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BBC News - Cleaner 'wins' trip after bosses ban fundraiser cash -- (link) - LMS Aug 14, 11:18 1
- bromley massif! -- nm - mr mooch Aug 14, 11:23
I love professional wrestling. -- (link) - Qale Aug 14, 11:17 [tiktok] 1
- Itoh Army unite! -- nm - David Aug 14, 11:37
Oh, that's what that fire was off in the distance of the 57 during my drive to work this morning -- (link) - JD Aug 14, 11:16 2
- Saw a clip of that on the morning news, didn't look likely much was saved. Big flames! -- nm - Meg Aug 14, 11:36
- Our girls are HOT HOT HOT! -- nm - Baron of the Rings Aug 14, 11:18
"I can't say what was there, who was there" -- (pic) - mud Aug 14, 11:04 [Attachment]
Vikes: J.J. McCarthy’s torn meniscus repaired, out for 2024 szn -- nm - budice Aug 14, 10:47 9
- This is just brutal. -- nm - David Aug 14, 11:34
- Colin Kaepernick still wants to play in 2024 -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 14, 10:55 7
  - He priced himself out, maybe purposefully…it’s been forever. Could he be a backup…maybe…probably…but he won’t take $3M/yr to do so -- nm - Trending Aug 14, 11:01 5
    - who else do the Vikings have to plug in to that slot on day one? -- nm - mr mooch Aug 14, 11:03 4
      - they should pull Nick Foles out of retirement -- nm - decline Aug 14, 11:06
      - For starting QB?—Theyve already assigned that to Darnold, even before the JJ injury…and no, Kaep couldn’t beat out Darnold, today -- nm - Trending Aug 14, 11:04 2
        
        i think Kaep would run rings around Darnold but good news for the Lions, Packers, and Bears defenses i guess -- nm - mr mooch Aug 14, 11:06 1
        
        2017 Kaep…sure, there’s no way he could beat Darnold these days. As I said, if he’s serious about it, take a backup role and prove yourself. -- nm - Trending Aug 14, 11:11
  - I'd love to see that. Who knows, he could rock it. -- nm - mud Aug 14, 10:56
"it's like he's choosing to lose" - mr mooch Aug 14, 10:42 29
- it's how he ran the last two campaigns, why would this be different? -- nm - colin Aug 14, 11:22 1
  - 50/50 chance is good enough for Trump! -- nm - Spawn Aug 14, 11:22
- The truly weird thing about the shooting is that the shooter wasn't someone who had a vendetta against trump. It was random. - Beryllium Aug 14, 11:03 3
  - Sondheim would’ve had a hell of a time trying to shoehorn him into Assassins. -- (edited) - znufrii Aug 14, 11:11 2
    - Was anyone truly surprised that someone took a shot at him? - Fuzzy Aug 14, 11:29 1
      - It's like Taxi Driver, he just wanted to shoot someone famous. It's just surprising that he stumbled upon this one weakness in security. -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 14, 11:47
- I simply can't find much empathy for him. I can only barely say that he didn't deserve to be shot at. -- nm - Qale Aug 14, 11:01 4
  - Much? So... some? - Spawn Aug 14, 11:03 1
    - I don't really want anyone to be shot at, honestly. -- nm - Qale Aug 14, 11:04
  - I can't find any. Not with the thousands and thousands of people he and his policies and cronies have hurt. no fucking way. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Aug 14, 11:02 1
    - I mean, I completely agree. But also square that with the belief that no one should have access to those weapons. -- nm - Qale Aug 14, 11:04
- It is 1000% the second paragraph. The first paragraph is only true in the sense that it didnt make him 'bullet proof' in getting reelected. - Jovian Aug 14, 10:59 3
  - I disagree. The only thing he cares about is himself and his own life. He almost lost it. Even if he doesn’t believe in Hell the idea of being dead… - David Aug 14, 11:07 2
    - Worse, a quarter inch and he would have lost half his face. -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 14, 11:50
    - And if that's the case, and I'm sure this won't go over well, but if that's the case and he's rattled over the shooting - good! nm - Turd Ferguson Aug 14, 11:13
- 24 people showed up for the JD Vance speech -- (link) - budice Aug 14, 10:57 3
  - More people showed up - that picture was posted at 12:13 and these were at 12:33 - Roger More Aug 14, 11:14 2
    - Yeah - if he's not on stage, the number of butts in seats doesn't matter. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Aug 14, 11:15 1
      - yes and no. those pictures of the Harris crowd, hours before the rally were still telling. -- nm - Spawn Aug 14, 11:21
- try as you might to get me, I aint feeling sorry for that fucker!!!!! - mud Aug 14, 10:53
- The first paragraph makes sense, it must be very difficult to process -- nm - ty97 Aug 14, 10:53 2
  - The second paragraph is.....LOL - ty97 Aug 14, 10:53 1
    - of course. -- nm - mud Aug 14, 10:54
- The trauma angle is severely underreported and honestly a lost opportunity to the too vain Trump— the connection he could make with Americans about - Trending Aug 14, 10:48 5
  - most americans have just been polite enough not to say how they really feel about it -- nm - mr mooch Aug 14, 10:52 4
    - I am NOT one of those Americans. - Jovian Aug 14, 11:00 3
      - All kidding aside, it’s not a thing that’s acceptable…for candidates to be shot at. He deserves our sympathy but not respect (or vote) -- nm - Trending Aug 14, 11:03 2
        
