Avatar is a profoundly mediocre movie.

Double lol.

This is almost identical to the American Werewolf in Paris situation mentioned upthread. Make a B-movie classic with oodles of charm and fun, wait 15 or 20 years, and suck all the life out of it with a poorly thought-out sequel which everybody is bound to hate.

and?

nitpicking about arguments about the refs is even less interesting than arguments about the refs, which is already the worst thing about sports articles.

No, it’s still OK to bash Mormons too.

I’m not sure “drilled” is the right word here. It probably tops out at “bonked”, or about 11-year-old level.

I’m trying to think of good things to say about this pairing, but I’m failing. Wrinkle in Time was just a godawful mess and I’m hoping that King will bring her down to earth. There, I did it.

Dear Salty Waitress,

More likely people will pull out their phones and take pictures.

More likely people will pull out their phones and take pictures.

This isn’t a thought experiment, I’ve done this countless times. Steel is a good (but not great) conductor, but also has a high heat capacity and so takes a lot of energy to heat up. It simply isn’t the case that the whole spoon becomes instantly hot.

If you got baked beans with your huevos rancheros, that would be weird.

Correct. But look at it this way: suppose I have a pot of boiling whatever which, for some reason, I can’t tell is actually hot. If I use a wooden spoon I will find out it’s hot when that food hits my tongue. A metal spoon will get hot first, but slowly, so my hand will notice and warn me the food is hot. I’d rather…

Stairs.

You don’t slow down a tipsy rant for mundane details.

I’m not eating a candy that implies it tastes like chicken. Period.

Wow, this is a trip down memory lane for me. I remember both those products.

What they probably said was, “Who gives a shit?”

I don’t contest your translations as they fit perfectly with all the mythology I read growing up (adult comic books). But ... the power of thunder? What would that be precisely? The power to make loud noises? To occasionally shatter the windows of hi-rises?