllium Mar 30, 10:37
- will the cats freak? -- nm - prayformojo Mar 30, 10:36 1
  - They might be happy that something has shut me up. - The Allfather Mar 30, 10:39
Speaking of rescheduling. Anybody want to go to Weekend 1 and or Weekend 2 of Coachella - JD Mar 30, 10:30
69/70 - znufrii Mar 30, 10:21
An Airbus A380 performed a flight entirely powered by used cooking oil -- (link) - decline Mar 30, 10:19 13
- "No one could fry the plane like I did. No one." -- nm - Chef Whip Whittaker Mar 30, 11:11 1
  - extraordinary -- nm - rollo Mar 30, 11:20
- I don't understand what cooking oil has to do with zero emissions - or is that a separate project? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 30, 10:27 9
  - Separate project. Cooking oil for sustainability. Zero emissions project uses a hydrogen powered engine -- (link) - JD Mar 30, 10:34 7
    - Question, can you get corn oil out of the mush left over from distilling ethanol? -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 30, 10:36
    - n/m that's helium -- nm* - prayformojo Mar 30, 10:36 5
      - Well, it's not helium level of scarcity by any stretch. There's a quite a few means to make it. There's always splitting water - JD Mar 30, 10:39
      - Helium. Although that's sort of been solved. -- nm* - Reagen Mar 30, 10:38 3
        
        What's been solved about helium? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 30, 10:39 1
        
        They found more supply and Covid killed party balloon demand. -- nm - Reagen Mar 30, 11:10
        
        nothing ever went wrong by confusing the two! -- nm - prayformojo Mar 30, 10:39
  - (I bet reading more would enlighten me. I'll do it later.) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 30, 10:27
- I was wondering the the H happened - I couldn't make ginger snaps this morning! -- nm - prayformojo Mar 30, 10:24
I think putin getting bad Intel is because his advisors were the ones who stole millions leaving a hollow shell of a functional army -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 30, 10:14 1
- how do you think they paid for all those yachts? -- nm - Andie Mar 30, 10:15
Ya'll! I got invited to go wedding dress shopping with the youngest! wahoooooo - what do I wear to something like that? I have no fashion sense. - St. Epiphany Mar 30, 10:07 15
- oh, also, if you are feeling wedding-y, you should check out offbeatbride.com - they feature all sorts of weddings -- (edited) - Andie Mar 30, 10:24
- as an aside, this is a great story. I'm happy for you. - Mel Profit Mar 30, 10:23
- Speaking of weddings, I need to go suit shopping tomorrow. -- (edited) - znufrii Mar 30, 10:23
- I believe you dress to reflect the social economic status you wish to be treated as. Black wedding dress might be harder to find -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 30, 10:18
- Taffeta. Rolls and rolls of taffeta. -- nm - Baruno Mar 30, 10:17
- Comfortable shoes, and anything with pockets. -- nm - Landbeck Mar 30, 10:16 1
  - I second this. And bring tissues -- nm - Fuzzy Mar 30, 11:07
- I’m the last person you should be taking fashion advice from but I do want to say I’m glad you reconnected. - spamlet Mar 30, 10:11
- Sweatsuit + Big Jackie-O glasses + tennis shoes -- nm* - budice Mar 30, 10:10 3
  - Yep, I was gonna say Athleisure. :) -- nm - Dark Callisto Mar 30, 10:32
  - I kind of agree with budice. You're gonna need something comfortable 'cause you're going to be spending several hours dress shopping. - ReluctantCynic Mar 30, 10:19 1
    - also - tissues, so you are ready when you cry. -- nm - Andie Mar 30, 10:23
- You should wear a f*cking rainbow dress :) - oblique Mar 30, 10:09
- I didn't get the fashion sense gay gene, but it's so outstanding to see you so excited about something! -- nm - Qale Mar 30, 10:08
- That's awesome :) -- nm - decline Mar 30, 10:08
Eric Church is canceling his concert on Saturday so he can go to the NC/Duke game. I would be pissed if I had tickets. -- nm - pmb Mar 30, 10:06 13
- I need to know which team he’s rooting for. UNC…okay, I’ll allow it. Duke. - Will Hunting Mar 30, 10:30 5
  - There are people who are NOT rooting for Coach K? - The Allfather Mar 30, 10:34 4
    - I'm definitely not rooting for him. -- nm - Krusty Mar 30, 11:42
    - LOFL. - Spawn Mar 30, 11:09
    - *bangs Cersei and befriends Draco* - Will Hunting Mar 30, 10:41 1
      - I'd settle for a repeat of their regular season conference final game -- nm - JD Mar 30, 10:53
- fans are pissed. Hotels aren't refunding bookings -- nm - Remlik Mar 30, 10:14
- *shrug* Cancellations / Rescheduling seem to be regular part of the concert going experience these days - JD Mar 30, 10:14 1
  - Sure, it happens, because of illness, tragedy even finances. But 4 days before the event because the artist wants to go to a basketball game is a - pmb Mar 30, 10:22
- I'm sure his country music fans who are always so rational will understand -- nm - St. Epiphany Mar 30, 10:08
- Nah, his fans will want to watch the game, I'm sure. -- nm - Spawn Mar 30, 10:08 2
  - Eric Church has fans? -- nm - budice Mar 30, 10:08 1
    - Enough to do full stadium tours each year, so…. -- nm - spamlet Mar 30, 10:12
When it comes to new cars, I just think everyone wants Nick Fury's SUV from the Winter Soldier -- (pic) - budice Mar 30, 10:01 [Attachment]
"You'd think an eye would be easier to cut." -- nm - Classroom Transcripts Mar 30, 09:41 17
- you're screening 'Un chien andalou' for them? -- nm - mud Mar 30, 10:08
- It certainly seemed to be in the movie Salo. -- nm - Qale Mar 30, 10:07
- That brings back memories of the cow eye dissections at the Exploratorium -- nm - JD Mar 30, 09:44 13
  - When I was Biology TA, I refused the eye dissection exercise in lab. - ReluctantCynic Mar 30, 09:46 12
    - Secret Stalkers take note 👆 -- nm - decline Mar 30, 09:54 10
      - If anyone sends me a cow eyeball as a Secret Stalker gift ... - ReluctantCynic Mar 30, 09:57 9
        
        I mean I've got extra. -- nm - Reagen Mar 30, 10:16 3
        
        Oh really? Well in that case ... - ReluctantCynic Mar 30, 10:20 2
        
        I want to see the customs agent that gets *that* paperwork. -- nm - spamlet Mar 30, 10:28
        
        Holy cow. You can buy them, even on easy -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 30, 10:21
        
        You’d be like “another one?!” -- nm - ty97 Mar 30, 09:58 4
        
        or 2 or -- (link) - JD Mar 30, 10:03 3
        
        *bookmarks* -- nm - decline Mar 30, 10:04 2
        
        This might be more practical -- (link) - JD Mar 30, 10:06 1
        
        I hate you all. - ReluctantCynic Mar 30, 10:15
    - I guess I shouldn't have been surprised but I was surprised to see that they have a whole on-line presentation these days -- (link) - JD Mar 30, 09:51
- I wonder if that clip is on YouTube ....... -- nm - Beryllium Mar 30, 09:44
Bruce Willis Stepping Away From Acting Following Aphasia Diagnosis -- (link) - Remlik Mar 30, 09:40 11
- My father in law had this with Alzheimer's. It's awful. It becomes increasingly difficult to communicate. Even at times when he seemed clear-minded - pmb Mar 30, 09:55 5
  - Honestly, that’s one of my biggest fears. Being “all there” and not being able to communicate long term. -- nm - spamlet Mar 30, 10:06
  - that's awful. Sounds like that was Terry Jones of Monty Python had -- nm - Remlik Mar 30, 10:06 1
    - Sentences were often a collection of random words (a few that were intentional and others randomly substituted) and sometimes made up words. If you - pmb Mar 30, 10:08
  - after seeing my grandfather with dementia - all of this is terrifying. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 30, 09:57 1
    - It is. They are learning more about the disease and hopefully treatments will come, but it is scary to think about as we get older. -- nm - pmb Mar 30, 09:59
- had no idea aphasia caused or could cause dementia. -- nm* - Beaker Mar 30, 09:45
- Bad take: explains those movies we have discussed on ST recently. - -- nm - Spawn Mar 30, 09:43 3
  - I think so as well. I *think* he knew this was coming for years so he wanted to maximize what he could get... - Remlik Mar 30, 10:06
  - I wonder if the Razzies feel like jerks now. Probably not. -- nm - Dano Mar 30, 09:47 1
    - I don't think they should. They weren't wrong. It was just a maximization strategy leading up to an announcement like this. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 30, 09:49
Lets not and say we did. -- nm - Spawn Mar 30, 09:39 2
- ROU Let's Not And Say We Did -- nm - Beryllium Mar 30, 10:18
- heh, "snot" .. heh -- nm - mud Mar 30, 10:09

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