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Northern New York right now -- (link) - budice Jan 17, 10:06 2
- make the drivers heading out in that play football in it -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jan 17, 10:07
- Someone forgot to fill in the background. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jan 17, 10:07
Jerod Mayo Era in Boston off to an auspicious start -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 17, 09:58 3
- I love him so much. -- nm - David Jan 17, 10:05
- Xmus Jaxon Flaxon-Waxon -- nm - oblique Jan 17, 10:04
- Indeed. That's kind of epic in a good way 8-) -- nm - JD Jan 17, 09:59
"shut yer gob ye filthy creep" -- (pic) - mud Jan 17, 09:47 [Attachment] 5
- It’s one thing to pull these stunts in a bench trial where your parking garage lawyer forgot to check the box but this jury is literally filling in -- (edited) - hollywood big shot Jan 17, 10:02 1
  - Kaplan just threatened to throw him out of the court. -- nm - Jovian Jan 17, 10:07
- Is that so that jury doesn't form a negative opinion of the defendant? - JD Jan 17, 09:56 2
  - *climatic court scene from the Untouchables* -- nm - Mop🧹 Jan 17, 10:06 1
    - 8-) -- (link) - JD Jan 17, 10:11 [youtube]
Colts: Jim Irsay found unresponsive in his home on Dec. 8th - Remlik Jan 17, 09:47 3
- Owners should be held to same conduct standards as coaches and players -- nm - budice Jan 17, 09:51 2
  - or any -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 17, 09:56 1
    - Heh -- nm - JD Jan 17, 09:57
This guy has introduced a bill in Kentucky to make it legal to have sex with your cousin -- (link) - decline Jan 17, 09:43 [Image] 9
- that dude won Survivor. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Jan 17, 09:50 5
  - Wait, what? Who is it? -- nm - David Jan 17, 09:51 4
    - Link -- (link) - Dark Callisto 🦊 Jan 17, 09:52 3
      - I'm so glad we stopped watching this shit. -- nm - David Jan 17, 09:56
      - egad -- nm - mud Jan 17, 09:54
      - (he was on the Johnny TV and Mike White season) -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Jan 17, 09:53
- that photo -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 17, 09:45
- I thought that was already acceptable there -- nm - eag Jan 17, 09:44
- every accusation is a confession -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jan 17, 09:43
"All schools are open". The road to the school: -- (pic) - Beryllium Jan 17, 09:41 [Attachment] 2
- To be fair, in any place used to snow, that's nothing. But for any place not used to snow, that's deadly. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jan 17, 10:04
- drive faster!! -- nm - decline Jan 17, 09:42
"Your honor, I don't like being spoken to like that." "And I don't like scolding lawyers who do not respect court protocols, but here we are." -- nm - rollo Jan 17, 09:33 1
- More broadly, this is my most hated passive-aggressive maneuver. Provoke a response and then attack the form. Such bullshit should never be tolerated -- nm - rollo Jan 17, 09:36
First episode of After Midnight is on YouTube. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Jan 17, 09:30 [youtube]
Some Amazon Fire TV's now have AI generated art -- (link) - decline Jan 17, 09:27
Jose Perdomo agreed to a $5 million bonus with the Atlanta Braves on Monday, the largest amount on the first day of the 2024 international signing -- (edited) - Beaker 🍺 Jan 17, 09:13 5
- More Acuna, less Kevin Maitan please... - David Jan 17, 09:18 4
  - That’s not unusual. Local journalists can usually tell you where a guy is going to sign by the time he’s 14. - spamlet Jan 17, 09:20 3
    - Or in Atlanta's case....that's more a guideline than a rule..... -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 17, 09:26 2
      - Hey I’m not about to take digs at international signee corruption considering we had multiple people go to jail for skimming. -- nm* - spamlet Jan 17, 09:33
      - Hey, that's guy gone! And banned from baseball! -- nm - David Jan 17, 09:31
isMikeMcCarthystillDallasCowboyscoach?.com -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jan 17, 09:12
