janie jones

https://www.buzzfeed.com/mychalthompson/nathan-lane-robin-williams-lgbtq-support Nathan Lane was out in his personal life when The Birdcage came out, but wasn't ready to be out to the world, which Robin Williams knew. The Buzzfeed article includes a link to their appearance on Oprah's show at the time, when Williams "protected" him from coming out before he was prepared to by distracting everyone for a minute while Lane gathered his thoughts to answer one of Oprah's questions. What I think is really sweet (and what I probably wouldn't have noticed if I hadn't seen the clip without first reading Lane's explanation) is that while he's cracking jokes, Robin Williams looks over at Nathan Lane two or three times, until Lane gives him a very tiny nod. Williams gives another tiny nod back and then stops joking so Lane can answer the question. So kind, and so adept.

I saw a new one recently in which the spilled liquid is about to flow onto the carpet. That one at least makes sense, since you can't pick up the floor and get it out of the way. I don't know how the brand you use is going to affect how quickly you can run to the kitchen and get a paper towel to catch the spill before it makes it off the table, though.

I think the TV schedule in my local newspaper used to put the titles in sometimes. It seems like my unpopular opinion might be that the titles, or lack thereof, make absolutely no difference at all.

I'm sorry, but I am going to be pedantic, because it answers your question. As you noted, a panther and a jaguar are the same thing. Pumas and mountain lions are also the same thing. Bobcats are not particularly big and scary, and neither really are lynxes, although I don't think they're present in the US enough be a military mascot. Leopards are not from North America, so that's why they wouldn't be an American military mascot. So the only choices are the panther/jaguar, the cougar/puma/mountain lion, which are both scary, but also present in the trope, as you mentioned; and the bobcat, which is only slightly larger than a large housecat and not really something you're going to lock up your children over if it's on the loose.

I'm curious if you also misheard Sugar Ray's "Fly."

I feel like if the dog in the tennis ball commercial was supposed to be learning to drive, they'd have gotten an adolescent dog. Isn't it an adult?

I love that song so much. It's one of those songs that I can remember where I was the first time I heard it (in my room doing homework, but still).

These are my favorite soap opera parody commercials. (This video has all 3 versions.)

Don't worry. Billy Mack ain't gonna let those two escape justice.

While I appreciate that the commercial depicts women who want a negative test, it still bothers me that the women have to be shown having a "good reason" not to want to be pregnant: too young/not ready and too busy*. I'd rather they just show a woman not wanting to be pregnant without showing why. It shouldn't matter why. *I'll set aside the fact that a business man would be unlikely to be depicted as not being in a good position to become a parent.

I watched ER because Falconer was on it!

Tom Selleck should do commercials for Just for Men Mustache and Beard.

I think because commercials generally are seen as something you do on your way up. I don't think it really matters, although it seems a bit money-grubbing to me, and even if commercials aren't beneath Paul Giamatti, the weird Einstein role might be. But I do think actors should be careful about their timing with commercials. Remember when Katherine Heigl was doing cat litter commercials? For all I know she didn't need the work, but after her career kind of slowed, it made it seem like no one else would hire her.

She's a scent-aur. Which you might think is still dumb, but that seems to be the logic.

Yeah, I don't think it's a stereotype. It's not like he strolled up eating a sausage and walking a wiener dog. I'm not so sure it's even a caricature. All he's doing is a German accent (maybe not a good one?) and wearing an Einstein wig. I don't know what Einstein sounded like when he spoke English, but I assume he did have an accent, having learned English in middle age, and without the wig, you wouldn't even know it was Einstein. It seems like they were doing the bare minimum to make it clear who it was.

That's kind of how my neighborhood is, so I plan my route so that my dogs will poop where there isn't grass. Like, one of my dogs likes to poop under these trees where all that's there is leaf litter. It's kind of annoying because I can't really mix up the route, but I prefer not to let them poop on someone's lawn if I can help it. Even if I can pick it up cleanly, one of my dogs is a real kicker when she's done and I don't want her tearing up someone's grass. I'll pick up trash, too, but I still bring it home to throw it away. I actually use a dog poop bag to carry it!

I mean, no one, but there are lots of things about having a dog that I don't want to do, but I still do it.

I just thought it meant a regular suit that was so tight you could see his dick!

The reason it bothers me that someone would put trash in a stranger's garbage can is because it's rude to use something that belongs to someone else without asking. You're not a guest in my home, I don't know you from Adam, so don't use my stuff. I think it's just as rude to put a candy wrapper or anything else non-gross in someone else's can. I know some people feel that since the trash can (often) technically belongs to the trash company or the city, anyone who uses that service is entitled to use any trash can, since it doesn't belong to the homeowner. I disagree. If I leave my library book sitting somewhere where other people can see it, is it socially acceptable for other people to start reading it because they also pay taxes and have a library card? I think most people would say no. If I were out in front of my house and someone asked if they could put something in my trash can, I would never say no (unless it was an unreasonable quantity of garbage), but for someone to do it without asking is so rude to me. (Three paragraphs makes it seem like I think this is a bigger deal than I really do. When I looked in my garbage can and saw a strange poop bag, I just said "oh huh" and went on with my day.) I'm curious what you would do with a poop bag if you found one in there. When I found one, I just left it there, because where else would I put it?

I'm also curious as to how prematurely she's disrobing before she shoots her scene. Like, are we talking hours of wandering around naked, or just not putting on a robe while everyone is doing last minute prep? And unless she's calling attention to herself, being naked before a scene in which she's naked probably just comes off like she doesn't mind people seeing her naked, unlike the people mentioned above who whipped out their dicks for the express purpose of getting people to look at said dicks.

He brings beer to a bar though? 😀

I was never interested in watching this show until that line.

I bought a house last fall and we told our realtor we didn't want open concept. He showed us a house that had a vaulted ceiling, and we said we weren't into the vaulted ceiling, and he chuckled and said we were the only people who didn't want open concept or a vaulted ceiling. So at least in our area, people are still wanting open concept.

Dogs that will be hauled in for questioning in the event of your untimely death.

I'm actually surprised that garbage collectors anywhere manually pick up the cans anymore. My parents live in the sticks and their pickup people switched to the the trucks that pick up the trash themselves a few years ago. I was working for a few weeks across the country in 2019, and I got caught behind a garbage truck on the way into the office in the morning. I was surprised both that there was someone out there picking up the cans themself, which I didn't realize still existed, and also that he was hanging on the back of the truck between stops, which I had only ever seen on TV. During lockdown, my parents' garbage collectors required them to use can liners and tie them off, but not anymore.