You’re talking about a chamber-music performance, or an actual rock/hip-hop/whatever show?

I think they just put Harry Styles’ twin sister in up top.

Only been watching out of the corner of my eye, but this England team seems pretty crap.

Gotcha. Yeah, there’s certainly room for everybody to have their opinions. It was more the “I’m shocked that anybody thinks this!” aspect that I was referring to, since I thought it was pretty widely known that a lot of people think it.

What’s up with the people shocked by the comment about Mayer’s blues guitar abilities? Not only is Mayer a great blues guitarist, but it’s widely known conventional wisdom that this is so.

“rock chicks can be hard to find in the South.”

Can you link me to an actual human being who is relishing the idea of suing actual rape VICTIMS?

“another nail in the coffin of print journalism.”

Wait — who created it? And were they that thing before they created it?

Almost a couple of tiers below this MLS free kick by the just-retired Dwayne De Rosario.

Earnest grammar nerd question. I see this sort of construction more and more often:

Perhaps I misinterpreted your comment. I may have seen too many people out there who regard “nuance,” in and of itself, as an argument’s most crucial quality.

Why do you insist on a “nuanced perspective”? Why is that axiomatically important? I’m asking sincerely.

Nor to the “National Football League,” which these announcers and ex-jocks always insist on fully enunciating.

“she has been saying that for decades”

You’re a professional writer. The burden of clarity and precision is on you, not your readers.

He’s always gone through phases with certain phrases.

How the hell can y’all figure out what he’s saying there? Am I like the only human being who can’t lip-read? I just see a mouth moving.

Stop using the word “folk.”

Curious question for those of you self-described pushovers (or former pushovers): Did you have siblings, or were you an only child?