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Jason Kelce at a Bills tailgate. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Jan 22, 07:51 5
- new Kelce brothers show idea, they attend random sporting events and just party with the fans. -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 22, 07:53 4
  - ESPN is listening. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jan 22, 07:56
  - "New Lows" -- nm - Max Jan 22, 07:55 2
    - New Heights: Fandamodium -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 22, 07:56 1
      - Fandamodium AD -- nm - rollo Jan 22, 08:04
Razzies Noms - Expendables 4 w/7, Exorcist Believer 5, Winnie Blood&Honey 5 -- (edited) - budice Jan 22, 07:41 12
- Seen 2 of the worst picture nominees (Meg 2 and Shazam 2) -- nm - MDH Jan 22, 08:16
- Expend4bles would sweep my list with additional categories for set design and cinematography. - Max Jan 22, 07:54
- I completely forgot Ghosted existed. -- nm - Reagen Jan 22, 07:50 8
  - IMO movies that go directly to streaming have zero cultural impact. None of them live on after a week, a few at most. -- nm - MDH Jan 22, 08:16 1
    - I think it's an Apple problem, not a streaming problem. Lots of Netflix ones have done well. -- nm - Reagen Jan 22, 08:19
  - The streamer's dilemma - no big marketing push, it doesn't get lodged in the cultural cranium the same way as big theater pushes do -- nm - rollo Jan 22, 07:53
  - You Ghosted ... Ghosted? -- nm - budice Jan 22, 07:52
  - It was fine. I don't think it's Razzie worthy. There has to be much worse choices out there. -- nm - sycor Jan 22, 07:52 3
    - The Razzies are lazy. Hitting Bill Murray for Ant Man is stupid. -- nm - Reagen Jan 22, 08:02 1
      - Have they ever given themselves a razzy? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 22, 08:16
    - I concur. It was ... quaint. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 22, 07:55
- Not sure I agree with all of those noms but others are spot on -- nm - sycor Jan 22, 07:47
Walking up the stairs and seeing a bunch of acrylics on them, and I turn into Aragorn. "A great battle occurred here." -- nm - Reagen Jan 22, 07:07
Constellation | Apple TV+ | February 21 -- (link) - mud Jan 22, 07:05 [youtube] 2
- she chooses interesting projects. I'm in -- nm - Remlik Jan 22, 07:57
- Looks intriguing. Hopefully they can stick the landing. -- nm - sycor Jan 22, 07:09
The whole Stanley cup fad thing is very confusing to read as a hockey fan. -- nm - Reagen Jan 22, 06:59 20
- My assumption is that Yeti is a superior product and brand but Stanley figured something out -- nm - rollo Jan 22, 07:51 4
  - the only difference I can tell is marketing and a HANDLE - Epiphany Jan 22, 08:06 2
    - FWIW, I’m a big fan of the handle. -- nm - spamlet Jan 22, 08:10 1
      - I really do think that is a big driver as crazy as it sounds -- nm - Epiphany Jan 22, 08:25
  - Project Farm tested that. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jan 22, 07:52
- Same, especially since The Cup was in town last week. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 22, 07:29
- ST poll: do you own a Stanley Cup? -- nm - Epiphany Jan 22, 07:12 13
  - No. Their handles are too big for my needs. I use a fantastic bottle by Yeti. -- nm - Krusty Jan 22, 08:27
  - I have yetis and h2Gos. I might buy an owala because the colors are GREAT. -- (link) - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Jan 22, 08:01 1
    - ooh, the Owalas are so pretty! -- nm - Andie Jan 22, 08:04
  - I have an old (like 10 year old) insulated Stanley mug that i bought for camping. not a new trendy Stanley cup. -- nm - Andie Jan 22, 07:48
  - I'm no different that the San Jose Sharks -- nm - JD Jan 22, 07:42
  - does this count - I have a thermos that my grandad had and used when working on his farm/other jobs, its probably older than I am. -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 22, 07:20
  - No. -- nm - Znufrii, promoted Jan 22, 07:20
  - I think one of my growlers is a Stanley - Reagen Jan 22, 07:19
  - Literally the first I’ve heard of the not hockey kind. -- nm - mafic Jan 22, 07:19
  - Nope. (But do have a bunch of Ozark Trail cups from Walmart, they work just as well.) -- nm - JaxSean Jan 22, 07:16
