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Icelandair is trying very hard to convince my 15-year-old to upgrade her seat. -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 7, 09:27
That's right, Notre Dame! That 4-8 season is all but forgotten! Welcome to the Boca Raton Bowl!!! - David Aug 7, 09:26
ST poll: what is the song of the summer? what is your personal song of the summer? -- nm - Epiphany Aug 7, 09:20 14
- No one else's, but for me, Nothing More - House on Sand -- (link) - JaxSean Aug 7, 09:39 [youtube]
- Elevated, Will Ospreay's theme song. It's, as the kids say, a banger. -- nm - David Aug 7, 09:32
- Away From The Mire—Billy Strings -- nm - Trending Aug 7, 09:31
- Hot to Go? - mr mooch Aug 7, 09:25 1
  - There's this footage from Lolla that would seem to serve as evidence -- (link) - JD Aug 7, 09:27
- My personal (although a cheat): The whole Brat album - JD Aug 7, 09:25
- I'm advised that it's Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter -- nm - Roger More Aug 7, 09:22 2
  - yeah I'd get behind this one. -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 7, 09:23 1
    - I haven't heard it, but this was the answer in a trivia contest run by a Gen Z-er colleague of mine. -- nm - Roger More Aug 7, 09:25
- I don't really do Song of Summer but I have been enjoying good girl by Artemas. -- nm - Spawn Aug 7, 09:22 2
  - [listens] ..nice -- nm - mud Aug 7, 09:32 1
    - Yeah—first time for me too—sorta sounds like a The Weekend type song -- nm - Trending Aug 7, 09:41
- SHABOOZY! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 7, 09:21 1
  - A Bar Song (we listen to Rick Dees countdown on the weekend and he always starts some songs with new words that talk about him) - Beaker 🍺 Aug 7, 09:22
Who said that running is a non-contact sport? Men's 5000M qualifying spoils -- (link) - JD Aug 7, 09:18
Baldur’s Gate 3‘s Latest Player Stats Reveal Who My Fellow Sickos Are -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Aug 7, 09:11
that's a long line -- (link) - mud Aug 7, 08:59 7
- Miracle Ear is going to . . . Montana on Friday -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 7, 09:18
- what time is teh thing? -- nm - ☀️ mandy chem ☀️ Aug 7, 09:18 2
  - next Monday -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 7, 09:18 1
    - funny-ish. -- nm - ☀️ mandy chem ☀️ Aug 7, 09:21
- obv they are all there to hear the dulcet tones of Bon Iver -- nm - decline Aug 7, 09:01 1
  - Oddly, the correct pronunciation of "Kamala" is "Bon Iver" -- nm - Dano Aug 7, 09:20
- Capacity is 200. -- nm - Spawn Aug 7, 09:00
How Michael Cole Got Over -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Aug 7, 08:56 1
- He’s been so good since Vince isn’t screaming in his ear anymore. Plus I will always have endless respect for how he handled King’s heart attack. -- nm - Tim Aug 7, 09:26
Paramount destroyed the IMAX 70mm prints of INTERSTELLAR and the planned re-release is cancelled. -- nm - Trending Aug 7, 08:43 11
- 70mm film is huge. I'm not sure why anyone (especially Nolan) expected them to store every print forever. -- nm - Inigo Aug 7, 09:03 4
  - If AMPAS is trying to preserve film, wouldn't the premiere format be of interest? -- nm - Max Aug 7, 09:12 1
    - I'd guess there's at least one print. Just not the initial release number of prints that would be required for a re-release -- nm - JD Aug 7, 09:13
  - At least keep them for the planned re-release, though. - Spawn Aug 7, 09:04 1
    - I have a feeling the real answer is gonna be that they just didn't keep those prints. - Inigo Aug 7, 09:09
- Do people sit around and light them on fire? -- nm* - budice Aug 7, 08:50 2
  - They light their cigars with them. -- nm - Spawn Aug 7, 09:00 1
