Well come on, she’s far from the first person to mention the similarities here, right? Luke Skywalker (as far as we know at the time) is a poor, no-name boy from the desert whose family has been killed by the evil empire. He becomes indoctrinated in a radical religion and plots to destroy the evil empire. He and his…

It’s how I was taught to type too, and by some people’s (wrong) definition I’m a millennial.

Yeah, I think the most interesting way to give her a “relevant lineage” would be for her to somehow be a Palpatine. But short of that, making her “a nobody” is the most interesting route to go.

I’ve seen 1981 as a cut-off (I don’t agree with it, but that’s a different argument). Tom Brady, Drew Brees, and Josh McCown were born in the 1970s. Every other NFL QB would be a millenial by that definition...

Sorry, I didn’t mean to. My comment was still gray when I responded, so I didn’t think it would have that effect. Also, I wanted to correct my error. There’s nothing worse than having these people try to invalidate your entire argument because you made a typo or accidentally typed the wrong state even though the point…

That’s not what I’m saying at all. You’re talking about someone actually pointing a gun at police. I’m talking about a situation where the cops don’t even know what’s happening and are under no threat. The victim didn’t even say a word to them let alone verbally threaten or actually physically threaten anyone.

Oops. For some reason I thought I saw North Carolina in the article. I must have made that up.

Exactly. North Carolina is a stand-your-ground state. If he did have a gun, he would have been within his rights to kill those police officers who did not identify themselves as such, but came into his backyard and opened fire on him.

If the cops were afraid, why did they have to chase this guy and fire at him when he was only suspected of some minor property damage/theft? If they think their life is truly in danger, maybe just let this one go. It’s not worth risking their lives or the suspect’s life on such low stakes. It’s not like they were…

It definitely DOES NOT show that. Yes, the car’s sensors should have been better at catching something invisible to the human eye, but that’s what this was. The result is exactly what would have happened with a fully focused human driver. From the instant I see a reflection of the pedestrian’s shoes to the moment of…

Oh really, Deacon? Is that why you ditched Napoleon at Ziggy Piggy?

I don’t want to take away from anything you said, because I agree completely. I just want to share my love of the Turkey Man auto-correct. That’s excellent.

Yeah, and besides, the player steals the ball at almost the exact time the “injured” player grabs his leg. It’s not like he fell over for a few seconds and then the guy swooped in for the steal, it happened almost simultaneously. From the second angle they showed it looked more like the “injured” guy grabbed his leg…

I used to fly a lot, had double-secret premier status and all that nonsense. I was in zone 2 on a United flight out of LAX. When it was clear that all zone 1 people had boarded I went to the front to be the first zone 2 person. I handed the guy my boarding pass and he told me to go to the back of the line. I hesitated…

Big spender? Only if he actually paid his vendors.

At least it would get him off TV, though who the hell knows who’d take his time slot...

Did Ross know it was a super suit though? If I recall correctly, he made mention of running around in a cat suit. He didn’t know the suit had special vibranium properties.

Yeah, but this is a comic book movie. Having them find more of the herbs or finding a way to make more of it, or even synthesizing the chemical that causes the reaction it from the vibranium directly are all well within the realm of possibility.

It’s hard to say she’s worked at it for five years if she still hasn’t learned a single trick.

The thing I haven’t seen mentioned yet is the inherent disrespect of her actions that are made apparent due to the nature of the sports we’re talking about. In a half-pipe competition everyone watches each competitor do their run. Everyone there had to spend a few minutes to watch her pretend to compete.