Yeah, it makes sense to be concerned for the barefoot person, who is risking stepping on tacks/pebbles/glass/whatever and is getting their feet dirty. But whatever dirtiness the bare feet are contributing to the ground is negligible compared to what is tracked around on the bottom of everyone’s feet whether they are…

This is what I had heard, and it held up when I did some Google searching for it.

Funny thing is it never would have sounded sexist if you hadn’t said, “I do not give a shit how sexist it sounds” and had just started the sentence “Not once, ever...” I would have just read it as you saying all the important women in your life have loved Tiffany’s, but now I guess you’re trying to say something…

Did your boyfriend mention that Nala can best Simba in a fight, but a dozen lionesses have no choice but to submit to the weakling lion Scar as he destroys their entire ecosystem? They have to wait until Simba literally grows up and then gets his act together to come home and save them.

And it looks like they cast black actors to play all of the lions. Even if we are only hearing their voices, I still respect the consistency, which Jeremy Irons would have spoiled.

This hits home. In middle and high school, I wouldn’t answer questions that teachers asked the class, because it seemed like a lose-lose social situation: if I was right, then the other kids would roll their eyes and say “know-it-all,” but if I was wrong, then the other kids would laugh, saying, “Gasp—she got it…

Sure, he is an honourable man.

No, surely it will just be condolences for the victims. Immediately after a tragedy is not the time to be discussing the root causes or ways to reduce such tragedies in the future. Right? Right?

You’re entitled to your opinion, of course, but you shouldn’t be surprised if people get annoyed when you state your opinion as if you’re speaking for “the world.” I know some people like to phrase things that way (like a “hot take” or whatever), but to people who aren’t used to that phrasing it can seem insulting (as…

Yeah, as soon as I saw the part about two dogs, I thought “MOVIE!”

Seems like they were terribly prepared in terms of communication, but very well prepared in terms of food and water. At least it worked out in the end. And the dogs were OK too!

The NEC then the Kuroshio fast lane. That would get you there.

It’s ok to be curious, but my advice: Wait until an opportunity arises in the conversation (e.g., maybe you volunteer info about your grandparents, then steer towards finding out about their ancestry) or until you know the person better. And never phrase it as “What are you?” (uh, a person?) or “Where are you from?”…

Screw your fucking heartbeat. Mice have heartbeats and they’re cuter and more sentient than your 6-week-old parasitic shrimp and you can legally kill them if they invade your space. Hearts are not what make humans special. This bill is bullshit as far as science, logic, and morality are concerned. It’s simply evil.

So the really important piece of info for me in determining how scared I should be was HOW DEEP? Clicked through and the answer, for anyone else who’s wondering, is 5 meters below the surface (i.e., the seabed on which it is built is 5 m deep).

A horrifying statement. Worse than the Handmaid’s Tale: at least in Gilead, the welfare of the baby after its birth was also valued. I believe them when they say that their interest is in promoting childbirth—nothing else.

I’m surprised anyone feels like they’ve had “success” with a Ouija board. I remember giggling over the whole “I’m not moving it, you’re moving it!” “—No I’m not, you are!” thing, but it only ever spelled gibberish, which is lame. If it did spell out something coherent, then yeah, I’d know someone was steering it,…

I believe the part about the research belonging to the government, but isn’t it also to some extent public data, unless it’s classified? I could see them preventing people from presenting as representatives of the EPA (they could list themselves as unaffiliated graduates of whatever university or something), but is…

I also enjoyed 7:47, with Jason’s various guesses as to how he died in Florida, and the following clip, where Jameela Jamil realizes her profane outtake was even worse than intended.

Her accent was so weird I had to look up old interviews of Harding to figure out if she really sounded like that. The vocal fry is there, but the rest of it seems out of nowhere. Crazy voice works fine for a comic book psycho, but for a real person? Hopefully the bulk of the movie is more toned down than this…