Band I’m in used to have a bit where our lead would go out, interrupt the call, turn it into a ‘seriously, why did you pay money to be here if this is what you’re doing’ moment.

These were also ‘influencers’ trying to create content for their own profit by disrupting the show. This isn’t just fans being shamed by a mean ol’ country singer.

I’d say “shove a stick in it and serve” predates the Iowa State Fair by a considerable margin. I’d go even further to say that “shove a stick” would be the generic ‘signature’ food style of any event of this nature, not just Iowa.

You DO get to decide whether someone takes what you’ve created and monetizes it for themselves without permission.

Also consider they were not there as “fans”. The incident in question happened because of their self-described work as “influencers”.

Given the length of time they were doing it and the (from what I’ve been seeing/reading from other sources) the fairly disruptive way in which they did it, I can see Lambert getting steamed over it. She’s trying to do her job, and these women decided they wanted to do theirs as ‘influencers’ on the back of hers during…

Well, here’s hoping a nostalgia based ad campaign for an extremely niche example of early “viral internet phenomena” does what they expect it to do, though I may have my doubts.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s a useful tool (otherwise it wouldn’t have the market penetration it does in restaurants). You can grill, do low temperature pan work, whole lot of different stuff.

The griddle’s basically what you’d be working with in your standard fast food kitchen scaled down to a backyard size, then?

Gollum seemed to be made with the best intentions that just completely failed to materialize - in that case, I can see an argument that no amount of good press could counter the collapse that was apparently already underway.

This is just weirdly... I don’t know, something.

I could totally see him “feeding” someone at a table into oblivion then writing himself a twenty percent tip.

AC games occasionally get pretty horny. I think we may be working the naughty “stabbed” here.

I probably could have listened to “Laszlo Tours the Mall” for another forty minutes or so.

Huh.

Movie length is the #1 reason I still don’t bother with theaters. If I know I’m going to be watching something that long, I know I’m going to need to use the bathroom - and honestly I’ve yet to run into one of the modern 2+ hour movies that has managed to keep my attention well enough that at some point I don’t pause…

I’m with you on giving Cruise a lot of credit. I’m mostly reminded of fans of Jackie Chan’s classic works. The story’s usually not important - what’s important is watching someone doing insane levels of practical stunt work in entertaining ways.

But... is he determined to enjoy running? He certainly doesn’t look like it.

The old ‘90s band Barenaked Ladies had a song where they mentioned “Kraft Dinner”.

I’m 100% behind her on the “don’t throw shit at me” angle - but I’m really amused she did it *while* holding a t-shirt launcher she’d been using to throw shit at the crowd.