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[EuchreJack]

First avenue moves Dave Chappelle comedy show, citing a duty to their patrons & community.
The name of the theater is ironic. First avenue against the First Amendment. But then again, they're private, so they have no obligations other than making enough money to be around next year.

I haven't heard Dave's newest stuff, but I thought his last comedy show was quite insightful.

[Vector]

Usually those losses of venue are for historically queer theaters or venues located in gay districts, so they in fact have obligations to their community to not platform and build revenue off of transphobic entertainment.

[Rolan7]

First avenue moves Dave Chappelle comedy show, citing a duty to their patrons & community.
The name of the theater is ironic. First avenue against the First Amendment. But then again, they're private, so they have no obligations other than making enough money to be around next year.

I haven't heard Dave's newest stuff, but I thought his last comedy show was quite insightful.

Okay I laughed.  The name of the theater including First?  Thus this is ironic when they ban a hatemonger?  The reach amused me.

I think we're beyond such simple takes, though.  Dave Chapelle does actually have a lot of good points.
I respect him, even as he disrespects me lately.  And people like me.

[Vector]

I don't like his humor because he ejects queers of color from the queer community. This is more obvious if you try switching the jokes around to be about white cisgender women.

Eg, "if we just put on some skirts and beehive hairdos then we could have had equality 100 years sooner."


He wants to make fun of white trans people specifically? There are trans comics making those jokes and doing it better actually ... for example, Robin Tran is frigging hilarious. And, she's gonna be on Letterman.

[hector13]

There does seem to be a bit of an odd element of a comedian of a historically oppressed demographic taking aim at a contemporaneously oppressed demographic.

Like… I feel like he should know better but that also seems a bit of a racist thought to have.

I used to drive past the Kellog's factory in Muncy, PA.  The air smelled like pop tarts for around a mile, sometimes more if the wind was blowing just so.

I live in a town with a Kraft factory. The smell of burnt mac and cheese is usually the smell, which is not pleasant.

I also used to live in Edinburgh, and there’s a brewery (probably more than one to be fair) the smell of which I hated as a child, but I once had to get a replacement bus service when I was more inclined to imbibe which drove near it and omg the smell was amazing.

[MaxTheFox]

I want to try pop-tarts.

[Rolan7]

And I want to try borscht.  Trust me, you aren't missing anything.

[wierd]

Cold beet soup? Really? It's available locally.

Even more than one brand!

[King Zultan]

Which one? I know for a fact that GreatValue Toaster Pastry is still a thing.

As is BestChoice Toaster Pastry

They came from dollar store, I should probably say that the brand still exists but they stopped making the ones I actually liked.

This lack of rain is actually getting a bit absurd. All of July and June we've had nothing more than brief, heavy showers. The fact that there's any water still flowing in the rivers and streams seems something of a miracle.

That isn't that weird I mean it hasn't really rained this summer where I am, but than again my area was in a drought for seven years and only just recently got out of it.

[scriver]

All I can offer is pop-warts

[Great Order]

That isn't that weird I mean it hasn't really rained this summer where I am, but than again my area was in a drought for seven years and only just recently got out of it.

Yeah, but I live in Northern England. It's supposed to be wet.

[TD1]

*Channels inner Michael Scott* That's what she said.

Also, I read 'Pastry' as 'poetry' above. I was disappointed.

[KittyTac]

Pop tarts just started being a thing when I was a kid, and I remember that eating them untoasted used to be the "rogue" consumption. Kinda like the kids that just ate their ramen noodle as a brick and then the flavor packet, no hot water involved.

Eating ramen like that isn't "rogue" it's psychotic.

Yeah ramen's kinda sharp for that.  Letting it soak in room temperature water for at least 20 minutes is a lot more pleasant. 
If I'm going to bother to "cook" quick-ramen, I'm breaking out the eggs and cutting board vegetables and making a proper meal of it.  At which point the only reason not to make a rice dish is variety.

Also, quick-ramen is a little greasy already but benefits from adding a bit more vegetable oil IMO.  And maybe using one "flavor" (salt) packet per two bricks, or better yet, some miso paste.

I used to love eating instant oatmeal dry while hiking.  And adding liquid to any cereal besides grape nuts is still weird to me.  Especially milk, bleh.  Yes I was making gruel out of grape nuts, it was better than dousing crystalline sugar in milk like most kids.

I used to drive past the Kellog's factory in Muncy, PA.  The air smelled like pop tarts for around a mile, sometimes more if the wind was blowing just so.

Speaking of Kellog, my love of bland cereal did not have the effect he claimed it should have.

I put chopped sausage and mayonnaise in my ramen after boiling to make it a proper meal. Unironically very tasty.

[EuchreJack]

Usually those losses of venue are for historically queer theaters or venues located in gay districts, so they in fact have obligations to their community to not platform and build revenue off of transphobic entertainment.

Good point.

First avenue moves Dave Chappelle comedy show, citing a duty to their patrons & community.
The name of the theater is ironic. First avenue against the First Amendment. But then again, they're private, so they have no obligations other than making enough money to be around next year.

I haven't heard Dave's newest stuff, but I thought his last comedy show was quite insightful.

Okay I laughed.  The name of the theater including First?  Thus this is ironic when they ban a hatemonger?  The reach amused me.

I think we're beyond such simple takes, though.  Dave Chapelle does actually have a lot of good points.
I respect him, even as he disrespects me lately.  And people like me.

I think he disrespects everyone, since he's a comedian. Except rednecks, since he now lives among them.
It was also a big reach because he wasn't cancelled, just moved.

It's taken a lot of thinking on my part, but I can see how parts of his act are transphobic. The whole "LBGTQ is in control of the media" is classic fearmongering that sounds like it came straight from Fox News.

[pisskop]

*Channels inner Michael Scott* That's what she said.

Also, I read 'Pastry' as 'poetry' above. I was disappointed.

Pop Tarts are just good enough to inspire people to keep eating them - hoping the next bite will fill their internal desires.

But, alas, the bridge to satisfaction cannot be made of such fair weather slop