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There is a reply all apocalypse happening on my work email in this, the year of our dog 2024. How do people not know what to do with this still? -- nm - Reagen Aug 20, 08:39 5
- I did this in error for a work Christmas trivia contest two years ago. I was able it pull it back but some people still saw my answers.... - Walt_Disney Aug 20, 08:53
- omg - this happened here yesterday, someone accidentally sent to all North America. Disaster. (this never happens here.) -- nm - Andie Aug 20, 08:41 2
  - at that point, change your name and move to Brazil. -- nm - Reagen Aug 20, 08:43 1
    - "Disaster: Happening Daily since 1500" (NM) - Brazil Aug 20, 08:51
- I'm more surprised when people actually write "unsubscribe" now because I figure lots of people don't have an experience with mailing lists these days -- nm - oblique Aug 20, 08:40
Wife was scratching off a $2 "You can win up to six times!" lottery card the other night. First line? $2 Second? $2 and so on until the last one.... - Name Withheld By Request Aug 20, 08:34 1
- Hookers and crack! -- nm - Spawn Aug 20, 08:36
Annie Agar has a podcast -- (link) - JD Aug 20, 08:10 1
- I have enjoyed it. -- nm - Spawn Aug 20, 08:16
"you trusted me. you fucked up!" -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 20, 08:03 7
- I’m confused. Wouldn’t he be making payments that they are profiting the interest? -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 20, 08:45 2
  - They don't see a path to getting their principal repaid. -- nm - pmb Aug 20, 08:58
  - They make most of their money on fees by flipping the loans to investors. They don’t want that toxic shit on their own books if they can help it. -- nm* - znufrii Aug 20, 08:47
- Oh…darn? -- nm - znufrii Aug 20, 08:42
- can someone gift link this? -- nm - ☀️ mandy chem ☀️ Aug 20, 08:29 2
  - See if this works. -- (link) - David Aug 20, 08:32 1
    - I kiss you -- nm - ☀️ mandy chem ☀️ Aug 20, 08:34
this is like watching Ohtani sit on a fastball he knows is coming from some rookie just called up from Triple-A -- (link*) - mr mooch Aug 20, 07:56
Huh. After all those trades, the Oilers don't match either offer sheet. - Reagen Aug 20, 07:27
I didn't even know college football had GMs now. -- (link) - David Aug 20, 07:19 1
- I’m impressed they still use the term ‘contract’. - Will Hunting Aug 20, 07:33
I think Warnock and Raskin were the best speakers last night. I was kind of "eh" about Bashear, but he'll get better. Hilary was Hilary, Joe was Joe. - mara Aug 20, 06:59 26
- "Lock him up" chant was my highlight. -- nm - Spawn Aug 20, 08:07 1
  - Some nice "Whoa, okay! Hee hee!" crowd reaction shots during that. -- nm - con_carne Aug 20, 08:28
- (1) Hillary; (2) AOC; (3) The Rev; (4) The Women; (5) Joe -- nm - mr mooch Aug 20, 08:02 6
  - oh, and Jasmine Crockett brought the heat too -- nm - mr mooch Aug 20, 08:15 1
    - The resume vs rap sheet line may have been the best. -- nm - Spawn Aug 20, 08:24
  - I was so pissed that my ABC cut to commercial during hill. I will need to rewatch. -- nm - ☀️ mandy chem ☀️ Aug 20, 08:04 3
    - I ended up on CNN’s YouTube. -- nm - mara Aug 20, 08:38
    - My PBS.org feed was great, no ads no fundraising either -- nm - con_carne Aug 20, 08:33
    - full speech on CSPAN -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 20, 08:07 [youtube]
- DNC Night 1 in 3 minutes -- (link) - oblique Aug 20, 07:15 [youtube] 8
  - (3:12.50) -- nm - Spawn Aug 20, 08:07
  - thank you - Epiphany Aug 20, 07:22 5
    - sorry, pips. It wasn't what I was expecting, Sydney was good and I like how the ending was handled -- nm - prayformojo Aug 20, 07:23 4
      - it felt very Hereditary at the end. It was good until then. spoils - Epiphany Aug 20, 07:30 3
        
