You’re doing an awful lot of projecting onto Ariely’s pretty bland statement that both the asking and the agreeing are mistakes. For one, you seem to be suggesting, or at least hinting at the possibility, that the author’s sex partner had a premeditated plan to manipulate her. You don’t know that; he too could have…

“But I think now it would be a good time to have meaningful dialogue with that person and express the concerns out there regarding the language on the truck.”

Cartman follows through plenty. He led a second civil war, fronted a Christian rock band that went myrrh, restored an amusement park, forced a version of Kyle to suck his balls. And these are just the things he did out of spite. Once you add in greed he created a Redskins startup, and passed stem cell legislation. If…

I was thinking the same thing. Trump showing basic human decency to a non-rich brown person would be about the only thing to really rock his base.

Chop out the parts with the dude from Entourage and it’s even better! Fascinating story.

Kind of, but not exactly. I’ve worked a contract gig at EA Tiburon, and aside from your paycheck coming from the contracting company, you’re pretty much “working for EA.” You’re fully integrated onto the team—made up of both FTE and contract employees. You work at the building, sit with the team, are given EA…

Agreed. Taking a comment out of context and turning it into a headline to generate outrage and, more importantly, clicks is a disservice to the readers, and undermines the credibility of this site.

I wish this were an isolated incident, but it’s becoming more common.

It was your last line that did it for me. Why should Bryan Cranston sit out the next couple of plays? You don’t like what he’s saying, so he shouldn’t therefore say things?

Unpaid internships.

This interview spreading with headline that Cranston “says they deserve a a second chance”. Out of context and not completely accurate. So yes, this article is click bait & it’s also disrespectful to Cranston and the victims.

I gotta agree with him, man. The headline is just begging to be misinterpreted.

The idea that compassion is “antiqued old man-y” is pretty creepy to me. Not sure I dig modern liberalism if this is what it is. Holier than thou outrage addict BS.

This, dude. This all day long.

The Birthers were so fixated on his place of birth that they never noticed he was in fact his own father!

The problem is that most people won’t read past the headline, let alone far enough into the article that Cranston’s comments have any kind of context. As a result, you get a flood of mean-spirited rubberneckers excoriating Cranston on social media because what they got from the headline is that the man thinks sexual…

I’ve noticed a general increase in “clickbait bullshit” on the gizmodo/splinter/deadspin universe over the last few weeks. It’s unfortunate. AV Club seems to be the worst of all the platforms when it comes to this. I guess Univision is pushing them to get more clicks.

Sorry, Sean, you may have caught the brunt of my ire at the way many around me have been treating the situation. I admit that I was chomping at the bit to articulate my disdain for the lack of context with which his comments have been treated, and so, paired with the headline, your byline on this article made my heart…

So if I follow:

Sean — and I say this with an incredible amount of respect for you as a writer (one of my favorites on the internet), a journalist, and a person — this is legitimately clickbait bullshit. The mountain of qualifiers heaped in the second half of this article practically unwrites the first and proves that point. Except…

So, not sure if I’ve missed this along the way but the “Louis Vuitton” glasses were counterfeit right? At Louis Vuitton stores, you approach a counter and a salesperson shows you a floor model, you don’t pull them off the spinning rack and kneel down to see your self in the mirror.