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“You wear Walmart khakis!” -- (link) - znufrii 🦄 May 17, 09:51 1
- I approve adoption of this is a war cry thought I do take issue being someone from the suburbs :) -- nm - oblique May 17, 09:59
Sony has pushed “Harold and the Purple Crayon” 13 months. Releases next August. -- nm - MDH May 17, 09:50 2
- could they not get Kumar? -- nm - JaxSean May 17, 09:58
- bastards -- nm - decline May 17, 09:50
I wonder how much concern there is about Wembanyama's weight. The guys he compares to are fine players but not all star caliber. - Krusty May 17, 09:48 6
- *pounding another 50 McNugs*. Mmmmph mph -- nm - Zion May 17, 09:55
- He's an even more stretched out Chet Holmgren. -- nm - David May 17, 09:55
- Olajuwon was 250 -- nm - budice May 17, 09:50 1
  - Those 20lbs can be very helpful on the boards. -- nm - Krusty May 17, 10:02
- It took Embiid years to finally find a good balance -- nm - decline May 17, 09:50 1
  - Pop ain’t the Sixers - Zion May 17, 09:59
The Creator | -- (link) - mud ♪ May 17, 09:43 [youtube]
Fast X reviews dropping - 56% so far -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 17, 09:43 2
- 75% of Fast Films BoxOff is International anyhoos -- nm - budice May 17, 09:44 1
  - on the town this week we talked about the fact that china is less enamored of US films than it was previously, which will hurt fast x a lot. -- (link) - judge indianapolis jones May 17, 09:47
the trailer I saw for indiana jones in front of gotg makes the movie look way less terrible than did the first trailer. -- nm - judge indianapolis jones May 17, 09:41 1
- I had the same thought. None of the cgi issues I noticed before, good classic Indy vibe. -- nm - Max May 17, 09:47
someone in Windsor can be the next Gordon Lightfoot -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 17, 09:34
They fridged her, Pete. You know they fridged her! Admit that they fridged her! - David May 17, 09:33 3
- All respect...you don't know what you're talking about when it comes to comics. you haven't been reading the series. -- nm - Remlik May 17, 09:47 2
  - FRIDGE! - David May 17, 09:53 1
    - Again. you haven't read the story. And if this energizes her fans to clamor for a new series that's great. I hope it does..to be honest... - Remlik May 17, 09:59
I've heard the word "catastrophize" 3 times in the last 3 days after never hearing it the prior 50 years - rollo 🐙 May 17, 09:29 2
- It's a mental health term and I definitely can believe that last few years made it a better known term. -- nm - TWuG May 17, 09:45
- There was a period a couple of years ago (possibly pre-pandemic) where I heard it a lot. From whiners. -- nm - Beryllium May 17, 09:42
DTL: I see you Spamlet -- nm - rollo 🐙 May 17, 09:21
"Hey it's me." "WHO's CALLING?" ... *waits expectantly* ... "You know who it is." "WHO's CALLING?" ... *waits expectantly* ... "It's Gey Poope." -- nm - rollo 🐙 May 17, 09:19 1
- *head explodes* -- nm - Wayne and Garth si May 17, 09:20
FYI. My Discover bank savings APY is now 3.9% -- nm - oblique May 17, 09:18 6
- Checking: .05, Savings: .10, Money market: 1.0, Short Term Certs: 4.0. I guess I need to start looking at other banks. -- nm - sycor May 17, 09:49
- This is very bad. I can handle inflation. Just don’t buy stuff so much. But raising interest rates so high so fast? It’s completely swamped me. -- nm - Qale May 17, 09:36
- 4.15% at Synchrony - znufrii 🦄 May 17, 09:22 3
  - I'm looking similarly or maybe some t-bills but I'm waiting for this debt ceiling thing to resolve -- nm - oblique May 17, 09:23 2
    - I need to see if we can actually get a quote on replacing our porch, and how much that’s going to cost, before tying up funds. -- nm - znufrii 🦄 May 17, 09:31 1
      - I'm glad you mentioned that. I was considering dumping a lot of money in to short term certs. I should probably wait to do that. - sycor May 17, 09:50
colin - I wrote a bit about Obsidian on my blog. Not sure if it fully addresses your questions… and I should probably write an update -- (edited) - Beryllium May 17, 09:14
Chance of snow tonight in Nova Scotia. heh. -- nm - Beryllium May 17, 08:52 3
- yeah frost advisory for here too -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 17, 09:34
- We have a frost advisory - just after I finished planting everything. -- nm - Dano May 17, 08:55 1
  - what did you plant this year? -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 17, 08:57
Woot. Got my job for next year - 3 sections of ib Chem, 3 of science 10, 1 for food Science(nutrition). -- nm - Reagen May 17, 08:48 10
- 😺😺😺👍👍 -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 17, 08:50 2
  - It was my #1 pick in the hiring round, which is amazing that I got it. -- nm* - Reagen May 17, 09:08 1
