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Think I'll buy an electric scooter for my daughter as a graduation gift, to get around campus. Recommendations? -- nm - Mop🧹 May 11, 12:49 3
- A helmet. -- nm - Loyola May 11, 12:55
- Not one of the ones from China that go 100kph -- nm - Beryllium May 11, 12:52 1
  - Would a Tom's Guide help? -- (link) - Beryllium May 11, 12:58
Elon found a CEO -- (link*) - budice May 11, 12:48 3
- or maybe Marissa Mayer? -- nm* - Beryllium May 11, 12:53 2
  - Kiara Ravanch may be looking for a good job soon -- nm - zeitgeist May 11, 12:58 1
    - Kitara stupid autocorrect -- nm - zeitgeist May 11, 13:42
i know writers who worked on her shows and they are probably doing a little happy dance today -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 11, 12:40 3
- I know she is super flame emoji poop emoji, but I've never seen anything she's done. I thought a wrinkle in time looked like toilet emoji. -- nm - judge indianapolis jones May 11, 12:49 2
  - Wrinkle in Time was ok, wasn't terrible. -- nm - Remlik May 11, 13:04
  - When They See Us (2019) was amazing -- nm - mud ♪ May 11, 12:51
Hmm. Apparently someone on the Purdue football team is an intern with us this summer -- nm - oblique May 11, 12:34 1
- TaP -- nm - Spawn May 11, 12:43
In looking at these Nielsen numbers, if I'm on 45's campaign, I'm sweating bullets. The bloom appears off the rose. - David May 11, 12:29 2
- So you are saying Seth Rollins for President? -- nm - Pippy Quintas May 11, 12:38 1
  - He is the Monday Night Messiah. -- nm - Remlik May 11, 12:41
Peloton users are being advised to immediately stop riding some 2.2 million exercise bikes due to a defect with the seat post -- (link) - decline May 11, 12:28 2
- *perks up* -- nm - George Clooney si May 11, 12:38 1
  - *snicker* -- nm - Pippy Quintas May 11, 12:39
What an ignorant racist from Alabama elected to the US Senate sounds like -- (link) - Jovian May 11, 12:13 4
- You can't just change the meaning of a word!! -- nm - Mop🧹 May 11, 12:51 1
  - Alternative white nationalists? -- nm - Mop🧹 May 11, 12:52
- Reminder: this guy got rich thanks to highly skilled African American athletes. -- nm - David May 11, 12:31 1
  - So just like the old south plantation owners then. -- nm - Jovian May 11, 12:40
I'd watch that. -- (link) - mud ♪ May 11, 12:11 3
- Won't load for me. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 11, 12:28 2
  - (sigh) damn, Lurie keeps doing that. Whenever he posts something good (and a little edgy) he then deletes it. It was a dis of Stephen A Smith -- (link*) - mud ♪ May 11, 12:32 [Attachment]
  - it appears to be deleted. -- nm - colin May 11, 12:29
I would never ever be a success this particular job - Jovian May 11, 12:09 4
- where do I apply? that looks so cool. -- nm - loosilu May 11, 12:18
- That's great, but what is a buus? -- nm - Pachypodium baronii May 11, 12:14 2
  - "sbububus" -- nm - Beryllium May 11, 12:16 1
    - "sussubus" -- nm - Beryllium May 11, 12:25
I'm not often impressed, but then I watch someone beat Bioshock in less than 38 minutes. -- nm - David May 11, 12:08 3
- like how is that even possible? -- nm - Jovian May 11, 12:10 2
  - Level skip tricks and stunning skill. - David May 11, 12:12 [youtube] 1
    - thats insane. I think it took me 30 minutes just to beat Sinclair -- nm - Jovian May 11, 12:19
For those that like interior design makeover shows Banjo - Designing the Hebrides is a delight. -- nm - LMS May 11, 12:06
update on my weird gift card: I was able to buy a hose at lowe's using my gift card! now thinking of buying lowe's gift card with the rest of the card - judge indianapolis jones May 11, 11:59 8
- also: my hose worked fine on sunday but today is leaking all over the place from the actual hose. I suspect sabotage. -- nm - judge indianapolis jones May 11, 12:02 4
  - I've been in the market for a new hose. I got a Kobalt black rubber hose. Only used it once though but so far so good. A lot of reviews on hoses - sycor May 11, 12:17 3
    - I got this one. I don't love the old rubber kind. -- (link) - judge indianapolis jones May 11, 12:53
    - there are hose reviewers? and you took time to read the reviews? -- nm - decline May 11, 12:18 1
      - When I'm spending $40-50+ on something I will briefly look at ratings. I'd rather not buy something repeatedly because it fails. - sycor May 11, 12:27
- sounds like somebody’s got friends in Lowe’s places -- nm - hollywood big shot May 11, 12:01 2
  - no, she got hosed -- nm - oblique May 11, 12:20
  - 👏 -- nm - JD May 11, 12:04
“okay but what if we could just have all the money from being The CW without having to pay for the shows?” -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 11, 11:58 2
- I actually enjoy their Superman (after I got past their weak casting choices), so I expect it to be gone. -- nm - Spawn May 11, 12:04 1
  - it’ll move to Max -- nm - hollywood big shot May 11, 12:14
New Tenacious D music video! "Video Games" -- (link) - JaxSean May 11, 11:54 [youtube]
NFL: 2023 SOS by Team -- (link) - budice May 11, 11:45 4
- Ugh! -- nm - Krusty May 11, 12:07
- Woohoo! -- nm - David May 11, 12:03
- Seattle .517 while San Fran only a mere .514? RIGGED -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 11, 11:51
- The south will rise again! -- nm - Spawn May 11, 11:46
Mayim Bialik won't host the final episodes of the 39th season of Jeopardy as scheduled in solidarity with the Writers Guild of America -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 May 11, 11:44 6
- Didn't realize Kat was canceled so probably see her hosting more next season. - Pachypodium baronii May 11, 12:12
- Does Jeopardy have writers? -- nm - Spawn May 11, 11:45 4
  - yes -- nm - hollywood big shot May 11, 11:50 3
    - sorry, you didn't answer in the form of a question. -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 11, 11:55 2
      - Yes? -- nm - Strongbad May 11, 11:57 1
        
