Thank you for making me feel less silly about wearing my fedora (with a suit and tie, I'm not a madman) to the bar last week

I would think more women wearing fedoras would be the best way to combat all the douches wearing them.

Yes! I want to live in a world where bowlers are more common!

If it doesn't have that wide brim, it's not a fedora. It's a trilby. Trilbies are very popular right now, among douches, but among other people as well. Most stores in the mall marketed towards teens and college students sell them. I'm assuming it's because of pop musicians like Justin Timberlake wearing them a…

Agreed. All the douches wearing hats is just making me want to wear hats more, to rescue them, so I'm building quite a collection. I do have one fedora, but it's a rather nice one that I only wear with a suit and tie.

Liked for Utena (or as I call it around the house, Girlvangelion), which is quickly becoming my favorite anime the more I re-watch it.

What really pisses me off about Evangelion merchandise is that 99.999% of it is Asuka and Rei in mildly creepy fetish outfits. I've found maybe three different Misato action figures,…

He doesn't know what he's doing. He never knows what he's doing. If anything, 3.33 (unbearably awful though it was) was definitely in the spirit of classic Evangelion in that they made expensive last-minute changes. Apparently everything they had in development was completely scrapped halfway through production,…

Wasn't this scene actually in the original release of the film? If so, it wouldn't count as hitting the cutting room floor.

You're not wrong, but isn't the opposite reaction just as problematic? "Well, if we pass a speed limit of 100MPH it'll eventually be 50MPH, then 25MPH and before you know it no one will be allowed to drive, so let's just let everyone drive as fast as they want, wherever they want." There is always middle ground…

If I'm not incorrect, it's because test audiences didn't like the Duckie ending.

It's sad how people don't usually care about the freedoms they aren't choosing to utilize.

That said, just to play devil's advocate here, ALL safety laws limit freedom in some way. I drive a motorcycle and helmet laws prevent me from the freedom of enjoying the wind in my hair. Speed limits prevent us from the…

I don't smoke, and I think it's a habit, but damn does it look good on camera. If I'm ever a movie director, all of my actors will have to smoke during any lengthy conversation.

I'm asthmatic but I can be around outdoor smoke just fine (and indoor smoke if it doesn't get thick). For some reason I need my inhaler when I go to New England, though. Don't know what's different about the air up north, but after a few days I start getting severe reactions.

Congratulations on quitting :) My dad quit for five years, then got hooked again, so be careful (he quit again and I believe has almost reached the decade mark).

I think they're a terrible habit buuuuut I still think that like soda, beer and candy (my preferred drug? Cadburry Eggs), people should have the right to…

Forgive my ignorance, but -smell aside- wouldn't the second hand smoke be essentially the same?

I don't smoke, but I absolutely think these bans are getting ridiculous. I have asthma, and even a few puffs from a cigarette can make me sick, but I can stand a good two feet away from smokers outdoors and not even notice it. I think a lot of people's automatic revulsion when they see smoke is psychosomatic.

I'm more curious why smokers never, ever have a lighter on hand.

Yep. Pen Ward personally asked Paul Robertson to design one of the bosses, and he made the Chainsaw Bear.

I would say you haven't watched them much, then. Adventure Time has much more rules, world building, and continuity than Animaniacs and Freakazoid, which didn't have any more rules than, say, a Looney Tunes cartoon.

Freakazoid and Animaniacs are no-nonsense?