    - congrats! that's awesome -- nm - oblique May 17, 09:16
- you were foodchem all along -- nm - hollywood big shot May 17, 08:49 2
  - OMG I never saw this coming -- nm - judge indianapolis jones May 17, 09:38 1
    - like Hank finding Leaves of Grass in Walt’s bathroom -- nm - hollywood big shot May 17, 09:42
- In the food Science class do you get to make cookies and cakes and stuff ? -- nm - decline May 17, 08:48 3
  - Maaaybe? Mostly it's protein/carbohydrates/fats/vitamins etc. -- nm - Reagen May 17, 08:50 1
    - Soylent Green is good eatin' -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 17, 09:35
  - Distillation -- nm - JD May 17, 08:50
extending the Trump tax giveaways would add $3.5 trillion to the national debt (guess they didn't actually pay for themselves) -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 17, 08:46 4
- Not if we make drastically deep cuts to the social welfare programs like Medicaid and Social Security it won't -- nm - decline May 17, 08:47 3
  - I mean it makes sense to me. - Pippy Quintas May 17, 08:51 2
    - And THEN the jobs will start opening up..oh wait, they got CHAT AI to do those. -- nm - zeitgeist May 17, 11:08
    - MAGA! -- nm - Spawn May 17, 08:56
"disruption" poll -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 17, 08:34 8
- Labour and transportation regulations avoided, hotel regulations avoided, financial regulations avoided, labour regulations & copyright avoided. - Beryllium May 17, 09:06 1
  - Vaping - skirting tobacco regulations -- nm - Beryllium May 17, 09:08
- Uber, Air BnB, Crypto, ...AI? -- nm - Pippy Quintas May 17, 08:40
- Uber, Air BNB, Crypto, Chat GPT -- nm - Dano May 17, 08:39 3
  - absolutely incredible that cryto enables an entire industry of crime but nobody will regulate it because rich people like it. -- nm - colin May 17, 09:00
  - That was meant to be under Krusty's post -- nm - Dano May 17, 08:40 1
    - Thanks! -- nm - Krusty May 17, 08:51
- What's this about? -- nm - Krusty May 17, 08:37
Shark Week: Jason Momoa Will Host -- (link) - budice May 17, 08:31
David..here's the other thing, Ms Marvel doesn't have a current series so I suspect this is the start of her getting a book again -- nm - Remlik May 17, 08:16
"well at least you tried" -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 17, 08:14 1
- 😺😺👍 -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 17, 08:28
I'm starting to think that we (ST) should threaten Vegas locations that we're going to visit them and have them pay us to go elsewhere - JD May 17, 07:57 3
- Oct 21st weekend, we can kill another one -- nm - hollywood big shot May 17, 08:00
- Oh..and cause I didn't go, I almost forgot the whole before you go out of business, we'll successfully sue you visit -- nm* - JD May 17, 07:58 1
  - I still regret I went home early that night. -- nm - Meg May 17, 08:20
30 Rock called it -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 17, 07:54
AA.com help needed. I booked a pkg on Expedia on 5/5 and I have my record locator for an AA flight. I need to select seats but AA.com - Diva May 17, 07:53 3
- Go to this link and use 'Search for another trip' to enter you AA record locator and pull up the trip -- (link) - ty97 May 17, 08:14 2
  - Thanks Luv. I ended up Googling my way thru since aa.com was such an arse. All set! -- nm - Diva May 17, 08:15 1
    - Yay, glad you were able to get it fixed! (AA website/app are, yeah, not great) -- nm - ty97 May 17, 08:16
ty - not Friday. But... - Andie May 17, 07:50 [Backboard] 1
- I hope it all gets sorted, for both you and for R's Mom. -- nm - ty97 May 17, 08:14
okay maybe Trump's not all bad -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 17, 07:48 2
- Luntz is the worst -- nm - mud ♪ May 17, 07:57
- "nearly" -- nm - Spawn May 17, 07:56
omg these 17th and 18th century Quaker names are excellent -- (link) - Jovian May 17, 07:45 2
- Few people know this, but the unpronounceable symbol that Prince changed his name to is actually known as a Peregrine Doyly -- nm - rollo 🐙 May 17, 09:43
- Digworthy Marshall is my 3rd favorite Snoop album -- nm - Pachypodium baronii May 17, 08:16
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One | Official Trailer (2023 Movie) -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 May 17, 07:43 [youtube] 10
- Sploosh. This might actually be my first movie in a theater since before COVID. -- nm - sycor May 17, 09:34
- gonna go out on a limb and call this another mission possible -- nm - hollywood big shot May 17, 08:17 4
  - Mission: Inconceivable -- nm - Beryllium May 17, 08:35 3
    - Mission: Perpetual -- nm - hollywood big shot May 17, 08:37 2
      - Mission: Feasible but not Likely -- nm - Pachypodium baronii May 17, 08:41 1
        
