There are some movies that scare you because you’re a kid when you first see them and that impression sticks with you for life, and there are some movies that are genuinely terrifying no matter how old you are.

Did you post this on the wrong article, maybe?

Mexico, Israel, China and the United Arab Emirates. Literally 2 seconds of Googling found me this info.

Bacon pancakes have become a common breakfast in our house. Actually, we’ve found that bacon and chocolate chips are a perfect blend of savory and sweet.

With 5 episodes of Steven U, roughly every 18 months or so

I kinda figured that there would some fun rants on this article, but that was some red-in-the-face, spraying-everyone-in-a-20-foot-radius-with-spittle rhetoric right there. Take a bow, “john79".

 The most disturbing image from this entire book (and possibly the entire Culture series) is a chair.

Meh. I’ve read every Culture novel, some of them a couple of times, and Phlebas is bottom-of-the-barrel. You aren’t really missing anything if you don’t finish it. Your time would be better spent on The Hydrogen Sonata, or Matter, or Player of Games, or... well, any of them, really.

If we’re talking government spending, then it’s “why build one when you can build two for quadruple the price?”

I wasn’t aware the nugget meal was just as unhealthy as the cheeseburger. I guess that just reinforces the assumption many folks have that this is just a marketing ploy and not actually done in service of trying to make kids’ meals healthier.

A friend of mine (American) was travelling abroad when Trainspotting came out in theaters, so she saw it in London with some local friends. Partway through the movie she asked her English friends to translate some of what was said, and their response was something like “That’s Scottish, we can’t understand it any more…

I think you’re missing the point. Nobody says your kid can’t have a cheeseburger, they won’t be checking IDs with each order. It just won’t be the default Happy Meal anymore. And if you really need the combo of cheeseburger with cheap-plastic-toy-that-will-inevitably-break-within-24-hours, just do what I do: take your…

Thank you, thank you, a million times THANK YOU! You have perfectly articulated my feelings on this subject. I wish that I could effectively communicate this lesson to other parents that I see out in the world, but (not always, but usually) parents tend to react to un-asked-for parenting advice with extreme hostility.

I hear you, speaking as a current (mostly) stay-at-home-dad myself.

Truly, it’s a tired old trope. But I strongly suspect that in this case it’s going to be a metric fuckton of fun anyway.

Guardians was weird, but it did still have a Hollywood Chris as the lead. So they were consistent with at least part of the formula.

You’re half right - it is too little, but it’s not too late. Since they literally can’t go back in time to fix their shitty track record, all they can do is try to do better moving forward.

 It’s a fair question to ask, especially in a getting-to-know-you small talk kind of a situation, but to avoid the mistaken perception that you are “othering” someone I’d suggest framing the question just slightly differently. What I say to people is “So, are you from Minneapolis (or whatever your current location is)…

You know that “black” people are not actually the color black, right? Drow skin is not dark brown, it is jet-black. I suppose you could take an African-American actor and paint him jet-black to play Drizzt, but then you’d have to do that with every other dark elf as well. And if you were to create a fantasy race that…

While it does decent legwork detailing the abuse allegations, the entire focus of the article seems to be about how Fassbender’s career has not suffered any consequences. Unless new allegations come to light, it doesn’t seem likely that his career will take a hit any time soon.