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JT Mugshot: Picture of health -- (pic) - budice Jun 18, 13:44 [Attachment] 3
- Dance, dance, dance. -- nm - LFG Jun 18, 13:50
- probably toupee -- nm - Max Jun 18, 13:47 1
  - copious amounts of lube made the cuffs go on easy -- nm - budice Jun 18, 13:54
"Perhaps we could return *his* sheep, he came all this way" -- nm - Trending Jun 18, 13:13 2
- His 'Bro' crew cracked me up - Jovian Jun 18, 13:19 1
  - Agreed—pretty terrific -- nm - Trending Jun 18, 13:31
Mid-week holiday days off are so weird -- nm* - decline Jun 18, 13:06 1
- yes but I'm not gonna argue. -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 18, 13:47
TheBoys: Jack Quaid and Claudia Doumit are a couple -- (link) - budice Jun 18, 12:29 7
- I did not see that coming. Maybe Starlight -- nm - Pippy Jun 18, 13:53 2
  - Maeve would have been better. - LFG Jun 18, 13:54 1
    - heh. She's certainly the prettiest -- nm - Pippy Jun 18, 13:55
- Yeah, get it, Boims! -- nm - Mariner si Jun 18, 13:15
- What day do Boys episodes drop again? Weds or Thurs? -- nm - Jovian Jun 18, 12:58
- Which one is the star whacker? -- nm* - zeitgeist Jun 18, 12:32
- "Shoot me in the head harder." -- nm - Max Jun 18, 12:31
Mysterious metal monolith that's been popping up various places since the pandemic now in Vegas Gass peak -- (link) - zeitgeist Jun 18, 12:29 3
- Someone left their garbage in the desert and the police just left it there too? -- nm - Max Jun 18, 12:43 1
  - Remember when Cristo was doing weird things like gift wrapping buildings, he hung a curtain across Sonoma Co. Sounded dumb but was really cool RL -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 18, 13:08
- The original installations were claimed, but now say it’s out of their hands. So even monoliths aren’t a monolith? -- nm - Qale Jun 18, 12:39
LAUSD voted 5-2 to move forward on a resolution Tuesday to ban cell phones during the school day. -- nm - budice Jun 18, 12:15 2
- Good. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Jun 18, 13:14
- (Los Angeles Unified School District) -- nm - LFG Jun 18, 12:30
19-y.o. USC student arrested for stabbing a homeless man to death, allegedly caught him trying to break into his car near campus -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Jun 18, 12:06
MOP!! "Apple Reportedly Suspends Work on Vision Pro 2" -- (link) - decline Jun 18, 12:05 3
- From the Duh Files: "Apple has suspended work on the second-generation Vision Pro headset to singularly focus on a cheaper model" -- nm - David Jun 18, 12:09 2
  - the concept is solid. the tech to get it to something usable feels generations away -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 18, 12:12
  - Huh, this tells a story. -- (link) - David Jun 18, 12:11
JT had traces of Molly, Poppers, Truvada, and Coke in his bloodstream following his DWI arrest. -- nm - budice Jun 18, 11:55 26
- I feel like I should add this here, in addition to the next board. the source is a fake account version of a real one that does this regularly. -- (pic) - i.b.! Jun 18, 18:11 [Attachment]
- I bet he gets that tossed out as fake news. -- nm - Pippy Jun 18, 13:55
- Who is going to jail for leaking this? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 18, 13:14 3
  - JT will go MAGA in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . . . -- nm - pmb Jun 18, 13:18 2
    - nah, considering it was almost certainly a maga official that leaked that info -- nm - Jovian Jun 18, 13:28 1
      - He's already had some "cancel" issues. This is the kind of thing that pushes people over. -- nm - pmb Jun 18, 13:35
- One of those things is not like the others. -- nm - BaRRRon Jun 18, 12:19
- Molly Poppers is my 2nd favorite british nanny -- nm - rollo Jun 18, 12:15 9
  - L4!! -- nm - Pippy Jun 18, 13:54
  - That's not a spoonful of sugar she's offering. -- nm - Reagen Jun 18, 13:29
  - LOL -- nm - Jovian Jun 18, 12:53
  - 🤣 -- nm* - Trending Jun 18, 12:52
  - Same. nm - Jude Law Jun 18, 12:49
  - OMG!!! L4! -- nm - Last Of My Kind Jun 18, 12:45
  - Poor Shari Bobbins -- nm - David Jun 18, 12:23 1
    - Obviously, first! -- nm - LFG Jun 18, 13:25
  - heh -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 18, 12:16
- Now we know where the electric wavy feeling he has in his bones really comes from. -- nm - LFG Jun 18, 11:58
- Truvada? Isn’t that an artificial sweetener -- nm - Trending Jun 18, 11:56 7
  - Truvada is a prescription medication used to treat and prevent HIV infection. It's also used to treat hepatitis B virus infection -- nm - rollo Jun 18, 12:00 3
    - ... and horrible commercials. -- nm - LFG Jun 18, 12:33
    - Afaik, you're not supposed to drink alcohol during this treatment -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 18, 12:31 1
      - This is 100% incorrect. -- nm - MDH Jun 18, 13:53
  - So Diet Coke -- nm - JD Jun 18, 11:56 2
    - 🤣—so, between Coke (cocaine) and Diet Coke (soda) which is more embarrassing to show up in a “toxscreen” -- nm - Trending Jun 18, 11:58
    - Diet Coke Bottom -- nm - budice Jun 18, 11:58
The Jesus & Mary Chain and The Psychedelic Furs co-headline fall theater tour - MDH Jun 18, 11:42 1
- ugh, the Toronto location is in a terrible place - impossible to get to. -- nm - Andie Jun 18, 14:03
what dirt does Ralph Lauren have on the USOC that he keeps getting paid to make their super mid Olympic fit -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 18, 11:40 7
- I love the jackets and there are a lot of other items on their website. They make beautiful pieces for the Olympics. - Krusty Jun 18, 11:57 4
  - other countries seem to change it up completely every four years and our athletes always look out of a Vogue ad from 1992 -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 18, 12:00 3
    - They're ranked second in that article and the pieces they show are very nice. RL has a classic American preppy look. - Krusty Jun 18, 12:02 2
      - Because Front Office Sports knows fashion! -- nm - LFG Jun 18, 12:31 1
        
        He's the one that shared it. I just pointed out that they ranked them #2. -- nm - Krusty Jun 18, 13:15
- Those white jackets (bottom photo) look like NASCAR uniforms -- nm - Trending Jun 18, 11:44 1
  - They're moto jackets like motorcycle riders wear. They're the closing ceremonies jacket. The other is for the opening -- (edited) - Krusty Jun 18, 11:59
Ken Ober Memorial Poll: did your family call the remote control a "clicker" or the "flicker" when you were looking for it in the TV room? (the flicker) -- nm* - hollywood big shot Jun 18, 11:24 32
- Remote -- nm - kelly Jun 18, 14:08
- Remote. Our early cable(?) top box had push buttons for channels but we didn't call that a clicker either. -- (link*) - Max Jun 18, 12:28 [youtube]
- Zapper -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 18, 12:21
- Clicker. Never heard anyone say flicker. -- nm - Krusty Jun 18, 12:03
- I still say clicker. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Jun 18, 11:50
- on our first VCR, the channel were buttons on the VCR itself, so I used to use a pool cut between my toes to change the channels -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 18, 11:32 1
  - the sticker -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 18, 11:49
- Shiiiiit - we didn't have a remote until I was like 13. And then - it was a remote -- nm - Turd Ferguson Jun 18, 11:31 2
  - our first 'remote' was wired (with a long wire) that had big buttons on top your would push -- (link) - decline Jun 18, 11:33 1
    - I recognize that! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 18, 11:42
- "the remote". "the clicker" sounds old-timey to me. never heard of "the flicker" -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 18, 11:30 10
