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30 NFL Stadiums in 30 Days- Day 27: San Francisco 49ers -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Jun 28, 07:41 [youtube] 1
- You made me go back and watch the Colts one. - Spawn Jun 28, 07:54
Bird Box Barcelona | Official Trailer | Netflix -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Jun 28, 07:38 [youtube] 2
- Bird Box Barcelona Bears Battlestar Galactica -- nm - Spawn Jun 28, 07:40 1
  - wait .. what?! -- nm - dwight Jun 28, 07:43
8,000 free air conditioners! Should I try for one? ..Naw, I think I'm good. - mud Jun 28, 07:37
I don't know how many people here watch Jomboy stuff on YouTube but they started a new series of games which is a sport that's a mix - Krusty Jun 28, 07:29 [youtube]
Hahaha! Dark Brandon FTW -- (link) - TWuG Jun 28, 07:18
Unfortunately, MS Teams issue should be resolved now. Bad change on their part. -- nm - budice Jun 28, 07:18
Barbie Cake from Cold Stone Creamery -- (link) - budice Jun 28, 07:12 17
- I really dislike ice cream cake with actual cake in it. -- nm - Krusty Jun 28, 07:34 6
  - what!? i get annoyed because that kind (cake + ice cream) is almost impossible to find here. -- nm - Andie Jun 28, 07:46 4
    - Baskin Robbin's ice cream cakes are both ice cream and regular cake. I go to Carvel because they make all ice cream cakes and they're the awesome. -- nm - Krusty Jun 28, 07:53 2
      - we don't have Carvel, and i think our BR cakes are all ice cream (they USED to have cake, but i think that was a long time ago.) -- nm - Andie Jun 28, 07:54 1
        
        Damn. :-( -- nm - Krusty Jun 28, 08:01
    - The ice cream cakes from Jake's down the street from us are expensive but *killer* -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 28, 07:48
  - *nods* should be one or the other. not both. -- nm - Jovian Jun 28, 07:43
- That's gonna be like $60 for a cotton candy ice cream cake. Seems poorly conceived. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 28, 07:32 6
  - i paid a stupid amount of money for a Baskin Robbins turkey-shaped ice cream cake for Thanksgiving one year. -- (link) - Andie Jun 28, 07:47 5
    - With turkey ice cream? -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 28, 07:54 1
      - any flavour you want! but they recommend against certain ones that are inherently softer. they need to freeze really hard to keep the shape. i forget - Andie Jun 28, 07:56
    - was it good? -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 28, 07:49 2
      - i mean, it tastes like ice cream. but it was a big hit! -- nm - Andie Jun 28, 07:50 1
        
        If great fun was had, then the money wasn't all that stupid 😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 28, 07:52
- I've never been to a Cold Stone. I assume they are good the way people talk about them -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 28, 07:32 2
  - yep Cold Stone is awesome -- nm - Jovian Jun 28, 07:43
  - They are. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 28, 07:32
Variety: Felicia Day’s Fantasy Comedy ‘Third Eye,’ Narrated by Neil Gaiman, Coming to Audible This Fall - mud Jun 28, 07:06 1
- She is very versatile when it comes to media forms -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 28, 07:10
Huh. According to the Showrunner for Warrior Nun (NF), it's been uncancelled -- (link) - decline Jun 28, 07:04 3
- "We have scripts!" -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 28, 07:33
- I think Alba chose the right BF -- nm - Jovian Jun 28, 07:17 1
  - wedding in September! -- nm - Pippy Quintas Jun 28, 08:19
New Superman -- (link) - Flavorize Jun 28, 07:02 2
- He looks great! -- nm - Krusty Jun 28, 07:30
- This just looks like some guy's rendering. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 28, 07:29
TIL: The Stanley Cup's five rings can each hold 13 teams for a total of 65. When it fills up, the oldest ring is retired. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 28, 06:54 9
- So 2030 is the next scheduled retirement date, meaning the Maple Leafs most recent championship will not be on the cup -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 28, 06:56 8
  - How long before they have a second Stanley Cup of retired rings? -- nm - Krusty Jun 28, 06:58 7
    - The rings are flattened out and displayed at the HOF. Currently 3 barrel rings have been retired as though the Cup was first awarded in 1893, the - crash davis 😺 Jun 28, 07:05 6
      - Hmm where is the hockey HOF? -- nm - JaxSean Jun 28, 07:28 3
        
