Winchester Cathedral, the one whose Norman Tower fell in 1107 shortly after it was built (and shortly after William II was interred beneath it)?

Of course, I didn't say that it *worked* particularly well as a mode of socialization, even before the smartphone age. Just that it was an observed behavior.

In college we used to push the sofas in the dorm lounges together and loll in various ways on the couchboat.

Making the bedroom truly a restroom.

It's the "spiral" motif. Anglosphere culture has had "spiral" overcoded as "mystic" for all history. Tornadoes, hurricanes, whirlpools, sunwheels, tops, sacred geometry, Scooby Doo intro segments. They hunger for the hour to come around at last

I didn't vote for either of them in the primary, but yes, in the general he seemed like the best option and our best hope for never hearing from Oz again.

Socks are one of the few chances men get to wear color!

Good Lord, the most sympathetic character in the entire poem is Hector, the family man who doesn't even want to fight.

One of my halfway-serious arguments about Star Wars is that making Darth Vader Luke's father was the worst decision for the series.

I mean, it's not wrong. And FLW was well known for not considering people and their needs.

But I still got emotionally overcome by the design of the building when I visited it.

And the lashing out is fear -- fear that what they thought was the only interesting thing about them is going away. Or even worse, is shared by many, many others and isn't all that interesting. (7/7)

Sometimes they were hoping that Their Thing would at least make them seem a little more interesting to girls. But if girls can do it just as well, then they don't even need him! (6/7)

If it was a niche nerdy thing before, they feel like they (and the millions of other people who eventually made it popular) should be owed a living by this non-person thing they adopted. (5/7)

"You were supposed to be my friend!" they huff at Marvel or whomever, and the response from Major Motion Picture Studio is an honest version of Jon Hamm saying, "I don't think about you at all." (4/7)

The problem comes when they make it an integral part of their personality. Then when something upsets that -- the EU gets decanonized, there's a new series that's different -- it feels like a personal attack, and they lash out. (3/7)

The important thing is that it needs to be a visible thing but have a finite amount of knowledge, so one can become an expert. And that way they get to be the Star Wars guy or whatever instead of Random Teenage Boy. (2/7)