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They're not living with strangers, they're going on a week-long reunion with former roommates. It would have really lost something, given the original (groundbreaking) concept, for them to have just hung out by day and retired to their own hotel rooms at night. I think it will be interesting to see how the logistics of living together for just a week are different when everyone is long used to living alone or with a partner/family, compared to when they spent a few months living as roommates back when such random cohabitation - albeit on a smaller scale - was common out of economic necessity at that age.

Yeah, America's Test Kitchen/Cook's Country has a pretty detailed plan for letting the crew make use of leftovers, both raw ingredients and prepared food (there's a big refrigerator they can "shop" in [for free], for one thing), so, while I'm not as familiar with this show to have come across its practices, I am reasonably confident - especially how many years into production they are - they find a way to, between in-house distribution and food bank donation, if not eliminate at least significantly reduce food waste.

I hand wave it as Bev having been the one to pay for it. They're really inconsistent with her finances, but she seems to be sitting on money she wants to spend/dole out on her own terms; if I go ahead and assume that, burying her daughter is the kind of thing she'd shell out for.

That kind of thing always makes me roll my eyes, but last week's episode was about how Dan can't hear the back-up beep of construction equipment on a job site, so I'll go ahead and accept that Dan wouldn't hear her, especially when he wasn't trying to listen (he was probably watching TV, but regardless, he wasn't paying attention to what was going on in the kitchen).

That was incredibly biased wording in the Armenia clue, which is particularly problematic given last year's Azerbaijani attacks. Spring training was a doozy of a TS. And I cannot believe no one guessed 13; I've never heard of the book, but ask me for an unlucky cabin, especially in a $200 clue, and I'm going to go ahead and throw 13 out there. Alaska was also surprising. English Setter was a bit surprising, too, since the clue spotted E and that it's similar to a breed with Irish in the name. Like 13, I correctly guessed the next three in Detective Fiction, but not the last one. I also missed one dog breed (cairn terrier stumped me as it did them). I ran spring, sense organs, and homophones, but I was terrible in TV kings, only correctly guessing one (King of the Hill). In DJ, I stunned myself by correctly guessing three Bible clues. I ran Latin and history, but missed one each in the other categories. I initially said bombs for FJ, but that didn't sit right, and then I thought of helicopters because, like Mike said, Sioux brought to mind Apache and Blackhawk.

Yeah, Kevin has written extensively about confronting his toxic masculinity and misogyny. He said when he was first confronted, as a student activist, by Black women about his sexist and condescending attitude, he dismissed it as ridiculous, and was one of those men who wrote it off as them being lesbians or having "issues". But he later woke up to male privilege, and how men listen to men differently than they listen to women. He committed his activism to dismantling the patriarchy as well as racism. Yet he's the first to admit it wasn't a smooth, uphill trajectory in his thoughts and behavior; he fell back into his old destructive ways sometimes. So it will be interesting to see how those changes reveal themselves in his interactions with the women in the house.

I don't remember this show nearly as well as the rest of you, but that's certainly my recollection - that Stottlemeyer was presented as a rather emotionally absent husband and father. Simply not being cruel and not cheating doesn't qualify someone as a good husband; he needs to be engaged in the family he chose to form. But he wasn't, and then when shit hit the fan he made a grand gesture. The cycle played itself out, and they were through. Or, actually, she was through; he'd have kept coasting the way they were, but she knew it wasn't right.

Poor Eric not being able to share this with everyone; nearly 30 years in the making, and then at the last minute he gets sick. When they told him they were back in the loft (I didn't know they hadn't been told that's where the reunion was going to be) and he got even more bummed about not being there, I felt bad for him. I like Heather and Kevin's talk about how, at this age, if they keep letting years go by, they may call someone's phone one day and find out they're not alive anymore. Kevin tripping out at seeing and talking to Julie's 17-year-old daughter, because it reminded him of meeting 19-year-old Julie, was moving, too. As was Kevin's reaction to Heather saying she didn't want to hear what he had to say back then, because it was too serious and she just wanted to have fun, but as the years went on she realized he was right. And Kevin regretting he didn't have the emotional maturity to have handled some of those conversations better. I really enjoyed this; these folks are my generation, and I can't imagine revisiting my early 20s in the way they're doing. I love all the comments about how clueless and obnoxious they were back then.

