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gotta give it up to Maggie Hassan's fundraising email header on 1/31: "This will be my last email this month" -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 11:30 1
- (not) big, if true -- nm - Spawn Jan 31, 11:31
I just walked to the store to get a payday. normally my dude says "heh heh payday is friday" but today since I was wearing flip flops he said - judge indianapolis jones Jan 31, 11:28 2
- your dude? You have a dude? Is he The Dude? -- nm - mud Jan 31, 11:34
- "guess the nuts in this Payday aren't the only thing that got roasted" -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 11:29
I don’t want to tell Florida Dems how to do their job but if it were me I might start with standing up for books against the Nazis -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 11:22 6
- Parents react to empty classroom, library shelves as DCPS continues book review -- (link) - JD Jan 31, 11:33
- egad -- nm - mud Jan 31, 11:33
- I'm concerned they don't want The Handmaid's Tale to be read - Epiphany aka sneaky link Jan 31, 11:30 1
  - The guy did not like the casting of the show. -- nm - Spawn Jan 31, 11:33
- Why aren't they on fire? -- nm - Spawn Jan 31, 11:24 1
  - fascist baby steps -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 11:26
I used to go to goth nights at Tracks. -- nm - loosilu Jan 31, 11:16
Krusty News Network: Nike's Jordan Brand crossed $5B in revenue for the first time in 2022. Jordan will collect 5%, or $256.1M - more than double his career NBA earnings -- (edited) - decline Jan 31, 11:15
ROFL -- (link) - Jovian Jan 31, 11:14 3
- I had to do a little digging, but there is actually a statute of limitations that would seem to apply. However, it can be extended if the defendant is - mara Jan 31, 11:34
- the Samuel Bankman-Fried School of Legalize -- nm - Beaker Jan 31, 11:24
- Good grief, he is a moron -- nm - Epiphany aka sneaky link Jan 31, 11:21
La Brea renewed for season 3 at NBC -- nm - decline Jan 31, 11:12 3
- 2 epis on tonight too -- nm - Beaker Jan 31, 11:15
- Wait, really? -- nm - spamlet Jan 31, 11:13 1
  - NBC must be assuming it is the new Manifest and are afraid to cancel it -- nm - oblique Jan 31, 11:20
powerball is $653M for wednesday. are we doing a pool? -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 31, 11:05
Canada's country code is 1, right? -- nm - prayformojo Jan 31, 11:03 5
- If you're not careful you'll be charged for roaming. -- nm - loosilu Jan 31, 11:31
- America's Hat indeed -- nm - budice Jan 31, 11:04
- Yes -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 11:04 2
  - Wait, isn't that the US's country code too? -- (edited) - decline Jan 31, 11:34 1
    - We are both North America and therefore on the same network. -- nm - loosilu Jan 31, 11:50
The easiest way to tell that TiVo is essentially a dead brand is to speak with their customer service. -- nm - David Jan 31, 10:55 12
- I would say the same thing for DirecTV stream. You can't cancel unless you call them. - Inigo Jan 31, 11:08 5
  - WSJ and Sirius do it so they can give you the discounts you should have in the first place. -- nm - spamlet Jan 31, 11:12 2
    - Yup, that's what they offered, too. I'm just gonna go to a bar/restaurant if I want to see the Orioles play this year. -- nm - Inigo Jan 31, 11:14 1
      - Dry Febmarchapriljunejulyaugustember -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 11:36
  - they better hire a lot more operators this year -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 11:10
  - Paramount and HBO Max, too. -- nm - B2or3 Jan 31, 11:09
- I'm surprised they have an actual person for you to talk to -- nm - decline Jan 31, 10:56 5
  - You have to work your way through a lot of prompts first. -- nm - David Jan 31, 11:01 4
    - Please Select.. "Agent"...OK, From The ..."Agent"...Would you like.."Agent"...Please hold on while I transfer you -- nm - budice Jan 31, 11:03 3
      - You know who that doesn't work with? USPS. The system will just hang up on you. - sycor Jan 31, 11:09 1
        
