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there's a times crossword clue geared specifically for crash today. -- nm - mafic Feb 19, 19:10 2
- Synchronicity! -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 19:15
- I was coming here to note this exact thing -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 19, 19:15
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse $5 on VUDU -- (link) - budice Feb 19, 19:06
Local shooter of a WA patrol officer was almost ordered to be set free without bail because he was held over 48 hours before charges... - zeitgeist Feb 19, 18:35
NFL-Bears: Justin Fields no longer follows the Chicago Bears on Instagram. -- (edited) - budice Feb 19, 18:31 [Attachment] 1
- It's consistent with his not following the play designs, either. -- nm - David Feb 19, 18:33
FML Capital One is buying Discover - colin Feb 19, 18:18 3
- Imma need regulators to pump the brakes on that. -- nm - Qale Feb 19, 19:12
- Yep. And I already checked - I have savings at Discover in a trust. Capital One will convert existing accounts to a trust, but not new ones. - Meg Feb 19, 18:22
- ugh terrible to hear -- nm - budice Feb 19, 18:18
You all think it is mere coincidence. I believe in synchronicity. Or perhaps the Matrix is just glitching. - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 18:18 4
- most of the time it's a one-way conversation, we talk to the universe. You had a moment when the universe talked back -- nm - rollo Feb 19, 18:45 1
  - I Talk To The Wind -- (link) - mud Feb 19, 18:51 [youtube]
- Is there a circus you can runaway to join? -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 19, 18:25 1
  - I Ran -- (link) - mud Feb 19, 18:51 [youtube]
Joe Biden's great-great-grandfather was pardoned by Abraham Lincoln -- (link) - znufrii Feb 19, 18:06 10
- "Robinette worked as an army veterinary surgeon for the army during the US’s war between the states" A vet vet! -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 18:24
- Near as I can tell, he was found not guilty of attempted murder but convicted of other things. -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 19, 18:22
- Biden Crime Family! -- nm - mafic Feb 19, 18:17
- Hopefully for killing Trump's great-great-grandfather. -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 19, 18:15 4
  - And Then The Bigfoot -- nm - Max Feb 19, 20:20
  - Trump's family was in Europe when Lincoln was president. They're dirty immigrants. -- (edited) - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 18:19 2
    - Trump's family was in Europe when Wilson was president. -- nm - mud Feb 19, 18:24 1
      - Probably helping the Kaiser -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 18:25
- So crime runs in his family -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 18:06
- so therefore he should resign -- nm - Tim Feb 19, 18:06
Netflix will install facial recognition technology in homes to enforce the account sharing ban. -- (link) - budice Feb 19, 17:17 4
- dibussing? -- nm - Tim Feb 19, 17:28 3
  - "Your leading source for quick unreliable news about movies and unrealistic content. (Parody)" -- nm - Guigue Feb 19, 17:32 2
    - Yeah, I was just gonna call bullshit on this. -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 19, 18:10 1
      - Me too -- nm - budice Feb 19, 18:18
‘Blade Runner 2099’ shoot to begin in Prague, in spring. Hopefully will hit Prime in spring 2025! - mud Feb 19, 16:49 4
- There was a worrying report last year that they'd returned their Irish tax credits because they'd no longer be filming there. - Mop🧹 Feb 19, 18:11 1
  - yep -- nm - mud Feb 19, 18:24
- "We will give it 2 seasons and then it will be lost like tears in rain." -- nm - con_carne Feb 19, 17:25
- Some kid 75 years from today will get to say "I remember when" -- nm - Max Feb 19, 17:02
Razzle Dazzle (by The Machine) once you get passed the first 20 minutes is one of the funniest things I've ever seen - Beaker 🍻 Feb 19, 16:42
Daytona - Big One wreck happened. 8 laps to go -- (link) - budice Feb 19, 16:41 2
- Another wreck ends the race on the final lap -- (link) - budice Feb 19, 17:12
- Who the hell is that 3rd announcer. I've heard more lively commentary from Eucker's character in Major League before they started winning. - Will Hunting Feb 19, 16:50
I don't know if this is true, but it was posted on fb by my SIL, who is a professional mythologist... -- (edited) - znufrii Feb 19, 16:40 1
- 👍 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 18:07
Lex Luthor didn't need to nuke the San Andreas fault, just pump a lot of water under the land -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 19, 16:37 5
- That's the plot for A View To A Kill -- nm - Bacon Feb 19, 18:20
- Water? In California? LOL. It'd be easier to get a nuke! -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 19, 18:12
- fluid does lubricate faults, which probably accelerates movement and reduces earthquake magnitude. -- nm - mafic Feb 19, 17:35
- Isn't that the Max Zorin playbook? -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 19, 16:40 1
  - Zorin still had to use truckloads of explosives. -- nm - Roger More Feb 19, 18:48
Many Canadians are fed up with shrinkflation. So what's being done about it? -- (link) - budice Feb 19, 15:59 5
- Poll: would you rather pay more for the same amount or pay the same for less? - Tim Feb 19, 16:11 3
  - I would like Extra Free please. -- nm - mafic Feb 19, 17:31
  - Neither, obviously. I want to pay less for more. - Beryllium Feb 19, 16:20
  - Same for less. I need help with portion size any way. -- nm - Dano Feb 19, 16:13
- Make Food Bigly Again -- nm - Beryllium Feb 19, 16:10
Some good political news from Wiscosin - -- (link) - . Feb 19, 15:56
Sooo family plans have changed and now we are headed to Cape Cod for the 4th. Anyone with tips/advice for Cape Cod travel? - Volnelk 🍊 Feb 19, 15:55 2
- watch Jaws before you go? -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 19, 16:11
- going there for my cousin's kid's wedding a few weeks before in June. clam chowder's good as i recall from the last time i went (in 1985) -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 19, 16:05
Vyommitra, your multitasking, bilingual, female space friend, will fly before the long-delayed Gaganyaan launch in 2025 -- (link) - JD Feb 19, 15:55
To be a spy is to know that someday you will fight on a train. And if you're a good spy like James Bond, multiple train fights. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 15:54 4
- "No no- a train fight *within* a plane cabin. It's never been done." -- nm - Tom Cruise Feb 19, 16:28 1
  - "I've had it with these muffin plucking trains in my monthly hucking planes!" -- nm - Beryllium Feb 19, 17:00
- MI : DR Pt 2 major speculation spoils - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 16:08 1
  - big, if true. -- nm - mud Feb 19, 16:14
I'm really wrestling with causality bias over the trans kid who died after getting beaten up at school. - ReluctantCynic Feb 19, 15:42 2
- What’s to wrestle with, exactly? -- (edited) - Znufrii, promoted Feb 19, 16:17
- You won't achieve anything by going to OK. But you might by going to DC. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 15:51
Boat Launch -- (link) - JD Feb 19, 15:30 1
- That's certainly a launch -- nm - Beryllium Feb 19, 15:32
Why Disney Is Seen as the “Big Winner in the Licensing Renaissance” -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Feb 19, 15:00
Current pet peeve. People who address new subjects as a reply to old emails. I know it's convenient when you're dealing with a group - but don't !!! -- nm - Meg Feb 19, 15:00 3
- I always edit the subject line in my response to those - JD Feb 19, 15:03 2
  - Tell that to my board :/ -- nm - Meg Feb 19, 15:05
  - same -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Feb 19, 15:03
Ilsa Faust in a big leather coat with a sword is something something -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 14:59 9
- I did not know until this moment that spoiler - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 15:29 8
  - I really liked this person in this -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 19, 15:41
  - Spoilers .. I haven't seen DR yet, but this was filmed at the same time -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 19, 15:36 [youtube] 5
    - OMG, that took off like a rocket into my greatest things ever rankings -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 15:41
    - Dumb question 0:44 into this spoils - Will Hunting Feb 19, 15:38 3
      - because the Chrisses are interchangeable. -- nm - mafic Feb 19, 18:52
      - Did Rhys Thomas OBE direct it? - LMS Feb 19, 16:28 1
        