  - We have a couple of knockoffs from somewhere. -- nm - spamlet Jan 22, 07:16
  - if I do, I didn't buy it on purpose. - Dark Callisto 🦊 Jan 22, 07:14
  - no, but I have a Stanley thermos -- nm - decline Jan 22, 07:13
Ripley | Netflix | April 4 -- (link) - mud Jan 22, 06:58 [youtube] 3
- Ah, Minghella, not Scott. -- nm - Reagen Jan 22, 07:00 2
  - Ah, Mingella, not Ellen Louise. -- nm - Spawn Jan 22, 08:37
  - Crossover! -- nm - Dano Jan 22, 07:13
Mop! Apple might have sold up to 180,000 Vision Pro headsets over pre-order weekend -- (link) - decline Jan 22, 06:50 1
- But they didn't sell out. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jan 22, 07:37
Avril Lavigne Summer 2024 Greatest Hits Tour (Openers inc. Simple Plan/All Time Low) - MDH Jan 22, 06:40 4
- Doobie Brothers (W/Mcdonald), Steve Winwood and Robert Cray on tour -- nm - Remlik Jan 22, 08:00
- I can’t believe she’s not touring with Sum 41! -- nm - mafic Jan 22, 07:21
- My girlfriend really wants to grab our bikes and our tent, and go all the way to St-Jean at the hot air ballon festival to see her + camping - Guigue Jan 22, 06:49 1
  - That actually sounds kinda fun. -- nm - mafic Jan 22, 07:19
ST Poll: Weekend viewing? Dumb Money: B+. No Hard Feelings: C. -- nm - oblique Jan 22, 06:11 20
- Spring Fever (1927), pretty funny. Reacher S2: same issues as crash has mentioned - Max Jan 22, 08:12
- Plus One (from 2019): A. Fargo (latest season): A+PTSD. True Detective: B (there's one poorly written clue) - Mop🧹 Jan 22, 07:55
- catching up on The Old Man, first five eps (solid A, just a total banger from top to bottom) -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 22, 07:49
- The Trust (Netflix) episodes 5-7: B -- nm - Dano Jan 22, 07:22
- Oh, forgot we also saw Mean Girls (movie) on Saturday: C+ It wasn't bad per-se, but as a fan of the musical, it wasn't what I was looking for -- nm* - oblique Jan 22, 07:21 2
  - I've seen the musical, but not the movie, can you explain, I'm curious? -- nm - MDH Jan 22, 07:25 1
    - Well, it isn't a straight up movie version of the musical. There are a couple songs missing (It Roars, Stop, Whose House is This?, Fearless, -- (edited) - oblique Jan 22, 07:32
- football, curling -- nm - mud Jan 22, 07:00
- The Bear, first half of S2, A -- nm - Znufrii, promoted Jan 22, 06:56 3
  - Great Wolf Lodge, F - Znufrii, promoted Jan 22, 07:19 2
    - Did someone pee in the pool? -- nm - sycor Jan 22, 07:21 1
      - I figured that was a given. - Znufrii, promoted Jan 22, 07:56
- Lift (B-) -- nm - sycor Jan 22, 06:37
- Black Hawk Down (one of my favorites): A+, Theater Camp: B+ (Better than expected) -- nm - MDH Jan 22, 06:34 2
  - "So what would be a gay play?" "I guess a musical" - oblique Jan 22, 06:37 1
    - some of the little one off scenes cracked me up (i.e. the kid playing football) -- nm - MDH Jan 22, 06:57
- Strays B+ -- nm - Jovian Jan 22, 06:33
- Godless (NF limited series from 2017) A+ . - decline Jan 22, 06:21
- American Fiction: A. S11E1-2 of Letterkenny: meh - spamlet Jan 22, 06:14
- Psych Movie 2 & 3: A+ -- nm - Krusty Jan 22, 06:11
We’re in the middle of an ice storm where even city buses are pulled off the road. They didn’t close the office until 7:15 when a lot of people - spamlet Jan 22, 05:48 7
- KC got a bit, but when I saw the radar I was like "St Louis is gonna be a skating rink" -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 22, 06:18 1
  - Up by TWuG it’s supposed to be even worse. They’re not worried about trees or power lines here. -- nm - spamlet Jan 22, 06:18
- And they did it through email (which they tell hourly employees not to check) rather than the hotline (which people are told to check). -- nm - spamlet Jan 22, 06:11 2
  - how many employees are you? penn state has text alerts you can sign up for that tell you things like campus closures. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Jan 22, 06:24 1
    - Couple hundred so not big enough for something like that I'm sure. -- nm - spamlet Jan 22, 06:27
- We had the same about 10 years ago in Houston flooding. One of the engineers drowned after driving into a quasi-river. - Will Hunting Jan 22, 06:02
- Yikes! -- nm - Krusty Jan 22, 05:59
