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Brazil woman arrested for wheeling a dead man into a bank trying to get a loan with his "signature " -- (link) - zeitgeist Apr 18, 10:29 2
- they just want to make everything illegal these days -- nm - decline Apr 18, 10:32 1
  - heh -- nm - mud Apr 18, 10:38
“hey moon… can you get out of the shot” -- (link) - hollywood big shot Apr 18, 10:21 2
- ‼️ -- nm - mud Apr 18, 10:29
- obviously flat -- nm - decline Apr 18, 10:26
Trap Trailer: What if a serial killer was at a Lady Gaga show? By M. Knight Shalyman -- (link) - Remlik Apr 18, 10:04 [youtube] 1
- Ugh really? Save some for the freaking movie. -- nm - sycor Apr 18, 10:10
another juror dismissed. how long is this judge gonna let fucko exercise peremptory challenges by leaking personal info to his goons? -- (link) - hollywood big shot Apr 18, 09:56 5
- I mean, its quite clear this is *his* world and we just live in it. - Jovian Apr 18, 10:00 4
  - He just spent multiple days listening to how much strangers make fun of his grotesque incompetence. -- nm - David Apr 18, 10:21 3
    - "But you HAVE heard of me" -- nm - Beryllium Apr 18, 10:39
    - word. -- nm - mud Apr 18, 10:30
    - two days of Jimmy Kimmel's Mean Tweets basically -- nm - hollywood big shot Apr 18, 10:26
Seth McFarlane and Martin Scorsese team up to save animated films from 1920-1940 -- (link) - Remlik Apr 18, 09:56
Mystics gonna outsell the Wizards at Cap One -- (link) - hollywood big shot Apr 18, 09:49 4
- As well they should -- at least with Caitlyn on the floor, there's 1 professional player with some talent. - Will Hunting Apr 18, 09:52 2
  - Did you just shade like all of the WNBA? - JD Apr 18, 09:56 1
    - Della Donne is taking a sabbatical this year and the wizards are trash. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 18, 10:03
- The Clark effect. -- nm - Remlik Apr 18, 09:50
totally legit, right? FeDERAI.TAX.SETTlMent@rwiklhqrxxhknetorgft942 20435811.onmicrosoft.com.alumni.uts.edu.au the caps are for effect. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Apr 18, 09:43
pathetic little baby tyrant. -- (pic) - mud Apr 18, 09:42 [Attachment] 1
- likely napping -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Apr 18, 09:45
the 2nd semi-annual PFM Memorial Living Room Ultra has been rescheduled to this Saturday (original Easter weekend date got cancelled due to illness) - prayformojo 🐵 Apr 18, 09:25
R.I.P. Dickey Betts, 80 -- (link) - mud Apr 18, 09:06 2
- shame he never reconciled with the band -- nm - Remlik Apr 18, 09:13 1
  - "Betts reconciled with Allman before the singer-keyboardist’s death from liver cancer complications from in 2017, and attended his funeral." -- nm - ty97 Apr 18, 09:26
Spinning off the pro sports salary discussions of late, Joe Burrow earns the salary of a UFL player in two NFL plays. - Volnelk Apr 18, 08:42 8
- The alternative is that money going to the owners. -- nm - Reagen Apr 18, 09:01
- Meh, the NFL has annual revenues of like 15-20billion The UFL has a net worth of 7.2mil from what I'm seeing. - Will Hunting Apr 18, 08:48 4
  - I understand, and I am not arguing that UFL players should make the same. My point is that Pro salaries are just stupid in the scheme of things. - Volnelk Apr 18, 09:13 2
    - Someone’s making the money from that 15-20bil. I’d like it to be the people creating the value. -- (edited) - Will Hunting Apr 18, 09:19 1
      - Then I guess I'm saying it shouldn't be $15-$20B. -- (edited) - Volnelk Apr 18, 10:13
  - (same applies to NBA and WNBA comparisons too) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Apr 18, 08:54
- Thats the thing about One player taking up 25 or 50% of the Team Cap -- nm - budice Apr 18, 08:45 1
  - It never gets to that, though. - Inigo Apr 18, 09:12
