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Critics unimpressed by Wuthering Heights film casting -- (link) - LMS Sep 24, 07:53 2
- “Unimpressed” w/Margot Robbie?! 👀—I’ll give them the age thing, but they are both PROFESSIONAL ACTORS, not some dinner theater wannabe—they got this -- nm - Trending Sep 24, 08:11
- "She just wants to make a tortured lovers drama with a name that’ll put butts in seats." - Barony Bunch Sep 24, 08:02
Full regular-season grades for all 30 MLB teams -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Sep 24, 07:53
"IF .." -- (link) - mud Sep 24, 07:46 2
- If -- (link) - JD Sep 24, 07:54 [youtube] 1
  - If -- (link) - Turd Ferguson Sep 24, 08:01 [youtube]
"some things are more important than staying in power." -- nm - joe at the UN Sep 24, 07:42 1
- No no. I'm good with bombing my neighbors into stone age, as the emergency keeps me, personally, from going to jail -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 24, 11:01
Disclaimer | Apple TV+ | October 11 -- (link) - mud Sep 24, 07:22 [youtube] 1
- /* Disclaiming intensifies */ -- nm - budice Sep 24, 07:25
Welcome the all-new Roku Ultra, similar to all the other ones. WiFi6, and CPU upgrades -- (link) - budice Sep 24, 07:12
Heh -- (link) - con_carne Sep 24, 06:30 [Image] 3
- Very Florence Pugh-esque -- nm - Trending Sep 24, 07:02 2
  - But with dead eyes. -- nm - con_carne Sep 24, 07:08 1
    - Truth—dude’s comment had me laughing— -- nm - Trending Sep 24, 07:13
Thousands of bones and hundreds of weapons reveal grisly insights into a 3,250-year-old battle in Germany -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Sep 24, 06:25
DO NOT LIKE -- (pic) - ty97 Sep 24, 06:20 [Attachment] 10
- If only a Presidential Sharpie Marker was a real thing. :( -- nm - Jovian Sep 24, 07:24
- What do the “S” “M” “H” indicate? -- nm - Trending Sep 24, 06:56 5
  - Sharpie Marker, Help! -- nm - Jovian Sep 24, 07:25
  - Full link - ty97 Sep 24, 07:05
  - Storm / Major Hurricane / Hurricane. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 24, 06:59 2
    - Yep. Where M = Cat 3 or higher. Currently it's not a Tropical Storm yet. That should happen at any time, in which case it gets named Helene. -- nm - ty97 Sep 24, 07:03
    - Interesting—thanks! -- nm - Trending Sep 24, 07:03
- *stay away from Orlando on Friday motherfucker* -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Sep 24, 06:20 2
  - Seems like it should be past the area by then, BUT when are you flying in? - ty97 Sep 24, 06:22 1
    - Friday evening (March Break it is always a fucking ice or snow storm; so the trip Gods said, "nah fuck these people") -- nm* - Beaker 🍺 Sep 24, 06:22
Sinners trailer -- (link) - LMS Sep 24, 06:12 [youtube] 9
- now that's how you do a trailer. shows enough but doesn't give away the whole fucking thing. -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Sep 24, 07:40 1
  - Agreed. Before I saw Coogler's name, I wonder if it was a Peele movie. Felt like his style. I am definitely interested. -- nm - Barony Bunch Sep 24, 08:04
- I guess I have to go look up who it is they're actually fighting. -- nm - con_carne Sep 24, 07:39 3
  - yes, they should of spoiled the whole movie in the trailer like the rest of them do -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Sep 24, 07:41 2
    - Not gonna rewatch the trailer for clues or anything, but I would like to know the stakes. -- nm - con_carne Sep 24, 07:53 1
      - I can see that; I like to be suprised :) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Sep 24, 07:59
- looks fantastic -- nm - Remlik Sep 24, 07:34
- wow. i am there -- nm - prayforwiggum Sep 24, 06:45
- whoa .. Coogler! -- nm - mud Sep 24, 06:23
The last full-size Kmart in the mainland United States is closing. It's locatedi in Bridgehampton, New York - decline Sep 24, 06:02 2
- It has the word "mart" and "shoppers" in there, I think they might be able to figure it out. -- nm - con_carne Sep 24, 06:53
- I'd suggest a road trip, but K-mart sucked 40 years ago. Even Rain Man knew that. -- nm - Barony Bunch Sep 24, 06:24
