While it immediately made me think "Hey, this has nothing to do with crushing model trains, this is just about fetishizing giant, Godizilla women" it also reminded me of the MHP bukkake night in Crooked Little Vein. Macroherpetophiliacs, or, in other words, Godzilla fetishists with their own Godzilla bukkake film nights... and the clean-up... oh god, it just gets worse.

It's not about not being intelligent, it's about perceptions. After reading the article I looked over it again and, honestly, it was tough to not see the $211 as the "better deal" even though I knew that it was the exact same discount.

I think this is a quirk of our expectations and the retail environment as we know it, but that's just my impression.

Part of it has to do with the way items are normally priced. Typically items are priced either at whole value (e.g. $200) or just barely below it. This causes you to view an item discounted to a smaller right-hand number to appear to have been discounted more through association whereas a higher digit in the right-hand position would seemingly indicate that the discount from the initial price was much lower.

So ultimately it seems to be more related to our past perceptions in making a quick judgment than a reasoned view of the actual deal on offer.

And what's so wrong with being straight edge? I mean, yeah, some intolerant idiots have gotten the most visibility, but plenty of the rest of us are just like everyone else... except, y'know, sober. I just turned 26 and I've been on the edge my entire life.

That said, pretty good band. I'll have to see them the next time they play around town. Though the hyphy reference was unpleasant. I can't stop hearing about that fast enough.