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So, this doesn't bode well. My mother fell last night and has a fractured pelvis. She is 83. Her mobility has declined a lot in recent months -- (edited) - Andie Feb 27, 06:15 16
- wow, I felt that deep down inside between my soul and colon. I worry so much about my mom who walks teetering like a toddler. -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 14:26
- good thoughts -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Feb 27, 08:08
- tough, sorry to hear this - decline Feb 27, 07:19 1
  - :( -- nm - Andie Feb 27, 07:45
- Damn. So sorry this happened to her and hopefully the recovery goes very well. Good thoughts for everyone! -- nm - Krusty Feb 27, 06:48
- Sorry to hear this. Best wishes for a speedy recovery. -- nm - sycor Feb 27, 06:29
- ugh Im sorry Andie -- nm - Jovian Feb 27, 06:29
- Well wishes towards recovery. My Dad had his knee replaced and had mobility issues. Visited for a time to make sure he was ok. -- nm - budice Feb 27, 06:26
- Oof. Good Vibes to her for a speedy-as-possible recovery -- nm - JaxSean Feb 27, 06:23 1
  - exactly this. having people around is great medicine so it's great that you and your brother are working to make that poss. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Feb 27, 06:40
- Best wishes to her and you and the rest of your family. This will be tough but you can handle it -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 27, 06:23
- so sorry, best wishes -- nm - mud Feb 27, 06:20
- I'm so sorry :( -- nm - ty97 Feb 27, 06:18
- i'm sorry to hear that. was she able to enjoy your vacation? -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 27, 06:16 2
  - she did, but i think she was a little frustrated at not being able to do what she is used to doing. - Andie Feb 27, 06:20 1
    - She sounds super fun. Good healing vibes going to her! -- nm - Epiphany Feb 27, 06:27
Happy Pokemon Day! If you play PoGo and like party hats on your pokemon, well then open your app -- nm - ty97 Feb 27, 06:14
Feb 27. It is not what happens to you, but how you react that matters. - Epictetus -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 27, 06:02 3
- Epictetus is a punk. --Epicurus -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Feb 27, 06:24 1
  - Not as much as Anaphylaxsis. - Epipen -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 27, 06:37
- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen! -- nm - Pvt. Hudson Feb 27, 06:05
WordDaily Deglutition ˌdēɡlo͞oˈtiSH(ə)n NOUN T he action or process of swallowing. - crash davis 😺 Feb 27, 05:59 1
- Sound weird. I'm not sure I swallow that. (NM) - Marlowe Feb 27, 06:00
guardian: John Waters to make first film in 20 years with Aubrey Plaza set to star -- (link) - mud Feb 27, 05:45 1
- Nice! -- nm - Krusty Feb 27, 06:05
OTD 40 years ago, Dead Can Dance released their debut album -- (link) - mud Feb 27, 05:38 [youtube] 1
- an interesting group -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 14:28
Other ironically named things David takes literally: -- nm - rollo Feb 27, 05:34 5
- Superbowl Champion Atlanta Falcons -- nm - oblique Feb 27, 06:36
- Egg creams. -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Feb 27, 06:16
- Grateful Dead -- nm - con_carne Feb 27, 06:08
- Foot Locker, Monster Jam, Boston Tea Party -- nm - Epiphany Feb 27, 06:01 1
  - hrrmmm .. Monster Jam -- nm - homer Feb 27, 06:02
"How ‘Dune: Part Two’ Became the Movie Event of 2024" -- (link) - Volnelk Feb 27, 05:10 1
- 97% (153/4) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Feb 27, 05:18
TV PSA: Crime Nation, The Floor, Will Trent, Voice, FBI, The Rookie, FBI International, Good Doctor, FBI Most Wanted, Aquaman 2, Shogun, - Beaker 🍺 Feb 27, 04:48 3
- Will Trent, Aquaman 2, Oak Island (Sunday in Canada), Shogun (Canada may get it Thursday, check your listings) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Feb 27, 04:49 2
  - Shogun 100% (34/0); reviews I have seen are stellar -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Feb 27, 04:54 1
    - stars Hiroyuki Sanada (Sunshine, 47 Ronin, etc) & Anna Sawai (Giri/Haji, Monarch:) -- nm - mud Feb 27, 05:09
Reagen alert! We went to a test screening last night of a movie, it is set in Halifax. - Andie Feb 27, 02:56 2
