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STALKER POLL: A message for my Stalker - Dano Nov 22, 07:49 [Attachment] 2
- Not content to gaslight me with Wet Leg, Dano expands by adding the character Hubert Hurkacz to this mythical world. -- nm - crash davis Nov 22, 07:59 1
  - And I will do one of these tonight -- nm* - crash davis Nov 22, 08:04
Yeah, I am totally going Mexican for lunch today. Should be a fun atmosphere with the game on. -- nm - Strongbad Nov 22, 07:38 7
- Sir, this is a Wendy's. -- nm - con_carne Nov 22, 08:14 1
  - Does chili count? -- nm - Strongbad Nov 22, 09:16
- I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but during part of group play during World Cup 2010, I was in Mexico City for work. -- (edited) - ty97 Nov 22, 07:41 2
  - I'll be in Mexico City the week after next, so I'm really hoping they don't get eliminated -- nm* - Roger More Nov 22, 08:12
  - Sounds about right. -- nm - znufrii Nov 22, 07:46
- Taco Tuesday -- nm - Chef Slowik Nov 22, 07:40
- order Polish sausage -- nm - Beaker Nov 22, 07:40
Man is it really only 10:30? I feel like Ive been at work six hours already, not one. -- nm - Jovian Nov 22, 07:35
Independent Spirit Award Nominations - mud Nov 22, 07:32 2
- We got a bunch for Aftersun, I thought Bodies x3 might get a cinematography nom as it's probably not easy lighting that one. -- nm - LMS Nov 22, 07:43 1
  - cheers! -- nm - mud Nov 22, 07:52
Sheamus taking care of business on RAW -- (link) - budice Nov 22, 07:10 1
- That's not how you do the Heimlich! -- nm - Mop Nov 22, 07:16
10 years ago today...THE Butt Fumble -- (link) - Beaker Nov 22, 07:09 2
- The question: What are you doing to honor THE Butt Fumble? - Spawn Nov 22, 07:46
- Never ever gets old. -- nm - Sub-baroner Nov 22, 07:20
LYC: Live Oak Bank (my online bank) just bumped its savings rate to 3.10% -- nm - Sub-baroner Nov 22, 07:07 1
- Synchrony is now at 3.25% for High Yield Savings, 4.3% for 2-year CD -- nm - znufrii Nov 22, 07:11
Every NFL Fan's Reaction to Week 11 -- (link) - Beaker Nov 22, 07:02 [youtube] 1
- "second place, second place, second place" -- nm - Beaker Nov 22, 07:05
All that’ll be left of Twitter will be one man’s enormous ego and the sycophants tripping over themselves to prop it up. -- (link) - Beaker Nov 22, 06:49 1
- Ditto, the GOP -- nm - TWuG Nov 22, 06:53
Kosovo on verge of civil unrest over… *checks notes* license plates? -- (link*) - znufrii Nov 22, 06:44 2
- Give me OU812 or give me death! -- nm - Beaker Nov 22, 06:53
- Yes…but no. -- nm - spamlet Nov 22, 06:46
So, i went to my cousin's baby's christening on Sunday. it was not what i am used to. -- (edited) - Andie Nov 22, 06:41 18
- May he never taste cold steel at the hands of his enemies. -- nm - znufrii Nov 22, 07:49
- May the priest never be falsely accused of using the money from the collection plate to purchase pornography. -- nm* - Roger More Nov 22, 07:31
- I'm surprised they didn't bring out the Sorting Hat -- nm - LMS Nov 22, 07:21 3
  - The difficulty there is that the babies' personalities are so ill-formed that they all turn out Hufflepuff. -- nm - Sub-baroner Nov 22, 07:23 2
    - babies start as chaotic neutral -- nm - Beaker Nov 22, 07:46
    - 👍 -- nm - crash davis Nov 22, 07:43
- “If this baby is not related to Keanu Reeves, may he become the next one…Can I get a whoa?!” -- nm - Flavorize Nov 22, 07:18
- I've only been to baptisms where everyone repudiates Satan, which is fun. -- nm - loosilu Nov 22, 07:18 1
  - do you renounce Satan? yes (walks up and shoots some guy) and all his works? yes (kicks door in and machine guns two in bed) -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 22, 13:20
- ~Get to confessing / Get to confessing / It's raining blessings~ -- nm - Cantor Todrick Nov 22, 07:17
- Atheists are more likely to get in trouble with the law, Andie! FACT! -- nm - Mop Nov 22, 07:14
- ~May he never get a stitch for being a snitch.~ -- nm - crash davis Nov 22, 07:08
- "May he never know the touch of another man" seems like the next line that was cut... -- nm - Beaker Nov 22, 06:54
- ~knows what she wants to be~ -- nm - con_carne Nov 22, 06:52
- I was good up until the last line. We should see if we can come up with an alternate. -- (edited) - JD Nov 22, 06:49
- Wait, the priest made up that blessing and they didn't have a say? -- nm - decline Nov 22, 06:47 1
  - oh, they had no say, it was all pretty informal. Very 'in the moment.' -- nm* - Andie Nov 22, 06:50
- yeah, that's an *odd* blessing -- nm - prayformojo Nov 22, 06:43
Framed: 3/6. Moviedle: X/6. Actorle: 4/8. - Marlowe Nov 22, 06:29
Amazon Alexa on pace to lose $10B this year -- (link) - oblique Nov 22, 06:16 18
- a small price to pay for conning the rubes into willingly installing Big Brother surveillance in every room -- nm - hollywood big shot Nov 22, 06:49 1
  - you don't need that. wife and I discussing random stuff. I mention hockey sticks and she mentions long socks and boom they show up in an email ad from Costco -- nm* - Beaker Nov 22, 06:56
- They seem to be griping about server costs. My non-tech guy solution to this tech problem is that some bright person should figure a way that - crash davis Nov 22, 06:48
- The hardware sells at cost but the infrastructure is sinking them. - Mop Nov 22, 06:27
- I was reading this yesterday. A get rich path is to figure out how to monetize Alexa/Siri/Google voice commands. - JaxSean Nov 22, 06:25 13
  - Google’s the only one who can integrate their voice assistant into their core business since their core business is search. - Mop Nov 22, 06:31
  - Subscription comes to mind but a $5/mo subscription would require 166M subscribers to just break even. Alexa is a convenience feature, just a really - oblique Nov 22, 06:30 11
    - Alexa is getting super annoying with her suggestions and questions. Just do what I told you to do and leave off the rest - Epiphany Nov 22, 06:38 6
      - The 'By the ways' are really annoying -- nm* - decline Nov 22, 06:48 1
        
