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Underwear, lipstick, strippers’ tips. -- (link) - znufrii Feb 6, 06:59 1
- "We didn't start the fire..." -- nm - TWuG Feb 6, 07:00
This piece pretty much encapsulates my general pessimism about climate change, democracy, economics, and civilization -- (link) - mara Feb 6, 06:58
a drunk guy stumbled into me last thursday causing me to collide with a building which crushed my favorite glasses in my bag. they were like 15 years - judge indianapolis jones Feb 6, 06:26 6
- that was a rollercoaster. ebay is my favorite. -- nm - colin Feb 6, 06:54
- Sucks they broke but I'm so happy you'll be able to replace them. -- nm - Krusty Feb 6, 06:49
- Damn, that's amazing. -- nm - loosilu Feb 6, 06:39 2
  - kind of more amazing: the frames on ebay are brand new. talk about deadstock. -- nm - judge indianapolis jones Feb 6, 06:43 1
    - link? -- nm - loosilu Feb 6, 06:47
- That man later accidentally brutally cut off his own head while shaving. -- nm - Mony Baroney Feb 6, 06:34
D'oh! My license expires in March. Apparently I waited to long to make an appointment so I could also get my Real ID. Guess I'll just renew my -- (edited) - sycor Feb 6, 06:15 1
- You have to get an appointment more than two months ahead of expiration? -- nm - spamlet Feb 6, 06:37
Speaking of Three Pines, question for Canadian STers. The show takes place in a Quebec town (Three Pines) - decline Feb 6, 06:03 5
- I was in Dorval last week, which is a pretty affluent suburb of Montreal. A lot of people speak English in this city, so yes, it's very - Guigue Feb 6, 07:00
- In the books, Gamache spoke French only, until he went to uni in the UK. Three Pines collects people from all over - TWuG Feb 6, 06:56
- it depends. Not so much in Quebec City, but for sure in Montreal and to some extent Ottawa. Also, I cannot believe - loosilu Feb 6, 06:40
- Most anyone in Quebec can do that but outside of urban areas when speaking to tourists, it's gonna be all French. - Mop Feb 6, 06:18 1
  - I was surprised when I learned (about 8 years ago) how many of my relatives do not speak English. - loosilu Feb 6, 06:42
The Turkish earthquake has uncovered their secret supply of nougat -- (link) - Reagen Feb 6, 05:45 [Image] 1
- MMMmmmm nougatty center. -- nm - sycor Feb 6, 05:52
4.2-magnitude earthquake near Buffalo, N.Y., felt in southern Ontario....(link) -- (link) - Walt_Disney Feb 6, 05:42 2
- The Earth is fighting back! -- nm - Mop Feb 6, 05:51 1
  - Finally. -- nm - mara Feb 6, 06:31
1 year in, American opinions on the Russia-Ukraine war are basically unchanged -- (link) - Reagen Feb 6, 05:37 3
- that 2nd graphic showing Inds responding like Reps makes sad mud sad. -- nm - mud Feb 6, 05:44 2
  - Joe Rogan, right leaning “intellectuals”—aka “Independents” -- nm* - Flavorize Feb 6, 06:07 1
    - I feel better already. -- nm - China si Feb 6, 06:36
Last week we got a reminder to take our laptops home each night and lock up personal items. - spamlet Feb 6, 05:06 1
- Heh. Sucks that you have to lock everything up at the end of the day. -- nm - Krusty Feb 6, 05:30
Framed: 1/6. Moviedle: 1/6. Actorle: X/8. - Marlowe Feb 6, 04:52
TV PSA: Bachelor, All American x 2, Fantasy Island, Neighborhood, Bob Hearts Abishola, Alert MSU, NCIS, Quantum Leap, Good Doctor, NCIS Hawaii, - Beaker Feb 6, 04:43
Man City hit with 100 financial charges by Premier League -- (link) - Reagen Feb 6, 04:38 2
- My bet is that they will be fined $100k and given a sternly worded letter on official league letterhead. -- nm - Volnelk Feb 6, 05:23
