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Biden was to talk about the debit ceiling....he's rambling. It's a campaign speech. -- nm - Pippy Dippy May 10, 11:19 2
- A video of VP Harris "rambling" was revealed as a deepfake today. So that trend is going to make the election "fun". -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 11:21 1
  - Ugh. I'm on youtube live but yes I could see how other videos could be pieced together -- nm - Pippy Dippy May 10, 11:26
Other side of service fee bell curve from the LN $25 All In, I just looked at my layaway receipt for the When We Were Young festival 2 Tix: $166.42 - JD May 10, 11:19
Mercedes: "Your new electric car can be faster for as "little" as $60 per month" - decline May 10, 11:14 1
- lol suckers -- nm - hollywood big shot May 10, 11:17
7.4 quake in Tonga...that ought shake a few coconuts down from a tree -- nm - zeitgeist May 10, 11:14
this goon from San Antonio is tougher on George Santos than Hakeem Jeffries -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 10, 11:01 4
- In January Jeffries said Santos was a fraud and unfit to serve.. so... - colin May 10, 11:08 2
  - and now he’s federally indicted for it. If it was AOC nobody on the other side of the aisle would just “let them fail on their own” -- nm - hollywood big shot May 10, 11:10 1
    - Even if it *wasn't* AOC. It'd be all they would talking about today. -- nm - Jovian May 10, 11:18
- that goon however knows that his words are just as empty as anyone's though. McCarthy is not going to expel Santos under any circumstances. -- nm - Jovian May 10, 11:05
I was listening to this song today and thought it’d be like something you’d hear on a cruise ship. This one’s for you Meg; -- (link) - Loyola May 10, 10:58 [youtube]
A headline that is correct but inflammatory - TWuG May 10, 10:47
We must prepare for the coming of Hozer -- (link) - Beryllium May 10, 10:44 [flickr] 1
- He'll take you to church. -- nm - Pachypodium baronii May 10, 10:54
FDA to the Fifth Circuit: eat shit! -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 10, 10:41
ST Poll: When you stand in the shower, do you stand mostly with A) Your front towards the shower head, B) Facing away from the showerhead, or C) other -- nm - JaxSean May 10, 10:33 20
- a -- nm - Peglegpete May 10, 11:15
- B -- nm - Strongbad May 10, 11:09
- Alone? -- nm - Spawn May 10, 11:09
- B -- nm - David May 10, 11:04
- C - I'm moving and grooving in there like I know tai chi -- nm - rollo 🐙 May 10, 11:00
- A -- nm - Loyola May 10, 10:54
- B until I need to rinse soap off my front. -- nm - TWuG May 10, 10:50
- Mostly B, with a little bit of C. -- nm - ReluctantCynic May 10, 10:50 1
  - C = bidet-ing your butthole? -- nm - hollywood big shot May 10, 10:54
- B for like 30 years now -- nm - hollywood big shot May 10, 10:42
- Mostly B also....though sometimes I am right under the head so it goes down neck and back. -- nm - Walt_Disney May 10, 10:40
- A. People turn away? -- nm - loosilu May 10, 10:37 2
  - your back must be really dirty -- nm - decline May 10, 10:45 1
    - The question was "mostly" not "only." -- nm - loosilu May 10, 11:01
- Away. I don't think you can soap up if you're facing the stream. - Krusty May 10, 10:36 2
  - This was more aimed at the "you've already (or not yet) washed yourself, and you're just kind of zoning out" time. -- nm - JaxSean May 10, 10:50 1
    - I go back and forth then. Sometimes I want the warm water on my shoulders and other times on my head. Depends on what's sore. -- nm - Krusty May 10, 10:51
- Mostly (B) -- nm - Andie May 10, 10:35
- C) slow rotation -- (edited) - decline May 10, 10:35
- Facing away. I actually have this "stance" where I put my left hand across my chest up by my right shoulder and grip it in my right hand. I find it - oblique May 10, 10:35
Babylon 5 voice cast revealed -- (link) - Remlik May 10, 10:27 1
- ::approved:: - Spawn May 10, 11:03
"Mookie Betts avoids Milwaukee hotel due to possible ghosts" -- nm - David May 10, 10:25 3
- He’s not the only one with creepy stories there. -- (link) - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 May 10, 10:48
- The Pfister? -- nm - rollo 🐙 May 10, 10:31 1
  - Yup. He stayed at an airbnb instead. -- nm - David May 10, 10:36
I feel attacked. -- (link) - Qale May 10, 10:23 [youtube] 2
- I thought for sure his wife was going to come out and say "good morning." -- nm - JaxSean May 10, 10:27 1
  - I wanna know why he thought a single log would constitute a raft. -- nm - Qale May 10, 10:44
I ended up with two shows at the Wiltern for the All-In. Bebe Rexha in July and Poppy / PVRIS in August -- nm - JD May 10, 10:21 2
- A majority of the $25 ones here are the ones we have the Lawn Passes for already, and two others sold out before I could get them. - JaxSean May 10, 10:25 1
  - Looks like I'm headed out the new Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert for Bryan Adams / Joan Jett -- nm - JD May 10, 10:54
