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Worldwide Box Office Update (see IM): Dune hits $575M, Kung Fu Panda $250M, Beekeeper $150M, Ghostbusters $50M. Madame Web might end under $100M - MDH Mar 25, 19:12
things going great in the Bay Area -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 25, 18:26 1
- It's a parody account. -- nm - jnine Mar 25, 21:00
A 21yo died of H5N1 in vietnam today. So 2024 has that on the horizon, too. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 25, 18:26
Krusty alert. Gyllenhaal and McGregor go sneaker shopping. (Link) - sycor Mar 25, 18:22 [youtube] 2
- oh man...I liked that Bruce Lee shoe -- nm - Remlik Mar 25, 19:33
- I watched earlier. They buy a full size run* of black and white Air Force 1s to donate to charity. Loved that! - Krusty Mar 25, 18:39
After reading the first two GoT books in a week, I'm switching to something more peaceful and heartwarming. - Beryllium Mar 25, 18:09 2
- Mein Kampf? -- nm - rollo Mar 25, 19:24
- Machiavelli? -- nm - . Mar 25, 18:49
A special look into training at the Boeing Headquarters! -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Mar 25, 17:52 [youtube] 1
- Next CEO is a Pain Sponge -- nm - budice Mar 25, 17:56
thanks, Biden -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 25, 17:08 3
- I heard it tastes like chicken. -- nm - jnine Mar 25, 20:59
- Waste not, want not. -- nm - Spawn Mar 25, 17:30 1
  - I mean if you were ever bi-o curious, carpe d'leg -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 25, 20:32
Syracuse/Uconn Ladies game coming down to it -- nm - Remlik Mar 25, 16:59
‘Titanic’ Door That Saved Kate Winslet Sells for $718,750, -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Mar 25, 16:56 2
- Leo has a chance to make the funniest auction purchase ever -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 25, 16:58 1
  - It's over 25 years old, he's not interested. -- nm - Reagen Mar 25, 18:08
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire nsy, In the Land of Saints and Sinners 70% (7/3), -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Mar 25, 16:55
Adam Neumann submits over $500-million bid to buy back WeWork, source says -- (pic) - mud Mar 25, 16:45 [Attachment] 1
- wsj: -- (link) - mud Mar 25, 16:47
Yellowstone actor "kicked off" plane because he didn’t want to sit next to masked passenger -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Mar 25, 16:40 11
- He's the one who is an actual cowboy. -- nm - jnine Mar 25, 21:03
- what a dum dum -- nm - rollo Mar 25, 19:21
- he was equally not thrilled that the masked man's sidekick Tonto was sitting on his other side. -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 25, 17:43
- “Yeah, I’ve been drinking. I’ve been sitting in the airport for three hours, yeah, I’m drinking. But I ain’t drunk. But they throwed me off the plane - crash davis 😺 Mar 25, 17:12 3
  - "I am free to do what I want, and you are also free to do what I want." -- nm - Reagen Mar 25, 17:20 2
    - "I'm drunk because you didn't stand up for my freedoms" -- nm - crash davis 😺 Mar 25, 17:21 1
      - A+ subthread. -- nm - David Mar 25, 19:43
- PETA should get on his ass for not vaxxing his dogs and horses. that is abuse -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Mar 25, 16:45 1
  - Pet groomers should probably get preventative rabbies vax because more n more owners are avoiding vax, getting vax tags from lost n found - zeitgeist Mar 25, 17:00
- What a fucking dumbass. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 25, 16:43
- he was supposed to come to Popcon last year, but because he's not vaxxed they wouldn't let him come. -- nm - Remlik Mar 25, 16:42
Just watched the Short Documentary Oscar winner "The Last Repair Shop." So good! See it if you haven't. (Disney Plus) -- nm - mara ❄️ Mar 25, 16:01 5
- Also streaming for free here -- (link) - con_carne Mar 25, 16:15
- my nephew in law! -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Mar 25, 16:03 3
  - Who is? -- nm - mara ❄️ Mar 25, 16:05 2
    - Ben Proudfoot (one of the Producers. He was one of the acceptors at the Oscars. His 2nd Oscar too!) -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Mar 25, 16:07 1
      - Fantastic! Since we skipped the Oscars, we looked up that particular award on YouTube and saw them accept. :-) -- nm - mara ❄️ Mar 25, 16:11
Vanderbilt hiring James Madison's Mark Boyington to be their next basketball coach. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 25, 15:55 2
- I’m a little surprised he couldn’t do better. -- nm - David Mar 25, 15:56 1
  - They saw the Duke game -- nm - eag Mar 25, 16:08
‘X-Men ’97’ Hits 4 Million Views in Five Days -- (link*) - Beaker 🍻 Mar 25, 15:52 1
- And here's why that's bad news for Disney+ -- nm - Jovian Mar 25, 17:15
Raptors forward investigated for irregularities involving prop bets -- (link) - Reagen Mar 25, 15:48 12
