Put some pants on your blue freak!!

No, it’s The AV Club™!

It is October 2019. I am reading a news story about how “Baby It’s Cold Outside” is bad. They say there is a new version by John Legend and Kelly Clarkson.

“I wonder if anyone actually is dim enough to genuinely believe that’s what the song is about”

Seriously it's not even November yet, much less December! And the discourse is always horrible every year but at least it makes sense to have it then!

I wonder if anyone actually is dim enough to genuinely believe that’s what the song is about?

It ticks all the boxes, doesn’t it? Lazy, out-of-date, out-of-touch, completely lacking in nuance, yet presenting itself so confidently.

“Baby It’s Cold Outside” is a sex assault song.

Why are we giving this song any attention when people unthinkingly sing “Let It Snow” even though it’s clearly written by Randian libertarians who next to the comfort of their fireplaces believe the unhoused get whatever meteorological punishment they deserve for not working hard enough?

It’s a song about, as our Britt Hayes put it, “a woman being held hostage by some guy who may or may not have drugged her adult beverage.”

On point. The song is a time capsule of the way adults used to flirt. Within the context of the song there is no rapey vibe at all. People of that time probably just thought it was a cute way to demonstrate the playfulness of dating in a more reserved society.

this is the most dire thing I’ve read on post-kinja avclub, which is quite an achievement. much like chemical warfare was an achievement.

Target: 3/4 century old completely forgettable formulaic rom-com, no one of whom was involved in any facet of production behind or in front of camera still living. Nor for that matter, are most if no all of the theater-going public at that time.

‘It’s a song about, as our Britt Hayes put it, “a woman being held hostage by some guy who may or may not have drugged her adult beverage.”’

Christ, isn’t a little early for the “Baby It’s Cold Outside” clickbait discourse machine to fire up again? Didn’t we settle this years ago, or has the COVID brain fog destroyed that part of our collective memory?

This is satire, right?  

Web scraping, once a black hat SEO technique, is now a common practice. It was bad then and it’s much much worse now thanks to anonymous scraping tools like Bright Data. I Hope they sue and win, and do the same with Google and MS who are a lot bigger (and richer) offenders. Hopefully scraping will meet its end then. 

Good. I hope they do it and I hope they win.

The quotes from Oher’s book certainly suggest that he might have known prior to February 2023 - or at least whoever helped him with the book knew.

Let’s be clear, Linus was always a smarmy prick...but when you are a relative nobody, that isn’t a big deal. Once he got high on his own products, the cracks started to show. The fact that he is PROUD his shop is anti union and there are NO black on air or behind the scene talent, it solidified everything I needed to…