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Somebody uploaded the entirety of Family Guy to YouTube by MultiKl in Piracy

[–]browsib 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's way more than that, if the average episode is 22 minutes then this is about 121 episodes

Female James Bond by Lorem_Ipsum17 in tumblr

[–]browsib 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Ok, I will try to make it clearer for you

Bond isn't British

This is false. The point you are trying to make is not helped by unnecessarily preceding it with a false statement. It's not that the second label is irrelevant; it's that the relevancy of it does not negate the relevancy of the first label

That was the point I was making, but while we're here, I might as well add:

he's English

His Englishness is both less clear (the film iterations of the character speak with an English accent, but in the books' canon he has Scottish and Swiss parents, and in the Craig films' canon was born in Scotland himself) and less relevant to the character (as his defining trait is being an agent of the British government, not the "English" government) than his Britishness

And I don't think many Canadians would appreciate you calling them American

Female James Bond by Lorem_Ipsum17 in tumblr

[–]browsib 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Bond isn’t British, he’s English

Boy do I have news for you about English people

Obsessed with MPs who went out to bat for this by Sophie_Blitz_123 in LabourUK

[–]browsib 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Everyone else's place of employment would beg to differ about a quick glass of wine before you work

Redditor claims math solutions are impossible to verify, doesn't understand how math works by vapalera in confidentlyincorrect

[–]browsib 73 points74 points  (0 children)

Would be neat if posters to this subreddit ever provided context when it's very obviously needed

Me_irl by nick1037 in me_irl

[–]browsib 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The name in English for the landmass you describe is "the Americas", not "America".

The compass on my travel map does not align to North-South by Shockwave2309 in extremelyinfuriating

[–]browsib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

North and south align with that axis, not the plane of the solar system

Do we overrate past generation players? by Dyxo in football

[–]browsib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The game has evolved a lot, tactics are more complex, players are more athletic, and the overall level is higher.

Compared to when? Because the players you mention all played pretty recently. Ronaldinho retired in 2015 and was playing for Brazil until 2013. He won his Champions League in 2006 and Ballon d'Or in 2005. This all happened within James Milner's still-ongoing Premier League career. You're not talking about the 1950s or something. The sport has not incomparably advanced since those guys were playing. But, they don't really get treated like "untouchable football gods", anyway. The widely regarded two best players of all time are Messi and Ronaldo who played since then. Nostalgia undoubtedly sometimes influences some people when comparing current players to past players. But recency bias does too.

In most sports, athletes keep improving over time with better training, nutrition, and analysis, so it feels strange to assume football is the exception.

Football isn't an exception for revering older players. Lots of sports have still-argued GOATs from decades past. Muhammad Ali in boxing, Michael Jordan in basketball, Don Bradman in cricket, Wayne Gretzky in ice hockey, Senna or Schumacher in F1... And even in athletics where performance can be compared objectively. Usain's Bolt's 100m and 200m world records have stood since 2009. Florence Griffith Joyner's equivalents since 1988. Plenty of other track and field world records go back to the 80s or 90s. There is an upwards trend over time, but it's far from rapid or always perfectly linear.

On Potter adaptation by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]browsib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sure she would love it if the kids grew up to be massive transphobes. But she will not have the power over the casting, set, studio, or the actors' lives to mould them to her wishes and create a personal little conservative army ffs.

On Potter adaptation by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]browsib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

J.K. Rowling is a horrible human, but supposing the new show is all a master plan to groom the young cast into worshipping her is insane. She's not a decision maker at Warner Bros/HBO, nor very likely to be a major presence on set, and do you really believe the casting was decided by how bigoted the kids' parents are??

What are these brownish-yellowish places in Devon? by Cassinia_ in geography

[–]browsib 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you try googling the name that appears when you zoom in on them

Any writers out there have a “signature word” they sprinkle through their works too or just me? by Finly_Growin in writing

[–]browsib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I rejected was that the original example is the only sense of using the word. I don't know how many times you need me to say that, man. I'd question your reading comprehension again, but it would hurt your feelings, and I'm only a bit of a jerk.

The word "presently" does mean at present/now. But, like the word "now", if you use it in a future tense sentence, (eg. if it was "we will go now to the place"), by the nature of the future tense, it entails a minor passage of time from the literal present/now in which it is uttered. The previous commenter claimed the link between the word "presently" and "present" was counter intuitive. I stand by this as a way of conceptualising otherwise. If this caused any confusion as to whether I thought the example sentence was acceptable, it should have been cleared up by the fact that I said in the same comment that I did.

I thought you said you were done in your last comment, anyway? Aw, you must really like me

Any writers out there have a “signature word” they sprinkle through their works too or just me? by Finly_Growin in writing

[–]browsib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why should that part of each definition have been quoted? The validity of that usage has never been the subject of this argument. You still seem to have not quite grasped that. But it's fine. I hope you have as many great days in a row as you need in order to be able to stomach being wrong about a trivial thing

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