Things like punk, often described as a white working class genre, have a foundation in the yardie culture of Jamaicans and the accompanying sound of ska

Oh FFS. At this rate I’m going to have to drink Champange.

Is there any rhyme or reason as to who gets ungreyed?

I’m always lobbying for “Grey Amnesty Day”. Of course it’s more frustrating to be in the greys but we all lose out. I think most people habitually hit “show pending” and try to pull people out but it’s still a bad system. And somehow trolls find their way out anyway.

I’m not.

I comment on XO a lot because the commenting community is fantastic. In that forum you really get to know the other regular commenters and I personally have been very supported there and I have learned a lot. The actual articles however, have devolved so badly that every single day you login you read something that…

I once said something was gay while playing call of duty in a room where I was one of two straight people, and maybe 7 or 8 gay people were also there. I was horrified as soon as I said it, my (gay) brother-in-law started giving me shit about it, and one of his gay friends told him to quit being such a fag. I’m not…

My suggestion would be: Stop viewing everything and judging everyone through a political lens. Do that and you may find that the person who disagrees with you on a few things may agree with you on many, many other things and actually be fun to be around.

You wanna know how to succeed in life? Quit giving people the satisfaction of your reaction. Treat everyone you meet with kindness no matter how much they’ve wronged you. Be the bigger person. People are going to be assholes and there is not one single solitary thing you can do about it except for controlling yourself…

Is it really unreasonable to not go after your friends until you have proof?

What is worse is that Jen Kirkman went to the Nerdist podcast and immediately called out Jezebel and how it wasn’t a big deal at all and that they were creating controversy that she didn’t want to, told them to stop and they are keeping at it. She specifically called them out and accused them. This is as bad as the…

I’ve seen him say pretty terrible things about people in general. Men, women...children. He’s always been an equal opportunity hater. Sorry, I’ve seen comedians I respect say way worse things about women...if you can’t handle stand up, don’t watch it. He seems at his most genuine when discussing his daughters and the…

In the video it seemed like he was referencing being an old guy who isn’t very active in the blogosphere (which is the only place I have read about the accusations).

I read the ‘do you know who you’re talking to’ as ‘don’t you know I’m too old and curmudgeonly to be on Twitter’ — he made similar jokes on TDS.

“And when I got in my truck, you know, I was so proud, because I felt like I finally drew a line in the sand and stood up for what I believed.”

Right?! At least Cubans got health care for the last 50 yrs. Also, I'm pretty sure the misery was the result of American foreign policy regarding Cuba.

IDK, I think his economic policies have been better for Cuba than what the U.S. would otherwise have wanted. Just look at Puerto Rico

OKAY SO I texted my mom who is a doctor about this issue.

You are the man. Love the metaphor. As a reward, you get my favorite cover of the theme:

I re-read the original study (http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=6328), not the one that’s somewhat misquoted: it’s essentially a computational linguistic study, in which the researcher compares the use of “I feel like” in Anglophone men and women in different age groups. There’s no consideration of socioeconomic…