        Simon Pegg -- nm - mafic Feb 19, 18:53
  - That is not very eco-friendly Ethan! -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 15:36
405 Freeway off-ramp to Skirball/Mulholland Dr will be closed a month to repair a sinkhole. - budice Feb 19, 14:56 [Attachment] 4
- Where are Naomi Watts and Laura Harring going to have sex now. -- nm - Dano Feb 19, 16:18 1
  - technically that apartment was in Hancock Park -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 19, 16:29
- and everyone on the freeway will slow down to look, making things more fucked up. -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 19, 15:05
- That's okay, much of Mulholland is sliding into the canyon anyway. -- nm - Meg Feb 19, 15:04
By the way, I failed to say something on B2 that needs to be said: You can't blame everything on John Cena. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 14:21 19
- Don't live in denial, Crash. There's a clear set of data points here. -- nm - David Feb 19, 14:35 4
  - I could see Freelance but not Argyll -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 14:55 3
    - I should see if Freelance is available to stream -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 14:55 2
      - Hulu -- nm - Remlik Feb 19, 15:14 1
        
        Gracias -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 15:20
- check out the census info I found -- (link) - Max Feb 19, 14:33 [Backboard] 10
  - Wow, crackerjack research. I can't believe there wasn't a road in 1914 but I guess it is true. Between Grangeville and Lewiston is the fewest - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 14:37 9
    - I've stopped for lunch at Pioneer Park in Grangeville twice. -- nm - psilotum Feb 19, 14:50 5
      - Heh, that is a place I wouldn't expect many people to have been to -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 14:53 4
        
