Then again, give it a few years in DA time and they'll all wear flapper dresses.

What is strange about it is that she has the same kind of beauty Jane Bennet had in the Pride & Prejudice series, and everybody was raving about it then ('famed local beauty' and all). All right, there's an age between them, but still.

Which would mean that every American you've ever encountered has been deprived of A Bit of Fry and Laurie. That's sad.

That's far beside what I was trying to say, but maybe I wasn't very clear. I'm not trying to make the Sandusky scandal even worse (and I didn't even know about those other details). The only thing I see, and keep seeing, is the urge to defend heroes when it's not clear beyond more than reasonable doubt that they're…

You're absolutely right.

I haven't either, but that's not what I meant. I was trying to make a point about the mechanisms of defending heroes, especially when the wrongdoings have little to do with the reasons they're heroes. See also: Polanski.

I get the feeling that if some people could've got away with it - ie, if there hadn't been a mountain of evidence that he raped kids - they'd be defending Sandusky too. Instead, they're turning that same instant defense-of-fallen-heroes-whose-rights-always-outweigh-the-wrongs mechanism to Paterno.

I know that guy. Who, incidentally, is totally into anal but freaks out about anything happening too close to his butt because 'that's gay'.

If it fits a stereotype, it will be noted. If it flies in the face of a stereotype, it will be noted too.

That made me giggle and wince at the same time, because DAMN.

That it means different things to different people makes sense. But.

I think I can still get immersed in it, too - just watched ep 1 - but my, there we go again. So Thomas-the-gay-man is not just evil, but also a coward. Got it, and not at all predictable. And Bates... (I liked this take on Bates I came across that nicely points out what's bothersome about his characterization, and…

I've been to a couple of places too, Verdun most memorable after Ypres. It made a lasting impression. We don't get to hear much about it in The Netherlands, as we weren't involved, and the simple scale of it never really registered with me until I saw all that. Verdun's still destroyed landscape, Diksmuide.

Ooh thanks for the rec! I've been on a WW I info raid after visiting Ypres last year. I read Graves' Good-bye to All That a few months ago andRegeneration is on my list too, but I didn't know there was a movie.

Meh. I love historical drama and I so wanted to like this. Gosford Park, serialized! But I never started season two - it's been running here for a while now - because I couldn't get over the fairly stereotypical characterizations. Maybe I shouldn't let that bother me and just enjoy it for what it is?

Isn't it true that the second shot can happen inadvertently and often does? Something to do with backlash, or something. I remember reading that somewhere, in the case where someone killed himself with two shots.

It doesn't, but it worked, didn't it? It may not have any legal implications on Facebook, but it matters in the public opinion. Even if it sounds high-handed as hell. I'm all in favour of going that route in cases of calling corporations on screw-ups and double standards, especially because there are very little legal…

But WoW didn't say they broke a law. And it may be grossly overreaching to call it a Human Rights violation, but Facebook did break their own principle of free flow of information. WoW was right to call them on removing content that didn't break Facebook's ToS. Of course WoW wouldn't have a legal leg to stand on -…

It's the gay agenda, finally revealed.

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