Squall apparently suffers a lot in translation, but I found him more appealing as an adult than as a teenager. As a teenager, he felt impenetrable, even though I was at the stage where I might respond with “... whatever” in the situations he does. As an adult, I feel more sympathetic to how his pain makes him withdraw…

That trendsetter King Arthur is to blame for this neologism.

Yes, I definitely had to go to wikipedia to look up such exotic European delights as “brioche” and “baguettes”.

Things that were introduced to French cuisine since, or at least not attested to in print before, the establishment of French Acadia:

It’s kind of like how there’s a dozen plus different versions of chorizo in the world (with Spanish and Mexican styles being the most famous and distinct from each other).

French people from a couple hundred years ago would think you’re using culinary terms strangely, too. It’s not like French cuisine has been some kind of unchanging rock of ages.

Rorschach is essentially begging Manhattan to kill him at the end. Imprisoning him would be pointless and cruel.

I’ve never really been that into drinking milk. My parents were fully on board with the ‘90s low fat craze, which meant we drank that ‘ultra skim’ milk with added thickeners, and my other opportunities to drink milk were usually tepid cartons served with school lunch or at various activities. I don’t keep it around to…

My parents both talk about having to shake milk bottles, having been kids right on the dying edge of the milkman era.

It’s one thing to say “hey, this sign made me feel uncomfortable and maybe you shouldn’t do that”. But demanding an apology is absolutely fucking ridiculous.

At least we’re fairly sure it’s in the phylum Chordata.

Yeah, this is just chicken tortilla soup put in a blender.

The Protocols has a chapter about how Freemasonry is an arm of the cabal. Conspiratorial syncretism goes way back. Although I have to say it got more entertaining when UFO stuff got mixed in.

“It’s OK for teen girls” is much higher praise than Ready Player One deserves.

That would only be true if I thought something being YA fiction meant it was worse than something that isn’t YA fiction. That’s not true. For instance, any given Harry Potter book is YA fiction and it’s much, much better than Ready Player One.

That was a joke, as one might expect a comedian to make.

That the conspiracy is “hidden in plain sight” and that clues are everywhere to the enlightened is a core element of this particular type of conspiratorial worldview. There’s a strong throughline from modern QAnon through the ‘70s-’80s Satanism/occultism scares, John Birch and similar forms of conspiratorial…

Yeah, I had missed that detail until I reread the article. Jezebel’s other piece makes sure to highlight that fact.

There was a thread of that nature from a fairly high-profile food writer a while back, and it became apparent partway through that she didn’t actually know what specifically people were complaining about. She thought that they were complaining about how professional food writing tended to preface recipes with a…