Brutal.

Lethal Weapon and Batman Returns, too.

Saint Nicolas. No idea how he got all the other stuff- probably more cultural appropriation with yuletide- but he was the one that inspired the whole “going around and giving gifts into stockings” thing.

Also it’s maybe important to note he was about as white as Jesus would have been- he was a Greek dude in Turkey. (Specifically Myra.)

Imagine being told that your family was going to celebrate your birthday on Halloween because they wanted to celebrate Halloween and that’ll let them celebrate it without being “pagan”…. When your birthday was in late spring.

It wasn’t his birthday either. They just celebrate it then because of all the pagan holdiays leaving them out. (Yule… Saturnalia, bacchanalia.)

Humans have pretty much always done something around the winter solstice. Historically, part of it was there really wasn’t much else to do.

Most work could only be done with light. The shortest day of the year had little light and in any case mostly they were just waiting for spring to come while maintaining farms and shit. Also in the north they were kinda sorta trying to stay indoors and out of the frooking cold.

Ellipse. Same but it doesn’t even roll that well.

One of the ones with Paris’ holo novels?

She wasn’t insisting on gender neutral pronouns.

Sje was angry people didn’t know her son was a son. Which they didn’t know because they were never told before (directly or indirectly). She intentionally chose to obscure gender for some reason and then got pissed people got confused.

I should have used “they” because babies aren’t “it”s, I could care less about disrespecting the mother, but the kid didn’t deserve that.

Same.

Same.

And the plant might be tacky and dusty, but it doesn’t smell, and say awful things.

This is why they got together and had salamander babies.

So like.

Isn’t that the thing that tried to take over starfleet by gau’ulding the command staff?

Janeway doesn’t care if he’s stupid, as long as his amphibian hindbrain can still make coffee.

I knew a lady, new mother, who insisted on putting her baby in green or yellow rather than pink or blue.

Which, wouldn’t be something to make fun of except she got furious when people misgendered the baby boy. Even more furious when some jackass named me got fed up and started referring to the baby as “it”.

She didn’t catch the point. The husband did, though.

(Hindsight says I should have used “they” but they’ve subsequently turned weirdly conservative, so maybe that would have pissed her off just as much.)

Less useful than those plastic plants, even.

How’s that working for you?

It would depend on if the deflector shields in Star Wars work to disrupt transportation or not. (Also on phasers.)

Also the kind of effects ion weapons would have.

Also the empire was never meant to actually be a competent military. Their vehicles are designed for terror, not practicality. Their pilots and infantry are all incompetent and mass produced.

In short they were actually designed to fail.

In any case, there’s too many assumptions that have to be made to put them in the same universe and that’s going to go which ever the way the judges want it to go.

I just fantasize about Miles having several thousand torps just transport in a cloud and zip off to eagerly suicide into something - and Kira’s snark, or maybe just have her glare with a twitchy eyebrow.

Asimov only said the first part. I added the bit about stupidity.

(At least I think I did. It’s been awhile since I read his works.)

Are we certain he hasn’t already died and they shoved an animatronic chat bot up his ass?

It would explain a lot. Including the smell.

I mean. If it gets him out of politics, I’m sure we can get him an off-mainstreet theater in Branson.

(I know he’s full of shit, like always, but I can snicker, can’t I?)