Interesting Links for 08-01-2016

[andrewducker]

• Google Maps giving live updates on Edinburgh buses and trams
  • Google maps Edinburgh buses trams
• A political question about opposition parties in the UK
  • politics uk
• Every Comment On Recipe Blogs
  • funny food cooking blogging
• The Comment Section For Every Article About Bikini Waxing Ever
  • funny women comments hair vagina
• The hair of the Skywalkers
  • hair

Comments

[kalimac]

The angry Star Wars guy is angry at the other article calling Finn a janitor. He says, "Finn was a Stormtrooper assigned to sanitation .... Nowhere in this movie is it said that Finn was a janitor." Um ... you just did.

[erindubitably]

I think maybe it's the difference between 'Stormtrooper who does sanitation duties while not in combat' and 'janitor' that got him riled up. I mean, plenty of soldiers do sanitation stuff when they're not fighting, I'd imagine, but we don't call them janitors.

[cartesiandaemon]

That makes sense. It probably could have been clearer in the film, I got that sense that Finn had had combat training but no experience, but I wasn't completely sure.

[movingfinger]

That was my sense, too, that we see him in his first real combat and he realizes it's not for him. Which suggests that this culture doesn't have simulators, or not very good ones.

On Finn's "sanitation" work, I didn't think he was a janitor either: the complex has been under construction for years, and I took "sanitation" to mean he was in the plumbing crew---and that was why he knew so much detail about the layout and functions of the various areas, because plumbers have to know everything or you'll get a waste pipe routed through your hyper-plasma-planet laser area.

I'm not clear on what was supposed to happen when they used up either a star or a planet with that weapon. (Possibly the characters weren't either.) The scenes with the First Order's big opening day concert looked distractingly like scenes from Captain America and I may have missed something, thinking about the film homages etc going on there.

[steer]

Surely in this world most recruits get assigned the equivalent of latrine duty at some point in their careers but you wouldn't call any of them janitors.

[octopoid_horror]

Han doesn't seem the type to have underwent military service...

[drplokta]

If you take a look at the only waste disposal facility we've actually seen in Star Wars, in Episode IV, it becomes apparent that sanitation is an elite duty given to only the best trained, best equipped and most experienced soldiers -- because they're the only ones who have a chance of survival.

[steer]

Hah... yes, that is a fair point. You would assign someone to clean that up only if you knew they were the toughest.