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This just came up contextually. -- (link) - David Mar 12, 14:12 [youtube] 1
- I need to get to Bratislava and Berlin some day. -- nm - Reagen Mar 12, 14:27
X-Men ’97’ Creator Beau DeMayo Fired Weeks Before Premiere -- (link) - Remlik Mar 12, 14:00 2
- To be replaced by DeMiracleWhip -- nm - Beryllium Mar 12, 14:11 1
  - DeMustard had no comment playing DeKetchup -- nm* - budice Mar 12, 14:12
The gate on my flight (8:15pm) has changed I think 4 times today so far. Thanks for the constant updates, United -- nm - oblique Mar 12, 14:00
VUDU now rebranded Fandango at Home. yuck -- (link) - budice Mar 12, 14:00
Stan Kroenke is apparently building an arena in San Diego in an attempt to get an NHL team there - Reagen Mar 12, 13:59
Romanian judge rules that Tate Bros can be extradited to the UK after their local trial for human trafficking is over. -- (link) - zeitgeist Mar 12, 13:55 3
- I have no idea who these people are. -- nm - MDH Mar 12, 14:03 2
  - Andrew Tate was a former cage fighter, turned alfa male coach and internet pimp, keeping women as virtual slaves doing online porn...more... - zeitgeist Mar 12, 14:57
  - Think DJT? But young and better looking and much much more rapey and human trafficy -- nm - Jovian Mar 12, 14:52
A Ravens & Titans Fan Reaction to the Derrick Henry Signing -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Mar 12, 13:52 [youtube]
Stanford's Cameron Brink - any other year the national player of the year - will forgo last year of eligibility and enter WNBA draft -- (link*) - prayformojo Mar 12, 13:50 2
- Stanford. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Mar 12, 13:58 1
  - ack. good grief -- nm - prayformojo Mar 12, 14:01
Lovely goal by Arsenal. They look so good. -- nm - Loyola Mar 12, 13:41
Megaball 3/12 set 1 -- (pic) - zeitgeist Mar 12, 13:36 [Attachment] 6
- My numbers for the pool -- (pic) - Max Mar 12, 14:36 [Attachment] 1
  - you fool, its upside down, now all our luck will run out.... -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 12, 14:59
- *prays to the Megaball God* -- nm - Loyola Mar 12, 13:40
- Straggler -- (pic) - zeitgeist Mar 12, 13:38 [Attachment]
- Set 2 -- (pic) - zeitgeist Mar 12, 13:37 [Attachment] 1
  - thanks! -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 12, 13:39
trying to decide if I should get this to add to my home office. -- (link) - tRuMaN Mar 12, 13:33 3
- I'm on the fence about that set. I love Stitch, but feel like they could have done much better. Plus, why the yellow shirt, Lego? -- nm - sycor Mar 12, 13:55 1
  - true. -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 12, 13:58
- of course -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 12, 13:41
Minor controversy from the Djokovic match last night - Dano Mar 12, 13:13 1
- that was a silly protest -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Mar 12, 13:27
Worldwide Box Office Update (see IM): Wonka $625M, Dune $375M, Bob Marley $150M, Beekeeper $125M, Kung Fu Panda $75M; Madame Web nears $100M - MDH Mar 12, 13:11
If the 737 max was made so shoddy, that ethic had to have been in the other productions too. yikes -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 12, 12:50 1
- Pretty much. The most recent Last Week Tonight (John Oliver) covers this. -- nm - mara ❄️ Mar 12, 12:59
"Salem's Lot" is officially skipping movie theaters and will stream exclusively on Max sometime in 2024. -- (pic) - mud Mar 12, 12:47 [Attachment] 1
- good thing for WB Stephen King is all out of stories to sell them for the rest of his life -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 12, 13:17
‘The Batman Part II’ pushed back a year, to October 2026 -- (link*) - mud Mar 12, 12:43 1
- fuckers -- nm - Spawn Mar 12, 12:45
Stevie Ray Vaughn was such a pro -- (link) - prayformojo 🐵 Mar 12, 12:42 3
- I mean, if he was that good, he could have changed the string while he played. Just sayin'. nm - Turd Ferguson Mar 12, 13:33
- Like a BOSS. -- nm - Spawn Mar 12, 12:46
- (not to mention the tech) -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Mar 12, 12:43
