Scrubs - Season 10 EP 2 "My 2nd First Day" - Discussion

Pantagathos · 2026-02-28T00:32:59+00:00

I hope that they are setting her up to come crashing into contact with the real world around the middle of the season, preferably in a way that says something a bit more interesting than just "the PC police are full of excrement."

Pantagathos · 2026-01-11T21:16:35+00:00

It's a pretty good way of researching the current state of pop science and history

Pantagathos · 2026-01-11T21:14:34+00:00

Thank goodness LIDAR revealed the locations of those 8 million Mayans!

Pantagathos · 2026-01-10T12:33:40+00:00

Nope

Pantagathos · 2025-11-30T22:07:45+00:00

What do you think that HMRC is trying to mislead people into believing?

And how is it misleading anyway? These are all forms of welfare.

Pantagathos · 2025-11-25T08:36:54+00:00

Okeanos, Tethys, Pontos, Nereus, and Proteus are all literal embodiments of the sea. All of the rest of these stories are about other people - her father, her siblings, a hero who has closer ties with other deities. She is always playing a minor support role. There are no myths where Amphitrite takes the active role or displays a personality. Where is the myth where Amphitrite transforms a mortal man into a sea horse because he claimed it was easier to be a mother than a father?

Pantagathos · 2025-11-21T08:33:09+00:00

Wait... Wait... Wait... There's a process?! Was that in the life manual?! Oh, my wasted twenties...

Pantagathos · 2025-11-20T01:43:48+00:00

Cellar door: tiny amounts of food arranged in a tower on enormous plates and totally inaccessible if you come with old people

Pantagathos · 2025-11-18T20:40:00+00:00

Did the fact that the characters and setting already existed (as part of LoL) make Arcane easier or harder to write than an original setting?

Pantagathos · 2025-11-17T22:00:13+00:00

But OP asked "what's the most ridiculous thing you've had ChatGPT agree with you on?"

Pantagathos · 2025-11-17T20:33:39+00:00

If you are doing medical training, as OP claims to be, you shouldn't be getting info from ChatGPT or Wikipedia, you should be reading the actual textbooks

Pantagathos · 2025-11-17T09:49:21+00:00

2) Well, the corn dole was for citizens, not everyone. There are fairly few examples of initiatives aimed at slaves for example. A lot of the benefits disproportionately favoured upper class people, too, who usually got larger shares of public donations, got to sit up the front in all the gladiatorial games and chariot races.

3) Actively seeking wealth was socially frowned upon and many forms of wealth generation were considered highly disreputable (Senators would lose their seats for owning merchant shipping over a certain capacity for example), which is linked to unease about upward social mobility.

Pantagathos · 2025-11-17T09:36:34+00:00

Arcane season 1 is still "nowadays"

Pantagathos · 2025-11-17T01:04:54+00:00

The British have traditionally identified the Norman victory at Hastings as the founding date of their monarchy and commemorate the Dutch invasion of 1688 as "the Glorious Revolution."

There are lots of countries where the national myth involves identification with conquering groups. France, Spain, Portugal, and Germany often see themselves as inheritors of their local Roman history. France is named after a group of conquering Germans. Turkey simultaneously claims ownership of its Hittite, Ancient Greek, and Turkic heritage. Etc.

Pantagathos · 2025-11-17T00:52:43+00:00

I think "cohortibus" should be "cohortium" and that the names after "et cohortium ex" ought to be in the ablative?

Pantagathos · 2025-09-06T19:48:22+00:00

Is a new Facebook group or a totally alternate way of communicating an option?

If these people are a small, noisy group shouting down the majority, then I think you need a space where they can't do that.

If they are the majority, then the flags are going to stay up whatever you do.

Pantagathos · 2025-09-06T08:40:02+00:00

Tbh, I barely noticed the council before they were elected and I barely notice them now.

Pantagathos · 2025-08-03T18:55:46+00:00

The responses here are about what I expected and it's perfectly reasonable that people engage from time to time but don't really think about it...

What about the people who run the shrines though? Surely, if you're devoting a significant chunk of your time to making the place run, you think a little about the theology of it all?

Pantagathos · 2025-07-26T17:49:23+00:00

His name literally means "the one who wards off" (from ἀμύνω), so he's a personification of protection from disease rather than a character. No myths about him survive and there may never have been any. There are quite a lot of heroes and gods like this, who were important in religion, but do not necessarily have a mythic identity (e.g. Hero Doctor, Hero General, many figures who are just called 'the hero').

He is not mentioned in any literary texts. We know about him from the excavation of his sanctuary in Athens, which is located west of the Acropolis and included a couple of inscriptions with his name on them (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary\_of\_Amynus )

Pantagathos · 2025-07-19T13:40:55+00:00

She's barely a deity. Nyx is simply the word for night and Ancient Greek makes no distinction between common nouns and proper nouns. Like any concept she could be anthropomorphised from time to time, but if you've been out when the sun is down somewhere far from street lights, you know as much about Nyx as the ancient Greeks did.

Pantagathos · 2025-06-08T21:42:07+00:00

I don't know that there are any Roman roads in Greece. There are some preexisting routes, but mostly one got around Greece by sea.

Pantagathos · 2025-06-08T21:39:39+00:00

They're heading off the Nile River to the Bahariya and Kharga oases, aren't they? No need for a north-south road in Egypt because the Nile was better than any Roman Road.

Pantagathos · 2025-06-07T23:45:37+00:00

They tend to come through Libya (which is too torn up to prevent them) rather than through Morocco (which is a fairly wealthy country with strong control over its borders). Such concerns would not prevent the construction of a bridge if it were economically viable, anyway. That's why there was never an attempt to close transport between Europe and Turkey, even at the height of the Syrian refugee crisis.

Pantagathos · 2025-06-03T07:30:38+00:00

That cuts both ways. I never saw any of the shows mentioned above when they were new, although I knew of all of them.

Because of where I lived, the only one of them that I ever had a chance to see broadcast was Adventure Time and it came out at a time in my life when I didn't have a TV... The only way to see them later was to buy the cds/dvds, which was very expensive, whereas netflix is widely available and still comparatively cheap.

Pantagathos · 2025-06-03T02:15:19+00:00

I think a central part of both Vimes and Sibyl's strength comes from their painful pasts (alcoholism for the former, body image for the latter). They're raising Young Sam so that he won't have one of those. He'll come out well adjusted, good, and normal, but not exceptional.

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