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ST poll: do you have gum right now anywhere in your possession? purse? pocket? office drawer? home? -- nm - Pippy Shark May 16, 09:36 11
- No -- nm - zeitgeist May 16, 10:51
- Car -- nm - JD May 16, 09:50
- Nope. I haven't chewed gum in years. I've got any number of Altoids tins and packs of Listerine strips lying around, though. -- nm - ReluctantCynic May 16, 09:43
- Lost/forgotten packs of gum: somewhere. Otherwise, no. -- nm - Beryllium May 16, 09:41
- between my apartment, my office, and my bag… about 20 IceBreakers in various flavors -- nm - hollywood big shot May 16, 09:41
- there's some old bits in that drawer over there but I havent been able to partake for several years. My dental situation has been much too dire. -- nm - mud May 16, 09:39
- The last time I had gum was 1997ish? -- nm - MDH May 16, 09:39
- nope and could not tell you the last time I had it - decline May 16, 09:38 1
  - How do you McGyver shit? -- nm - LFG May 16, 09:39
- yes -- nm - LFG May 16, 09:38
- no. i do wish I had some of that trident sour patch kids gum. -- nm - tRuMaN May 16, 09:38
Giants, oh honey no -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 16, 09:35 4
- Le club de football des Géants de New York -- nm - Reagen May 16, 09:39
- Giant's front office is probably thinking, these are so bad maybe people will forget that we overpaid for our starting QB. -- nm - tRuMaN May 16, 09:38
- Players should spray paint their jockstraps black, for added effect. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 16, 09:38
- [puke] -- nm - mud May 16, 09:37
Golf-PGA Champ: XSchauffele -8 thru 15 -- nm - budice May 16, 09:29
I don't play golf and I don't watch a ton but I watch enough to be surprised I've never heard of a split fairway until right now. -- nm - Last Of My Kind May 16, 09:21 2
- Some Genesis or Playstation golf game I played had one. -- nm - LFG May 16, 09:31
- I’ve played a few … it’s interesting if you split the middle. - Will Hunting May 16, 09:23
"bootlicker" ..heh -- (pic) - mud May 16, 09:08 [Attachment] 1
- I love it -- nm - Pippy Shark May 16, 09:35
Today's color is "smoldering rage." -- nm - ReluctantCynic May 16, 09:05 3
- Yes. (See: age verification bill in canadian senate) -- nm - Beryllium May 16, 09:10 2
  - I thought Canadians were more sensible than that? -- nm - ReluctantCynic May 16, 09:31 1
    - Sometimes. Not always. - Beryllium May 16, 09:35
Andrea Arnold's 'Bird' gets 11 min. ovation. I want to see, I've seen several of hers going back to 'Red Road' (2006) -- (link) - mud May 16, 09:03 5
- I don't see anything with less than a 12 minute ovation. -- nm - Last Of My Kind May 16, 09:11 3
  - That's what she said! -- nm - LFG May 16, 09:15
  - the-most-interesting-man-in-the-world.mp3 -- (link*) - Beryllium May 16, 09:15 [youtube]
  - :-] -- nm - mud May 16, 09:12
- Barry Keoghan dropped out of Gladiator 2 to be in it. -- nm - mud May 16, 09:11
Amazon offering $100 gift card plus $20 trade in credit for my 4a for an 8a. Google offering $140 trade in for the phone as a credit after the - sycor May 16, 09:02
Oh shit no. Copilot built into Bing search. If you scroll to the top of your search results and keep scrolling, it jumps into Copilot. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 16, 08:28 9
- Why are you using Bing? -- nm - JD May 16, 08:34 7
  - Edge browser, Microsoft federated account. I'm trying to play nice with company resources. And I've been given a Copilot Pro license. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 16, 08:46 3
    - embrace the AI, Mop -- nm - decline May 16, 08:47 2
      - The Google results that highlight shit make me irrationally angry. -- nm - Reagen May 16, 09:09 1
        
        I completely ignore it -- nm - decline May 16, 09:10
  - "Things Chandler would say ... things a Crosby would say ... things Ben and Jerry would say" -- nm - $10,000 Pyramid Contestant May 16, 08:44 1
    - Phil Connors -- nm - Reagen May 16, 08:52