        i don't wish it on anyone, not even him. but if you wanna play dictator games, historically, you're gonna win dictator prizes - mr mooch Aug 14, 11:05 1
        
        Yup. I don't wish it on anyone - but that doesn't mean I have to have sympathy. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Aug 14, 11:18
Computer nerds—Neo had to accept a cookie from the Oracle before she would talk to him… -- (pic) - Trending Aug 14, 10:36 [Attachment] 3
- I've definitely seen that before, but it's still great. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Aug 14, 10:51
- Whoa. - znufrii Aug 14, 10:38 1
  - We talked about it in Vegas! - Spawn Aug 14, 11:22
found mandy’s new job -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 14, 10:24
No STer could possibly want to attend an event called "Dungeons & Drag Queens," right? -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Aug 14, 10:23 5
- Do you like milk with your cookies? -- (link) - JD Aug 14, 11:12
- I've seen lots of clips of such shenanigans on TikTok. Drag Queen gaming streamers is also a thing. -- nm - Qale Aug 14, 11:06
- I'm playing a 3rd level Beard. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Aug 14, 10:53
- what is the caterer making? is it open bar? no mention of this in the link :)))) -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 14, 10:42
- “I take off my robe and wizard hat…” -- nm* - mr mooch Aug 14, 10:24
the A’s stadium in Vegas won’t even be enclosed last I checked -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 14, 10:21 1
- Can't enclose what doesn't exist -- nm - JD Aug 14, 11:07
USATODAY: The beats go on: Trump keeps dancing as artists get outraged over his use of their songs - mud Aug 14, 10:19
get that 40k Dow hat out Kamala -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 14, 10:11 2
- 'but but but muh recession!' -- nm - Jovian Aug 14, 10:13 1
  - can’t imagine why she won’t give them an interview -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 14, 10:17
the more the data rolls in the more this does feel like a “JFK in 1960” as WWII vets started to hit prime voting years -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 14, 10:07 5
- Probably the last election when someone born in the 1940s will be on the ticket. - Roger More Aug 14, 10:45
- And the later part of the decade, when the mood was "Don't trust anyone over 60" -- nm - Max Aug 14, 10:13 3
  - “over 30”! -- nm - mr mooch Aug 14, 10:18 1
    - (that's the joke) -- nm - Max Aug 14, 10:19
  - my pet theory is “New Hollywood” movies breaking the all-time box office record every year from 72-77 was just baby boomers hitting their 20s/30s - mr mooch Aug 14, 10:16
Highest Percent Capacity on Broadway this week: The Outsiders, Hadestown, The Wiz, Oh Mary!, and Stereophonic, (all 100% or more) -- nm - MDH Aug 14, 10:06 3
- I love seeing Hadestown holding on. I don't think it gets the same buzz as the blockbusters but it should. -- nm - Fuzzy Aug 14, 10:12 1
  - It's in the smallest theater of any musical on Broadway, so I think that's part of it. -- nm - MDH Aug 14, 10:16
- Lowest Percent Capacity on Broadway this week: Water for Elephants, The Notebook, Chicago, Job, Suffs -- nm - MDH Aug 14, 10:08
Highest Grossing Broadway Shows Last week: Wicked, The Lion King, Hamilton, The Wiz, Aladdin -- nm - MDH Aug 14, 10:01 1
- Lowest Grossing Broadway Shows Last week: Job, The Notebook, Once Upon A Mattress, Suffs, Water for Elephants - MDH Aug 14, 10:03
Quick Saviors Tour review. Green Day, The Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid, The Linda Lindas. - King Of Oklahoma Aug 14, 09:58
Tech Bros Blind Themselves: A Cautionary (?) Tale -- (link) - prayformojo Aug 14, 09:55
Bold of the Trump campaign to mention this... - David Aug 14, 09:52 10
- (imo - because the clock is ticking on JD) - Jovian Aug 14, 09:56 8
  - I wonder. At the moment Trump doesn't seem to be making many campaign stops. Vance is the public face of the ticket right now. -- nm - Fuzzy Aug 14, 10:05 7
    - yeah about that -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 14, 10:13 5
      - Unless he’s at the podium, speaking, this is a misleading photo -- nm - Trending Aug 14, 10:19 2
        
