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classic David Brooks: monopoly concessions pricing at airports is why Americans think the economy is bad -- (link) - hollywood big shot Sep 20, 19:35 7
- Because the majority of Americans eat their meals at airports. -- nm - jnine Sep 20, 20:52
- $3 a ketchup packet. He did not need more than 1. Denied! -- nm - HR lady probably Sep 20, 19:54
- This $78 meal was billed to my expense account. -- nm - psilotum Sep 20, 19:42 1
  - If the server smiled at me and was attentive, 20% tip, so there is $13 there. Newark NJ tax, lets guess at 12% so $7. - crash davis 😺 Sep 20, 19:49
- Is that a $66 bourbon on the rocks? -- nm - crash davis 😺 Sep 20, 19:41 2
  - I mean it looks like a triple, but I guess it *could* be and iced tea. maybe. also neat is always better. -- nm - mafic Sep 20, 19:46 1
    - It is possible it is iced tea, but I've never gotten one in a glass like that. But I've never been to Newark -- nm - crash davis 😺 Sep 20, 19:50
so i guess now it comes down to how much shit Big Kev is willing to eat from centrist Dems to pass a routine spending bill and survive a mot to vacate - hollywood big shot Sep 20, 19:29 1
- Well their Daddy just threw down the gauntlet, so we shall see. -- (pic) - Jovian Sep 20, 19:32 [Attachment]
Bret Stephens - How to Make Russia Really Pay for Invading Ukraine Sept. 19, 2023 - crash davis 😺 Sep 20, 19:28
Anheuser-Busch Says It Has Stopped Amputating Tails of Budweiser Clydesdales - crash davis 😺 Sep 20, 19:10 3
- Great. Where am I gonna get my Clydesdales tails now? -- nm - Mop🧹 Sep 20, 19:29
- nobody ever thought of re-designing the carriage equipment?????????????? -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 20, 19:18 1
  - not really necessary. it's just slightly easier to manage with docked tails. -- nm - mafic Sep 20, 19:25
Tucker went to doggie daycare today. I was looking at the photos from their photo stream and this one of Tucker amused me. -- (pic) - Dano Sep 20, 19:08 [Attachment] 6
- Come at me Bro! -- nm - Pippy 🏳️‍🌈 aka lady on the plane Sep 20, 19:35
- It was a conspiracy. There is evidence of the planning of the "attack." -- (pic) - Dano Sep 20, 19:13 [Attachment] 3
  - Guilty! -- nm - jnine Sep 20, 20:55
  - stand your ground -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 20, 20:15
  - Time to impanel a grand jury -- nm - crash davis 😺 Sep 20, 19:16
- 🐶 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Sep 20, 19:11
Senate Confirms Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, Sidestepping Tuberville Blockade - crash davis 😺 Sep 20, 19:02
CNBC reporting deal is close between WGA/SAG and AMPTP -- (link) - budice Sep 20, 18:53 4
- (this is coming from the studios so . . . maybe?) - hollywood big shot Sep 20, 18:59 3
  - [fingers crossed] -- nm - mud Sep 20, 19:12
  - Yeah, given how the last negotiation went, I'll believe it when I see it. -- nm - Mop🧹 Sep 20, 19:06 1
    - they jointly announced talks will continue tomorrow, which most people are reading as a positive sign. beyond that, nobody knows for sure how close -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 20, 19:07
lyc: Score! I went to Walmart tonight for eggs and for some reason they put most of their top end tinned seafood on ridiculous clearance prices. - crash davis 😺 Sep 20, 18:50
huh, my property taxes went up by 65% this year. based on what they think you could rent the place for, and apparently that's gone up 106% since the - mafic Sep 20, 18:50 5
- "I'm paying 65% more in property tax this year" "Oh, where did you move to?" "Just a boomerang throw from my old place" -- nm - crash davis 😺 Sep 20, 18:58
- Damn! Even if it's not a lot of dollars that's still a huge bump up. -- nm - Krusty Sep 20, 18:57 3
  - as long as it doesn't keep happening. feels unsustainable. -- nm - mafic Sep 20, 19:10 2
    - can't you just file a declaration of intent to never rent it? -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 20, 19:16 1
      - it'd be about as effective as declaring myself a sovereign citizen. they don't care if you ever rent it. -- nm - mafic Sep 20, 19:19
WWE By Train: Japanese pro-wrestlers swapped the ring for the rails as they staged a bout on one of the country's super-fast bullet trains. -- (link*) - budice Sep 20, 18:31 3
- the way they move ain't fair, you know? -- nm - mafic Sep 20, 18:44
- I wonder if Diva and Mel were there? ;) -- nm - Meg Sep 20, 18:42
- MURDER GRANDPA! - David Sep 20, 18:40
SW TV poll: fave show? mine is Obi-Wan -- nm - mud Sep 20, 18:26 6
- Andor. Ahsoka may be second. Obiwan third. -- nm - Mop🧹 Sep 20, 19:55
- I'm sure in December it will be Slow Horses -- nm - crash davis 😺 Sep 20, 18:59 2
  - But that's not a Star Wars show… Or is it?! -- nm - Beryllium Sep 20, 19:22 1
