And when you go to touristy areas of South America many hotels have signs in English saying, "Don't throw toilet paper in the toilets!"

I have pooped in deep open holes in the ground while squatting over them on a pair of 2x4s. I have used toilets that require putting the paper in a regularly-emptied bin. The latter option is far more hygienic and pleasant.

I had no idea about that part of the history. Thank you for sharing it. I was born after the heyday of Nutty, when it was played during every broadcast, but I remember them playing it occasionally before some of the games on channel 38 and wondering why they didn't use it all the time anymore. Once NESN started taking…

How long has it been since the NHL was on ESPN? Yet, as soon as it started to play the memories came flooding back. Great theme.

This is accurate. Like TWIB, itself, it's impossible to be sad while it's on.

It wasn't national, and I know that I'm biased, but I can't hear the old Bruins' theme from their WSBK 38 days without wanting to skate through a goddamned brick wall (and that's saying something for a song based on a ballet).

Oh, I know :( Pointing out primary sources that contradict his or her statements probably won't work, but maybe some other reader who is unsure about the topic will read them and understand why it's an important issue, and for how long it's been publicly controversial (basically as long as Native peoples have actually…

It's more like the bully saying, "Give me so much money that you're forced to mortgage the next 30 years of your life, so that I can build a treehouse from which you will not profit. Otherwise, my family's going to have to move out of the neighborhood." I have to say that the right move is to call the bluff.

1972: "Similarly, a 1972 article in The Washington Star newspaper on the use of Indian-themed sports names and symbols observed that “redskin” is a derogatory way to refer to Native Americans. The article contrasted the slur, “redskin,” with the neutral term, “Indian”: “Of course, the names and symbols differ. They…

I've never known of anybody who reads TMQ non-ironically (like Drew, so that you can laugh and rip it apart). To have some insight into possibly-declining readership I would first have to know what his sincere readership is/was like in the first place.

That's like saying, "At least Kentucky beat Duke." Yes, the more horrible team lost, but we all still lose in the end.

I see we are at an impasse. Normally I would say "agree to disagree" and move on, but as this is Foodspin:

What the fuck is wrong with you? Are you only eating store bought guacamole or something? Here's a tip for your clearly drug-addled brain: get your hands on some Peruvian avocados; they're huge, creamy, and delicious, and you can use them to make your own fucking guac.

"But the Lord works in mysterious ways..." is always the default answer when He does something evil because clearly we just don't understand His thinking. Yet, whenever something good happens it's clear as day that He loves us because apparently sometimes we do knows His intentions.

I'm not religious, but I sometimes might do things during a sporting event that could be construed as superstitious. I think that it's all about focusing on enacting some silly ritual so that my brain worries less about the outcome of an event over which I have no control, rather than belief in intervention by an…

The general pundit narrative seems to be that Nadal's best game usually beats Federer's best (maybe a draw on grass), but Nadal's style is much more physically punishing. If this is true, then Nadal should have better per tournament results, but due to Nadal missing or crashing out of tournaments due to injury,…

Here's a link with most of them going back to 1920. Looking like fools seems to be the general trend.

"Your vote doesn't start or end WARS."