Nobody has the copyright on “that’s what she said”.

John C. Reilly to testify as a medical expert witness.

I gotta admit, I laughed at “they fought over the armrest the entire time.” That’s just good, solid construction right there.

If Michael Porter Jr. ever gets healthy enough to play, I could see him slotting into that wing-scorer type extremely well.

How is there no Deadspin story about Lamarcus Aldridge punching Gary Harris in the dick and balls, and Jokic visibly telling Harris, on court, to mitigate the pain by jumping up and down? Incidents like this are the sort of thing Deadspin was created to cover.

In my experience, it’s because kids who are resting their elbows on the table are less likely to be keeping control of their hands, and so their hands are more likely to swing around and knock stuff over, drop onto their plate  (someone else’s plate if you’re unlucky), or catch the lip of a plate or fork and send it…

we adhere to the rules of the actual language and aren’t political about it.

That didn’t really bother me too much—the Jedi that we follow for most of the prequel trilogy are supposed to be the most skilled Jedi in the galaxy; I can accept that not every Jedi is able to hold off an army the way Obi-Wan or Yoda could. Hell, in Attack of the Clones, we see a bunch of Jedi get killed by blasters…

Well, my apology isn’t directed at you. I’ve already apologized twice now to the only group for whom my comparison would constitute an insult, and it would be absurd to apologize for nearly paying you a compliment. Feel free to keep bringing it up, though.

No, I apologized for my remarks, as I clearly stated above. It was wrong to even invite a comparison between blameless disabled individuals and a self-made idiot such as yourself. However, if you’d prefer to disingenuously accuse me of “-isms” rather than address the unenviable position you have taken, I can’t say…

You have made one point in this conversation: You think people should use “Latin” rather than “Latinx.”

Ah, but this is an irony that redounds. Because you, who understood that people exist who cannot see themselves in either the gender binary of traditional Spanish suffixes or the colonialist Anglicization of their native language, were unwilling to extend any sort of sympathy or understanding as to why they would want…

Well, too late—you’ve already learned “latinx,” and now you know two different ways to refer to people from a specific region of the world, one of which is generally more acceptable than the version you prefer! Should you wish to remove this knowledge, I suggest you strike yourself in the head with something heavy and…

Of course it refers to my passage—that doesn’t change the fact that it is far more descriptive of your emotions than any objective characteristics of the passage itself (which is far more grammatically fluent than anyone who puts a comma into the middle of a single-clause declarative sentence lacking any conjunction…

J.J. Abrams is famously good at beginnings, and bad at endings. So I’m hoping that this uses TFA’s “wipe the slate clean” ethos to chart a new direction for the series going forward. By all means finish the character arcs of Rey, Finn, and Poe, but hopefully Abrams does so in a way that suggests a strong new direction…

Uh...there is one other character in the new trilogy with the last name “Skywalker.”

Well, they’re not called “considerate lines.”

Oh no, did you feel awkwaaaard for a second there? Poor baby. I’m sorry it’s so awkwaaaard when someone points out that your contribution to the conversation is both superfluous and pointless.

Sure, that’s another option. That’s the great thing about language: there can be multiple ways of describing a single thing, and trying to reduce such linguistic abundance to an arbitrary one-term-per-definition standard is pointless work performed by useless individuals.

“European” does have its ambiguities, but there are contexts in which its use is more appropriate than modifiers that denote specific national backgrounds.