My bad - I admit I’d never seen the movie, just read a plot synopsis (a friend of mine had a crush on Wentworth after seeing him in Prison Break, so I was looking for a movie to get her for her birthday)

I suffered a case of repetitive strain injury in my thumb after too many all-night gaming marathons while on R&R.
...and by R&R I mean Ritalin & Rivotril (=European Klonopin) that I used during a severe depressive episode that resulted in a bout of prescription drug addiction.

(Disclaimer: For fucks sake, don’t get…

I remember being confused about Wentworth Miller playing a bi-racial character in “The Human Stain” until I learned that holy shit, this blue-eyed whiteboy really is bi-racial (poly-racial?).

As you said, he spent his teens as a Muslim immigrant in the US in the wake of 9/11. I also doubt he enjoyed being the butt of approximately a million “Borat”-jokes either.

Yes and no.
Methaqualone (“Quaaludes” / “Mandrax”) was discontinued in large parts of the Western world by the mid-80s.
However, being an extremely recreational compound, people would import the drug from abroad, and even once the drug was no longer manufactured for medicinal purposes there either, some labs in Mexico…

He’s Chechen.
Being “Caucasian” as in “from the actual Caucasus” was not a particularly good thing to be in the post-WW2 USSR (what with the mass forced deportations to Central Asia), and still isn’t in post-Soviet Russia (Caucasian-Russians are actually referred to as “black asses” by Slavic Russian nationalists.…

Back in the days of the Comics Code Authority, vampires were one of those things that was considered inappropriate for children because it was all occult and unholy and non-judeo-christian or whatever.

Spiderman actually had a vampire character called Morbius who only got past Marvel’s system of self-censorship by…

Good to know I’m not the only one who initially thought this was going to be a Sci-Fi anime set on Saturn’s moon.
More specifically, I was immediately reminded of that episode of “Cowboy Bebop” where they have a flashback about Vicious’ days as a soldier in the Titan Wars.

I am a guy. This is my bike:

Starred for Klaus Nomi. Poor Klaus, why did have to reveal yourself to humanity in the early-80s-NY-Gay-Disco scene, AKA the AIDS-iest place in space and time :(

Maybe the people responsible for the Gatorade-ing worried about the authorities slowly catching onto their prop-bet fixing scheme and are trying to branch out into producing “Sploshing” fetish videos. o.O

A few bits of trivia because I really like that song:
Ironically, “One Night in Bangkok” is actually about a chess grandmaster who’s there for a tournament and who categorically rejects the attractions the city has to offer.

God bless the British and their weird “-cesters” where you only pronounce half the letters.

My favourite is still “Gloucestershire”, where the local aircraft manufacturer of the same name apparently had so many foreign customers pronounce it something like “Glue-sister-shire” that they eventually shortened their…

Didn’t she also proclaim herself to be “funnier than you (=men)” at one point?

Call me old-fashioned, but I much prefer the Tina Fey method (= going into a male-dominated space and proving you’re funnier by writing stuff that makes people laugh to the point of near-suffocation) to the one espoused by some feminist…

Pointless trivia: The game’s name is derived from Agar-Agar (or just “Agar”), which is a gel that you pour into Petri dishes for the cells/colonies to grow on. The more you know and all...

Oh, and Angela. I didn’t think it was possible for anyone to pair up one of the awesomest voices in anime with worse character designs than those of Hisashi Hirai, but then the Berserk-CGI-rejects from “Knights of Sidonia” proved me wrong.

Apparently there’s an official video featuring scenes from the anime:

Nah, that’s just a traditional good luck ritual for skiers in the Austrian Alps.

We call it “Geli-Raubaling”.

Israel has the curious problem of having a neighbour in Hamas that is all about the Jew-killing, but is so inept at it that any form of retaliatory strike is bound to look totally disproportionate.

Basically, Hamas is an 85-year-old methhead crazy-cat-lady that keeps throwing her diseased kittens at you. Sure, most of…