Who said the American Office was great after season 3? I didn’t, and I didn’t see anyone else do it. I said it had a couple good seasons; Season 3 was good but showing signs of the coming decline.

I love the image of all of these angry yahoos revolting against the state and being confronted by the military. They’d be so occupied thanking the troops for their service they’d be unable to do any actual revolution.

I was there in the early days of the Ballpark as well, and I share a lot of these fond memories. I didn’t realize at the time how bizarre Texas’s distaste was for both 1) anything over a couple decades old and 2) building anything worth using for more than a couple decades. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

The concept of Friends being rewatchable is easily in the top 5 reasons I weep for the younger generation.

Definitely an omission that most programmers and the like have been using dark mode for as long as they’ve had the ability to make it so. I remember catching on to that in HS and college, which were not this decade or the last one.

Nice to see someone keeping with the original meaning of “dadbod,” which is in good shape but not cut or huge or otherwise requiring high maintenance. Keep it alive!

I’m not sure how the letter is not the “original point,” but is instead the one or two dumb phrases that you isolated to make your joke. I think I get the real original point now, and I think I can help you out with it. Your joke was amazing and I am an idiot. Have a good one yourself!

I’m not very old, but it is dizzying to think back on how frequently “correct” terminology around disabilities has changed over my lifetime. 30 years ago the R-word was a standard term in schools for people with intellectual disabilities, and now it’s, well, the R-word. This language has often been trapped in a…

I got the original point, and still think it was unnecessarily hostile (“enabling bullshit”? “not ready for the privilege of unassisted living”?) considering the original point from the letter isn’t that they’re incapable of distinguishing the actor and character, but that they don’t bother to in conversation because…

I just don’t see why you’re so worked up about people not caring to remember actors’ names, but if it’s your considered opinion that people should remember them or feel bad for not doing so, I’m sure I have comparably dumb strongly held views. Have a good one yourself!

Was there any value in this conversation in the first place? Have you added any value to any Kinja conversation in your life? Why is this suddenly a standard that you care about?

Considering that that shitshow is the first rules-related shitshow in decades in soccer compared with the annual rules-related shitshow in the NFL, soccer comes out a lot better.

I got married first among my friends, and we had a wedding with a band and all of the standard accompaniments. So I’m as guilty anyone else in forcing loved ones to cough up money just so that they can come kneel in servitude to my nuptials. But clearly, it would be better if every who got married young had a low-key…

Um, you’ve heard of trivia, right? The idea that some pieces of information are both not really important and hard to remember is not some kind of unfathomable notion. Do you go to trivia nights and yell at people for not expending enough effort to know all of the answers?

I can’t think of a place to get that in Athens.

Agreed. I’m sure a couple people in my wedding party didn’t give us a gift and I couldn’t have given two shits.

Contrast with soccer where there are 4 rule changes per century.

I think he got addicted to the reputation for being the one to crystallize a useful counterintuitive take on a big idea, but his average on them actually working has never been great. I listened to his podcast for a bit, and it was just like his books: 2 or 3 memorable good ideas stacked against 10-15 big swings that…

What is with guys joining insecure sex-related subcultures and then becoming psychotic assholes? Incels and Proud Boys have both decided “this unhealthy perspective on our sexual identities has gotten boring, let’s transform it into violence.” It really takes a lot to make pick-up artists seem reasonable and grounded,…

To be fair, the accent is kind of important in this role.