Waiting to leave the ship in Victoria for the Great Fermentations tour. Gonna be a good day! -- nm - Meg May 10, 10:18 3
- Excellent weather today, enjoy! -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 10:41
- a great day! -- nm - Andie May 10, 10:26
- Sounds fun! Enjoy! -- nm - JaxSean May 10, 10:23
Rollo, hope you found something in those scrimmages. - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 May 10, 10:12 1
- I'm impressed you were able to both shoot a lot of 3s and shoot more free throws than me -- nm - rollo 🐙 May 10, 10:30
Poland is unilaterally changing its use of the name of the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad to a Polish name....(link) - Walt_Disney May 10, 10:09 6
- It will always be Konigsberg to me b/c of the math problem. -- nm - Pachypodium baronii May 10, 10:52
- NATO should roll in and just occupy that place already. WTF is Russia going to do about? - Jovian May 10, 10:14 4
  - They wouldn't want it. It's a white elephant. -- nm - Reagen May 10, 11:17
  - Good idea. Make it a haven for Ukrainian refugees. -- nm - Loyola May 10, 11:00
  - nuke it? -- nm - hollywood big shot May 10, 10:18 1
    - 👏👏 Good Answer -- nm - JD May 10, 10:21
I'm not sure ST realizes that khakis and chinos are different with khakis being made with a heavier and less breathable fabric. - Krusty May 10, 10:01 2
- I ended up with Khakis. There was a chino but it had a more denim look/feel with the rivets, etc. and I wanted something more "business casual" - oblique May 10, 10:31 1
  - Yeah, I'm not a fan when they add those rivets. Hopefully you're happy with them and they look good on you. - Krusty May 10, 10:50
so it appears that Alex Haley may have fabricated the beef between MLK and Malcolm X that historians took as gospel for 50+ years -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 10, 10:00
they called Saul -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 10, 09:57
Good Omens season 2 hits Prime Video in July -- nm - decline May 10, 09:47 1
- *twitch* -- nm - znufrii 🦄 May 10, 09:49
Mindy Kaling must be working hard - she looks very fit lately -- nm - rollo 🐙 May 10, 09:46
I am 80% khakis at work, with Fridays being "jeans and funny shirt day" -- nm - Reagen May 10, 09:28 5
- Khakis and dress shirts died during covid -- nm* - decline May 10, 09:43 4
  - For male teachers it is very much still the uniform. -- nm - Reagen May 10, 09:47 3
    - of course. Us office drones realized we can look like a schlub most of the time and no one will notice :) -- nm - decline May 10, 09:52 2
      - I wear yoga pants and stretch leggings to work all the time now. I'm never client-facing. -- nm - Diva May 10, 09:54 1
        
        but I'm sure you look fabulous anyway -- nm - decline May 10, 10:03
i don't know if Netflix is really the "lone holdout" against WGA but reading all these threads about how extra shitty they are, i get why they might -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 10, 09:26
Ban hide-and-seek! -- (link) - znufrii 🦄 May 10, 09:22
tough tweet from Hakeem Jeffries on George Santos' 13-count fraud indictment (ha ha, jk. it's not tough at all) -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 10, 09:20 1
- They haven't been good at or even interested in governing for like 20 years or more. -- nm - Krusty May 10, 10:03
but CNN isn't trying to be Fox Lite or nuthin -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 10, 09:04 9
- no no, we're really still very left leaning! please believe us!! -- nm - CNN May 10, 09:54
- Ted Turner is rolling in his grave. *puts finger to ear* What's that? He is? You're kidding. Really? -- nm - Qale May 10, 09:50
- But, of course, no debates. -- nm - Spawn May 10, 09:27
- CNN is the naïve girlfriend. "I can fix him!" -- nm - Max May 10, 09:06 5
  - Or more likely... this will get good ratings. -- nm - Dano May 10, 09:12 4
    - They’ve gotten more publicity from the fact that they’re holding the town hall than they will likely get from the event itself. -- nm - znufrii 🦄 May 10, 10:02
    - so effing gross. -- nm - Diva May 10, 09:27
    - Correct. -- nm - Strongbad May 10, 09:16
    - Yup. Enough people will hate watch (or watch "highlights" later) to make it worth their while. - spamlet May 10, 09:14
I definitely didn’t read the last word of this headline correctly at first. -- (link) - znufrii 🦄 May 10, 08:49 4
- I'll have what she's having - bamboo presumably -- nm - rollo 🐙 May 10, 09:26
- For me, it was multiple times -- nm - JaxSean May 10, 09:03 1
  - Showoff. -- nm - Pachypodium baronii May 10, 09:45
- O -- nm - Dano May 10, 08:55
Ranking the Breaking Points and Ethical Dilemmas of ‘Jury Duty’ -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 May 10, 08:48
A B.C. comedian prank-called Alex Jones. Now, Jones has threatened legal action -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 May 10, 08:47 2
- "video... garners over 26,000 views online" That's pathetic. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 10, 08:50 1
