I'm pretty sure that I actively pray each day never to have a medical problem that requires me to be catheterized. I am wincing and shuddering even thinking about it. ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh. It is the worst thing in the entire world.

I was also unaffected by The Lottery. I think because by the time I read it (also in eighth grade English) everyone kind of knew what it was about and people sometimes allude to stuff as being reminiscent of The Lottery so it didn't pack any punch. It was probably pretty shocking/effective when it was first published.

I walked out of Candyman after the public bathroom scene. (I have since seen the whole film, honestly it still scares me a lot even though I kinda like it.)

I swim in the pool here pretty frequently (or at least did in the winter) and always have to suppress compulsively imagining that an animal will appear in the water with me. I've ALWAYS been terrified of underwater creatures, even fish. For some reason there is something I find viscerally disturbing about being in a…

A canned BBQ chicken sandwich is the grossest food item I've heard of in months. In fact, all of this is revolting.

I like reading shit about people's personal lives on here.

Me too. I had a hard time focusing on "Milk" because I practically lost it every time he was onscreen.

I put in an email to my roommate and got David Foster Wallace. Then I put in the first two pages of my thesis and got Dan Brown. A different two pages of my thesis got Nabokov. Significantly, those two pages were from a section about incest.

I'd call Secretary a romantic comedy. A) more stuff in it is funny/cute than depressing B) they end up together in the end!

I think Ragtime is pretty sharp and can be added to this list. Of course, it is also as recent as 1998 (and (many of these musicals cited are quite reason) so that might be the only reason it seems cool by the index of modern sensibilities.

Agreed.

I don't know, I like almost all these things in "great job internet" (mysterious, as I hate the internet) and don't read nor have desire to read any of those other sites. I'm pleased with it.

I'll be honest, I'm one of those type A cleaning freaks so I thought the Hoover ad, for one, was totally legit. I would love to get a high powered vacuum as a present on any occasion. Yet I have never tried vitamins as a housework aid, maybe they are onto something? Although I think vodka works pretty well to that end…

I'll admit it, I thought "You can conveniently replace anything she uses to stop the car.

Slate's article titles are comedy gold in and of themselves. Some highlights I collected a while ago:

I don't think that one was supposed to be funny. Some of them are just kind of wry (I'm sure there are other xkcd's even more relevant to discussion at hand though).

Double X infuriates me with its existence. Its shitty interface is almost as bad as its vapid content if not worse.

Don't Know Why
I bet there is the greatest consensus that Don't Know Why is one of the least offensive songs in these collections. Yet ironically, of all the songs in the world this is definitely on my top ten list of songs I never want to hear again EVER. Don't you guys remember when her CD was played in seemingly…

The weird thing is that I have what I believe is a memory of having Hot In Herre play at a middle school dance when I was 12 or 13, but I was assuredly out of middle school by 2002. What song could I be misremembering in its stead? Definitely a question to keep me up at night.

Funny, I never really related much to Notes from Underground. When I said that I felt really personally affected by Dostoevsky, I more meant just the sensibility of his books in general. I am endlessly amazed by how he captures REAL PEOPLE and what people are like in Brothers K and The Idiot and Demons. It's just…