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Breaking spoils.. - Remlik Aug 9, 12:42 3
- Spoilers - David Aug 9, 12:47
- *spoils* - JD Aug 9, 12:45
- All single names or even numbers all the time. IMO we need more events like that 8-) --nm -- nm - JD Aug 9, 12:44
Tell me why I shouldn't order this? -- (link) - oblique Aug 9, 12:25 18
- Might be better to get weather alerts ahead of time instead of when it's already raining. But I get where you are going and the price isn't bad. - sycor Aug 9, 12:36 4
  - Also I'm terrible with zigbee2mqtt. I just don't get it and haven't taken the time to understand it. If it does work with ZHA, I usually avoid it. -- nm - sycor Aug 9, 12:49
  - It's data. Apparently useless data just hasn't been studied long enough ;-) - JD Aug 9, 12:43
  - I had to laugh the other night. I have a static rule in our MyQ that closes our garage door if it is open at 8pm. We arrived home at like 7:59:50 - oblique Aug 9, 12:38 1
    - Oh that sounds dangerous. I can totally see the garage door coming down and things going crash. -- nm - sycor Aug 9, 12:47
- $20!! What do you have to lose? - JD Aug 9, 12:35
- If it’s waterproof, go for it. -- nm - Loyola Aug 9, 12:35
- isn't looking out your window to see if it's raining easier and cheaper???????????? -- nm* - Peglegpete Aug 9, 12:32 4
  - But then you have to *remember* that you need to close them. - Spawn Aug 9, 12:34 3
    - and then -- (link) - JD Aug 9, 12:47 [youtube]
    - if any are open, you can hear the rain -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 9, 12:38 1
      - "I love that sound." - Spawn Aug 9, 12:48
- because it is so realistic looking that bees will try to polinate it and die from repeateedly bashing into the plastic and this will result in - decline Aug 9, 12:29 1
  - so two? -- nm - oblique Aug 9, 12:32
- Is your house all smart home technology so its like the bridge of the Enterprise or something? -- nm - crash davis 😺 Aug 9, 12:29 3
  - kinda? Lots of motion sensors right now (hallway lights, undercounter lights in kitchen, etc.). Non-motion lights are voice controlled -- (edited) - oblique Aug 9, 12:31 1
    - 🤣 kind of -- nm - JD Aug 9, 12:36
  - like the Pierce Brosnan voiced house on The Simpsons -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Aug 9, 12:31
yay, I got a like on my first ever thread....granted it is a mercy like from Jax but still, I'll take it -- nm - crash davis 😺 Aug 9, 12:21
Some notes on current rocket grunts in PoGo. - the wrong element Aug 9, 12:17 6
- I can pretty much beat every grunt and then the trio of sub-bosses with 1 conkeldurr I have almost maxed out. -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Aug 9, 12:27 1
  - Most are easy. The only thing that's annoying is Giovanni's persian. - the wrong element Aug 9, 12:32
- "They are terrible" -- nm - ty97 Aug 9, 12:20 3
  - I know a couple people who fight almost every rocket battle they come across. -- (edited) - the wrong element Aug 9, 12:24 2
    - I know some too. I just mean the current rotation is meh. -- nm - ty97 Aug 9, 12:25 1
      - Of the leaders, yeah. - the wrong element Aug 9, 12:30
Cartoon Network website shuts down, redirects to Max -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Aug 9, 12:16 4
- just anecdotally, it's bleak AF for talent at all levels right now. legit have no idea what it's going to look like on the other side of the carnage - mr mooch Aug 9, 12:20 3
  - AI -- nm - Spawn Aug 9, 12:21 2
    - only dopes like david would fall for that junk -- nm - mr mooch Aug 9, 12:24 1
      - Ironically, I'm the most anti-AI person you know. -- nm - David Aug 9, 12:47
A Broncos Fan Reaction to the 2023-2024 NFL Season -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Aug 9, 12:13 [youtube] 1