- Wild that they let it play itself. - Reagen Feb 27, 05:04 1
  - Yep, no disguise, just Halifax as Halifax. -- nm - Andie Feb 27, 05:46
Missouri has a Stand Your Ground law which could be a defense for the two Chief victory parade shooters as both said they fired in self defense. -- (link) - zeitgeist Feb 27, 00:54 2
- Were they on their own ground at the time? -- nm - LMS Feb 27, 01:07 1
  - where you stand is your ground, so far the worst examples of it involved dickhead being aholes and when their non white victim objects with some ... - zeitgeist Feb 27, 01:17
In much more pleasant news, I now have 10 best buddies in Pokemon Go and can move on in the Wish Granted masterwork quest line! -- nm - Qale Feb 26, 23:34
Ro Khanna sure thinks "Uncommitted" is a problem for Joe -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 26, 22:54
Connections Puzzle #261 - had to work for it - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 26, 21:13 11
- it's so crazy how different all of our experiences are. I was perfect on this one and completed it in less than two minutes. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Feb 27, 05:57 3
  - I had to figure out purple because I never would have gotten green. -- nm - ty97 Feb 27, 06:15
  - I always seem to get the first 1-2 instantly and then just sit there staring at it for a long time until I randomly guess 3 -- nm - decline Feb 27, 06:01 1
    - I was admittedly very lucky. Both of my first two lines I was not confident in but went for it anyways. Usually I'm locked into 1 or 2 for sure -- nm - oblique Feb 27, 06:18
- Almost x'd - VMan Feb 27, 05:57
- Connections Puzzle #261 first guess was skittles - crash davis 😺 Feb 27, 05:55
- A couple of mistakes but got there - ty97 Feb 27, 05:54
- perfect but had no idea what purple was until I saw it - oblique Feb 27, 05:37
- I will not post my pathetic results you can't make me -- nm - mud Feb 27, 05:30
- no mistakes - decline Feb 27, 05:27
- In order - Znufrii, promoted Feb 27, 04:20
Wordle 983 4/6 - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 26, 21:04 4
- 5. I made you an old-fashioned, but I drinked it. - Baron the Wonder Horse Feb 27, 06:18
- Wordle 983 5/6 - crash davis 😺 Feb 27, 05:48
- 5 - rollo Feb 27, 05:26
- 4 - decline Feb 27, 05:20
Next Goal Wins is on Hulu. -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 26, 21:03
As the Taylor Lorenz Libs of TikTok interview story ends its third day, she's called BlueSky, Gab for Leftists. - Qale Feb 26, 20:52 15
- I started following Taylor on Threads, then realized quickly how disingenuous she is and blocked her. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 27, 06:07
- article for you (school district in my county) -- (link) - decline Feb 27, 06:03 1
  - Unreal. -- nm - Volnelk Feb 27, 06:31
- Some of your wording confusing me. - David Feb 26, 21:01 11
  - I'm saying that the person behind the account Libs of TikTok make LGBT lives miserable. And this journalist doing an hour long interview and article for WaPo doesn't help. -- nm* - Qale Feb 26, 21:10 10
    - Letter to the Editor, Mr. Writer Man! -- nm - con_carne Feb 27, 06:07
    - from the retweets i've seen and Chaya's predictably unhinged responses, Taylor exposed her as the intellectual fraud she's always been but on tape -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 26, 22:52 2
      - Taylor has done nothing but attempt to enrich herself with a second helping of Chaya after unmasking her originally. She’s claiming now victimhood… - Qale Feb 26, 23:20
      - In a rational world, that would be good. - Beryllium Feb 26, 22:57
    - Is Libs of TikTok sarcastically named? -- nm - David Feb 26, 21:40 4
      - Libs of TikTok reposts material they don't like for purposes of ridicule and/or harassment. -- nm - psilotum Feb 26, 22:52 1
        
        It's so hard for me to understand this sort of intensely negative behavior solely for attention. - David Feb 26, 23:15
      - Yes. It's probably best you don't know who Chaya Raichik and the account is. The following is just *one* paragraph of the Wiki entry about her crimes. - Qale Feb 26, 21:45 1
        
        Okay, that's the missing piece. The story had me confused since I was taking the account name literally. -- nm - David Feb 26, 22:12