    - The guy who plays Jackson Lamb is a huge star. (oops, I thought it was a ST TV poll) -- nm - crash davis 😺 Sep 20, 19:24
- Andor. Bad Batch, for Animated, though I did also like Tales of the Jedi. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 20, 18:48
- Andor -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Sep 20, 18:31
Anyone else playing the open beta for The First Descendent? -- (link) - JaxSean Sep 20, 18:23
Ahsoka spoiler thoughts - Beaker 🍻 Sep 20, 18:16 4
- i never watched the animated series but - hollywood big shot Sep 20, 18:26 2
  - Bloody hell. He's Mad's brother. -- nm - Mop🧹 Sep 20, 19:07
  - he's not suppossed to be really. it is his intellect. -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Sep 20, 18:32
- Spoils - Beryllium Sep 20, 18:20
There are characters who are intentionally annoying (like Ruby or Leo). You can’t begrudge them for being annoying. It’s the character’s trait. -- nm - Mop🧹 Sep 20, 18:14 1
- I’m going to go Jovian on Jovian for besmirching my beloved Ruby - Pippy 🏳️‍🌈 aka lady on the plane Sep 20, 19:38
Today in technically accurate statements: my wife is going to prison tomorrow - Reagen Sep 20, 18:07 8
- I had to do a deposition in a women's prison. We had to walk through the cells to get to the room we were going to do the depo in. The guard who - jnine Sep 20, 20:50
- That would be an interesting design project -- nm - crash davis 😺 Sep 20, 18:48
- and well she should! -- nm - mafic Sep 20, 18:36
- Wife "gets married" on the inside. -- nm - budice Sep 20, 18:33
- Love After Lockup Season 6 -- nm - budice Sep 20, 18:13
- She still should probably punch the biggest broad in the yard though. -- nm - Qale Sep 20, 18:12
- Current Status: In Prison -- nm - budice Sep 20, 18:10
- "how much for me to put in a secret passage?" -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 20, 18:08
Would love to see Senga get NLROY -- nm - Flavorize Sep 20, 17:55 2
- He’s really making a push and I love it but it’s gonna be Carroll. -- nm - Tim Sep 20, 19:15
- He should be a reasonably solid 2nd. Carroll is gonna win and Gunnar is opening up the AL race -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 20, 18:05
It's Week 3: 7 out of 9 of my starting players were not on my team right after the draft. -- nm - Reagen Sep 20, 17:53 2
- Your season has still started better than Chicago's. -- nm - David Sep 20, 18:02
- Mmmmmm… 7 of 9. Auuuugh. -- nm - VMan Sep 20, 18:02
"Dark Winds" has been renewed for Season 3 at AMC. -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Sep 20, 17:46 1
- 😺😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Sep 20, 18:59
Google's new addition to Bard make it fractionally better at composing a story about Qale and Raja using decades of logs in Gmail. But it still sucks. - Qale Sep 20, 17:40
nm -- nm* - prayformojo 🐵 Sep 20, 17:22 1
- nm -- nm* - Peglegpete Sep 20, 17:32
Teacher fired for having Eighth Grade kids read graphic novel version of Anne Frank's Diary. - Qale Sep 20, 17:03 6
- Is that Beaumont… California, or New York? -- nm - Mop🧹 Sep 20, 17:55 1
  - Texas, naturally! -- nm - Qale Sep 20, 18:11
- that's messed up. -- nm - mud Sep 20, 17:11
- (these parents should not look at their kids' browser histories. Or maybe they should) -- nm* - Reagen Sep 20, 17:10 2
  - 8th grade is like 4 grades past when the anatomies of boys and girls should be at issue for real though. -- nm - Qale Sep 20, 17:24 1
    - I'm trying to imagine not letting a 13 year old know about their parts. Kind of fucking embarassing, tbqh -- nm - Reagen Sep 20, 17:28
Tickets acquired for Stop Making Sense next Saturday. It's sold out at nearly all of the showings this weekend unless you want to sit front row. -- nm - Krusty Sep 20, 16:58
Can any accountants explain this concept to me like I'm a child? -- (link) - David Sep 20, 16:54 20
- My favorite part of the audit process is getting the "Hey, you hidin' anything from us?" questionnaire. - Max Sep 20, 19:37 1
  - you can't audit for fraud -- nm - rollo Sep 21, 05:21
- Now do "involuntary asset conversion " - zeitgeist Sep 20, 18:50
- Now explain it again with those nuggies. -- nm - Andy Reid Sep 20, 17:58
- it takes a while to get shit together, and sometimes *things happen* while you're doing it that can't be directly factored in. - mafic Sep 20, 17:02 1
  - That's an extremely useful way to look at it, thanks! -- nm - David Sep 20, 17:03
- say your year end date was march 31st. The accountants come in and audit and your financial statements might get released once done say June 1st - Beaker 🍻 Sep 20, 16:58 7
  - Thank you. Disney lists the following: - David Sep 20, 17:02 6
    - They’re literally saying “We can quit… if something happens.” -- nm - Mop🧹 Sep 20, 17:59
    - that's "we're projecting into the future. you're not allowed to sue if things don't go as planned." -- nm - mafic Sep 20, 17:15 1
