My maiden name was Anglicized French for “of the laurel”. Which isn’t really a proper last name; some ancestor of mine got an award and tacked it onto his name. It’s like if I said my name was Jane Wonfivebucksinthelottery.

Search and Rescue helicopter pilot guy here. In case any of you are wondering if this will happen to you after falling off a cliff face or something and needing an airlift, it won’t if they do their jobs right. In the organization I fly with you have to use a line attached to the litter that’s held by a member of the…

or his loud proclamation that while gas grills are easier to use than charcoal grills, nothing beats that charcoal flavor.

The only thing more fascinating that listening to people talk about their Sims series playstyles is listening to them talk about what kinds of mods they enjoy most, because no other series in all of gaming reveals more of what we’re really like as people through play quite like The Sims.

This was fairly well covered by the NY media when it happened, but its roots stretch back a long way.

In most provinces in Canada (probably all but I don’t know that for sure) once your child is old enough to go to school all vaccines take place at school (with a signed permission slip of course.) We have universal health care (well mostly) so that makes sense. On PEI when I was growing up they had super cheap dental…

That’s a super messed up assignment. My 11th grade lit teacher was amazing, and on Valentine’s Day she had us write 3-5 anonymous notes to people in our class telling them why we thought they were beautiful. Some of them were more superficial, like “you have a nice smile”, and some of them were pretty deep. She then…

Despite everything—and I mean EVERYTHING, hurricanes, los locos Cubanos, Republicans, deeply provincial TriStaters whining about “How much better things are up North,” addled retirees trying to kill us all on I-95, the Snowbirds, the nasty entitled nouveau riche, the flying cockroaches, the heat, oh dear god the heat,…

Is that a foot-long alligator in your pants, or are you just glad to see me? 

The park is a lot of fun, though I recommend avoiding the Potter merchandise. The $50 wand, that every kid wants, is weak. The rides and atmosphere though are too notch. It really is the good place.

So that guy dedicated a year of his life forming a fake friendship in order to get back at the guy who . . . spoiled a movie?

The LADY BUSINESS! scene backing up Carol Danvers was the shiiiiiiiit.

Mm, I saw her explanation more like - removing this stone from MY timeline will doom MY timeline, even if you think you need it in yours. I saw it as referring to Dormammu’s ability to reign unchecked without the Sorcerer Supreme wielding the Time Stone against him. Returning the stones to their original time, even if…

They explained it in a way that paradoxes are impossible: “If you travel to the past, that past becomes your future. And your former present, becomes the past - which can’t now be changed by your new future”.

I keep reading that the thought of killing infant Thanos was a nod to the everlong debate of “going back in time and killing baby Hitler”. That’s why he got such disgusted responses.

Because he was worthy of it?

I think more-so they wanted to differentiate dusted dead from soul-stone dead.

I loved this movie three thousand.

I only noticed cause I’ve seen it twice already. My guess is “Thanos scienced it”

“It was padding"! Barbie definitely promotes creativity.