Imagine being a Bills fan walking into work on a Monday. -- nm - budice Jan 22, 05:31 1
- "Stefon Diggs? No! Say hello to Miguel Sanchez!" -- nm* - Reagen Jan 22, 06:15
Jan. 22 - The miracle is not to fly in the air, nor to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. - Chinese proverb -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jan 22, 05:17
WordDaily - Arguendo ADVERB (Law) For the sake of argument; identifying the premises of a hypothetical argument while making it clear that no finding - crash davis 😺 Jan 22, 05:14 1
- The noun form is a disagreement started over a rumor -- nm - rollo Jan 22, 06:34
TV PSA: NBA, America's Got Talent, Ride, Bachelor, Raw, America's Most Wanted, The Traitors, Not Quite Narwhal, Antiques Roadshow, Bad Romance, - Beaker 🍺 Jan 22, 04:44
Connections Puzzle #225 1 mistake -- (edited) - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 22, 04:28 5
- mine - mud Jan 22, 07:31
- got purple again before the end on purpose - oblique Jan 22, 06:07
- 1 mistake (jumped the gun) - decline Jan 22, 05:55
- No oopsies. - VMan Jan 22, 05:37
- Connections Puzzle #225 - crash davis 😺 Jan 22, 05:08
Wordle 947 4/6 - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 22, 04:24 3
- 4 - rollo Jan 22, 06:27
- 4 - decline Jan 22, 05:53
- Wordle 947 3/6 - crash davis 😺 Jan 22, 05:10
happy 40th to the best commercial ever -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 21, 23:47 3
- Meh -- nm - Krusty Jan 22, 04:42
- "Ahwon Buh" is loads better. - TWuG Jan 22, 03:05
- Still the most remarkable commercial advertisement ever. -- (pic) - zeitgeist Jan 22, 01:00 [Attachment]
Evacuation warnings issued in parts of Topanga Canyon as more rain approaches. -- nm - Meg Jan 21, 23:04
Shawn Hochuli’s crew now 9-2 (3-0 in the playoffs) for the Chiefs -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 21, 21:39 4
- Mahomes has a career 0.770 winning pct, so this is not dramatically different. -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Jan 22, 06:32
- And Sean McDermott's Fake Punt call is just the 4th or 5th most interesting item on the list. (for the game) -- nm* - budice Jan 21, 23:04 1
  - I don't think he called it. They said it was a check because Chiefs only had 10 guys on the field. Players did it on their own. -- nm - Volnelk Jan 22, 05:56
- Easily the biggest call in the game went against the Chiefs. - David Jan 21, 21:43
Two episodes in True Detective and the constant night is already messing with me. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jan 21, 21:34 4
- I think Jodie Foster said "I'll do a detective show but it has to be darker and colder than Kate Winslet's Mare of Easttown" -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jan 21, 21:51 3
  - Christopher Eccleston has the Dr Strange accent down cold -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 21, 22:00 2
    - something about him just seems off; has he had plastic surgery? -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jan 21, 22:02 1
      - You didn’t see his bare ass much on Doctor Who. Plus, he’s got hair. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jan 22, 05:52
Ukraine is successfully targeting, via drone, production facilities in Russia. - TWuG Jan 21, 21:17 1
- Gonna scare off people from working in those factories. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jan 21, 21:33
Before FH, there was a woman that I had to break up with as she wouldn't quit counting - JD Jan 21, 21:16 1 1
- 👍 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jan 21, 21:33
Daughter came home late last night... - Mop🧹 Jan 21, 20:38 2
- Are you dumping on Scooby-Doo? The original series is still awesome. -- nm - TWuG Jan 21, 20:43 1
  - Better if you're high. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jan 21, 20:57
Hulu taketh and giveth. Welcome to Wrexham? Meh. Fargo. WOW. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jan 21, 20:33 2
- And now True Detective! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jan 21, 20:33 1
  - ah, thank you for reminding me -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jan 21, 20:39
