Assuming there are enough sources, the family’s blessing is probably the last thing to consider if you want the movie to be anything other than hagiography.

This definitely worked on me. Once places started selling and storing digital media for you, I was fine with paying for it. I even kind of went overboard on the idea of curating a digital library for a while, but I realized renting and streaming were ultimately safer options when I’m not actually sure the company will…

Or he thinks garage sounds too French so he wants to describe it overly literally in plain English, which is an interpretation that works with both. I heard it as “car hole” as a kid, but if you’re older and used to hearing xenophobic and anti-intellectual Americans, “car hold” is basically “freedom fries.”

I think a lot of the people who heard “car hole” were kids at the time who thought it was funny that Moe would make up a phrase that no one says to mean garage. The people who heard “car hold” thought it was funny for Moe to think the word “garage” was fancy. It’s kind of a weird phenomenon. It’s not like misheard…

Apparently I need to watch S4. I didn’t make it past the opening with Ryan in a cage match because he had feelings he couldn’t process any other way or some shit. It honestly made me wonder what I ever saw in this stupid show.

I really love everything you’re saying in this thread. I am definitely a progressive, albeit one who wants to have productive conversations with people who disagree with me. It’s “fuck your feelings” versus “read the room,” which I will grant are not equally (overtly) shitty, but both are attempts to shut down…

I very much agree with everything you said here. I really want to have reasonable conversations about it that don’t merely feature people being reactionary shits. On the other hand, I can recall several times (and know there are more that I don’t recall) when in a fit of emotion I’ve been a reactionary shit on the…

I’ve definitely run into the issue here that “myth” is used to mean both something that doesn’t exist and something that people believe exists.

On further reflection, I basically agree that it is a myth, in the sense that myths are things people actually believe, if not in the sense that it’s not a term describing something happening in our culture.  Like I also said, I’m not 100% or even 50% against whatever that thing is.  I just want to encourage us to…

I’m honestly not so sure “cancel culture” was originally a right-wing thing. I think it’s kind of like “fake news,” which was turned about on the people who originally used the phrase to mean “disinformation on social media” to mean “MSM bad.” Maybe not so clear cut as that, but there was not this us or them divide at…

Just read the article.

Nah, you won’t. Just know I’m basically likely to be on your side. I guess it depends on how we’re defining “myth,” but there is clearly something going on in our culture that can be called “cancel culture.” It can also be considered “accountability culture,” but so many people wouldn’t be talking about it if it was…

No matter how many times we say “cancel culture is a myth,” it doesn’t make it true. I wish we could just acknowledge that so-called cancel culture has some negative implications along with all the positive effects (accountability, etc.).

“F-bombs” is such a silly thing to hear from an adult, unless they’re referring to the slur.

I’ve mentioned this mysterious controversy you and others talk about so much on here to friends who are far more into comic books and comic book movies, and they’re always completely bewildered by what I’m even on about. It feels like you’re on some very specific and mysterious mission that leads you to develop a…

Most people aren’t really able to contend with the idea that even guilty people deserve a vigorous defense and a fair trial.

I can’t watch most reality TV out of vicarious embarrassment (and would probably choose not to for other reasons), but The Office never really bothered me in that way for whatever reason. Except for Scott’s Tots.

I have this weird thing about food either not fit for consumption or discarded incompletely (usually triggered by people who don’t rinse their plates before I wash them), where it feels like handling excrement to me. This scene definitely grossed me out (and made me laugh), but man, that Ann-Marget scene above,…

I’m not a Spears fan, either, but as a casual observer, it’s the patriarchy of it all that’s frustrating. She might have needed a conservatorship at that point in her life, but it didn’t need to be the guy who had probably already benefited enormously by putting his daughter on a stage when she was a kid.

Try to live their what?