Yeah. If it was that painful / traumatic he would just leave the room. Totally playing it for views.

I don't have time to teach you statistics. Stop trying to downplay the danger.

And for the third time, even if it is 1%, that's still millions of people suffering from colon cancer in the USA alone, but y'all are pretending like 1% is 0%.

Regardless of the numbers THE RECOMMENDATION IS UNANIMOUSLY DO NOT EAT. Very clear language that leaves no room for dispute.

Am I missing something in the Laura Silverman story?

Why did she read a book that she did not enjoy? Why was she sharing a room with someone she did not want to share a room with? Why did she not leave the room?

This is a bizarre situation but IMHO not cause to complain years later.

"I broke up with this guy who is now famous but wasnt then. I still agreed to go on a cross country trip and stay in motel rooms together with him and he would warn me he wanted to masturbate in the morning and that i should leave if i minded but i stayed, turned around and read a book that i did not enjoy and now - me too!"

Meh.

I hear you, but the interpretation part is where I think the problem lies.

While you have a fairly benevolent interpretation, someone else who has trouble getting laid could read it as a god given justification to own sex slaves. That's a pretty extreme example of course, but you can imagine that there would be interpretations varying between your example and my extreme example, many of which could be used to oppress women.

When all that was needed was a simple "no gossiping in church" rule. It's a clear command, unmistakable and unexploitable for anything other that it's original intention.

So a 3rd testament would start with the words READ THIS LITERALLY :-)

Right now though - How do we know whether or not take the bible word for word? It's not even clear whether that is up to us to decide.

It's your interpretation that's made you decide not to read it literally, but instead to interpret it with the overall goal of viewing the good in the bible. And that says more about you being a good person, rather than the contents of the bible. I think you would be advocating living a compassionate lifestyle whether or not you read the bible.

That's why I'm thinking it's unnecessary to even have religion, when we can just teach ethical behavior, and ethical thinking in a very clear way, which leaves no room for error, or danger of allowing people to justify their bad behaviors.

You'll have to leave the room kid, Alexa has been naughty again and needs to be spanked.

"If anyone tried to make me leave the room I would have bitten them in the face."

Me too.

There has been a lot of construction around my city lately, so I've come to get pretty pissy about people not leaving enough room. We would all go faster if everyone left a gap ahead of them wide enough for another car to merge into all the time and you should always make extra room for another car that has to merge.

With a few other things, like polite zipper merging, I call this the "Aggressively Cooperative" driving style, and if you aren't driving that way, you're doing it wrong and messing it up for the rest of us.

I think it's lame to argue for either driver being in the right.

A good driver being tailgated in this situation would wait till they could safely merge to the slow lane, do so, letting the tailgater pass safely. Brake checking (which I assume it is) shows incompetence behind the wheel.

The tailgater should not be tailgating. Always leave enough room for any emergency situation. If you must alert the driver in front of you that you would like to pass then a high beam flicker should hopefully do the trick. If not, suck it up, and deal with it like a reasonable driver. Don't be a dick head on the road.

This accident only happened, because there was a two for two, in the shit driving department. ALWAYS choose to be the bigger man/women on the road. Someones life may depend on it.

As a trailer that was awful. Doesn't leave much room for hope for the movie if they had to settle for that.

The Vertibird myth seemed kind of like a no brainer. Walking into a room full of feral ghouls and walking out leaving a room full of feral caterpillars sounds cool though, achievement awarded "I'll Bite Your Legs Off!".

Damn, I was trying to fit the full song title in the tags, but it leaves no room for anything else.

@deathcow: damn, did you really miss Mer de Noms? Judith? That was really a great album that stood apart from other material that was coming out at the time. I highly recommend it.

Thirteenth Step was good, but it was a little Toolish. That's not a bad thing, except that I really liked APC, so to have Tool II was a little bit of a letdown. Still a good album, though.

eMotive, the source of the above track, was lazy filler. I prefer to pretend it doesn't exist. Pet is the original song that the above is based on.

1. He’s a tinker. He fixes things, and sharpens knives
2. Someone who appreciates or is loyal to Wonka products, a fanboy.
3.He’s Mike’s friend.. the other questions are don’t stem from the movie.
4.He is sooo excited about the ticket that it has given him uncharacteristic strength (he’s obviously worn out after the dance). It’s a musical, stop being a dipshit.
5. Yes, no, no.
6. He’s doing it sneakily, the parents don’t notice (although some of the children later tell their parents).
7. Businessmen often use out of place, insincere physical contact as a device to demonstrate their sincerity and good nature.. and no, Mr. Beauregarde’s attempt at networking was thoroughly shot down.
8. No. no. and C’mon pay attention! ..and again, it’s a musical, although it’s also implied that the Oompa Loompas tend to sing and dance as they work.
9. No. Wonka and the tour don’t take the ferry when the leave the room, and there is clearly no way all of the Oompa Loompas would be able to use the ferry efficiently. and, no, no, no.
10. No. No one was seriously hurt, and the contract apparently had more to do with the contest (limited to the children) than protection from injury suits. Assault is not considered assault when its whimsical; it’s considered a prank.
11. Capitalist greed, and a lack of value placed on simple pleasures and imagination.

Unanswered?

While they are filming he is continually aware of them, so even though he can only remember a few seconds or so into the past, his memory all the time is that they're OK to be there. He might not be able to remember why, but he'll have a continuous thread of thought saying it's OK.

What kills me is when his wife leaves the room and comes back. That right there, that's real love. For her to be able to cope with what's going on...