ESPN: "Can Jameis Winston's presence in Cleveland help Deshaun Watson?" ahahahahahahAHAHAHAHA - prayformojo 🐵 Mar 12, 12:35 3
- hire Jamarcus Russell as QB coach. -- nm - Reagen Mar 12, 13:08 1
  - With Ryan Leaf as OC? -- nm - Strongbad Mar 12, 13:30
- Take him out to eat crab? -- nm - Spawn Mar 12, 12:41
Raiders are expected to release QB Jimmy Garoppolo -- nm - budice Mar 12, 12:26
Nearly 50% of US parents financially supporting their adult children. -- (link) - znufrii Mar 12, 12:08 3
- now do how many adult children financially support their parents -- nm - decline Mar 12, 12:16 2
  - adult kids also acting as Power of Attorney or managing financials of older adults is a big one for us. -- nm - Walt_Disney Mar 12, 12:21 1
    - yup... -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 12, 13:42
Whelp, my old man broke his hip today. :( -- nm - Jovian Mar 12, 12:04 21
- Oh, I'm so sorry. -- nm - David Mar 12, 14:15
- Dang, sorry! Best wishes for a speedy recovery. -- nm - sycor Mar 12, 13:56
- omg and just got the details of what he was doing (ie Not much): Was on a little step stool setting a clock ahead one hour. SMFH -- nm - Jovian Mar 12, 13:11 1
  - Sometimes the falls from small heights can have severe consequences, as you don’t have enough time to put out your arms to break your fall. -- nm - Loyola Mar 12, 13:14
- Sorry to hear that. It must be so discomforting. -- nm - Loyola Mar 12, 13:09
- Sorry to hear, best wishes on a speedy recovery -- nm - MDH Mar 12, 12:47
- That sucks...get him some hand weights to keep active in bed. -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 12, 12:34
- Terrible, so sorry to hear. -- nm - ty97 Mar 12, 12:31
- Damn. Sorry. :-( -- nm - Krusty Mar 12, 12:18
- ugh, i sincerely and truly feel your pain. wishing him a speedy-as-possible recovery. do you know if it will mean surgery? -- nm* - Andie Mar 12, 12:10 7
  - they just confirmed he will need surgery. :( -- nm - Jovian Mar 12, 12:11 6
    - Sending good thoughts for a speedy recovery -- nm - Walt_Disney Mar 12, 12:25
    - So sorry. But it seems like surgery might be better than not? I mean, that way they know it is put right? -- nm - Spawn Mar 12, 12:20 1
      - yep. just waiting to hear what the surgery is for and/or if theyre going right into doing replacement surgery. -- nm - Jovian Mar 12, 12:26
    - so sorry, best wishes -- nm - mud Mar 12, 12:19
    - owie! sending good thoughts! -- nm - decline Mar 12, 12:14
    - :( -- nm - Andie Mar 12, 12:13
- I am so sorry for him. My best wishes to him, your family and you. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Mar 12, 12:06 2
  - this -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Mar 12, 13:42
  - Thank you very much. I just feel bad for him. He is literally more active than I am and he's 78. This is going to be so rough on him. -- nm - Jovian Mar 12, 12:10
- Oh no. -- nm - Spawn Mar 12, 12:04
Trivia of the day: Longest time to live in the same residence is 110 years is Florence Knapp of Montgomery Township, Penn...(link) - Walt_Disney Mar 12, 11:59
Fitbit weekly report 98,434 total steps Avg. 14,062 steps per day. 3,540 avg. daily calorie burn - crash davis 😺 Mar 12, 11:59 1
- That’s a good amount of steps for sure, well done! -- nm - znufrii Mar 12, 14:15
really, Ravens? -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 12, 11:59 2
- they can afford to since they got a QB for almost free -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 12, 13:44
- It could be worse. -- nm - Triumph Mar 12, 12:01
LYC but remind me in three years to play whatever Final Fantasy Game this is -- (link) - JD Mar 12, 11:50 [Backboard]
Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) quit today and didn't tell Speaker Johnson his plans to leave next week. -- nm - decline Mar 12, 11:42 6
- It gets (potentially) a bit more political here, re: Lauren Boebert. - ty97 Mar 12, 12:28 1
  - She's in trouble already there -- she finished 3rd in a straw poll *after* Trump endorsed. - Will Hunting Mar 12, 13:25
- Dannnngggg that is going to leave a mark -- nm - Pippy: Court of Fog and War Mar 12, 11:51
