My blue collar midwestern childhood never got to experience Chuck-E-Cheeses, instead we had something called "Major Magics", think of a small cramped arcade room with an off section full of booths where parents can sit down and drink pitchers of beer.

I was dating a girl once, and when I met her father our conversation went something along the lines of

these have begun to sound increasingly more fake, or at the very least really embellished.

she said I wouldn't get it because I was being a rational human being that didn't want to get exposed to an infectious disease and was refusing to play. She wanted me to get infected, and knew I would.

ugh, measals parties; seriously?

depends on where you live, but typically you've got a solid 72 hours or so in the continental United States before you lose power.

Canada wasn't even an autonoumous body when that happened, they didn't even have their own army. It was literally the British who burned the capital, and the British who stopped our march into Canada.

A long while back I used to play WoW with the guy who designed those.

A long while back I used to play WoW with the guy who designed those.

I've been watching NHK for a while now, and I've come to realize that the U.S., and perhaps the world over needs two things that Japan has in huge supply -

that was god damn hilarious, how have I never seen it before?

really? REALLY? SSJ Goku?

news to me, especially since I pay for my insurance through my employer, but thanks any way Obama!

some places offer unlimited fries (read: 2 refills and than you begin getting that look)

When I got sick my dad would make me take a shot of whiskey, wrap me up in his army blanket, and his words make me "sweat it out".

That Burger diner sounds like a coffee place that opened up not too far from me. When it opened I thought "neat, a local cafe, maybe they will have some good coffee and atmosphere". I went in there, ordered a coffee, and spent 2 minutes looking around like a dumbass for an area for cream/sugar. When I asked, they said…

I had a friend on my block that was left with a nice trust fund when his grandfather passed (something like 1.2mil). It was intended that the money would be used to pay for his college, put a down payment on a house, pay for a wedding, etc. All the things his Grandfather would have had been happy to pay for had he…

screw Jackson, the real American Hero and the one who deserves to be up there the most is Alexander Hamilton.

One summer some friends and I decided to go out for some Chinese food; I ended up getting some seafood lo mein thing, and in customary chinese restaurant fashion they gave me way too much and I ended up getting most of it to go.

lol, doesn't look impressive. I guess that's why he got a standing ovation from the crowd, and people watching were freaking out; because it didn't look impressive.

this was done live, with thousands of people watching over a stream and hundreds there to personally witness it. Don't try to downplay it like some hipster by saying you've seen it before, because you haven't. Not like this.