Since there seems to be some confusion BTL about the findings of this study, here’s a similar piece of research from 2012 that may add some extra context:

Which is an over-simplification, because children who play in dirt also get all manner of awful diseases. As the story notes, it’s not dirt that makes your immune system better but the surrounding environment.

I’m still dreaming of Michelle Obama challenging him to a boxing match. It would be the very epitome of a popcorn moment.

An underrated gem. Some of the battle scenes were breathtaking in their ferocity. Also, I want MOAR Titus (and Leandros to admit he was a knob).

This could be very good - IF that moggy is handled very, very carefully. Don’t fail us, Team Wakanda...

My favourite GRIM Disney moment was the magical duel in Sword & The Stone - won by biological warfare. The ultimate expression of the Disney ‘Creepgag’ aesthetic of course is the Haunted Mansion, genuinely disturbing and blackly cartoonish in equal measure. I’m surprised the Magic Kingdom hasn’t adapted Lovecraft or…

“In a world where (bunnies) have taken over the (vegetable patch), humanity must (ask politely in order) to (ensure a steady supply of lettuce).”

Once again, the sinister Squirrel Girl mafia stitches it up.

Chortle!

The four stages of my brain on maths:

This sort of implicit paternalism is seen in high relief in the currently popular Star Wars series which also presents a somewhat disturbing anti-rationalism in its quasi-religious ‘Force’ which unites the Jedi Knights (are we back to Wellsian ‘samurai’ again?) and upon whose power they can draw, like some holy…

I recognised them both instantly. All those years watching daytime TV finally pay off.

It’s like Eastenders - everything’s constantly shit and absurd, but we all keep tuning in/buying the comic.

Trying to explain shade to Mrs. Hellpigeon - can it be best surmised as an indirect but potent slight? She says I find out so many things on the Web, which may suggest she’s ahead of the curve in any case.

The production team nicknamed Alien3 ‘Skinheads In Space’ for obvious reasons. It was also shot in Pinewood Studios, and I felt a certain thrill knowing I lived nearby when they filmed it there.

It’s those Sumatran Rat Monkeys you’ve got to keep an eye on...

No, because Whedon’s ‘strong female characters’ tend to be damaged, dysfunctional waifs in reality, and his penchant for overwrought soap opera is, frankly, annoying.

Then said lover got shot on the toilet by his errant son. You just can’t win, sometimes.

But he has no such restraint when discussing the sequel to his Aliens, the polarizing Alien 3. It begins with the cruel discovery that Aliens’ hard-fought survivors—other than Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley—have all perished.

There’s a difference between hacking the canon and satirising it, as Moore did with Young Master Potter.