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It could have been a late decision to leave, especially with her resources (maybe she has a second home in driving distance but she's too lazy to transport the food, she'll just order in there). With a regular housekeeper, sure. But she uses this crap-ass service (probably because no independent worker with enough regular clients to be able to turn down her paltry shifts will ever come back a second time), has never seen Alex before, and is miffed at her. I still think it more typical she'd offer her the food in a totally patronizing way than tell her to compost it, but other than temporarily when Alex fainted, she never treated her with a shred of decency, so her primary thought being of composting rather than feeding someone/avoiding waste is perhaps not quite so out there. I don't think she's diabolical, so as to do it intentionally in order to delight in making someone who could never afford all that food toss it out, and I assume that moment between them in the nursery is meant to indicate she'll be something other than completely awful to her as the series goes on, but just so utterly thoughtless? Maybe; kinda cartoony, but I can go with it in a first episode setting up the severity of Alex's situation.

As someone who does all of it, this is completely true. In the past couple of months I have had to replace a dimmer switch, unjam the stuck flywheel in my garbage disposal, and troubleshoot which component of my refrigerators's defrost system needs to be replaced (I still need to get that part and replace it). And that's more fix-it work than is normally required in that time span, I just went through a period where more things crapped out than usual. Setting that aside and just looking at routine maintenance, the time spent on tasks stereotypically assigned to men is still far below that spent on "women's work" chores. I'm going to do this in ascending order of frequency: -Changing the oil in my car: every six or 12 months -Cleaning the AC filters: every six months (yeah, the manufacturer says three; the manufacturer can send someone over every three months then) -Washing the car: every few months -Yard maintenance (other than mowing, which I pay someone to do weekly): once a month -Mopping the floors: once a month -Grocery shopping: once a week or bi-weekly -Laundry: weekly -Vacuuming and dusting: weekly -Meal planning, preparation, and clean-up: other than the occasional order in, every fucking day. That's cooking or assembling something simple for lunch, prepping and cooking a full dinner, washing the dishes, and cleaning off the counter and stove. It is not a coincidence that list got more "feminine" as it went on. And, contrary to popular belief, the "manly" maintenance items aren't any more skilled labor or physically demanding than the "women's work" ones. The fix-it items, yes, those require additional knowledge - just as it does when I go select fabric and sew a set of curtains because I don't like what I found pre-made. I know how to do all those things because I learned how; none of this knowledge comes embedded in a chromosome. In a heterosexual partnership, if the division of labor is equitable and who does what based on skill, interest, and availability winds up looking pretty stereotypical in terms of gender, groovy. But if it's not equitable, or hews to stereotypical gender lines out of a belief women are "supposed to" do all the cooking, for example, so it's a default assumption from which you deviate only if there's a reason to, that's a problem. And that's still happening in way too many households. And in way too many jobs.

Welcome to the '90s, Dr. Pol.

Yes, it took me right back to Barbara Ehrenreich's book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. She wrote that 20 years ago (an undercover journalist, she wanted to explore what impact the draconian "reform" of our general relief program from AFDC to TANF had on the working poor), and all the same damn things are still happening. That running tally of Alex's finances is so simple yet so effective. As is the actor's line delivery when the cop hands her a ticket and she says, "I can't pay this." It's this part panic, part resignation, part gallows humor response that's pitch perfect. I only watched the first episode and part of the second, so I'm not going to read the rest of this forum until I'm finished, but I had to come here and add this to my home page because I love it, as hard as it is to watch. That food waste was another painful scene; the rich woman pats herself on the back for composting, but we're not talking about scraps that would otherwise just rot in a landfill - all that glorious, undoubtedly organic, edible food because she doesn't have to think about the cost involved in buying food you won't be home to eat and then buying more when you get home and chooses not to think about the waste of tossing an entire refrigerator full of fresh food because she'll be gone for a long weekend and doesn't want to chance anything smelling when she returns. Imagine if instead she had said, "I don't want any of this food to rot because I'm not here to eat it; help yourself to anything you'd like." It would have made absolutely no difference to her, yet a big one to Alex. I loved Alex's fantasy of just chowing down. If she'd done it, and taken more with her home to her daughter, again, it would have made ZERO difference to that homeowner, but if she'd been "caught" doing so she'd have been fired. So something as simple as the win-win of feeding a hungry child and keeping food from going to waste is merely a fantasy. I love when she has her dad stop at the dollar store so she can get a replacement doll. She's so far in the hole just from one bad night, what's more important - saving a dollar towards bills she can't accumulate enough dollars to pay anyway, or spending that dollar on something that will make her daughter happy and help distract her from their situation? I like the social worker, and the people at the DV shelter. Alex feeling like she'd be taking a spot from a victim of "real" abuse and the social worker helping her understand what she suffered was real abuse was great (I like telling her she has to call the hotline herself, Alex asking, "And tell them what?" and the SW replying, "Help"), and even better was hearing it from someone who's been there -- before they hit you, they hit near you; the next time was going to be your head, and you know it, it's why you left.

