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Hard pounding this gentlemen. let's see who will pound the longest - Beaker Apr 20, 17:57
"please quit doin' that, I just want to have a shot of whisky in peace" -- nm - prayformojo Apr 20, 17:49
ahh, the worst part of any hockey game upcoming, the dirtiest shit imaginable with no repercussions -- nm - Beaker Apr 20, 17:47
Local Comic Auction guy : limited variant 500 copies only printed...I have 4 up for bid - Beaker Apr 20, 17:31
2nd year university...my daughter just got an A on a paper comparing and contrasting One Direction and 5 Seconds of Summer... nm - Beaker Apr 20, 17:27 10
- Finally, one not about Taylor Swift -- nm - Professor si#3 Apr 20, 17:58 1
  - she saving something for her final year -- nm - Beaker Apr 20, 17:58
- This is one of the best things I have ever read. -- nm - Professor, crying, probably Apr 20, 17:55
- I mean, good for her for being able to convincingly work that into whatever the course is about. -- nm - mafic Apr 20, 17:37 3
  - "You can major in *Game Boy* if you know how to bullshit!" -- nm - Reagen Apr 20, 17:54 1
    - "Thanks, Dad!" -- ChatGPT -- nm - Beryllium Apr 20, 17:54
  - I believe this one is her pop Culture course, so makes sense. -- nm - Beaker Apr 20, 17:38
- one's British and one's Australian. one broke up and the other is still together. that's all I got. -- nm - Tim Apr 20, 17:29 2
  - B+ -- nm - Beaker Apr 20, 17:29 1
    - don't get me wrong, we are super proud of her, but English (Arts) is quite a different kettle of fish from sciences (where she started last year) -- nm - Beaker Apr 20, 17:32
Picard finale (spoils) - Jovian Apr 20, 17:21 2
- Define "present timeline"... -- nm - Ender Apr 20, 17:59
- Spoilers - David Apr 20, 17:47
The Atlantic: Elon Musk Has Broken Disaster-Response Twitter by By Juliette Kayyem - mud Apr 20, 17:15 1
- yeah, AOC brought this up too -- nm - Beaker Apr 20, 17:16
can someone please murder Cabbie. Get him off my hockey broadcast please. -- nm - Beaker Apr 20, 17:06 1
- The line on him getting murdered this period is +375. -- nm - Reagen Apr 20, 17:14
love this one -- (link) - Beaker Apr 20, 16:55
We're still working our way through the Netherlands Yums box. Those salty licorice things were easily the worst thing I've had from Yums, by... - prayformojo Apr 20, 16:48 3
- in a past office, any food put out would be gone super fast - a coworker joked nuclear waste could be put out and gone fast. -- (edited) - i.b! Apr 20, 17:07
- I used to work with a Dutch guy who would get the extra salty ones sent from home. it's certainly an experience. -- nm - mafic Apr 20, 17:04
- I love black licorice, but they can throw that salted stuff in a deep dark hole. -- nm - Reagen Apr 20, 16:54
START THE PARADE! -- nm - Beaker Apr 20, 16:47
Chippy start to the Sixers game -- nm - znufrii Apr 20, 16:45
The heck? -- (link) - mara Apr 20, 16:41 8
- So he’s passing out free checks to people who can definitely afford it. How generous -- nm - Pippy Apr 20, 16:48 4
  - Like hiring celebs to sit in your nightclub. -- nm - Reagen Apr 20, 16:57 3
    - Except the nightclub is like Fyre Festival. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 20, 17:14 2
      - Or Twitchcon... whichever one it was where the person broke their back in the foam pit. Or the other one with the teeny tiny ball pit. -- nm* - Beryllium Apr 20, 17:14 1
        
        Oh damn, that twitchcon was *october 2022* it felt like 4 years ago -- nm - Beryllium Apr 20, 17:24
- Musk did the same thing "for" Lebron. Makes people think celebrities are paying for it -- nm - Beaker Apr 20, 16:42 2
  - But the phone number thing is weird. -- nm - mara Apr 20, 16:45
