EDIT: Double post. Kinja being weird. See my response to Greg the Mad, since it really applies to both of your comments.

See my comment to damnthisburnershitsux.

Speaking as a cyclist (although not in an American context at all, which is somewhat relevant) who will completely cop to doing this, let me say this:

This isn’t really accurate.

Enter Denim Jacket Guy. DJG was a small, pale man, and regardless of the weather, he wore a denim jacket every time he came in, which was nearly every Monday. DJG would order the AYCE burger special and a 40 oz Colt 45 (not all our beers were shitty; this guy just wanted the biggest, cheapest beer). He would come in…

So angry right now.

“These enemies rise from the shame of our past,” Overman tells the New Reichsmen as they discuss the first attack by Uncle Sam and his rebels. Leatherwing invokes the callous logic heard in post-war Germany: “I’m not ashamed of anything. That happened decades ago, before I was born. My family had good reasons for…

There’s no one thing that makes a Final Fantasy, other than its grandeur.

Materia was perfect. Tactics’ class and skill system was perfect. They were both fun, functional, and rewarded grinding and exploration but demanded neither.

This might be just a generational divide, but that game is just not good. It was the first not good Final Fantasy game in series. I don’t even agree that the battle system was improved.

This is really interesting, and I’m going to go even more tangential on top of responding a week after the fact. On the subject of evolutionary brain vestigial fallout.

Diplomatically handled. Would a lid with a steam vent get the same effect, or still trap too much water?

Shiitake mushroom stems are much tougher than white mushroom stems, and than their caps.

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami.

Am I the only person who got what the customers were trying to order even in its transliterated form?

128gb Touch. Come on. Please.

Honestly, I feel like both of these explanations are red herrings. I’ve gotten on the wrong side of police in the U.S., in South Korea, and in Japan several times each as a result of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, miscommunication, being suspected of something I was ultimately innocent of, or speeding in…

But the numbers show that it happens a great deal less in the countries the OP named, per capita. So it can’t really be explained away as just a media narrative or a population thing.

I also think it’s because many people have a difficult time taking information as just information. Maybe it has to do with how memory works or some other established cognitive process, but it seems like most people want information to mean something, or act as evidence for some conclusion, as opposed to just being…

I was going to make the same comment. As a parallel, there was a map a while back showing the top searched word in porn by state. For California it was “Asian.”