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Colonel Sanders was openly critical of KFC food after he sold it -- (link) - budice Jul 18, 21:01
OMG LOL. Deadline: ‘Barbie’ & ‘Oppenheimer’ To Rattle The Globe With Combined $260M+ Opening -- (link) - Mop🧹 Jul 18, 20:48 6
- we once thought we would open that big. then reality hit. -- nm - the Flash & Indiana Jones Jul 18, 21:22
- That number is so low on what is really going to happen it’s astounding. They might be $100M off on Barbie alone. -- nm - MDH Jul 18, 21:13 2
  - We're literally (well, virtually) in a (chat) room full of box office prognosticators and we're all dumbfounded. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 18, 21:29 1
    - it’s just too bad audiences aren’t coming back to the theaters. these could have been such big hits three years ago -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 18, 21:35
- A friend who I’ve never heard of going to the movies just bought tickets to a double feature this weekend. -- nm - MDH Jul 18, 21:12 1
  - That settles it. I'm walking into the woods. - Beryllium Jul 18, 21:31
Always great to have Marques Brownlee tell me how great my car is... wait, my car does WHAT now? -- (link) - Mop🧹 Jul 18, 20:36 [youtube]
What did the lion say to the tiger after losing the race? - znufrii Jul 18, 20:16
Guys. I had the best day today. Arrived in NYC 7 hours ago. I love it here. - kelly Jul 18, 20:16 11
- City so nice, they named it twice. -- nm - Qale Jul 18, 20:58 1
  - New York City?! - hollywood big shot Jul 18, 21:40
- 😺😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jul 18, 20:50
- excellent -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 18, 20:38
- My wife is in NYC tomorrow through Saturday. If you see her, say hi! -- nm - TWuG Jul 18, 20:32
- But how many times were you murdered by homeless people? - spamlet Jul 18, 20:17 1
  - CRIME CRIME CRIME -- nm - mafic Jul 18, 20:17
- lotsa celebrities on the picket lines if you come across one -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 18, 20:17 2
  - A lot were outside 1515 Broadway which is a Paramount office. -- nm - Krusty Jul 18, 20:20 1
    - I walked by a Paramount location of some kind earlier today but nobody was there. -- nm - kelly Jul 18, 20:28
- 😍 I'm so happy to hear you had a wonderful day! -- nm - Krusty Jul 18, 20:17
Have you ever heard me mention I don't care for ice in my drinks? I currently have an ice-tray in the fridge. - Meg Jul 18, 20:09 2
- in the fridge it's just a water tray. -- nm - mafic Jul 18, 20:15 1
  - So I should move it up to the freezer? -- nm - Meg Jul 18, 20:20
Paleontologists marvel at a fossil of a mammal attacking a small dinosauer, covered by a volcano mud flow in mid fight (assuming a lot) -- (link) - zeitgeist Jul 18, 19:47 2
- oh Skrit . . . -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 18, 20:02
- maybe they were just cuddling -- nm - mafic Jul 18, 20:01
Confirmed: I would literally rage out if I had to write javascript professionally. Things would get broken. - Beryllium Jul 18, 19:22 5
- ChatGPT will write it for you! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 18, 20:03
- Isn't it obsolete? -- nm - loosilu Jul 18, 19:52 2
  - Heck, there’s Javascript in After Effects. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 18, 20:04
  - No. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 18, 20:02
- I remember grandson taking a summer college class in that when he was in high school. Got his college degree anyway :) -- nm - Meg Jul 18, 19:28
Deadloch (Amazon Prime): A-. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 18, 19:21
oh man...Season 3 of Warrior has started on Hbo. excellent show. -- nm - Remlik Jul 18, 19:03
Raylan! -- nm - Epiphany Jul 18, 18:58 4
- not yet in canada. Supposedly arriving on Disney+ at some point, but much like Boyd Crowder's speechifying ... - Beryllium Jul 18, 19:04 3
  - It is if you have FX. -- nm - Reagen Jul 18, 19:47 2
    - Ah. I do not. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 18, 19:47 1
      - Actually, I do. On *cable*. Like a neoprim. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 18, 21:35
Local friend posts that Melania still has a sex worker registered license in Amsterdam -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 18, 18:43 1
- It's always a good idea to have a fallback in case a plan doesn't work. (NM) - Marlowe Jul 18, 18:50
so, will South Africa arrest Putin at the BRICS meeting? as an ICC signatory they're technically obliged to, but have asked for an exemption. - mafic Jul 18, 18:32 3
- Zero chance. -- nm - spamlet Jul 18, 18:43
- They didn’t arrest Omar al-Bashir when he visited SA for an AU summit. -- nm - Roger More Jul 18, 18:35 1
  - I mean Putin might not even go, but yeah, they don't have the best record. -- nm - mafic Jul 18, 18:36
"Congratulations, you are the commissioner of your Fantasy Football league, Astronauts Rises." - David Jul 18, 18:18 2
- Yay! -- nm - Strongbad, Champ Champ Champ Champ Jul 18, 18:51
- Blood has been spilled. -- nm - budice Jul 18, 18:20
Happy birthday, you crazy cats. -- nm - nubby Jul 18, 18:15 3
- It's our quinceañera -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 18, 18:21 1
