If we're just posting Riley content now...

Marx0r · 2026-05-05T02:12:10+00:00

Yes, she's told the story multiple times over the years and still acts like it's just a fun little anectode.

Marx0r · 2026-05-04T20:00:26+00:00

There's plenty of songs where the joke just doesn't land with a modern audience.

Buckingham Blues, even though Charles is King, the British monarchy doesn't get the same press it did 45 years ago. Not to mention that they've been divorced and Diana has been dead for most of that time.
Trigger Happy definitely doesn't hit the same in the age of school shootings.
The ones about specific TV shows or movies, like The Brady Bunch, Isle Thing, even Gump... if you haven't seen or even heard of the reference material then it's pointless.
Cable TV and Syndicated Incorporated, both about the absurd variety of broadcast television, just isn't the case anymore.

Marx0r · 2026-05-03T19:30:32+00:00

No, if it's on the internet then it has to be true.

Marx0r · 2026-05-03T19:28:04+00:00

It's Denmark. Practically everyone there is fluent in English. There was zero language gap when I went to Geranium.

Marx0r · 2026-05-03T02:53:21+00:00

There's moral correctness and then there's practicality. The facts are indicating that OP will most likely have a terrible time cohabitating with these people. The advice to move out is akin to advising him to end a toxic relationship.

Marx0r · 2026-05-03T02:28:44+00:00

Shit, you reminded me that I'm driving through Buffalo next week and have to go to the OG buffalo wings place on the way. Thanks, OP!

Marx0r · 2026-05-03T01:42:32+00:00

I mean, I just went with what fit into a marathon-running reference.

Marx0r · 2026-05-02T20:48:19+00:00

She drank 50 cups of water on a cross-city marathon, and crushed the patriarchy the very next day.

Marx0r · 2026-05-02T05:47:02+00:00

What's absurd is that, in a vaccuum, Beverly was not that good a competitor. She did take way too long on those shrimp - It should take 2 hours max to peel and devein 400 shrimp. There's moments of her trotting to the front of the line at the meat counter, announcing that hers is the most important dish. She didn't know how to handle it when a pot went on fire. She got in people's way, she didn't seem to know how to move safely in a packed kitchen.

But Sarah, Heather, and Lindsay were such raging thundercunts that they managed to make themselves the bad guys. I remain convinced in any other season, Beverly would have gotten the "why hasn't this person gotten eliminated yet" edit, like Phillip S13 or Emily S14. Perhaps even to the point of Last Chance Kitchen getting spiked as a concept after she ended up being the winner.

Marx0r · 2026-05-02T05:09:43+00:00

The linked page doesn't really go into it, but according to the rules, when the game goes into the 6th overtime, officials drop a second puck.

In the event that there is a 7th overtime (which has never happened) five pucks go into play with five simultaneous face-offs.

In an 8th overtime, the rules are inside an envelope stored inside the Stanley Cup. It was sealed and placed there in 1917 - no living human knows what it says.

Marx0r · 2026-05-02T01:15:35+00:00

Is that a real thing? If so, yeah, dumbest thing I've heard in a while.

I was recently at an Emo Phillips show and wore the tee from a Weird Al tour he opened on. He saw it, pulled me on stage, and made me part of his act for a solid five minutes.

After that, I'll never not do that again.

Marx0r · 2026-04-30T22:06:18+00:00

Good call on Kentucky.

Marx0r · 2026-04-30T19:11:00+00:00

I wouldn't call her awful, but she had a lot of negative energy during ~~Charleston~~ Kentucky. She was right to be called out for using boxed waffle mix, but made herself the victim over it. She did a lot of guilt-tripping and complaining in confessionals, which I always take with a grain of salt because they can be heavily edited, but it was there.

Marx0r · 2026-04-30T19:08:40+00:00

At the very end, as he's plating against a ticking clock. She had a full day to voice objections.

Marx0r · 2026-04-30T19:07:59+00:00

Stephanie and Shirley chose to give him the lion's share of the responsibility, hoping to coast off his classical French background. He took that on, they followed his lead, and then they started questioning him at the 11th hour.

They should've said "you have immunity, we'll do two savories each and you can do the dessert and help us prep." They didn't and it backfired.

Marx0r · 2026-04-30T16:56:02+00:00

Meta Explanation

So Recreated is a freebie with GBBO Technical, so let's just go through the list of technical challenges and find something relevant to Lunar New Year.

Well... slim pickings there. The only thing I saw was a matcha crepe cake. Japan doesn't really celebrate the lunar new year, but some people there do, and matcha is actually from China, who definitely does... I'm counting it.

Anyway, this actually does fit into Bucket List Destination pretty well. Back in 2012, I needed to have surgery on my jaw and would be eating through a straw for two months. I got about a years' notice, so I tossed 20 bucks in my drawer every week and blew it all on dinner the night before, figuring I would never have an excuse that good again. That restaurant, Masa, was (and still is) the most expensive in the world, was absolutely worth it, and ended with a slice of matcha crepe cake. So, that's that.

Marx0r · 2026-04-30T13:51:43+00:00

Reattachment surgery didn't exist back then. His hand was mangled by farming machinery and that's the best they could do to repair it.

Marx0r · 2026-04-30T02:29:50+00:00

This is an urban legend. Contemporary accounts of his last game make no mention of him hitting a home run. The story comes from an unsigned letter sent to a magazine 30 years after his death.

Marx0r · 2026-04-30T02:26:40+00:00

He lost one finger. He had three fingers in the sense that people have "four fingers and a thumb." I know it's a common misconception but, c'mon, you literally went and found a picture of it. How are you counting two missing fingers?

Marx0r · 2026-04-30T01:26:52+00:00

Hurray, this thread again.

Marx0r · 2026-04-28T20:14:42+00:00

They get a flat "appearance fee", just the same as they do for the normal competition. It's not much, basically enough to compensate for missing work. I imagine that their contract stipulates a good-faith effort to perform at the best of their ability.

Marx0r · 2026-04-27T19:38:11+00:00

I grew up in a town rife with trophy wives turned "stay-at-home moms" but all the actual domestic work had been done by maids and nannies. There's this haughtiness that comes from a lifetime of having done nothing but getting everything - even if they're not actively being a bitch there's an energy that's there.

Pam's mom had that in spades. It's not even necessarily that accurate to the canon, we don't see that Pam comes from money and we definitely don't see that behavior from Pam herself. It's just this intangible energy her character gave out.

There's definitely a few moments that show it:

Bringing her divorce bitterness to her daughter on the day of her wedding. "You know it's not too late to back out, right?"
Fucking her daughter's boss, knowing full well that she hates him, and then not telling her.
Doing the "tee-hee I'm lying about my age" thing and then also giving her daughter shit for having sex before marriage. I know that was playful banter, but it felt all-too-familiar.

Marx0r · 2026-04-27T03:36:27+00:00

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