You completely and utterly fail to justify skipping the flu shot. 40% is better than the complete lack of risk reduction that happens without the flu shot. Spreading the flu can kill. That’s the entire gist of this article — Is your questionable justification for skipping the flu shot really worth the potential harm…

Selfishness is my best guess. Even if they personally don’t know any elderly people or young children, they know this could protect people who have weak immune systems, but refuse to do so out of some twisted form of exceptionalism. They might trot out the bald face lie that the shot gives you the flu or some other…

Why? They have tried polite for many years, this is for the selfish assholes who need to listen up. If that does not include you then see plenty of other politely asking articles and facts out there.

This is an excellent headline.

Gritty the socialist meme is the only thing giving me life right now.

Simone’s response was perfect. I admire her even more now.

Not to mention, she seems to dateolder guys. If she was dating 20 year olds in her 40s like most of these creepy guys, then there would be a trend. Not saying you shouldn’t believe one person, but he didn’t directly accuse her of anything.

The biggest problem is assigning some sort of virtue to drinking the best, most expensive wine, especially when the judgments of flavor and value are being made by what are essentially hobbyists. If a $20 bottle tastes good, that’s as virtuous as it needs to be.

If he was asking her questions about sex, and she jokingly said something like “come see me in ten years”, it doesn’t strike me as creepy so much as just one of those stupid things a person says from time to time.

It does, however, hold with the idea that only people who have been drinking wine regularly, critically evaluating it, and discussing it with others doing the same for many years can tell the difference...and even then only a bare few of those can do it so reliably that they can pass this master sommelier test.

You can get him to like a cheap wine, but it’s a bit like how the paintings of sailboats you get in every seaside town are still nice even though the work of impressionist masters have a ton of cool touches if you know to look for them.

I love little Caesars, their pizza is generally better than pizza hut and papa johns, they do a lot of donations, and they actually know how to make a fucking stuffed crust (seriously pizza hut why is the crust hollow and empty!??).

I’m curious about that test though. I’m not saying I believe that sommeliers can tell you the winery and year of every wine they taste. That’s obviously bullshit.

I think there’s a definite time and place for that kind of film. And that time and place is most definitely not the cinema, where you’re £10-£15 down.

I think I get it muddled up with the King Arthur film from...earlier this year? Last year? I suspect both of them will end up being films I’ll catch on TV late one night and enjoy more than I would have expected due to having zero expectations. 

I’ll be happy if they just manage to put together, and release, a decent second season of American Gods after all the kerfuffles. Let’s not put the cart before the eight-legged horse here, Neil.

I’m in Kentucky, so Mitch is one of my senators. So many people here hate his guts (even the Republicans) and yet he keeps getting elected, I guess because people like the idea that a Kentucky senator is such a mover and shaker in Washington. He’s utterly revolting.

Maybe we should do something French about it.

McConnell’s already laying the groundwork for ignoring the “rule” he used to deny Obama his Supreme Court pick in case another seat opens up in 2020.

Interestingly, telling McConnell to go to his room is the same thing as telling him to go to hell.