From the logo, they clearly meant “menhir” (I read a lot of Asterix as a kid)...

Hah. Their reviewer went on and on about “broth and juice” in the description of the beach scene.

Author: “They did a ‘Bury Your Gays’! Shame! Shame!”

That’s the screwup du jour of writers who only read Twitter. My other favorite is tech writers who say things like “When the system is running full boat, the fans get really loud” - the idiom is “full bore.”

1) The War of Wrath also involved a large chunk of western Middle Earth being blasted into the ocean.

Discord, a gussied-up IRC. How quaint.

> It’s not long, though, until the cat you control is separated from the pack.

> (See also: The moment when William unveiled the latest park in an earlier episode and referred to the pandemic that ravaged the human population in the 21st century). I appreciate the show trying not to will away COVID and its many metaphors, but it still feels too soon.

Hm, doesn’t seem to be any mention of stupid names.

Tia’s priest dad casting the defensive barrier spell “STRYPER!” always gets a chuckle. ‘Cuz they’re Christian metal, get it?

1.25 seconds, so 2.5 seconds round trip. Just enough to be annoying.

>Sojourner One is harnessing solar power to give it an extra boost that will put it into Mars orbit eight days before Phoenix.

Doubly ironic, considering that some states made it illegal to teach German in schools after World War 1. (And Texas has long been a leader in the English-only movement in the US.)

>Mandating the language to be used with government forms is how you push immigrants away, isolating them from critical government services, disenfranchising them in general, and just making them feel outright unwelcome overall.

I’m sure that the French got a good chuckle out of this, considering their low opinion of Quebecois.

When the White Taliban tell you what their endgame is, fucking pay attention. They aren’t joking.

And every one of these “life begins at conception” freaks is just as “morally” opposed to contraceptives and sex education.

So there’s money to hire a (no doubt) extremely expensive team of spin doctors, but no money to pay their employees more. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: companies don’t view their workers as people; they view them as office supplies.

No mention of Simon’s other Baltimore crime series, Homicide: Life on the Street? It predated The Wire by nearly 10 years.

And sadly, they made the deliberate choice to mimic it in The Mandalorian and Boba Fett.