        We would also accepted "Yes, what's it to you?" -- nm - Pachypodium baronii May 11, 12:13
I sometimes think this will be my fate: - mud ♪ May 11, 11:43 3
- A few years ago they found a woman dead for years, everything was auto pay including lawn service, postman noticed the mail piled up at the door slot -- nm - zeitgeist May 11, 13:41
- We'd notice. But you should break the ice with your family. Be the bigger person. -- nm - David May 11, 12:07 1
  - thx -- nm - mud ♪ May 11, 12:18
Monica Bellucci Is Joining BEETLEJUICE 2 As Beetlejuice's Wife -- (link) - Remlik May 11, 11:39 9
- APPROVED! -- nm - Mop🧹 May 11, 12:27
- Mrs. Beatrix Juice -- nm* - hollywood big shot May 11, 11:51
- Any Nudity? -- nm - Nuditarian si May 11, 11:44
- Wait, is that why she is sleeping with Burton? -- nm - Spawn May 11, 11:44 2
  - [spittake] .. wtf -- nm - mud ♪ May 11, 11:46 1
    - I feared this was also flubrain, but, no. -- nm - Spawn May 11, 11:49
- cool. -- nm - mud ♪ May 11, 11:44
- I still don't know why they don't call it BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE -- nm - JaxSean May 11, 11:43 1
  - they should call it BEETLEJUICE 2: BEETLEJUICER -- nm - Beryllium May 11, 12:02
Baseball: Need some more sweet chin music action before a batter rushes a pitcher -- (link) - Remlik May 11, 11:37 2
- Looks more like a rollins stomp -- nm - eag May 11, 12:52 1
  - Or a backwards helluva kick -- nm - eag May 11, 12:54
I find Outlook's calendar to be really difficult to parse. Is there something better for visualizing my schedule? -- nm - colin May 11, 11:33 13
- try the online web one? -- nm - budice May 11, 11:35 12
  - the issue is I have 4 calendars to manage. Can't do online. I've tried the schedule view, but it's hard to see a week at a time. -- nm - colin May 11, 11:37 11
    - Can you just overlay them? (that's what I do for my calendar and our team) -- nm - oblique May 11, 11:52 4
      - Yep, same. We have a team vacation calendar that overlays with my calendar so you can see both (in different colors) -- nm - JaxSean May 11, 11:57
      - ... can I do that? it's from 4 different inboxes. if there's a consolidated view, that would work. -- nm - colin May 11, 11:53 2
        