- two vote majority, effectively -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 12, 11:44 2
  - Boebert could roll the dice on running for this special election instead of getting third place in the new one (but would have to vacate her current - hollywood big shot Mar 12, 11:55 1
    - see above: there is no special, the party decides -- nm - ty97 Mar 12, 12:28
Dodgers, Angels among worst in new concessions study -- (link) - budice Mar 12, 11:36 7
- I can't believe Toronto is number 2. Number of concessions is great, but prices are wild. -- nm* - Andie Mar 12, 12:13 2
  - It was great a couple decades ago, so nice to see they kept it up. -- nm - Spawn Mar 12, 12:21
  - Dollar Dog Days add up. (My hunch is that all those outfield spaces have significantly bumped up the other categories. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Mar 12, 12:20
- We're top 10, baby!!! Also, we were tops in customer service in '23! (Sourse:Me) -- nm - zunkstump Mar 12, 12:05
- How about that? The Mariners won something. Has nothing to do with on the field performance but they won something -- nm - crash davis 😺 Mar 12, 12:02 1
  - At least fans can enjoy some tasty treats. -- nm - Spawn Mar 12, 12:04
- Dodger Stadium has a decent selection but the non-Dodger Dog stuff is spread out across the whole damn place. prices are LA cray but what ya gonna do -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 12, 11:42
72 degrees, mostly sunny, nice breeze, birds and chimes providing ambient sounds. not bad at all. -- nm - Max Mar 12, 11:27 2
- 70 here in Dallas. -- nm - Pippy: Court of Fog and War Mar 12, 11:32 1
  - 69 in Bloomington. -- nm - Spawn Mar 12, 11:41
... and now Outlook is cooperating. WTF? -- (edited) - Spawn Mar 12, 11:15 1
- to infinity, and not any farther! -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 12, 11:16
None of you care. Now we have 2 potential ownership groups in Atlanta fighting about where the new hockey arena should be. -- (edited) - Strongbad Mar 12, 11:15 1
- Pretty cool to have such availability, should they locate a franchise there -- nm - crash davis 😺 Mar 12, 12:04
Neve back as Sidney Prescott for new ‘Scream’ movie -- nm - budice Mar 12, 11:13 7
- There was a Scream without Neve? Ugh. -- nm* - Strongbad Mar 12, 13:31
- 😺😺😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Mar 12, 12:05
- Original Scream writer Kevin Williamson to direct Scream 7, which will bring back Neve Campbell's Sidney Prescott. Guy Busick (Scream, Scream VI) will write the screenplay. Radio Silence will exec produce. -- nm* - budice Mar 12, 11:33
- ah, they paid up. -- nm - Andie Mar 12, 11:13 3
  - because they had to fire her Jew-hating replacement -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 12, 11:14 2
    - ohhh, who was that?? -- nm - Jovian Mar 12, 12:05 1
      - Marjorie Taylor Greene -- nm - rollo Mar 12, 13:39
BB: I like listening to Kai Ryssdal but it's maddening to hear him ask "the economy is good, so why are consumers still unhappy?" - Max Mar 12, 10:59 [Backboard] 1
- "we even Do The Numbers every day for you dum dums" -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 12, 11:14
Raiders wyd? -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 12, 10:58 2
- It would have been much worse if they had a football instead of the extra helmet... -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 12, 11:39
- ... for them to poop on! -- nm - Triumph Mar 12, 11:07
I paid way more than I probably should for my one bedroom condo. But that was 2008. My mortgage is under $800. - Tim Mar 12, 10:52 7
- '98 and now what we paid would be a good down for it. -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 12, 12:46
- yeah I got my house back in 2010/2011, and what I paid wouldnt get me half my house now a days. - tRuMaN Mar 12, 11:21 2
  - Luckily, our plan is to move out of town (as in, more country) so hopefully what we will get when we sell will pay for that. - Spawn Mar 12, 11:40
  - Same. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 12, 11:23
- The interest rates alone would force us to pay $700 more a month than just 21 months ago. No joke. -- nm - David Mar 12, 11:18
