A problem with this is portion sizes too. I'm from Not America and last time I visited the states the portions were insane. And it's starting to creep up here with American food chains too, but in general what I would consider a healthy portion and what the average American restaurant would deliver probably differs by…

Yeah! And let's stop listing ingredients too, if people with food sensitivies/allergies need to know an ingredient they can look it up instead of adding MORE WORDS for the poor normal folk! God can you imagine, I want to eat my food but first I must READ WORDS. The word reading is optional! Yet I suffer!

Because they probably don't understand 'erasure'

I don't think they are, I think it's an attempt to distance themselves from the racism of the original story/Disney movie by making them 'insane circus wild people' as opposed to 'outdated racial stereotype'

That's kind of the point of the whole series though, is that man's control over nature is a frail illusion, but damned if we keep fucking ourselves over by thinking we're in charge anyway

I suppose you could say that a trex with no need to rush that is cautiously exploring it's surroundings would have the slow careful walk that many large birds exhibit.

Is that the Disney TV movie version (or I at least saw it on television after seeing loads of ads for it on TGIF) with the song 'impossible things happen every day'? Because I sing that song constantly.

That makes sense, Spider-Man is generally the most kid friendly of the main superheros, his colours are bright and recognizable, he's a kid himself and his schtick is that he's funny. Whichever superhero appeals most to kids is going to be the one that makes all the money.

I think they meant natively eliminated, ie all cases that year were from people traveling abroad and getting sick, then returning home and getting the treatment at home, which would mean they were a measle case in the system. So no one caught measles in the US that year. That's my understanding on it.

The trainwreck that is OUAT

Afterlife is SO GOOD. The art lends itself to the story really well and it's paced perfectly. It has zombies, witches, blood, violence, lesbians, Betty and Veronica being realistically catty to each other and Reggie getting punched in the face, what more can you ask for.

I've heard a few times that the movie was intended to be much darker/sarcastic (like a PG-13 Cabin in the Woods), but the top heads didn't want to alienate the kids, so they had to tone it down and make it tons sillier, and only really subtle tones or snuck in lines (like Mary-Jane) made it thru.

Yeah Harvey and Bruce were friends in a lot of interpretations. I would put their age difference at 10yrs most. Him being nearly old enough to father Bruce is a little weird.

It would depend on the context of them offering - is this included in a benefits package that also offers benefits to fertility treatment/IVF/surrogacy/adoption and/or birth control? Or is it a separate benefit, offered on the context that 'parents are bad employees'?

IIRC, the Snacktime Cabbage Patch was an issue less with fingers and more with hair. As long as the motor was feeling resistance to indicate there was something in the mouth, it kept whirring. Girls would hug the doll, it would accidentally get some hair in it's mouth, the motor would kick in and the doll would end up…

Yeah, I don't exactly see a movie where queer people are suddenly the horrible bullying prosecutors to be supportive. Any time a 'switcharoo' story is told, despite best intentions, it just ends up being 'even in a world where straight/white/male people are a minority, they're still the protagonists' kind of sour…

I would go with they probably didn't dive deeper than asking polled kids what race they identify as. Since most mixed-race kids physically will look/be treated as their non-white race, they're going to identify as such. Especially in the increase in Hispanic percentages, now a white/hispanic mixed kid who could pass…

I can't remember why I decided to watch it, then Emily's storyline kept me interested just long enough to get hooked halfway through season one. Then my sister started watching it, and now it's our Tuesday night tradition to drink wine and yell at the TV, especially Spencers meddling and Aria's outfits. We call it…

Well I guess I should be at least grudgingly glad that queerbaiting is no longer a sweeps week phenomenon nowadays. I guess that's a step.

Re: Bewitched; I'm not an expert on it, my wife is a big fan but I've only seen the first season but it seems fairly feminist to me - pretty much all of the big decisions are Sam's choices, and most of the conflict is based on culture shock of Sam refusing to play by the rules of suburban society. My wife is always…