I’m meh on his music, but I like his willingness to parody himself.

My 5-year-old sold can recite a number of Epic Rap Battles of History from memory, because i am a terrible parent...

Yeah, my 5-year-old son uses eenie meanie miney moe quite a bit, and now knowing it’s origin I have to say it makes me slightly cringe, but it’s not like any of the kids at his school (and frankly 99% of the adults) have any idea about that.

Geez, and I’m hoping some serious retroactive side-eye at the teachers and parents who were teaching and listening to this without comment.

And as soon as you show me an incidence where an American songwriter took advantage of an oppressed and uneducated Scottish or German songwriter with little or no compensation, we can have that conversation.

What would be awesome is if they put a plaque there basically describing this, like pointing out explicitly how this statue shows how white people frequently profited from stealing music and were venerated for it. I mean, i don’t think that will ever happen (other than in a guerrilla sort of way), but it would be kind…

Eww. So does that mean you would lie awake at night and start to hear Michael Bolton blaring out of your parents bedroom and then years later you put that together.

If it was a 30 yarder, sure, but I had a college friend who was a very serious high school soccer player and had offers at smaller schools (and his sisters were in fact on the women’s national team) and he could barely hit a 40 yarder, maybe with weeks (or more) of prep he could get to 50, but I don’t think you can…

Feels like we should had “Kick a 50 yard field goal from a tee” to this list.

Yes, but the question said “with no preparation”. The number of people who have never played baseball or cricket at a reasonably high level (e.g. high school +) who would be able to hit a home run in an MLB park is either 0 or vanishingly close. I’m sure there are lots of people who have never (or almost never)…

Here, take this kleenex to dry your tears.

(You do realize the joke is that he’s a defensive end, yes?)

My mom on new years a couple years ago, quite drunk, said some fairly questionable stuff about how the Chinese were basically coming after us and damned right I called her on it. Fair point that I let a lot of shit her dad said about Mexicans taking all of “our” jobs slide (though he is long passed now and wasn’t…

This.

Yeah, my friend made his own pretty sweet MAME cabinet, but he didn’t, you know, try to sell them.

I suspect we are around the same age (I’m 43 and grew up/live in the SF Bay Area) and I have the same experience - I was definitely taught that referring to someone as “black” was not OK (African-American was the preferred nomenclature).

Sure.

OK, I understand how you can be ethically anti-union and pro-worker, but from a practical standpoint, I don’t understand it. Like what policies, on a large scale, do you favor. “People should be nicer to each other”, while laudable, is not really a policy.

And even in case one, you should probably be aware that it’s going to be misinterpreted...

I’m pretty sure that “most people” do not know that.