- OMG. That opening line -- nm - JD Aug 9, 12:16
Breaking....spoils - Remlik Aug 9, 11:48 14
- it is garbage and shouldn't be in the Olympics -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Aug 9, 12:32 2
  - then neither should rhythmic gymnastics. -- nm - Remlik Aug 9, 12:40 1
    - sold! -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Aug 9, 12:40
- poor Raygun is making the memes for all the wrong reasons :( -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 9, 12:09 [youtube]
- I hereby apologize to Surfing. Breaking is the Whose Line of Olympic events. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Aug 9, 12:02
- I might have a completely inappropriate crush on Ami -- nm - JD Aug 9, 11:55 1
  - the Ukraine woman Steffi has a great story. Almost paralyzed 5 years ago rehabbed back -- nm - Remlik Aug 9, 12:02
- is it really still a thing in the USA like it was 30-40 years ago? doesn't feel like it - mr mooch Aug 9, 11:51 6
  - Especially in regards to dance. - the wrong element Aug 9, 12:35
  - "I am sick of you tooling around the village in that thing, honking at the girls, blasting your 1980s American rock music that we got here last week." -- nm - Baron of the Rings Aug 9, 12:35
  - Not at all. There are some guys still doing it but it's mostly not a part of hip hop in the US these days. We moved on years ago. -- nm - Krusty Aug 9, 12:15 2
    - Bronze spoils - Remlik Aug 9, 12:27
    - MBGA! -- nm - Spawn Aug 9, 12:16
  - that's what I'm realizing. -- nm - Remlik Aug 9, 11:59
Olympics mens 4x100 relay spoilers - mr mooch Aug 9, 11:46
Coachella the unethical LPT was to empty a suntan lotion container and backfill with Vodka. Outside Lands in SF is held in a public park so there's -- (link) - JD Aug 9, 11:43 1
- Sir, do you need two liters of sunblock? -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 9, 13:07
Let's go Bleus -- nm - JD Aug 9, 11:39 1
- *spoils* - JD Aug 9, 11:44
10/11 on the News Quiz -- (link) - prayformojo Aug 9, 11:30
John Krasinski: International Scab - Beryllium Aug 9, 11:28 2
- no, not The Imagination! -- nm - mr mooch Aug 9, 11:33
- my friend owns a talent agency, union actors... - Andie Aug 9, 11:32
It dawned on me that Kamala will certify the election in January. -- nm - Dano Aug 9, 11:22 6
- i was looking at DC hotels for inauguration day. BWI is about as close as i could reasonably get already -- nm - mr mooch Aug 9, 11:25 3
  - pixie gonna march? -- nm - Spawn Aug 9, 11:26 2
    - i missed both of Obama's and this one happens to also fall on MLK Day -- nm* - mr mooch Aug 9, 11:28 1
      - Tell Trump that Spawn said to "f- off." -- nm - Spawn Aug 9, 11:29
- ... or will she? -- nm - Spawn Aug 9, 11:23 1
  - Plot twist!!! -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 9, 11:39
*takes Nevada off the board* -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 9, 11:20 2
- naturally :)))))) -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 9, 12:09
- The Republican pollsters are saying this? Thank you for the smile -- nm - crash davis 😺 Aug 9, 12:09
nobody expects . . . -- nm - mr mooch Aug 9, 11:16
terrible video out of Sao Paolo: -- (link*) - mud Aug 9, 11:02 17
- BBC reporting no survivors :( -- nm - Walt_Disney Aug 9, 11:59 3
  - there was no way there could have been based on the little i saw. -- nm - Andie Aug 9, 12:03 2
    - I just pray that with the violence of the descent, that they were rendered unconscious and did not mentally or physically suffer. - sycor Aug 9, 12:20
    - :( Yeah - that was straight down. I think you need some amount of forward momentum to have a chance at survivors. -- nm - Dano Aug 9, 12:10
