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ashleylm

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  1. I'm Team Ginger. I think her problem is she's possibly too smart for the room! At my house I have to keep explaining her jokes to my better half (e.g. this week when Eureka came back, Ginger cried "We found her!" and he didn't know why I was laughing).
  2. Likewise ... first RuPaul song to actually make my liked list, and that's 900 strong and counting.
  3. Loved (I'm paraphrasing) "I can barely fit in my clothes, how am I supposed to fit in with them?" as Defender's champion faced the monitor filled with models.
  4. My favourite exchange of the evening: Vanessa: "I'm a lobster fisherman" Minh-Li: "I could tell!"
  5. She won't stay that way (spoiler alert!) as you get to know her better, I promise!
  6. Well, I truly felt for Sheldon. He's basically me, with slightly worse social skills. I learned nothing in class, and read novels to pass the time while the teachers explained the principles that had been clearly set out in the textbooks (that I'd read the first weekend in September). And he did me one better, since he's studying advanced topics, whereas I'd been content to learn the standard curriculum, then read fiction, rather than stretch myself to do better. Put yourself in his shoes. You're in class. All day long. And people less intelligent than you are trying to teach you things you already know. Every day. Every week. 10 months of the year. It's torture!
  7. Re the "packed schedules"—a few years ago I saw Eve Plumb Off-Broadway in Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating, and Marriage--I was one of the audience participation victims participants. Just 'cause they aren't in big box office films doesn't mean they aren't acting—I looked her up in imdb.com and she's done 13 film or tv gigs since then, and who knows what else that the imdb doesn't list.
  8. I'm assuming you mean how to determine who's right, not the part about how 5 points = victory. Contestants must pick which movie will make all the voiceovers happy. Only one of the three posters shown will fulfill all their requirements. So if someone says "I want to watch a romance!" then Revenge of the Blanket would not be an appropriate choice. Sometimes all the posters are in agreement (e.g. the voiceover might say "at least a two star movie," and if the posters are 2 star, 3 star, and 4 star, they all match, so that's simply a red-herring). Eventually you get enough information to whittle the movie selection down to a single choice which will please all voices. My favourite detail was that Saving Private Reilly was from the director of G.I. Jodi. For someone who was barely there, she sure is remembered!
  9. I was born and raised in Canada. I didn't know the lyrics—I've never heard the song—I've never even heard of the song. I can do Snowbird, I Just Haven't Met You Yet, or When You're Gone, I don't not listen to music, but I don't think this song's as well known as you believe it to be.
  10. Which parts? Oh, the populated parts. That makes sense.
  11. Me too. I don't need to hear that they "sadly" vote to evict, or that Ms. C-M is looking "beautiful" today, and especially not loves/kisses/birthdaywishes etc. Just turn the sound off and have two buttons to press, one with Sam's face, one with Kat's face. We watch the hamster press the button, and Julie announces "Jack has voted for Sam," so the blind viewers can follow along.
  12. The moment just before, when she was running away, I thought was one of the prettiest things I'd seen on a TV screen all year. Sure, sometimes I think the modern sensibility is a bit unrealistic, but it's worth watching for the visuals alone!
  13. I completely agree, I just think it's stupid rather than mean.
  14. Not that I think the 8 are humanity's finest examples, but I'm not sure why "not being allowed to attend an alliance meeting when you're not in the alliance" counts as bullying. In one sense it's dumb, because it makes Completely Evident who's in the alliance and who's not, but it's hardly bullying, in a competition, to want to be allowed to strategize without the opposition being present. When non-alliance members showed up and tried to enter, they were told "not now" ... there's a difference between actual bullying (what Bella does), and, say, not being invited to the popular girl's party (so long as she isn't pointedly inviting everyone in the school except you).
  15. I can't remember a worse LSFYL than Silky's ... even Valentina, despite not knowing the words, didn't seem drunk and deranged. Silky's aimless flopping around (and not even desperate flopping around, casual out-of-time flopping around) had me in hysterics.
  16. That's my take too. Suddenly you've got all this time on your hands, and what do you do with it? If she were just trying to get affection from a new source, she'd hardly have gone to her neighbour's home ... she's kind of bored, and trying to figure out how to fill the time (while, clearly, missing Sheldon).
  17. I'm 53, and I have it as well. Do you want people to have unpopular, weird futuristic haircuts, or unpopular, sad, dated haircuts? It's only reasonable more people will sport whatever style is currently popular, regardless of what it reminds you of.
  18. Re Missy's supposed meanness--I'm not getting that, I'm seeing a girl who's delighted to have learned interesting secrets about other people, not one who's chortling over their misery. (I also think Young Sheldon is still cute, but I also think that of my 15 year old nephew who's well into puberty--neither of them are equivalent to a nine-week kitten, but who is?)
  19. I hope you mean "could have been viewed." The thought that merely being introduced to gay people in a social situation would currently constitute child abuse boggles.
  20. I was Sheldon (or as close as), and learned nothing in elementary school. Nothing. I could read before Grade One, and ever since I'd just read the text books they handed out that first week, and be bored for all subsequent weeks (or read novels in class while the teacher taught concepts I'd already learned). When I switched to a private school, it was revelatory. I no longer seemed to be the smartest kid in the class, but that was because they'd actually been taught concepts I'd never come across. Took me a year to catch up, and then I was on top again. You can only do so much (pre-Internet) with the books in your library and a school catering to the average student.
  21. I think it was closer to "What an interesting way to say a normal thing," which (after "All my fears are mine again") was my 2nd line of the night.
  22. Finally saw the season, and want to go on record that it's ridiculously unfair (though ultimately not really a game changer) that the girls got to make the decision about whether Kim & Chris could also share in the increased-window-space advantage. And, game or not, morally wrong to decide as they did. I don't love Kim and Chris' style, but I was on their side at least for the rest of the season!
  23. I liked it a lot, and thought the details and the tone were spot on (I was 7 in 1972). Yes! How many of our homes today look like they were decorated in the-latest-trends-for-2018? In my case we have the bones of a 1999 build (kitchen cabinets, moldings, etc.), the colours from a 2008 redecoration, furniture from 1890 through 2010, with a lot of it circa 2001 when we upsized and needed more things. Aside from a few throw pillows and an Amazon echo, there's nothing to reflect the current zeitgeist. Most people don't entirely redecorate their home every three years just 'cause.
  24. Somehow I saw the pilot before y'all (I guess the schedule's different in Canada) so posted in the wrong thread as this one didn't exist last week. Don't know how to move posts, so here's a repeat: I thought the first episode was pretty good--I laughed out loud several times, esp. with regards to Leslie Jordan and Vicki Lawrence. It reminded me a bit of Hot in Cleveland--if you enjoy the actors a lot, and they make the most of decent if not spectacular material, then you'll have a good time. Really, for a comedy, it's just about whether I'm laughing or not (unless they're deliberately setting out to do something dramedy-ish, like G.L.O.W.) I didn't crack a smile at Single Parents, but I chuckled a lot during this.
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