  - Shatner too -- nm - Jovian Apr 20, 16:44
part 217 in my life is weirder than I expected: I just approved an expense request for 1 cow for the site geos for Eid. - mafic Apr 20, 16:31 4
- That's fairly cheap, I think. -- nm - spamlet Apr 20, 16:43 1
  - about a third what it would cost here, assuming similarly-sized cows. -- nm - mafic Apr 20, 17:03
- I blame the refs -- nm - Beaker Apr 20, 16:40
- They're taking advantage of the company, normally they have a goat -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 20, 16:40
Wood Milk, from Aburey Plaza -- (link) - prayformojo Apr 20, 16:30 1
- I'd never thought of syrup like that until now. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 20, 16:34
refs at it again I see. bullshit call. -- nm - Beaker Apr 20, 16:20 6
- I say this with love, but the refs don't make 10% of the bad calls you think they do, and they don't have it in for any particular team. -- nm - mafic Apr 20, 16:32 3
  - Spectating sports is very confirmation biasy. -- nm - mara Apr 20, 16:40 2
    - you *would* say that. -- nm - Reagen Apr 20, 16:42 1
      - There you go again! -- nm - mara Apr 20, 16:46
- cry moar -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 20, 16:22 1
  - I'm on your side! -- nm - Beaker Apr 20, 16:26
Mets' Scherzer suspended 10 games after foreign substance ejection -- nm - Beaker Apr 20, 16:18 5
- 😬 -- nm - Scherzer’s son Apr 20, 16:34
- Way to screw up your HoF lock -- nm - eag Apr 20, 16:20 1
  - *cackles* -- nm - Gaylord Perry Apr 20, 16:53
- Crisco... Bardol... Vagisil... -- nm - Pachypodium baronii Apr 20, 16:20 1
  - “You put snot on the ball?” -- nm - Tim Apr 20, 16:52
You know a few years ago there had been talk about Iger running for Prez - eag Apr 20, 16:17
First look at Brie Larson in Apple TV+'s Lessons in Chemistry, coming this fall. -- (link) - Mop✅ Apr 20, 16:12 [youtube] 1
- I heard that as "Separate Sex", not "Supper at Six" -- nm - David Apr 20, 16:39
Police investigating gold heist at Toronto airport -- (link) - LMS Apr 20, 16:11 11
- they should call Banacek. -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 20, 17:16 1
  - "As my dear old pappy used to say ... there's gold in them thar hills" -- nm - Beryllium Apr 20, 17:37
- did I ever mention the time I sort of thought this might be happening to me? - mafic Apr 20, 17:01 1
  - and that's how i joined the Russian Mafia -- nm - The Mafic Apr 20, 17:03
- John Tory leaves Toronto with his gold -- nm - budice Apr 20, 16:32 1
  - Off to start his new life in Los Angeles as a street racer named Dom Toretto. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 20, 16:39
- Goodfellas 2 -- nm - Beaker Apr 20, 16:19
- The Canadian Job. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 20, 16:17
- That is a lot of gold!! -- nm - Andie Apr 20, 16:15 1
  - That's a couple more series of The Gold sorted then. -- nm - LMS Apr 20, 16:16
- andie . . . -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 20, 16:13
Other pre-release beta test for Diablo 4 is coming. But it’s the weekend of Zelda: Tears of a Kingdom so yanno… that’s a choice. -- nm - Qale Apr 20, 16:08
Baby steps tonight, Leafs: Fewer than 7 goals against. -- nm - Reagen Apr 20, 16:07
Microsoft's ad platform (yes, they have one... Netflix uses it, remember?) has dropped Twitter. -- (link) - Mop✅ Apr 20, 15:59 1
- There's something about Elon threatening to sue them -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 20, 16:38
is Meatball Ron even going to get (or accept if offered) a speaking spot at the RNC? - hollywood big shot Apr 20, 15:46 4
- The Donald would throw a hissy fit...remember that he ordered the USS John McCane out of sight -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 20, 16:42 1
