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In the wildly unlikely event that you'd like to buy Moonfall, there's a deal at Fanflix. -- (link) - David Apr 5, 19:10 1
- I’d probably buy the wrong Moonfall -- nm - Dano Apr 5, 19:27
I accidentally watched the wrong Escape Room movie. I realized it about 10 minutes in but was too lazy to stop. -- nm - Dano Apr 5, 18:45 3
- is there only two? -- nm - Beaker Apr 5, 18:47 2
  - This wasn’t either of the two. -- nm - Dano Apr 5, 18:51 1
    - How many Spider-Men did you see? -- nm - David Apr 5, 18:54
CPAC going to Hungary and Orban is a guest speaker. Because you can never embrace too many authoritarians, I guess. -- (link) - TWuG Apr 5, 18:09 1
- This is our chance to not let them back into the country! -- nm - Qale Apr 5, 19:04
Spider-Punk?! -- (link) - mud Apr 5, 18:00 4
- Reasonably new, but been around for a few years now. -- nm - mafic Apr 5, 18:52
- yeah one of the alternate universe Spidey -- nm - Peter Kilmer Apr 5, 18:11 2
  - I'm waiting for CM Spider-Punk. -- nm - David Apr 5, 18:12
  - fun -- nm - mud Apr 5, 18:12
Now watching: Star Trek the Motion Picture (Director's Edition) -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Apr 5, 17:40 5
- How much extra footage is there? -- nm - Flavorize Apr 5, 17:50 4
  - Yes, do tell. -- nm - Quentin Tarantino Apr 5, 17:53
  - quite a bit. but it's small stuff, Robert Wise trimmed a lot of the sitting around stuff.... - Peter Kilmer Apr 5, 17:53 2
    - Yep. I haven't noticed any major additions of material, but the movie does seem to "flow" much better. (maybe vague spoilers) - ReluctantCynic Apr 5, 18:13 1
      - the 2001 had a tremendous sound mix, I can only imagine what they've done to improve that. -- nm - Peter Kilmer Apr 5, 18:34
The only 3 Republican Senators you'd expect would potentially vote to confirm KBJ each said they will. -- nm - Tim Apr 5, 17:31
Little taste of Broadway financials for you if interested for Anastasia to compare to our recent discussions - MDH Apr 5, 17:18 4
- I’d be interested in how they define ‘recouped’ - mafic Apr 5, 17:32 3
  - Diva etc. will know better. There's huge costs to get shows up/running. Add those to weekly costs & there's a lot of money to make up. - MDH Apr 5, 17:47 2
    - Just the rights to a show can run into six figures - and that's just for a 4-week run in a 150 seat theater. -- nm - Meg Apr 5, 17:52 1
      - Great read about licensing if interested. Variety: Life after death on Broadway Even flops make money in amateur, stock productions -- (link) - MDH Apr 5, 17:54
I have a Bluray/HD-DVD burner (don't ask) that I need to install. Look at the insanity required to install a 5.25" drive in this beast. -- (link) - Mop Apr 5, 17:10 [youtube] 1
- pirate! you wouldn't steal a car, would you Mop? -- nm - mafic Apr 5, 19:20
This is one of the top political blogs in Illinois. -- (link) - spamlet Apr 5, 17:08
Oh, right! My Exchange Online permissions came through while I was away! - Mop Apr 5, 17:02
I found a mask in my spring jacket pocket that makes me ask "When did I ever smoke cigarettes?" -- nm - Mop Apr 5, 16:53
DTL -- does any of our crew have a historical record on who won awards? -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 5, 16:33 2
- Like... all awards? I mean, Wikipedia has that. IMDb too. -- nm - Mop Apr 5, 17:11
- No but I assume someone on the message board does. -- nm - spamlet Apr 5, 16:37
That was painful. - Beryllium Apr 5, 16:30 6
- I’ve been struggling with motivation for about a year now. - Dano Apr 5, 17:13 1
