ARGH, we need to make this a thing that people are aware of. How do we make this a thing that people are aware of?

If you can’t be bothered to find identical twin actors to play identical twins, you don’t deserve to have identical twins in your movie. We’re real human beings who actually exist. We are not your plot…

This happens to me, too. I’ve always suspected that they do it on purpose in order to make it look like it’s actually random.

I once got the pocket treatment while I was in the middle of my period. The pad that I was wearing was not anywhere close to my pockets. They were so not interested in hearing this, however.

I’m pretty sure they can. They just don’t.

Unfortunately it’s not at all weird—at least, not in the sense of “unusual” or “abnormal”. It happens to women all the time. See also: Gamergate. There is basically a large semi-organized mob of guys out there at all times looking for targets. If they can combine racism with their misogyny, that’s like Christmas for…

I spent a few months working at a children’s hospital once. The only time I ever saw the staff there be anything other than ridiculously kind (or at worst, brusquely efficient) with their young patients was when the patients were kids who were obnoxiously high or drunk.

I mean, they clearly were going to do everything…

Good point. Harry Potter is a special case because (1) it’s Harry Potter and (2) the last book was long enough to be at least two books. (Most YA novels have editors, so they aren’t allowed to get that long.)

Me too, but I think we’re the unusual ones. My current theory is that most people have as much visual imagination as a goldfish, and literally cannot envision what an empty room would look like with furniture in it.

They decided to make a young adult novel into two movies. That’s always where you went wrong. The only thing worse is making it into three movies (*cough*PeterJackson*coughcough*).

Even the best young adult literature does not tolerate this treatment well.

As long as the original film still exists and is obtainable in its original un-remade form, this is true. *cough*GeorgeLucas*coughcough*

This is a good question at face value, but if you apply this logic across the board there is almost no reason to make any movies ever. Movies, almost by definition, do not ever have to be remade (or rebooted, or made in the first place).

No matter how carefully you read the rules, don’t be surprised if there’s some little “rule” or policy that you weren’t prepared for. They routinely change things more or less at random. Just go with it.

It helps a little to treat it like a game. Try to spot them doing this.

Did you know this is actually completely deliberate? They really do have “rules of the day”. They randomly change things because it supposedly will unnerve potential terrorists if they are confronted with something they don’t expect. This is very effective. Unfortunately, it has the exact same effect on everyone else,…

Is “Your Favorite Crunchy Hairspray” next? :)

Is “Your Favorite Crunchy Hairspray” next? :)

Right. For a white person going to an African country during mosquito season (which means it’s warm), it would be a lot more relevant to post a photo of yourself posing with your sunscreen and insect repellent.

This is why I mostly take pictures of birds.

You can’t go wrong with birds. Birds could not care less.

She didn’t even include the first name of her translator. I get that unfamiliar names are hard to hear (and harder to spell), but he’s her translator. She could ask him to spell it for her, for goodness’ sake!

They also typically have a much more modern approach to things like SIM cards and cell carriers. <3 People who don’t ever leave the U.S. have no idea that we’re stuck in the dark ages, practically, on that stuff.

Right, but the fact that they’re “massaging” the data basically confirms that the raw data is not strictly objective.

You can take away the grading bias by sticking with multiple-choice questions. (When I took the SAT it was 100% filling-in-the-little-bubbles. There wasn’t a best answer or most creative answer. There was a right answer and the rest were wrong.)

But of course at that point you are partially testing students’ ability…