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gonna be funny when Wemby and Zach Edey make the NBA look like prime Shaq/Tim Duncan era in the paint again -- (link) - mr mooch Oct 14, 22:29
Why are shoe laces something you can’t just buy at Dollar Tree? -- nm - Mop🧹 Oct 14, 21:17 1
- because it's not a shoe tree? -- nm - mr mooch Oct 14, 21:55
I really want tin roof sundae ice cream right now for some reason -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 20:13 1
- tin roof? - B-52's Oct 14, 20:30
Omg. 2 field goal kicks hit the uprights. And do they have a mic in it? It sounded like someone kicking a garbage can -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 14, 19:57
Every kicker who will have a job tomorrow, step forward. Not so fast, Legatron... -- nm - David Oct 14, 19:55
That moment when a YT person you watch a lot buys a Cybertruck... -- nm - David Oct 14, 19:47 13
- I’d be like, can I sell this for something reasonable instead? -- nm - Qale Oct 14, 23:08
- A lot of streamers have Teslas. Youtubers probably the same. - the wrong element Oct 14, 20:17
- maybe hes going to take it apart -- nm - Remlik Oct 14, 19:56
- Uh oh. Who? MKBHD? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 19:54 9
  - MK has a Cybertruck. -- nm - Mop🧹 Oct 14, 20:43 1
    - And I won’t lie. I think less of him because of it. -- nm - Mop🧹 Oct 14, 21:03
  - I...don't know what that stands for. But no. It's our Putt Putt couple. -- nm - David Oct 14, 19:56 6
    - MKBHD = Marques Brownlee, prominent reviewer -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 19:57 5
      - 19.6 million subs. I don’t think he’s that great these days. It’s repackaged fluff with a slick style and less earnestness. -- nm - Qale Oct 14, 23:08 2
        
        His Apple Vision Pro review was mythic. -- nm - David Oct 14, 23:10
        
        Yeah, but that's true of tech in general right now. It's all trash. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 23:09
      - For any number of reasons, that would surprise me. -- nm - David Oct 14, 19:58 1
        
        (Except the Cybertruck part since he's in tech. They may have even given him one.) -- nm - David Oct 14, 19:59
Mark Vientos is amazing. - musubi Oct 14, 18:57 2
- As they were coming through the system, everything I read said Baty had the higher ceiling. -- nm - Tim Oct 14, 19:05
- This has been just an incredible ride of a season. - musubi Oct 14, 19:00
hail rodgers -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Oct 14, 18:43
He quit taking questions at his townhall and started playing music. -- nm - Remlik Oct 14, 18:23 22
- NYT: “another masterful campaign gambit, sir” -- (link) - mr mooch Oct 14, 22:24
- Question, why? We're nasty women asking gotcha questions or did he just get too tired? -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 14, 19:45 1
  - Or...did he notice his makeup was melting in the heat? -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 14, 19:46
- People fainting in expo center due to heat exhaustion. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Oct 14, 18:43 3
  - They must have taken Noem's gun from her before the townhall. It could've been much worse. -- nm - . Oct 14, 20:23
  - As Zeitgeist posted he stranded them at Cochella. That is at least the second recorded time following a freezing one four years ago. -- nm* - Qale Oct 14, 19:17
  - they could get water. Trump Water. $40 a bottle that he spit in. A bargain really -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Oct 14, 18:44
- What instrument does he play? -- nm - Mop🧹 Oct 14, 18:37 13
  - The lyre. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 14, 18:39 12
