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Budice posted about the Texas A&M ⚾️ HC taking the Texas job…what wasn’t in that announcement was the HC yelling at a reporter for asking about it -- (edited) - Trending Jun 26, 02:41
IATSE and the bosses have reached a tentative deal (pending ratification) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 26, 00:42
New Jersey man flies to Florida to attack fellow gamer. He uses a hammer. And the game he’s so upset about, was set to be discontinued Thursday. - Qale Jun 26, 00:33 2
- I wonder what all the "2X" written in sharpie on his shirt is about. are those prison clothes and they're XXL? -- nm - mafic Jun 26, 01:22 1
  - That is my guess, but does make for a good joke that they are his 2x exp gamer clothes. -- nm - Qale Jun 26, 01:47
This smiling robot face isn't as bad as they make it out to be. -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 26, 00:31
Hurray! We did it! Houston traffic now exceeds pre-pandemic levels! -- nm - Qale Jun 26, 00:06 2
- Well that's just the people driving around because the car air conditioner works better than the window fan -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 26, 00:18 1
  - Cold A/C is always the first thing you see listed on used cars, for real. -- nm - Qale Jun 26, 00:33
Murdle for 6/26/2024 1️⃣4️⃣:4️⃣5️⃣ - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 25, 23:36
Strands #115, no wrong words but yellow 5th - crash davis 😺 Jun 25, 23:26
My doctor told me my blood pressure was looking great and to thank my high potassium diet. So I replied - JD Jun 25, 22:50 1
- It’s a good thing they didn’t suggest Plutonium. - Qale Jun 25, 23:08
"Brooklyn has now essentially acquired nine first-round picks, along with Cameron Johnson, from the 2023 Durant trade." - David Jun 25, 22:12
Hmm… PBS is running a mini-series on Disco “Soundtrack of a Revolution”. 3 parts. Looks like it could be an American Experience series. - Mop🧹 Jun 25, 21:59 1
- 😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 25, 23:10
I just watched the 2nd worst performance in Jeopardy history. Last night’s episode was something. - Mop🧹 Jun 25, 21:57
Huh. My blood pressure is 119/76. I assume it’s an outlier but should I be concerned about *LOW* blood pressure? -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 25, 21:44 5
- LBP is anything under 90/60. My BP was 110/71 a couple of hours ago, but I'm on Losartan now. -- (edited) - David Jun 25, 21:49 3
  - That’s what I’m taking! 25mg. Took me 3 months to get here! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 25, 21:53 2
    - Mine's varying wildly right now. It was in the range of 138/82 multiple times Sunday. - David Jun 25, 21:57 1
      - Hearts, boy. I don’t know. -- nm - Qale Jun 25, 22:29
- No. That’s almost right on the money -- nm - Pippy 🇨🇦 Jun 25, 21:49
Letter to FDR signed by Einstein urging the US to develop the A bomb before Germans do up for auction, est 4-6 million -- (link) - zeitgeist Jun 25, 20:44 5
- The economics of liquidating the Allen estate - psilotum Jun 25, 21:56
- So... if the letter was sent to FDR, how is it that Paul Allen ended up with it? -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 25, 21:40 3
  - heard this on a podcast a while ago. this is the version that didn't get sent to FDR. Szilard wrote two letters, and sent them to Einstein. - mafic Jun 25, 21:57 1
    - Here's the 2002 Christie's listing. Szilard -> Szilard's wife -> some other relative -> anonymous owner -> Malcolm Forbes -> Paul Allen -- (link) - mafic Jun 25, 23:21
  - He was a prodigious mail thief, that's why microsoft bought hotmail -- nm - Beryllium Jun 25, 21:55
Dano, I was in Moscow, ID over the weekend for the ID State Democratic Convention. This dude is everywhere. -- (pic) - crash davis 😺 Jun 25, 20:23 [Attachment] 8
- Moscow, ID! Home of the University of Idaho! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 25, 21:45 1
  - If I remember right, it showed up in Superman II. -- nm - Landbeck Jun 26, 02:13
- Yung Gravy is a perfect name for a porn actor. -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 25, 20:40
