Rachael Brennan at Cracked has an intriguing theory re:Wile E. Coyote.
tl;dr.
Wile E. Coyote, super-genuis is the president of ACME and uses intellectually inferior clones to test ACME products.
Chocolate and peanuts forever and ever, amen, in American candy bars, are boring as hell and I am now sick unto death of the combination. (Except the Reese’ peanut butter eggs, not the cups, the eggs).
Chocolate and orange is a ghastly forced marriage and benefits neither ingredient.
Mint ice cream or cookies or frosting tastes like green mouthwash, and adding rock hard chocolate chips doesn’t help.
Melted yellow cheese and bacon bitz swamping every other over-salted menu item (see: Applebee’s) is also boring and overdone. I feel a little sick for hours after eating there.
Lipstick marks on glassware are a huge turn-off.
The Star Wars prequels aren’t the travesty many people make them out to be. I’m not saying they’re good, mind you. But I don’t feel like George Lucas ruined my life by creating these movies. They have plenty wrong with them, but they are watchable.
I think many people rag on the prequels because it is fashionable to do so. And having said this, I predict there will be many responses assuring me that I am quite wrong, the movies should be erased from existence and Lucas deserves to be lynched, and so on.
Heavy Metal anthems should be declared illegal. Their singers are better at raging, growling and screaming. They should never attempt to sing anything soulful or romantic, or attempt to show that they can be musically diverse. Stay in your lane.
I like Nickelback enough to not turn to another station when they’re on.
Coffee is hot liquid sewage, no matter how much you dress it up.
My favorite music genre is prog rock.
Leno was funnier than Letterman. Still is.
Ha! HERES a hot take:
Women stand-ups used to suck. Judy Tenuta of all people was the only good one. The stereotype of 'all they talk about is their periods and their boyfriends" is true.
Until Ellen Degeneres came along. Now women rule the comedy world.
I agree authors owe fans nothing. But any piece of art, once its put out there, is no longer solely theres and they arnt even the sole interpreters of their art anymore.
…but I agree with what you say about they can do any darn thing that they want,
AND FOR FUCKS SAKE in The Last Jedi, Luke had ONE moment of weakness wherein he was probably being influenced by Snope. He isnt “ruined” cmon.
I’m gonna make another Last Jedi comment…its very watchable. Watch it from the beginning and i wont flip the channel until a good ways into Rey Fantasy Island. Thats like an hour.
Please, eat up all that crunchy water. More arugula for me!
All right, I’m leaving your lawn.
That’s just because the song remains the same.
IDK man. Nirvana was HUGE well before Cobain’s death. And let’s not forget what a huge quantum shift rock music underwent coming out of the hair 1980’s bands into a whole different genre with the epic rise of grunge. And it all happened so fast, too.
Blasphemy! Conan O’Brien has been funny for a long, long time.
Even coked up Robin Williams? Agree on iceberg lettuce though. Not only no flavor, but essentially zero nutritional value as well.
I agree about “Paradise”. I think it’s the weakest track on the record. But I also think every other song on it rocks, including “Sweet Child”. That song just got played to death. Still is, just on classic rock stations now.
Why do you think Truman was a bad President? He faced some pretty tough choices and situations during his tenure.
And yup, “white chocolate”, so-called, isn’t even real chocolate and it’s like eating wax.
The only talent in that band was Dave.
“An”? How many are there? 
And yet those same marks *elsewhere *are an incredible turn-on. 
My offshoot of this is while normalizing what used to be considered taboo or uncouth (such as being gay or trans) is healthy for an open society, it’s created the notion that unless you’re gay/trans/bi or something to that effect you aren’t normal and you’re in the wrong.
Younger generations will be much more tolerant of those communities, but they’re also growing up thinking they’re incorrect for being “normal”.
Interesting notion, but I have a hard time believing it. I think we’re a long way from a white, cis, hetero high school kid feeling less “normal” than a queer kid of color.
I will try to be brief and cursory.