  - It goes well with his glasses chain? -- nm - LFG May 16, 08:38
- I'm helping! -- nm - MS Kitteh May 16, 08:30
Boebert—we know she’s hanging out with Trump at his trial…but did you know her son was in court, a week ago, and she wasn’t there and he had no lawyer - Trending May 16, 08:24 [Attachment] 10
- but but she's putting country before family! She'll be VP! - Remlik May 16, 08:49
- reminder: The 19-year old is facing 22 counts (mostly theft related) including one count of conspiracy to commit a felony -- nm - decline May 16, 08:45
- She's an absolute bottom feeder -- nm - Jovian May 16, 08:41
- If I was running against her I would make that the center of my ad campaign. -- nm - pmb May 16, 08:40
- Most people have to leave their families behind when they join a cult -- nm - rollo May 16, 08:26 5
  - good point -- nm - Pippy Shark May 16, 08:41 2
    - The May 3 episode of a very good podcast called Plain English: "How the logic of cults is taking over modern life" is a good listen -- nm - rollo May 16, 08:47 1
      - oooo thanks -- nm - Pippy Shark May 16, 09:34
  - 👍 -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 16, 08:28
  - *ding* -- nm - mud May 16, 08:27
What is that funky smell I've noticed around the city the last several days? I assume it's something in bloom. - Masked Baron May 16, 08:16 2
- This is weird because I honestly smelled something yesterday. -- nm - LFG May 16, 09:34
- I smell that too but I'm sure what it is. :-) -- nm - Krusty May 16, 09:08
this was an actual shot in the Super Mario Brothers movie -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 16, 08:09 [youtube]
Visa changing sh!t up: "The biggest change coming for Americans will be the ability for banks to issue one physical payment card that will be - decline May 16, 08:05 2
- Can I set it to automatically route transactions to certain credit card accounts by merchant code to optimize rewards? -- (edited) - znufrii May 16, 08:16 1
  - "Americans will be able to set criteria with their bank — such as having all purchases below $100 or with a certain merchant applied to the debit card - decline May 16, 08:37
RIP Dutchy -- (link) - Reagen May 16, 08:03 2
- :-[ -- nm - mud May 16, 08:17
- oh wow :( Fuck cancer -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 16, 08:14
JWST image shows collision of black holes in the early universe -- (link) - znufrii May 16, 07:50 5
- If you look too closely at the picture, you'll get sucked in. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 16, 08:47
- large jpeg (the region from the article is in the middle) -- (link) - decline May 16, 07:54 [Image] 3
  - I can't see the black holes. (EXACTLY!) -- nm - Mop🧹 May 16, 08:47
  - Incredible. -- nm - znufrii May 16, 08:11
  - amazing -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 16, 07:57
My sister had hip replacement surgery yesterday. Outpatient. In at 8, out by 3. Already doing stairs. I find that amazing. -- nm - pmb May 16, 07:46 7
- It's remarkable how much has changed with joint replacement in just 30 years -- nm - rollo May 16, 08:24 1
  - when one of the partners at my first firm had hip replacement around 2000, he was out of the office for weeks -- nm - hollywood big shot May 16, 09:00
- Oh yes, knees and hips they want you using that new joint right away. - Masked Baron May 16, 08:15
- wow -- nm - decline May 16, 08:07
- that is amazing. -- nm - Andie May 16, 08:02
- she has become more powerful than you can possibly imagine -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 16, 07:47
- it is incredible. Good healing vibes going out to her -- nm - Pippy Shark May 16, 07:46
Dow 40,000 hat -- (pic) - budice May 16, 07:41 [Attachment] 1
- YSMM ;) -- nm - Meg May 16, 07:42
YDC but there are 3 regular ST posters within 6 spots of each other on the other site. 2 are right next to each other. - MDH May 16, 07:41 7
- I'm at 336. Budice is at 327 but that's a $162M gap. -- nm - Volnelk May 16, 07:47
- oh wow - ty97 May 16, 07:42 5
