An article in the UK the other week said something like “there have been many responses to the US over the years - envy, contempt, admiration, gratitude - but Trump and his administration have added a new one - pity.”

Nah - the plane-girl thing was stupid. She made a joke about white-priv. and idiots took it seriously.

Didn’t Raimi say something like “in retrospect, the tree-rape was unnecessarily gratuitous...”.

(which, if nothing else, is proof that redundancy isn’t always redundant)

Only just got round to watching this. Fascinating in the time of corona - different era, different political system, same mistakes for the same reasons: men convinced that events will obey their will.

Well, credit where it’s due, at least it’s an actual apology, and none of that “I’m sorry if people felt...” crap.

I mean, what did happen to Marty v2 when Marty v1 got back to the (changed) future?

Well, the original parents never met Marty, and do we have more than a minute with the upgraded parents? Perhaps they have had a few conversations with themselves and Marty about his uncanny resemblance. However, Marty wouldn’t ‘remember’ those conversations anyway (which is the freakiest aspect), and they’ve…

Well, it depends. Generally, the subtler or rarer the thing you’re trying to measure, the larger sample you need. e.g. the following do not require large samples:
1. Impact (sic) of being shot in the head
2. A drug that, when used on heart attack victims, reduces mortality by 25%
3. A prenatal drug that leads to deformiti…

I’m amazed he’s not touting taking up smoking yet (seriously):

My Welsh sheep joke (sfw!).

A new teacher from London is sent to work at a primary school in a small, Welsh village. So, on the first day, she’s going through the alphabet with them, showing them a picture of an animal and asking them what letter it starts with. All’s going well - “d for dog, miss”, and so on - and…

Funnily enough, I was just thinking that myself. Not sure how I feel about it, but my desire for authenticity doesn’t trump shit like this.

If Trump’s Hitler, then shouldn’t his supporters be Nazis? I mean, otherwise, the analogy is basically “Trump is a bad man, and his supporters, who are also bad, actually live in another country”, and that’s really confusing.

UK leftie here - I generally defend those on the right as people of good intentions, however much I disagree with their conclusions, but the US Reps seem to have gone full evil-empire.

Ah, she was ten years old. She knew what she was getting into.

Seriously though, this is horrible. What is the answer? Banning child-actors in films seems extreme, but, on the other hand, not as extreme as this shit.

“Tasting absolutely nothing.”

It’s funny ‘cos it’s true.

tRoS is our just punishment for bitchin’ about the excellent tLJ.

I could never really get into it once they removed the city micro-management. I loved that shit.

UK here. My wife’s a nurse, and the PPE situation over here is terrible as well. Paper masks where they should be in full haz-mat; nothing everywhere else. Front-line staff are only just now starting to be tested in a comprehensive way.

Our one saving grace is that you can’t get hydroxychloroquine except on…

An influence on the Cybermen? (about a year before them, iirc)

It’s so weird. I’m in the UK, but I’ve watched a few of the briefings, and he’s unbelievable, especially when he isn’t speaking. He peeks at people’s notes, and starts this sort-of bored swaying. Then he remembers he’s meant to be serious, pulls it together for a few seconds, and then starts swaying again. I’m…