VLIR: Flavorize nailed it. 1107 of the 1985 guests in our Microsoft 365 tenant are inactive for 365 days. No logins, no accessing files, etc. -- nm - oblique Sep 24, 06:01 5
- Obviously they have no need for the service and you can delete all their stuff to save disk space. -- nm - BOFH Sep 24, 06:06 4
  - Luckily guest users are unlicensed and don't consume space for us but from a security standpoint there's no reason for them to exist anymore -- nm - oblique Sep 24, 06:14 3
    - yup any number of companies dont clean the stuff up. Only until recently that people got the message. WiFi creds, other similar access too -- nm - budice Sep 24, 06:16 2
      - (Shouldve happened 20 years ago) -- nm - budice Sep 24, 06:19 1
        
        Heh. 20 years ago we had zero cloud presence. These AITM kits are getting crazy good. We're running towards FIDO2 and passkeys as fast as we can -- (link) - oblique Sep 24, 06:23
Another idiot kid calling in a bomb threat…this is like the 3rd at N’s school in the last weeks. - Will Hunting Sep 24, 05:43 1
- I know the parents in the neighborhood here have been freaked out and keeping kids home in a lot of cases. - Dark Callisto 🦊 Sep 24, 06:01
Remember when we all found out plastic recycling was a sham? That sucked, right? Well your state of California is suing ExxonMobil for hoodwinking you -- (link*) - con_carne Sep 24, 05:39
Macklemore said, "F*** America" at a pro-Palestine rally and now Seattle sports teams are reevaluating their ties with him. -- (link) - Krusty Sep 24, 05:22 3
- I have some hard lines, and this crosses one - Reagen Sep 24, 06:38 1
  - Guess he'll be spending more time at the thrift shop. -- nm - Barony Bunch Sep 24, 06:44
- Only in America. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Sep 24, 06:35
Trump campaign still being hacked. NYT and CNN still sitting on the earlier hacked emails etc -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 24, 05:11
Bengals produced the best offensive performance of the season in terms of EPA/drive and success rate. Happened to pair it with horrific defense. - Volnelk Sep 24, 04:46 11
- I feel like the Bengals always start slow—Vs Panthers, Giants, and Browns in 3 of the next 4 games—that’s gotta be 3 easy wins -- nm - Trending Sep 24, 05:40 2
  - you mean against Mister Andy Dalton's Panthers... -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Sep 24, 06:21
  - But we said that before the year started about the Pats and Commanders. And here we are. -- nm - Volnelk Sep 24, 05:41
- The defense definitely needs work, but Burrow is also 29-25-1 as a starter in the NFL. - Inigo Sep 24, 05:12 4
  - He’s the second-best QB in the world and the only one in Mahomes’ stratosphere. His unavoidable problem is that he’s a Bengal. -- nm - David Sep 24, 07:05 3
    - Anyone still calling him the second best QB in the league needs to re-evaluate their grading criteria. - Inigo Sep 24, 07:56 2
      - I put him above those two on the Occam's Razor basis that he is better than either of them. - David Sep 24, 08:02 1
        
        Sure, and Mark Sanchez got to two AFC championships because of his running game and defense. - Inigo Sep 24, 08:13
- Commanders last 13 possessions: five touchdowns, eight field goals, no punts, no turnovers -- (link*) - Beaker 🍺 Sep 24, 04:52 2
  - Must not have hope. Must not have hope. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 24, 05:20 1
    - Your offense looked so much like the Ravens and Lamar. That game here is gonna be fun. -- nm - Inigo Sep 24, 05:28
Murdle: 14:54 - I had to go over the But Not Both clue three times - prayforwiggum Sep 24, 04:45
Murdle 2:45 - Fuzzy Sep 24, 04:40
Megalopolis 52%, The Wild Robot 98%, Saturday Night 79%, Sleep 94%, Lee 64% -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Sep 24, 04:38
2-0 in FF. -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Sep 24, 04:36 1
- Wait, I won? How? I was down 20 points going to Monday night and had nobody left. Oh... -- nm - Barony Bunch Sep 24, 06:31
TV PSA: MLB, WNBA, Deadliest Catch, DWTS, WWE NXT, America's Got Talent, High Potential, OMITB, Evolution of the Black Quarterback, - Beaker 🍺 Sep 24, 04:35 2
