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noted comic legend Liam Neeson will reboot The Naked Gun -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Oct 13, 13:16 8
- LEGO Movie. Also, Leslie was deadly serious before Airplane. -- nm - Reagen Oct 13, 13:20 5
  - Yeah, people make the mistake of thinking dramatic actors can't understand and deliver comedy. - TWuG Oct 13, 13:29 3
    - Usually it's the other way, no? - Reagen Oct 13, 13:32 2
      - Possibly, but maybe it's a matter of which they got to first. - TWuG Oct 13, 13:39
      - Drama is just Comedy plus Oscars. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 13, 13:33
  - which in Airplane, he also played 100% straight for the comic effect. and in the Police Squad show, mostly - hollywood big shot Oct 13, 13:23
- Liam Neeson's improvisational comedy -- (link) - Roger More Oct 13, 13:20 [youtube] 1
  - Yep, that's it, that's really good. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 13, 13:23
Just found out Amy and Logan will not be home until late. frick. Should I watch She Hulk without her? - Spawn Oct 13, 13:14 2
- You're pre-screening for objectionable or mature content. Yeah, that's the ticket. -- nm - Barynn Oct 13, 13:16
- today on AITA? -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 13, 13:15
I hate seeing parents force their too young kids into sports. -- (link) - Barynn Oct 13, 12:55
As per the replies, this thread is best read as either Michael Peña from ant man, or Cheech Marin -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 13, 12:55
Spielberg films, ranked -- (link) - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 13, 12:54 15
- Schindler's List at 8? That's bold. -- nm - Inigo Oct 13, 13:29
- popcorn Steve: CE3K, Jaws, Indy (I, III), JP (I); Oscar Steve: Schindler's, Lincoln, SPR, Catch Me - hollywood big shot Oct 13, 13:20
- oh look, E.T. is ranked #1. That is not surprising in the least. - Jovian Oct 13, 12:58 12
  - A.I. in the top 10 and Jurassic Park below Fridge of Pies is the real clickbait action -- nm - Roger More Oct 13, 13:16
  - I’m not sure it would be top 3 for a ton of people. Indy 1, Schindlers, Jaws… - Will Hunting Oct 13, 13:08 4
    - It’s Hook you fart factory, slug-slimed, sack-of-rat-guts-in-cat-vomit, cheesy, scab-picked, pimple-squeezing finger bandage. -- nm - Qale Oct 13, 13:14 1
      - This post is bangarang. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 13, 13:27
    - Indy 1, Jaws, Close Encounters. -- nm - Spawn Oct 13, 13:13 1
      - See? There’s even more options. - Will Hunting Oct 13, 13:16
  - They get the Indiana Jones films all out of order. They have it as 2, 1, 3, 4 when it's actually 3, 1, 2, doesn't exist. -- nm - Barynn Oct 13, 13:01 5
    - 4 exists, it was just done by Spielberg's non-union Mexican equivalent -- nm - Roger More Oct 13, 13:04 4
      - Crank Yanker was not mexican, he's Italian -- nm - FB Oct 13, 14:13
      - (Points for using my favorite Simpsons snowclone.) -- nm - Barynn Oct 13, 13:06 2
        
        Does it count as a snowclone if it's a direct quote about the same person (Señor Spielbergo)? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 13, 13:09 1
        