JAX, one seat currently available connecting through Charlotte this evening. You can have AA put you on that (if the seat remains available) -- (pic) -- (link*) - ty97 Jan 17, 09:03 [Attachment] 9
- mrsjax and I are going. I've cancelled and rebooked on Spirit out of Orlando at 6pm tonight. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 17, 09:33 5
  - and I give you the consumers that the DoJ is protecting 8-) -- nm - JD Jan 17, 09:36 1
    - I do need to figure out if they're giving me a refund or a credit. (I accidentally rebooked it for *Friday* morning, then cancelled it.) - JaxSean Jan 17, 09:52
  - eeeewwww -- nm - ty97 Jan 17, 09:34 2
    - Yeah. But it gets me there. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 17, 09:39 1
      - TaP -- nm - Spawn Jan 17, 09:40
- OT: our Peru trips leaves from Miami. Me: oh, that's fine there are several AA round-trips to Miami from here. -- (edited) - spamlet Jan 17, 09:12 1
  - My flight to Panama leaves from Miami next Friday. On a Copa Airlines 737 MAX 9. - ty97 Jan 17, 09:16
- Also multiple connecting options with seats available tomorrow morning on AA to get you in earlier. -- nm* - ty97 Jan 17, 09:04
new proposed CFPB rule would rein in excessive overdraft fees (more Bad News For Biden) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 17, 09:01
I'm still watching The Floor. I'm probably here to the end now. Pacing still stinks but the challenges are fun. - Three Quark Baron Jan 17, 08:56 1
- It's better on Hulu without ad breaks, but yeah, it's a fun format -- nm - rollo Jan 17, 09:31
"Flight returns to Japan after ‘drunk’ man bites crew member" *cue Last of Us theme* -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 17, 08:43 4
- Dude. Did ANA quit returning the BBC's messages or something? - JD Jan 17, 09:39
- "The man, reportedly a 55-year-old American" How did I know? -- nm - ty97 Jan 17, 09:05 2
  - *rolls the bones on him being from Florida* -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jan 17, 09:10 1
    - I'm just going to assume they are using the broad definition of American here and that's it was a Canadian. -- nm - ty97 Jan 17, 09:16
Greeley, Colorado has some roads with double suffixes -- (pic) - budice Jan 17, 08:36 [Attachment] 14
- AND WE WON'T EVEN TALK ABOUT THE BOROUGH OF QUEENS -- nm - ty97 Jan 17, 09:20 3
  - Still have this screenshot in my phone -- (pic) - Znufrii, promoted Jan 17, 09:23 [Attachment] 2
    - I'll meet at you at the corner of 60th and 60th -- nm - JD Jan 17, 09:29 1
      - "Yes, my address is 60-60 60th" -- nm - ty97 Jan 17, 09:30
- Galveston, TX uses letters for their Avenues. Avenue N, Avenue O, Avenue P. Except there are avenues in between them sometimes. - ty97 Jan 17, 09:00
- That's where I went to college. They're all numbers, and Streets run one way (E->W) and the Roads run the opposite (N->S) or something like that. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 17, 08:58
- Toronto has a major street just called "Avenue Road." Stupid name. -- nm - Andie Jan 17, 08:53 1
  - We have a major one called "Street Road" -- nm* - decline Jan 17, 08:54
- Calgary has a quadrant system and then tacks the direction of travel on, so you can have things like "take _____ Trail NW South" - Reagen Jan 17, 08:52 1
  - East ____ Trail NW South! -- nm - Three Quark Baron Jan 17, 08:56
- I give you, Street Road. -- (link*) - Znufrii, promoted Jan 17, 08:48
- We have Olive Street Road and Old Olive Street Road locally. - spamlet Jan 17, 08:45
- Heh, we have a Kingshighway Blvd, which is confusing enough. -- nm - Three Quark Baron Jan 17, 08:43 1
  - 35th Ave Ct -- (pic) - budice Jan 17, 08:45 [Attachment]
YDC: The other site made a rule change where your portfolio becomes "unranked' after 5 years of no activity. I moved up 28 slots. -- nm - MDH Jan 17, 08:36 10
- It's been a couple of years for me. I think I might prefer to move unranked from just dropping in rank. I peaked at 51. -- nm - pmb Jan 17, 08:58
- Define activity? I just logged in a late last year but didn't make any trades -- nm - oblique Jan 17, 08:44 1
