Rogers Aching Ticker wrote:
" People accept risks as part of industrialization—you can't have cars without car accidents, and you can't have industry without pollution. People accept the risk of death from natural phenomena—earthquakes in California and hurricanes in the gulf coast. If you can't distinguish that from…

OK, it's kind of rude to respond just to point out you "didn't bother" reading it. Of course I'm fine with letting the subject drop, and if you had read it you would have noticed I said myself "we understand each other now so it's pretty much a moot point" before trying to change the subject back to something more…

This should have been crystal clear the seemingly dozens of times I referred to tweets that all use it in a specific way (type 1) AND when I said: "If someone used a #whitepeopleproblems hashtag for "I have a headache", that wouldn't make any sense and it's not humorous, which is why that kind of usage doesn't exist…

Uh, then maybe when I said "Is that really how it's used though?" and distinguished between 1) and 2), you shouldn't have said "Yes! Every single time!" as if you were disagreeing with me about how it's used. If you agreed with me all along, you could have made this more clear by responding with something like "yes, I…

And I'm saying that they're all like 1, just like you are! Unless you're saying this Netflix thing is more like 2, in which case you're completely wrong.

If I'm understanding your confusing sentences filled with negative phrasing

Lloyd, it looks like the problem is that you inserted a quote that didn't appear anywhere in the article you linked to. The actual article only says that streaming has become *a* preferred way to consume movies:

Except the first few pages of google results don't support what you're saying at all, they *don't* include the kind of fairly minor but universal problems most people can relate to, like having a hangover or being rejected. One of the results on that page is urban dictionary, which gives Louis C.K.'s definition of…

"is used humorously to describe problems that don't matter that much"

Except you aren't really just poking fun at white people, you're also kind of implying that nonwhite people all have some kind of totally different mindset about movies, so for instance none would care if "qwikster" died and it became hard to find obscure DVDs…it's not only white people that geek out about obscure…

It's possible that when you add "a la cart streaming" to subscription streaming, the total percentage is greater than DVDs by mail plus "renting a DVD from a kiosk" plus "renting from a video store". But it is a confusing summary.

Just because the writers weren't given much direction once the show was established doesn't mean that the basic premise and perhaps some characters (stuff the producers probably had some influence over) weren't significantly influenced by B5.

Any chance you're thinking of this Outer Limits episode?

I remember when I first saw Friends it seemed kind of like Seinfeld-lite, like Seinfeld with pretty people in nice apartments who were less misanthropic. Aside from the whole "friends hanging out" thing, the style of humor was fairly similar, less setup-punchline like traditional sitcoms, lots of jokes that involved…

To add to that last comment, here's an even more specific claim about horror audiences being majority female from an article in "The Globe and Mail" at http://m.theglobeandmail.co… — "According to the Motion Picture Association of America’s numbers, almost half of the movie-going audience in the United States and…

"You quoted back to me the exact part of the EW article that says absolutely nothing."

Amusing that you would accuse me of not reading the article very closely when you seemed to have missed the part where they said "Today, however, the genre's biggest constituency of die-hard fans is women. Name any recent horror hit and odds are that female moviegoers bought more tickets than men." Hard to see how it…

So, biggus, you're claiming that you already knew horror is a majority-female genre, and that your comment about this movie not appealing to women had nothing to do with the horror/zombie aspect and was only about the buddy comedy aspect? Kind of weird that you would talk about "the simple Hollywood equations of…

I don't think you know nearly as much about movie demographics as you think you do, these days the majority of the audience for horror movies actually tends to be female—for example at http://www.lemonwade.com/20… you can find a quote from Variety saying "Studio have long steered clear of debuting male-favored titles…