- Here’s more -- (link) - spamlet Feb 6, 04:47
Weekend Viewing? -- nm - Beaker Feb 6, 04:31 19
- The Stand on Paramount+ first two episodes: B+ - Jovian Feb 6, 06:41
- Was on youth retreat this weekend so not much but we did watch True Spirit (Netflix) last night. B -- nm - oblique Feb 6, 06:23
- Finally finished up the last 2 episodes of DARK S3. S1: A, S2: B, S3: B-. - JaxSean Feb 6, 06:20
- Ted Lasso S1: A. That was very much in my wheelhouse. -- nm - Mony Baroney Feb 6, 06:05 2
  - A show about a football coach in Britain coaching soccer?! -- nm - Mop Feb 6, 06:19 1
    - From Kansas! As a native Kansan, I support the featuring of more fictional Kansans in media. - Mony Baroney Feb 6, 06:31
- Three Pines (Prime video) eps 1-3: B. -- nm - decline Feb 6, 05:58
- Shotgun Wedding-B. Grammy Awards-D. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Feb 6, 05:55 2
  - Ben? -- nm - Reagen Feb 6, 05:58 1
    - do ya'll know the pre gossip story behind this? apparently at the Premiere party of Shotgun Wedding, she's on camera checking his drink glass to see - Epiphany aka sneaky link Feb 6, 06:32
- Black Panther 2 B. -- nm - sycor Feb 6, 05:44
- Pale Blue Eye: B- -- nm - Mop Feb 6, 05:40
- All Quiet on the Western A-, Snabba Cash S2 B-, Happy Valley S3 finale A+ -- nm - mud Feb 6, 05:33 1
  - and another fine episode of TLoU. -- nm - mud Feb 6, 05:45
- I watched a lot of old episodes of Would I Lie To You? as I cleaned up my apartment and avoided the cold. -- nm - Krusty Feb 6, 05:32
- Happy Valley Series finale - A, Animal Kingdom (rewatch) A, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish - B. -- nm - LMS Feb 6, 04:55
- Class Action Park B, Viking Wolf C+, The Dead Don’t Die dnf -- nm - Pippy Feb 6, 04:46
- Black Panther 2: B+; The Last of Us episode 3: A+; Our Flag Means Death s1: B+; Poker Face epis 3 and 4: A-; Vox Machina epis 7-9: A- -- nm - Beaker Feb 6, 04:32 1
  - I haven’t started Poker Face…are they releasing, weekly or is the whole season there, to bing? -- nm - Flavorize Feb 6, 06:15
Waffle: 4 stars - spamlet Feb 6, 03:46 3
- 1/5 - decline Feb 6, 05:39
- 3/5 - znufrii Feb 6, 05:34
- 3/6 - prayformojo Feb 6, 04:29
Wordle 597 4/6 - spamlet Feb 6, 03:31 7
- 5 - 597 - GregW Feb 6, 22:02
- 3/6 - oblique Feb 6, 06:42
- 3/6 - decline Feb 6, 05:38
- 5/6 - znufrii Feb 6, 05:17
- 6/6 - Marlowe Feb 6, 05:02
- 4/6 - all green - prayformojo Feb 6, 04:27 1
  - 4 all green - symmetrical -- (edited) - rollo Feb 6, 06:03
The review embargo for the new Wizarding World game, Howard Legacy, drops at the top of the hour. -- (link) - Ender Feb 6, 03:16
Supernatural and The Boys actor Jim Beaver announces he is cancer free after battle with aggressive prostate cancer. -- (link) - Ender Feb 6, 01:01 2
- That is excellent news -- nm - Beryllium Feb 6, 01:17 1
  - yup -- nm - Beaker Feb 6, 04:58
Puting promises not to assassinate Zelenskyy (really, the guy that says he doesn't bomb civilian hospitals, schools, evacuation corridors????) -- (link) - zeitgeist Feb 6, 00:51
Death toll in Turkish earthquake now reported in excess of 350 :( -- nm - Meg Feb 5, 23:05 3
- its going to be thousands. here's a video showing blocks and blocks of leveled housing with a few random modern buildings barely standing -- (link) - zeitgeist Feb 6, 00:08 2
  - Gazientep Castle, 2,200 years old collapsed... -- (link) - zeitgeist Feb 6, 00:09 1
    - a whole view of hell thanks to social media, trapped people sending out video pleas for rescue -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 6, 00:40
