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    S11.E10: Public Libraries

    in Last Week Tonight

    Speaking from personal experience, the minute someone bans a book, the more intriguing it becomes to readers.

    When I was a pre-teen, some older girls that were friends of our family gave us a box of books. Mom went through them, reading the back covers. After reading the synopsis of "Then Again, Maybe I Won't" by Judy Blume, she said, "Nope!" and threw it back in the box. Promptly the next day, I went to the school library to check it out. That's the only way I learned about cismale puberty.

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    S12.E08: Little Gold Man

    in American Horror Story

    On 4/19/2024 at 8:25 AM, luna1122again said:

    KK does look fantastic, no matter whatever else my feelings about her are, so whatever age she chose, she looks amazing. 

    I'm sure I'd look pretty spectacular, too, if I had her money.

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    S11.E05: Student Loans

    in Last Week Tonight

    Yep, I got the hell out of the dorms after my freshman year so I could actually study and sleep without people screaming in the halls at 3 a.m. My GPA immediately went up. Granted, again, this was 30 years ago, but yes, college costs are more than just tuition. My scholarship and loans paid for tuition, books and housing, but I also worked to have money to actually live on.

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    S11.E04: Medical Boards

    in Last Week Tonight

    Hello, fellow North Carolinian! I've all but given up on our state. I'm moving from Mecklenburg to western Cleveland County, and I know I'm going to a red county. I just can't afford to live in Charlotte-Meckenburg anymore. That's a whole other topic for another show (affordable housing).

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    S11.E05: Student Loans

    in Last Week Tonight

    I went to a state college in the mid 1990s, and it cost me $40,000. I didn't qualify for a Pell grant until my senior year because (back then, at least) financial aid doesn't allow a student to be considered independent from their parents financially until they've not been a tax deduction for TWO YEARS. What parent is not deducting their kid at 16? My parents didn't give me a dime for college, yet because of their modest incomes as a machinist and legal secretary, I qualified for zero grants.

    My federal loans were recently forgiven because I'd paid for them for over 20 years on the income-contingent plan. The relief I felt was enormous. My balance never went down by any marked amount when I paid my loans.

    It's simply insane that we have to pay so much for education.

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    Rico To The Rescue - General Discussion

    in Rico To The Rescue

    · Edited by bilgistic

    Butcher block is actually not that expensive. It's currently $149 for a 4' x 8' slab at the big-box hardware store that is my workplace's client. I work on their ads.

    I do agree about granite, though. It's not a necessity.

    I'm a child-hating shrew, so I wasn't thrilled that the aerospace engineer and stay-at-home mother with FIVE KIDS got their materials donated to them. Like, I get they got scammed by their former contractor, but they have enough money for five kids and the mom to not work. They can afford their renovations.

    I remain surprised yet not that there are this many scammy contractors just in the Denver area alone.

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    Botched - General Discussion

    in Botched

    She said the accident happened 66 years ago. She doesn't look a day over 45 at most! What an incredible spirit she has. Her kids are GORGEOUS. I got teary for her at the end of the show. She got her family pictures.🥹

    I have nothing good to say about that clown-lip person. I wish E! would stop giving these fame-seekers air time.

    I'm happy for the woman who got her breasts fixed, but good god, lady, there is so much more to life than finding a boyfriend. You'd think a divorce after 25 years of marriage would make her think twice about dating, but apparently not.

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    S15.E16: Funky Mello; Mella Pet Care; Da Vinci Eye; Fila Manila

    in Shark Tank

    As much as I love my cats, I don't get why I should spend $150 on a thermometer and scale for them. I know one's a little chonky, but she runs around constantly when she's awake. For what it's worth, our vet has been taking their temperature in their ears for years. How is the vet's thermometer different from a baby thermometer?

    There are vegan marshmallows on the market already. They are pricey and hard to find, but they exist. I'm a vegetarian, and marshmallows are one of few things I miss from my omnivore days.

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    Botched - General Discussion

    in Botched

    I just looked it up, and a couple of sites say that the patients receive a show appearance fee that they can use toward the surgery costs.

    I don't know who was creepier—the airhead chick (who gets "paid to exist"🙄) with the big breasts who wanted even bigger boobs or her much older "boyfriend".

    I have nothing nice to say about nose job guy. What a dolt.

    I got misty-eyed for the young woman who had the arm scars revision. She was so happy. I love when the docs transform someone's life in a surgery.

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    Battle on the Mountain - General Discussion

    in Battle on the Mountain

    5 hours ago, chessiegal said:

    While real estate agents aren't appraisers, I remember from my training to take my state's real estate exam to get a license, we learned that real estate agents should be able to offer an estimate on fair market value, important in determining list price.

    But I side-eye any values assigned on HGTV. They can make them anything they want.

    And down to the hundredth of a percent? Shenanigans.

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    Battle on the Mountain - General Discussion

    in Battle on the Mountain

    · Edited by bilgistic

    The measurement for winning made no sense. The real estate agents aren't appraisers, so how do they decide what value to assign the "improvements"?

    Now that this is over, I won't miss the hillbillies getting mad and throwing something at least once an episode.

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    S15.E15

    in Shark Tank

    I'll sit over here at my table for one because I was so grossed out by that dog drooling so much that its owners needed a towel to mop it up. Granted, I'm a cat lady.

    Mark said something about not understanding how healthcare investors weren't interested in the prosthetic hand since it would help people. I laughed and told my boyfriend, "That's because healthcare investors care only about money!" This is America, dammit!

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    S15.E14

    in Shark Tank

    Maybe teach your kids not to be entitled brats and you won't "need" a splash guard.

    Signed, a woman who lives beneath an asshole family with young children who overflow the tub and flood through my bathroom ceiling.

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