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"How come the captcha tests never asks me why I'm not helping the hypothetical tortoise I flipped over?" -- nm - prayformojo Jan 28, 14:25
Louisiana did not understand the assignment -- (link) - NYT Pitchbot Jan 28, 13:58 2
- L.L. cal -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 14:04 1
  - Maine won't forget this. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 14:19
R.I.P. Tom Verlaine, 73 -- (link) - mud Jan 28, 13:34 2
- Variety story -- (link) - Remlik Jan 28, 14:22
- 'Marquee Moon' -- (link) - mud Jan 28, 13:43 [youtube]
Yeah... not a good sign when your new IP AAA game is 4 days after launch and Amazon is already offering $10 off MSRP. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 28, 13:09 4
- Forspoken? -- nm - David Jan 28, 13:14 2
  - Yes. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 28, 15:24
  - Too Jewish. -- nm - Hedley Lamarr Jan 28, 13:19
- Is this that Fearscale game or whatever it was called? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 13:12
Netflix Follows Warner Bros. Example, Begins Dropping Completed Movies -- (link) - Beaker Jan 28, 13:04 1
- I've often told non-HSX types who hear announcements of upcoming movies "Don't believe it until they're actually filming." - Mony Baroney Jan 28, 13:12
Rick Astley sues Yung Gravy - not for interpolating Never Gonna Give You Up (he had permission), but for using an Astley sound-a-like. -- (link) - Dano Jan 28, 12:00 4
- That is NOT delicious -- nm - Pippy Jan 28, 13:29 1
  - Oops -- nm - Dano Jan 28, 13:54
- Old Gravy don like Yung Gravy -- nm - budice Jan 28, 12:47
- rockin rick clappin' Astleys like the 80s -- nm - Tim Jan 28, 12:06
From George Floyd to Tyre Nichols, Black Men in America Keep Having Fatal Encounters With The Police -- (link) - NYT Pitchbot Jan 28, 11:53 2
- Fatal Encounters of the Police Kind -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 11:54 1
  - ~woop woop woop woop woop~ -- nm - con_carne Jan 28, 13:41
This seems to be an ESL thing so I don't want to make too much fun, but it's basically "birds - how do they work?" -- (pic) - Beryllium Jan 28, 11:41 [Attachment]
Too bad the Texans never had a shot at the #1 pick -- (link) - Reagen Jan 28, 11:13 6
- Love this. - zunk takes things literally Jan 28, 11:33
- Lovie Smith is smoking a cigar wrapped in McNair-money while hearing this. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 28, 11:32 1
  - This. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 28, 12:20
- Warren Sapp has heard the Bears will trade Justin Fields and draft Bryce Young. - The Allfather Jan 28, 11:27 1
  - I heard bears have the biting power to crush a bowling ball. - Krusty Jan 28, 12:30
- ha! -- nm - prayformojo Jan 28, 11:14
Dad feels great, sounds great. Mom is going downhill, refuses to call her doctor or go to urgent care. - ty97 Jan 28, 10:59 5
- Parental are just difficult. It’s hard, it’s freaking impossible but make her go. Put her in the car a d drive her anyway -- nm - Pippy Jan 28, 13:33
- Happy to hear your dad is doing better and hopefully your mom gets herself checked out today. -- nm - Krusty Jan 28, 12:31
- Glad he's feeling better. Seems usually the men put off seeing a doc but.... -- nm - zunk takes things literally Jan 28, 11:36
- my mom would rather risk dying in her own bed than sit for hours and hours in the ER -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 28, 11:34
- because they don't want their baby boy to worry! -- nm - Remlik Jan 28, 11:24
Is Twitter finally offline for everyone? All I get is the twitter bird on a blank page. -- nm - pmb Jan 28, 10:57 3
- trending page and links from that working fine -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 28, 11:18
- I don't know, haven't opened it directly since December. I did just get an email notification about a DM, though. - Beryllium Jan 28, 11:11
- It is there. -- nm - Spawn Jan 28, 11:04
BDMTV8R - vanity plate. What's it mean? - colin Jan 28, 10:42 10
- Bedroom TV rater ?? -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 28, 14:29
- CBC here talking about rejected plates is ... hilariously reluctant to quote them directly. -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 28, 11:48
- "hey person with the M4M4BEAR plates: i'm sorry MAMABEAR was taken but you have made a terrible mistake" -- nm - Tim Jan 28, 11:46 1
  - bwah -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 11:57
- Bad MTV ate her - Bad MTV! Bad! -- nm - rollo Jan 28, 11:43
- be the motivator. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 10:46 4
  - We thought maybe bad motivator? -- nm - colin Jan 28, 11:12 3
    - Oh, Star Wars fan? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 11:27
