Keiko would make a good chef, I think. She has experience with different kinds of cuisine.

Of course, she may not personally enjoy cooking some things, like a traditional Irish breakfast… But she would still make it taste good for the people who do like it (while constantly trying to get them to try literally anything else that’s healthy)

And neelix knows how to be serious when it’s needed. He would enjoy slam poetry and baking classes in an out-of-the-way area, but the moment the red alert is sounded, he’s ready to go with a phaser in hand, and memories of the war.

I’ll pass on The Sisko being my enemy. I do not want him to be my enemy. I choose life. He can live with it

One day at work, I found out a work friend actually believed the whole “crystal energy” thing.

Since she was the first person I had ever met who actually admitted to that, I wanted to know more about what her specific beliefs about them were.

At first she was super bubbly about it, on par with her personality. But then as I asked a couple common sense questions about why science doesnt find anything measurable, and first she got hostile and mad that I would dare question another person’s beliefs, but when I explained I was genuinely curious and had no interest in changing her beliefs she just kind of broke down because nobody ever takes her seriously or believes her about her “personal healing journey”

The way I see it, it’s for adults who like pretty rocks, but can’t come to terms with the fact that they like something “childish” (because for some reason a lot of adults call a rock collection cringe or childish or dumb, but clearly they’ve never met a geologist) so instead of having a pretty rock and mineral collection, they have “healing crystals”, and eventually it just becomes kind of like part of their identity the way a religion is.

I will however, 100% giggle at their expense with my wife, later. Because anyone who buys $50 polished selenite drink coaster “charging plate”, and a $200 brass pyramid to “recharge” their $50 “healing quartz wand” while refusing to listen to real science deserves to be giggled at.

Huh. TIL Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johannson were married.

Oh cool, they went with a Jelt. It really… ties the outfit together

Allowed to?

Yes.

Is it still legally binding should such joke events occur?

Also yes.

If I say “this company is not liable for any damages caused by sudden laser eyes (unless the laser is TRUE yellow)” well then, if someone suddenly develops yellow laser eyes using my product… Guess who’s on the hook for damages.

Reminder that if they can forcibly delete the app from your phone, you don’t own your phone

Sometimes I just can’t bring myself to be the bad guy, because either you get the worst possible ending (sorry, can’t suspend my disbelief enough to believe bad people actually get bad ends) or it just goes over the top.

For instance, in one franchise you can be bad, but it’s mostly rude comments, insults, maybe a couple betrayals here and there… Then BOOM surprise you just shot a kid in the back of the head.

I’m all for being a bad guy but it has to be a well-written and iltelligent bad guy that actually rivals the good version, not just stupidly plodding through the worst possible choice “because a bad guy wouldn’t care that he just crippled his fleet and lost the final battle, because he got mad that one of the admirals called him a hothead and crashed his ship into theirs”

Who am I kidding, the moment I betray someone I like, I’m going to bail and go back to being a good guy

Soooooo many things have been unchanged for thousands of years in blacksmithing, masonry, farming, and leathercraft.

There are tons of idioms (in English, I’m sure there are ones in other languages) that originate from one of these things, or other old professions.

I remember seeing a tiny single-blade “arrowhead” at a more local historical museum, and the historical society with all their degrees and (in all seriousness) hard work putting everything together, non of them actually knew what it was.

Their best assertion was that it’s an iron arrowhead made some time in the last 500 years, I can’t remember the exact date but I want to say mid 1600s.

Its… A utility knife. Incidentally also used in leather. The wooden handle had long since rotted away when it was found, I’m sure.

But I’ve seen people use the same small utility knife for cleaning fresh hides as well as cutting/scoring the produced leather.

Basically one of these but instead of it being solid through the handle, it tapers into a rat tail in about an inch.

So they thought “ceremonial/specialized arrowhead” because none of the people who worked there had access to the internet and reverse image searching at the time, and nobody there was into those kinds of hobbies and recognized it.