  - No idea, I just was curious why my rank changed so much and briefly read the post on the forum -- nm - MDH Jan 17, 08:46
- I haven't been to the other site in so long. My account was probably purged. -- nm - sycor Jan 17, 08:43
- The 2 people directly in front of me are both regular ST posters. I moved from 204 to 176. -- nm - MDH Jan 17, 08:40
- I have no idea where i was, but i feel like it was in the 400s somewhere, i am now 344. -- nm - Andie Jan 17, 08:39
- nice. 333 to 278 babeee -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 17, 08:39
- bastards -- nm - decline Jan 17, 08:38 2
  - be more active, whiner -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 17, 08:42 1
    - Ha! Rank: - unranked - -- (edited) - decline Jan 17, 08:53
It’s 8:30. They finally closed campus. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jan 17, 08:32 2
- My job called it 2 hours ago. Snow Day!! -- nm - Bacon Jan 17, 08:38
- It's 8:30 here. Schools are open. -- (pic) - Beryllium Jan 17, 08:33 [Attachment]
'Bill & Ted 4 is being written' - decline Jan 17, 08:24 2
- I think in the case of B&T3, the pandemic did us a favor. - Cuzzin Todd Jan 17, 08:35
- lol yep, almost 60 and they've now traveled through time several times and met several historical figures. But they are still absolute idiots. - Jovian Jan 17, 08:27
Not a concert guy but Green Day will play Dookie and American Idiot in their entirety on their tour and that sounds incredible. - Tim Jan 17, 08:23 4
- Oh! That's what that tour is going to be. It might be worth to retreat to the bar for the Pumpkins set - JD Jan 17, 08:29 3
  - Loser. We saw Pumpkins in 2023 and they were great. -- nm - Spawn Jan 17, 08:52
  - Rancid and The Linda Lindas as well. -- nm - Tim Jan 17, 08:32 1
    - and that's why I'm talking about skipping a set and not the tour -- (edited) - JD Jan 17, 08:39
DTL: baron, I shot you a couple of more scrims. -- nm - spamlet Jan 17, 08:19 4
- Why must you torture me so? Haven't we wept enough? :) -- nm - Three Quark Baron Jan 17, 08:27 2
  - You’re specifically why I’m now a scrim truther :) -- (edited) - spamlet Jan 17, 08:46
  - After our red hot start, we've been under 50% shooting the last 5 games. - Three Quark Baron Jan 17, 08:29
- I have a crazy team. #1 in steals, steals difference, turnovers, turnover difference, and top 10 in assists and delta. - Will Hunting Jan 17, 08:24
does anyone have a WSJ subscription who could do me a c+p favor - headline inside - rollo Jan 17, 08:14 5
- thanks, Biden -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 17, 08:44
- thanks all! -- nm - rollo Jan 17, 08:20
- Here you go - spamlet Jan 17, 08:17
- here - Andie Jan 17, 08:17
- Justifying your use of the jet last weekend? -- nm - decline Jan 17, 08:16
OTD 50 years ago, Joni Mitchell released her sixth album, the exquisite 'Court and Spark' -- (link) - mud Jan 17, 08:11 [youtube]
and yes mud! The season finale of Fargo was fantastic. -- nm - Jovian Jan 17, 08:08 1
- indeed. -- nm - mud Jan 17, 08:12
I kind of want to get a gridle. I have a gas grill, getting a gridle seems a little redundant but also, not. -- nm - sycor Jan 17, 07:59 11
- You might be able to find one that either fits into or sits on top of your grill. -- nm - Znufrii, promoted Jan 17, 08:19
- Got cakes on the griddle -- (link) - JD Jan 17, 08:12 [youtube]
- We have one that we use on our countertops. Not a giant Blackstone style one. -- nm - spamlet Jan 17, 08:09
- a stovetop one? I have one. They are phenomenal -- nm - decline Jan 17, 08:05 5
  - I was thinking more like an outside gas one. I have a stupid glass top stove that I hate. I'm too scared to use my cast iron because - sycor Jan 17, 08:09 4
    - if you already have a gas grill, then you can use a stovetop on on it as well. Get something like this - decline Jan 17, 08:12 3
      - Oh I just saw weber makes a griddle insert for my grill. I didn't see that before (maybe new?). -- nm - sycor Jan 17, 08:23 1
        
        👍 perfect -- nm - decline Jan 17, 08:26
      - I can probably use that, just have to be careful. My grill has porcelain coated grates. Don't want to chip the porcelain. - sycor Jan 17, 08:17
