Fair. I was mainly disappointed that for a mythology dripped out in tiny hints and veiled clues and coded allusions over the course of three seasons, with explicit promises of real history behind it (“We know more about your religion than you do...”) and clear warnings of the dangers of religious fanaticism, the only…

certain sectors of the fandom

Canadian?

I mean, that’s everyone now, because meth.

I was just making a factual correction - you didn’t have to make me relive it!

It’s his best spring since leading the Bruins to the Cup six years ago,

—The Beatles (produced by George R.R. Martin)

They’d won 10 out of the last 14 leading up to the visit, so... it’s not a KO but he didn’t hit air.

Look, I know baseball has its share of fat guy pitchers, but come on.

I can’t think of a Waffle House joke to make in this context that isn’t godawful. :-(

...what does a cod sound like?

Now, some will scream, “Political Correctness run amok!” or “SJWs are out of control!”

I was gonna star this, but that would be #70.

Who got the most jobbed on this year’s Name of the Year bracket?

Actually, this is my own (almost entirely) irony-free response. I hate fuckers like him not least because they increase the amount of shit I have to swallow in order to come off as a Reasonable Person™.

How many years before the NHL decides fighting is both so dangerous for the players (cf. Derek Boogaard) and such a Bad Example for The Youths that they outlaw it completely instead of (in most cases) slapping a minor penalty on the aggressor?

Thankfully I no longer work in any job even remotely customer service related, but when I spent summers as a line cook, I happily accepted my lower real wage as a cost of not having to deal with customers. God, that shit is stressful, even when they’re basically kind and polite. OTOH I was a kid looking to pad my…

As long as they don’t ship production of 90-minute IPA out to fucking Latrobe, I suppose I’m OK with this.

Signed,