Being told by the fathers in my life that right field no longer carries the stigma of being the fat kid’s position in the modern game. I walked so they could run
In my experience, Snapchat usage is one of the biggest divides between coastal city America and the rest of America
Snap is still EVERYWHERE in small towns (to the point where people open it just for the archives) whereas college-ed urbanites seem to have ditched it entirely
in berlin weimar germany had achieved Hyper Woke status. the woke of today pales in comparison
meanwhile the average middle class german outside the capital wholeheartedly believed jazz was introduced by those dastardly socialist jews to destroy wilhemine culture
if hypothetically you saw in the world records book that the guy with the "worlds smallest dick" actually had a longer dick than you, would you keep it a secret or would you air it out to one-up him
It's crazy that The Decision was 16 years ago and LeBron is still the predominant free agent headline in the sport. To put it in perspective, 16 years ago one of the biggest other free agents available was Carlos Boozer, and now his *son* is in the league.
the thesis of the british one is that it's kind of fucked that you're more connected to your coworkers than your friends and family by extended forced proximity.
the thesis of the american one is that the former is actually a good thing.
all the people who know the unfathomable depths of Nixon's evil lose their seething hatred for him because they realize
1. he's dead so it doesn't matter
2. he was, unfortunately, just that funny
One of the biggest tragedies in comics is that we’ve never gotten a Grant Morrison run on Iron Man that brings back the transistor glazing with complete sincerity.
i love movies as a storytelling medium bc you can just be like “you know what would make this scene even better? dreams by the cranberries.” you dont get that with a book
It really feels like at least the Top 10 most like significant Shakespeare plays should be running in nyc at all times. Like, what do you mean I can't just SEE the tempest, whenever I want? And there's no city I could move to where I could? What's the point of this chud planet
It’s so crazy that if you take away your 9 year olds iPad and give them Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets that kid will be the smartest kid in their grade.
Yeah it's complicated. The pace of individual scenes or like shot length, scene length might seem slow but there's probably a reason they will often remake an old movie as like a full miniseries.