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Nathan Wade has resigned. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 16, 13:50
Viral Willy Wonka Glasgow event to be turned into musical - LMS Mar 16, 13:32
Two things. Stockholm doesn't do cash and it's snowing. - LMS Mar 16, 12:37 5
- I recall seeing a story a while back about them going cashless. It was interesting. - zunkstump Mar 16, 13:10 2
  - England was heading that way but everyone is so broke now that cash is making a resurgence as it's easier to budget and know what you can spend. -- nm - LMS Mar 16, 13:19 1
    - India of all places too. -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 16, 13:52
- No cash kinda sucks. I assume you get dinged on exchange for every transaction. -- nm - VMan Mar 16, 12:40 1
  - Pretty much, there's been a couple of places today that took cash. - LMS Mar 16, 13:16
George Santos says Taylor Swift supporting President Biden's reelection "makes sense," since her songs "are about choosing the wrong guy" -- nm - budice Mar 16, 12:21 5
- Was he wearing his rhinestone collar when he said it? And defrauding his donors? He’s not fit to say her name -- nm - Pippy Mar 16, 12:41
- Why does anyone gaf what he thinks or says? -- nm - znufrii Mar 16, 12:23
- I mean zing, but also aren't her more recent songs happier about that? -- nm - Reagen Mar 16, 12:22 2
  - It's interesting to me how Cruel Summer is a breakup song, but thanks to the Eras Tour it feels like a celebration. -- nm - Tim Mar 16, 12:27 1
    - Break ups *should* be celebrations. - Spawn Mar 16, 12:29
Has anyone watched the Netflix French series “Furies,” and is it based at all on the Korean movie with what sounds like the same plot from last year? - Landbeck Mar 16, 12:13
Young Chinese professionals in the high unemployment recession are turning to Tinder for industry networking -- (link) - zeitgeist Mar 16, 12:04
hbd Breakfast in America. another band who should be in the HoF -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 16, 11:43 7
- While looking for good running music I discovered that David Guetta and Kim Petras have a song that interpolates The Logical Song. - Dano Mar 16, 13:24 1
  - First was Blue (Da Ba Dee), then he did What Is Love, and now The Logical Song, he's out of ideas. -- nm - Tim Mar 16, 13:34
- You know how you can tell if someone is lying? -- (link) - prayformojo Mar 16, 12:31 [Backboard] 1
  - "But doctor, I am Rodger Hodgson." "..who?" -- nm - Reagen Mar 16, 12:35
- 🎵It’s been nice🎶 -- nm - Landbeck Mar 16, 12:20
- word. One of my fave random memories from Cancun was in a bar, some local band with a hot female singer suddenly playing Logical Song. -- nm* - Spawn Mar 16, 11:53 1
  - This feels like a Bill Murray story. -- nm - Reagen Mar 16, 12:35
spectacular pun -- (link) - Reagen Mar 16, 11:40 [BS]
And then I had to do a quick change to March with A’s dance school in the parade -- (pic) - znufrii Mar 16, 11:21 [Attachment] 2
- My new profile pic! -- (pic) - zunkstump Mar 16, 13:21 [Attachment]
- Awesome!! -- nm - Pippy Mar 16, 11:38
Happy 81st birthday to my dad -- nm - ty97 Mar 16, 10:42 6
- Happy birthday, ty97 Sr. -- nm - Spawn Mar 16, 12:21
- Happy Birthday to him! -- nm - Pippy Mar 16, 11:38
- all my best to him. -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 16, 11:29
- hope he raises just the right amount of hell today -- nm - prayformojo Mar 16, 11:20
- Happy Birthday ty’s dad! -- nm - Dano Mar 16, 11:16
- HBD. Good you can be of help. -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 16, 11:13
Leonard Leo lackey tried to blow the whistle on the FedSoc’s plan to takeover the federal judiciary in 2014. no takers from the Beltway press corp -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Mar 16, 10:37
Lyc run report, Conshy Classic 5k, 32:27 - znufrii Mar 16, 10:27 2
- Nice job! -- nm - Dano Mar 16, 10:57
- VNR -- nm - JD Mar 16, 10:56
historical annotation to the Cara Delevingne house fire -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 16, 09:24
Guy who lost SCOTUS case 9-0 is not happy about it. -- (link) - Strongbad Mar 16, 08:58 6
- Everything he wrote looks right to me. -- nm - David Mar 16, 09:39 2
  - It's the same point as that you don't need the first amendment for speech that you like. The 14th wasn't written to protect against people that won't - Reagen Mar 16, 09:50 1
    - aslo, for all of the Roberts Court's "established historical tradition" bullshit, they conveniently ignored the actual history of Confederate - hollywood big shot Mar 16, 10:02
- Judge Luttig only filed an amicus brief, wasn't a party to the case. but also he's not wrong -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 16, 09:08 2
