It’s a cultural phenomenon and it’s not going anywhere.

My wife was recently unemployed and had the show on a lot during the day as background noise. Without fail, I’d get sucked into episodes I’ve seen million of times.

Damn, you're trying real hard with this character.  Good luck bud

I have memorized exactly zero fast food menus, if that’s what you’re asking, and it very much seems like that’s what you’re asking. Sometimes I just don’t know what I want when I get there. Even then, 95% of the time they’re not ready to take my order when I get to the squawk box anyways, so it doesn’t really matter.…

Except it has changed, several times this year. The signature sandwiches are gone, the international menu items are in. New international items are coming, and the current ones will leave soon.

As someone who spends most of my workday on the phone with automated systems, the amount of time the stupid robot can’t decide if I said “yes” or “no” does not inspire confidence in this burger-based system

Hopefully the poor soul can finally feel his face.

I frankly don’t eat fast food often enough to know the menu by heart, and if I do eat it, it’s kind of a special treat so I want to optimize the experience and not just order the first thing that comes to mind. Sorry if that takes 40 more seconds. 

But they do add new items occasionally. Prices change, tastes change. Sometimes I’m ready to order a DQP with cheese, then I see the menu and decide hey, maybe I want some chicken nuggets instead, or a filet o fish (that one never actually happens). The menu doesn’t necessarily need to have anything new, it just needs…

Chik-Fil-A drive thru also goes much faster because the menu is much simpler, meaning there is a lot less customization and faster order processing...

Let’s be fair here, the problem isn’t that people can’t decide what they want until they pull up to the squawk box, it’s that you can’t see the goddamn menu until you pull up to it. I usually have an idea what I want before I get there, but sometimes the menu reminds me of something that I haven’t had in a while, or I…

Sorry, but there is absolutely zero sense in which an automated system can hear better than a human. There might be some efficiency on the back end, where the computer can place the order as soon as it hears it, but I bet those gains wash with the lossy first recognition and then obviously a human is going to be…

That’s the reference! (But I was sincere about wanting to see the movie)

I don’t know if you’re saying this in the tone of Jay Sherman at the end of the pilot episode of The Critic (“he plays a concert pianist, who...”), but I am definitely delighted to read it that way.

I was on the fence about this movie, but a lot of what you said seems to have moved to to want to see it. TO THE MULTIPLEX!

I say with all sincerity, what in living hell are you on about?

“...all while harboring an increasingly dangerous secret.”

She literally had the best crying face ever 

All I know is that there is no way any other actress will top Claire Danes’ crying face. 

When i read the book, my mom had warned me so many times that I didn’t cry. We were at the bank when Beth actually died (mom kept asking me where I was in the book, i brought books with me everywhere and I guess she didn’t want me to burst into tears while we were out running errands). Pretty sure that even though I’m…