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It's like 2015 again. I just bought tickets through Groupon. - Andie Mar 30, 12:20 2
- With you there, Keep getting 30-40% off codes on top of their discounted prices. My oil changes for Full Synth are $30. Medival Times for $15 -- nm* - budice Mar 30, 12:27
- Til, Groupon still exists...I used to get emails daily, haven't heard a word in years -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 30, 12:27
Today's experiment - instead of a little salt to season my tuna salad, how about I use Vegemite instead? - crash davis Mar 30, 12:12 11
- *covers mouth to puke* -- nm - Remlik Mar 30, 12:19 1
  - I hope the mail has gone out already, before you throw up -- nm* - crash davis Mar 30, 12:20
- Have you ever tried curry powder in tuna or egg salad? That's the Aussie way. -- nm - Meg Mar 30, 12:16 5
  - I have not, but I will try that. Thanks! -- nm - crash davis Mar 30, 12:20
  - I do it for deviled eggs. Yum! also add finely chopped scallions. -- nm - loosilu Mar 30, 12:18 3
    - Shallots...my lady of -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 30, 12:21
    - Exactly, and garnish with a slice of pickle or olive. -- nm - Meg Mar 30, 12:19 1
      - I'll try that. -- nm - loosilu Mar 30, 12:27
- Mayo average 100mg per tablespoon, capers and peppers are probably sodium full -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 30, 12:15
- Where do you come from? -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 30, 12:14 1
  - Where women glow and men plunder -- nm - crash davis Mar 30, 12:17
3 is the magic (highest) number. 2 Teams have thrown 3 perfect games and 2 teams have had 3 thrown against. Name them. -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 30, 12:09 1
- Hmmm. Quiet here. spoilers - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 30, 12:14
David...the comicsbeat recap about Ike/Marvel -- (link) - Remlik Mar 30, 11:54 3
- Thank you! I'm reading everything. Iger's day yesterday was one of the best I've ever seen a CEO have. - David Mar 30, 12:11 2
  - it really was pretty remarkable how Iger did this. -- nm - Remlik Mar 30, 12:18 1
    - and i'm sure DeSantis will abide by a simple restrictive covenant filing with the clerk of court - hollywood big shot Mar 30, 12:23
Manhattan grand jury is looking into the second $150k hush money payment to the other porn model -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 30, 11:53 9
- I don't think that Karen McDougal has ever done anything that would traditionally be thought of as porn -- nm - JD Mar 30, 12:06
- assuming this one has to be about McDougal ? -- nm - Jovian Mar 30, 12:04
- How many porn stars did he sleep with??!! -- nm - Pippy the Gifted Mar 30, 12:01 6
  - as many as he wanted. He and Melania had an open relationship. (she still has her same side piece btw) -- nm - Jovian Mar 30, 12:02 5
    - Is this true? -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 30, 12:10 4
      - From my friend who worked for him from like 2006 - 2012 had always told me this. - Jovian Mar 30, 12:16 2
        
        and also told me that he was there when he went on a tirade about Celine Dion and called her a cya next tuesday repeatedly. -- (edited) - Jovian Mar 30, 12:18 1
        
        these stories were all told to me well before he was even a thing on the national stage. -- nm - Jovian Mar 30, 12:19
      - Secret service ain't saying. -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 30, 12:13
3 years on, what percentage of pre-demmy life has yours returned to (probably 95% doing what i did before, though feels like the world itself is only - hollywood big shot Mar 30, 11:26 27
- I think 80%. -- nm - loosilu Mar 30, 12:28
- Excluding the WFH job change, pretty much the same but for my formerly 24H grocery now closing at 11pm. Sometimes I like to shop at 4am. - Max Mar 30, 12:14
