While I am a person who brings a 90lb Olde English Bulldogge on a plane, I think your list is good. I think you could further distill it to two simple rules:

Holy shit is there no way to turn off or mute those auto-play ads?

I’ll hold my breath for this complaint to make a difference.

Dude what are you talking about?

But just like the crazy mall in Dubai, with the ski slopes and everything, this mall provides a place for people who live in a sometimes inhospitable climate somewhere to spend time outside of the house. It’s a mall, but it’s also like a city’s retail district - just all indoors and out of the cold.

Thanks. It’s honestly not that bad of a memory, actually. It was a stressful time, but we were young and kind of in the middle of a major global turning point. I kept my job during it, so that was good, but she lost her visa on account of the sponsoring entity no longer existing. It led us to get married in a rush so…

I just came here to say that it’s me in the header photo. I’m the guy in the grey suit hugging the blonde woman. It was taken the day Lehman went down. She was my fiancee at the time and she worked at Lehman in London, while I worked for Barclays. This photo crops up in my life about once a year, usually when people…

This had not occurred to us, Dude.

I am from Minnesota, and I am a fan of pizza. I am aware of no specific MN style pizza. I think what it takes for cities or regions to develop a signature food style is:

Dude, it was King vs. Bobby Riggs, not McEnroe. Had it been McEnroe, and people were rooting for him, that would not make them garbage. Riggs, yes.

It seems to me that some of the dumber aspects of The Grand Tour were developed as petulant swipes at the BBC, who wouldn’t let them use certain elements of their old show. The test driver can’t be a silent road-race driver, so they made him a blabbering NASCAR guy. They can’t do celebrities in a reasonably priced…

I definitely see your point, and I think you may be right. But, I’d like to propose an alternative explanation: XiXi wants none of the attention or publicity that would come with nannying for the Trumps. She could well hate Jared, Ivanka, Donald et al., but love little Arabella.

He spoke at my HS graduation. I listened to his radio show for years and have met him several times. He has always used language in a non-typical way. Hard to criticize it since he has had a life-long career as a writer.

Yeah, in the original there was no way to kill them all. But, I don’t think I ever escaped the Castle Wolfenstein with the Nazi maps/plans/whatever without killing at least a few of them. It was one of my favorite games to play on the old IIe.

As the set-up to the whole conflict, humping the statue was a pretty lazy choice by the writers. I’m sure they thought “if he has to do something dumb to get caught, at least make it funny”, but it wasn’t as funny as they hoped. I don’t think it ruined the episode. Family guy is hilarious in part because the…

This was the car my mother drove before she got the white/black SVX. I loved it but never got to drive it. I can’t say it was the optimal plaftorm for hauling kids around in a Minnesota winter, but what can I say? She loved sporty cars.

S.A.D.!

Right. I’d like to know what the single-day record for sign-ups was before Discovery launched. I signed up, then cancelled before paying anything. I think the plan was always to renew for at least one more season. Netflix ex-US distribution is probably enough to pay for a second season, and it would be pretty…

I recognize that the prevailing sentiment is that this show isn’t good, but I’d like to respectfully disagree. Not every joke is funny, not every plot element makes sense, but I think it’s a pretty thoughtful and well-executed show that definitely entertains me. It’s difficult not to have a hate-hardened heart these…

Our pain is their pleasure, and vice versa. It’s like we’re somehow not all in this together.