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Quoting myself to say, for those who don't pay attention to the Recently Added TV Shows section, the replacement topic for House Hunters is now up and running.

The commercial - created by the NFL's internal ad agency to air during the Super Bowl in donated (or "donated") air time to combat the League's (well-earned) horrible reputation in dealing with domestic violence among its players - is widely reported to be based on a call described in a Reddit post, an answer to an AskReddit "What's your most unforgettable call?" question posed to dispatchers that went viral. Buzzfeed interviewed the poster, who said it happened about 10 years before his post, but Snopes notes a PSA by a Norwegian DV shelter several years earlier than the question and answer used the same "pizza call" scenario with a little less detail. So who knows?

Thanks - I'd been debating between pork chops and lamb chops, ridiculously unable to decide which sounds better (I can just make the other one tomorrow night, so I don't even know what my brain was doing that this was A Thing), and your post made me finally decide to go with the pork chops. So, they're brining, and I'll grill them and sauté some kale with red onion. The salad will be a simple red leaf lettuce and spinach with goat cheese, walnuts, and balsamic vinaigrette.

Oh, the number of those recordings I've listened to through my legal/policy work in domestic violence cases is sickening. And in some cases haunting; hearing someone's terrified screams and pleas for help is not something that just goes away, especially when those wind up being their final moments. With some of them, I've cried, thrown up, gone pale and numb, you name it. I'm a little shaky now just thinking about them, because the memories of "the worst of the worst" (for whatever reasons they registered in my brain that way) are so clear. (Which is one of the most-extreme reasons it's a difficult job these folks have - I extrapolate from how it feels to listen to after the fact to how it must feel to listen to someone get raped or murdered in real time and not be able to do anything, and it kind of blows my mind - and I tip my hat to the majority of emergency dispatch operators who do it well. But, holy crap, there are too many avoidable "mistakes".)

Oh, I remember "Little Good-byes" - great song. I love the list of things left behind. "Left the litter, but I took the cat" is great, but my hands-down favorite is "loaded up the TV in the back of my car, have fun watching the VCR." But I just looked up the video for it and, wow, that's bad. They look like they're in a junior high lip syncing contest, especially the brunette. A video showing them doing all the various things in the song could have come out quite funny, but they obviously didn't have the budget for it, since it was their debut (at least I assume/hope that's the reason for such a boring video).

Pretty much everyone's house - I swear appliances make suicide pacts. My worst was a three-fer; I once spent a weekend repairing the washing machine and refrigerator, plus replacing the garbage disposal. I am also prone to having to pause a project to fix something on a tool I'm using for the project.

And they will still remain down in Beyond TV as well? (So if I decide I don't want them mixed in with my shows in my CHP, I can just unfollow.)

Everything is expensive in Switzerland. It's a beautiful country, but to visit (or live), you have to be prepared for the expense or you'll be unpleasantly surprised - and busting your budget - quickly, as it's one of the most expensive in the world.

I posted in the Questions section; my guess is they vaulted the HH forum to replace it with a single thread topic (like this one and Renovations), but haven't yet created that replacement topic and one will pop up soon. And, as I type this, I just got a response: that is indeed the case; the topic will be created within the next 24 hours.

The House Hunters forum is missing from my CHP (and there are numerous posts in the HH International thread from others looking for it), so I figured you vaulted the forum and created a single topic thread to replace it. And, yep, it's in the vault, but there's no "this forum is read only; click here for new topic" thread like there is in other vaulted forums, and when I do a show search nothing comes up, either. Are you just in the middle of the process, and a replacement topic hasn't been created yet?

Are you migrating the Beyond TV forums we follow to the alphabetical section of our CHPs to hang out among the Show forums we follow? Today I have Commercials and Everything Else TV showing up down in the Beyond TV section where they always are, but also in the C and E categories, respectively, of the Your TV Shows section of my CHP. Are the rest of my followed forums/topics in Beyond TV going to be making the move as well, or is something funky going on with those two? (The way it had been prior to today was all Show forums/topics I follow, and only those forums/topics, were in the Your TV Shows section of my CHP, and then all the non-show forums/topics - whether I follow them or not - were down in the Beyond TV section.)

