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Along those lines, the Quebec French word for (e-mail) spam is pourriel, which is a mix of poubelle and courriel (e-mail, itself a mix of courrier [mail] and électronique).

I'm also quite fond of clavardage, a mix of clavier (keyboard) and bavardage (chatter).

Sometimes I find the OQLF (Office québécois de la langue française) a bit much, but they've got some real gems in their lexicon.
posted to MetaFilter by invokeuse at 7:41 AM on December 5, 2022

This is a sort of best and worst story. When I was fifteen, I begged my parents to give me a typewriter for Christmas. My handwriting was really awful and having a typewriter of my own meant I could complete my written homework assignments at home rather than at the school library (using one of the school's typewriters). My parents hemmed and hawwed, but eventually Christmas came and I had my present: an inexpensive Royal portable.

That same Christmas, my parents paid... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by SPrintF at 2:36 PM on December 4, 2022

This movie is wild.

Pointless sidenote: I just watched Avatar for the first time tonight and the lead in that is also called Jake Scully. This gave me strange pause.
posted to FanFare by iamkimiam at 3:15 PM on December 4, 2022

I will give this a listen later. I've always felt that when Sarah crosses a line, THAT was the joke - she knows that it's transgressive and she did it just to shock, and we also understand that she's not telling us how she actually feels, she's just making us laugh (if uncomfortably). Whereas with some other acts, they are being funny/serious in their commentary on something on the cutting edge of "woke", and giving some people justification for their own unease or opposition.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Artful Codger at 4:38 PM on December 4, 2022

Saw it in it's original run and again recently at the Queens drive-in event. In those 38-something years in between I had developed an appreciation for cinematography, and so was even more impressed the second time around.

It kinda breaks my heart to think of the damn CGI-inured kids on my lawn looking at such stunning, masterfully filmed sequences and yawning. I felt such a sense of nostalgia for the Real.
posted to FanFare by whuppy at 10:59 AM on December 2, 2022

Ah, sorry about that. I'm running an ad blocker so don't see it.


Bonus material: Map of travel time from London to the rest of the world in 1881
posted to MetaFilter by gwint at 1:42 PM on December 4, 2022

Worst gift: One Christmas my then-boyfriend gave me a beautifully wrapped box and watched with glee as I opened it. It was... a pair of men's running shoes (I am not a man). The "gift" was that he was going to start running with me (I had not asked for that). TL;DR that never happened, and he is no longer my boyfriend.

Best gift: When I was little I really wanted a cat, but my dad was allergic so it was a no-go. I came down one Christmas morning to a kitten... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by kinsey at 5:03 AM on December 3, 2022

Siri: show me internalized oppression.

Instead of being snarky and insulting to this poster, it might be more helpful to point out why you think their assertion about their own industry is incorrect.
posted to MetaFilter by anastasiav at 6:38 AM on December 2, 2022

We all have our blind spots.

The plot-engineering here is amazing.

Agree. On of the laugh out loud moment occurs at the very end with McDormand's "I'm not afraid of you anymore, Marty" line, which highlights that everyone in this movie is operating under a different set of facts, none of them correct.
posted to FanFare by rtimmel at 3:07 PM on March 13, 2016

Heavenbanning is such a brilliant idea; I want it implemented everywhere immediately.

And I fully expect to get 537 completely-legitimate-definitely-not-fake favorites for this comment.
posted to MetaFilter by nushustu at 4:44 PM on December 2, 2022

invite someone over for a hot meal and just hand them raw food to cook as they see fit.

Oh, now I want to do that! "Here's your pork loin, there's the smoker. Grab a beer and have fun..."
posted to MetaFilter by Greg_Ace at 3:57 PM on December 2, 2022

It’s quite something how many comments are “Are you going to tell me off for flying?”
posted to MetaFilter by Horace Rumpole at 4:44 AM on December 2, 2022

I have heard an interesting counter-argument to this, which is: would a carbon tax cause sufficient economic pressure to drive the necessary change?

Might Australia provide a case-study? We had a carbon tax, during which time emissions dropped. Conservatives removed it and emissions skyrocketed.
posted to MetaFilter by pompomtom at 3:15 AM on December 2, 2022

Jet travel is public transit. It’s hard to discuss flying because Americans can’t wrap their heads around rich people using public transit.
posted to MetaFilter by Headfullofair at 10:10 PM on December 1, 2022

The policy vs individual choice thing is a derail, please. The original post has at least one substantial paper targeted at policy writers. There's something for everyone.
posted to MetaFilter by aniola at 6:09 PM on December 1, 2022

Stories should change and be retold.

