Yup, I’m a supertaster too and can verify all of this. I can’t drink any IPAs; they all taste like what I assume battery acid is like. This include mild mass-produced IPAs, not just lunatic microbrewers. My brother brews his own IPAs and he’s caught in the bitterness race; I tried one of his and immediately spit it…

Saw Zoltar and thought of this. I still think it’s a better fit.

Ah! I was looking for someone to reference CliffHanger. That was my favorite for the same reasons. I would generally get to the point where you have to dodge bombs in your VW bug (??). Completely fucking blew my mind to discover years later that it was all taken from Lupin III. Finally watching those movies was like…

I think the subtext of AFAF’s letter is “you’re about to start getting letters from people who’ve been infected with pubic lice.”

It can’t be that absurd if it’s an actual real thing.

Hey, your vernacular English is pretty good. And you really nail the script, especially recasting something as nebulous as political affiliation in terms of a “diversity.” Good job. Quality work.

The opening credits to the Wire would be a million times better if it had no theme song at all, just the diegetic sounds of the opening sequence. It would connect with the verisimilitude of the series.

Ah, but in Akron, and apparently *only* in Akron, it’s called a Devil Strip. Not until I left Akron for college out-of-state did I realize (1) how incredibly, impossibly local this term is; and (2) most people just straight-up don’t have a name for that strip of grass between the road and the sidewalk. Devil strip is…

Not that anyone here is saying that or would even agree with what I wrote here, but it’s something I’ve run into personally, where the worst aspect of a fan base can have an unwanted but unavoidable effect.

I think it’s reasonable to look at a show (or whatever) that strongly attracts a particular type of asshole and wonder if the reason you (generic you) like the show so much is that you are more like that type of asshole then you suspect. Not that it’s necessarily true, but that little voice in the back of your head…

I recently re-watched the Robotech series for the first time since I was a kid (I am now very much a grown-ass man). Macross is actually much better than I remember- a multitude of interesting characters evolving over the series, an overarching plot that really moves, and the mech battling actually had emotional…

Now see, you’re making it sound good. Zack Snyder’s superpower is taking stuff that sounds completely nuts and draining it of all interest and vitality. Now *that’s* the average genre film.

I don’t believe in final straws anymore. I thought “grab’em by the pussy” was the final straw for his candidacy, and that was a whole haystack ago. I don’t believe the GOP will do anything more than they’ve done. I think the current crowd would’ve rolled over for Nixon, and happily end any sense of rule of law as long…

Just tell yourself that every single movie scene has an invisible naked space vampire in it. If you’re watching a movie with someone else, occasionally point out where you think the vampire is in the scene. Comment on how hot they might be. Vampires are usually pretty hot if it’s not a Nosferatu situation. I love…

You got me there; there were certainly times I could’ve used the greys on the AVC. Kinja just seems so stratified to me, like some kind of cool-kids club that’s antithetical to the AVC spirit. That is the first and last time I’ll refer kinja as the cool-kids club.

Maybe I’m just pissed because my disqus and AV Club…

On the other hand, folks like me who don’t comment heavily live in the greys, which is a strong disincentive to post, and on and on. “Live here or fuck off” basically.

Trick question! Neither the 1996 Olympics nor the Falcons’ new roof have anything to do with stadium openings.

I prefer the urinal- much less fuss, and if I get a two-stream situation it’s no big deal. I hate sitting down on public toilets. Sometimes I’ll get a short or shallow bowl, and the tip of my dick will brush against the inside of the bowl and completely gross me the fuck out. When I was purchasing a toilet, I tried…

Oh! Ooooh! Chicken-skin steak-fat pizza! In this world of glazed-doughnut hamburgers, there has to be a restaurant out there that already offers this. We just need to find it...

Are you sure that pic isn’t one of those “mouth as eyes” things? It’s super disturbing.