  - Wooooo!!! -- nm - Krusty Jul 18, 18:57
- hullo -- nm - mud Jul 18, 18:20
so anyone got those clips of Pudding Fingers taking Trump to task on CNN over his latest indictment? -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 18, 18:05
Oppenheimer category on Jeopardy! last night, presented by Matt Damon and Emily Blunt. Will there be a Barbie category tonight? -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 18, 17:58 1
- is Crocodile Dundee a guest presenter? -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 18, 18:00
when she's a Barbie and he's an Oppenheimer -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 18, 17:51
I don't really care, but it's hilarious to see people cheating their way to the top of Strava challenge leaderboards - Reagen Jul 18, 17:47 2
- We have a work challenge thingy where we can earn money if you just fulfill a basic fitness trial, like walk 10 miles a month or something like that. - Will Hunting Jul 18, 18:00
- maybe they're like 20 feet tall. you don't know. -- nm - mafic Jul 18, 17:57
"Age Gaps Between Tom Cruise and His Female Co-Stars in Mission Impossible Films Verge on Problematic" -- (link) - budice Jul 18, 17:42 12
- LOL. Great response to a clickbait story. The biggest age gap is with Atwell and… well… -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 18, 18:16 2
  - Ferguson is younger than Atwell, but only like a year and a half. -- nm - mafic Jul 18, 18:20 1
    - I guess arguably Vanessa Kirby, but even with some sexy banter she was never a love interest. -- nm - mafic Jul 18, 18:28
- it's become such a sexless franchise, so who gives a shit? he's spy daddy now, not sexy spy lover. - mafic Jul 18, 17:56 2
  - His entire 'partner' thing hasn't been actual sexual chemistry for over a decade. His best starlets are those - Will Hunting Jul 18, 18:29
  - Hayley Atwell, 41, says she considers Cruise and McQ to be uncles. -- nm - . Jul 18, 18:07
- When does "verge" start? -- nm - loosilu Jul 18, 17:53
- So, what's the problem? -- nm - Sean Connery enters the conversation Jul 18, 17:53 1
  - Thats Entrapment Sean -- nm - budice Jul 18, 17:54
- a lot of the cast is older than Tom and they also act with the women. I don't see a problem. -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 18, 17:47
- not the fact that they all keep dying? -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 18, 17:44 1
  - (i'd probably find it more problematic if i thought Tom would ever actually sleep with any of them) -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 18, 17:49
"Cameo [...] was another zero-interest-rate phenomenon" -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 18, 17:36 [mastodon]
Dark Brandon's comms team is stellar. -- (link) - TWuG Jul 18, 17:26 5
- The self own is ... -- nm - loosilu Jul 18, 17:53
- I was waiting for that. -- nm - Remlik Jul 18, 17:39
- Lol! Genius -- nm - Pippy 🏳️‍🌈 aka lady on the plane Jul 18, 17:38
- omg that's hilarious. -- nm - mud Jul 18, 17:38
- that's brilliant. -- nm - mafic Jul 18, 17:29
ironically, Netflix just gave up on He-Man after pouring $30m into the algorithm to develop it. Mattel will shop it to other buyers -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 18, 17:20 1
- "chatGPT couldn't crack it and we're fresh out of ideas." -- nm - mafic Jul 18, 17:25
USWNT is -40,000 vs Vietnam on Friday -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 18, 17:17 6
- That's even a more super bad bet than it would seem given that there's two out of three results that lose - JD Jul 18, 19:54
- So for every dollar I bet, if I win I pay $40k, right? -- nm - JaxSean Jul 18, 17:24 4
  - You bet $400 to win $1, I believe. -- nm - Volnelk Jul 18, 17:34 3
    - that's still a pretty good return for a three hour investment. -- nm - mafic Jul 18, 17:40 1
      - Compound that 3 times a day for 200 work days and that's over quadruple your money! -- nm - Reagen Jul 18, 18:07
    - That seems better. Not much, but better. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 18, 17:36
ooh, SIL and BIL have very different road-trip philosophies for a 10-hr drive to the beach. she wants to split it up over two days?! hell naw -- (edited) - hollywood big shot Jul 18, 17:09 7
- I mean, if my parents said "I can't do a 10-hour drive," I'd make allowances, but generally driver sets the rules. just be reasonable, people. -- nm - mafic Jul 18, 20:08
- I am team "it's not safe for me to drive for ten hours" -- nm - Beryllium Jul 18, 18:04 4
  - Yep, I did that *once* a long time ago. Albuquerque to home - a little less than 800 miles. -- nm - Meg Jul 18, 18:20 3
    - two friends and I once did Kingston, Ontario to Vancouver (~5,000km) non-stop. took like 55 hours. fun, but also very bad no good don't do it. -- nm - mafic Jul 18, 20:14 2
      - Oh yes, with more than one driver it can work, but I was solo. -- nm - Meg Jul 18, 20:23 1
        
        yeah, I did Kingston-Calgary on my own once. I think I took 3 days. might've been 4. -- nm - mafic Jul 18, 20:32
- I'm team find another way for the parents to get there like a flight or train or bus or someone else driving. -- nm - Krusty Jul 18, 17:35
