There will only ever be ONE Nipster, madam, and by God, he was an American.

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I think you have inadvertently stumbled upon Shaughnessy's audience. I really want to know who it is that's been trying to make him feel guilty lo this past quarter century. That's just weird. It's like he's always been a defensive old man screaming STOP LIKING WHAT I DON'T LIKE

Makes slightly more sense if you consider that the Times is basically trying to write a Williamsburg trend piece set in Detroit.

Exactly.

Wiki: "The World Cup is the most widely viewed and followed sporting event in the world, exceeding even the Olympic Games; the cumulative audience of all matches of the 2006 FIFA World Cup was estimated to be 26.29 billion with an estimated 715.1 million people watching the final match, a ninth of the entire…

I know how you feel man. I got the Saints knocked out of the playoffs last year when I forgot my lucky cup at the house. Stupid!

I first heard about this back in '90 when a friend of mine came back from living over there. He just mentioned the crazy shit they put on t-shirts. We speculated that maybe they just liked the shape of the letters because Japanese people dig calligraphy so much. Or they have an absurdist streak. The one explanation we…

Why not just wear a sock?

I'm 44 and I do this too (except for certain people such as my boss).

I'm sorry, but you are in the wrong venue for shaming homo erectus. Try io9.

I grew out of that phase a long time ago, don't worry.

Oh definitely. Fire that bartender, I would expect it if I had been that stupid. But this is being addressed as a hate crime, when it's probably one of those service industry women who commonly call other women bitches and titled this gay bitches to distinguish from those fancy bitches in the corner.

My two cents: This was a bar tab and wasn't going to the kitchen. It's just a description to keep the tabs straight. The bartender never meant for it to be seen by anyone. Sometimes bartenders (hi!) give their tabs profane names, i.e. "Longnecked motherfucker" or "Sales assholes."