Fresh from my drawer:

Sydney has a pretty big population of active Muslims, esp around the west/southwest regions. Sydney’s very multicultural - there’s discrimination and racism (and it can go both ways) but generally people are tolerant and accepting.

I went to an agricultural high school. I learnt that you have to milk the cows regularly, otherwise the udders overfill, cause the cow a lot of pain, and can lead to mastitis and other infections, literal bursting of the capillaries in the mammary glands, and death. I never put it together with human women until much,…

They are soft padded leather, so probs pretty comfortable. And yes, they all play with their phones these days, although given that a lot of the backbenchers have to be present but never get to say anything, I’m not surprised.

IIRC correctly, that’s exactly what happened - there was some short notice thing that HAD to be attended, the nanny wasn’t available, it was only going to take about 30 mins, so the senator just took her kid in and told her to be quiet (which she was). The males freaked, although it wasn’t just because ew, baby, it…

I hate that attitude. How is it any less courageous or unselfish to abort a pregnancy where the child is likely to suffer and die? Maybe it’s God’s Will to test the mother’s strength and fortitude in the face of such a difficult decision, who knows. I sure as hell think it’s God’s Will for us to take advantage of the…

I wonder if that’s both male and female children? And whether that plays a role in further abuse down the line? Anyone got a link or a bit more info on that study?

Not that much of a fan, unfortunately, I haven’t even seen Clone Wars or Rebels cause I don’t get those channels (plus i really hated the way Lucas dissed Genndy Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars series).

True. I recall a review about the PT that said that if the focus had been on Obi-Wan, and not Anakin (ie Obi-Wan’s attempt to live up to his dead master’s legacy by training Anakin, and failing, setting up Vader and the OT, rather than Anakin’s totally inevitable fall to the Dark side against the political…

Yes, i just checked wookiepedia - older sister was Sola Naberrie (played by Claudia Karvan, which is why it stuck in my mind despite the fact she was cut), who had two daughters (canon, they’re at Amidala’s funeral), which would make their children or grandchildren the right age to have Rey (depending on generation…

hmmmm, i really like Finn Skywalker. Plus - didn’t Amidala have a sister(s)? Rey could have the resemblance thru that side of the family, not thru Luke or Leia.

Would make it impossible to be a Solo if Leia is the mother...

Which is why my favourite theory is Rey is Han’s daughter by someone other than Leia - that makes her half-sister to Kylo/Ben, but not a Skywalker, explains why Han is so important to the Force/plot, explains a lot of her pilot and mechanical skills, and we know that Han and Leia did not stay together the whole time…

Def Bernadette Peters! Maybe not Ellen and Sarah, not in 1998.

The woman makes the choice, but she never goes for the asshole. In the end. Asshole sleeps alone.

a) so the woman’s life is only worth saving if you know her?

Duuuuude. I was flicking thru the posts, idly wondering who the female equivalent to a fast talking irreverent Eddie Murphy was, and it hit me:

Ha, I do the same thing but with sci-fi, you start throwing around terms like ‘multiple person pantheistic solopsism’, ‘realistic approaches to relativistic travel and time dilation’, and maybe a couple of quantums, and just wait for their eyes to glaze over...

You’re not ugly, you just don’t conform to a narrow and limiting standard of beauty and hypersexuality as dictated by our corporate overlords. Go, you rebel!