I’m pretty sure that the Venn diagram of “People who would, unprompted, share the story with the staff” and “People who will not be rude to the staff” looks like a pair of goggles.

As in you liked the “they get back together” ending before, and now don’t? Even as a kid (whose parents are still married today), I knew that divorcees remarrying was just not how things shook out.  That they remained apart but committed to parenting struck me as unusually honest even at the time.

Yeah, I hear stories about DDL being *weird* in his method approach, not abusively assholish.

The screenwriter left the movie when the studio insisted the couple not break up.  After reading the “happier” ending someone else wrote, they took her back and kept her ending.

Gonna go out on a limb and say that the waitstaff is not going to be thrilled about serving someone with a chip on their shoulder because someone else at the business (who they likely don’t even know) screwed up.

“Unless you want to get cute and cite something like E.T. or Mrs. Doubtfire, there aren’t a lot of movies about divorce.”

In fact, I think it was public domain at all points. The individual stories belong(ed) to authors, but the world was open to whoever wanted to cross into it; this is why Conan is technically in the same world as Cthulhu.

Yeah, steak *is* a subtler flavor, and people pay good money for that flavor, so drowning it in ketchup is a waste.

I think that’s because Contagion is portraying something comparable to the 1918 flu epidemic - which we have a fair amount of data on - where Outbreak is closer to apocalyptic fiction.

The weirdest thing about Battleship is that it was...OK.  It came off like some writer’s exercise of “find a reason for our heroes to use *extremely* outdated naval tech, and toss in a reference to firing at alpha-numeric coordinates.”

Yeah. White Tiger was utterly talentless, Robot was just not much of a singer. I feel like they couldn’t bring themselves to chuck out Gronk on his first try...or that Lil Wayne had other commitments he needed to get to.

My wife pegged the Kangaroo as Iggy Izalea, who is *definitely* not too good for this show.

Honestly, I’m kind of impressed.  This review doesn’t make it sound like they neutered it for the sake of the rating, and doing effective horror within the bounds of PG-13 strikes me as an interesting exercise.

I also get a kick out of non-professional singers who have surprisingly good voices. Victor Oladipo’s deep run and Ken’s detective work to figure out who he was was one of my favorite parts of last season.

I like the performances, I just can’t stand the celebrity banter, and that’s like 50% of the show.

It’s...complicated. If you’re running a farm that gives your livestock lots of room, feeds them diet-appropriate plants, and generally keeps them in good health, their milk probably is safe to drink unpasteurized. If you’re a factory farm that needs antibiotics in the feed to prevent outbreaks, pasteurization is all…

Well, *you’re* here, so it’s not all that abandoned, huh, smart guy?

Bingo. Plenty of me-first players made it through the NCAA, and I don’t think Moses Malone or Daryl Dawkins were considered horribly selfish.

I mean, with the limited amount we saw of Saul in BB, it’s entirely possible that Kim’s still part of his life.  Besides the ill-advised kidnapping, I don’t think we ever saw him outside of a professional environment.

I will never, ever be able to generate an explanation why people will get murderously enraged over the treatment of animals when they can barely care about similar treatment of human beings.