        Mission: Impractical. Pull quote "What's the ROI on this mission?" -- nm - rollo 🐙 May 17, 09:11
- Nobody movie runs better than him. -- nm - mafic May 17, 08:02
- Needs more Rebecca Ferguson, other than that, good trailer. Also Vanessa Kirby as The White Widow? Is that a nod to Marvel? -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 17, 07:51 2
  - every single thing needs more Rebecca. -- nm - Jovian May 17, 07:53 1
    - I can not say you are wrong. -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 17, 07:56
Prince Harry, Meghan and her mother almost killed in car chase with paparazzi -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 May 17, 07:42 47
- I feel the need to take a grain of salt here. Obviously I have no details, but this feels almost 'too on the nose' and I expect might be overblown. - ty97 May 17, 07:45 44
  - This article from yesterday certainly suggests a motivation to frame the matter in a certain way. -- (link*) - znufrii 🦄 May 17, 07:52 10
    - I mean, they need security. -- nm - loosilu May 17, 07:55 9
      - I’m inclined to agree that they shouldn’t be able to hire the police. Frankly, if there’s a threat, police protection should be free. - Mop🧹 May 17, 07:57 7
        
        I have no idea who's allowed to hire the police. -- nm - loosilu May 17, 07:57 6
        
        According to the court, *no one* is allowed to hire the police. They’re the police. They’re not for hire. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 17, 07:58 5
        
        that is 100% inaccurate. Film sets, street festivals, etc etc all hire off-duty police for events. Not sure if it works for individuals, but police - Andie May 17, 07:59 4
        
        *off duty* police offices are *private* security. I get what they want. They want cops. But you can’t just request cops. - Mop🧹 May 17, 08:01 3
        
        They want the flashing lights. -- nm - loosilu May 17, 08:02 2
        
        Yeah. Someone with the authority to do something once lines are crossed. Private security takes out a cameraman that’s just more photos. Cop does it - mafic May 17, 08:05 1
        
        Wouldn't police officially step in at a certain point? The Beatles had police escorts. - loosilu May 17, 08:11
      - I’m not suggesting they don’t. -- nm - znufrii 🦄 May 17, 07:56
  - It takes two to have a chase. I appreciate that they may want to avoid the paparazzi but I doubt that traffic laws allow for high speed flight. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 17, 07:51 32
    - “This relentless pursuit, lasting over two hours" - so they went around 4 blocks? -- nm - decline May 17, 07:54
    - While I agree, what do you suggest? They stop and get swarmed? Not sure what the best option is/ -- nm - Andie May 17, 07:52 30
      - “People are doing criminal things to me, so I will do criminal things.” How about, “Help, 9-1-1. I’m being assaulted. I’m at…” - Mop🧹 May 17, 08:00 15
        
        but they aren't being assaulted. they are just being followed and photographed very aggressively...and dangerously -- nm* - Beaker 🍺 May 17, 08:06 4
        
