And then there was Pete the Killer, who was Sally Balls’ brother, then you had Nicky Eyes and Mikey Franzese—and Edrio “Two Tubes”, nicknamed
because he said everything twice through two tubes.

This sounds great!

People called Romanes they go the house?

I think this may be one of the oddest comments I have ever seen. Since when is this an issue? Millions of schoolchildren are being deprived of useful knowledge because they are forced to attend hours of Latin lessons every day? The U.S. could finally achieve a truly multilingual culture if only the Latin fascists…

Teaching Latin generally provides a strong foundation for becoming multilingual, because it’s an effective way to teach grammatical concepts, roots, and inflection. We already primarily teach Spanish (and French) in public schools, which is why the standard of bilingualism in the US tends to be a fraction of…

Counterpoint. I took Latin as my language in high school and found that doing so has made it easier to learn other languages that are related to Latin.

You know what’s honestly a pretty dumb band name? The Beatles. I won’t get into any other Beatles-related hot takes, but they’ve been so omnipresent my entire life that it literally took decades for me to realize it was a pun.

Neutral Milk Hotel is a grating bandname and the band’s music is not interesting enough to compensate for it.

So, a sequel would have to be titled “Se2en: The Sese7venen-ing”.

If that was the title of the article, I wouldn’t have read it.

This article may as well be called ‘how each of us is a pedant who withholds joy from themselves based on nothing.’

I’ve avoided Portugal. The Man because their name has a period in the middle of it. I’m probably missing out on music I’d like, but dammit, you shouldn’t do that with punctuation.

It’s worth noticing that Gundam is one of the few properties when Hollywood’s constant race bending could go unnoticed.

I don’t understand how people keep doing this and not think about it might ruin their lives.

Basically came on to say this exactly. Every time avclub brings up last Jedi it talks about how positive all the feedback was other than from a small shitty group of people. I loved force awakens, Rey, finn and the rest..and hated the last jedi. A large part of the fandom feels like me. Sorry it’s easier to assume…

Despite getting mostly positive notices for The Last Jedi, Rian Johnson, for example, has seen his movie (and his cast) relentlessly pilloried by a whiny portion of their fanbase that didn’t get exactly what they wanted.

I don’t know how anyone who saw Natalie Portman’s performance in the Star Wars prequels and compared it to her other work could think that the actor was the thing that ruined Jar-Jar Binks.

Who's that pope? Who's that pope? Its john!

Catholicism just got a whole lot more a-dorkable.

And next year, it will be called The Popesi Challenge.