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rollo, I shot you a couple of more scrims to try out something. -- nm - spamlet Apr 14, 06:16
Wordle Weekly Recap (NYT) - prayformojo Apr 14, 06:03
my wife pulled the nuclear option and reported the Badminton guy to Safe Sport Canada. -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 06:03 2
- Good. - znufrii Apr 14, 06:16
- good for her! - decline Apr 14, 06:08
Govenor decides to give state employees a retention bonus (good) but that means the state HR office had to stop working on my department's salary - sycor Apr 14, 05:51
Digits 15/15 (for some reason the 1st couple gave me more trouble that the larger numbers) - decline Apr 14, 05:36 4
- 15/15 - spamlet Apr 14, 06:24
- Digits #5 (15/15⭐). I was much closer to your solutions here except on the last one. I wonder if someone with much more math insight - oblique Apr 14, 05:55
- 15/15....easiest so far for me by several touchdowns (strange that we only had one solution in common) - prayformojo Apr 14, 05:45
- 15/15 - znufrii Apr 14, 05:44
Waffle 3/5 - znufrii Apr 14, 05:08 2
- 1 - 448 - GregW Apr 14, 10:29
- 1 - decline Apr 14, 05:28
TV PSA: Shark Tank, Penn & Teller, Smackdown, Grand Crew, Who's Line is it Anyway?, Jury Duty, The Power, Marvelous Mrs Maisel, - Beaker Apr 14, 04:48 3
- Netflix’s ‘The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die’ delivers a fitting, feature-film finish to an underappreciated show -- (link) - Beaker Apr 14, 04:59 2
  - I LOVE that show. -- nm - loosilu Apr 14, 06:09
  - Uhtred, slut of Uhtred. - Inigo Apr 14, 05:09
Wordle 664 4/6 - The Rice Paddies of Jatiluwih - prayformojo Apr 14, 02:49 5
- 4/6 - oblique Apr 14, 06:03
- 3 - decline Apr 14, 05:27
- 4/6 - znufrii Apr 14, 05:04
- 3 - 664 - GregW Apr 14, 04:11
- 3/6 - no clever title - spamlet Apr 14, 03:27
"If I understand correctly, Bitcoin is a way to take huge amounts of electricity and convert it into Beanie Babies." -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 14, 01:24
Nic Cage on Colbert so pretentious I'm not sure if he's pretending to be or actually is....but damn I love that leather sports coat (blk paisley) -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 14, 00:11
Schwartzenegger fills a pothole, city says it's a So Cal Gas Co service trench for a job to be finished by end of May. Now-job was finished in January -- (link) - Meg Apr 13, 23:30 1
- Question - if it was an active trench in the road why was it not barricaded or coned off?? -- nm - Meg Apr 13, 23:31
well, poop -- nm - crash davis Apr 13, 22:36 1
- Language! -- nm - David Apr 13, 23:20
Protestors yelled NY HATES YOU at the donald when he arrived for the next round of questionings... wouldn't that help him get any trials moved? -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 13, 22:34 8
- His cult truly doesn't understand it. They think they know the Real Donnie. -- nm - loosilu Apr 14, 06:10
- based on historical facts. the sun rising in the East is an excuse for Donny to want the trial moved. -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 13, 22:36 6
  - well yeah, but having a street full of people screaming we hate you might prove his point even if its only a handful out of millions -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 13, 23:21 5
    - Other than at Mar-a-Lago, he's probably going to have a handful of people telling him that they hate him for the rest of his life wherever he goes. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 14, 05:04 1
      - I volunteer as tribute. -- nm - loosilu Apr 14, 06:10
    - Nope. It doesn't matter. -- nm - Krusty Apr 14, 04:41
    - So about the size of his rally audiences? ;) -- nm - Meg Apr 13, 23:23 1
      - really really HUGE, fans lined up, tears in their eyes, crying New York gets you -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 13, 23:26
Judicial ethics, nearby county judge was fired for doing a wedding and putting the $100 fee in his pocket, no receipt... - zeitgeist Apr 13, 22:13 1
- meanwhile -- (link) - oblique Apr 14, 05:32
Did you hear about the guy who stole Peter’s baseball? - JD Apr 13, 22:07 1
- 👍 -- nm - crash davis Apr 13, 22:37
Twitter increases character limit to 10,000 for fools who pay for Twitter. -- (link) - Ender Apr 13, 22:06 6
