I had a kid in middle school ask a substitute teacher call him “Dick” which she refused. Because she knew his name was Brad. And he was being a stupid kid trying to make the teacher look stupid. So, yes, go forth and take a stand against dumb kid pranks!

Literally think of this movie at least once or twice a month because it was my first exposure to Blondies “One Way or Another” as sung by Angelica.

Seriously, how hard is it really to NOT be an intentional asshole?

They are at great risk of personal embarrassment by making the faux pas of assuming someone’s gender incorrectly! I mean, thankfully this child erred on the side of masculinity, which is always the correct thing to do in the case of any confusion, but this teacher could still have seemed less than authoritative in…

Absolutely. He was the everyman in Vegas and was just doing his best to get by. The miniseries wouldn’t have worked without him playing the role that he did because the rest of the “evil” cast came off as too absurdist at times. He, not Flagg, was the perfect foil for Sinise’s Stu Redman.

Also these groups tend to be little more than “concerned citizen” middle to upper class White women who also tend to be “I’m not homophobic but” types.

Henreid is such a great character because he's not THAT bad of a dude. His POV chapters about the rationalizing he does and the compromises really speak to the old ideas about the banality of evil.

Everyone will tell you that it’s terrible and not worth watching. The former comment is correct. The latter depends on your mood and level of self-medication. There is some decent acting and character and set styling/design thrown in with a stupid plot, some woof-worthy dialogue and a try-hard, GOTG wannabe soundtrack.

There were a lot of great, some mediocre, and several outright head scratching castings for the 90s mini-series, but I cannot imagine someone other than Ferrer as Henreid.

If you had a student with a very ethnic name, then out of laziness or racism you instead called them “oogabooga” even after being told by administration to knock it off and call them by their name, you’d get fired too.

Suicide Squad isn’t that bad. That’s its problem. It would have at least been entertaining if it was bad. It’s just so incredibly generic.

Dr Says, “Chopping off your own hand is fine (if chopping off your whole arm is the alternative).

About 13 years ago I was a smoker looking to quit. E-cigs seemed like a way for me to have the physical sensation of smoking which I missed with nicotine gum or a patch. At that time e-cigs came in graduated nicotine levels INCLUDING ZERO NICOTINE. The fact that Juul refuses to offer a zero nicotine product says to…

As a tool to quit smoking or just an less dangerous alternative to tobacco, vaping is good. But it is quite frankly disgusting that companies like Juul are actively profiting from getting kids addicted to nicotine and I won’t feel the least bit sorry if these laws cause Juul to crash and burn.

I also dislike the fact…

It would just be some Twitter bullshit. A sample “letter from the front.”

It was always kind of weird that a teenager had a 70+ year old aunt. How old were his parents? Did one of them have a 30 year older sibling? Plus, updating the character to fit in the New York of the 2010s instead of the New York of the 1960s was long overdue. It made sense to abandon the whole “working-class widow…

It’s not about “relating” to people in a different class, but about treating everyone you interact with decently. Honestly little things like looking a server in the eye and thanking them when they bring/take away something versus just pretending the plates materialized out of thin air and not even acknowledging the…

He-s a liddle idiot.

As a middle aged, first generation, Desi guy; this was eye opening. My condolences to you and your family. I am sorry for your loss. I want to write more, but I will refrain. I am going to reread this again as I have nephews, nieces and sons and daughters of friends that feel this sense of alienation.

I’m cynical enough that I don’t think anything is actually going to come of this, but I sure am enjoying Trump’s anxiety.