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No, I totally get that. I agree. Some people are currently in a condition where they would make shitty parents, and they shouldnt have kids while in that condition. Regardless of their duty to their ancestors. Raising maladjusted kids would help no one. But. If an adult has gotten into such a...

haha absolutely right on both counts. As a child of the 80s I still find the proliferation of tip jars ridiculous. They were nowhere in the 80s.

yeah, people in this thread don't like concepts like "duty" or "moral obligation". It might cut into travel, disposable income, and random Tinder hookups. Putting aside the racial undertones, Uber's post describes exactly what I think when I meet an "adult" who tries to explain to me how...

I note that several pages into the thread, you're still the only one whos said anything sexual about Ariel. When we objected to the ridiculous changing of Kid Flash and the Gunslinger into black dudes, did you also interpret that as evidence of boners over the characters?

I have been reading about anti redhead prejudice throughout history. Interesting to note that in the middle ages Jews were often portrayed with red hair, as a common device for indicating "this is a jew". Not sure what this says about the "jews control hollywood" meme. Not sure if it has...

dammit I made that joke on like page 1! (still funny the second time. Cause its true. And gross)

Oh how cute, looks like the NPC defense routines got activated. The "people are so uptight" defense, coming from the same people who brought you "white people selling burritos is cultural appropriation".

Thanks, I knew someone would come through. I saw the longer list somewhere once but couldnt find it today. Thisll do. I forgot about Annie, lol. Of all the characters *defined* by their red hair, little orphan Annie.

Forget swimming; show me one black woman anywhere that allows her hair to get wet. I am starting to think maybe its not even a black thing. Maybe Hollywood just hates pretty redheads. Anytime the role calls for a pretty redhead - immediately cast ghetto trash instead. Its never even a...

Thats hysterical when you consider that the English translation of the sound of a honking horn is "FUCK YOU". So this guy was driving around going Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck out of sheer joy. Thats funny shit.

My new work laptop has a power button *as part of the keyboard*, where the End key is supposed to be. So every time I try to go to the end of a page while browsing the internet, it turns off. And the end key isnt even available, except as alt-numpad1 (fuck multi key hotkeys for common web...

Holy shit, so she become a hot white chick with red hair after all? /still bitter

This was great. Really no complaints, they nailed the tone. They added diversity the right way. Instead of making Billy or Mary black, added some additional foster kids. Very fun and I look forward to rewatching with my kids.

Bringing dogs into public spaces is a really great idea and it always works out so well.

Yeah, holy shit. I gave up after about 1 episode when it first aired. I just went back and binged seasons 1-2. In hindsight I don't even hate season 1 anymore. This is actual good sci fi with memorable and reasonably well written characters. Some truly bizarre and WTF moments but in a very...

Binged season 3, it was great. By the end I don't even hate Trish anymore. On par with season 1. Really liked the villain.

I agree, and will just point out that this is not limited to the bacon study. Its how these statistics always work: the effect size is the risk in the subject group relative to the risk in the control group. The problem is journalists are the dumbest people on the planet, and report it as 'omg...

WTF. Its like theyre trying to emulate the new Twilight Zone instead of the classic Twilight Zone. We went from uploading human consciousnesses into a digital afterlife, or into objects ... to gay cyber in a video game and Facebook as a surveillance and crime fighting tool. WTF

So help me, no matter what I do to try and stop him, my little brother does that shit (foil on a grill). I am 99% sure he does it to avoid dealing with some germ phobia of his wife. It is amazing how that technique ruins every cut of meat I've ever seen it used on. I just volunteer/insist on...

For years, after my wife and I watched it the night it aired, I'd always watch the episode again before the next week. This season its been hard enough to watch them once, and I never even realized I had stopped rewatching them til the end. Somebody probably posted this theory, but my hope...

One line of throwaway dialogue -- that at the time appeared t be just nonsense given to cover her tracks? Come on. Throughout the story Arya was driveen by a few motivations revenge become a faceless man find if anything remained of her family Those were her actual motivations, those were what...