        We were vacationing in McCall. -- nm* - psilotum Feb 19, 14:55 3
        
        Very cool. Do you like McCall? -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 14:56 2
        
        It was great. Swimming, boating, etc. Just stayed in the woods. Never went into town. -- nm - psilotum Feb 19, 14:58 1
        
        😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 15:03
    - I couldn't find a 1920 record so I just assume she and her dad were on a Paper Moon road trip and turned legit for the 1930 census. -- nm - Max Feb 19, 14:44 2
      - (and in an investigation, assumptions turn into a killer plotline) -- nm - Max Feb 19, 14:46 1
        
        you are on to something -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 14:48
- Just like 27% of things. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 19, 14:24
- Yoko broke up the Beatles :((((( -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 19, 14:22 1
  - I heard it was John Cena. -- nm - mafic Feb 19, 14:30
NCAA - Now that athletes get NIL money. Is it still Amateur Athletics? -- nm - budice Feb 19, 14:21 2
- It's one level below the pros. Call it whatever you want -- nm - rollo Feb 19, 18:34
- it hasn't been "amateur" for 60 years or more -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 19, 14:24
Hot Ones - Quinta Brunson this week -- nm - budice Feb 19, 14:17
Ilsa Faust with an eye patch and a sniper rifle is something something -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 13:42 5
- that was a good look for her -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 19, 13:47 4
  - I love these movies -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 13:54 3
    - The little yellow Fiat 500 EV is comedy gold. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 14:23 2
      - yup - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 19, 14:28 1
        
        I hope you are a lovely person in real life Vanessa Kirby because I do not like the character you play -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 14:51
I miss Darrell Waltrip as an announcer. -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Feb 19, 13:32 [youtube] 1
- i dont, good racer tho. -- nm - budice Feb 19, 13:42
The average NBA player makes like 10mil a year; the all-star players average close to 40mil is my guess....a quarter million is close to "Not getting - Will Hunting Feb 19, 13:22 3
- This was my take on the All-Star Game. -- nm - budice Feb 19, 13:43
- but really who even cares if an all-star game is competitive. it's just a mid-season party -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 19, 13:26
- First pick of the groupies? -- nm - Reagen Feb 19, 13:23
I think Hollywood makes Russian submariners much cleaner and well groomed than I suspect they are in real life. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 13:20 7
- Das Boot? -- nm - psilotum Feb 19, 15:09 1
  - Not Hollywood. -- nm - . Feb 19, 17:11
- Every military has grooming standards. It's part of the brainwashing. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 19, 13:22 4
  - Look at the photos of the real Russian infantry in the Ukraine. Now imagine those guys in a closed metal tube. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 13:25 3
    - Are we supposed to like where this is going? -- nm - con_carne Feb 19, 13:57 2
      - No, I'm just saying this clean cut Sean Connery, Ciaran Hinds looking version of the Russian navy probably isn't true. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 13:58 1
        
        Yuri, You lost Another submarine????? -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 19, 14:14
But there is long A, which makes it relatively similar to me. Our linguistic forebears would pronounce it "Sin George" - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 13:17 7
- Using the IPA symbols [sɛ̃ ʒɔʁʒ], that's exactly what it is. - Reagen Feb 19, 13:21 6
  - I'm just going by what I hear on the audio file they've linked to the page. Maybe I'm hearing it differently. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 13:26 5
    - Yes, you're inserting a t sound when there isn't one. -- nm - Reagen Feb 19, 13:30 4
      - No, I'm not talking a T. I'm talking about AYN vs IN. The audio file sounds to me like SAYN when I expected SIN -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 13:33 3
        
        French typically doesn't have the "in" vowel. -- (link) - Reagen Feb 19, 13:38 2
        
        ah, I see. I'm going to learn Spanish and then I'll move on to French in a few years -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 13:39
        
        And French -- (link) - Reagen Feb 19, 13:39
Welp. Here I go again. -- (pic) - Znufrii, promoted Feb 19, 13:16 [Attachment] 2
- yay!! good luck! -- nm - Epiphany Feb 19, 13:25
- good luck -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 19, 13:17
"Nationals no longer for sale, principal owner Mark Lerner says" - David Feb 19, 13:12 1
- They still have like 60mil on payroll just from the dead-money deferrals. - Will Hunting Feb 19, 13:17
David looks hot in a skirt. -- nm - Spawn Feb 19, 13:07 3
- AI frightens me. -- nm - David Feb 19, 13:11
- He's got legs -- nm - JD Feb 19, 13:09 1
  - Okay. This is an earworm I will accept. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 19, 13:24

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