You’re awsome :)

I agree it’s bullying, the kind that happens all the time even between friends, and the kids either continue to be friends and work it out, or move on. We can’t discount the value of learning to negotiate with our peers, which is rather undermined if our parents work it all out behind our backs.

That’s a bit unfair. A LOT of people keep nagging her to write more Potter.

The 1975 show “The Changes” was a post-apocolyptic kids program from around the same era. Very creepy. The trailer doesn’t really do it justice, but...

Is this satire? This is satire, right?

He’s probably Swiss, they always look bored.

Must have missed it. It was still a massive best-seller though wasn’t it? And they made a movie. So the backlash can’t have tainted it too much. On the other hand, they never did make a Golden Compass sequel, but that might have been because it was rubbish.

Britain abolished slavery 70 years before the US did. What genocides?

The Irish don’t get a pass either. And Australians deserve at least half the blame for the things that happened in Australia.

You’re blaming the “English”? Idiot.

The UK isn’t monolithic either. It’s literally made up of four different countries. Yet nobody seems to worry about treating British people as monolithic when it comes to myths and traditions. British people would look askance at you if you did worry about it, frankly.

As I recall, The Da Vinci Code did exactly that. I guess there must have been some degree of shit-fitting going on, but I don’t recall it. In any case, liberals weren’t up in arms about it.

How is an English woman encorporating European mythology into her stories “using her own culture” any more than using native American mythology is? Europe isn’t a “culture”. Rowling has no more connection to Greek mythology than she does to any other mythology other than any that are specifically British. Even a lot…

Permissions from whom?

The land stealing was done by descendants of North Americans. My descendants stayed home and worked in mines and mills and in particular did not steal land off anybody. Not that I think people should be held responsible for the actions of their ancestors, but it’s Americans who are benefitting from these actions, not…

You’d have to go back far enough in time to ensure your parents were so rich you never had to worry about working.

Yeah, I’m going for a little lie down too.

I’m pretty sure Chewbacca can’t say “Chewbacca”. Weird. How do other Wookies call each other by name?

It’s just a further example of treating Wookies as if they’re not real people, as far as I’m concerned. #StarWarsSoHuman

The problem with this show is that the time spane between when it’s set and the fall of civilisation is wildly erratic. For set dressing we see a well rusted container ship that could be a couple of thousand years old, an abandoned car that can’t be more than 50 years old, a swing set that couldn’t be more than a few…