I’ve known this about myself as well since I was in high school at least, but every couple years I seem to give myself a quick refresher course. Seeing this work today has covered my bad artist CPE credits for the next year or so.

Dr. Skinner, is that you? ;)

+1 just for working operant conditioning into this thread.

+1 for mentioning Bitter Southerner, which has some great content, including the story you mentioned. I moved to Nashville in 2008, and it’s true that even then it was something most people knew nothing about, and you either got Prince’s or Bolton’s, which were definitely not Edison-bulb hipster joints like all the…

Oh, this made me laugh so hard. I feel fairly certain this is what my Japanese in-laws believe I have done to their daughter, despite the fact that she was in the states for like 20 years before we met, and I have pretty good table manners (East and West). Nevertheless, if just eating near one of the western…

Whatever - I waited like 15 whole seconds before I sent it.

*clicks link*

No apologies necessary - that was actually a kind of great trip down memory lane, as we had similar experiences. I actually had a 5200, eventually coming to own both the track-ball and the 2600 emulator, all of which were massive hardware. Then, I got a Commodore 128, with it’s giant bound manuals for BASIC command…

I agree this. I have an irrational affection for the Buick name (when I was little my grandfather had a 1971 Skylark, I think that did it), but I have ignored their cars for many years. What you describe might have gotten me out of an import and back into the fold. Shame.

You skipped the 52oo . . . The size of a suitcase with the built in controller wells in the back.

Blue Slips

+1 This is better Kinja than the number of stars would suggest.

I remember this, because I’m pretty sure I commented somewhere in that thread about being from Atlanta, where all soda is generically referred to as a Coke. He didn’t bless me with a response though.

None of these people on here care that, because they contribute by their ignorance to the stigma around mental illness, they make it more likely that someone else will take their own life or otherwise self-harm, instead of reaching out and getting help. In their rush to the easy, uneducated, knee-jerk judgement, they…

Perhaps because we can visualize ourselves in a sexual scenario (I understand that isn’t what rape is really about), but we have no real experience with ending a human life - the ‘otherness’ factor is much higher, so we need to attach mental illness to it. Just a random thought.

I just mean people seem to get along with him well enough to have had a positive opinion of him. Nothing about his mediocre football ability.

a lot of people are having (interesting and meaningful) discussion here about why we want to know more about evil people, but I think you hit a critical point - this wasn’t a well-rounded portrait. It was a shit show of an apology piece. If it had actually succeeded in simply adding context to this monster’s earlier…

12,000 words that can apparently be summarized as ‘generally-liked camp body turns out to be disgusting rapist abomination’. I don’t think he even knows shit about writing or journalism, either.

Don’t forget Clint Eastwood and his Chair-talk shit show . . .although, blessedly, he wasn’t a candidate.

1000 times this. Except gaslighting, I guess, since I’m a guy. I don’t know, is it still gaslighting when it is one partner doing it to the other from within a supposedly committed relationship, or is that term gender specific?