Descriptive vs prescriptive is an explanation for language evolving with use, not an excuse for being abjectly wrong.  You don’t get to call a driveway full of broken glass soft and fluffy and then say “language is descriptive” to justify it.

The New York City Marathon. A few years ago I read George W. S. Trow’s “Within the Context of No Context,” in its entirety in the time it took for the top runners to complete the race. And I still knew that a small African guy was first, a small African guy was second, and I believe a small African guy was third.

My own “understanding” of karma is that it’s actually fantastical bullshit cooked up by people to assign a concept of morality to a dispassionate world/universe, little different from religion or superstition.

Pretty sure that is just a regular fish from Alita: Battle Angler.

There’s something deeply amusing about this whiny, self-indulgent rant about how people spend too much time whining and being self-indulgent.

Gen X guy here, and you’re full of shit. That show was a huge fucking hit, and I don’t remember a ton of PR: I literally heard about it from my GF. The show just caught at the right time.

“Also post-apocalypse dystopian society stories.” Oh god yeah a million times. Because a million times is approximately how many times the movies have pumped out the same dreck on the theme, with variations but no originality. No wonder the YA audience they targeted this century are depressed young adults now.

Ah, yes, the “Good Parts” version.

I’m up to mid-Return of the King reading to my son, and it’s funny, I’m still enjoying LOTR but he liked the Hobbit better for some of the same reasons.  Also, he pointed out something that had never occurred to me--that the Hobbit has far more moral nuance than LOTR.  Someone like Thorin is actually complicated,…

lol, man, i love this show. my favorite part is watching the dawning realization of each new person i watch it with realize that they’re really fucking doing what they’re doing in season 2, and the growing rage on their face.

What we’ve stopped having is a monoculture, period.  And subcultures rarely change enough to present differently decade to decade, at least from an outsider’s perspective.

And with the last bite of the best item being the best part of the best item, e.g. the tenderest, most perfectly done bite of the steak. This is to be followed by the last swig of the beverage at hand, the beverage having been carefully portioned out to coincide with the last bite. This is why I refuse to share the…

I will never tire of people from not-the-sun-belt complaining about avocados, and my BIL from Mexico City would be extremely confused by your characterization of tomatillo-based salsa as being white people shit.

I’m not sure I’d want to see Intergluteal Cleft opening for anyone.

Unlimited time off is BS. It’s a benefit for the company and no one else. With unlimited time off you no longer see vacation as an entitlement that is part of your benefits package. Instead it becomes something that can be kicked down the road because “right now is not a good time to take off, and I can always take…

Michael Scott: Ladies and gentlemen, I have some bad news. Meredith was hit by a car.

I am a big fan of cooking for myself. I make most of my meals at home. But I will tell you that 100% the hardest part is deciding what to make, considering I lost interest in a lunch after two consecutive days. The advantage these overpriced lunchboxes have is that it’s someone saying “Here, I made this thing…

I once again got through the entire post without seeing my father’s name or email address. It’s only a matter of time, though.

You’re a fucking cunt to run your mouth about a legend. Fuck you bitch. You’re nothing without someone to talk about. Come see me.

I was drinking La Fin du Monde out of a fancy Chimay goblet on a first-and-only date 8 years ago when my date offered to steal the glass for me. I consented, and she slipped it into her purse and handed it back before our awkward standing-by-the-car-but-I-guess-we’re-not-kissing-good-night conversation. It stayed in…