- he won a fortune on the Taylor Swift Superbowl prop bets :))))) -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 25, 16:48
- make $415k playing bball or break the law and make a couple grand....decisions, decisions -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Mar 25, 15:56
- The details of this are enough to ban him right now. - David Mar 25, 15:54 8
  - It was his Canadian translator. -- nm - Reagen Mar 25, 16:02 7
    - We’ve blamed Canada for years, why stop now? - Pippy Mar 25, 16:32 1
      - Heh -- nm - eag Mar 25, 16:45
    - “I thought he was saying ‘about’. Not ‘a bet’” -- nm - Roger More Mar 25, 16:13
    - He's sorry. -- nm - Canadian translator Mar 25, 16:11
    - The Mckenzie bros -- nm* - eag Mar 25, 16:05
    - heh -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Mar 25, 16:04 1
      - "They speak English there." "Well I know that *now*" -- nm - Reagen Mar 25, 16:08
- the *hops on one leg 15 times in the first quarter* was a dead give-away -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Mar 25, 15:50
The Ref's Reaction to the New NFL Rules -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Mar 25, 15:45 [youtube]
The 2nd most streamed show of 2023, Bluey, gets a special on April 14th -- (link) - Remlik Mar 25, 15:27 1
- Kids have been excited for it since the trailer played about 3 weeks ago. -- nm - Karl_S Mar 25, 16:25
Not everyone can handle New York -- (link) - Reagen Mar 25, 15:24 7
- "Sir, I'm a veterinarian. This particular strain can't be caught from ingestion." ". . ." "Don't feel bad. Here, I'll tell you a joke. Knock-knock." - Flaco's Physical Mar 25, 16:06
- There has to be a better way to rid ourselves of the rats besides all the poison. I'm hopeful the sanitation changes will make a difference -- (edited) - Krusty Mar 25, 15:36 4
  - One effective solution - more owls -- nm - Roger More Mar 25, 16:10 1
    - they are not what they seem. -- nm - Reagen Mar 25, 16:16
  - Instead of poison, plant birth control in rat sized tube, eventually the population will drop to a level sanitation can deal with. -- nm* - zeitgeist Mar 25, 15:49 1
    - Some form of sterilization seems like a much better option than poison. -- nm - Krusty Mar 25, 15:53
- I saw Herpes Pigeons open for The Flaming Lips. -- nm - Dano Mar 25, 15:29
personally I would also try to have four 20-game winning starting pitchers in my rotation if I was running an MLB team -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 25, 15:07
Ohtani statement: Its all Ippei. Ive never bet nor sent money to bookmaker -- nm - budice Mar 25, 14:56 4
- Now I have to watch Lost in Translation tonight. -- nm - David Mar 25, 15:11 1
  - It helps his defense. "Oh no they misunderstood me" -- nm - budice Mar 25, 15:15
- nobody with an even passing relationship with the banking system thinks that dude could have made those wire transfers on his own -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 25, 14:59 1
  - statement carefully said “did not willfully send” -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 25, 15:08
Tennessee senate voted to ban chemtrails? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 25, 14:52
From THR: "Right out of the gate, 3 Body Problem opened at No. 2 on Netflix’s Top TV shows list, which isn’t great" - David Mar 25, 14:44 18
- What was #1? The Gentlemen? - the wrong element Mar 25, 19:06
- Yeah, but half the time Netflix tells me their #1 movie is some B-movie from the 90s -- nm - Roger More Mar 25, 15:51 2
  - Exactly. I has to search for it cause it I was too dumb to appreciate it. - Pippy Mar 25, 16:35
  - For example - #2 movie in Canada today is Shooter starring Mark Wahlberg. -- nm - Roger More Mar 25, 15:53
- Damn Cocomelon. -- nm - Dano Mar 25, 15:26
- heh f**king amazing, a hard scifi brand new IP no less! "Isnt great." -- nm - Jovian Mar 25, 14:47 12
  - Netflix especially has ridiculously stupid metrics for what they deem a “hit” (basically if you’re not binging the whole thing in the first 28 days - hollywood big shot Mar 25, 14:58 1
    - Which seems odd to me. - the wrong element Mar 25, 19:09
  - With an additional complicating factor of sinophobia to deal with. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 25, 14:48
  - I cant even recommend this to anyone because of how hard scifi this is. -- nm - Jovian Mar 25, 14:48 8
    - it really isnt that "hard" of scifi, and I think people can watch it and just sorta follow and will enjoy it. I mean the Martian was as hard of scifi at times -- (edited) - tRuMaN Mar 25, 15:21 6
      - I’d say hard SCI FI -- nm - Pippy Mar 25, 16:38
      - All I'll say, is if season 2 gets Greenlit and is faithful to the book, it's as if 2001 A space Odyssey an interstellar had a baby together -- nm - Jovian Mar 25, 15:37 4
        
