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Old 02-03-2020, 02:46 PM
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Originally Posted by z31maniac
Honestly, I've seen a game at Royals stadium, but if you had asked me yesterday if the stadium is in Kansas or Missouri........I would have had a 50% chance of getting it right.
It's probably best that you don't have millions of people watching you publicly make that mistake, then.

I also have no idea which Kansas City sports team is from which state, which is why I watched Star Trek Discovery last night. I'm about halfway into season 1, and not really loving it but not really hating it.
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Old 02-03-2020, 02:48 PM
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They played a football game between commercials?

Does Kansas City, Kansas have any stake in the team?

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Old 02-03-2020, 03:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
It's probably best that you don't have millions of people watching you publicly make that mistake, then.

I also have no idea which Kansas City sports team is from which state, which is why I watched Star Trek Discovery last night. I'm about halfway into season 1, and not really loving it but not really hating it.
We watched the documentary "Longshot" on Netflix. About a guy falsely accused of murder in LA. He was exonerated by the film evidence from the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode and cell data putting him away from the crime scene. Pretty bizarre.

Watched a little NBA earlier in the day, then I think we watched an old Jimmy Carr special and a few episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
Trouble is, Kansas City, Missouri is not in the state of Kansas. It's very close to Kansas, in much the same way that Palestine is very close to Israel.
Eh, more like the meadowlands to NYC.

Is the second episode of Picard good?
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Old 02-03-2020, 03:29 PM
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Is it worse to be wrong about 1.5miles or 7 extra states?
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Old 02-03-2020, 03:40 PM
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Originally Posted by TurboTim
Eh, more like the meadowlands to NYC.
As a former Manhattanite, I think you're probably better off trying to rectify Israel with Palestine than trying to convince me that NYC is in New Jersey.

(Granted, the borough of Hoboken technically is part of NJ, as a consequence of a rather bizarre misunderstanding between Dutchman Michael Reyniersz Pauw and the indigenous Lenape people in 1630.)


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Is the second episode of Picard good?
I'm enjoying it so far.

Others have hated it.
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Remember that time Democrats couldn't even rig their own Caucasus correctly?


$20 says they "find" a container full of Hillary write-in votes by the end of the day.
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Today in great political speeches:

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Today in great political speeches:

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The absolute state of the democratic party:

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What was the news segment in question? (I can find no link)
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The video in the tweet...
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I didn't find it all that funny.

This one was funnier:



Yes, ladies & gentlemen, that's the #1 rated news show in Chicago.

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I didn't find it all that funny.
this better?

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I guess the UK is asserting it's newfound independence. I wonder it it'll really happen on time?

UK ban on new gas & diesel cars
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Originally Posted by Braineack
Not really.

Your sense of humor perplexes me. All I saw was an angry man complaining about the fact that Iowa can't seem to make technology work, which is more sad than anything.
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Why can't they just rewind it real quick? This is the digital age, it must be possible.
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Originally Posted by bahurd
I guess the UK is asserting it's newfound independence. I wonder it it'll really happen on time?
Here is a list of government-mandated technology initiatives which happened on time:







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