I know, right? A club I was in in college had an end-of-semester tradition of going to Ben and Jerry’s and ordering two Vermonsters for the group of us - and, to be clear, this was a club with about 10-15 people in it at any given time. That’s forty freaking scoops of ice cream covered in cookies, caramel, M&Ms, gummi…

I am apparently in the “freeze” camp when it comes to danger to myself, and in the “go into some sort of fugue state where I become robotically calm and businesslike until the crisis is over and then have a complete fucking meltdown” camp when it comes to danger to other people. I’ve had one family member have a…

I think it’s just “TRUMP” in giant gold letters. Anyone who tried to explain to him that a sigil is supposed to be a picture and not a word would just get told that they were a loser and/or hater.

I understand why they’re expensive, and the reasons are definitely good...but man, I still wish the Clinton campaign had a few items of clothing in the shop that didn’t cost so much. I would 100% wear a Hillary shirt all the damn time and show all kinds of enthusiasm (and I really want the “I Have A Very Good Brain”…

Thanks for the clarification - that makes much more sense of your “PTSD” comment. (I think it’s still a reach to suggest that “not having as much of an appetite as usual” indicates trauma rather than simply stress; if his father was actually attempting to suggest that Turner was too fragile to deal with prison, he did…

“Inflammable” interpreted as “not able to be set on fire” is one of the rare errors that I actually have some sympathy for, since there’s some logic behind it. The extra “m” disguises the verb “inflame” somewhat, and “in-” at the beginning of a word ending in “able” virtually always means “not,” so it’s at least not en…

All the freaking time. (I’ve seen it in Gawkerverse articles more than once.) And every single time I want to yell, “NO ONE IS RENTING ROOMS INSIDE A RELIGION, AAAAARGH.”

“Not acceptable, but understandable” is about right. I said in a comment in another thread that I would be entirely supportive of this protest if the protesters left their guns at home and stuck with the signs like “If it wasn’t rape, then why did you run?” and “The rapist who lives here got 3 months. Justice???” As…

FSM is the Flying Spaghetti Monster, an entity that began its life as a humorous way to protest the teaching of “intelligent design” in American public schools before being adopted as a way for Internet Atheists to mock religion in general.

...both for “shitsnorting Goebbels wannabes,” which is a perfect description of Breitbart if ever I’ve seen one, and because “take a different tact” and “the tenants of [belief system]” are the twin banes of my existence. I will grit my teeth and suffer through “illicit a response,” “flaunt the rules,” and “for all…

I’m genuinely sorry to hear that you live with a similar slice of hell. (I would say I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy, but, well, you already know something of who my “worst enemies” would have to be, and I’m not anywhere near saintly enough not to wish for a little karma on that front.) I confess that I find the…

It’s nice that you take my point, but I would have been far more inclined to back off the suggestion that calling protesting outside the home of a rapist “inhumane” in the same comment as you are trying to plead for people to recognize the humanity of rapists is a poor choice of words at best and a telling one at…

Oh for fuck’s sake. I wish I’d seen this garbage comment before I wasted my time writing a long response to you in another thread as if you were a reasonable person. Ugh.

Yeah. I’m pretty thoroughly on board with protesting outside his house, but I’d rather they left the guns at home and stuck with just the signs without threatening messages. (“If it wasn’t rape, then why’d you run?” and “The rapist who lives here got 3 months. Justice???” = good signs. “If I rape Brock, will I only…

I think you are reading things into the comments you’re responding to that aren’t actually there.

I am entirely confident that that dog, my dog, or indeed any dog would make a better POTUS than Donald Trump. I mean, sure, you could convince them to support almost anything simply by saying, “WHO’S a good President? YOU are! You’re a good President!” and offering them a treat, but they’d be far better at maintaining…

Matching tattoos are at least better than name tattoos. That way, if you break up, you can at least potentially say, “Whatever, I still think sharks are cool,” which is a lot easier than saying, “Whatever, I still think my ex’s name and the date we met inside a heart with ‘forever yours’ under it is cool.”

I laughed out loud when I got to “Kathy is gripping her purse so tightly I’m afraid she’ll hurt herself.” Brilliant.

The problem comes when “anywhere near” is defined so as to include places several blocks away from schools and playgrounds, as with the law described above. I’m the last person in the world to have any sympathy for rapists, but I recognize that if someone has done their time and is being released into the world, it…

Seconding this! Musician here, who used to be part of a folk music garage band of sorts (really more of a “living room band,” since we mostly used instruments one could play fairly quietly while sitting on a couch) and also used to do a bunch of community theatre. All three of the relevant Guest movies had me in…