        Ooo, I should rewatch Hereditary. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Aug 20, 07:46 2
        
        heh -- nm - Epiphany Aug 20, 07:55 1
        
        The end of the DNC was like Hereditary!?! -- nm - WST Aug 20, 08:38
  - thank you -- nm - prayformojo Aug 20, 07:18
- Bashear got a bit short changed. -- nm - Jovian Aug 20, 07:02 7
  - He had to follow Hadley! -- nm - mara Aug 20, 07:03 6
    - Well, he got pigeon holed to the "pro choice dude from a red state" role and didn't even get six minutes. -- nm - con_carne Aug 20, 08:12 5
      - he was fine but also you saw why he didn't get the veep slot versus Walz or Shapiro -- nm - mr mooch Aug 20, 08:14 4
        
        He is mainstream, good politician who wins doing mainstream, good things. That should be our base standard, not people we're itching to elevate. -- nm - con_carne Aug 20, 08:20 3
        
        My dude says he’s a doer, not an orator. -- nm - mara Aug 20, 08:40 2
        
        Do we want him for the Harris admin? Would the KY governorship stay blue if he went? -- nm - con_carne Aug 20, 08:46 1
        
        his maximum benefit would be flipping one of those senate seats if he possibly could -- nm - mr mooch Aug 20, 08:53
Did Joe speak yet? -- nm - Spawn Aug 20, 06:48 5
- I'm in the middle of it rn. Great convention speech. -- nm - con_carne Aug 20, 06:56
- and how -- nm - mud Aug 20, 06:49 3
  - Amazing thing is, it was still only about half the length of speeches that deranged animal gives regularly. -- nm - Jovian Aug 20, 06:51 1
    - Be nice to David, he's a good dude. -- nm - con_carne Aug 20, 06:58
  - Almost like they were afraid Trump was right. -- nm - Spawn Aug 20, 06:50
Excel help (Easy difficulty) -- (edited) - Jovian Aug 20, 06:41 3
- it's very complicated - decline Aug 20, 06:47 2
  - LOL thats it. I kept trying =CAPS() or =a1(CAPS). Thanks! -- nm - Jovian Aug 20, 06:49 1
    - Counterintuitive functions can be a real downer() -- nm - Max Aug 20, 07:08
Teaser for FX Networks' Grotesquerie : Starring Travis Kelce!! -- (link) - decline Aug 20, 06:11 [youtube]
Article on Apple's movie and film production (spoiler, they pretty much suck at it) -- (link) - decline Aug 20, 06:08 1
- They spend money like they're out to make blockbusters, but their marketing is so niche and prestige. So they pull down niche numbers. -- nm - con_carne Aug 20, 06:35
Queensland health out there doing the hard work. -- (link) - mafic Aug 20, 05:51 1
- Quoting Coming to America is optional, but makes it fun -- nm - con_carne Aug 20, 06:00
I pay for 25 mbps down. -- (pic) - ☀️ mandy chem ☀️ Aug 20, 05:45 [Attachment] 1
- what a rippoff!! -- nm - decline Aug 20, 06:12
Just got an email about Comic Con: The Cruise 🚢—BSG (women cast) is the main draw but an interesting assortment -- (pic) - Trending Aug 20, 05:39 [Attachment] 5
- "now with even more tightly packed crowds, unmasked for three days!" -- nm - mr mooch Aug 20, 08:10
- At least when stars bail on this Con, you still get to be on a cruise -- nm - Epiphany Aug 20, 06:36
- That is the same company that does The 80's Cruise that we're going on next year (but different than The Rock Boat organizers). - JaxSean Aug 20, 06:34
- Over/under on number of people who misread the poster and show up for Ron Perlman? -- nm - Baron of the Rings Aug 20, 06:31
- Bonus: loads of unused shower space -- nm - con_carne Aug 20, 05:50
Connections Puzzle #436 - YBGP - prayformojo Aug 20, 04:19 2
- bad start xxxYGBP - decline Aug 20, 05:27
- BPGY - mud Aug 20, 04:38
Wordle 1,158 5/6 - prayformojo Aug 20, 04:14 2
- 5 - rollo Aug 20, 05:58
- 5 - decline Aug 20, 05:24
Murdle 2:24 - Fuzzy Aug 20, 04:08 3
- Ugh. 13:50 - prayformojo Aug 20, 04:57 2
  - That looks like you started over at some point -- nm - Fuzzy Aug 20, 05:13 1
    - Yup.I inverted my mark on the Sir Rulean / wand clue -- nm - prayformojo Aug 20, 05:35
More bonkers stories from earlier Olympics. Much like 1904 in St. Louis, the 1900 Olympics in Paris were part of the Universal Exposition. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Aug 20, 04:02 [youtube]
Turns out Disney PR flacks have reconsidered applying the Disney+ TOS on a Disney Springs lawsuit. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Aug 20, 01:05 2
- but still saying they have a right to do it. -- nm - mafic Aug 20, 06:12 1
  - Yup. That's not a great press release. -- nm - David Aug 20, 07:09
Eep, chairman of Morgan Stanley was also on that yacht & is missing, along with Lynch's 18 year old daughter -- nm - Beryllium Aug 20, 01:01 5
- Also - Missing tycoon's co-defendant was fatally struck by a car on Saturday -- (link) - LMS Aug 20, 04:51
- The yacht was called the Bayesian? *eyeroll* -- nm - Reagen Aug 20, 03:45 2
  - Every article I've read has made an effort to explain the name and connect it to his phd thesis. - Beryllium Aug 20, 09:09
  - *itroll* -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 20, 04:40
- (international chair, not the head NYC honcho) -- nm - mr mooch Aug 20, 01:11
To the disinformation on B2, Diego Luna announced 6 months ago that they'd wrapped filming on Andor season 2, so there definitely will be more Andor. -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 20, 00:03 2
- (misinformation) - mud Aug 20, 07:42
- i meant that it's always been announced as two seasons and done from the start -- (link*) - mr mooch Aug 20, 00:10
Donald, wasn't Joe supposed to go rogue and re-claim the nomination tonight? Oh, that's right, you're nuts. - howie Aug 19, 23:54
i know it's only night one but i'm gonna go out on a limb and predict a bump for Kamala from this convention -- nm - mr mooch Aug 19, 23:48
Nintendo Museum Direct. -- (link) - Qale Aug 19, 23:06 [youtube]
They should have had the Olympic torchbearer cartwheel onto the stage and give the torch to Biden to pass to Harris. -- nm - Max Aug 19, 21:49 2
- excellent metaphor but you do not want to piss off the greek gods of the oly committee who are very jealous of their names and symbology - zeitgeist Aug 19, 22:30
- and then rip off his mask to reveal . . . Jimmy Carter mfers! -- nm - mr mooch Aug 19, 21:52
Edgar Bronfman's Paramount offer: $4.3b but structured differently than Skydance's comparable bottom line number -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 19, 21:37
Think about it, there must be higher love Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above Without it, life is wasted time Look inside your heart, -- nm - I'll look inside mine... Aug 19, 21:26 1
- great song, 8th grade. The other one was cause baby you're all that I want, when you're lying here in my arms, I'm in heaven -- nm* - rollo Aug 19, 21:37
Now THIS is a rabbit hole. -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 19, 21:17 [youtube]
"this sucker means it" -- nm - mr mooch Aug 19, 21:15 1
- "America, I gave my best to you" -- nm - mr mooch Aug 19, 21:18
Tim is teary. -- nm - pmb Aug 19, 21:11
Biden’s daughter was great. -- nm - pmb Aug 19, 20:27
here’s Joe -- nm - mr mooch Aug 19, 20:26 5
- they sure gave him the Panera lemonade for this one -- nm* - mr mooch Aug 19, 20:46 4
  - if he'd torn into him at the debate like this . . . -- nm - mr mooch Aug 19, 21:05 1
    - one last "Joe . . ." meme for the road -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 19, 21:46
  - I was hoping they let him take a nap at some point earlier today -- nm - Tim Aug 19, 20:47 1
    - Heh. - King Of Oklahoma Aug 19, 20:55 [Attachment]
