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So...timeless.

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I have a niece (well, niece-in-law) who is a freshman at RIT. After we are vaccinated we’re supposed to be paying a visit.

e: assuming you mean Rochester, NY.

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Been playing Star Trek Fleet Command on the iPad the past couple months. It’s a fun game that organizes players into alliances, allowing them to forge their own faction paths (Federation, Klingon, Romulan, Augment, Rogue)...It’s one of the uglier freemium games I’ve seen though. The grind is real, b...

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DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Thu Mar 04, 2021 8:10 pm I feel asleep listening to the Distraction podcast last night, and had a crazy dream that I was a guest on the podcast but I couldn't unmute my microphone, and I couldn't add anything to the conversation.

You just described life in the grays.

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^ That started out a lot funnier than it ended.

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My "what's up, Grimace" to my oldest, dressed in all purple, was met with confusion and now wiki tells me the character was retired 18 years ago. I think he retired from McDonald's so he could market Purple Drank. It was a Foster's. Grimace.jpg Nobody fucks with the Grimace. https://youtu...

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mister d wrote: ↑Thu Mar 04, 2021 12:35 pm The checks themselves are 70%. Start there, keep subtracting.

This attitude is why we Clinton lost. Enjoy the sandwich.

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I recall Nicolas Cage was viewed as a joke to his peers on the set of Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Not because he was stiff as a board, but because he kept telling people he was the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola.

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Dick Pic Mick.

Now that is a nickname.

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The Sybian wrote: ↑Wed Mar 03, 2021 12:50 pm This is a fun one. Idaho State Rep appealing to his colleagues to turn down a federal grant to assist early education. I love the anchor's signoff.

Oh I'm sending this one down to my dad in FL. He'll love it.

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Interesting how the right wing media machine has shifted into cancel culture overdrive once it was apparent Trump would not, in fact be able to overthrow the United States Government. It's all bad faith bullshit. The vacuousness of it all is what attracts such quality people like Cawthorn and Hawley...

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Yeah I'm going back to school. I'm not ready for the draft.

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Hey look! Ten little kids by the side of the road!

[SLAAAAM]

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I was talking about Soviet stuff in the Alexievich thread, and it reminded me of a story that I don't think I've shared with the Swamp. A few years ago, I had a painter working in my apartment. He was the chatty type. Asked me a lot of personal questions. What do you do for fun? 'I read a lot.' Wha...

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Some labor historians think Biden’s rhetoric on unionizing is stronger than FDR’s. “There should be no intimidation, no coercion, no threats, no anti-union propaganda,” Biden said in the video. “No supervisor should confront employees about their union preferences. It’s not up to me to decide whethe...

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My favorite is usually in the form of tea.

But I haven’t sipped on that for what...25 years?

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bfj wrote: ↑Tue Mar 02, 2021 10:50 am Ray Lewis would like a word.

Kobe became a global brand though...but your point is taken.

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So...You went to the farmer’s market over the weekend to purchase these mushrooms, so that you could cook them, and then make this post?

I mean, that’s something I’d probably do..

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The extreme adulation of Kobe Bryant irks me similarly. Same. You should see what happens when you tell a kobe joke to 500 people. It's a fun reaction I’m curious: what athlete’s image has been whitewashed more successfully than Kobe Bryant’s? Michael Vick comes to mind, but to me, Vick earned it b...

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The extreme adulation of Kobe Bryant irks me similarly.

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oof. I'm sorry to hear this, TB.

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I'd bet you my last donut this guy gave that tirade of a speech in order to run for political office.

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Administrations can do multiple things at once. I don’t imagine many of us work on one project at a time. If the choice were Tanden or $15/hr somehow and they chose the latter than get the pitchforks. But I imagine Biden and the Dems would gleefully reject her 100-0 if it was the quid pro quo for a...

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mister d wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 1:53 pm Well ... its not a loaded question if the answer is "of course a policy that would affect tens of millions is more important than any singular nominee", is it?

So give a loaded answer to a non-loaded question?

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mister d wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 1:17 pm

That’s a fair response to a loaded question.

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rass wrote: ↑Sun Feb 28, 2021 11:01 am

What should happen is prominent backers in the Democrat Party should pay the legal fees on a class action civil suit. Otherwise, this is just grandstanding nonsense. Circular firing squad crap.

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Yeah, if you assume the restricted parking includes handicapped (justified in thinking this of course) then that as well. Cutting people off by denying them several feet of space in which to stop/control your car is still, horrible.

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I figured this would be a good week to read Hank Haney's book, 'The Big Miss' (2012), about his time as Woods' swing coach from 2004-2010. Have any of you golf guys read it? There's a lot of technical stuff in here that you might find interesting. (I can vaguely visualize some of his concepts, but ...

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So I just got an email from my dad an hour ago. My parents just received their second dose on Thursday at 5p. He had some arm soreness that evening, and into the AM on Friday. He decided to cancel his golf game that AM because he felt he should be at home in the event our mom fell ill. Fast forward...

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So I just got an email from my dad an hour ago. My parents just received their second dose on Thursday at 5p. He had some arm soreness that evening, and into the AM on Friday. He decided to cancel his golf game that AM because he felt he should be at home in the event our mom fell ill. Fast forward ...

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Can you and your wife do something, like volunteering somewhere that would bump you into the active phase?

That way, while the system was gamed for you, your response allows you in on an acceptable technicality?

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My first real date was when i was 16. Took the girl to see One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest . I realized before the date that it was rated "R", which meant you had to be 17 to get in - my date was 17 but I wasn't (and, even worse, I looked about 14), and of course I was completely stressed...

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I haven’t seen it since a stay-at-home date night I had with some girl I was dating in HS (circa ‘87-‘88). I scored points for sitting through it. I mean, I guess it was OK, but I was viewing it as a chick flick (at that age, anyway). That's funny! My first real date was seeing "Fame" in ...

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I haven’t seen it since a stay-at-home date night I had with some girl I was dating in HS (circa ‘87-‘88). I scored points for sitting through it. I mean, I guess it was OK, but I was viewing it as a chick flick (at that age, anyway).

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Bis ans Ende der Welt

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Whenever that movie is rented, it’d be a real shame if it were any amount other than two dollars.

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What about songs named for a movie?

Silent Running (Mike & the Mechanics)

Or (though Martha Davis denies it) Suddenly Last Summer?

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Jerloma wrote: ↑Fri Feb 26, 2021 9:34 am

That’s actually a movie (1986) written to match the song (1981).

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Coachella is the perfect landing spot for a Daft Punk. It's like Ibiza, but Hollywood-style.

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