Sub-question: If Cousin Sal doesn’t make a joke every time he’s on the podcast, does it count as a Cousin Sal joke at all?

Did Volkswagen decide to save money by firing all the people who design dashboards? It’s like they had a blank dash in front of them and just went Fuck it and stuck an ipad on top.

I was expecting him to slip and face plant. I’ve never been so happy to be wrong.

A better question is who gets treated better: Shantel or Chantelle?

Demarcus and Shauntricius are pretty conspicuous, but the only Roys I can think of are black.

A lot of it is very context- and class-specific. Names take on different connotations in different places. My friend thinks “Chloe” is totally a stripper name, whereas I don’t, but I also lived for several years in Quebec where it’s much more common than in America.

This story sums up perfectly the two things I absolutely hate about the Clinton campaign (I should preface that I have already voted for Clinton, and this post is not going to end with a conspiracy theory and call for her to be in jail): they keep bringing back these 90s retreads and they keep shooting themselves in…

A really close friend of mine (call her S) had something similar happen. She flew to Vegas on a short vacation with her girlfriends this past spring, when she visited a medium.

There should be a thread for terrifying stories from academic job searches. Here’s mine: at lunch on the first day of a campus visit with three older professors (two men and a woman). One of the men casually says something cringeworthily sexist, and the woman is visibly offended. The other man seems oblivious. I sit…

I realize I’m late and few people are going to read this, but what you said reminded me of something that happened to my friend, who’s also a massage therapist.

It’s not hard. The last Civil War widow died in like 2011.

Can we talk about that paintjob in the header?

“I was on welfare! Nobody gave me a handout!”

Not a GIF, but: www.instantrimshot.com RFW (recommended for work)

Well, I graduated in 2001, and as one of the handful of white kids in an overwhelmingly black high school I had a great experience. I also know that the nearby white schools and some of the white teachers absolutely looked down on the students, and I had white friends from the neighborhood who only went to private…

Nothing shows how out of touch automakers are more than how much they talk about classes. No one gives a shit about whether a car is a midsize. I mean, I get why classes exist, but there’s no reason to ever mention it in an ad. I mean, even I think it’s worthless information, and I comment on Jalopnik.

You’re right. They’re totally cool with it.

Also Vikings haven’t existed for about 1000 years, ‘Viking’ is not a term used to refer to anyone today, and, like buccaneer, pirate, cavalier, refers to historical professions rather than ethnic, racial, etc. groups.

It would be like the Vancouver Canucks’ logo being a cartoon guy with a Canadian tuxedo and a case of beer.

Then why the arrowhead logo?