We used to sell them at upgrades for the Warn ATV winches we installed. Steel winch cables are HORRIBLE

My fave from this (truly excellent) episode is Annie’s sexy baby song:

She was very known! That threw me too. I know this is just a throwaway post, but slagging the pre-Glee careers of Jane Lynch and Matthew Morrison when that information is just a google away is some pretty lazy ish.

Her career is certainly much larger post-Glee, but she’d done a metric tonne of work before that I have to assume she was at least a “oh, hey, it’s that lady” for most people by the mid-2000s.

Off topic:

He’s also starring in the latest abomination remake of The Grinch. Do not google the photos or you’ll die in 7 days, probably.

Name some American cities with “sewage and needles running in the streets.” (Whatever that means, exactly. The needles are being carried by currents in liquefied sewage, presumably.)

They are literally the most educated people in their communities. They are unquestionably the intelligentsia there.

Agreed. The book, like all books and takes, has issues. But people are WAY too hard on it. Here’s the deal, if you think the whole book is bullshit, go work in social services in a rural area, and you’ll see how wrong you are. Perhaps people thought Vance was being too hard on victims, but there’s also a tough love…

Are you saying these are not accurate portrayals of “poors” or Hillbillies?

Because it got Charlize Theron an Oscar therefore everyone must do it, best of I can figure. 

Being from Maine, and from a family that is an utterly fascinating mix of white, black, Chinese (!), old money, and redneck lower working class (*I* should write a book, or better yet a TV sitcom), I agree with you 110%. The redneck working class parts of my family, including my own dumbass younger brother, are in the…

There wasn’t any sewage or needles out on the streets when we all poured out of our apartments for joyous spontaneous celebrations in Brooklyn all weekend.

I like ‘Crab Pot’ myself but pick your own:)

I feel like you’ve gotten the wrong impression from that statement: Those kids were told by their parents and grandparents that you never needed to read books or learn anything because only stupid people read books and learn thing. Anyone who is smart doesn’t do that, they become farmers or truck drivers.

It sounds like you grew up in similar circumstances. So, you know all about the sneering contempt for education and ambition.

I didn’t even read that book, I grew up among kids who were told that learning is for stupid people because smart people are farmers or truck drivers. 

Maybe I have a bad attitude, but I have to say that the small town in Alabama where I grew up - and the Deep South as a whole - is absolutely swarming with people who are too ignorant to realize (insert what they’re too ignorant to realize.)

They still didn’t really vote the way we wanted to, and we beat them anyway. So this entire genre of navel-gazing cultural anthropology, wherein we are urged to see things from the fascists’ point of view and accept that they’re the real victims, is now obsolete.

True fact: Amy Adams is 46yo.