I'm watching Maron too, having waited for it to either come back on FOX UK or appear on Netflix. I will say that the second season is better than the first and that I find it kind of low key but oddly comforting for some reason.

In our school it was more Yahoo! Chat and looking up Buffy spoilers.

Hey I liked the giant unicorn float. I liked the idea of sitting it out on the lawn of my fanciest relative's house near the pool they don't have.

Moment of silence for all that drunken Jack and Jose ;-)

Can he say something hateful about women that concisely though?

Community?

You joke but sometimes I want to go back to the 2003 version of the internet where TWoP was still alive and there were still some people willing to do decent longform writing on sites that were not drowning in ads and clips and youmustsees ;-)

I would spare Twitter but lose Facebook. I never used Vine. I've never used Instagram myself but I do follow links to new moves gymnasts have performed (usually dangerous triple twisting vaults, dangerous tumbling sequences or tricky UB moves).

"And If I need comfort beyond that, there are my loved ones."

If it comforts people and doesn't hurt anyone else, I don't see the harm in it.

Did you consider maybe it's a stepping stone out of that kind of thing? But if this stuff gives people comfort and it doesn't spill over into affecting anyone else I'm fine with it.

Heh :-)

Stupider than voting Trump? Stupider than being a Scientologist (don't sue me)? Stupider than any number of the stupid things we all take comfort in everyday for reasons that are scarcely rational?

The generation gap is more to do with a fast changing jobs market and a lack of affordable housing, I think. If more people were good and happy with how life was panning out then there would probably be less discord.

"but next to no one involved in this trend is a true believer in any religion"

It's no lesser than any major religion.

No-one's asking for any money though necessarily. And you don't have to marry Tom Cruise and have some creepy silent childbirth while experiencing the worst pain of your life to date.

It's a pretty old bandwagon. I think it's appealing as a teenager because you can often end up feeling powerless at school and I think the props and the idea of spell casting probably appeals to the dramatic side of many people ;-)

It was also a 00s thing and was a sort of interest for a lot of us at the Catholic school I went to. It was nice to read about a religious practice that didn't seem to fundamentally hate women and it was all slightly edgy because our art teacher warned us that we could technically be expelled from school for…

Don't disrespect the A303 people! ;-)