Beacon 23 season 2 started. Producers of The Shield, ST DS9, behind it. Starring Lena Headey...really good sci fi show on MGM+ -- (link) - Remlik Apr 18, 08:21 [youtube]
Creepy reporter who was inappropriate to Caitlin Clark “apologizes” - Rufus Apr 18, 08:09 1
- this is a rare thing these days. An apology. -- nm - Jovian Apr 18, 09:14
Hitman trailer -- (link) - Remlik Apr 18, 07:59 [youtube] 8
- He's like Tom Cruise if Tom Cruise had chemistry with his costars. -- nm - Max Apr 18, 08:43 2
  - LOL. so accurate. -- nm - Pippy Shark Apr 18, 08:44 1
    - He looks like a buffer young Alan Ruck -- nm - eag Apr 18, 08:46
- oh yasss -- nm - Pippy Shark Apr 18, 08:16 1
  - This -- nm - JD Apr 18, 08:43
- Ed is saying it’s a gotta watch and a fun flick -- nm - Rufus Apr 18, 08:06 1
  - oh nice -- nm - Remlik Apr 18, 08:09
- Netflix June 7th (this one plays in Canada :) (also, looks like fun)) -- (link*) - Beaker 🍺 Apr 18, 08:03 [youtube]
The Victor Wembanyama Interview: Wemby Goes Deep on His Historic Rookie Season -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Apr 18, 07:43
Had a Boss for a short amount of time that put Read Receipts on all his emails. Had mine turned off due to vendors,claimed I was insubordinate for it - budice Apr 18, 07:28 15
- I mean I can see using it for important emails, but not everyday work stuff. That's crazy -- nm - Remlik Apr 18, 08:31 1
  - Or if you just wanted to test something because you got feedback that some people weren't seeing things until much later than others or something. - Volnelk Apr 18, 08:38
- I cannot imagine wanting to do this. -- nm - Reagen Apr 18, 07:56
- I will never acknowledge a read receipt. Fuck that noise. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Apr 18, 07:45 5
  - same -- nm - Mop🧹 Apr 18, 08:55
  - exactly -- nm - decline Apr 18, 08:51
  - Yep— -- nm - Rufus Apr 18, 08:07
  - same -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Apr 18, 07:50
  - yep -- nm - Andie Apr 18, 07:49
- Was he a short guy…”an angry elf?” -- nm - Rufus Apr 18, 07:44
- He has the Power, budice. -- nm - Spawn Apr 18, 07:39 4
  - He only lasted 2 months. his way or the highway sort of person and noone else was having it so he chose highway -- nm - budice Apr 18, 07:45 3
    - It was for the best because now he's living out his skillset destiny as a high school vice principal. -- nm - Max Apr 18, 08:55 1
      - Hey now, my father was a vice-principal... for about a minute. - Baron Kills World Apr 18, 09:01
    - Noone else noticed he did the Read Receipt thing. I just happened to be in his office and had his Inbox open while showing me something -- nm - budice Apr 18, 08:06
"Cybertruck will be waterproof enough to server briefly as a boat, so it can cross rivers, lakes & even seas that aren't too choppy" -- (edited) - decline Apr 18, 07:21 1
- vroom vroom vroom glug glug glug -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Apr 18, 07:27
PAY HIM WHATEVER HE WANTS! Yes, we negotiate with terrorists. Zack Snyder is threatening to film 6 more "Rebel Moon" films. (NM) - Marlowe Apr 18, 07:17 5
- And I am sure many STers will watch them "to see how bad they are". - Spawn Apr 18, 08:35 1
  - I'll be very tempted to watch Pt 2 but try to remember how angry I was at the end of Pt 1 -- nm - mud Apr 18, 08:56
- Let him. It'll keep him busy and away from things people might actually care about. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Apr 18, 08:20
- first one had the makings of a decent movie till he Zacked it all up -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Apr 18, 07:30 1
  - the Pitch Meeting and Honest Trailer guys are just salivating waiting for the second one to be released tomorrow... -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Apr 18, 07:31