There is no such thing as cancel culture. It's the simple fact that actions have consequences.

1. Length. I've never colored my hair, and don't anticipate ever doing so, but I've had it many different lengths throughout my life. 2. If I can go free agent the next season, I'll take best player on a losing team. But if I'm going to be stuck, worst player on a winning team. 3. Yikes. I guess itching. (I mean, if it's constant,I'll actually take death, but we have to pick.) Both would be unbearably annoying, but constant coughing would also result in people avoiding me like the plague. And, while that has its appeal, I think it would be psychologically damaging to constantly be treated like I'm dangerously defective. And I think my cat would be more annoyed by my constant coughing than by whatever frequency of scratching I couldn't suppress.

Thanks for posting that. They're probably just going to make the first one available to try to get fans hooked enough to sign up for the streaming service. It's not going to work on me, so this will probably be the only episode I see, but I've just downloaded it so I can watch later - thank you again, as I wouldn't have thought to look for it on YouTube.

I think it's very Jackie to get all riled up about avenging a grievance nobody actually cares about. Like, if Roseanne could see that headstone, she'd probably laugh. What she'd have wanted Jackie to do was have a great zinger added to her headstone in response -- she loved having the last word.

Insert weekly grumbling about the utter stupidity of their mask use here. "Tomato, potato, she was a wonderful person." The headstone story was rather silly, but that was funny, and even better was the reveal Jackie had agreed to put Bev there when the time comes. Rushing Mark off to urgent care for a stomach ache that had lasted a whopping 60 seconds pushed me from Darlene's side of the argument to Dan's. But Mark's "instead, you gave me cramps and diarrhea" twist on "The Gift of the Magi" cracked me up, as did Darlene's murder hornet joke. Ultimately, it was a nice talk between Darlene and Mark, that they were each trying to protect the other but actually making things worse. It is a hard balance to find. Becky wanting to teach Harris not to accept disrespectful treatment from romantic partners was great, but telling her to do it by acting like the world's stupidest vandal (seriously, hitting the stone surrounding that mailbox the first time was dumb, but the next several strikes rendered them too stupid to live) was not. But it came back around, with Becky's pride in Harris having her say. Overall, though, I found this a weak episode.

I was really surprised by that, and even more so that he didn't seem to have a V8 head smack reaction when the correct answer was revealed. Pigments surprised me as a TS. Cupid, too; even though I didn't get that one, either, one of the four of us should have! I only got two in the "Whatcha Watching?" category and I could not get Tanganyika from my head to my mouth in time, but I otherwise ran the first round. In DJ, I only ran Science and Tough Talk. I was as stumped as the contestants by Browning and Cupid, plus missed another in Illustrators; not a good category for me. Like them, I didn't come up with Pope Francis (but spit out Khmer at the last second). I also joined them in not knowing Shannon Tweed (but did know D.B. Sweeney), and missed another in that category. I guessed FJ correctly based on the dates, but I wasn't sure about it (even though I've been there).

Pork loin stuffed with mushrooms, artichoke hearts, spinach, and feta cheese. I haven't yet decided on the side, but the salad will be kale based, as I love pork and greens together.

The Utah bill Paris Hilton testified in support of last month (based on the abuse she suffered at Provo Canyon School) passed today; it increases oversight of the industry and prohibits the use of certain methods and significantly limits the use of others. She said on Instagram: And in a statement to People, she said:

I am not the one to ask about social media, as I opt out of participating in almost all of it, but for what this outsider's response is worth: If you have good actual relationships with these family members, @Growsonwalls, I'd suggest not worrying about your online status with them, and just figure they're using Facebook in a way that doesn't comport with how you're using it and they don't want to expand that beyond their limited purpose by friending you. If there are other indications there's a greater relationship problem at hand, deal with that in person.

