That kid’s late 20’s are gonna be rough. I know from experience

Backlash to Poltergeist is one of the events that led to the establishment of the PG-13 rating, along with similar reactions to Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Before the establishment of PG-13, it was G for general audiences (that is, parents wouldn’t need to be involved at all) PG for parental guidance (that is, there are scenes and content a parent might have to discuss with their kids afterwards), R for restricted (that is, this has scenes that are not appropriate for kids regardless of parental intervention) and X (typically considered “extreme content”*). With the dawn of the 80’s it became clear that film productions were pushing at the edges of these categories and, while certainly PG’s name would imply that a parent should be aware of potentially objectionable content, there were pearls to be clutched and most parents didn’t want to go through the effort of screening the films their kids watched—which were typically substitutes for babysitters—anyways. Remember that this is the same era that brought us the great Satanic Panic over D&D!

So a stopgap was established and PG films pretty much became exclusively the stuff of kids fare, with PG-13 becoming the go-to rating for content of the kind you’d see in those wonderful Spielberg films of the 80’s

*not to be confused with XXX, which was adopted by porn distributors who figured that if ONE X was saucy, imagine how good THREE would be!

In fairness, it's not like much of Texas is wilderness anymore. The highway is probably the only way that you can go such a distance without running into things like property line fences (and people angry that you're trespassing on their land).

Also, people are allowed to dress up and have fun, whether it's your thing or not.

Also, the plural of “Pokémon” is “Pokémon”. It’s like deer.

Sorry, you lost me. Where did the pizza come from? The article is about a sushi restaurant.

I’d also need sushi grade salmon and knowledge of how to best prepare it.

When I was living in Japan I would always get the salmon with mayonnaise and onion slices. It’s such a flavor bomb, I don’t know why we don’t have them in the States. It seems like the most American thing you can think of, yet startlingly they’re nowhere to be found. Anyways this is my way of saying that I would name myself Salmon Mayonnaise if I were to participate in the salmon chaos

There’s a meme based on the first scene where he and Hansel see each other at the awards ceremony so I guess it’s just on people’s minds

At this point just hire a nanny

He also was really into bondage. The lasso of truth makes sense now

No, sub, but thank you for asking

I think enthusiast is a fair descriptor. I follow paleontological news and took a paleontology class in college but I have a film degree and my day job is video editing. I’m pretty squarely in the “not-an-expert-but-enjoys-the-topic” category

I'm not a paleontologist.

Since soft tissue doesn't fossilize, non-avian dinosaur reproductive organs are few and far between. But we have some ways of tackling this issue.

As far as I can tell, the presence of an endophallus (which is analogous but not homologous to a mammalian penis) which emerges from the cloaca is basal to archosauria, which is the clade to which dinosaurs (including modern birds), crocodilians, and pterosaurs belong. How do we know this? Crocodilians have one, and most modern birds have one. Birds that don't and use the cloacal kiss seem to have evolved to do so secondarily.

We also have a single fossil that indicates that Psittacosaurus, an ornithischian dinosaur, had a phallus that would emerge from its cloaca to aid in sperm depositing rather than using a cloacal kiss.

However, Psittacosaurus was an ornithischian dinosaur, and ornithischians are a branch that diverged from their common ancestor with saurischians, which is the branch to which theropods, which includes modern birds and T. rex, belong. So it's not necessarily a given that T. rex wouldn't have done the cloacal kiss.

At this point we're bumping up against the lack of evidence for non-avian saurischians, though. We know that there's a startling amount of internal diversity when it comes to the shape of the reproductive organs in modern theropods, so it's entirely probable that the ancient ones had a variety of options to choose from. Some have reconstructed the T. rex as participating in a cloacal kiss just like modern birds.

For me, though there's one thing that modern theropods don't have that mesozoic ones did--that's a long fleshy tail. While there seems to be a good amount of evidence that the tails, which provided the theropods with balance, were pretty flexible, I feel like the cloacal kiss posture becomes much more difficult when you aren't able to just ruffle the tail feathers out of the way. This, combined with the fact that having an endophallus is apparently the basal state, makes me think that T. rex would've needed some sort of hardware in order to reach its mate's cloaca to deposit the sperm.

I'm not a paleontologist though! So someone who knows more may come and correct me.

This is a very good post and I agree with what you’re saying but I’m very pedantic and feel the need to point out that Saturnalia is unlikely to be the source of Christmas (at least, directly) because it was celebrated from the 17th to the 23rd. It seems more likely that it comes from the date of the winter solstice since that’s celebrated on the 25th of December on the Julian calendar. Interestingly enough, on the modern calendar the solstice falls on the 21st so we’ve been celebrating it wrong since the adoption of this newer calendar system. Open your presents early, kiddos! That said, I’m sure you’re right inasmuch as the celebration of Saturnalia at around the same time period (if not THE EXACT period) probably led to the easy adoption of Christmas by the public, since you can call it whatever you want as long as we get our gosh darned presents. Maybe it’s splitting hairs, but this is Reddit so that’s what we do

It’s the British spelling

I mean, think about how many times you’ve had to buy The White Album. So many different formats….

Isn't this a pretty clear cut case of parody? Seems to me like it would be allowed under fair use policy

Wikipedia says it’s pronounced

[kəmehəˈmɛhə]

How that actually translates into sounds you make with your mouth is above my pay grade because I never learned to read those special characters

The Kamekamehas were monarchs of Hawaii. (You know, before they were illegally ousted by the CEO of the Dole Pineapple Company with the tacit endorsement of the United States in a coup that was condemned by the League of Nations.)

Akira Toriyama heard the name and thought it sounded good and so used it as the name of Master Roshi's signature attack. There's probably also a pun involved there, as the Japanese word for "turtle" is 亀, kame, and of course Roshi is the turtle hermit.

Maybe a little tone deaf, but what're ya gonna do? Toriyama was working on a weekly deadline.