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That secretary could certainly Rockefeller
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https://twitter.com/ericwhiteback/status/1617946436272033792
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 03:39 |
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 03:46 |
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Is that a screenshot from a video game ? Also, the name Papi Punk is truly blursed.
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 04:06 |
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Lady Disdain posted:Is that a screenshot from a video game ? Yeah, those are tanks from the Halo games.
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 04:08 |
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Oh poo poo
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 04:12 |
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Captain Hygiene posted:Yeah, those are tanks from the Halo games. It's all Halo references.
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 04:13 |
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AFewBricksShy posted:https://twitter.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538?s=20
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 04:55 |
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https://twitter.com/Kholdseid/status/1618391264499732481?s=20&t=6GsCPaI09QlqbTblnqFmoA This is a 4chan bot alright. But also one created by a trans programmer. https://twitter.com/SpinyDykeLizard/status/1618478789914431490?s=20&t=6GsCPaI09QlqbTblnqFmoA
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 05:58 |
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That first sentence makes very little sense, to me. 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 09:18 on Jan 27, 2023 |
# ? Jan 27, 2023 09:16 |
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3D Megadoodoo posted:That first sentence makes very little sense, to me. Breaking News is when news has just come out and people are sharing it.
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 09:37 |
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A cut trading card is basically just a signed baseball card. But Babe Ruth isn't signing any new autographs any time soon, so they find other stuff he signed, like his 1912 apartment lease or something, then they cut the signature part out and attach it to the card. In this case, they attached the wrong signature to the card. If this sounds like a scam to you, then you're probably too smart to buy a 2022 signed special edition baseball card of a player who retired in 1935.
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 09:42 |
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Inceltown posted:Breaking News is when news has just come out and people are sharing it. BREAKING NEWS is not a sentence by any definition of sentence known to mortal man.
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 09:46 |
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Tobermory posted:A cut trading card is basically just a signed baseball card. But Babe Ruth isn't signing any new autographs any time soon, so they find other stuff he signed, like his 1912 apartment lease or something, then they cut the signature part out and attach it to the card. In this case, they attached the wrong signature to the card. Ah, OK. Last time I had any interest in collectible collectibles "cut" was just the antonym of "uncut" as in a whole dang sheet. Now explain "pulled"?
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 09:47 |
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Ah, OK. Last time I had any interest in collectible collectibles "cut" was just the antonym of "uncut" as in a whole dang sheet. "Pulled" is because the cards are sold gacha-style, where you don't know what you're purchasing until you open the box. In this case a "pull" means that somebody spent way too much money on a box of baseball cards, opened it, and was briefly excited that they got one of the good cards. The stamp collecting equivalent would be those crazies who hang around estate sales looking for old mail still in the original envelopes.
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 10:00 |
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Tobermory posted:"Pulled" is because the cards are sold gacha-style, where you don't know what you're purchasing until you open the box. In this case a "pull" means that somebody spent way too much money on a box of baseball cards, opened it, and was briefly excited that they got one of the good cards. The stamp collecting equivalent would be those crazies who hang around estate sales looking for old mail still in the original envelopes. OK to me "pulled" means "taken off the market" which is (now) obviously the opposite of what happened. They should just say "found" SMHD.
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 10:04 |
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quote:Urgent public health warning issued over lost radioactive capsule in Western Australia https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-27/radioactive-capsule-lost-in-wa-emergency-public-health-warning/
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 10:05 |
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Tobermory posted:"Pulled" is because the cards are sold gacha-style, where you don't know what you're purchasing until you open the box. In this case a "pull" means that somebody spent way too much money on a box of baseball cards, opened it, and was briefly excited that they got one of the good cards. The stamp collecting equivalent would be those crazies who hang around estate sales looking for old mail still in the original envelopes.
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 11:16 |
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The grab bags come from the card manufacturer, in this case Panini. They sell their cards in very expensive blind boxes. The boxes are targeted at people who collect the cards as investments, rather than looking at them or doing whatever other things one can do with baseball cards. The supposed value of each card is based on its rarity. The 1/1 in the headline means that there was precisely one of those cards in the entire production run, making it ultra-rare and theoretically very valuable. Of course, the rarity of each card (as well as the overall supply of cards) is carefully controlled by the manufacturer to artificially inflate the values. I only brought up stamps because 3D Megadoodoo mentioned seeing uncut sheets. A better example might be Magic cards, if they existed in a world where nobody actually played MTG and people only wanted the cards as a retirement portfolio, and also if the booster packs sold for $2k a piece. It makes more sense to think of it as a gambling/investment scam, rather than part of a hobby. Panini is also big into NFTs, which should give you some idea of their target market.
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 12:53 |
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https://twitter.com/joshua_boe/status/1618814247160647680?s=46&t=3datE4wsO_Wt5-8lYPiuAQ
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-27/radioactive-capsule-lost-in-wa-emergency-public-health-warning/ AAP says it's Caesium-137 This says eating some blue is highly effective for Cs-137 contamination.
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Croccers posted:Huh neat. 30 year half life, this thing is going to be deadly for a long time.