  - Well, I hope you can get back into it, or something similar. Maybe an easier starter activity that spills over into running? - Beryllium Apr 5, 17:29
- Keep it going! I’m doing something similar—tough to restart but important -- nm - Flavorize Apr 5, 16:48 1
  - Yeah, I'd been doing mostly okay until I injured my shoulder in December ... and then it was winter. Heh. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 5, 16:49
- You are still closer than you were yesterday - Epiphany! Apr 5, 16:43 1
  - Thanks :) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 5, 16:49
Jesus do I ever hate litigators. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Apr 5, 16:07 5
- Yes -- nm - ML Apr 5, 17:57
- Do you really? -- nm - spamlet Apr 5, 16:20 3
  - Right now? With the heat of a thousand suns. - ReluctantCynic Apr 5, 17:09 2
    - I don’t think you really do. - spamlet Apr 5, 17:13 1
      - Okay, I *want* to hate them with the heat of a thousand suns. - ReluctantCynic Apr 5, 17:35
"Sweet baby Jesus, and the grown one too!" -- nm - Abbott Elementary Apr 5, 16:07 1
- I haven't seen the show, but I saw that clip and it makes me want to. -- nm - TWuG Apr 5, 16:47
I've been hearing chainsaw sounds for a couple of days. Happened to look out the window. Management took down my favorite tree. - loosilu Apr 5, 15:59 5
- I get this. -- nm - zunk xometimes Apr 5, 16:22
- :-( - ReluctantCynic Apr 5, 16:08 3
  - Context: I'm on an upper floor, its a tall tree that was under my window. There is a crow who live(d) there. I liked him. -- nm - loosilu Apr 5, 16:11 2
    - Here's a photo partway through the arboricide. -- (pic) - loosilu Apr 5, 16:15 [Attachment] 1
      - it could have become a totem pole -- nm* - Peglegpete Apr 5, 16:34
I've been boosted!! Good for another year, or whenever ;) -- nm - Meg Apr 5, 15:55 2
- yay -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 5, 16:46
- 👍 -- nm - mud Apr 5, 15:58
DTL: we've taken 4 straight from teams ranked in the top 100. It was fun while it lasted. - Baruno Apr 5, 15:11 1
- I beat a top 40 team (Tulsa) and then Stillwater and then lost to a 175 ranked team. - spamlet Apr 5, 15:46
I am considering getting my hair cut for the first time since ... maybe 2019? But the place I'm thinking of going has this message and I am unsure - Beryllium Apr 5, 15:10 3
- They will put on masks by request but won’t have them on unless you request them. -- nm - spamlet Apr 5, 15:46
- trust pfizer,moderna, astra-zen and all the broccoli to keep you safe -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 5, 15:16 1
  - I did have a lot of broccoli on Sunday night ... hmm -- nm - Beryllium Apr 5, 15:21
Penélope: “.. with Pedro it would be revolutionary.” -- (link) - mud Apr 5, 15:07 1
- Now *that* I would love to see. If they let him work. (NM) - Marlowe Apr 5, 16:13
Great Stories of SR-71 Blackbird pilots -- (link*) - budice Apr 5, 14:41 [youtube] 1
- HHAHA -- nm - Peter Kilmer Apr 5, 19:08
What's wrong with being confident? -- nm - prayformojo Apr 5, 14:22 2
- "How did you figure it out?" "Because you've killed me before." -- nm - David Apr 5, 14:43
- If you have to ask... -- nm - Spawn Apr 5, 14:32
Just out of Operation Mincemeat. Never expected a love rectangle in it. - LMS Apr 5, 14:20
BAL-DET cancel Spring Training game: "due to lack of available pitching." -- (link) - budice Apr 5, 14:04 1
- If that's the case the Orioles will have to cancel every game this season. -- nm - Dano Apr 5, 14:06
My brain is gonna be so full. Neil DeGrasse Tyson lecture tonight, John Meachum tomorrow night. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Apr 5, 14:00 6
