I’ll occasionally say “this is my thought process” if it’s truly necessary to explain not only what I think, but exactly how I arrived at that conclusion. To use it synonymously with “this is what I think” is dumb and bad.

I consider “authored” to mean, specifically, wrote and had published. Especially published in a peer-reviewed journal. You don’t write a study, you author a study. They’re just completely different words.

I guess they’d prefer you just say “carefully selected” over and over again.

Or maybe they do employ these “big words” when they are appropriate, but did not feel it was necessary to use them to make their point in this case? Thus proving that they don’t just use “fancy words” to sound smart when they aren’t necessary?

We live in an age of information. As an intellectually curious person, if someone uses a word I don’t know, I often pull out my phone and look it up. There is nothing stopping others from doing the same. To say “I don’t know that word therefore the person who said it is just pretentious” is lazy at best. Not to…

Is this bait?

I’ve always done 1:1 myself. I basically never follow recipes and just mix oil and vinegar until it tastes good to me, which often seems to end up being half and half. Maybe a little less vinegar if it’s a really punchy one. 

A deli I worked in did a delicious, but unconventional BLT year round by marinating roma tomatoes in a balsamic vinaigrette and roasting them till slightly creamy. They also used paprika mayo, which played with the smokiness of the bacon SO well. All on a good, flavorful multigrain.

What do you mean by make your own bacon? Are we talking raising the hog all the way through slaughter, butchering, and curing, or do you more like buy a pork belly, cure and slice it yourself?

I kinda love it. Who pairs MCM with rustic northwoods elements and throws in some Catholic church for good measure, plus underground caves? It’s absurd, but I would have SO much fun in that house. I feel like so many of these multimillion dollar mansions are so cookie cutter. They’re either ultra-sleek modern looking, …

Kathy Bates has done some remarkable work but she also doesn’t seem to shy away from a dud. A quick skim of her imdb page, reveals that she’s appeared in at least three Chuck Lorre series.

Goddamn oxytocin can and will make you feel feeeelings for fuck buddies.

At least Crocs are comfortable and easy to hose off, which is why they are excellent as a garden clog. These are excellent for nothing.

I do not envy the task of anyone attempting to build on, market, or otherwise work with the Star Wars franchise. What an absurd and impossible to please fan base. Especially the “serious fans” who get upset that they introduce cute new creatures and market Star Wars on every possible product.

I can’t imagine I’ll ever meet the man, but if I do, I just might tell him to try having some fun once in a while. Imagine if he took that keen eye for cinematography and directed it at a script that wasn’t wall to wall male angst! 

As another commenter so delightfully pointed out, they do the same marketing for the Fast and Furious movies. “Together again, doing the saaaame stuff! Get psyched!” Only difference is people admit when those movies are cash-ins.

Honestly that sounds like a great evening. Most movies are better if you don’t take them seriously. 

Cash-ins are cash-ins. Your point?

If Paul Feig is still directing the same actors in the same way forty years from now, you’ll have an argument.

The same people forcing you to read this article and this comment, obviously.