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Having now finished the series, my instinct is to say it's simply that the actors don't have even a single drop of that kind of chemistry, but Janet and Jason don't spark, either, so both the show's couples felt forced and maybe fault lies partially with the writers. At least with Janet and Jason; I'm still chalking Eleanor and Chidi almost entirely up to the most astonishing lack of romantic/sexual chemistry I have ever seen between a TV couple. Good thing they played so well as friends, so I did believe they loved each other. But it's okay, because ^this^ is true, and I'm glad I stuck it out. Romantic/sexual relationships were not presented as more important than friendship, or given disproportionate attention. Personal growth and the group dynamic were what mattered, and that was done very well.

I think it was fine to accept only the last names because they hadn't specified in advance that the category required both names, but I think they absolutely should have declared the category required both names and had Mayim note that when introducing it.

Fritz, like Brenda's dad and Andy, had a heart attack (and then was put on blood thinners for an arrhythmia, so that might have been A-fib, but they didn't get into it) . Sharon had the world's most rapidly progressing case of cardiomyopathy. (Presumably Fritz having a heart attack and not telling Brenda or anybody at LAPD other than Mike was going to be a storyline had the SOB spin-off come to fruition, but since it didn't, they just dropped it.)

I'll be watching football tonight, so just checked the archive. The dawn TS surprised me; even if none of them knew the book, a four-letter word that would fit as the middle segment of a trilogy, between "night" and "day", made "dawn" something I figured someone would guess. (At least "noon" fit. The one who said "twilight" obviously forgot the category.) I ran half the first round categories and only missed one each in the other three. In DJ, I did not know a single sci-fi film (no surprise, as that's not my genre, and it's a pop culture subcategory I'd have to either study or hope didn't come up if I wanted to try out for the show). But I did well otherwise - I only ran Before & After and Medical Terms, but I also only missed one each in the rest (and I can't blame any of it on the archive; seeing the painting wouldn't have helped me get pointillism - nothing would help me get pointillism other than spotting me "pointillis_", as I have never heard of it [I have significant knowledge gaps in art history, another thing I'd need to study - and, in fact, something I want to take the time to study someday]). I got FJ right, but it was a semi-educated guess; I wasn't sure I was right, but couldn't come up with anyone else who seemed to fit.

How lovely!

I wouldn't use it, either, but I'm not trying to maximize profit by selling in a couple of years. Still, plenty of flooring options that will appeal to buyers without shelling out for actual hardwood or resorting to vinyl. There are a lot of fear-mongering articles out there, since bamboo became popular, but quality bamboo flooring is very low in both formaldehyde and other VOCs. Real wood across the board is lower than engineered. With any engineered wood, the cheaper you go, the more corners the manufacturer cut to maximize profit. Nothing is "pure" since, of course, chemicals naturally occur everywhere. Here's an article from Consumer Reports about the testing they undertook after that Lumber Liquidators lawsuit. You can also consider tile that looks like wood (if that's the look you want). With your super sniffer, though, almost any new furniture and flooring is going to pose an issue, and you may have to spend more to get things made with "cleaner" materials. I'd suggest getting new stuff when you can leave the windows open.

Okay, if you're going to sell, and hardwood doesn't yield an appropriate return on investment, just ditch the carpet. If you go with engineered (a composite plywood/fiberwood [the former is better] core with a veneer), bamboo is a great option for the veneer that would likely appeal to buyers given its durability and sustainability, but without the cost of hardwood. Other hardwood alternatives include cork, or even laminate or, gulp, vinyl, as there are some attractive options these days; it's not like it used to be. If you're going to sell in just a couple of years, don't put down crap, but also don't spend a lot to get something attractive that holds up reasonably well. But do get yourself some proper furniture now, since you can take that with you to your permanent home.

I just love that there was a female country artist singing a booty call song in 1977.

As for the flooring, get what you like best among what you can afford. If you're retired, this is your first owned home, and you moved in order to live there, it sounds like you plan to stay put. In that case, resale value is irrelevant; have the home you like. As for the seating, again, get what you like best among what you can afford. If you don't sit on it because of sciatica, get what is most supportive and comfortable for you to lie on, what you most like aesthetically, and then only within those parameters what also works best for the piece of furniture visitors may sit on with you (because they can always just sit on chairs while you lie down).

Especially one who chooses to launch his singing career with an ode to rape culture (Pharrell Williams eventually reversed course and admitted the song was gross, Emily Ratajkowski has now revealed what happened in the course of filming a video she at the time described as "We took something that on paper sounded really sexist and misogynistic and made it more interesting, which is why women love that video and why it became a viral success", but did Mr. "I was quoted out of context [when I said] 'What a pleasure it is to degrade a woman. I've never gotten to do that before'" Thicke ever see the light?). It's important to note when quoting Ratajkowski's account that she goes on to say the director - notably, a woman (Diane Martel, who has corroborated the story), unlike most men who shrug it off and keep silent - yelled "What the hell are you doing?!" at Thicke, asked Ratajkowski if she was okay, and called an immediate wrap.

