All I see in the broken watch glass is a dancing Groot.

I reached out to Stop The Robots via email, and haven't heard back

Perhaps Americans are less prepared to explain why it's a bad day, why they feel like shit, why they are depressed, why they have to swallow huge amounts of Valium Xanax, Zoloft or whatever is being prescribed for them to get through the day, why they're feeling down and out and generally like killing either…

He was the first and only writer who had me laughing out loud in a crowded train. Everybody looked at me as if I was some crazy guy (which I am, but mostly harmless - to others.)

*coughing*

I had fully expected her to be gone after "The Name of The Doctor", only to have her pop up occaisionally after that whenever the Doctor was in some sort of danger. As a companion, I thought her role was done after that. And somehow, her appearance in "The Day of The Doctor" felt a bit odd. Ok, it did set her up in…

A degrading tone does not a troll make....
And yes, I am a historian, even though medieval history is not my field of expertise, I have had to go through bookshelves about the period at university. And no, my comment was not opinion, it's a matter of established historical fact. If I were to voice an opinion about it,…

I'm not a troll, I just corrected you. A troll is someone who wants to start an online debate with a statement that's either infuriating, blatantly wrong or in deliberate opposition to a previous statement (or all of those) or who tries to steer a debate in an off-topic direction for no other purpose than to mock and…

The Swiss Guard, the Palatine Guard and the Noble Guard were the only standing army the Vatican had ever any direct control over and they have never been big enough to "run half the world". Their duties were largely ceremonial and of these only the Swiss Guard remains. The others were abolished. Even the Swiss Guard…

It wasn't a snark, however it was generalized: it was an expression of general stupidity and I called it. Neither am I engaged in anything. The history of crusades is very well established and it is neither complex nor in any way comparable to jihadist "reasoning" (which is a contradiction in terms; there isn't much…

No, Western Europe didn't laugh at them, the first crusade started as a genuine call to arms to defend christianity and the christian Eastern Empire. It was only after that first crusade, when the Western Europeans had seen how poorly defended Anatolia was, and how impotent the Byzantine Empire was, that they sought…

xkcd has several very good examples, but I always like this one:

That's not what happened. That man in Rome was asked for help by the Byzantine Emperor, but that man in Rome had no troops of his own. He didn't order knights and soldiers to go on a crusade, he asked the nobility, the feudal lords to help the Christian Empire in the East in order to keep the trade route between Asia…

Everything that IS(IS) has done, has a direct precedence in the history of Islam, is sanctioned by sharia law and is dictated by allah and his prophet in either the quran or hadith. You can't name one single action undertaken by ISIS which isn't islamic or is considered a crime in sharia law.
Not. A Single. Thing.

I have pondered this at length and there is some merit in the last objection. It is a fact that we haven't looked for a very long time and not in a very large part of space. The sections we have looked at closely are just a fraction of the sky and only those that look promising to our antropcentric ideas about life,…

They are of use in an evolutionary sense. The foreskin acts as a vacuum pump when you do the dirty deed. That will suck out any sperm that has been left in the vagina by another male, thus increasing the chance of the offspring resulting from the coitus being that of the foreskinned male.

Have you actually read the article? I guess you didn't. The whole point is that the benefits are unproven empiracally. There is no need for genital mutilation. Not in women and also not in men. In the US it's just a leftover Victorian puritan measure that somehow stuck culturally. The rest of the civilized world has…

Never mind the "suicidal thinking, abnormal bleeding, and seizures"...
In combination with an aspirin or ibuprofen (very common for simple things like a hangover)
"sudden death can occur"!

Bad language? There's no such thing as bad language. There's only language. There's bad use of language, there's bad knowledge of language, but bad language as such doesn't exist. If you meant to say I've used curse words, I have to rectify that: I didn't use any of those anywhere. Yes, I've been rude. And true, I…

1) I haven't written that there has never been an attempt to wipe a foe from history, I wrote that your example of Native Amricans doesn't apply (read it back.)
2) I'm not German, I'm Dutch. (The people that discovered your little desert island.)
3) Had the Germans won WW2 (unlikely scenario, but counter-factional…