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UNC bent the knee. Bill Belichick to be the next Head Coach. -- nm - budice Dec 11, 14:43
I've been doing extensive research this afternoon and Aaron Taylor-Johnson's attractiveness is highly hairstyle dependent. - Dano Dec 11, 14:12 2
- I was going to take umbrage until I recalled the Savages hairstyle. When you right! you right! -- nm - Pippy aka Desparada Dec 11, 14:33
- Also beard fullness dependent. -- nm - Qale Dec 11, 14:16
Will or Kelly - is your son still collecting postcards from around the world? - Fuzzy Dec 11, 14:07
the notion that the country that gave birth to the KKK, among other goon squads, would be immune to their own version of the Troubles is mighty quaint -- (link) - mr mooch Dec 11, 14:01
Anyone install sod? Trying to figure out what to do with my back yard and the dogs. - Dano Dec 11, 14:00 9
- sod is dirt -- nm - budice Dec 11, 14:42
- build each of them a miniature Camden Yards and M&T Bank Stadium -- nm - mr mooch Dec 11, 14:33
- Have the Dirt tilled to break up the hard packed ground. Or at least get a cultivator fork and turn it over, add compost - zeitgeist Dec 11, 14:24 1
  - If I decide to go with sod, I will probably pay someone to do it. -- nm - Dano Dec 11, 14:32
- I've been having the same discussions at our house. Cleaning our dogs feet every time they go out is a huge pain. We're thinking artificial grass. - pmb Dec 11, 14:05 4
  - what about different ground cover, something hardy like clover -- nm - Andie Dec 11, 14:13 2
    - I wonder if growing anything new at this point will work unless I can keep the dogs off it for weeks/months. - Dano Dec 11, 14:18 1
      - Theoretically, but we have patches that always seem to have a hard time growing anything. The turf actually looks pretty good these days - pmb Dec 11, 14:22
  - I know grass seed won't do anything. Was hoping maybe sod would work well enough though. -- nm - Dano Dec 11, 14:11
So Cam Rising and Trevor Lawrence were in the SAME high school recruiting class…here are their football journeys - Trending Dec 11, 13:59 [Attachment]
Canadian MP Charlie Angus has more balls than any Dem senator -- (link) - mr mooch Dec 11, 13:53 8
- What does it cost him? - Name Withheld By Request Dec 11, 13:56 7
  - Musk is threatening to fund opposition candidates in the UK and probably wouldn't be a great stretch to think he'd do it in Canada too -- nm - mr mooch Dec 11, 13:59 6
    - Our campaign fundraising rules - while not perfect - would be pretty hard to make a meaningful difference. - Name Withheld By Request Dec 11, 14:04 5
      - he didn't donate his $250m directly to Candidate Trump here -- nm - mr mooch Dec 11, 14:06 4
        
        No, but a lot of his voter turnout spending is illegal here. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 11, 14:17 3
        
        also, the concept of primarying him doesn't exist. -- nm - Reagen Dec 11, 14:30 2
        
        Yeah. I kinda wish we had a version of that - would likely lead to better candidates - but money really doesn't grease the system like elsewhere. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 11, 14:32 1
        