        yes! overlay! holy crap, perfect!!! -- nm - colin May 11, 11:54 1
        
        sweet! -- nm - oblique May 11, 12:13
    - i hate schedule view - i need to see multiple calendars at once. i have them side by side in Work Week view. -- nm - Andie May 11, 11:47 5
      - i want work week view, but turned on its side :) -- nm - colin May 11, 11:50 4
        
        rotate your monitor -- nm - oblique May 11, 11:51 3
        
        or lay down on your desk -- nm - decline May 11, 11:52 1
        
        With colin, that might already be the problem. -- nm - Spawn May 11, 12:14
        
        second monitor, rotated. -- nm - colin May 11, 11:52
My only comment about the CNN townhall: The ratings turned out to be meh. Great job CNN! - ty97 May 11, 11:13 31
- My .02 on it is this. It is never enough to just tell him what he's saying is not true. I'd like to see them ask him to prove that it is. For example - pmb May 11, 12:13 1
  - He would interrupt them before they finished all that. -- nm - Strongbad May 11, 12:45
- I don't care about the ratings but I'm glad they were meh. -- nm - mud ♪ May 11, 11:25
- They so obviously want him to run again. - Strongbad May 11, 11:23 20
  - John Malone's purchase of CNN is starting to really show its colors. - colin May 11, 11:49
  - I think this tweet sums it up perfectly (and while it VERY much applies to CNN 2016 and CNN today, it's not just CNN or cable news) -- (link) - ty97 May 11, 11:28
  - his nom is a lock, might a$ well accept it. -- nm - mud ♪ May 11, 11:28 14
    - i don't even concede that (more indictments comin) but if you can't use a $5m sex abuse verdict to hammer the frontrunner 24/7, you deserve to lose -- nm - hollywood big shot May 11, 11:29 13
      - His main opponent isn't (officially) even running yet. - ty97 May 11, 11:31 12
        
        it will at least be worth it to watch him cut Ron's balls off on live TV the first time they share a debate stage -- nm - hollywood big shot May 11, 11:32 8
        
        Didn't Trump announce he would do no debates? -- nm - Spawn May 11, 11:45 7
        
        yeah but obviously he will if there's a real contender but they may not ever be a 'real' contender so ..? -- nm - mud ♪ May 11, 11:47 6
        
        I assumed he meant for the entire 2024 campaign? -- nm - Spawn May 11, 11:49 5
        
        he lies. -- nm - mud ♪ May 11, 11:50 4
        
        I disagree. He will do 0 primary debates. -- nm - Strongbad May 11, 11:52 3
        
        .. because he'll never have "a real contender", as I said. -- nm - mud ♪ May 11, 11:56
        
        You disagree that Donald J. Trump lies? -- nm - Spawn May 11, 11:53 1
        
        *vigorously shakes head No* -- nm - Strongbad May 11, 11:56
        
        I thought he announced? -- nm - Spawn May 11, 11:32 2
        
        No, he planned to announce last Friday, but he had too much egg on his face from Disney. So, he waited a bit. -- nm - David May 11, 11:34 1
        
