Lit Apropos of Nothing - ACKBAR IN CAPITALS - The Lit Forum Social Thread, v2.0.15

You should ask them to pose shirtless. Say it's for a school project.

 

That's a great idea!


Oh, did you mean the firemen?

 

My comment is open to each reader's personal interpretation. I'm artistic like that.

 

I made a riddle quest to my sister's birthday, one clue leading to another until at the end there was candy. One of these clues was "The ancient alchemists tried to make gold using this" and the next clue was hidden in Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone. No one got it until I gave a hint. What's wrong with children's education these days?

 

Yes, despite all the setup, I'm resigned to the fact that Jeff/Annie is not going to be resolved this season. I was also a Jack/Sam fan on Sg1, so it would not be the first time. I'd much prefer no resolution with implied potential for Jeff/Annie to happen in the future than for the show to regress the characters to the point where Jeff/Britta is viable again, essentially nullifying a good chunk of the character arcs for Jeff, Britta, Annie, and Troy. But that is a different subject.

The dean has gone from an interesting quirky, ineffectual character with a fetish for dalmatians to a one note character whose main trait is not an obsession with Jeff that involves constant unwanted touching and moving next door in creepy stalkerish fashion. I guess they will have to push that further if they want it to cross the line twice and become funny again, rather than creepy.

Annie's big secret in the recent episode was having trouble in history so let the professor rub her feet in exchange for answers on a test was flat out terrible. 1. Annie has far more self respect than that. 2. Annie is the most studious of the group, and not only the least likely one to be having problems in history, the least likely one to resort to cheating. Annie is the type to drive herself into the ground studying, not trade her body for a way to cheat a better grade. 3. She was visibly creeped out by the professor when Cornwallis admitted to having an indiscretion with a coed at Oxford. 4. Not only Annie but no-one else had any sort of reaction to either the cheating (this is the same school that put Britta on trial for cheating in season 1) or the misconduct by the professor.

Jeff, in an attempt to provoke a reaction from Chang, not only invited his ex-wife, but forced himself on a woman for a kiss, in a scene that ignores his character development as becoming a better person, but plays (mild) sexual assault as a joke.

Well, to be fair, the much more common response to that riddle would be lead, not the philosopher's stone.

 

She is now twelve, the guests were between that and eleven. The age group where you have just been disappointed about not getting the Hogwarts letter*. And AdmiralWesJanson, I worded the original riddle a little better, there was no problem in that. They had trouble with the word alchemist.

I'm just in middle of a re-read myself, Chapter 3 in The Chamber of Secrets.

*I wasn't disappointed about not getting into Hogwarts, I knew it was in Britain and I wasn't. I thought that there could be a school in my country, probably in Lapland.

 

Are there no legal euphemisms for paramour? I'm surprised.

 

The law firm I work at (in the copy room, don't get excited) specializes in medical malpractice lawsuits. As someone with a rough medical history myself, I tend to sympathize automatically with the plaintiffs, but holy god do some of these people put that to the test.

 

The final episode of Spartacus made me cry.

Am I supposed to admit things like that? I don't care. I will.

Even the credits were bittersweet.

 

I don't suppose these cases would happen to be available for public consumption?

 

Not malpractice, but we had a case where a couple bought a can of hair spray at Rite-Aid, then left it sitting out on their radiator until it exploded and scalded both of them. At which point, they sued the company that made the hair spray, the company that made the radiator, and, of course, Rite-Aid.

 

That is truly priceless.

 

Please tell me they lost.

 

Still ongoing. A lot of our cases are situations where someone will sue as many people as they possibly can, knowing that if even one of them chooses to settle it'll have been worth it. Most of them never even get to trial--our job is basically to keep the settlements as low as possible.

 

Yeah, I remember that story. Didn't realize it was him until I looked it up. Unfortunate.

 

Stop this discussion! This is the end. It's all over. Nothing to see anymore. Just this one commentary for Game of Thrones Season 2 Finale. Go back to your homes.

Or, go here, where you can read the commentary in all its glory. Better than reading 2000 words in italics.
And the final surprise references StarKidPotter's song Days of Summer, which you should have on background to get anything. Enjoy.