  - Thanks for clarifying that. I misread. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 16, 10:18
  - and substantively, it was 5-4 on the area of most legal dispute between the justices -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 16, 09:10
AEW: Darby Allin broke 3 bones in his foot in his match Wednesday, postponing his attempt to climb Mt. Everest later this month. - Tim Mar 16, 08:52 3
- Meh…he merely postponed Darby’s demise. - Will Hunting Mar 16, 09:15 1
  - He would totally Coffin Drop off the summit, so this is for the best. -- nm - Tim Mar 16, 11:05
- oof. I have a friend who climbed everst and the amount of training he had to do was crazy -- nm - Remlik Mar 16, 09:00
this was pretty much my week -- (link) - prayformojo Mar 16, 07:56 3
- **giggling** -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 16, 09:52
- L3! -- nm - Pippy Mar 16, 08:52
- Thank you for bringing joy to my morning. I am off to breakfast laughing. Thanks! -- nm - crash davis 😺 Mar 16, 07:58
Great! You scored 24 of 28 points, with 7 of 8 events correct, on this week’s Flashback. - prayformojo Mar 16, 07:48 3
- Perfect. - Dark Callisto 🦊 Mar 16, 09:36
- Great! You scored 25 of 28 points, with 7 of 8 events correct, on this week’s Flashback. - VMan Mar 16, 08:20
- Perfect! You scored 28 points, with all 8 events correct, on this week’s Flashback. - crash davis 😺 Mar 16, 07:52
Courtney Cox had one of the all time greatest starts to her career. She'll partly forever be this girl to me -- (link) - crash davis 😺 Mar 16, 07:12 [youtube] 6
- This could be a STIS poll. At 16, Laurence Fishburne lied about his age to get a movie role. That movie was called Apocalypse Now -- nm - con_carne Mar 16, 08:43 4
  - Tracy Lords also got her start in movies by using a false ID at 16 -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 16, 10:02 1
    - Jodie's elder sister Connie Foster body doubled for her in Taxi Driver. -- nm - VMan Mar 16, 10:22
  - And he was still called Larry -- nm - Krusty Mar 16, 08:51 1
    - Ooh! Sixteen year old Larry... Today we know him as Laurence Fishburne. Perfect! *awards you one S+* -- nm - con_carne Mar 16, 09:13
- (+ Misfits of Science) -- nm - mud Mar 16, 08:15
I have had this conversation with my kids! -- (link) - Mop🧹 Mar 16, 07:11 4
- word. The pointing when he says who Kyle is, is spot on. -- nm* - Spawn Mar 16, 11:57
- ha! -- nm - prayformojo Mar 16, 07:49
- That is hilarious -- nm - Pippy Mar 16, 07:46
- same -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Mar 16, 07:13
Strands, no hints - znufrii Mar 16, 06:52 3
- Oh! Now I understand. - na-Baron Mar 16, 08:48
- Strands #13 - this was cleverly done - prayformojo Mar 16, 07:44 1
  - Strange though that it’s basically a different format than previous versions. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Mar 16, 08:18
This is cool. Patrick Warburton returns as chief flight attendant for Soarin'. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Mar 16, 06:42 [youtube]
Happy birthday, Marcel!! Woo hoo!!! -- nm - Krusty Mar 16, 05:46 3
- hbd -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 16, 11:29
- HBD -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 16, 09:57
- indeed -- nm - crash davis 😺 Mar 16, 07:32
Who are the ST Real Estate experts? This CNN article seems to be a... really big deal if what they're saying is accurate? -- (link) - Strongbad Mar 16, 04:17 2
- there was some discussion on this on a back board -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Mar 16, 04:34 [Backboard] 1
  - Thanks! -- nm - Strongbad Mar 16, 06:02
TV PSA: NHL, NBA, NCAA BBall, UFC, AEW Collision, 55th NAACP Image Awards, - Beaker 🍻 Mar 16, 03:54
Greetings from Stockholm -- (pic) - LMS Mar 16, 03:38 [Attachment] 5
- God dag! -- nm - crash davis 😺 Mar 16, 07:56
- Currently listening to bagpipes or dying sheep -- (pic) - LMS Mar 16, 05:20 [Attachment] 3
  - It's a Swedish pipe band marking St Patrick's Day. - LMS Mar 16, 05:28 [Attachment] 2
    - So strange. Have a wonderful trip! -- nm - Krusty Mar 16, 05:45
    - No Finns celebrating St Urhu's? - . Mar 16, 05:37
post on Mastodon says russia, in the middle of 'elections' is having a massive DDOS attack -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 16, 02:05
No Megaball winner, next draw is tuesday 3/19 -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 16, 00:52 1
- money sent -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 16, 09:58
how is this dude playing basketball? -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 23:28
