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How many times have I accidentally watched an extremely violent film with my mother? Zero. How many times have I awkwardly sat through a sex scene with my mother? Like, 10 or something.

It's refreshing to see most of the people in the comments understand why it's easier to teach a 12 year old what a roundhouse kick is than a blowjob. Most violence in fiction is just fantasy or its Hotel Rwanda and most kids aren't going to play Genocide in the playground.

GCSEs and A levels are marked A-E and I'm pretty sure the vast majority of students in England at least do them. What makes you think most school don't use them?

The UK uses the A-F system for the major exams for highschoolers. Getting an 'F' is associated with failure and the standard scoring system for a lot of other exams is 'A-F'.

So they thought the way to promote films involving lots of women was to give them an F rating? What's the logic? Ignoring the fact it's just going to create confusion either by suggesting the F rated film is dodgy or all films without it are, how would it possibly work to increase viewings? "It has women in it" is

Rape is a strange crime because in certain respects because two people had sex and sex isn't inherently bad, in fact many people quite like it. How you react to such an event isn't prescribed and legally women can't even rape men. You can't demand that he was raped and then say he should have PTSD. Technically he was

I suppose technically you could have switched the order of the last two episodes but it would have killed Ten Thirteen. You don't want to make people resent the show they are watching by being too withholding.

There's a decent director and writer in Shyamalan somewhere. I can feel it. Indians are natural storytellers after all.

I still think Lone Ranger is a solid film and the reaction to it was completely unfair. He's right about TV critics. I enjoy reading the AV club's write ups but only because I don't have any friends who watch a lot of television. A lot of critics do end up just reviewing the pilot of a show and that is the score you

When are we going to stop blaming men for being in charge and start blaming women for being too damn complacent and lazy?

I'm not sure what the constraints of a CD have to do with recording a 25 minute track. I think there is just a good reason that people roll their eyes at a 2 cd-album. It's because, hey, I'm never going to listen to this thing all the way through more than once or twice unless I go on a lot of road trips.

That's an excellent point actually. Without the context of Breaking Bad the audience would just be like "why the hell is the ticket warden getting his own episode"?

I don't see why someone would think that Better Call Saul would or should be enjoyable without having watched Breaking Bad. It's a prequel. It's ridiculous to make allowances for a minority of people. Maybe all episodes after the first episode should be downgraded because people that hadn't watched the previous ones

It seems so sad to betray someone you love dearly and to throw away a 30 year relationship because you are desperate to have what is basically a 40 minute fuck session where you get to cum. It took this woman this long to make herself orgasm with a vibrator and we're supposed to believe that she has taken autonomy of

I think there's too much of a tendency to view success through a masculine viewpoint. Success is making millions of dollars, winning famous awards and getting seen. It's about who has the biggest dick. When I look at women in the film industry I see a lot of very beautiful and personal films and I see these women

I think you are correct but I think people also need to be careful and look at intention before they start throwing around accusations of intolerance and hatred because someone made a mindless but insensitive comment.

I think the response to the first question was a bit sketchy. I think if I had been dating someone for nearly a year and I was nursing them through some hardcore cancer I'd be utterly devastated if they were fooling around with an ex. This ex wasn't some 20 year wife. It was a year and a half long distance open

Is saying "that's so gay" all that homophobic? Clearly it's dumb and not particularly eloquent but in the majority of cases it really has no attachment homosexuality and to take offence at it is taking it upon yourself to take offence because the kid saying "Frozen was a bit gay" is not saying "I think your preference

"you're either the butcher or the cattle", huh, makes you wonder why they didn't just go and eat some of the millions of cattle that will now be wondering freely around America. I can only assume the Cannibals ate other humans because of some freaky religious stuff because the idea of keeping humans alive as prisoners

The appeal is that they can be phenomenally creative and edgy because they are cheap to squeeze out. Just look at Archer's first season it's really bizarre to watch now.