It’s all about respecting their AUTHORTAH!

The oldest contradiction in school punishment. “What? You don’t want to be at school. Why we’ll suspend you from school! Not being able to come to school will certainly teach you to skip school.”

I answer the phone with a chirpy, “Shello.” Just like they did on Sigmund and the Sea Monster.

He watched Moonraker last night. You can bet on it.

But what is the actual percentage of NCAA athletes who get multi-year scholarships. And I mean ALL athletes, not just mens basketball and football? Because a woman’s volleyball player who gets cut to make room for a new coach’s pet project is just as screwed.

Citation please. The Junior Colleges around the DIV1 school at which I teach is loaded with players who were cast aside to make room for younger, more promising players, they didn’t fit a new coach’s style, or for no expressed reason at all. And since they didn’t get an education while here, they have to settle for a…

I wonder if anyone thought about standing up and shouting, “I’ve had it with all the mother fucking vomit, on this mother fucking plane.”

How about lets implement the simple safeguards against abuse instituted successfully all over the country and not relax them just because someone is famous, wins, or earns a program lots of money.

I agree with you mostly. The amount of entitlement in the SF/F world can be staggering and ultimately the creators owe fans nothing whether it is timely installments in a treasured series or franchise, adherence to some abstract “canon,” or not to remake/reboot/reimagine and “ruin” some work looked upon with nostalgia.

But good exercise routines never go out of style. Now excuse me while I do my drum aerobics.

Just thinking out loud here, but it’s probably because there is a difference between the sports, the activities being played on the field/pitch/slopes/rink etc, and the businesses and bureaucracies that regulate, officiate, and other wise govern specific sports at specific levels. It’s not a hard and fast difference,…

I’m not outraged. (there are so many more important things to get outraged these days especially in sports.)

Speaking as a fellow cranky old man, I heartily endorse this take.

I’ve been assured upthread that it is totally different. Ultimately it isn’t what she did, but how she did it. She didn’t respect THE SHIELD RINGS!

When oily Tonga guy competed in cross-country skiing after only three months experience it was touted as an inspirational story by NBC. How is this different?

But the author doesn’t say if the reboot (or remake or rerun or reunion or revival etc) is good or bad. It asks if the IDEA of a reboot is a bad idea. And ideas can certainly be bad or good based upon any number of criteria.

Wait. Would it be a reunion? Reboot? Revival? Remake?

They learned their lesson, then?

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Came here to say the same thing. He plays the rarest of all possible characters in teen romantic comedies: An intelligent, three-dimensional parent. And his subplot is not strange. It provides Skye’s character, and Cusack’s, a view of the adult world. She loves her dad but realizes he isn’t the perfect man she always…

After seeing the Dinklage v. Freeman rap off all I could think of was the old Heat Miser/Snow Miser rap battles of the 1970's. Now those were the bomb. Old school.