Mike Myers was a surprising TS; I didn't know which of the two it was (him or Dana Carvey), but for no one to guess either one, especially at that point the game, was unexpected. (I was so happy "Ni" - the knights who say "ni" - was an easy one in the same category.) The missed DD of third eyelid was a bit surprising, but not on that level. "Fool's Gold" and "gold mine" I figured were going to be TS, though (the latter was a pure guess for me based on the category and lyric snippets; I'm not familiar with the song itself).

Riley won't eat canned food of any kind. Only dry, which I will only let her eat a small amount of as a treat, and raw. Now, great, because I feel raw is the best diet. Except, after first liking any of it - chicken, duck, rabbit - she decided she'd only eat rabbit. After a whole year of rabbit, I thought her previously-beloved chicken would be new and exciting to her again. Nope. She still wanted the rabbit. I hate the smell of it. And, she'll eat more of the medallions (which I tear up into big bites) than she will of the bites, even though it's the same formula. She is not a big eater, at all, so I need to cater to these little quirks of hers so she gets adequate calories and nutrition. So every day, here I am, tearing up stinky food into Riley-approved bites. Talk about gross. Anyway, I've posted this before, but it has been quite some time -- when evaluating whether your cat is a healthy size, the weight is not as important as the shape. The ideal weight varies from cat to cat depending on their frame. Below is a sample chart, but basically what you're looking for is a waist when viewed from above, an abdominal "tuck" when viewed from the side, and to be able to easily feel the ribs but not see them.

Katharine Hepburn is my favorite of Cary Grant's movie partners (Bringing Up Baby and Holiday are two of my favorite films) and they do sparkle for me here as always, but Dexter was a shit husband Tracy should not have re-married, and pretty much everyone was so awful to her in the film, that I, too, am more taken by her chemistry with Jimmy Stewart. He works very well with Ruth Hussey and Cary Grant, too. I don't think I ever dislike Stewart's acting in a film, but I'm not always captivated by him. I am in The Philadelphia Story, though; he's just terrific all around in this performance. When a friend who is also a fan of the film in spite of itself calls me, she opens with, "This is the voice of doom calling," and I do the same when I call her (and then the other mutters "one of the servants has been at the sherry again"). It's quite a quotable film; I also use "I'm going crazy. I'm standing here, solidly, on my own two hands and going crazy" when things take a turn toward the surreal and "This is one of those days that the pages of history teach us are best spent lying in bed" when I'm hung over.

We did this one already. There are quite a few, for a song title so straightforward it's boring. Also: Faith Evans Heart Martina McBride Donna Summer (and probably others)

It is.

Oh my gods, I can't believe my brain did that. Ha! I'll fix it.

Mark pulling Jeannie's record was awful (but consistent with the ways in which Mark was sometimes awful despite the show propping him up as The Good Guy), but it led to the fabulous scene when Jeanie finds out what he did and tells him fine, now he's learned something about her, and she's learned something about him. It was one of the only times someone had his number. Jeanie bugs the shit out of me with her treatment of Kerry, and she's a bit of dip when it comes to men, but I love her in that moment.

At first glance, I was about to put those on my list, because I think raisins are a crime against grapes (I feel that way about dried fruit in general; I don't particularly like cooked fruit, so to take perfectly good fruit and desiccate it into a shriveled lump is a big no). But, while I won't eat them on their own, if they're in something I won't refuse to eat it without picking them out, so they're not a true "won't eat" item for me. That's how yogurt didn't make the list, either; I will never eat that on its own, but as a base with other stuff mixed in, it's fine. (Same with sour cream.) I found the list of foods interesting; most were things I'm well aware a good number of people don't like, but then there was a doozy like lettuce. I'm quite curious as to the number of people who dislike to the point of "would NOT eat" any and all types of lettuce (especially given the existence of iceberg, which barely has a taste).

