Huh. I didn’t even read into it as being about black experience at all. I mostly got family and lesbian coming of age vibes off of it. Lots of non-black families have similar dynamics in them, including the gay on the down low, bucking tradition, family secrets/denial, and suppression of mental health issues kinda…

It sorta sucks you saw only that one. The entire two seasons have plenty of bits of gold. None of them are as good as Thanksgiving, but some are plenty fine and funny. The Italian episodes, the wedding and the weird Rashomon episode are pretty dern good too.

“Of course, old bedsheets would probably work just as well.”

[insert “dammit barry” here]

Yup. This.

Um. Like half the restaurants I’ve ever been to, the waiter or waitress will say “I’m ____, I’ll be your server for this evening.” or “Your server will be right with you” or “I’ll be serving your this evening”. One who serves is a server or servant. Am I missing a definition or subtle distinction here?

Came here to do this, saw it done better than I would have. Happy just to be a part of it.

Huh. Maybe he is the second coming but this time around h decided to be a fuckwad and get all the other fuckwads to follow him and rise up and expose themselves so they couldn’t hide anymore and then he’ll jump out from behind his dumb rug and yell “bazinga!” and we can go back to shaming assholes and....sigh. Nope.

And atheists are morons? Church attendance has been dropping steadily since the 60s. The root definition of religion is habit. Religion is something you do, not a claim about fairy tales are your favorite.

In the spirit of shameful oneupsmanship? The only reason Toronto got all those fairly wealthy Chinese immigrants fleeing from the Chinese Hong Kong takeover? The US turned them away. So Toronto got a buncha cash and a face lift and ended up gorgeous and we look like jerks. The main way Chinese got into our country the…

You are right in all these things. I would have been impressed to hear her say “speak Mid Atlantic” or some such. She’s likely a bigot, though to be fair, knowing what some teachers have to deal with, she could have just been at the end of her rope as well and chose the most hurtful thing to say. So what she said was…

Everything you said is true, but there’s a hitch. Even though the country doesn’t have an official language, there are oodles of states that do...

Well true, anyone with YouTube or a membership in TOOOL can bypass a cheap lock with $20 dollars worth of tools and an hour of training. “He can get into anything” is hyperbole though. There are keys that are far too much trouble to pick and impossible to bump. A crowbar, no training, and three minutes is all you…

Newp. And it’s because you two are talking about two different things. You’re focused on the military itself and all the pride and bravado and brotherhood that comes with it.

No community organization you say?

Well, she’s Filipino and Korean and like, twenty other things so it don’t matter where karate comes from, she probably has some Japanese in the mix if you go back far enough. Plus karate was 60s to 80s allegory for all martial arts, regardless of national origin. It’s still a dick move and smacks of bigotry today, but…

Annnnnnnnnd, what have you done about it...

I always considered those games to be training devices. Ever since Starfighter.

Um. Lame.

Ah but theaters don’t make any money on ticket sales. They only make money on concessions. And this scenario gives everyone a chance to empty the bladder and buy another thing. It’s not “downtime”, it’s “let’s all go to the snack bar” time.