Five bucks says he invokes Rosa Parks when women start booing him.

All my nieces and nephews are 10 and under and it's fun being the cool uncle. But I have accepted that when they become surly teenagers they will think I'm totally lame and will only call on me when they need a ride to the abortion clinic.

I knew a girl, close family friend and she'd pretty well be family now if things didn't go really bad for her later, who was in her late teens and had somehow never heard of Hitler, who had come up in conversation around her. My sister and I explained to her very casually because it never occurred to me that she'd…

Aw man, Derek is gonna spoo himself over this.

I've only very recently started digging into Foo Fighters - I've heard all the singles many times but they have some *really* good singles, that I never didn't like. I don't know why I didn't follow up on this 20 years ago.

It looks like they've blacked out a first name, just with a gold colour, and they're going to reveal it later as a mind-blowing surprise

Just finished up Stephen Laws's Darkfall, which had a really good first third or so but once it started explaining itself it just got hilariously dumb. At least Chasm barely explained itself and let its crazy situation do the work. Maybe his books are best when he just lets shit happen and doesn't try to get us to…

great, you made it even worse

I want this to no

I didn't really mind the continued terrible quarantine procedures here, because of the context. Prometheus was a giant expensive one-time venture manned by, I should hope, the best of the best, and seeing them make these dumb decisions is a little baffling.

You don't have to just work while you're on the clock, but you shouldn't spend that time fishing for fellow travelers in crazy.

Hell parents sound like they'd be awesome parents, but having kids in Hell is a terrible choice.

A friend of mine, one of my favourite people, is dizzyingly delightful to interact with in every way until it gets to the chemtrails. I willfully overlook this because she's so great otherwise; she left Facebook for a while because she got sick of people giving her shit over it and I genuinely missed her on there.

I like the post, but I'm upvoting you out of fondness for the word "syphilitic"

I suddenly feel much better about not watching this for a while.

Well, you know what they say about marrying for money - you're gonna have to earn it.

They're coming for you!

YOUR KEEPERS CAN STILL BE THE SOURCE OF YOUR NOURISHMENT! FEED ON YOUR MASTERS! LET THE SIMSTREETS RUN RED WITH THE SIMBLOOD OF THE SIMSLAIN!

Fucking hell, this is a stupid product

It's a helluva book!