It was funny until the rest of America caught up to him in 2005.

A harmonica BELT!??! Can you bend that far? Are you Steve Bannon?

WALNUT CHIN!

I was going to say she was the okapi of people.

Can you wish to give it back to the monkey?

As a non-LGBT person, I'm not too keen on calling people "queer" either. I remember when my friend came out as gay and ran around calling himself a fag, it made me worry a little, bc I wasn't really sure where the boundary lay for him between proud-re appropriation and self-loathing (he had a hard coming out— this…

I'm gratified to hear that Mister Bananagrabber, patriarch of the Bananagrabber family, cares about quality in his writing!!

I agree, actually. I don't have a strong disdain for Starbucks coffee, bc I drink coffee about 5 times a year and just don't have much of a palette for it. But I drink a lot of tea, and Teavanna's teas tasted weirdly, almost chemically, intense to me. Sure enough, their ingredients list (for the teas I checked)…

Playing pinball and smoking jazz cigarettes.

It's what I've been ceylon for years.

I'm going to use that on my offspring!

The pool. In my parenting career the summer answer is always the pool.
Grouchy? We're going to the pool.
Bored? Pool
Fighting with brother? Pool
Mom's sick of you? Pool
They have solid tans.

I think that's where we saw it too. This is the kid who raved and raved over The Secret Lives of Pets last summer.
He told me Despicable Me 3 was pretty rotten when he saw it with friends a few weeks ago, so maybe his tastes are evolving.

Sometimes people with shit taste are my favorite people.

I suspect this commentariat is chock-full of stories much like yours. You could be our spokes-person!

And, I suspect, it sort of summarizes the spirit of the slap-dash, thrown-together, hot nonsense of the actual film, too.

Is that the schadenfreude emoji?

Well, I assumed that was the root of the problem, but I'm open to hearing alternative hypotheses…

I was a long hold out too, but I like them now. I like to use them as a "this conversation is closing" mark too. After you and your friend have gone back and forth a few times, you can end with an affectionate emoji, but no text, which seems like a gentle way to say you're done for now.

Why does everyone hate this guy? Is it the whole "using initials for a name thing?"