- It is 99% out of my thought process until forced upon me in certain locations (doctors offices, hospitals, crowded indoor spaces) - oblique Mar 30, 12:09
- Only difference is being able to wfh more, really. -- nm - znufrii Mar 30, 12:07
- 90% don't go out as often. I have not reopened my "office" but really most differences are more because of age... - zeitgeist Mar 30, 12:06 1
  - My wedding biz hardly broke stride. I moved the garden rocks so I wasn't as close to the couple. Closed office. - zeitgeist Mar 30, 12:11
- I think it's the same minus being in an office every day. Granted I've been in 11 of the last 14 business days. -- nm - MDH Mar 30, 12:05
- 60%? occasional bar or restaurant, but still shy away from crowds. masked at shows, but have been to a few now. less travel, work slow. -- nm - colin Mar 30, 12:04
- 85%. I still think about it in public. Times have changed -- nm - Pippy the Gifted Mar 30, 12:00 1
  - Twinsies! -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 30, 12:06
- probably 95% -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 30, 11:48
- 70% Some of it is related to the huge increase in crime and homelessness during the pandemic, which is continuing unabated. I don't feel safe doing a - jnine Mar 30, 11:40
- Good and bad, pretty much all of it including being back in the office -- (edited) - JD Mar 30, 11:37
- 80%. I still think about it in crowded places and at the doctor's office. -- nm - David Mar 30, 11:37
- 95% -- nm - Beaker Mar 30, 11:35
- I'd say 90%? Though it's so along ago, and we took everything for granted then, that it's tough to gauge -- nm - ty97 Mar 30, 11:34 2
  - Are you licking doorknobs again, yes or no? -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 30, 11:35 1
    - Wait, we were supposed to stop? -- nm - ty97 Mar 30, 12:07
- 60-70%? Still working. But don't go to movies anymore and only occasionally go to restaurants. - sycor Mar 30, 11:32 1
  - Livealittle! -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 30, 11:34
- 95% -- nm - Krusty Mar 30, 11:31
- 50%-60% - decline Mar 30, 11:31
- 85% -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 30, 11:31
- 90% - Beryllium Mar 30, 11:30
- i think i just got more used to being home than i was before. i'm probably at about 75%. -- nm - Andie Mar 30, 11:29 2
  - i think COVID only revealed just how locked down my typical routine was before March 2020 anyway - hollywood big shot Mar 30, 11:40
  - I think is me too. Now it's just more... ugh, do I have to actually put on pants and leave the house? -- nm - sycor Mar 30, 11:33
Hilariously, I’m in the office today and am actually doing something I need to be in the office for. - znufrii Mar 30, 11:18 1
- My bad. Still trying to get the house packed up and didn't think you would need it. -- nm - sycor Mar 30, 11:22
Paris declared war on cars and so far is winning -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 30, 11:17 1
- *burns down city hall* -- nm - Taxi Drivers Mar 30, 11:35
"If you don't invest in baseball, baseball is boring..." - Name Withheld By Request Mar 30, 11:01 4
- it's been almost 42 years since I was at a perfect game. 5/15/81 Cleveland/Toronto -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 30, 11:07 1
  - 32 years for me. 7/28/1991 -- nm - jnine Mar 30, 11:44
- this is why Eight Men Out is my favorite. none of the Terrence Mann "BAYSE-ball, Ray" bullshit. just coming to the game as the rapacious capitalist - hollywood big shot Mar 30, 11:05
- Basketball and football, I enjoy watching games that do not have my teams playing. Baseball, not so much. -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 30, 11:03
CNN rebrand as Fox Lite going great -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 30, 10:51 2
- Holy shit, I mean I knew they had to be down, but: 'CNN’s dip is most dramatic — 61% in prime time in March' -- nm - Jovian Mar 30, 10:52 1
  - couldn't happen to a bunch of nicer guys -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 30, 10:53