        I think it would just lead to more money entering the system - Reagen Dec 11, 14:34
Microsoft is now using AI in its Bing quizzes. One of the answers available to the question: What year did hyperinflation occur in Germany was... - Qale Dec 11, 13:48 [Attachment] 1
- Since when did JaxSean start writing quizzes for Bing? -- nm - oblique Dec 11, 13:50
live action Tangled coming, suckers (which means Disney's finally gotten around to fully eating their own tail) -- (link) - mr mooch Dec 11, 13:21 10
- Tastes like big bags of cash. -- nm - David Dec 11, 14:03
- Now they have to do animated versions of all their live action movies—1st up: Herbie Goes Bananas followed by Gus the Kicking Mule and then - Trending Dec 11, 13:38 4
  - I'd watch the stuffing out of animated Gus. -- nm - David Dec 11, 14:04 1
    - Same— 🤜 🤛 -- nm - Trending Dec 11, 14:06
  - Mary Poppins but they swap the live action and animated bits -- nm - Fuzzy Dec 11, 13:55 1
    - Would be cool—maybe Bedknobs and Broomsticks could do the same thing -- nm - Trending Dec 11, 14:00
- Ugh. -- nm - znufrii Dec 11, 13:32
- Whoever that dancing dude in Wicked is should be the lead -- nm - oblique Dec 11, 13:30 1
  - Umm..did you not watch Bridgerton? He's delightfully smoldering in that. - Pippy aka Desparada Dec 11, 14:35
- Igerborous. -- nm - RelucantCynic Dec 11, 13:28
we need your sign off on this project you have limited knowledge of, no information for and no involvement with - Beaker 🍺 Dec 11, 12:48 9
- That's pretty much how the mortgage crisis got going, here's all these sketchy loans. Don't worry, they have a house to reclaim if it goes bad. -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 11, 14:27
- Source: Trust me -- nm - Trending Dec 11, 13:42
- I am constantly asked to sign for payment authorizations on things i have zero involvement with. i do it up to a certain point. - Andie Dec 11, 13:00
- You're really hurting our ability to set you up as a patsy! -- nm - Baron Gifts Dec 11, 12:56 4
  - heh, one guy said "whoever is closest to retirement gets to signoff" -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Dec 11, 13:01 3
    - well samara is about to be retired -- nm - budice Dec 11, 13:02 2
      - If you don't pull this off, you're gonna hear about it through August. -- nm - David Dec 11, 13:05 1
        
        2029 -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 11, 13:46
- heh -- nm - Pippy aka Desparada Dec 11, 12:53
‘Friday Night Lights’ Reboot in Development at Peacock -- (link) - Remlik Dec 11, 12:34
Would you give up your one of a kind Paul Skenes card for 30 seasons of Pittsburgh Pirates baseball? - crash davis 😺 Dec 11, 12:23 4
- A woman here at a local shop got a Skenes 1/1 — just not this one. - Will Hunting Dec 11, 12:44 2
  - I've been out of the game for several years now - have they gone back to low numbers inserts being a big deal again? - Jim Dec 11, 12:45 1
    - They combined them. Low # rookie / prospect autographs are the grail. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 11, 12:56
- I'd sell it. I'd rather have the money than the tickets, softball game and a meet and greet. -- nm* - Krusty Dec 11, 12:26
Kraven the Hunter 9% after 23 reviews. It's Morbin' Time indeed! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Dec 11, 12:19 19
- I'd be slightly more interested if they'd featured Kraven buddying in Seventh Circle Prison with Alexei Shostakov. - Max Dec 11, 13:28 1
  - max! -- nm - mr mooch Dec 11, 13:33
- "(...) the powers of nature’s greatest predators. The strength of an ape, the speed of a cheetah, the comic timing of a grizzly bear, and so on." - Marlowe Dec 11, 13:07
- 11% after 37 reviews. getting better! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Dec 11, 12:49
- Sony just fucked up the golden goose they could have had with the SPider-adjacent properties -- nm - Remlik Dec 11, 12:32 2
  - I'd argue this is the cherry on top of their shit sandwich after the last bunch of crap they've sent out -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Dec 11, 12:50 1
    - they deserve all the ridicule they're going to get for this -- nm - Remlik Dec 11, 14:12
- It gets a single 7:00 p.m. showing on my Dolby screen each day, and I'm going to go see it Saturday. - Spawn Dec 11, 12:23 10
  - I haven't seen Morbius, Madame Web, Venom 2 and 3. But I plan to watch this eventually. -- nm* - Beaker 🍺 Dec 11, 12:49
  - Madame Webb had attractive people, I hope that is the high end of your scale - crash davis 😺 Dec 11, 12:24 8
    - MW was a bunch of attractive females. I'm not sure there are *any* females in Kraven. - Spawn Dec 11, 13:22 1
      - Ferengi Movie Reviews -- nm - Beryllium Dec 11, 13:39
    - ATJ is super attractive -- nm - Pippy aka Desparada Dec 11, 12:38 5
      - Is he? Or is he just ripped? -- nm - Reagen Dec 11, 12:42 4
        
        Yes. Though I prefer the more clean cut short hair look on him. -- nm - Dano Dec 11, 12:44 3
        
        classic chiseled face, piercing blue eyes, blonde. He is the whole package. I mean...the ripped is helping. -- nm - Pippy aka Desparada Dec 11, 12:52 2
        
