"Look forward to sharing my one gray towel."
"Was it gray when you bought it?"
"I didn't buy it, it came with the apartment."

Yeah, college sometimes LOOKS better because there's a lot of weird strategies that will work in a college game due to less disciplined players that would get crushed in the pros. But the fact is the pros are WAY faster and harder hitting. Take this year's Cleveland Browns and put them up against the greatest college…

Eh, I think it definitely worked better with Tarkin (even with creepy Muppet-Cushing) We are talking about the Death Star, they would've had to invent some lame reason why he wasn't around for this enormously important operation. Plus, it showed how hubristic and out-of-his league Krennic was. He's out there in his…

You know it's serious when they kill Alan Tudyk.

Having been in those types of interviews, I'm betting that the "one specific thing" was something along the lines of "find someone with the expertise I need and ask them". It sounds like one of those "can they delegate and/or ask for help" questions.

It was okay and was an interesting idea, it was mostly a problem with a whole lot of waiting to get to the fireworks factory. All those side-plots in the first-half felt like (and were) almost all filler until they got around to that time-jump for the back end of the season.

Yeah, somewhat cheaper materials are fine when that's all you can afford. My parents built their cute three bedroom cottage that had a few refinements that look nice, but are cheap (plastic for the front porch railing, foam for the columns, etc.) because if they didn't cut a few corners, they couldn't have built the…

Well, the point is that the people who own them had the option to build an actual mansion, with quality materials and a footprint that matches the lot it's built on. But instead they go with cheap-ass materials and total design nonsense to create these grotesque eyesores. http://99percentinvisible.o…

I've got a 1906 three-flat in Chicago, purchased about three years ago. The previous owners did absolutely nothing to maintain the place for more than 40 years and it's still holding up nicely as I gradually catch up with nearly half a century of maintenance work and updates.

Don't forget the secret doors for every single room. And a fireman's pole.

Unlikely, mostly because most McMansions are built with crappy materials, so won't last more than 40 years or so . . . and they'll still be ugly.

The greater good.

The trend in Chicago is to go into a nice neighborhood, knock down several beautiful, century old brick or stone buildings, then build an eyesore known around here as "The Urban Fortress", made of concrete with walls and gates surrounding a postage stamp of a yard in order to cram a 50,000 square foot home and a three…

As someone who came of age in central Ohio, that was Tee-Jays Country Place. The only thing I've ever ordered is the Barnyard Buster, eggs, biscuits, hash browns, and meat all smothered under a half gallon of sausage gravy. Glorious. Plus, it's like a scavenger hunt, every bite you wonder whether you're getting egg,…

Which is funny, since the received pronunciation (what we think of as "British Sounding") wasn't even a thing until the late 1800s or so.

Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-LEADER!

Now I think "Dale", https://www.youtube.com/wat…

That's interesting, let's look at the latest super-popular sketch, (wait for it) David Pumpkins. It's a four and a half minute bit filled with nonsensical weirdness, but not dependent upon the weirdness. The bit works because of the setup, the couple that buys into the scary and wants to be scared. The first scare…

"The night was sultry." https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Perhaps not, how do you think it died?