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1. about 6 hours ago on Close to Home

   The food expiry date is related to the food, not to the date. If you buy on january 10 2001 food written to expire on february 10 2001, it means it will stay good for 30 days. So if you bring it instantly to april 2024, it will be 23 years after the expiration date but the food itself will have only aged one day.

2. about 6 hours ago on Speed Bump

   The movies weren’t bad. The first two are really quite good, well made, exciting to watch. They are not better than the book, they are not a perfect adaptation, they are not a shameful adaptation either, and as fantasy movies they rank quite high. Personnally, they don’t spoil the books and I can enjoy both.

   Even more so the Hobbit. The first one is quite a disaster in terms of adaptation, that’s the kind of adaptation that would make me angry, but once you get to the second and forget this is supposed to be The Hobbit, it turns into an entertaining fantasy story that has nothing to do with the spirit of the book, with only names in common.

   When a book is a masterpiece, it won’t be spoiled by the adaptation, good or bad. One might fear a bad adaptation might spoil it for some viewers but it would only spoil it to viewers who would never read the book or would never have understood how great the book is if they tried reading it. Both work can co-exist.

   A good example for me is Blade Runner. It’s not that much of an adaptation of Philip’s K. Dick Do Androids Dream of Electrical Sheeps as it is inspired by. I love both because they exist in different media and “work” in a different way. I don’t have to compare them, I can be happy that the same core story has inspired a great book and a masterpiece of cinema.

3. 1 day ago on Speed Bump

   You won’t get the bouncer with that. It’s straight to the guillotine.

4. 1 day ago on Brewster Rockit

   If a time has been set, when you are early, you wait before ordering anything. In the case you describe, they are not early they are just rude and show they don’t care about the people who are supposed to join them for the date, so better not spend any time with them.

5. 2 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Whaaaat? You didn’t know what Pastis is? What are you? Like, not French or something? Seriously, there is a whole range of Mediterranean liquors made with macerated herbs with a core of anise and licorice. But while sambuca and ouzo mainly use star anise, pastis use aneth so it tends to be much less sweet than its italian or greek counterparts. The licorice smell is a bit more dominant, but there are many brands of pastis with different balances. People who don’t like it often say it smells and taste like mouthwash. It’s very refreshing. (You don’t drink it pure, you mix it with fresh water).

6. 2 days ago on Monty

   Hey, now that I think of it, it works pretty well as a general rule.

7. 5 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   Reagan doesn’t go with the Jedi but with the Sith lords.

8. 5 days ago on Luann

   male babies, preferably.

9. 5 days ago on Brevity

   Yes, I don’t see anything else, but it’s really far fetched.

10. 5 days ago on Betty

    Fallout