Noted (and thanks for providing the only serious response)! I have a couple right now that don’t have country of origin stickers on them, and I’ve never noticed if the display in the store says where they’re from, but I’ll keep an eye out for it next time.

My problem is that avocadoes I buy tend to stay rock hard for ages, and when I finally decide I can’t wait any longer, I cut them open only to find a moldy (and still stiff) mess inside. Doesn’t matter if they spend all their time in the fridge or out on the counter. Any suggestions for this problem?

Agreed. Might’ve been a flop at the box office (can you think of a Shakespeare adaption that wasn’t (well, besides Romeo+Juliet, I mean)?), but it’s still a damn fine film.

Maybe she’s bored with her MBA and went back for a teaching degree?

I voted by absentee ballot, but apparently my polling place opened twenty minutes late because an election official overslept. Later, a fire alarm went off and people were hurried out of the building for a few minutes.

That’s nothing. I’ve melted down my gaming keyboard and am going to burn my mouse as well, as soon as I’ve finished the copying and pasting necessary to write this comment.

Please tell me someone has made a Chick tract-style comic about Jack Chick’s adventures in the afterlife.

I picture the Trump as a ball of Crisco scooped directly into your hand just after they’ve run out of napkins.

Understood. My collection is probably of similar size (1800+ movies, ~600 short films, couple of dozen TV shows), and the drives are pretty close to full; sooner or later I’ll need to augment my setup with two more drives. Also worth pointing out: My rips are DVD-quality because I am so done with adding to my clutter…

This is exactly what I’ve done, and it’s fantastic. One drive is in use all the time, and the other is the backup; all of my content comes from legitimately purchased DVDs, and I am not spending another year of weekends ripping them again when the drive burns out.

I took that call while I was waiting for an appointment once. I kept him going for as long as I could, but eventually I wasn’t giving him the response he expected, so he asked me which version of Windows I was running. I told him it was Windows 3.11, and instructed me to go outside and fornicate with myself.

Oh, great. I’d just gotten over worrying about the Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu.

As I white man, I stand with the vengeful ghosts. Not on an unserviced elevator, though.

Worst Rockapella song ever.

Clearly she’s still looking for the right vehicle to break into the mainstream. Unfortunately, she’s a bit late for the Titanic, and they don’t fill blimps with hydrogen anymore...

Wut. I have dozens of things listed under the other categories, but under Culture and Lifestyle the only item is “Spreadsheet”. I find this vaguely upsetting.

When I first got into Doctor Who, I emerged from an hour of Googling “BBC” with the mistaken impression that the next Doctor would be played by someone named Lexington Steele.

I see I’ve come to the thread too early for Swedish-made penis enlarger jokes. :/

...and to that end, if this is the reboot that destroyed your childhood, then where have you been for the last 20 years of pop culture?

Well, I can’t disagree with that.