  - That's been enough (in the recent past!) to have local news stories about how something has "gone viral" -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 08:55
Judge dismisses lawsuit over Block's 'terrible' purchase of Jay-Z's Tidal -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 May 10, 08:44
at least they still have the Heat i guess -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 10, 08:42
Ringo Starr tickets acquired. I've never seen him so I can mark him off the list to see. -- nm - Remlik May 10, 08:40 5
- Nice! We haven't seen him before, and our ticket priorities are for bands that we haven't seen before so we can mark them off as well. - JaxSean May 10, 08:53
- Nice! Same band lineup, I think. -- nm - loosilu May 10, 08:47 1
  - Colin Hay from Men at Work and Edgar Winter. -- nm - Remlik May 10, 09:05
- Yeah, i would see him just to do it too. -- nm - Andie May 10, 08:47
- 👍 -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 10, 08:44
Prigozhin whines about routing of Russian brigade near Bakhmut, Ukrainian brigade says it is “grateful for the publicity about our success” -- nm - znufrii 🦄 May 10, 08:38 1
- oops -- nm* - decline May 10, 08:39
Charles Dance was born in 1946. Guess what year his father was born. -- nm - mafic May 10, 08:36 21
- (Dance is good in Rabbit Hole but the writing/directing is all over the place.) - Max May 10, 08:57 3
  - I've got his phone number if you're interested. -- nm - LMS May 10, 09:07 1
    - "Charles, I just gotta ask: is that genetics? or is it like... pilates?" -- nm - Max May 10, 09:10
  - He agrees. -- (link) - Mop🧹 May 10, 08:59
- 1876 -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 10, 08:48 3
  - 1877! -- nm - mafic May 10, 08:50 1
    - That dude had nothing on Robert DeNiro -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 10, 08:51
  - 1867 -- nm - rollo 🐙 May 10, 08:49
- Is this like that 'grandsons of the 14th president are alive' thing? -- nm - ty97 May 10, 08:45 1
  - (10th president) -- nm - Pachypodium baronii May 10, 08:46
- He needs someone reliable to take over Casterly ROck. -- nm - Pachypodium baronii May 10, 08:44
- You're a Lannister? -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 10, 08:43 1
  - oh his father, not your father - I can't read sometimes -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 10, 08:47
- 1900 -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 10, 08:41
- 1936 -- nm - decline May 10, 08:40
- ........ 1846? -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 08:38 5
  - Charles Dance’s *grandfather* was 14 in 1846. -- nm - mafic May 10, 08:40 1
    - 1850 -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 10, 08:47
  - you’re on the right track -- nm - mafic May 10, 08:39 2
    - ....1746 ?!? -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 10, 08:40 1
      - "Hello, fellow Georgians." -- nm - Max May 10, 08:43
FYI the LiveNation $25 ticket thing is live today, if there are any tickets left. -- (link) - JaxSean May 10, 08:27 1
- Just got Smashing Pumpkins. A Saturday night, so Logan is going, too! -- nm - Spawn May 10, 09:36
Roger More: From B2, I was unaware of the Gina G bit, and that's hysterical. -- nm - MDH May 10, 08:27
Digits - znufrii 🦄 May 10, 08:27
TIL: Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit was a Eurovision song and the whole UK song / Australian singer thing - JD May 10, 08:23 [Backboard] 7
- Now, watch Abba sing Waterloo as Sweden's Eurovision song, with their introduction (video!) -- (link) - Andie May 10, 08:27 [youtube] 5
  - Now that's a clip that I've watched several times 8-) - JD May 10, 08:33
  - did ABBA win Eurovision? -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 10, 08:33 2
    - yep. that video link was the winning performance. (Well, the SONG wins, right? not *really* the singer?) -- nm* - Andie May 10, 08:34 1
      - I'd argue that a fair amount of people only know of Eurovision as part of ABBA's history -- nm - JD May 10, 08:36
  - (*49* years ago!!) -- nm - Andie May 10, 08:30
- I don't ever remember seeing this video -- (link) - JD May 10, 08:26 [youtube]
Inflation +0.4% in April, ticks down to 4.9% y-o-y - znufrii 🦄 May 10, 08:18
Huh, Volare was first a Eurovision song. -- nm - Roger More May 10, 08:16
CBS: “Survivor” and “The Amazing Race” will permanently expand to 90-minute episodes next season -- (link*) - mud ♪ May 10, 08:13 4
- I finally started this season of Survivor. Two quick things. - the wrong element May 10, 09:50
- NOW DO BIG BROTHER COWARDS!!!!!!!!!! - zunk takes things literally May 10, 08:23 1
  - Season 1 was... 5 or 6 days a week IIRC - Strongbad May 10, 09:05
- eliminating one non-reality show from their roster...also, cool. -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 10, 08:15
Taylor Swift fans make a random, author unknown, as yet unpublished book a best seller cause they think Taylor wrote it...cause reasons -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 May 10, 08:13

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