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any curling fans? -- (pic) - mud Dec 16, 12:11 [Attachment] 3
- Ouch. Going just how you want through 4 ends and then whoooooops. -- nm - B'nai B'ron Dec 16, 12:18
- how do you let that happen? -- nm - Reagen Dec 16, 12:13 1
  - poor-ish play, ha - but not as bad as Hasselberg against Jones holy moly -- nm - mud Dec 16, 12:15
Tim's Top Twelve Songs of Two Thousand Twenty Three. - Tim Dec 16, 11:44 2
- I’m amazed Flowers by Miley Cyrus isn’t on any of these lists. - Loyola Dec 16, 13:33 1
  - I think that’s why it isn’t on our lists. Like, it’s Miley, it’s Flowers, it’s being played all the time. We already accept it’s inevitably. -- nm - Qale Dec 16, 15:18
Steve Smith is such a terrible commentator. -- nm - Reagen Dec 16, 11:42 2
- *yells at you for complaining about his yelling* -- nm* - Steven A. Smith Dec 16, 12:18
- yup -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Dec 16, 11:46
Ohio woman suffering a miscarriage at 21 weeks with life threatening complications is charged with abortion -- (link) - zeitgeist Dec 16, 11:37
maybe one step toward exercising better judgment is learning how to spell judgment (and also not filming porn in the senate) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 16, 11:24 6
- Propane 46% -- nm - amandaphone Dec 16, 13:46
- That sounds like two steps. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Dec 16, 11:42
- (both are valid spellings but you guys picked the clunkiest looking one) -- nm - Reagen Dec 16, 11:39 2
  - I suspect this young chap wasn’t intentionally using the alt spelling -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 16, 11:53
  - The crossword is teaching me a lot about alternative spellings. This week's one was ocher vs. ochre -- nm - crash davis 😺 Dec 16, 11:41
- What an idiot. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 16, 11:27
If the focus groups are telling studios they hate musicals shouldn’t the studios just stop spending money on musicals? -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 16, 11:22 1
- They're so hoping to trick people into the Greatest Showman with holiday legs to kill for. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 16, 11:33
"...and make fists with your toes" -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 16, 11:03 2
- Watched it last night -- nm - rollo Dec 16, 11:24
- And then punch some mister falcon terrorists with those foot-fists -- nm - Beryllium Dec 16, 11:07
Scottish Air Traffic Control - Beryllium Dec 16, 10:50 [youtube]
Which MCU movies & tv series are christmas movies? - Beryllium Dec 16, 10:45 3
- The last Spiderman movie -- nm - eag Dec 16, 11:02
- I mean, there’s a Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas special. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Dec 16, 10:51 1
  - I'm not sure if that counts. - Beryllium Dec 16, 10:55
Periodic puppy pic -- (pic) - Znufrii, exceeds expectations Dec 16, 10:36 [Attachment] 2
- Aw...so cute -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 16, 10:56
- get him to move a bit so you can have Periodic Puppy Table pic -- nm - crash davis 😺 Dec 16, 10:41
LYC: I recorded by best weekly total time on the crossword this week, by more than five minutes. I blazed through Sunday and had decent times - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 16, 10:32 [Attachment] 3
- *clears throat* Ner-r-r-r-r-r-rd! - B'nai B'ron Dec 16, 10:50 1
  - Definitely one of the nerdiest things that I do -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 16, 11:00
- 😺👍 impressive spreadsheet as well -- nm - crash davis 😺 Dec 16, 10:40
the detective lady from OMITB is the Best Supporting Actress front runner? -- nm - Tim Dec 16, 10:30 2
- Unless Meryl is considered "supporting" for season 3. - TWuG Dec 16, 10:33 1
  - I meant for the Oscars, she's cleaning up critics awards' for The Holdovers. -- nm* - Tim Dec 16, 10:51
