There was a period when I first left for college where my mom didn’t know what to get me for birthday or Christmas gifts, so she somehow settled on novelty socks. I hated them, but as a broke college student with size 13 feet that constantly tore through my normal socks, yes, sometimes I found myself being that guy…

I grew up in Maine. In 1998, we had a massive ice storm that knocked out the power at my family’s house for a couple weeks. Just a few days before the storm, I watched the episode of AYAOTD with the fire demon, where if you look directly into a flame it gets unleashed and kills you and your loved ones.

Exactly. I got a Mr Coffee for free from a grad student office, and an espresso machine for $30 from an estate sale. Keurigs are a straight scam.

No mention of Vietnamese coffee? The world’s best type of coffee?

Well it doesn’t have to be your grandson necessarily. Just any young child.

Heartily agreed. At this point I truly believe this is the most ambitious and creative show on television.

Right there with you. I’m (sorry) a Pats fan, so in general I hate the Colts for being snitchy assholes and giving us Deflategate. But Luck seems like a good guy, and an incredibly talented QB, and I hate the Colts even more because they completely and totally ruined him.

Well, at least the 80s were right about who comes out on top in the Great Pizza War of 2017

Did those two feats coincide? Because I could never get past the one slice barrier while sober, even when it was free at some event and I was a broke student.

Late to the game, but I have 2:

I have a friend who took his class at Yale. Apparently he took points off of my friend’s paper for being “too analytical.”

I hate it being so spread out. I look forward to binging on Sunday, since my usual routine is to go to a sports bar with a big group of friends who are fans of a bunch of different teams (Patriots, Bengals, Packers, Eagles, Texans). We hang out, talk shit about other people’s teams all day, etc.But if someone’s team…

I didn’t see it live, I wasn’t born yet, but The Who on the Smothers Brothers where Keith Moon’s bass drum explodes and lights Pete Townsend’s hair on fire has to be up there.

I used to read the eXile blog. It was pretty hard to reconcile the ugliness of Ames with the fact that some of their contributors actually wrote good stuff. The War Nerd columns were usually interesting, Eileen Jones wrote good movie reviews, Yasha Levine did some good investigative work. Ramon Glazov wrote my…

I sometimes do a bit of consulting. The idiots we were defending not only admitted to the crime they committed over work email, but also had a long chain dedicated to making really lewd comments about a waitress at the restaurant across from their office. Really made them sympathetic to the jury.

A cold, hard sign of my privilege: I once seriously considered throwing out a pot rather than clean it. It was college, and it had “soaked” long enough that it was truly vile.

Made me think of this classic Onion article https://local.theonion.com/three-fingered-on-class-trip-to-washington-d-c-1819570712

Snowpiercer was not a good movie. It was a bunch of Gilliam-derivative junk. The Host was also not good.

I don’t know, I prefer them loading on to Sundays. I plan ahead to try and be free Sunday afternoons, and the reward is going to some sports bar with a dozen TVs and mainlining the games.

I had a colleague leave recently for a Canadian university because he’s trying to bring his wife and family over from Iran and doesn’t think it’ll be possible under Trump. This guy won some Iranian national science competition in high school and has two PhDs. But we’re losing him because he’s from Iran, and bringing…