I don’t remember constructing anything. It would have been hard with a broom and a shovel.

I worked as a street sweeper for a while. It was fucking hard, backbreaking work. Nobody ever tipped me. Nor did I expect them to. I did get paid for the work, though. It was called a wage. I knew what the wage was when I agreed to take the job. After a while I got a better job. 

> Here’s how to properly thank, respect, and compensate the person making that happen.

This is the part where I pay for the hotel room, right?

> reminds me of studying Nostradamus, whose prophecies make so much sense in hindsight

Err, not sure about that one. 

Some of Hawkeye’s stuff in this movie was originally intended to be in the last one. They decided in post that Hawkeye wouldn’t be in Infinity War at all, and to move all his material to Endgame.

I’m hoping it’ll be a two hour long poker game as they adjust to their new reality, reminiscing about old friends.

It’s nothing compared with the huge reveal in the trailer for The Two Towers (ya, Gandalf comes back, kids). I mean, in some of these cases it would feel like artifice/pretense to play things out as though a big character wasn’t going to return (as with Justice League).

I have almost-repressed memories of a similar incident, phoning the crappily-named WOW Air from SFO and being on hold for 25 mins after a fuck-up with names. Not fun.

Use Google Fi instead of your current crappo rip-off provider.

I just found the finale wearying. In general resolutions involving hundreds of disposable drones tend to be much less engaging than ones involving a few key characters and a few sharp moves. 

> I liked Antman, but I found the main villain and plot to be pretty bland

The character of Darren Cross in Ant-Man was one of the biggest headaches during development. Initially he had a bigger part with more of an arc and greater emotional range, but they found during early F&F test screenings that his scenes weren’t…

I don’t pretend to know the character of Captain Marvel terribly well (in fact, I only really know the Monica Rambeau incarnation, from her time in Secret Wars in the 80s.) How do Marvel generally build interesting stories around the Carol Danvers CM? It’s like trying to build a solo adventure series around Doctor…

For me the one major argument in favor of picking SOME individual stocks is that it forces you to take a greater interest in the world and to think about where you believe it might be heading. (I guess sector-specific funds would work as well.)

The article seems to assume people will diversify by buying into specialist funds rather than by buying individual stocks. The latter won’t bring any MER penalty.

My advice:
Shave in the shower, not at the sink. You will get around one tenth the number of cuts you’ll encounter shaving at the sink. 

Is it absolutely for sure that Ant-Man is going to be in Endgame. As is Hawkeye, btw. Some of Hawkeye’s stuff was intended to be in Infinity War but they ended up deciding to move it to the next movie. 

Your argument isn’t unreasonable. My logic is mainly that Civil War brings in Ant-Man, Black Panther and Spider-Man as supporting characters, shows us Wakanda, explains why Winter Soldier is there and why the Avengers are no longer together as a united force. I feel like Civil War and Ragnarok are the two most direct…

Ant-Man was fine. The ones to skip would be:
The Incredible Hulk
Iron Man 2
Iron Man 3
Thor: The Dark World

A more interesting challenge would be trying to get a newbie up to speed in 7 movies. I would go for:

“Something else important to note: If you receive a lump sum near the end of the year (or heck, a large enough sum any time), that could push you into a higher tax bracket, increasing your tax burden over all.”

This really needs to be worded better, or risk perpetuating a pernicious financial myth.  

You had a scotch egg at a *restaurant*? That’s like reporting back on having had a bag of beef jerky at a restaurant.