Yeah, emulating a look is fine. It’s the idolization of the actions that bothers me. When I was in college while MM was in its early seasons, I was pretty unnerved at the number of guys (and girls, to a lesser extent) who liked the idea of “men being men and women being women”, despite the clear plot elements that the…

It reminds me of Patton Oswalt’s bit about word policing. If you focus on shutting down people who use bad words without listening to the actual message, you’ll filter out people who are well-meaning, but ignorant, while letting people who are hateful through (at least at first). Like someone might listen to their BS…

Gah, what a good example!

Sometimes I get all cosmic brained about this and think “I wonder if this incredibly stupid thing is just an insanely smart bit of performance art?”

100% of 100%

He tells it, because he knows that other asshole bully types will like him for it. I’m always amazed at how all these alpha male morons are drawn to one another.

For real, though. The people who want to emulate Mad Men, Scarface, Wall Street, Rick and Morty, etc. completely miss the point of the characters they idolize and are often the furthest from what they think makes those characters cool.

I think that the inclusion of the Atlantis scene in the promotional video pretty clearly shows that the entire thing is a troll job on the fan theories.

Haha. You’re a weird person. I initially didn’t like you, but you’re funny.

I find you “interesting”.

I was assuming the goal was to try to break expectations of ex-convicts in the headline so people would be surprised and read the story (not that people should be surprised, but that’s where we are), so I tried to do my best keeping that intact.

Ok, because I think we’re on the same side and in the interest of Takeout civility, I’ll reign the snark in.

I also didn’t put quotes around “ex-con”...

Hmmm... Maybe I used the term, because it further plays into the stereotype that I felt the tweet/headline and image pairing was playing into...

The reason my friend posted it was because people were reacting negatively to the use of the phrase “ex-con”. I was trying to give the headline writer the benefit of the doubt in assuming that they were trying to portray the guy in a positive light, but even then I saw the above issues with the way the headline/image…

A friend of mine posted a tweet/headline from CBS news a little while ago about a man who saved another man from a car accident. The savior missed a job interview to do so and apparently lost his shirt in the process. The man also happened to be an ex-convict.

Yeah, 100%.

They really need to get in on time-travel plot lines in porn, so even when the guy jerks himself it could be considered incest, because he’s his own father.

The only thing I get about anything she said is that some Native American (or Native Mexican, I suppose) populations do have shared features with Asian populations, which makes sense with the immigration of people from Asia to the Americas via the land bridge. I’ve always taken the resemblance as a “see, we’re all one…

I read that it’s based on Google Trends. This begs the question: Who are all these people searching for Sammy Hagar and why?