I was going to be all smartass and point out that the "elevator music" was some classical composer that I was going to pretend like I was familiar with, but I Shazamed it and it turned out to be Mantovani, literally the avatar of elevator music. I regret nothing.

Oh, that actually makes sense. Hilariously timed with the arrival of the cruiser though.

It almost look like she was completely spaced out and imagining that she was going to join traffic going the opposite direction, and just needed to drive straight across to get there.

OK, a couple of things:

Appreciate you not escalating (this is the internet, after all). I'm sort of useless when this kind of shit goes down because I get so furious I can't think straight. And I just came off a thread at another site that got entirely swamped out by a virulent racist troll. Seems like lately the worst people have been…

Apologies. I'm angry and I took your comment as an endorsement.

The fact that you're "truly surprised that the police haven't killed more people" and that the answer is for "people to stay in their place and listen to the law" suggests that you have rationalized the idea that the US is a garrison state and that being murdered for protesting is a reasonable outcome.

OK, help me out here. Hours ago we got a "review" of Ariana Grande's "Break Free" which is very literally exclusively a cooing, pouting, eye lash batting, zero g writhing, hair tossing exercise in "fuck me fuck me fuck me", as delivered by what appears to be virtually a CG idealization of youthful desireablity, while…

You seem like a charming person with reasonable ideas and no anger issues.

Right, because black kid, if not equals is at least close enough to warrant speculation, "a hard core gang banger." AKA "thug." Just like we could at least raise the specter of Klan membership of the next white southerner who is murdered. Hey look, he had a Confederate flag on his pickup bumper! Maybe (probably) he…

How can people see the utility and cost benefits when they aren't available?

Who's driving the cop car with the dash cam? Because I can see all four hands at times. Is it maybe some kind of battle wagon, where there are extra seats for the guys whose job it is to yell into the radio and fire their guns?

Michael Bay knows that he works on cynical exploitation machines. All of the technicians and craft people involved know they are working on cynical exploitation machines. The idea that any of them are "disheartened" by the entirely predictable response of "meh, cynical exploitation machine, fuck that noise" is,…

So I'm standing in line at the Trader Joe's where they have Ritter Sport Bars in the coveted "last second loss of impulse control" position which works its dark magic on me. And then I eat it and I'm all "HOLY SHIT WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE I PLEDGE MY ALLEGIANCE TO YOU, RITTER, YOU BISCUITY BASTARD ."

It's an impressive act of mimicry and ventriloquism, but there's sort of an uncanny valley thing going on. I mean, obviously she's got great pipes, but I've never thought that kids doing spot on impressions of adult singing styles does anyone any favors, in that it perpetuates the cultural tendency towards…