It kind of depends of the context…“common sense” is a poor replacement for research and facts in most debates, but it’s definitely an important skill in daily life. I would call things like navigating an unfamiliar city’s subway, or figuring out how to do minor household/car maintenance, that sort of frequent occurrence that might not be entirely familiar but has plenty of resources available to help you understand it, to be an application of common sense. I guess it would be the idea of being able to look at an unexpected situation and figuring out a productive way to deal with it. A couple weeks ago there was a guy at my work who found that the lock on the door to the locker room wasn’t working and he couldn’t get in. He did not go to the managers office a hundred feet to his right, nor did he go to the security office a hundred feet to his left. He kicked the door down, and was promptly fired. That’s what I would consider a failure of common sense.
I thought this was common knowledge.
The characters are not the same individual, but are played by the same actor.
Oh, you poor, deluded soul. You had no other options besides Conan and stayed with him out of loyalty. That’s how he mentally controls his audience. You need realignment counseling.
Who says We’re a nation of immigrants? It should be: We are a nation founded by immigrants and We are a nation built by immigrants.
And if they do say “Nation of immigrants”, it’s just short hand for those. They’re not saying that everyone is a literal immigrant.
My controversial and trivial opinion: I like (most) tattoos on women.
Dammit, this was gonna be mine! I’m agreeing with you as a 44-year-old man, but no Star Wars sheets.
Okay.
If you ever see roadkill that’s really been sitting out in the sun for a few days until it’s partly liquified, and you pour off some of that liquid into a bowl and stir in some rubber cement, and paint that mixture onto some clover, you’ll have a pretty good substitute for arugula.
Milk chocolate isn’t as fancy as dark chocolate, but it’s more delicious. Chocolate with sour milk added, such as Hershey’s, is mighty fine eating. White chocolate is just fine for what it is.
Adding more hops to your IPA doesn’t require an enormous penis, nor does it prove you have one. It just makes your beer taste extra bitter.
Harry Potter isn’t in the top ten best-written children’s fantasy series. It’s a solid B+ of a series, though.
Blazing Saddles, like so much of Mel Brooks’s catalog, is mildly amusing at best.
Robert Heinlein was a lousy writer. Starship Troopers was vastly improved by being turned into a movie; the book is a long political screed broken up by incoherent action sequences.
Scalzi’s books are fun, but if you’ve read that book by him where a plucky underdog triumphs over superior forces through the use of wit, sarcasm, and profanity, you’ve read every single one of his books.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was a great writer - and drunken sot, as many great writers were - of non-entertaining and/or soap opera-like novels filled with uninteresting characters (esp. The Great Gatsby), but just because his novels and characters sucked doesn’t mean his prose did; i.e., he was a bad novelist, not a bad writer. Conversely, his comparatively few entertaining works - the short story “A Diamond as Big as the Ritz” and the Pat Hobby stories - do not qualify as “great writing.”
Norman Mailer was a terrible writer and drunken sot, as terrible writers often are.
From Beyond is a better movie than Re-Animator.
Director John Ford, The Searchers, John Wayne, Spencer Tracy and Jimmy Stewart are all way overrated.
Let’s expand on that sentiment: alcohol of any sort, whether it be fermented from wheat, barley, grapes, apples or anything else, tastes bad.
But wasn’t it Re-animator that had that “giving head” visual pun? Hard to beat that.
I like ketchup on hot dogs.
You…you…you bounder!
I don’t actually have an opinion on scones, or tea; it those seemed so terribly, terribly English controversies, that I couldn’t resist…
Star Wars sucks.
I’m going to go even farther and say: craft beer sucks.
“Extra hoppy ale” isn’t a brilliant artisanal creation; if I wanted something that tastes like a bowl of rancid potpourri left to ferment in the sun for six weeks I could make that myself. “Milk chocolate orange stout” may sound nifty but it tastes like you mixed cocoa powder, orange-scented dishwashing soap and two-day-old coffee grounds together. Stop trying to make beer taste like something other than beer.
Well, if that passes the trivial test, I’m going with *Charles Dickens Was A Better Journalist Than Novelist. *
Evidence: Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens - see particularly The Detective Police; Three Detective Anecdotes.
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Great Expectations *is quite possibly the worst novel I have ever read.
You probably started it with inflated expectations. You were bound to be disappointed.
Life of Brian is a better movie in every way than Holy Grail.
On the other hand, Lowered Expectations was a great dating site.