I just finished The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. Wow, that one will stay with me for a while. I see why it won the 2020 Pulitzer - crash davis 😺 Jan 21, 20:27
FAA recommends visual inspections of 737-900ER mid-exit door plugs -- (link) - ty97 Jan 21, 20:24
Taylor's thoughts during the game. It's great Tarvis' brother is here to take all the cameras off me. BUT, Dear God, PLEASE -- (edited) - Peglegpete Jan 21, 20:20
Someone brought a pig’s head to a death metal show in Houston and people are unhappy about it. Meanwhile, I’m thinking, that isn’t normal there? -- (link) - Qale Jan 21, 19:58
191 known ballots, official announcement Tuesday afternoon. - Tim Jan 21, 19:36
lol that’s one interpretation -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 21, 19:22
So tired. This morning two of us took care of a coach tour of over 50 people. Financially it was a good booking but kept us busy, then there was a - Meg Jan 21, 19:14 2
- Hard work in service of a good cause is the right kind of tired. Good job!👍 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jan 21, 20:40 1
  - We broke every rule in the book regarding "no self guided tours" but they enjoyed the experience and it was all a lot of fun. - Meg Jan 21, 21:41
it's just a cold night in Buffalo -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 21, 19:13 1
- I do feel bad for Ty Johnson, who is from my home. first in an NFL playoff game in 41 years -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 21, 19:33
A Buccaneers & Lions Fan Reaction to the Divisional Round -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Jan 21, 19:06 [youtube]
Tim whenever you're around...Looking at a paper vopy of an old Billboard chart - MDH Jan 21, 19:01 5
- The song had an official music video, which I guess wasn’t every song still until the mid80s? -- nm - Tim Jan 21, 19:09 1
  - Okay thanks, almost every song (late 80s chart) had one, so that's helpful! -- nm - MDH Jan 21, 19:11
- not Tim, obv.; but that started in 1999 to mean 10M or more in sales. -- nm - i.b.! Jan 21, 19:09 2
  - That was RIAA Diamond certification for albums, there was a symbol next to the song for gold and platinum status. -- nm - Tim Jan 21, 19:11 1
    - right; and it could/can be singles, too. nm but: -- (link) - i.b.! Jan 21, 20:26
I slogged thru the NYT sunday crossword in about 2 hours but had about 5 errors -- nm - rollo Jan 21, 18:57 1
- I'm 50% done at 53 minutes in. I think I've too much to do tonight to try to wade through the rest of it, so I'll tap out -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jan 21, 19:27
A Packers Fan Reaction to the 2023-2024 NFL Season -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Jan 21, 18:54 [youtube]
TIL. It's unconstitutional for both pres and vp to be from the same state. So wrinkleboot Ron can't be the vp pick as 45 is a FL resident -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 21, 18:51 6
- It's not forbidden, but they would sacrifice from receiving EC votes from that state. -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Jan 22, 06:25
- Trump would just claim he moved to NY if he wanted Desantis to be VP. Retroactive to whenever the law requires of course. -- nm - sycor Jan 21, 19:24 1
  - Yep, "no rules" doesn't just apply to Outback. -- nm - Meg Jan 21, 19:28
- yeah cause rules have always stopped shithead -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jan 21, 18:53 2
  - he'll get a cabinet position. -- nm - Remlik Jan 21, 18:57 1
    - will his new dictatorship even allow for such positions? or would they be renamed something trumpy, like Director of Tanning Solutions. -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 22, 04:50
I love these slightly earlier times as otherwise i'd be in bed when these games ended... -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jan 21, 18:50
Buffalo really is cursed though -- nm - ty97 Jan 21, 18:48 3
- *drops FOUR feet of snow tomorrow* -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jan 21, 18:49 2
  - And thats just on the kicker's house -- nm - eag Jan 21, 18:51 1
    - oh, that's already on fire -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jan 21, 18:52

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