So what you’re saying here is that it is my patriotic duty to the supply chain to purchase a kegerator. On it. 

Is that why Cherry Coke Zero seems to be out everywhere? Even the plastic bottles are missing.

Pepsico and Coca-Cola have had to shut down some of their lower volume product lines to keep the main flavors going. Some flavors (Like Diet Mt. Dew Code Red, grrrr.) have been unavailable for months because of the can shortage.

“Hey. We’re just packaging what the kids want”
Irving Mainway

For the full experience, while watching it have someone dump cold water on you and hit you with a rake.

Uhh what? A show with Linda Cardelini and you say Franco is the outlier?

I thought the Roosevelts one was very good. Seems a bit odd to praise the use of a straightforwardly linear timeline, but when applied to three people over two generations, it produces a nice interweaving effect.

Just try to keep your eyes from popping out of their sockets as Burns gives you dozens of hours on the profoundly miserable economic, social, and political circumstances that gave us the Civil War and Vietnam War.

I agree. The series tried to give equal time to the two sides and that’s going to be a much less popular position now than it was when the documentary was made. Equal time doesn’t mean equal judgment, though. Even as someone whose family roots are primarily Southern, I finished the documentary still thinking that…

Jazz is enjoyable, but (to reiterate the thing all jazz fans say about it basically) it spends way too much time putting Louis Armstrong on a pedestal, and ignoring basically everything that happened from 1965 onwards. Personally, I kind of hate how it also totally ignores bossa nova, and basically everything else…

This isn’t like being pissy about The Rise of Skywalker or something. The Civil War deliberately gave pride of place to the Lost Cause narrative and buried, to a disturbing extent, the horrors of slavery in favor of glorifying the environment that it existed in.

I hope to some day love someone with the intensity some people feel like they must hate entertainment products. Calm down man.

Lemme just post someone smarter than me: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/06/the-convenient-suspension-of-disbelief/240318/

HE CALLED NATHANIEL BEDFORD FORREST, THE FOUNDER OF THE KKK, ONE OF THE MOST GALLANT AND COURAGEOUS GENERALS. How is that not celebrating the life of a huge racist and a Southern Gentleman under the chauvinist idea of personal Pride over treating people not as animals?

I think that’s oversimplifying Foote’s contribution. I thought (as a Northerner) it was interesting in how he described the (white) Southern culture in which he was raised, one in which even the Fourth of July wasn’t celebrated as it was seen as a reminder that their traitorous rebellion lost to the US. It’s a messed…

Hopefully they’ll have this.

If your nephew has gotten to the age of 17 without tolerating any food from a school cafeteria, summer camp, friend’s house, or restaurant that wasn’t pizza and chicken nuggets, he’s got another problem than “my parents didn’t force me to try everything.” Parents aren’t the only source of a kid’s food.

Celiac disease impacts about one percent of the population overall. Celiac occurrence in children is one in a thousand. It’s relatively rare, so “half the population” experiencing gluten-related symptoms would absolutely be bizarre (ditto dairy and tree nuts — sensitivities are just not that common).

This is all strange to me also, but then I grew up very far from restaurants and takeout options. Just didn’t happen. My mother’s job was the home, and she was a devoted and determined cook (if not very adept). And I know a lot of things have changed but, yeah, our home wasn’t a democracy either. You ate what was…

Y’all are crazy. Both my parents worked low-income jobs and my sister and I got the same food as they did and had to eat it and not leave anything on the plate because we couldn’t afford to waste anything.