China is conquering us by selling us stuff. No need to get into a shooting war over stuff.

If you’re just wanting ballpark it

To convert from C to F: Double and add 30
To convert from F to C: Substract 30 and halve it

Easy peasy, no list of crap to memorize

All American music is black music.

Matamata is where Hobbiton is.

So obviously left over from the Third Age - one of Saruman’s devices left over after the scouring of the Shire.

Speaking of the Ukrainian landlord - that scene where the daughter brings Peter a piece of cake and a glass of milk is one of the sweetest things I’ve ever seen in a movie. No sexual tension - just a nice person doing something nice for someone who needed a bit of nice just then.

Thanks for playing, dude!

I know how culture feeds into actuality, yes.

Do you?

I’ve been playing Quick Words, available on Steam.

I treat it more like a logic puzzle than a word game, though,

I will never forget the time I ignorantly put dishwashing liquid in the dishwasher. Suds ALL over the kitchen.

Don’t do that.

Smith was definitely in the wrong.

However, I find it ironic that if a character he played in a movie had done this, the audience would have been cheering. Hollywood promotes toxic masculinity, but can’t abide it when it happens to THEM.

Oh, I’m all for reducing meat, especially beef, production for environmental reasons.

I just have no patience with the ‘poor wittle cows’ people or those who apparently think if we didn’t farm cattle they’d be happily playing in the grass somewhere.

Seriously. You’d think these people had never seen a nature documentary.

If you’re equating children with cows, there is something SERIOUSLY wrong with you.

Animals that wouldn’t exist except for farming.

I tend to actually buy less when I’m hungry, as my brain goes, ‘No, I don’t want this NOW.’

Where when I’m shopping when not hungry, it goes, ‘Oh, that might be good later’.

I know I’m weird.

Even Peter Jackson had to sue to get an audit of Lord of the Rings. It’s not just first time or indie directors.

Every film shows a loss, but studios always show a profit. 

I vote we all just start calling it the ‘John Lewis Bridge’ whatever the ‘official’ name is.

Let’s just call it that.

I drive a Prius and don’t drive much (<4,000 miles/year), but gas prices affect me mostly in that they drive up the price of EVERYTHING.

Driving less won’t help much when the price of, say, flour, doubles (as it did the last time we had this happen).

Cows are machines for turning grass into food.

No one did get punished. In fact, the investment bankers who sucked the value out of the housing market got rewarded.