I went to a Chinese public bath for the first time three weeks ago. This wast in a fairly large city where they don't see a lot of laowei. I'd say 90% of the bathers glanced at my dick when were near. So no, men of China, that stereotype is not true! Although my wife has no complaints.

Too bad you couldn't go, sentos are one of the great pleasures of life. Just be sure to take a shower and clean yourself before you go in. Soaking in that hot bath is so nice.

Michael Caine: "yeah, I could do with another wing on my house"

The no tattoo rule is so that Yakuza don't come in. A gaijin with a few tasteful tats would be fine. Edit: read further down, I stand corrected! I went there with my ex to sentos and onsens and never had a problem with a couple of shoulder tats.

He plugged falafel's drive in, my favorite falafel place, many years ago when he visited San Jose. I haven't eaten there lately as much as I would like, but it's still crowded and still good. Get the special - a large falafel sandwich and a banana shake.

Air humidity and the quality of the air is a big one on long flights. Boeing has gotten this right their last few planes.

On the other hand, smaller planes are turning out to be more profitable, even on Transcon flights. When I was at the Beijing airport a few weeks ago I was marveling at the two-level entryway for the two passenger decks that were made for the A380. And those improvements might have been made for only one airplane,…

Electronics are cheaper too. A color TV would be $350 to $1,000 in 1960, which would mean the one you'd get at Walmart for $400 now would cost $2500 in today's dollars. Containerized shipping changed everything.

Air China is better than American to China, and it's low cost. We had to fly to Northeast China twice in two months this year. The second time my wife's father died, so we had 1 day to buy a ticket. Still got two tickets for $1300 from SFO to Changchun, and the flight wasn't bad - a 777 with 3-3-3 seating on the way…

If you've ever been to one…Not so clean and well-stocked. I guess supermarkets really didn't get going until the 30s, so I was wrong on that.

Good read. Piggly Wiggly might have been the first supermarkets in the South, but A&P was well established before WWI and was the largest supermarket chain of its time.

This. A lot of what we see now are people who are trying to make us as miserable as they are.

Onions and bell peppers get a pass if it's home fries.

The Getty Museum in Malibu is nice.

Oh, he is great in that. Also in Out of the Past with Robert Mitchum. "Cigarette?" "Smoking!"

Almost. Grandpa Getty paid 2.2m because that was the maximum amount that was tax deductible, and lent the rest to his son. He also had a payphone installed in his mansion. He's basically Mr. Pitt from Seinfeld (even looks like him).

I didn't know this was the mindfreak guy, I just thought that the headline had been edited for TV. "I dont give a freaking flip, you son of a buck!"

I'd say that it is Trump that has brought immigration issues to the forefront by tweeting and speechifying about it all the time. Thus, it's news now. It's all about page hits, eyeballs and comments… dammit!

- Diamond Joe Biden

Also, I have these weird background shadows from the sourcing article. It's distracting. Don't pull a Dissolve on us and have the site design detract from the experience, AV club.