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For those that use it, when was your first, and, most recents stays at an AirBnb or VRBO? -- nm - Andie Sep 6, 11:57 1
- My first was the Azores 2014 (ocean side little house), latest was Varadero in Feb 2023. -- nm - Andie Sep 6, 11:58
Variety: Stephen King Played ‘Mambo No. 5’ So Much His Wife ‘Threatened to Divorce’ Him: ‘One More Time, and I’m Going to F—ing Leave You - mud Sep 6, 11:52 2
- this was the first song i ever heard when i first got to England. i'm Team Tabitha -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 6, 11:53 1
  - Foghat Rules -- nm - mud Sep 6, 11:54
decide my eyes: this is the first year basically ever my glasses prescription didn't change. which should mean i could get implants. eye doc also says - hollywood big shot Sep 6, 11:47 4
- You're old, unless you're getting robo-eyes, I say keep with the glasses. - JaxSean Sep 6, 11:51 1
  - they have multifocal lenses that would eliminate the readers for me -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 6, 11:52
- Why implants vs. lasik? -- nm - pmb Sep 6, 11:48 1
  - my eyes (the shape) are too far gone for lasik -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 6, 11:49
Chesebro and Powell can't sever their cases. -- (link) - TWuG Sep 6, 11:40 1
- (from each other) -- nm - mud Sep 6, 11:41
"didn’t like the way she dealt with the Queen." -- (pic) - mud Sep 6, 11:39 [Attachment]
fast food training videos from the 80s (i was at Wendy's at the time they had the Superbar in this one so must have watched the Grill Skill) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Sep 6, 11:31
Fed's upcoming growth projections: Bidenomics to the moon -- (link) - hollywood big shot Sep 6, 11:23 1
- *clenches, harder* -- nm - Jerome Powell Sep 6, 11:24
i guess i knew that Gumbel's Real Sports was still on HBO but Zaslav finally got to that one too -- (link) - hollywood big shot Sep 6, 11:11 1
- bastard! -- nm - decline Sep 6, 11:14
Still no Mop this morning? Guess he's probably a bit busy. - Beryllium Sep 6, 11:09
Caamp the band: citing physical and metal health problems the band has canceled the remaining dates on the tour. -- nm - Remlik Sep 6, 11:06
Extremely strict rules on Airbnb style short term rentals go into effect in NYC -- (link) - TWuG Sep 6, 10:57 39
- The thing I don't get about being a host is stranger-proofing your home. I don't want my stuff disappearing and certainly don't - TWuG Sep 6, 11:37 8
  - I rented out my apt on craigslist for football game weekends in grad school. strangely - 🏳️‍🌈 judge jones 🏳️‍🌈 Sep 6, 11:40 2
    - our attic what now? -- nm - C&O Sep 6, 11:42 1
      - my listing actually says "must love chubby siamese cats." (ollie's fine.) speaking of cats, my new rug is here! I will photo for you all later. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 judge jones 🏳️‍🌈 Sep 6, 11:43
  - not all, but i would say most, are no longer people's actual homes. They are apartments etc that exist solely as airbnb. -- nm* - Andie Sep 6, 11:38 4
    - yeah. in the city here it's that. in the weekend getaway region down south it's more like an informal timeshare management company. - mafic Sep 6, 16:48
    - We have an owner that lives in hers all week and then stays with her sister on weekends she rents hers out. They do a 70/30 split on the money. -- nm - Spawn Sep 6, 11:41 1
      - sound$ like a nice racket -- nm - mud Sep 6, 11:44
    - This. -- nm - znufrii, vice president Sep 6, 11:41
- I don't fundamentally understand Airbnb. Less amenities and more responsibilities (as opposed to none) than a hotel -- nm - MDH Sep 6, 11:04 24
  - We mostly use it with groups of 3 or more. It's usually less expensive overall, plus you have a shared space instead of meeting in the hotel lobby or - JaxSean Sep 6, 11:45
  - Neither hotel I stayed at in LA and NYC last weekend had self-serve laundry on site. - Max Sep 6, 11:44 2
    - (they stuck you in a bad hotel zone. either BH proper or somewhere up closer to Sunset in WeHo woulda been better) - hollywood big shot Sep 6, 11:49 1
      - location, location, vocation as they say. -- nm - Max Sep 6, 11:51
  - it was nice as a room in someone's house - good way to meet someone in the area, talk to, have a kitchen, etc. that was at the beginning - colin Sep 6, 11:42
  - privacy -- nm - Spawn Sep 6, 11:35 1
    - i.e., murder basement -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 6, 11:36
  - We just booked a little cabin with a wood stove in extreme upstate NY for our road trip to VT. It’s more for the experience, in this case -- nm - mara Sep 6, 11:30 9
    - very nice. -- nm - Andie Sep 6, 11:32
    - oh nice. jealous. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 judge jones 🏳️‍🌈 Sep 6, 11:31 7
      - Link for the stalkers -- (link) - mara Sep 6, 11:39 6
        