- Theresa looks at houses almost daily. Unless we move upstate about 2 hours from the city there's no chance we can buy a house. -- nm - Krusty Mar 12, 10:57 1
  - I don't even bother looking at real estate in the city -- nm - ty97 Mar 12, 12:33
Coincidentally David Yates is cc'd in on an email I got today. -- nm - LMS Mar 12, 10:50
Apparently we're getting early access to Grace Hopper 3. - Mop🧹 Mar 12, 10:46
From B2 - I'm SO glad there will be more Death on Sandman S2. That episode from S1, IMO, is one of the single best episodes of TV I've ever seen. nm -- nm - Turd Ferguson Mar 12, 10:46 1
- 2022: The Sound of Her Wings. 2023: Long, Long Time. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 12, 10:51
Bobby Hur, you just got Schiffed bro -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 12, 10:38
Casino window closing in an hour for 735m megaball -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 12, 10:24 7
- I forgot to mention it, but I sent yesterday. -- nm - David Mar 12, 11:09 5
  - hmmm I don't see it...let me recheck the PayP feed -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 12, 11:14 4
    - I also sent, but did mention. -- nm* - Spawn Mar 12, 11:17
    - Mump? I got it -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 12, 11:15
    - Definitely sent on March 11. -- nm - David Mar 12, 11:15 1
      - Looks like it was at 3:46 PM EST yesterday. -- nm - David Mar 12, 11:16
- This time for sure! -- nm - Mop🧹 Mar 12, 10:27
I tuck you in, warm within Keep you free from sin Till the Sandman he comes -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 12, 10:20 1
- Logan is so obsessed with this song. -- nm - Spawn Mar 12, 11:01
If you continued working during the pandemic, how would you rate your company's ability to adapt on the fly during that time frame? - Will Hunting Mar 12, 10:18 20
- Solid B. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 12, 13:32
- A. If the next pandemic came tomorrow, we'd be ready to have virtually all of headquarters WFH. -- nm - con_carne Mar 12, 12:27
- I was in the provincial government and it was actually a time of some rare nimbleness in the most earliest of days. For example.... - Name Withheld By Request Mar 12, 12:24
- B, probably. - znufrii Mar 12, 11:33
- B+....they implemented deep office cleaning early in March and then sent everyone home over the next three weeks... - Walt_Disney Mar 12, 11:25
- Our company somehow survived and thrived during what should have been an extinction-level event for them. I was extremely impressed. -- nm - David Mar 12, 11:14
- B -- nm - Pippy: Court of Fog and War Mar 12, 11:02
- A, since it was all up to me! -- nm - Spawn Mar 12, 11:01
- A. but we are really small so it was easy to transition -- nm - decline Mar 12, 10:51
- Since I implemented it, A+ :) - oblique Mar 12, 10:51
- Compared to other companies, maybe a D+. Considering it's government, A-. It was a bit of C.F. at the beginning. -- nm - sycor Mar 12, 10:47
- A -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Mar 12, 10:40
- ramping up was surprisingly easy but getting people back in the office f/t has yet to happen three years post-vax -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 12, 10:32
- Our dept: A, overall company B -- nm - JD Mar 12, 10:32 1
  - Company and department were both As -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Mar 12, 10:45
- We were pretty quickly up on Zoom, but the meetings were rough because nobody had common sense about taking turns in video chat. - Max Mar 12, 10:27
- Given that I was key not only to my institution's transition to WFH, but also another (rival) institution, I give myself an A+. - Mop🧹 Mar 12, 10:23
- Considering that our company was pretty in-office focused (still is) they managed to get everyone laptops and vpns etc etc in a pretty quick - Andie Mar 12, 10:19
- A+ -- nm - Beryllium Mar 12, 10:18 1
  - Hundreds of employees, two offices, and we largely just turned off the lights and went full remote. - Beryllium Mar 12, 11:12

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