  - nah if he's the nominee he'll happily put Ron up on stage for the pure humiliation value -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 20, 16:48
- His plan was to announce on May 5th. I genuinely don't know whether he will go through with it now. -- nm - David Apr 20, 16:38
- Hold on... I can answer the question in the IM -- nm - Ted Cruz Apr 20, 15:56
Arstechnica on the Starship launch echoing what I was saying on the backboards -- (link) - TWuG Apr 20, 15:41 8
- minimum viable product is a shitty design ethos. -- nm - mafic Apr 20, 16:42 3
  - How is the process that built Falcon 9, the most reliable rocket flying and the only reusable one "minimum viable"? -- nm - TWuG Apr 20, 16:56 2
    - what he's describing in the article is "make it good enough, launch it, and see what happens." that's almost the definition of minimum viable. - mafic Apr 20, 17:26 1
      - As an iterative process, not as a final product. The goal with this launch was "clear the launch pad" - TWuG Apr 20, 17:53
- I think we need to stop seeing everything as a success or a failure - Guigue Apr 20, 15:47 3
  - I agree with Grogu. - Reluctant Cynic Apr 20, 16:03 2
    - You misspelled "Din Guigue". -- nm - Ender Apr 20, 16:22 1
      - heh -- nm - Beaker Apr 20, 17:11
Phone spam - that's the 2nd call I've had this week from the "Publisher's Clearing House" :) At the museum it's constant emails to update our - Meg Apr 20, 15:33
DTL: I have 11 clear leads (most of them at 31 points) and 2 other non-clear leads. Most of them are scrubs, but if you're looking let me know. -- nm - Dano Apr 20, 15:28
Drug Stores in the UK are finding unique ways to celebrate the King's Coronation -- (link*) - budice Apr 20, 15:22
LIR: ST's positive thoughts and vibes worked well this morning. -- (edited) - Reluctant Cynic Apr 20, 15:04 11
- YEAH!!! -- nm - David Apr 20, 16:36
- Ombudsmen is om buds with men. -- nm - Qale Apr 20, 16:10
- County won't know what hit'em :) -- nm - Meg Apr 20, 15:28
- Yeah!!! -- nm - prayformojo Apr 20, 15:24
- Oh good so I have someone to yell at when they pass a new income tax, don’t put it on the same form, and yell at us for not knowing about it. - spamlet Apr 20, 15:15 3
  - "Are you a resident of Multnomah County?" - Reluctant Cynic Apr 20, 15:29 2
    - I think it was the preschool tax? I don’t know I just got a nasty gram and now have to file *two* tax returns to the county. -- nm - spamlet Apr 20, 15:31 1
      - Perhaps I could hand-deliver them? - Reluctant Cynic Apr 20, 16:01
- so that's like transendental meditation department? Ommmm Ommmmm Ommmmm -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 20, 15:07 1
  - STTMD. - Reluctant Cynic Apr 20, 15:13
- Awesome!! -- nm - decline Apr 20, 15:07
This dude only missed one period of hockey. -- (link) - Reagen Apr 20, 14:56 [Image] 4
- "A *what* protocol? It's just a head injury, geez." -- nm - TWuG Apr 20, 15:00 2
  - There was no concussion risk. Cameras clearly showed it was a sliced cut. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Apr 20, 15:18 1
    - MMM, sliced cold cuts. -- nm - Reagen Apr 20, 16:09
- geez -- nm - prayformojo Apr 20, 14:59
In the last two days I've emptied, cleaned, and reorganized the pantry, installed a new light in the pantry - TWuG Apr 20, 14:55
Repost for no other reason than I just noticed it again - one of my very favorite short films. -- (link) - Max Apr 20, 14:51 [youtube] 3
- heh, if it wasn't this I was going to post it :) -- nm - Beaker Apr 20, 14:53 2
  - Nope! No you were not! -- nm - Max Apr 20, 14:59 1
    - but he was -- nm - Beaker Apr 20, 14:59
lol going great! -- (link) - Jovian Apr 20, 14:49 10
- hee -- (link) - Reagen Apr 20, 15:12