Watching the Great British Menu, I'd almost forgotten the lion stamp on English eggs. -- nm* - Meg Mar 15, 22:50 1
- England's Best -- nm - con_carne Mar 16, 08:46
i wonder historically who had might have had an even crazier spread (that dude who witnessed Lincoln’s assassination and lived long enough to be -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 22:42 7
- Because Chris loved the film so much, I'll mention that I was alive at the same time as both Robert Oppenheimer and Cillian Murphy -- nm* - crash davis 😺 Mar 16, 07:30 1
  - almost as long as the movie itself -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 16, 08:35
- George Bernard Shaw was alive before Great Expectations was published and died after Oliver Twist was in movie theaters, winning an Oscar in between. -- nm - Max Mar 16, 02:23 2
  - good one, max! -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 16, 06:16 1
    - Dickens was alive in 1865 so that kid who saw JWB shoot Lincoln also alive with Tom Hanks -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 16, 09:29
- There was a claim that it was theoretically possible for Lincoln to have sent a fax to the Emperor of Japan, something like that. -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 16, 00:27 1
  - Wife of a former slave lived long enough to vote for Obama -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 16, 00:28
What did the hypnotist working at 7-11 say to customers? - JD Mar 15, 22:38 1
- 🦛 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Mar 16, 07:57
I don’t know what the hell is going on with the royals but sounds absolutely buck wild over there -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 22:25 2
- Post won't load. -- nm - Mop🧹 Mar 16, 12:59
- they live in a medieval world (like amish who cross the street to use a pay phone) and all that is just a PR problem -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 15, 22:30
I wonder if Simpsons writers were allowed to lay bets in Vegas with the inside knowledge (prolly woulda had to wait until airdate) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 21:59
I didn't recognize Andrea Riseborough at all in The Regime -- nm - prayformojo Mar 15, 21:36 1
- She is never recognizable. Chameleon -- nm - Diva Mar 16, 04:20
Here’s a YouTube Short of Sydney Sweeney on the Tonight Show. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Mar 15, 21:23 [youtube] 1
- I hope you awarded yourself points -- nm - crash davis 😺 Mar 16, 07:36
Connections Puzzle #279 - Purple first, 1 silly mistake - prayformojo Mar 15, 21:23 3
- No oopsies. Purple first. - VMan Mar 16, 07:46
- one mistake on ty's category - crash davis 😺 Mar 16, 06:51
- Purple first - znufrii Mar 16, 05:33
Wordle 1,001 5/6 - no green til all green - prayformojo Mar 15, 21:13 2
- Wordle 1,001 5/6 - crash davis 😺 Mar 16, 06:58
- 6 - decline Mar 16, 05:20
I'm transfixed by this YT video about how people eat in Antarctica. -- (link) - David Mar 15, 20:52 [youtube]
Ron Livingston the morning after VE Day -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 15, 20:46 1
- Looks about right -- nm - con_carne Mar 16, 09:15
I passed on the corned beef in the store today thinking I might find a deal elsewhere - guess not :/ - Meg Mar 15, 20:41 4
- you can't make pastrami without a corned beef :( -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 15, 21:17
- saute bacon with some cabbage, onion and serve with potato -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 15, 20:54 2
  - Too much fat in bacon - not that there isn't in corned beef :) I could go to Kaye's Kitchen and see if theirs is better than last time I had it. -- nm - Meg Mar 15, 21:17 1
    - yeah but the cabbage n onion cooks in it -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 15, 22:00
There’s no real argument that having a foreign adversary control a major media platform (i.e.TikTok) in your country is a good thing. - mafic Mar 15, 19:50 14
- Today in Twitter, Musk has been locking accounts of those mentioning Nazi artist Hans Kristian Graebener. -- (link) - Qale Mar 15, 20:25 13
  - Still better than the CCP and has half the reach (and falling). -- nm - mafic Mar 15, 20:27 12
    - I know that's it's absolutely incorrect and it means I'm showing my age but I always think of this when seeing CCP -- (link) - JD Mar 15, 22:23 [youtube]
    - And like “Twitter also sucks” isn’t a reason to do nothing about TikTok. -- nm - mafic Mar 15, 20:28 10
      - But it is a reason to do something about them both -- nm - Pippy Mar 15, 20:53
      - The problem is this isn’t a pivot to do something as a whole. It’s Patriot Acting in 4 days without even then 9/11 cover. - Qale Mar 15, 20:47 7
        
