Dude, I cracked a tailbone in a motorcycle and flew 1 month later to Singapore, in coach. You can be assured I reclined, and I needed to, it was excruciating

They paid for their space same as you. Why do you have the right to the space in front of them, but they don’t?

Your demand to recline is your problem, not mine. Buy a seat in first class if you need to be able to recline.

Two things: first, as you likely know, most air travel is for business. So many, many people don’t have the option to upgrade at all, as their business either makes the arrangements or refuses to pay for more than the cheapest fare. What are those people supposed to do?

There are only so many exit row seats on a given plane. Are you seriously suggesting that a tall person be shut out from flying if the exit row is taken just so you can recline?

I agree politness can go a long way. But it’s impolite to recline without asking first. It shouldn’t be incumbent on the person who is being knowingly and intentionally made less comfortable to ask the person making them less comfortable to please stop, if they would be so kind.

Yes. You’re are not allowed to cause someone else discomfort in order to increase your comfort without at least obtaining permission first.

I think ultimately this argument comes down to who is obligated to use their words. My position is that if you want to recline you should have to ask the person behind you before doing so. Many, many others believe that you should be able to recline at your discretion and then make it incumbent upon the person behind…

Hey, buddy? Just because I disagree with you or do not use the same idiosyncratic terminology/taxonomy as you doesn’t mean I’m “not prepared for this discussion.” Literally anyone who has seen a Star Wars movie is “prepared for this discussion.” I love these movies but they’re not exactly dense texts, and that’s by…

You’ve argued against the notion that Star Wars should be seen as a sacrosanct piece of art by...defining it as a sacrosanct piece of art. You’ve simply argued that when it comes to Star Wars, genre trappings are sacred, and any attempt to interrogate or play with them is profane.

Ok so genuine question here: One Halloween when I was a youngish teen I went as a Klingon from Star Trek: The Next Generation, and for many Halloweens after it was my dad’s go-to, lazy, open the door for trick or treaters costume. As you may or may not know, all (or at least most) of the Klingons from that series were…

Weddings have always been big affairs in lots of different cultures. We didn’t arrive at the big wedding by accident; it’s way more common than elopement throughout history. Weddings used to be an excuse for an entire town to get together and party back when only the brave few ever even left the town they were born…

Funny thing about the “beer and wine is free but liquor is extra” semi-cash bars is that liquor, even upper middle shelf liquor, is easily the cheapest form of alcohol. Cheap beer isn’t too far off, but decent beer is pretty pricey in comparison. Wine is off the charts, relatively speaking. So if you were really…

It’s weird to agree with you so strongly about GoT and disagree so strongly about TLJ. I agree that the fact that GoT always kept me guessing was a big part of why I liked the show, and agree that the problem with the ending was all execution and not plot.

Star Wars isn’t some sacrosanct genre unto itself. Watchmen proves 30+ years ago that you can deconstruct even the most formulaic, kid-friendly stories while also telling a good story in that same genre at the same time. The same is true of Star Wars.

So...are you pre-criticizing J.J.’s Episode IX for potentially retconning? Because TLJ didn’t have any significant retcons that I can recall. Snoke’s ultimate pointlessness and Rey’s parentage are dead-ended by Rian Johnson (which, for the record, I think were brilliant choices). But that didn’t contradict previous…

Gonna need a citation for “most.” It crushed the box office and most of the people I interact with loved it. That’s not exactly a scientific survey, but neither is simply asserting that “most” didn’t like it.

Bit Rian Johnson already proved he’s capable of making a great Star Wars movie in The Last Jedi.

My assumption was that the monster had a sort of rubber-banding power. That is, it either A) moved faster when you were further away, B) once you moved beyond a certain distance it would “teleport” to within some distance. Obviously this isn’t explained in the movie but that’s my fanon to prevent the obvious solution…

Assuming you can get any kind of agriculture growing, fermentation and distillation aren’t really all that hard to develop. Alcohol would probably be one of the first things a stable post-apocalyptic society would develop. So I’d expect alcoholism to be a real issue.