- Shania Twain is teaming up with him - Pippy 🇨🇦 Jun 25, 20:27 2
  - Ha!! -- nm - Krusty Jun 25, 21:17
  - lol to the IM -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 25, 20:29
- I have heard of neither Yung Clint nor Gravy Black. also gotta be careful with that font and kerning on clint. -- nm - mafic Jun 25, 20:25 1
  - Gravy Black is very hip. Ask one of your kids. - crash davis 😺 Jun 25, 20:27
I work in a shared office space. today there are like 20 south and east Asian teen girls in the kitchen. what's happening? - mafic Jun 25, 20:02 3
- K-Pop Girl Group -- nm - Dano Jun 25, 20:06 1
  - "And then suddenly they were all preparing a full course dinner, constantly moving in harmony and not a single one had to ever say "behind"..." -- nm - Kitchen Pop Jun 25, 20:24
- Facebook's algorithm, tell me about it' -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 25, 20:06
I gave Rex a piece of deer antler to chew on over an hour and a half ago. He's still going at it. - znufrii Jun 25, 19:50 6
- How’s he do with pig’s ears? -- nm - VMan Jun 25, 20:00 4
  - those things gave my samoyed the worst food allergy related ear bleeds, just explosions of 'goo' -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 25, 20:33 2
    - They were okay for mine for awhile but then the lab swallowed it without actually really breaking it down. -- (edited) - Pippy 🇨🇦 Jun 25, 21:50
    - Neighbours swore by them for their dog to keep it busy. -- nm - VMan Jun 25, 21:17
  - Haven’t tried those - znufrii Jun 25, 20:02
- get your own -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 25, 19:52
update to last night's hole story: hole guy was trying to find the main sewer line to add a connection to it. that's disappointingly mundane. -- nm - mafic Jun 25, 19:44 3
- Boring. Also, couldn't he just call them and they'd come out and mark where the line is? - Krusty Jun 25, 19:49 2
  - he could have. there's also a website that provides plans. it's even free! apparently they're most commonly around the spot he was digging. -- nm - mafic Jun 25, 19:55 1
    - Permit, schermit. I digs where they at. -- nm - VMan Jun 25, 20:02
NBA: Nets send Bridges to the Knicks for Bogdanovic, 5 1sts and a 2nd. -- nm - Strongbad Jun 25, 19:13 3
- Full rebuild mode activated... again. The Nets have a ton of picks after this season. -- nm - Krusty Jun 25, 19:32
- Was just coming to post. That's a LOT. -- nm - David Jun 25, 19:20 1
  - Also, I remember this team when it was called Villanova. -- nm - David Jun 25, 19:23
Spencer Milligan (Dad on Land of the Lost) has passed -- (link) - Remlik Jun 25, 19:03
Michelin-Star Chef Rates 11 Fine Dining Scenes In Movies & TV (w/ Paul Liebrandt) | How Real Is It? -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Jun 25, 18:55 [youtube] 3
- Love it. -- nm - znufrii Jun 25, 19:51
- I love the shout out to one of my favorite movies, Ratatouille -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 25, 19:36
- HA! Just coming to post this! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 25, 19:25
Tonight's cocktail: Gindrift. Grapefruit Spindrift + gin. Very tasty. -- nm - znufrii Jun 25, 18:39 5
- I had not heard of Grapefruit Spindrift yet the Google machine tells me that the local Albertson's has it. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 25, 19:17 4
  - have you had it before now? asking as I tried it a couple of times when spindrift first came out, and it tasted like aged/going bad grapefruit to me. - i.b.! Jun 25, 20:02 2
    - I haven't and that is a shame as grapefruit is one of my top sparkling water fave flavors -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 25, 20:30 1
      - that was a posting fail - meant to ask znu., who’s actually had it. — nm - i.b.! Jun 25, 21:23
  - There are many Spindrift flavors. Grapefruit is generally my seltzer flavor of choice. I rarely splurge on anything but store brand, but that was out of stock. -- (edited) - znufrii Jun 25, 19:42
AIPAC buys NY16 a new Dem candidate -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 25, 18:27 6
- The anti-Boebert vote was split too many ways and she won the primary in her new district. -- nm - Tim Jun 25, 20:32 1
  - Gross -- nm - Pippy 🇨🇦 Jun 25, 20:54
- Bowman couldn't compete with the money being spent for Latimer. There were ads constantly and not one that I heard was for Bowman. - Krusty Jun 25, 18:41 3
  - tbf Bowman is awful in many ways (but had typical incumbent favorability 54% before AIPAC decided to take him out) -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 25, 18:50 2
    - Didn’t he pull a fire alarm? -- nm - Pippy 🇨🇦 Jun 25, 19:51 1
      - among other bad things -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 26, 00:39
how do you struggle working with the host of Wheel (Ryan has always been rumored to be a jerk but… girl ya flipping letters) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 25, 18:22 3
- I saw on a sidebar at some point that she had expressed interest in taking over hosting. maybe that plus seeing him in action isn’t sitting well. — nm - i.b.! Jun 25, 19:03
- A Prophet worked for Seacrest. He left the industry and never went back. - David Jun 25, 18:37
- Pat had a way of joking that wasn't mean and showed that he liked her and his colleagues. Ryan doesn't have that skill. -- nm - . Jun 25, 18:31
sitwap: next season, it’s top chef: canada. nm but: -- (link) - i.b.! Jun 25, 17:23 2
- and for our tennessee folks or anyone interested in the smoky mountains, someone I’ve followed forever is friends with one of - i.b.! Jun 25, 17:52 1
  - my link title up there was for when I was going to link the first ep’s post, not the overall one, oops. nm but: -- (link) - i.b.! Jun 25, 17:57
I have questions -- (link) - oblique Jun 25, 16:53 4
- Finally, a sport I can suck at but without dying -- nm - Beryllium Jun 25, 18:31
- "Red Corner chose a Soft Pillow while the Blue Corner went with Medium-Firm with Copper infusion" -- nm* - Ring Announcer Jun 25, 16:53 2
  - If you've got the strength to swing it, buckwheat is the way to go. -- nm - BaRRRon Jun 25, 16:58 1
    - Japanese ceramic pillow. small but deadly. -- nm - mafic Jun 25, 18:29
JetSki Accident in N.Illinois: Father of the Lake Forest victim gave a long eulogy in a SoCal forum today. Heartbreaking. -- (link) - budice Jun 25, 16:39 2
- what a tragic story. I feel especially for the people on the boat who did everything they could. — nm - i.b.! Jun 25, 17:22
- Thought this happened in Lake Michigan -- nm - . Jun 25, 17:10
And the Yankees NOBLETIGER in the top of the 1st. -- nm - Tim Jun 25, 16:29
JJ Redick—allegedly was known to be a little loose with the N-word, when he was at Duke -- (link) - Trending Jun 25, 16:23 1
- Not surprising. -- nm - Strongbad Jun 25, 19:14
How it's going 🙄 -- (link) - JD Jun 25, 16:20
Honest Trailers | Bridgerton -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Jun 25, 16:14 [youtube]
Tennessee won at 11pm last night, they had the parade at 5:30 today. Like, wow. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 25, 16:02 10
- point made. -- (link) - budice Jun 25, 16:59
- A&M now looking to poach Tony Vitello -- (link) - budice Jun 25, 16:24 4
  - It's hysterical that A&M's guy already ditched them for Texas. -- nm - David Jun 25, 16:26 3
    - That dude is a dick. - Will Hunting Jun 25, 16:41
    - The A&M guy reportedly chewed out reporters last night for asking about the Texas job -- nm - budice Jun 25, 16:30 1
      - That's unfair to talk about something like that -- (link) - JD Jun 25, 16:34
- Florida not having their Cup parade until Sunday -- nm - budice Jun 25, 16:05
- They're college kids 8-) -- nm - JD Jun 25, 16:04 2
  - It looks like it was a 20 minute parade so they closed things for like an hour starting at 6? - JD Jun 25, 16:11
  - They paraded on Main Street. Like, that’s a challenge for businesses -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 25, 16:05
New Attenborough portrait by Jonathan Yeo unveiled -- (link) - LMS Jun 25, 15:51 6
- Reminds me more than a bit of Ivan Albright's work. -- nm - . Jun 25, 17:07
