I honestly took that more as “there are three of us, and you’re the only one who can be spared to sit back here and do this thing; the other two of us are more valuable outside”.

Increasing numbers the last few years. Especially AMC chains. You pick your actual seats if you buy a ticket online (usually they’re the super large recliner seats); or if you show up to the box office, they allow you to pick the seats right then. Really large number of theaters in the Boston area have this now. …

It absolutely was not a thing in the Philadelphia area in the late 80s.

Well, yeah, but they also both discover a lot of things about each other that they didn’t know before, and that their desires have more in common that they realized. What they confessed (to each other) through the personal ads gives them a lot more to explore through their relationship.

Yeah, but basically you have to view that song as advice, not just a straight-up weird story. The song is basically a message to everyone listening to it: hey you out there, fucking TALK to each other. Stop being afraid to tell your partner what you really want and what you really like. You’ll probably find out that…

No, that’s the point. The iced coffee comes in a plastic cup. But since there’s ice in it, holding the plastic cup directly makes people’s hands cold. So they ask for a styro cup, and put the plastic cup inside it as an insulated holder. (Granted, also prevents the ice melting as fast on hot days.)

They switched over to all paper in some of the Cambridge MA locations, for all sizes. It’s fine.

I was surprised the other day to actually see them in stock (two different brands I think) in a Walgreens. (I didn’t price them.)

+1 Mayor Wilson Goode.

Reading Terminal Market is a genuine treasure.

Oh man, FANTASTIC bar, though!

I’m a Pats fan, but I’m from Philly (it’s just I’ve lived in Boston for 25+ years now; and thus when I say I much prefer Boston to Philly, I’m making an informed statement). But all my family are still down there. I plan to just... lay low. They outnumber me.

It would take a LOT more work to scrub TJ Miller’s voice. He voiced a recurring character with a lot of lines.

I don’t know why you think the term “shipper” wasn’t invented by grown women before the web was even invented.

Ah. :) Well, yes, the ghost-turtle is also pretty much perfect for McConnell, isn’t it?

Well, I mean, of course. Come on. Where is Trump from and where did he first start to operate? New York and New Jersey. Think about Atlantic City’s mafia ties for two seconds. Think about the culture’s fascination with the mafia during the 70s, when he was starting out. Trump has admired the model of the mafia for…

(starring you just for the obscure Gravity Falls reference.)

Oh my god. Completely off-topic, but GOD I’m with you on this.

(weirdly enough, when I was a kid in the 70s in New Jersey, everybody called them “thongs” as well. I realize it’s no longer the fashion in the U.S. to call them that, but it sounds perfectly natural to me.)

But see, the thing is, you really have to go out of your way to the place where the bears are. They don’t just wander around most of the U.S. (Offer not valid in: Alaska, certain parts of the Rocky Mountains.)