At least one of the videos was a lie (there’s a thread with the origin of the video)

“....and I’ll leave my gun” from the Rey-Mind-Tricked Stormtrooper

The only other explanation would be if she is a “stolen baby” (in telenovela plot style) from Han and Leia. I believe Leia would know if she had been pregnant and a baby was taken from her so this would be impossible. Also, there seems to be an age difference between her and Kylo for them to be twins (and her the one…

The “almost kissed” stuff always bothered me and yesterday I came across the original TV spots for the first movie and ICK! I really believe Lucas had no idea where he was going then and all the familial relationships only became future plot points as a consequence of the success. Otherwise I cannot really explain who…

Their markup is OUTRAGEOUS. Check out the prices of the tea boxes at Dammann Freres. The exact same set is 145 Euros vs 200 at W-S!. And that’s the price for the end consumer; obviously W-S gets wholesale discounts. And for the price of those truffles you can get a huge box at one of the best Belgian chocolatiers…

Philippe Jaroussky is another guy who can sing parts originally written for castrati. In this clip he’s singing the part of Monteverdi’s Neroni in L’incoronazione di Poppea which was originally played by castrati and nowadays it’s mostly played by women.

I eat at fancy restaurants regularly. I save for the occasion (just like some people love to attend sports events, I like to visit some nice places in Europe -where I live). The portion size varies per restaurant and the rule of thumb is, if you take one of the chef’s menus, you are going to be well fed and perhaps…

The difference is that Kingsley is of Indian heritage. His birth name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji. He might not look much like Gandhi without the makeup and characterization but the guy is not appropriating anything like blackface.

An Arab Las Vegas would make it livable and perhaps fun. In the UAE, if you are a woman, you better pray you are not raped or assaulted because you might end up in jail. And while there is exploitation of immigrants in Las Vegas, at least it is not state sanctioned and left to fester with impunity. If you have the…

Also, if they wanted to appeal to a young demographic, only an old, uncool producer would come up with that slogan/tagline. It’s the kind of thing my mother would consider “appealing to the youth”.

I am not a big fan of AoS but couldn’t the same be said about Arrow? I love Arrow and no matter how dumb some of the stuff they do, it’s one of my weekly guilty pleasure. The whole thing around “secrets” though, is tiring by now both in characters keeping secrets for no reason and the same tired reaction from everyone…

Oh please, a little bit of historical perspective. If, in retrospect, we find out a creator was an awful person, it's one thing. But the case with Cassandra Clare is that she is actively profiting now, right this moment, from her awful behavior. Giving her TV contracts = allowing her to profit from her plagiarism (an…

I'm with you and because I'm a bitter old, I would refuse to give the site any publicity/ links unless they write text that is universally understood as such. They have no incentive to change unless nobody talks about their shit.

I read Torrentfreak a few times a week (great source for copyright related news) and a couple of days ago I found the most hilarious copyright infringement troll to date: someone released a good quality copy of 50 shades with none of the sex scenes. I can only imagine the WTF moment for those downloading with the…

I saw the trailer in the cinema when I saw Kingsman and it filled me with dread. I enjoyed District 9 and even *gasp* Elysium but Chappie, for all its supposed appeal to emotions, made me feel terrible. Like, I'm going to spend time watching a film where the human characters abuse puppies or something. If the emotion…

I've watched both simultaneously (as in, one episode of each every week, following their TV schedule) and seeing Jarvis/ Paul caused me a huge cognitive dissonance.

No, you are not making it up. Here's the wiki article about the practice. And here's a link examining one such case.

The shocking twist is that it is terrible all along until the last ten seconds of the last episode. Those seconds are just a shot of David Lynch pointing at the camera laughing and laughing. And then this:

Native Spanish speaker here so it wasn't difficult to track down this corner in google maps and local blogs. This is how the corner looked like before the artistic intervention. I couldn't find anything about the artist involved but my guess is that the house owner might have commissioned it as a way to dissuade…

No worries, that is coming: Linguistic Features of Typographic Emoticons in SMS Discourse. (link to PDF)