    - I'm relatively sure after the whole silver nitrate history of film prints that the IMAX exhibition print stock don't burn very well if at all -- nm - JD Aug 7, 09:04
- 😔 - JD Aug 7, 08:46
- they get it -- nm - mr mooch Aug 7, 08:45
- I've seen pictures, those prints barely fit on the platters for the projectors. -- nm - sycor Aug 7, 08:45
Disney: Turns Streaming profit for first time and ahead of schedule. Also Disney: Raising subscription fees by as much as 25 percent on October 17th -- nm - decline Aug 7, 08:37 10
- Four years after the rush to streaming, Disney is profitable, and Peacock and Paramount Plus are on the brink of joining the loot party. - Mop🧹 Aug 7, 09:24
- a 229% increase in 5 years -- nm - decline Aug 7, 08:53 1
  - It's a variation on the first one is free marketing / price structure -- nm - JD Aug 7, 08:57
- Seriously? Ugh, guess I need to hurry up and finish some shows so I can cancel. -- nm - sycor Aug 7, 08:42 5
  - Link with new prices -- (link) - decline Aug 7, 08:45 3
    - Thanks -- nm - Epiphany Aug 7, 08:54
    - Oh sweet my D+ and Hulu bundle will not increase. -- nm - sycor Aug 7, 08:46 1
      - Yeah, we have D+ without adds and Hulu with. Will switch to that, for sure. -- nm - Spawn Aug 7, 08:53
  - yeah I'lll likely drop it as well which I never thought I would say -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 7, 08:44
- step 3! -- nm - mr mooch Aug 7, 08:42
Oh no. 'Borderlands movie called "uninspired", "unfunny", and "a disaster" in scathing first reactions – though some of its cast are getting praise' -- (link) - decline Aug 7, 08:32 12
- I'm sicking Tiny Tina on every single one of these fuckers. -- nm - David Aug 7, 09:33
- I can only be right so many times on one board. -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 7, 09:25
- That's about what I expected. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 7, 09:02 5
  - soon as it wasn't R it was known -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 7, 09:18 2
    - I love that an R rated movie just won the year, too. Idiots. -- nm - Spawn Aug 7, 09:19 1
      - they should get Zach Snyder to do an R rated Snyder cut for it like he did for the Rebel Moons -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 7, 09:21
  - 1. Turn of brain - Spawn Aug 7, 09:03 1
    - I mean, yeah. I was hoping for more, but since the first teaser dropped, this was my expectation. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 7, 09:26
- I will likely see it at some point but I'm quite disappointed in their choices. They left out two major characters and changed one to be something - Krusty Aug 7, 08:45
- I love Cate Blanchett. She'll slides so easily between high-minded Oscar bait and random silly stuff. - Baron of the Rings Aug 7, 08:36 1
  - like 'Disclaimer'? (all 7 episodes written/directed by Alfonso Cuarón!) -- (link) - mud Aug 7, 08:44 [youtube]
- Locally Theres more showtimes for It ends with us than Borderlands -- nm - budice Aug 7, 08:33
*Shakes fist at United* - King Of Oklahoma Aug 7, 08:28 3
- Better than sliding off the runway at DIA? -- nm - JD Aug 7, 08:31 2
  - I thought they were really long there! - King Of Oklahoma Aug 7, 08:44 1
    - Touche 8-) - JD Aug 7, 08:49
"certain shifts in his speaking style are potential indications of cognitive decline" -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 7, 08:26 3
- Ummmm...."This shifting from topic to topic, with few connections"...uh, I'm pretty sure that's how I post - JD Aug 7, 08:30 2
  - Excuse me stewardess, I speak JD -- nm - rollo Aug 7, 08:51 1
    - 👍 -- nm - JD Aug 7, 08:52
Ok which one of you BEV or nothing zealots is this? Man Arrested After Assaulting a Prius - JD Aug 7, 08:22
What is typically referred to as the best meteor shower of the year peaks on the night of Aug. 11-12 -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Aug 7, 07:55 1
