Re: "camping". My brother-in-law who worked in the restaurant business for several years used to talk about how the owners of a place where he used to work would put a huge amount of effort, when buying new furniture for the dining area, into finding the perfect "45 minute chairs" - fairly comfortable when you first…

I was thinking more about the overall slate of songs in each movie. "Mulan" has one great, really memorable song, and three more that are...eh, they're alright.

Yeah, knowing how vastly more expensive pearls were back then compared to today, and considering he gave Claire a quite long strand of apparently quite well-matched round ones (which would make them even MORE valuable), honestly my first thought was, "oh, damn. He might be giving Claire one of the most valuable things…

1) Claire HAS been trying to get back home, via the only way she knows how - through the stones. This has been an underlying theme in almost every episode. She tried once to escape from the castle but was found out (and nearly raped in the process). All through the road trip that Dougal brought her on, she's been…

WE MUST PROTECT THIS HOUSE

Yeah, they started with the pork chop biscuits a few years ago. They're on hiatus now, but I hope they come back. Delicious. The Bo's version cuts straight to the chase and has an unbreaded chop, which is a nice change of pace. I think the last time the pork chop biscuit was in season, it was also McRib time at McD's,…

An American "biscuit" is a scone's much fluffier buttermilk cousin. It's mostly found in the Southern U.S., and at quick-service places is usually made into a sandwich containing various breakfast and/or fried foods. It's not sweet unless you put jam or molasses on it.

Biscuitville is the shit. I usually end up at Bojangles since there's one of those nearer to me, and Bo's is pretty good too but they only offer THEIR pork chop biscuit at limited times each year. Playing the stupid McRib "get it before it's gone!" game. Assholes. STOP TOYING WITH ME, BOJANGLES, AND KEEP THE DAMN PORK…

Spam (and rice) is very much a Hawaiian food cultural thing. See: Spam musubi. That's kind of neat that McDonalds offers it there.

Meh, Yuengling is alright. I went to college in Upstate NY, and at any give party your choices were usually: a) whatever ultra-cheap piss was in the half-keg (usually Miller Lite); b) some higher-but-not-too-high-falutin' varieties of piss in bottles (typically Rolling Rock and/or Labatt Blue; this town was not really…

As if the beatings that Jamie and Claire suffered weren't enough, we also got a gratuitous amputation scene that did nothing for the plot. UGH. And it's not just the blood, you also get the screaming and the bone-sawing sound effects, and...nope. Noooooope. NopenopenopeNOPE.

There's a point in the flogging scene where it's clear that Black Jack is getting very frustrated by the fact that Jamie won't scream or beg for mercy. My first thought was, "ohhh, Black Jack's losing his shit because this beating is doing NOTHING for him." Poor Jamie :-(

That's beautiful.

It seems like a larger issue with some of these people is a general mistrust of big corporations, as seen in the bullet point about "Monsanto cows". I am not a fan of Monsanto, for several reasons, but the fact that they employ GMOs doesn't make GMOs themselves evil. Same thing with the anti-vax crowd: "Big Pharma"…

I work in a shopping mall, and in the spring and summer we usually have elementary school chorus and summer music camp recitals in a common area near my store. I never really got the love for "Let It Go" (it's...fine, I guess, but compared to the songs from Aladdin, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, hell, even Mulan, …

Yeah, those are always funny. Peanut M&Ms may contain nuts??

Wouldn't most people who are serious about keeping vegan (or any dietary restriction, really) know to research what they can and can't have, anyway? I mean, would this revelation really be such a huge shock to the people it matters to? That's like showing a picture of a Butterfinger Blizzard from DQ with the caption…

What cracks me up the most about the scaregraphic is that I'm pretty sure that the sort of people who genuinely would care about most of the bullet points on that list (i.e., people who keep tabs on who serves vegan/GMO-free/100% organic stuff) never set foot in Starbucks anyway. So calling out the Pumpkin Spice Latte…

Is that a Penn State fan taking a picture of the banner?

Well, ECU (American Athletic Conference) beat VA Tech (Atlantic Coast Conference) who beat Ohio St. (B1G "Ten" Conference).