- Only Murders and finish Zach Snyder's Twilight of the Gods on NF -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Sep 24, 04:51
- MLB and Only Murders. I hope that Ellen special is a huge failure. -- nm - Krusty Sep 24, 04:44
Strands #205 - 1st - prayforwiggum Sep 24, 04:14 1
- Yellow 1st - decline Sep 24, 05:26
Re: school cell phone bans: my province instituted one this year and it has gone shockingly well -- (edited) - Reagen Sep 24, 04:13 3
- Our district has it too. Seems to be working pretty well. - Volnelk Sep 24, 04:43 1
  - "bathroom" trips are way down. -- nm - Reagen Sep 24, 04:54
- nice -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Sep 24, 04:23
xPBGY - crash davis 😺 Sep 24, 02:53 3
- xxYxBGP - mud Sep 24, 06:10
- GYxBP - decline Sep 24, 05:18
- YBPG - prayforwiggum Sep 24, 04:10
Wordle 1,193 5/6 - crash davis 😺 Sep 24, 02:38 3
- satisfying 3 - rollo Sep 24, 05:51
- 3 - decline Sep 24, 05:16
- 5/6 - all green - prayforwiggum Sep 24, 04:07
IRS hits the offshore jackpot, $263m from a single tax evader -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 23, 23:24 2
- that could of been me the IRS went after! -- nm - Dude living in a trailer on welfare Sep 24, 04:57
- Kylorenmore.gif -- nm - Tim Sep 24, 00:34
I wonder if this gets raised in the Fubo-Venu fight -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 23, 22:52
streaming, even at Netflix, is the bunk -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 23, 22:40 8
- If only we could go back to the good ole days of studios not paying people when they said they would. - Inigo Sep 24, 04:13 2
  - as bad as Hollywood Accounting has always been, writers could buy houses with the income they earned. all the guilds want is the same fair share of - mr mooch Sep 24, 05:10 1
    - That's totally right and fair. - Inigo Sep 24, 05:15
- You continue to present news stories that say the opposite of your snark. It’s a real shame. -- (edited) - Qale Sep 24, 00:25 4
  - so successful they're gonna tell the agents and managers they can't afford to pay their clients anymore -- nm - mr mooch Sep 24, 00:42 3
    - and only 4 of the top 10 most watched shows this year are actually Netflix's -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 24, 00:48 2
      - 2) Baby Reindeer and The Gentleman. - Krusty Sep 24, 04:32
      - It doesn’t matter if they are theirs or not if they are the ones getting the sub money for it. -- nm - Qale Sep 24, 01:43
MKBHD becomes the grifter, releasing a wallpapers app with a $50 yearly subscription that only shares half the profits with the artists. Like bro… -- nm - Qale Sep 23, 22:38 3
- $50 a year is a lot for a wallpapers app and is there really demand for something like this? -- nm - Krusty Sep 24, 04:38
- I've heard that Wallaroo by Iconfactory is a better option - e.g., rather than curating the wallpapers, they, you know, actually make them. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 23, 22:39 1
  - Bing makes amazing wallpapers. They credit artists, but I don’t know their pay structure. Generally my wallpapers are photos I’ve taken myself and… - Qale Sep 24, 00:23
I tried a food experiment this evening. I would call it a failure. -- nm* - Beryllium Sep 23, 22:06 3
- *glowing faintly* -- nm - food remnant Sep 23, 22:09 1
  - The demon core of food -- nm - Beryllium Sep 23, 22:34
- Grilled cheese and peanut butter, using mayo instead of butter. - Beryllium Sep 23, 22:07
The NHC is now explicitly forecasting Helene to become a major (category 3+) hurricane on approach to the Florida Panhandle. -- (link*) - Qale Sep 23, 21:36 3
- I saw that in the 8pm track update, but the M is gone in the 11pm update? -- nm - ty97 Sep 23, 21:48 2
  - anyway, if this could track more west, that would be great. - ty97 Sep 23, 21:51 1
    - Hitting just to the west of Apalachacola would be just awful for storm surge for sure. -- nm - Qale Sep 23, 22:01
fam I’m gagged at how hard they slayed at MSG tonight -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 23, 21:26 1
