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There’s a buzz at Indian Wells -- (pic) - Dano Mar 14, 17:34 [Attachment] 2
- lol a bunch of analysts from work drove out there for the weekend -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 14, 17:43 1
  - I remember driving through a swarm out there in a Wranger soft-top. So many gaps they could get through. -- nm - Meg Mar 14, 17:52
Poll: how shortly before the flight will they announce znufrii's flight has been cancelled? - zeitgeist Mar 14, 17:16 6
- As he passes the check-in desk and they get a whiff of his per diem "traveller". -- nm - VMan Mar 14, 17:52
- not before. after, when a wheel falls off during takeoff. -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 14, 17:45
- Fuck you. - znufrii Mar 14, 17:17 3
  - Or not let him board due to intoxication? - Qale Mar 14, 17:32
  - that's the...uh...spirit -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 14, 17:19 1
    - Not Spirit. FRONTIER. -- nm - Mop🧹 Mar 14, 17:20
headdesk: "I'm a pilot for Delta" -- (link) - prayformojo Mar 14, 17:07 8
- She should have just described her work week and let him figure it out - if he could :/ -- nm - Meg Mar 14, 17:41 2
  - Well, firstly, I'd be very sad and distressed having been demoted from pilot. I think after my morning shower I would be calling a lawyer... -- nm - Her Mar 14, 17:56
  - That’s assuming he’s actually interested in listening to anything she says. - znufrii Mar 14, 17:43
- What year is this? Who still uses the word "stewardess"? - Mop🧹 Mar 14, 17:21 2
  - He's 38. -- nm - Mop🧹 Mar 14, 17:21 1
    - Wow you're right (if by 38 you mean 61) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 14, 17:39
- Ouch. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 14, 17:12 1
  - I'm choosing to believe that it was what some might call an "honest mistake", such as from being inattentive. Except ... - Beryllium Mar 14, 17:56
interesting female whale news -- (link) - Peglegpete Mar 14, 16:51
38 in ‘64! -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 14, 16:43 2
- He lived a hard life. -- nm - Mop🧹 Mar 14, 16:45 1
  - WW2 -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 14, 17:20
I really should have checked what my per diem is. - znufrii Mar 14, 16:18 3
- Nice! -- nm - JD Mar 14, 16:22 2
  - Two hours to go! -- nm - znufrii Mar 14, 16:23 1
    - Znu to waitress - Speaking of “to go”… -- nm - VMan Mar 14, 16:26
Taylor Swift not available until 9pm?!? Whelp. Sorry kids. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Mar 14, 16:10 2
- Oh c'mon. It's like IRL concert time start time - JD Mar 14, 16:16
- We are discussing this at dinner. Will Thai break the Internet? -- nm - amandaphone Mar 14, 16:13
Hans Zimmer 2024 Tour Dates - JD Mar 14, 15:59 1
- Thanks! Just started looking at classical concerts again. -- nm - con_carne Mar 14, 16:38
Two and a half hours. -- nm - znufrii Mar 14, 15:56
my CNN viewing has dropped radically in the last ~18 mos. - mud Mar 14, 15:47 6
- NBC/local msnbc some CBS, BBC and now The Daly Show has returned to the rotation. NPR on the car radio -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 14, 17:18
- My CNN viewing started and stopped with the start and stop of CNN+ which was how many Scaramuccis? -- nm - Qale Mar 14, 16:39 1
  - not quite 3 Scaramouchies (depending on whether its 11 days or just 10) -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 14, 17:12
- I haven't watched CNN since ... a long time ago. Chuck roberts was still on CNNHN. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 14, 15:57
- Another thing Zaslav's incompetence ruined. -- nm - David Mar 14, 15:52
- I should also point out that it's on mute half the time (when the news on) -- nm - mud Mar 14, 15:52
Johnny black, on the rocks, make it a double. -- nm - znufrii Mar 14, 15:46
Todd Rundgren covers King Crimson -- (link) - Remlik Mar 14, 15:40 1
- not bad -- nm - mud Mar 14, 15:56
#CNNsucks poll - What is your favorite source for political punditry? - Fuzzy Mar 14, 15:37 14
- ST -- nm - Mop🧹 Mar 14, 17:15
- ST/Pixie -- nm - con_carne Mar 14, 16:17
- PBS's Keith and Walter. Waaait a minute, these women have men's names! -- nm* - Max Mar 14, 16:04
- The Daily, Today Explained, Maddow Mondays. -- nm - Qale Mar 14, 15:58
- We're back to watching The Daily Show, which is kind of hit or miss for me. -- nm - mara ❄️ Mar 14, 15:57 4
  - Stewart's return does nothing for me. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 14, 16:01 3
    - Yeah, too much mugging and exaggeration. He really milks the audience sometimes. -- nm - mara Mar 14, 16:18 2
      - He doesn't have the staff he used to have. -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 14, 17:22
