I KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG WITH TRUFFLE OIL. I love mushrooms, so it always struck me as odd that I could hate something made from mushroom-relatives as much as I hate truffle oil. Bleh.

The bout of stomach pains I had after eating some ribs that were overdosed with sriracha-based sauce was probably in the top two or three worst episodes of pain I've ever had in my life.

Sorry. I was being snarky. My point was that places like that seem unnecessarily uppity to me with regards to how they view other peoples' tastes and whether or not those tastes are "appropriate". And yes, I read the whole discussion re: it's their place, they can do what they want, it's "insulting" (seriously? Why…

I'm now sort of tempted to go up to Louie's Lunch, order a burger, go to take a bite, and at the last second, whip a gigantic bottle of ketchup out of my purse and squirt half the bottle on it.

Truffle oil fries WITH aioli?! That's terrible with a side order of horrific right there. But sure, ketchup is way worse.

Yeah, the fries-but-no-ketchup thing would be the real deal breaker for me. I like ketchup on my burger, but in a pinch I can deal with other condiments (guacamole burgers are awesome). But fries? C'mon. I'm guessing this place would want people to eat the fries Belgian-style with mayo, to which I say: 1) this ain't…

From what I understand, they revamped the whole trading post engine, and one of the specific changes was that, instead of the TP UI retrieving item icons from an external server (as the current system does), it will load them from the game data already stored on the user's computer. This in itself should really help…

Another thing I really like about FFXIV's auction house is that I can look at the recent transaction history for an item. This is especially helpful in seeing whether I'd be getting ripped off by buying a certain item at its current price.

Reminds me of Bob Uecker's Cleveland Indians call-in show in Major League, "Teepee Talk".

Well, there is the "National Museum of the American Indian" in D.C. And from what I've read/heard, the Smithsonian sought out and used a tremendous amount of input from native groups (from North AND South America) when they designed the place, so I'm assuming that the name was considered appropriate. Unlike "Redskin",…

Agreed, DQVIII was one of my favorite JRPGs of the PS2 era (granted, my "favorite" list for that console is pretty stacked, as there were SO MANY great games for it).

Completely agree. I think that it might be a little harder to find a lot of that top-tier talent working in video games, unless it's a big-budget game (such as an Elder Scrolls), but I don't think it's the voice-acting itself that precludes a great performance that the audience can connect with. I'm playing Guild…

Holy shit.

I was flying from home back to college after winter break one year, and had to change planes at Dulles. I was flying on United. The plane I was changing to was one of those tiny turboprop jobs (of course it was), but this particular puddle-jumper was very special (translation: it was old as shit).

Well, the girl who always offered to drive on the Dunkin' excursions was from Boston. Not that this makes it not a waste of gas, but I suppose that's what she grew up with and it maybe was comfort food, sort of.

As I'm pretty sure that 98% of the sex acts on UD are simply made up for the sake of posting on UD by gross yet creative yet GROSSGROSSGROSSSSSSS people, the main thing that continues to confound me is that most UD'ers can't seem to let go of the term "vagina lips" (or "pussy lips"). Seriously? Basically an entire…

I know a few people who are not as upset about the hazing thing as they are about the fact that UNC is playing Jerry Falwell University.

It's the official Green Bay Packers Ray-Bans brought to you by Sentry Foods that really pull this look together.

My favorite thing about the Quebec language divide is those stop signs that include "STOP" and "ARRET" (or just "ARRET"). Even though "STOP" is an internationally-recognized street sign term. Even though the word "ARRET" is actually improper in this context, and means something closer to "stop" as in "bus stop".…

I went to college in a small town in the northern U.S., and said town had no chain donut shops to speak of. I knew several people who would pile into a car every couple of weeks and head all the way to the next town over (roughly 40 miles) to go to the nearest Dunkin'. I never understood this.