hey gawker dudes. what the fuck is wrong with you?

that actually sounds borderline amazing to me but I am also the kid who had a resentful older brother feed him peanut butter and mustard sandwiches and enjoyed them, so grain of salt etc

would take more than a grain of salt to make that palatable

With kids, the single best thing you can do to encourage their palates is to have a vegetable garden. Your kids will be eating cherry tomatoes and raw green beans on the sly before you know it, and you'll have to yell at them for raiding the carrots before they're ready.

otm except fuc carrots

damn mook, carrots with a maple glaze and dill tho

xp Dan, I'm never, ever gonna take a punt on one but I imagine my reaction to PB/liverwurst was extreme because chemo made me hyper-sensitive to the smell of it.

Dad was also fond of peanut butter and mayonnaise. Also disgusting. I guess I fucking HATE peanut butter (peanut butter and grape jelly at room temperature eg. in a packed lunch is the worst) UNLESS it's in cookie batter or a component in satay.

UGH sweet glazes on vegetables UGH

okay peanut butter and mayo is a nightmare

my Dad was PB and mayo guy

I grew to like it.

PB, mayo and lettuce. That was lunch in Michigan.

Completely disgusting foods our parents ate

http://i.imgur.com/lrG3LaD.gif

lol

http://kotaku.com/cosplayers-turned-into-drawings-1760522322

this guy is a fucking menace

.. to what?

pleasant mornings

dude is so creepy

hes got a gross 'colonial anthropologist' vibe

yeah plus in his dispatches he's so titillated by the hottentots

hes got a gross 'colonial anthropologist' vibe

totally otm

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/610Dsc0TSBL._SX349_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

*shudder*

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2517/3949475871_11ab961892_b.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Pxuzmz1.jpg

Brian is the author of Arcade Mania! and is Contributing Editor for WIRED magazine, where he regularly writes the Japanese Schoolgirl Watch column.

Cool guy

Again, I hate the media landscape reality that if it wasn't for this dude's glowing dispatches about humping his anime body pillow and lists of 20 great video game boobs we'd never know if Jordan liked bananas

on the other side of the internet there's someone right now bemoaning having to suffer through jordan banana videos just to get their anime body pillow humping updates

crüt doing the necessary linkages

...and apple pies! I'm glad he likes key lime better though.

p late now but i wanted to say i really appreciated the tune was space's post about growing up with food snobbery. it echoed a lot of things about my own upbringing and was way more thoughtful than i would have come up with -- i had a j0rd-style hyperbolic "you should have been raised in foster care" kind of post lined up and scrapped it.

yes cosign

lol crut

w/ choire going to vox and now this it's big week for former gawker stars taking jobs at uncool online media properties that gawker used to make fun of

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2016/02/8591696/genius-hires-former-gawker-editor-spearhead-news-division

next week max takes a job at av club?

I'm still super sad that @morninggloria is at "vocativ," whatever the hell that is

And I actually miss Yannick LeJacq.

Creepy Anime Fan "I'm moving to Japan to teach English" Stereotype, stays! MOBA eSports Geek Who Takes A Track Day With Jalopnik, goes!

Like no offense JS but YLJ conquering his fear of driving was more important and impressive to me than you eating food

good kinja zing, at least

really excited to start getting my news from a content farm whose content is crowd-sourced from racist teens

_Coming from a UK perspective, Deserter's Songs felt like the first of the modern arty Amerindie stuff that would come to more prominence in the 2000s._

I wasn't commenting on whether /Deserter's Songs/ was influential, esp because I don't really think of Mercury Rev as a 'big' band in the sense that most of these bands are. I just meant that I can see how it recalls Supertramp.

