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Black Adam estimated at $67 million according to Pinocchio and WB. -- nm - The Allfather Oct 23, 09:23
This is Insanity -- (link) - Kellyanne Scrabblestats Oct 23, 08:58 12
- we're just destined to run through this shit every 80 years forever, huh? -- nm - Reagen Oct 23, 09:29 2
  - 3rd generation issues. No one remembers the older generation that lived through WWII now. -- nm - spamlet Oct 23, 09:57
  - I think it's been going steady for 100 or 2000 years -- nm - mud Oct 23, 09:33
- Saw that earlier and couldn't believe it. And kinda *could* believe it which scared me even more. - ty97 Oct 23, 09:28
- and of course the f'ers are wearing masks -- nm - prayformojo Oct 23, 09:26
- this 'Goyim Defense League' been on a tear lately. Here at Auschwitz: -- (link) - mud Oct 23, 09:22
- Good luck to 22nd century Ken Burns trying to explain this era. And the teachers trying to deal with kids who don't believe it. -- nm - Max Oct 23, 09:17
- Remember, it's worth the charge to punch a Nazi. -- nm - Qale Oct 23, 09:16
- I guess when the NYT said Ye was running out of platforms, they forgot the freeway signs. -- nm - crash davis Oct 23, 09:15
- Gotten to the point where people can be brainwashed/hypnotized by any nonsense they see…to see his rants, then to agree and make a sign…then spend all - Flavorize Oct 23, 09:14
- goddammit -- nm - prayformojo Oct 23, 09:07
- Ho-Ly... -- nm - VMan Oct 23, 08:59
Wordle 6/6 - ReluctantCynic Oct 23, 08:50
Lenny Lipton, ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ Lyricist and 3-D Film Pioneer, 82, Dies - crash davis Oct 23, 08:35
Why Am I Seeing That Political Ad? Check Your ‘Trump Resistance’ Score. - crash davis Oct 23, 08:24
E.V.s Start With a Bigger Carbon Footprint. But That Doesn’t Last. - crash davis Oct 23, 08:05
World War II Shipwreck Leaks Pollutants Into North Sea, Study Finds - crash davis Oct 23, 07:56
Abrams made a special appearance last night at a Latto concert here in ATL. -- (link) - Strongbad Oct 23, 07:54
Just a reminder of the danger -- (edited) - Jovian Oct 23, 07:53
probably the fastest I've gotten a Letter Boxed solution -- (pic) - prayformojo Oct 23, 07:50 [Attachment]
So I want a letter of marque from the US Treasury, contacts with Interpol and the CIA, and to assemble an elite team to pirate superyachts. Who's in? - crash davis Oct 23, 07:50 14
- Don’t steal my ideas, Crash. - The Allfather Oct 23, 09:21
- sure I am in, as long as I get 4 days off every 11 days. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 23, 08:02 12
  - Okay, I've got tRuMaN, Olga Korbut, and the little girl with the katana from TikTok...who else is in? - crash davis Oct 23, 08:08 11
    - I'm in, as long as I get to be the Fixer of the group. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 23, 08:23 10
      - Are you talking Control or Ops? -- nm - crash davis Oct 23, 08:25 9
        
        Control, please. - ReluctantCynic Oct 23, 08:31 8
        
        Yes, but it has to be something cool. I'm thinking of personally going retro with the Mauser C96 -- (link) - crash davis Oct 23, 08:37 7
        
        I'm gonna go with the Sig Sauer P322. - ReluctantCynic Oct 23, 08:43 6
        
        i have a slightly used slingshot. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 23, 08:44 5
        
        And that's all you've qualified for. -- (edited) - ReluctantCynic Oct 23, 08:45 4
        
        tru doesn't care, he just knows that Control gets all the tech they want and gets to game during downtime -- nm - crash davis Oct 23, 08:50 3
        
        The idea of tRuMaN brandishing any sort of firearm fills me with a special sort of existential dread. - ReluctantCynic Oct 23, 08:57 2
        
        can I have a pew pew finger gun? -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 23, 09:13 1
        
