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wonder where they came up with this premise -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 12, 13:06 2
- It's from a book by the big guy in the middle of that picture, Richard Osman. I have a few of his books and they're rather enjoyable. -- nm - Krusty Jul 12, 13:19
- could be Murder She Wrote -- nm - Max Jul 12, 13:10
The Crow remake looks awful -- nm - budice Jul 12, 12:59
lol Rudy was such a non-compliant debtor that his BK case has been dismissed (not discharged) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 12, 12:58
Has this podcast idea been done? Great Boners of History. -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 12, 12:43 [mastodon]
Bidenomics is so bad the stock market just broke its own record again -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 12, 11:59 2
- "Sorry honey, I tripped and fell into a hotter, younger economy." -- nm - Max Jul 12, 12:13
- Why the stock market peaking in July is bad for Biden in November... -- nm - NYT Pitchbot Jul 12, 12:05
Posted w/o comment: "Films that get released on PVOD at the 17-day mark, like the recent flop “The Fall Guy,” are not seeing a major drop in theaters" -- nm - David Jul 12, 11:45 5
- Because of the strike there is nothing to replace them with. -- nm - MDH Jul 12, 12:30
- and yet they didn’t put Inside Out 2 on Disney Premiere day and date. what a boner -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 12, 11:50
- Full article here. -- (link) - David Jul 12, 11:47
- Semi-Tangent: I have yet to watch Beverly Hills Cop *4*. But if it had been released in theaters I would have, already. -- nm* - LFG Jul 12, 11:47 1
  - Beverly Hills Cop *4*. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 12, 11:51
wait wat? Presumed Innocent renewed for a second season at Apple -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 12, 11:40 12
- Presumed Innocenter -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 12, 11:51 4
  - Presumed Nolo. -- nm - BaRRRon Jul 12, 11:59
  - Alternative: Eh, Maybe He's Guilty -- nm - David Jul 12, 11:55 2
    - 3rd Season: Honestly This Keeps Happening To You A Lot -- nm - Reagen Jul 12, 12:18 1
      - Somebody tell dp3 we demand producer credits. -- nm - David Jul 12, 12:23
- wait. what?? -- nm - ☀️ mandy chem ☀️ Jul 12, 11:48
- There's a sequel to the book though, and (you probably know this) a series of books with the same setting. -- nm - Roger More Jul 12, 11:48 5
  - I may have known that when I worked at Waldens 30 years ago but nope -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 12, 11:51 1
    - I was thinking more that the guy who has a legal career to fund his screenwriting career would be on top of this. -- nm - Roger More Jul 12, 11:57
  - wait. what?? -- nm - ☀️ mandy chem ☀️ Jul 12, 11:49 2
    - It was called Innocent, and there was a TV movie of it made with Bill Pullman as Rusty Sabich -- (link) - Roger More Jul 12, 11:52
    - wack -- (link) - ☀️ mandy chem ☀️ Jul 12, 11:51
PSA: Prunes are delicious but you must carefully monitor your intake. -- nm - BaRRRon Jul 12, 11:37 5
- or what -- nm - mud Jul 12, 11:57 2
  - Or there won't be enough left for me. -- nm - BaRRRon Jul 12, 11:58 1
    - :-P -- nm - mud Jul 12, 12:14
- Thank you for your gift of another tile in the colourful mosaic that is your digestive history. -- nm - Roger More Jul 12, 11:45 1
  - We can cruise down the alimentary canal. -- nm - BaRRRon Jul 12, 11:57
so it sounds like all the reviewers are loving the new Katy Perry -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 12, 11:30 6
- That song is terrible. I normally can get down with her music, but that is just terrible. Way to bubblegum or something. -- nm - sycor Jul 12, 12:52 1
  - it's not good bubblegum. For someone who was, at one time a rival to Taylor Swift, there's nothing left now. -- nm - oblique Jul 12, 12:55
- I knew she was a long time holdout on my laminated list for a reason. - Jovian Jul 12, 12:34 2
  - spoils - Pippy Jul 12, 12:38 1
    - biceps? - oblique Jul 12, 12:44