Scrims -- nm - rollo Dec 16, 10:17 3
- Dang, nice class, Rollo. A 5/5 tie broke our way and you still topped us. - B'nai B'ron Dec 16, 10:39 2
  - I lost both ties on big men, expected, and was lucky to have sourced a very good net - Tupy and Dubois were clear at 25/26 RP - rollo Dec 16, 11:23 1
    - I definitely put stats over ratings. If he's producing I don't care what the board says about him. -- nm - B'nai B'ron Dec 16, 12:17
... someone wrote an activitypub-based classified ads app. Which I guess means I don't have to - but it was something I was considering. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 16, 09:53
will never not be hilarious that a bunch of idiots convinced themselves some ugly jpgs were worth millions -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 16, 09:53 5
- that's a terrible Gorillaz album cover -- nm* - Tim Dec 16, 10:54
- You know how every time a failing business burns down its assumed to be arson for the insurance, I wonder if there is insurance involved here -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 16, 10:54
- I love that one of the ways people thought these would be valuable is licensing - Reagen Dec 16, 10:10
- wtaf -- nm - mud Dec 16, 10:04
- *gasp* - znufrii Dec 16, 09:55
Onana! Everton goes ahead in the Dyche Dyche (baby) cup -- nm - JD Dec 16, 09:53 2
- Apparently they're taking the point deduction under advisement -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 16, 10:15
- WTH? Keane ⚽️ -- nm - JD Dec 16, 09:56
Alex Jones can go f*ck himself -- (link) - Znufrii, exceeds expectations Dec 16, 09:41 1
- I agree. And the fact there is a payment plan is great. Cause there was there is still a chance he pays them zero -- nm - Pip Dec 16, 10:05
Something I didn't realize - basically, had completely forgotten - until just now: Poker Face came out /this year/. - Beryllium Dec 16, 09:40 1
- right in time to blow up before the strike held up s2 -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 16, 09:43
I got 80% or so of Friday's Xword done until I stalled out. I got about 50% of today. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Dec 16, 09:37
At the antique store. That’s nice… that’s nice… that’s…… racist. -- nm - Dano Dec 16, 09:27 3
- Do we get three guesses which race it's racist against? -- nm - con_carne Dec 16, 09:43 2
  - More than one -- nm - Dano Dec 16, 10:21
  - Amish -- nm - Pip Dec 16, 10:07
Cardinal guilty. 5 years -- (link) - TWuG Dec 16, 09:09 2
- We don't do much if you abuse kids, but DON'T YOU DARE STEAL MONEY FROM THE CHURCH!! -- nm - Bacon Dec 16, 09:46
- Oh. I was hoping it would be Yadier Molina -- nm* - zunk takes things literally Dec 16, 09:36
Flashback for December 17, 2023 24 points - crash davis 😺 Dec 16, 09:01 1
- heh, a flashback for something set in the future -- nm - crash davis 😺 Dec 16, 09:02
Yay, Palace -- nm - JD Dec 16, 08:57 2
- amazing -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 16, 09:00 1
  - Yep. City isn’t the same City. Although missing Haaland and Debruyne will do that to you. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Dec 16, 09:15
that time Hooters held a "Toyota" giveaway contest -- (link) - hollywood big shot Dec 16, 08:41 1
- OTOH some company jokingly offered a Harrier Military jet as a prize and the court ruling against now allows companies to make claims in ads - zeitgeist Dec 16, 11:18
Chilling scenes in the Luton Town match. A player went down with a head injury way after the play happened. When the camera came back he was face down - Volnelk 🍊 Dec 16, 08:28 9
- Was it the same game who collapsed last season? - tRuMaN Dec 16, 08:49 4
  - Yes. Apparently he had a heart procedure after that. Some people are saying this was a head injury, but that would be very strange. - Volnelk 🍊 Dec 16, 08:52 2
    - The club has confirmed it was a cardiac arrest. -- nm - znufrii Dec 16, 10:10
    - I dunno. His heart is probably the most closely checked part of him these days. -- nm - JD Dec 16, 08:53
