janie jones

I must have grown up in squalor or something because the window cleaning descriptions I've seen in here are intense. I've never heard of someone removing blinds to clean a window. Like, use some windex on the reachable windows and call it a day. I'm surprised to learn it's not common for cleaning services to do that. Are they not cleaning the mirrors, either, because it's the exact same thing. And they won't dust your blinds, either? Like with a feather duster type thing?

There's a commercial (for maybe an internet service provider?) in which a lady decides not to make her bed, and then starts goofing off around her house. Someone bursts in the door like Kramer and they start playing basketball. That part weirds me out because if you open a door and immediately a basketball is thrown at you, you'd be taken aback, you wouldn't instantly start dribbling it. But what annoys me about this commercial is the end, when it looks like they're watching sports, the lady gets up and starts jumping on her couch like Tom Cruise. Also, I'm taking some window cleaning comments to Small Talk.

Yes, but unless you meant something else, "Appalaytion" would be Appalay-shin, whereas I have a ch sound.

I'm from the West Coast and say neither of these. I say Appalay-chin. 🤷‍♀️

"Carry me on legs on down the road that I must travel" is what I heard and couldn't understand why it was called "Kyrie" (who the heck was Kyrie?) until I googled it as an adult.

You love it because it's cute when two people who look like they'd have nothing in common become besties.

That commercial makes no sense. How do none of them know who their boss is? Who hired them? Who assigns them tasks? Who evaluates them?

I mean, my mom, whose first language, which I do not speak, contains rolled Rs, was shocked to learn I couldn't do it. So I can buy someone's friend not knowing whether they can do it.

I had forgotten that abomination existed.

Per the FRIES model of consent (Freely given, Reversible, Informed, Enthusiastic, and Specific), not only was the "reversible" aspect violated since he indicated that he wanted her to stop (although I think part of what people are interpreting differently is how serious he was when he wanted her to stop -- but that's where "enthusiastic" comes into play), but so was "informed," as he had no idea she intended to have him finish inside her, as was "specific," since he consented to have sex wherein he ejaculated on the floor for the poor maids to clean up, not sex wherein he ejaculated inside her. Do I think the characters would consider it rape? No.

She's a scent-aur. I don't know if that will bother you more or less. 😊

I never interpreted it as Simon not wanting to have kids as much as him refusing to have kids. He was avoiding having kids out of spite for his father. So once he let go of his spite, he didn't really have a reason to not "want" kids anymore. I don't think it was portrayed as an "oh, you'll change your mind one day and want kids" situation, which is something that would have bothered me.

I can see them having her come out of retirement to report on some scandal.

Ah but then we wouldn't gotten the awkward silence that was saved by "Now, Varley, the bugs!" I only noticed Michaela because I'd seen a headline about them having genderswapped her. I didn't read the article and thought they were going to reveal that John was actually a woman or something. From the scene, I didn't get that Francesca was attracted to her; I thought they were trying to put her with Eloise.

Cressida's reaction the the old guy wanting several children made me wonder if she, for one, knows where babies come from.

Wait a minute. Isn't Simon several inches taller than Daphne? Would their hands even line up?

I'm not sure what this means. Not everyone who dies is mangled (which is what "garbled mess" brings to mind). Some people are just dead. No, they don't look alive, and shows could probably do more with makeup, but I feel like there's only so much you can do when the actor is actually alive.

Yeah, but whatever you're saying isn't going to mean anything to some rando just walking by and overhearing a snippet of your conversation. Who cares if someone and their dog hears that the subject will be in London on the 25th. Just don't come right out and say something ear-catching that someone else is going to want to call 911 over.

The first season, before I could tell any of the brothers apart, I kept thinking he was the dad. And then they kept saying that the dad was dead, and I'd get confused until they said he was a brother. And then it would happen again.

But when I said "unrealistic" I meant "not like real life" not "not like romance novels."

I think of that song whenever I see a Sysco truck.

Well to each their own, but my husband and I were friends for a while and did not immediately fuck when we told each other how we felt, and we live in the 21st century. I would assume that people in olden times who had to worry about shaming themselves and their families would also not hop into bed instantly. I feel like if "pregnant" is going to be considered wrong, then the string quartets also shouldn't be playing songs that won't be written for hundreds of years. To me, this show is sort of the opposite of when they set Shakespeare in a modern setting.

It was unrealistically soon, but if this show did endless scenes of them breathing in each other's faces like Kate and Anthony, I would cringe to death. I was glad they (the show) got to the point right away.

I think it's more that the Featherington women are known for wearing bright, citrusy colors, and that was a jewel tone an the style actually flattered her, than that she was wearing something so drastically different from everyone else.

You mean because people would say who it was in the books? That could be true, but it wouldn't necessarily have to be the same person on the show as it is in the books. But really my point was, I don't think the trials and tribulations of Lady Whistledown should be a part of the show, even if book readers know who it supposedly is.