I found him vaguely menacing.

Not if you're a highly pretentious American soccer fan/writer. British television commentators incorrectly use the plural to refer to the team and the kind of American soccer fans determined to do a disservice to the sport here imitate it.

Same way English-language films always get the shaft at Russian movie awards.

Most cars qualify as unnecessary tchotchkes. Seats that are not made of hunks plastic are unnecessary tchotchkes. Radios are unnecessary tchotchkes.

I think you mean "you're". Just saying.

Said the guy who is being a total hardon about everything.

I accept your apology.

Yeah... it's a great scam all around.

Fad diet scams for wealthy people work the same way, but they're going to have a much higher entry fee, but a similar hope that you don't follow through.

So, the trick is that they're not actually planning on you buying the expensive ingredients. Rodale specializes in selling self-help bullshit like this... the formula is to sell you a book which will inspire you enough to convince you to shell out for it in the bookstore, but not be such an obvious scam that you never…

But saying that a fad diet scam pushed by a book with a suggested retail value of $26.99 fall into your view of things.

You would not be a pedantic prick and stretch your imagination to consider the fact that I was referring to the roughly $7 a month membership fee APIECE for Netflix, Hulu and Amazon. I did not take your interest in FX seriously. You'll have to work on that one yourself.

Yes, but the target demographic for fad diets like this is someone who is uneducated, lacking the ability to pursue sophisticated/involved weight loss efforts (scam or not), poorly educated and in possession of $25, or at least a credit card that can be used at Barnes & Noble to purchase the scammy fad diet book for…

I was responding to the comment that diet fads are a disease of the wealthy. Using that as a starting point, it's not absurd to say that, rather, they are a disease of the poor. I'm happy to debate, I just am a little surprised that THIS is the area of most interest. To settle this, as I said, I'm happy to stipulate…

But I am an animal carcass.

In the future I will make sure to include detailed income specifications when referring to economic classes in all of my fad diet related postings on Fittish, although considering the vast gulf between rich people and everyone else in the country, and the informal tone of the conversation, it would be perfectly…

Well, one thing is fried vegetables and the other one is bread, so... you know... they don't really look that similar.

Well, actually, I'm not, since I don't pay for any of those. I've got Netflix and Amazon and I do use HBO Go, and while I will accept that HBO (and netflix and Amazon for that matter) execs are probably all fairly vile people, they are a different kind of vile which I'm more amenable too.

Or, like a grown up you can pay the whopping $7 a month for the other ones (except obviously HBO, but it's not cheating since their CEO has explicitly condoned sharing logins) and you still end up ahead of the cable company.

You're not paying the vile cable company is a big one.