Not allowing slurs won’t change the underlying problems fueling the use of slurs. Parenting and education are what is lacking in our society. Until we globally rebalance the value of parenting and education in comparison to the acquisition of wealth, society will not evolve beyond the use of these terms.

Everybody loves freedom until they get a taste of it outside their sandbox.

I’m pretty sure it was “select” items. I have the card, and I shopped specifically for that reward last prime day.  If it was across the board, I’d have purchased quite a few additional items.

Pre-1980-ish, yes. Coupe became much more fluid once crash test ratings started becoming important. Some of the current examples might be ridiculous, but there have been cars with b-pillars that most people would still consider coupes.

I don’t get people who eat at Jake’s. I find it’s barely better than McGrath’s Fish House, and McGrath’s is about 1 step away from Red Lobster.

The dreaded “what if”!  Let me pack my logic away and mourn the loss of reason.

She was unprofessional. You don’t argue with customers. You either agree with them, or you provide blandly benign equivocation. I don’t know if I would have fired her, but it would definitely have been at least a “you get one” situation.

You are always representing your company. You can’t argue that “off time” means…

There’s a Chick-fil-A close to me. I’ve never been there, and that won’t change.

I didn’t catch the second half, but I have to say Brazil was extremely underwhelming in the first half.  Belgium definitely seemed like they had a distinct energy advantage.

Assumption is the mother of all fuckups.

I played all of the demo, and I’m trying to figure out which part is supposed to be gorgeous (I expect it is supposed to be that weird 3d-ish effect). I found the gameplay predictable and the graphics terrible. If I wanted to play something old-looking, I would just play an old game.

Being a callous racist doesn’t imply intent.

I don’t know of any project that seeks to compare Zack to great rap lyricists.  POR is directly compared to RATM.  If someone was claiming Zack was writing better than Rakim, I’d probably call BS on that as well.

I’m really over people trying to make Prophets of Rage some sort of continuation of Rage Against the Machine. Nobody in Prophets of Rage is bringing any real rage. I loved P.E., but Chuck is not capable of reproducing the visceral anger of Zack.  One Day as a Lion is more RATM than anything the rest have done since…

Unless you are protesting the glorification of sexual predation, which isn’t occurring in this thread, I fail to see the relevancy of your link spam.  If he had murdered someone on the street, it still wouldn’t detract from the greatness of his works.

I’ve never heard of any of these bands, and I (admittedly unsurprisingly) haven’t heard anything linked above that makes me sad about that. I’ll give the new Tool a listen, if it turns out to be real. That’s the only potential-2018 album on my radar at all.

Crusades are great until you drown in the blood of the infidel.

Are you afraid he’s going to pop out of the text?

The Last Jedi is a dumpster fire of a movie. It doesn’t deserve to be remade.
Rogue One wasn’t really that good, and it was the best I’ve seen of the new movies so far. I haven’t seen Solo yet. I’m still open to it being good, regardless of the bad box office.

I’d rather have a hatch than a sedan, but only if the hatch has comparable sight lines. Most of the modern hatches I’ve driven have way too much non-transparent area where I’m wanting to look through the hatch.