Ice cream in freezer, no need to order. Clearly not making friends, as there's no way I'll be sharing said ice cream.

I'm not sure I want to see Bieber-Buddha, but I'll always be optimistic about human nature. Just call me Candide I guess.

I think I’d say addict, rather than sociopath. In the beginning, fame and adulation gave him enjoyment and self worth (which would probably be true for most people), but by now that’s gone and all he’s left with is a big jolt of dopamine telling him to get up on that stage.

Well based on the above thinking, nothing could really go wrong, so sure. I'll even buy the first round.

Its funny, because a common thing I have heard expressed is that the dominatrix archetype exists purely as a male fantasy, yet here we have a woman saying that posing as about as close to the male fetish figure as it gets is empowering for her.

I agree with you, but I don’t think the article is necessarily a screed against doing good deeds for selfish reasons. After all, the author is still doing social justice work, and probably still has selfish reasons.

I think the end of the story was “after the village came to help the man pick up starfish, the suddenly massive starfish population destroyed the local sea urchin population, as well as the population of the bivalves the town depended on for food and trade. Without food the starfish starved, and without its source of…

I feel like Checkers is the cutting edge of fast food menu/pricing innovation, honestly. All the various 2 for 2/2 for 4/3 for 5 deals that appear outside the local McD’s/BK are ones that were up at Checkers three months before. Plus I’m pretty sure they were pushing hot dogs/mozzarella sticks a while before other…

I think that part of it, maybe, is guilt. I’ll bet a lot of people don’t want to acknowledge receiving help because they don’t want to acknowledge it to themselves. There’s definitely an element of self esteem and security in self that comes from having a job and paying your expenses. Maintaining a sense of self-worth…

Payday loans when the month is longer than the money definitely help make borrowing a little bit of money from your parents till the next paycheck look pretty good.

May your words someday be translated into hundreds of languages and read by billions across the world. This was fantastic- writing, pacing, characterization through perfect anecdotes, and more nuanced than anything heretofore published on Gawker.

With the way (at least the way I've heard) mobile gaming is eating into more... traditional I guess? types of gaming in Japan, wouldn't be surprised if this becomes a thing. Someone figures out a decently predictive relationship between pre-orders and post release sales, and if pre-orders aren't looking good, the game…

I think you just found Aflack’s new late night commercial spokesperson.

Also, he did end up taking college courses as a student after she started typing for him, if I remember correctly. His knowledge and interest were, suprisingly, almost a mirror of her own.

Miley Cyrus is a secret Pokemon trainer, that's the conclusion I’m getting from this comment.

I caught one with one hand a couple days ago. No joke, biggest accomplishment of the new year so far. But Saitama has plenty of normal person problems, just no super hero problems, which makes him vulnerable to any of the DC/Marvel characters with well established normal lives.

Counterpoint: mosquito.

I think that the better comparison might be political spouses during election season, in the sense that it probably blurs the public and private spheres to a similar extent. How to find personal moments when your entire life is documented and shared has to be a challenge in plenty of cases. Probably best when both…

The cocksmith worked tirelessly through the night, transforming the raw, hard cock into its softer, more malleable form. He made himself quite dirty in the process.

Totally non-subjective ranking of potential participants in order of theorized hotness: