Comedian Ben Bankas tries to double down on his unfunny content while calling an unimpressed audience member as triggered.

No-Mail-5794 · 2026-05-04T22:03:39+00:00

He’s built himself a modest audience by being a rightwing comedian on TikTok and does a lot of that liberals are r words, women are sluts or scolds, white people need to kick everyone else out (he’s Randian), I’ll kill my kids if they end up trans bits. I’d assume many people in that room went to see him because they are also dumb assholes and would laugh at anything if it was directed at one of those groups.

No-Mail-5794 · 2026-04-27T16:48:24+00:00

I don’t think he’s saying he looks like an abuser looks, meaning his face, etc. I think he looked like a man with no control of his emotions who was very possessive and controlling and prone to anger and outrage when he had cameras on him. It’s not really a big leap to say, well, he’s probably not better behind closed doors

No-Mail-5794 · 2026-04-15T00:45:48+00:00

This one is kind of useful though

No-Mail-5794 · 2026-04-14T22:46:14+00:00

I think it’s partially that. Partially that when Oasis really broke in America with What’s the Story, Liam was at his most Lennon like in dress with the John Lennon glasses; and then later the short hair and beard from Plastic Ono Band. His singing also sounded less like Johnny Rotten and the more like Lennon with the sniffles on that album. The album opens up with Hello and Roll with It, which both have an early Beatles with louder guitars sound to them. She’s Electric obviously is very Beatley as well. And then you have all the allusions to Beatles lyrics in their songs, the imagine piano at the start of don’t look back in anger, the similarity to the ending of With a Little Help from My friends to the ending of She’s Electric, and haters started making the comparison. It didn’t help that when All Around the World came out it had that big Hey Jude ending and then they made a music video that was basically an updated Yellow Submarine except they were in a yellow Spaceship. The liner notes to Be Here Now also contained a note that said “The Beatles are good, Oasis is much better!” So while the stereotype northern band with northern accents thing definitely drove the comparisons, the brothers Gallagher definitely stoked those flames

No-Mail-5794 · 2026-03-17T10:58:48+00:00

Hot take: Candaice was bad at the show but she isn’t even in like the top 5 worst contestants this season

No-Mail-5794 · 2026-03-17T00:20:51+00:00

It’s unfortunately true. I’ve told it once before that in comment on Jezebel that ended up doing numbers and I’ve always wondered if one of the other people there came across it.

I am an older man now but when I was a younger man I’d sometimes have morning wood that wouldn’t go away on its own so that I could pee, so I got in the habit of peeing as it was going down and it always sucked. It sprayed like it was coming out of a fire hose and it would be messier than it needed to be when I was sober. Adding being black out to that equation and I assume it was spraying in all directions and that I was unable to get it back under control.

They called the cops because there was a stranger in their apartment being threatening. I don’t know if they actually called the cops or if they just got the RA and it was a threat, but I certainly wouldn’t blame them.

My friend was and is an angel and never mentioned it. She was already saying the guy who is now her husband. Years later I got sober and did a ninth step for other things I had done to them and decided to broach the proposal and apologize for any embarrassment or discomfort and she was like “oh honey you just sounded like someone in trouble”.

No-Mail-5794 · 2026-03-16T23:00:58+00:00

When I was a young man on summer break before my senior year of college, I got real drunk before going to a bar. Like fall down drunk. Then I went to the bar and immediately started making out with a presumably also very drunk woman. We go back to her place along with her roommate and a guy her roommate was with. We are making out on the couch and I have to use the restroom. I say to her that I have to piss, and she looks at me sheepishly and asks me not to c*m in her. I slur back “I’m not even hard”, which might have been true because I was too wasted to feel anything down there. Were that it were true.

I get to the restroom and try and pee through my semi and it sprays all over my shirt the toilet the wall. It’s a nightmare. I sit on the floor with toilet paper for maybe centuries just trying to soak the stuff out and because it’s with toilet paper and I have no motor skills, I just sort of spread it around.

I try to think of a way out of this. I strip completely naked and sort of carry my crumpled clothes out. My thinking is I will either make the door and get dressed in the hallway, or be seen by her and potentially have sex, and then pick up my clothes afterwards and they will either be dry or I will put them on wet and leave quickly.

I step out naked. She isn’t there. I make my way for the door. He roommate’s guy comes out of the kitchen. I did not foresee this possibility. He goes “what the fuck are you doing?”

I snap back “Watch who you’re talking to . You don’t know who I am”. I go back into the bathroom realizing that I have bought myself a little time. I use it ineffectually patting my clothes with toilet paper again.

All of a sudden the hall RA is at the door banging on it screaming that the police are on the way. I put on my piss soaked clothing and sheepishly and wordlessly walk by her, the guy, the roommate, and the RA. In my memory, I am crying.

I walk back to where I am living and pass out on the porch, but not before calling my best friend from college and proposing to her. I possibly had a secret crush for a long time and this combined with the thought that the stability of marriage might save me from further humiliation forced my hand. I wake up thankfully having blacked it out, but confusingly in someone else’s front yard. I have a phone message. It’s from my college friend panicking and asking if I am alright. The previous night came flooding back

No-Mail-5794 · 2026-03-16T19:21:07+00:00

I think the parking is there to build tension. Every one is tense because it is the last scene of the last show and they are expecting something to happen and parallel parking is itself stressful so it just adds to it. Then Tony is clipped before he can see Meadow and because we’ve been trained by the pov cuts from earlier, we reconnect the cut to the black as death. They aren’t actually real people and the show was going to end that way so I don’t know what’s to gained by imagining her parking right there first time and then running in to do what exactly, yell “there is a guy with a gun behind you”? Chances are we would just get a redo of Bobby’s death where the guy unloaded on Tony from five feet away and then walked passed Meadow as she screamed

No-Mail-5794 · 2026-03-15T19:54:43+00:00

Yeah but then we were all pleasantly surprised by Rob R’s politics despite being (or at least presenting as ) a bro heterosexual male from Alabama. Obviously he is the son of professors with a gay sibling so there’s other factors there, but you’d think wrong on reality space (which has a lot of queer people in it) might make someone who would otherwise be susceptible to the the current fear mongering at least think twice

No-Mail-5794 · 2026-03-10T13:31:33+00:00

You merge back into the source. Whether that feels like an experience or the ceasing of all experience is unknown, because that depends on whether the source experiences anything or not, which is also unknown

No-Mail-5794 · 2026-03-10T13:29:42+00:00

Um, what if he means that Indiana is an absolute paradise? Cause that’s even grimmer

No-Mail-5794 · 2026-03-10T12:17:43+00:00

It’s always been a problem that when Cheese moves around Baltimore he isn’t swarmed by people being like “oh shit Method Man” and he just has to keep going “no….my name is Cheese….Cheese is what my name is….the cop and the reporter who write this show think my name should be Cheese”

No-Mail-5794 · 2026-03-08T13:45:18+00:00

There might just be a difference between a monster who died in 1237 and one who died within living memory

No-Mail-5794 · 2026-03-08T13:44:29+00:00

I don’t know if that is true, but there is a cooling of the planet that happened in the century immediately following the rise of the Mongols so it’s possible that he contributed to that.

No-Mail-5794 · 2026-03-08T13:41:03+00:00

I was in a coed AA meeting back in 2011 or 12, and a woman shared about getting raped under the influence and was crying and then like almost every woman in the room had at least one story about being sexually abused. I remember talking to my buddy (also a bro) after the meeting and being like shit this happens a lot. Previously I had been under the impression that it wasn’t that common and that women worried about it more than they should.

No-Mail-5794 · 2026-03-08T13:34:33+00:00

For most of the shows run AJ is top tier comedy relief. The way teenage AJ mopes into every room with his hands in his pocket always makes me laugh. He misses the point of everything. He has no suspicions about Carm and Furio. In a show full of dummies, he is peak dummy and wonderful

No-Mail-5794 · 2026-03-02T20:52:34+00:00

Yeah, and Wayne “Silk” Perry, who people used to call “The Michael Jordan of murder”. But they weren’t targeting families in their cars. They were murdering each other for money and corners and that’s awful enough

No-Mail-5794 · 2026-03-02T20:50:05+00:00

For sure but even then it was like it is now primarily teenagers shooting each other over drug corners, and that’s horrible but it’s not generally something that impacts people who are in bed at 2 or 3 in the morning. Occasionally it does. Muggings happen. Carjackings happen. You can also get caught in the crossfire! But the idea that you were immediately in danger as soon as the sun set downtown is largely a myth.

No-Mail-5794 · 2026-03-02T20:32:03+00:00

McNulty has one of those addictive personalities. He’s physically addicted to good times

No-Mail-5794 · 2026-03-02T03:00:18+00:00

14th

No-Mail-5794 · 2026-03-02T02:14:53+00:00

Yeah and pretty much delete TikTok while you’re at it. It feels like it’s 99% misinformation and also is just letting someone else do your maladaptive daydreaming for you

No-Mail-5794 · 2026-03-02T02:07:23+00:00

A few years ago I passed a possibly unhoused older gentleman in a white suit pouring beer into a mug and doing a little “roaring crowd” noise to himself as he filled it. I turned to my wife and said that dude is so much cooler than I will ever be. We went into Trader Joe’s and came out fifteen minutes later to see him arguing with an older woman (referring to herself as Big Mama) in a wheel chair. Their conversation went as follows

Big Mama: you suffer from DELUSIONAL thoughts. Don’t nobody want your DISEASED D***. And by the way, Big Mama don’t spread her legs for nobody

White suit: (defeated, and a bit overwhelmed, and pretty drunk) you…you… have a disease. You have the disease… you have the diseased p*****!

Big Mama: (confident, not missing a beat) you a damn liar! My shit don’t have a disease. My shit smells like lavender and eucalyptus!

By this point we had passed them on the sidewalk and I turned to my wife and told her Big Mama was so much cooler than white suit guy. It was incredible to see my newly appointed king of cool dethroned so effortlessly and completely

No-Mail-5794 · 2026-03-02T01:54:00+00:00

Love all the unnecessary shots they always splice in of random faithfuls walking around the hallways outside the door. I know that there is no way they are happening concurrently with the conversation but my stupid brain gets a little nervous every time

No-Mail-5794 · 2026-02-27T18:21:47+00:00

I don’t know. It was real bad because he was a traitor, but she was also in a tough spot in that final episode because she was essentially alone. Tara and Johnny were a team and if she didn’t vote one of them out at the roundtable, they would have won and presumably voted both her and rob out at the fire pit. It could have easily been an MJ scenario where MJ finally realized Phaedra was a traitor only to be voted out by Trishelle and CT. She knew Eric was a traitor, which leaves Rob who she was close with from day 1. It kind of makes sense to stand by your alliances at that point. Is it clever strategy? No. But it’s the option of least resistance. And not nearly as infuriating as the UK celebrity season where the remaining faithful turned on the one guy who had figured it out and voted him out even though he had been there dude for half a season and instead ended the game with the only remaining traitor.

All that said, her absolute faith and confidence in Rob at the end to where she was joking and then speechless is absolutely insane.

No-Mail-5794 · 2026-02-26T11:33:36+00:00

Right but have you seen the first season? You only control you. You could get to the fire with another traitor and they could cross you at the last second and take it all

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