It’s not pirating, it’s preserving!

Trying to reframe Tennant’s comments as having anything to do with the Minister’s race or gender is exactly the kind of disingenuous strawmanning bald-faced bullshit we can ever expect from the fucking Tories.

Oh man if you actually do that and think I won’t read every word, you’re sorely mistaken! Pedantic and detailed is my favourite kind of text wall 😂 I’ll keep an eye out for it, and I’ll make an effort to visit each link in the list (some are broken, I know - like the link for “The Gungans fear Jar-Jar” goes to an archived Reddit post that you need an undeleter to see) beforehand so I’m properly refreshed.

I actually found the scene where he first gets back to the city with Qui-Gon and Anakin! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7xKCK1Ojuo

Watch how the citizens react, and the guards too. I dunno, having watched it again it still reads like fear to me. Maybe more “severe consternation”, but still - “I was clumsy” doesn’t warrant all that.

As to the helpless creature by the roadside, the original theory that got posted to the orange site never provided a source for that, so I don’t know if I’ll be able to find the documentary interview where Lucas said that’s what Yoda was meant to be.

Anyhoo, it was fun revisiting this, and I ended up finding a truly impressive collection of links to “evidence” for the theory in my travels. Cheers!

I appreciate the writeup! I don’t have anything new to bring to the table, and I think you’re more familiar with not just the movies but also the theory than I am. What had me pretty convinced is that Lucas loves the “harmless creature by the roadside turning out to be supremely powerful” trope, in the way he used it with Yoda. Part of the theory goes that Lucas had started to set Jar Jar up as the “Dark Side” version of Yoda using this idea, which seems to track (taking only the events of the first movie into account) because the Gungans as a people actually do seem afraid of him. If he was just a well-meaning bungler, fear would not be a rational response - locking him up where he could be watched 24/7 and not allowed to fuck anything up would be the way to go. But, there was a tonne of backlash after the first movie, so much that it’s absolutely plausible it could have resulted in a rewrite.

As well, Dooku felt very shoehorned-in, but that could just as easily be my failure to follow the details of the story, or really poor writing.

I’m sure there was more, but unless I go back and revisit the theory and the movies I probably won’t remember it. I’m not sure I’d agree that there are more inconsistencies in the theory than there are in the canon lore. Ultimately though I guess I just prefer the narrative that Jar Jar was included as a foil to Yoda who ended up getting retconned into comic relief thanks to “fan” outrage, because it’s more fun than “the movies were bad”, so I’m willing to give the holes a bit more leeway.

Why do you think it doesn’t make sense? I admit I’m not a Star Wars superfan or anything so I’m not familiar with the nuances of every scene and line but knowing the broad strokes of the story, the logic of the theory seems pretty solid in my mind.

I was under the impression Truss had roundly proven herself unsuitable for any political party already, did anyone really need further evidence?

I apologise, and I also apologise that I’m not apologising that hard about it 😂

Only a little?

People and elephants have lived together for centuries, millennia even. They’re only getting violent because of us. People best stop killing elephants, and hope the elephants haven’t figured out climate change is our fault too.

In the locker room, I think.

More like all our joints decay rapidly under the added stress, and we end up with crippling arthritis and an early grave. But maybe some generation of our descendants would be Bulrathi or Klingons or something, after some adaptation!

The DLI is a US military installation that trains military linguists in the language required by their MOS. You’re not eligible to go even if you wanted to. As well, it’s intensive: eight hours of language class a day (plus homework), five days a week, for the entire duration, and it still requires between months to over a year depending on the course.

What you asked for is basically impossible, and if it’s not impossible for you then you don’t need anyone else’s help.

If you watch some reviews, there’s nothing else like it on the consumer market. It really does look like Apple have made a generational leap forwards with this thing.

But I’m not buying it. I’ll buy one of the inevitable competitors, after a generation or three, because I also have no interest in joining the Apple ecosystem. I like having control over my devices too much for that.

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Me too, but coconut oil absorbs quickly and completely enough that I find I can suffer through it until it feels normal again.

I had to start, because I moved somewhere much drier than I’m used to, and my skin hurt and itched all the time until I started moisturising a little.

What most people forget (myself included) is to moisturise after washing, even your hands. Just a bit of coconut oil like you’ve probably got in your kitchen is enough, you don’t need to grease up like you’re going to the Olympics or anything. Coconut oil is absorbed very quickly and completely by the skin, making it perfect for some quick moisture to keep your skin from drying out so it stays supple (also why it’s used as a “carrier” oil in many topical medications, it ensures swift transdermal delivery of the drug).

Dry skin itches, and because it’s inflexible it cracks and bleeds more easily. Your skin is your largest organ; take good care of it and keep it moist.

It makes them miscible (able to mix) not soluble (able to dissolve). But yes, you’re exactly right about the mechanism! 🙌

Shampoo is not usually as aggressive as body soap, but yes, it’s all the same principle of stripping oils with surfactants (and the rest of the crap just washes away with that). Just make sure to condition after, or your scalp will freak out and produce a lot more oil to compensate for how suddenly dry your head is.

how many can a man want?!

I am confident that neither science nor maths has yet found a limit.