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First-ever photos show humpback whales mating—and they’re males -- (link) - crash davis 😺 Feb 29, 19:45 1
- so that's why there were calls to nuke the gay iranian whales -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 29, 20:55
Dune 2 goes pretty good - budice Feb 29, 19:44
when Fanatics making your kit would be an upgrade -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 29, 19:44
This is fun. Stellan Skarsgård breaks down his career for Vanity Fair. He was a teenage heartthrob in Sweden. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Feb 29, 19:41 [youtube]
Just re-watched Dune in anticipation for the sequel. Still an A+. And I've never read any of the books. -- nm - MDH Feb 29, 19:40 1
- honestly better off that way -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 29, 19:43
The Top 10 selling Blu Ray/4ks on Amazon are 3 James Cameron movies, 6 versions of Timothee Chalamet movies, and Oppenheimer. -- nm - MDH Feb 29, 19:32
Had a murder mystery dinner at the library. Though I was innocent, I won the prize for the most audience members thinking I was guilty. - crash davis 😺 Feb 29, 19:26 5
- Sus -- nm - Dano Feb 29, 19:35 1
  - Other actors in our little dinner included the editor of the town newspaper, and the chief of police. The librarian running it wouldn't let me rig it so -- (edited) - crash davis 😺 Feb 29, 19:42
- 👍👍👍 -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 29, 19:33
- bravo!!!! -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 29, 19:31
- Heh -- nm - con_carne Feb 29, 19:28
OMG, we’re getting a FedNuts! -- (link*) - Znufrii, promoted Feb 29, 18:23
Geno? more like GeYES -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 29, 18:02
Disney's heirs snub activist investors and throw their support behind Bob Iger -- (link) - Remlik Feb 29, 17:53 2
- I’ve said it before, will say it again: If an activist investor shows up at a shareholder meeting and advocates to break up Disney… - Mop🧹 Feb 29, 19:42
- WHAT YEAR IS IT -- nm - con_carne Feb 29, 18:57
Government shut down averted...for a week. -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 29, 17:37
AMC CEO says Taylor's and Beyoncé concert films boosted the chain's profits over 10% -- (link*) - zeitgeist Feb 29, 17:31
vaguely b2-related: my boss's granddaughter was Perth baby #2 of 2024. edged out by about 40 minutes by #1. - mafic Feb 29, 17:27
"Footlong cookie" oh my -- nm - Beryllium Feb 29, 17:02
oh so like WarGames? -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 29, 17:01 1
- I learned it from you RL -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 29, 17:33
Oregon hospital and former nurse sued for wrongful death after IV replaced with tap water. - Mop🧹 Feb 29, 16:27 3
- here all the super painkillers require multiple hands to administer. you'd have to have at least one other person in on it if you were pulling the old - mafic Feb 29, 16:46 2
  - The staffing is so bare minimum that there have been strikes over it citing patient and staff safety concerns -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 29, 18:42 1
    - If you can’t commit the staff necessary to prevent abuse and murder, maybe a lawsuit will teach them the error of their ways. -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 29, 19:44
Apparently there is a law in Geneva that hotels must provide guests with a transit pass for the duration of their hotel stay. - ty97 Feb 29, 15:45 2
- It's the reverse of the first one free. Pay for your one way transit ticket to the hotel and then we got you fam -- nm - JD Feb 29, 18:36
- Free hotel pass for anyone boarding transit. -- nm - Geneva town council Feb 29, 15:52
Jack Smith has proposed a new trial date of July 8 in the stolen docs case (SCOTUS op would have to drop by first wk of June at the latest) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 29, 15:43 1
- And DJT and his pet Cannon, already several steps ahead -- (link) - Jovian Feb 29, 16:24
I need to buy a 65 or 70 inch TV tomorrow for not a million dollars. Pleas just tell me what to buy. Thank you. - amandaphone Feb 29, 15:41 16
- I like the LG i got. I don't use the onboard OS, but i do use a firetv stick. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 29, 16:03 6
  - yeah. my LG is good. same same with the onboard OS. -- nm - mafic Feb 29, 16:24
  - My attic TV is LG. It always wants to update its OS at the most inopportune moments. Like when I turn it on for survivor it's like - amandaphone Feb 29, 16:21 3
    - srsly. I tell that popup to go have intercourse with itself regularly. except mine lets me say no. -- nm - mafic Feb 29, 16:24 2
      - Does nobody at LG watch survivor?? -- nm - amandaphone Feb 29, 16:28 1
        
        Maybe russell hantz is the ceo -- nm - Beryllium Feb 29, 17:25
  - (One issue with LGs is that they are slow to turn on) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 29, 16:04
- need to know what show is so good available tomorrow that prompts a new tv -- nm* - Max Feb 29, 15:50 1
  - My TV died. I have terrible TV luck. I even had Patrick Electrician look at the plug to see if it was like surging or something - amandaphone Feb 29, 15:53
- Decide: Fire TV, Google TV, or Roku. That will dictate certain things. -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 29, 15:47 6
  - I currently have a dead Sony Bravia. I quite liked it. I think it had Google TV? I used Roku. -- nm - amandaphone Feb 29, 15:54 4
    - Bravias use Google TV. If you don't mind a mix of systems, then don't worry about it. - Mop🧹 Feb 29, 16:09 3
      - You make a good point re technology but I'm not going to get the latest tech at bargain prices. I'll always be a generation behind right? -- nm - amandaphone Feb 29, 16:29 2
        
        One generation behind isn't bad unless you've got a PlayStation and want to play at the highest resolutions and frame rates. -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 29, 16:34 1
        
        Fair fair. I have a switch I play never. -- nm - amandaphone Feb 29, 16:37
  - I am roku. Open the o Google TV. -- nm - amandaphone Feb 29, 15:51
I saw Dumb Money. There was good and bad in it. - Mop🧹 Feb 29, 15:23 2
- it was always a two-day badly reported story that Very Smart Hollywood People convinced themselves was the next Big Short -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 29, 15:35
- And they had to change America Ferrara's character to make her likeable as in real life she's a huge MAGA nut. -- nm - Krusty Feb 29, 15:31
Hunter Biden deposition transcript -- (link) - budice Feb 29, 15:20 1
- Swalwell weighing in early ... - pmb Feb 29, 15:30
Jack Smith proposes new Florida trial date -- (link*) - mud Feb 29, 15:13 [Attachment]
RIP Brian Mulroney. Great leader. Helluva guy. Just wished he never took an envelope. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 29, 15:13 5
- free trade good! divesting from crown corporations good! GST bad! killing the party very bad! - mafic Feb 29, 16:32
- I was an acolyte of his cult of personality. Conservatives aren't like him any more. - Mop🧹 Feb 29, 16:13
- I just heard. 84. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 29, 15:16 1
  - Stolen joke: 89.88 with tax. -- nm - Reagen Feb 29, 19:54
- "As we remember Jean Chrétien , he was a great friend to the United States" -- nm - Biden Feb 29, 15:16
not so fast Truth Social… -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 29, 15:08
Florida to release Epstein files (the first charges where he got a 'gift' plea deal) -- (link) - zeitgeist Feb 29, 14:51 1
- the New York financier, Jeff Epstein? -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 29, 14:52
I had Alexa play Boogie Shoes^ and she's been spinning disco hits for the last 30 minutes. Barry White* is playing now - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 29, 14:42 1
- 😺😺 -- nm - crash davis Feb 29, 15:36
Now I have the flu, plus a sinus infection, plus some lung issue from covid in January. CJ has the flu, Sara is getting over the flu - Remlik Feb 29, 14:37 6
- Get well soon! -- nm - crash davis 😺 Feb 29, 19:52
- Get patched up soon buddy -- nm - con_carne Feb 29, 16:26
- :( -- nm - Andie Feb 29, 16:18
- be well. -- nm - mud Feb 29, 15:15
- I don’t think smoke inhalation would do y’all any favors right now. -- nm - Qale Feb 29, 14:52
- and seriously god bless the Pharmacy Tech and Docs. They are working under crazy ass conidtions -- nm - Remlik Feb 29, 14:38
Ted Cruz remains spectacularly unpopular in TX but you wouldn’t know it from the way the Dem Party treats his reelection race -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 29, 14:26 1
- It will ramp up, don’t worry -- nm - Pippy Feb 29, 14:30
Caitlin Clark announces for the 2024 WNBA Draft -- (link) - hollywood big shot Feb 29, 14:18 1
- Indiana Fever going to run the league next year! -- nm - Remlik Feb 29, 14:36
Winner for the strangest city name Ive seen this month: DOLLARD-DES ORMEAUX -- nm - Jovian Feb 29, 14:13 24
- We have a small town in Georgia named The Rock. A bunch of carnies live there. - Strongbad Feb 29, 16:41
- Int he end, it's just the name of an old guy - Guigue Feb 29, 14:40
- It's no Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!. -- (link*) - Reagen Feb 29, 14:28 3
  - Ya gotta take the picture when you go! -- (link) - Andie Feb 29, 14:47 1
    - I drove past it but it was like 9 at night. -- nm - Reagen Feb 29, 14:53
  - This...I am always amused driving through there. -- nm - Walt_Disney Feb 29, 14:37
- we have Humptulips -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 29, 14:20 1
  - I've been there! -- nm - Beryllium Feb 29, 14:20
- TIL it exists, and an actress from there voiced a version of Caillou from 2000 until 2003, when she died at 17 in a traffic accident -- nm - Beryllium Feb 29, 14:18
- i was born there. -- nm - Andie Feb 29, 14:18 14
  - That's really cool, it's right next to me! Though I rarely go there... -- nm - Guigue Feb 29, 14:40 1
    - my parents lived in Saint-Laurent for a long time but when they were having me they moved to a bigger house in Dollard. -- nm - Andie Feb 29, 14:44
  - oh wow!! -- nm - Jovian Feb 29, 14:19
  - *double take* This seems so random! :-) -- nm - mara ❄️ Feb 29, 14:19 10
    - Forgive me, bery, hope it's okay to use space to store a photo temporarily. -- (pic) - mara ❄️ Mar 2, 08:40 [Attachment]
    - it is. (technically i was *born* in Montreal General Hospital) but my parents lived in Dollard till I was 5. -- nm - Andie Feb 29, 14:20 8
      - its pronounced Dough-lair right? (hows the 2nd part pronounced?) -- nm - Jovian Feb 29, 14:21 7
        