SNL doesn't deserve Ego -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 5, 21:31 3
- The camera work on that was excellent. -- nm - .☕ Feb 6, 01:17
- What fresh Hell was that? -- nm - David Feb 5, 22:06 1
  - Right? Extra, extra well done steak?! -- nm - Ender Feb 6, 00:18
Purdue won, carry on. -- nm - Spawn Feb 5, 21:08 3
- What sport? -- nm - Krusty Feb 5, 21:25 2
  - Good question. -- (link) - Spawn Feb 5, 21:49 [Backboard] 1
    - 🤔 -- nm - Krusty Feb 5, 21:53
Great night for the women. Beyonce sets record for most wins & scores 4 wins tonight. Bonnie Riatt adds 3 tonight as well -- nm - Remlik Feb 5, 21:03
MCU Actor Harry Styles wins Album of the Year. -- nm - Remlik Feb 5, 20:43 4
- he's going to be Eternally smug about this, isn't he? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 20:46 3
  - yes -- nm - Remlik Feb 5, 20:58
  - about this? -- nm - mafic Feb 5, 20:48 1
    - No, you're right. Just in general. -- nm* - Beryllium Feb 5, 20:49
do I try to make more progress on my short story about a time-travelling sniper, or on my deref coding project, or my garage cleanup video, or CoD? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 20:42 5
- CoD it is. -- nm - Mop Feb 5, 22:14 1
  - Obviously. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 22:22
- I mean, I realize the market is currently over-saturated with stories of time-travelling snipers, but still. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 20:49 2
  - a sniper that can time travel knows what to do to take care of that problem -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 6, 00:41 1
    - A Man. A Bullet. A Time Machine. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 6, 21:53
Lol. Grammys gonna Grammy. - MDH Feb 5, 20:42
Bad Batch's latest episode spoilers - Beryllium Feb 5, 20:38
watching Dr. No (1962), the Americans lost a $5 million missle, so James Bond has to go kill everything. We probably spent multiples of that tracking a stupid balloon -- nm* - crash davis Feb 5, 20:36 2
- "one medium dry vodka martini, mixed like you said sir, not stirred" - crash davis Feb 5, 20:47 1
  - Watching it a few years ago, I noticed how many long shots of nothing there were while the theme played - Will Hunting Feb 6, 06:17
bravo, photo editor. bravo. -- (link) - mafic Feb 5, 20:16 5
- context: wreck beach is Vancouver's nude beach -- nm - mafic Feb 5, 20:19 4
  - for me, a nude beach in Vancouver would be where I'd pair cargo shorts with a sweater -- nm - crash davis Feb 5, 20:25 2
    - Maybe in february, but that would probably be overkill for august. - Beryllium Feb 5, 20:36 1
      - double budgie smuggler? -- nm - mafic Feb 5, 20:38
  - ah, thanks for the extra context (so I could find it on their site). This pic, I assume... -- (link*) - Beryllium Feb 5, 20:23
TLoU episode 5 is going to arrive two days early (likely because of the superbowl?), which is good because (episode 4 spoilers) - Beryllium Feb 5, 20:08
According to the featured user review at IMDB, I have no morals because I like Velma. -- nm - crash davis Feb 5, 19:33 13
- I'm worried about you. -- nm - David Feb 5, 19:41 11
  - As long as I can control the dosage amounts, I'm fine mainlining Mindy Kaling -- nm - crash davis Feb 5, 19:45 10
    - I think I'd rather you mainline Cocaine Bear. -- nm - David Feb 5, 20:02 8
      - Okay, where can I score some Cocaine Bear? -- nm - crash davis Feb 5, 20:08 7
        