And all of that could have been interesting if they'd developed him into a Leto-like figure. Instead we get an autistic fan of antique wheelchair designs.

So true. And the thing is, she's an Aunt he never met until recently, and she's not older, and they have no family situations where being together would be awkward. Thats without even going into the fact that incest was 100% normal by custom for Targaryans, the people who had ruled the 7...

This thread sucks, because I've read probably a dozen endings here any one of which would have been 10x better than what we actually got. For me this pushes Lost out of a special spot it has held for many years.

Its hard to pick what I hate most about the ending, but I think its Arya the Explorer. Spends her whole life training for revenge on the people who hurt her and killed her family. Gets some of her revenge, is reunited with her family, decides "hmm, guess I'll go be an explorer", something...

She looks 10x better as a brunette. She makes as plausible a blond as Idris Elba.

The anti men one was incredibly bad, but the illegal immigrant one actually turned out interesting. The SJW part was over probably 10-15 minutes into the episode. The lack of self awareness on the part of the writers is bad, but the show still manages to scratch that twilight zone itch sometimes.

Agreed, smart hulk was one of the worst parts of an overall awesome movie. Hulk isnt interesting because he's strong; he's interesting because he's anger incarnate. Everyone who relates to the character relates to him on that level. Turning him into big and green, marginally intelligent and...

Yes, that is the correct and standard pronunciation, used by everyone except NPR douchebags.

Deliberately mispronounced words, that are mispronounced out of a misguided attempt to appear educated. Pronouncing forest as far-est or Dora as Da-ra. Pronouncing the L in folk. NPR does this shit every day and every day it irritates me more.

Thats a fair criticism. And it can get annoying at times for some characters and some philosophies. I guess am just not bothered by it when the character and philosophy is as awesome as Fraa Jad travelling through the multiverse.

wtf, Anathem is one of those sci fi books that transcends sci fi and enters the realm of important philosophical musings Best NS book hands down. Seveneves was good before the time jump and dumb after.

Such bullshit. Almost no professors earn money from textbook sales (close enough to zero to ignore this altogether), and universities make only a typical profit margin. Textbooks are overpriced*, but if you want to blame someone, blame the publishing houses only. (*just like software, video...

I'll start caring as soon as they start being honest with the statistics. As long as theyre counting any accident where the driver was using a phone as being caused by the phone, I'll continue ignoring these fucking intolerable laws. By the same logic, 1 in 2 accidents is caused by driving...

I dont get the connection that marrying Gendry means a life of embroidering and shit, which is what she was objecting to the whole time. I'm fine with her not marrying Gendry. I thought it was stupid how there was no tension or dilemma in the scene, just "lol nope, I don't do marrying" as if...

Thanks for reminding me about one of the dumbest scenes in the show. Arya and Gendry get it on the night before they expect to die (makes sense). Gendry falls for her, his long time friend who he finally got to bang (makes sense). After a sudden turn of fortune he realizes he's now in a position...

And while Idris Elba is a great actor, his casting as Heimdall was fucking absurd and his casting as gunslinger was an over the top parody of SJWism. When they cast a movie about African warriors, notice how they cast 100% black people to play them? All I ask is them same attention to detail...

Lets be clear. Valkyrie's character in the movies is cool, I like her. And the black chick playing her is a good actress. It was still goddamn ridiculous casting an African chick for a Nordic goddess. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e2/Valkyrie_by_Mike_Deodato.png This isnt a grey...

Now just hold on one second. Hiring an African chick to play a Nordic goddess isnt some kind of grey area where you have to have your SJW detectors finely tuned to detect it. Its full on, over the line, so ridiculous it can't be parodied, SJWism. Its hiring a legless person to play the flash...

This is so funny, I'm picturing having to have that conversation with my son one of these days and wondering how I'll keep from cracking up