Open thread. Anything goes. Just don’t call it Kotaku Off Topic. Or do. You make the rules – well, some of them – in this post that’s not about video games, but might be briefly about game shows.

So I’ve been on a big BLT kick lately, getting there thanks to my old editor from Jacksonville, N.C. waxing nostalgic lately about ‘mater sammiches and remembering this heartbreakingly brilliant work of sentimentality from three years ago.

The Rust Belt got another karate kick in the jimmy when native Ohioan LeBron James, who never went to university, saw everyone who never made it out of that dead-ass town and said, “That’s not going to be me.”

We interrupt our regularly on-topic conversation for something a little less so. Though, really, anything is fair game on Kotaku. But in this post, the game is even fairer! Join us, won’t you, for some random chatter.

Time to slough off that awkward “Kotaku Off Topic” headline prefix, don’t you think? It’s too hot for that. But this is where we talk about anything and everything, from movies to video games to giant double rainbows.

Mom and Dad got rid of their sedan this weekend, getting $US5,000 value for something with 185,000 miles on the odometer. If the dealership charged back the cost of vacuuming up the doghair, they would have lost money.

That was the nickname of the Cardiff Giant, history’s greatest humbug. If only Barnum had Photoshop and Internet access, who knows what he’d have pulled off. Some items making the rounds this weekend deserve a little scepticism, too.

So, I hear some of you Kotaku Off Topic readers are having some lousy weather. How’s your internet connection holding up? If you can read this, we’ve got some off topic things to discuss.