- I haven't watched / looked, but there are apparently very graphic videos/photos out there, so be cautious. Awful tragedy, praying for all. -- nm - ty97 Aug 9, 11:24
- Yikes that is just dropping, free falling out of the sky -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 9, 11:18
- That is terrible, and terrifying. It looked like one of the tail wings was missing. -- nm - sycor Aug 9, 11:16 3
  - Indeed. That's a super popular regional turboprop regional airplane (ATR-72) with over 1200 airframes sold to date - JD Aug 9, 11:35 1
    - Cancels my short 9f Boeing -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 9, 13:08
  - No, they are both there. (On an ATR-72 the horizontal stabilizers are at the top of the tail) -- nm - Roger More Aug 9, 11:33
- ooof, that is horrible. - Marlowe Aug 9, 11:10
- the person beside me at work is from there, she's freaking out a bit. regularly flies that airline. -- nm - Andie Aug 9, 11:08 5
  - I had never heard about it. I hope your co-worker doesn't know anyone in it. (NM) - Marlowe Aug 9, 11:11 3
    - she's messaging a lot of people right now. there is a video from a house that shows the burning plane basically in their backyard. it's pretty awful. -- nm - Andie Aug 9, 11:12 2
      - I saw a frame, but I decided against watching it. - Marlowe Aug 9, 11:17 1
        
        The falling was more than enough. Awful. -- nm - Spawn Aug 9, 11:17
  - :-[ -- nm - mud Aug 9, 11:09
Spain / France *spoils* - JD Aug 9, 10:54
My poor DTL team just cannot finish games. 0-4 this year in games decided by single digits. - Baron of the Rings Aug 9, 10:51
holy FUCK -- nm - Reagen Aug 9, 10:50 4
- yay! - mud Aug 9, 10:56 1
  - spoiler - Marlowe Aug 9, 10:59
- That was good. (NM) - Marlowe Aug 9, 10:56 1
  - (hope no one you know on that plane) -- nm - mud Aug 9, 11:07
Tim Walz is savage -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 9, 10:41 3
- He should post it to his wall! -- nm - Baron of the Rings Aug 9, 10:58
- i mean, no, but, a good joke. -- nm - Andie Aug 9, 10:44 1
  - peak Dad joke form - Reagen Aug 9, 10:57
Olympics women's 4x100 relay spoils - mr mooch Aug 9, 10:37 1
- Spoil - Loyola Aug 9, 10:41
Kevin Sullivan booked an angle where his wife Nancy (known in WCW as Woman) would begin having an affair with Chris Benoit. -- nm - Tim Aug 9, 10:35 2
- Bob Mould, of Husker Du, worked at WCW as a writer for a few years and was close to him for a few years -- nm - Remlik Aug 9, 10:47
- And it sounds like he never forgave himself afterward. -- nm - David Aug 9, 10:37
Hit Monkey season 2 was excellent! -- nm - Beryllium Aug 9, 10:34
Relay in the rain. Should be fun. -- nm - Reagen Aug 9, 10:32 2
- Racing in the rain, I'm just racing in the rain - JD Aug 9, 10:53
- It's freaking down pouring there -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 9, 10:33
Oh, trump wants to invade Mexico? How interesting. Signed, Canada. -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 9, 10:30 1
- my tin foil hat theory is that it is part of a bigger plan - Epiphany Aug 9, 10:47
Juju released by Pats -- nm - Trending Aug 9, 10:27
Ron MacLean and Donovan Bailey apparently shop for shoes at the same place. -- nm - Reagen Aug 9, 10:23
“So much breakdancing at the Olympics but nobody's talking about how they're going to save the rec center smh” -- (link*) - mr mooch Aug 9, 10:18 1
- I saw that movie 8-) -- nm - JD Aug 9, 10:49
"Competitors will be scored in six categories; popping, locking, stylin', maxin', relaxin', and the all important fronting" -- nm - Reagen Aug 9, 10:18 1
- Haha! -- nm - Krusty Aug 9, 10:47
Taekwondo has as siminlar structure to Wrestling. Judo kinda does, too, but it is a shorter version. (NM) - Marlowe Aug 9, 10:16
There needs to be an animal Olympics. Little piggy races, lamb cross country races, dog high jump etc -- nm - Loyola Aug 9, 10:09 6
