Whenever YouTube comments are mentioned, I always think of this quote from one of the staff writers from The Verge:

"Hodor only pawn in Game of Thrones."

"You should wear more Qartheen gowns."

"I aim for the stars … but sometimes I hit London."

It's pretty obvious who the ad agencies believe the audience for basic cable channels to be: the elderly and the unemployed.

I can't tell you how many ads have indelibly burned images, songs, and jokes into my brain while leaving me with no recollection of what product they were actually selling.

It was almost too much of an "ethnic mismatch" for CBS. The network suits really didn't want to show Lucille Ball on TV with her (real-life) Cuban husband, claiming Americans "wouldn't believe it". Ball and Arnaz had to develop a vaudeville act and take it on the road with his orchestra in order to prove that white…

"WHO ARE THE AD WIZARDS WHO CAME UP WITH THIS ONE?"

I looked up his Wikipedia bio and found this gem: he released a comedy album (on a label which mostly specialized in black comics) entitled Should Lesbians Be Allowed to Play Pro-Football? I'm sure those jokes have stood the test of time …

I think you could do bald jokes, but no one would really laugh at them. Humor is like an exotic tropical fruit: it doesn't travel well across borders and it wasn't meant to last.

"If You Don't Buy This Magazine, We'll Kill This Dog"

Up until the 90's there was a sort of gentleman's agreement that fast food chains, sodas brands, etc. wouldn't disparage or even mention each other in ads. Every once in a while they would hint in a cheeky sort of way, but that was it. Eventually some ambitious ad executive must have just said, "fuck it, let's go…

From the 15th through 17th centuries the Tatars of the Crimean Khanate used to make annual slave raids on the borders of Poland-Lithuania and the area that is now the Ukraine and southern Russia, and sell the captives to their feudal masters the Ottomans. It was the basis of their whole economy.

There's definitely a lot of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, some Vikings and Tatars/Mongols, and maybe some Carthage too while we're at it.

If she were 16 and you were 14 - well she probably wouldn't even be talking to you. But 20 years later, at 36 and 34? Who can even tell the difference?

*Ding ding ding* Nailed it.

I don't think there's anything actually wrong with "y'all" or other regionalisms, but excessive folksiness in more-or-less formal communication can seem a bit disingenuous or calculated to me. It tends to remind me of some old-timey country lawyer character from Central Casting trying to hornswoggle a jury or…

I got the gist it, and degradation porn does absolutely nothing for me either so I basically agree with her, but it was exhausting just reading that letter. Between the Southern dialect ("all y'all") and her own personal idiosyncratic slang ("gaysex talk" - or is that a Dan Savage thing I don't know about?) it was…

Type V (Marilith): Six-armed Playboy Playmate on top, Burmese python on the bottom!

Yeah, it's just an owl wearing a crown. I guess people were easily scared in olden days?