I've read that Birthright trips are actually designed to get their participants to hookup/form close bonds. They put you in close proximity to a bunch of unattached people of the same general age and background then give you lots of fun things to do together during the day and unsupervised party/hangout time at night.…

I haven't done it and it's not really something I want to do. I guess I'm just skeptical about how different it is from a "real" relationship. A lot of on-again off-again relationships go through an "off" phase that's pretty similar to an FWB set up where they might act like they're broken up or less serious but…

The "friends with benefits" thing seems really awkward for anyone hoping to get with either of the participants. The two may not be formally dating, but it's still a relationship and a fairly intimate one at that. I don't really consider anyone in an FWB relationship to be "single" in the strictest sense of the word…

Seriously, she only took one hit. She'd be buzzed at most.

You've actually seen people wearing these things?  I just assumed the only people who bought them were tech reporters.

That shit is already in video games and I hate it with a passion. No Skyrim I don't need a magic compass or a glowing path to find a cave, or at least I wouldn't if you would just tell me where it is. But maybe I'm the only one who misses Morrowind and its "go North until you see the big rock then turn west" style…

Strange Days had a murderer who used virtual reality to show people being murdered from his perspective.  Is that what you're thinking of?

If it's any consolation, the singularity/posthumanist crowd are wildly optimistic about the pace of technological advancement. Their abuse of Moore's Law is particularly infuriating. Just because processing power doubles every couple of years, doesn't mean that will keep happening indefinitely into the future. Cooling…

Judging by Hugh Hefner's rotating harem of skinny bottle blonds, I'd say it's pretty clear who's preferences are being catered to.

It's because fashion models are treated like glorified coat hangers and are expected to be shaped accordingly. High fashion isn't about making clothes that would look good on actual people, it's about making a "statement" with your designs. The fact that these clothes might be worn by humans at some point is an…

Yes. It's also a pretty silly thing to say about a band with no power. I don't know, maybe they do a good job on other songs, but this song really doesn't have a lot of personality. It's just two lines over and over and even the band sounds bored with it.

Judging by the fucked spacing, I'd say this is a repost.

…and that guy's voice always sounds like that.

Anon might have a point if this song had even the faintest whiff of punk attitude, but it doesn't. It's just bad musicians playing badly.

The minis are fine (but not quite as good), but big cups are foul. You don't notice just how salty the peanut butter is until they give you twice as much of it.

In Greenland, "o" is considered a dirty vowel and highly offensive.

It's actually Vasoline. With an O. No one knows why.

There are also very few cult, niche, or short-lived shows (probably why no Firefly). By polling a general audience rather than, say, actually asking TV writers what they think, they pretty much assured that only mainstream successes would make the list.

I love that the hundred best written shows are all American except for the eight or nine British shows Americans have heard of.

That was one of the weirdest sequences in the whole show. McNulty is this drunken mess who can't do much more than smirk lasciviously at her, but somehow he charms the pants off her as soon as the camera is off him. We never get even the littlest hint why this beautiful young woman would be interested in him, she just…