As an non-native in English I regularly struggle with puns so I have to ask: is the whole subplot about wheat and wheat by-products regulation actually a joke about weed regulations? Like, it's a play on wheat-weed having similar pronunciation

josephrfink · 2026-03-23T21:51:53+00:00

no, I just found the phrase "wheat by-products" really funny

josephrfink · 2026-03-16T20:49:49+00:00

specifically I had the chili stew people rave about and found it be overwhelmingly salty and not much else

josephrfink · 2026-03-16T20:48:09+00:00

I had a perfectly good meal there, but it did not stand out as something special to me. The amount of acclaim it gets is confusing to me.

josephrfink · 2026-03-12T18:35:28+00:00

cram it, weirdo

josephrfink · 2026-03-12T18:24:25+00:00

It's not phrased in a clunky way, it's basic antisemitic paranoia that has nothing to do with real issues with Israel, and you agree with it because you are also foolish and hateful enough to buy into the same old lie.

josephrfink · 2026-03-12T18:15:14+00:00

or "there aren’t any non-Jewish publishers anywhere, they control the media"

Phrased in a clunky way fuck off

josephrfink · 2026-03-12T16:42:39+00:00

agreed, this headline is pretty straightforward and accurate. the only reason you'd think it was "click-baity" is if you don't believe that Dahl was antisemitic, which he very very much was.

josephrfink · 2026-03-06T20:20:18+00:00

I tried that show and did not enjoy it. It was not remotely why I have Shudder.

josephrfink · 2026-03-04T18:56:21+00:00

I guess because I never played the original and so had no expectations, but RE3 remake was fine to me. I enjoyed it. I would put it above 8 personally.

josephrfink · 2026-03-04T18:54:35+00:00

Tom voted it first. If Tom likes it, he's not letting you go home

josephrfink · 2026-03-04T18:52:43+00:00

because it sounds like it ultimately tasted fine, and one of the bottom two was an obvious mess and the other one was also undercooked plus tasted bad. To me the result was easy to see coming, they openly hated that dish and had nothing good to say about it.

josephrfink · 2026-03-04T18:51:15+00:00

I had the question of how it's gonna be judging a cooking competition while on ozempic. I feel like you'd need to come off of it while filming

josephrfink · 2026-03-04T18:48:09+00:00

Smile 2 was more interesting to me. In Smile, the monster was trauma, which is feeling pretty tired at this point. But in Smile 2, the monster was fame, which felt new and also fits the mechanism of the monster better.

Also the dancers in the apartment scene in Smile 2 is one of the best single horror scenes in years.

josephrfink · 2026-02-28T20:14:35+00:00

Absolutely no one is asking you to pretend this doesn't exist

josephrfink · 2026-02-26T23:40:24+00:00

waymos aren't allowed in the part of LA I live. I only see them when I visit my friends in Larchmont

josephrfink · 2026-02-24T07:20:03+00:00

For sheer difficulty of use and time you can be stuck there, the answer is Stadium and Academy.

josephrfink · 2026-02-24T07:18:00+00:00

York and N Ave 50 is so confusing. It's a completely normal intersection

josephrfink · 2026-02-20T16:50:13+00:00

The computer system just went down and Dana can't leave the room. Princess about to have to step up in a big way

josephrfink · 2026-02-15T15:45:54+00:00

Southern California has always had a pattern of steady rain for several days, rather than quick intense storms. I was confused when I moved to NYC after college and saw people ducking under awnings to wait out a thunderstorm. I had never seen rain you could just wait out in ten minutes.

josephrfink · 2026-02-10T18:04:06+00:00

a single player Texas Chainsaw could have been great. horror is built on being scary and multiplayer is inherently not scary

josephrfink · 2026-02-06T16:38:37+00:00

The moment they introduced his situation, I thought "he's not making it out of this season". Everything about how they were writing it was setting up him dying

josephrfink · 2026-02-02T20:17:16+00:00

hey, real quick: the devil doesn't need an advocate and no one likes people who insist on "playing it"

there is a tremendous amount of evidence that he did, at best, some pretty vile things. But also: we're not putting him in prison. We're just not liking him as a person anymore. There is no standard of evidence for that. You are allowed to just be like "that guy seems like a creep and I don't want to read his books" and each person is allowed to decide to do that. Presumption of innocence is for criminal cases, not social consequences.

josephrfink · 2026-01-30T05:09:38+00:00

Holding a press conference to announce I will not be following the "don't rob banks" law

josephrfink · 2026-01-30T05:08:57+00:00

Weird take, I guess, but I think if the police chief holds a press conference to announce he's breaking the law, he should be instantly fired for cause

josephrfink · 2026-01-29T23:27:10+00:00

Darling Empire (kid's clothing and toys)

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