In leadership positions? Of course not. Why would we? You don’t get to a position like that in Starfleet without being the best of the best.

My grandmother always insists on stacking all the plates and such when we are out with her. It’s not often anymore, but it seems to have started to spread as a habit to the other members of my family. Granted, silverware is generally neatly moved to the top of the stack, so at least it’s stable. I will probably…

The GBC game is actually based on the Beast Wars II cartoon, as mentioned. As such, it does feature a few characters from the Beast Wars series, but most of them are from BWII, which featured a mix of new toys and redecos of toys from Beast Wars and a few from earlier series.

Those ones listed WILL be broken. If not in the box, then shortly after removed from it and handled. You did nothing wrong, but they are doomed. There is a Japanese version of one of the original spring-loaded Basic figures that is susceptible to this. I remember reading about someone who’d gotten one mint in sealed…

And of course the article this comment is attached to explained the in-fiction need for it in some detail. I will never understand people who make comments on articles they haven’t read.

Oh yeah, terrible site design. Just terrible. Comments are halfway unreadable. BUT that’s where (the successor to) Behind Closed Ovens lives now.

Leaving this here for anyone who wants more of the above linked article and doesn’t know where to find it now: http://bitterempire.com/author/c-a-pinkham/

This is exactly why I leave my ad blocker on. Well, one of two reasons. The other is because ads so frequently make a site next to unusable. I do allow AdBlock Plus to show “unobtrusive ads” though.

It has been my experience that if you “allow on this site”, you cannot then specifically disable individual offending ads. And it sucks.

Irony is the word, yes. And I would imagine many of the people responding to it don’t even specifically trust DrugstoreGlasses. Accurate or otherwise, the chart itself plays to pure confirmation bias, what with that towering red bar over Fox News dwarfing everything else. If the apparent numbers were more evenly…

Every time I saw Fallout nuke some people I was like “oh, huh, he basically just slow-killed a room full of people there.” I’ve always understood that high-dose radiation poisoning was just about the worst way to die. At least with burning alive you either die from the smoke or the shock pretty quickly. With radiation…

Please cite your sources! This chart is meaningless without supporting information, not to mention it’s just plain distasteful to not credit when reposting.

Hm. Well, alright, I guess I’m showing my age, as that’s too long ago for me to have remembered it. But you’re right, that was definitely a thing. Strangely, I remember Ivana, but Marla Maples is a non-entity in my memory.

Nothing, as I recall, that ever got strongly corroborated. You only get a real scandal, typically, when the people involved speak out publicly or there’s some equivalent publicized evidence. All the Trump stuff has been pretty hushed up and reduced to rumors.

My personal theory is that Simmons slashed his face on purpose. Recall he had a servant killed for being similarly marred. She went for the deep hurt, not the kill.

I actually can’t agree. It’s part of the weird hypocracy and double standards applied to sexual behavior in US culture. The exact same people who will cheer on and join in when bragging about sexual exploits and harassing behavior (mostly in private, or at least not too publicly overt) will turn around and (publicly)…

It was very difficult not to, especially as certain quirks in her word selection just sounded exactly like how Tahani would have phrased it.

I guess it does get old, but they do provide the vital perspective of a privileged class fundamentally failing to understand the effects of institutionalized discrimination.

Hey now. She is not “just a housewife”. She is a medical professional.

It can be, yes. But it changes Qui-Gon’s motivations and recontextualizes everything. The whole “chosen one” narrative either flies out the window entirely or has far less certainty to it. If you keep that in, you have to replace it with something nearly or equally laced with special significance.