        Adding information, the rally starts at 2 and is outside Grand Rapids MI at a trucking business. -- nm - Roger More Aug 14, 10:34
        
        👍 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Aug 14, 10:20
      - Is that Four Seasons Total Landscaping?? -- nm - Meg Aug 14, 10:17 1
        
        not even 4, more like Three Seasons... -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 14, 10:19
    - Well, at least he's not a couch potato -- nm - Beryllium Aug 14, 10:12
- good grief -- nm - prayformojo Aug 14, 09:55
At Home With The Worst Team In Baseball - JD Aug 14, 09:48
ST Poll: Rank the Alien franchise movies - Beaker 🍺 Aug 14, 09:46 21
- Tier One: Aliens followed by Alien. Tier Two: Every other film in any particular order (though I have a special fondness for Alien 3). - ReluctantCynic Aug 14, 10:25
- Aliens, Alien, [Romulus], AvP, Prometheus, Alien 3, Covenant. I'm not sure where to put Resurrection because I can't remember the plot - oblique Aug 14, 09:59 2
  - Yep basically Resurrection was Aliens vs Pirates -- nm - Jovian Aug 14, 10:03
  - correct to the im and - spoilers - Beaker 🍺 Aug 14, 10:00
- Alien, Aliens, Alien VS Predator, Resurrection, Prometheus, Alien 3, Covenant. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 14, 09:56
- Aliens, Alien, Alien 3, Resurrection, Covenant, Prometheus -- nm - Jovian Aug 14, 09:52 4
  - ohhhh, and Id put Alien vs Predator in between Resurrection and Covenant. -- nm* - Jovian Aug 14, 09:57 3
    - after 3 for me, so essentially same as you. left out as had predators :) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 14, 10:03 2
      - Alien 3 gets a bad rap. I hated it upon release (as to be expected with how Aliens ended), but its a solid movie and it holds up well. Plus, Tywin! -- nm - Jovian Aug 14, 10:06
      - I liked 3 only because I like the "mythology" aspect where you saw for the first time that the Aliens took on the properties of the host with the - oblique Aug 14, 10:05
- Alien, Aliens, the rest -- nm - mr mooch Aug 14, 09:48 2
  - yalp -- nm - Turd Ferguson Aug 14, 10:03
  - obviously. -- nm - mud Aug 14, 09:51
- Romulus reviews out at 3PM ET/ Noon PT -- nm - budice Aug 14, 09:47
- Aliens, Alien, Romulus, Resurrection, Alien 3, hit by a bus falling straight at me I could run sideways to avoid, Covenant, Prometheus -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 14, 09:47 6
  - I still think about that scene often and how they didn't move 2 feet to the side. -- nm - MDH Aug 14, 09:57
  - because no one has ever, in the entire history of things falling, been killed, ever. -- nm - mud Aug 14, 09:53 4
    - if something was 80 stories high and 10 feet wide I'd run to the side 11 feet and not try and out run gravity for 1/2 a mile -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 14, 09:55 3
      - not what happened. I've rewatched three times, and watched that scene V E R Y closely. -- nm - mud Aug 14, 09:57 2
        
        let me make jokes dammit! :) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 14, 09:57 1
        