    - Yeah, she definitely knew precisely what I was talking about when I told her BlueSky was probably not the best place for her to dump that garbage. -- (pic) - Qale Feb 26, 21:20 [Attachment]
love a cold caller trying to get in touch with a nonexistant branch of the company. - mafic Feb 26, 20:33 2
- "I need your sales manager in Unobtainium Mining." -- nm - David Feb 26, 20:51 1
  - "No, I won't hold! It's urgent!" -- nm - Dr. Brazzelton si Feb 26, 21:10
Lily Gladstone and Marshawn Lynch -- (link) - budice Feb 26, 20:13 3
- 😺😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 26, 20:28
- timeless photo -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 26, 20:22
- "We'd been wanting to do a project together for some time." -- nm - David Feb 26, 20:17
IMDB: Meryl Streep Won 3 Oscars 184 wins & 390 nominations total; Emma Stone Won 1 Oscar 102 wins & 239 nominations total - crash davis 😺 Feb 26, 19:49 7
- lol not even. it’s not Meryl’s fault the academy is historically bad -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 26, 20:03
- award inflation is real. -- nm - mafic Feb 26, 20:02 4
  - hearing footsteps -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 26, 20:28
  - But has Meryl ever gotten an MTV nomination for Best Kiss, I ask you? - Reagen Feb 26, 20:14 1
    - the greater western new york film critics association will have their say! -- nm - mafic Feb 26, 20:18
  - +1 Qale Point -- nm - Qale Feb 26, 20:11
- did they also do an 'at the same age' comparison? -- nm* - Peglegpete Feb 26, 20:01
I would watch the shit out of this True Detective -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 26, 19:49
you know who doesn’t hate dialogue in their movies -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 26, 19:48 3
- It looks like he’s the cover boy for Tiger Beat Sahara - Pippy Feb 26, 20:30 1
  - Taking off that shirt will help even out the tan. -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 26, 20:34
- Denis Villeneuve. -- nm - mud Feb 26, 20:08
Hamarabe is the gorilla who encoded the first Code of Ape Laws. -- nm - Reagen Feb 26, 19:44 4
- dicks out for Flaco -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 26, 22:52
- The bad guys blew it all up. -- nm - Max Feb 26, 19:52
- I hope you aren't holding for ApeLaws from me -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 26, 19:45
- oy -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 26, 19:45
Congratulations! You solved a Tuesday Crossword in 21:34. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm slow like water buffalo -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 26, 19:38 1
- heh, I should have refreshed before I posted -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 26, 19:39
the idea v. the execution -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 26, 19:25 4
- Imagine doing this, and then choosing to do it in Glasgow. -- nm - Roger More Feb 26, 20:11
- omg the website. I can't wait for the cartchy tuns. -- (link) - mafic Feb 26, 19:37 2
  - Organized by the House of Illuminati. Literally. -- nm - Volnelk Feb 27, 06:33
  - So... Many... Disclaimers... -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 26, 20:33
found the crossword *easy* today. new Tuesday record: 3:34. beat my old record by 43 seconds. -- nm - mafic Feb 26, 19:15 4
- 9:17 which is flying for me -- nm - rollo Feb 26, 19:31
- below my Tuesday average, but "only" 6:14 -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 26, 19:31
- holy smokes -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 26, 19:22 1
  - for Monday and Tuesday if I don't know it straight away I move on or switch across/down. no time to wait for you, brain! -- nm - mafic Feb 26, 19:25
ST Poll - Going here for dinner on Sunday. Decide my birthday cocktail. -- (link) - znufrii Feb 26, 18:30 10
- Carte Blanche sounds terrible, wonder if there's a typo or missed an important ingredient. -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 26, 20:42
- Orange Catholic -- nm - kelly Feb 26, 19:27
- I also think a lot of the alcohol used is because it sounds exotic. not because it's better or more $$ than most major brands. -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 26, 19:08 1