    - considered that too. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 11:13 1
      - or maybe advertising their kink? -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 11:13
For Meg: first obsidian tool use pushed back another 500,000 years -- (link) - TWuG Jan 28, 10:41 3
- Neat!! -- nm - Meg Jan 28, 10:55
- Supply chain issues. -- nm - Volnelk Jan 28, 10:43 1
  - [snork] -- nm - mud Jan 28, 10:53
Infinity Pool is not a matinee movie -- nm - budice Jan 28, 10:30
also known as "building a good football team" -- (link) - Reagen Jan 28, 10:29 5
- also (one) reason Jimmy Haslam was willing to give stupid money to a serial groper - hollywood big shot Jan 28, 10:51 4
  - QB-driven, absolutely. But you still gotta have a team behind them. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 11:09 3
    - CLE 4-7 without Watson, 3-3 with, but yeah the original point I think is strong, it's actually NOT just about QBs these days. OTOH Dak isn't taking - rollo Jan 28, 11:40 2
      - He was mostly terrible, though. They were winning in spite of him. PFF graded him at 51.6 as a passer, which is Zack Wilson/Justin Fields territory. -- nm - David Jan 28, 13:15
      - you basically have to luck into a Brock Purdy situation to be able to also afford to build up the offensive line and receiving corps around them - hollywood big shot Jan 28, 11:47
Stupid question --- for computer nerds - Will Hunting Jan 28, 10:10 3
- Annoying but trivial. Annoying enough that it would be better if you could find an alternate output mode on the pages - csv, json, xml ... -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 12:30 1
  - There isn’t. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 28, 12:33
- People scrape all the data with python now. -- nm - spamlet Jan 28, 11:53
got another Jack D. Ripper over here, Mandrake -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 28, 09:47
Watching the Jeff Goldblum Hot Ones. He is an odd odd duck. - TWuG Jan 28, 09:24 2
- You think? -- nm - Spawn Jan 28, 10:27 1
  - I hadn't watched any interviews with him before, that I recall - TWuG Jan 28, 10:38
We Have Always Lived in the Castle: A-; Farmiga and Daddario are subtly terrific. Love that last shot. -- nm - prayformojo Jan 28, 09:23
Metallica will host a global premier in theaters as a listening party for its new album (April 13) -- nm - MDH Jan 28, 09:19 1
- Very smart. -- nm - Spawn Jan 28, 10:27
If you've not seen them, check out Diva's photos on FB -- nm - Meg Jan 28, 09:14 1
- awww, that's terrific -- nm - prayformojo Jan 28, 09:16
Huh. Today is National Lego Day. I guess I should build a Lego set to celebrate. -- nm - sycor Jan 28, 09:12 4
- maybe I should get one. Are there any Blade Runner related ones? -- nm - mud Jan 28, 09:14 3
  - Not that I know of. I wish they would do a Spinner though. -- nm - sycor Jan 28, 09:16 2
    - ooooh! -- (pic) - mud Jan 28, 09:18 [Attachment] 1
      - You can find custom instructions and probably even kits online, but nothing official. And of course Adam Savage has one. LOL -- nm - sycor Jan 28, 09:27
Suck it, Linnaeus! -- (link) - Dano Jan 28, 09:12 [youtube] 2
- Please, please my sweet babboo! -- nm - Sally Jan 28, 09:35
- This is basically how Aristotle did it. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 09:26
Conversely to down below, City Slickers is on and man it’s a good movie. So good. -- nm - Volnelk Jan 28, 08:59
Good luck to Buffalo (66) and Starkville in the NTT! - spamlet Jan 28, 08:58 5
- Thanks, I like where my team is at but I don't trust them very much -- nm - rollo Jan 28, 11:31 3
  - I still think we’re wildly over ranked but we’ll see. -- nm - spamlet Jan 28, 11:54 2
    - I invite you to add your 10-man stats to this comparison of my current and title teams - rollo Jan 28, 12:15 1
      - Mine -- (edited) - spamlet Jan 28, 13:49
- Buffalo '66! -- nm - mud Jan 28, 09:10
anyone wanna swing by KC and give me a kick in the backside and make me go to a concert tuesday? - tRuMaN Jan 28, 08:40
Woohoo! My first 100 mile running month since January 2021. -- nm - Dano Jan 28, 08:28 6
- VNR! -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 10:31
- great! -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 08:58
- that's some good running! -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 08:57
- Congrats! That's impressive! -- nm - Flavorize Jan 28, 08:38
- Nice! -- nm - spamlet Jan 28, 08:33
- Yeah!!! -- nm - prayformojo Jan 28, 08:30
What movie do you enjoy that you 100% agree is a bad movie? Was a question on r/askreddit and this about The Highlander got me. - con_carne Jan 28, 08:23 34
- That crappy Mila Jovovich movie Colin and Qale wanted to see. Ultraviolet. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 28, 12:22 1