IMDb is always available to answer this question to a degree, giving TV and film credits; here is Gina Rivera's page. For stage, commercial, and some off-screen credits, more research is required, generally more work than a mildly curious person is interested in undertaking.

I can't say I don't like any of them, because I've never seen any of them, due to my own unpopular opinion: I don't want to, as I have almost no interest in animated programming. Even as a child, I watched far fewer cartoons and Disney movies than most, and as I got older I lost pretty much all interest in anything animated. As an adult, I've seen The Land Before Time and Finding Nemo. (Maybe a couple more, but I looked up "50 best animated movies" and hadn't seen any of them.) I didn't like either of them (why the fuck are the moms always dead?!). It's for the same reason I'm mostly not into sci-fi, epic fantasy, and such - I am not drawn (no pun intended) to things that aren't real. I read mostly non-fiction, and, while I watch a lot of fiction - alongside a lot of documentaries - it's fiction that is a dramatization of real life, not something set in an alternate world. I've tried three times to watch Star Wars and never once made it through, I have zero interest in stuff like The Lord of the Rings, I don't even care to watch Indiana Jones, etc. My action movie aversion is part of this as well; I hate movie violence - and toxic masculinity - but there's also the unrealistic nature of all the explosions and diabolical plans that turns me off. Hell, I can't even handle most movie musicals because I'm too distracted by the fact real people don't just randomly burst into choreographed song and dance. (With all that said, though -- While I only like a handful of movie musicals, I like a great deal more on stage. And, despite my issues with the exploitation, glorification, and normalization of violence, I have an odd affinity for many horror films, which is a whole other psychological analysis of what in that genre appeals to me despite its shortcomings. I'm my own little enigma.)

They were all varying degrees of disasters when they came into the shelter - one was euthanized, two were deemed unadoptable and transferred to a sanctuary, and two were put through the socialization program; five months later, Riley was still there, cowering in a box inside her cage - so, while I don't know how much time passed between the owner dying and the family bringing the cats to the shelter, I don't think they had a very good home while the owner was alive.

My point is People's usual brand of reporting makes it hard to understand what was said just from that linked article, and I don't care enough to go listen to the podcast it purports to summarize, but her own word choice, even in snippets, is suspect. See, this is a key point that a magazine, in reporting on her telling of the tale, should have included. So when she said "I" and "me" she meant herself, not her character, yet they decided to go ahead and change it to "[she]" and "[her]", as if she was speaking about her character's reactions in the first person, as actors sometimes do. So it's a shit article.

And they should snag Adele's "Hello" to promote it. Ya know, "Hello from the other side". Isn't that clever? But, no; somehow no one thought of that and I have not been subjected to it 8371 times this week. At least in the alternate reality in which I reside for the sake of my mental health. One in which I will be watching absolutely anything else on TV tonight than that fucking game.

I haven't seen the commercial, but I learned through mocking references in TV shows that lulemon (because of course there is no capital L in the brand name) is a high-priced fitness/casual clothing line.

And that's an ongoing problem in television (only made worse when the one-off director who's studied little to nothing beyond the individual script of an ongoing show is a big name); they come in, say "Play it this way," the actor explains, "No, my character does not react like that in such situations," and the director throws his - because, yes, it is almost always a him - weight around. I don't watch the show, but I finally got curious enough to read the linked article (which summarizes a podcast conversation), and, as written, this wasn't Pompeo instructing another actor on how his character should handle a conversation (usurping his and the director's collaborative artistic process); she, during one take, responded in character based on how the actor was playing his character's half of the confrontation, feeling her character would be "pissed that [she] had to sit there and listen to this apology, and he wasn't looking at [her] in the eye" -- she wasn't instructing the actor where to look, she improvised dialogue in which her character responded to his character's body language, saying, "Look at me when you apologize. Look at me." No problem at all, happens all the time, and the director can choose to use it or not. But the way the article quotes her after saying he went "ham" on her ass (thanks to those posters who explained what that means) suggests something more than that simple scenario, either from jump or how it escalated: That sounds like she said, or he took her as saying, it as an actor to the other actor, not her saying it as a character to the other character. Add in the use of "I" and "me" to often - and as this article assumed, which may or may not have been clear in the source material - refer to the character, not the actor, and it's more unclear. And then her memory of talking to his wife, the fan of the show, when she visited the set, further muddles the context: Bottom line, this is probably a big ball of nothing - like People specializes in culling from original sources and creating - but she did a terrible job of recounting what happened (at least as quoted in the article), has some iffy motives in her word choices, and People sucks. But I don't care enough to listen to the podcast to try and parse this any more. The book is Gray's Anatomy. The only things I know about the show are 1) it's called Grey's Anatomy as a pun, since the main character has the last name Grey, and 2) that dork from Can't Buy Me Love growing into a real hottie meant Patrick Dempsey's character got dubbed McDreamy.