- They should rename it Litter. -- nm - loosilu Apr 14, 06:11
- 10,000 characters for 10,000 maniacs. -- nm - Qale Apr 13, 22:42 2
  - 10,000 ascii letters, not too many of them have any character as russian and other bots are flooding the place -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 13, 23:22 1
    - I deactivated my account yesterday. I’m going to make it the 30 days this time. -- nm - Qale Apr 13, 23:39
- the David tax -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 13, 22:11
- *blocks Twitter* -- nm - Tumblr Apr 13, 22:10
That’s the most Star Wars the Mandalorian has been for seasons, and it was still dumb. -- nm - Mop Apr 13, 21:48 1
- no -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 04:37
Cannons...new music -- (link) - Remlik Apr 13, 21:04 [youtube] 1
- Thanks -- nm - Pippy Apr 14, 04:09
Substack: owner won't say they will be against racism... -- (link) - Remlik Apr 13, 20:43 2
- My 2 cents ... -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 13, 20:54 [mastodon] 1
  - yup. -- nm - Remlik Apr 13, 20:59
I think there's something wrong with my thermostat. It says the heat hasn't run all day, but it's 14° hotter than my set temperature... -- nm - Ender Apr 13, 20:43 1
- you give me fever when you set me, fever when you adjust me...you give me fever in the morning, fever all through the night.... -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 13, 23:24
McDavid ends the season with 153 points, with only Gretz, Lemieux and Yzerman having scored more in a season. -- nm - Reagen Apr 13, 20:39
Leafs win! -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 13, 20:04 1
- smh -- nm - crash davis Apr 13, 20:06
jeebus -- nm - crash davis Apr 13, 20:03
lest anyone think Harlan Crow doesn’t have a vested interest in any actual SCOTUS cases -- (link) - hollywood big shot Apr 13, 19:43 1
- at least Sheldon Whitehouse has some stones -- (link) - hollywood big shot Apr 13, 19:45
Fuck em up, Kraken. -- nm - Reagen Apr 13, 19:25 2
- Fucked it up, Blue Jackets... -- nm - Ender Apr 13, 19:40 1
  - Yup -- nm - Volnelk Apr 13, 19:44
Trailer for Jury Duty (tv show)—I’m going to keep banging this drum -- (link) - Flavorize Apr 13, 19:19
Click-bait blonde promised to eat a poutine hot dog for every run the Toronto Blue Jays score…the results are not surprising -- (link) - Flavorize Apr 13, 19:15 3
- Thank you for telling me about the existende of poutine hot dogs. -- nm - loosilu Apr 14, 06:12
- Worth the loss just for her to have to do this. ;-) -- nm* - Krusty Apr 13, 19:23 1
  - Truth -- nm - Flavorize Apr 13, 20:33
TIL recently - the strap in the back of my retro Kraken jersey is called a fight strap. - crash davis Apr 13, 19:00 7
- you are correct, plus fun fact: if the IM happens to you, you get a penalty. -- nm - mafic Apr 13, 20:15 3
  - really, with someone else pulling it? -- nm - crash davis Apr 13, 20:17 2
    - Also known as the Rob Ray rule -- (link) - Reagen Apr 13, 20:27 1
      - ah, thank you! -- nm - crash davis Apr 13, 20:30
- Retro? Two years old? -- nm - . Apr 13, 19:03 2
  - Its a design based off the jersey of the Seattle Ironmen, a team from the '40s -- nm - crash davis Apr 13, 19:06 1
    - Ahh -- nm - . Apr 13, 19:12
"Leaked Audio Reveals Tennessee Republicans Are Pissed at Being Made to Seem 'Racist'" -- nm - not the onion...its Mastodon Apr 13, 18:58 3
- nah just mad two black colleagues had the temerity to act like they were equals on TV -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 13, 19:41 1
  - Yup. That is a more diplomatic way to say it -- nm - Pippy Apr 14, 04:13
- Too bad they can't avoid that by, y'know...not being racist? -- nm - znufrii Apr 13, 19:20
If Friday night ticket presales at my local theatre are any indication, Renfield is tanking. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 13, 18:44 6
- I don't believe anyone expected a Nick Cage / Nick Hoult movie to exactly run away with the box office. -- nm - Qale Apr 13, 18:56 5
  - 7:15 Friday night, zero tickets sold -- nm - Beryllium Apr 13, 18:57 4
    - sounds like it's time for a private screening -- nm - mafic Apr 13, 19:28 3
      - My one opening weekend private screening experience was Bubble Boy. I’ve had other private screenings but not opening weekend. -- nm - Dano Apr 13, 19:38 2
        
