The crowd in Southampton were surprised when the Titanic’s horns let out a deep and mighty MEEEEP MEEEEEP.

Draws picture of Gigi Edgely to satisfy The Most Popular Commenter, decides to keep it for himself

Draws Australian girl upside-down, with her being on the other side of the planet and all

Let’s just say she moved hard astern.

My replica SS Californian will continue to ignore all of this.

You know there is plenty of interesting, non-Star Wars stuff in Tunisia, right?

I am so pleased by the 2010 appreciation here. No, it’s not 2001 but it’s perfectly good in its own right (and, seconding @ArthurEdens:disqus , has a really fun cast).

Objects are made by men and used for many purposes, but we never love objects.

Not the edit that aired on the Disney Channel when I was a kid (which is where the recorded tape our family’s copy of Ghostbusters came from). I was pretty surprised when we switched to DVD (I’ll give the Disney Channel credit for making that the only cut, though, and keeping the swearing intact; it was great when…

The fact that nudity in and of itself will prompt some kind of rating pisses me off to no end. It’s just a human body, people. You have one, so does pretty much everyone in the audience, and unless you’re Alien Jesus both your parents do too. Ugh, just go all the way and rate movies PG-13 because they show ladies’…

That may appeal to the ratings board but certainly not to us.

To be fair, this doesn’t sound much like a “biopic” in the sense the term is usually used—a glossy Hollwood take on someone’s life. This sounds more focused one a short span of time (which almost always makes for a better film) and is done in a less formulaic manner.

The show was Yongzheng Dynasty, and it was loser to The Last Emperor than it was to that. No idea if it’s available in English, though—my professor wrote his own subtitles for the scenes he wanted to show us.

Wearing linen miniskirts,
And being self-reliant!

In one of the foreign TV inventories (it might be the foreign TV shows that aren’t available but should be) I mentioned a Chinese series based on the Yongzheng Emperor which I saw part of in college, and it had very high production values and I know our professor loved it. I got some replies as to its name and…

If it’s made in India it’s probably not going to have the sort of sexy American cable audiences want.

Presumably—he isn’t doing it, though, because:

I was talking about the beating with a cane, not the filibustering. The difference, admittedly, is small.

Holy fuck that’s pompous.

When your take into account in the fact that their main competitors are named Yahoo and Bing, Google sounds pretty damn serious.