Gets worse without dissenting voices, that’s why ‘safe space’ is such a double-edged sword.

Like and otter with his favourite stone

Legit

I think they always have an odd number of pairs, so 96 or 100.

Took Aragorn that long to get kinged

Black riders on spiders

How old are these kids? Because those books get impressively eloquent as they advance, not to mention disturbing:

A creature of an older world maybe it was, whose kind, lingering in forgotten mountains cold beneath the Moon, outstayed their day, and in hideous eyrie bred this last untimely brood, apt to evil. And the Dark Lord took it, and nursed it with fell meats until it grew beyond the measure of all other things that fly; and he gave it to his servant to be his steed.

Are kids gonna love that or wonder what the hell he’s talking about? I can’t decide.

Yeah, I know, that’s like the first thing they teach you at returning school

I think there are surprisingly few poisonous ones out there, and fewer that could actually kill somebody.

Things have been heading this way for 250 years, and the only ones who knew it were the entire rest of the world.

What about the pork markets?

Let’s hope polling standards maintain their upwards trajectory.

What’s wrong with Pointless? It beats the shit out of most game shows.

I didn’t imply they were a gold standard. I just remarked that they certainly weren’t, which is very different.

And about 200 other species, but only one has exhibited homophobia.

Pretty sure they get up to all sorts of rape and paedophilia and incest too. This might be a nice fact, but penguins are dirty bitches and certainly no behavioural gold standard.

The idea is that it’s a translation, so some words are just modern ones used in place of what the ‘real’ ones are.

The funny thing is that in reality, they always gave 30 days’ notice

And that is?

What does that mean?