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Nobody roughs people up on Twitter quite ... -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 8, 14:18
Anny guesses which game people down the hall are screaming about? -- nm - loosilu Oct 8, 14:12 6
- David Fincher's 1997 cinematic masterpiece. -- nm - Ender Oct 8, 14:48
- did NBC cut away from the final few minutes to show Heidi again? -- nm - peglegpete Oct 8, 14:38
- Walton Goggins? -- nm - prayformojo Oct 8, 14:35 1
  - DAMNIT -- nm - Reagen Oct 8, 14:42
- Tampa Bay vs Cleveland baseball playoffs -- nm - Dano Oct 8, 14:14
- Rozova Dolina vs Dimitrovgrad. (NM) - Marlowe Oct 8, 14:14
It's to the point of a Jon Bois video now. "What if we played a playoff baseball game but didn't give the players bats" -- nm - Reagen Oct 8, 14:05
Carville: "I have sympathy for mental patients, they need to be given drugs and treated. They don't need to be in the US senate." -- (link) - mud Oct 8, 14:03 2
- Is he talking about Walker or Gingrich? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 14:31 1
  - I think he's talking about Walker, but I think Gingrich was talking about Walker's son. -- nm - Ender Oct 8, 14:45
Tito doesn't care. He has all day. -- nm - budice Oct 8, 14:00
random fact of the day: Ron Paul delivered Selena -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 8, 13:59 2
- But, he's an eye docotr. Oh, is this the dad? -- nm - loosilu Oct 8, 14:12 1
  - Yes, it's the dad. The son is "Rand". -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 14:49
Conclusion of findings to NFL-NFLPA investigation of Tua Tagovailoa concussion issue -- (link) - budice Oct 8, 13:51 2
- “you’re all gonna keep watching and gambling so blah blah blah” -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 8, 13:58
- Wait, that wasn't disqualifying before? WTF. -- nm - pmb Oct 8, 13:56
Does anyone here have a smart mattress or mattress cover? Which one? What’s your feedback? -- nm - Dano Oct 8, 13:26
Star Trek Discovery trailer -- (link) - Remlik Oct 8, 13:20 13
- Callum Keith Rennie is Captain Rayner joins the show -- (link*) - Remlik Oct 8, 13:21 12
  - Ronny Cox returns as Admiral Jellico for Star Trek Prodigy! -- (link) - Remlik Oct 8, 13:41 10
    - Star Trek Prodigy trailer -- (link) - Remlik Oct 8, 13:42 9
      - I did not realize Jameela Jamil (titania on she-hulk) is on Star Trek Prodigy -- nm - Remlik Oct 8, 13:54 7
        
        Because her first episode hasn't aired. -- nm - Ender Oct 8, 13:59
        
        Jameela Jamil says #StarTrekProdigy's return is gonna "blow your fuckin' balls off!" -- (link) - Remlik Oct 8, 13:54 5
        
