Quoting other people lets you get away with so much. Quoting my foul-mouthed friends as a teenager was how I got my parents used to hearing me swear. I can drop f-bombs in front of them now and they don't even bat an eye.

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I actually can't see the Maher clip (dunno if it's region blocked or if it's been removed), so I can't speak to it, and I'm not familiar enough with Maher to be able to answer that. Though based on his problematic opinions on a number of other things, I think it makes sense that his use of the word raises a few…

Take a short trip a few comments down. I posed a similar question.

Because it's a loaded word that historically was (and continues to be) used to demean black people?

That makes sense! That's something that's been gnawing at me ever since I first heard that bit, to be honest. I'm like, "Ehhh, is this okay?" But knowing how smart and progressive and anti-bigot Oswalt is, I should've known that he's intelligent enough to know HOW to use that word, especially since it's the only time…

Mmm, so would you say that Oswalt's in the clear because of the nature of the bit and who he was making fun of? Unlike a white person casually referring to a black friend as his n-word (with an "a"), which definitely is not.

Patton Oswalt once did a bit in which he was poking fun at rednecks who dislike Obama, and used the hard "-er" version of the n-word in his bit. I don't recall hearing any sort of uncomfortable reactions or silence or boos after he dropped it, and I've never come across any sort of criticism of that bit in my years of…

Uh, no.

Sort of tweaking the topic question here, but while I did see Disney's Beauty and the Beast when it was first released in theatres, I wish I'd been older to be able to appreciate its significance. I was 5 when it came out, so I loved it because it was Disney. But I believe that I only watched it 2 more times until it…

And because of economic anxiety! Don't forget economic anxiety!

Crapdamnit, I've been working on a pilot about Richard Page's female siblings - Mr. Mister's Sisters.

I never got into CU, but I was really into The Dumb Bunnies.

Probably in some corners of fanfiction.net

DC's Bumblebee. ;)

I was wondering what this white chick would be doing in a Bumblebee movie before I was like, "Oh, not THAT Bumblebee…"

"'Covfefe', this name keeps coming up over and over again. Every day Covfefe's mail is getting sent back to me. Covfefe! Covfefe!"

Why does the Newseum carry MAGA caps?

I personally found Jaye TOO abrasive and cynical. This coming from someone who told her mother that she "felt bad" for people who decide to become clowns when she was 5.

Yeah, as a Canadian, I was always pissed off about that, taking the objectively nicer side of the falls and passing them off as the NY side.