“Opening Day and here’s the first pitch…and the season’s over.” -- (link) - Tim Mar 30, 10:50 4
- dang, hope it is a speedy recovery. -- nm - crash davis Mar 30, 12:07
- Poor Kate Upton. -- nm - David Mar 30, 11:32 1
  - JV gets to spend more time there, oh the punishment. -- nm - budice Mar 30, 11:51
- Ugh! Sorry. -- nm - Krusty Mar 30, 11:04
I just met Rachel Dratch while we were both walking dogs in a park in Gramercy. -- nm - Krusty Mar 30, 10:40 14
- 😺 -- nm - crash davis Mar 30, 12:08
- Neat! -- nm - Pippy the Gifted Mar 30, 11:16
- Wow. She should have saved some of that SNL money. -- nm - Mop Mar 30, 11:01 4
  - I saw her on Jon Oliver recently. HBO Money should be better than SNL. -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 30, 11:11
  - Heh. 😄 - Krusty Mar 30, 11:09
  - *sad trombone with Debbie Downer face* -- nm - Roger More Mar 30, 11:07
  - i think "SNL money" is an oxymoron. -- nm - Andie Mar 30, 11:04
- Hope Debbie didn't bring you down. -- nm - VMan Mar 30, 10:59
- oh, jealous. She's awesome. (how short is she??) -- nm - Andie Mar 30, 10:51 3
  - I'm a big fan myself but kept my cool and just talked about the dogs. She's rather short and was walking gingerly so I thought it - Krusty Mar 30, 11:02 2
    - “Looks like you hurt yourself…falling from heaven” - Flavorize Mar 30, 11:33
    - hmm. - Andie Mar 30, 11:03
- you met Ruffles?! -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 30, 10:50
- thats great -- nm - Jovian Mar 30, 10:41
CBS Studios and Paramount+ have formally announced Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, a new Star Trek series that will follow a new class of Starfleet cadets -- (link*) - decline Mar 30, 10:39 1
- Sounds like a Discovery spinoff, which might mean more Tilly. And maybe, for a tiny bit, more Killy. So I'll definitely be watching. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 30, 10:43
don't play Badminton, play Goodminton -- nm - Beaker Mar 30, 10:34
today in “cats are dumb as fucking rocks” -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 30, 10:34
Oh hey, YouTube TV dropped MLB Network last month! - David Mar 30, 10:32 3
- I only pay for MLB.tv but I can't watch the Sox either because it's an ESPN game. - spamlet Mar 30, 11:21
- can't you VPN elsewhere on MLB.tv and get around the blackout? -- nm - colin Mar 30, 10:35 1
  - I don't actually watch pirated sports as a rule. -- nm - David Mar 30, 11:32
Dominion court filing shows Fox News emails knowing claims were false Nov 2020. Chief Legal said airing falsehoods shouldve been stopped. -- (link*) - budice Mar 30, 10:30 [Attachment]
Judge! -- nm - Jovian Mar 30, 10:25 2
- Jury! - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 30, 11:06
- 💪🏽 -- nm - Krusty Mar 30, 10:42
Your laugh til you almost pass out video for the day. -- (link) - TWuG Mar 30, 10:23 3
- Haha! -- nm - Krusty Mar 30, 11:35
- I have seen this kid before, back when Logan was a tromboner. -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 30, 11:04
- lmao -- nm - Jovian Mar 30, 10:28
If a process is three times faster that's 1/3rd of the time, right? Sounded strange when I heard it. -- nm - Meg Mar 30, 10:22
The ball is pitched and there you are -- nm - eag Mar 30, 10:22
can’t wait to see all the new faces Mike Elias has brought up for opening day with his rebuild… -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 30, 10:21 5
- The Grayson Rodriguez thing is just so embarrassing. -- nm - Inigo Mar 30, 10:24 4
  - He didn’t earn the spot so let him get right for a few weeks. - Will Hunting Mar 30, 10:27 3
    - C'mon. This is clearly a move to get him another year of service. That's it. - Inigo Mar 30, 10:30 2
      - He came back from the back injury and his command is shaky…he’s had an Era north of 5 this year and his walk rate is like 9%…he needs to get right. - Will Hunting Mar 30, 10:34 1
        
        It's spring training. He can "get right" fine in the majors. -- (edited) - Inigo Mar 30, 11:27
