Don’t worry, China is working to fill in the gap left by the US in the wake of Trump’s presidency.

Sorry, not enough budget for that.

If we go by that logic, all food could be turned in to paste before eating, but we don’t because texture is part of enjoying different foods.

It’s not like Japan doesn’t have similar avenues for letting off steam. In rural settings their Summer festivals are very raucous with lots of drinking and physical effort carrying are “mikoshi” (portable shrines) or pulling “dashi” (large festival wagons). Some festivals are even close to officially sanctioned…

This news is not as shocking as how Gene Wilder originally planned to portray Willy Wonka. Here’s some archive footage of make-up and screen tests:

I wouldn’t say I’m irrationally upset, but I do hate characters like Jerry who are portrayed as being completely hopeless and are given no chance for redemption. Pretty much all the other characters have been given some degree of depth or even growth, but Jerry just keeps on being trod-on and hopeless. Maybe they’re…

Reminds me of a bit from this podcast:

I hadn’t heard of this cartoon until I saw this video on Reddit last night, so I read through the comments on Reddit and did some Googling.

Is the procedure reversible? Because I’ve heard that once you go black, you never go back...

at one point the younger one broke into tears and accused me of treating them like slaves (he’s six), which occasioned a short and stern conversation.

Wow...Daniel Craig is sporting massive wood in that photo.

I’m late to the party, but here you go:

This is for you, then.

No need to force yourself to drink all of the soup if you don’t want to / can’t. If it is a really good soup then I can and will drink it all, otherwise, I’ll leave it.

Yes. Definitely not Khan Noonien Singh.

Is that GIF Hitler and Gandalf about to make out?

I like your thinking.

Is it just me, or does the city in that video look a lot like Columbia from Bioshock Infinite?

Whoa there- what’s with “for once” Leia got to do something? In “A New Hope” she stands up to both Tarkin and Vader, resists the interrogator probe, and when “the boys” finally turn up to rescue her they bungle it and she has to take the lead.

You mean showing up a week before the night of the release? Maybe an exaggeration, but I imagine there will be a lot of people camping out in advance.