When will people tire of this vein of 'comedy' where white girls use hip hop slang like 'up in here' juxtaposed with nerdy observations...

To be honest I find the condescending and overwrought commentary more annoying than the Wikipedia page itself.

can someone explain to me the 'spells backward' thing here? makes no sense to me.

pretty bad song/singing, but the band sounds good. anyone else find she looks like one of these baboons?

did they actually deny that an incident happened, or simply say that Erdely's characterization of it was objectively false? At some point i guess statements are vague enough that they do not amount to disclosure of private info.

I'm going to post this to my Facebook so my friends can see I like it.

Yeah, what I find appalling about Erderly's approach is that she sought out the *most sensationalistic story* she could find, while her stated objective was to give readers a representative example of what rape looks like on the ground. That is a recipe for a clusterfuck, and a huge disservice to other victims…

The organization where these people live has been accused in the national media of using gang rape as an initiation right. It is anything but ridiculous to say they have 'a great deal at stake.' What's ridiculous is your inability to see past the ban on parties.

The RS article strongly implied that this fraternity was using gang rape as an initiation rite. Forget about the ban on parties, and just think about the threat this poses to people's reputation— innocent frat members tarnished by association with this psychotically misogynistic organization.

the attempt at showy singing at 3:19....wow. she looks hot though.

She's bending over backwards to have men focus on her personality.

Yeah but you're offering an opinion on what constitutes subversive comedy - that what's edgy is to defend what are, in fact, widely accepted liberal values. I don't know exactly which comedians you have in mind, but people like Silverman, Louis CK, etc. play with these themes of racism etc. while clearly embracing…

I won't comment on whether dark comedy is good or bad, or right or wrong. But I kind of doubt your point that truly edgy and subversive comedy is anti-racist etc. These are mainstream liberal values. You have other commenters lining up to agree with you and pat you on the back. You may be right, but you're not…

You make a lot of good points. In Ricky's defence I think we all have inconsistencies and contradict ourselves, particularly when joking around. Humour often involves playing on the element of surprise, including the surprise of breaching moral conventions. I know I do this, and I enjoy comedians who do it. I…

If you're saying that nobody finds rape jokes funny, I'm sorry, many prominent comedians— some of them avowed feminists- joke about rape in one way or another. It is possible to joke about a topic without dismissing its gravity; we joke about death after all. Maybe your point is that joking about rape will…

It's a list of things people want to do in life, which you reframe as a 'list of death items' again to make this silly self-righteous point seem less strained.

I'm willing to guess there's a subculture of perverts in Japan who fetishize this.

I completely disagree that missing this strained connection between bucket lists and mortality amounts to a 'serious indifference' to lives. It is absurd for writers at Gawker to be getting on their high horse over this abstract connection, insinuating that they have greater sensitivity to this tragedy than people who…

people who are pretending to be offended by this need to fuck off and get a life

To most people, 'bucket list' is not a morbid term. You really have to strain to be offended by this.