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babe, wake up. the new creepy JD Vance podcast quote just dropped -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 27, 14:07 6
- Also, "She should have some of her own." So, he thinks only women are teachers? -- nm - Krusty Aug 27, 14:14 1
  - He'd lose his mind if he knew the ratio of straight vs LGBTQIA teachers. -- nm - Epiphany Aug 27, 14:20
- he is beyond weird. - Dark Callisto 🦊 Aug 27, 14:12 2
  - Yep. Assuming he loses, I look forward to his next Senate race. -- nm - pmb Aug 27, 14:16 1
    - If they lose, he's finished politically imo. - Jovian Aug 27, 14:20
- And then they should stay home and take care of them, right?!? -- nm - Meg Aug 27, 14:11
I love the AI generated Amazon customer review summaries. This one is for a fiber supplement. - pmb Aug 27, 14:05
E Mitchell season ending injury for 49ers—circle Jordan Mason as he’s now the #2 behind CMC -- nm - Trending Aug 27, 14:04
in maybe the most RFK Jr thing yet, most of the swing states he tried to drop out of to help fucko aren’t actually letting him off the ballot -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 27, 13:40 4
- Just another thing, for Trump, to fight about, when/if he loses—“RFK endorsed me! Those are my votes!” 🗳️ -- nm* - Trending Aug 27, 13:42 3
  - "I don't vote Republican or Democrat. Choosing is a sin, so I always just write in the Lord's name." "That's Republican. We count those." -- nm - Roger More Aug 27, 13:48 1
    - Haha! Loved that show so much. -- nm - Krusty Aug 27, 13:59
  - if he wants to spend the next 70 days promoting himself as the true anti-vaxxer candidate I doubt Kamala’s gonna put up too much of a fight -- nm - mr mooch Aug 27, 13:45
We're still on Premiere League record pace (0 points, -133 GD) but we managed to score three and hold a clean sheet against League Two Doncaster - JD Aug 27, 13:38
Oasis finally reunited because they heard about Chappell Roan and couldn't stand to think of no longer having the most famous alcohol supernova song -- nm - budice Aug 27, 13:36 6
- Seems a fair part of the fan base is blaming / thanking Noel's ex-wife. So either financial strain on Noel or perceived hatred by Liam - JD Aug 27, 13:42 2
  - A bit of both. The ex HATED Liam and they fought in the press for years -- nm - Remlik Aug 27, 14:01
  - *laughs* -- nm - Yoko Aug 27, 13:54
- who is gonna open for them? -- nm - mr mooch Aug 27, 13:42 2
  - Robbie Williams -- nm - Epiphany Aug 27, 13:50 1
    - or Take That -- nm - Dano Aug 27, 14:15
America's Test Kitchen showed the science behind how to achieve max umami in your cooking: By combining glutamates and nucleotides (inosinate or guanylate) -- (edited) - con_carne Aug 27, 13:32 [Attachment] 2
- what are you cookin? meth? -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 27, 16:03
- The YT vid, but this is lengthy and gets into a boring taste test and wok fried rice recipe. The interesting science is in the beginning. -- (link*) - con_carne Aug 27, 13:33 [youtube]
"Jack Smith files 36-page superseding indictment in the Donald Trump federal election conspiracy case" -- (link) - mud Aug 27, 13:11 15
- I assume this is restructured in terms of the allegations to avoid the immunity case as much as possible -- nm - mr mooch Aug 27, 13:43 3
  - Mostly just dropped charges relating to pressing the DoJ to intervene, from what I’ve seen so far. - znufrii Aug 27, 13:46 2
    - i think Clark is not going to get off in AZ/GA, however -- nm - mr mooch Aug 27, 13:55 1
      - hell no! -- nm - mud Aug 27, 13:56
- “Oh you STRENUOUSLY object” -- nm - Trending Aug 27, 13:37
- super. - Spawn Aug 27, 13:12 1
  - four! - mud Aug 27, 13:15
- pic -- (pic) - mud Aug 27, 13:12 [Attachment]
- I look forward to when he files to get that judge disbarred -- nm - oblique Aug 27, 13:12 6
  - msnbc was saying that prosecution would never do it, they hope appeals court figures it out themselves -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 27, 14:00
  - this all strikes me as 'too little too late", only 10 weeks til election -- nm - mud Aug 27, 13:17 4
    - I suspect this has been the plan ever since they found out it was Cannon. How good a plan it is remains to be seen. -- nm - David Aug 27, 13:18
    - isn't this filing because the trump appointed judge threw it out or is this something else? -- nm - oblique Aug 27, 13:17 2
