they make nice vacuums, but the fans / heaters are ridiculous. all you're paying for is the look, they don't move any more air any more quietly or more efficiently than any bog-standard fan that costs about a fifth as much.

Because if people only ever bought stuff that was strictly necessary, we'd all have to work a hell of a lot less, but life would be a hell of a lot more boring. The vast majority of modern economic activity involves stuff nobody actually needs.

Their active noise cancelling headphones are also good. Best active noise cancelling there is, comfortable, sound is fine.

I know! I mean, how poor do you have to be to cheap out that much? Where do you even buy a sweater for less than $2000? Sak's?!

well, no, it's what you get for blindly trusting easily gameable recommendation systems. I use an ereader, but I ignore all that stuff. Heck, I only ever enable the internet connection to update the firmware.

So you're saying they should have two each?

Sadly can't seem to afford a single necktie between the lot of 'em.

The secret is, there's a clause in his contract saying any termination letter is only valid if his name's spelt correctly. The Angels have been trying to fire him for six years and haven't managed it yet…

"could well be ascribed", by which you mean, "I'm going to arbitrarily decide it's because of this, so I don't have to be concerned about it".

…which is contributing to the overall wage gap. Which is what I said. "It's caused by both things." - me, just up there

"of course, the gap is caused by men and women disproportionately
concentrated in different workforces, not getting paid differently for
the same job."

You're just in the wrong country. Some of the all-time great anime series are baseball based…most obviously Touch, H2 and Cross Game:

me either, or indeed anywhere else.

well, no, indeed, this is true…

alright, AV Club, how much did Marvel pay you to write a news article about every goddamned bonus feature on this movie's home video release?

er…R.E.M. broke up in 2011.

He bought it at the same store where David Byrne gets his suits. When he left the house, it was normal sized. As of now, the Scarfpocalypse covers most of the eastern seaboard.

"They also take a karaoke bus trip to Mount Fuji."

uh, so…is it blond (like the picture says) or blonde (like you keep calling it)? You know one isn't a misspelling of the other, right? they mean different things…

"Making a Murderer had little visual flare"