Of course, nobody gives a shit what a stupid dumb idiotic teenager says, they’re just children who know nothing. I did, however, know someone who likes reenacting colonial American things, and it’s one of his hobbies so he got ahold of them and got the information corrected within a few months.

Holy shit that’s such a small thing I didn’t even notice until just now.

I shouldn’t be surprised, my brother in law flipped his shit when his kids wouldn’t stop sending the word “color” on their family group chat because rainbows fly around the screen. Went on a big tirade about how nobody should be “celebrating the 7 sins”

If I had been present, I’d love to have asked him to clarify which of the sins he means, because I have a good idea but I want him to say it out loud so I can argue about it.

If I had to guess, the person got their panties so twisted and bunched up, they didn’t realize the video had already changed when they hit “submit comment” and posted it to the next one in queue.

I’ve had that happen once or twice while commenting on something, just without all the homophobia and anger.

Like I totally get how offensive it is, and why seeing it would piss plenty of people off.

I also think the streaming services should just put a disclaimer with the whole “different time/part of their humor/not our views/blah blah blah” spiel.

Then show us the episodes.

The shows and movies should be viewed for all their flaws, as well as everything else.

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia comes to mind, specifically, when typing this.

I’ve got a guillotine in the garage I can break out, too, but I might need you guys to help me move it.

Hallowed.

I’m watching Stargate with my wife, and although she saw bits and pieces of the show growing up, she never actually watched it. So she has no idea what the plot of anything is.

We just got to that episode in season 6.

She was so pissed I didn’t warn her. I haven’t told her he comes back yet. As far as she knows, the rest of the show is with Jonas.

Literally, any time they put Daniel in danger after that, I had absolutely no worries anything would happen to him, because even if it did he would just come back anyway. Sure Oma helped him the first and second time but I think Daniel has the ascension thing figured out now and he’s prepared to ascend when he finally dies for real.

Honestly if I were ascended, I’d just go find my own corner of the universe and play around a bit. Fuck the ancients and their bullshit rules they won’t even follow when they’re inconvenient. They can’t force me to stay in the milky way.

I wonder if they would notice if someone jogged over to Destiny to fix the whole thing up and turn total control over to the residents…

I liked Universe.

I think most people’s issue with it was is wasn’t the same type of show as sg1 and Atlantis.

It wasn’t as action packed, the stakes were never as high.

I see no issue with it beyond lack of clear plot direction, which both precious shows also had in the first seasons.

Just don’t ask my feelings about the timelines, or how “impossible” it is to go get them with asgard-improved hyper drives along with all their knowledge after Unending.

My wife likes TNG and Lower Decks, I’m still easing her in to DS9 and Voy.

The other day I showed her a picture of Picard wearing a yellow uniform, and she said “he’s wearing the wrong uniform. He’s command, not engineering.” before I could even ask her what was wrong with the Pic.

I immediately yelled “YOU’RE FINALLY A NERD!” And shot a text to the family text group and our friend group to share the good news, everyone had a good chuckle, and she just goes “YOU MADE ME THIS WAY! Not that I’m complaining…”

I have successfully made a convert. And yesterday she actually asked to watch more Voy before she even got home from work.

is/does thing

“have you tried not being/doing that thing?”

The only acceptable response should be a backhand with a platemail gauntlet.

Have you tried not being depressed? Have you tried just going to bed early? Have you tried smack YES KEVIN I’VE FUCKING TRIED IT YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE A DOCTOR FOR FUCK SAKE

My wife actually love BBT and got me watching it. I still hate laugh track sitcoms, and as a Super Nerd a lot of things irritated me, but overall it’s not nearly as bad as I was expecting from all the meme hate.

Still, the meme is not wrong, Data had a fine positronic brain, sure, but He can kill a motherfucker when necessary.

Papa Soong didn’t raise no bitch.

Most programs won’t render slices thin enough for the “Shower” portion of that…

It’ll be fine, just get yourself a day planner! Just make sure it matches the other 3,729,241 that you’ve bought or have been bought for you.