- Closing ceremony: barbecue -- nm - con_carne Aug 9, 12:25
- Deer hurdles, ape fecal throw, dolphin surf seagul target shoot -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 9, 10:33 2
  - My brain is apparently in extremely-random-association-mode. So ... when I read this ... it jumped to a Flock of Seagulls cover band named - Beryllium Aug 9, 10:47 1
    - We wants it, yessss -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 9, 11:45
- Yeah, I can't wait to see you bitching about it too.. ;-) (NM) - Marlowe Aug 9, 10:22 1
  - All good my friend. -- nm - Loyola Aug 9, 10:36
Katy Perry has released her new single "Lifetimes" -- (link) - MDH Aug 9, 10:09 [youtube] 2
- there you go, katy. That's much better. -- nm - mud Aug 9, 10:17 1
  - bikini is a good step. (will listen later) -- nm - Spawn Aug 9, 11:28
The USA Womens Basketball Team coach kind of scares me. Like she's a white Tiger Mom or something as she never looks happy - JD Aug 9, 10:00
I found the Zappa family dynamic story fascinating. -- (link) - David Aug 9, 09:56
I love when George Conway effortlessly dunks on this anti anti-trumper clown -- (pic) - Jovian Aug 9, 09:55 [Attachment]
I just made my friend go to the vet to pick up meds for chubbers and she walked in & said "I'm here to pick up some meds for chubbinson t. chubbinson" - ☀️ mandy chem ☀️ Aug 9, 09:53 15
- I had to pick up anxiety meds from CVS for my dog. “Date of birth?” “… … uhhh, it’s for a dog.” “Here ya go.” -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 9, 12:15
- Hee! -- nm - Epiphany Aug 9, 10:33
- HIPURR violation -- nm - mr mooch Aug 9, 10:10 4
  - What's really funny is that my former boss once had a vet's office claim they couldn't release certain items because of HIPAA. - Baron of the Rings Aug 9, 11:01
  - L5. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Aug 9, 10:54
  - if we had upvotes, you would get one for this -- nm - oblique Aug 9, 10:10 1
    - I'll start handing out ziggles -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 9, 10:21
- Heh. -- nm - Loyola Aug 9, 10:08
- heh. what is the T for? tabby? -- nm - Jovian Aug 9, 09:57 2
  - Tiberias -- nm - crash davis 😺 Aug 9, 12:13
  - I don't think I know. maybe "the"? -- nm - ☀️ mandy chem ☀️ Aug 9, 10:57
- "We don't need your government name" -- nm - Reagen Aug 9, 09:56
- ha! -- nm - mud Aug 9, 09:55
- heh, that is great. we picked up a puffer for our cat at Costco Tuesday and get the same look and questions every time - Beaker 🍺 Aug 9, 09:55 1
  - I'm game. How do you get him to take it? -- nm - JD Aug 9, 10:47
Dos. -- nm* - Turd Ferguson Aug 9, 09:51
"Something is afoot." -- (pic) - mud Aug 9, 09:51 [Attachment] 10
- Great timing guys. -- nm - Kyle Rittenhouse si Aug 9, 10:25
- follow-up: -- (pic) - mud Aug 9, 10:01 [Attachment] 4
  - the catturd primary -- nm - mr mooch Aug 9, 10:17 1
    - :-D -- nm - mud Aug 9, 10:18
  - LOL (in addition to what I said below) maybe their is a third reason? That they are just all craven idiots? -- nm - Jovian Aug 9, 10:05 1
    - of course. Bottom line: MAGA infrastructure might be showing signs of crumbling? -- nm* - mud Aug 9, 10:05
- Guessing Trump is running more towards the middle on something they they don’t like -- nm - Trending Aug 9, 09:57 2
  - well, I don't think that would apply to Rogan, but maybe the others -- nm - Beryllium Aug 9, 10:20
  - Maybe either they really think he is toast and do not want to be on the loser band wagon or maybe they think if DJT replaces JD, itll be with RFK? -- nm - Jovian Aug 9, 10:00
- "The cretins are revolting!" "I know! They stink on ice!" -- nm - Reagen Aug 9, 09:56

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