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This is the entire story from this morning. There’s a lot going on here. -- (link) - spamlet Jan 9, 16:00
heckuva video - ice climber holds on during an avalanche. nm but: -- (link) - i.b! Jan 9, 15:43 2
- the problem with ice climbs is that they tend to be at the bottom of avalanche gullies. it's a sport for the deranged. -- nm - mafic Jan 9, 16:00 1
  - ... and Galadriel. - Beryllium Jan 9, 16:00
Meg, I assume when I encounter a recipe that calls for Marmite that I can freely substitute Vegemite, right? -- nm - crash davis Jan 9, 15:41 10
- Are you trying to tempt me? Because I come from the land of plenty -- nm - rollo Jan 9, 15:58
- the best way to rile up Australians or Brits is to tell them the one from the other country is better. best done when they're eating it. -- nm - mafic Jan 9, 15:55
- I'd guess so. The flavors are similar but the texture is a little different. Vegemite is 'stiffer' but likely not enough to count. -- nm - Meg Jan 9, 15:50 3
  - that's my #1 complaint. the stiffness -- nm - prayformojo Jan 9, 15:58 1
    - That's what she said -- nm - TWuG Jan 9, 16:04
  - Thank you kindly :) -- nm - crash davis Jan 9, 15:52
- You can freely substitute a garbage can. -- nm - spamlet Jan 9, 15:44 2
  - No bangers with onion gravy for you! -- nm - crash davis Jan 9, 15:49 1
    - 🤢 -- nm - spamlet Jan 9, 15:56
- or literally anything else -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 9, 15:42
Hmm, Hyatt/IHG websites are down. -- nm - Meg Jan 9, 15:36 1
- And up :/ -- nm - Meg Jan 9, 15:38
On plane to Indy. It's maybe 25% full. Does nobody want to go to Indy?? -- nm - Kellyanne Scrabblestats Jan 9, 15:32 6
- Haven't been called yet, I'm a bit further down on Irsay's list of potential coaches. -- nm - crash davis Jan 9, 15:40
- did you take a bath this morning? -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 9, 15:35
- Especially not quarterbacks. -- nm - David Jan 9, 15:34
- I mean, do you? -- nm - mafic Jan 9, 15:33 2
  - I'm excited to go the office because the color scheme looks really nice on video calls? -- nm - Kellyanne Scrabblestats Jan 9, 15:35 1
    - did you coordinate your outfit -- nm - mafic Jan 9, 15:37
Piper Perabo and Julia Roberts should costar as...sisters maybe. - Max Jan 9, 15:17 2
- ...in bed -- nm - budice Jan 9, 15:29
- Monica Potter. -- nm - Reagen Jan 9, 15:22
Proof -- (pic) - znufrii Jan 9, 15:14 [Attachment] 7
- :D! -- nm - i.b! Jan 9, 15:41
- :-) -- nm - Krusty Jan 9, 15:40
- 😺😺 -- nm - crash davis Jan 9, 15:37
- The best paerints… so far! -- nm - Qale Jan 9, 15:23
- Awww. Enjoy your reign. Soon enough you’ll be the worst! 😁 -- nm - Dano Jan 9, 15:17
- Can't argue with that. -- nm - Mop Jan 9, 15:17
- *ahhh* -- nm - Diva Jan 9, 15:15
CFP Champ: 4:30pm PT / 7:30pm ET kickoff -- nm* - budice Jan 9, 15:11 2
- glad they all came to LA just to get pissed on all day -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 9, 15:12 1
  - and logistics for getting to/from SoFi ain't the greatest -- nm* - budice Jan 9, 15:13
‘For Love of the Game’: A family saga, a rediscovered manuscript and an unlikely movie - JD Jan 9, 15:07 1
- One of my all time favourite films. -- nm - Loyola Jan 9, 15:35
Apparently Virgin Galactic did a thing recently. -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 9, 14:59 2
- Sadly, failed to reach orbit. -- (link) - TWuG Jan 9, 16:03 1
  - Ah, that's unfortunate. (well-at-least-you-tried gif) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 16:07
I don't know what I enjoyed more in this video. The daughter singing or the dad's reactions - pmb Jan 9, 14:50 3
- she’s great. (but… spoiler) - i.b! Jan 9, 15:29
- That's just...fantastic. -- nm - Diva Jan 9, 15:14
- She and Nandi Bushell should jam together. -- nm - Max Jan 9, 15:01
very well respected UK historian David Starkey doesn't hold back saying how awful Harry is. -- (link) - Peglegpete Jan 9, 14:41 [youtube] 18
- The book comes out tomorrow right? - spamlet Jan 9, 15:41
- yeah, those guys have no use or respect for people of color so they can go f*ck themselves. -- nm - Diva Jan 9, 15:03 1
  - meaning Starkey and Farage. -- nm - Diva Jan 9, 15:04
- On the show of that traitor to the British people, Nigel Farage. -- nm - Mop Jan 9, 14:53
- The man is entitled to his opinion, one I am certain Harry couldn't give one rat's patootie about -- nm - Mr. Havens Jan 9, 14:51 1
  - I mean, have you seen his take on BLM? It's SOOOOOOOOO bad, he was kicked out of the Royal Historical Society, and two of his publishers dropped him. -- nm - Mr. Havens Jan 9, 14:56