        If *anyone* goes up to a cop and says 'people are chasing me and I am afraid they are going to hurt me' - decline May 17, 08:13 2
        
        Are you imagining that they are going to stop, exit the car, walk through the paps, and approach a cop? -- nm - loosilu May 17, 08:15 1
        
        You don't think their driver would have time to yell for a cop at a police station for help before the others show up? The only wrong solution here is -- (edited) - decline May 17, 08:46
        
        They're being threatened rfor sure. -- nm - loosilu May 17, 08:08
        
        Then why have we never heard of celebrities doing that? -- nm - loosilu May 17, 08:01 8
        
        One. -- (link) - Mop🧹 May 17, 08:02 7
        
        She is not a celebrity. -- nm - loosilu May 17, 08:04 4
        
        Sure she is. I'd recognize her on the street before I would Meghan Markle -- nm - decline May 17, 08:17 3
        
        that's just cause of your peephole watching and filming -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 17, 08:22
        
        OK, outing myself as never watching ESPn. -- nm - loosilu May 17, 08:19 1
        
        heh -- nm - decline May 17, 08:20
        
        Justin Bieber is two, although hardly the best example as he had already entered into a high speed chase. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 17, 08:03 1
        
        AT which point it's a public hazard. -- nm - loosilu May 17, 08:07
        
        especially given that they are famous -- nm - decline May 17, 08:01
      - how about stop in front of a police station and ask for help? There are well over 100 in NYC -- nm - decline May 17, 07:55 12
        
        and just the pics of them walking into a police station would be worth a fortune to the paps. -- nm - Andie May 17, 07:56 4
        
        better than being killed in a 'high speed chase' -- nm - decline May 17, 07:57 1
        
        It's America. Give Meghan an MP5 and make her an action movie star to boot. -- nm - Beryllium May 17, 07:58
        
        I suspect it would be them stopped in front a police station and getting swarmed while cops ignore them. -- nm - loosilu May 17, 07:57 1
        
        yup -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 17, 07:57
        
        I couldn't tell you where to find one. You're making assumptions. -- nm - loosilu May 17, 07:56 6
        
        Times Square. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 17, 07:57 5
        
        Oh great, so there will be a million tiktoks of them. -- nm - loosilu May 17, 07:58 4
        
        better than being dead -- nm - decline May 17, 07:58 3
        
        Honestly it would never occur to me to go to a police3 station -- nm - loosilu May 17, 07:59 2
        
        loosi, come on, why didnt Diana just go to the police station after all? She could still be alive! - Jovian May 17, 08:04 1
        
        I actually have done this. Had a redneck following me, looking to kill me for nothing so drove up to the doors of a state police post. He drove on by. -- nm - Spawn May 17, 09:19
      - Exactly. The paps are NOT nice to them. They're trying to get reaction shots. -- nm - loosilu May 17, 07:53
- can you imagine? and people wonder why they wanted to get away from that world as a full-time thing. -- nm - Andie May 17, 07:44 1
  - I cant even. -- nm - Jovian May 17, 07:47
CNN: "Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle were in a "near catastrophic car chase" involving paparazzi in NY on Tuesday night -- (link) - mud ♪ May 17, 07:41
Daughter-in-law of Montreal Mafia figure shot dead in parking lot -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 May 17, 07:39 2
- Well, this is going to get out of hand quickly. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 17, 07:53
- whoa -- nm - mud ♪ May 17, 07:41
B2: wait, Toronto sports took a break from talking about the Leafs to discuss the Jays? I figured Judge was getting beaned for sure, but I'd wager - Beaker 🍺 May 17, 07:36 2
- TSN: Should Toronto trade Matthews and Marner to the Oilers for McDavid? Let's discuss for 2 hours. And the Jays played. - Beaker 🍺 May 17, 07:38 1
  - the IM made me laugh 👍 -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 17, 07:41
Why the Kraken, despite a Game 7 loss, are built for the long haul - crash davis 😺 May 17, 07:33
Yep this nails it perfectly. -- (link) - Jovian May 17, 07:27

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