      - It's the election interference case & it's clarifying which actions weren't related to presidential duties (following the SC's decision on immunity) -- (link) - Roger More Aug 27, 13:39
      - this is the big federal case (Jan6) -- nm - mud Aug 27, 13:32
I got a rejection email for a show that I didn't audition for, didn't inquire about and didn't even know was currently casting... - Diva Aug 27, 13:00 12
- "And you definitely should *not* show up at *this* time at *this* address. Don't even try, Diva!" -- nm - Max Aug 27, 14:48
- "I didn't think I'd make a good Peter Pan either" -- nm - ty97 Aug 27, 13:09
- “can I come back and do it again for the first time? think I can really nail it” -- nm - mr mooch Aug 27, 13:08
- "signed, All the Other Actresses' Mothers" -- nm - prayformojo Aug 27, 13:05
- "Don't get any ideas" -- nm - Reagen Aug 27, 13:04
- Oh come on - Spawn Aug 27, 13:03
- They just knew you were too good for them. -- nm - ty97 Aug 27, 13:03
- Send them a rejection email -- nm* - Roger More Aug 27, 13:01 4
  - "Thank you for your email regarding your show. Please be advised that I made no inquiries about it, and never once considered auditioning to join - Roger More Aug 27, 13:05
  - I would, but I'm on the Board of that theatre. This gift keeps giving. -- nm - Diva Aug 27, 13:04 2
    - dannnggg -- nm - Epiphany Aug 27, 13:51
    - Then my notes might need some slight editing... -- nm - Roger More Aug 27, 13:07
Getting in a back up list for tonight's draft and I'm always amaze-balls how different Yahoo's rankings and mine are. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Aug 27, 12:51 3
- Our using a different scoring system is the reason why. -- nm - David Aug 27, 12:54 2
  - I don't think that's the only reason. - the wrong element Aug 27, 13:02 1
    - Yeah, I have always found Yahoo to be an outlier. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Aug 27, 14:04
fellas, is it a conspiracy to steal an election by having more voters than the other side? -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 27, 12:36 8
- It’s feeling very much that Paxton and Abbott realize the same thing Trump and Bibi do… if they lose elections, they’re going to jail. -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 27, 14:03
- They're trying to bury the story that they've disenfranchised one million Texans since 2021. -- nm - David Aug 27, 13:08
- TX is like House Bolton to DJTs House Lannister -- nm - Jovian Aug 27, 12:47 4
  - And FL is House Frey. -- nm - Diva Aug 27, 12:50 3
    - lol thats perfect -- nm - Jovian Aug 27, 12:57 2
      - Does that make the Candada north of the Wall? -- nm - Spawn Aug 27, 13:15 1
        
        Yep! Nothing but Wildings beyond the wall! - Jovian Aug 27, 14:06
- In an alternative reality? -- nm - . Aug 27, 12:46
huh. Chiefs traded a 7th rd pick for a 3rd string TE from the Cowboys - P Hendershot -- nm - budice Aug 27, 12:23 2
- To backup Noah Gray for whenever Kelce gets tired of winning. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Aug 27, 12:29 1
  - Or when he gets $100M for his podcast -- nm - Trending Aug 27, 12:45
So I mentioned here before that my firm has a case going to the Supreme Court next session. It has now been scheduled for hearing the day before - pmb Aug 27, 12:15 6
- I love mock trials -- nm - Epiphany Aug 27, 14:18
- LYC: Our city attorney and Mayor went to DC in 2015 for a supreme court case involving a cell tower. -- (link) - Strongbad Aug 27, 13:49
- fascinating - keep us updated please -- nm - decline Aug 27, 12:46
- do you have a position on whether the FCA even exists now post-Loper Bright, or can judges just substitute their own Reasoned Judgment for DOJ's? - mr mooch Aug 27, 12:18 1
  - Of course, but in their brief they are definitely trying to feed the argument to the far right without explicitly raising it. They allude to their - pmb Aug 27, 12:26
- Definitely fascinating—keep us in the loop as the process goes, if you can -- nm - Trending Aug 27, 12:16
One stat that every MLB team leads the league in— -- (link*) - Trending Aug 27, 12:14 [Attachment] 2
- Best Team ERA In The Sixth Inning? -- nm - crash davis 😺 Aug 27, 13:17 1
  - Both Chicago teams should be ashamed. -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 27, 14:15