- "Royal experts" have to cultivate relationships with the Firm to get their scoop. -- nm - loosilu Jan 9, 14:45
- No shit, he's part of that machine. -- nm - loosilu Jan 9, 14:44 2
  - I assumed that was the case when I saw that he was sitting with Farage. Talk about pissing your credibility away. -- nm - Jovian Jan 9, 14:48 1
    - Like I was genuinely interested in listening to this historian. Then I saw Nigel and was like oh... its propaganda. nvm. -- nm - Jovian Jan 9, 14:50
- Id rather put ice picks in my eyeballs then listen to anything attached to Nigel Farage. *blech* -- nm - Jovian Jan 9, 14:42 5
  - I have no idea who Farage is, but have seen Starkey's documentaries for a decade or so. check you tube for some of his work. -- nm* - Peglegpete Jan 9, 14:44 4
    - Farage is a British version of Steven Bannon or Roger Stone. Take your pick. -- nm - Jovian Jan 9, 14:46 3
      - except with all the visual presence of wallace shawn -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 14:48 2
        
        Heh. :-) Yup. -- nm - Krusty Jan 9, 14:56 1
        
        OUCH -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 9, 15:07
- those guys are garbage. -- nm - Remlik Jan 9, 14:42 1
  - No idea on this historian. But Nigel is human filth. Hed be dead if I could wish it so. -- nm - Jovian Jan 9, 14:44
ST get together at Cedar Point in 2024? -- (link) - JD Jan 9, 14:40 [youtube] 1
- the last time I was there was probably 1985 before I moved west in 1986. -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 9, 14:43
Dr Dre got MTG locked out of her Twitter Acct due to Copyright Violations -- (link) - budice Jan 9, 14:31 10
- already reactivated. Its all a show for MGT. -- (link*) - Jovian Jan 9, 14:45
- crime crime crime... -- nm - Diva Jan 9, 14:37 1
  - I think this should be sung to the tune of A Hazy Shade of Winter -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 14:39
- Seems like someone forgot about Dre. -- nm - Qale Jan 9, 14:35 5
  - Ha! -- nm - Krusty Jan 9, 14:47
  - Be he's still ahead of the Game -- nm - Eag Jan 9, 14:42
  - Can't Play a Player -- nm - budice Jan 9, 14:36 2
    - Somebody called her a Doctor. -- nm - Qale Jan 9, 14:37 1
      - It's like this and like that and like this -- nm - budice Jan 9, 14:39
- hey just like cops on the streets -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 9, 14:34
*returns the champagne on ice* -- nm - spamlet Jan 9, 14:23 4
- Same ... forgot to set 3s to "less" since my team forgot how to shoot them, I mean make them -- nm - rollo Jan 9, 14:40 3
  - They got a 12 point lead early and we couldn't ever catch up. -- nm - spamlet Jan 9, 14:41 2
    - Meet you in the WL finale -- nm - rollo Jan 9, 14:43 1
      - Book it. -- nm - spamlet Jan 9, 15:40
Speaking of borrowing, one thing my dad had that I don't is a friend with all the nicest tools - crash davis Jan 9, 14:14
I don't know when it happened, but YouTube Music fixed their shuffle functions. - Mop Jan 9, 14:03 4
- question for you on B2 -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 9, 14:13 [Backboard] 3
  - I assume if you're asking, it's because you've already Googled it. - Mop Jan 9, 14:30 2
    - excellent, thanks. (No, I'm too wrapped up in reddit drama & documentation writing for having attempted to google; newegg specs didn't mention it.) - Beryllium Jan 9, 14:31 1
      - ooh, dell didn't have it either, but this weird site I found might have -- (pic) - Beryllium Jan 9, 14:37 [Attachment]
Let the speculation begin. Rooney Mara Nearly Quit Acting After Bad Nightmare on Elm Street Experience ‘I Have to Be Careful With How I Talk About It' -- (link) - Mop Jan 9, 14:01
The Oatmeal has released a random comic generator for terrible comics, and it is terrible and awful and sometimes funny. -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 9, 13:42 6
- this is what improving AI gets us - oblique Jan 9, 13:44 1
  - indeed. (another disneyland one) -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 9, 13:45
- heh -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 9, 13:43 3
  - most of them are nonsensical. Like this one, that mentions disneyland. -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 9, 13:44 2
    - others are amusing in a bizarro way -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 9, 13:45 1
      - and some are just wtf -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 9, 13:51
LIR: crash, I did feel very satisfied when hanging the murphy desk. I hit the studs perfectly using only my screwdriver tapping on the wall - oblique Jan 9, 13:39 3
