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US Open: "Well that escalated quickly" -- nm - budice Jun 15, 16:26
The most popular shirts sold at T rallies, Biden Sucks, Kamala Swallows and on the back, Fvck Joe and the Hoe -- (link) - zeitgeist Jun 15, 16:24
Billy Ray Cyrus Split from Firerose Because 'She Isn't the Person He Thought He Married' -- (link) - budice Jun 15, 15:46 9
- Apparently had affairs with Liam Hemsworth and Dominic Purcell…during the half year they were married…and some sort of fraud -- nm* - Trending Jun 15, 16:23
- she's not Miley? just feels like an ivanka obsession -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 15, 15:58
- the hell is a Firerose? -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 15, 15:50 5
  - I initially read the name as "Firehose." -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jun 15, 15:57 4
    - Me too -- nm - zork Jun 15, 16:04
    - So did he. That's who he thought he was marrying. -- nm - pmb Jun 15, 16:02
    - L4 - budice Jun 15, 15:59 1
      - (spoilers) - ReluctantCynic Jun 15, 16:06
- "you're not Halle Berry!" -- nm - Reagen Jun 15, 15:49
If everyone watched Godzilla Minus One in theaters who has been lauding it on BlueSky since it hit Netflix, it would be biggest film of the year thus far. -- nm* - Qale Jun 15, 15:39
“We're not talking enough about how two leads of two of the biggest shows this month are Rue from The Hunger Games and the guy that impaled her” -- nm - Trending Jun 15, 15:26
Rory looks like he should be wearing a bra. -- nm - Meg Jun 15, 15:16 1
- B-Cup at least -- nm - budice Jun 15, 15:44
So is this season of Top Chef the worst ever as far as the overall quality of the cooking? -- nm - Dano Jun 15, 14:15 6
- It hasn't been one of their best, that's for sure. Spoiler - Diva Jun 15, 14:50 1
  - Yup. -- nm - David Jun 15, 15:58
- I've enjoyed it enough -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 15, 14:43
- I missed some seasons before the last one, but it’s been disappointing for that and the changes they’ve made to format. (spoils) - i.b.! Jun 15, 14:38
- billion dollar pitch: Bottom Chef -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 15, 14:21
- Speaking of famous chefs—Gordon Ramsey apparently almost died this week in a bicycling accident… here he is telling the story -- (link) - Trending Jun 15, 14:17
Italy/Albania fans had a weird “moment” yesterday -- (link) - Trending Jun 15, 14:09 1
- Ha! -- nm - zork Jun 15, 14:11
email subject line from my grocery store (owned by sobeys): "We have offers you can't refuse" -- nm - Beryllium Jun 15, 14:06 1
- Corleone's. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 15, 14:07
REM “played” (single song) yesterday —some small video of it -- (link*) - Trending Jun 15, 14:01 4
- John Malkovich is a great singer. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 15, 15:14
- Spotted in the crowd: Clive Davis, and a child who’d really rather be anywhere else. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 15, 15:13
- ahh goes my brain, right on cue. thanks! — nm - i.b.! Jun 15, 14:39
- and not even close to their best one -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 15, 14:15
Damien Priest is okay, right? - David Jun 15, 13:56 2
- Yikes. He got lucky, looks like his shoulder hit the ring apron instead of overt on his head. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 15, 14:09
- Match kept going without any noticeable issues outside of Priest selling the leg, but it looked scary as hell. -- nm* - Tim Jun 15, 14:03
this is like that brief moment in Star Wars toys around the prequels when Hasbro decided everyone in the galaxy had to be totally jacked -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 15, 13:49
katie phang on her father got me good. really special. nm but: -- (link) - i.b.! Jun 15, 13:31 1
- Phang Gang! -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 15, 13:41
The mayor of quebec city responding to a reporter's question about snow removal on bike lanes ... -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 15, 13:26 5
- Why was this even a point since nobody is in any sort of rush to ride their bikes on Q.C. roads ... during the winter. -- nm - zork Jun 15, 14:20 3
  - Common argument against bike lanes. -- nm - . Jun 15, 14:42 1
    - Yes, but this is Quebec City. People set up temporary car ports at the end of the driveway because clearing it is way too much work -- nm - zork Jun 15, 14:56
  - Because people are desperate to find scapegoats, even if they don't exist. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 15, 14:23
- Wow. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 15, 14:06
Biden has an opportunity to pull the greatest troll at the debate. - zeitgeist Jun 15, 13:07 1
- by showing up and speaking in full sentences? -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 15, 13:42
I'd enjoy this golf broadcast more if it wasn't for the Scottish golf course ads :/ -- nm - Meg Jun 15, 12:41
Gorgeous day today. 80 with a dew point of 50. -- nm - Dano Jun 15, 12:32
if Graceland is the #2 most famous house in America, what do you consider the #1 house? poll. -- nm* - Peglegpete Jun 15, 11:45 12
- Home Alone house -- nm - . Jun 15, 14:24
