Haha. Yeah, I thought about throwing in my two cents when I read the original post, but then I read through the comment threads. I put the odds at about 50/50 that Daniel Blois is just a generic troll or, in the alternative, some asshole kid with a dog-eared copy of Libertarianism for Dummies.

Every time some asshole wants to be a big shot and lights up a cigar, the smell radiates for MILES. I didn’t ask to smell a cigar. Did you ask to smell a cigar? Cigar bros think their cigars smell like Jesus farts. They think they’re doing you a favor by sending the stink your way.

This. I agree that the completely convoluted nature of Jackie’s story and the way it was brought to the public’s attention makes it very difficult to tell with any degree of certainty how much, if any, of it is true. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a case where the need to believe and empathize with alleged victims (and,…

However, the upcoming changes demand that drivers can’t have “any conversation related to sexual acts and sexual contact,” as well as making remarks related to “sexual conduct, gender, physical appearance, expressing a desire to see or touch another person’s body or expressing a desire to enter into any type of…

Yeah, at first blush, it does seem like kind of a silly technology-for-the-sake-of-technology feature, but one advantage is that you don’t have to lift the grill cover to look at a traditional meat thermometer and thus lose some of the heat of the grill in the process.

Yeah, at first blush, it does seem like kind of a silly technology-for-the-sake-of-technology feature, but one…

I actually bought the ambient thermometer for the iGrill (it only comes with the meat thermometers) specifically to use with my smoker. It’s a pretty versatile device.

I actually bought the ambient thermometer for the iGrill (it only comes with the meat thermometers) specifically to…

Ordinarily, I’d agree, but I’d been grilling steaks for years and was never really satisfied with how they were cooked. It seemed like the one piece of meat that I could never prepare at or above restaurant quality. I received the iGrill Mini from my wife for Father’s Day last year, and what do you know, best steak…

Ordinarily, I’d agree, but I’d been grilling steaks for years and was never really satisfied with how they were…

“Due process” is, as Deadline Hollywood points out, a legal term. But no legal action has been filed against the film, and no one is trying to keep it from being shown in general; Tribeca has just decided their festival isn’t the place to do it.

It wasn’t just you. They never want to take the CD back, and they’ll try to guilt or (more likely) intimidate you into paying for it with something like, “What, you don’t want my music?” or “You can’t spare $10 to support a struggling artist?”

Yeah, no one without a political ax to grind really cares about the “characters” that take pictures with tourists for tips, including the desnudas. Most of those people just meander aimlessly around Times Square waiting for tourists to approach them to take pictures. They’re pretty easy to avoid and rarely accost…

{shrug}

Okay, who had money on “crazy eyes, coupled with smug look of barely contained glee” in the mugshot pool?

Yeah, he seems like the kind of person who, if I encountered him socially, I’d walk away with the impression “that guy’s an insufferable asshat,” but since I don’t know him and he hasn’t risen to Mel Gibson or Chris Brown levels of celebrity shittiness, I just can’t bring myself to be offended by his candor.

Yeah, I don’t find any of these comments all that controversial. Some are unfortunately phrased, and some might be grating because there are a lot of people that hate to be reminded that others (i.e., the beautiful and rich) are living more enviable lives, but on a scale of 1 to Kanye, these are barely a blip on the…

I sort of read that statement to mean that it’s somewhat racist to assume that black academy members will automatically vote for black actors, and that any solution to the dearth of black nominees that consists of simply adding more black academy members would thus be relying on that same sorta-kinda racist assumption…

The visitors were shocked to learn that their television sets are more than capable of delivering hundreds of hours of footage of actual wild orcas to them and “the kids,” when not otherwise tuned to celebrity dance competitions.

She’s gotten a lot better, but her first season was fucking rough. Bad delivery, botched lines, and that recurring schtick on Weekend Update that was just grating as all hell. What was particularly unfortunate was that she was hired in the wake of that whole “SNL hates diversity” thing, and her first few performances…

“I refuse for us not not to be respected.”

The food is okay for the price, and it’s not that bad a place to eat at if all you want to do is drink cheap beer and eat wings while watching sports. The standard Hooters uniform (a tank top and short shorts) might have been vaguely risque back in the day, but frankly, it’s no more scintillating than what a lot of…

Yeah, that’s the kind of thing that would make me wish I hadn’t tipped at all. I’ve worked as a server, and while I appreciate how unfair the pay system is, how hard they have to work, and how demeaning and demoralizing the job frequently is, I also fully understand how completely doable it is to extend a bare minimum…