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[Sinistar]

Watched The Host (2006).

I... uh.

I am very positively bemused.

I go to bed now. Nighty-night.

[kisame12794]

Oh, that movie. I saw that a few years ago on a late night movie channel. Really good movie, though I dunno if I'd watch it again.

[Neonivek]

Anyone notice that the Evil Step Mother from Disney's Cinderella and Frollo from Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame... Look related?

[smjjames]

Anyone notice that the Evil Step Mother from Disney's Cinderella and Frollo from Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame... Look related?

I was going to say 'same artist'? But considering how far apart the films are (1950 and 1996 respectively), I seriously doubt it.

Could just be the same art aesthetic or maybe just the artists idea of 'evil looking' which could have been based on the stepmother in cinderella.

[pisskop]

Archetypes are archetypy.  Given how slowly Disney has been to update their stereotypes its not entirely surprising.

[Orange Wizard]

I keep seeing pisskop's avatar and thinking it's me.

[Eric Blank]

The only thing you can do is adapt. I'm sorry, orange wizard, but you're going to have to lime with it.

[My Name is Immaterial]

You're the Devil, Eric. That pun was lemonic.

[pisskop]

OW.  He's all puckered about this.

^{_{Is it time to change avatars?}}

[EnigmaticHat]

Its NEVER time to change avatars.

[My Name is Immaterial]

There was no citrus pun in that post! Orange you ashamed of yourself?

[flabort]

There actually is, but it's very well hidden, in kind of a stealth manner. Once you see it, you'll realize that it's really grape... fruit.

[pisskop]

O.o  I see it now.  I took it for pomegranate before.

Ive cleaned 20gb off my computer tonight.  Too much.  Im always afraid t restart my computer after forcing it to vomit up its contents like this.

[Tawa]

You people are terrible.^lemons

[My Name is Immaterial]

I'm a native San Diegan, but I'm away from home at college, and I did some math for an essay. I wanted to share my findings with you.
Because they broke my head.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

A report by Surf-First and the Surfrider Foundation showed that surfers visit the beach 144 times a year per person on average and spend a mean of $58 per visit. We shall determine the number of surfers in San Diego and their economic impact, because we can.

San Diego’s population is 3.2 million, 8.3% of California’s population, as of 2013, as of 2008, 68.5% of all Californians live in coastal counties and 1.1 million Californians surf. Assuming even distribution, which is a silly assumption, but it is one that must be made for this calculation to work, we can see how many San Diegans surf, which is approximately 136,000.

To make some more silly assumptions, we apply the values received from a voluntary survey to the entire population, showing that there are 19.6 million individual visits a year, and that 1.1 billion dollars are spent by surfers per year in San Diego.

That’s a ridiculous amount of money. If San Diego’s beaches are closed for one day, $3,117,446.93 in sales, parking permits, taxes, meals, gas, gear and anything they might spend it on is lost because surfers could not visit the beach.

And that’s just surfers! Those numbers are ignoring other beachgoers!

I need a minute for my brain to reset.

Spoiler: Numbers/Tl;dr: (click to show/hide)

136,000 San Diegans surf.
They visit the beach 19.6 times a year, combined.
Their surf visits contribute over 1 billion dollars a year to the local economy.
That's over 3 million dollars a day.

Sources provided at request.
You'll excuse the lack of citrus pun.