Yeah, some antidepressants are like that, with the instantaneous withdrawal/sanity off-switch. The shit that went down for me, like, five years ago when I went off Cymbalta cold turkey is still too shameful for me to talk about. (You get all of the points in the world for having the guts to talk about the shit that…

Oh, wow. idiotking. I've been there. Canada is friendlier to those of us who've been there than the States, though, so you have my deepest sympathies. Stay strong.

VCR? For serious? Still?

I know, right? My dog also doesn't have a real job. Lazy fuckin' dogs.

You've won this round, Dean.

I've never watched Archer, but yes, if the show is purporting to be some sort of realistic dramedy about folks struggling to make ends meet (as this review suggests), and if the voices are both a., so unrealistic that they make it completely implausible, and b., so weird and irritating that I cannot tolerate them…

Christmas? This won't end well.

*salutes* General You.

…I really couldn't be any less angry. I turn the show on, I hear incongruous voices, I turn the show off. I've seen literally less than a minute of this show in my life. It just weirds me out that that incongruity doesn't seem to bother (most) others.

I haven't raised that because I haven't heard it; I've watched the show for long enough to hear some dude's voice come out of what's supposed to be a girl, and then some other dude's voice come out of what's supposed to be a woman, and then I turn my TV off.

Okay, one out of three is female. Much better.

Yeah, I haven't read the article yet, but if it doesn't somehow try to convince me that Bob's Burgers is a good show *despite* all its female characters being voiced by 40-year-old men who sound like 40-year-old men (and Tina, if I recall correctly, being the worst offender on that account), it has failed.

The difference between POPDAQ and you is that you seem to be able to deal with this (I agree, minor) incompatibility; POPDAQ seems to think it's the end of the world. In my opinion, the issue here isn't POPDAQ's boyfriend not wanting to marry her; it's how badly she wants it to be happening, AND RIGHT NOW. I would…

Yes, I will marry you.

I agree. He needs help. He "feels like he's raping himself"? Like, seriously? I agree with Dan on this one.

Okay: POPDAQ.

Yeah, I thought this was weird advice on Dan's part. The issue isn't just that the guy hasn't gotten around to proposing - it's that he seems ambivalent about marrying her. Her proposing would (I assume) have no effect on that. If anything, it's like people who have a baby to save the relationship: it'll just make…

Yeah, I think it's totally legitimate to say, "Anything less than fully informed, fully enthusiastic consent is not cool; Barney's dates do not provide that; therefore, it's not cool." But to me, "rape" isn't a term I love to see thrown around. And, actually, even worse than casually calling something "rape" is…

I think it's just how memory works sometimes. If you're Ted and you've had five girlfriends and your suave, suit-clad friend is sleeping with a new woman once a month, it's easy for time and memory, decades later, to turn that into "five new women a day". I don't necessarily think Ted is "unreliable" in the sense of…

Genuine question here: if you feel that Barney is a rapist, can you still enjoy the show? I, personally, find his depicted attitudes toward consent really troubling, but if I spent the whole show mentally referring to him as "The Rapist", I think the whole show would be far too upsetting.