Just say that you are moving out of their service area. Pick another country if you have to. Works like a charm.

Building stuff =/= engineering

I got a little weepy listening to "The Sun is Bored" once, but I was pretty drunk at the time. Still, I am an atheist, so I sort of support your claim.

How do you know Unspeakable Axe's son is soft?

That's…wow. Unfortunately, IMDB doesn't list David Hemmings as having ever played the character of Ian McShanes.

Both a murderous director of softcore porn films and a man possessed by a murderous Mau Mau spirit in two different episodes of Magnum, P.I.

Good enough to get me to buy the album. That, and a torrent search on "Teen" would require quite a bit of sifting through to find what I originally intended to download.

Do what, Dutch oven Ethel Merman?

I find that when someone asks if I'm sad or pissed off, it immediately pisses me off, regardless of how good a mood I was in previously.

Ripper Street. It's what the cast of Game of Thrones seem to do on their down time.

They will still likely have new specials on the BBC. The second series of James May's Cars of the People just finished airing last week, and Clarkson has appeared on HIGNFY and QI since being let go, so the BBC hasn't banned him.

What about Tom Bombadil?

I think every desktop background I've used for the last five years or so came from Shorpy. That's a great website.

Great point, the South could have won and would have still been wrong.

It might be worth noting that Android doesn't require any app to get music onto your phone. Just make a music folder and copy the mp3s directly to your phone, no iTunes necessary.

I'd cut Garfield some slack for hating this particular Monday.

Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence. I bought the Criterion Blu-ray months ago and never got around to watching it. Now seems like the appropriate time.

I could see Tilda Swinton as Bowie, but my favorite is Alice Lowe: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Between 40 and 90 pretty well describes it. It's that way mostly because all of the large cities—Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver—are sandwiched between the ocean and the Cascades. The ocean has a huge dampening effect.

Unless you're comparing it to Florida, it's not cold here. It rarely ever drops below freezing, and it'll snow maybe once or twice a year, and usually melts off in a few hours. When it does, the locals have no idea what to do. Portland basically shuts down altogether when it snows. I leave my windows open all year…