Oh, yeah, I believe you. I just saw an excuse to post that video. :)

a girl on there kept insisting that she was best friends with Courtney Love

It's someone cosplaying as Spider Jerusalem, the lead character of Warren Ellis's Transmetropolitan:

The premise is Hamm remembering his youth. So Radcliffe is how he remembers himself, not how he actually was. It looks odd, especially in the scenes where they're together, but it does make sense.

Because people continue to be weirdly attached to bizarre symbols and rituals in place of patriotism about something significant, and it's best to keep those symbols and rituals as far away from actual substantive politics as possible. Monarchy is a ridiculous institution which can act as a lightning rod for…

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You looked fantastic, amongst a whole bunch of great cosplayers. The whole event looked really fun.

I'd like to add my voice to those criticizing the new format. In particular, the replacement of the multiple tags down the side by only one tag at the top has broken a very useful search tool

That's not true: the one complimentary comment got approved - without any user recommendations!

Dubrovnik has been a tourist destination for a long time. I went there as a kid in the 80s before the war. I still remember it vividly - it's a stunning city.

Exactly. Routh was pretty great in the role, even though it was basically a retread of Reeves's (and that's Singer's fault). Since then he's been especially strong as a villain, as in Chuck and Scott Pilgrim.

As a former eight-year male resident of London, let me just add to this. While the spread can often be mitigated by not slouching, it's not a viable option for Madden here. He's in the narrowest seat, where the plastic partition takes up the space where another armrest would normally be. Unless you're very petit,…

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Yeah. I remember a DVD commentary where one of the SFX guys mentioned the rope and describing how the shaky quality came from the stop-motion effect. The commentary then cut to Lucas talking about how nowadays they'd do everything in CGI. I heard that and thought, "That's one reason your new trilogy is so bad, George…

Women need a separate locker room from men not because anyone's straight or gay as such, but because men are often (not always!) physically more powerful than those women, either individually or in groups, and there's a history of some straight men abusing that power.

Yeah. I was a thoughtless and passionate teenager who'd not long before got his dad to stop smoking. I was determined to save my loved ones from evil corporations profiting from addiction and completely oblivious to how this situation was different.

Man here. A long time ago when I was young and self-righteous, I read an article about how women's confidence levels dropped if they left the house without make-up. (It was one of these, 'Studies have shown...' articles.) I hadn't thought about make-up until that point, and rarely consciously noticed it, but I saw red…

I'd rather they left the corpses in, instead of having them disappear.

Your premises are flawed, though. There is no natural human behaviour without culture (liberal, conservative, cosmopolitan, rural, whatever - culture itself is natural), nor can there be any decision-making or given value of "optimal" without culture. And it's not the case that some culture-less nature would "dictate"…