- I swear this year's is just a rerun of the one from '08. -- nm - Spawn Aug 7, 08:20
The first reference I can find on this board to Kamala Harris -- (link) - Reagen Aug 7, 07:41 [Backboard] 10
- Never change, Zeitgeist! -- nm - David Aug 7, 07:46 3
  - He's referring to the crime lab technician, not Harris. -- (link) - Roger More Aug 7, 08:29 1
    - Now you want us to believe a woman can be a scientist? C'mon Roger More. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 7, 08:43
  - What a great post. -- nm - Strongbad Aug 7, 08:12
- Tim Walz -- (link) - Reagen Aug 7, 07:41 [Backboard] 5
  - JD Vance -- (link) - Reagen Aug 7, 07:41 [Backboard] 4
    - That certainly aged well. --nm - ReluctantCynic Aug 7, 08:23
    - cool. now do Malcolm Gladwell? -- nm - prayformojo Aug 7, 07:59 2
      - And Trump. -- nm - Spawn Aug 7, 08:04 1
        
        and Iggy Azalea -- nm - Baron of the Rings Aug 7, 08:28
the thing i'll never get about bad wigs in 70s/80s period pieces is billions of normie people had those hairstyles for years but we can't just -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 7, 07:34
OTD 60 years ago, Bob Dylan released his 4th album Another Side of Bob Dylan -- (link) - mud Aug 7, 07:31 [youtube] 4
- OTD O years ago - I shall see Bob Dylan plus John Mellencamp and Willie Nelson this evening -- nm - crash davis 😺 Aug 7, 07:37 3
  - Tell John I said, "Hey." Would be weird to see him without Kenny. -- nm - Spawn Aug 7, 08:16
  - Nice! -- nm - Krusty Aug 7, 08:14
  - coolness. -- nm - mud Aug 7, 07:41
So if Trump wants to dump Vance he has to do it today because Ohio or what happens? - Dano Aug 7, 07:29 14
- can't even handle the softest of softballs across the middle of the plate -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 7, 08:02 4
  - That's pathetic. -- nm - Sarah Palin si Aug 7, 09:22
  - lol look how mad the sycophants behind him get. -- nm - Jovian Aug 7, 08:04
  - those little couches man; like who wants a little couch? I like my couches big so you can really get into it -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 7, 08:03 1
    - More cushions for the pushin, you might say. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Aug 7, 08:06
- Sucking up to Elon and the "180" on EVs tells me it won't happen - Reagen Aug 7, 08:00
- IMO its going to happen shortly after the DNC ends. - Jovian Aug 7, 07:43 3
  - He gonna pull a Biden? -- nm - Spawn Aug 7, 07:52
  - I don't know if he'll make it that long. The new poll numbers must be making him lose it big time -- nm - decline Aug 7, 07:49 1
    - its just one more week and to do before or during the DNC would kind of dampen the initial impact. -- nm - Jovian Aug 7, 07:54
- I thought the deadline was moved to September 1 for Ohio? If Vance bows out, the RNC selects a new VP candidate. -- (link) - mara Aug 7, 07:39 1
  - Ah. I didn't know that Ohio had moved. I assumed the Walz announcement yesterday and virtual nomination was still due to Ohio, -- nm - Dano Aug 7, 09:10
- The VP pick makes no difference. Just ask TFG. -- nm - VMan Aug 7, 07:35
- I will be both president AND vice president! -- nm - 45 Aug 7, 07:31
~Tell me who in this house know about the quake?~ -- nm - Spawn Aug 7, 07:27
BxYGP :-P - mud Aug 7, 07:25
Ryan Reynolds crashes the It Ends With Us press junket. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Aug 7, 07:23 3
- This is a 20 out of 10. -- nm - David Aug 7, 07:45 1
  - His mom is fantastic! How was she not MomPool?? -- nm* - Turd Ferguson Aug 7, 08:07
- good stuff -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 7, 07:28
I may be late with this meme but it made me laugh this morning -- (pic) - crash davis 😺 Aug 7, 07:20 [Attachment] 5
- What a beautiful cat. -- nm - David Aug 7, 07:38 4
  - It really is -- nm - crash davis 😺 Aug 7, 07:40 3