        it's like JD Vance and couch fucking at this point. just roll with it :) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 14, 09:58
ST Poll: In the last two Broadway "seasons" 24 new musicals have opened (not revivals). How many of them have recouped? -- nm - MDH Aug 14, 09:42 14
- The answer is "& Juliet" which still needed $17M in capitalization despite debuting on West End. -- nm - MDH Aug 14, 10:04 1
  - Interesting -- nm - Fuzzy Aug 14, 10:08
- Death Rattle Dazzle -- nm - mara Aug 14, 10:02
- Two new musicals "have a path to recoup" to make the list 3, but time will tell: The Outsiders and Hell's Kitchen. -- nm - MDH Aug 14, 09:58
- 1 -- nm - Fuzzy Aug 14, 09:56 7
  - This is the correct answer. 1 of 24 new musicals recouped, any guesses? -- nm - MDH Aug 14, 09:56 6
    - MJ, though I'm not positive when that opened. - Fuzzy Aug 14, 09:58 3
      - Not in the last 2 seasons. Shucked did not recoup its $16M capitalization. -- nm - MDH Aug 14, 10:01 2
        
        Really? I thought it was quite popular while it was running. -- nm - Krusty Aug 14, 10:02 1
        
        Unfortunately it was not. It made $500-700k/week, which never put it towards the top of the pack -- nm - MDH Aug 14, 10:09
    - the one that won the Emmys with Harry Potter and the King from hamilton? (was that a musical?) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 14, 09:57 1
      - That was a revival (not a new musical) but that did recoup. -- nm - MDH Aug 14, 09:58
- 6 -- nm - Dano Aug 14, 09:55
- 8 -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 14, 09:43
JK Rowling and Elon Musk named in cyber bullying complaint by Algerian boxer targeted in gender row. -- (link) - znufrii Aug 14, 09:36 3
- Eff them both. (NM) - Marlowe Aug 14, 10:13
- Love these two filth dwellers lumped together like this. -- nm - Jovian Aug 14, 09:52
- I hope she takes them for bucket loads of money - decline Aug 14, 09:38
and that's a very meh Kraven trailer. Only because its very dark throughout. You cant see s***. -- nm - Jovian Aug 14, 09:25 5
- I dug it - decline Aug 14, 09:39 1
  - this -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 14, 09:43
- It was okay. Good enough that I want to see it, at least. -- nm - Spawn Aug 14, 09:28 2
  - Oh I am all over it. I just thought the trailer was way too dark. -- nm - Jovian Aug 14, 09:51 1
    - I mean, Pippy could hardly see the bare chests. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Aug 14, 09:56
starting this weekend, seller's agents get bupkus -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 14, 09:24 2
- I thought it was buyers agent that had to make a separate deal with their client -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 14, 12:10
- so glad we do not do sales -- nm - Spawn Aug 14, 09:34
Sex Pistol (Minus Rotten) reunited for a benefit performance.... -- (link) - Remlik Aug 14, 09:24
It’s a beautiful day outside for a Periodic Puppy Pic -- (pic) -- (edited) - znufrii Aug 14, 09:09 [Attachment] 7
- Its a ruff life! -- nm - Jovian Aug 14, 09:21
- 2 Cute 2 Curious -- nm - Baron of the Rings Aug 14, 09:17
- Cutie!! After watching some videos of people cleaning up derelict yards, yours looks pristine. -- nm - Krusty Aug 14, 09:15 1
  - I just mowed it this weekend so you can’t see all of the weeds. :) -- (edited) - znufrii Aug 14, 09:25
- Aww... just chillin' -- nm - Dano Aug 14, 09:13
- Cute! -- nm - Epiphany Aug 14, 09:12
- Your lawn is puppy approved and that is what matters. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Aug 14, 09:12
Open window report: blue skies with white clouds, nice breeze, dry, 83 degrees, birds chirping, boom box playing from the pool below. - Max Aug 14, 09:02 [Attachment] 6
- lol. Last night I watched a video from Mtv Spring Break in the 80s with Quad City DJ's - C'mon N'Ride It playing. -- nm - Spawn Aug 14, 09:10 1
  - That’s impressive since the song came out in 1996. -- nm - Qale Aug 14, 09:24
- it's been a terrific stretch of weather -- nm - prayformojo Aug 14, 09:07 1
  - If we had a hurricane come through once a month the weather would be perfect all summer long! -- nm - Max Aug 14, 09:09
- your pool has lot of asphalt. -- nm - ☀️ mandy chem ☀️ Aug 14, 09:05 1
  - That's the church parking lot across the street, just back from walking the dog. - Max Aug 14, 09:08

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