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There's only two that have ever been worth a damn for me. Dan Rykert's <i>Anxiety as an Ally</i>, and Richard Klein's <i>Cigarettes are Sublime.</i>

Ah, I see the problem here. You assume it's an argument, when it's really not. She's giving her opinion, and when people try to tell her off for it or argue, she's telling them to fuck right off. The world isn't a debate club. Robert's rules of order are not the law of the land.… Read More

"Even so, what’s the probability of guessing BOTH Chris AND Tony, and being right on both?" Extremely high, when you consider what your average mark will accept as a hit. All that have to do is remember some person, place, or thing named "Chris" and "Tony", and you've got them. It… Read More

Another old trick - He had Chris written on the pad before Christian walked in. Why is this significant to Tyler? Not for the reasons listed - because Tyler knows he's going to do a reading for Buzzfeed employees or people connected to them, who tend strongly to be in the early… Read More

The most useful thing I ever learned, working in a book shop - The best way to get the unwanted sticky labels off a book, is one of those very flat, very thin, but still quite blunt spatula spudger things they sell in art stores for working light clay. The real flexible ones. Never… Read More

Only Kanye could interrupt someone getting an award for a song, the single of which went 6x platinum and sold 5+ million worldwide, and was one of THE most played music videos of the year, and assume that him being a bit of a knob made the person famous.

As a side note, this also means he has essentially unlimited money. If we assume the exchange rate between muggle money and wizarding money is as JK Rowling described (About 5 pounds to the Galleon), if he retained even one galleon, he could easily make back his money. All he'd have… Read More

He gets a lot richer if you calculate by precious metal value. A Galleon coin is about the size of an American Silver Eagle, going by the films(they're not really described in the books), which would give them a volume of 3.74 cubic cetimeters. That's about 72.2 grams of gold per… Read More

Okay, good. Now, take that feeling, and that situation - And realize that it's exactly the same way in Australia, despite all the people in this comment thread throwing temper tantrums and declaring us the most racist nation on earth, because ONE Australian suggested that racists… Read More

"Racists are everywhere but before you fall off your high horse and break you neck check out your own back yard first" It's hilarious how all the English people in this thread keep saying that, as if the existence of racists in other places means that there's no racists in England,… Read More