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Assistant police chief in Washington state who engaged in anti-Semitic behavior will resign -- (link) - znufrii Jun 14, 12:49 1
- hey for a million five *I'd* get a nazi tat....that's just shameful, they just didn't want to deal with a decade long suit and have to pay him if lost -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 14, 13:54
‘Squid Game: The Challenge’ Reality Series Gets Green Light At Netflix; 456 contestants compete for a $4.56M grand prize -- (link) - MDH Jun 14, 12:27 11
- Life imitating art imitating life. -- nm - Qale As Folk Jun 14, 17:18
- lame -- nm - Jovian Jun 14, 12:43 5
  - not if they use real bullets -- nm - decline Jun 14, 12:48 4
    - Anything less and what is the point? -- nm - Spawn Jun 14, 12:54
    - even the idea of parodying it is lame. As lame and as gross as The Purge movie franchise. - Jovian Jun 14, 12:53 2
      - It will be like The Floor Is Lava. - Spawn Jun 14, 12:55 1
        
        lol I got sucked into that show for a bit. - Jovian Jun 14, 13:00
- paint balls for Red Light Green Light will be the norm -- nm - Beaker Jun 14, 12:34
- 455 die. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jun 14, 12:34
- I have... questions. -- nm - Spawn Jun 14, 12:33 1
  - I don't. It makes perfect sense. - Beryllium Jun 14, 12:37
We win. -- nm - The Allfather Jun 14, 12:23
So there is a promotional opportunity at my work that just got posted. Did not think about it but a person on that team said I should apply.... - Walt_Disney Jun 14, 12:14 3
- So, they all agree they want to be rid of you? -- nm - Spawn Jun 14, 12:58
- I always think - no harm in applying and interviewing. You don't have to take the job if you don't want to. -- nm - St. Epiphany Jun 14, 12:39 1
  - Unless the workplace is especially toxic and a boss wouldn't take kindly to someone interviewing in another department -- nm - oblique Jun 14, 12:41
Panda news ... and porn -- (pic) - zork Jun 14, 12:01 [Attachment]
ST Poll: The Wrap named the "15 Most Confusing Movies of All Time" based on searches of the title followed by "explained" - can you name them? - MDH Jun 14, 12:00 78
- That POS Magnolia -- nm - Strongbad Jun 14, 13:41
- I am thinking the rest have to be movies that most people dont find confusing. -- nm - Jovian Jun 14, 12:31 1
  - What About Bob? -- nm - Spawn Jun 14, 12:59
- I'll spoil them: #2 I'm Thinking of Ending Things -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:22 6
  - well that one's at least legitimately confusing. -- nm - Reagen Jun 14, 12:51
  - #8 The Shining -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:22 4
    - lolololol. stupid is a stupid does -- nm - Jovian Jun 14, 12:31
    - some of my fave pictures on this list! -- nm - mud Jun 14, 12:23
    - #12 The Matrix -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:23 1
      - I was going to say the Matrix only because of the lowest common denominator of "people be dumb" -- nm - sycor Jun 14, 12:25
- Godfather3 -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 14, 12:22 2
  - Woman in the Dunes, Hiroshima -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 14, 12:24 1
    - Disney's Fantasia -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 14, 12:28
- The Master -- nm - zork Jun 14, 12:21
- Enemy - sycor Jun 14, 12:18 1
  - N/A -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:18
- Gattaca. eXistenZ. - Beryllium Jun 14, 12:17 6
  - Gattaca? -- nm - mud Jun 14, 12:22 2
    - I'm having trouble thinking of films I found confusing, so I'm trying to think of films that other people found confusing. - Beryllium Jun 14, 12:23 1
      - I was just trying to imagine what needs to be "explained" (of course I've seen it so many times maybe any confusion faded away for me) -- nm - mud Jun 14, 12:25
  - The first guess has an actor that stars in one of those missing. -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:18 2
    - Predestination -- nm - mud Jun 14, 12:21 1
      - #11 -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:21
- Lost in translation -- nm - Beryllium Jun 14, 12:15 1
  - N/A -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:15
- Hints: 1 movie from the late 70s (horror), one 2020 movie, Tom Ford, a mid 2010s sci fi movie, and a 1999 masterpiece. -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:13 12
  - Shining? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jun 14, 12:33
  - A Single Man -- nm - Roger More Jun 14, 12:28 1
    - Fight Club -- nm - Roger More Jun 14, 12:28
  - Phantom Menace -- nm - zork Jun 14, 12:19
  - that dumb fucking movie with Jake G and Amy Adams. Nocturnal Animals - St. Epiphany Jun 14, 12:17 5
    - #7 -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:18
    - Huh. really? I must have really not understood it. -- nm - sycor Jun 14, 12:18 3
      - spoils - St. Epiphany Jun 14, 12:20 2
        
