So how crazy is it that I can watch this trailer and think they don’t look poor because the whole thing is super familiar to me? Like, hi I lived that life, doesn’t look especially unusual. (Save the racial slurs, thank God.)

You reply as if I said I support vaping instead of nothing for kids. That’s dumb and not what I said, and you know that. At a bare minimum, make your argument in good faith.

Some of my best friends smoked cigarettes in seventh grade—I still remember sneaking behind the buildings at school and hanging out with them while they smoked during lunch. If I could go back and time, I’d swap their cigarettes for vapes, no question.

Stories please.

I worked at a water park one summer in high school. They are, in my personal experience, places mostly run by people who have no business running rides or even ensuring children don’t drown.

I’m with you. I like rougher-looking jewelry and this falls into my wheelhouse of weird, postmodern architectural shit that I’d wear to death nicely.

That’s not marketing, that’s branding (the relationship between the consumer and the business/whatever). But good on ya, trying to sound like this is something you’re good at.

The goal of marketing is to bring the horse to water, not to make it drink. The campaign worked.

if that makes me a piece of shit

You completely misunderstood me. I was agreeing with you.

How old are your kids? Are they adults yet?

And to be perfectly frank the idea that a friend = an enabler says a lot about someone’s idea of friendship. Yikes.

I’m actually kind of mad at the Vox article (and the Rolling Stone article) because I do not like Depp — I find him to be a gross, misogynist asshole who ruins films — but I also hate the way writers get close to people to get their story and then betray trust. The trust is unwarranted, and frankly often stupid, but…

No. Make art with that broad brush so affecting that we can no longer ignore the shit in which we are complicit.

Well, there were two parts to my statement: first was I didn’t see that plotline as being played for laughs, and second was that Roller’s story is only unusual because he is a he.

I find it fascinating that you interpret the Roller storyline as having been played for laughs. Was there an element of Florida-esque absurdity? Clearly, yes — on par with the rest of the show. But that storyline is no more absurd than any of the hundreds of thousands of others where women are kidnapped and sexually…

If I’m hanging out with more than four women, it’s a coven.

I always think it’s funny when people make an insulting comment and then can’t handle sass when it comes back their way.

I think it’s fine to not know who someone is (I don’t know who a *lot* of people in Dirtbag are)! You didn’t pop up like a grumpy curmudgeon literally moaning about hipsters and names you think are stupid.

You’re aware millennials are pushing 40 now, no?