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Rumoer: Adam Driver has met with Marvel about a Fantastic Four role.... -- (link) - Remlik Oct 21, 17:35 2
- But... he's in Star Wars. -- nm - Mop Oct 21, 17:37 1
  - Ah, to be a hot young villain. -- nm - con_carne Oct 21, 17:38
Could someone BE any closer to death? -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 21, 17:20
"I remember once in high school the umpire called me out at third base when I was sure I was safe. I got so mad... - Beryllium Oct 21, 17:16
Tár / Triangle of Sadness double feature is quite the swing -- nm - budice Oct 21, 16:55 3
- No idea when Tár will show up here, but I intend to watch ToS next week as part of a triple feature. - Marlowe Oct 21, 17:20 2
  - going to see Tar tonight. I don’t always agree with Glenn Kenny but he’s right about Lanthimos so I trust that he’s probably got a bead on Ostlund -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Oct 21, 17:27 1
    - I know I have been able to appreciate Lanthimos in the past, but never Östlund. Still, I'm generally willing to keep trying. (NM) - Marlowe Oct 21, 17:35
Canadians about to elect Pierre Poilievre PM have fun laugh over Liz Truss debacle -- (link) - Beaker Oct 21, 16:46
As We See It canceled after 1 season by Amazon Prime Video -- nm - Beaker Oct 21, 16:39 5
- Short-lived series spin-off to Now You See Me. -- nm - Mop Oct 21, 16:40 2
  - Now that was a movie series that went 1 1/2 movies too long. -- nm - Barynn Oct 21, 16:42 1
    - There's a 3rd one on the way! -- nm - Mop Oct 21, 17:36
- ‘The Rookie: Feds’ Scores Full-Season Pickup at ABC -- nm - Beaker Oct 21, 16:40 1
  - ‘P-Valley’ Renewed for Season 3 at Starz -- nm - Beaker Oct 21, 16:41
Alternate outfit was created for Kyle MacLachlan in David Lynch’s Dune -- (link*) - budice Oct 21, 16:16 1
- Don't seem terribly practical for a place where sand gets in everything -- nm - Barynn Oct 21, 16:41
Broncos QB Russell Wilson a 'game-time' decision against Jets -- nm - Beaker Oct 21, 15:54 1
- "If it were up to me, he'd retire" -- nm - Broncos fans Oct 21, 16:10
One of my favorite pieces of John Denver trivia is that right before he went solo, he was in a folk trio named "Denver, Boise, and Johnson" - crash davis Oct 21, 15:43 4
- "C'mon... just change your name to Jackson." "Nope." "That's it, I'm out!" -- nm - Mop Oct 21, 16:39 1
  - That would have been easy. To have a truly connected trio, he should have changed his name to Cheyenne -- nm - crash davis Oct 21, 17:02
- How much John Denver trivia do you have? -- nm - David Oct 21, 16:12 1
  - a bit -- nm - crash davis Oct 21, 16:57
do you know how easy it would have been for James Corden to not double down on being a supreme dick restaurant diner? -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 21, 15:42 1
- Extorting free drinks by threats of a bad review is a crime. -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 21, 15:49
Survivor spoilers: - Beaker Oct 21, 15:08
there are 4 regions in West Virigina that will give people up to $20k to move there. interesting. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 21, 15:02 11
- This is a Fallout 76 trick. It’s The Forest, Ash Heap, The Mire and The Cranberry Bog! -- nm - Qale Oct 21, 17:53
- This seems appealing to anyone who can world-from-home, just not those pinkos from California! -- nm - Mop Oct 21, 16:30
- Just don’t take a wrong turn. -- nm - Dano Oct 21, 15:59 2
  - Oh, you learned to knit during quarantine? I uh, watched all the Phantasm and Wrong Turn movies -- nm - JD Oct 21, 16:02
  - what could go wrong? -- nm - Beaker Oct 21, 16:00
- if there was a way to game this offer to (1) bankrupt the state; and (2) shift the statewide vote to Dems, it's actually a lovely state by and large -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 21, 15:12 2
  - Almost heaven....Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River -- nm - JD Oct 21, 15:15 1
    - from a man who'd rather live in Aspen, Colorado -- nm - crash davis Oct 21, 15:37
- Country roads, take me home -- nm - JD Oct 21, 15:08
- Id rather have to attend maga rallies for the rest of my life. -- nm - Jovian Oct 21, 15:03
- Narrator: there was likely a very good reason for this -- nm - Beaker Oct 21, 15:03
If antisemitism is allowed like this on twitter now, god only knows how bad it will be when the bro billionaire runs it. - Jovian Oct 21, 14:56 8
- OJ Simpson, not a Jew -- nm - con_carne Oct 21, 16:09
- Crazy theory I saw today - Musk's Twitter behaviour is so he'll be considered a security risk, and prevent the sale of Twitter. - Roger More Oct 21, 15:42 3
  - No, don't, stop. -- nm - Willy Wonka Oct 21, 15:48
  - But... shot -- (link) - Roger More Oct 21, 15:43 1
    - Chaser -- (link) - Roger More Oct 21, 15:44
- someone point out to him that he could own Snapchat at a fraction of the $44b Twitter price -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 21, 15:16
- I thought this was going to be Kanye's Adidas statement... -- nm - Beaker Oct 21, 15:00 1
  - nah, just Mastriano's 'campaign advisor' -- nm - Jovian Oct 21, 15:03
The Premier of Alberta is a legit crazy person, Vol. the 65th -- (link) - Reagen Oct 21, 14:49 1
- I assume this is all bluster and she won't actually follow through on any of this shit? - Mop Oct 21, 16:34
Bucket list: Man who died after enjoying Disney ride was 'in his happy place,' wife says - JD Oct 21, 14:45 2
- Kim told me that she thought I'd either PeopleMover or Spaceship Earth. -- nm - David Oct 21, 14:46 1
  - Me=Slinky Dog -- nm - prayformojo Oct 21, 14:58
"There is only one smartest dog in the world. Everyone has it." -- nm - crash davis Oct 21, 14:40 2
- Oh I've had some real moron dogs. -- nm - Reagen Oct 21, 14:44 1
  - Indeed. They're all good boys but smartest? 😆 -- nm - JD Oct 21, 15:17
I wonder if anyone's ever resigned in disgrace twice in the same year from the same job -- (link) - Reagen Oct 21, 14:40 7
- Fuck you guys. You're out! -- nm - Chuck 3 Oct 21, 16:32
- Maybe Billy Martin? -- nm - David Oct 21, 14:50
- I mean, honestly, if they brought him back they'd deserve it. -- nm - spamlet Oct 21, 14:49
- - -- nm* - Reagen Oct 21, 14:44 2
  - - -- nm* - Beryllium Oct 21, 14:44 1
    - Quiet you -- nm - Reagen Oct 21, 14:44
- Groundhog Day but with fascist dipshits -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 21, 14:41
Graham desperate not to appear. Appeals to SCOTUS - Jovian Oct 21, 14:38
GOT: House of Dragon finale has leaked.... -- (link) - Remlik Oct 21, 14:36 2
- people realize it is based on a book right? like I finished it a couple days ago... -- nm - Beaker Oct 21, 14:51 1
  - wasn't this also covered in the history & lore animation on the GOT full season dvd releases? -- nm - peglegpete Oct 21, 14:57
Halloween Ends Pitch Meeting -- (link) - Beaker Oct 21, 14:36 [youtube]
Curling news! US team objecting to association CEO as he failed to address sexual assault issues when he led the Women's Pro Soccer league -- (link) - zeitgeist Oct 21, 14:34 1
- why don't we start with the US sport assn's that didn't hire rapey head coaches and executives -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 21, 14:37
DTL Coin flip: Tails never fails, improbable Starkville nets title -- nm - rollo Oct 21, 14:25 7
- Congratulations! -- nm - Dano Oct 21, 14:49
- YEAH!!! -- nm - David Oct 21, 14:47 2
  - (Would you have wanted to win if it'd been your son as the opponent?) -- nm - David Oct 21, 14:48 1
    - Moreso. -- nm - rollo si Oct 21, 14:50
- Nice! -- nm - JD Oct 21, 14:35
- Woooohooooooo! -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 21, 14:30
- CONGRATULATIONS! *iMessage streamers and ballons* -- nm - spamlet Oct 21, 14:26
8G phones! 6 billion manufactured! -- (link) - Reagen Oct 21, 14:14 10
- Following the replies led me to the medbed. -- (link) - Dano Oct 21, 14:48 4
  - That's pretty epic - JD Oct 21, 15:25 3
    - They don’t even send you anything -- nm - Dano Oct 21, 16:30 2
      - For those who insist on fungible items, it looks like they sell water on a related site -- (link) - JD Oct 21, 16:53 1
        