The guy who stole my diary just died. - Flavorize Jul 18, 17:04
Achievement Unlocked! 2 years of Peacock Premium. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 18, 16:59
Some prime Ump Show BS in the Jays Padres game - Reagen Jul 18, 16:54 1
- I just saw the video. The ump went out there rather quickly. Looks like they both knew what was going to happen. - Krusty Jul 18, 17:48
Rollo -- here's my grading scale here - Will Hunting Jul 18, 16:40
Is anyone familiar with Harbinger Motors? Seems they're opening a manufacturing facility here in town. -- nm - Meg Jul 18, 16:40 5
- If their motto isn't "A Sign of Things to Come"..... -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 18, 16:54 1
  - 😄 -- nm - Krusty Jul 18, 17:53
- Looks like they make electric delivery vans. -- nm - Reagen Jul 18, 16:42 2
  - Ah, the release just says 'electric vehicles' and I hadn't look for further details. The mayor is obviously excited. -- nm - Meg Jul 18, 16:45 1
    - Do they have a sign up? Of things to come? -- nm - Flavorize Jul 18, 16:48
them Barbie reviews are dropping -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 18, 16:35 5
- 90% (61/5) -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jul 18, 17:00 1
  - i hope Greta has points - hollywood big shot Jul 18, 17:04
- cool, thanks -- nm - crash davis Jul 18, 16:41
- (2 of the 4 pans coming from Murdoch rags, unsurprisingly) -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 18, 16:39 1
  - has any actor in the millennial/Gen Z cohort built more of a career out of a single scene than Margot Robbie and WoWS? - hollywood big shot Jul 18, 16:56
"Program to attract tech workers from the US hits capacity one day after opening" -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 18, 16:30 10
- Thus answering the question: How desperate are Americans? -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 18, 17:00 5
  - y'all thirsty -- nm - mafic Jul 18, 17:25 1
    - Our maple brings all the techs to the yard -- nm - Reagen Jul 18, 18:16
  - Except these aren't Americans. They're here on work visas and could be sent home if they're laid off. Americans are out of luck :) -- nm - Meg Jul 18, 17:15 2
    - That's what is happening to *some of* the laid off Twitter, msft, Amazon workers. -- nm* - zeitgeist Jul 18, 17:48
    - Right? It's answering "how many people are basically stuck at their current job due to the visa situation" -- nm - Beryllium Jul 18, 17:27
- *nm -- nm* - hollywood big shot Jul 18, 16:33
- Hah, the elon quote there .. hard to interpret what he's trying to say. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 18, 16:32 2
  - It’s only included to help boost the article. -- nm - Qale Jul 18, 17:37 1
    - Yes, and to beg the question, why was he included? Which would let them (or the reader) learn that it is partly his fault. - Beryllium Jul 18, 18:06
In some of the more random Broadway casting news, Betty Who joins the cast of Hadestown as Persephone this fall. -- nm - MDH Jul 18, 16:21 1
- I would not have expected that -- nm - JD Jul 18, 16:23
There Are Definitely Too Many Things. -- nm - mud Jul 18, 16:17 4
- crash's law: There are far fewer things that humans are indifferent to compared to the amount of things that cats are indifferent to. -- nm - crash davis Jul 18, 16:32 1
  - indubitably. -- nm - mud Jul 18, 16:50
- Yum. -- nm - mara Jul 18, 16:23
- Yuck -- nm - TWuG Jul 18, 16:22
Important breaking moose vs wolf news -- (link) - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 18, 16:17 4
- So much to unpack in just one headline. I love this. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 18, 21:26
- poor swamp donkeys. -- nm - mafic Jul 18, 17:27
- moistbuddha? -- nm - JD Jul 18, 16:20 1
  - spawn? -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 18, 16:28
Special counsel letter to Trump does not reference sedition or insurrection. - TWuG Jul 18, 16:16
LIR: Thanks for the feedback! Appreciate it. And Jax ... - Reluctant Cynic Jul 18, 16:12 3
- it's a nice ad. now for the tasteless joke - Peglegpete Jul 18, 16:24 1
  - I remember an old New York mag where a writer was trying to describe what a dog tastes like. He can't find anything so he goes to a pet shop... - zeitgeist Jul 18, 18:32
- Oooh, savvy. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 18, 16:19
Latest Haunted Mansion trailer -- (link) - JD Jul 18, 16:06 [youtube] 5
- I still don't get why this is coming out in...July. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 18, 17:12 2
  - at least Disney put it in theaters. unlike Hocus Pocus 2 -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 18, 17:21 1
    - IMO they should have never made that - JD Jul 18, 20:00
- haven't seen tracking but not having the actors to promote this is probably worse for them than the bigger releases already hyped up before last week -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 18, 16:12 1
  - 32m says notfab on hsx. not great, Bob -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 18, 18:04
Anybody can yuck someone's yum. Be a hero and yum someone's yuck. -- nm - crash davis Jul 18, 16:04

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