I submit the theory that perhaps someone who walks way more than the average person every day will already have toughened their feet. Most normal humans get blisters, even in well fitted, comfortable, high quality footwear, when they suddenly go from an average amount of walking to a theme park amount of walking.

I submit the theory that perhaps someone who walks way more than the average person every day will already have…

I work in generating print (not necessarily always physically these days, but it’s still the same work), and there are a lot of tedious tasks and it’s work lot of people who try it, hate. I sometimes spend a couple of hours or longer moving blocks of text 0.00001 inch at a time until the page looks just right, or…

I’m not a fan of poutiness, per se, but like Mary from The Secret Garden, I’ve always felt that Lyra was supposed to be a fairly irritating child to start out the story (though less so). Probably for the same reason - inadequate supervision from parental substitutes. 

I had the opposite reaction. We think of these people of having lived a long time ago, but then I read, “Neanderthals went extinct between 39,000 and 41,000 years ago,” and shit, that seems like basically no time at all. It’s like when I first learned that mammoths were still around when the pyramids were being built.

I half woke up at a slumber party sometime in elementary school with the tv playing it in the background and everyone else asleep. I don’t even clearly remember what parts I saw other than an overhead shot of scenery, but whatever parts they were terrified me in a way that’s stuck with me. I still won’t watch it for…

No, no, sorry! I didn’t mean to imply that! He is (or was, I think they eventually rebooted him) the son of two long time Legionnaires. I just meant him getting stolen at birth and transformed into a monster and sent back in time to fight his parents is the kind of thing that can happen.

Fortunately, unlike Grace, comic books have a ton of options available to fast forward a baby without just ignoring the issue. As long as he doesn’t end up with an exposed brain and no eyes, it’ll be fine.

This is a weird take. I mean, I’m probably only going to be watching crossover episodes, but that’s because of my own issues with live action Supermen. No one’s ever going to go broke assuming that tons of people will watch a Superman show or movie.

Fair point. That montage was HOT.

I miss you, Channel Zero.

You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft…

Never has a blockbuster series had more opaque and misleading trailers than the Star Wars franchise, so presumably this means your threshold for spoilers is “people and machinery exist in places.” I can respect that.

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See! This is very straightforward stuff, and the standard all banks should be held to.

I have my notifications turned on, but Bank of America’s is often more a source of rueful hilarity than anything else. Typically their notifications for large cash withdrawals or debits show up anywhere from 8 to 24+ hours after they happen. Any sort of decent thief would have cleaned me out by then.

Well, the primary advantage of a debit card is that it makes it literally impossible to spend money you don’t have! It’s also readily available when you don’t have a steady cashflow. Even a secured credit card was impossible to get when I was dealing with an extended period of unemployment, and lots of places…

I mean, it can work out if you’re disciplined about it. I got a new credit card with 1-3% cash back (depending on category) and only a $1000 limit (< a quarter of my monthly take home) back in April. The rewards aren’t why I got it, but I pretty quickly fell into using it for the normal purchases that I had previously…

Well, the UK is quite used to alien invasions, aren’t they?

^^^This, exactly. I can’t believe people think this is up for debate.

“Out in the field the grass was singing a scratchy soprano chorus -growgrowgrowgrowgrowgrow- which broke off abruptly and turned into an annoyed mob sound of boos and razzes as one of the groundskeepers, way across the field, started up a lawn mower.” - So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane.