And that's totally fair….by the standard academic usage, I believe it generally only refers to empty signals, but wearing a pin is definitely signalling behavior, so if the phrase was taken at face value, that would still count, I guess.

Yeah, I try not to criticize virtue signalling - though some particularly ostentatious displays can gross me out - and, as I state somewhere above, it's just something we all do from time to time. I think it's important to recognize that having a COEXIST bumper sticker is not the same as making the world a better…

You're taking this too hard. It's just something people do. We use signifiers to show others who we are all the time, and our personal values are one of the more reasonable things to communicate to others.

Can agree…it would be one thing to say it in retort to someone making rape jokes, but it's another thing to suddenly create a platform for yourself.

Yeah, *that* is the actual definition…other examples would be, say, conservatives pasting their cars over with support the troops bumper stickers but not supporting those same troops getting paid for healthcare that would cover their PTSD, or conservatives waving around pro-life signs but not supporting sex education…

Yes, one should not have hobbies unless they're stellar at them.

I mean, you can not say anything.

Maybe, I don't know. I just can't be bothered to get outraged over him bragging about his prison name. Do you guys just sit around and marinate in your hatred and outrage all day? I find these kinds of stories pretty exhausting, and I'm someone 100% fueled by negativity.

I just can't get riled up by this guy's shenanigans. I can get angry about him jacking up drug prices, but not him taunting everyone with a Wu Tang album. He's probably shitting his pants right now and streaming is his way of distracting himself. I don't know…I can't really begrudge anyone that.

I mean we had a lot of the classics but those don't seem to go for very much since many people also had them.

I too was not crazy about Her Story but loved the mechanic. I think you're the first person I've spoken to that agreed with me on that. Oddly I think I would have preferred a straightforward murder mystery rather than the fairy tale / mythological analog that we got. I did not think it needed the high concept…

No don't go!

I also need one for bands you simultaneously like and are ashamed of yourself for liking because they embody so many things you hate, but NOT in a lowbrow poppy guilty pleasure way. Basically I need something to describe how I feel when I listen to the Decemberists.

She used the "Oh, I don't have time to read" excuse. Poseur?

You weren't obsessed with semitones at the age of 4? What are you? Stupid?

I like it. I like it when people go for the unlikely nickname, like the Xanders and the Liams.

I thought that was a really weird line. Baby's supposed to be a big music aficionado, but he thinks it's "Trex"? There's definitely bands / words / names I've never heard said aloud before and probably have the wrong pronunciation in my head, but it's not like T Rex is obscure and their album cover logos aren't…

Jim and Pam leave such a bad taste in my mouth that they've pretty much ruined the show for forever for me.

It can be fun though, but it seems better suited for message boards or among friends. When you're not part of the collaboration (or if it's some soulless reader's poll), what's the point?

Yeah! Suck it, AV Club.