- Ask Neil about the physical impacts Speed Force would have on the Flash if it wasn’t a movie -- nm* - Roger More Apr 5, 19:31
- Better get to drinking to make some room -- nm - Baruno Apr 5, 14:54
- Cuzzin Big Brain Todd!!! -- nm - Spawn Apr 5, 14:08
- So what stuff are you going to get rid of to fit the new stuff in? -- nm - Dano Apr 5, 14:06 2
  - I'd say lyrics to 80s songs but clearly that stuff ain't goin' nowhere. So probably my blood type and home address. -- nm* - Cuzzin Todd Apr 5, 15:03
  - which Iowa team he likes and which one he hates -- nm - prayformojo Apr 5, 14:22
The thing I can't get past with the Schumer joke is she didn't even get the type of gun right. -- nm - Ender Apr 5, 13:35 8
- The thing I love about it is I am avoiding it as long as I can because the *discussion* about it is entertaining enough. -- nm - Spawn Apr 5, 14:36 6
  - I've yet to see a comment about it that isn't funnier than the so-called joke itself. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 5, 14:43 5
    - The Seventh Seal is funnier than that joke. -- nm - Reagen Apr 5, 14:45 4
      - Well now I may have to read it. -- nm - Spawn Apr 5, 14:47 3
        
        it's not even "so offensive" it just isn't funny. -- nm* - Reagen Apr 5, 15:14
        
        You really don't. It takes like 15 seconds but is still time you won't get back. -- nm - spamlet Apr 5, 15:01 1
        
        I really do, where is it? -- nm - loosilu Apr 5, 16:07
- Right?? -- nm - Beryllium Apr 5, 14:34
ha, and the CC I cancelled before receiving was delivered today. - Reagen Apr 5, 13:28
The Northman reactions are dropping. Hype-train engaged. -- (pic) - budice Apr 5, 13:22 [Attachment] 11
- Moar reactions -- (link) - budice Apr 5, 13:59
- It couldn't possibly top my expectations -- (link) - rollo Apr 5, 13:48 [youtube] 3
  - I remember those more innocent days of the Internet. -- nm - Reagen Apr 5, 13:54 1
    - Ah yes, I recall well. My mother would call me to help her "do a jibjab". -- nm - rollo Apr 5, 13:56
  - I thought it was going to be this -- (pic) - spamlet Apr 5, 13:51 [Attachment]
- I hope it's not like Gladiator. - Dark Callisto Apr 5, 13:45
- I'm not sure what I would expect out of a $90 million Viking revenge film by Eggers, to be honest. Maybe dark, but that's it. As in not well-lit. (NM) - Marlowe Apr 5, 13:39
- I saw a description (last week?) calling it the "most metal" movie ever -- nm - mud Apr 5, 13:28 2
  - *smashes the like button* -- nm - Vyvyan Apr 5, 14:09 1
    - [snork] -- nm - mud Apr 5, 14:11
- This will be my first viking program since Thor! -- nm - Spawn Apr 5, 13:25
hmmm .. BC Vaccine Card will no longer be required as of Friday. -- (link) - mud Apr 5, 13:19 1
- I can count on one hand the number of times I've had to use it. Which isn't to say that it wasn't effective, just that maybe I'm taking this - Beryllium Apr 5, 14:34
Ivanka to go before 1/6 committee -- (link) - znufrii Apr 5, 13:16 4
- boy, it'll be fun listening to her say "i don't recall" for 3 hours straight. -- nm - colin Apr 5, 13:35 1
  - can we make blond jokes? oh wait i think i just did -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 5, 14:07
- ~ Complicit ~ -- nm - Max Apr 5, 13:28
- probly finished now, 5+ hrs this AM -- nm - mud Apr 5, 13:18
happy dog: -- (link) - mud Apr 5, 13:16
Star Trek The Motion Picture The Directors Cut 4k remaster is on Paramount Plus today - Peter Kilmer Apr 5, 13:10 6
- "Vger lookin pretty good these days" -- nm - budice Apr 5, 13:15 1
  - mmmmmmm, Ilia -- nm - mud Apr 5, 13:17
- [zzzzz] -- nm - mud Apr 5, 13:14 3
