Calamity Jane

Thank you, was just coming in to make that point. I've heard that Winston Churchill made fun of it by saying something like, "This is arrant nonsense up with whichI will not put."

Just echoing most of you - did not like every other FBI unit being depicted as lazy, unprofessional, unintelligent, etc., and was totally baffled as to why a senator would have staffing say-so in the Bureau. All that made it hard to take the rest of it seriously. I've felt for several years now that CM needs to wrap it up and wave goodbye to us all, and nothing here did anything to change that opinion.

Just comparing himself to Boston Rob was enough to put him on my list of people I hate with a purple passion.

I have forgotten - how old is Rebecca supposed to be in current times? If she also was 36 when the children were born, then she's 73 now, which would make her 93 in a 20-year flash forward. That's pretty old, so it wouldn't be unlikely if she had already passed away. Anyway, it doesn't seem probable that Rebecca is the reference when Randall talks of going to see "her." My mind went to it being Deja in prison; my daughter thought they were talking about Beth. With the evidence we have, clearly many different guesses can be made, but they're just guesses. It's a long time until we find out more!

I knew she looked familiar, but I did not recognize her!

Barnes: "Everything has to be solved quicker! See how fast it goes without Emily?" "Run every single decision by me when you go out next time without me." And that makes things quicker how, exactly?

In fairness, that's usage, not grammar. The sentence is perfectly grammatical either way; we just tend to put the other person first as a form of courtesy. Now, if she had made the increasingly common error of saying, "Please meet Tom and I," I would have been ready to melt down. At least putting oneself first helps avoid that error because I don't think anybody would say, "Please meet I."

In Norway, it was the custom to name a male child with the paternal grandfather's name as first name and maternal grandfather's name as middle name. My mother-in-law was crushed that I refused to name our son Harald Sidney.

We had a Danish family rent our house one year, and they hung the Christmas tree from the ceiling. Right side up.

I have said this a lot in various forums - my daughter is a mental health clinician and worked in a county jail for 4 years (now working with juvenile delinquents). She saw the same people cycle through over and over and over because they're mentally ill, can't access adequate services outside jail or just fall apart too much to do so, behave inappropriately, and get arrested again and again and again, get a little treatment, are put back on the street, and the cycle begins anew. Jails and prisons are the #1 provider of mental health services these days, and it's unbearably sad to think that we have criminalized mental illness instead of looking for ways to improve on the old system and avoid its abuses. Families of mentally ill people have so little help available, even savvy professionals, and it gets overwhelming. The system isn't just broken, it's smashed, and it needs to be reinvented.

My parents grew up in the Depression, and this episode got me remembering all the crazy stuff they would eat when we lived in France because they were raised to consume any part of an animal. Sweetbreads (ris de veau), quite often; tongue; head cheese and other terrines that looked very suspicious to me; heart; calf brains; my dad would eat horse meat; and of course liver, escargots, raw oysters, sea urchin - all everyday to them. I'm sure there's much more I'm not thinking of. My dad enjoyed steak and kidney pie when he had to go to London, too. Myself, I never touched any of it.

The only one I've ever really enjoyed was the Christian Siriano/Chris March season.

I'm sure they do, but I still think if physical harm came to one of the participants, contracts might not be enough to protect them. It shouldn't, anyway. It just seems so, so dangerous. No doubt the prisoners' convictions were not for violent crimes (right? right??), but there can be other stuff in the past that didn't make it onto the records. Arrrgh, guess I'll just go back to ignoring it. :-/

My first reaction when I saw promos for this show (which I have never actually watched to date) was that it seemed to me there could be a world of liability if something really bad happened to one of the people taking a risk with people just out of prison. I hope they did very deep, careful background checks. I was so creeped out by the entire idea that I can't bring myself to watch.

I have always been pretty convinced that Ken got some professional help after his disastrous first appearance, and very likely medication for whatever was making him so erratic and impulsive. It's been very nice to see how much his behavior and general aura have improved since then. He has an entirely different energy now.

This seems to be a growing trend, filming TV shows more like movies, and to see them well, you really need to view them the way movies are viewed, in the dark.

When I'm good and agitated, it's fuckety fuckety fuck fuck fuck.

So happy to know someone else says fuckety fuck.

I was kind of surprised that they were even allowed back in the house after the standing sewage was spotted by the inspector. I expected him to say that that had to be addressed before they could stay there even a minute. As for selling it, yeah, that seemed dicey- hopefully the new owners more or less start over from scratch.

Just now watching, trying to keep my jaw off the floor at their insistence that all that sewage was not harmful to them or to their possessions. I am not by any stretch a super housekeeper, but that just made me gag and gawp in disbelief.

^ Very good to know! (I don't currently have the ability to "like" posts since yesterday's update). Back in the early 90s a house at the end of our block burned at night, and we all stood around listening to the fire engine sirens circling around and around, failing repeatedly to find our little street. Glad those days are over!

I can vouchsafe that a serious emergency can seriously impair one's ability to think rationally. Many years ago (1993), my husband had a seizure and stopped breathing. Speaking to the 911 operator was a nightmare - I could barely recall our last name, and our address had completely escaped me. My 9-year-old daughter had to write it for me so I could relay it to 911. I was better but still struggling when the paramedics arrived, but my thinking brain switched back on shortly afterwards. It was a big lesson in what can happen when you are faced with a dire situation. Having the address of a landline come up automatically now is a great improvement, also GPS on rescue vehicles because our street is hard to find.

I found with Game of Thrones that waiting until dark and watching with the lights turned out as if I were in a movie theater helped tremendously; otherwise I always felt I was missing a lot of detail. May have to do that with this one as well.

I think it really is the stylist because I've seen her in interviews and commercials recently where she looked really good.

To call that dress olive green is a terrible insult to olives. And a terrible flash back to the 70s, when muddy colors ruled and finding clothes I could bear to wear was really difficult. Please, please tell me we aren't going back to that palette! I worked for a ceramic paints & glazes company back then, and the colors for coming year/s were sent out by a magazine company (Better Homes & Gardens, possibly, it's so long I've forgotten, a Conde Nast company, anyway) way ahead of time, and you would see them in clothes, house paints, hobby paints, kitchen appliances and doodads - everywhere. Meanwhile, I remember almost everyone except a couple of the women. Helen seems to be back in fine snark fettle; As I remember, she was more mellow her first PRAS than in her original season. Ken has evidently stayed on whatever meds he must have started after his first season. I still love Anthony, but I'm thinking he won't last very long. And I still love Kelly from the Deli. I don't have any huge strong feelings about any of them, really, with the exception of Orange Josh. Even if he has miraculously morphed into a decent human being, I cannot erase the horrible impression he made his first season. I'll watch because there isn't a whole lot I care for on TV, and it looks to be fairly entertaining.