Why are movies today so dark? Motivated light. -- (link) - TWuG Mar 30, 10:11 3
- i agree, more realistic. and tvs are much better than they have been at any point.. but people are still watching them in less than ideal conditions. -- nm - colin Mar 30, 10:24
- ik, r? -- nm - Picard Mar 30, 10:16
- Spielberg fired Vilmos and started working with Janusz -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 30, 10:16
Clock | Official Trailer | Hulu (April 28th) -- (link) - Beaker Mar 30, 10:10 [youtube] 1
- That checks out. -- nm - Mop Mar 30, 11:16
LIR Qale, thanks for that Good Smile link. I had been wanting to get their Stitch and Samus figures, but I think I'll pass on those now. -- nm - sycor Mar 30, 10:03
There are some seriously, seriously insecure men out there. -- (link) - TWuG Mar 30, 09:57 28
- that's just a wild wild take. -- nm - Andie Mar 30, 10:37
- this was started by Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist incel. and it's moving in the incel community. context inside... - colin Mar 30, 10:28 7
  - Is he also a Nevernude? -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 30, 11:39
  - "The lady doth protest too much." - TWuG Mar 30, 10:43 4
    - he's got power and money from being the way he is, he really has no reason to change until there are consequences. -- nm - colin Mar 30, 10:49 3
      - If he's legit mad he isn't getting laid, money has been known to procure a sexual partner. -- nm - TWuG Mar 30, 10:51 2
        
        Paying for sex is gay, probably. -- nm - znufrii Mar 30, 11:08
        
        Doesn't work for them, because they are spun up in their heads about stuff. Spendthrifts, of a sort. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 30, 10:56
  - tbh, i'm mad i immediately knew all about this when i saw your post. -- (edited) - colin Mar 30, 10:29
- This honestly sound like a Fox News quote—people trying hard to be mad about something. -- nm - Flavorize Mar 30, 10:20
- “please do all these things to me mommy!” -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 30, 10:12
- Lesbianics sounds like a lesbian drama. -- nm - David Mar 30, 10:09 5
  - George: Where did you take your car to get fixed? Jerry: I took it to my lesbian mechanic - my lesbianic -- nm - rollo Mar 30, 10:16
  - or a university course -- nm - Beaker Mar 30, 10:15
  - Or a competition. -- nm - Reagen Mar 30, 10:13
  - animated -- nm - prayformojo Mar 30, 10:09 1
    - "It's time for Lesbianiacs, they're zany to the max! So sit back and relax and you'll laugh til you climax!" -- nm - TWuG Mar 30, 10:16
- Not to excuse it but when I see those, I think, man your parents did a number on you. -- nm - Reagen Mar 30, 10:06 1
  - the men pushing this are white supremacists and self identified incels. there's a lot wrong, probably less about parents, more about being too online. -- nm - colin Mar 30, 10:31
- bwhahahaha -- nm - prayformojo Mar 30, 10:06
- So by this logic, gay men who are Tops, arent actually homosexual? -- nm - Jovian Mar 30, 10:04
- tweeted by a person who’s never had a woman do any of these things to him. -- (edited) - Will Hunting Mar 30, 10:04
- I always think " surely they can't be serious" trolling? click bait? -- nm - Pippy the Gifted Mar 30, 10:03 1
  - Hard to say. Obviously, the tweet I linked is "click bait" and there's not an easy way to see if the screen cap is - TWuG Mar 30, 10:14
- I mean typically they drive overpriced sports cars that makes lots of vroom vroom noises to prove their dominance. - tRuMaN Mar 30, 10:01 3
  - If I drive a flatbed with a sports car on top, who's the man? -- nm - Max Mar 30, 10:07 1
    - *YOU* THE MAN!!! -- nm - Cocaine Owlbear Mar 30, 11:01
  - ... what about the lifted pickup trucks? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 30, 10:03
play ball -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 30, 09:55 1
- Let's play two -- nm - rollo Mar 30, 10:13

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