  - Wise trimmed a lot of stuff for the directors cut in 2001 and put more scenes with people in. It's pretty good. I can't wait to watch the new cut -- nm - Peter Kilmer Apr 5, 17:51
  - - signed, 12 year old Spawn in the theater when he saw it -- nm - Spawn Apr 5, 13:28 1
    - I saw it in the theater too. Twice. -- nm - Dark Callisto Apr 5, 13:43
Marcel The Shell With Shoes On trailer -- (link) - Dano Apr 5, 13:07 [youtube] 2
- "One time I nibbled on a piece of cheese and my cholesterol went up to 900." -- nm - Max Apr 5, 13:12 1
  - I'm pretty sure testing a nacho cheese dispenser wouldn't register that high -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 5, 14:08
How annoyed/worried should I be? Our softball league is finally back this year, first time since 2019. -- (edited) - Andie Apr 5, 13:05 11
- sorry all my cash is in bit coin...I can take a check -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 5, 14:10
- I'd make whomever recruited them aware and on the hook. -- nm - spamlet Apr 5, 13:14 5
  - Yup. That's definitely a non-committal type of request from them. -- nm - David Apr 5, 13:17 3
    - The recruiter also may say “oh, yeah, they’re not reliable at all” and Andie will have her answer. -- nm - spamlet Apr 5, 13:21 2
      - No, I don't expect that - he plays with them on another team, he was pretty hyped they were coming. -- nm - Andie Apr 5, 13:22 1
        
        That’s good. Hopefully the response will be “oh yeah I forgot to tell you that” :) -- nm - spamlet Apr 5, 13:32
  - yeah, if they don't reply with 'we will mail a cheque tomorrow', i will do this. -- nm* - Andie Apr 5, 13:15
- Unless everyone's $$ collected, don't pay out for the team on the 17th. No reason to be on the hook for it. -- nm* - budice Apr 5, 13:07 2
  - If I don't pay, then the league can't pay the city and we forfeit the permit that has been grandfathered in with special privileges for 30 years, so, - Andie Apr 5, 13:09 1
    - Word to IM. I would just inform the others who did pay where things stand. Perhaps others can help chip in if some are light. -- nm - budice Apr 5, 13:14
- Yeah, payment in advance, for sure. -- nm - Spawn Apr 5, 13:07
Instacart actually does something good. Customers now only have 2 hours to zero out tips. - Qale Apr 5, 12:59 1
- that last part is a good thing -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 5, 14:26
Yay, my usual theatre haunt is getting EEAAO this week. I might have to go. - Baruno Apr 5, 12:56 11
- do it! it looks fantastic. -- nm - colin Apr 5, 13:36
- Which theater? -- nm - Uhtred, son of Uhtred Apr 5, 13:03 4
  - What do you care, traitor! -- nm - spamlet Apr 5, 13:05 2
    - Jealousy does not become you, sir!! -- nm - Uhtred, son of Uhtred Apr 5, 13:07 1
      - Though you’re really close to the only Dolby theatre in the area (AMC Edwardsville) so you may have won this round. -- nm - spamlet Apr 5, 13:41
  - Ronnie's. -- nm - Baruno Apr 5, 13:04
- EIEIO? -- nm - mud Apr 5, 12:58 4
  - 🟩🔳🟨🔳🟩 -- nm - Baruno Apr 5, 13:04
  - Michelle Yeoh -- nm - Spawn Apr 5, 13:03 2
    - and Short Round -- nm - Baruno Apr 5, 13:06
    - O Henry. -- nm - amanda jeans Apr 5, 13:04
Dingers League this year? -- nm - budice Apr 5, 12:54
Gobi Desert Petroglyphs may be 15, 000 years old -- (link) - Peglegpete Apr 5, 12:51 3
- He should be taken out and shot for what he's doing there :( -- nm - Meg Apr 5, 13:14 2
  - Example of what can happen when somebody takes a rubbing of a petroglyph -- (pic) - Meg Apr 5, 13:56 [Attachment] 1
    - yeesh -- nm - mud Apr 5, 13:58

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