        But I think the really shameless one is that they sell a MasterFunction 'upgrade' - JD Oct 21, 16:56
- This is straight up taken from the villain's plot in the first Kingsman movie -- nm - Roger More Oct 21, 14:31
- So *that’s* why the elves were kidnapping all those people! -- nm - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 21, 14:30
- Do you ever feel like *we're* the idiots for believing that anyone actually believes in this lunacy?? - Fuzzy Oct 21, 14:28
- Getting Steve Jobs to design it was really a coup. -- nm - spamlet Oct 21, 14:25
- "....and is truly alive" -- nm - prayformojo Oct 21, 14:16
This week's episode of 99 Percent Invisible is on the Walk of Fame and is by Community's Gillian Jacobs with a guest appearance by a famous director -- (link) - Mop Oct 21, 14:06 4
- Trivia: In what decade was the Walk of Fame established? - Mop Oct 21, 14:08 3
  - 50s -- nm - psilotum Oct 21, 14:21 2
    - Established in 1958. First stars in 1960. -- nm - Mop Oct 21, 14:25 1
      - WoooohoooO! -- nm - psilotum Oct 25, 22:23
Today, “Ich bein ein Cephalapod.” -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 21, 14:06 5
- In my L31 conference, there is an E- local E scouted +8. -- (edited) - spamlet Oct 21, 14:10 4
  - What's the recruit W3/12? - Will Hunting Oct 21, 14:13 3
    - It's only game 3 so don't know yet. -- nm - spamlet Oct 21, 14:16 2
      - uhhh....on, the other league. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 21, 14:19 1
        
