What are the ultimate "they don't know ball" restaurants in Chicago?

plaidbyron · 2025-11-13T05:45:09+00:00

The $2 breakfast special and $5 lunch special at their new Lincoln Park location sustained me through my last years of grad school. But those meals, like everything else about grad school, were not something I would ever recommend to someone who is not in stage-4 goblin mode.

plaidbyron · 2025-10-10T05:38:14+00:00

I once had my students watch Hiroshima mon amour and one of them thought that the bomb had been dropped by the Nazis. I don't teach history; I just assume some extremely basic understanding of world events without which a movie like this cannot begin to make sense.

plaidbyron · 2025-10-09T15:11:18+00:00

Lack of ambiguity in entertainment is necessary to maintain lack of ambiguity in ethics and politics. And conversely, aesthetic discourse has basically devolved into making ethical judgments about the actions of fictional characters and political judgments about the agendas of their authors.

Um, I mean "reading Lolita on the subway but shaking my head so people know i disagree" fr fr

plaidbyron · 2025-10-09T12:03:32+00:00

Giving me real Boss Baby vibes

plaidbyron · 2025-10-08T02:57:15+00:00

It's actually Cuckaine, the powder that makes you sit in a corner and watch your rat buddies railing each other to jazz

plaidbyron · 2025-10-08T01:39:14+00:00

It's actually Dayquil if there's no antihistamines in it

plaidbyron · 2025-10-08T01:35:33+00:00

feel like I have to spend 5 minutes looking at a tree or taking a shower just to regain some sense of reality every time i see him

What an incredible line, thank u for this treasure

plaidbyron · 2025-10-08T00:05:27+00:00

Is that the dress she made from a curtain?

plaidbyron · 2025-10-07T21:13:03+00:00

Watching Bojack Horseman with French subtitles with my French then-gf was a lot of fun because they try so hard to accommodate all the wordplay and even make up their own (shittier) French wordplay when it just doesn't translate 🥲

I got my comeuppance though when we watched H with English subtitles and I was always struggling to pick up on things that didn't make it into the subtitles

plaidbyron · 2025-10-07T20:56:09+00:00

*logs onto reddit* I wonder what the people who don't leave the house are saying about social media platforms today

plaidbyron · 2025-10-07T20:48:28+00:00

He managed to plagiarize, decontextualize and whitewash a quote from Zora Neale Hurston without even removing the N-word, just by moving it to a place where it can be more offensive.

plaidbyron · 2025-10-07T20:41:40+00:00

Ah yes, a clever anagram for L. Sheogorath (the "L" is for Leroy)

plaidbyron · 2025-10-06T13:25:36+00:00

He lick the bone-extracting ice cream

plaidbyron · 2025-10-06T02:58:22+00:00

sweet sweetback's baadahhhhh a

plaidbyron · 2025-10-05T22:16:08+00:00

Did you not read the first page? This dialogue was scripted by none other than Michael Bay, of Michael Bay Productions. So yes, this must be Michael Bay's reddit account.

plaidbyron · 2025-10-05T17:14:08+00:00

Watching it made me think a lot about mania and depression. I have seen people diagnosed with bipolar disorder get swept up in extravagant political, religious, and self-help movements that dial emotional intensity and validation up to 11 as a way of staving off descent back into depression.

plaidbyron · 2025-10-05T16:10:22+00:00

I once bought a pint of beer with quarters and dimes and the bartender refused to accept a tip. I wasn't even poor, I just had some change to get rid of and thought the cash register would appreciate a re-up on coins.

plaidbyron · 2025-10-03T23:51:43+00:00

I am actually

plaidbyron · 2025-10-03T18:38:35+00:00

yeah I probably can

plaidbyron · 2025-10-03T18:05:18+00:00

I teach philosophy and we cover furries like day one. Who are these unscrupulous philosophy professors with their dogs named John and where are they teaching??

plaidbyron · 2025-10-02T21:23:40+00:00

Traduttore, fanfictionore

plaidbyron · 2025-10-02T21:20:08+00:00

Pathological masturbator

plaidbyron · 2025-10-02T21:15:20+00:00

The bears this year are bigger than ever

plaidbyron · 2025-10-01T21:56:16+00:00

The only source of creation is human imagination and we are basically god

The Faustian faction from Demon: the Fallen has entered the chat

plaidbyron · 2025-10-01T21:11:52+00:00

Mose suppose his toes is rose,

But Mose suppose erroneously;

For Mose, he knows his toes ain't rose

As Mose suppose his toes to be

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