        I remember most of that. Maybe I understood it but just don't remember it very well. It was not a great movie. -- nm - sycor Jun 14, 12:24 1
        
        agreed. it was not -- nm - St. Epiphany Jun 14, 12:38
  - American Beauty -- nm - rollo Jun 14, 12:16 1
    - N/A -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:19
- eraserhead -- nm - mud Jun 14, 12:10 5
  - N/A, but this Director is represented on the list and hasn't been guessed -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:11 4
    - Mulholland Dr -- nm - mud Jun 14, 12:11 3
      - Lost Highway is crazier. -- nm - Reagen Jun 14, 12:34 1
        
        agreed, but Mulholland was more infamous -- nm - mud Jun 14, 12:35
      - #5 -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:12
- Shutter Island -- nm - Beaker Jun 14, 12:09 1
  - #3 -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:10
- Apocalypse Now -- nm - zork Jun 14, 12:09 1
  - N/A -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:10
- Star Trek -- nm - Beryllium Jun 14, 12:08 2
  - N/A -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:10
  - (I'm betting on an algorithmic quirk...) -- nm - Beryllium Jun 14, 12:09
- Donnie Darko -- nm - Beaker Jun 14, 12:08
- Interstellar -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 14, 12:06 2
  - #6 and the final Nolan movie on the list (4 in total) -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:07 1
    - So they missed The Prestige. -- nm - Roger More Jun 14, 12:25
- Annihilation -- nm - Jovian Jun 14, 12:05 5
  - No! I change my answer to... Donnie Darko?? -- nm - Jovian Jun 14, 12:06 3
    - 2 minutes -- nm - Beaker Jun 14, 12:09 1
      - heh -- nm - Jovian Jun 14, 12:11
    - #4 -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:07
  - N/A -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:06
- That Amy Adams one where the aliens experience time differently or something, and the end of the movie already happened before it started or something -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jun 14, 12:05 1
  - #9 Arrival -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:05
- 2001: A Space Odyssey -- nm - zork Jun 14, 12:03 1
  - #15 -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:04
- Primer -- nm - znufrii Jun 14, 12:03 5
  - N/A -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:04 3
    - Fail. -- nm - znufrii Jun 14, 12:07 1
      - Probably not enough people saw it since it's based on searches? -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:07
    - ok, wtf :) -- nm - oblique Jun 14, 12:04
  - heh, this is the movie I was actually thinking of when I typed "Looper" -- nm - oblique Jun 14, 12:04
- Looper -- nm - oblique Jun 14, 12:02 1
  - N/A -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:02
- Memento and Fight Club, -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 14, 12:02 1
  - #13 and #10 -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:02
- Inception. And his last movie I could not even watch. -- nm* - Spawn Jun 14, 12:00 2
  - the Pitch Meeting for Tenet was all I needed :) -- nm - Beaker Jun 14, 12:10
  - #14, and #1 (Tenet) -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 12:01
Xerox Girl from Friends thinks Ross and Rachel were on a break (had no idea she was from Nova Scotia) -- (link) - Beaker Jun 14, 11:49 6
- She had a really rough early life over there (foster home, drugs, streets, prostitution). Also, I've had a crush on her for ages. -- nm - zork Jun 14, 12:16
- Fine by me!! -- nm - rollo Jun 14, 12:07
- x -- nm* - Cuzzin Todd Jun 14, 12:04
- That's because they were. Not sure how it's still a point of discussion 25 years later. - Cuzzin Todd Jun 14, 12:01
- How Canadian of her. -- nm - Spawn Jun 14, 11:58
- She would say that, the home-wrecking hussy! -- nm - Roger More Jun 14, 11:51
Quordle 6 7 3 5 - oblique Jun 14, 11:41
btw, while not fully resolved, part of the mystery of the overheating bedroom has been fixed - oblique Jun 14, 11:28 1
- That tracks -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 14, 12:26
Hannah Waddingham auctioning off the "Shame" bell she rang in GOT for charity -- (link) - prayformojo Jun 14, 11:25 1
- $9k almost seems worth it. -- nm - Roger More Jun 14, 11:43
“ We only had an hour between paragliding and jet-boating” - The Allfather Jun 14, 11:20 13
- there's no way to tell that story without feeling 17 different kinds of sheepish -- nm - prayformojo Jun 14, 11:25 11
