The restaurant was one of those local-grown-only places, so I doubt they were getting California rhubarb picked out of season and shipped across country in a nitrogen car, and my dad grew up in the 50's and, like me, thought the pie was walking the line of inedibly bitter.

You say “lol,” I say the very first image shows him in a beautiful club collar, which would have been unknown in slave-owning America, a fact which one doesn’t even need to be very good at Google to figure out.

Oh dear god I love every second of this so much I could burst. It’s not just lovely, it proves the point - you can see the same necktie style and concern with facial hair that Jidenna displays.

The clarification is just more confusing - if that’s not why you’re bringing it up, then why bring it up at all? I mentioned elsewhere that a more obvious reference would be the dapper subculture found in many African cities over the last 30 years, including those of Nigeria, where both his parents have heritage and…

I’d imagine his references are more likely to be the dandies that have been a significant subculture of Lagos and many other wealthier African cities since the mid-70’s. The most famous are the sapeurs of Congo, but as a movement it can be found across black sub-Saharan Africa.

Does it? As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, I had a rhubarb-only pie at my grandfather's birthday, and while it was good on the whole, every bite had to be smothered in an equal amount of vanilla ice cream to make it edible.

Well, and your life must be pretty absurd and also filled with people annoyed that you compare their actions to the Armenian genocide every time they bump you on the sidewalk. That’s the level of crazy reaching that's happening here.

My grandfather fondly remembered his own mother making rhubarb pie - and ONLY rhubarb. No strawberry. He actively refused to eat rhubarb pie that contained strawberry, which meant that for years he didn't eat any pie at all. For his last birthday, my mother asked the chef at the restaurant we were taking him to to…

I said “I really enjoyed their whole wedding” specifically to indicate that I enjoyed the ceremony (short, cute, filled with my friends who unlike some people I actually like) as well as the reception. The lack of distinction was very much on purpose.

I enjoyed looking at my best friends’ wedding photos for a little bit a few months after the ceremony, which I was at. I also really enjoyed their whole wedding, so the generalized “weddings are awful/boring” sentiment doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. It’s a party! And there are good parties and bad parties, but in…

Also vegans - which in a certain sense I get, my dad is an at-home vegan, a restaurant vegetarian, and an if-you-cook-for-me-I’ll-eat-it omnivore everywhere else, and I do think that’s the best way to be vegan and that you run into a host of politeness issues doing it otherwise. I just think the members of that group…

There was, though? There have always been mechanisms for changing and instituting new laws. Just because the laws regarding healthcare specifically hadn’t been changed before that doesn’t mean that the same mechanisms Obama and Congress used to institute the new laws weren’t around. You may remember that Clinton tried…

And even worse, they’re largely rich idiots. They don’t think, “Well, if my housekeeper carries home measles from my kid to her kid, and then her kid gives it to a kid in day-care, maybe that kid’s parents won’t have the information or ability to see a doctor and get it treated before it becomes a hospital/death…

For me it was reading one of his books where he talks about the time immediately after he divorced his ex-wife. He talks about going to some Caribbean island and basically driving around stinking drunk every night. And I’m like, look, I know you’re going through some shit, and I know that island is probably glad for…

Listen, Walker/Lays has been holding back the best flavors of chips for the foreign market for years, because Americans are only interested in 3 or 4 flavors of chips for reasons that escape me. Every time I fly through Heathrow I have to stock up on enough Prawn Cocktail and Roast Chicken Dinner flavor chips to keep…

After you brought the OK RNC into it, trivializing something important to score points about something supremely unimportant? I’d quadruple down on this bitch and spend the best years of my life thinking of my most condescending synonyms, gladly. I’d say it’s to teach you better for next time, but that would presume…

There’s one person misconstruing it, and it’s you. The only other person I’m talking to about this disagrees with the premise, but understood the analogy. It’s okay, Hooked on Phonics didn’t work for everyone, and reading comprehension isn’t everyone’s strong suit.

In the case of the accidental bloody nose, the stranger is doing what I would expect him to do with bloody tissues - threw them away. If I give someone my breast milk expecting them to make it into some gross trinket, and then there is no trinket and no answers about where the breast milk went, then I am not getting…

The entire point of my analogy is that it’s not the product (whether it’s a gauche pendant or a medical test) that’s the point, it’s the access given to a stranger that would usually be reserved for oneself or a very intimate acquaintance. I’ve never given a body part or product to someone and not had them follow…

And you could’ve used the barest common sense before commenting, and then we’d both have remained blissfully unaware of each other.