Sounds like the press is effin' up the jury selection in the hush money case. Juror #2 was dismissed this morning because friends and coworkers -- (edited) - decline Apr 18, 07:16 2
- There has been much made about how descriptions are almost a parlor game of guessing who, like those blind item celebrity posts -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 18, 10:12
- I mentioned this the other day. The press should know way better than this. -- nm - pmb Apr 18, 07:43
I missed taco tuesday this week so will be having thaco thursday. seems pretty legit. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Apr 18, 07:14 3
- "Roll for burrito" -- nm - Max Apr 18, 08:44
- Rookie. I was not going to be home for Taco Tuesday so we did Taco Monday. -- nm - Spawn Apr 18, 08:40
- Thursday is Chipotle day so I concur -- nm - oblique Apr 18, 07:15
This season of Survivor is whack (spoils) - Jovian Apr 18, 07:05 4
- will this till the weekend after we watch. -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Apr 18, 08:58
- word. plus! spoiler - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Apr 18, 07:13 2
  - spoils - Jovian Apr 18, 07:20 1
    - totally agree on "again." so delusional. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 mandy chem 🏳️‍🌈 Apr 18, 08:12
Transformers 1 trailer (it's not the trailer but some live show thing). Also this is an animated movie -- (link*) - decline Apr 18, 07:00 [youtube] 4
- looks fun. -- nm - Remlik Apr 18, 07:22
- yuk -- nm - budice Apr 18, 07:22
- Really? -- nm - Mop🧹 Apr 18, 07:04
- maybe not -- nm - decline Apr 18, 07:02
Japan Console Sales 4/8/24 – 4/14/24 1) Switch - 71,213 2) PS5 - 20,941 3) Xbox Series - 2,616 -- nm - budice Apr 18, 06:56
This is a pretty funny email exchange. Veteran researcher introduces rookie researcher to reality in a firm but gentle way. - Baron Kills World Apr 18, 06:56
FCC aware of the 911 outages and investigating -- nm - budice Apr 18, 06:28
You'll be shocked to hear that another Tory MP has been involved in something suspiscious (again) -- (link) - LMS Apr 18, 06:05
I have to take my ceiling fan down yet again. This time to return it. - sycor Apr 18, 05:49 7
- And it's spinning the wrong way! -- nm - Baron Kills World Apr 18, 05:53 6
  - hehe I always keep mine on summer direction. Winter direction makes it feel too drafty in winter so I just don't use them. -- nm - sycor Apr 18, 05:58
  - you jest but I was amazed at how much difference the direction made in the effectiveness of our fans in our living room - oblique Apr 18, 05:55 4
    - You know it has 3 speeds, right? Pull the other cord. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 18, 06:41 2
      - :) Yeah, it wasn't a speed thing. Has to do with the switch to either pull air up or push it down -- nm - oblique Apr 18, 06:47
      - *begins spinning* -- nm - Garbage disposal Apr 18, 06:42
    - The jest was that it was wired backwards, which is totally something I would do. :) -- nm - Baron Kills World Apr 18, 06:36
Abigail 85% (after 33 reviews); The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare 80% (45); Rebel Moon 2 Scargiver nsy -- nm* - Beaker 🍺 Apr 18, 04:44 3
- I will eventually watch all 3. The first two look great. Rebel Moon only to see how bad it is compared to the first one. -- nm - sycor Apr 18, 06:02 1
  - I read the first part of Ed's Abigail review (just to check it out) and am now more psyched for it than before and stopped to avoid any spoils -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Apr 18, 08:59
- RT "updated" their shitty site so you can't see positive/negative numbers easily just the total review numbers -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Apr 18, 04:44
Strands #46 - prayformojo 🐵 Apr 18, 04:42 5
- yellow 5th - decline Apr 18, 06:57
- They need to add this to the app posthaste so I don't forget to do it every day. -- nm - Baron Kills World Apr 18, 06:41 1