Nope. He's not freaking the F out over the upcoming debate. Nope! Not this guy! -- (pic) - Jovian Aug 27, 12:13 [Attachment] 4
- That sputum is as lazy as it is uncreative -- nm - Beryllium Aug 27, 12:24 2
  - heh yep. and its clear someone in the past couple of years informed him he doesnt use commas correctly or enough. - Jovian Aug 27, 12:26 1
    - The Trump comma is the new Oxford comma. -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 27, 14:12
- so still with the mic muzzle on -- nm - mr mooch Aug 27, 12:14
Happy Birthday Alex Lifeson! -- nm - Remlik Aug 27, 12:07 1
- I've always liked this riff -- (link) - crash davis 😺 Aug 27, 13:27 [youtube]
Ah, the Internet. With my cinephile YouTube, I'm used to seeing videos about Al Pacino, but now I sometimes read it as AI Pacino. -- nm - con_carne Aug 27, 12:07 2
- Odd, I see it as Al Pacino. -- nm - Spawn Aug 27, 12:08 1
  - Usually I do too! But this one was a short and there was a line break which made me look twice. - con_carne Aug 27, 12:11
I bought an everyday watch from a website called lightinthebox. I paid for it yesterday at 8pm and I got it today. The package says it came from Hong - Loyola Aug 27, 11:47 1
- Biden! -- nm - Spawn Aug 27, 11:48
first Jan 6th insurrectionist to breach the Capitol catches a 53-month stretch (pending Nov 5th results) -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 27, 11:45
Rec'd alert yesterday of planned power outage 10-12:30 today for a repair. It's 1:30 and they haven't started. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Aug 27, 11:30 2
- tbf they haven't gotten around to fixing the office clocks. -- nm - Max Aug 27, 11:31 1
  - Or maybe they said "It's 100 degrees out. Maybe this isn't such a good idea today." -- nm - Baron of the Rings Aug 27, 11:35
parents of HS teens (daughters esp): is it true they don't talk on the phone with friends basically at all now? text or didn't happen? -- nm - mr mooch Aug 27, 11:28 11
- So…get them a flip phone is what I’m hearing -- nm - Trending Aug 27, 12:06
- pretty much. Though there are times they facetime -- nm - Remlik Aug 27, 11:57
- Princess Disney is 12 but would rather talk on phone over text. But she more of an in person communicator than digital. -- nm - Walt_Disney Aug 27, 11:50
- I'm not sure if I've ever heard Mac's phone ring when it was a friend calling, and can't remember her ever talking to a friend on the phone -- nm - prayformojo Aug 27, 11:48 1
  - sounds real popular -- nm - mr mooch Aug 27, 11:52
- A boy, but ZERO calls. What bery said. -- nm - Spawn Aug 27, 11:34
- text, or voice chat over video games -- nm - Beryllium Aug 27, 11:30 4
  - This tracks -- nm - oblique Aug 27, 11:35
  - Girls don't play games, Bery. :P -- nm - Baron of the Rings Aug 27, 11:31 2
    - The conversation I overheard in the car on Sunday dispels that notion. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 27, 11:32 1
      - My niece games at least as much as her brothers if not more. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Aug 27, 11:57
Parent company of 7-Eleven trying to argue its an "essential core" service to prevent take over by Canadian rival. (link) - Walt_Disney Aug 27, 11:19 6
- Man, Couche-Tard is on a tear buying up competitors, while 7-Eleven went into bankruptcy and had to be bought by their Japanese franchisee. -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 27, 14:18
- I mean, in Japan this is kinda true -- nm - ty97 Aug 27, 12:37
- i mean . . . kinda? but also at usurious prices -- nm - mr mooch Aug 27, 11:25 2
  - 7-11s in Japan are super-cheap -- nm - Roger More Aug 27, 13:01
  - Yeah but looks like in Japan they are kinko's, public notary, ticket box office, bill payment and convenience store all rolled into one. -- nm - con_carne Aug 27, 11:47
- Yes, do it, block that takeover. Have some backbone. - Beryllium Aug 27, 11:25
Woot: Linksys Tri-Band AX4200 WiFi 6 Wireless Router for $15 w/freeship - budice Aug 27, 10:55 2
- That seems like a pretty damn good deal. -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 27, 13:57 1
  - If it was not white I would have pulled the trigger. -- nm - Spawn Aug 27, 13:59
isn't this the same Albertson's that has been on a buying spree of its competitors for the last decade? - mr mooch Aug 27, 10:46 3
