Well, he has almost certainly increased alcohol sales.

cromulent

Yeah, I don’t know why James Cameron thought that sounded good when he made it up.

Make it its own thing and no one could object; it would also be free to have more going for it than “it’s Die Hard with women!” Think Point Break -> The Fast and the Furious.

Who cares? Did anyone actually like any of the Ocean’s movies enough to care if a sequel is ruined or not? I mean...this does kind of tell you what these objections are really about, because it couldn’t possibly be that there’s some beloved legacy being fucked with.

This isn’t Ghostbusters.  

Keeping the Hans role male opens up new possibilities.  Cast a creep and...there’d be both possibilities to piss off this crowd and a chance that they’d just latch on to him to hate the protagonist more.

Laconia.

Old school or no school.

Seriously, anyone who gets that bent out of shape about it is revealing their ignorance.

Why bother working then?

BRTSH AF better have been for something that really is British as fuck

You know what that thing would really be used for.  

“Christ!  Did you just fart?”

Use a portion of an old phone number (preferably not recent, or not yours, because ones from the last 10 or 20 years might be out there associated with your user name), plus a non-word.  I usually tell people to use the names of dead pets.

“When all else fails, we don’t” was a great tag line.

But Lucas was an untouchable Gen-X icon until Memorial Day weekend 1999

What percentage of office romances do you figure end up there?

My office isn’t unpleasant NOW.  But it was when my dating coworkers were in the midst of breaking up.  Would have stayed that way if one of them hadn’t gotten fired.

Well, you can ask them “is it worth losing one or both of your jobs?”  Because that’s what it may come to.

If they aren’t in the same chain of command, if they’re in different branches of the hierarchy, and the organization is large, and they’re both far enough down that the promoted party isn’t rubbing elbows with the lower party’s boss...

Then sure, it’s probably okay.

I used to hang around with a female coworker. Like, in her barracks room. Never made a move. And in words couched in deniability, she expressed what appeared to be irritation that I never made a move. I kind of regret never doing so.

But this person was, to some minor degree, my subordinate (I was her trainer and had…