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Weekend project! (I could see crash davis getting really good at this) -- (link) - prayformojo Oct 20, 15:57 6
- those guys are amazing and I think that could be healthier than my trying recreate Olga Korbut's routine -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 16:00 4
  - Doubles bars: your partner spins you and you land on the high bar to start the routine. -- nm - Max Oct 20, 16:02
  - or: combine the disciplines! -- nm - prayformojo Oct 20, 16:00 2
    - actually I did something different and its all your fault. - crash davis Oct 20, 16:03 1
      - YEAH!!! -- nm - prayformojo Oct 20, 16:04
- "If you can spin a turnip, you can spin a top." -- nm - Max Oct 20, 15:59
It’s not quite 4 PM and it’s looking like dusk out there. The smoke’s getting pretty bad. -- nm - Mop Oct 20, 15:46 1
- You know what else is bad…? - Mop Oct 20, 15:48
Most-watched NFL games this season through Week 6 -- (link) - budice Oct 20, 15:45 3
- I don't get this nation's obsession with the Dallas Cowboys, but to each their own -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 15:56 1
  - Cheerleaders -- nm - Spawn Oct 20, 16:12
- Top 16 Most watched TV shows were all NFL games, last year—48 of the top 50 and 91 of the top 100 -- nm - Flavorize Oct 20, 15:50
Look at this young, Greg Maddux clip and tell me he doesn’t look like Andy Samberg - Flavorize Oct 20, 15:43 1
- I legitimately don’t see it at all. -- nm - The Allfather Oct 20, 15:46
"Ma'am, I assure you, you are indeed that stupid." -- (link) - TWuG Oct 20, 15:32
The banned "Dead Loop" of Olga Korbut, 1972. It was the first and last time the trick was documented. -- (link) - Beaker Oct 20, 15:21 15
- ‘Trick’ seems the wrong word for the tweeter to use. -- nm - Roger More Oct 20, 15:49
- Witch! Burn her! -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 20, 15:27 2
  - That flying off the lower bar back on to the high bar is clearly sorcery. -- nm - Barynn Oct 20, 15:47
  - ik, r? That is some Marvel super hero shit -- nm - Beaker Oct 20, 15:30
- That whole routine is like the Australia of bars - multiple ways it could kill you. - Max Oct 20, 15:27 10
  - It’s the resting on bar rolling flip, right? -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 20, 15:28 9
    - Yes. It's the backflip off the top bar that's the "death loop." -- nm - Krusty Oct 20, 15:31 8
      - What’s the time stamp? -- nm - The Allfather Oct 20, 15:43 1
        
        :08 apparently. Originally 0:16 looked to me like the most dangerous move before the dismount. -- nm* - Max Oct 20, 15:44
      - That? That’s banned? -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 20, 15:43 5
        
        Apparently it's very hard to spot the bar and when they miss they fall far and hard or they hit the bar. It's very dangerous. -- nm - Krusty Oct 20, 15:53 2
        
        Seems stupid to me given you got double backward flip blind releases but this is too dangerous. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 20, 15:58
        
        "Don't do that move! Is there a bar?? You don't know!!" -- nm - Balancy Quest Oct 20, 15:56
        