Between "groundbreaker" and the year, the Jackie Robinson TS really surprised me. I was also a bit surprised by JFK (I didn't specifically know that's where he was born, but Brookline = MA = JFK went through my head pretty quickly), Kilauea, filet-o-fish, and fudge (just because they had so much extra time). I loved the "Up" category; I enjoy those type of clues. But I got off to a horrible start in the first round, only getting two right in Guitars (tuning and neck). Thankfully, the only other one I missed was Van Buren. In DJ, though, I didn't run a single category. I joined the contestants in being stumped by Philip II, and also missed another one in that category (the sci-fi author I didn't write down). Like them, I was stumped by Navoo, and missed another one in colonies, too (Singapore). I missed one each all the rest. But I got FJ after some thought.

For me, it's just that I wouldn't think of it. I'm used to parked cars facing in rather than out, regardless of how they got there. So just like I don't back into spaces, it wouldn't occur to me to pull forward into one so that I'd wind up parked "backward". It's not that I have something against parking that way, I just don't have anything against backing out of a spot, which is what I'm used to, so I never think of avoiding it.

I distinctly remember sneaking in to see that with a friend (we weren't old enough to see R-rated movies in the theater), but don't much remember the movie itself. Other than, yeah, it was a mess. I can't believe they made a sequel! I'm drawing a blank on the truly terrible movies I've seen (maybe I've repressed the memories). Oh, there was one of those torture porn movies I foolishly watched during a free weekend of something on cable. I had to go look it up by its cast, and it was Hostel: Part II. That's the product of a sick mind, and I say that as a horror fan. Bijou Phillips was in it, which reminds me of another terrible film she was in - Bully. (Appropriate, I guess, since she was apparently a horrible bully on both sets.) It's based on a true story, but just goes for shock value at every turn; since it's horribly written, acted, and directed, it fails.

Making a salad for lunch (mixed greens with shrimp, avocado, feta, candied walnuts, and balsamic vinaigrette), I realized I can just get away with waiting until tomorrow to grocery shop, so for dinner I'll use up the last of the produce: halibut tacos with red and green cabbage and a tomatillo salsa, and a salad with the rest of the mixed greens and jalapeño ranch dressing.

Ooh, the CU commentary is getting really good. First, there's this about Sam Hunt: Then there's every word all three said about the Shania Twain ranking (too long to quote here, but do go give it a read). And some great snark about the Jana Kramer inclusion; an artist I've never heard of, and it certainly doesn't sound like I'm missing anything. This section of ten is an infuriating collection of songs that don't belong here at all and songs that are grossly underrated. I threw a fit when I learned Patsy Cline's "She's Got You" is not on the list, and now to see that Loretta Lynn's cover of it is? WTF, Sirius? "White Lighting" is, I think, the only George Jones classic I don't like. But I like the Randy Travis, Waylon Jennings, and Shania Twain entries, and absolutely love John Anderson's "Straight Tequila Night" - by far my favorite song of his, and when it comes up on my iPod, I play it multiple times before letting the shuffle continue.

That is indeed right up my alley - with either mango or papaya, and I have both on my shopping list for today's produce run, so I will definitely be making that salad in the next few days. I'll probably start with papaya, just because I've had mango fairly frequently lately. Thanks for the recipe, @annzeepark914.

I'd have to look up statistics to see how common it is nationwide, but I'd say about half the people I know have a dedicated guest room. But, at least half of those who do are people with children grown and out of the house - what is now the guest room was for many years a kid's bedroom. I did not grow up with a guest room; my parents have a three-bedroom house and the third was used as an office, but also had a sofa bed. When family came to visit, they got my room and I slept on the sofa bed. Same with when my grandpa needed to stay with us for a month to recuperate from bypass surgery. Now my old room is a guest room (in which my mom slept for years while my dad's snoring was out of this world). And I've never had a dedicated guest room, I've just always stuck a twin bed in my home office. It is made to look more like a couch, and then if someone who shouldn't be driving home wants to crash here for a night, they can take that stuff off and sleep in it (not stay in my office for a week's visit; that's what hotels are for). I wouldn't even turn a third bedroom into a guest room if I had one. Maybe if I regularly had people staying with me, but, because I don't, I wouldn't have a room sit unused 95% of the time.

If you have hair in your vagina, you need to see a doctor ASAP. (Referring to the vulva as the vagina is one of my peeves. I also get annoyed by "down there".)