Pretty much. Well, Charlotte gets the Miracle plane because it's a U.S. Airways plane, and because Charlotte-Douglas was its original destination (and a huge hub for U.S. Air), but being at the nexus of the shittiest airline in America isn't exactly something to put in your town's brochure.

Pitt entering the ACC football scene is not going to help the situation, methinks.

Hey now, there's a lot to do in Charlotte. From the Billy Graham Library/Temple of Doom (which boasts a 40-foot-tall Thomas Kincade mural) to the "Miracle on the Hudson" plane to the fireworks outlets in South Carolina, the Queen City's got it all. Plus it's right down the road from Kannapolis, a town best known for…

I once bit into a Bojangles chicken biscuit (which by default doesn't come with toppings) only to discover that they'd put mayo on it. AND NO, I MOST CERTAINLY DID NOT ASK FOR IT.

In Morehead City? Apologies to the fine people of that town but PFFFHAHAHAHAAA no.

Yeah, I live in a pretty foodie-intensive town. It's probably not the actual taste of Spam that puts these people off, but the chance that someone might see them eating Spam, and then all their Bourdain-wannabe cred will be shot (although I'm guessing even Bourdain would at least try it).

I once worked in an office where one of my co-workers was Native Hawaiian. We had a potluck lunch one day, and she brought in a big plate of homemade Spam musubi, AKA Spam sushi. This is a dish that is hugely popular in Hawaii (Spam being more of a cultural fixture there than most other places), but in the Eastern…

This is the second time in three days that I've read about a child old enough to comprehend Pokemon phylogeny being breast-fed. What the fuck, parents.

Is that Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in the avatar? If so, then I'm guessing this is a troll account. Unless "Democrat" has a different meaning in the UK.

INTERNET TOUGH GUY ALERT. DEPLOYING MCDONALDS FREEDOM WAGONS. GOD BLESS MURICA.

"Interestingly, they have not banned imports from Japan, Switzerland, and New Zealand, despite all three issuing sanctions similar to those of the other countries named."

A few years ago, I went on a snorkel/dive trip to the Virgin Islands. We were snorkeling off of St. John one day, and spotting a lot of the usual small reef life: various fish, cuttlefish, moon jellies, etc. At one point I happened to look up and right there, practically right in front of my face, was an adorably tiny…

I'm in North Carolina which had its own 5-hour-snow-parking-lot fiasco not long after Atlanta's this past February. It takes surprisingly few moronic drivers to completely ass up traffic flow and reduce everything to gridlock in a winter weather situation, but once that happens, it doesn't matter how awesome your…

The guy at the end who says "free parking in the rear" is definitely in on it. And has a stone-cold poker face.

The people in that video are amazing. They're like a black hole from which no trace of irony or self-awareness can escape.

North Carolina has a very similar sign right outside the state administration building (where the gubernator and a lot of state senators and such have their offices). At least Indiana's sign explains the history and sheds some light on how shitty the whole forced sterilization thing was. NC's is just like, "yep. This…

Interesting how if you mouse over the "Sports" header on that website, the first option that pops up is "Brier".

The ghost minifig was awesome, it even glowed in the dark! Surely even Jesus can appreciate that.

Yep, Parks & Rec. is definitely on my watch list whenever I get around to it (I always seem to catch up with good shows quite a while after they start...) And adorkable characters are just the best!