- that video is SOMETHING. She can go away with her Dr. Luke album. Gross. She has never looked better. 39 years old?! WOW -- nm - Pippy Jul 12, 12:08
Dumb question -- is Humble Bundle selling all of The Boys comics in this bundle? -- (link) - Will Hunting Jul 12, 11:26 1
- I know nothing about the comics, but it seems like it according to Wikipedia -- (link) - Guigue Jul 12, 11:36
rockin' good news, Emerald Fennell. Please use Kate Bush's gem in the end credits. (or even the opening!) -- (link) - mud Jul 12, 11:18
Oregon and Washington make another top ten list yet again. -- (edited) - ReluctantCynic Jul 12, 11:17 2
- Keeping out the poors! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 12, 11:52 1
  - Wait... I think I'm one of the poors! That's not good! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 12, 11:53
Richard E. Grant, Tom Ellis, Hellen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, David Tennant, Jonathan Pryce in Chris Columbus's crime-comedy The Thursday Murder Club -- (link) - Mop🧹 Jul 12, 10:49 1
- But in the end the role will just be played by Maren Morris. -- nm - Dano Jul 12, 10:58
Skenes named NL All-Star starter. -- nm - David Jul 12, 10:47 10
- Well, MLB got that right - Will Hunting Jul 12, 11:08 9
  - With Skenes, it feels like we better enjoy him while he lasts. - David Jul 12, 11:13 8
    - It'll work like that for them all ... - Will Hunting Jul 12, 11:31
    - Though it kind of seems like MLB learned from those examples as well as the whole less trips through the lineups? - JD Jul 12, 11:17 6
      - If you're a power pitcher, there are 2 types of pitchers. Those who have had Tommy John Surgery and Those Who Will Have TJS. - Will Hunting Jul 12, 11:28 1
        
        I mean, we joke about it, but MLB probably should look into the cheats Clemens used since they DID seem to help him stay healthy. -- nm - David Jul 12, 11:47
      - I hope so. The Pirates's Senior VP, Ben Cherington, did an interview a couple of months ago. - David Jul 12, 11:20 3
        
        one of my groupers is married to his cousin -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 12, 11:29 2
        
        That's pretty cool. He's a fascinating man. -- nm - David Jul 12, 11:47 1
        
        they made the mistake of wearing their dodgers swag one time when he gave them free tix and let them on the field pregame. apparently it’s verboten -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 12, 11:52
"What's wrong A-Train?" -- nm - Jovian Jul 12, 10:34
wife just won $1,000 and a trip to Calgary on a radio contest - Beaker 🍺 Jul 12, 10:34 15
- Are y'all single handedly proving no one is listening to the radio. -- nm - Qale Jul 12, 12:45
- You married Andie? -- nm - jnine Jul 12, 12:36
- Flawless victory! -- nm - Landbeck Jul 12, 11:35
- AMAZING!!! congrats! -- nm - Andie Jul 12, 11:12
- NICE! -- nm - JaxSean Jul 12, 11:09
- Sounds…a little TOO GOOD to be true…does your wife work for the Canadian version of the CIA? Pretty sure I saw this on an episode of ALIAS -- nm - Trending Jul 12, 10:56
- Have fun at the National Grammar Rodeo! -- nm - BaRRRon Jul 12, 10:56
- Y'all are having quite the month! -- nm - David Jul 12, 10:50 1
  - he didn't say it was a trip for two -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 12, 10:56
- 😺😺😺😺😺😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jul 12, 10:49
- Awesome! -- nm - Pippy Jul 12, 10:48
- "Canada: We will pay you to visit!" - oblique Jul 12, 10:41
- nice! -- nm - ty97 Jul 12, 10:38
- take that andie -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 12, 10:37
- nice! Now tell her to pick up a lottery ticket on the way home -- nm - sycor Jul 12, 10:34
This Formula One YouTube channel looked at the Brad Pitt "F1" trailer. Most of the movie was filmed *during* F1 races. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Jul 12, 10:24 [youtube] 3
- I look forward to Kosinski's Usain Bolt biopic -- nm - Roger More Jul 12, 11:39
- Pitt did at least some of his own driving -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 12, 10:26 1