        Kentucky. -- nm - David Feb 5, 20:10 6
        
        I'll put on my Kentucky to do list. -- nm - crash davis Feb 5, 20:10 5
        
        "apple pie. cocaine bear." -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 20:18 4
        
        Churchill Downs, Mint Juleps, Bourbon Trail, Hillerich & Bradsby, Hot Brown, Cocaine Bear... -- nm - crash davis Feb 5, 20:23 1
        
        But Hot Brown at the Brown Hotel. Other Hot Browns were good, theirs was the best (that I tried). -- nm - sycor Feb 6, 05:43
        
        DERBY PIE in Kentucky -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 5, 20:19 1
        
        sounds delicious! -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 20:25
    - *shivers* -- nm - Krusty Feb 5, 19:59
- Morals are overrated. -- nm - Qale Feb 5, 19:34
The Pale Blue Eye is a good - not great - movie (C+/B-) with a couple of non-spoiler-y elements I'd like to share: - Mop Feb 5, 19:31 2
- Sounds like I should check it out. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 5, 20:01
- Yup. Agree -- nm - Pippy Feb 5, 20:00
Writers alive or dead: Stephen King, Dan Brown, Tom Clancy, Michael Crichton, John Grisham -- nm - Mop Feb 5, 19:22 5
- Alive, if we are lucky Dead, dead, dead, alive but only ghost writers -- nm - Pippy Feb 5, 20:01
- Alive, dead,dead,dead, alive -- nm* - Flavorize Feb 5, 19:41
- alive, alive, dead, dead, alive. -- nm - mafic Feb 5, 19:31 1
  - This ⬆️ -- nm - Krusty Feb 5, 20:00
- King/Brown alive. Clancy/Crichton dead. I’ll go Grisham alive but not totally confident in that. -- nm - MDH Feb 5, 19:23
7.8 magnitude earthquake hits southeast Turkey - prayformojo Feb 5, 19:14 1
- CBC is reporting at least 10 dead already -- nm - zork Feb 5, 19:45
Wood from the Shawshank oak at the center of a civil suit. -- (link) - TWuG Feb 5, 19:13
i didn't hate The Menu but subtle it ain't - hollywood big shot Feb 5, 19:07
SB SNL Skit -- (link) - Flavorize Feb 5, 19:03 1
- I totally lost it at the cement mixer on Saturday night. -- nm - Jovian Feb 6, 06:35
It’s not like there have been any bad performances, but after opening with two great ones the rest have just been “fine” so far. -- nm - Dano Feb 5, 19:00
TLoU ep 3 was as good as most of y’all and some folks I follow said. A++. — nm - i.b! Feb 5, 18:41
did i drop acid and not realize it? -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 18:20 2
- Use the wrong mushrooms in your dinner? -- nm - Krusty Feb 5, 18:26 1
  - fuckin' Harry -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 18:30
Have I mentioned how much I love this guy's work :) -- (pic) - Meg Feb 5, 18:16 [Attachment] 1
- haha! -- nm - Remlik Feb 5, 18:17
WWE Superstar Bad Bunny wins a grammy and remains the only winner of Best Música Urbana Album.... -- (link) - Remlik Feb 5, 18:15
Somebody should have come with someone better for a NASCAR halftime show - Strongbad Feb 5, 18:13 4
- Tough night to book a music act. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Feb 5, 18:25
- NASCAR has halftime now? -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 18:14 2
  - You have to squeeze your show components into the caution laps -- nm - Mony Baroney Feb 5, 18:16
  - It's technically a non-points race with a smaller field than normal - Strongbad Feb 5, 18:16
Ben Affleck at the Grammys -- (link) - Beaker Feb 5, 18:09 3
- "C'mon Jen! I can't even have a sip of your drink?" -- nm - Mop Feb 5, 19:12
- I had to think hard about why he's there. -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 18:22
- Did he just blink t-o-r-t-u-r-e in Morse code? -- nm - Mony Baroney Feb 5, 18:14

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