        That's adorable -- nm - JaxSean Sep 6, 11:48
        
        cute! -- nm - Andie Sep 6, 11:43
        
        fun fact: we have peru, PA right near her. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 judge jones 🏳️‍🌈 Sep 6, 11:42 1
        
        home of franch fries -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 6, 11:51
        
        nice - that's way, way up there and the middle of nowhere :) -- nm - decline Sep 6, 11:41 1
        
        Yup, driving from S Indiana to VT via the Hopewell mounds (OH) to Pittsburgh, Niagara Falls, Finger Lakes, and Champlain. -- nm* - mara Sep 6, 11:52
  - It’s a lot roomier for us, and a lot quieter. - kelly Sep 6, 11:28
  - there are places i like a kitchen, and sometimes they are in neighbourhoods without a hotel, but, other than Cuba earlier this year, i have been using -- (edited) - Andie Sep 6, 11:26
  - I think if you are traveling for extended periods they can make sense (a full kitchen is nice for a traveling family, right?) - 🏳️‍🌈 judge jones 🏳️‍🌈 Sep 6, 11:14 1
    - And separate bedrooms (for traveling with kids). -- nm* - znufrii, vice president Sep 6, 11:19
  - I've found them very convenient when I take trips with my dog - decline Sep 6, 11:13
  - like all disruptions, at first they were undercutting hotels on price. post-pandemic they're gouging the customer base they built up -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 6, 11:06 1
    - (i did one in Normandy when the fam went to France in 2019, because i was along for the ride. it was fine for a night but also you're just staying in - hollywood big shot Sep 6, 11:08
- Halifax brought something like this in, but enforcement will be the issue. -- nm - Reagen Sep 6, 11:01
- LA's aren't quite as draconian from my reading but they have restrictions and then mostly don't enforce them much -- (link) - hollywood big shot Sep 6, 11:00
- Competition eliminated. Good job, boys. -- nm - NYC Hotels Sep 6, 10:59 2
  - in the same sense Uber/Lyft were "competition" for a highly regulated taxi industry -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 6, 11:01 1
    - Yup. Hotels are regulated and these rentals are not but the biggest issue is taking rentals off the market. -- nm - Krusty Sep 6, 11:59
powered by ✨bitchdust✨ -- (link*) - Beryllium Sep 6, 10:55 [flickr] 1
- ooh .. I'll have the fish 'n chips, you have the curry chicken -- nm - mud Sep 6, 10:57
rock & roll -- (pic) - mud Sep 6, 10:49 [Attachment] 2
- "Tell Me Straight," which Richards admits he has no idea what it's about" -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 6, 11:05
- USATODAY: Inside Rolling Stones 'Hackney Diamonds' London album party with Fallon, Sydney Sweeney - mud Sep 6, 10:54
I can't stop sweating. It's less humid today but walking all these miles without stopping might not be the best idea. - Krusty Sep 6, 10:43
WAS DE Chase Young and WR Terry McLaurin are at practice today in full pads -- nm - budice Sep 6, 10:37
11,000 of the 30,000 participants in the Mexico City Marathon cheated and were disqualified. That feels high. -- (link) - Volnelk Sep 6, 10:37
Climate breakdown has begun' -- (link) - decline Sep 6, 10:27 1
- duh -- nm - mud Sep 6, 10:34
Can ST help me remember the name of a POS conservative, maybe a lawyer, 60–something, short beard, Russian name starting with G, I think -- nm - mara Sep 6, 10:21 15
- dang it, Roger beat me to it -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 10:30
- Sebastian Gorka? -- nm - Roger More Sep 6, 10:24 13
  - Doesn't get any POSier than that. nm - Dignan Sep 6, 10:25 11
    - i dunno man. Ol' Captain Dignan said he would've kicked all women and children out of his Titanic lifeboats for the the Cal Hockleys of the world -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 6, 10:58
    - indeed. -- nm - mud Sep 6, 10:34
    - yep, he's as bad as they get. Legitimately the kind of person who would run a Death Camp. -- nm - Jovian Sep 6, 10:30 2
      - As a HOBBY -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 10:42 1
        