        First class wasn't terrible but not great. 97/126 by books but 768 ranked it in the 50s. - spamlet Oct 21, 14:24
*sigh* I opened the ticket with you. Why are you contacting me asking how to fix it? -- nm - Dano Oct 21, 13:55 2
- I'm bad at this. Wanted to be clown. Mom said Uncle Jim would get me a respectable job. -- nm - VMan Oct 21, 14:12
- because you are busy writing fiction? -- nm - crash davis Oct 21, 14:00
Starts writing Jimmy Garoppolo/Christian McCaffrey slash fiction. -- nm - Dano Oct 21, 13:54 1
- There they were, both stuck on IR again... -- nm - David Oct 21, 14:48
So, there have been protests over a transgender teacher wearing prosthetic breasts in class in a Toronto suburb. My immediate response was 'seriously?" but then -- (edited) - Andie Oct 21, 13:27 4
- I have heard but not confirmed that the teacher is a right wing anti trans troll. -- nm - Reagen Oct 21, 13:31 3
  - That would track, yeah. -- nm - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 21, 14:37
  - super. -- nm - Andie Oct 21, 13:33
  - i wish these things were a new low but the Christian Right has been running this playbook in varying degrees since the Red Scare, and it keeps working -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 21, 13:33
(sitwap) .. ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS! -- (link) - mud Oct 21, 13:24
SCOTUS denied American Samoans birthright citizenship despite most all other possessions having it. -- (link*) - zeitgeist Oct 21, 13:13 1
- Do you want The Rock to run for President? Because this is how you get The Rock to run for President. - Beryllium Oct 21, 13:18
Reagen just linked a niche company whose site I always love perusing. One day, I shall get myself this -- (link) - crash davis Oct 21, 13:08 3
- What does number 3 represent, if anything? -- nm - psilotum Oct 21, 13:10 2
  - What class citizens the wearers of those jerseys were treated as. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 21, 13:12
  - I honestly don't know. -- nm - crash davis Oct 21, 13:12
QB Dak Prescott (thumb) is officially cleared and off the injury report. He will play -- (link*) - decline Oct 21, 12:59
Steve Kornacki has the first midterm results in from LA on the big board -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 21, 12:53 3
- West Hollywood the only place correct. -- nm - MDH Oct 21, 13:09 1
  - Rufus Wainwright showed up at her show at the Greek to sing their duet and reader it broke the gay meter -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Oct 21, 13:42
- Com3 on, it's not like the Artic Monkeys are People's Socialists who get less write in votes than Boaty McBoatface -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 21, 12:59
The NHL reverse retro uniforms. Would you be happy with one from your team? -- (link) - crash davis Oct 21, 12:53 20
- The Red Wings ones are…fine? The Blues ones are fire though. - spamlet Oct 21, 13:25
- Canucks? Yes. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 21, 13:23 2
  - That one's awesome. Wait... is that NFB Log Drivers? -- nm - Mop Oct 21, 14:28 1
    - I'm a lumberjack and that's ok. -- nm - gort Oct 21, 17:56
- I am upset with San Jose. they should have used the images related to the year they merged with the Cleveland Barons -- (pic) -- (link*) - peglegpete Oct 21, 13:13 [Attachment] 1
  - the monocle on the shark is a nice touch -- nm - crash davis Oct 21, 13:18
- I love that Capitals logo ; it was my favorite so hell yes. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 21, 12:57 1
  - the logo is kind of cool -- nm - crash davis Oct 21, 12:59
- Me, surprisingly no. There isn't any retro for them to work with -- nm - crash davis Oct 21, 12:54 11
  - They could have done something with this -- (link) - Reagen Oct 21, 13:01 10
    - steal the old Mariner's 70s style -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 21, 13:25 4
      - The one good thing the Astros did was claim the worst uniforms of the 70s so no one else looks as bad -- nm - crash davis Oct 21, 13:26 3
        