I haven't heard anything about it (I didn't even know it was about BSG, just that he got most of the BSG cast to do a project with him) other than it exists:

Because they don't appear with a fraction of the same frequency biblical clues do. And I've never seen anyone complain about the mere existence of biblical clues in a trivia competition, just as I've never seen anyone complain about the existence of opera, Shakespeare, or Constitution clues. But last season there were far more biblical clues than there typically are (in one random two-week stretch I checked, six of those ten games had religion categories, four of which were about Christianity, and there were scattered biblical clues in categories not devoted to religion as well), which is what got discussed here. It seems we're getting back to a more typical percentage of clues, so I wonder if my theory Mike Richards was behind the increase was indeed correct.

It's awful (and management wants to congratulate itself for banning headdresses and war paint <sigh>). I hate the Chiefs' name and chop/chant, but I like Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid; I don't hate the team, I just don't root for them. I'll be rooting for the NFC per usual (yes, even if it's the 49ers), but at least I won't be disgusted if it's the Bengals or Chiefs instead. I just hope for a good game.

Holy hell, what a game! This has been a terrific weekend of football! Getting rid of overrated clowns like the Cowboys and Eagles in the wildcard round gave us a divisional round of four extremely close finishes. And one that sent those asshats Brady and Rodgers packing, so I can relax and enjoy the Super Bowl, no matter who's in it.

I don't care about the Bills, but I'm going to root for them because I can't stand KC fans doing their "tomahawk chops" and chanting like they're the score to an old cowboy movie.

She was already his ex-girlfriend, but yeah, she blasted him on social media. He'd told her he had cut things off with the other woman, and then told her he was taking a guys trip for the weekend. Then he shows up on TV with that woman, and friends blow up her phone sending it to her, so she posted to social media saying she didn't need to see his lying ass anymore:

Of the 38 games he'd won coming into the one he finally lost, 32 of them were runaway wins. Of the 38 Amy has won so far, 33 were runaways.

YES! I have never seen a team try so hard to give a game away, but they managed to snatch victory in the end. The worst part of a Rams loss would have been the Tom Brady tongue bath, like he led the Bucs to a spectacular comeback, when a Bucs win would have been almost exclusively the result of Rams self immolation.

Well, there you go. Thanks a lot, assholes. The utter stupidity of the Rams in this second half is mind-boggling.

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Christ on a cracker. The Rams are going to give this game away, aren't they?

Goddammit, Rams.

A lot of couples married that long are still together out of inertia and having been indoctrinated against divorce, not because they're actively choosing to continue. That usually carries on until one of them dies, but it still happens where someone looks around and decides "I've already wasted enough time on this; whatever bit of it I have left, I'm spending it as happy as I can be."

The absolute worst was with a woman brought in by ambulance, and numerous people among the EMTs and ER staff stood right there next to her making fun of her weight. Mark eventually piped up with one of his usual weak "settle down" type admonishments, but that was it. I find it painful to watch, because there's no point to it -- we don't see her react, and we sure as hell don't see any of the assholes mocking her realize the harm caused to someone vulnerable and scared being greeted with ridicule rather than compassion. It's just played as "funny" background chatter. And even where they weren't mocking people based on their weight, they were defining them by it when it was totally irrelevant -- even little things like a teenager brought in for a head laceration getting presented as "obese 15-year-old with a head lac" matter, especially when they're part of such a clear pattern. The writers were awful to characters with mental illness, too.

Probably because he chose to brag on his podcast this week (after denying he gets more roughing the passer calls than most QBs): “I do know that they probably let me get away with a lot of unsportsmanlike conducts, you know, talking smack to the other team, talking smack to the refs when I don’t think I get the right call."

HAHAHA - Brady just got intercepted by a back-up player! (Special teams guy in on defense.)

Hey, did y'all know Tom Brady is 44 years old? They never mention it, so I just want to make sure everyone is aware.

I loved that game so much. It's most famous for Tom Coughlin's bright red frozen face, but that underdog victory was a thing of pure beauty. The G-Men holding Green Bay to less than 30 yards rushing. Favre intercepted two plays into OT. Tynes - who'd missed his previous two FG attempts - running onto the field without even waiting for the "go" from Coughlin, nailing it from 47 yards. It's his favorite kick of his career, with good reason.

Like all those awful commercials where a man is horrible at some domestic task, so the woman has to take over, and this product makes it nice and easy for her - domestic tasks are an insult to the wonderful capabilities of the male brain, so they're just not suited for it; leave that stuff to the little woman, since she knows how by virtue of being born a woman. These days we see some commercials where it's a man doing the laundry, but usually he's alone or has a male partner; we hardly ever see a heterosexual couple where he just happens to be the one doing laundry. It's not much progress to say men do laundry - but only if there isn't a woman around to do it for them.

You are not alone. She's one of my favorites.

And, dear gods, they all needed mandated sensitivity training on treating obese patients. The fat shaming this show engaged in is disgusting.