        It’s the standing on the bar that’s dangerous -- nm - Roger More Oct 20, 15:48
        
        It doesn't look so bad when they catch the bar, but ... -- nm - rollo Oct 20, 15:47
12,000 fentanyl pills seized in wrappers of Skittles, Whoppers and SweeTarts at LAX, sparking renewed Halloween warnings to parents -- (link) - budice Oct 20, 15:20 12
- Because if there's one thing I've learned about drug dealers, it's that they really enjoy giving away their product for free -- nm - ML Oct 20, 15:48 3
  - especially to people that have no money. -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 16:06 1
    - no see then they're hooked! and it'll be easy for them to find more because children know where every single piece of candy came from. -- nm - mafic Oct 20, 16:15
  - Reminds me of the razor blade scares, when I was a kid -- nm - Flavorize Oct 20, 15:51
- No one, NO ONE, is giving away expensive drugs as treats to kids for Halloween. - TWuG Oct 20, 15:39 2
  - GOPers will do it just to say they told jus so -- nm - Beaker Oct 20, 15:46 1
    - you mean the ones who refused to wear a mask to protect their neighbors, coworkers and family, those guys just don't want to give candy to kids -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 20, 16:28
- It’s really a smuggling issue and not a Halloween issue—not like this was found in Halloween candy in vending machines or from stores…it’s at border - Flavorize Oct 20, 15:30 1
  - Yup. But the news will use it to scare parents, as always. -- nm - Krusty Oct 20, 15:32
- Dammit. And here I was hoping for a Cough Syrup Turkey for Thanksgiving. -- nm - Qale Oct 20, 15:30
- literally no greater incentive for all the addicts to muscle in on these kids' candy routes -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 20, 15:28
- *smh* -- nm - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 20, 15:21
The real money is in the followups to See. Like Hear. And Smell. -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 15:19 1
- Mmhmm. -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 20, 15:22 [Backboard]
Haaaa -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 20, 15:07 1
- oh boy . . . -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 20, 15:08
Re B2 and Andor. It’s not structured traditionally. It’s actually four movies. - Volnelk Oct 20, 15:04
Oh, hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Vox Day was behind the Rabid Puppies attempt to game the Hugo awards. Love that he got scammed hard. -- (link) - TWuG Oct 20, 14:34 2
- Just saw this. Think of the artistry we've lost out on. -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 14:36 1
  - Given how abusive he and his fans are with the Puppies and Gamergate, we've probably lost a fair bit of really - TWuG Oct 20, 14:42
oh no...the son of Kevin Nash passes away at 26 -- (link) - Remlik Oct 20, 14:29 3
- oh man at that age it's always a bad cause. -- nm - loosilu Oct 20, 16:10
- jeez. 26.. -- nm - Jovian Oct 20, 14:36
- On Scott Hall’s birthday. Indescribably cruel. -- nm - The Allfather Oct 20, 14:32
DTL: Let's Go!! Starkville in a laugher 84-54 to reach their first finals (in nDTL, I believe I had 1 finals run/loss in the old game) -- nm - rollo Oct 20, 14:20 10
- Rematch of an exhibition game -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 20, 14:43
- In bizarre results, we shot 23% (9/39) in the second half of our game and increased our lead by 6 points. -- nm - Barynn Oct 20, 14:32
- YEAH! Coin flip for glory! -- nm - The Allfather Oct 20, 14:32 4
  - Exactly -- nm - rollo Oct 20, 14:33 3
    - Are you better than them? -- nm - The Allfather Oct 20, 14:39 2
      - Opponent is Fargo Towers, a notably strong program that finishes in the top-10 about half the time. As it happens, they were our G1 opponent this year - rollo Oct 20, 14:45 1
        
        give 'em hell -- nm - prayformojo Oct 20, 14:47
- *another octopus on the floor* - spamlet Oct 20, 14:25 1
  - I'm already in gravy territory with this band of unlikely heroes. That said, I love winning so let's have 1 more please. -- nm - rollo Oct 20, 14:26
- Philly lost so too bad for my boy but it also avoids a bittersweet finals -- nm - rollo Oct 20, 14:22
For More Mankind poll: what counterfactual scenario should Apple make the next, better show around? ("the Confederacy won" is not a valid option) - hollywood big shot Oct 20, 14:15 31
- Martin Luther died at a young age -- nm - ML Oct 20, 15:58 1
  - nice to see you, your honor! -- nm - loosilu Oct 20, 16:12
- I would love to see Apple adapt The Difference Engine, by William Gibson. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 20, 15:37 5
  - *reads the first paragraph of the wiki summary* that's some wild shit -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 20, 15:41 3
    - Someone should write a sequel set in the near future of Hollywood movies populated by deepfakes and holograms, called The Indifference Machine. -- nm - Max Oct 20, 15:54 2
      - i think the next stage is direct cortical projection - hollywood big shot Oct 20, 16:06 1
        
        like virtual Smell-o-vision. -- nm - Max Oct 20, 16:09
  - Looking forward to The Peripheral tomorrow -- nm - Beryllium Oct 20, 15:40
- Han shot first -- nm - peglegpete Oct 20, 15:32
- Penicillin and other antibiotics were never discovered -- nm - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 20, 15:21
- IIRC there's a series of novels about what if the Black Plague was better at its job and killed off 99% of Europe - Reagen Oct 20, 15:18 1
  - renaissance and age of enlightenment would have worked too, if they could have just left the religious bits behind -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 20, 15:29
- The Spanish Armada controls the Atlantic >1600 and colonizes west from the North American coast and North from Mexico until they border the French. -- nm - Max Oct 20, 15:06 1
  - nobody expects the Spanish conquisition -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 20, 15:09
- the supersmart shark from Deep Blue Sea is leading a war against surface people for desecrating the oceans -- nm - peglegpete Oct 20, 14:58
- Elian Gonzalez is allowed to stay. - Will Hunting Oct 20, 14:57 2
  - or Florida is just allowed to finish its recount -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 20, 15:02
  - I like this. Very well done, Will. Because of one little boy, we went to war with Saddam Hussein -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 15:01
- at the end of the SEA - NE Super Bowl, they hand the ball to Marshawn instead of having Russell pass -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 14:47
- Cro Magnon and Neanderthal lines never died out. -- nm - TWuG Oct 20, 14:44 1
  - also called Canada - hollywood big shot Oct 20, 14:48
- That’s called “Canada”. -- nm - Mop Oct 20, 14:40
- no WW I is an interesting one (empires continue into the 21stC), but I feel like that clash was inevitable. -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 14:34 3
  - Titanic doesn't sink and JJAstor takes down Wilson in the 1916 election (also JCAME never makes Titanic) -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 20, 14:49
  - Romans develop steam power instead of dismissing it as a toy. -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 14:36 1
    - IIRC, they had wet cell batteries, too. -- nm - TWuG Oct 20, 14:43
- Electric won instead of ICE -- nm - Beryllium Oct 20, 14:31 1
  - (In the late 1800s / early 1900s, I mean) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 20, 14:32
- A scenario where mankind doesn't suck. Like, no far-right in the XXIth Century. (NM) - Marlowe Oct 20, 14:28
- Well considering The Man in the High Castle was one of the darkest most disturbing alternate earth series ever. Id tone it down a bit and go with - Jovian Oct 20, 14:17
- China doesn't burn its fleets, discovers the West Coast of America. -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 14:17
federal appeals court: Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) must appear before a grand jury -- (link) - mud Oct 20, 14:13 3
- more -- (link) - mud Oct 20, 14:28
- so only one more stop for Graham on this? Scotus? -- nm - Jovian Oct 20, 14:15 1
  - nah, they'd take a pass -- nm - mud Oct 20, 14:18
Is Expedia the best for picking flights? Do you have something you like more? -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 14:06 14
- I use expedia -- nm - rollo Oct 20, 14:24 4
  - on my quick check, the prices are equally stupid on both sites -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 14:32 3
    - i ordered xmas tix back east over a month ago and they were already bad -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 20, 15:10 2
      - I'm more irritated that Boise to Phoenix is reasonable but Boise to Yuma is insane -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 15:15 1
        
