Terrain is certainly a major factor. Where I’m at, there often isn’t much in terms of dry or flat terrain to be found, so it’s nice to be able to just pull slightly off trail, park on a tussock or shove a rock under whatever corner’s out of whack and call it good. As you say, it leaves the interior space for the rest…

Yeah, that line gets dragged out a lot and for one its bullshit. For most people there are like 3-4 shifts per week that pay bank. The rest you barely make minimum wage. If you are lucky. Which turns into, oh you are sick on a Friday? Well, I need that shift to pay rent/groceries/whatever. So, guess I’m showing up to…

There is so much wrong with how we feed children in schools. (First off, so many schools start so early now, we should be offering breakfast as well, but that’s another argument for another time). School lunch should be universal and free, and it should be tasty and nutritious. And kids should have more than 15…

I wonder what they think will happen when you can’t transport people, nor “stuff”, and how much more expensive things get when you have to build everything from scratch due to lack of maintenance.

This is the absolute god-tier stuff down here:

The door didn’t close with the child’s head locked in it. Nobody was hurt. You guys are really stretching with this one.

Exactly.

The Thing can only assimilate one entity at a time, and was never shown to assimilate and function with multiple forms of itself. At the end, when McCready kills the final “big” Thing, Childs is nowhere to be found not because he was already assimilated, but because he was on another part of the base. Further,…

I don’t think he’s a reliable source on this- he has no reason to tell the truth here. He’s clearly being funny when he says to tell Dean Cundey he’s full of shit (ok, maybe he’s just being curmudgeonly John Carpenter).

But either way, it’s not like he’s going to come out after 40 years and say “ok, you got me, you…

There's an incredible amount of pop culture criticism and commentary including on this site that absolutely does not understand death of the author but OTOH will argue intent doesn't matter. It's a fascinating contradiction and I'm never sure if the people who do both are aware of the inconsistency or not.

Yeah, that’s what I’ve always thought too, although I do like the idea that The Thing is already dead and they’re both just suiciding out of pure paranoia. I’ve never even heard the eye thing before. 

The Thing was dead.

How many authors do I have to kill before you people understand the concept of “death of the author”?

I mean, “ugly sneakers” just seems gratuitous.

awful people?!?  I bet most people would KILL to have 3 close friends like they all had. They were there for each other all the time, so they werent pc and disingenuous like most people, thats what made them so LIKEABLE.

It’s really the only thing that would make sense in the context of those characters. A brief complaint about how hard it was for them, followed by quickly moving on, having learned nothing.

Thank you for backing up my point.

I seem to recall in drivers ed that you’re supposed to stop at the stop line BEFORE the crosswalk no matter what, and only after checking if it’s safe should you creep forward to attempt your right turn. Seems to me simply enforcing this rule would prevent all these problems. People rolling right into the crosswalk is…

“I’m an adult and I’m fully capable of discerning when it’s safe to go.”

Yeah, sure, I come at this from an urban location. But I am remembering the sidewalks along roads in suburban Colorado and I see your point. 

“Look out, he’s got a nug!”