        And the lack of acting talent and ability to be groomed are small issues. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 11, 12:57 1
        
        **chuckling** I mean he is no Ben Foster but he does okay. Bullet Train was the right vehicle for him -- nm - Pippy aka Desparada Dec 11, 14:37
- 🦛 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Dec 11, 12:20
Interesting point I learned over Thanksgiving. There is 1 Magic Dock Tesla supercharger location that I can find nearby and it is on the way - oblique Dec 11, 12:14
Continued: 2024 album recommendation thread. French Cassettes - Benzene -- nm - rollo Dec 11, 12:12
“rescinding a 2011 policy that has restricted ICE from arresting migrants in schools, houses of worship and hospitals” -- (link) - mr mooch Dec 11, 12:09 1
- ~When they kick at your front door, how you gonna come? With your hands on your head, or on the trigger of your gun~♪ -- (link) - mud Dec 11, 12:29 [youtube]
This month's email offers from Bloomberg: - David Dec 11, 12:09
Insurance Company Celebrates 50 Billionth Fucking Over Of Customer -- (link) - oblique Dec 11, 12:03 1
- More than Stalin -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 11, 12:09
Founder of the Kraken Bonderman hockey team died -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 11, 12:02
I'm no David, but I think that my Christmas shopping may be complete. (Some is still in transit) -- nm - Dano Dec 11, 11:56 5
- I'm jealous. I still have so many gifts to buy. -- nm - Krusty Dec 11, 12:40
- Mine is done, too! (this is huge for me) - Dark Callisto 🦊 Dec 11, 12:25 3
  - 👍🏻 -- nm - Krusty Dec 11, 12:40
  - I'm rubbing off on her! - David Dec 11, 12:28 1
    - *snicker* - oblique Dec 11, 12:33
I ordered a copy of my birth certificate on July 11. It shipped today. - ty97 Dec 11, 11:51 17
- Takes awhile to convert the stone etchings to a digital format. -- nm - samara Dec 11, 12:23 6
  - I wonder how long it'll take to mail out the death certificate because of this post? -- nm - Inigo Dec 11, 14:02
  - "Arrive. Wreck people. Leave." -- nm - samara's new t-shirt Dec 11, 13:47
  - dang -- nm - prayformojo Dec 11, 13:32
  - OMG!!!! -- nm - zunk takes things literally Dec 11, 13:24
  - Heh... old. -- nm - Spawn Dec 11, 12:24
  - 😏 -- nm - JD Dec 11, 12:24
- Side note: It appears to be arriving via overnight shipping because clearly they put a rush on this. -- nm - ty97 Dec 11, 12:17
- Funny Story. I wound up with 6 copies of my birth cert... - budice Dec 11, 12:17
- I wonder what the delay was. I got mine last year and it only took a couple of weeks. -- nm - Krusty Dec 11, 12:06 3
  - Same here -- nm - decline Dec 11, 12:41
  - NYC and NY State (non-NYC births) are separate departments/groups -- nm - ty97 Dec 11, 12:09 1
    - Wonder if they are slammed by requests from citizens with foreign sounding names. I see an increase in marriage licenses from SoAm nationals -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 11, 12:11
- NYC is way faster. -- nm - loosilu Dec 11, 12:01
- They had to go to the basement archives to find a piece of paper that old n dusty. They're still short on respirators since the pandemic -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 11, 11:56 1
  - Contacted Meg, just to make sure she was okay with such a thing not being in a museum. -- nm - Qale Dec 11, 12:05
- They had to dust off the mimeograph machine -- nm - Baron Gifts Dec 11, 11:55
Let's say with invite teams outside of the NBA to the "in season tournament". Who gets invited? Women's teams? International teams? - Mop🧹 Dec 11, 11:49 2
- IMO In-season implies in-league. However I think there would be merit in a World Championship type competetion - JD Dec 11, 11:58
- MonStars -- nm - mr mooch Dec 11, 11:53
The Boston Red Sox are finalizing a trade to acquire left-hander Garrett Crochet from the Chicago White Sox -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Dec 11, 11:38 7