        omg -- nm - Diva Sep 6, 10:58
    - I almost added “needs to be imprisoned” -- nm - mara Sep 6, 10:26 5
      - And “media whore.” He had a long segment on NewsMax just now (we’re at a bar for lunch) but neither of us could remember his name. -- nm - mara Sep 6, 10:29 4
        
        Yikes, I have left places that had faux news on -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 6, 10:39 3
        
        I know, but the sound is off and we’re here for Buzztime trivia -- nm - mara Sep 6, 10:41 2
        
        You should be able to run the rest of the Conservative Pieces of Shit category. nm - Dignan Sep 6, 10:49 1
        
        LOL -- nm - mara Sep 6, 10:50
  - Yes! I kiss you! -- nm - mara Sep 6, 10:25
Brian Roberts pretending that Hulu is worth “well more than $30 billion” is the truly funny part -- (link) - hollywood big shot Sep 6, 10:10 2
- Oh, honey. -- nm - David Sep 6, 10:12 1
  - I'd place Hulu at about 25% of NFLX's value which would equate to ~$50B -- nm - rollo 🐙 Sep 6, 10:16
Bikeriders trailer -- (link) - budice Sep 6, 10:07 [youtube] 5
- hell yeah. I want that black '54 Ford, too (at 1:24) -- nm - mud Sep 6, 10:44 1
  - (although '55 Chevy is better, and '57 Chevy is the GOAT) -- nm - mud Sep 6, 10:59
- Hardy doing a bit of Brando there -- nm - Remlik Sep 6, 10:16
- what's with all the trailers? I thought we ran out of content :) -- nm - oblique Sep 6, 10:12 1
  - And I just saw the sales promo for The Iron Claw. -- nm - LMS Sep 6, 10:30
I was today years old when I found out there's a 4th Expendables movie coming out. -- nm - Diva Sep 6, 09:59 4
- Each trailer I saw during Gran Turismo was "Wait, there was a <insert number here> one of those movies?" -- (edited) - oblique Sep 6, 10:11 2
  - Equalizer 2 had Pedro Pascal -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 10:18 1
    - I sort of wish I had known that - Pip Sep 6, 10:23
- ExpendFourBles -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 6, 10:05
Miyazaki: Boy and the Heron Trailer -- (link*) - budice Sep 6, 09:52 [youtube] 3
- oooh -- nm - JaxSean Sep 6, 10:13
- Just sent to the kid. I guess I'll have to go see without her since it won't still be playing when she gets home. -- nm - spamlet Sep 6, 10:00
- It will be a long couple of months, for sure. (NM) - Marlowe Sep 6, 09:58
Here the Deets on Caleb Williams staying in school—ps—does feel directed to the Cardinals -- (pic) - Flavorize Sep 6, 09:46 [Attachment] 9
- Someone should show him how Eli handled that, among others -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 09:51 8
  - Of course the difference is tha Caleb can get NIL money if he stays in college. -- nm - Dano Sep 6, 10:09 7
    - At 10 million / year he should just change his major every semester! -- nm - rollo 🐙 Sep 6, 10:12 6
      - Though for Williams that's not what's being discussed. In his case, he's just not entering the draft early as next year would be his senior year -- nm - JD Sep 6, 11:00
      - Now I'm wondering whether we see a future where some college kids abuse eligibility for NIL money. -- nm - David Sep 6, 10:16 4
        
        For non-pro potential athletes with a large enough following I could see it easily. Livvy Dunne should be practicing fencing in her spare time -- nm - rollo 🐙 Sep 6, 10:18 3
        
        I wasn't even considering celebs. I'm thinking along the lines of all-conference basketball/football players with limited pro chances. - David Sep 6, 10:29 1
        
