The Dark Knight is no more responsible for crap like the Snyderverse (come at me) than Star Wars is for the glut of tiresome imitator space movies from the 1980s, or Nirvana is for the entirety of late 90s rock. Innovators are not responsible for imitators.

Potato, Pedclowno

Maybe guests go now in anticipation of the possibility of the macabre? 

100%.  Harm reduction.  It doesn’t have to be all or nothing. 

One of the few body parts I own that’s never given me grief is my eyebrows. They are naturally shapely and the two times in my life I had them waxed it took three minutes, to remove about six hairs. They are the Golden Mean of eyebrows.

Your dad’s house is over 1,200 years old? Pretty, pretty cool.

This 50 something year old says, “Lol...wut?” Shambling middle-aged man side story.....I saw Aerosmith in concert somewhere around 1982. Ted Nugent opened for them. This was before Ted Nugent turned into whatever the hell he is today. A “Nooj” show in those days was guaranteed to melt off your face. Terrible Ted…

Reminds me of Disney’s Aerosmith Rock n’ Roller Coaster at Hollywood Studios. You get in the cue and you meet the band as their hits are played overhead. Every Dad over 40 is rocking out and the kids are going “Who the hell are these guys?!”.

Something that is less than 10 years old is not really a tradition anywhere but maybe for one celled organisms. Yes, the US as a nation isn’t as old as your dad’s house—but 10 years? Yeah, no. I’d accept practice, obsession, or stupid ass activity. But I quibble with tradition.

For what it’s worth I’m American and I don’t take offense. America is a strange country. Any authentic culture we had was wiped out in genocides. What remained refuses to reconcile its past. We’re left in a perpetual state of paralysis, terrified of changing anything after our Constitution was ratified. We brag about…

While gifts and celebrations of pregnancy and birth occur all over the world, the origins of the modern (North American) model apparently came from the idea of wedding shower: a socialite had a party for a newly engaged friend, and at the climax opened a big parasol over her, resulting in a “shower” of gifts (these…

I had a “gender reveal” for both my babies. It was the doctor hollering out “it’s a girl!” after they both came out.

Speaking as a history dork, this exchange pleases me. 

I really hate the notion of a gender reveal and a baby shower being TWO SEPARATE PARTIES.

Yeah, they’re surprisingly easy to make. Basically mix 1 part cornmeal with 1 part pancake mix, add water and whisk until it’s just this side of chunky, dip your weiner (heh-heh, heh-heh...”weiner”) in the batter and toss it in the fryer.

Of old age. In jail.

Perhaps I was too harsh on the fellas who do the TikTok thing. I personally don’t get it and I should not be passing judgement on those with different tastes than mine, or different priorities, or hell, different income sources.

Would you pay $13 for a corn dog?

Savage Nobody has also struggled with toxic masculinity. In his case, it was accepting that he just isn’t a traditionally macho person and accepting that there isn’t anything wrong about that.

An Israeli moving into someone else’s space without permission? Surely you jest.