I know a dude who took his wife’s last name. No fuss, no problems with the paperwork (even in Florida!). She thought his last name was kind of awful, and he agreed, and that was that. Surprisingly, the world didn’t end.

There is a difference in the local stations and the national cable network, though. I interned at this station - the closest they get to Fox News is that they occasionally use the national fluff and economic packages, and they are owned by Fox Television Studios (unlike affiliates). The anchors at Fox 35 never really…

I think some states have laws that sort of prohibit this? I don’t know how they’d enforce them, though.

The soft lens on Walters for the last couple of decades was ridiculous. The only thing I’ve seen that comes close is when RuPaul jokes about smearing Vaseline on the lens and some episodes of NCIS.

It’d be one thing, I guess, if they pixelated out all blood. But they have completely unpixelated, fairly graphic pictures from UFC bouts, including Robbie Lawler’s really (disturbingly) busted lip from a recent event. So, blood resulting from violence in sports is okay, but not non-violent blood in a non-violent…

My mother still thinks that playing D&D is “tempting the devil” or dark spirits, or whatever.

I had to call out of work once because I couldn’t find my glasses, and my fiance had already left for work before I woke up. I have such horrible vision that I am legally not allowed to drive without corrective lenses, and I couldn’t see well enough to find them, either. (Also, had no contacts at the time.) Turns out…

I was in high school in Snellville in the late 90s, and I’m going to guess it depended on the teacher. Odds are the information was somewhere in the textbooks, but you know most students only do the assigned readings (if that). I know for certain that the only historical field trips we took were to some colonial town…

Sometimes, as floor manager, I have to snap my fingers at the news anchors because their mics are open and I can’t talk, and I always feel so bad that I apologize during the break. Even though it’s the recommended way to get their attention. Just - snapping fingers is so RUDE.

I think, since they were married before the article was written, they had to refer to her by her married name. I could be wrong, though.

Went to public school in Gwinnett County, right near Stone Mountain. Our textbooks did have Civil War information, but the Civil Rights sections sort of glossed over the “rebel flag”. We didn’t see any of those images of the flag being used against protestors, or by the KKK, and we certainly weren’t told the history…

Maybe not in school, but I was already hearing about “The Act of Northern Aggression” (no kidding) and the evils of the Civil Rights movement before I was in kindergarten. They start in with the attempted brainwashing at a young age in pro-Confederate households. For me, it didn’t take - but it did for a lot of my…

It was better than I expected, but I expected it to be unwatchable. And I was stuck watching it at a friend’s house - on my own, I’d have switched it off. Efron does look really good in it, though.

I don’t know. That might be a little over the top.

I know that if you’d asked me at age 6 if my mother was a racist bigot, I wouldn’t have really understood what you were asking other than if she was a bad person, and I’d have said, “No”. As an adult, though - all of her lessons about being good and fair and empathetic to others fall short, because the reality of her…

We covered this story (briefly) at the station where I work. They opted not to play the video at all, because bleeping it would indicate support for the accusation, and not bleeping it could get complaints from idiot viewers. I still don’t know why we aired it in the first place, though.

People who make this argument have no concept of consent.

I’m sure you’ll still be able to find all the confederate flag merch you want at your local flea market. You know the booth - the cheap, screen-print tee shirts; the thin, cheaply-made flags; the belt-buckles; and the stickers.

LOL, not really, no.

Just get some D&D books. According to my parents, those were from THE DEVIL. I’d love to say they left it in the 80s, but my mother still thinks it’s evil.