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10 years ago @ The Toast - Why Catholic Schoolgir... · 0 replies · +5 points

It ain't my thing. At all. But isn't the schoolgirl uniform fetish probably more related to the target of the initial crushes by pubescent boys (and maybe girls too)? Like, all the girls they were fixated on when their hormones and boners started running amok were wearing those kinds of uniforms?

10 years ago @ The Toast - Leonard Knight Is Dead · 0 replies · +5 points

The Salton Sea is a great metaphor for something, because it was created by an engineering mistake, and is being destroyed by human development. It was created when the Colorado River flooded early in the 20th century, overrunning a lock in a canal that fed farms in the Imperial Valley. Then it became a resort destination at mid-century before agricultural runoff, water diversion, and the hard facts of a low-desert sink meant it's been shrinking, concentrating pollution and saline. It's now kind of a nightmarescape of incredibly poor semi-abandoned towns, fish skeletons, and metaphor photographers, all surrounded by a godawful stench.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Toast Points: The Week... · 0 replies · +37 points

If you'd come to Dad's Club November meeting (theme: sand), you would have heard Norman's DAD Talk, "Sand And Deliver: Sand Grain Size and You", among other sand presentations.

10 years ago @ The Toast - An Actual, Real-Life "... · 1 reply · +4 points

[citation needed]

!! I've got two sons. Help.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Watching Downton A... · 0 replies · +7 points

I think the writing on the show consistently glosses over the actual bigotries of the British upper classes and the people who emulated their tastes. In last night's episode, Carson makes a big shocked face upon seeing Jack, and so does Lord Grantham, but then they immediately are totally magnanimous and cool with it all, and apparently not in a "keeping up appearances" way. I find this unbelievable.

It's similar to the anti-Catholicism of Lord Grantham just magically getting better once he decided to not make a big deal of it. And in this show, that was that, and nobody was every anti-papist again.

10 years ago @ The Toast - "40 women were sort of... · 0 replies · +16 points

Semi-circles!?? What is this sorcery!?

Flee! Flee!

10 years ago @ The Toast - My Magnificent Obsessi... · 0 replies · +5 points

I didn't actually find out the specifics of what happened in the end until my AP European History teacher had us watch it one Friday where he didn't really feel like teaching. After it was over, he put on Bennie Hill's "The Scarlet Pimple," which probably would get him fired today.

I think my favorite part of it now is the extreme Cockney accents of the French soldiers. And how Chauvelin is the BIGGEST ASSHOLE IN THE WORLD for a) wearing clothes that an English nobleman finds cheap and b) advocating for democracy.

10 years ago @ The Toast - My Magnificent Obsessi... · 2 replies · +5 points

The 1982 one got a lot of play in my house growing up, except that it was a VHS tape, recorded from a network broadcast, and one that GETS CUT OFF HALFWAY THROUGH THE ENDING SWORDFIGHT because we didn't set our VCR to record "extended" or whatever you had to do back in the Cold War.

My sisters and I probably averaged two viewings a month of that one. Gandalf is a hateful motherfucker in it.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Band Names That Would ... · 0 replies · +9 points

Skankin' Pickle were great. And I guess this obligates me to mention Slow Gherkin.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Band Names That Would ... · 1 reply · +11 points

Big Boi
The Fastbacks
Ride
The Strokes (come on)

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