        yes, that is the best summation. -- nm - Epiphany Nov 22, 06:55
      - Did yours start saying "Voila!" recently? Ours did it a couple times after asking her to set a timer. "Voila! Your 10 minute timer is set" -- nm - oblique Nov 22, 06:40 2
        
        Sorry. Just trying something new. Don’t like it? I’ll stop. Bingo, bango! It’s done! -- nm - Alexa Nov 22, 06:49
        
        not Voila but it has added other words. she says hello and sometimes good morning. it is weird. -- nm - Epiphany Nov 22, 06:42
      - “Alexa, turn off. Nobody was talking to you.” -- nm - znufrii Nov 22, 06:38
    - Amazon should have some kind of subscription service that aggregates all their digital offerings. - Mop Nov 22, 06:34 3
      - As far as I know, you don't need to be a prime member to use Alexa. -- nm - oblique Nov 22, 06:36 2
        
        correct, i am not and we have an Alexa. -- nm* - Andie Nov 22, 06:41
        
        You don’t but that’s likely coming. -- nm - spamlet Nov 22, 06:38
Sandwich story, with a surprise ending -- (link) - Flavorize Nov 22, 06:14 3
- that’s been around for years. the poster hid this reply. nm but: -- (link) - i.b! Nov 22, 06:30 1
  - 🤣 -- nm - Flavorize Nov 22, 06:34
- So, the foot long got a happy ending? -- nm - zork Nov 22, 06:20
TV PSA: NBA, Voice, FBI x 3, Winchesters, Bachelor in Paradise, WWE NXT, Oak Island, New Amsterdam x 2, Rookie Feds, Chainsaw Man, Trevor Noah, -- nm - Beaker Nov 22, 05:30 8
- Welcome to Chippendales, Our Universe, Black Ink Crew, Queen Sugar, Below Deck Adventure, Professionals, Bryant Gumbel, Behind Every Star, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Nov 22, 05:32 2
  - New Amsterdam for the wife, Oak Island for me (we get it Sunday). Likely check out Our Universe too -- nm - Beaker Nov 22, 06:57
  - 1) Chippendales -- nm - Krusty Nov 22, 06:00
- What season is Oak Island? -- nm - decline Nov 22, 05:32 4
  - 10 I think -- nm - Beaker Nov 22, 05:33 3
    - I'm starting to have doubts they'll find any treasure -- nm - decline Nov 22, 05:37 2
      - Unless maybe friendship was the treasure all along. -- nm - Volnelk Nov 22, 05:41 1
        
