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"Hateship (I'm A Loveship)"

I've heard the phrase "dying beautifully" before to describe tuberculosis and always thought it was just a romantic euphemism. Interesting to know there's something behind that. Thanks for dropping that info!

I hope you'll be a gentleman and cholera the next day!

That's kind of funny because I was thinking it's a good thing he called it The Cosmopolitans instead of Cosmopolitan, because calling it something so close to Metropolitan would be cheesy and lame.

Kind of like people from New York City when they move to places that aren't New York City!

"Hey, remember that time we visited Chewie on Kashyyyk for Life Day?"

I think those films are cause for optimism. My biggest problem with Abrams' Star Trek films is that they're essentially (especially the first one) Star Wars films set in the Trek universe. Abrams was pretty open about being a huge Star Wars fan, but not at all a Trek fan, and it definitely showed in the final product.

Nerrrrrrrrrrrrd

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. Nevertheless, I'm hopeful Disney will produce a worthy Star Wars film.

Hatesong is over there, song hater!

A cape is a guy that can't get no love from me

Better spoilers than hot black liquid!

The Noah story absolutely doesn't require belief in order to be interesting — it's ludicrous that the notion even enters into the discussion of this film. If people can't avoid bringing their personal baggage into the film, and it prevents them from engaging with it, that's fine and understandable, but that's on them.

At this point it has stopped referring to any specific type of person and is just a generic term to attach to anything you don't like.

I think it's all these punk bands that are dragging the feature down. These guys don't seem to be able to actually articulate why they don't like a song beyond "I hate it because it's popular….man."

I think they were calling themselves Crucifictorious back then.

The rhetorical use of "we" is commonplace in pop music. It's just a reference to some unnamed other person(s), like when songs are directed towards some unnamed "you."

(1) An enemy that is practically invulnerable if there's only one of them, but somehow easily killed when in large numbers. Example: the "Ubervamps" in season 7 of Buffy, where when the first time one appeared, it was nearly impossible to kill, and I think it took an entire episode and the whole Scooby gang to take it

The flip side of that, no one ever just drives away quickly without their tires totally squealing and burning rubber.