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Coogan's law does not stop the parent or guardian from taking the vast majority of their children's earnings though. Living expenses for example are allowed under the law. And a parent like JB can easily figure out how to justify taking every single penny from their children.

I imagine the office staff who have to input all of those pieces of paper and faxes are just as peeved as you to have to do everything by hand. Unless there's some old-timer in the office who is the one refusing to get with the times and go completely digital.

I thought they said Richard not Robert, and Dick or Dickie is a diminutive of Richard.

Mine varied based on how many years teaching they had under their belt. Veteran teachers were able to wrap things up before the bell, the newer ones still hadn't gotten their lessons edited to fit the time. Unless there was a big shift in the curriculum that required the teachers to develop new lesson plans. I found the same to hold true as an undergrad with one exception. I took a course that was supposed to be on the French Revolution and Napoleon and by the end of the semester we had just gotten to 1789. I don't know what happened to my prof that spring, but he wasted the whole semester talking about the lead up. I came away from that class knowing more than I needed to about Louis XIV and Louis XV and nothing about Robespierre or Danton.

I can't shake the feeling that they also pressured Melanie to marry Jake in the first place. The movie chose not to show the religious component to living in a small Southern town, but it's there. Abstinence only sex education, mom never talks to Melanie about safe sex or get her on the pill knowing she had a boyfriend, and when she gets pregnant at 17 or 18, the only solution is marriage.

Yeah, you can accidentally delete the shortcut to the app from whichever page you have it but deleting it takes more effort. Even then, I have difficulty deleting the shortcut off of my home page. You have to send it to the trashcan exactly right or it just rearranges your page. Deleting an app is done in the Google Play store. And then it will reappear on your phone after an update (looking at you Pandora, and June's Journey, and those slots games).

There are 2 things I am always in the market for--bras and shoes. I currently have a rotation of 5 bras--3 of my preferred style, and 2 in another brand that work. I will pick up a new one to add to that rotation when I see one for a good price. I also have no qualms about buying a fun color or print in my chosen style. Those are the ones that will go on clearance while the white, light pink, various shades of beige, and black ones are always 70 bucks. I do follow a subreddit called ABraThatFits where I can keep up with the various changes in the bra world. My current favorite bra is a sister to my old favorite style that was discontinued, and I learned this from that subreddit.

And once you find said good bra, you live in constant fear of the manufacturer discontinuing the style. I have one, got her in 3 different colors, and have been wearing her these last 3 years. I just know I will have to restart my search the next time I go shopping for bras.

I've said this before, the writers are referencing a specific influencer with Kimber's Venom and it's homemade nature. That influencer used an oil in her Snake Oil. The writers here went with a similar product that does not scream "we are making fun of Caroline Calloway" while in fact making fun of Caroline.

When I say more interesting, I do not mean change the story. Cleaning up the digressions and making the account more coherent, will also make the story more interesting. It's hard to get invested in a story that is a bunch of word salad. Because, yeah, people are trying too hard with their submissions. They don't want to throw away their shot at getting on the podcast. Cutting away the puffed up language will reveal the rhythm of the story and that is what makes something interesting.

Can the podcast not edit the submissions to make them sound better and more interesting?

What do you think Botox is short for?

It's a reference to the influencer/scam artist Caroline Calloway. One of Caroline's many scams was creating and selling her "snake oil" on Instagram complete with pictures of her filling the bottles surrounded by cat hair on her apartment floor. It's something the millennial viewers would have picked up on especially the ones who live in NYC and are active on Instagram and Twitter.

Didn't we see Charles punch Ben on the stage in full costume in last season's finale? I could have sworn that happened back then, and the missing piece is Loretta being the "she" Charles talked about.

Kimber's facial serum that she is hawking on Tik-Tok and she gave to Ben is called Venom.

There have been a few TV weddings where I just do not understand the timeline of events. Only on TV can a day last however many hours necessary for all the hijinks to happen.

Or it was always bad and Mary was stumbling through life without being able to see clearly.

I really do know a lot of couples who had less conventional courtships and have been happily married for decades. When you know you know and that can happen at any moment plus couples who are willing to make their marriage work. And the more you know yourself, the better you are at picking a partner. My comment really was in conjunction with the one I quoted about OTT social media posts about their marriage.

I find myself tamping down my inner Ouiser Boudreaux when dealing with this type of woman. "Oh he's a real gentleman. I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it."

Yep, and when you meet and marry the person in one calendar year, those odds go up even more. But, in their minds it's better to be divorced than never married at all.

I find this type of woman incredibly sad--the ones clinging to the outdated notion that being a wife (then mother) is the pinnacle of success for a woman. I'm in my early 40s, and one of my high school classmates got married for the first time last year. Her Facebook posts are cringeworthy the way she talks about her new husband. She's been a pharmacist for almost 20 years, regularly earning somewhere between $80,000-120,000 yearly in a low cost of living area. But, this new husband trumps all that she has earned--"new hubby grilled me a steak!!" for example.

The husband who knew where she was and never could bring himself to visit while also refusing to divorce her. This is one of the rom-coms where I think the couple won't make it six months. Both Melanie and Jake have established lives in their chosen communities, I fail to see where they can compromise on this. She can't grow her career in Alabama, and I can't see Jake becoming a New Yorker nor basing his art there.

I was just coming here to post that tweet. Someone in the comments mentioned that Betty White was closer to 100 without going over, so she won the Showcase Showdown.

With the way that Mabel did not flinch at the monthly rent at the place she was viewing makes me think her mysterious aunt is also helping to fund her new place. A cut from the sale of the Arconia apartment perhaps. Mabel was seeing the new place with an agent or broker, so she's talked to someone about what she can afford in the new place. No agent or broker is going to waste their time showing apartments to a client who cannot afford the lease. Though, I can buy the TV magic necessary for Mabel to qualify for a new apartment. There won't be any Mabel's income needs to be 3 or 10 or 20 times the rent happening here. I don't expect any TV show to delve deep into the minutia of renting an apartment in NYC.

I still need something else to tie Mary's personality change into the existence of George Bailey. Make the little boy who almost died due to the pharmacist's mistake be her brother or have Mary be the daughter of the pharmacist or George's brother does something to help Mary and her family as children. Just something to show why Mary grew up different because Alt. Mary has some underlying trauma with no textual basis.