“Son, shining a fivehead is no way to go through life.”

Man, Picard-getting-tortured memes are gonna get a real workout over the next month or so.

Pablum and pabulum are separate words in English with separate connotations, though they both are derived from the same Latin root. Pabulum is most often used in English in the context of wood for a fire, and somewhat less commonly in reference to nourishing food. Pablum, in contrast, is explicitly food that is…

The history of early philosophy, especially the birth of metaphysics and ethics as disciplines, was directly coincident with a person’s ability to tell local priests to stuff it about the subject matter of what is/what should be and instead use their brains to find other answers.

and also is the title of Christianity’s sex tape.

Invaded.

W. V. O. Quine fucking hates you from the grave for that.

They still investigate counterfeit currency and financial crimes, but do so under the auspices of Homeland Security instead of Treasury.

Came here for a caltrops joke.

Yeah, it hasn’t been a secret for a while.

I don’t know if he had one full, comprehensible sentence all night. The guy is a profligate rambler, and it is infuriating.

He has some excellent line delivery chops. The whole “ze germans” riff in Snatch had me in stitches the first time I saw it, not to mention, “...and, I imagine, be fed to the pigs.”

Statham really kinda started in comedy. At least, I don’t really know how else to categorize Snatch.

Certainly, but the effect is jarring nonetheless. I ended up liking it quite a bit but it is very understandable that a person might react poorly to it on first impression. A lot of the enjoyment depends on a person being able to jump on board and tune out the weirdness of the style-setting juxtaposition.

Existential terror is what drives a whole lot of our least pleasant behavioral attributes, as a species. I know that folks hear immortality and immediately their brains run to Mathusian catastrophe, but the drive to reproduce is in part fueled by the primal fear of death. Reductions in birth rate are intimately…

Go sell your bull to Philando Castile’s family. Let us know how it goes.

“You’ve pickled your liver!”

One of the downright strangest movies (with a major release) of all time.

This is starting to feel like it should be a TVTropes page.

Heck, in The Lawnmower Man 2 (no, don’t watch it), the human-scope villain is eliminated by Jobe (the greater-scope villain) with a deepfake of himself ordering his own soldiers to ignore his in-person orders and shoot him on sight.