        As long as you demonstrate proper trigger discipline -- to crash's satisfaction, not mine. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 23, 09:19
DTL: You have a scrimmage request -- nm - rollo Oct 23, 07:43
Hmm, I get my Xbox back today. Supposedly it works again, maybe I can play again - tRuMaN Oct 23, 07:33
‘We Heard It, We Saw It, Then We Opened Fire’ - crash davis Oct 23, 07:24 5
- Russian Superyachts Find Safe Haven in Turkey, Raising Concerns in Washington - crash davis Oct 23, 07:34 4
  - Iran slams calls for investigation into drone deals with Russia. - crash davis Oct 23, 07:35 3
    - Russian-installed authorities tell civilians to ‘immediately’ leave Kherson, a key southern city. - crash davis Oct 23, 07:37 2
      - A Russian fighter jet crashes into a home in Siberia, killing the two pilots. - crash davis Oct 23, 07:40 1
        
        Russian attacks are seen as an attempt to stretch Ukraine’s resources. - crash davis Oct 23, 07:44
Hadn't heard this. He's on the mend, but Teller (of Penn and) had quadruple bypass surgery earlier this month. -- (link) - TWuG Oct 23, 07:19
2 years ago today, ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ premiered on Netflix. -- (link) - budice Oct 23, 07:09
Framed: 5/6. Moviedle: 1/6. Actorle: 1/8. - Marlowe Oct 23, 07:01
Good morning. Spelling Bee. -- (pic) - prayformojo Oct 23, 06:55 [Attachment] 2
- Listening to the Alaskan senate debate was very PALINFUL. -- nm - Reagen Oct 23, 08:44
- LUPINFALL - Dennis Moore's family estate -- nm - VMan Oct 23, 07:23
While the Jets aren't the favorite today they are being picked to win by 67% of people in the Yahoo pick 'em leagues. I don't remember the last time -- (edited) - Krusty Oct 23, 06:49
Waffle 5/5 - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 23, 06:39
Carolina Panthers rejected offer of two 1st-round picks for Brian Burns -- (link) - Beaker Oct 23, 05:57 2
- Lions RB D'Andre Swift not expected to play vs. Cowboys -- nm - Beaker Oct 23, 05:57 1
  - 49ers likely to have Christian McCaffrey vs. Chiefs -- nm - Beaker Oct 23, 05:58
man, they are desperately trying to spin Black Adam opening at $60 Million as a good thing rather than a massive failure -- nm - Beaker Oct 23, 05:50 9
- The Rock is so fetch -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 23, 08:27
- What I noticed is that the theater by me didn’t schedule any showings before noon over the weekend - tRuMaN Oct 23, 07:37
- The only $100 HSX stocks between now and year end are Wakanda and Avatar 2 (Strange World barely at $100) -- nm - budice Oct 23, 06:36
- (although seeing $65-$67 thrown out on HSX after a 23.5-24 Saturday) -- nm* - Beaker Oct 23, 05:53 1
  - I mean still “slightly better than Jumanji 2” probably isn’t what you want from a $200 million movie. -- nm - mafic Oct 23, 06:09
- 40% at RT (85/127) -- nm - Beaker Oct 23, 05:51 3
  - that's critic score. 90% audience score. I haven't seen it yet -- nm - Remlik Oct 23, 08:21 2
    - B Cinemascore. It’s a dud. -- nm - The Allfather Oct 23, 09:22 1
      - It's so weird that people are picking this movie to be "critics are out of touch!" - Reagen Oct 23, 09:31
Found the perfect advent calendar. -- (pic) -- (edited) - Volnelk Oct 23, 05:30 [Attachment] 1
- and shouldn’t the numbers be going the other way? -- nm - mafic Oct 23, 05:46
Wordle 491 6/6 - decline Oct 23, 04:56 2
- X/6 - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 23, 06:37
- 5/6 - mafic Oct 23, 05:24
Taylor Swift is going to have all 10 spots on the Billboard top 10 next week. If that doesn’t show it’s irrelevance nothing does. -- nm - MDH Oct 23, 04:55 3
- We tried to listen to it this morning on the way to the grocery store. It's so bad. -- nm - Kellyanne Scrabblestats Oct 23, 08:49
- Well that will finally push Heat Waves off the chart. -- nm - Tim Oct 23, 07:11
- she sold more than twice as many albums (LPs) as Harry Styles on her album release 400k+. I assume her CD sales will be in the millions -- nm - Beaker Oct 23, 05:42
TV PSA: NFL, MLB, Equalizer, Simpsons, Celebrity Jeopardy/Wheel of Fortune, Family Law, Great North, Bob's Burgers, Coroner, East NY, Family Guy, -- nm - Beaker Oct 23, 04:30 3
- Rookie, NCIS LA, Interview with the Vampire, SEAL Team, Walking Dead, Circus, Doctor Who special, Serpent Queen, Power Book III Raising Kanan, Annika -- nm - Beaker Oct 23, 04:33 2
  - House of the Dragon, War of the Worlds, Magpie Murders, Let the Right One In, Step Up, NBA, other stuff (Simpsons is Halloween of Horror) -- nm - Beaker Oct 23, 04:34 1
    - 3: NFL, Simpsons and will binge HOTD over Christmas when we get Crave for free for a month -- nm - Beaker Oct 23, 05:55
No big winners, next draw in Monday, pool closing time will be 2pm. -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 23, 02:47
Just after midnight Friday morning a 10-year-old and a 13-year-old caused an estimated $100,000 in damage to a brand new Kroger locally. - Ender Oct 23, 00:17 1
- Driving their kids to the Kroger? -- nm - psilotum Oct 23, 01:20
Testing ... muahaha - it's alive! -- nm - Beryllium Oct 22, 23:29 5
- It's not fully configured, and I'll probably turn it off overnight until I can get some known issues solved, but ... -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 22, 23:32 4
  - OK, turned it off for the night. Going to have to rewrite how the welcome message & news are handled. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 23, 00:28
  - It’s always fun to see this version when I’m on beta all the time. -- nm - Qale Oct 22, 23:48 2
    - I'll need to test it with that skin, too, at some point. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 22, 23:49 1
      - It’s my favorite, of course. -- nm - Qale Oct 22, 23:50
1/6 of the way through the movie Host and so far it's just trying to get 7 people on a zoom call. That's the real horror. -- nm - Ender Oct 22, 23:20 6
- They've been on the call for 23 minutes and they all just had to get up and go pee... -- nm - Ender Oct 22, 23:32 5
  - 37 minutes in and another one just went to the bathroom. -- nm - Ender Oct 22, 23:46 4
    - 65 minutes in and I'm going to the bathroom. -- nm - Ender Oct 23, 00:26 3
      - What were you doing for the other 15 minutes? -- nm - LMS Oct 23, 02:32 2
        