        Toronto -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 28, 07:30 2
        
        *grumble* should have visited that where we were there -- nm - JaxSean Jun 28, 07:31 1
        
        yeah, could have been fun -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 28, 07:38
      - Also in 2030 the most recent Flyers championship will be removed. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 28, 07:07 1
        
        Nm -- nm* - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jun 28, 07:17
Alabama Sen Tommy Tuberville celebrated Broadband Funding for Alabama even though he voted against the Bill -- (link*) - budice Jun 28, 06:38 3
- Happens all the time with representatives in both parties. -- nm - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Jun 28, 06:54 1
  - Good news! We’re kicking weirdos out of bathrooms! (I voted against it.) -- nm - Qale Jun 28, 07:27
- More of this, Dark Brandon. -- (link) - Tim Jun 28, 06:47
With the reddit blackout(s) people became unhappy with their Google search results. Apparently a large percentage of people relied on reddit - Krusty Jun 28, 06:22 3
- Guessing, but the answers to their searches might have been opinions rather than facts. - Roger More Jun 28, 06:45 2
  - They were getting poor search results for things like how to hang a door or how to do something which should return a good result but wasn't. - Krusty Jun 28, 07:36
  - I wonder what the share of searches aren’t necessarily asking for a definitive answer. I mean, the best Beastie Boy song IS Shake Your Rump though. -- nm - Qale Jun 28, 07:34
So is Ohtani a guy who reshapes how the sport is played? Or is he the same thing, just way better and in a weird combination? -- nm - mafic Jun 28, 06:22 11
- He’s a unicorn. - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jun 28, 06:28 4
  - The odds of being able to either pitch or hit well enough to make the majors is so slim finding someone to beat both sets of odds is nearly impossible -- nm - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Jun 28, 06:36 2
    - coaches silo players into pitching or hitting basically from birth. maybe . . . don't? -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 28, 07:54
    - I'm not sure as these are elite athletes and many can play multiple sports at a very high level. A lot of guys have to choose which sport and - Krusty Jun 28, 06:55
  - *ears perk up* - znufrii 🦄 Jun 28, 06:34
- imo, Ohtani is a mutant but I can see teams developing utility fielder/middle reliever guys - crash davis 😺 Jun 28, 06:28
- I think he might open the eyes of some GMs and coaches to allow guys a chance to play both ways. -- nm - Krusty Jun 28, 06:25 4
  - Right. When I was at Tennessee, Todd Helton was the 1B, the cleanup hitter AND the closer. It was awesome. - Volnelk 🍊 Jun 28, 06:31 3
    - I didn't know he could pitch as well. I'd love it if more guys were given the chance. -- nm - Krusty Jun 28, 06:53 2
      - As a junior he led the SEC in homers, rbi, hits and……ERA. Had 12 saves. -- (pic) - Volnelk 🍊 Jun 28, 06:59 [Attachment] 1
        