Gov. JB going to have to dry out after this week. - King Of Oklahoma Aug 19, 20:02 2
- Did he give them a shot of Malort? -- nm - . Aug 20, 04:51
- I used to drink at those bars too! -- nm - pmb Aug 19, 20:10
the Rev! -- nm - mr mooch Aug 19, 19:52 1
- talking about that (great) night before the insurrection. -- nm - mud Aug 19, 19:53
I think Kamala and Tim may be in my firm’s old box (can’t tell which side they’re on) - pmb Aug 19, 19:51 5
- "who left this monocle in the seat cushion?" -- nm - mr mooch Aug 19, 19:56
- Oh my God you're best friends with them practically!! -- nm - amanda Aug 19, 19:52 3
  - Right? We grabbed beers out of the same fridge! -- nm - pmb Aug 19, 19:54 1
    - ["Kamala Harris snacked here."] -- nm - historic marker Aug 19, 19:55
  - (sorry I'm trying to be funny here. Not an asshole. Imagine if you said those words to my mom; we'd laugh about her response later.) -- nm - amanda Aug 19, 19:53
these stories are powerful, to say the least -- nm - mr mooch Aug 19, 19:44
Jasmine Crockett! -- nm - mud Aug 19, 19:27 7
- "And we will all pick our peck of pickled peppers" -- nm - Reagen Aug 19, 19:40
- "I hear alliterations are back in style." -- nm - mud Aug 19, 19:38 2
  - that was best. -- nm - mud Aug 19, 19:38 1
    - vid: -- (link) - mud Aug 19, 19:44
- "she's lived the American Dream while he's been America's Nightmare" -- nm - mr mooch Aug 19, 19:31 2
  - "Kamala has a resume, Donald has a rap sheet" -- nm - mr mooch Aug 19, 19:31 1
    - YSMM ;) ❤ -- nm - Meg Aug 19, 19:32
I'm watching abc. do the same people cover the RNC and the DNC? Or do they get some Maga heads to cover the RNC? -- nm - amanda Aug 19, 19:25
Everytime someone says "Cult of personality" they should play the opening riff. -- nm - Reagen Aug 19, 19:21 3
- and being in Chicago it'd be extra funny (if you're a wrestling fan) -- nm - Tim Aug 19, 19:22 2
  - and Raw is in Chicago tonight! -- nm - Remlik Aug 19, 20:18
  - Nope. I have and always will hate CM Punk. -- nm* - Qale Aug 19, 19:25
this L&O bit is funny. -- nm - mud Aug 19, 19:18
I want to see Hilary's unedited speech. I'm sure she trimmed a few chioce DJT comments out. -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 19, 19:11
When does Biden come out with the folding chair? -- nm - Reagen Aug 19, 19:10
That was fantastic. -- nm - pmb Aug 19, 19:10
Such a wild fuckin' play to cede "the troops are good, actually" to your opponent. -- nm - Reagen Aug 19, 19:05 1
- You play the hand you're dealt. - Beryllium Aug 19, 19:09
she got done so fuckin dirty . . . -- nm - mr mooch Aug 19, 19:00 9
- and just dropped the hammer on the convicted felon -- nm - mr mooch Aug 19, 19:03 3
  - big "Tell Donald it was me" energy -- nm - mr mooch Aug 19, 19:05 2
    - like she's been writing this speech for eight years -- nm* - mr mooch Aug 19, 19:06 1
      - Mmhmm -- nm - amanda Aug 19, 19:10
- Honestly maybe the most qualified person to run for president in our lifetime. -- nm - amanda Aug 19, 19:01 3
  - unfortunately Fox Noise had been running a 20 year campaign just in case one specific thing happened, and it did. -- nm - Tim Aug 19, 19:03 1
    - 30+ but yeah -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 19, 19:16
  - And her style is impeccable. -- nm - amanda Aug 19, 19:02
- #stolenpresidency -- nm - mud Aug 19, 19:01
Mrs. Walz is all verklempt. -- nm - mud Aug 19, 18:59
The pageantry of this is hysterical. Those hats! -- nm - amanda Aug 19, 18:57
Your Western Idaho Fair beer of the year is Mucha Lucha, a Mexican style lager -- (pic) - crash davis Aug 19, 18:57 [Attachment] 1
- They better pace themselves. They've burnt off 3 of the 5 songs I know in the first four numbers -- nm - crash davis Aug 19, 19:15

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