        Real answer, they tacked on video of the cast's real life seance, bringing the total runtime up to 65 minutes. Vz -- nm - Ender Oct 23, 03:32
        
        What happened in that 15 minutes is between me and my god. -- nm - Ender Oct 23, 03:07
Autotune just released a new album under the stage name "Carly Rae Jepsen". -- nm - Ender Oct 22, 22:44 1
- Strangely, they released a second album on the same day, but this time under the name "Taylor Swift". -- nm - Ender Oct 22, 23:04
My friend David had his id stolen - ty97 Oct 22, 22:20 1
- 👍 -- nm - crash davis Oct 23, 07:07
I have about 60 goody bags finished for the library's Halloween event. 40 left to go. Last year I did 75 and we ran out. -- nm - Meg Oct 22, 22:10
Oh, no -- (pic) - JD Oct 22, 22:03 [Attachment] 1
- LOL -- nm - Mop Oct 23, 01:11
Former President Trump still owes El Paso for 2019 rally (as he held another in Texas today.) - Qale Oct 22, 22:03 2
- I bet he owes a lot of these type fees all over the place -- nm - Epiphany Oct 22, 22:09 1
  - Price of doing business - Spawn Oct 22, 22:31
Ooh, a new Indian restaurant opened locally and they're just like Chipotle. (They even have burritos!) -- (pic) - Ender Oct 22, 21:42 [Attachment]
I'm not sold yet on the premise of The Peripheral, but I'm all in for Moretz. -- nm - Max Oct 22, 21:29 12
- This is correct -- nm - Jovian Oct 23, 07:42
- It was okay. I will continue. -- nm - Spawn Oct 22, 22:20
- The biggest problem I see, through one episode, is that she's only Moretz like 1/3 the time. -- nm - Ender Oct 22, 21:49 7
  - 2nd biggest problem: Ignoring that they couldn't possibly exist in 10 years, how would a hover vacuum work? Doesn't it need to touch the ground? -- nm - Ender Oct 22, 22:19 6
    - Two words: lasers -- nm - Max Oct 22, 23:19
    - I am not sure that it was hovering. It might have just been flying. (Notice the vents on top) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 22, 22:29 3
      - Well, flying would be more impressive... -- nm - Ender Oct 22, 22:34
      - And yes, I realize this raises many more questions about how it possibly cleans -- nm - Beryllium Oct 22, 22:32 1
        