        This is not a spoiler. Only trying to state how profound and original the sci Fi concepts will be in a season two -- nm - Jovian Mar 25, 15:42 3
        
        Do you want to know where they almost lost me? Spoils - Pippy Mar 25, 16:39 2
        
        the plot (sorta) of one of my favorite recent book series. - tRuMaN Mar 25, 17:22
        
        Spoils - Jovian Mar 25, 17:20
    - Exactly. -- nm - David Mar 25, 15:10
federales raided Diddy’s LA and Miami mansions -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Mar 25, 14:27
This is funny. The guy who played Biff in Back to the Future sings a song about being asked the same questions over and over. -- (link) - pmb Mar 25, 14:02 4
- yeah, he seems like a nice guy from what I've seen of him -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Mar 25, 14:12 2
  - Yes. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 25, 14:19 1
    - and he was fun on legends of Tomorrow too -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Mar 25, 14:19
- Here's his hour long video about his life posted last month. There's a good story about Adam West starting at 51:30. -- (link*) - Max Mar 25, 14:10 [youtube]
DeSantis banning social media accounts for most kids. 14 and 15 years old can have it if their parents sign off on it -- (link) - Pippy: Mar 25, 14:00 5
- I don't hate it. - Cuzzin Todd Mar 25, 14:08
- unpopular opinion: phones should be treated like cigarettes for under-18 -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 25, 14:08 3
  - I kinda think it's up to the parents though on this one, no? -- nm - ty97 Mar 25, 15:11 1
    - at least until four years ago, we didn't leave health decisions like vaccinations up to the parents -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 25, 16:20
  - Yup -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Mar 25, 14:13
sorry Krusty, better luck next year -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 25, 13:58 2
- Two quick observations - the list was put together by a real estate company, and of the eight criteria, only one reflects actual pizza quality -- (link) - Roger More Mar 25, 15:48
- Hahaha! -- nm - Krusty Mar 25, 14:04
We’ve all heard the estimate that there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on Earth? Well the latest scientific estimate is - Loyola Mar 25, 13:44 7
- we knew this 40 years ago watching Local Hero :)) -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 25, 16:49 1
  - yep! -- nm - mud Mar 25, 16:51
- this makes me wish Season Two of 3 Body Problem (or The Dark Forest) was already available. -- nm - Jovian Mar 25, 14:02
- 🎵 The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding, In all of the directions it can whiz; - Andie Mar 25, 14:01 1
  - "Can we have your liver then?" -- nm - Jovian Mar 25, 14:07
- "Space is big. ... I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space." -- nm - Max Mar 25, 13:50 1
  - Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 25, 13:58
drop the Mulkey story, WaPo -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 25, 13:19 1
- right?!! -- nm - Pippy: Mar 25, 13:31
Question for anyone who has finished S1 of 3 Body Problem. (spoils) -- (edited) - Jovian Mar 25, 13:14 22
- Spoilers - David Mar 25, 14:08 1
  - and yet she did -- nm - Jovian Mar 25, 14:31
- I agree but I will defend it by saying this spoils - Pippy: Mar 25, 13:18 19
  - spoils -- (edited) - Jovian Mar 25, 13:25 18
    - Spoilers - David Mar 25, 14:11 5
      - and yet (spoils) - Jovian Mar 25, 14:15 4
        
