This whole Star Wars vehicle thing seems so random, tacked-on, and half-assed.

It unnecessarily annoys me Theron's character is named after a capital of the Western Roman Empire.

Neither was Prince, who was originally offered the part.
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Do I have to wear all this makeup? I just wanted to blow up Parliament and start a Catholic theocracy.

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As the parent of a one-year-old, it was really creepy because I've done exactly the "Look, here's Daddy and here's you!" photo thing. Seeing Laurel basically accept that her sister has the mind of an infant, ignoring that she's feral and chained to a wall, was disturbing.

Shouldn't it be "wf is word"?

That kind of reminds me of Canadian time-traveling crime series Continuum. The main character travels back from 2077 and we see a dystopian corporate fascist society slowly take root. Combined with flashback/forwards to the future trying to establish the past, there's this sense of inevitability and helplessness to…

Is there a Crispin? I remember a guy named Crispin.

My wife's cousin's son (she comes from a big family) is 17 and named Anakin. He doesn't seem to be an averse for it, although I don't think he's a particularly big Star Wars fan.

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Well, the header pic does show a very large chalice, so they have that going for them.

I mean, even techs use the analogy to explain bandwidth (https://zoompf.com/blog/201…, for example). But the entirety of the speech does make pretty obvious he was only briefed on how the Internet works by a Comcast lobbyist ten minutes prior.

For someone with a very elementary knowledge of technology, it's not a terrible analogy. It was just used to defend terrible legislation.

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So you'd rather be sans culottes?

Lao is the dominant ethnic group of Laos, whereas Laotian is the nationality of someone from Laos. In English, they're used interchangeably.

My father-in-law is from the outskirts of Charlotte and they say "reckon" all the time. It's rubbed off on me, but I don't have the southern accent.

Catholicism has been taboo in England since Thomas More lost his head. Tony Blair was ready to convert to Catholicism while in office, but waited until after he left because of the scandal it would cause to have a Catholic prime minister.

They actually still offer more simple, classic-style sets like City. They have a whole "Creator" line that's all bricks without the special, complicated pieces.