      - Not even that, really. I'm just not sold on the concept any more. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 14, 16:45
- TPM, Brian Beutler, Greg Sargent, southpaw for the legal angle -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 14, 15:55
- I've posted a lot from him over the years. I really like Jamie Dupree. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 14, 15:52
- I’m learning to avoid it as much as possible. -- (edited) - znufrii Mar 14, 15:40
- Trae Crowder - Liberal Redneck -- nm - Pippy: Court of Fog and War Mar 14, 15:38 1
  - good choice! -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Mar 14, 15:48
CNN with a shockingly early call in the 2024 presidential election (sorry Joe, you tried) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 14, 15:20 15
- Haley getting 64000 votes in Georgia despite dropping out gives me hope. I think Biden wins easily. Not just because of GA. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Mar 14, 16:29 1
  - Does GA have early voting? If so, a lot of those votes may have come before she dropped out. -- nm - ty97 Mar 14, 17:46
- let's see the updated map after Taylor Swift tells her followers to vote for Joe. -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 14, 15:41 1
  - 👍 -- nm - mud Mar 14, 15:59
- No date, no methodology, no context for the fact that nobody has any EV at this time, no link to CNN context. - Max Mar 14, 15:25 3
  - it's also not "THE CNN map" -it's a screen shot of one of those interactive maps with one stupid scenario. Cilizza is an idiot. - mud Mar 14, 15:30 1
    - It's from an article about CNN's "inaugural Road to 270" -- (link) - mara ❄️ Mar 14, 15:42
  - even for cable news hacks, Cilizza is in a class by himself -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 14, 15:28
- do we think its really that bad? -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 14, 15:25 5
  - Based on the currently available polls, yes. On the flip side, it's March. -- nm - ty97 Mar 14, 17:47
  - No. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 14, 15:51
  - No. Keeping in mind that I was wrong in 2016, I fully expect a Biden victory. -- nm - David Mar 14, 15:28 2
    - I don't believe we were "wrong" in '16. How could we foresee that Putin's meddling (focused esp. on swing states) would be so effective in an election - mud Mar 14, 15:37 1
      - Jimmy Carter and I are in agreement! -- (link) - mud Mar 14, 16:03
- :-( -- nm - mud Mar 14, 15:21
Baton Rouge - Truck picked a fight with a Planet Fitness Vehicle...and lost -- (link*) - budice Mar 14, 15:17 1
- did the car get T-boned by the truck? pinned under? I know PF can get you shredded but not like that. -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 14, 15:22
Here's the tone around the mood here. Name a movie with an incredibly stupid name. I'll lead with My Big Fat Greek Wedding *3*. -- nm - David Mar 14, 14:50 28
- Fant4stic -- nm - con_carne Mar 14, 16:18
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Pippy: Court of Fog and War Mar 14, 15:38
- The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure -- nm - Dano Mar 14, 15:37 1
  - wtf is an Oogielove?! -- nm - znufrii Mar 14, 15:44
- The Eiger Sanction - Max Mar 14, 15:27
- Like Water for Chocolate -- nm - budice Mar 14, 15:24
- Champagne and Bullets (also known as Road to Revenge and GetEven) -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 14, 15:22
- Precious a film by Lee Daniels (based on the novel Push by Sapphire) -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 14, 15:18
- Leonard Part 6 -- nm - Max Mar 14, 15:13
- The Weight of Water -- nm - Max Mar 14, 15:12
- Murder by Death -- nm - VMan Mar 14, 15:06 1
  - appropriately farcical -- nm - prayformojo Mar 14, 15:12
- The First Omen -- nm - Reagen Mar 14, 15:06
- The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 -- nm - prayformojo Mar 14, 15:05 2
  - The Trip Home? -- nm - JD Mar 14, 15:10 1
    - *This* Side of the Mountain! -- nm - prayformojo Mar 14, 15:11
- Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever -- nm - budice Mar 14, 14:58
- Leonard Part 6 -- nm - Strongbad Mar 14, 14:58
- Kabluey PG-13 2007 (Lisa Kudrow) -- nm - budice Mar 14, 14:54
- John Dies at the End -- nm - budice Mar 14, 14:53 1
  - I don't mind that one because it creates a sense of suspense. -- nm - David Mar 14, 14:55
- someone ranted about "the boiling point" (snipes?) ok movie but the name had nothing to do with it, like the studio had a list and that was next... -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 14, 14:53 2
  - Gigli, not the worst thing about the movie but the name almost set it up for disappointment to follow -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 14, 14:54 1
    - Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo a stupid phrase that entered pop lexicon and became a dance craze and oddly a fascist movement. -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 14, 15:14
- Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared Syn -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 14, 14:53 1
  - The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia - David Mar 14, 14:56
- Dumb and Dumberer -- nm - VMan Mar 14, 14:50 1
  - The Last Exorcism Part II -- nm - David Mar 14, 14:53
Our Zoom host was at the conference on Friday, flew to Brazil on Saturday, and will be hosting tonight's meeting from there. - Meg Mar 14, 14:44 3
- oddly, the subject is 'flat earth' -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 14, 14:50 1
  - It's "Late Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas: Integrating Genetics and Archaeology." Should be fun to write up the summary :/ -- nm - Meg Mar 14, 15:08
- nice -- nm - budice Mar 14, 14:44
Da Bears has been renewed for s4, which is filming back to back with s3 -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 14, 14:39
Florida judge refuses to be reversed on appeal by the 11th Cir again -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 14, 14:28 2
- ooh, sidebar link: Gaetz subpoenaed in sex with minor case, his friend is suing the victim for defamation and he's a defense witness -- (link) - zeitgeist Mar 14, 15:01 1
  - so he will be pleading the fifth. good to know. -- nm - Pippy: Court of Fog and War Mar 14, 15:19
ohhh Black Mirror is making a sequel to USS Callister episode. -- nm - Jovian Mar 14, 14:28
Four hours - znufrii Mar 14, 14:22 1
- one per hour -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 14, 15:15
I hope they don't run out of story. -- (pic) - mud Mar 14, 14:12 [Attachment] 1
- Cocaine Bear -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Mar 14, 14:24
A statement is nice, but President Biden is absolutely failing 18-25 year olds. It’s not like they’ll vote for TFG, they just won’t show at all. -- nm - Qale Mar 14, 14:09 2
- that'll show him! -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 14, 14:27 1
  - I mean, he could lose, yeah. -- nm - Qale Mar 14, 14:44
F*ck. -- (edited) - znufrii is sad Mar 14, 14:08 10
- sorry to hear... -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 14, 15:16
- Ugh. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 14, 14:58
- very sorry for your loss -- nm - Pippy: Court of Fog and War Mar 14, 14:47
- my condolences -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 14, 14:37
- I'm sorry. -- nm - David Mar 14, 14:30
- Our Condolences -- nm - JaxSean Mar 14, 14:24
- so sorry. -- nm - Remlik Mar 14, 14:22
- eff cancer -- nm - mud Mar 14, 14:13
- I hope her memory is a blessing. eff cancer indeed -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Mar 14, 14:09
- so sorry. -- nm - Andie Mar 14, 14:08
1965?! good lord. -- (pic) - prayformojo Mar 14, 14:03 [Attachment] 6
- they might have had more success marketing this to gastroenterology for constipation -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 14, 15:34
- APPROVED! -- nm - Mop🧹 Mar 14, 15:20
- we used to make great things -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 14, 14:27
- Not that it's a good idea to make suggestions for this, but - Max Mar 14, 14:06 2
  - good point, esp when you realize the baby would be pressed against the heart and organ tree instead of out, if the spinning had any effect -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 14, 15:19
  - this model clears your sinuses too! -- nm - mud Mar 14, 14:09
Judge in India declares a billion dollar company 'took the public for a ride' and bans them from advertising many 'medical' products -- (link) - zeitgeist Mar 14, 14:02
of course it was a FOM's house (what happened to The Egg?!) -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 14, 13:56 2
- you don't want to know -- nm* - GOOP Mar 14, 13:58
- her? -- nm - rollo Mar 14, 13:57
I didn't remember Stackhouse was coaching Vanderbilt. -- nm - Krusty Mar 14, 13:51
5 days to Spring, beaches -- nm - Max Mar 14, 13:41 7
- woo! (5 days 6 hours and 1 minute) Starts at 11:07pm -- (link*) - Andie Mar 14, 14:06
- Seattle and the PNW says Beach, Please -- (pic) - zeitgeist Mar 14, 13:57 [Attachment]
- who you callin' beach -- nm - mud Mar 14, 13:53
- I’m good at beach! -- nm - Ken Mar 14, 13:52
- "equinox, motherf'ers!" -- nm - prayformojo Mar 14, 13:52
- Resident Alien response from B2 (spoils) - Jovian Mar 14, 13:50 1
  - oh, that info escapes me -- nm - Max Mar 14, 13:59

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