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Well of course there were many reasons for the fall of the Republic-that was why I said <direct> cause. He is the one who succeeded in ending it. And I think we can all agree that "Orange Gracchus" would just leave everyone scratching their heads. PS if we were debating this I'd nominate Sulla over the Gracchii as

I think the point is Caesar was the direct cause of the fall of the Republic and had himself made dictator in perpetuity…Dan takes him far more seriously than you do.

Check out Johnny Rotten's 1978 BBC interview where he called out Savile and says he bets they'll suppress the interview (and sure enough, they did). I give him props for trying.
https://m.youtube.com/watch…

Well I can't stress enough how important it is to have a frank discussion about finances and mutual expectations <before> you get married because they're probably the #1 or #2 cause of divorce. Finances should in my view generally be intermingled so one of you isn't a second class citizen in the marriage. Where I

If it was me, we'd be married and our finances would be intertwined so there'd be no question of one of us not being able to go on a fancy vacation because of finances. If your commitment is less than that then it is not necessarily unreasonable for her to want to do something and not wait for you to be able to

I think your inner fantasies are or should be a strictly guilt-free zone and you shouldn't feel bad about anything you think about. Being taboo/forbidden is often what makes things erotic in the first place. You're not being bad you're being a human being.

Never mind grandmothers that was the default story for all teenage girls I knew in the 80s (including my sister). It truly does help prevent acne, which of course makes it a perfectly lovely social construct that enables parents (especially fathers) and daughters to avoid openly acknowledging that she is, or may be,

Liverpool supporter here!

My friend went through this with his wife. They had multiple in vitro fertilization attempts, to no avail. Finally they were told that they'd never conceive. They went home and later that month had sex for the first time in years just for the sake of having sex. Result: daughter. She's now seventeen and is

In Canada, this is an offence contrary to s. 162.1 of the Criminal Code, and is punishable by up to 5 years imprisonment. The law is only about 18 months old though, so I cannot say how easy it would be to prosecute. I suspect, however, that proving beyond a reasonable doubt that a specific person published

I agree, except in my head he's playing Still Crazy After All These Years. Ugh.

I am completely on board about Disorder-I also prefer the other live versions of that song to the studio version (there are a couple in the box set, one of which is also on the collectors ed. of Unknown Pleasures, plus a third on Still). But for me the sequencer ruins Insight on LBD. It just annoys the hell out of

I can take or leave the studio version of Atmosphere which seems over-produced to me but I love the live version on Les Bains Douches. The bass is much more prominent. That's one of my all-time favourite songs. If you haven't heard it I can't recommend it enough.

You know there's a studio version they recorded on May 14, 1980 that's on the heart&soul box set?

I saw them three times, in 1989, 1990, and 1991. 'Stoic' might describe them in the first one-at the time I didn't know them well and I liked them but thought they just weren't ready for a stadium concert (they were the opening act for Love&Rockets and the Cure) And the Cure blew everyone away that night. But the

I can't speak about the law in the United States, but in Canada, courts have discussed (in)capacity to consent to sex in the following language:

Well, in my defence, I was only 16…. But seriously, I am hard-pressed to think of a Clint movie that is <worse> than HR? [prepares for deluge of contradiction from cinephiles] … And come on, Grenada?! If ever there was a skirmish that was unworthy of a movie, surely that was the one.

I liked the movie but I think that for a lot of people the movie suffered in comparison to the miniseries…and I can see their point. I like Gary Oldman and Colin Firth but….Alec Guinness…Ian Richardson…Michael Jayston….Patrick Stewart!!! Etc, etc, etc. It was a movie that did NOT improve on the original.

I really didn't know how it goes! Maybe I should've seen it through! I liked the initial 20 minutes. It was Russo's jarring character change and subsequent airheadedness (simulated, I guess) that just seemed so preposterous and annoying that I could no longer suspend my disbelief…..

Howard the Duck and Heartbreak Ridge. There might have been one or two others.
Edit: I should maybe clarify-I didn't walk out of TCA in self-righteous anger because it was sexist, I walked out because I thought the bait-and-switch didn't make any sense and was annoying. Russo's constant giggling just grated on me….