Chic or Patrician if you want to be fancy about it.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I didn’t say it was a good reason.

It’s American.

I’m torn between someone else’s colonoscopy and this… https://www.moma.org/collection/works/150219

That’s rather the point isn’t it.

Confirmed. My wife does not consume my “cooking”. She will let me grill though…sometimes.

Apologies. I had saved the image earlier and simply posted it. The artist information wasn’t in the post I grabbed it from.

That being said it is David Pope, the political cartoonist for the Canberra Times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Pope_(cartoonist)

It happened to me for the first time at Calgary Stampede this summer. I refused and was denied entry to a concert I’d already paid for.

The bro diet of protein shakes and burgers. Those produce absolute paint melters.

I have played with using two signatures: a fancy legible one for work and my usual one for personal stuff. When I started signing documents that were sort of public I was concerned about someone using a signature from one of those documents for identity theft. I left that role around 10 years ago so haven’t had to worry a out it since then.

I’m no seatbelts in cars old.

I do it because I want to see the other endings, or mess with the loot thats available on one path versus another. It’s a way of exploring the game as a construct. I’m curious why you question that approach?

Who is this?

The article says that Musk is no longer interested in cars. He’s pivoted Tesla into AI and robotics so he wants it treated like a startup. Great news everyone! Sales don’t matter!

The film is so much clearer than the book 😄 Even Ellis said that Bateman is such an unreliable narrator that it’s not clear that any of the events happened at all. But I think you are 100% correct in that lead characters will always have a fandom that identifies with them no matter how repulsive the character is.

Up thread I made a joke about Marty Supreme. There is a character who is an unrepentant piece of shit who manipulates, steals from, and headlights every other character in the movie. I already hear people saying it’s inspirational because he followed his heart. No matter that he ruined the lives of every person around him.

I don’t think it’s because he doesn’t think Bateman is capable of committing those crimes - far from it. Almost everyone in the film is a psychopath in their way (the sex workers are notable exceptions).

Nobody wants to deal with the consequences because it would upset the gravy train they’re on. The lawyer doesn’t want to hear a confession, the real estate agent doesn’t want to acknowledge that crimes took place there etc. The world is built on ignoring things that distract from money. Everyone will lie to keep things rolling.

Eta: that’s the joke in the book and movie title - Bateman is the psycho because he feels some remorse. Everyone just wants to carry on with their lives.

Not satirizing metrosexual at all. He is the counterpoint to Gordon Gecko.

Is this a review of Marty Supreme?

This is another of a long line of these studies. The effects they get from this type of epidemiology is entirely an artifact of the inclusion/exclusion criteria.

In this case they say they controlled for formerly heavy drinkers who now abstain. Without reading the paper in detail we don’t know if they controlled for socio-economic status etc. For example that group may include a group of former polydrug users who were insecurely housed. Assigning that group to “heavy drinkers now abstaining” will tilt the results. There are chronic health conditions that arise from that lifestyle independent of alcohol use.

Epidemiology needs to be treated with kid gloves and I find this kind of advocacy unhelpful.

I feel like the speed of the conveyance matters a lot. One minute of travel at walking speed is still a 3 wood away. You could converse by shouting with someone at the origin. One minute by train puts you out of earshot and golf ball range.