        Spoilers - David Mar 25, 14:33 3
        
        oh I could never go back and watch any scenes with Auggie again ever in my life. - Jovian Mar 25, 14:34 2
        
        You're missing the forest for the trees there. (spoilers) - David Mar 25, 14:37 1
        
        spoils - Jovian Mar 25, 14:42
    - and! spoils - Pippy: Mar 25, 13:52 11
      - and spoils! -- (edited) - Jovian Mar 25, 14:00 10
        
        Spoilers - David Mar 25, 14:12 6
        
        heh (spoils) - Jovian Mar 25, 14:18 5
        
        Spoilers - David Mar 25, 14:36 4
        
        My issue is with Auggie! (spoils) - Jovian Mar 25, 14:40 3
        
        I get that, but it's the wrong target to criticize. (spoilers) - David Mar 25, 14:46 2
        
        I can say that I was OVERJOYED to see Big Head cast as Kent! -- nm - Jovian Mar 25, 14:50 1
        
        YES!!! - David Mar 25, 15:07
        
        there were a whole lot of swiss cheese holes -- nm - Pippy: Mar 25, 14:07 2
        
        Ill say these are the standouts as far as characters adapted from the source material: - Jovian Mar 25, 14:10 1
        
        and if it follows Book two well (then not really spoils but) - Jovian Mar 25, 14:12
Crawley Town have let school kids pick the names for their new fleet of bin lorries. -- (link) - LMS Mar 25, 13:13 3
- Bin Seeing U... 2 bin or not to bin -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 25, 13:31
- Many years ago, I had a work trip where I stayed in Crawley. -- nm - ty97 Mar 25, 13:21 1
  - The town is a bit of a running joke in my film Bill. -- nm - LMS Mar 25, 13:38
We're going to have another by-election in a Conservative held seat. -- (link) - LMS Mar 25, 13:09 1
- Ha, looks like another loss for the Tories is coming. -- nm - Krusty Mar 25, 14:29
NYT OP: like every other sector of our lives, how private equity is killing music -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 25, 12:59 1
- How many have hard copies, music, movies. Your photos...our and next generations will disappear from the history. - zeitgeist Mar 25, 13:34
PB 3/25 set 1 -- (pic) - zeitgeist Mar 25, 12:55 [Attachment] 4
- Set 2 -- (pic) - zeitgeist Mar 25, 12:57 [Attachment] 3
  - Set 3 -- (pic) - zeitgeist Mar 25, 12:59 [Attachment] 2
    - Straggler -- (pic) - zeitgeist Mar 25, 13:00 [Attachment] 1
      - 3/23 pb roll over -- (pic) - zeitgeist Mar 25, 13:01 [Attachment]

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