  - Oh, at your age, there is no question it’s old-age harassment. - Will Hunting May 16, 07:44 4
    - I'm younger than you -- nm - ty97 May 16, 07:48 3
      - Unless one of those planes was a time travel one, nah. - Will Hunting May 16, 07:52 2
        
        I'm not eligible! -- nm - ty97 May 16, 07:58 1
        
        yeah Will. he isnt eligible. they tell him that every year when he tries to enroll! -- nm - tRuMaN May 16, 08:15
Disney, Fox and WBD Unveil Name of Sports-Streaming Venture: Venu Sports -- (link) - Remlik May 16, 07:31 1
- "Vee-noo!" -- nm - The Dad from Christmas Story May 16, 07:32
MDH - thanks for that Godzilla tidbit. thats crazy -- nm - Remlik May 16, 07:25 1
- Yeah, it's a weird licensing issue. I'd like to see it, just not sure when it becomes available. -- nm - MDH May 16, 07:37
Too Sweet creates an interesting conundrum for my vague inconsistent eligibility rules for May's Top 20 songs. - Dano May 16, 07:22 2
- It comes down to whether the list is songs from May(ish) or what you've been listening to in May -- nm - rollo May 16, 07:25 1
  - Yeah. My list, my rules. I just tend to have vigorous internal debates about those rules. -- nm - Dano May 16, 08:48
huh. The Supreme Court upholds the CFPB's funding structure in a 7–2 opinion - Justice Thomas, of all people, wrote the opinion (this is a smackdown of -- (edited) - decline May 16, 07:21 1
- cut to two weeks later: "in reversing the Chevron doctrine, we merely hold that no federal court need abide by any of their decisions" -- nm - hollywood big shot May 16, 07:24
Pardoning Nixon only worked because he had the decency to resign, imo. -- (edited) - znufrii May 16, 07:20 2
- That's nonsense, Mitt. If he's pardoned, he'll just keep on criming. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 16, 07:25 1
  - Exactly. -- nm - znufrii May 16, 07:52
For the first time since the 1990s, Quebec’s Transport Ministry and a group of experts have teamed up to relocate a nest of peregrine falcon eggs -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 May 16, 07:16 2
- "all right, time for one last job" -- nm - Al Pacino as The Falconer May 16, 09:08
- Personally? -- nm - Mop🧹 May 16, 07:21
With an extra day to prepare, it seems the cross-exam of Cohen is not going any better. -- (link) - pmb May 16, 07:11 8
- Also find it funny that they think it helps them having Gaetz and Boebert at the trial. -- nm - pmb May 16, 07:13 7
  - lol, he’s already gotten that far down the list? -- nm - znufrii May 16, 07:23
  - oh its these two dipshits turn for mandatory attendance today? -- nm - Jovian May 16, 07:23 4
    - I'd think those two are banging if she wasn't too old for him -- nm - Pippy Shark May 16, 07:28 2
      - of course a guy like him would be culpable of older age harassment. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 16, 07:55
      - Her being a filthy s*#^ is enough to overcome any age difference in his eyes - Jovian May 16, 07:34
    - ohhh even worse, almost a dozen of the 'Freedom Caucus' fascists I see. -- nm - Jovian May 16, 07:28
  - Boebert giving him a hand job in the gallery? -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 16, 07:14
The NFL schedule certainly has some quirks. - Volnelk May 16, 07:10
Dick Durbin has had subpoena power on the Senate Judiciary Comm. for 3.5 years -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 16, 07:00
Someone at work just said "oh, i like your new hair colour." It's, um, my own colour. It hasn't changed other than the odd blue or pink streak for a - Andie May 16, 06:56 1
- my partner gets this... - colin May 16, 07:02
new Jim Jarmusch! with Adam Driver, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Tom Waits, and Charlotte Rampling: ‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ -- (link) - mud May 16, 06:53
McWhorter - Lets Chill Out About Apostrophes - crash davis 😺 May 16, 06:40 2
- His "Bill's in the room" example is kind of odd. Without the apostrophe, is it a sentence with a verb? What's the verb? - mara ❄️ May 16, 08:33
