This is truly bizarre. Like you, I immediately thought, didn’t they check Bollywood?

But finding a male lead in his 20s who can act and sing has proven difficult — especially since the studio wants someone of Middle-Eastern or Indian descent 

I can’t imagine what this family is going through but perhaps grieving parents shouldn’t be unilaterally superseding international law and medical ethics

Ugh it all starts with fucking Libertarians. Not literally fucking them, but I did do that once and I’m still horrified

Gavin McInnes is the kind of neo-Nazi that’s still too into trying to look cool that he could never fully commit to the shaved head and swastika tattoo lifestyle.

I met a woman when we were in a psych hospital together who had, years before,physically assaulted her parents in a fit of mania-induced rage. She was absolutely the most model patient I’d ever seen (and I’m both bipolar and a healthcare worker) because, as she said, “I owe it to the people around me not to endanger…

He never went to Prison, he was institutionalized and once things appeared to be controlled he was released. Although the last thing I read about this he was just being released for the day, I don’t know if he fully transitioned out of the hospital.

Thanks, I have literally never commented before but thought it was an important point.

That’s right, although the ‘legal name’ and ‘working name’ of Canadian federal departments are not always the same. As far as I can tell this is because changing the legal name requires opening up a bunch of legal acts and voting on them in Parliament, which is a huge pain in the ass. So, the ‘Department of Indian…

It’s so weird seeing you American’s say ‘Indian’ in your news media when Canadian media outlets would say ‘First Nations’ or ‘Aboriginal’. o.O

As a technical matter, Canadian First Nations/Metis/Inuit persons are never referred to as ‘Indians’, although I understand this is the legal terminology in the US.

The weren’t sent to the schools. The children were forcibly removed from reserves and basically imprisoned in these horrible schools. They were abused terribly by nuns and priests.

To my mind, the Twitter Laff Riot was a far more dismaying thing than either e editorial or the resignation of Niedzevecki. Some of my country’s most senior and prominent journalists spent the evening circle-jerking and being oh so transgressive. Then in the morning offered up halfassed apologies.

That’s a fair sentence. Jonathan should have kept his hands clean, instead, he had his hand in her pocket, uninvited. Oh, well; you live, you learn.

Poirot wore bow-ties, not neckties, and even had he worn a necktie, probably wouldn’t have been so sloppy when tying a Half-Windsor. Also, given that the Windsor knot would have been fairly new at the time, Poirot would not have worn it. He was still wearing pince-nez in the 1930s.

So, my initial reaction was, “Who is the director who did this to him?!?” And then I saw that Branaugh is the director... and I realized he chose this look for himself...

In the books he is described as short, has an egg shaped head, so fastidious about his personal appearance a speck of dust might kill him (look at that tie and that collar!!), dark haired well into old age. His clothes are impecably cared for but hopelessly old fashioned (this is what anyone would wear.)

I AM a Poirot superfan (actually Agatha superfan, I own every single book she’s written including the atrocious romance novels she wrote under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott). I’m such a superfan in fact that my purse has WWPD printed on one side and WWMMD on the other- Agatha fans will get what this means ; ) Greatest…

the fuck indeed. suchet owns poirot so it cant be easy replacing him but kenneth looks ridiculous

Gilderoy Lockhart is Hercule Poirot in Murder on the Hogwarts Express.