This was the easiest artist poll for me to vote in by a country mile. First pass had 21 songs; sorting the 20 was surprisingly quick after I cut out poor #21. Took me about 15 minutes, and it would have taken me a third of that if the band didn't use such hard-to-remember titles

"Paint a Vulgar Picture" has only gone up and up in my estimation over the years - there are days I'd call it my favorite Smiths song

http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/idiocracy-is-a-cruel-movie-and-you-should-be-ashamed-fo-1553344189

matt novak otm

I appreciate Novak's ongoing veiled trolling

The origin story for Idiocracy’s future world of half-wits is that uneducated people in the early 2000s are having kids and smart people don’t reproduce enough. It’s clear from the film that the intelligent people are wealthy, while the uneducated people are poor. So we’re starting from a position of believing that wealthy people are inherently more intelligent and, by extension, deserve their wealth. This link between intelligence and wealth is perhaps the most dangerous idea of the film and pretty quickly slips into advocating for some form of soft eugenics to build a better world.

i have not seen the film in a while to comment specifically on how it tries to present this link but there is definitely a v strong correlation between education + birthrates.

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/files/2013/05/SDT-2013-05-fertility-education-07.png

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.457.6886&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Studies of fertility decline in the developing world have come to different conclusions about the presumed causes of these declines. 1 But there is near unanimous agreement on two of the strongest influences on reduced fertility at both the individual and the community levels. These two influences are (a) the status of women/mothers (as measured by a number of indicators, but referring finally to some notion of gender equality, which is usually not the same thing as ‘‘prestige’’) and (b) the education of the women who become mothers. There are exceptions, of course, but on the whole the exceptions only serve to strengthen the case that these two indicators (gender equality and female education) both tend to depress fertility.

wealth + intelligence != education but it's not some kind of secret promotion of eugenics programs to note that the correlation between education + fertility is very well studied.

If only we could get rid of the uneducated Americans (read: redneck poors) and we’ll have the opportunity to live in a utopian world filled with smart and civilized people.

If "get rid of" means educate the Americans so that there are no uneducated Americans left, it stops sounding so sinister.

lol you just fell into the same trap he laid out that the commenters on the blog did

The trap is reading the article, tbf.

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” - George Carlin

*median

haa

The origin story for Idiocracy’s future world of half-wits is that uneducated people in the early 2000s are having kids and smart people don’t reproduce enough. It’s clear from the film that the intelligent people are wealthy, while the uneducated people are poor. So we’re starting from a position of believing that wealthy people are inherently more intelligent and, by extension, deserve their wealth. This link between intelligence and wealth is perhaps the most dangerous idea of the film and pretty quickly slips into advocating for some form of soft eugenics to build a better world.

idiocracy is a terrible and reprehensibly smug movie (but also completely a product of the bush era and can only be understood in that context, kinda like NOFX) and i would probably agree with most of this article if i read it, but what's with the complete allergy to admitting that anyone deserves > or < wealth? are we all maoists now? i'm personally ok with some highly educated people having more wealth; i would rather have a doctor who makes double my salary than one who makes the same as me or less, and i'm glad kids who study mind-numbingly boring forms of engineering will make good cash and work hard to build buildings and roads that don't collapse. what makes idiocracy soft eugenicist is in the film intelligence transmits exclusively through a hereditary channel. but education isn't hereditary, anyone can go to school. the film seems to suggest that even if dumb/poor people go to school they don't get any smarter, or that they don't go at all. and the classist depiction of the dumb people in idiocracy is offensive in & of itself, you don't need to be an absolutist egalitarian to see that.

idiocracy is a terrible and reprehensibly smug movie (but also completely a product of the bush era and can only be understood in that context, kinda like NOFX)

nofx formed in 1983 #nofx

like i said i haven't seen it in quite a while - does the film make an explicit argument re hereditary intelligence? i thought the premise was just that ppl got less educated over time - that could easily be a failure in the transmission of memetic cultural values and not about breeding stupidity.

so-called "smart ppl" were too far up their own asses to care about anything other than their 1.5 children but that's not the message any internet quoter gets off on

novak's shtick is to take the popular reading of something and skewer it, anyone commenting "that's not what it was really about!" or defending the false dichotomy he knowingly sets up ends up commenting every time

it's a subtle trolling technique that relies on a somewhat forced naivety but hopefully pulls in clicks