It means she was acknowledged for her artistic contribution to an Academy Award winning film. Who hurt you?

She received a BAFTA nomination for best supporting actress....

What's gross is when people in their 70s attempt to cash in on contemporary morals like yours. I very much doubt they can prove either emotional or monetary harm. We shall see.

What you need to remember is that your concept of what's gross is in many cases impertinent.

They are getting downvoted because film adaptations of Romeo and Juliet will soon be illegal at this rate. The star crossed lovers didn't hold hands on the beach.

For God's sake, just visit a beach in France or some such.

By your standards, we should stop watching American Beauty because Thora Birch showed her breasts to the boy next door, and Kevin Spacey felt some adult boys up over the decades since.

Just stop it. There was nothing exploitative about the film for 40 years until somebody decided it was exploitative.

It's like saying Thora Birch was exploited in American Beauty.

This is probably helpful when their bigger, more aggressive chimpanzee cousins get the boys together to do a little monkey murder.

This sounds like an excellent opportunity to practice by figuring out how to collect or reroute space junk. It seems that space junk could threaten global satellite health as much as a committed enemy.

Baphomet, without the children....

Yes, he fled into exile before being allowed entry to the U.S. for cancer treatment. Pretty sure he and his lovely bride were probably featured in Barbara Walters interviews both before and after the IR.

Most of what you say is how the world viewed the situation. I posted before reading what you said but after being warned about the 20 year rule. I do think that fighting Iraq to a bloody stalemate during the eight year war solidified Khomeini's autocratic rule.

I don't presume to know how Iranians felt at the time of the 79 IR.

Even though the hostage crisis that coincided with the IR was daily news in the U.S. until the hostages were finally released just before Reagan's inauguration, very few Americans paid much attention to the war between Iran and Iraq from 1980-1988. Your point about that solidifying the IR is spot on because Saddam was also viewed as a secular American political puppet, not to mention Sunni Arab.

The death toll varies, but it is agreed to be somewhere between 1 million and 2 million, with Iran getting the worst of it. Iran countered Saddam's superior military with human wave tactics by soldiers as young as 15.

As somebody who remembers how "Day 1" of the U.S. Embassy Hostage Crisis turned into Nightline, and who studied Iraqi/Iranian relations in the 1980s, I am in no position to tell you what the Iranian people "wanted" at the time of the revolution.

If you read the Wikipedia article about the Shah's nearly four decade reign, you might ask yourself, how did this guy fall to popular unrest? I'm pretty sure that the reforms he implemented economically, politically, and , militarily made Persian Iran stronger in all three respects.

The problem involved the sharing of the wealth and his handling of dissent. There are prisons still used today that the Shah used to jail political prisoners and his suppression of dissent was often brutal. But once you open yourself up for examination by the world, the world frowns upon brutal suppression of dissent. And the Shah's political enemies characterized him as a U.S. puppet on the world stage.

So, I don't think those who benefited from the Shah's reforms wanted a brutal, autocratic, extremist version of Sharia law to replace the good parts about the Shah's reforms. But one of the political benefits of a top down closed society is that it is resistant to world condemnation. The combination of religious fervor and economic deprivation focused like a laser beam on the the Shah's alleged political masters in Washington.

I think this was covered on a "Brady Bunch" thread the other day. Just because I never thought about my own sisters or mom this way doesn't mean that one upstairs bathroom at the Brady home never led to questions. Talk about Jack and Jill....

After reading the occasional article on TMZ, I'm just happy there aren't more cannibalism themes.

For those too lazy to read article, did the "similar theft charge" involve the Rolex or the genitals or both? Asking for a friend....

This sounds far too romantic. If you have a good sized chicken run with say 25-50 chickens, too many roosters can result in the hens having no feathers on their backs where the roosters hang on. And you don't even want to know what a gang of roosters does to the weakling roosters.

This is why the life cycle of the rooster should include the stew pot or frying pan.

I'm pretty sure if the ancient Minoans had enjoyed the ELI5 subreddit, Linear A would have been cracked long ago.

Excellent top comments so far.

I'm immediately reminded of philosophical and religious traditions that suggest our time on earth dictates the possibility that we could be punished by reincarnation into a lower animal life form. But all I see in this picture is "I'm Salvador freaking Dali's anteater, and I'm taking bids on an exclusive book deal."

Might as well have been the Kobayashi Maru....

There are days when I cannot express adequately the appreciation I feel for redditors and their take on things. Then there are days when I appreciate google more:

Pump Gas with Engine ON?

I was just thinking in terms of first man, first woman. Surely there was enlightened "first" who not only became self aware, but also aware of something bigger than himself or herself. I don't know that the obvious evidence of cultural advancement would have instantly flowed freely. Heck, many may have thought such a person was crazy.

I'm determined to enjoy this entire article, but I see this type of thing on reddit all the time, and that's the notion that what academics call "modernity" in terms of agriculture, tool use, abstract thinking, and singing/dancing, is somehow related to the emergence of conscience and the metaphorical concept of Adam and Eve.

I'm pretty sure that the appreciation of God by some occurred long before what we would more accurately describe as culture.

I'm about to read the article, but your comment about the religious elite and King Hezekiah made me think of the notion that much of what was recorded for that time and times many centuries and millennia before, was a reflection of the scholarly assembly and authorship of these materials during the Babylonian exile in the 6th century BCE.

The idea I've seen proposed was that the wealthy and elite in exile were presented with an opportunity to recover their heritage and homeland if they demonstrated they had a heritage/ Does this sound right?

I've always accepted that to mean that anything passed on or shared prior to that time was strictly an oral tradition.