I had the same reaction about the bizarrely low-key play on the cruise ship collision, but I will nitpick that it’s “lede” rather than “lead” in this context: https://grammarist.com/usage/lead-lede/

Surely you meant, “One shtar only”?

Fun fact -- Once upon a time West Edmonton Mall had more submarines in service than the Canadian navy, although the mall is now sadly a demilitarized zone: https://www.nsnews.com/news/north-van-firm-scraps-west-edmonton-mall-submarine-fleet-1.372976

I had (and presumably still have in a box somewhere) one of those in the exact same color!

You could start with this: https://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2016/07/20/how-sony-s-marketing-nearly-destroyed-ghostbusters

Yeah, I was going to say that this strategy is a lot more viable in a country with major gun control laws....

+1 Single-stream recycling is the worst thing ever to happen to recycling, IMO, because it was entirely predictable that it would result in people treating recycling bins as defacto trash cans to a greater extent than they already did.

Over eight years after this post and it still works as of the date of this comment! It makes me wonder what the oldest continuously operating webpage is....

+1 My greatest regret in life is not buying a lightly used Jaguar XJ in British racing green with dark red interior when I had the opportunity. (I foolishly decided to save my money to buy a house -- I could have just lived in the Jag and looked good while doing it, but didn’t think of that at the time.)

Do I really need to say #MeTooLittlePinkHouses?

Starred because I laughed, but I’m not sure we can permissibly reference that song due to the problematic language in the first verse.

This deserves more stars.

Is Pratt himself going around saying or doing anything that’s anti-LGBTQ? If not, Page can go jump in lake because many (I would dare say most) people who practice Christianity don’t personally agree with everything their church denomination or even individual priest/pastor/minister/etc. advocates. (Source: I’m…

No, there really is apparently a not insignificant share of the adult populationin the US that relates to media at about the intellectual/emotional level of a lower grade-level elementary school student.

(depending on how you define Haiti)

The pronunciation is disputed although I go with “La-tinks”.  Discussion here: https://splinternews.com/pulitzer-prize-winning-new-yorker-writer-apparently-tho-1823459205

Even if it’s backdated, that wouldn’t make it a “fake” document — you can legally backdate most types of contracts, although it’s not necessarily advisable in a lot of situations.

They refuse to watch movies that don’t have predominantly white casts and relegate women to sex objects or plot devices.

You know it’s not actually a contradiction to disapprove of some aspect of an artist’s or other creative individual’s life while still thinking their artistic work has value and meaning, right?

I do have to take issue with one frequent line of criticism of the original movie that tends to crop up these days, including throughout this comment thread, and that’s how a lot of people keep claiming that “it wasn’t actually that good” or “the only reason people like it is nostalgia”.