  - I love that the actors lined up with the other drivers during the national anthems, and the TV broadcasts just cropped them out. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 12, 10:33
TIL: St. Pantaleon is the patron saint of physicians, apothecaries, midwives, livestock, lottery winners and victories, lottery tickets, -- nm - JD Jul 12, 10:21
weird how the GOP has no qualms about exercising its congressional authority in a maximalist way when they get the signal from Roberts' goons -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 12, 10:16 6
- This was a huge argument with the republican brain trust (Lauren Boebert) yesterday. She was in a hearing (I think with the EPA, but don't remember - pmb Jul 12, 10:59 5
  - they'll bring them all in the Texas district courts which will set up a rocket docket to the Fifth Cir/SCOTUS for rubber stamping -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 12, 11:10 4
    - Interestingly, not sure I can find the article, but the SC was looking to put new rules in place to prevent the forum shopping for national issues for - pmb Jul 12, 11:16 2
      - and they sent 5th Cir a "quit it" message with a couple opinions this term but i'm skeptical they will actually quit it anytime soon -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 12, 11:19
      - I guess they should have thought of that before -- nm - Pippy 🇨🇦 Jul 12, 11:17
    - to wit -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 12, 11:13
I love watched these TronicsFix videos on YouTube where he repairs stuff. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Jul 12, 10:14 [youtube] 1
- And, yes, he's been sick. But as of a posting in May, he's in remission. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Jul 12, 10:14
the 90s are truly back baby -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 12, 10:09 1
- Joe Biden was a force to be reckoned with in the '90s and he is again in his 90s! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 12, 10:13
The first gmail I ever sent was to our very own mandy. -- nm - sycor Jul 12, 09:56 2
- Oldest Sent is to spamlet. Oldest email is from Hawthorne. (both 8/26/2004) -- nm - JaxSean Jul 12, 10:15
- same, stop copying past me -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 12, 09:59
So what's PIT endgame with Skenes? Gonna build-up and challenge for a title or trade him eventually? Are they too depleted? Will they invest? -- nm - budice Jul 12, 09:54 4
- They got him for at least 5 more seasons -- there's no reason to consider what to do with him until at least 4 years from now. - Will Hunting Jul 12, 10:01
- Their owner has told his people in the front office there's no money to spend at the trade deadline. They're not built to compete for a title without - Krusty Jul 12, 10:00 2
  - Baseball's finances are fundamentally broken. - Will Hunting Jul 12, 10:08 1
    - Yup. From my understanding it's the players that don't want caps as their concern is not seeing their ever inflating salaries slow down. - Krusty Jul 12, 10:15
SpaceX messed up the latest starlink launch. Satellites are 100 miles lower than expected. -- (link) - oblique Jul 12, 09:39 7
- The FAA has now grounded the Falcon-9 and started an investigation -- nm - decline Jul 12, 11:44
- "Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades" -- nm - budice Jul 12, 09:50
- This kind of boggles my mind: The company's satellite assembly line can produce 20 Starlink spacecraft in a few days. -- nm - JD Jul 12, 09:45
- d'oh -- nm - mud Jul 12, 09:43
- but at least it didn't blow up -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 12, 09:40 1
  - Though the poor Merlin Vacuum engine did. ""Upper stage restart to raise perigee resulted in an engine RUD for reasons currently unknown," -- nm - JD Jul 12, 09:45
- They had a good run. -- nm - LFG Jul 12, 09:39
Longlegs 91%, Fly Me to the Moon 65%, Princess Mononoke 93%, Sing Sing 96%, National Anthem 89%, Touch 93%, Lumina 0%, The Convert 76%, -- (edited) - Beaker 🍺 Jul 12, 09:24 5
- I'm glad Berlanti made a good film. -- nm - David Jul 12, 09:33 4
  - lol prove it - hollywood big shot Jul 12, 09:37 3
