"Brandon" seems like one of those people who never outgrew high school Debate Club.

It's a more serious, world-building equivalent of a "Noodle Incident".

There was an Indian character in The English Patient who was a sapper defusing bombs with the British forces liberating Italy, but he was just one character in an already overstuffed film.

I'm not so sure I like this avatar-comment synergy …

Yes, I doubt that it really happens. I was mainly making a joke about how some people will go out of their way to be jerks even when there is basically nothing to be gained by doing so.

Yes … were their parents honoring the third president of the U.S.A. or the first president of the C.S.A.?

People who are mean to waiters, etc, are also pretty stupid to boot. Even a sociopath with no ethical or moral scruples whatsoever ought to avoid antagonizing the relatively low-paid people who handle their food and drink. I think we can all figure out why…

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III …

"I once saw a baby give another baby a tattoo! They were very drunk!"

How easy is it to activate and reactivate OKC accounts? Maybe just leave it alone for a while, rather than deleting it entirely. You wouldn't want to miss out on another of these random unforeseen opportunities, just in case something actually comes of it. Remember, you missed someone because she deleted her…

That's a-spicy meatball! Shaddap you face! Tootsie-frootsie ice cream!

Seriously, right? How hard was that? I've been saying this for years.

"I enjoy skinny-skiing…going to bullfights on acid…"

Anything by Claude Lorrain. He was the one who made landscape painting a respectable subject matter for Western painters. Rustic views of the Roman Campagna in his early period, brilliant golden sunlight over imaginary Greco-Roman seaports in his middle period, and cool blue and green landscapes filled with…

Lucky bastard!

American Jews: "Let me do your taxes for you."

Unfortunately it's not quite so cut and dried, and that is where a lot of the confusion and difficulty comes from. Children are going through puberty earlier and earlier - girls have their first period as early as age 9 or 10, and boys are pumped up with testosterone and getting random erections whenever there's a…

Westermarck Effect

"There is no such thing as an anti-war movie." - Francois Truffaut

They basically have the taste, maturity, and opinions of 12 or 13 year old boys.