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Tobermory posted:The grab bags come from the card manufacturer, in this case Panini. They sell their cards in very expensive blind boxes. The boxes are targeted at people who collect the cards as investments, rather than looking at them or doing whatever other things one can do with baseball cards. The supposed value of each card is based on its rarity. The 1/1 in the headline means that there was precisely one of those cards in the entire production run, making it ultra-rare and theoretically very valuable. Of course, the rarity of each card (as well as the overall supply of cards) is carefully controlled by the manufacturer to artificially inflate the values.
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Splicer posted:So a stamp analogy would CTO FDCs. e: eh, not really, but anyway
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 15:31 |
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Galway brother and sister who threw 32 eggs at their aunt have shown 'no remorse' - as they're fined in courtquote:A judge has said that a brother and sister who threw up to 32 eggs at their aunt during a five minute long ‘egg assault’ have shown ‘no remorse’ and ‘no apology’ for their actions. The Field 2: Eggsacting Revenge
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 16:13 |
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Splicer posted:So a stamp analogy would be a private company printing limited numbers of stamp-shaped objects and some of them come with a tiny bit of a famous letter taped to them and also the "stamps" aren't actually legal to post letters with. Except they ran out of famous letter and instead its a fragment of a famous-letter-writer's grocery list.
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 16:24 |
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Pookah posted:Galway brother and sister who threw 32 eggs at their aunt have shown 'no remorse' - as they're fined in court Nobody throws eggs at someone for five minutes straight without a pretty good reason.
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 17:52 |
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Topless Church Rampage is probably a cheaply made tittler run on cable television in the late 90's
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 19:11 |
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ultrafilter posted:Nobody throws eggs at someone for five minutes straight without a pretty good reason. It appears Ms. Fahy is involved in a dispute over farmland (sigh) with her brother, who wants the land, and her sister, who owns the land. It sounds like a silly stereotype, but Irish farmers really do go absolutely psycho over farmland. As far as I can tell, shootings in Ireland are either gangland stuff, or farmers shooting family members over inheritances. I can think of at least three recent cases where whole families ended up dead over land disputes. Getting egged is very much on the lower scale of possible attacks. That said, a full five minutes of getting egged in the face through a car window was probably on the rougher end of the Getting Egged scale. Pookah has a new favorite as of 20:17 on Jan 27, 2023 |
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/man-dies-after-being-crushed-by-telescopic-urinal-in-londons-west-end-12796833
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Tobermory posted:The grab bags come from the card manufacturer, in this case Panini. They sell their cards in very expensive blind boxes. The boxes are targeted at people who collect the cards as investments, rather than looking at them or doing whatever other things one can do with baseball cards. The supposed value of each card is based on its rarity. The 1/1 in the headline means that there was precisely one of those cards in the entire production run, making it ultra-rare and theoretically very valuable. Of course, the rarity of each card (as well as the overall supply of cards) is carefully controlled by the manufacturer to artificially inflate the values. Well, to be fair to Panini, Babe Ruth cards with George Brett's cut signature probably are ultra-rare. Side note: why are they bothering to cut Brett's signature ? Wiktionary says he's still alive, and presumably therefore still capable of signing baseball cards. e: also, thanks for clarifying what the gently caress the original tweet had to do with panini; that bit was a real head-scratcher.
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 20:22 |
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This was a lot more interesting when I misread it as a headless woman in a topless rampage.
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 20:53 |
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ultrafilter posted:Nobody throws eggs at someone for five minutes straight without a pretty good reason. And a lot of loving eggs too, does the family have a poultry farm?
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 21:03 |
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Pookah posted:It appears Ms. Fahy is involved in a dispute over farmland (sigh) with her brother, who wants the land, and her sister, who owns the land. 😬
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Pookah posted:Galway brother and sister who threw 32 eggs at their aunt have shown 'no remorse' - as they're fined in court That's more than 9 seconds between eggs. If you get hit with an egg and then stand there for 10 seconds waiting for the next egg, and then do that 30 more times, I don't know what to tell you.
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 21:16 |
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Cork man sounds like the goat man's nemesis.
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 21:20 |
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Baron von Eevl posted:That's more than 9 seconds between eggs. If you get hit with an egg and then stand there for 10 seconds waiting for the next egg, and then do that 30 more times, I don't know what to tell you. And the talent agent says, "that's a hell of an act. What do you call it?" The man replies, "the eggristocrats!"
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Pookah posted:Galway brother and sister who threw 32 eggs at their aunt have shown 'no remorse' - as they're fined in court The Banshees of Inisheggin
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Tobermory posted:The grab bags come from the card manufacturer, in this case Panini. They sell their cards in very expensive blind boxes. The boxes are targeted at people who collect the cards as investments, rather than looking at them or doing whatever other things one can do with baseball cards. The supposed value of each card is based on its rarity. The 1/1 in the headline means that there was precisely one of those cards in the entire production run, making it ultra-rare and theoretically very valuable. Of course, the rarity of each card (as well as the overall supply of cards) is carefully controlled by the manufacturer to artificially inflate the values. I thought baseball cards died in the late 80s/early 90s when Topps went ballistic and flooded the market and everybody hosed off.
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