- Whole Foods did the same thing—got too big buying up the competition—Amazon buying it saved it from bankruptcy -- nm - Trending Aug 27, 10:54 2
  - the whole point of absorbing the competition is to make you stronger in the marketplace though -- nm - mr mooch Aug 27, 10:56 1
    - Indeed. If you become the BSD in a fractured industry, you can make bank. - Baron of the Rings Aug 27, 11:34
Chiefs have released WR Kadarius Toney -- nm - budice Aug 27, 10:39 4
- they said "anyone who wants to stay catch this fluffy bear" .... and he dropped it everytime -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 27, 11:39 2
  - i dunno, hope it wasn't really over one boneheaded play. lotta teams prolly happy to have a championship WR -- nm - mr mooch Aug 27, 11:40 1
    - one play? I think you misremember all last season. from what little I have heard - tRuMaN Aug 27, 11:43
- They said "anyone who wants to be released cross this line" and, well. -- nm - rollo Aug 27, 10:53
‘Yellowstone’ Eyes Surprise Season 6 as Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser in Talks to Continue Series -- (link) - Remlik Aug 27, 10:38 11
- "Hauser plays Rip Wheeler, Beth’s wife and an employee and “fixer” of Dutton Ranch." - Diva Aug 27, 12:32
- I honestly don't even remember what the drama is about. -- nm - sycor Aug 27, 10:45 3
  - I just love it for the scenery and the horses. But someone is always trying to take their land, it’s terrible. -- nm - Loyola Aug 27, 11:11 2
    - its a Soap Opera. Someone was always trying to take over Ewing Oil, or JR was plotting something. -- nm - Remlik Aug 27, 12:03
    - L3 touche. -- nm - sycor Aug 27, 11:11
- I dont know who is ultimately to blame? But I have never ever seen such a popular series quite literally burn itself to a crisp like Yellowstone. -- nm - Jovian Aug 27, 10:40 3
  - Bob Iger ran Millionaire right into the ground the first chance he got - mr mooch Aug 27, 10:43 2
    - Greys Anatomy, still alive -- nm - budice Aug 27, 10:45 1
      - Really?! Is Grey even still on it, or is it just Anatomy now? -- nm - sycor Aug 27, 10:46
- Yellowstone Infinity. Altho the reaction to Horizon might cool the Western audience. -- nm - budice Aug 27, 10:39 1
  - No. Not for Yellowstone. Horizon won't have any effect on that -- nm - Remlik Aug 27, 11:09
Colorado seems like the Crypto Bros of College Football -- nm - budice Aug 27, 10:26 1
- Blonde woman yelling at cat (sitting in chair at end of the table) meme*—“You take that back!” -- nm - Trending Aug 27, 10:29
I guess Cooper Hoffman has a type -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 27, 10:25 2
- wait. so is this a viable fantasy that comes true sometimes? "his fantasies come true as Erika (Wilde) taps him to become her sexual muse" -- (edited) - Jovian Aug 27, 10:49 1
  - it's Gregg Araki so i'm guessing it will be queer coded in some way, not just an Adrian Lyne wankfest -- nm - mr mooch Aug 27, 10:52
it seems we’ve moved into the “drain every last cent from the marks” phase of the mob bust out -- (link) - mr mooch Aug 27, 10:23 8
- He's only going to autograph 5 of the cards, if you buy 75 you get an invite to...not Mara but Jupiter -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 27, 10:36 2
  - yes, and if you buy 15 of them (@ $99 each), you will get a piece of the suit he wore during the debate! -- nm - Jovian Aug 27, 10:39 1
    - Not just any suit its the "knockout suit" -- nm - eag Aug 27, 10:53
- pathetic -- (link) - mud Aug 27, 10:29 2
  - Agreed, it is a bit pricy for that.. - Jovian Aug 27, 10:35 1
    - dunno, 99¢ seems fair. - mud Aug 27, 10:37
- and exactly who is his running mate at this point? Is it still JD? Or is it RFK Jr? or maybe now it is Tulsi Gabbard? -- nm* - Jovian Aug 27, 10:25
- I appreciate Issac Hayes fam going after him for $3M in music rights -- nm - budice Aug 27, 10:25
.nm -- nm* - mr mooch Aug 27, 10:21 2
- -- -- -- nm* - mud Aug 27, 10:29 1
  - ... --- ... -- nm - Spawn Aug 27, 12:39
LIR: Now you're finding literal winning lottery tickets in your front yard? Who are you? Andie? -- nm* - oblique Aug 27, 10:20 1
- Update: I read them wrong. They were not winners. Which is why someone threw them out. -- nm - Inigo Aug 27, 11:06
zoom zoom -- nm - oblique Aug 27, 10:19

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