        Iirc, you get 4 years of legitimate eligibility, a redshirt 5th (part-time internship) and then rarely 6+ (major heath issues) - Will Hunting Sep 6, 11:00
        
        She’s set for life as long as she doesn’t fall and break her face. A hot blonde who’s athletic? Cha-Ching. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 6, 10:28
Air Force pilot captures footage of St. Elmo's Fire during Idalia. Unfortunately no Demi Moore. -- (link) - crash davis Sep 6, 09:31
Falcons listed Cordarrelle Patterson at the “Joker” position. -- (link) - budice Sep 6, 09:17 2
- They're signing Josh Gordon for the Midnight Toker position, and they have asked me to try out for Maurice. I look forward to this offense. -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 09:23 1
  - A little inside football for you folks: if you hear "Pompatus" during a signal call, it will be an audible to me -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 09:27
Grizzly Yinzer -- (link) - hollywood big shot Sep 6, 09:12 1
- Pennsylvania Rednecks! -- nm - decline Sep 6, 09:14
New bourbon raffle, 150 winners -- (link) - znufrii, vice president Sep 6, 09:09 2
- I'd like to win the Blanton's for the horseys -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 09:32 1
  - I’ll be happy to send you the empty bottles when I’m done with them. :) -- nm - znufrii, vice president Sep 6, 10:12
So I went to that roller coaster game probability (1) Orioles at the Angels game last night that Ohtani was scratched from - JD Sep 6, 09:07 [Backboard]
children are *diseased* -- (link) - hollywood big shot Sep 6, 09:00 13
- two of my daughters professors at college have COVID if I was reading her messages to us correctly. . She's sick also but not testing positive. I - oblique Sep 6, 09:44 6
  - If I was a college age boy, I might claim "COVID exposure and self-isolation" to appropriate teaching and administration personnel during the Starfield release. -- nm* - crash davis Sep 6, 09:48 5
    - girls play video games too, crash -- nm - decline Sep 6, 09:55 3
      - I don't want to be a girl, decline. -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 10:11 1
        
        smart -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 judge jones 🏳️‍🌈 Sep 6, 11:18
      - this is true. my daughter has my son's old engineering laptop (long story) that is decent for gaming at school to play Overwatch on :) -- nm - oblique Sep 6, 10:09
    - Seems less extreme than getting a March Madness vasectomy -- nm - JD Sep 6, 09:50
- I’d like for us to be vigilant about Covid, but this panic/doom stuff is ineffective now. -- nm - Qale Sep 6, 09:27
- If it wasn't Covid it would be something else. Invariably some kind of pox or worms. Kids are the worst. nm - Dignan Sep 6, 09:11 2
  - Lol -- nm - Pip Sep 6, 09:31
  - IM - :-D -- nm - mud Sep 6, 09:14
- They are! That's another one for that girl who's keeping the list -- nm - JD Sep 6, 09:09
- new boosty may drop as early as next week (hope you're insured) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Sep 6, 09:06
Rich people are allowed to have bad taste too, I guess -- (link) - znufrii, vice president Sep 6, 08:59 1
- whatever -- nm - Spawn Sep 6, 11:38
Giancarlo Stanton hit HR #400 last night, putting him in position to be an interesting HOF candidate. - Will Hunting Sep 6, 08:59 7
- He's a miss on my card. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Sep 6, 09:38 1
  - But…he played on the east coast and those voters will push for him -- nm - Flavorize Sep 6, 09:40
- I thought he was in route then he seems to have fallen off a cliff. -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 09:34
- DTL: are you going after Jarod Gray? -- nm - spamlet Sep 6, 09:03 3
  - Yes. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 6, 09:32 2
    - I have legitimately 4 deep in conference I could go but Gray is definitely a target. - Will Hunting Sep 6, 09:34 1
      - Okay, I'll drop him then. -- nm - spamlet Sep 6, 09:44
Whoever Tyler Childers is, 2024 arena tour - MDH Sep 6, 08:56 2
- He’s sort of folksie. Pandora is playing his songs -- nm - Pip Sep 6, 09:33
- So interesting, country radio won't play his song because of his music video. A gay love story set in the mines of appalachia in the 1950's...but - Remlik Sep 6, 09:08
Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes - The most overrated metric in movies is erratic, reductive, and easily hacked — and yet has Hollywood in its grip. (link) -- (edited) - budice Sep 6, 08:56

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