  - Omg did I ever hate that one. On no level was it fun. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 12:30
- Bumblebee -- nm - Spawn Jan 28, 11:06
- Independence Day -- nm - pmb Jan 28, 10:08 1
  - Welcome to earf! -- nm - sycor Jan 28, 10:55
- Rat Race -- nm - VMan Jan 28, 09:28 1
  - I loved that movie -- nm - con_carne Jan 28, 09:56
- We watched Cool Runnings a year ago and … let’s just say the quality of Disney sports movies has improved so so so much. - Will Hunting Jan 28, 09:13 2
  - Yeah, there's about 10 minutes of plot in that. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 09:34 1
    - Of which about 4 minutes was manufactured for the drama of a villain. - Will Hunting Jan 28, 09:37
- Con-Air -- nm - Fuzzy Jan 28, 09:08
- Into the Blue -- nm - mud Jan 28, 09:06
- ThanksKiling. Talking killer turkey and I love it. -- nm - sycor Jan 28, 09:01
- Speed -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 08:59 1
  - Is that bad? -- nm - spamlet Jan 28, 09:01
- Octopussy -- nm - prayformojo Jan 28, 08:59
- MOONRAKER! Deep Rising, Hudson Hawk -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 08:55
- Hackers is another one that I love that is objectively bad. -- nm - spamlet Jan 28, 08:50 2
  - Objectively it should be loathed by computer folks, yet it is beloved ... whereas The Net is loathed, yet prescient in many ways. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 11:36 1
    - (I like both of them) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 11:36
- Men at Work -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 28, 08:49
- Queen was screened the movie first and then they wrote songs to it. -- nm - Remlik Jan 28, 08:37
- Airborne. An early 90's rollerblading teenage drama with Jack Black and Seth Green as supporting characters. - Will Hunting Jan 28, 08:36 5
  - I'm gonna have to check it out. Added to watch list -- nm - con_carne Jan 28, 10:05
  - I remember really enjoying this as a kid. -- nm - sycor Jan 28, 09:01
  - huh, they later appeared in Enemy of the State together too... -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 08:55 1
    - "Patch it in. I said patch it in!" I oddly consider that all time classic cinema. They were the character actors of the time. -- nm - con_carne Jan 28, 10:08
  - Filmed in Cincinnati. -- nm - Volnelk Jan 28, 08:38
- Fletch Lives. Cannonball Run. -- nm - Volnelk Jan 28, 08:35 1
  - Fletch Lives is a good answer -- nm - rollo Jan 28, 11:28
- Empire Records -- nm - Dano Jan 28, 08:26 2
  - Saw that a few years ago! Watching that for the first time was like catching up with a long lost STer. -- nm - con_carne Jan 28, 10:01
  - This -- nm - spamlet Jan 28, 08:32
- Nmbl -- (link) - con_carne Jan 28, 08:24
Huh. Boosted Board went out of business. So Casey Neistat bought up all the stock he could get his hands on. -- (link) - Mop Jan 28, 08:16 [youtube]
I have questions - ty97 Jan 28, 08:14 [Attachment]
Your Best Picture nominees -- (link) - Tim Jan 28, 08:09 2
- someone posted another one the day before yesterday. nm but: -- (link) - i.b! Jan 28, 09:47
- nice -- nm - mud Jan 28, 08:10
Mia Goth might have the worst sounding speaking voice I’ve ever heard. Wowza -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 28, 08:00
From the branding agency that brought you “Plane” -- (pic) - spamlet Jan 28, 07:53 [Attachment]
I'm stuck in the Sprint/T-mobile infinite loop. - Mony Baroney Jan 28, 07:17 5
- Oof. -- nm - Krusty Jan 28, 07:25 4
  - Eventually broke out of it by creating a new account on the T-mobile site to link to the Sprint account data that transferred. - Mony Baroney Jan 28, 07:41 3
    - My efforts were rewarded by finding a great typo on a site describing the different plans... - Mony Baroney Jan 28, 07:43 2
      - Yikes! I think I need to check my contract with them. -- nm - Krusty Jan 28, 08:00
      - Wow, they really want to send you personalized ads. -- nm - spamlet Jan 28, 07:51
dailybeast: Pelosi Suspect Says Sorry He Didn’t ‘Get More of Them’ in bizarre jailhouse phone call to reporter -- (link) - mud Jan 28, 06:26 3
- "Suspect" -- nm - Spawn Jan 28, 10:26
- Did he.... expect Nancy was hosting a sleepover for elected officials at her home? I'm confused by his 'logic'. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 28, 08:38 1
  - If you believe in the gospel of Donald you don't need logic... with enough faith in absurdities you can commit atrocities -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 28, 11:41
TV PSA: NHL, NBA, World's Funniest Animals, SNL (Michael B. Jordan; Lil Baby), Tokyo Revengers, College BBall, WWE Royal Rumble, - Beaker Jan 28, 06:12

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