A lot of blue collar types in these states are going to have to decide whether they love racism or their paycheck more.

There was a website in the pre-pandemic days that tracked all the of the restaurants he had visited and how they had done - unsurprisingly, the vast majority had closed, most of them very soon after he had visited, despite the show’s uniform happy endings (other than Amy’s Baking Company, of course). A lot of them…

Came here to say the same. The British version is much more docuseries than the American version, which is pure screaming reality TV. The US version is also clearly very highly scripted, as every episode follows the exact same structure/sequence of events to a T, just replacing the city and style of food.

I finally heard the song about a week ago, and was surprised at how terrible it is. I assumed it was catchy given how much play it’s gotten (surely it can’t JUST be the politics), but it is... not.

Lachlan isn’t Kendall - James is. Or, to be most accurate, they’re each combos of various Roy kids.

You gotta love how happy the cops are to leave at the end of it. “Sure there’s a kid that’s being exploited, but hey we get to get the @#%#$^ out of here and go sit in the car for a while!”

Looks better than the disaster that was the final book/movie(s).

Punishment and reinforcement of the status quo is what our entire justice system is set up to do. We (as in America) don’t care one whit about preventing crime or rehabilitating criminals. What we want is to punish others because that makes us feel good.

Agreed. There’s a rather large chasm between embellishing the truth for laughs (which people do all the time in casual conversation, not just in standup routines), and inventing stories that hurt people (the girlfriend story) and/or are highly negatively emotionally/politically charged (the anthrax story). That kind…

Boredom/money/contracts in some order. Done now?

Good for her. This is how you do it, Drew.

I’ve been perpetually surprised that they haven’t turned the comments back on at Deadspin. One would think it still draws the most traffic of these sites, and a lot of the knuckleheads who screwed it up the last time are gone.

We’ll have to consult Dr. Tucker Carlson, I think it’s your nuts that provide maximal absorption.

In retrospect, it should have been a warning when that flurry of news stories about his family hating him came out a ways back.

“Why is this island so special?”

Gotta get that paper.

Also, immigrants are lazy freeloaders soaking up welfare and taking all of our jobs.

We all get old. Some of us become what we despised when we get old.

Re: Gin Blossoms, Doug Hopkins. He has the sole songwriting credit on the big hits from New Miserable Experience (classic 90s titling there), which of course compromises the bulk of their big hits.

Ditto. This guy is amazing.