Nooooooot in the slightest. The strength of the monarchy varied by location, of course, but in a lot of places, monarchs didn't actually have a ton of power in and of themselves. Where they derived their power from was how many nobles they had on their side. See, kings typically didn't directly control or rule a lot…

Nonono, everyone before 1900 wore nothing but mud brown and maybe dirty white if they were lucky, everyone knows that. Brilliant reds, yellows, blues, greens, even a nice black or gray? Don't be ridiculous! All those paintings from the time period and household/merchant records that explicitly mention brightly-colored…

Regarding #1, I've even read about how in some places, it was illegal to accuse someone of being a witch—because it was wrong to believe that a person could be a witch in the first place!

While it's certainly true that people's teeth wouldn't look nearly as nice as ours, dentistry wasn't entirely bad back then! Pulling rotten teeth (and potentially replacing them with false ones—possibly human ones!) was pretty common, and people did clean their teeth with toothpicks and by rinsing their mouths. Plus,…

Well, I dunno if it's that it doesn't exist, or it was just easier to say "he's a mutant" for the sake of the movie. Time will tell if they're even going to bring up the subject as it pertains to Deadpool.

If we're talking Marvel universe, though, Deadpool isn't a mutant in the sense that he wasn't born with the X-gene. "Mutant" is a pretty specific, well-defined term in the Marvel universe, and it doesn't cover Deadpool.

If we're talking Marvel universe, though, Deadpool isn't a mutant in the sense that he wasn't born with the X-gene. "Mutant" is a pretty specific, well-defined term in the Marvel universe, and it doesn't cover Deadpool.

Know what it is? Of course. Know how to do it or how to understand it? Not in the slightest.

To be fair, this video seems to be more an art project than an actual statement on why compression is the devil.

I think I can hear a difference—certainly between low-quality mp3 and FLAC or something—but not enough that I actually care about it. Certainly not enough to do anything about it.

Keep reading the article. It was, but the guy was still interested in trying to recover the originals. He ultimately kept half and donated the other half to a museum.

Well, I suppose I can't fault somebody for trying to start a flamewar out of boredom. I may have been known to do the same a time or two myself... *cough*

Dude, it's food coloring. While I agree that it probably shouldn't have happened—what if it hadn't been food coloring?—and that the Russian government is kind of being dicks at the moment, food coloring is generally not dangerous.

There's that common joke about Twilight, about how there's no plot until the last 20% or so. Well, Fifty Shades manages to have no plot at all, for the entire first book.

The worst part about the lip biting thing is that it legitimately used to be a habit of mine when I was thinking—but I broke myself of the habit because I wanted in no way to be associated with Fifty Shades in any way. Every time I did it, all I could think was "YOU'RE ACTING LIKE ANASTASIA! DO YOU WANT TO BE LIKE…

Ooh, ooh, did you like the epilogue a couple years on, in which Ana's interaction WITH HER CHILD is described using LITERALLY THE SAME PHRASING used in half the sex scenes?

What do you mean by Charon being the size of Texas? Texas' area is just under 700,000 square kilometers... Charon's is over 4 million square kilometers.

Same here...

Yeah, sounds like it.

Plows are a massive pain to drive behind, but those ones are pretty cool, I have to admit.