        Not only closed games but threw a complete game in the first round of the college world series. Damn! -- nm - Krusty Jun 28, 07:03
Well that was fun. -- (edited) - znufrii 🦄 Jun 28, 06:05
wow-I don't think I knew this: "Effective July 1st 2023, the District of Columbia’s minimum wage will increase to $17.00 per hour." -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 28, 06:04 7
- PA minimum wage still $7.25 / hr -- nm - decline Jun 28, 07:07 3
  - whoa. -- nm - Andie Jun 28, 07:33
  - yeah and their burgers are free ! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 28, 07:20
  - oy -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 28, 07:08
- Good and hopefully it will continue to rise over the coming years. -- nm* - Krusty Jun 28, 06:27
- DC also passed a new wage law for restaurant staff. It’s already forced a lot of closures. There’s so much press about this at the moment. -- nm - MDH Jun 28, 06:26
- Minimum Wage will be bigger than my paycheck sooner or later. Just start bagging groceries for a living -- nm - budice Jun 28, 06:08
DRAFT DAY! Are you excited? After the boring stuff in the first six picks, it gets interesting. - crash davis 😺 Jun 28, 06:01 9
- it Spawn gets picked before the 5th round, David will lose his mind. -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 28, 06:07
- I’ll be sad if Felix Unger doesn’t go in the second round. -- nm - mafic Jun 28, 06:05 1
  - I'd draft Felix Unger Sorum if I knew there was an Oscar Madison Whatever coming up in next year's draft. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 28, 06:08
- Past the first three, sometimes maybe six, you're drafting for two years out. -- nm - Reagen Jun 28, 06:03 3
  - It’s why I don’t get the hype about the MLB draft. It’s not like the NFL or NBA where one guy immediately turns a team around. - Tim Jun 28, 06:32 2
    - I'd even argue that the one guy thing works only in the NBA due to the many moving parts of a NFL team -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 28, 06:37 1
      - Even there it's just the top 3-5 guys. After that there's no guarantee that the guy will actually be good enough to contribute in the next year. -- nm - Krusty Jun 28, 07:33
- I wonder who takes the flyer on that Russian kid... -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 28, 06:02 1
  - I bet someone in the top ten is a gambler. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 28, 06:14
Happy Double Perfect Day! Go do something P times where P is a perfect number. - Coach Bearond Jun 28, 05:46
Ouch. “As part of the merger, the PGA will control holes 1-8 and 12-18 at each event. The Saudis are responsible for 9-11” -- nm* - Volnelk 🍊 Jun 28, 05:30 6
- oh damn -- nm - JaxSean Jun 28, 06:41
- Oh, wow. -- nm - znufrii 🦄 Jun 28, 06:37
- *stops the bus to Hell and offers additional seating* -- nm - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jun 28, 05:59
- Oh. Oh. That's not right. Not right at all. Wish I'd thought of it. -- nm - Coach Bearond Jun 28, 05:47
- OH!! -- nm - mud soprano Jun 28, 05:44
- oh dear -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 28, 05:31
Indiana Jones 66% (102/52), Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken 73% (11/4) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 28, 05:27
MS Teams via Web & Desktop has confirmed issue -- (link*) - budice Jun 28, 04:57
Lucky Diablo IV Player Finds One Of The Game’s Rarest And Most Powerful Items -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Jun 28, 04:51 1
- Key to the Cow Level? -- nm - Coach Bearond Jun 28, 05:37
TV PSA: NHL Draft, LA Fire & Rescue, Judge Steve Harvey, AEW Dynamite, Nancy Drew, Riverdale, Wonder Years, Hijack, Platonic, Secret Invasion, - Beaker 🍺 Jun 28, 04:38
It hot in Texas -- (link) - budice Jun 28, 04:20 2
- GOP: Nothing to see here. This is normal. -- nm - Krusty Jun 28, 05:42
- while the rest of Canada burns we've had the shittiest wettest May and June I can recall. -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 28, 04:52
More than 51 million Koreans woke up today 1-2 years younger than when they went to bed. -- (link) - Ender Jun 28, 04:08 2
- Blink 182 couldn’t be reached for comment. -- nm - Qale Jun 28, 07:46
- Well that was stupid. -- nm - Mop Jun 28, 06:30
Wordle 739 4/6 - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 28, 03:47 2
- 5 - rollo Jun 28, 06:42
- 4 - Fuzzy Jun 28, 04:14
Prigozhin leaves behind an empire, the wagners was just a side project. he's the one running the psy-ops to suppress the voting in the US -- (link) - zeitgeist Jun 28, 02:23 3
- if the world could just lose this guy and Putin we would all be better off. -- nm - Andie Jun 28, 06:05 2
  - sure. +45* +Stephen Miler. -- nm - mud Jun 28, 06:09 1
    - (or maybe, should say +Erik Prince) -- nm - mud Jun 28, 06:12
doesn't Teh Analytics say that a player like Otani either (1) can't possibly exist or (2) is futile to try and actually fit on a roster? -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 28, 02:20 13
- did your hatey for analytics arise because some of them tried to stretch into political forecasting? -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 28, 06:23
- do... they? -- nm - Reagen Jun 28, 02:46 11
  - if the Moneyballers thought a two-way player was such a value proposition we should have seen many more of them before Otani -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 28, 02:53 10
    - I'm having difficulty responding to how nonsensical this is. - Reagen Jun 28, 03:21 9
      - no. there should be 100 guys hitting .300 with 40 hoe runs and throwing 300 k's a season. it is facts! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 28, 04:30 7
        
        Hell, in another 20 years, there might be since these kids will have a real example of why not try both? - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jun 28, 04:50 6
        
