Around 2005 or so Ryan Air did one cent sales for some of the first seats sold on each flight. So if you were booking far enough in advance you could get some amazing deals even with the additional airport fees.

I went on the public tour of the Perugina Chocolate factory in Italy a number of years back and it was shockingly similar to the tour on this episode, except instead of being on the floor with the machinery we were on a catwalk above it.

One of my favorite things about Bob's Burgers is that the characters actually react to a lot of the weirder things people say and do. Too many shows would be satisfied with just leaving it after Gene calls it "business-water" but Bob's Burgers makes sure that "the man" takes the time to correct Gene that, no, it's…

Pretty sure that the scene fading to white instead of black was meant to indicate that everything but the first 7 minutes of that episode was an allegorical representation of Jessica fighting her inner demons.

I like it!

We're all in agreement that Jessica Fletcher was a ruthless serial killer who framed hundreds of innocent people right under the noses of an either incompetent or complicit police force, right?

I also always liked how Merry and Pippin become celebrated heros for leading the rebellion against the de-powered Saruman but the Shire is only dimly aware that Frodo had some role in some sort of Gandalf related shenanigans in a far off kingdom.

As a huge Tolkien fan, I think that's fair. JRR, as his friends call him, was a master of descriptive language and remains second to none in terms of world building. (The man created workable made up languages, with multiple dialects, and wrote a fictional Middle-earth bible for his own reference.) However, he also…

I think you're mixing up patriotism (an attachment to one's homeland) with nationalism (a shared communal identification with one's nation). While in a general sense they can sometimes be used as synonyms, in a political context they are very different things.

My understanding is that dosing is less of an issue when it comes to legal, factory made edibles since they are processed in a way to ensure standardization across batches. Unlike your weird uncle's brownies where the THC content is going to vary on how much pot he had on hand (or how baked he was) when he was baking…

I got to "Rush Limbaugh's polyps" and knew it had to be genuine O'Neal.

Ticket to Ride, Pandemic, Code Names, The Resistance, Jaipur, Mysterium, Love Letter, Coup and King of Tokyo. All as easy (or easier) to teach and understand than Clue and Monopoly, yet way less likely to end with someone rage quitting/falling asleep.

I was about to make a "Fantasy Flight Games quietly sobs in the corner" joke, so I'm glad to see you were going for pretension over an exhaustive list.

I've only played Euphoria, which I found fine but not as great as everyone else seemed to think it was. I will definitely be picking up Charterstone. From the (limited) things I've seen about it, it looks like it will be closer to Risk: Legacy, in that it'll give you a box of fun to tell your story and not lean to…

Solid advice. Quinns from Shut Up and Sit Down (the universes best board game review site) named it his number one game of 2016 but even he's cautioning people to wait for the expansions to come out before deciding whether or not the game is worth it.

As a big cheerleader of Legacy games, I think you've hit a lot of the key points about the current state of the genre.

I'm not sure if I liked the show or not but I don't regret watching it.

As someone from the middle-r parts of Canada, 58 in late November isn't unheard of but it is certainly unusual. Our average H/L across the whole month of November is 32/17.

That McSpaghetti looks awful but it did remind me of the McPizza. And not the personal sized version that they replaced it with, I'm talking the family size pizza that they brought to your table like they were fucking Pizza Hut or something. I have such found childhood memories of that. No idea if it was any good,…

but you don't have to!