“Great Britain”

Bezos managed somehow to act like a combined self-absored bro-chief jackass and your dad trying to be cool in front of your friends at the same time.. I got really pissed on Shatner’s behalf when Bezos just fucks off mid-conversation to get a champagne bottle, pops it and sprays it around like he won the Monaco Grand…

That was one of the most interesting aspects of the book: The duel itself had an extensive (for the time, at least) historical record, the trial only slightly less so, but figuring out the movements of these individuals to wind up where they were at the time the accusation was levied required Jager to piece together a…

I have friends who are moving to Portugal. I am seriously thinking of joining them. No place is perfect, but these people are crazy and dangerous. What I can’t believe is that they actually think that they would make it through a civil war. People starve and die in civil wars. Just because you own some weapons and are…

Absolutely. On all points. There’s an alternate universe out there, somewhere, where the Tonight Show went Carson>Letterman>Conan. We’re in a bad universe. The one saving grace of this universe is we got Ferguson for almost a decade on CBS.

ca. 1960, he wrote a story called “I Remember Babylon” about a TV network that was being set up that would broadcast pornography via satellite.

People who “look like” murderers usually don’t get close enough to murder people because they look so scary!

I have three brothers-in-law who, when I married Mr. Valve, were pretty nice and decent guys. One by one, they’ve all fallen down the internet rabbit hole into crazy QAnonish/far right garbage in the past five or six years, until I can’t even stand to be in the same room with them anymore. With each of them, I’ve…

Meanwhile, everyone from Tromaville was like “It’s Lloyd!”

“It wasn’t really public knowledge until late 2014"

Bill Cosby being a rapist was an open secret for decades before the Hannibal Buress joke. 

I mean, if people were still willing to give him grace after the Andrea Constand allegations in the mid 2000's, that’s on them. Maybe it’s easier to have decided he wasn’t a rapist until it became literally impossible to deny, but there are a whole lot of people (women) who didn’t have that luxury of denial and knew…

I think it’s a typo for “chancre” which is a painless genital ulcer most commonly formed during the primary stage of syphilis ... I couldn’t wish it on a more appropriate, uh, patient!

I’m imagining it’s a typo of “cancer” but “cancre” in French also means a dunce. By which I mean: touche for the pun!

All totally fine.  Your vileage may marry.

Those are cycling helmets.  Why are people wearing cycling helmets on their feet?  I don’t understand.

Yep...they all look like they’re 70 in their 20's.

This checks out and seems news worthy to me. Rich, get on it!

If this is the Kids film I’m thinking of being discussed here, then it must be mentioned that Clark had an enabler, named Harvey Weinstein. Disney, which owned Miramax at the time, would not release the film, so Harvey set up a dummy label, Shining Excalibur Films, to distribute it.

Stallone, apparently, never cared much, saying in 1992 that he’d be happy to have a meal in pill form because “I’m just not prone to chew a lot” and because “It doesn’t go with my personality.”