        Not that it's Old School Baseball's fault, because as you say, it's fucking hard. But they had 100 years to produce an Ohtani, and didn't - Reagen Jun 28, 05:05 3
        
        Teams and coaches prevented guys from trying to play both ways. Lots of guys grow up and go through HS playing a position and pitching. - Krusty Jun 28, 05:58 2
        
        And even then we're talking about someone who has Cy Young ability as a pitcher and MVP on his batting alone. -- nm* - Reagen Jun 28, 06:06 1
        
        I honestly believe we've had many guys that could do both at an elite level but were prevented from doing it. -- nm - Krusty Jun 28, 06:13
        
        it's why there aren't more Deion's or Bo Jacksons. To be elite you focus on one sport or part of the sport. Freaks can do more than one -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 28, 04:54 1
        
        Teams discourage guys from being multi-sport athletes. They want them to focus on one sport. -- nm - Krusty Jun 28, 05:59
      - I mean they had a chance to hit once in every 9 batters for like 150 years. Teams didn't WANT a .095 AVG in that spot... - Ender Jun 28, 03:28
When talking to a girl and she says her former boss hated her because of "pride" and you don't know if it's HIS sense of importance or her being gay.. -- nm - Ender Jun 28, 00:24 7
- Tangent: I'm screwing with her best friend. - Ender Jun 28, 00:40 [Attachment] 4
  - Lol yes!! Do it -- nm - Pippy 🏳️‍🌈 Jun 28, 03:16 3
    - Let's see how this goes... -- (pic) - Ender Jun 28, 03:20 [Attachment] 2
      - she will soon collect restraining orders :) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 28, 04:47 1
        
        I got the full set. “Bear, Moose, Tiger, Squirrel..” -- nm - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jun 28, 04:51
- I don't know the full context of this, but could it just mean he was butthurt? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 28, 00:36 1
  - I still have questions about her, but I followed up with a "what did you say?" And her response did lean towards him being butthurt. -- nm - Ender Jun 28, 00:42
Finished my Leviathan Wakes re-read. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 28, 00:17
meanwhile in Brooklyn -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 27, 22:36
The Password Game -- (link) - Krusty Jun 27, 22:06 2
- 52. No clue how to denote chess and have no idea what the best move would be, so... -- nm - TWuG Jun 28, 02:22 1
  - Nice! Made it to 52 before they gave you a chess move to notate? They gave it to me at like 16. Took a minute but I was able to get it. -- nm - Krusty Jun 28, 05:35
Easy - TWuG Jun 27, 21:49 2
- its worse than Israel/palestine. google ghost trains when pakistan and india split -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 27, 23:21
- Put this below Ender's post -- nm - TWuG Jun 27, 21:49
I just got emailed the Kraken's 23-24 schedule. Two preseason games each against Vancouver and Edmonton, then start on the road against VGK, Nashville - crash davis 😺 Jun 27, 21:47 4
- Which game are we going to? -- nm - psilotum Jun 27, 21:53 2
  - That would be awesome. I was choking on the prices wanted for the Mid-Winter Classic so I probably will skip that. - crash davis 😺 Jun 27, 22:02 1
    - I think I have paid more for each Kraken game I have attended than for any Mariners game I have ever attended. - psilotum Jun 27, 22:07
- Well, at least you get VGK before Nashville eviscerates you. -- nm - David Jun 27, 21:52
Sounds like Disneyland is getting into the 4th July spirit. Either that or the clouds are low tonight - noisy! -- nm - Meg Jun 27, 21:47
Pop Quiz:In an address to Congress last week a world leader "applauded the 'bond between the world’s 2 great democracies'". Who was the other country? -- nm - Ender Jun 27, 21:42 7
- I thought the US was not a democracy, given how hard it is for the guy with most votes to actually win. (NM) - Marlowe Jun 28, 06:47
- guessing - mafic Jun 27, 21:45 1
  - I card read good. -- nm - mafic Jun 27, 21:45
- The United States - if you don't like that one, other answer inside - crash davis 😺 Jun 27, 21:43
- Guess. - Qale Jun 27, 21:43 2
  - Correct -- nm - Ender Jun 27, 21:47 1
    - I do usually score quite well on the NYT and Bing Weekly News Quizeseses. -- nm - Qale Jun 27, 22:13

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