        Star Trek Picard cast up next -- nm - Remlik Oct 8, 13:55 4
        
        Star Trek Picard trailer -- (link*) - Remlik Oct 8, 14:04 [youtube] 3
        
        "Be cool, Honey Bunny." -- nm - Max Oct 8, 14:45
        
        Spoilers - Beryllium Oct 8, 14:24
        
        yay! -- nm - mud Oct 8, 14:07
      - Star Trek Janeway is being discussed as a possibility -- nm - Remlik Oct 8, 13:52
  - Nice! -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 13:28
Willie 4 Beto ! ♪ -- (link) - mud Oct 8, 13:14 1
- Delightful! -- nm - Mop Oct 8, 14:53
I didn't realize there was no extra inning ghost runner rule for the playoffs. -- nm - Tim Oct 8, 13:13 5
- AS ABNER DOUBLEDAY INTENDED -- nm - spamlet Oct 8, 13:49
- Nope, but in the 19th inning they have to start pitching underhand. -- nm - Ender Oct 8, 13:47
- It's almost as if it's a rule that doesn't belong in baseball. -- nm - Reagen Oct 8, 13:14 2
  - I'd be okay with it if it started in, like, the 12th or 13th inning. -- nm - Tim Oct 8, 13:17 1
    - IMO, not ever. It's not how the game is played. -- nm - Krusty Oct 8, 14:04
The Sound of 007 on Prime is a really worthwhile documentary. The story Michael Caine tells about Goldfinger made me laugh a lot -- nm - prayformojo Oct 8, 13:11 1
- Plus: John Barry pretty much looks like a Bond villain -- nm - prayformojo Oct 8, 13:26
GO UTES! - zunk takes things literally Oct 8, 12:58
NYCC Trek Thread.... -- (link) - Remlik Oct 8, 12:58
*Every* time Game Day goes to Lawrence, Kansas loses -- nm - prayformojo Oct 8, 12:43 1
- Oklahoma 0-3 in Big 12 play -- nm - budice Oct 8, 12:46
wow: Iranian state TV hacked during broadcast of Khamenei's meeting -- (link) - prayformojo Oct 8, 12:39
Disneyland Paris: Why "Its a Small World" looks different? -- (link) - budice Oct 8, 12:27
I may have to change my airline loyalty for west coast travel. I will not fly Vancouver to Orange County via DFW :/ - Meg Oct 8, 12:25 1
- Can you use AA miles on Alaskan now? They have an alliance of some sort. - spamlet Oct 8, 13:50
Question of the day -- (pic) - prayformojo Oct 8, 12:24 [Attachment] 3
- Answer (spoiler)/Bonus question -- (pic) - prayformojo Oct 8, 12:24 [Attachment] 2
  - Answer (spoiler) -- (pic) - prayformojo Oct 8, 12:24 [Attachment] 1
    - 0/2 -- nm - peglegpete Oct 8, 12:31
Recently shot running back Brian Robinson will play tomorrow. -- nm - David Oct 8, 12:20
It's settled: tackos for dinner -- nm - Beryllium Oct 8, 12:20
Nice to see Big 10 refs blowing a call to kill Maryland’s season. -- nm - MDH Oct 8, 12:14 3
- OMFG. The refs did it again. Maryland needs to formally complain to the Big 10. -- nm - MDH Oct 8, 12:26 2
  - and they messed up my parlay -- nm - Dano Oct 8, 12:38
  - Big 10 officiating bias just cost Maryland a home win and a chance at 5-1. Reminding myself why I gave up watching NCAAF. -- nm - MDH Oct 8, 12:28
0-0 in the 10th inning in Cleveland/Tampa Bay -- nm - crash davis Oct 8, 11:58 1
- Tito has all day -- nm - budice Oct 8, 12:00
Nebraska is in first place in the Big 10 West -- nm - Dano Oct 8, 11:52 1
- I refuse to believe these lies. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 8, 12:26
Oh sure, but when *we* do it, you say "ugh worst game ever" -- nm - Broncos & Colts Oct 8, 11:46
Brent Venables has entered the transfer portal -- nm - budice Oct 8, 11:44
Putting this here because I think it might make loosi laugh. -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 8, 11:22
Quinn Ewars with Arch Manning on the way. Bijan can run it too. -- nm* - budice Oct 8, 11:17 1
- Bijan won't be there when Arch gets there. He's currently projected to go in the top 10. - David Oct 8, 11:55
The funeral home has music playing during the family visitation and it’s like forever young and come sail away and this feels wrong to me? -- nm - ty97 Oct 8, 11:13 8
- for my moms funeral she wanted the Rat Pack guys interspaced with some Johnny Cash and she gave me a list. -- (edited) - Remlik Oct 8, 12:25 3
  - I didn't even know Anthony Michael Hall had an album... -- nm - Ender Oct 8, 12:31 2
