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Also Audrey was the one who wanted them there in the first place. I guess to show she was the winning grandma. It's really only so we have a show at all that they aren't living with Mary.

I haven't seen this episode yet so maybe this is explained - but do they ever talk about whether Connor has any source of income? It always seems that he doesn't work, yet as others have pointed out his room is filled with expensive stuff. Have his parents been funding all that?

Agreed that the final year was terrible but the show really lost the plot for me a few seasons earlier. IIRC it was around the time Roseanne decided she wanted another baby but there was a lot of other soap opera type stuff going on that I had no patience for.

Well there's that Ivy League education shining through. I wonder if this will end up in a book of famous quotes by American presidents one day.

Absolutely true. My son was in high school when we lived in the UK and while definitely a nerd in some ways he was also over 6 ft tall and a rugby player. He spent a lot of his time defending his nerd friends who were not 6 ft tall and rugby players from the bullies. Anyone who thinks nerds rule the school wasn't a nerd in school.

You've made your feelings about those who have chosen an academic life very clear in this thread and I think here you are allowing your own opinion to colour your judgment of who 'the public' hates. Canada is by and large a very well educated country and I can assure you that 'the public' here does not hate professors or teachers are anyone else who has managed to achieve a degree in any discipline. Arguably, if I can speak for the public at large, we hate show offs and knowitalls who think they're better than we are. Sadly, right now that probably described most Republicans who agree with the Trumpian viewpoint whether they are academics or not.

I really like that they did this. I identified so much with the original Roseanne character. Some of my favourite moments from the original series involved her and while I'm glad the actress Roseanne wasn't able to torpedo this series the way she and her supporters may have hoped I am also glad the powers that be didn't take that out on her character.

Quoting myself to add that I never have seen nasty anti-conservative slogans on cars, clothing or houses. Nasty memes on FB? Sure. But, IME anyway, never out in public. I don't know what this says about Conservatives - or at least those who do not identify as Liberal - but it is not saying something good.

I used to live in a suburb where pick up trucks were relatively common and were never used as far I could ever tell for any reason other than commuting to the office or picking up groceries at Sobeys. Show offs who usually also had their engines tricked out to make as much noise as possible. I live in a town in a rural area now and pick ups here actually are used to pick up stuff. Sadly many of them are also used to plaster as many nasty anti-Liberal slogans as they can on their back windows and bumpers. On the plus side you know who to avoid.

I looked it up as I'd forgotten a lot of it but Cindy was also involved in a romance with a much older man. I don't know how that played out. Of course with only 6 episodes they didn't have much chance to resolve anything for any of them.

They've just announced that our Governor General will be representing Canada at the funeral of Pope Francis. Given our election is Monday that was the obvious choice. Predictably the right are moaning about disrespect. Had our PM chosen to go they'd have moaned about that too.

While it was not shocking to see how Republicans are changing their opinion of Canada it was a little disheartening to see a shift among Democrats as well. So, us standing up for ourselves makes us bad guys? Wow.

Whenever I see the word 'patriot' now I know exactly what kind of person I am dealing with. Not unlike 'heritage' and 'liberty' and to some extent 'Christian'. Words that should just be words but have been co-opted by the right.

When will it dawn on them that he doesn't need their support anymore? Unless he pulls the fast one of all fast ones he won't be standing for re-election. He's got what he wanted from them. He got his get out of jail free card, he can line his pockets, enrich his friends, go on his vengeance tour and bask in being the centre of attention for 4 years.