        To avoid falling into Russell's paradox, I'm going to say yes -- nm - Barynn Oct 13, 13:11
Stalker: Sent? Received? -- nm - Beaker Oct 13, 12:46 5
- Yes, yes, and yes!! -- nm - Meg Oct 13, 13:08
- Yes and yes -- nm - Krusty Oct 13, 12:57
- yesses all around as of a few minutes ago. -- nm - Andie Oct 13, 12:47 1
  - :) -- nm - Meg Oct 13, 13:08
- Yes. No. -- nm - Beaker Oct 13, 12:46
Andie!! I love it! Thank you!! -- nm - Meg Oct 13, 12:44 1
- it took long enough! i was getting worried. - Andie Oct 13, 12:45
Apparently it was one holdout on the jury who did not want Cruz to get the death penalty. (and she was eventually joined by two others) - Jovian Oct 13, 12:37 3
- Ted what? -- nm - Spawn Oct 13, 13:03
- Good. The death penalty is barbarism. -- nm - TWuG Oct 13, 12:42 1
  - Yup. It has no place in modern society. -- nm - Krusty Oct 13, 12:58
Trump is getting subpoenaed -- nm - zork Oct 13, 12:31 1
- And he'll litigate and it will go away by January - Jovian Oct 13, 12:34
Chaucer the Rapist? Newly Discovered Documents Suggest Not. - crash davis Oct 13, 12:30 6
- And he'll litigate and it'll go away by January -- nm - Beryllium Oct 13, 12:34 5
  - heh. our brains were in sync at the same exact moment. -- nm - Jovian Oct 13, 12:54
  - I heade to court not to confesse. But rather I seeketh sum redress. Thou hast dun me grete wronge, for I hast showeth not me dong -- nm* - crash davis Oct 13, 12:50 2
    - L5 from the floor. -- nm - Barynn Oct 13, 12:54
    - 👏👏 -- nm - decline Oct 13, 12:53
  - I'm just a simple English poet. I don't understand modern inventions like horseless carriages, quantum theory, and Hot Pockets. -- nm - Zombie Chaucer Oct 13, 12:42
Can I go home? - Spawn Oct 13, 12:24 1
- yes - mud Oct 13, 12:31
New Brunswick politics is usually boring but a cabinet minister resigned today with the most epic letter...(link) - Walt_Disney Oct 13, 12:21 3
- NS premier is in the thick of it too, with allegations he's tried to axe the Speaker for being *too* impartial. -- nm - Reagen Oct 13, 12:45
- (spoilers - I like Cardy and follow him on Twitter) -- nm - Beaker Oct 13, 12:42
- 'data my ass' - decline Oct 13, 12:23
WAS getting Wentz was a Dan Snyder thing -- (link*) - budice Oct 13, 12:20 1
- It’s a terrible call so it makes total sense. Rivera is gone soon anyhow. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 13, 12:21
Quordle 6 4 2 9 - oblique Oct 13, 12:05
the real-time footage of Pelosi & Co watching shit go down while still inside is riveting -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 13, 12:05 1
- I'm behind like an hour 15! spoilers! -- nm - judge amanda jones Oct 13, 12:24
Writ of habeas corpus: Supreme Court denies former Pres. Trump request for emergency relief in classified documents case. - budice Oct 13, 12:03 2
- Damn activist liberal judges... -- nm - David Oct 13, 12:33
- a sad bad no very good day - Jovian Oct 13, 12:05
Oddest Letterboxed solution I've come across (sp) - VMan Oct 13, 12:03 1
- ha! -- nm - prayformojo Oct 13, 12:04
Question of the day -- (pic) - prayformojo Oct 13, 11:59 [Attachment] 4
- Answer (spoiler)/Bonus question -- (pic) - prayformojo Oct 13, 11:59 [Attachment] 3
  - Answer (spoiler) -- (pic) - prayformojo Oct 13, 12:00 [Attachment] 2
    - 2/2 -- nm - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 13, 12:01
    - 0/2 -- nm - decline Oct 13, 12:01
Goodfellas, Scarface, Sopranos mashup.... -- (link) - Remlik Oct 13, 11:56
some naked dude wearing a sheet and pretending to be a ghost got grabbed by the cops in our neighbourhood last night apparently - Beaker Oct 13, 11:56 6
- see how nice canadians are? down here we would have shot him six times THEN called the cops -- nm - FB Oct 13, 14:16
- how far Dignan has sunk . . . -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 13, 11:58
- Well which is it? Naked or wearing a sheet? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 13, 11:58 3
  - ahh good catch. a naked dude was seen running around between 8:30-10. Must of went and got the sheet as the cops nailed him at 1:36 AM -- nm - Beaker Oct 13, 11:59 1
    - Ah, different variety of ghost then! -- nm - Spawn Oct 13, 12:16
  - we're all naked underneath -- nm - oblique Oct 13, 11:58
I asked my intern about the thumbs up emoji and whether she considers it passive aggressive. - Dark Callisto Oct 13, 11:55 20
- unrelated related: I HATE the heart emoji on teams. I wish there were something stronger than thumbs up and less personal than heart. - judge amanda jones Oct 13, 12:37 9
  - applause emoji? -- nm - Roger More Oct 13, 13:03 2
    - Too much like praying hands! -- nm - Spawn Oct 13, 13:08 1
      - In Teams they're animated and shown from the side -- nm - Roger More Oct 13, 13:18
  - OK symbol? (ie hand making the circle with 3 fingers up) -- nm - Andie Oct 13, 12:44 3
    - White supremacist connotations now, so that's a no go. - TWuG Oct 13, 12:48 2
      - i had zero idea the okay symbol was controversial! -- nm - Andie Oct 13, 13:05 1
        
