TheDoozer

Go way back. Legend.

I think, and this may be a wild concept that bothers both sides of the discussion, that individual sports governing bodies (specific leagues, NCAA, etc) should be making the decisions and absolutely nobody in government should be involved.

People should be allowed to compete in sports, but it should be up to the individual sports governing body to decide how they slot people. And if there is an absolute ban in the league against use of hormones (aimed at preventing performance enhancing effects), then so be it. Those bans were in place prior to the trans people in sports discussion, I wouldn't say they are inherently biased. Take up the language of the rule with your local league to allow for medically necessary hormones for specific issues (including gender dysmorphia), but it is ultimately their prerogative on rules for their league. A senator doesn't need to weigh in.

But any poltician who so much as brings up trans people in sports should be immediately told to stay in their fucking lane.

I had someone straight-faced say that Jeff Bezos should be able to buy a nuke (you can imagine the trajectory of the conversation that led to this, it wasn't a non-sequitor).

I thought she played Bella perfectly:

A blank canvas. Nothing wrong with portraying the character accurately. I mean, I'm not sure all the mouth-breathing was necessary. Literally the only thing I remember about her, character-wise.

In Voyager, 7-of-9 had to keep going back to her drone recharge/nutrition unit until her digestive system reformed. Basically a whole bunch of Borg equipment replaced basic staying-alive organs.

So if they don't ingest, I'd imagine they don't shit.

Supernatural's whole story arc was based on this (and it worked for them). Inevitably, to beat this big bad that the brothers have absolutely no business going toe-to-toe with, they must do something that is bound to catch up with them, but it's either that or the world is fucked. Then the next thing is even worse, and they have to do something that will bite them even worse in order to stop the world from getting fucked. And it just keeps ramping up, they keep losing more and more of themselves and punching so far above their weight class that they end up... well, no spoilers, in case somebody wants to watch (and I don't know how to do spoiler tags).

There's a point when Sam has some injury, like a broken arm or gunshot wound or something, and he's talking to a nurse or doctor who asks him to rate his pain from 0, which is no pain, to 10, which is the worst pain he could imagine. He gets a thousand-yard stare for a second and says "3."

I had understood it to mean, like, making an oath ("I swear to God..." or the whole hand-on-a-Bible swearing) and not following through, or making it lightly.

Jesus had a whole thing about it, saying that not only should you not make an oath in God's name lightly, but that you shouldn't at all (implying it shouldn't be necessary, if you're already an honest person). "Let your yes be yes, and your no be no."

Which, honestly, makes way more sense than some nonsense about not saying their names.

Only if there are no Marine astronauts, otherwise they'll assume it's rations.

Linkin Park.

Look, I like them, so I'm not exactly knocking them, but a long time ago I was working an overnight inventory shift, and my manager at the time put on a Linkin Park album, and I predict how every song was going to go because they all seemed like the same song.

Yeah, they could have at least had a picture of Vegeta.

American Civil Liberties Union, and I'm not sure what they're on about.

For me, i tell them "why" isn't a complete question. If you can't make a full question like "why does we need food?" then they don't deserve an answer because they're just trying to be annoying.

Or, for short, "why what?"