Leave the “kids these days” out of it. Plenty of bad movies got made at all periods in film history. We just don’t bother watching the old ones. They’ve drifted off into the abyss of history while the good ones stayed around.

It could be worse, they could be using that image at the UN to get permission to launch a war for oil...

In the interest of pedantry, the original RHPS was not a success at all — it was a resounding belly-flop, not even opening in New York as scheduled. It only became successful after it hit the midnight-movie circuit 7 months later, and not “because it didn’t look like every other musical out there” but for a variety of…

Well, it never really had a shot at transferring. Harry Potter is a very small-c conservative, Anglican, Little Englander franchise built out of nostalgia for Enid Blyton and Anthony Buckeridge.

Exactly. And much of our early history as an independent nation involved distancing ourselves from things that were considered ‘Traditionally British’, even going so far as to run horse races in the opposite direction and make a conscious effort to adopt entirely new nomenclature for our heads of governmental…

Completely agreed. I’m not even going to approach the whole Native-American-culture can of worms, but this doesn’t feel at all like America - it’s America as seen through the lens of a British person who assumes the rest of the world is like the one they personally know.

(So this is what it’s like for the rest of the…

Hah. Go fuck yourself.

You should, because to think they have any reason to feel bad is idiotic. You know what doesn’t help Native American culture? Pretending it doesn’t exist. You know what NOT using any Native names or imagery does? Pretends we don’t exist.

Wouldn’t using these names actually mean that we’re acknowledging the importance of Native Americans - that the magical culture of America never tried to erase them but instead actually lifted them up?

The whole thing feels ridiculously out-of-touch with anything remotely ‘American’, and just as with the ‘History of Magic’ thing, the parts that don’t sound foolish and/or offensive just sound like a British person who’s never left their island, or read all that many books, thinks America must be.

Native American here. These names are ok.

So perpetuating this intolerance and leaving some disabled woman on the side of the road stranded somehow makes things better in your mind? Are you daft?

But that didn’t happen, did it? We’re talking about a Trump supporter denying a Bernie supporter help. Could the same happen if it was the reverse? Certainly. Would most Trump supporters do the same that this guy did? Likely not, because they’re probably not assholes. But trying to justify this because the possibility…

Bullshit.

For some strange reason, I had become fairly fatigued of the Uncharted series to the point of having to force myself to finish 3, but this game has me intrigued again. It looks gorgeous and the action seems to be refreshed enough to be interesting again. And a small thing, but I am a Jeeper through and through and…

MAYBE PEOPLE JUST REALLY LIKE CRANBERRY JUICE. I know I do. I mean, I guess your other thought is UTI or beating a drug test.....

I’d never call the Axolotl ugly, they’re cute! That Ted Cruz looking Blob Fish, though. . .