In your situation, never. I think in general it's not a co-worker's place, although there certainly can be circumstances where a manager is responsible yet unaware and it's a delinquency serious enough to warrant "snitching" on the person. But where you're working, management has shown they don't much care or take action in general, so you reporting her infractions that they miss isn't actually going to lead to you having a co-worker who doesn't bungle shift change by being late. You've made a general statement by countering the one manager's "we need more people" declarations with the assertion what's really needed is better people, and that gets refuted on the spot. So telling on a specific person isn't likely to yield any result other than getting you regarded as a complaining tattle-tale. There's no upside for you even though you're in the right, basically. (And you've been there too many times, so you have my continued sympathy, and best wishes you find someplace where you are properly appreciated.) Unless they're on break, they shouldn't be chatting and eating instead of waiting on you (and if they are on break, they shouldn't be taking it on the floor), and, no, they shouldn't be doing that in the same gloves they go on to slice your order with.

Gods, yet another installment of "Better than it was, and the homeowners generally like it, but it's ho-hum and doesn't look like a designer did it." As has become my recent habit because of how boring this show has become and what else is on TV, I again only watched the reveal, and this time I didn't even give that my full attention. Bleh; this show is a shadow of its former self, which didn't shine all that brightly to begin with. The new guy's room answers the question of "What's worse than shiplap?" with "Marker-induced faux shiplap." Otherwise is it was okay, and overall it was easily improved upon, but - meh. Vern's room was more interesting, but used one pattern too many on/up against the focal wall. I know he can do better, because he's done better many times. But, again, easy to build upon. "Well, they can fix this" isn't what I should be left with episode after episode; this revival, especially this season, is all so blah, broken up by the occasional monstrosity and the even more occasional beautifully-designed room.