  - Looks like it from the news stories -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 16, 08:51
- Yikes. Hoping for the best. -- nm - Znufrii, exceeds expectations Dec 16, 08:37
- Looks more like his heart stopped or something. It’s crazy. They just showed a team of paramedics carting him off the field. - Volnelk 🍊 Dec 16, 08:31 2
  - “Alert and responsive” in the tunnel, per reports. -- nm - Znufrii, exceeds expectations Dec 16, 08:52 1
    - Rest of the match has been called off. -- nm - Znufrii, exceeds expectations Dec 16, 08:55
DTL -- congrats Shawnee --- rant about PR's - Will Hunting Dec 16, 08:18
So IF is basically sorta a live action Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends -- nm - tRuMaN Dec 16, 07:48
Wait wait wait, we have 42 bowl games and they're playing *8* today? We lost the specialness of New Years Day games every 30 minutes so we can have - Will Hunting Dec 16, 07:38 8
- I suppose it's special if you're with Ga. Southern or Ohio in any way. - zunk takes things literally Dec 16, 09:21 1
  - There's no reason you can't legitimately have a game starting every hour on NYD. - Will Hunting Dec 16, 09:30
- Gee, I wonder why the NCAA would do something like that. -- nm - spamlet Dec 16, 08:06
- And 3 NFL games for whatever reason -- nm - eag Dec 16, 07:41 4
  - If the games are only on NFL Network? Then they really aren't being played. I cut the cable cord 15 years ago, so I guess I won't be watching -- nm - Bacon Dec 16, 09:48
  - The NFL games were there first?. NFL had these late season Sat games as there used to be no college games on these before Bowl games Saturdays -- nm - JD Dec 16, 08:56
  - All 3 with playoff potentials -- nm - budice Dec 16, 08:02
  - "And the people of America grew angry and contemptuous as they said they had too much football. God then took the football away and there was much wailing and gnashing" -- nm* - crash davis 😺 Dec 16, 08:00
Time to start making the gingerbread. I need to make a bit over 100 cookies this year. - Krusty Dec 16, 06:58 5
- don't do like starbucks, they put red scarves on polar bears and now the meme is Their war on Xmas has them cutting the throats of these polar bears -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 16, 11:21 1
  - here -- (pic) - zeitgeist Dec 16, 11:24 [Attachment]
- to save you time, you don't have to decorate mine as I'm fine with naked gingerbread -- nm - crash davis 😺 Dec 16, 07:56 1
  - Noted -- nm - Krusty Dec 16, 09:05
- A gingerbread man sits inside a gingerbread house… -- (link) - Znufrii, exceeds expectations Dec 16, 07:34
Reading print better for comprehension than digital text -- (link) - Znufrii, exceeds expectations Dec 16, 05:41 4
- "This may be because the “linguistic quality of digital texts tends to be lower than that traditionally found in printed texts”, he added." - TWuG Dec 16, 08:01
- Every book I've tried to read digitally was either missing pages, or had a glitch where it would skip several pages or chapters. -- nm - . Dec 16, 05:55 1
  - How many of you tried? I've got hundreds read and I think I can count on one hand the # of times this happened with fingers left over. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 16, 07:34
- This Week in "Duh" -- nm - Reagen Dec 16, 05:48
TV PSA: NFL, NBA, NHL, UFC 296, College Football, NCAA Bball, Planet Earth III, AEW Collision, SNL (Kate McKinnon; Billie Eilish), - Beaker 🍻 Dec 16, 04:34
Catching up on last night's Graham Norton and your favourite muppet Jack Lowden was on. -- nm - LMS Dec 16, 03:59 1
- Also to note that there are spoilers for Doctor Who episode The Giggle as Ncuti Gatwa is also a guest. -- nm - LMS Dec 16, 07:20
Mayim Bialik Says She Will Stop Hosting ‘Jeopardy!’ - crash davis 😺 Dec 16, 03:47 7
- Bah. This gives me a sad. I liked her style. -- nm - B’nai B’ron Dec 16, 07:52
- Jepoardy picks Scab over host who supported writers. -- nm - Remlik Dec 16, 07:34 4
