As I went through puberty I grew hair on my palms too, but it wasn’t because of surgery. 

TIL there’s a reality show about botched plastic surgery.  Aaaaagh. 

This headline is the perfect way to put it. I think Gervais is so talented and funny, but these recent turns just have me cringing.

Was that in response to a joke in the monologue?

I knew a guy growing up who was and is a singer-songwriter and all around great guy, and his best celebrity story was sharing an elevator with John Lennon and saying nothing at all.  And it killed him because he absolutely worshipped John Lennon but he felt it was the right thing to do. 

I love that you pressed for details, and sussed out the entirely reasonable truth. #fakenews!

I think that’s kind of a different thing. Airlines (and sports teams) don’t want you to slide up to better seats because then people will stop paying for the better seats. The individual ticket holders who grouse about it, however, are not actually suffering any damages, they just like grousing.

True. People often look at their own particular, immediate situation and not the larger picture. It’s sort of in our nature.

To be fair, the white guests had to sign a “No jerking off to The View” pledge. 

If they wanted to bring in a beloved character to interact with CGI-Leia who would also have moved forward plot subthemes, what about Broom Boy?

I was going to add that her prior issues seemed to be limited to surgery for a partially paralyzed vocal cord, but it seems that can have a variety of causes, some of which could involve breathing issues. So yours is a reasonable hypothesis.

When I was a kid I was told my grandparents’ dog died in his sleep.  It occurred to me a decade later that of course the dog was put to sleep.  I’ve been suspicious of that phrase ever since.  It’s interesting how we all look at the phrasing to divine cause of death, because we’ve sadly gotten familiar with the…

In which Ferrari reminds you that fuck yes they’re an Italian company. 

I can’t imagine being Bill Cosby’s spokesperson and thinking it’s a good idea to put out a statement on any topic whatsoever that touched on plantations, cooning and Stepin Fetchit.  Does he get paid by the number of response tweets? 

I had a similar thought, but from the article: “(In some versions he even says “ah, real coffee,” as if he didn’t just come from where some of the best coffee in the world is produced.)“

I’m getting my sneakers and then I look down at my phone and it’s Daniel Day-Lewis

Maybe because I have a younger sister? But I found this ad really sweet and didn’t get a horny vibe at all.  I can see that it’s funny to parse it based on that angle, but wouldn’t have gotten there on my own. 

Well, except that he doesn’t say “real coffee” he just says “coffee” like I would on arriving home after a really long travel day.  The implication does seem to be that he missed it in Africa, so your point is valid, but maybe when Folgers tastes like home to you, you’d be happy to return to it after months of, well,…

Remember in Last Jedi when fallen son Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) smashed his Vader-esque helmet to bits as a symbolic rejection of the past?

Let’s throw a little sympathy McCain’s way.  Trump is accused of bad things, and he did them.  There is no way of defending him without lying, so McCain is in a tough place where she’s gotta stand with either the truth or the GOP.