As a general principle, I'm totally in agreement with this. (And have gotten frustrated enough by the number of people who hatewatch Discovery that I won't be covering it for FanFare when the next season drops.) But there's a big difference between "I hate this on principle because it's not the Trek that I grew up watching" (which, as far as I can tell, has been the case with every... [more]
posted to FanFare by Halloween Jack at 7:44 AM on December 1, 2022

> "Stories should change and be retold."

Sure. But can't they be changed and retold with a script that makes an ounce of sense?
posted to FanFare by kyrademon at 8:17 AM on December 1, 2022

Say what you will about the movie, but Karl Urban's DeForest Kelley impersonation is spot on.
posted to FanFare by Gelatin at 5:17 AM on December 1, 2022

The casting was great and Abrams has a fun visual style but the script was just a disaster.

I've compared this and Into Darkness to Abrams' Star Wars films: great cast (complete with a legacy actor), shiny visual style, but good overall only in comparison to Abrams' next film in the series, which is just painful; there's also an installment by someone else (Beyond), that, while not... [more]
posted to FanFare by Halloween Jack at 1:20 PM on November 30, 2022

posted by Going To Maine

attempted mindhack detected
posted to MetaFilter by glonous keming at 2:24 PM on December 1, 2022

That sounds like a barrier to "engagement" so there's no way that'll willingly happen.
posted to MetaFilter by any portmanteau in a storm at 2:55 PM on November 30, 2022

Which often leads to minority groups getting roundly screwed.

Quick, name a minority that the Senatorial system has protected in the past 50 years that isn't rural voters, who happen to be largely white and conservative.

Has it protected Native Americans?

African Americans?

Asian Americans?

The desperately poor?

Muslims?... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Candleman at 10:22 AM on November 30, 2022

I have watched the trailer, but not the movie.

In our house, my wife and I have a phrase: "Grown-ups made this." It is used without elaboration, to refer to a product, an object, a media property, that some number of professionals inexplicably decided was acceptable to produce. People who should know better, and yet ... they made this.

This movie is the distilled, concentrated, weaponized essence of the phrase. Grown-ups made this.
posted to FanFare by gauche at 7:53 AM on November 29, 2022

I also am staying on this #problematicmovies series because I want to get away from the lingering notion on FF that posting a film here is a de facto recommendation.

In the early days of FF, a post on a film generally either meant a) I just watched this or b) I think this is good.

That's a very limiting way to approach things and likely discourages people from posting.

Some of the #problematicmovies... [more]
posted to FanFare by DirtyOldTown at 7:54 AM on November 29, 2022

I thought the post-credit scene was the perfect gracenote for the season and a reminder that while skirmishes at funerals feel like big stakes, there is always a bigger fish.

Also, love the dramatic irony that Cassian helped to create the thing that ultimately kills him.
posted to FanFare by crossoverman at 5:43 PM on November 26, 2022

Well, that's one thing we've got.
posted to FanFare by DirtyOldTown at 5:03 PM on November 28, 2022

There's a point in which David Payne has just gotten through an unnerving situation, and is at a bar and asks the bartender "I'll have a double anything." I've been looking for an opportunity to use that.
posted to FanFare by EmpressCallipygos at 5:09 PM on November 28, 2022

James Earl Jones telling C. Thomas Howell "you've learned what it means to be Black" may be the most cringeworthy line an actor has ever been asked to deliver in a film, and that's including the muffled grunts of the people sewn ass-to-mouth in The Human Centipede.
posted to FanFare by Ursula Hitler at 3:18 PM on November 28, 2022

Gen-X checking in. The commercials were wonderful but they were merely bookmarks. Pointers, if you will, to the canonical reference book that every kid used from October to December. And that is the Sears Wish Book.

The pinnacle of Wish Books, without question, is the 1978 Edition.

Feel free to jump to page 574 and dog-ear it so you can ponder over which Star Wars action figures you are going to ask for.

(For reference,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by JoeZydeco at 10:37 AM on November 21, 2022

I saw "history", "time", and "six doctors" close together, and briefly thought this was going to be a very weird 60th anniversary Doctor Who special indeed.
posted to MetaFilter by mollweide at 4:09 PM on November 28, 2022

It's this generation's McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit.

No, it's literally NOT that. The hot coffee lawsuit originated when nearly boiling coffee (180° I think -- far to hot to even drink) gave a woman 3rd degree burns on her genitals. Nobody has been burned here, and that hot coffee lawsuit was a lot more serious than people realize.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 11:46 AM on November 28, 2022

Unlike this case, the McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit was not frivolous.
posted to MetaFilter by jellywerker at 11:44 AM on November 28, 2022

I would stress the “a grim time to grow up” part. As a prepubescent grade schooler, I wasn’t really in the demographic that The Rockford Files or All In The Family was aimed at.