    - The angel on his shoulder. - Spawn Aug 7, 07:56 2
      - The devil is in his hand. -- nm - David Aug 7, 08:08 1
        
        If his gun tells him to shoot things, I am scared. -- nm - Spawn Aug 7, 08:15
Shit. I may have just signed up for a fantasy football money league. This means I’ll actually have to put some effort into it this year. - znufrii Aug 7, 07:10 4
- Happens all the time. -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 7, 07:25
- Jake Bobo -- nm - crash davis 😺 Aug 7, 07:21
- You should let your daughter do your picks for you -- nm - decline Aug 7, 07:20 1
  - Team Unicorn Rising -- nm - Spawn Aug 7, 07:48
more private Vance texts have leaked, these nearly two years worth between fellow weirdo Charles Johnson - mr mooch Aug 7, 07:00 16
- some weirdos know. - ☀️ mandy chem ☀️ Aug 7, 08:45
- They didn’t vet this guy at all and it’s extremely funny. -- nm - Tim Aug 7, 07:38 5
  - Actually - I think they did. And it's like a 1 question test: "Will this own the Libs?" nm - Turd Ferguson Aug 7, 08:03
  - how do you not pay at least an intern to sit down and watch/listen to every interview of this guy in the last 5 years?!! -- nm - Epiphany Aug 7, 07:40 3
    - My briefing notes came back "TL-DR, DJT" -- nm - intern Aug 7, 07:48
    - I loved the line from the rally yesterday where they said the VP contest was Varsity vs the "JV" team - oblique Aug 7, 07:46
    - "look senator, we're sorry we even have to ask this and i'm sure it's just a formality, but you've never associated with any Holocaust deniers right?" -- nm - mr mooch Aug 7, 07:44
- Am I supposed to know who Charles Johnson is? -- nm - znufrii Aug 7, 07:11 3
  - Former DE for the Panthers -- nm - Strongbad Aug 7, 08:13
  - Holocaust denier, for starters -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 7, 07:12 1
    - Sounds like a lovely individual. -- nm - znufrii Aug 7, 07:13
- I read this earlier this morning, I did not see any smoking guns -- nm - Epiphany Aug 7, 07:11 1
  - just the smoking cigarette after a well Fed couch -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 7, 07:12
- whoa, what was the first batch of texts? I must have missed. -- nm - ☀️ mandy chem ☀️ Aug 7, 07:09 2
  - ex-friend who is transgender -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 7, 07:12
  - the ones where he called Trump America's Hitler -- nm - Epiphany Aug 7, 07:11
American taxpayers claimed more than $8 billion in credits on their 2023 returns — more than twice government projections — for making climate-friendly -- (edited) - decline Aug 7, 06:50
Video shows crane collapsing at massive fire in Vancouver -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Aug 7, 06:46
'It's a lie,' billionaire Frank Stronach says of 13 sex crime charges filed against him -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Aug 7, 06:44 1
- Yes, I am sure all 10 of them are lying. -- nm - Andie Aug 7, 06:48
New AMD 9000 CPUs: 5-10% performance bump vs current 7000s. And with 33% power savings. Pricing a tad high. -- (link*) - budice Aug 7, 06:33
Kingdom of POTA is…not good. Meanders…The Last of Us does that kind of storytelling, pretty well—but this feels like a bunch of writers took turns - Trending Aug 7, 06:19
It Ends with Us nsy, Borderlands nsy, Good One 95% (41), Cuckoo 82% (67), Sugarcane 100% (17), Daughters 100% (22), Girl You Know Its True 88% (8) -- nm* - Beaker 🍺 Aug 7, 06:11
TV PSA: Olympics, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Big Brother, AEW Dynamite, Claim to Fame, The Ark, The Challenge, Women in Blue, Sunny, Time Bandits, - Beaker 🍺 Aug 7, 06:08
There are *8* different formats for D&W at my closest theatre - Reagen Aug 7, 06:06
zoom zoom -- nm - oblique Aug 7, 05:59

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