The Old Country's Biggest Blunders

I wish the cocktail video ones weren't. I'd like to discuss the drinks in question, or have people talk about variants in the comments. 

But they might fear that it'll snowball into discussion about the people in the video, rather than the drinks? I don't know. 

We have very different ideas about 'solid'.

...of course.

It seems like most of the comments nowadays are just about how shitty the AVC content has gotten. (and rightfully so)

Is there a point where you go "maybe I shouldn't comment here anymore"

Those people are crazy. The Leftovers is amazing. 

I know, right? But there were some that loathed it, and didn't mind telling you how stupid the rest of us were for liking it. In fact would show up week after week to be first in line!

Honestly, all the people whining about Supper Club are annoying the fucking shit out of me. Food is part of pop culture, not just culture. It makes sense that to generate more revenue, TOC would start including these kinds of articles. But 95% of the complainers are acting like they've got guns held to their heads and are being forced to read the articles, and I've had to restrain myself from telling them to just shut the fuck up and stop reading them if they don't like them more than once over the past few days.

There's plenty of stuff TOC writes about that I don't care for or actively dislike. I just avoid those particular articles or reviews because why waste my time like that? I don't understand people who whine and bitch and moan about the death of a website because it adds a new feature. It's still not Buzzfeed by a long shot, no matter how many people bring out the world's tiniest violins because it isn't "their" AVC anymore.

I click on GJI articles that seem at least halfway interesting, but there's tons of things like video game reviews or sci-fi discussions that don't hold my interest, so I read the stuff that does interest me. I only have so much time in the day, even when I'm not very busy at work. I also think it's really shitty to walk into a thread, so to speak, where people are having a great time talking about the subject at hand, and then shooting them down with "this is lame and stupid and doesn't belong on the website." Why do people want to be a buzzkill so bad and crap on everyone else's good time?

I don't understand the "but it's not pop culture" argument from people who surely grew up on the Hamburglar and the Where's the Beef lady, just to name a few examples of food-related pop cultural phenomena. Almost every child in the world can look at a McDonald's golden arch and recognize that symbol for what it is. Although I'd like to see more serious discussions that relate to food other than fast food, it certainly does have a place in talking about pop culture. I feel it's disingenuous to claim otherwise, and I would even if I didn't have a personal relationship with cooking and food that goes beyond most people's.

And I think that's an important distinction to make, so thanks for bringing that up. I would absolutely like to see more than just discussions of American/American fast-food products, I really would. But so far I'm really not bothered because the feature's only been live for 2 days. In a month if they're still ranking Taco Bell nachos or something, yeah, I'll be irritated. 

Just to clarify, he says he stepped down and is still "editor at large", it doesn't sound like he was forced out (though who knows what politics went on behind the scenes).

At least we still have Block & Tackle.

The Alan Moore thread is not the commentariat's finest hour.

Lot of love for the Terminator comments, though.