  - Yeah I don't get why it's beta but some other things just appeared on the app. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 18, 07:46
- Yellow - 6th - VMan Apr 18, 05:56
- Strands #46 “Sew what?” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵🟡🔵🔵 -- nm - rollo Apr 18, 05:40
TV PSA: L&O, Young Sheldon, Next Level Chef, L&O SVU, So Help Me Todd, Elsbeth, L&O OC, Conan O'Brien Must Go, The Traitors NZ, ST Discovery, Ghosts, - Beaker 🍺 Apr 18, 04:42 2
- Taskmaster, Ghosts, Conan and MLB -- nm - Krusty Apr 18, 05:06
- Ghosts and NLC is it for us -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Apr 18, 04:45
Connections Puzzle #312 - prayformojo 🐵 Apr 18, 04:38 6
- blue last bc i'm an idjut - mud Apr 18, 07:48
- no mistakes - decline Apr 18, 06:47
- One booboo. (spoils) - Baron Kills World Apr 18, 05:55
- No oopsies - VMan Apr 18, 05:54
- yellow purple green blue -- nm - crash davis 😺 Apr 18, 05:54
- inverse reverse prescribed order - rollo Apr 18, 05:28
Wordle 1,034 4/6 - prayformojo 🐵 Apr 18, 04:33 3
- 6 - decline Apr 18, 06:46
- Wordle 1,034 5/6 - crash davis 😺 Apr 18, 06:04
- 4 - rollo Apr 18, 05:06
Why doesn’t the nhl have a “last day”? Like teams finalize their seasons over 3 different days… it’s weird. - Will Hunting Apr 18, 04:22 2
- I really liked how the NBA did it. Premier League everyone plays on the same day at the same time. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Apr 18, 05:57
- And the new season begins about 8 hours after the Stanley Cup is awarded. -- nm - Baron Kills World Apr 18, 04:49
I was working on a landscaping joke - JD Apr 17, 23:11 1
- don't get lost in the weeds -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 17, 23:20
why Alvin Bragg doesn’t have to prove “election interference” as the underlying crime, even if that’s how he’s framing it. the campaign finance -- (link) - hollywood big shot Apr 17, 23:07
I would be level 44 in Pokémon Go tonight… except I still have to win more matches in the Great and Ultra League. -- nm - Qale Apr 17, 22:36 1
- Ya know - you can challenge me in both leagues - I throw up weak Pokemon - you win - Level 44 BAYBEE!!!!! -- nm - Turd Ferguson Apr 18, 06:17
Victims of former sports dr Nasser have reached a settlement with the FBI for ignoring reports, 100m for approx 100 victims. -- (link*) - zeitgeist Apr 17, 22:27
ichthyosaur news -- (link) - Peglegpete Apr 17, 21:09 1
- big if true -- nm - mafic Apr 18, 00:56
Top Chef big spoils - Peglegpete Apr 17, 21:06 1
- Spoils - the wrong element Apr 17, 23:29
911 outage in Vegas, South Carolina, Nebraska and other states at the moment -- (link*) - budice Apr 17, 20:46 4
- A communications disruption could mean only one thing… -- nm - Mop🧹 Apr 17, 21:00 2
  - Flooding down texas, all the telephone lines are down.... -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 17, 22:24
  - Led Zeppelin!!!! -- (link) - Peglegpete Apr 17, 21:11 [youtube]
- it started at 7 pm here -- (link) - Peglegpete Apr 17, 20:47
Important cultural note: Angie Tribeca is once again available for streaming, this time on Max - prayformojo 🐵 Apr 17, 20:30
That AEW storyline with Ruby Soho and Angelo from 2.0 has led to a very real pregnancy. -- nm - David Apr 17, 20:21 4
- Did you see the Oklahoma stuff regarding Nyla Rose? - the wrong element Apr 17, 20:40 2
  - There are certain reasons to have it (like first aid requirements) but the idea that a staged 'fight' is treated the same as a boxing match is insane. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 18, 08:40
  - Yeah. It's reprehensible. - David Apr 17, 21:02
- I didn't do it but thanks for letting me know! -- nm - con_carne Apr 17, 20:38
Lions, Tigers and Bears. Oh my! -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 17, 20:11

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