PBS shows a lot of British shows, in addition to Sherlock and Downtown. i've been watching Lewis, Poirot and Miss Marple on there for years.

No, because "Bobcats" would still be a terrible name regardless of on-court success.

Same here. I really liked Red Mars, it was the best "plausible near-future Mars colonization" story I've read... but then the subsequent books go off the rails. They get swept up in a lot of hokey mystical stuff that had me rolling my eyes frequently — not on the Interstellar "love is a force of physics" level, but…

Yeah I thought that might be the case. I was never a big Flash guy but I always remembered him being a bit of a smartass in the older Justice League cartoons, but I'm guessing that was Wally.

Flash is, if anything, a little too positive. I dislike the Dark Knight-ification of superheroes as much as anyone, but Flash goes too far. Superheroes shouldn't say things like "When that lightning bolt hit me, I didn't just gain super powers... I also gained super friends! (smile)" unironically

Yeah, it's called science-fiction. Science-fiction. Not Spirituality-in-Space-Fiction.

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Yeah I went on a binge over the weekend and got all caught up on my superhero movies (IMPORTANT BUSINESS), and that was basically my take. Cap 2 was the best Marvel movie so far, and Thor 2 sucked... I mean, it was so, so stupid, and I don't mean that in the sense that people use "stupid" as a catch-all term for…

I know, and I misspoke when I said "no big deal"... what I really meant was that this shit, while ridiculous and dangerous and childish and all that, could have gone a lot worse had the target been someone the cops don't take as kindly to as they do rich guys, and that will be the outcome sooner or later.

How about the fact that I have to pirate the Ubisoft games I've already bought because my internet is finicky and cuts out from time to time, making it impossible to play most Ubisoft games?

Nor do most people nowadays. "Entitled" is just a buzzword that people use mindlessly.

Conversely, are you arguing that it would have been no worse if someone had been killed?

If the idea is that people won't wear sleeveless jerseys, so by switching to sleeved jerseys, you're making jerseys something that people would actually wear and therefore buy... maybe don't make them so, so ugly. This looks like a college intramural rec league jersey.

Less than if the cops came in shooting first and asking questions second, as they are wont to do

No big deal if the target is some (presumably) white executive. Cops are conditioned to give any rich-looking white guy a pass.

It's not supposed to be "believed", literally. It's a series of metaphors and symbols. Taking it as a completely accurate narrative of events is a peculiarity of Anglo-American protestant sects.

American protestantism is really fascinating. It's almost not even Christianity, compared to the older churches. No learned person in the Catholic or Orthodox churches has ever really argued that six days of labour meant literally 144 hours... the idea is that each of god's "days" is an age in human terms, so "six…

Something which rarely gets brought up in discussions of time travel but kind of throws a wrench into the whole idea: distance. The Earth is constantly rotating, but so is the galaxy itself. Say you wanted to travel 1 million years in the future, starting from Earth. If you travel to the same spatial coordinates, you…

Batman is also the most implausible hero, and since he doesn't have powers, they can't wave it away with a macguffin.

Batman is like a fascist wet dream. I don't know how people can disregard this aspect of the character.