I've already plugged this on the odeck, but a bathrobe and slippers make a serviceable Arthur Dent. Towel, tea cup, mice and smartphone / tablet with "DON'T PANIC" on the back are nice extras.
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Can't rightly say I'm an expert on this, but as far as I know pollutants don't have to be toxic to be classified as such. Just have an adverse effect on people or the environment. Which the massive amounts of CO2 we release into the atmosphere has. And is pretty unrelated to whether or not it's natural, or directly…
No, I don't see that at all. It sounds incredibly obsessive and abnormal.
I watched Superman the same way I used to watch every American movie when I was a kid, with the implicit assumption that Americans are strange and I would never understand what they did or why. I assumed the cheese made sense to someone.
So if I'm guessing correctly that you've been following this from the Italian side, what do the news say that the scientists said? From what I can gather it only seems like this government official, Bernardini, was the one who offered any assurances and was sentenced for this, while the scientists were sentenced for…
Funny thing about Superman there, he's shown being able to fly fast enough to go back in time (supposedly superluminal?), but apparently not fast enough to catch two missiles going at most a few hundred miles an hour in opposite directions. Now that's something I could understand an argument about, a world that…
Not courteous in the "deigning to respond" kind of way either btw >_>. More just having a conversation.
Clearly we have different definitions of panties re: twisting. I thought I was being pretty courteous :/
Well, you might be happy to know then that I've read the books a grand total of once, about ten years ago. Not even in their original English >_>. I'm not taking this position cause I think Tolkien can do no harm, it's just always seemed like one of those things people make a big deal out of for no reason other than…
Even if you knew a hundred people who all told you that not explaining the eagles thing ruined the movie completely for them, we're still talking about some of the most successful movies ever made. Accusing them of mistakes, ineptness and bad storytelling backed up by children pointing out plot holes is just a tad on…
I've never taken the view that something was a plot hole if you could easily find a reasonable explanation for it on your own. True, Sauron isn't omniscient, but his powers (and anti-aircraft capabilities) are very vague. We really don't know how Mordor is protected, it could easily be a no-flight zone for the eagles…
The river scene is totally in the novel, dude. Apologies if I seem to be harping on you for these things but I think it may have been a while since you read them >_>
The whole point of the Fellowship itself was that it was small enough to "simply walk into Mordor" undetected. It's not a big leap to imagine that perhaps great big honking magic eagles would have caught Sauron's eye if they tried to just fly in. When the eagles came and got them, Sauron was all but dead.
But... Aragorn was introduced at the Prancing Pony and Frodo was stabbed by the Ring Wraiths in both the book and the Peter Jackson movie >_>
I'd recommend checking out some forecasts and projections for future world population trends. Not many predict a number higher than about 10 billion for the foreseeable coming decades
Looking at it another way, Chip just gave you more reason to be happy for what the article reports >_>
That was exactly what I was trying to say. Thank you :) I wasn't sure if it came across at all
It is, and if your point was that we shouldn't do nothing for fear of making a mistake then we're in complete agreement and I apologize for sounding so accusatory.
Last night I thought this was a serious reply, but given the others I can't help but wonder if it was sarcasm. If it was, was there something specific I wrote, or some kind of really common tone or behavior you see a lot of in these forums that I affected? Or was it just a really dumb post?