        Babe 2. -- nm - Reagen Apr 13, 19:40 1
        
        Babe 3: Parabellum -- nm - Beryllium Apr 14, 00:16
East matchups are set - Reagen Apr 13, 18:44
I had three goals for this hockey season. - crash davis Apr 13, 18:32 29
- Awesome! -- nm - JaxSean Apr 13, 19:18
- Congratulations on the hat trick. It's fun you're having fun. -- nm - zunkskunk Apr 13, 19:09
- when are you going to Zamboni school so you can drive them? -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 13, 18:54 1
  - I'll check with the Idaho Steelheads -- nm - crash davis Apr 13, 18:55
- What's the period of the long change and why? -- nm - Mop Apr 13, 18:45 6
  - 2nd period because they switch goal ends and your goal is further away from the bench. If you're going to come at me, come hard -- nm - crash davis Apr 13, 18:47 5
    - I think I was 40 before I learned this. -- nm - Mop Apr 13, 19:40 1
      - There is a lot of things I've yet to learn, but it has been a fun process. -- nm - crash davis Apr 13, 19:59
    - partial credit. It's also the 1st OT period. -- nm - Reagen Apr 13, 18:49 2
      - every OT I've seen has one period then a shootout -- nm - crash davis Apr 13, 18:53 1
        
        wait for it.... - Playoff OT Apr 13, 18:55
- another first in the history of the Las Vegas Golden Knights. -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 13, 18:43
- Are you a defenseman? -- nm - David Apr 13, 18:33 9
  - No, I'm a sexy center. I get hit, somebody else kicks that dude's a$$ for me. That is a perk and a half. -- nm - crash davis Apr 13, 18:40 8
    - But I've really come to appreciate defensemen. At the beginning of the season, I thought goalies were responsible for all goals. But they aren't - crash davis Apr 13, 18:46 6
      - We gave one to Reagen and turned his team into a juggernaut. - David Apr 13, 18:58 5
        
        That would be good. BTW, the Kraken made what everyone is calling the best waiver wire pick up in the NHL this year: Eeli Tolvannen(sp) from Nashville - crash davis Apr 13, 19:04 4
        
        You can probably find my comments on him in the ST archive. He looked generational in the Russian league. I'll never understand why we gave up on him. -- nm - David Apr 13, 19:07 3
        
        Here's one: -- (link) - David Apr 13, 19:18 [Backboard] 2
        
        Also, this... -- (link) - David Apr 13, 19:18 [Backboard] 1
        
        I don't know if its a different system or what, but he has been great for the Kraken -- nm - crash davis Apr 13, 19:25
    - You're the WG and you've got your own Moose, is what you're saying? -- nm - Beryllium Apr 13, 18:45
- watching you get into hockey has been a legitimate kick -- nm - prayformojo Apr 13, 18:33 6
  - Yup—agreed. Your passion has feed, my interest in NHL, this year -- nm* - Flavorize Apr 13, 18:46 3
    - Just so you know, I've decided VGK suck way more than the Avs -- nm - crash davis Apr 13, 19:11 2
      - they went from a fun story to "Fuck those guys" in record time. -- nm - Reagen Apr 13, 19:14
      - Whew—we definitely can agree on that. Golden Knights are absolutely the worst -- nm - Flavorize Apr 13, 19:12
  - 😺 -- nm - crash davis Apr 13, 18:41
  - yup, now he needs to come watch me play! -- nm - Beaker Apr 13, 18:35
dammit, Landeskog's gonna miss this playoffs? dammit. - prayformojo Apr 13, 18:28
So...Bud Light is no longer manly enough for conservatives? A light beer? -- nm - . Apr 13, 18:27 2
- I really think they just need to switch to 10W30 -- nm - Beryllium Apr 13, 18:27 1
  - And none of that synthetic bullshit! -- nm - Qale Apr 13, 18:57
I'm not sure if the arguments in this video apply uniformly, but it's something to think about re: rooftop solar + hidden societal costs -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 13, 18:21 [youtube] 1
- net metering doesn't exist here anymore. you have to get a meter that measures import/export separately, and there are different prices for - mafic Apr 13, 19:27
Kane is almost certainly in when he retires. Toews' resume is a bit thin - Reagen Apr 13, 18:16 3
- He won a Con Smythe trophy. Also named one of the 100 greatest players ever. He’s a lock. -- nm - pmb Apr 13, 20:30
- Toews scored a goal in his last game here. -- nm - pmb Apr 13, 19:31
- Honestly if Kane retires too I think it will really help Toews get in as a package deal. -- nm - spamlet Apr 13, 18:21
I suppose if facial recognition can track 1b chinese citizens, fbi can sort finger prints digitally, they can match granite without much trouble -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 13, 18:14
Most of Ted Lasso's story arcs just aren't landing this year. -- nm - David Apr 13, 18:09 6
- Whoops -- nm* - Will Hunting Apr 13, 18:17
- this cracked me up - minor spoilers, but awesome -- (link) - Beaker Apr 13, 18:14 [youtube]
- Last year’s didn’t either. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 13, 18:09 3
  - Last year had some missteps. This year has legitimate misses. - David Apr 13, 18:21 1
    - I don't understand why Keeley is still on the show. Her story is completely irrelevant. I can kinda understand Nate... - howie Apr 13, 18:55
  - We're not all the way caught up but I'm sensing it's following last year. I'm beginning to think S1 was lightning in a bottle. -- nm - spamlet Apr 13, 18:17
Everything's a little bit gay -- (link) - Beaker Apr 13, 18:08
18,000 cows killed in a texas dairy farm explosion -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 13, 18:07 8
- Food farm/factory fires are becoming the Chem-trails of this decade. -- nm - Flavorize Apr 13, 18:30 2
  - Neither are real? -- nm - Mop Apr 13, 18:42 1
    - Neither are happening, headed by the government, to secretly poison and destroy the human race -- nm - Flavorize Apr 13, 19:11
- "I heard you struck my son." "Yes, sir, I did." "And may I ask why?" "Yeah, well, because he stole John Milk's truck, sir, and, uh, killed his cows." -- nm - Max Apr 13, 18:27 1
  - "That nobody is John Milk." "Who is John Milk?" "Baba Moojuice." -- nm - Beryllium Apr 13, 20:53
- meanwhile, in France -- (pic) - prayformojo Apr 13, 18:19 [Attachment]
- gotta wonder WTH, was it a build up of methane... or ammonia from urine collection pools -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 13, 18:10 1
  - Something "overheated"; I assume Yosemite Sam blew his top over a frustrating varmint of some kind or another. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 13, 18:11
Anyone watching Jury Duty (tv show) on Prime? -- nm - Flavorize Apr 13, 18:03

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