    - oh well done. -- nm - Remlik Oct 14, 19:58
    - Ha! -- nm - kelly Oct 14, 19:38
    - heyoooooo -- nm - Tim’s Ghost Oct 14, 19:32
    - Points! -- nm - Qale Oct 14, 19:17
    - Ha! -- nm - JaxSean Oct 14, 19:03
    - Not the fiddle? -- nm - rollo Oct 14, 18:49 2
      - Balalaika -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 14, 19:48
      - Points! -- nm - Qale Oct 14, 19:17
    - Dammit! -- nm - con_carne Oct 14, 18:45
    - *Robert Redford nod* -- nm - David Oct 14, 18:43
    - LOL -- nm - Mop🧹 Oct 14, 18:42
    - 👏 -- nm - JD Oct 14, 18:42
- apparently the desert rally magas were abandoned because he ignored the bus company's repeated requests for payment -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 14, 18:35
Highlander: The Series: Season 1 Episode 1 - The Gathering | Full Episode -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Oct 14, 18:15 [youtube] 3
- due to miscommunication, Lambert got 500k instead of 50K for guest starring. -- nm - Remlik Oct 14, 18:19 2
  - That's hilarious, but it's not like they could back out. -- nm - David Oct 14, 18:26 1
    - yeah it's a crazy story. I'm surprised (but very pleased) that they went through with it. -- nm - Remlik Oct 14, 19:59
Director of I, Robot complains that Tesla copied their car/bus designs -- (link) - zeitgeist Oct 14, 18:12 2
- So sue them. They’ve got billions. It’s clear their in-house designers are shit. They saw something good and stole it. Make them pay. -- nm - Mop🧹 Oct 14, 18:15 1
  - Probably because they are just conceptual drawings -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 14, 20:33
Dr. Rick is getting pushy. I’ll wear that apron if I want! -- nm - Mop🧹 Oct 14, 18:08
Watching the sun set -- (pic) - Beryllium Oct 14, 17:48 [Attachment]
Bills / Jets WHO YOU GOT!!?? -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Oct 14, 17:45 3
- Shoot the hostage -- nm - Pippy Oct 14, 19:48
- I know you wrote Bills / Jets but all I see is “Billy Joel”. My brain is broken. -- nm - Mop🧹 Oct 14, 18:34
- Gang Green, of course. -- nm - Krusty Oct 14, 17:51
out of bounds -- nm - Saleh Oct 14, 17:44
Huh. Icehouse, Electric Blue playing in the in-house system at Walmart. - Mop🧹 Oct 14, 17:20 9
- Walmart radio is super interesting as far as corporate in-store music. Extreme variety and some real surprises. -- nm - Qale Oct 14, 19:22
- That's a blast from the past. This mv they have up looks remastered and like it was shot yesterday -- (link) - con_carne Oct 14, 17:46 [youtube] 2
  - I remember their music video for “Crazy” vividly (evidently, the AU version) but I don’t know if I’ve ever seen the video for “Electric Blue” before. - Mop🧹 Oct 14, 18:51 1
    - It can’t be shown without summoning the power of Iva Davies’ mullet -- nm - Roger More Oct 14, 19:10
- The Killers have a surprisingly terrific cover of this -- (link) - prayformojo Oct 14, 17:43 [youtube] 3
  - WHOA! I love this song, and I had no idea! -- nm - Mop🧹 Oct 14, 18:08 1
    - Oh geez. They covered “The Whole of the Moon” live in Edinburgh. Terrible bootleg, but still great. -- (link) - Mop🧹 Oct 14, 18:14 [youtube]
  - I would argue that nothing the killers do is "surprisingly terrific." The killers are timeless perfection. -- nm - amanda Oct 14, 17:47
- Sometimes the simulation glitches -- nm - Pippy Oct 14, 17:42
Hey, we saw the comet again! -- nm - mara Oct 14, 17:17 2
- Cloudy here -- nm - znufrii Oct 14, 17:30
- ^^^^^^ a Neanderthal 80,000 years ago this week -- nm - mr mooch Oct 14, 17:19
I don’t really play anymore, but 6-star raids in Pokemon Go is definitely not the way I’d go. Unless they are in the part of the GAAS where they have to extract… -- (edited) - Qale Oct 14, 17:10 2
