Wrong, as others have pointed out, but an easy mistake, given that Zora's the one who found work "taking pleasure from the serpent" while Pris, showing herself to be an acrobat of death (and more formidable than Zora), renders "pleasure model" a distinction without a difference.

Thousands of instances of a conceit that's usually situationally employed ("unfortunately, I was thinking with my dick") and rarely (if ever?) taken seriously as any kind of reductive truism about male cognition, would seem in any case to be legitimated after the fact by giving a pass to a patently sexist, hippie,…

Naive is better, but it isn't adequate either. There are no grounds to judge the crew as naive about the true nature of their mission if they had no indication (apart from Vickers' preemptively reproachful grade-school librarian's tone) of ulterior motives to go on. They do, however, seem naive about how to go about…

Who was gullible? Who was fooled by whom?

I remember there being the prototype Bat only, which he had hidden away on a rooftop, so it wasn't available for Bane/Talia to use. I don't remember there being engineers figuring anything out about the autopilot after the explosion.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/19/is-the-master-based-on-scientology-and-l-ron-hubbard.html

And nothing to absorb recoil.

And no dictionary pretends to be standardizing the language. They're purely descriptive and based on attested usage.

Two of these and you can throw a Zaireeka party.

What I hate about revisionist historians is the ability to blame the South for going to war to preserve slavery while at the same time claiming that the freeing of slaves was not part of the Republican plan. One merely needs to read the Republican party platform of 1860 to know that is false.

Freeing the slaves was not part of the Republican plan and it's not evident there in the platform. When they're speaking of the abolition of slavery they're talking about it only in the federal territories, not the states. Article 8 can't be understood apart from 7, and their background is the the Kansas-Nebraska bill…

I challenge you to define rambling and point to an instance of it in my post. Better, why not actually read the post or stop pretending you didn't and address some of its questions. Anti-intellectualism right out of the gates is less than impressive.

That they kept making mistakes is a profound understatement. They made mistakes that no present-day lay person with half a brain would make. Tell me you wouldn't have had the sense (to cite only a few of many examples) to study the planet from orbit first, or to map and explore the alien structure remotely before…

Yeah. The earliest attestation in the Ngram Viewer is from 1984.

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Thanks for posting this.

Speaking to the head of a radical splinter group of disgruntled engineers: "It might interest you that I studied Proto-Indo European on Rosetta Stone...."

People seem really desperate to find reasons to hate on this. A teenage geek finds himself with superpowers and the inevitable bravado that comes with that and people can't abide his snark toward a car thief? Car thieves are dicks pretty much by definition, right? Parker looks like he's fairly new to crime-fighting…

Are we meant to think that David reconstructed Indo-European through a two-year study of the Rosetta Stone catalog (instead of, you know, just uploading the languages)? Early humans spoke Engineer? Anyway, I'm happy to have found this clip, which I instantly thought of when David apparently offended the Engineer:

"It's the biggest question of the movie, and it's never directly answered."