  - Well, mixology was a thing before the pandemic at least -- nm - con_carne Feb 26, 20:22
- War On Christmas -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 26, 19:07
- Orange Catholic -- nm - Pippy Feb 26, 18:54
- war on christmas followed by an assassin's handbook. -- nm - mafic Feb 26, 18:50
- I'm old. I never knew eggplant was a drink ingredient. I'm amused all of the champagne is from France Nevada. -- nm* - Peglegpete Feb 26, 18:43 2
  - or France, Non-vintage -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 26, 19:09
  - yeah, that one's a little too adventurous, even for me. -- nm* - znufrii Feb 26, 18:45
the reax to the announcement that Einstein is going tuition free are even better (currently enrolled students will also get a refund apparently) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 26, 18:14 5
- A billion dollars for students in med school isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion dollars for K-12 students so they can get in to med school. - Max Feb 26, 19:51 1
  - No Max. A billion dollars for med school students is cool. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 26, 19:56
- that's wonderful. -- nm - Remlik Feb 26, 19:28
- Wait for Maga republicans to declare it unlawful -- nm - Pippy Feb 26, 18:55
- Sure, if you want to waste a billion on improving society instead of cool cartoon apes or a volcano fortress. -- nm - Reagen Feb 26, 18:19
oh fun. the auditors have questions about last year's audit that they signed off on, as well as questions about a 300 oz discrepancy between two - mafic Feb 26, 18:02 12
- we are just friends here mafic...where did that 300 oz of pitchblende go? -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 26, 19:15 1
  - HE SAID, DON'T LOOK IN HIS SHED! -- nm* - znufrii Feb 26, 19:17
- my answer to questions like that is that it is "reasonable". Never use exact or words to that effect -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Feb 26, 18:38
- If it's beer maybe that's a rounding error, gold maybe not so much -- nm - JD Feb 26, 18:06 8
  - it's the difference between multiplying tonnes by grade at one decimal place and two. anyone who's doing this professionally should know that. - mafic Feb 26, 18:10 7
    - $650,000 approx -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 26, 18:19 1
      - honestly no mine in the world knows how much gold is in their deposit within probably 10%. depending on size I usually round to the nearest 1000oz. - mafic Feb 26, 18:24
    - That moment I realize Mafic is sitting on a literal gold mine. -- nm - David Feb 26, 18:15
    - I get that it *sounds* like a lot, but it really isn't. -- nm - mafic Feb 26, 18:12 3
      - Definitely stick with that story. -- nm - Reagen Feb 26, 18:16 1
        
        AND DON'T LOOK IN MY SHED -- nm - mafic Feb 26, 18:17
      - Oh. Tonnes and significant digits. It's a rounding error -- nm - JD Feb 26, 18:15
every new stadium debate makes me think of this. "it's old!" "but there's nothing wrong with it." "well it's pretty old." and so on. -- (link) - mafic Feb 26, 17:52 [youtube] 7
- The one thing I’ll say about the proposed new Sox stadium is that the new location would do a lot more for the city than the current location. - pmb Feb 26, 18:19
- Other than relegation/promotion it’s my favorite part of the premier league. You are a business. It involves risk. Build your own stadium. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Feb 26, 17:57 5
  - Everton's finding out the hard way about that kind of risk. -- nm - znufrii Feb 26, 18:24
  - And some of the lower tier stuff seems like "And here we have the original goat pad this stadium was built around..." -- nm - Reagen Feb 26, 18:00 3
    - that was part of the stadium discussion here. "100 years of history will be lost! won't someone think of the sacred oval!" - mafic Feb 26, 18:05 2
      - They did this with old Yankee Stadium as well, preserved the original diamond as part of a park. -- nm - znufrii Feb 26, 18:15 1
        
        There’s a rose garden outside great American ballpark where Pete Rose’s record breaking hit landed in the old stadium. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Feb 26, 21:10

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