- I've been playing for 2 years and only remember this once...are there new ones now? -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Oct 14, 17:14 1
  - It’s for the Gigamaxes I believe. -- nm - Qale Oct 14, 19:23
"Masterclass by Dave Roberts to walk Lindor so the bases were loaded for the guy who had a 1.674 OPS in the NLDS." -- nm - Tim Oct 14, 16:36 2
- still not even the worst decision he made all day -- (link) - mr mooch Oct 14, 16:54
- and Vientos did the "and I took that personally" meme in the postgame interview -- nm - Tim Oct 14, 16:45
What's with the people in the neon green shirts? -- nm - colin Oct 14, 16:35 1
- I think they’re doing viral marketing for Smile again -- nm - Tim’s Ghost Oct 14, 16:36
Houston hit 99 degrees today tying the record for October set 10-1-1900. Not a typo. That is indeed 1900. -- nm* - Qale Oct 14, 16:34 3
- WE DID IT! -- nm - Mop🧹 Oct 14, 18:39
- Jebus! -- nm - Krusty Oct 14, 16:56 1
  - It is indeed as awful as it sounds. A front should arrive Tuesday night to take care of this until next year. But still. -- nm - Qale Oct 14, 17:12
If the NFL Was Scripted: Week 6 -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 Oct 14, 16:22 [youtube] 2
- PLOT TWIST! -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Oct 14, 16:27
- "I was thinking...Aidan Hutchinson." -- nm - David Oct 14, 16:24
OK, I'm not really familiar enough with the smell to be 100%, but I'm pretty certain my downstairs neighbor is smoking a blunt. -- nm - Bayronmax Oct 14, 16:11 5
- Cheap stuff can have a hint of skunk -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 14, 16:25 3
  - This has a vague cloying sweet odor -- nm - Bayronmax Oct 14, 16:52 2
    - Does it smell like grape, vanilla, or cherry? Or some other fruit? Or just generically cloyingly sweet? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Oct 14, 19:54
    - Wrappers do come in a variety of flavors. A 3-pack of vanilla flavored blunts wraps is common. -- nm - con_carne Oct 14, 17:31
- I'm quite familiar. It still smells like weed. ;-) Maybe a bit stronger from the tobacco leaf that's used. -- nm - Krusty Oct 14, 16:19
Diaz time baby -- nm - mr mooch Oct 14, 16:10
Big sports news -- (link) - Reagen Oct 14, 15:40 6
- Darn, that's a sport I hadn't heard of in a very long time. And didn't know it was now an official 'sport.' -- nm - Meg Oct 14, 15:58 1
  - I was too embarrassed to ask. - ReluctantCynic Oct 14, 20:04
- goddammit. the sport has gone to hell. it used to be all about the conk....ing -- nm - prayformojo Oct 14, 15:47
- that's nuts -- nm - rollo Oct 14, 15:46 2
  - that's the longest article I've ever read that I had no more information coming out of it than I did going in. -- nm - Reagen Oct 14, 15:50 1
    - Yup -- nm - Krusty Oct 14, 16:17
Frank Gore Jr will be on active roster tonight (not good if you have James Cook manager btw) -- nm - Trending Oct 14, 15:30 1
- James Cook is OUT -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Oct 14, 16:08
dodgers cooking -- nm - mr mooch Oct 14, 15:14 2
- welp -- nm - mr mooch Oct 14, 15:22 1
  - challenging the 2nd base call was moronic. Out by a mile -- nm - Reagen Oct 14, 15:24
Tua Tagovailoa does expect to play again this season. . -- nm - budice Oct 14, 14:58 1
- kinda wish he wouldn't. - colin Oct 14, 15:03
Daily Dungeon -- (link) - Beryllium Oct 14, 14:54
*sigh* It’s common for restaurants to be closed on Mondays but Mondays are the day I’m most likely going to want to get takeout. My needs! -- nm - Dano Oct 14, 14:54 3
- Don't order the fish stew. -- nm - Bayronmax Oct 14, 15:57
- Monday is Sunday dinner leftover day. Sorry. -- nm - con_carne Oct 14, 15:41
