Yeah, SPAM should have known she was waving a red flag in front of a bull with that.

The village bicycle.

Oh, what a night!

Yeah, a good rule of thumb is that if anyone calls you about financial stuff, assume they're a scam and hang up. If you think there's anything you need to check up on, call them yourself.

Or just change her fucking phone number. Christ, she dealt with the complexities of moving 3000 miles away, but can't bring herself to change her phone number? She probably would find things easier if she has a local area code, anyway. Lots of times, even in 2014, in the instances where you have to give your phone…

This is why people should communicate via email, and use their phones for playing games and finding restaurants in cities they're unfamiliar with.

"Hank, I have never taken an I.Q. test in my life. Oh, God, what if I'm average? Do you have any idea how dumb 'average' is?"

Like Shawshank, I'm sure it has to do with the role not having been written as a black man. I think both of those roles are pretty great examples of color-blind casting.

"to me it'll always be the little movie me and my friends liked that we saw in the theater that no one else seemed to pay all that much attention to at the time. that it grew such a following in the years since just feels like a vindication of my taste at that age"

I think this guy is misreading the situation, and explaining as a lack of a deep enough well of white guilt what can easily be explained by xenophobia. That is, Americans of all races might care deeply about the experience of American slavery and its continued effects on and relevance to modern society; but Americans…

There was some "last Confederate War widow" who died in a shockingly recent decade. She was very young when she married a Confederate veteran in the 1910s, or something. He died not long after, having had one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel when they married, and she lived to a ripe old age, well…

I must not have detected the pickling, if it was so brief.

Yep. My grandfather, for example, was the son of a man from Bohemia and a woman from Ireland. He was born in the 1920s. No one in his family ever owned a slave. Yet, as a white man in a profoundly racist society (mid-20th century United States, and the edge of the South, at that!) he was able to advance socially,…

I agree. I don't think the tide has turned away from racism in America to the point that a candidate can get elected to the presidency because he's black. Sure, some younger voters especially were excited to cast a historic ballot that they could be proud to tell their grandkids about (Millennials want nothing so…

I took "poorly-managed transition from a slave economy to a market economy" in the first place to refer to the tension between start-and-stop federal actions to remediate the effects of slavery and the Jim Crow legislation undoing even those measly efforts, and going much further in the humiliation department, for 100…

I've been working my way through the 1978 version on Netflix, and I'm pretty impressed so far. The sets and costumes are pretty cheap, but one has to make allowances for that; it was a 1970s TV show, with a very limited budget. I understand that its production was all fucked up from the get-go, the first five or six…

Saying that Dirk Benedict was very handsome is not some shameful opinion one has to "admit" to with a sense of shame or embarrassment. If there's such a thing as objective measurements for a handsome male face, his in the late-1970s/early-1980s could have been used to calibrate the scale, since it was at 100% of…

Lots of talk about bad instruments in popular music. You know what we never hear anymore? The sitar.

He never listens…

Well, notice they mentioned pickled vegetables. That's the loophole they're driving semi after semi though.