      - Thank you. This child now understands. I appreciate you, ST family! -- nm - David Sep 20, 17:19
    - I think in this case it’s not the accounting concept of subsequent events but a quite literal definition. - spamlet Sep 20, 17:08
    - that seems weird for a financial statement note to me. no particular event, just a bunch of shit that could stop it -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Sep 20, 17:07 1
      - "breach of containment" wait, what -- nm - Reagen Sep 20, 17:07
- (Disney's filing says "the occurrence of subsequent events.") -- nm - David Sep 20, 16:55 5
  - Example: Disney's books close on 9/30, but get issued on 10/15. On 10/5, a massive hurricane roars through and destroys the park. - Will Hunting Sep 20, 17:00
  - There's usually a footnote that gives info about what the subsequent event is. -- nm - jnine Sep 20, 16:57 3
    - Thank you. Admittedly, I'm not great at this, but a search doesn't show anything else in the filing. -- (link) - David Sep 20, 17:00 2
      - I'm reading this on my phone so I'm not sure if I'm seeing everything, but to me it's talking about the huge money Disney disclosed a few day it - jnine Sep 20, 21:04
      - the forward-looking statement thing? that's a cover your ass thing. "we did our best, but sometimes things happen." boilerplate stuff. -- nm - mafic Sep 20, 17:04
Unintentionally annoying — Bryce Dallas Howard in Jurassic World. - Will Hunting Sep 20, 16:43 3
- Anyone who suggests Samwise is annoying is no longer my friend OR gardener! He's the very heart and soul of the story. -- nm - Qale Sep 20, 16:51 2
  - Which dipshit is Samwise? - Will Hunting Sep 20, 16:57 1
    - He's from Lord of the Rings. I was using your post to re-up the conversation as a whole. -- nm - Qale Sep 20, 17:02
Who was the kid in the Indi Jones sequel...that was an annoying character you wished they bad guys took care of -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 20, 16:27 10
- The reigning Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor -- nm - David Sep 20, 16:32
- Short Round? -- (pic) - mud Sep 20, 16:30 [Attachment] 1
  - You call him Dr. Quan! -- nm - Baron Hardcoden Sep 20, 18:25
- Mutt -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 20, 16:29 1
  - "We didn't name the dog." -- nm - Beryllium Sep 20, 16:30
- Do not badmouth short round! He was certainly not the most annoying character in Temple of doom. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 20, 16:29 4
  - no, the most annoying was Spielberg's wife what's-her-name -- nm - mud Sep 20, 16:32
  - Oh wait, you didn't specify which sequel… I haven't seen dial of Destiny yet. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 20, 16:29 2
    - I just assumed he meant Shia. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Sep 20, 16:36 1
      - :-] -- nm - mud Sep 20, 16:37
so basically Elon’s pay for a blue check system is working great -- (link) - hollywood big shot Sep 20, 16:18 2
- It's still all over Twitter. Free speech! -- nm - jnine Sep 20, 16:58
- All systems go. Full steam ahead. -- nm - VMan Sep 20, 16:20
VisCap: The Monthly Cost of Buying vs. Renting a House in America -- (link*) - prayformojo 🐵 Sep 20, 16:09 1
- Jesus. When do we burn down the establishment? -- nm - Mop🧹 Sep 20, 18:10
So I guess Sophie and Taylor have found new mates...each other -- (link) - eag Sep 20, 15:46 5
- "Oh my god. Beckay. Look at her butt." "Boat." "Look. At her boat. It's... so big." "Aye, you're not wrong there." "Beckay." "BECKAY." -- (link) - Sophie & Maisie Sep 20, 16:17 [youtube]
- For some reason I was expecting Sophie Trudeau -- nm - Beryllium Sep 20, 15:53 3
  - If it was Taylor swift we could expect a whole new album soon. -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 20, 16:14
  - Hoping with Swift. -- nm - VMan Sep 20, 16:13 1
    - Heh. Should check link. That’s what an old man gets for listening to sports radio. No insight into celebrity gossip. Thank God. -- nm - VMan Sep 20, 16:16
I have a friend who plays fantasy football with me in a league called Astronauts. He traded me for Russell Wilson before the season. - crash davis Sep 20, 15:40 13
- Offer him your Kicker. -- nm - spamlet Sep 20, 16:11
- I wouldn’t want any current or former Seahawks on my team either. - The Allfather Sep 20, 15:42 11
  - He caught one pass for six yards last week, which was more productive than that Gainwell guy you drafted for me. - crash davis Sep 20, 15:44 10
    - I see Gainwell with 54 yards and whatever a Jake Bobo is with 3. - The Allfather Sep 20, 15:48 9
      - The only Bobo I know is Mike. -- nm - Strongbad, Champ Champ Champ Sep 20, 16:05
      - well whoever scored zero for me if it wasn't Gainwell - crash davis Sep 20, 15:51 4
        
