“How are you supposed to express your anger in this situation? Zipper it up really quick?”

I don’t know anything, but I know what J. Jonah Jameson told me in Spider-Man:

Oh, it’s the Black Lodge!

HDTGM does live tapings, go to one of those.

He’s 33! Every time I see him I think of the line from Braveheart.
I’m prettier than this man!

I love Mieville - I need to read The Scar but it’s been 15 years since I read PSS so I should probably read all 900 pages of that monster again first.

I really enjoyed what I’ve read of Banks, but I haven’t done Phelbas yet. I thought Use of Weapons was wonderful but upsetting, and I liked The Player of Games…

I think I read this because you recommended it in a thread! It was awesome, so thanks! Have you read Deep Roots yet? 

I picked up his short fiction and enjoyed it, and The Quiet American is next on my reading list!

I assume it’s a reference to the sex tape with an underage girl from early on in his career.

More Yakuza Kiwami, and I’ve been trying to pysch myself up for another, harder playthrough of XCOM2. I completely skipped all the Psi stuff on the first playthrough and I’d like to try that mechanic out. Now that I know how laboratories work, I think I can get to Psi much faster. It’s amazing to me how deep and…

I guess I will have to rewatch this movie. I’ve only seen it once and I remember being extremely bored. Maybe I can treat it like Stripes, where I turn it off after the first half. 

I enjoy the schizophrenic nature of Alaska, but I assume that’s due to small populations of mostly transplants. And massive thumbs up to St. Louis fighting a Battle of Bulge-style action in the name of Soda.

This article made me laugh and feel good for the first time in a while. 

Do you work directly with the public? In that case, it’s not really relevant, because you’re a private contractor. Do you work for a company? Then LOL when your job gets outsourced and you have no one to turn to. 

The second Mary Poppins book is called Mary Poppins Comes Back so I guess take it up with the corpse of P.L. Travers. 

Ok? I guess my question to you is: if I don’t own a gun and don’t want one, how does increasing the difficulty in getting a gun affect me, or the 240 million other adults who don’t own guns? I’m sure it affects you, but I’m less concerned about you being inconvenienced and more concerned about people not dying as…

You, uh, sure talked a lot there while moving the goalposts. I was just refuting the idea that making guns harder to obtain would inconvenience “everyone,” when in reality, the American people don’t want to own guns by a 2-1 margin!

Sorry that your cool toys are responsible for the deaths of 23,000 of your fellow countrymen every year. I don’t personally find “increased restrictions to gun ownership” to be a burden, because, like 70% of Americans, I don’t own a gun!

Do you think the US’s relatively high (and increasing) rate of suicides would be reduced by making guns more difficult to acquire, given that half of suicides in the US are committed with a firearm?

Does this sort of thing usually work for you?