    - I bet Rob Lowe had discussions. -- nm - Reagen Oct 8, 13:19
    - HA! doh! -- nm - Remlik Oct 8, 12:45
- I think all music during visitations and funerals are weird. - spamlet Oct 8, 11:18 2
  - We are a Catholic family but my uncle didn’t want a formal funeral I guess - ty97 Oct 8, 11:30
  - Instrumentals are the norm. -- nm - Spawn Oct 8, 11:24
- would you prefer: Death Don't Have No Mercy? -- (link) - peglegpete Oct 8, 11:16 [youtube]
A Kurt Cobain Opera Examines the Myth, Not the Man - crash davis Oct 8, 10:50 1
- Bruce Wayne is boring. But Batman... -- nm - Spawn Oct 8, 11:12
I’m not saying Brian Kelly to LSU has been bad, but his halftime speech was entirely in a Wisconsin accent. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 8, 10:47 1
- Walking off the field “We have to coach better. We are getting outcoached.” You’re the coach, Brian. You’re the coach. -- nm - Volnelk Oct 8, 10:52
Thanks, Brian Kelly. You’re terrible. -- nm - Volnelk Oct 8, 10:44 3
- Remember: He wanted to go somewhere where he could win a championship. -- nm - Barynn Oct 8, 12:01 2
  - Love Orlovsky saying ‘They’ve just got to get this program into a winning mindset.’ Umm they won the title in 2019 and then fired the coach. -- nm - Volnelk Oct 8, 12:21 1
    - Yup, they had Burrow, Chase, and Justin Jefferson in the greatest offense *ever* in 2019. And boosters chased off the coach for a moron. -- nm - David Oct 8, 12:46
the knock knock jokes are solid -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 8, 10:36 2
- Okay, this one made me LOL -- (link) - crash davis Oct 8, 10:40 1
  - Logan and I, as well. -- nm - Spawn Oct 8, 11:14
For all the complaints of the EU’s uptight regulation and policies, they sure could stand to normalize their building codes. - Mop Oct 8, 10:31 13
- We went to a pub last night that had two faucets. One was 10000°F, the other was 32.001°F - JaxSean Oct 8, 13:35
- You go to Europe FOR all that stuff. It isn't like home. Also, two faucets isn't that odd anywhere. -- nm* - Andie Oct 8, 11:35
- Did any of them have bathrooms as big as the bedroom, because that's what they were originally? -- nm - Meg Oct 8, 10:37
- About this one... - Marlowe Oct 8, 10:35 4
  - Entirely separate faucets so the water doesn't mix until it's in the basin? -- nm - Ender Oct 8, 10:40 2
    - It's bad on sinks, not so bad on baths. (NM) - Marlowe Oct 8, 11:06
    - Exactly, one on each pipe, no fancy mixer outlets. -- nm - Meg Oct 8, 10:44
  - I've never been really scalded. A billion times I've turned on the shower and the initial blast of residual cold water in the pipes has frozen me -- nm - crash davis Oct 8, 10:37
- My house was originally constructed in the 20s. I have separate faucets, a switch on the outside, and too few outlets -- nm - crash davis Oct 8, 10:34 4
  - Our house is 25 years old and the master bath switches are in the bedroom. -- nm - Spawn Oct 8, 11:29
  - Mine was built in the 40s. I have all of these things, plus my shower knobs turn the opposite way for on/off. It took some getting used to. -- nm - jnine Oct 8, 10:48
  - Do you assume the hot is always on the left? Somewhere I was in a house where it was on the right. -- nm - Meg Oct 8, 10:41 1
    - I do assume that. The right would totally mess me up -- nm - crash davis Oct 8, 10:42
Strongbad, gimme a bit to reply. -- nm - The Allfather Oct 8, 10:30 2
- No worries. I am going to try and learn some too. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 8, 10:42 1
  - This day is getting away from me. It's time for the podcast and then my family is visiting for dinner. - David Oct 8, 11:58
OK not OK -- nm - budice Oct 8, 10:29
325 nits but how many gecs? -- nm - Reagen Oct 8, 10:24 8
- nit? -- nm - mud Oct 8, 10:28 6
  - to quote myself (this was in a report commissioned by a customer of mine) - colin Oct 8, 10:32 5
    - DV LEDs are governed by the same rules as LED backlit TVs, so just replace mentally as you're reading. - colin Oct 8, 10:34 4
      - thx, I appreciate this - but I can't find anything about NITs on my TV: -- (link) - mud Oct 8, 11:53 3
        