        “once Geno really gets rolling” = Unicorns Walk the Earth Day -- nm - The Allfather Sep 20, 15:53 3
        
        On that day you'll just tell me that those are narwhals with legs. -- nm - crash davis Sep 20, 15:55 2
        
        I mean, there is literally nothing stopping Boston Dynamics from trying this. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 20, 15:57
        
        *tips cap* - The Allfather Sep 20, 15:56
      - Oh, and Gainwell, who isn’t a receiver, has 20 receiving yards. What position does the mythic Jake Bobo play? -- nm - The Allfather Sep 20, 15:51 2
        
        I love Jake Bobo. You'll see. -- nm - jnine Sep 20, 17:03
        
        Geno hasn't started cooking yet -- nm - crash davis Sep 20, 15:53
RB Cam Akers to the Minnesota Vikings -- nm - budice Sep 20, 15:31 2
- *cuts him for a 4th DEF* -- nm - Strongbad, Champ Champ Champ Sep 20, 16:06
- I knew there was someone I meant to put a claim in for in Astronauts. - the wrong element Sep 20, 15:46
The documentary 'After Death' explores what happens after we die through interviews with authors, doctors, scientists, and near-death survivors. - MDH Sep 20, 15:29 2
- I feel like the Angel Studios folks might be putting their, uh, wings, I guess, on the scales. -- nm - Qale Sep 20, 16:48
- ah the Sound of Freedom folks . . . -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 20, 15:33
You're acting like Prince wasn't an interdimensional being who saw all of space-time. -- nm - Reagen Sep 20, 15:23 3
- You’re thinking of Katamari Damacy. -- nm - The Allfather Sep 20, 15:40 1
  - I believe the King of All Cosmos was based on Prince. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Sep 20, 16:37
- That's fair… But I'm not. Yet. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 20, 15:26
Selecting Sam as “the annoying one in LoTR” is sleeping on Pippin and Merry IMO. -- nm - Roger More Sep 20, 15:22 7
- Picking Sam and Harry just means someone wants to put out clickbait -- nm - crash davis Sep 20, 15:48 1
  - yep -- nm - mud Sep 20, 16:08
- It was Frodo in my books -- nm - eag Sep 20, 15:32
- this could have all been settled if they left in Tom Bombadil. -- nm - Reagen Sep 20, 15:22 3
  - I miss Ash. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Sep 20, 17:01 1
    - I had a tiny thought of connecting in Amsterdam but a) I didn't know how b) or if he was still there c) and it would have been weird -- nm - Reagen Sep 20, 17:15
  - Heh. -- nm - VMan Sep 20, 15:40
"Fight fight fight" -- (pic) - mud Sep 20, 15:19 [Attachment]

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