Yeah, I was gonna be all "Taxi and M*A*S*H were on the air, what the hell!" but the kid perspective makes all the difference.
posted to MetaFilter by chrominance at 9:22 AM on November 27, 2022

Top-rated United States television programs of 1979–80: Little House on the Prairie, Eight is Enough, Diff'rent Strokes, Mork & Mindy!

which speaks loudly to my complete lack of nostalgia for those years, which happen to coincide with my being twenty-twenty-one. By 1980, I was living television free*, various situations that lasted well into the decade. And even then, what I mostly ended up watching were video rentals. And I worked in that world... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by philip-random at 9:02 AM on November 27, 2022

(Excellent. I would've also accepted 'Bootleg Collinses.')
posted to MetaFilter by box at 12:10 PM on November 27, 2022

limerick

There once was a Nazi softdrinker
Who was also quite a quick thinker:
With no word from Atlanta,
He came up with Fanta,
Of which the American kind is a stinker.
posted to MetaFilter by Not A Thing at 1:08 PM on November 27, 2022

Okay, I'm not getting down in the weeds about what should be ranked where on any list, but this quote captures the zeitgeist of The Match Game perfectly: Gene Rayburn hosted this bizarre day-drinking bitchfest, with a panel full of flamboyant personalities trading risqué quips: Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers, Richard Dawson, Fannie Flagg, and others.
posted to MetaFilter by mollweide at 8:57 PM on November 24, 2022

I think maybe I prefer the original intro music from 1975
posted to FanFare by Molesome at 11:12 AM on November 24, 2022

Do not ask for whom the Time Grappler defenstrates; he defenstrates for thee
posted to FanFare by nubs at 6:04 PM on November 23, 2022

Just a thought: Andor reminds me less of Star Wars and more of Children of Men.
posted to FanFare by MarchHare at 5:44 PM on November 23, 2022

oh, forgot one word in my star wars thesis:

"the most special thing it does is set-piece fights between interesting, unexpected, and asymmetric opponents."
posted to FanFare by Sauce Trough at 1:40 PM on November 23, 2022

I think this show has more than earned the post credits scene, especially since it was short, dialogue-free and was a chance for Gilroy to get a gorgeous “2001: A Space Odyssey” shot in.
posted to FanFare by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 9:02 AM on November 23, 2022

I've brought some corn for popping,
And that's just what I'll do.
One of these days
This corn is going to pop all over you.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 3:44 PM on November 23, 2022

- LGBTQ2+ people are almost 30% of those 15-24 years old and just over 7% of those 65 years and older

The wording confused me so I looked at the chart and out of all LGBTQ2+ people, 30% are in the age group 15-24 and 7% are 65+. Not that 30% of all Canadians aged 15-24 are LGBTQ2+ people.
posted to MetaFilter by any portmanteau in a storm at 11:11 AM on November 23, 2022

the rhapsodic presenter was talking about the power of rebranding.

I salute you for giving a well-deserved deflation to one of the rebranding warriors.
posted to MetaFilter by Kirth Gerson at 6:44 AM on June 29, 2020

We had a wonderful dog named Cholmondeley, which is also how we found out that Los Angeles' dog registration has a character limit.

I hope their middle name is Featherstonehaugh.
posted to MetaFilter by tclark at 8:29 AM on November 23, 2022

We had a wonderful dog named Cholmondeley, which is also how we found out that Los Angeles' dog registration has a character limit.
posted to MetaFilter by blnkfrnk at 5:17 PM on November 22, 2022

He's playing a medieval Italian thief and he looks like he's working up the courage to ask Molly Ringwald to go to the Oingo Boingo show with him.

That's not even his fault or a dig at him. Some faces just don't work for some eras.
posted to FanFare by DirtyOldTown at 2:46 PM on November 21, 2022

The great thing about tie-in novels is that, because of the lead time required to write it up and get it edited and printed, sometimes you've got a window on what the movie used to be before last-minute cuts and edits.
posted to MetaFilter by Halloween Jack at 1:31 PM on November 21, 2022

The V remake was great, if for no other reason than Alan Tudyk got another punch for his Geek Hero card, post Firefly...

I'm pretty sure Alan Tudyk lived at my house before he was successful. I get mail addressed to that name every so often and it's not a very common name. And it is Los Angeles. I asked him on Twitter once but never got a response.
posted to MetaFilter by downtohisturtles at 12:07 PM on November 21, 2022