My mind boggled, years ago, the first time I noticed a show censor out “god” but not “damn” in that phrase. Just... WTF.

It took me a while to place it, but his delivery of the speech reminded me intensely of Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor in Batman Vs. Superman.

Of course they were, of course they were. Because every white group and individual can find immigrants in their near-past family tree, so of course THOSE ones were the good ones. Conveniently forgetting that there has been essentially NO group of immigrants that haven’t been accused of coming to “destroy America and…

Or, in fact, nearly any other named character from the various Dragonball series. Goku is one of the few that aren’t terrible pun-like abominations or just plain common English words.

Or Poltergeist!

Once you start noticing it, it’s hard to stop. He’s hardly the only one who has a tendency to repeat themselves though. For instance, I watched the movie Aliens for the first time recently (seen bits of it for years, but first time REALLY watching it), and was struck by how similar parts of the score were to some…

Honestly, I find it difficult to hum various of his themes from that era, because I almost inevitably find myself unintentionally transitioning into something from a different movie. This one in particular usually turns into an Indiana Jones theme for me, or vice versa.

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.