"Phèdre nó Delaunay de Montrève"

My bladder can't take 3 hours.

By the tail, of course! (Note: I have no idea if their tails are actually strong enough for that. But it is a convenient shape!)

With 100 volunteers, couldn't they just... roll them? Or get a truck and drag them? I know they're heavy but I feel like we should have the technology to drag heavy things a few yards down a beach.

I wouldn't stress too much - the tech would have to be very sophisticated to be able to simulate how an article of clothing would fit on a given person. And if it can't give you an idea of fit, you're not really getting any more information than you'd get just looking at a picture.

I've heard that tails are pretty important for dogs in reading body language - they can tell if the dog they are approaching is nervous/angry/confident/etc by how they hold and wag their tail. So a dog with a docked tail is sort of like a person wearing sunglasses - hard to read and a bit off-putting. If that's true,…

That's kind of a messed-up premise:

To be fair, a lot of Arthurian stuff was *written* in that time period. It's just set earlier.

I can't believe they shelled out for a super bowl trailer, rather than just letting it die quietly. It's pretty obvious it's going to bomb.

I used to work with a guy who had a habit of sending frustrated/angry emails, and he signed every email with just his initials. Which unfortunately were "MEH". So I'd get emails like this:

Climate Best by Government Test!

Yes, that's why I said I don't think they're dangerous. No one thinks they're dangerous. The only reason they are still banned is that no one has seriously tried to un-ban them. Sorry to the rest of the world, but most Americans just don't care about Kinder Eggs.

Yes. The US is big and most people don't leave it very often. And when they do, they don't buy random children's candies.

It's not that we specifically went out and banned Kinder Eggs - the US has a general ban on embedding toys inside food, and they fall in that category. I don't think Kinder Eggs are dangerous, but I think the ban is perfectly reasonable as a general principle. What's the point of making an exception to allow for a…

I gave up on this movie after I watched the trailer and realized that despite the group being 2/5 female, it was pretty much only male voices actually talking.

I know this is a bit off-topic, but... there's a lot of death in this article. Two murders, three suicides, two drunken accidents, an overdose. UVA is only about twice as big as the school I went to, and no one died while I was there. In fact as far as I can tell, my school didn't have a single death from 2005 to…

It used to be accepted knowledge that releasing big films outside the summer or holiday season doomed them to box office failure. But for the last several years there have been some really high profile exceptions to that rule - I think it started when the original Hunger Games made $400+ million off a March release…

Huh, this is pretty much exactly the opposite of my rock-paper-scissors strategy. I started with the assumption that most people try to play as "randomly" as possible, and thus would be unlikely to repeat a move twice in a row (because people are really bad at randomness, and tend to think "two of the same move in a…

When I first read it, I just assumed the "beautiful woman" was dead, and the FBI would be investigating her murder.

To be fair, this does happen in real life sometimes - California has "Death Valley", for one.