Scripted isn’t the right word for The Grand Tour, repetitive would get closer to the mark.
It’s the same gags and same “problems” over and over.

The latest season of The Grand Tour is/was (I gave up four episodes in) almost unwatchable - all the who-gives-a-shit formula of latter day Top Gear without any of the cool highs of the special trekking episodes. Skip the chatting and the celebrity drivers and it was a watchable but dull 25 minute show. Watchable but…

Establishment liberals bro-ing down with NRO and Breitbart people.

I think I got fucked out of birthright citizenship and they’d never let me emigrate on my own (no money, not even a degree) - my grandmother was born in Canada in the ‘20s, she was still a Canadian citizen when my father was born in the ‘40s but then she naturalized in the late ‘80s and my dad never made a claim on…

This is why you don’t sell a car on a payment plan.

So far as I know, he’s not trying to get anyone to force sanctions on South Korea until they outlaw the practice. He has lived his entire life in a culture that treats some animals as companions and it is completely reasonable to be horrified at the use of those animals for other purposes.

If your mother is killed,…

The underwater effect sounds like being really fucked up on drugs to me - like listening to music in a K-hole.

Ahhhh the ‘90s.

Dogs (and horses and cats) are companion animals in the US. There is nothing irrational about recognizing their status built over hundreds or thousands of years and being horrified with them as a food source.

I hope it works better than the WeVibe - that thing would never stay in place/became a distraction when it shifted but also made for such a tight fit that our lube budget doubled.

Counterpoint: this is hilarious and the Olympics are one giant evil grift so fuck their seriousness.

They should have kept the standing lingus move in the routine, damn it.

The NRA isn’t all that important, they’re a front. The NRA’s lobbying arm and PAC, the ILA, is largely funded separately (by the industry) and even if you swept in a new board of directors and staff the ILA would just uproot and continue on buying politicians.

Oh, I know the history of it (the NRA isn’t exactly wrong pointing to a highly racist component of American gun control history, though they’re just concern trolling). The Mulford Act was driven by Nixon-era racism but in the end it still applied to whites as well.

I was about to say Mos Def then I realized Black on Both Sides is almost 20 years old. Fuckin a

Politically there is potential for weirdness here if he listens to the billionaires. The elite class, unless invested in one of the major manufacturers, doesn’t give a fuck about guns. They don’t have the attachment/fear that drives the used car dealer in bumfuck Georgia to own 30 ARs.

Of the three culture war…

Still trying to get someone to publish my “25 Shades: Pull My Hair Near The Root Not The End, Asshole” spinoff.

Kylie ad is dumber, MLK ad is more offensive on every conceivable level.

They weren’t (mostly) just standing there kicking each other in the nuts. They were doing stunts, pranks and to some extent physical performance art.

At least until Jackass 2 - there was a meaner edge there and the gross out humor of drinking a liter of horse cum seemed more Fear Factor than Jackass.

I’ve had to explain to a ridiculous number of people over the last few years that it was “rape rape” (in Whoopi Goldberg’s terms). Polanski’s friends and the industry have done an amazing job over the last 40 years of defining the event in the public eye.

All this time I expected Drew to basically have a Minnesota version of Bill Simmons’s voice.