Or maybe, if you are a professional law enforcement officer, behave in a professional way? He had no need to do what he did, he did it because he was pissed. That’s not being a professional. That’s being an asshole.

Is there a reason that Kaepernick won’t go to the CFL other than that he really hopes an NFL team will sign him? It seems like if he went up there and threw for a million yards SOMEONE would notice and take a chance. Do I have this all wrong?

Yeah, tall people tend to not give a shit about their height because no one judges them for it. I know being tall can be a pain in the ass, but it is only a detriment to your personal comfort. Being short makes things difficult for the short person externally. Women act like a man’s being short is a personal failing.…

Way to miss the point, man. He was mocking the whole “thoughts and prayers” thing, obviously. I mean, I don’t really disagree with anything you said, but your anger is misplaced here.

If I am not mistaken, every movie he was in was nominated for Best Picture.

Yeah, it’s a fill, not even close to a solo.

You have Mike Rutherford to blame for “I Can’t Dance,” not Phil Collins.

It’s because that drum fill has the first instance of gated reverb on drums ever recorded. He literally invented a new effect in the studio and it sounds huge. The reason you aren’t that impressed by it is that once he did it, it was copied a trillion times and driven into the ground.

Popular entertainment and art in general reflect the values of its society of origin, not the other way around. This should be obvious.

True, but that’s kind of my point. In 1998 he was in Titanic, I don’t think he thought that he would be doing low-budget evangelical Christian movies to pay the bills 20 years later. Same thing goes for Rutger Hauer. They either terribly mismanaged their money or must have built reputations for being hard to work with.

Now he’ll make God rock!

I remember when Billy Zane and Rutger Hauer were movie stars. They must have really fucked up somewhere along the line to be reduced to appearing in garbage like this.

Also, if you are playing FIFA and want to pick a team from the Premier League but know nothing about any of it, they are the first ones on the list. That is literally how I became an Arsenal fan.

You think that’s awkward? Watch this bit where he asks Nick Cave a question that implies Cave is English, which of course he is not. Cave is less than amused.

That’s exactly right. It isn’t so much about suspension of disbelief as it is internal logical consistency. I have no problem buying into the fantastic elements of a film or game so long as it establishes a rule set that will be adhered to and not change for the sake of plot convenience..

Or holy, or an empire. That’s the joke. And an old one at that.

In the midwest, it’s actually unusual for a house to not have a basement.

You can do the same thing here in the US.

Collins really is a damn good drummer, but what makes him so important to a lot of people is that he invented the idea of gated reverb on drums.

My mistake. I forgot he was on some of the tracks.