You can never be 100% sure, but the linguistic techniques for approximating the pronunciation of a language by looking at related (or in this case, descendant) languages produce surprisingly accurate results.

Totally disagree. Dumbledore is an asexual character, because he's an old man viewed from the perspective of children. I'm ambivalent about her adding details like this after the fact, but addressing his sexuality (gay or straight) in the text at all would have been terrible.

Plus they only surrendered after incurring staggering casualties. No country ever would have kept fighting in those circumstances (maybe Japan). People may say they're just joking with that surrender monkey stuff, but I prefer not to spit on dead soldiers when getting my giggles.

At least one medieval Gothic cathedral (can't remember which one) has a tile pattern of interlocking swastikas on its floor. It's quite beautiful. Ruining that symbol is far from the top of the list of Nazi crimes, but it's still a shame.

Perlman and Royo together would be enough to sell me on a show, but this doesn't sound appealing. Hopefully I'll hear it got a lot better in a few years and then I'll check it out.

I agree and I'd also add that I've always seen Bond as being, among other things, the cultural emblem of the cool white guy. Why are British, male and heterosexual core traits but not white? I can't help but feel that it has something to do with the "white as default" view of media that we've all internalized, even as…

An intriguing concept, but do you trust these writers to come up with enough serviceable non-zombie material to fill in that season?

Or there's the technology we already have which accomplishes all of those things and is vastly more fuel-efficient: trains.

My first thought was the guy who killed Mr. Freeze's wife to save a buck.

That's all well and good in South Figaro, but try that Autocrossbow in the Phoenix Cave and see where it gets you.

That's hilarious. My little brother misheard that line as "death row,
water buffalo." He didn't understand it, that's just what he heard. My
whole family made fun of him for years.

I prefer Lynch's version to the Sci-Fi one. It's got style. Sure the mini-series gets the story right, because it has time to. But it's workmanlike at best and often totally blah. Lynch's version obviously got fucked by behind-the-scenes drama, but the glimpses we get of the movie he was trying to make are just…

I've noticed the "nice guy" might be the number one type that everyone loves to circle jerk about how horrible they are on the internet. Even with MRAs or radical feminists, there's usually some voice of dissent and some sort of debate. Yet any time the "nice guy" is invoked you know there will be an endless string of…

I stand corrected.

The King James Bible was translated from the Latin Vulgate. I wouldn't be surprised if the dominant French and Spanish translations were as well. If so that would explain the common error, if this is indeed a translation error.

I can't agree. I found "The Times They Are A-Changing" to be the most lazily cliche choice possible for a decade-spanning montage. However I didn't think it quite achieved so-bad-it's-good status until they used Leonard Cohen's Halleluiah to score the moment when Night Owl was able to get it up.

I'd never seen him in anything else, so I chose to give him the benefit of the doubt. But I have no trouble believing that he is a terrible actor in general.

No matter who played the role they would still have been directed by Lucas, which was the real issue. Even Samuel L. Jackson couldn't overcome that hurdle.

Best tattoo I ever saw: A friend of mine has a rectangle with the golden spiral in it that covers his whole back. It's just done in thin red line. It takes up his entire back, but it's barely there.

Certainly the best depiction of Ainley's Master