        "Sorry you are having trouble. Just give me the tracking number and I will look into it." -- nm - USPS Jan 31, 11:10
      - my normal convo or doom-pressing 0 until a live voice -- nm - budice Jan 31, 11:07
one year since Russia started Fucking Around in Ukraine -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 10:42 1
- And 11 months since they Found Out. -- nm* - Mony Baroney Jan 31, 11:07
I know I'm not their audience, and really don't care much for superheroes. But reading the article with Gunn's plans... it all sounds like a mess. -- nm - MDH Jan 31, 10:41 14
- No, it's beautiful, like a glass onion. - Beryllium Jan 31, 10:48
- it’s the part of Flip This Studio where the plumbers tell them the floors are all rotted out but they only have $1k left in the budget and two days to - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 10:45
- It sounds like he's done the best that he can and has the right intentions such as Superman emphasizing kindness. But he's picked... - David Jan 31, 10:43 11
  - I think he's also right about finishing the script before filming starts. - the wrong element Jan 31, 11:02 3
    - He learned his lesson from the Guardians of the Galaxy catastrophe. -- nm - David Jan 31, 11:11
    - What a novel idea. -- nm - Dano Jan 31, 11:08 1
      - It will never work -- nm - Ridley Scott Jan 31, 11:23
  - Your description makes a lot of sense. I loved Iron Man 1 since I'm not a comic reader and it was accessible. None of this seems to be. -- nm - MDH Jan 31, 10:46 4
    - It was accessible because it was an origin story. Hard to know which of the new stuff will be the same. - the wrong element Jan 31, 11:11 3
      - The Authority - what if The Boys were a movie? Only a little less hard R rated... -- (edited) - Beaker Jan 31, 11:17 1
        
        It will be DC's GotG (at least that is how Gunn will see it). -- nm - Spawn Jan 31, 11:21
      - But will it be Manbun Swamp Thing? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 11:12
  - Superman movie - just do Action Comics #775 (they did it in a cartoon and not too badly, but live action would rule). - Beaker Jan 31, 10:45 1
    - Sounds like he's going to more All Star Superman by Morrison. Authority getting its own film -- nm - Remlik Jan 31, 10:57
'Some Considerations Before Russian to Conclusions on Compromised FBI Investigations' by Asha Rangappa : - mud Jan 31, 10:35 1
- nm -- nm* - rollo Jan 31, 14:43
only the mob takes the fifth (400 times) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 10:30
The 2023 Hyundai Ioniq 6 gets an official EPA range of 361 miles -- (link) - spamlet Jan 31, 10:30 24
- but but DJT just said at a rally this weekend that they only get about 5 miles of range. -- nm - Jovian Jan 31, 10:44
- Their Kevin Bacon ad is pretty humerous - oblique Jan 31, 10:32 21
  - it's great (and his daughter looks just like her mom) -- nm - decline Jan 31, 10:41 3
    - Sosie Bacon acted in a few episodes of The Closer -- nm - prayformojo Jan 31, 10:48 2
      - and in mare of eastown, right? -- nm - judge indianapolis jones Jan 31, 10:48 1
        
        apparently! I didn't recognize her in this. -- nm - prayformojo Jan 31, 10:58
  - its fine until you get to the back, and then its like they tried to one up tesla in not giving any **its about the look of the car. -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 31, 10:35 16
    - Cause it wasn't about the look and all about aero -- (link) - JD Jan 31, 10:46 15
      - always boggles my mind that anyone these days gives too much of a shit about looks when range is on the line. as long as it’s not a Homer - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 10:49 14
        
        Cars are more than utilities to some people. I wouldn't buy an ugly car for an extra 10% of range. -- nm - spamlet Jan 31, 10:53 5
        
        70 years ago everyone wanted tailfins. people are dumb -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 10:58 3
        
        Hmm, you know what, this made me realize that none of my car photos (except maybe this one) highlight tail fins -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 31, 11:21 [flickr]
        
        You know what they wanted on their cars in the 70s? Spoilers. -- (edited) - loosilu Jan 31, 11:21 [Attachment] 1
        