        advertising revenue I think -- nm - Beaker Nov 22, 05:43
There are some really telling numbers in the GA run off poll -- (link) - decline Nov 22, 05:21 [mastodon] 1
- Yes, very telling -- nm - Diva Nov 22, 05:30
Budweiser will award all the beer it can’t sell in Qatar to the country of the winning team. -- (link) - znufrii Nov 22, 05:03 4
- They’ll just pull up in the streets randomly and start handing out cases? I hope Qatar wins. -- nm - Mop Nov 22, 05:47
- Good plan. The US team is the only one incentivized. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 22, 05:06 2
  - You've never had a south american macro brew, I take it. -- nm - colin Nov 22, 05:09 1
    - I don’t drink beer but given Bud is the #1 beer worldwide, clearly someone is drinking it. *looks around at yall* -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 22, 05:24
The heart-warming story behind Jack Grealish's goal celebration -- (link) - LMS Nov 22, 04:34
We're going to need a bigger bowl - man catches giant goldfish. -- (link) - LMS Nov 22, 04:31 1
- That looks.....fake. -- nm - Volnelk Nov 22, 04:48
WOW -- nm - Volnelk Nov 22, 04:19 9
- Sounds like some country has a real . . . *sunglass rip* . . . Messi on their hands -- nm - Horatio Cane Nov 22, 06:51
- We knew heads would roll after this game, we just didn't expect it to happen in Buenos Aires. -- nm - Mop Nov 22, 06:20
- 10 offsides calls? That seems like a lot. -- nm - Sub-baroner Nov 22, 05:55
- 25-1 underdog -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 22, 05:02
- *tears up his World Cup pool entry* -- nm - znufrii Nov 22, 04:52 2
  - holy shit, I picked them by mistake...I mean on purpose -- nm - Beaker Nov 22, 04:58 1
    - I was close to picking them after listening to Gary Lineker talk about the teams in the tournament. They've played very well of late and won the - Krusty Nov 22, 05:07
- Don't cry for me. -- nm - Strongbad Nov 22, 04:25
- They must have just gotten the wrong teams in that other rumor. -- nm - Dano Nov 22, 04:25
Good morning ST! And who's ready for another day of wondering what the billionaires are gonna do because they have slowly acquired everything you love -- nm - con_carne Nov 22, 04:11 4
- Milk us for money and then use that money to make our lives worse. Same as every day. -- nm - colin Nov 22, 05:16
- They’ve bought ST? Bery, how could you?! - znufrii Nov 22, 05:05 2
  - boats don't pay for themselves you know -- nm - Beaker Nov 22, 06:27 1
    - A Sailing Yacht? No. Sailing Yacht A. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 22, 07:37
Testing -- (link*) - Beryllium Nov 22, 00:11 [Attachment] 1
- Temporal incursion is complete. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 22, 00:14
Saw a TikTok where a book editor described the 1 book she regretted not publishing. She was changing jobs and afterwards couldn't remember the author. - Ender Nov 21, 23:48
It's okay to judge a book by its cover and synopsis, right? Because "Midnight, Water City" landed on my library ebook shelf and I am highly interested -- nm - Beryllium Nov 21, 23:18
Was making good progress on something and then it spat out a value so confusing that I had to go lay down. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 21, 22:27 4
- "5e3". -- nm - Beryllium Nov 21, 22:27 3
  - It was supposed to be an md5 hash, but no. Just "5e3". -- nm - Beryllium Nov 21, 22:28 2
    - Ah. Found out the cause. - Beryllium Nov 21, 23:26 1
      - “I’m a test, you idiot”? - spamlet Nov 22, 04:45