        compared to the boring shit today? the rainbow SLAPS -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 21, 13:27 2
        
        You have Mork & Mindy suspenders, don't you? -- nm - crash davis Oct 21, 13:33 1
        
        no but i did always want his striped puffy vest -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 21, 13:36
    - A bit of a stretch, but... -- (link) - psilotum Oct 21, 13:09 2
      - they could have made it a little more Ironmen-ish, imo. What I'm waiting for is a take like that on the Totems -- nm - crash davis Oct 21, 13:23 1
        
        specifically this -- (link) - crash davis Oct 21, 13:24 [Image]
    - Indeed, but it would take some design work so you don't see it and immediately think "Christmas elf". - crash davis Oct 21, 13:03 1
      - The letter placement is like we're playing the Jumble. -- nm - Reagen Oct 21, 13:04
Pfizer will charge $110 to $130 for a dose of its COVID-19 vaccine once the U.S. government stops buying the shots -- (link) - decline Oct 21, 12:50 8
- people will stop all together getting it at that price point - St. Epiphany Oct 21, 12:56 7
  - I assume insurance will pay for it, like they pay for my flu shot? -- nm - Mop Oct 21, 14:35
  - they're not getting the free shots as it is -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 21, 14:10
  - That's the pre-insurance price so those with insurance (or Medicaid/Medicare) would get it cheaper. Not sure if things like GoodRX would work for w/o. -- nm - spamlet Oct 21, 13:47 3
    - medicare covers flu shots so we should be good, 1,000s covid shots are cheaper than 3 weeks of ICU and post care so insurance should cover it too -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 21, 13:53 2
      - I would expect coverage to be mandated as preventative care -- nm - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 21, 14:11 1
        
        It'll be covered just like flu shots are (and they can cost that same amount without insurance). -- nm - Dark Callisto Oct 21, 14:14
  - I'm guessing it's a ploy to keep govmint funds coming because CDC wants to keep it down -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 21, 13:01
Also, it's the new Cleopatrick today where it's at. -- nm - Reagen Oct 21, 12:50 1
- I didn't see that. Will check it out. -- nm - Dano Oct 21, 12:52

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