For some reason Kinja will let me post comments but not reply to anybody else’s. So,

James I had a very strong claim to the English throne, the idea that he was on shaky ground because he started a new dynasty is just not true. James and his mother Mary were both descended directly from Henry VII and therefore both had a legitimate claim to the English throne, Catholicism and being a Stuart aside. Eliz…

The monarchy has been around for a few hundred years. We can’t even get rid of a sentient moldy cheetoh posing as president. 

I mean maybe, and this is such a radical position, it’s time to send all of them packing.  Depose the lot and avoid the whole issue.

In 1996, he conceived a movie about a “group of friends who go to a diner late at night”

Estate taxes are actually wealth taxes, and inflation caused by deficit spending is effectively a “wealth tax.” The truly wealthy usually find ways to minimize the effect of both, as they would with any tax. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try though.

There is one person who far exceeded Steffi’s dominance. During what should have been Steffi’s absolute, absolute prime years - Steffi won two Grand Slam titles over a two plus year period. Monica Seles won eight of nine titles and made it to the finals in the other. And skipped one grand slam, that Steffi won. And…

“She’s fine.”

I assumed you might be lol.

Which actually makes complete sense since we have very similar climates.

aquanet is also absolutely fantastic for a 3d printer print bed to printed model bonding agent.

Oooh... With a Christmas season, they could fill it full of Gremlins references!

Absolutely. I grew up in the 1980's and me and my friends would go everywhere at age eight. My mom gave me some coins so I could use a public phone if I couldn’t find the way home.

Hopper smokes a lot but that seems very on brand for an Indiana cop in the 80s. I've got no issues with the depiction. It's not like the kids are smoking (which, uh, kids were definitely smoking when I was a teen in the 90s).

As someone who grew up in the 80s, a wide berth of child autonomy was fairly common. Unattended children could pretty much roam around as much as they liked until the street lights turned on, which was the usual sign to get your ass home.

“For starters, who lets 10 year olds go to a mall unattended by an adult?” My mother and a lot of mothers I knew did. I walked to the mall with friends without supervision at the age of 10 in 1974. My guess mothers in the 1980s would do that too.

Um - Bowie wrote “Heroes” and Gabriel covered it . . . Thanks for the review though. It was a great read.

My sister went through cases of it.

Michael Bay is the third highest grossing film director of all time. 

This. Stranger Things is, at its heart, actually a 1980s movie, so in that context, if you put yourself in a Reaganesque 1985 mindset, then a fear of the Ruskies infiltrating America like this is totally plausible. In 1985, we didn’t know about Chernobyl, the Berlin Wall, or how terrible New Coke actually was. Sure,…