Guy got something completely different from this scene than I did.

I think what she said was hyperbolic.

I think what she said was hyperbolic. And yes, she will get even more threats of violence beyond anything a mentally healthy human would ever want to be aware can be done to them or thought about them. I don’t think anyone deserves this. Yes I agree with free speech. I also agree with consequences of free speech.…

Except she’s talking about comments like: I hope you get raped in the face and then they tie up your pig offspring by their ankles an drag them behind a moving truck while you watch*.

I may be tech-challenged, but I do have the wherewithal to research a gadget before I buy it. So I would have landed on the official Chromecast page first. If I see that Amazon doesn’t have it, I would probably find some article explaining why. I will do research before purchasing a new gadget/service — looking for…

That’s exactly what happens! A friend purchases and sets up some such streaming thingy and they tell the rest of us tech-tards how to do it to our teevees. I don’t know about the others but Chromecast comes with a phone number so a tech person can also walk us through the set up and remind us that the device needs to…

We are aware. We typically have one dongle we learn to use and all others are like holy water in a synagogue. The way we choose our dongle is that someone we know already has it so they can tell us how to set it up (or, more conveniently, set it up for us.)

Yes. And I now use it exclusively in place of cable. -Tech Illiterate

I didn’t get that at all (racism/classism). I recall the media and paparazzi were all over those two. They couldn’t walk down the street or sit in a car. Affleck spoke about how his appearance in her video at the time was their way of poking fun at all the attention they were getting (I didn’t get it, but that’s what…

Came here to say that. Even the Community recaps talked about how it was a “Yelp” for people.

I usually read Jez via ipad. But my gadget is old and for some reason I cannot sign in and comment on Gawker properties anymore. After reading your comment, I got out of bed (where I read first thing in the a.m.), got my laptop from the next room, just so I could star your comment. I like Gawker’s reporting, but the…

They really are purely functional, am I right?

Undergrad? I know someone in her 20s who was applying to a poetry masters programs. I’m not friends with her anymore. Biting my tongue whenever she starting talking to me about the grad school entrance exams, her applications, etc, was just too difficult to hear and not react violently.

You may be 10 or 20 years younger than me but I don’t recall the details of a book I read last month, much less my middle school textbooks.

One of the reasons this is such a big deal is that Texas sets the standard for which textbooks other states purchase. I may be fuzzy on the details, but because TX is so large, their order for textbooks is high. For that reason, they can “dictate” what should be featured in their textbooks. A smaller, more rural state…

My ex-boyfriend — a huge sports fan — would say about the football-playing Hasselbeck that he’s not even the best football player in his immediate family.

He needs treatment to realize that he’s living his life based on someone else’s standards and desires. Unfortunately, he won’t come home from camp work-pray-sleep with a new outlook on life. He should just go off and be a single dude in the city somewhere. Of course, pay child support and be available for co-custody -…

How ‘bout this guy?

That, and they probably have more on their minds than to look at a pan of cupcakes and think “this makes it all better.” Not that they won’t be appreciative. I think I would just feel like people need to reevaluate their priorities. I.e.: You’ll spend some $20 on cupcake supplies, and 2 hours baking, but won’t just…

They could probably just use the dough. (smiley emoticon)