        They’re owned by a Chinese parent company, and pretty much every large Chinese company has deep ties to the state. There’s no sorta kinda. -- nm - mafic Mar 15, 22:56 1
        
        In the US, a company can be served a summons to produce the records/info... in china its automatic at the gov's request. -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 16, 00:36
        
        I can believe I’m the only one that recognizes that when the left and right act this swiftly that it is absolutely terrible what happens next. -- nm - Qale Mar 15, 20:49 4
        
        So what happens next? -- nm - mafic Mar 15, 22:44 1
        
        The country collapses into a mad max style hellscape -- nm - Beryllium Mar 16, 00:31
        
        You are not the only one -- nm - Pippy Mar 15, 20:52 1
        
        I’m sorry. I forgot you Pippy. That was my fault. -- nm - Qale Mar 15, 20:57
      - right -- nm - prayformojo Mar 15, 20:29
Saturday crossword in 24;07.....2nd best weekly cumulative time for the year, 5th best ever -- nm - prayformojo Mar 15, 19:41 1
- 14:35, which is pretty much aberage. Do my weeks from Monday to Sunday, that’s also looking pretty average. -- nm - mafic Mar 15, 20:16
work email from a tech startup opens congratulating us on renewing the mining lease… on a mine we sold 4 years ago. - mafic Mar 15, 19:38
Dune 2 was excellent. Cant recommend the earplugs enough holy god. Dune 3...going to be a real challenge to make into a film -- nm - Remlik Mar 15, 19:38 1
- I don’t think 3 is much of a stretch. 4 is impossible (see b2) -- nm - mafic Mar 15, 19:39
Oh we can roll. Look. New board. -- nm - amandaphone Mar 15, 19:30

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