Naa, it was really was hotter than it should have been.

I reckon it is a two pronged problem. First you have a younger generation that is realizing bars are fucking stupid. Unlike a restaurant where you have a beer with a steak or a nice wine with a meal, bars are only for getting drunk with random strangers so you don’t have to feel like a loser getting drunk alone. For…

Don’t even get me started on hot “dogs.”

Bars also used to be a place that was warm, dry, and at least a little comfortable. And there would be entertainment. There used to be a time when people had no home to go to that also had these things. People's homes got better to the point where they just didn't need to hang out somewhere else.

And Girl Scout cookies contain no real Girl Scouts!

I think Canada Dry still uses real ginger extract, which is technically ginger.

Consumption habits changed partially due to the fact that inflation adjusted wages in the US and UK have been more less stagnant since the late 70s, while costs have risen...meaning the majority of people have less disposable income.  Couple that with the fact that in the UK, boomers didnt have as many kids (actually…

Yeah, I always thought it was obvious that these were a juice concentrate mixed with water. I assume cold brew is something similar. The prices Starbucks gets away with for cold drinks are exorbitant, especially when two-thirds of the cup is filled with ice unless you order less.

Yeah, they’ve already drank the koolaid.

Man, next you’re going to tell me that ginger ale contains no ginger, Coka Cola contains no cocaine, and Dr. Pepper contains no pepper!

This lawsuit actually interests me. I know I was more than a little put out when I was told this about the drinks, but it’s no different than any other flavoured beverage. My strawberry-kiwi vitamin water contains no actual strawberry OR kiwi, just sugar and bits of bug shell and a couple of hits each of red and green…

Okay if you don’t understand why David’s behavior was bad, especially ignoring the pleas not to do it from the person who would eventually take her own life due to said problems he was mocking, then I don’t know how to help you.

“mocking drug abuse and mental illness, which plays up stigma.”

Yeah, like, if the whole story had been about the woman he doxxed as racist for not going to prom with him, that would sort of make sense (even if that’s just one data point). To have that just be an offhand anecdote in a story that’s otherwise “Comedian tells unfactual jokes: problematic?” seems weird.

George Carlin did the same thing, and his stories were also ridiculously embellished.

And that was my point about David and Tiffany Sedaris. Tiffany was very open and how much she hated David for talking about her and mocking her and embellishing stories about her mental illness, but he still did it. Even after her death, he did it again in his New Yorker essay about her suicide to the point her…

I think your second paragraph is the real problem. I don’t care if he embellishes stories in his comedy, or even if he just straight up lies to help a bit. If the stories are presented as true-ish and implicate real people, I think there’s a different standard. It does seem a little weird that this is coming to a head…

He should not get the Daily Show job because he wasn’t even close to being the best candidate. Roy Wood Jr. was the best.

Gen Z does!  Look at those cans, she loves those cans!

No one ever has had that much fun grocery shopping.