The line is not, “I am a nice man.”

I saw this in the theater, and the projectionist screwed up and put the reels in the wrong order, so it went 1, 4, 3, 2, 5. I don’t remember exactly where all the jumps happened, but I remember it basically went right from the car accident to the “What are you waiting for?!” scene.

I’d say the uses of the word “uncanny” in horror and in regards to the uncanny valley refer to pretty much exactly the same thing: in essence, that which simultaneously looks familiar and unfamiliar.

Review is pretty much exactly what I was expecting, and I’ll likely just stick with those versions that profit Don Mancini, but I was a little thrown by:

Season 3 is definitely the most consistently strong season of Buffy, but even at its very best, it still doesn’t manage the same emotional extremes that peak season 2 draws out of me. Also, as I said, I’m a big sucker for the less polished, grainier, darker look of the first two seasons; I love how often characters’…

I find both to be uneven but with remarkable highs and relatively few SERIOUS lows, and I will grant that Angel was probably the more consistent of the two. However, my heart will always belong to those rough-hewn, shot-on-16mm early years of Buffy. To me, Buffy s02 is the emotional and stylistic peak of the…

Yeah, my wife and I chose to live together and get married because we really like spending a lot of time together, pretty much more than we like anything else. There are about 55/60 hours a week during which we have to be apart (I work long days and have a bit of a commute); most weeks, that’s quite enough time apart.

We care what his perceived motive is because his interest or lack thereof in the actual answer to the question determines whether or not answering the question is a good use of time. Since he doesn’t care about the answer, he is wasting the time of everyone present.

Asking an employee a question because you want an answer to that specific question is the opposite of abstract. Asking an employee a question with the intention of extrapolating different information based on your interpretation of the nature and tone of their answer? That is abstract.

It’s a waste of the server’s time because the question isn’t being asked so that the customer can make a more informed order, but so that the customer can pass judgement on the restaurant based on how genuine he thinks the server’s response is.

But this letter isn’t about asking for recommendations when actually in need of a recommendation; it’s about asking for recommendations as a means of interrogating the server in order to pass an abstract judgment on the business.

You believe that the author actually considers this “cool”? Did you read the text of the article? Do you have any comprehension of tone at all?

Yeah, cage pitches his performance to the material. He knows when a script demands over the top scenery chewing.

My wife and I will sometimes get drunk and then post stupid things on social media about how great our bartender was, or how something the other person said was the funniest thing ever. No blood ever spilled. Weird, right?

Wish I’d read your post before I replied with my own less-well-worded version of the same point. :-)

Was his ENTIRE class snapped? Was every extra we saw in a classroom in Homecoming snapped?

When that’s literally the entirety of your response to a statement made in a casual conversation, yes, it is confrontational. A complete sentence would be the bare minimum required to achieve anything like a polite tone.

The world is a big place. A tiny fraction of a percent of the human population can still be many people. I am not the only person I have ever met who snaps this way, and I have met a pretty tiny percentage of the world’s population. So, yes, I extrapolated.

I never said that at all. At no point did I claim that snapping with the ring finger was universal, or even the norm. All I ever said was that snapping with the middle finger is not universal, and that snapping with the ring finger is not entirely unheard of.

Really? It makes more sense to you to suggest that someone doesn’t know which is their fucking ring finger than to accept that maybe, just maybe, not everybody’s digits naturally bend/flex exactly like yours do?