        Sadly, yes. -- nm - TWuG Oct 13, 13:24
  - Add a star for in between thumbs up and heart. - TWuG Oct 13, 12:44
  - ♥ -- nm - decline Oct 13, 12:41
- A period changing the whole context of a two letter reply makes me laugh..... - Walt_Disney Oct 13, 12:06 3
  - It adds 50% more characters to the response, of course it changes the context! -- nm - Roger More Oct 13, 13:05
  - Ah. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 13, 12:07 1
    - Heh. -- nm - zork Oct 13, 12:32
- What about "ok" vs "OK"? -- nm - Spawn Oct 13, 12:02
- on Teams, our gen z analysts basically respond to any routine message with a thumbs up, as a signal that they've seen its contents -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 13, 11:57
- ok. -- nm - decline Oct 13, 11:57 1
  - *nods* -- nm - oblique Oct 13, 11:58
- 👍 👍 👍 -- nm - budice Oct 13, 11:56 1
  - ... THAT IS NOT A THUMB!!! -- nm - Spawn Oct 13, 12:45
Mega billion draw for Fri closes at noon Friday because it's a busy day. I'll check friendpay before I leave. Won't be able later - zeitgeist Oct 13, 11:37 1
- Power is only 450 Saturday so I haven't opened that yet till 500 unless there is a big demand -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 13, 11:39
Halloween Ends 67% (6/3), TAR 96% (100/4) -- nm - Beaker Oct 13, 11:37
Yay or Nay: bone conduction bluetooth headphones? -- nm - Andie Oct 13, 11:28 23
- MrsJax just got some and LOVES them -- nm - JaxSean Oct 13, 13:07
- Yay from both Carrie and I - we love ours. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Oct 13, 12:53 1
  - thanks Jim and Jax! -- nm - Andie Oct 13, 13:30
- wait til black friday though! -- nm - judge amanda jones Oct 13, 11:51 1
  - good point! -- nm - Andie Oct 13, 11:51
- Useful when I'm on my bike, they give me a slight headache though, so only for short durations -- nm - Guigue Oct 13, 11:42 1
  - interesting. -- nm - Andie Oct 13, 11:43
- Huge Yay from me. They're great for running because I can listen to music but still hear my surroundings. -- nm - Dano Oct 13, 11:40 8
  - SoundcoreLife Dot 3i wireless earbuds have a noise canceling AND a "true sound" mode that pipes in the outside noise, unfiltered. same dif. - colin Oct 13, 11:49
  - this is my thought, i go out for big walks and always only wear one earbud so i can hear, & would like something that won't fall out and lets me hear - Andie Oct 13, 11:43 6
    - My pixel ear buds never fall out even when I run. You can also set it so only one bud is active if you only want to use one. -- nm - Krusty Oct 13, 13:01 1
      - oh i wear one, all the time, but i am looking at not-in-ear options. -- nm - Andie Oct 13, 13:30
    - That makes sense for me with the convertible but as Guigue said, no way I want waves bouncing around in my head. -- nm - Spawn Oct 13, 11:52 3
      - i mean, if you are hearing any sound you have waves in your head. we hear because sound waves vibrate bones in our ears... -- nm - Andie Oct 13, 11:54 2
        
        Yes they only give me headache because of the vibration on my temple. It's how you feel the sound, but I'm pretty sensitive to - Guigue Oct 13, 11:57 1
        