- Not nude. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 25, 15:55 3
  - Damn -- nm - Trending Jun 25, 16:25
  - We're all nude under our clothes. -- nm - BaRRRon Jun 25, 15:57 1
    - Speak for yourself. -- nm - Tobias Fünke si Jun 25, 16:01
- very nice -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 25, 15:52
The last lap of the 5000M at the US Olympic Trials last night was amazing. -- (link) - Dano Jun 25, 15:50 [youtube] 9
- I couldn't run 62.2 for a first lap, much less for the last lap of a 5K. - JD Jun 25, 16:00 8
  - I think this about pro marathon pace every time I see it. 25% faster than my fastest ever kilometre, 42 times in a row. -- nm - mafic Jun 25, 18:23 1
    - I saw something like this at the expo for the California International Marathon - JD Jun 25, 18:32 [youtube]
  - According to Strava my best 400m split in a 5K was 106 seconds. -- nm - Dano Jun 25, 17:39 3
    - yeah. my best 400m split is 88 seconds in a 10k. I think I could run a 60-second 400m, but like maybe once, not 12.5 times in a row. -- nm - mafic Jun 25, 18:21 2
      - My best is… slower than that. -- (edited) - znufrii Jun 25, 18:45 1
        
        there should be a best efforts bar in the stats section of your profile. -- nm - mafic Jun 25, 19:19
  - Somehow my mind couldn't convert 5000 into 5k. - psilotum Jun 25, 16:07 1
    - Less than an eighth of a marathon. 3.1 miles. 12.5 laps on a 400 meter track -- nm - JD Jun 25, 16:13
they gonna have to digitally fix that hair in post -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 25, 15:49 1
- Broccoli 🥦 cut for the win -- nm - Trending Jun 25, 16:24
are the refs from Peru? cause this is fucking brutal -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jun 25, 15:46 2
- uhhhhh, don't blame me... -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jun 25, 15:49 1
  - That attempted shin breaking was more so. -- nm - JD Jun 25, 16:26
Pavel Datsyuk, Jeremy Roenick, Shea Weber, Natalie Darwitz, Krissy Wendell-Pohl, Colin Campbell and David Poile to the Hockey HOF -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Jun 25, 15:40
Huh. Sony Rewards just gave me a free digital movie code, presumably because they're shutting down. - Mop🧹 Jun 25, 15:35 16
- Keep an eye out of the email. You'll easily mistake it for junk. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 25, 15:47 15
  - Pick my movie! -- (pic) - Mop🧹 Jun 25, 15:49 [Attachment] 14
    - Hook. Bridge on the River Kawaii. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 25, 17:38 1
      - Malia moved to the mainland to pursue a career in engineering, but a bridge project on Hawaii's Garden Island brings her back home where... - Mop🧹 Jun 25, 21:33
    - Money Train, obvs -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 25, 17:26
    - Cat Ballou is really fun. -- nm - pmb Jun 25, 17:19
    - River Kwai. Jesus H. nm - Dignan Jun 25, 16:52
    - Pirates! is the one I watch whenever it's on. -- nm - LMS Jun 25, 16:44
    - I went with School Daze for Da Butt. -- nm - David Jun 25, 16:27
    - Oliver -- nm - Trending Jun 25, 16:26
    - I had most of them. I picked the Rum Diary. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jun 25, 16:21
    - I want to see Remains of the Day, now that I've read the book. -- nm - psilotum Jun 25, 16:08 1
      - it’s possibly my fave Merchant/Ivory -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 25, 17:32
    - I know it gets a bad rap, but I like Oliver! -- nm - Dano Jun 25, 16:04
    - School Daze -- nm - JD Jun 25, 16:01
    - shoot the hostage? or Hook -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Jun 25, 15:59
Rivian gets a $5b lifeline from VW, form joint EV development venture -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 25, 15:23 2
- Guess I should have bought their stock instead of Polestar -- nm - oblique Jun 25, 16:57 1
  - Requisite "I think polestar is the sexiest EV" post -- nm - amandaphone Jun 25, 19:11
CWS: A&M HC accepts same position at Texas for more money, power -- (link) - budice Jun 25, 15:20

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