        Doll-ard Dez Or-Meow (is the wrong way to say it - my excuse is that I am from BC) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 29, 14:23
        
        at least when we lived there it was an Anglo neighbourhood, everyone just called it "Dollard", like "Doll-erd." Second part is "Daze Or-mo"-ish. -- nm* - Andie Feb 29, 14:23 5
        
        Dog days are over. -- nm - Reagen Feb 29, 14:30
        
        ohhhh, so I over thought the first part. Figured the D was silent. French confuses the heck out of me. -- nm - Jovian Feb 29, 14:26 3
        
        but then again, like a contestant on Survivor last night, I had thought for years that 'several' meant a total of 7. :) -- nm - Jovian Feb 29, 14:27 1
        
        That's odd. - Beryllium Feb 29, 14:30
        
        oh, the FRENCH probably say it differently than the Anglos did, but it was an english speaking suburb then (full on part of Montreal now, i think.?) -- nm - Andie Feb 29, 14:27
Sephiroth is setting fire to a village, but I'm sure the sheriff and three other gun-toting residents can stop him. -- nm - David Feb 29, 14:06
Dano's Top 20 Songs of February 2024 - Dano Feb 29, 14:00 [youtube] 2
- John Wick is mixed well but I'm offended on principal that it's a name drop with no relevant supporting lyrics. -- nm - Max Feb 29, 14:10
- I picked a different Glaive. I almost picked Orphan/Poet. I gave Allie X’s tits a try. -- nm - Qale Feb 29, 14:04
hey meg, remind me of your socal go to for weird australian grocery items? we have a new expat in our office who wants meat pies, custard tarts, etc. -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 29, 13:13 5
- that poor man. I bet he wants tomato sauce instead of ketchup as well. -- (link) - mafic Feb 29, 16:38
- We have a couple of British stores around but no longer any strictly Aussie:( I get my Brit goodies from Goodwoods British grocer in *Texas* :/ -- nm - Meg Feb 29, 14:42
- Good luck getting either of those but this is my source -- (link) - Roger More Feb 29, 14:35 2
  - (I stand corrected) -- (link) - Roger More Feb 29, 14:36 1
    - thanks! -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 29, 14:53
Larry David and Richard Lewis play Wordle (bad language) -- (link) - Jovian Feb 29, 13:08 [youtube] 4
- (I don't like CYU's constant yelling but this is good) Has Wordle appeared in any other notable tv or movie references? -- nm - Max Feb 29, 13:53 3
  - omg I know its, its waay over the top. But I figured this was references to Wordle and ST might enjoy.(I hadnt seen it referenced in a tv/movie prior) -- nm - Jovian Feb 29, 14:09 2
    - I'm saying it's funny. I'm just curious if this is the first popular reference to Wordle. I'm always interested in first mentions. -- nm - Max Feb 29, 14:11 1
      - Oh I know, its hilarious. But its way over the top and definitely isnt for all. And I hadnt seen Wordle referenced before. -- nm - Jovian Feb 29, 14:13
Can anyone find this anywhere? -- (link) - David Feb 29, 12:49 3
