Pretty sure you are legally obligated to propose marriage to such a man upon meeting him.

As a student of entomology, I can assure you that it doesn't get any worse than being bitten by a poisonous scorpion.

*nerd jokes*

Clearly this woman has an acute allergy that must be taken seriously. Anything less than 90 degrees and she blows up into a big mass of CRAZY!

As someone who comes from a culture without restaurants, whole wheat, or hazelnuts, I am personally deeply offended at the way my brethren are being mocked just for not understanding the intricacies of American dining practices.

I don't think they'd have the numbers they do if it was only psychopaths...

I am going to oversimplify things here, but I don't care. ISIS, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, and other fundamentalists groups of any religion only exist and perpetuate because of their fear, disgust, and hatred of women. This is not about religion or God's will or some divine caliphate. This is about a group of psychopaths…

Most of these stories eventually explain what the stupid person actually thought...the root of their stupidity...like not knowing what a scallop is or wanting your toast uncut. And really, just use your words. Please don't cut my toast. What is a scallop? Chocolate cake lady at least *asked* and learned something.

I also use to run shows in my hometown. Never had to deal with "big" talent but even medium sized talent had riders with strange stuff in it. Most of the time, the band or manager put it in there just to see if they could actually get it. We had a rule, we always got the first 5 things on a rider and then ask the…

Agree 100%.

I agree. I have never liked him or even the White stripes but have been following this story thanks to Pitchfork shoving it down my throat on FB. I think the college paper just needs to admit they fucked up already (I read the articles) and they're acting like they leaked an important White House (ha!) document or…

Yep... the writer is an ass. It was incredibly annoying to be told how I should feel about the letter rather than making up my opinion, which is actually completely the opposite of what she wanted me to think.

Even in the cases of outrageous requests, people assume it's the artist being a diva, but a lot of the time there's a very good reason. Riders are just one part of a contract that lays out all the details of a show. For big, technical acts, this means a lot of information that must be followed to the LETTER so that…

His rider is totally reasonable. I've been on tour and what people don't get is that you are deciding like, a year out what your entire staff will need every day for however long you will be on the road. Especially given that your crew will only have a big enough break to leave the venue for food maybe 10% of the time…

Exactly, and as he pointed out, he didn't even write the rider - that's the manager's (or more likely, the manager's assistant's job. He really has nothing to do with this whole thing!

It's is much ado about nothing, which is his whole point. This writer is trying to make him look petulant and awful, but really he's being quite reasonable (and snarky, but who doesn't love a bit of deserved snark?).

Exactly. There's way crazier stuff demanded by people with half his fame level. Quite reasonable. And while he comes across like a tit sometime, I run some events in my city and he played at a festival last summer - heard nothing but great stuff about him and his band from the people running that show.

...Is it bad that this seems pretty reasonable to me? I mean, refusal to use any capital letters aside. The original rider seemed pretty standard, and definitely not worthy of as much as has been written about it, and I'm sure it's got to be annoying to still be talking about it to anyone that interviews him. Plus, he…

I actually looked at the rider. He was asking for things like having a clean, dry dressing room in close proximity to the stage, couches to sit on, really simple food and beverages for his crew. I've been at some back stage thingies, and the ones I have been to have been pretty simple as well. He's asking for…

Wow, I never thought I'd say this, but — Team White

You think there should be a law criminalizing writing an angry message on social media because your significant other cheated on you?