  - I think "clicker" got the name because the first remote (at least the first we had) on a zenith tv used a sort of clicking sound to cause the - pmb Jun 18, 11:47 9
    - It had tuning fork like metal rods a hammer hit when you clicked -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 18, 12:22
    - Zenith "Space-Command" TV-Tuner - JD Jun 18, 11:51 3
      - Neighbors had one, I thought it was the coolest thing on earth -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 18, 12:23
      - Ah, not the one we had, then. Same principal, though. -- nm - LFG Jun 18, 12:03
      - That was the one. -- nm - pmb Jun 18, 11:55
    - Yes. And we called it the "remote" after a short time of calling it the "tv remote". Tall, white sort of almond shaped buttons. -- nm - LFG Jun 18, 11:50
    - amazing how lazy we have gotten. Sometimes I'll tell Alexa to launch a different app, when the Roku remote is sitting *right there*! - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 18, 11:49 2
      - Louis CK used to do a bit about how spoiled we all are. That we get so annoyed when our phone takes 10 seconds to give a result. - pmb Jun 18, 11:54
      - MTV could never make Remote Control today -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 18, 11:54
- remote -- nm - mud Jun 18, 11:29
- Clicker—for sure. My parents also called the refrigerator the “ice box”…which I still do -- nm - Trending Jun 18, 11:29
- Remot mainly, but clicker was used. -- nm - MDH Jun 18, 11:28
- clicker -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Jun 18, 11:28
- The remote. The remote control. Some family members said clicker. - Beryllium Jun 18, 11:27
- clicker. -- nm - decline Jun 18, 11:26 3
  - this. "pass me the clicker" -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 18, 11:27 2
    - but they stopped actually "clicking" around 1981. the function was to flick through the channels. - hollywood big shot Jun 18, 11:28 1
      - sure -- nm - rollo Jun 18, 11:42
- "the remote" -- nm - LFG Jun 18, 11:24
- flipper -- nm* - colin Jun 18, 11:24
Thai senate overwhelmingly approves same sex marriage, likely to become law, first south east asian country to do so -- (link) - zeitgeist Jun 18, 11:11 1
- that is truly wonderful news! -- nm - colin Jun 18, 11:21
Trump Media stock continues it's nosedive. it's down $4+ to just over $30 a share -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 18, 11:04 1
- Clearly, Biden is on drugs. -- nm - LFG Jun 18, 11:04
chili dog. -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 18, 10:54 4
- hot dog -- nm - budice Jun 18, 10:54 3
  - the movie -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 18, 10:54 2
    - costco -- nm - budice Jun 18, 10:55 1
      - cost+ -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 18, 10:56
With Tyson out Jake Paul to fight Mike Perry (undefeated bare knuckle champion) on July 20 -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Jun 18, 10:51
Disney Dream Key Settlement money deposited. -- (pic) - budice Jun 18, 10:38 [Attachment] 4
- To Trader Sam's! -- nm - David Jun 18, 11:01 1
  - That's an excellent idea -- nm - JD Jun 18, 11:31
- Now go buy some new Disney merch! -- nm - decline Jun 18, 10:46
- Oh. That's actually a decent amount for a class action settlement. -- nm - Dano Jun 18, 10:45
This Microsoft Office shortcut mat seems right up some of our alley’s. -- (link*) - Volnelk 🍊 Jun 18, 10:35 7
- Emacs is feeling slighted. -- nm - BaRRRon Jun 18, 11:12
- I'm still here, bitches -- nm - Clippy Jun 18, 10:51 1
  - It looks like I'm about to replace you with a desk mat. Could you help with the purchase? -- nm - Max Jun 18, 11:09
- There's $25 of my annual hobby expenditure, right there! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 18, 10:41
- This is like the Word Perfect keymaps we all had. -- nm - Reagen Jun 18, 10:40 1
  - yup -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 18, 10:53
- i like it. -- nm - Andie Jun 18, 10:38
it’s stiff competition in the Fifth Circuit but Amarillo Matt can make a strong case for being the worst of the worst (hope he’s never on SCOTUS!) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 18, 10:35
Huey Lewis musical "The Heart of Rock and Roll" to close on Broadway June 23. -- nm - MDH Jun 18, 10:34 5
- I guess New York *isn't* everything they say -- nm* - rollo Jun 18, 10:40
- so . . . not still beating -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 18, 10:39
- There's always Cleveland. De-troit! -- nm - Reagen Jun 18, 10:37
- Didn't it just open ? -- nm - decline Jun 18, 10:36 1
  - Previews started end of March, opened in April. It was at 55% capacity last reporting week. -- nm - MDH Jun 18, 10:39
NVDA now has the largest market cap of any company. -- nm - Reagen Jun 18, 10:33 15
- suckers continue to be born apace -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 18, 11:12 1
  - The generative and LLM stuff is garbage and probably always will be. I do see programmers saying there is value in what they do with it. - Reagen Jun 18, 11:24
- I know I called this last month, but I'm still stunned. -- nm - David Jun 18, 11:02 2
  - I'm annoyed at what they've wrought on the world & am rooting for them to collapse into scandal and government excise -- nm - Beryllium Jun 18, 11:11 1
    - The science? The field of inquiry? has benefits. It's the flashy and supposedly monetizeable stuff that's an issue -- (edited) - JD Jun 18, 11:44
- 21st century gold rush - decline Jun 18, 11:01 4
  - I’m straight up scared to sell my shares—got out once—should be smart and do it soon…but it just keeps climbing - Trending Jun 18, 11:07 3
    - quiverquant is fantastic for politician's moves. - colin Jun 18, 11:20 1
      - Those are pretty generic trades, FWIW. -- nm - Reagen Jun 18, 13:56
    - I sold at a paltry low - Pippy Jun 18, 11:11
- amazing -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 18, 10:52
- I keep seeing this, what is this company? -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 18, 10:42 3
  - Remember GeForce? PepperidgeFarm-AmeriTrade Remembers. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 18, 10:47
  - Computer chip maker, lead company on AI. -- nm - Reagen Jun 18, 10:44 1
    - we really need more faster chips. Skynet won't build itse- oh maybe it will, you know .. erp -- nm - mud Jun 18, 10:48
ThingsILearnedToday: Don Johnson has -six- kids. Philip Rivers 10, Nick Cannon 12. -- (link) - budice Jun 18, 10:32 6
- Musings - do we think Brad P sees his kids often? -- nm - Andie Jun 18, 10:53 5
  - Probably not. I can't get over Tom Cruise just seems to have opted out on Suri - Pippy Jun 18, 13:56
  - He doesn't know -- nm - Beryllium Jun 18, 11:08 3
    - being a kid of a major star is mostly talked about as being shitty…as far as actual “parenting”/parent-to-kid relationship—but access and life quality - Trending Jun 18, 11:15 2
      - No, I was making an insensitive face blindness joke -- nm - Beryllium Jun 18, 11:23 1
        
        Damn! I thought so, I had something written out to reflect that— -- nm - Trending Jun 18, 11:27
The Bikeriders 83% (53), Kinds of Kindness 77% (66), Thelma 98% (62), The Exorcism 50% (14), The Devil's Bath 100% (22), Fancy Dance 97% (36), - Beaker 🍺 Jun 18, 10:26
“Kyrie Irving finally fulfills promise of bringing championship to Boston” -- nm - Trending Jun 18, 10:26 3
- Live Free Or Die…hard Celtics Fan -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 18, 10:31
- ahahahaha -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 18, 10:29
- 👏 -- nm - JD Jun 18, 10:29
if you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 18, 10:23
Pack it up. Pack it in. -- nm - BaRRRon Jun 18, 10:20 2
- Hop In. Yee-Haw *vroom vroom* -- nm - JT Jun 18, 10:23 1
  - drop the taco, get in the car -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 18, 10:32

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