Black man here; spend a considerable amount of time in England and find most of them to be welcoming, wry, charming people. Sure they have their assholes but their asshole to non-asshole ratio seems better than, say, Ohio.

Yes, but then you’d have to assume a conspiracy or an evil motive from one of the judges to frame the player, and then you’d have to ask yourself why the hell would they ever want to do that? Everything relating to human affairs is open to some possible or imaginary doubt, but as Makerofthegames correctly pointed out…

“Drinks like a Capri Sun after soccer practice on a hot day” as criticism is the equivalent of “feels like a deep tissue massage after a long day working on a road crew”, e.g. maybe not something I would have instantly thought of be sounds fantastic nonetheless. It totally makes me want to try one.

That is just cool as hell and gave me goosebumps. Thanks for posting!

Anthem was far and away my worst game purchase since I bought Hell: A Cyberpunk Adventure in 1994/5- which is mildly unfair because I could never ever get that game to run properly on my PC. If I was being more fair I’d compare it to Hook, a game I bought for the SNES that I literally finished in one day, was…

The reason I said I don’t think you’re correct is because you’re not. Illinois used to be a strict two party consent state, but that particular law was struck down when it was ruled unconstitutional in 2014 by the Illinois State Supreme court in ACLU v. Alvarez, and then after state’s attorneys continued to use it to…

I am unfamiliar with Babylon 5 as well, but the final season of Dexter was so unbelievably bad that it made you regret watching the series at all; in spite of the fact that the first few seasons were actually either excellent or something approaching really good, for the most part. The penultimate season started to…

That would do it!

Man I think this is the closest I’ve come to Interdimensional Cable in my lifetime. 

I only had three years of Latin in high school where I barely earned a C and I read that and thought exactly the same thing!! Soror/sororis is latin for “sister” and couldn’t quite figure out where the slave woman part came from, unless you somehow translate “compliant sisters” into “slave women”, and I have a…

I’m with you when you’re right. The relentless awfulness and tragedy of the Walking Dead made me nope out right before Negan came on the scene and I’ve never looked back. I won’t do this with GOT because I’ve literally already watched 98% of the series and skipping the remaining 2% seems kind of silly, and I for one…

Even if you are right, and as a prosecutor for the last 21 years I’m pretty sure you’re not, your post assumes that you’d be able to get a United States Attorney to take this wiretapping offense seriously, present to a grand jury and indict- which they absolutely wouldn’t. Hell we can’t even get them to prosecute bank…

Exactly. In my state this would be unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, which is misdemeanor of the first degree that carries at possibility of 180 days in jail. Failing a proper response from the dealership I’d go to the police.

Well this is unsurprising; not because I have anything bad to say about Rumsey Hall generally but because of the culture at New England Prep schools generally in the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's. I attended Indian Mountain School in Lakeville, CT from 1983 to 1986, which coincidentally is in the same town where another…

They are thinking litigation. They are thinking an apology equals an admission of guilt. They are thinking like bureaucrats, not like humans. A human who fucks up says he’s sorry when he mistakenly steps on your toe, let alone drops your precious new baby on her goddamn head. My experience representing people in civil…

This would annoy the hell out of my wife and youngest daughter; they are abnormally bothered by the sounds of eating- whether it be crunching, teeth clicking on silverware, chewing or slurping; they hate it all. As far as I’m concerned, I’m in the it’s-their-country-they-can-eat-however-they-want camp- but when I go…

Chicago PD is the most unfunniest of jokes, but that dude most definitely manufactured that entire thing, and then got treatment normally reserved for wealthy connected individuals because... he’s a wealthy, well connected individual.

Hell this happened to me on Fernandino Beach in Florida- was swimming pretty closely to shore and was in water where I could stand, but all of a sudden I wasn’t and then I was caught in a riptide that I couldn’t feel at all but wasn’t allowing me to swim back to shore. Reasonably sure that had that lifeguard not been…

I imagine trying to correct a Billionaire Goddess who can literally do practically anything she wants 365 days out of the year on how she says her own goddamned name is not a good way to retain the services of that Billionaire Goddess, as the checks you write her probably sit forgotten on the floor of her backup…

I love this. I also think that some of the last names he cribbed/twisted are from the NHL- “Nogilny” = “Mogilny”, as in Alexander Mogilny, who the previous year lead the NHL in scoring; “Dugnutt” is super close to “Tugnutt” as in Ron Tugnutt, who was in goal for the Canadiens at the time; “Dourque” is on letter away…