@avclub-85bd06050f1868adf468605465df26f8:disqus & @avclub-1d5f36370c7ddcd55c96c2fb6bd11ead:disqus : 90% is an underestimate - it's an exponential decay process. The peak oocyte supply is around 7 million at 5 months of gestation (4 month before being born). Women have already lost around 70% of those (down to 2…

@avclub-d980b15d49101608dc407770f35b1d75:disqus : I find that statement odd, as I grew up in the 80s, and my parents were a politically-mixed couple (he's a rep, she's a dem). That split seemed fairly common (with that specific gender-party combo) in a lot of the households around us, as well. Maybe it was just a…

@avclub-d980b15d49101608dc407770f35b1d75:disqus : I find that statement odd, as I grew up in the 80s, and my parents were a politically-mixed couple (he's a rep, she's a dem). That split seemed fairly common (with that specific gender-party combo) in a lot of the households around us, as well. Maybe it was just a…

My impression at the time was that they were the first iteration of the idea, which they later decided to turn into a real show. All of my impressions from watching late night comedy in the early-to-mid '00s are pretty unreliable, however, so you may be right. It was a long time between those commercials and the…

My impression at the time was that they were the first iteration of the idea, which they later decided to turn into a real show. All of my impressions from watching late night comedy in the early-to-mid '00s are pretty unreliable, however, so you may be right. It was a long time between those commercials and the…

Given the Colbert Report first came into existence as fake ads in the Daily Show, and only later become an actual, separate show, I'd argue no

Given the Colbert Report first came into existence as fake ads in the Daily Show, and only later become an actual, separate show, I'd argue no

Geez, no need to be a bitch about it. I already said I feel stupid for missing it.

Geez, no need to be a bitch about it. I already said I feel stupid for missing it.

I don't think anyone's suggesting the casting is a stricter interpretation of the original, just that it's drawing attention to an interpretation that some (me) missed in the reading. Something along the lines of "the level of meaningful difference a reader in 1847 would have picked up on with these descriptions is…

I don't think anyone's suggesting the casting is a stricter interpretation of the original, just that it's drawing attention to an interpretation that some (me) missed in the reading. Something along the lines of "the level of meaningful difference a reader in 1847 would have picked up on with these descriptions is…

I wasn't aware of who her parents were until very recently, but upon discovering the "K" stands for "Kroeber", as in Alfred Kroeber, as in the guy who started the UC Berkeley Anthropology department and basically acted as part of the council of elders for the field for +/- half a century, I immediately began wondering…

I wasn't aware of who her parents were until very recently, but upon discovering the "K" stands for "Kroeber", as in Alfred Kroeber, as in the guy who started the UC Berkeley Anthropology department and basically acted as part of the council of elders for the field for +/- half a century, I immediately began wondering…

Yeah, the class thing is what I got in the first place. I missed the gipsy reference (or just took it to mean "well-tanned b/c he was a street kid") and didn't know what "Lascar" meant. According to the wiki, that referred to Indian sailors and, later, the offspring of those sailors and white women. It's also…

Yeah, the class thing is what I got in the first place. I missed the gipsy reference (or just took it to mean "well-tanned b/c he was a street kid") and didn't know what "Lascar" meant. According to the wiki, that referred to Indian sailors and, later, the offspring of those sailors and white women. It's also…

I don't think I even noticed the "dark-skinned gipsy" line when I read the novel, but I suspect the casting will make this more closely resemble the effect that an interethnic-but-still-white story must have had back then.

I don't think I even noticed the "dark-skinned gipsy" line when I read the novel, but I suspect the casting will make this more closely resemble the effect that an interethnic-but-still-white story must have had back then.

Yeah, that was definitely not a pet pig, but smaller than most pre-bacon usually is. I figure there are 2, more or less equally plausible, options: (a) Ron knows exactly how much meat he needs to cook to feed a given number of people, and he knows which sized pig will provide that much, or (b) it's not like he was…

Yeah, that was definitely not a pet pig, but smaller than most pre-bacon usually is. I figure there are 2, more or less equally plausible, options: (a) Ron knows exactly how much meat he needs to cook to feed a given number of people, and he knows which sized pig will provide that much, or (b) it's not like he was…

I notice that the 1995 appearance has some of the same old material we saw in the Marc Maron/Sarah Silverman ep earlier this season. Foreshadowing?