- only slightly related, my favorite gif -- (link) - colin May 16, 07:23
Auspice ˈôspəs NOUN A divine or prophetic token. - crash davis 😺 May 16, 06:36
Wordle 1,062 4/6 - crash davis 😺 May 16, 06:33
Connections Puzzle #340 P,hiccup,BYG - crash davis 😺 May 16, 06:30 2
- GPBY easy - mud May 16, 06:46
- I got it, but worse than you (spoils) - Roger More May 16, 06:34
Tim Robinson—Lions schedule release -- (link) - Trending May 16, 06:18 1
- "then we were gonna DOXX them" -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 16, 07:19
California man was ordered to hide his boat behind a fence, so he got his neighbour to paint a mural of it -- (link*) - Beaker 🍺 May 16, 06:12 4
- Creative one-upmanship at its best! -- nm - JenBro May 16, 08:22
- More notable - the guy from the council had a good laugh about it. -- nm - Roger More May 16, 06:59 1
  - and the guy who did it apologized for his initial phone call ranting about the request. People are allowed to apologize? WTF! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 16, 07:18
- Might As Well! -- nm - Qale May 16, 06:26
WTF—North Carolina: No wearing masks 😷, in public, EVER…no exceptions— -- (link) - Trending May 16, 06:08 10
- *sigh* This is what happens when a representative flips to the other side and there is majority in both the state house and senate. I truly fear what - sycor May 16, 07:11
- Did North Carolina just cancel Halloween? -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 16, 06:42
- Idiocracy -- nm - Jovian May 16, 06:38
- And Republicans were the ones worried about death panels. -- nm - Dano May 16, 06:25
- GOP Sen. Buck Newton brushed off the concerns, saying [he] thinks law enforcement will use “good common sense” when applying the law - colin May 16, 06:17 5
  - So whites will still be able to do it -- nm - rollo May 16, 06:44 1
    - *finger to nose* -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 16, 06:45
  - Yup. -- nm - znufrii May 16, 06:39
  - and sick people, concerned people, etc -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 16, 06:20 1
    - no no, they'll use good judgement in those situations. -- nm - colin May 16, 06:25
Strands spoiler for one of the words today. - Volnelk May 16, 06:05
Welcome to Paradise: The Oral History of Green Day’s ‘Dookie’ -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 May 16, 06:04
I knew at 47 I was getting old(er). But I didn't realize I was "Older Age Harassment" old. - sycor May 16, 05:35 6
- Soon it will be possible to Older Age Harass MDH as well as Younger Age Harass him -- nm - Roger More May 16, 06:22
- I just had my sexual harassment recertification last month at work, so now I know how to do it properly. -- nm - Masked Baron May 16, 05:58
- I can't believe Will Hunting harassed you like that. I wouldn't stand for it. -- nm - ty97 May 16, 05:47 3
  - it was just something people his age do! It was the world he was raised in! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 16, 05:53 2
    - I am like 6 months younger than you, boomer. -- nm - Will Hunting May 16, 06:17 1
      - Beaker speaks from experience! -- nm - LFG May 16, 09:17
IF 58% (71), Back to Black 38% (92), The Strangers Chapter 1 nsy, Babes 97% (32), You Can't Run Forever nsy, In Our Day 100% (16) -- (edited) - Beaker 🍺 May 16, 05:25
TV PSA: NHL, NBA, 911, L&O, Young Sheldon, L&O SVU, Grey's Anatomy, So Help me Todd, L&O OC, Elsbeth, Station 19, Caillou, Outer Range, Bridgerton, - Beaker 🍺 May 16, 05:18 2
- 911 for the girls; Bridgerton, Grey's and Station 19 for the wife. I may watch the Young Sheldon series finale; plus hockey -- nm - Beaker 🍺 May 16, 05:19 1
  - !! Bridgerton woot woot -- nm - Pippy Shark May 16, 06:18
Daily Myth for May 16 - znufrii May 16, 05:14 3
- nice -- nm - Pippy Shark May 16, 06:08
- No myth. - LFG May 16, 05:34 1
  - Romeo in black jeans -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 16, 05:40

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