That one doesn't do anything for me because, unlike the other commercials in the series, I'm not familiar with the reference - the only Muppets I know are those that were on Sesame Street back in my day ('70s), so the Animal in this commercial is just some random annoying puppet to me. But I think most people have more Muppet knowledge than I do, so it's probably a good ad.

My windows have retractable screens (because, even when made to be as "invisible" as possible, I don't want to look at them, plus they catch dust, so I like only having them extended when I need them), so the screens are more easily pushed out. Maddie and Baxter were fine with them, but when I adopted Riley I wasn't sure. Maddie and Bax had plenty of supervised outside time with me, and immediately came back when called if they ventured too far (I know - almost unheard of for cats, and I somehow had two of them!), and Riley seemed to have been indoor-outdoor in her previous home (I adopted her from the shelter when she was probably about six; her owner had died and the family had dumped the five cats), but she was so very scared of the unknown. So I didn't know if she'd even get curious enough in the first place to test the screen, but I was afraid of how she might panic if she did and got out. I spent many months with the windows closed (oh, my AC bill that first summer!), and then many more months only opening windows during my waking hours, just in case she - despite showing no inclination towards busting through a screen, even when a bird, squirrel, etc. was outside - might get the urge while I was sleeping. Thankfully, it all worked out. She's less interested in looking out windows than any cat I've ever had, and when she does she seems to regard the screen as an impenetrable barrier like glass. I'd have just hermetically sealed myself inside here if need be for her safety, but I'm quite glad it didn't come to that!

Absolutely. Like really does attract like, because almost all of my friends - of any gender - have cats (a few have dogs, too), and I grew up with a cat-loving man. My dad grew up with no concept of pets, since the family could barely afford to keep the humans alive, but when he fell in love with my "love me, love my cat" mom, a year into their marriage he declared they needed a second cat. So from the moment I was born I just saw loving pet ownership, not some sexist assignment of pet to gender. Whatever one's pet preference, fine, of course (e.g. I love dogs, I just don't care to live with one), but those who don't care about animals, period, and men who, rather than just not being into cats, have a cat aversion because it's not "manly" to like them are not worth my glance in their direction (same with men who claim anything isn't "manly", of course, but this is one of many common examples). How someone treats the most vulnerable members of our society says the most about them. If they are cruel, dismissive, or indifferent to animals, people experiencing poverty/homelessness, the elderly, people in low-level service jobs, etc. it doesn't much matter what good qualities they have; they are fundamentally lacking a baseline compassion.

She did not say that. When asked about it, she replied, “That’s what I hate about Facebook and the internet. They can say you said anything. I never would have said that. I’d never say that in a million years.” Several comedians have done bits on how "pussy" being used to mean weak is lame because the vagina is tougher than the penis/testicles, though - Hal Sparks, Sheng Wang, and Trevor Noah.

Not only is that my favorite, it's the only one I like. And I like it because of Zeus, and the supporting cast (especially Colleen Camp and Graham Greene). I do not like John McClane. I'm not into action movies in general, so I'm not the target audience, and thus how the original made so many people's favorite Christmas movies list is something I will never understand.

Betty should have been done with Gio after she got him his job back (she never meant for Daniel to have him fired when she was venting about him, so I understand why she wanted to rectify that). Leave him to his stupid five-year plan and never deal with his petulant, self-righteous ass again. I don't know why she ever gave him the time of day; he was an utter asshole from the word go. She asked for additional sun-dried tomatoes on HER sandwich, for which SHE paid, and he went into the first of his many diatribes about how he is a sandwich artist and knows the proper ratio. She rightly points out she's just asking for her sandwich to be made as she likes it, and he jumps to his judgmental dick self, acting like she treated him poorly by making a perfectly acceptable request in a cordial way. Then he's pissed he got fired, and is so out of line, basically saying her entire existence is wrong - she's "a Mode girl" who has betrayed her roots. All he ever does is pontificate, and mansplain her life to her. He's awful.

He says 18, but yeah, her "We'll go with that" reaction to his assumption is another reason that scene makes me laugh. I also love the beginning of the conversation, him being relieved when she says she's only dated a few people seriously, saying, "It's not that I'd mind if you slept with a lot of guys," and she cuts him off, laughing, with, "Oh, well - slept with. That's not what you asked me." The scene is a good illustration of how a lot of men react to learning the woman he's dating has had more sexual partners than he has. And then, of course, there are the men who get huffy if she's slept with the same number of people he has, or even fewer people than he has but still "too many" in his estimation, because of his sexist double standard.

A cheeseburger is the only way I like ground beef, and sloppy Joe's and loose meat sandwiches do not appeal to me. (If I had to eat one, I'd take the loose meat sandwich, because it doesn't have sauce.) And the version on the show looks, as @Snow Apple said, watery. Not juicy, not even greasy - it looks watery (in that scene where Roseanne lifts a spoonful of it up). And an unappetizing color, too. Who knows what it was actually made of, as a prop that's going to sit under studio lights, but it was ugly.