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Concurring with @possibilities. I took the 99 cent deal on Amazon around Thanksgiving.

Trying so hard not be snarky. The policing of women's bodies, e.g. clothes, by other women makes me feel like feminism never happened (to quote one of the threads on the site)

I am feeling way peevish today. First peeve: The BBfuckingC &/or Brtibox. 1. They have the whole of British TV forever and there's so much good stuff they could show but choose not to. 2. If they're going to run a show, run the whole fucking show! WTF with airing a season of Pointless, for example, and then skipping a couple of years and running another season? 3. Also WTF with filming things and then not running them, even in the UK, for a year or more? How long ago did Moonflower Murders finish filming, for instance? 4. And why don't you announce when things are going to air more than 3 days in advance? 5. Dearest Beeb...why won't you sell TV licenses to people outside of the UK? I would be happy to buy one just to feed my quiz show addiction without having to run a VPN to get into iplayer, especially since it rarely works for me, or rely on the kindness of YT strangers/official feeds that cut up quiz shows that should run sequentially, like Pointless. I don't want to watch selected games from season 5 or whatever, I want to follow the contestants and see who stays and who goes. And with ROHOG...it's UK celebrities, do you expect to open up vast foreign markets for this? 6. Britbox, where the hell are the other Gardeners' World specials?! GAH!!! Second peeve: what's with the dill pickle shortage in Connecticut?

The library I work in has a chatbot that is not restricted to people affiliated with the university. At certain times of the year we get a lot middle and high schoolers using it and when it's an actual reference question I am happy to answer (for some reason primary sources for eras of American history are popular). But when the conversation starts with "hi!" I'm poised to block the IP.

I've given up trying to watch but haven't quite resolved to look at the archive.

Like Karma Chameleon, I come and go with regard to Netflix. I just unsubbed again and will resub when they have enough content I want to see. I read something on Deadline (?) about Netflix being top streamer because of its browsing feature and I had to wonder if anyone who thinks that has actually tried to find anything.

I didn't find it online so I didn't see it at all. Sometimes there are 3 or 4, sometimes none.

Same reasoning here.

Confusing chuffed with chafed, maybe?

The car had been running with the defroster on full blast for 10 minutes so the window wasn't itself frozen through.

That's what I have. I had to pour hot water on my windshield this morning because my scraper couldn't penetrate the ice.

Seconding what @theredhead77 said about shrink wrap on windows. It made a huge difference in my current house before the windows were replaced.

We got maybe 2 inches of snow, plus freezing rain and a "wintry mix"...the campus finally closed at 3, like that's going to do anyone any good when the roads are already a mess. Fortunately for me, this was one of my WFH days.

If the answer is Paul Robeson the question is going to be about Othello or Ol' Man River. He did so much more but J! knows those 2 things.

"Isn't that alarming? What is she, a bird?" makes me smile every time.

Dusty Springfield's is the only version of that song I recall.

I meant to come back after the writers' strike questions were done but keep forgetting to check YT for J! in the evenings. By morning it's too late. I did catch one episode of the second chance tournament. It all feels sort of underwhelming now.

One of the benefits of having a pet is that you aren't talking to yourself, you're talking to them. Perfectly normal. If they start answering you in a human language, it might be time to worry. @shapeshifter, that coworker was an ignorant asshole.

I find it useful to sat things out loud like "I locked the door", so I remember I did it and don't have to get up in the middle of the night to check.

Yea, verily, yea!

She was great in A Little Night Music.

A show where they don't understand each other would be a change from all the ones where I can't understand them. Enunciate, damn you!

Shecky Greene! That's a name I've heard in decades.

The interfaces on the Britbox and Acorn Roku apps are clunky compared to Amazon, and it's nice to have all subscriptions work the same way. But I'm nonetheless very unhappy with Amazon adding more ads--they already stick them at the start of everything of their own.

Hands off, @Mondrianyone! The crown is mine! Mine, I tell you, all mine!