That movie wasn't his fault. The producers made insane demands and Konchalovsky was fired part way through and replaced with Albert Magnoli.

Ha, pet issue.

Um, Sarkozy lost the conservative primaries, Fillon is their candidate.

Let me just say as someone who lives in Germany where "Wild" did have no cultural impact (neither book nor author even have a German Wikipedia page) that the Wild subplot is a smidgen confusing.

I am heavy, sour & salty, but I am certainly not hot.

Heather Mottershaw, still working for Taco Bell.

Turducken was apparently invented by Junior and Sammy Hebert of Hebert's Specialty Meats in Maurice, Louisiana, a village of 1,200 people, in the year 1985.

No, a single 't' usually becomes 'to', 'rum' is spelled phonetically 'ram' and a single 'p' becomes 'pu'. Donald Trump = Donarudo Torampu ドナルド・トランプ.

It's not really intended as controversy, just as analysis how campaigns targets demographics.

Eric Trump is Odo from DS9, and nothing will convince me otherwise.

In Japanese the unstressed 'er' of English becomes 'aa', and since 'tw' is unpronounceable it becomes 'tsu', so Twitter = Tsuittaa ツイッター.

You know, there are also little boys who love the Disney princesses.

I know you're calling CGI Pinata out for mansplaining, but, um, do we know what gender CGI Pinata is?

Okay, stop. You're comparing grandmother to the n-word. Reflect on what you're doing.

Yeah, dialects can of course be different, like you can say oji-san, uncle for a middle-aged man in standard Japanese, but in Kansai it becomes otchan, or like standard okaa-san, mother becomes okan.

I just mean calling her grandmother in English is perfectly OK if it's custom in her own language.

In Japanese it is quite common to call old women baa-chan, grandmother, and old men jii-chan, grandfather, and children call adult male strangers nii-san, big brother and female strangers nee-san, big sister (Japanese has different words for older & younger siblings). As respect towards relatives is a cultural value…

This is delightful, don't take it the wrong way though, but aren't Latin anagrams kinda the thing serial killers in procedurals do?

I liked the novel as long as the protagonist had difficulties grokking humans. When he finally understood them - weirdly through a supposed epiphany that all humor is based on cruelty - he became much less interesting and kinda unlikable.

Not sure why those shows got compared constantly, afaik even on Psych itself. I mean, the mentalist stopped pretending to be a psychic years before the show started because his family was murdered.