  - Not really. A scab is someone who does the work of a striking worker. -- nm - mara ❄️ Dec 16, 08:14
  - I’d like a ruling on this. Game show hosts weren't on strike. -- nm - Mop🧹 Dec 16, 07:40 2
    - Their SAG contracts differ from actors'. Apparently he was contractually required to continue hosting, which incidentally is what Trebek did during the 2007-08 strike. -- (link*) - mara ❄️ Dec 16, 08:23 1
      - ok that's a fair point. thank you. -- nm - Remlik Dec 16, 09:45
- Not her choice, FWIW, but I prefer Ken so that’s ok. -- nm - Mop🧹 Dec 16, 07:27
Mike Grgich Dies at 100; His Wine Stunned the French by Besting Theirs - crash davis 😺 Dec 16, 03:42
Insomnia. :-/ - Beryllium Dec 16, 03:26
Why didn't ST tell me that BONK is ARB? 😂 -- (link) - Beryllium Dec 16, 03:26
wtf is this haircut of Guiliani's lawyer? did his toddler get ahold of his razor and go to town while he was black out drunk? -- (link) - zeitgeist Dec 16, 02:17 [Image] 3
- He just wanted Giuliani to feel good about his hair. - . Dec 16, 05:57
- WTF?!? -- nm - Krusty Dec 16, 04:50
- The reverse mullet. Also, pretty sure it's a white supremacist thing. -- nm - TWuG Dec 16, 02:49
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me - JD Dec 16, 00:17 1
- I always heard it as "I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy. Same Joke, different twist. -- nm - Howie Dec 16, 00:30
"Baby found alive in tree after tennessee tornado" -- (link) - Beryllium Dec 15, 21:43 5
- Chumley . . . -- nm - hollywood big shot Dec 15, 22:49
- It’s all a GoFundMe grift. -- nm - Qale Dec 15, 22:02 3
  - Yeah, I don’t know why, but something sounds suspicious about this. -- nm - Mop🧹 Dec 16, 07:26 1
    - The storms were a week ago -- if a baby was found in a tree, it would have been national news last Sunday, Monday at the latest. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 16, 07:42
  - Seems likely. -- nm - mara ❄️ Dec 16, 06:10
Connections Puzzle #188 - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 15, 21:10 8
- yellow last - mud Dec 16, 06:58
- No issues. - VMan Dec 16, 06:41
- In order - decline Dec 16, 04:47
- Also perfect - TWuG Dec 16, 02:52
- Connections Puzzle #188 - crash davis 😺 Dec 16, 02:49
- Mine - Will Hunting Dec 15, 21:25
- slightly different order - ty97 Dec 15, 21:14
- Same - Znufrii, exceeds expectations Dec 15, 21:11
Wordle 910 4/6 - prayformojo 🐵 Dec 15, 21:07 3
- 5 - a partridge in a pear tree - rollo Dec 16, 10:59
- 4 - decline Dec 16, 04:45
- Wordle 910 5/6 - crash davis 😺 Dec 16, 02:55
The "Ship of Theseus" page on Wikipedia was created in July 2003. Since then it has been edited 1792 times. None of the original phrases remain. -- (link) - znufrii Dec 15, 20:52 3
- Neechay -- nm - B’nai B’ron Dec 16, 07:53
- Well done, internet. -- nm - spamlet Dec 16, 06:35
- To be fair, that original article was crap. -- nm - Mop🧹 Dec 15, 21:20
Don't think I'd heard of Hoka before. They seem interesting. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 15, 20:27 3
- we were talking about them this summer, so much that I bought some, comfy, soft and light -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 15, 22:31
- They get more popular by the month. They're everywhere here but we're a walking and running city which is what they're built for. -- nm* - Krusty Dec 15, 21:47
- hokey for sure -- nm - budice Dec 15, 20:33
#11 SUNY Cortland wins Division III football championship, defeating #1 North Central (IL) -- (link) - Tim Dec 15, 20:21 3
- So 0-0 at half and they both went Raiders in the 2nd…damn. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 15, 20:36 1
  - My alma mater was 7-1 and had given up 43 points all season…Cortland scored 41. - Tim Dec 15, 20:41
- Oh wow, North Central scored with 1:20 left and went for the win with a 2pt conversion and were stopped. -- nm - Tim Dec 15, 20:24
*blink* -- nm - znufrii Dec 15, 20:19

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