- I'm so with you on this one -- nm - JD Oct 14, 14:56
So the best thing that I saw this weekend was a nearly unbelievable cross sections of friends, family, and co-workers from all aspects of my life -- (edited) - JD Oct 14, 14:52 [Attachment] 7
- that's fantastic -- nm - Remlik Oct 14, 15:20
- Super cool—glad it was so memorable—going to be tough to top for your next big Bday -- nm - Trending Oct 14, 15:11 1
  - Pretty much out did what I 'planned' for my 50th - JD Oct 14, 15:22 [Backboard]
- Great friends, and FH is more than just a little special !! -- nm - Meg Oct 14, 15:09
- That's awesome to be loved that much -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 14, 15:07
- Oh and from earlier topics. cheap vinyl is being used as centerpieces and I now have a folder with three? four? signed LPs that were signed in place - JD Oct 14, 15:05 [youtube]
- awesome and congrats! -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Oct 14, 14:54
and power is back. turkey sandwiches rather than turkey dinner though as no power for last 4 hours or so -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Oct 14, 14:47
Disney D23 Halloween Party in Hollywood -- (link) - budice Oct 14, 14:43
DAL HC Mike McCarthy was 2 hours late to his presser -- nm - budice Oct 14, 14:35 2
- They fired the Jets coach right? 1st quarter of the season. Hmmmm. Get rid of Dak and Jerry Jones too. - Pippy aka Desparada Oct 14, 14:38
- I’d still be drunk too, after that beat down -- nm - Trending Oct 14, 14:36
LMAO - Big Brother winner from last night spoils. Quote from the Runner Up: - Jovian Oct 14, 14:30 4
- I thought you said spoiled rich manga girl and I was like, when manga become evil? -- nm - sycor Oct 14, 14:32 3
  - more spoils on runner-up - Jovian Oct 14, 14:34 2
    - she and the winner were both super religious too. -- nm - ☀️ amandachem ☀️ Oct 14, 14:39 1
      - yep, its partially why they 'bonded'. -- (edited) - Jovian Oct 14, 14:46
STIS: I need pants help - specifically Levi's. - colin Oct 14, 14:22 8
- Amazon Essentials has a slim fit that is basically identical—also found this link —that compares others to 511 Slim —but I do love the Amazon jeans -- (link) - Trending Oct 14, 14:39 3
  - Sweet. Someone did the work! -- nm - Mop🧹 Oct 14, 16:35
  - Otherwise 513s are the closest if you’re doing Levis only -- nm - Trending Oct 14, 14:41 1
    - hmm. interesting. i'll check all that out, thank you -- nm - colin Oct 14, 14:53
- Search eBay -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 14, 14:24 3
  - oh i have, only 2 pairs, not in my size. i'm looking at the 541 athletic taper, they seem to have some sort of in that material. -- nm - colin Oct 14, 14:27 2
    - Have you tried Depop, Mercari and Facebook Marketplace? People sell clothes on so many different sites. -- nm - Krusty Oct 14, 16:20
    - Set a search so they send an email when something is listed. -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 14, 14:51
Anybody watching Jeopardy? Yesterday’s champ reminded me of an actor but I can’t figure out who. -- nm - mara Oct 14, 14:14 4
- He looks vaguely like 90s Rick Rossovich but yeah there's something else I can't place. -- nm - sycor Oct 14, 14:20 3
  - Young Ryan Reynolds? -- nm - mara Oct 14, 14:26 1
    - Yeah I can see that -- nm - sycor Oct 14, 14:28
  - Pacific Blue! -- nm - JD Oct 14, 14:21
Roll it for Sofia Falcone -- nm - Jovian Oct 14, 14:11 3
- she's so good on this show -- nm - Remlik Oct 14, 15:20 1
  - This weeks was tremendous. Best so far. - Jovian Oct 14, 16:12
- [one hour of Sofia dancing in the club] -- (link) - DCU Oct 14, 14:16 [youtube]

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