- You’re in time out. -- nm - Qale Sep 23, 21:28
Al Smith dinner: Harris declines invite, 45 accepts.... -- nm - Remlik Sep 23, 20:42 7
- Like the Catholic church needs more money. -- nm - Krusty Sep 23, 21:11 3
  - FWIW, the money is for "to raise funds for Catholic charities supporting children of various needs in the Archdiocese of New York." - ty97 Sep 23, 21:13 2
    - Pretty sure the Catholic church can support the Catholic charities all they want. They have $3.9 billion in assets -- (edited) - Krusty Sep 24, 04:40 1
      - So wait, we're anti-charity to help children and those in need now? -- nm - ty97 Sep 24, 06:50
- "This is an impressive crowd. The haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elite. I call you my base." -- nm - Bush Jr Sep 23, 21:06
- I remember the one he attended with Hillary. The whole room changed when he went nasty. -- nm - loosilu Sep 23, 21:04
- good for her (she's going to campaign instead) -- nm - mr mooch Sep 23, 21:03
Nice!!! happend to me last week -- nm - loosilu Sep 23, 20:36
For Volnelk. Obviously Watergate was a place. All other names derive from it.It's a cultural thing. -- nm - loosilu Sep 23, 20:34 2
- I get that it’s accepted. I accept it. It’s dumb. This can all be true. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Sep 23, 20:55 1
  - agreed! -- nm - loosilu Sep 23, 21:03
WAS@CIN: 0 punts, 0 turnovers. First game since 1940 that happened -- nm - budice Sep 23, 20:24
Big Brother spoiler update - Peglegpete Sep 23, 20:07
this should be a campaign ender for Bernie Moreno in Ohio but we'll see i guess -- (link) - mr mooch Sep 23, 20:05
Today was the first time my starter word was the word of the day. - kelly Sep 23, 20:00 7
- Nice! happened to me last week. These are common starter words -- nm - loosilu Sep 23, 20:37 1
  - (based on their analytics) -- nm - loosilu Sep 23, 20:38
- Two other friends on Facebook did this as well. Bizarre -- nm - prayforwiggum Sep 23, 20:15 3
  - Did something happen with ralph wiggum that you changed your handle to this or just for fun? -- nm - Krusty Sep 23, 20:33 2
    - I'm mocking my complete suck-itude at Murdle. - prayforwiggum Sep 23, 20:43 1
      - "I'm uh... on a road, uh... looks to be asphalt. Um, ah geez, trees, shrubs, um... I'm directly under the earth's sun... now!" -- nm - Krusty Sep 23, 21:08
- Nice! -- nm - Beryllium Sep 23, 20:07
Jayden Daniels is currently 20 out of 22. -- nm - David Sep 23, 19:41 13
- I'm no footballologist, and the Bengals D may or may not be crappy, and I'm loathe to say anything good about the Washington Football Team, but - prayforwiggum Sep 23, 19:52 4
  - Completely agreed. On that 4th down play, he was yelling at the sidelines to get the playcall in faster in case he wanted to audible. - David Sep 23, 19:54
  - 55 starts in college -- nm - rollo Sep 23, 19:54 2
    - that certainly has paid off -- nm - prayforwiggum Sep 23, 19:59 1
      - Sportscenter: 80.3% passing through first 3 games. Slightly ahead of Tom Brady for 2nd, behind Drew Brees at 80.6% -- nm - rollo Sep 23, 20:21
- The Cincinnati defense has been absurd and I don’t mean that in a good way. - Volnelk 🍊 Sep 23, 19:44 7
  - In their defense, Daniels is showing signs of Him-ness tonight. -- nm - David Sep 23, 19:53 3
    - Regardless. It’s time to trade Higgins and start looking at mock drafts. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Sep 23, 19:54 2
      - I'd love to have Higgins here in DC to pair with McLaurin. -- nm - samara Sep 23, 19:59 1
        
        I don’t know why we’d keep him. He’s leaving and we are three games out three game into the season. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Sep 23, 20:05
  - Holy shit. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Sep 23, 19:46 2
    - “ The Bengals scored or attempted a field goal every possession and didn't even have a chance to win at the end” -- nm - Trending Sep 23, 20:09 1
      - Offense wasn’t the issue. At all. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Sep 23, 20:11

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