  - Just OWN it. It's all amazing. We get to share it a bit and love it. -- nm - Andie Jun 14, 11:49 3
    - With rare exception (mainly drive bys), I never hear ST as "bragging". It is sharing, for sure. -- nm - Spawn Jun 14, 11:59 1
      - exactly. I love all of these types of posts. I feel we all succeed somehow. -- nm - St. Epiphany Jun 14, 12:21
    - This. The photos have been great. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 14, 11:51
  - This is how I feel when people ask how we like our new house. I don't know how to say it without constantly sounding braggy. We love it so much. -- nm - oblique Jun 14, 11:29
  - And I can only imagine what Swiss Hooters waitresses look like. - sycor Jun 14, 11:27 5
    - Buttoned up in their grey uniforms, probably -- nm - Roger More Jun 14, 11:49 1
      - Of course -- (link) - Spawn Jun 14, 11:55
    - They tease a look walking around wearing big blocks of swiss cheese. -- nm - Max Jun 14, 11:36
    - On advice of counsel.... -- nm - prayformojo Jun 14, 11:32
    - This is why I answered C. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 14, 11:31
- Right?! Oh you poor thing being so crunched for time. -- (edited) - sycor Jun 14, 11:25
Over 73% of the US music market is now claimed by catalog records, rather than new releases -- (link) - Remlik Jun 14, 11:19 5
- meh. Catalog means "released over 18 months before a consumer made a purchase and/or pressed play." - JaxSean Jun 14, 12:04 1
  - Well the industry has armies of people in charge of spreading the word about new music and you're left wondering why they're failing because they are. -- nm - con_carne Jun 14, 12:37
- Now That's What I Call Statistics! -- nm - Swilcan Baron Jun 14, 11:55
- Nostalgia/cultural stagnation, ftw! -- (edited) - znufrii Jun 14, 11:22 1
  - Video games, more like. If it doesn't come with a screen, Gen Z sorta doesn't know what it's for. It's adorable! -- (link) - con_carne Jun 14, 11:29
Worldwide Box Office: Doctor Strange crosses $925M, Top Gun nears $750M, Fantastic Beasts crosses $400M, Sonic 2/Jurassic World 3 nears that - MDH Jun 14, 11:12 1
- If Avatar doesn't get a China release, Top Gun has a non-zero chance of being the top worldwide film of 2022. -- nm - Inigo Jun 14, 11:19
Ford halts Mustang Mach-E sales: Safety recall with no current fix. -- (edited) - oblique Jun 14, 10:49 14
- But Tesla competition is definitely coming. Soon. Maybe -- nm - TWuG Jun 14, 12:31 1
  - if you truly believe that it's not, then you are deluding yourself -- nm* - decline Jun 14, 12:41
- Ford is having a shitty time. Ford Broncos are having catastrophic engine failure. 30 to 40% of the fleet -- nm - St. Epiphany Jun 14, 11:43 1
  - Cute little trucks. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 14, 12:16
- The problem involves a potential overheating of the vehicle’s high voltage battery main contactors - tRuMaN Jun 14, 10:59 4
  - So, adapt a CPU cooler ? -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 14, 11:16 3
    - Heat pump! -- nm - Beryllium Jun 14, 11:50
    - I mean duct in something from the A/C unit. - tRuMaN Jun 14, 11:38
    - or just have the owners dump a bucket of ice onto the engine each time they want to go someplace -- nm* - decline Jun 14, 11:27
- One of the Ford self driving car prototypes drove by me yesterday. -- nm - MDH Jun 14, 10:57 1
  - Any flames? -- nm - Spawn Jun 14, 11:41
- Oh Joy. -- nm - Mop Jun 14, 10:56 1
  - Hopefully you don't have a 2022 Ford Brick -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 14, 10:59
- ... hopefully it doesn't take them two weeks to fix it, like with my brakes. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 14, 10:52
Happy for you, RC, whatever is happening. -- nm - zork Jun 14, 10:48
That rooster is now the new lead singer for Disturbed. -- nm - Reagen Jun 14, 10:44
This season on the bachelorette ... -- (pic) - rollo Jun 14, 10:41 [Attachment] 4
- this looks like mugshots. none of them are allowed to own an AR-15 -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 14, 10:47 1
  - They shouldn't even be allowed to rent a uhaul -- nm - Beryllium Jun 14, 10:53
- Once again, no people of color! -- nm - Mop Jun 14, 10:42 1
  - one of them almost has a fake tan -- nm - Beryllium Jun 14, 10:43
mooz mooz -- nm - mud Jun 14, 10:41

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