        Hah -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 11:22
        
        this -- nm - decline Jan 31, 10:57
        
        YEAH -- nm - Tesla Cybertruck Jan 31, 10:52 1
        
        You're off the list, too, Edgy McEdgerson. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 10:53
        
        I care a great deal about looks. That's why I'm not buying a fucking crossover. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 10:50 5
        
        Just as I used to own the best-looking hatchback, I now own the best-looking crossover. -- (link) - mara Jan 31, 10:58 3
        
        It kind of looks like Daffy Duck from this angle. -- nm - loosilu Jan 31, 11:19 1
        
        Ha! A friend of mine said it looks like a tennis shoe, and I had the same thought. -- nm - mara Jan 31, 11:35
        
        That's cute :) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 11:05
        
        (Yes, I know that wind tunnel testing is what has caused things to evolve in this direction. But I hate it.) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 10:52
- 5m less than my Clarity (real range probably closer to 300 out in the world) -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 10:31
Honest Trailers | M3GAN -- (link) - Beaker Jan 31, 10:28 [youtube] 1
- "..in what's basically the fourth Pinocchio movie to come out in the last 12 months." LOL -- nm - Jovian Jan 31, 10:51
What could possibly go wrong? -- (link) - znufrii Jan 31, 10:25 3
- Cool. An older article linked in this article has a colorized video of an extinct Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacine). -- (link) - Jovian Jan 31, 10:43 1
  - The Peripheral has some of the future results of that project ... -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 10:56
- They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should. -- nm - Dano Jan 31, 10:32
Hello Snowy Dallas -- (link) - budice Jan 31, 10:22 2
- Thus far today: DFW 46% cancelled, 16% delays. DAL 44% cancelled, 10% delayed. -- nm - ty97 Jan 31, 10:30
- Not snow. Ice and sleet -- nm - Pippy Jan 31, 10:29
Why was HBOMax projected to add 3+million subscribers? - the wrong element Jan 31, 10:20 6
- They didn't miss by much. They had 2.8M new subscribers. People get the service free with a lot of ATT stuff. So, it should always increase. -- nm - David Jan 31, 10:36 2
  - So, 200k+ people said "no thanks" to something free? - the wrong element Jan 31, 10:43 1
    - They definitely had cancellations and non-renewals in droves after they started systematically destroying the product's value. -- nm - David Jan 31, 11:02
- They also increased prices. -- nm - Qale Jan 31, 10:30
- Amazon, channel add-on projection? -- nm - Flavorize Jan 31, 10:24
- I don't have an answer for you, but I think I hear clown music. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 10:22
King of the Hill revival ordered at Hulu -- (link) - Remlik Jan 31, 10:17 1
- did no one think to deploy pocket sand over this idea?? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 10:20
LIR: sycor. We do not have batteries. Cost was still pretty high and we have very few power outages (underground power delivery) so we opted not - oblique Jan 31, 10:07 1
- So what happens you lose power? I assume your solar set up generates enough power to keep the house going? - sycor Jan 31, 10:44
rewatched Quantum of Solace last night...MUCH better than I remembered. fairly short and tons of action sequences...don't know why I was so down on it -- nm - Beaker Jan 31, 10:02
80 for Brady 57% (8/6), Knock at the Cabin nsy, The Amazing Maurice 76% (19/6), Godland 88% (15/2), - Beaker Jan 31, 09:59
VisCap: The Top 50 Most Visited Websites in the World -- (link) - prayformojo Jan 31, 09:59 1
- this kind of illustrates why Google should have more than the few antistrust/anticompetition lawsuits it currently does. -- nm - colin Jan 31, 10:09
Bad Boys 4 with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence is officially a go. -- nm - MDH Jan 31, 09:58 28
- Bad Boys was originally going to star Jon Lovitz and Dana Carvey -- nm - Remlik Jan 31, 10:13 9
  - [citation needed] -- nm - mud Jan 31, 10:50 2
    - also original was script doctored by David Milch (whose story of flying all his friends to Miami for a horse race while doctoring is more interesting) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 11:07 1