- At one point, Neverland Ranch, but, uh… yeah. -- nm - Qale Jun 15, 13:35
- I was thinking white house... but the other could be Hugh Hefner's playboy mansion.... maralago is a hotel and DQd -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 15, 12:59 1
  - naw, graceland is better -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 15, 12:59
- Mount Vernon, maybe. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Jun 15, 12:57
- Likely not but, Monticello. -- nm - VMan Jun 15, 12:39
- Waffle House -- nm - Beryllium Jun 15, 12:14
- It has to be The White House - ty97 Jun 15, 11:51
- White House (but for private residences, Fallingwater?) -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 15, 11:47 3
  - For private residence it’s Mar a Lago. -- nm - Dano Jun 15, 12:27 2
    - Infamous. -- nm - VMan Jun 15, 12:38
    - Brady Bunch house -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 15, 12:33
Tennis is just a spectrum, right, bro? -- (link) - budice Jun 15, 11:34
guess who’s back, back again -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 15, 11:17 1
- never isn’t impressive/impactful. — nm - i.b.! Jun 15, 13:26
I continue to be glad that Gale Ann Hurd is extremely online and just hops in to tell war stories about all the movies she’s made when they trending -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 15, 11:14 4
- I know I’ve mentioned it, but it was added as a double feature preview with Nightmare on Elm Street. - Dark Callisto 🦊 Jun 15, 13:02 2
  - “your clothes, give them to me” -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 15, 13:44 1
    - "fuck you, asshole" -- nm - mud Jun 15, 14:29
- nice -- nm - mud Jun 15, 11:28
1 billion from big oil, now donny is embracing bitcoin after a pledge of 100m -- (link) - zeitgeist Jun 15, 10:56
The foreclosure on Elvis' Graceland mansion turns out to be a Nigerian scam. -- (link*) - zeitgeist Jun 15, 10:46 3
- That's an incredible story. Thanks for sharing. The fact that these predators are out there is frightening. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 15, 12:23
- And crazier, it was a Grandmother in Branson posing as a Nuherian ID scam group -- nm - JD Jun 15, 11:03
- If it hadn't been the 2nd most famous house in America they might have gotten away with it. Stopped just the day before auction. -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 15, 10:49
As scary as that free fall attraction might be, at least one can't get stuck during the experience. -- (link) - JD Jun 15, 10:46 1
- Here's a video. -- (link) - David Jun 15, 11:08 [youtube]
I think that should've been a red -- nm - JD Jun 15, 10:40
crazy that they keep letting Joe out of the WH basement for all these trips to Europe -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 15, 10:11 3
- And he did it while sitting in Economy the whole time! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 15, 10:14 1
  - on a train! -- nm - Dano Jun 15, 10:37
- They just say it's cocaine. -- nm - Reagen Jun 15, 10:14
hey wanna cry more than just watching Inside Out 2, crybabies -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 15, 09:49
3rd best ever weekly *cumulative* time on the crossword - 111 min 45 seconds -- (pic) - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 15, 08:55 [Attachment] 5
- Very nice puzzling! -- nm - BaRRRon Jun 15, 11:34
- Is there data export or have you been logging everything? -- nm - psilotum Jun 15, 09:02 1
  - the latter. I log my time after I finish the puzzle -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 15, 09:04
- I love how carefully you wrote that! -- nm - Inigo Jun 15, 09:00 1
  - the mortification still has not worn off -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 15, 10:11
Looks at the weather next week. The start of summer isn’t messing around. -- nm - Dano Jun 15, 08:48 1
- Yep, going to get as high as 79 end of the week! -- nm - psilotum Jun 15, 08:50
$62 million for Inside Out 2 on Friday. -- (link) - David Jun 15, 08:40 24
- 1st $100M OW since Barbie -- nm - budice Jun 15, 10:17 3
  - surely the dipshit studio heads will learn their lesson this time -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 15, 10:22 2
    - All sequels, all franchises, all IP, all the time! But not Mad Max or The Fall Guy. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 15, 14:09 1
      - it's funny how once kids are out of school (like xmas) the legs for everything just start growing. Fall Guy in July prolly woulda been fine -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 15, 15:19
- The demos are eye opening for this. 42% Latino/hispanic and a large component from walk up business. -- nm - MDH Jun 15, 10:02 1
  - meanwhile at the streamers… lol -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 15, 10:17
- i guess 100 day windows really do drive people into theaters -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 15, 09:09 15
  - … -- (link) - David Jun 15, 09:58 [youtube]
  - Nobody but the nerdiest of nerd (aka us) knows about the 100 day window. -- nm - Inigo Jun 15, 09:37 4
    - Hey! Don't talk about Mop's kids like that -- nm* - JD Jun 15, 09:55 3
      - It's the highest of compliments that his kids do know about theatrical windows. -- nm - Inigo Jun 15, 09:56 2
        