        That's kind of a thing...they don't publish it because that would out crappy panels. You have to measure. - colin Oct 8, 12:47 2
        
        Based on similar models, I'm guessing 350 nits. -- nm - colin Oct 8, 12:49 1
        
        ok, thx -- nm - mud Oct 8, 12:51
- let me consult the tree of clues. -- nm - colin Oct 8, 10:24
Wait until the people upset about the British view of tacos learn about French tacos -- (link) - Roger More Oct 8, 10:21 23
- IWET -- nm - Spawn Oct 8, 11:16
- My brother reports that these types of restaurants are common in Montreal. -- nm - Mop Oct 8, 10:55
- I’d eat 10 of those right now. -- nm - Mop Oct 8, 10:54
- I feel like the people upset about this stuff are the same people who don't want their foods touching on their plate - Reagen Oct 8, 10:38 5
  - I think it’s a different set of people because this is about respect and understanding of another culture. - Roger More Oct 8, 10:47 4
    - Have you seen John Scalzi's burrito creations? - Reagen Oct 8, 11:05 2
      - No, but I’d be fine with it. Mix the same ingredients with a vinaigrette, it’s still a salad. - Roger More Oct 8, 11:24 1
        
        For GBBO, it's part of the show to say "this is what I would or wouldn't serve at my own hotel/resto" or their hotel/resto owner buddies. -- nm - con_carne Oct 8, 11:40
    - They are different. Seeing entire countries enjoy a thing contradictory to how you would gets you on the "Am I making bad life choices" level. - con_carne Oct 8, 11:01
- My review (because I just ate one) is that it was surprisingly good. It is like a cheesesteak but with Middle Eastern sauces. - Roger More Oct 8, 10:38
- I'd eat that. -- nm - Ender Oct 8, 10:36
- I still prefer the Indian/Navajo Taco :-) -- (pic) - Meg Oct 8, 10:30 [Attachment] 4
  - We found one in Lawrence a few weeks ago. So good. With Haskell there I was hoping there would be a permanent place that serves them but no. - spamlet Oct 8, 11:21
  - Lamb? On fry bread? -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 8, 10:55 1
    - In most cases likely beef, but not complaining. -- nm - Meg Oct 8, 11:29
  - Lawds yes -- nm - Epiphany! Oct 8, 10:54
- we got into Normandy late on a Sunday once and the only thing open for takeout was a French pizza joint. holy shit… -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 8, 10:26 4
  - late? got slowed down by the German tourists on the beachheads? -- nm - crash davis Oct 8, 10:30 3
    - I would have preferred to storm Omaha Beach than eat that “pizza” -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 8, 10:32 2
      - I was wondering if it holy s good, or holy s bad. What made it so bad? -- nm - crash davis Oct 8, 10:36 1
        
        no tomato sauce or mozzarella to speak of. weird ass meats -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 8, 10:40
- NSFW -- nm - prayformojo Oct 8, 10:26
- it sounds very similar to every bit of food in pittsburgh -- nm - colin Oct 8, 10:23
Oct. 8th birthdays: Paul Hogan (83), Chevy Chase (79), Sigourney Weaver (73), Edward Zwick (70), Matt Damon (52), Bruno Mars (37) - Max Oct 8, 10:19 1
- I wanna see Kristanna Loken & Sigourney Weaver in an Edward Zwick picture. -- nm - mud Oct 8, 10:24
Ooh, this is funny. -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 8, 10:18 [Image] 2
- LOL -- nm - Mop Oct 8, 10:40
- oh i do love a good meme callback. -- nm - colin Oct 8, 10:20
Cheddar video: The origins of the pumpkin spice craze. -- (link) - Mop Oct 8, 10:18 [youtube]
This is a great New York Times op-ed video. “I sold the French Laundry. Then it became “The Best Restaurant In the World”. -- (link) - Mop Oct 8, 10:17 [youtube] 4
- fun fact, Google in silicon valley had a concierge service whose entire job was getting you reservations at The French Laundry. -- nm - colin Oct 8, 10:21 3
  - all part of their “Don’t Be Evil” mission statement -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 8, 10:47
  - *HAD*? -- nm - Mop Oct 8, 10:31 1
    - probably still has, tbh -- nm - colin Oct 8, 10:33

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