      - here -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 11:10
  - I didn't know that, huh. -- nm - MDH Jan 31, 10:41
  - I could take a Dragnet sequel. -- nm - Max Jan 31, 10:23
  - Officer Church Lady and Officer I mean Sergeant I mean Chief of Police President of Pathological Liars Anonymous? It could work. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 10:18
  - Tea Leoni made the 1st one worth watching -- nm - Flavorize Jan 31, 10:18
  - It could still happen. -- nm - Roger More Jan 31, 10:17 1
    - There are probably few things harder to get funded than a movie starring Dana Carvey. - the wrong element Jan 31, 10:47
- I predict some version of this script includes someone slapping Will Smith across the face -- nm - oblique Jan 31, 10:07 3
  - Martin: keep my wife's name out of your damn mouth...yeah it would work. -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 31, 10:10
  - There’s a script idea, “Backpfiefengesicht”, starring Will Smith, in which nothing happens apart from him repeatedly getting slapped in the face - znufrii Jan 31, 10:09 1
    - He doesn't really have that "face in need of a slap" look, though, unlike chris rock. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 10:11
- Didn’t one of them die, in the last one? -- nm - Flavorize Jan 31, 10:04 6
  - No but (spoilers) - Roger More Jan 31, 10:17
  - I couldn't remember, so I looked it up on wikipedia and confirmed that ... yup, I've seen it. And forgotten it. (spoilers) - Beryllium Jan 31, 10:11 3
    - Flavorize might be thinking of a supporting character -- (edited) - Max Jan 31, 10:22 1
      - ah, right -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 10:24
    - yeah I saw it too and remember zilch about it other than skipper from #2 showing up again -- (link) - Beaker Jan 31, 10:12 [youtube]
  - BB4 will take place in the Fast and the Furious universe - decline Jan 31, 10:07
- Retired Miami-Dade detectives Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) escape from the retirement home to stop a gang of thieves -- nm - decline Jan 31, 10:00 6
  - "Mikey, I'm too old to take a shit" -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 10:03 1
    - *giggle* -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 31, 10:05
  - Needs an R rating. None of this soft PG-13 -- nm - budice Jan 31, 10:02
  - I'm in -- nm - Beaker Jan 31, 10:00 2
    - also - Over/Under on slaps jokes set at 2.5 -- nm - Beaker Jan 31, 10:01 1
      - I'll take the over, but they'll all be people slapping will smith, rather than the other way around -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 10:04
Qale: Right now DC doesn't have a gay club, so it's definitely a needed type. Issue is it looks to be catering exclusively to the circuit crowd - MDH Jan 31, 09:56 5
- Circuit can't support such a niche decor. Maybe it's only for a while and they plan to change often. Jungle in Atlanta was like that. -- nm - Qale Jan 31, 10:36
- *invents Tracks* -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 10:15 2
  - You know Tracks... Amazing. -- nm - MDH Jan 31, 10:19 1
    - mostly from the goth/rave nights on Friday for straight kids but… it was a real scene -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 10:27
- Seems to be happening all over, the main gay spots here I Tacoma and Olympia have closed. -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 31, 10:13
DC Films: James Gunn announces projects.... -- (link) - Remlik Jan 31, 09:55 4
- Sounds like Peacemaker season 2 is either a no-go or an interminable wait (or, baked into Waller) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 10:03 1
  - He said he's writing Superman right now and can't do Peacemaker 2 yet. So Waller gets a show to fill that gap. -- nm - Remlik Jan 31, 10:07
- heh. "#TheBatman2 is darkly sulking its way onto our screens on October 3, 2025." -- (link) - decline Jan 31, 09:58 1
  - Yes, 976 days! -- nm - Spawn Jan 31, 11:30
*spits out lyrics and chord progressions for "Yellow"* -- nm - ChatGPT Jan 31, 09:52
" Technolicious Dystopia" is my 2nd favorite album from Yanni -- nm - Epiphany aka sneaky link Jan 31, 09:51
Juno nominations announced -- (link) - Beaker Jan 31, 09:48 1
- Sunny D in the morning, Sunny D all goddamn day long -- nm - Spawn Jan 31, 09:49

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