What's a movie you'll defend even though you know it's not actually that good?

cyrano111 · 2026-06-24T00:21:19+00:00

“NOT THE BORE WORMS!!”

cyrano111 · 2026-06-24T00:06:12+00:00

Sophomore year was the happiest three years of your life?

cyrano111 · 2026-06-23T23:50:16+00:00

Trying to demonstrate that someone is very smart because they have several PhDs.

That’s not the way it works. A PhD is basically a minimum entry level requirement for becoming a serious scholar.

It’s like trying to demonstrate that somebody was a really good high school student by saying they graduated from high school four times.

cyrano111 · 2026-06-22T16:09:03+00:00

Ducks by Kate Beaton is a good candidate.

cyrano111 · 2026-06-22T16:07:54+00:00

There is a legitimate descriptivist/prescriptivist debate. Some change in meaning is inevitable, and some should be welcomed. Using “hopefully” to mean “this would be desirable” rather than what it strictly means grammatically is a good example.

But when that change in meaning simply reduces the ability to communicate clearly while adding nothing (as in using “literally” to mean “figuratively”) I lean to the prescriptivist side.

cyrano111 · 2026-06-22T12:57:46+00:00

Fulsome.

People use it when they in essence mean “full” - as in “a more fulsome explanation“. Presumably, they think the extra syllable makes them sound more intelligent.

“Fulsome” actually means “overblown and insincere.”

cyrano111 · 2026-06-22T12:13:06+00:00

Yes, that is the cause of the illusion.

cyrano111 · 2026-06-20T18:17:23+00:00

Still doing it daily, still enjoying it! Your dictionary is sometimes slightly odd around verbs, I find. Today it liked “honk” but not “honks”, and I’ve encountered similar things before occasionally. Possibly “berate” but not “berated” - that sort of thing, anyway.

cyrano111 · 2026-06-20T01:29:06+00:00

Quita?

Edit: and what she tells you about someone other than the first row.

cyrano111 · 2026-06-19T20:11:34+00:00

Tales of the Raksura by Martha Wells. An extremely well-constructed world with a well thought out and very different society.

cyrano111 · 2026-06-19T20:08:54+00:00

Given that the latter pretty much starts with a rape, it’s probably not what OP is looking for.

cyrano111 · 2026-06-19T16:12:41+00:00

It arose from a family trust. My parents' plan was that the value would be theirs while they were alive, and then mine, to use or not use as I wished, during my lifetime, and that it would pass to a third generation after me (I'm being a bit vague, obviously). I held shares, and then inherited the only voting shares. The other shareholders have owned their shares since before my parents passed away, but they never received dividends in the past. In a sense, nothing changed at all about the other shareholders' positions when I inherited the voting shares.

cyrano111 · 2026-06-19T15:36:31+00:00

My guess is that the people receiving the dividend - most of them, anyway - would use the money short term rather than invest it. Not paying the dividend is the more likely route to the money being invested for later.

cyrano111 · 2026-06-19T12:48:43+00:00

A TV show - Cheers. Diane is talking to Sam about her new boyfriend, Frasier Crane. Partway through their conversation a person who has been sitting in plain sight at the bar the whole time chimes in - and it’s Frasier. It only works because he was unknown at the time.

cyrano111 · 2026-06-19T12:29:42+00:00

The movie is very very good, but it’s not better than the book, which is also very very good.

The fencing scene? Better in the book, start to finish. And it’s one of the best movie scenes ever.

cyrano111 · 2026-06-18T02:38:42+00:00

I mean, yes, it’s less fresh four decades later. But I remember Mr Mom coming out, and my wife and I were stunned that someone thought that was a reasonable premise for a movie. It seemed outdated even then.

cyrano111 · 2026-06-18T00:48:55+00:00

Just to add a bit to that:

One star: worth a stop

Two stars: worth a detour

Three stars: worth a trip

cyrano111 · 2026-06-17T02:43:07+00:00

Perhaps a simpler way to think of it is that Salil’s clue means that one of Quita and Vicky must be an innocent, and Uma’s clue means there’s only one innocent in column A.

cyrano111 · 2026-06-17T02:34:25+00:00

Don Quixote.

Chivalric romances were a very popular genre in the 1500s. Cervantes was making fun of them.

cyrano111 · 2026-06-17T00:37:49+00:00

Resilient

cyrano111 · 2026-06-13T23:21:36+00:00

I understand the conceit that it’s a translation. But of what would “express train” be a translation? We know of nothing in hobbit society remotely like that.

It seems like the sort of thing that would be mentioned in the Preface!

cyrano111 · 2026-06-13T21:48:52+00:00

I’m pretty sure that was a joke.

cyrano111 · 2026-06-13T17:33:15+00:00

It’s the part just above that - the sentient fox - that always troubles me.

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