        the 3:15 to Yuma? -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 20, 15:16
- Thanks everyone! -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 14:22
- I pick them on there and then book directly with the airline. -- nm - Meg Oct 20, 14:14
- I find that walking up to someone and spitting on their shoe works best. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 20, 14:10
- Google Flights -- nm - Roger More Oct 20, 14:07 5
  - This. It aggregates the best prices. -- nm - Mop Oct 20, 14:40
  - This is the way -- nm - The Mandalorian Oct 20, 14:16 1
    - it is known. -- nm - mafic Oct 20, 16:18
  - This -- nm - spamlet Oct 20, 14:12
  - Yup. -- nm - MDH Oct 20, 14:07
Movie idea: Will Forte as the before serum; Charlie Cod as the after-serum in a superhero movie. - Will Hunting Oct 20, 14:03 4
- Charlie Tuna? -- nm - Spawn Oct 20, 16:12
- Will Forte doesn't look like a fish though. More like, I dunno, a turtle? -- nm - Roger More Oct 20, 14:07
- "This is what happens when Forte makes it to Nebraska" -- nm - Beryllium Oct 20, 14:04 1
  - (Deadwood / Daredevil crossover!) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 20, 14:30
The Fantasy Football Kingpin - He's the commissioner of 17 leagues, ruling well over 100 players, mostly strangers. Over the years—striking deals - JD Oct 20, 14:01 1
- (No, it's not me.) -- nm - David Oct 20, 14:02
fun with stats -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 20, 13:42 1
- Lol -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 20, 13:43
Wait, what was the worst sexual related impact today? -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 20, 13:35 3
- Humping of desk complete with noises. -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 14:16
- right? he's burying the lead -- nm - St. Epiphany Oct 20, 13:44 1
  - "Austin and I bury the lead sometimes." -- nm - Max Oct 20, 13:45
it's probably too late if you've already downloaded the app but seriously TikTok is just Chinese spyware y'all -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 20, 13:35 4
- I'm not sure why I should care, honestly. -- nm - Qale Oct 20, 15:20
- so if we are no use to the Chinese Government, we are good? -- (edited) - St. Epiphany Oct 20, 13:47
- Pretty sure this was known from the start and people just ignored all the warnings. -- nm - Krusty Oct 20, 13:40
- Like they knew -- nm - Mr Robot Oct 20, 13:37
the depths of my impostor syndrome know no bounds! -- nm - Tim Oct 20, 13:26 2
- "Oh, like you're important enough to have real imposter syndrome." -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 13:28 1
  - heh -- nm - prayformojo Oct 20, 13:39
jury: Kevin Spacey not liable -- (link) - mud Oct 20, 13:23 2
- Also not likable -- nm - rollo Oct 20, 14:34
- That's so gross. -- nm - David Oct 20, 14:02
That Atomic Homefront documentary I mentioned yesterday is also on YT for anyone interested -- (link) - spamlet Oct 20, 13:19 [youtube] 2
- It's well worth the watch. Here's the brief discussion that spam and I had when I watched it during quarantine -- (link) - JD Oct 20, 13:23 [Backboard] 1
  - That daughter I coached was just named homecoming queen! - spamlet Oct 20, 13:29
Yes, Sam jumped into Al once. -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 13:13 3
- The character Magic in the new show is a grown version of the same character Sam leaped into in the original. I think the comment meant there is a - TWuG Oct 20, 13:14 2
  - Spoils - Beryllium Oct 20, 13:22
  - spoiler for last episode - Remlik Oct 20, 13:19
Boris Johnson announced his resignation on July 7, and Truss was selected 60 days later as his replacement. - Reagen Oct 20, 13:12 1
- scaramouche, scaramouche -- nm - loosilu Oct 20, 16:10
zoom zoom -- nm - oblique Oct 20, 13:08

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