        Breaks down dirt on an atomic level. - Spawn Oct 22, 22:36
    - Not if it sucks hard enough. - Spawn Oct 22, 22:24
- I watched the first two episodes twice in 24 hours. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 22, 21:37 1
  - Ok, that firefight in ep 2 is very cool. Also they used the word alacrity. -- nm* - Max Oct 22, 22:11
IMO, most wrestling moves are ill considered if your goal is to win the match. Most seem to hurt the one doing them as much as the opponent... -- nm - Ender Oct 22, 21:20 5
- This was cool, though. -- (link) - Tim Oct 22, 21:24 4
  - Meh, that’s closer to a botch. This, on the other hand… -- (link) - The Allfather Oct 22, 21:48 3
    - I’ve seen that a few times and have zero idea how that bump is taken safely. - Tim Oct 22, 21:55 2
      - Japanese wrestlers don't really do 'safe'. -- nm - Qale Oct 22, 22:09
      - It’s not. - Will Hunting Oct 22, 21:58
old news I missed, week 5 college football uniforms - Air Force honored Space Force with their uniform, I need to keep up on Space Force news -- (link) - crash davis Oct 22, 21:04 1
- $105 at Dick's Sporting goods for the jersey -- nm - peglegpete Oct 22, 21:08
kids, Euphoria is (bad) fiction -- (link) - hollywood big shot Oct 22, 21:02 1
- Yes, in reality Sydney Sweeney's nipples are only exposed like 18 hours a day. -- nm - Ender Oct 22, 21:17
Wordle 491 5/6 - that was a heck of a thing - prayformojo Oct 22, 21:02 3
- 5/6 - Marlowe Oct 23, 07:35
- 6/6 - TWuG Oct 23, 04:41
- 5 - 491. Yeah, they are getting brutal. - GregW Oct 23, 04:35
Hmm... The check engine light on my dashboard went out on its own. I guess that's good... -- nm - Ender Oct 22, 20:55 7
- Great! Now the “check engine” light is broken, too! -- nm - Mop Oct 22, 22:40 1
  - I'm legit gonna check that it lights up when I first start it tomorrow. -- nm - Ender Oct 22, 23:15
- Sometimes it’s just a gas cap not tightened properly -- nm - Epiphany Oct 22, 22:11 3
  - That's what they kept telling me about my Cherokee. Turned out to be a crack in the fuel line that opened up when I was off-road. -- nm - Meg Oct 22, 22:17 2
    - !!! You sent off road!!!? -- nm - Epiphany Oct 22, 22:20 1
      - cartel ain’t gonna run itself -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 22, 22:26
- Our escape has been doing this for a while. It finally coincided with a service appointment so they could check the code. - Beryllium Oct 22, 20:59
Let me get this straight, the 2nd Chance Tournament on Jeopardy has a sponsor, which the normal show doesn't, but they only give out $65,000 all week? - Ender Oct 22, 20:52
Beavers win 42-9. 6-2 record. Can we has Top 25 now? -- nm - Mop Oct 22, 20:44 6
- Against 1-6 Colorado??? -- nm - Ender Oct 22, 20:54
- two losses are problematic -- nm - crash davis Oct 22, 20:46 4
  - Yeah, give them top 40. -- nm - Spawn Oct 22, 20:48
  - but they were to top 20 teams, so possible -- nm - crash davis Oct 22, 20:48 2
    - Yeah, prior week's Top 25 had 5 2-loss teams in it -- nm - ty97 Oct 22, 20:52 1
      - but one of them was SEC and the other was Texas, both commodities that get overrated -- nm - crash davis Oct 22, 20:54
I'm late on this, like I'm late on everything, but I just finished season one of OMITB. I love this show. -- nm - crash davis Oct 22, 20:37
Blink 182...this isnt the 1st reunion. But Mark Hoppus cancer was a close close thing. so that's part of it. -- nm - Remlik Oct 22, 20:35 3
- I still think it's strange this is billed as a huge reunion after so long or something when it's literally only been 3 years. -- nm - Qale Oct 22, 22:11 2
  - Hasn't it been 7 years since they played with Tom DeLonge? That's the reunion, not just that they're touring again. He left to help id UFOs. -- nm - jnine Oct 23, 00:54
  - Full disclosure: I saw them about that long ago because they were an opening act. Very very good live. Super impressive - Epiphany Oct 22, 22:13
That's really enough. -- nm - ty97 Oct 22, 20:29

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