Watching Celebrity Antiques Road Trip, I forgotten how narrow English country roads were. - Meg Nov 21, 21:40 1
- Forgot to build the Intershire Highway System, that's all -- nm - con_carne Nov 22, 03:43
Waffle 4/5 - znufrii Nov 21, 21:28 2
- 1 - decline Nov 22, 04:59
- #waffle305 3/5 - prayformojo Nov 22, 04:25
Shanahan threw some major shade at the Rams in his presser "We already had the experience of traveling south and seeing a lot of red in stands - rollo Nov 21, 21:24 1
- how many rings does he have? -- nm - hollywood big shot Nov 21, 21:25
4/6 - znufrii Nov 21, 21:21 4
- 3/6 - Marlowe Nov 22, 06:35
- 3/6 (mad I didn't get it in 2) - oblique Nov 22, 06:31
- 3 - decline Nov 22, 04:57
- Wordle 521 3/6 - prayformojo Nov 22, 04:18
If i lived in Australia this is the only starting fluid I’d buy. -- (link) - spamlet Nov 21, 21:21 2
- here in the US they would call it "Start you M***** F***** POS" -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 21, 23:54
- Aussies tell it like it is ;) -- nm - Meg Nov 21, 21:41
Elon's lucky he doesn't have the Disney board to answer to -- (link) - hollywood big shot Nov 21, 21:17 1
- yeah. but look what has happened to Disney since friday. slightly NSFW -- (pic) -- (link*) - Peglegpete Nov 21, 21:41 [Attachment]
On the other hand, we grew up under such a self-aware nuclear sword of damocles they didn't even bother doing drills for it. -- nm - rollo Nov 21, 20:51 3
- duck and cover!! -- nm - Tim Nov 21, 21:11 1
  - we should deliver our supply of school desks to Ukraine because apparently they are great defense against mass shootings and nuclear blasts -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 21, 23:50
- by the 70s, "civil defense" was pointless anyway. there was never going to be survivors -- nm - hollywood big shot Nov 21, 21:01
WAP? When the security guard gets in the way -- (link) - zork Nov 21, 20:38 [youtube] 1
- get a bucket and a mop -- nm - colin Nov 22, 05:11
From B2, apparently an “After” prequel is in the works and yes, it’s called “Before.” -- nm - MDH Nov 21, 20:19
Right, well, email seems to be fixed now. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 21, 20:15 1
- I maaaay have tested this out on a former STer or two. Let's just pretend it was spammers trying to steal their accounts. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 21, 20:49
Marvel’s ‘Blade’ Finds New Director With ‘Lovecraft Country’ Helmer Yann Demange -- (link) - Remlik Nov 21, 20:10
Your top 10 songs: Anti-Hero, Rich Flex, Unholy, Bad Habit, As It Was, Major Distribution, I'm Good (Blue), Lift Me Up, Spin Bout U, On BS - Tim Nov 21, 19:57
The sort of production you expect out of Niners Offense -- nm* - budice Nov 21, 19:56
New Avatar 2 trailer just dr— zzzzz -- (link) - Mop Nov 21, 19:52 [youtube]
Cameron: Avatar 2 has to gross $2 billion just to break even. -- (link) - Ender Nov 21, 19:44 4
- Read the room, Jim. -- nm - Bob Iger Nov 21, 20:12 1
  - Avatar 2 started filming two months before you bought Fox. you knew what you were buying when you wrote the check -- nm - hollywood big shot Nov 21, 20:44
- Then it is underpriced on HSX. -- nm - Volnelk Nov 21, 20:08 1
  - Not if it doesn't break even. -- nm - Ender Nov 21, 20:11
[an error occurred while processing this MySpace directive means Tom is no longer anyone's friend.] -- nm - Qale Nov 21, 19:23
Nice. A "Better Off Dead" clue on Jeopardy last week! -- nm - Mop Nov 21, 19:21

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