With this one it make sense though - I'm sure their promotional spots go: ". . .that's coming up next! On The Real!"

I think you, me, and Blueberry Jones could be friends. That shit drives me *crazy.* If you didn't learn how to do something growing up, fucking google it. You may have every excuse in the world to not know something, but none at all for making no effort to learn it. (Exceptions made for people without internet access…

Link to the video on BET.com, since Viacom has issued a take-down notice for the Youtube link: Link

You know that's not a Thing That Really Happened, right?

No. That did not ever happen; it's clever video editing and bad compression rates.

The track was recently used by Rock the Vote, so I suspect that had something to do with her decision to play along, since it's on-message in two directions.

Hi. Incoming wall of text. I'm not sure how old you are, so I'm not sure whether or not you remember before video games became a "boys' thing" - this would have been in the early 80s.

Do you pinkie-promise???

You just put a lot of magazine writers out of work, I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY.

Your FB friend sounds like they have a serious addiction issue; the obsessive refusal to compromise, even in the face of injury and medical advice is a big clue, as is the constant posting for validation on social media. This kind of thing is often co-morbid with eating disorders, because the same sort of…

I don't really view this as Thanksgiving encroaching on Halloween, but as Christmas taking over Thanksgiving.

you know what else they'd probably appreciate? A PAID GODDAMNED DAY OFF.

To be totally fair to you - I wouldn't have been shocked if it'd been real, either. Seems like the kind of shit ol' Karl would do.

A nice person would recognize that I've already *made* the call as to whether I want to talk to them, and accept the refusal to give my contact information with dignity.

That was fake, actually.

You absolutely would have been able to tell the difference between a lawyer's daughter and a plantation owner's daughter at a dance.

I also referenced hoop skirts; in another comment I've given a complete break-down of exactly why those are symbolic of the antebellum slave-holding class. But I suppose you'll say "people in other places wore hoop skirts!" Which is true. It was a European fashion. But those people were not Southern Belles. In the…

Submitted to make peace: This lovely redditrix put mini-pies within mini-cakes http://imgur.com/a/Ut0le

I could have written this comment about a month ago, EXCEPT... I was at this sample sale, and there was this wrap dress. And I just deleted this comment because it was waaaay too long talking about how great this dress is. The gist of it is, if they're well-made and aren't stupid-stingy with the fabric and how far it…

As with most things, context is rather important. Debutante balls DO exist in both the north and in Europe. And Victorian homes have wrap-around porches (although the style differs aesthetically from the southern, antebellum variety.) It's the combination of that imagery along with the rest of the keywords in the…