- very cool, I have to use an electronic finder -- nm - crash davis Jan 9, 13:57 2
  - but the problem was it'd just beep whenever you picked it up. -- nm - mafic Jan 9, 14:05 1
    - yep, it is a frustrating situation ... -- nm - crash davis Jan 9, 14:10
Greg Berlanti not getting the tax write-off treatment from Zaslav (today) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 9, 13:37 2
- Berlanti promises to make only hits! -- nm - Mop Jan 9, 13:57
- you can't fool me, that picture is just mark ruffalo with a different haircut -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 13:38
BMW recalls 14,000 iX, i4, and i7 EVs for faulty battery software -- (link) - oblique Jan 9, 13:37
I wonder what the total amount of money is that's been spent paying people not to coach professional football. -- (link) - Reagen Jan 9, 13:29 5
- RIP to Kyler Murray—that offense was custom made, for him—considering he’s almost uncoachable, a change is going to hurt his career -- nm - Flavorize Jan 9, 13:49
- or football -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 9, 13:46
- *checks bank account....kicks dirt* -- nm - Dano Jan 9, 13:31 1
  - stop giving your alma matter access to your bank account! -- nm - colin Jan 9, 13:32
- there's only so many NFL teams vs college teams though... -- nm - colin Jan 9, 13:30
In other proud parenting news, my 16 year old got his SAT scores back... - Inigo Jan 9, 13:22 9
- That's awesome! -- nm - Krusty Jan 9, 15:06
- Smrt kid -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 9, 14:22
- 👍 -- nm - crash davis Jan 9, 14:17
- nice! -- nm - Beaker Jan 9, 14:14
- VNT! - znufrii Jan 9, 13:33
- That's outstanding -- nm - prayformojo Jan 9, 13:33
- Wow! -- nm - ty97 Jan 9, 13:32
- Don Homer all around! -- nm - Dano Jan 9, 13:29
- that's seriously impressive. congrats to them. Prepare your mailbox for the onslaught of college offers -- nm - oblique Jan 9, 13:26
What is going on with this weird-ass house? -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 9, 13:11 22
- All that white and one *purple* kitchen?!? -- nm - Meg Jan 9, 14:50
- You spend that kind of money and only put in 7 ft basement ceilings, you suck as a builder. -- nm - TWuG Jan 9, 14:44
- it looks like it was meant to be some sort of new-fangled religion's holy place -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 9, 13:44
- SlackerTalk compound -- nm - Dano Jan 9, 13:29
- Streamer / group WFH house? -- nm - Max Jan 9, 13:27
- every finish and space in there is from the big book of modern community churches. i don't believe a person would live in this building -- nm - colin Jan 9, 13:26 1
  - It does seem kind of like if Glenn from Letterkenny got access to a bunch of moolah. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 13:29
- there's like 57 kitchens -- nm - Andie Jan 9, 13:25
- And what's in that barrel in the kitchenette? And do those time machine showers really work? -- nm - Max Jan 9, 13:23
- Looks fantastic for my new cul... wellness retreat. -- nm - Reagen Jan 9, 13:22 1
  - HSXium -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 9, 14:22
- 4000 square foot garage? That’s larger than Iron Man’s lab -- nm - Flavorize Jan 9, 13:20
- Is it the location?? Why is it priced so high? - Jovian Jan 9, 13:19 1
  - Yes, the location is a very pricey area. Previously there have been $12m and $15m properties nearby. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 13:20
- 12 bathrooms? -- nm - oblique Jan 9, 13:14
- I'm not seeing 14,000 square feet from the front..maybe built for a Saudi prince and his 4 wives? -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 9, 13:14
- It looks like a place you'd rent for a wedding reception -- nm - Baron, Vamp Champ Jan 9, 13:14 3
  - Right? I was going to say it looks like a hotel. -- nm - pmb Jan 9, 13:24 1
    - Yep, event space. -- nm - Andie Jan 9, 13:26
  - or a golf course clubhouse -- nm - Beaker Jan 9, 13:20
- is that a house or a convention center? -- nm - judge amanda jones Jan 9, 13:12 1
  - That's why I'd buy it (if it was 9 million cheaper). Coworking space. :) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 13:19
Come on baby like my spire come on babies try to set the night on fire... -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 9, 13:10 1
- Giggling...this was entered with voice command. I was listening to the song when I drove to the Y -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 9, 13:11
zoom zoom -- nm - oblique Jan 9, 13:08 2
- Teams Teams -- nm - budice Jan 9, 13:09 1
  - jitsi jitsi -- nm - colin Jan 9, 13:09

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