- Well, he already said he doesn’t want to play in the postseason so mission accomplished. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 11, 12:03
- That should improve them if they knit up Crochet -- nm - crash davis 😺 Dec 11, 11:53 4
  - The article spins quite the yarn -- nm - Dano Dec 11, 12:00
  - the name sounds 100% made up, right? -- nm - prayformojo Dec 11, 11:55
  - only if they pick up Mack Ramay from the Twins -- nm - mr mooch Dec 11, 11:55 1
    - 😺😺😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Dec 11, 11:57
- Go with God, Boston -- nm - David Dec 11, 11:49
I need a new online glazed ham place. I got addicted at Thanksgiving, but the place here only does holidays. -- nm - David Dec 11, 11:38 9
- If you ever wanted to make your own - Trisha Yearwood has an amazing glazed ham recipe. Carrie makes it every year - very easy and very very delicious -- nm - Jim Dec 11, 12:37
- Darn it. If only there were a major holiday upcoming... -- nm - samara Dec 11, 12:34 1
  - That's a one-week solution, Samara. Think long term! -- nm - David Dec 11, 13:04
- How about a steamed ham? -- nm - Dano Dec 11, 12:28 1
  - I'm currently off steamed hams -- nm - David Dec 11, 12:33
- we but the chunk of ham from Costco and then glaze it our self and cook it in the air fryer. yummy and cheap. -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Dec 11, 12:17 1
  - I think I'm batting 1.000 in setting off the fire alarm when I try to cook here. -- nm - David Dec 11, 12:28
- How about a honey-glazed applewood smoked ham? -- (edited) - RelucantCynic Dec 11, 11:54 1
  - Thank you for trying. Their reviews and prices don't dazzle me. -- nm - David Dec 11, 12:15
NCAA talks expanding hoops tourney to 72 or 76 -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Dec 11, 11:37 5
- Congratulations 11th place team from the SEC! -- nm - Dano Dec 11, 11:55
- The number of D1 teams has grown by 30% since the field expanded to 64 teams in 1985. -- nm - Baron Gifts Dec 11, 11:52 1
  - But does that simply dilute the quality pool or has it grown as well? -- nm - Spawn Dec 11, 12:25
- I see they picked the least flattering picture of A.J. Dybantsa imaginable. -- nm - David Dec 11, 11:39
- lol fucking clown show -- nm - mr mooch Dec 11, 11:38
i guess the only silver lining is there won't even be an NLRB by the end of this SCOTUS term . . . -- (link) - mr mooch Dec 11, 11:36
F************ck - znufrii Dec 11, 11:33 1
- Find and replace all of the "s" with blanks - Problem olved! -- nm - Dano Dec 11, 11:53
I feel fat. I'm going to move in this direction instead so I can be skinny. -- (link) - Semi-Dirac Fermion Dec 11, 11:32 3
- and cause I'm a mess of science and pop culture references, I kept reading that as Semi-Drac and kept thinking of Louis Gossett Jr. -- nm - JD Dec 11, 11:41
- "Imagine the particle is a tiny train confined to a network of tracks, which are the material's underlying electronic structure," Oh, c'mon - JD Dec 11, 11:38
- where is nubby when you need him -- nm - oblique Dec 11, 11:34
ST Quiz: Who was the last person not chosen as Time's Person of the Year in the year they were elected president? -- nm - Dano Dec 11, 11:30 7
- Clinton didn't win for his re-elect in 96 (David Ho won that year). Clinton won in 92 and then in 98 (alongside Ken Starr) -- nm - ty97 Dec 11, 11:41 3
  - George H W Bush didn't win in 1988 (The Endangered Earth did) though he won in 1990. -- nm - ty97 Dec 11, 11:42 2
    - Reagan won for his election in 1980 and again in 1983, but not for his 1984 re-election -- nm - ty97 Dec 11, 11:43 1
      - Nixon did not win for his 1968 election (The Apollo 8 astronauts). Nixon won in 1971. In 1972, Nixon and Kissinger won. -- nm - ty97 Dec 11, 11:45
- Taylor Swift -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 11, 11:41
- Trump? (I can't remember) -- nm - loosilu Dec 11, 11:36
- THOT? -- (link) - mr mooch Dec 11, 11:31
zoom zoom -- nm - oblique Dec 11, 11:29

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