- Misread that as girdle -- nm - TWuG Jan 17, 08:01 1
  - Well, I am fat, so maybe I should get one those too. -- nm - sycor Jan 17, 08:02
I.S.S. 79% (26/7), Founders Day 74% (14/5), Which Brings me To You 80% (4/1), Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell 100% (22/0) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jan 17, 07:59
Woopsie! AdBlock reveals they were responsible for YouTube loading videos slowly. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Jan 17, 07:58 3
- adblocker ultimate on Firefox works great -- nm - Remlik Jan 17, 09:25
- bastards. having sampled a bunch of these ad blockers recently I will say adblock is probably the most bloated -- nm - decline Jan 17, 08:04 1
  - I deployed uBlock origin to all our company browsers. Really haven't had any issues with it -- nm - oblique Jan 17, 08:06
TV PSA: Chicago Med, Fire, PD; Wild Cards, I Can See Your Voice, Family Law, We Are Family, FBI True, It Was Always Me, Criminal Record, The Challenge - Beaker 🍺 Jan 17, 07:57
princess kate underwent "abdominal surgery" and in the hospital for at least two weeks -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 17, 07:57 5
- semi-relatedly: King Charles will have treatment for an enlarged prostate -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 17, 08:59
- Yeah, that's major surgery if she's staying that long. The palace called it 'planned surgery.' Then says there were 'postponed engagements." I wish - Andie Jan 17, 07:59 3
  - Yes get better. Two weeks sounds like they took out parts of her colon -- nm - Pippy Jan 17, 08:17 1
    - I was thinking small bowel resection for something like chron’s. — nm - i.b.! Jan 17, 08:43
  - I'm beginning to read it as "serious but not an emergency." That can cover a lot. -- nm - Meg Jan 17, 08:11
Historically, what's the highest number of simultaneously open NFL Head Coach spots? -- nm - JD Jan 17, 07:54
Given the board roll, the thread barely got started but I'd vote there's already a winner -- (link) - JD Jan 17, 07:49 [Backboard] 2
- Hee! - TWuG Jan 17, 07:51 1
  - That's good as well. Super cynical IM warning - JD Jan 17, 07:56
Hmmm a shooting war between Pakistan and Iran would be bad I believe? - Jovian Jan 17, 07:45 1
- It would hopefully go better than one between Pakistan and India? -- nm - JD Jan 17, 07:50
Costco is testing out a system that requires members to scan their membership cards at the store entrance -- (link) - budice Jan 17, 07:45 8
- Seems better than the casual "show your card to some guy" method. - Mop🧹 Jan 17, 08:00 7
  - yup. which makes it a waste of time and money to install these stupid things cause you don't need a card for optical OR for pharmacy -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jan 17, 08:01 6
    - You don't? -- nm - Mop🧹 Jan 17, 08:04 5
      - not in Canada as far as I know -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jan 17, 08:06 4
        
        In the US you do need it for optical. I had to renew my membership last month to buy my glasses there. -- nm - kelly Jan 17, 08:09 3
        
        huh, maybe here too, but didn't think so...but that was just based on article comments so who knows :) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jan 17, 08:13 2
        
        Yes, you need to be a member to purchase glasses or contacts at Costco Optical centers. However, you do not need to be a member to make an appointment -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jan 17, 08:13 1
        
        my bad on the confusion -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jan 17, 08:16
SpaceX launches twelfth crewed mission today at 5:11 ET -- (link) - TWuG Jan 17, 07:44
Flight to Nashville cancelled, then (auto) rebooked to Thursday night. -- (edited) - JaxSean Jan 17, 07:44 3
- What airline? -- nm - ty97 Jan 17, 08:07 1
  - AA -- nm - JaxSean Jan 17, 08:56
- Call and see if you can rebook to Weds night? If they moved you you generally get "one free move" -- nm - spamlet Jan 17, 07:59

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