I watched this just to see the blue “have your credit card ready and call the number on your screen or send check or money order for...” screen.

Great sign.

The best-laid schemes of ants and men
gang aft agley.

The saying is ‘chickens come home to roost.’

The old ads went “a cookie is just a cookie, but Newtons are fig and cake”

Unlikely theory: homage to the Dude, who we never actually see bowling.

It’s like 60 Minutes on acid.

^ THIS ^

It’s definitely been common in spoken English along with other plural-singular shifts like “there is” and is generally easier to follow. And, of course, it has existed in written English as well, but not to the same extent in formal (presumably proofread) settings. You’re absolutely right that it shouldn’t be an…

Eh..... By the time of Middle English’s emergence when we have pretty nearly something that is recognizable and uses the letters we’re familiar with the formal ‘you’ was by far the more widely used form for a stranger (like French’s use of ‘vous’ as a singular 2nd person).

I appreciate the line early on that:

Vomit? So American.
Brits simply be sick.

A nine-hour fantasy war movie.

No.
From a physics point of view, thermal expansion makes no sense.

Refrigerating coffee beans tends to make the oils come to the surface (normally a bad thing, because it begins oxidizing and spoiling the flavor if allowed to sit, but if he’s only doing a day or two’s worth, that might be ok) which could maybe give a…

“starts breaking down within 24-48 hours”

I was sure this (or stuffed supreme) was the answer the article was building to.

Ninjas with katanas slicing through shoji screens in front of samurai armor ...and there’s a karaoke bar, sushi, neon, and Hello Kitty, but don’t worry, there’s no cultural tourism here.

Or maybe someone had opening day tickets and is salty about now having to wait for half of a September double-header.

Your comment just sent a flustered movie exec into a panic attack trying to work out if vampires were still a thing and if Ryan Gosling was still a thing.