- You can tell legacy verified accounts are still verified because the functionality is still there. He did just hide the check marks. -- (link) - Beaker Apr 20, 14:53 7
  - I must be slow. The “verified” note is under “notifications”? And where is that? -- nm - mara Apr 20, 15:03 3
    - Clock the little bell, that will bring up the notifications tab. That has separate pages for "All", "Verified" and "Mentions". -- (pic) -- (edited) - Ender Apr 20, 15:13 [Attachment] 1
      - Many thanks! -- nm - mara Apr 20, 15:15
    - I mean, isn’t this just him in his own account? How can a follower see that he’s verified? -- nm - mara Apr 20, 15:07
  - That's hysterical. It's rare to see someone self-own this hard and this often. -- nm - TWuG Apr 20, 14:59
  - "YOU ONLY MOVED THE HEADSTONES!" -- nm - Reagen Apr 20, 14:56 1
    - HA!! -- nm - Jovian Apr 20, 14:59
- I'm catturdicus! -- nm - Reagen Apr 20, 14:51
I told my eight year old about Sharknados today, because it's so windy. But I assured him they aren't real. - Beryllium Apr 20, 14:44 1
- Now I'm worried about sharknados too! Great job, Bery! -- nm - Mop✅ Apr 20, 15:15
Andie: LiveNation usually dies the $25 tickets in May. I guess it all depends on if there are seats available at shows. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 20, 14:40
how Fox got to yes with Dominion: more money, less confessing -- (link) - hollywood big shot Apr 20, 14:40 1
- related: Disney pays off Victoria Alonso in the multi-million range -- (link) - hollywood big shot Apr 20, 14:46
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) Pitch Meeting -- (link) - Beaker Apr 20, 14:37 [youtube]
HB: Our Central Library had a major Electrical Failure. Restoration could take weeks. -- (link) - budice Apr 20, 14:23
suburban NIMBYs win again in NY -- (link) - hollywood big shot Apr 20, 14:18 9
- "Well, we tried!" Champions, 50 years running. -- nm - Mop✅ Apr 20, 15:11
- What it would take for federal prohibition of single-family zoning? - Strongbad Apr 20, 14:26 4
  - It’s not a federal issue -- nm - spamlet Apr 20, 14:28 3
    - Maybe we need to make it one? - znufrii Apr 20, 14:43 2
      - Nah. Not every problem requires federal intervention. - spamlet Apr 20, 14:49 1
        
        wouldn't need intervention. just make federal housing aid dependent on a given state adopting the kind of pro-density zoning that you want to see -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 20, 14:52
- Our governor is weak -- nm - Krusty Apr 20, 14:24
- complaints about homeless up in 3..2... -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 20, 14:22 1
  - WA state may pass a law lifting zoning restrictions on inlaw units in cities and SIngle family houses near transportation up to 4 units -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 20, 14:24
DTL: Starkville-Montgomery III in the C11 tourney final is my 6th featured game #1 of the season -- nm - rollo Apr 20, 14:17 2
- In 2 of the last 3 games, I’ve dropped 100+ on Atlantic City with my starters each going for 17+ and <24. Balanced destruction. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 20, 14:19 1
  - the first one, where your starters all had bet. 19-22 points, that's something -- nm - rollo Apr 20, 14:24
I have noticed a significant drop off in spam in the last two weeks. - Reagen Apr 20, 14:16 2
- Look, I’ve been busy man. -- nm - spamlet Apr 20, 15:30
- a dozen or so, mostly from the same spammers and mostly into the spam folder, i rescue more legit emails. OTOH, scam callers are way UP - zeitgeist Apr 20, 14:21
boards, brats, and beyond -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 20, 14:11

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