    - Oh, God no. I'm gen z at heart. -- nm - David Jul 12, 09:45 2
      - easily duped by the stupidest theories on the internet? I can see it -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 12, 09:52 1
        
        Just ask me about Babe Ruth and the Beatles! -- nm - David Jul 12, 09:59
hopefully he's not mixed up but Biden reports a ceasefire framework agreed to between Israel and Hamas -- (link*) - hollywood big shot Jul 12, 09:24 4
- He's older than clovis and has the elocution of a jenga tower in mid-fall, but he runs circles around Don in substantive matters. HODL -- nm - rollo Jul 12, 10:23
- Biden also reported waking up in the morning, its the small wins. -- nm - budice Jul 12, 09:28
- It's actually a ceasefire between the Koopas and the Mushroom Kingdom. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 12, 09:25 1
  - I think it’s Affleck and JLo ceasefire agreement—Biden has been a subscriber of people magazine for 50+ years -- nm - Trending Jul 12, 09:36
My gmail is less than half full. I must be doing something wrong. -- nm - sycor Jul 12, 09:16 9
- Coincidental Haiku - -- (pic) - Meg Jul 12, 09:50 [Attachment]
- I've still got emails from 2009, maybe earlier. -- nm - David Jul 12, 09:33 5
  - 06/15/2004 -- nm - LFG Jul 12, 09:37 4
    - Same. Pretty sure I even got the invite some someone here. -- nm - sycor Jul 12, 09:48
    - same. stop copying past me -- nm* - hollywood big shot Jul 12, 09:44
    - nice. EDIT look again and mine is 9/2/24 -- nm* - oblique Jul 12, 09:40 1
      - 2005: -- (pic) - mud Jul 12, 09:41 [Attachment]
- What if you need that Welcome registration email from 2012 for that service that shut down in 2019? -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 12, 09:20
- Mine near full due to Google Drive Use. Archived family and other stuff there as a backup to the backup -- nm - budice Jul 12, 09:20
don't you guys delete stuff? I'm at 0.58 GB used out of 15GB available -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 12, 09:13 20
- I don't delete anything and archive everything. 27.26 GB -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jul 12, 10:56
- I try, it is too much junk mail to keep up with -- nm - Pippy Jul 12, 09:29 1
  - i often select Unread and delete it all, it's all ads etc. dump it all. -- nm - Andie Jul 12, 09:32
- it counts google drive too, right? i have a lot of email and a lot of docs. -- nm - Andie Jul 12, 09:27 1
  - 11.85 / 15. But i cleaned out a lot about 6 months ago because i was getting daily warnings. -- nm - Andie Jul 12, 09:29
- I'm using 81% of my 204 GB, but then again, I've signed up to Google One's family plan. -- nm* - Mop🧹 Jul 12, 09:26 3
  - Where does everyone store their photos? -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 12, 09:26 2
    - google, amazon and dropbox - decline Jul 12, 12:32
    - Amazon - oblique Jul 12, 09:28
- I use mine mainly for junk (stores that I buy from, etc. I use this email so my main email doesn't get jammed with notices). I just deleted 75,000 - pmb Jul 12, 09:24 1
  - I should probably just suck it up and realize that $24 a year is pittance for not having to micromanage this but still... -- nm - oblique Jul 12, 09:26
- shouldn't have given me 15gb -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 12, 09:22
- Nope. That was the whole point of gmail. I delete lots of things but I also have a LOT of archived stuff. At this point I'm going to have to start - oblique Jul 12, 09:19 1
  - Check your Sent. That's where I can usually clean out a lot. (I'm at 11gb of my 17gb) -- nm - JaxSean Jul 12, 09:28
- Why? -- nm - LFG Jul 12, 09:17 2
  - sanity. -- nm - mud Jul 12, 09:18 1
    - It drives me insane to need something and not have it because it was deleted! -- nm - LFG Jul 12, 09:24
- You can sort by size of emails. Usually big attachments or Google Drive use -- nm - budice Jul 12, 09:16 1
  - But I generally haven't deleted stuff -- nm - budice Jul 12, 09:16
- ~same. -- nm - mud Jul 12, 09:15
Sugoi -- nm - David Jul 12, 09:12

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