        Ah, my flubrain thought he meant Biden. -- nm - Spawn May 11, 11:42
  - 'They' are not even the same 'they' as last time. The guy running the place espouses that he's trying to be more 'middle of the road' or something. -- (edited) - ty97 May 11, 11:25 2
    - Yes, they are different groups of people. - Strongbad May 11, 11:32
    - if you run the network exactly the same as Jeff Zucker did in 2016, who cares what you say? -- nm - hollywood big shot May 11, 11:26
- Seems most people I know are openly pissed at CNN vowing to stop watching the cable chan, I don't see them attracting fox viewers to replace -- nm - zeitgeist May 11, 11:20
- There just aren't any ratings numbers that matter beyond live sports. It's kinda depressing to track. - David May 11, 11:19 4
  - Streaming is now breaking the film/tv industry like it did the music industry. And the people who get hurt the most are the content creators. -- nm - pmb May 11, 12:15
  - Reminder why Sports leagues get Billions on their TV contracts -- nm - budice May 11, 11:27
  - I noticed TK wasn't touting any ratings news this past week. Supposedly besides the new show, there is a new deal with Warner Brothers on deck -- nm - Remlik May 11, 11:25 1
    - Yeah, with the playoffs, wrestling is taking a hit across the board. The new deal gets announced at next week's upfronts. -- nm - David May 11, 11:32
- Bad Night and Bad Licht -- nm - hollywood big shot May 11, 11:15
mmmm nacho cheese -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 11, 11:09 1
- meh, he is using a guide. I like the videos of the guys free-handing the wheelchairs for the disabled spaces. -- nm - Spawn May 11, 11:13
let's see how intellectually curious Chris Licht is about understanding the motivations of this Trump audience -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 11, 11:05
Carolyn's great. -- nm - mud ♪ May 11, 10:59 3
- I feel like jim did about her. I really thought I would hate her, but I love her now. and honestly I liked jam jam but now dude must go. - judge indianapolis jones May 11, 11:16 2
  - Wow - we are right in line. I've been down on Yam Yam for a while now. He gotsta go. nm - Turd Ferguson May 11, 12:32
  - I'm rooting for the kid. -- nm - mud ♪ May 11, 11:19
Christian Cage delivers a master class in heel promos. - David May 11, 10:55 3
- that Detroit crowd was HAWT. -- nm - Remlik May 11, 11:19 1
  - It reminded me of the Elias Seattle Supersonics joke, only Christian was manipulating each of their reactions. - David May 11, 11:22
- Edge needs to induct Christian into the HOF. -- nm - Strongbad May 11, 11:13
Michael J. Fox turned down “Ghost.” -- (link) - budice May 11, 10:52 10
- Demi Moore was a better fit, besides America wasn't ready for a same sex romance yet -- nm - zeitgeist May 11, 11:07 2
  - and america still isn't ready to hear the answer to "Is this ghost a top or a bottom?" -- nm - Beryllium May 11, 11:08 1
    - (which now I'm wondering if Doom Patrol asked/answered) -- nm - Beryllium May 11, 11:08
- Paul Hogan also turned down Ghost -- nm - Roger More May 11, 10:57 1
  - that's not a ghost, that's a ghost! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 11, 10:59
- but boooooked The Frighteners (speaking of cult classics needing a sequel) -- nm - hollywood big shot May 11, 10:53 4
  - ~ don't fear the reaper ~ -- nm - Beryllium May 11, 11:00
  - absolutely adore this Peter Jackson classic -- nm - Jovian May 11, 10:56
  - I've seen that, but not Ghost. -- nm - TWuG May 11, 10:55 1
    - You can't just blurt it out like that! -- nm - Pachypodium baronii May 11, 11:00
LOL. St. Johns fired Mike Anderson in March then hired shady Rick Pitino 10 days later. Anderson is now suing them for $45M - Strongbad May 11, 10:49 1
- Yeah, it looks shady what they did to him. -- nm - Krusty May 11, 11:48
~it's Thursday Thursday the day before Friday~ -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 11, 10:46 2
- spin faster, earth -- nm - rollo 🐙 May 11, 10:47 1
  - Hold onto your butts! -- nm - Earth May 11, 11:22

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