I don’t know why “I am dumb at” would be wrong. It’s obviously vernacular, as opposed to literary English, but it seems as correct as the other constructions.

If you can’t parse what she’s saying but the rest of us can, doesn’t that make you the idiot?

Linguistics major here. The whole point of grammar is clarity. We all recognise “dumb/smart at” and it’s meaning, and it is widely and commonly used, so it’s fine. “Dumb when it comes to” is also fine, but while it might be better grammatically, it’s kinda clunky.

Please get over the plasticity of language. There are tons of vernaculars within American English and they’re all equally valid as languages.

I mean language is always changing and shifting anyways. Like, “good at” and “bad at” are used now in ways that they likely weren’t in the past. “I am good at math” uses “good” in a totally different way than “I am a good person”. “I perform well at math” became “I am good at math”. And that’s not wrong now. I don’t…

No, she only sounds ‘stupid’ if you have white supremacist ideals of English language usage. Because it’s a living language with multiple colonized cultures participating in the growth of the language her usage is no less valid than that of an upper middleclass suburbanite’s, nor an Australian aboriginal’s, nor the…

Is there a better way - a more grammatically correct way - to say “I’m not dumb at this shit.” It’s the being “dumb at” something that my brain snags on and I wonder if it’s just one of those things that might not sound right even though it is.

“Dear customer, we’re gonna raise your insurance premium by 200 % because your DNA shows heightened risk for breast and rectal cancer as well as alcoholism. Have a nice day.”

Because when rich white people use their connections to get ahead, that’s just expected, but when minorities do it, that’s clearly horrible and cheating and a violation of everything America stands for.

Can we not feature Tacky Lowhen’s views on anything anymore? Not only are they stupid, horrible takes but ... well, actually, that’s probably enough of a reason. But seriously, she doesn’t say shit worth hearing/reading. It’s like “hey, look, that dumb dog is licking his own balls again.”

me, impressed, handing u your coat.

Bonnie Cashin and Claire McCardell invented nearly everything we understand to be American sportswear in the later 20th century. And from them, designers like Donna Karan, Perry Ellis and, of course, Calvin Klein. All have noted their respect and that they have taken much from those and other early 20th century…

Penis.

I knew OG Claire in the ‘00s and 15 seconds before clicking over to Jezebel I posted something on Instagram with a caption in the format of “Two _____, both alike in dignity” and now I feel like everything is connected and I’m a part of it. Trippy.

That’s just the sort of joke that Shakespeare would play (if sentence diagramming were a thing in the 16th century).

Knowing Shakespeare, probably.

He was super talented, probably one of the most talented artists of his generation. Hell, Billie Jean comes on the radio and it brings me back to being in 4th grade, and being so in love with his music. So yeah, his music holds some nostalgia for me.

In fair Vasdeferens, where we lay our scene.

“Nice marmot”. 

“And Roger Stone really pulled one over on the FBI today, didn’t he, Bill? Advantage Trump!”