Brookside

I wonder how much Hermine hates Harry Potter.

Did anyone else see homophobic rather than homophonic?

What the hell is up with Jo's accent? And Professor Bhaer is supposed to be twenty years older than her. I made myself watch two minutes of tonight's episode (missed the first one) and it's an abomination. (I do have to say that I tried to reread the book a few years ago and gagged, I loved it so much as a child, but the writing is actually dreadful and so sentimental it's unbearable.)

The kind of story you tell when you're trying to get your grandchild to sleep.

I'm sorry, but Larry/Mr. Rogers/Tully looked so uninterested throughout I can't imagine how he engaged his students.

Agreed on your first three paragraphs and no (for me) to the fourth.

Did she tug her earlobe if she sneezed like my friend's German grandma?

That's okay, I'm even later, and don't even have anything to say!

Sorry, but the snake looked like a giant yellow turd to me. And that concrete block thing? I don't find grey cake appetizing looking. But, yes, refreshingly low-key and straightforward.

I'm hoping you don't eat out too much, whether at restaurants or other peoples' homes. People double dip allll the time. Spoons, fingers, chips. Fondue anyone?

I tear up my old tee-shirts to use as dusters. Seems LaToya uses them as headbands. And ties them too tightly, which would explain her voice.

Know idea who Surie is (this is Eurovision after all), but that outfit had to one of the most hip-unflattering ever.

Car bras are not the only bras that get less attention after children. Right ladies?

"I'm not a cheesy lover." I don't get the Libby love at all. She is inarticulate, vacuous, and self-involved. With chic-let teeth.

This makes it worse for me, because it suggests concentrating on what the squishy feeling and the mushroom inducing socks will spawn

I hope the intern who had to tidy up the contestant stations was wearing surgical gloves.

No idea. Maybe your body puts all its energy into drying the socks so has none left for cultivating the cold? (I suppose I do have an idea after all, but I'm really just making stuff up!)

She swears it does, but I've never tried it - sounds like a recipe for disaster to me!

If my sister feels a cold coming on she wears a pair of wet socks covered by a pair of dry ones when she goes to bed.

Thalidomide?

That's a pretty broad statement. Mackerel is very common in Japanese restaurants (and homes), either broiled or raw. I'm sure in other cultures' cuisines too -- Mediterranean, southeast Asian, northern Europe. But it is a strong-tasting fish, and the lack of diversity of fish available in the States, and the inexplicable refusal of many (Euro) Americans to eat fish at all means it's not well known outside specific communities here. I get it at my local Asian market, wrap it in foil, and grill it on the Weber. (Don't cook it inside unless you have a very strong extractor fan!) LeFevre - "Pickled ginger which I made myself". Wow, so talented. And the mandatory use of "umami". Enough with the overuse of that word.

I will never be able to root for anyone named after a milk snatcher.

What is it about men/boys that they rock back and forth but women/girls are able to stand straight? Is there some physiological explanation?

Alex Trebek, you patronizing git - "You guys were so good today".

Back in the day when you had to write answers on exams rather than fill in a circle, the way to remember how to spell T. S. Eliot was that it's an anagram of "toilets".