Are those teeth photoshopped? They look radioactive.

Thanks, and nicely written.

Great. Now I have it in my head of Diesel saying in an Etonian accent “I am Grout”.

"Forget it, Jake. It's Facebook".

That would be a lot of lupins! Or maybe a shrubbery!

I think they meant pale, male, and stale. A neoclassical alcoholic English professor near death, perhaps.

I hope you threw a few Shakespearean insults at them.

Actually, they are professional athletes who don't get paid.

Publicly funded, independent public broadcasters are quite common in the western world. UK. Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Greece...to name but a few. Publicly funded through tax dollars.

+ 100 for the Kinja example.

This is so much more concise and useful than that other TL;DR article which spawned it. I would add :

Have outside interests. Either programming or hobbies. It's a big world - experience some of it.

Beat me to it. Well played!

Thank you for making me laugh today.

We saw what you did there. +1000 for the Hedberg channeling.

Riveting. Thank you.

Haven't seen a screen cap from a Val Kilmer movie in ages. Nicely done!

Oog make primitive joke!

Just for today, sir, you win all of the internets.

Tana: Mom qualifies for "Best of" for her story. In addition, you can say you were there!

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It used to be a common default answer. I used it in high school and university with no ill effects to my grades..