Let me first acknowledge that Truman’s presidency was not wholly without merit, particularly in the area of civil rights. I give him some credit for the Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift, recognition of Israel and the decisions to drop the a-bombs on Japan.
On the domestic front, his economic policies in response to post-war inflation, low prices and a massive wave of strikes were largely failures. The Taft-Hartley Act, a virulently anti-union law, was passed over his veto and he failed in his vow to repeal it. His attempted nationalization of the railroads in 1946 and steel mills in 1952 were frightening examples of executive overreach. And they failed.
Truman himself called the McCarran Act – as blatant a violation of the First Amendment as has ever been passed – “terrible.” It passed over his veto. He was too passive, imo, in calling out McCarthyism. His administration was beset with corruption.
It is in the field of foreign affairs, particularly in his role as commander in chief that Truman’s failures are most notable. His handling of the Korean “police action” was reprehensible; from not seeking Congressional consent to send in U.S. forces – a plague of a precedent we suffer from to this day - to ignoring Chinese warnings that they would enter the war if U.S. forces crossed the Yalu River, resulting in a near-loss, years-long stalemate, and the needless deaths of thousands on all sides of the conflict. Imo, this is worse than merely being war criminal in chief; it amounts to being an incompetent war criminal in chief.
In sum, I think Truman shares (too) many qualities with W. Bush. Both were born and (largely) raised in small towns, both won narrow election victories, both were generally weak presidents who passed little of their respective agendas, both made several poor appointments, and both abused the Constitution to the country’s detriment.
And on topic, Marlon Brando’s best performance is in Superman where he perfectly captures the essence of Jor-El.
A few days ago, I almost called it “Green Door”. My mind must have been in the gutter at that moment (reference to “Behind the Green Door”, a classic 1970s porno movie that I’ve never seen). :o
I agree.
Acceptance of a “difference” is one thing; making people who don’t have that “difference” think that something is wrong with THEM is very much another.
p.s. Something very similar can also be said about ADHD and autism.
I actually liked the prequels as well and thought fans were overreacting when they complained them. Which lead me to believe maybe fans were overreacting when they said The Star Wars Holiday Special was horrible. So I finally got around to watching it and I can honestly say The Star Wars Holiday Special is probably the worst movie I have ever seen. It definitely deserves the scorn it gets and I have hard time believing anyone could say its good. It’s not even good in a “it’s so bad it’s good” way; there are parts of it that are just cringe-worthy.
Speaking of badly reviewed movies. I enjoyed Hulk-(the 2003 movie with Eric Bana and Nicke Nolte) as well the two Fantastic Four films with Chris Evans and Jessica Alba.
I definitely enjoyed Jay Leno way more David Letterman. Jay was the more personable of the two; I always found Letterman to be a little arrogant and pretentious.
There’s no such thing as ‘common sense’. It makes me cringe every time I hear someone ask why people don’t have common sense. My answer is that there is no such thing. What usually gets labeled as common sense is either not common, or sensible, or both. It’s just something that the speaker invoking common sense was too lazy to actually research, and so he invokes common sense and thus YOU need to just accept it as true also.
Personally, I’ve seen people and have known people who were not exposed to certain things in their upbringing because of a dysfunctional family or a specific family member, or who were not raised in families at all. I also have met and know people who simply were raised in different cultures and also not exposed to these so-called common sense ideas. But worst of all, is when people invoke common sense for things that aren’t even true, or that may not be true (due to a lack of research) and had the person actually made an effort to do the research you’d no longer be able to call it common sense (because anything that requires research to prove, whether true or not, cannot be claimed to be common sense).
Anyway, the phrase ‘it’s just common sense’ bugs the living hell out of me.
I’ve actually seen it IRL. It’s a bit more complicated of a situation and giving my opinion on it would actually get me yelled at here, but what I said is the base version of it.
Third time I’ve mentioned Forever War this week…something like that happens there, but the pressure to be gay is economic I believe. And then it just becomes the norm.