- Would the Court Docket help? -- (link) - decline Feb 29, 12:51 1
  - That does help, thank you. -- nm - David Feb 29, 13:02
- find what? -- nm - budice Feb 29, 12:51
Hey. That random post I read somewhere recommending this company actually paid off. CLMB climbs -- (link) - oblique Feb 29, 12:48 2
- interesting. I'll add it other ST stock watch list -- nm - Pippy: of the Meat Lover's Court Feb 29, 14:06
- ooh this smells like insider trading to me. You're going to jail or the White House, pal. - Max Feb 29, 13:59
Fact Check: Did Russia Foil Ukraine's Tucker Carlson 'Assassination' Plot? -- (link) - crash davis Feb 29, 12:47 2
- If Biden ordered it, it's perfectly legal. -- nm - Mop🧹 Feb 29, 14:58
- Come on, America -- that would have been worth a few tanks, right?? -- nm - Volodymyr Feb 29, 13:14
2024 NFL Combine: Draft prospect says he doesn't 'believe in space' and 'other planets' - decline Feb 29, 12:33 17
- "What if, uh, C-A-T...really spelled DOG." "... Wow." "Yeah, that's- "That's heavy, Ogre." -- nm - Max Feb 29, 14:28
- Well maybe the phrase "knock some sense into his head" will hold true. - Cuzzin Todd Feb 29, 13:52
- k -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Feb 29, 12:40
- Very big, if true. -- nm - Spawn Feb 29, 12:38 1
  - "... awesome, man." -- nm - Spawn Feb 29, 12:39
- Ooh, nice. Your move Kyrie Irving -- nm - crash davis Feb 29, 12:37 1
  - I think this definitely even beats being afraid of milk and putting mayo in your coffee. -- nm - crash davis Feb 29, 12:39
- OTOH, planets do not care what you think, IF you think, they do not even acknowledge your gravity. -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 29, 12:37
- Why not, damage is already done. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 29, 12:36 7
  - His academic advisors must be so proud. - Will Hunting Feb 29, 12:47 6
    - Without even looking at his name... I'm guessing, SEC school? -- nm - Strongbad Feb 29, 13:38 1
      - Damn. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 29, 13:39
    - I think that one could do reasonably well on standardized tests despite that belief. -- nm - JD Feb 29, 13:10 3
      - Sure, he sounds like he’s got grammar, history, math and the *other* sciences down pat. -- nm - mara Feb 29, 13:52 1
        
        you *know* he ain't vaxxed -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 29, 14:22
      - Fair point. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 29, 13:18
- Can you score in the negatives on the Wonderlic? -- nm - Baron the Wonder Horse Feb 29, 12:34
Sephiroth is in a bad place emotionally. FYI. -- nm - David Feb 29, 12:32 4
- I can't wait to begin it, but I need to finish LAD: IW first. (NM) - Marlowe Feb 29, 13:00
- Wasn't that the demon Max von Sydow exorcised? -- nm - Roger More Feb 29, 12:35
- what about Sepoohroth? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 29, 12:33
- That poor pretty psychopath. -- nm - Qale Feb 29, 12:33
zoom zoom -- nm - oblique Feb 29, 12:30

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