what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{5/5} “Somewhere out there is a lady who I think will never be a nun. Auf Wiedersehen, darling.” At the convent everyone likes Maria — except when she’s difficult. The Mother Superior decides to send Maria out into the world to be a governess, to see how she does at that. So Maria becomes a […]
{4.5/5} “They’re on the side of life — boring, old-fashioned, biological life; smelly, fallible and short-sighted, God knows, but real life. You’re ruled by your machines. You’re an evolutionary dead end. The trouble is that to take your mind off it you try to drag everybody else down there with you. The worst thing that […]
Here’s a good argument for outlawing tipping… Why tipping should be outlawed
{4.5/5} “Each and every one of these people are here because they serve a purpose. There’s no room here for non-essential personnel. If you want to help your family, let’s figure out how we stop this.” An outbreak of a new disease spreads around the world quickly — the disease basically turns people into zombies. […]
{4.5/5} “I hope you never have to know what it’s like to love someone and then find out you’re not enough.” Sam works for a company that facilitates barters between companies who have leftover stock. He’s a great salesman but he made a mistake on one of his deals and now he has to bribe […]
{4.5/5} “Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?” Ripley’s escape pod drifted through space for 57 years until someone rescued her. When she told the Company about the aliens she encountered on LV-426 they didn’t believe her. But now contact with the colony on LV-426 has been lost. The marines are sent in to investigate, and […]
{4.5/5} “I really think your face is going to annoy me right now.” Jack’s brother has died and he’s having a tough time. His friend Iris invites him to stay at her family’s cottage for some alone time. When Jack arrives he’s surprised to find that Iris’s sister Hannah is there — she’s just broken […]
{4.5/5} “Samudra felt another numbing moment of pure disbelief. The Huni were digging in on the northern border, his treaty with one of their father’s protectorates was shattered, a royal woman was threatened and humiliated in public. He, Samudra, had been all but accused of harboring traitorous designs, and the emperor of Hastinapura was having […]
{4.5/5} “The FAA and the NTSB took 10 pilots, placed them in simulators, recreated the events that led to this plane falling out of the sky. Do you know how many of them were able to safely land the planes? Not one. Every pilot crashed the aircraft, killed everybody on board.” Whip is a highly experienced […]
{4.5/5} “The old days, I never thought they’d come back to bite me. Why would they?” Tony Stark is having trouble sleeping, and when he does sleep he has nightmares. In his spare time he creates new and different versions of his Iron Man suit. When a new terrorist emerges calling himself the Mandarin, Tony […]