        He has it on one of those "In this house, we" typeface signs in his house. -- nm - Reagen Jun 15, 10:11
        
        yeah -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 15, 09:58
  - Yeah, my kids weren't going to see it, but then they read in the trades how it was going to be 100 days before it came to D+. That makes sense. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 15, 09:12 8
    - since Exhibition is Dead there's literally no other explanation -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 15, 09:25 7
      - Bartender, he’s had enough. -- nm - David Jun 15, 09:55 1
        
        "I don't even know what they're arguing about anymore." -- nm - mud, falling off barstool Jun 15, 11:31
      - Sony didn't buy Alamo Drafthouse because they believe wide distribution is still a viable option for most movies. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 15, 09:51 3
        
        yeah but they're also the dumb motherfuckers who never went into hock up to their eyeballs trying to launch a streamer so what do they know really? -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 15, 09:55 2
        
        They were ahead of the curve with Crackle -- nm - JD Jun 15, 09:57 1
        
        it is kinda crazy what stuff they used to have on their in the early days. like the whole Larry Sanders Show run for free -- nm* - hollywood big shot Jun 15, 10:24
      - Narrator: it's not dead. -- nm* - Inigo Jun 15, 09:38
- Yup. Gonna be $160 million or more because of Father's Day. Probably around $168 million. - Inigo Jun 15, 08:45
- Woah! -- nm - psilotum Jun 15, 08:41
Yay! Commencement! Oh no! Two camera operators down with injuries. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 15, 08:35 8
- I can be there in an hour. - ReluctantCynic Jun 15, 15:04 1
  - do you have enough film for that pentax with vivitar lens? -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 15, 16:20
- Wth happened? -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 15, 14:03 1
  - Cameras are heavy and camera operators are frail. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 15, 14:08
- This is the 2020 high school class (who didn't have a h.s. graduation). So we're bustin' our backs to make this great (literally). -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 15, 09:09
- Makes note to make sure medical insurance is current before joining Mop's team - JD Jun 15, 09:06
- Literally watching one of my camera operators being wheeled away on a stretcher. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 15, 08:57 1
  - Is this a WWE commencement? -- nm - psilotum Jun 15, 08:59
Reagen where’s here, Toronto? -- nm - Loyola Jun 15, 08:11 8
- He's in Halifax, although I don't see any locations listed for there ... - zork Jun 15, 08:25 6
  - Yeah, "here" as in Canada. -- nm - Reagen Jun 15, 08:33 4
    - We're going there next month! - Last Of My Kind Jun 15, 08:42 3
      - Where specifically? -- nm - Reagen Jun 15, 10:15 2
        
        CANADA!!!!!! - Last Of My Kind Jun 15, 13:08 1
        
        Nice -- nm - zork Jun 15, 14:22
  - Cool. I’ll always have somewhere to go if I’m ever in Canada :) -- nm - Loyola Jun 15, 08:29
- Fionn Macool and the Salmon of Knowledge. I always remember this one. - Loyola Jun 15, 08:16
Great! You scored 25 of 28 points, with 7 of 8 events correct, on this week’s Flashback. - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 15, 07:42 2
- Effin' NYT claims Flashback is not part of Games. -- nm - VMan Jun 15, 08:39 1
  - that's surprising -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 15, 10:54
Biden arrives in LA ahead of star-studded fundraiser in downtown -- (link) - budice Jun 15, 06:55
Heh. The BET Awards commercial uses Not Like Us as its music. It’s background so no lyrics are heard but still amusing. -- nm - Dano Jun 15, 06:40 3
- Explain it to someone who's too white to function.... -- nm - BaRRRon Jun 15, 07:40 2
  - Not Like Us is a diss track where Kendrick Lamar outright calls Drake a pedophile. A mainstream awards show is using it as a "theme song" of sorts. -- nm - Dano Jun 15, 08:12 1
    - Oh my. -- nm - BaRRRon Jun 15, 09:18
US Open: Par-4 Third hole has been shortened by 71 yards for today's round. Now 316. -- (link) - budice Jun 15, 06:19 2
- It’s a hard watch this year. Pinehurst looks like a disused landfill facility. -- nm - Loyola Jun 15, 08:20
- Rory's gonna drive it with a 2-iron. -- nm - BaRRRon Jun 15, 06:58
I tried to visit the local DMV yesterday. They were turning people away cause the building was over capacity. -- nm - budice Jun 15, 06:10 5
- Nonsense! You could fit 50, 60 more people in there easily! -- nm - Clowns Jun 15, 07:43
- I had a great experience at ours recently. In and out in less than 5 minutes. -- nm - pmb Jun 15, 07:18
- I think ours around here have stuck with the Covid system of going in and getting a number then waiting in your car until you are up. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Jun 15, 06:49
- For most in-person transactions, we have to make appointments. -- nm - Landbeck Jun 15, 06:42 1
  - They were turning away appointments too -- nm - budice Jun 15, 06:51

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