        word. There are sinus headaches I get where humming can help. So maybe they would actually be good, for those. -- nm* - Spawn Oct 13, 12:02
- they're great for people who have hearing impairments but I'm not sure it's worth it for people with regular hearing -- nm - decline Oct 13, 11:36 1
  - I had a bone phones back in the 80s when it was two cheap transistor radio speakers in a sock. Didn't really work as advertised -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 13, 11:42
- no one messes with my bone -- nm - mud Oct 13, 11:35
- "That's bone. And the lettering is something called Silian Rail." -- nm - Patrick Bateman Oct 13, 11:34
- I'm a nay, but only because of paranoia that it might be the true cause of Havana syndrome -- nm - Beryllium Oct 13, 11:30 1
  - (Completely unfounded) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 13, 11:30
- How about: evil -- nm - Spawn Oct 13, 11:29
Schiff statement: Secret Service were aware of ongoing weapons arrests of supporters before and during fuckface's 1/6 rally speech -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 13, 11:21 1
- other intel agencies had militant communications about armed insurrection plans long before 1/6, WH went ahead with rally nonetheless -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 13, 11:49
Amazon just cancelled my Associates account. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 13, 11:19 15
- that suuuuuucks -- nm - prayformojo Oct 13, 11:50
- ::reads below:: Ah, you really *don't* know what you did. -- nm* - Spawn Oct 13, 11:21 8
  - I don't, that's the problem. They won't tell me enough for me to diagnose it. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 13, 11:22 7
    - That's the new tech model. "You did a bad and are now an unperson." "Can you tell me what I did?" "No, unperson." -- nm - Barynn Oct 13, 11:37 2
      - This one seems exploitable. You could hijack the tag of any associate and send traffic from undeclared sources to have their account terminated. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 13, 12:10 1
        
        So, for example, I could switch to using The Verge's tag. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 13, 12:11
    - better fix it, the S1 finale is on in ~9 hours (omg I am SO excited-d-d ..!) -- nm - mud Oct 13, 11:37 3
      - I did get caught up over the last few days. Like all Tokien, takes forever to get going! spec spoil - Spawn Oct 13, 11:50 1
        
        Spoils - Beryllium Oct 13, 11:52
      - I don't think they blocked my whole account, just my account on this one product. The product that ST uses to earn money to pay for hosting. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 13, 11:48
- Just start a new one. -- nm - David Oct 13, 11:20 1
  - They're withholding revenue. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 13, 11:21
- (I am trying to limit my emotional reaction to the situation. But I'm not happy.) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 13, 11:20
- wut? -- nm - Dark Callisto Oct 13, 11:20 1
  - They sent a notice a couple weeks ago that something looked hinky to them, but they did not respond to my email about what was going on. - Beryllium Oct 13, 11:21
Aftershock Day 4: Wait, I've been doing the festival thing for three days, why are we getting up so early on the 4th day - JD Oct 13, 11:17
Viola Davis doing Hot Ones? Yes please! -- (link) - Mop Oct 13, 11:14 [youtube] 1
- ... you call these hot? -- nm - Amanda Waller Oct 13, 11:24
Jan 6 committee reportedly plans to vote today to issue a subpoena for shithead -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 13, 11:09 17
- …at their last meeting. -- nm - spamlet Oct 13, 11:18
- Shithead: Executive privilege! SCOTUS: Yes, executive privilege! - Mop Oct 13, 11:12 15
  - OTOH: -- (link) - Reagen Oct 13, 12:59
  - Won’t even get that far. Committee will be dissolved in January and the issue becomes moot. -- nm - spamlet Oct 13, 11:20
  - shithead has already pardoned himself -- nm - peglegpete Oct 13, 11:14 9
    - I'm really surprised that he didn't before leaving office. -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 13, 11:21 8
      - oh! sent -- nm - decline Oct 13, 11:28
      - (you got my request to start a new tab for Powerball? you cool to do that again?) -- nm - Beaker Oct 13, 11:26 1
        
        Yes -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 13, 11:27
      - $10 sent for saturday's powerball. -- nm - peglegpete Oct 13, 11:22 4
        
        I got 20 from you yesterday, is this another 10$ I haven't seen my desktop yet for email -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 13, 11:27 3
        
        I was assuming $10 of yesterdays $20 was for last night's powerball nobody won. yes this is another $10. $30 total sent -- nm* - peglegpete Oct 13, 11:46
        
        I sent 10 today. -- nm - MDH Oct 13, 11:38 1
        
        moi aussi -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 13, 11:44
  - It will be six years and six trips to SCOTUS just to fight the subpoena -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 13, 11:13 2
    - So, it will be in Trump's third term? -- nm - Spawn Oct 13, 11:14 1
      - King Trump to us peons by then -- nm - Epiphany! Oct 13, 11:25

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