Your article doesn’t make this clear, but four series of Junior Bake Off were made and aired on CBBC between 2011-2016. The news is that Channel 4 has decided to pick up the rights to it and start airing it in addition to GBBO (which may lead to it being picked up by Netflix and being available in the US for the first…

“Do I think that’s a big deal? No. Do I think it was said somewhat tongue-in-cheek? Of course.”

Yes, me making a mild joke about the seeming disingenuousness of blanketly shitting on rich people while writing articles almost exclusively about them, some of them quite fawning, is somehow “gargling billionaire cock.”

Lighten up, Francis.

To be fair, it is difficult to understand what you are saying. Your syntax is off somehow.

I still struggle to understand why you’re posting, it’s nonsensical.

Why anyone would spend money—let alone that much money—to facilitate cheating on such a flat basic exam is absolutely beyond me.

Not what I meant, and obviously I should’ve been a lot clearer, as I’ve gotten this response (or something like it) more than once—and I suspect I’ll get it several more times from folks who don’t read past my first post.

When I said “the test is literally testing the applicant’s ability to take a test,” I meant just…

Half a million to get her daughters into USC! I mean, I went there, and it’s a nice thing to have on your resume if you work in California, but it’s not exactly Harvard.

I mean, I’m going to sound like an asshole here (days that end in -y), but it’s not like the SAT is even all that difficult or complex an examination in the first place. Both it and the ACT are literally testing the applicant’s ability to take a test—and baseline K-12 knowledge.

Source: Professor, going on fifteen…

yeah, its just me. nobody else is saying it:

i mean, at this point if you’re ok watching a supposedly pro woman movie that was partially funded by an organization that does not give a shit about women because the movie has some very gentle throw away criticism of itself because you just want to watch a movie that you want to watch, then go for it.

but don’t give…

the US military does not provide access to US equipment for movie makers who make movies that the military views as dragging it. they have a strict rule set on that- so everything in this film that involves the military was vetted by and was approved by the airforce. they allow a certain level of individual commentary…

so it does not bother you that the airforce gave disney money to make the airforce look good- which, it generally does. airplanes look cool as hell, everyone involved is like ‘man, the airforce is really cool’ and they all are fist pounding and being awesome in cool airplanes.

and the one part you highlight- ‘oh, they…

Or the part where they tried to cover a bunch of shit up?

i would say all of the parts where the airforce seems like its super awesome and being full of clunky airforce hardware porn?

we just heard testimony from a sitting US senator- who was literally the first woman allowed to fly combat missions, like this movie talks about- that she was raped by a superior officer in her…

I’m glad I’m not the only one confused as hell by that cat. Also, someone is going to need to sit me down and explain to me just how the Tesseract went from the bottom of the ocean to Mar-Vell’s space station to Fury’s desk; if there was a line in there about S.H.I.E.L.D. giving the cube to Mar-Vell for research…

I sat behind an 11 year old girl who turned to her father when it was over and said, “Ask me what my favorite movie of all time is?” When he asked, she said, “Captain Marvel.”

I haven’t really kept up with comics continuity since I stopped collecting them 30 years ago, so I assumed “Skrulls are good now” was just a construct for the movie. I’ll be very disappointed if it’s part of the new comics canon: while I suppose it’s nice and realistic to show that there are gradients of evil and…

i’m still kind of disturbed by how closely this movie worked with the air force. disney’s monopolistic scummery had always been something that made me uneasy about them, but now they’re taking money from the armed forces to make them seem good? that is straight up propaganda and we should all know better at this point