I know, that was always my big hang-up with its presence in that one scene, but once you said "light fixture" it clicked for me; looking at the pattern of the shade, that does indeed seem to be an odd angle showing the light that hangs down from the center of the foyer ceiling (and, because of its height, is only visible in certain shots - most of the time, we don't see it) but making it look like it's on the wall at the upper right of the door. Nothing else makes sense. This many rounds into syndication, my market has taken to skipping two-part arcs entirely, even where both episodes would air together like tonight, so no “Special Master” episodes for me - right on to season four. The first time I watched “A Rose is a Rose,” I thought the actor playing Ashley was a rare casting misstep for the show, finding her quite bad, but once Ashley was revealed as the one responsible for the murders, I realized she was lying in every scene, so in subsequent viewings I've given the actor the benefit of the doubt she's playing this young girl with her whacked-out plan as a bad liar. (I think I’m being generous.) This is not a favorite episode, because I only take a break from muttering “Shut up, Rusty” to switch to grumbling “Shut up, Buzz.” I hate the Rusty Beck, Super Journalist storyline that starts here. If Rusty really did write ten times better than anyone else in his school, then he wouldn’t have been rejected by the community college paper, would he? So shut up, Rusty, and shut up, Buzz, about how the internet means anyone can be a journalist. No, it means anyone with access can publish their thoughts, and that indeed creates an important avenue for voices left out of corporate media, but it also lets a kid who’s had five minutes of instruction on the practices and ethics of journalism decide he knows it all and is ready to go without any oversight. But I do like bringing back the music from "Jane Doe #38" when Rusty gets inspired by Alice's picture in light of Buzz’s words, and continuing that in future episodes with scenes about the hunt for Alice's identity; reinforcing the tie between this season’s episodes picking the case back up and the one that started it all last season via the score is a nice touch. And the opening scene cracks me up, when Provenza is being his usual cranky self about Nacho the victim's dog, and Nacho – until now perfectly happy in Andy’s arms - growls at Provenza when he tells Andy to hand him off and get to work. Mostly, I love the way Mary McDonnell plays Sharon, months into sleep-deprived nights worrying about both Stroh and not telling Rusty he has a protection detail. Because it’s not fresh, Sharon’s behavior shouldn’t be significantly on edge like she is in the thick of situations like “Return to Sender” or “Special Master” and it’s not; she plays it perfectly subtle, with Sharon just a bit curt and impatient in situations she’s normally unaffected by – and just plain out of fucks to give with Taylor, which is delightful - and vaguely fatigued. I laugh my ass off at Rusty telling the brother no, his mother doesn’t tell him what to do being immediately followed by Sharon striding in, ordering Rusty out, confiscating his phone, physically moving him towards the door, and finally snapping, “Out! I said out,” when he lingers. I like Sharon calmly but clearly shutting down Andy’s attempts at protecting her (it seems he joins Provenza in knowing how far out on a limb she’s gone with Taylor in insisting Julio return to Major Crimes), telling him she has been looking out for her own best interests a long time and doesn’t need him for that. For me, this is the end of the Stroh storyline, and I didn’t need that damn showdown in season six (granted, I’d be much more open to it had Sharon not needed to be dead for it to play out as Duff wanted); here, like Rusty does in “Special Master”, Sharon decides to get life back to normal rather than letting Stroh keep them held hostage while he’s off free. Bye, Stroh, you’re INTERPOL’s problem now. “Sorry I Missed You” has a bugaboo that I didn’t notice at first: In the opening scene, they make a point of how the TV footage they’re watching of the chase is delayed, while the police radio audio they’re listening to is live, and at first that’s how it plays out (which is why Rusty asks in the first place, because the radio references something they haven’t seen on screen), but then when the body flies out of the trunk on air, the police audio is concurrent with that, instead of having happened ten seconds earlier. This isn’t an error, but the attorney/father/killer has me shaking my head (in the midst of feeling sorry for him) when he’s on about how his daughter was fine until she took the anti-depressants her psychiatrist prescribed. Yes, suicidal thoughts/suicide are horrible potential side effects in young people on some of those medications, but he acts like she went from zero to sixty, when she could not have been at zero – otherwise, why would they have had her seeing a psychiatrist twice a week in the first place? My favorite moment: Sharon blindly holding out her hand for the note Morales is talking about while she looks at the wedding ring, only to snatch it back when he reveals he removed it from the victim’s stomach, is outmatched in its fabulousness only by the little circular gesture she makes when he asks if she wants it as-is or photocopied. I get a good snarky laugh out of “I guess she has a type” when the psychiatrist’s widow – who’d been his patient when she was 12 and then married him (20+ years her senior) at 24 – reveals the man she’s having an affair with is the doctor who conducted their marriage counseling and can't lose his license over this because he's so brilliant. Mike and Buzz looking at each other and mouthing “Sharon?” when Andy accidentally calls her by name instead of rank and then corrects himself is also funny, as is Sharon’s face through it all. The actor playing Janice Ward does a good job throughout; she’s very natural in the character’s frustration at being asked the same questions the next day and having her house searched, her combination of “I knew it when he didn’t come home” resignation and fresh grief at being notified of her husband’s death, her confusion at the murder-for-hire stuff, and her utter bafflement at (seemingly) being arrested for hiring her own husband to kill some doctor she’s never heard of. There’s also good stuff in this one with Julio’s reintegration after a five-month suspension, during which Oderno fit in well and did a good job (and is still being called upon). I like his conflicted feelings, and I like that Sharon continues to stand firm, not only on having him back, but in sending him out in the field right away – which even Provenza is reluctant to do in the face of Taylor’s “preference” to the contrary. And, of course, learning the full story at the root of his anger – his belief his pregnant wife’s death was something that could have been prevented had her doctor not approved her going off her meds. It’s a nice midpoint in the extensive arc of his getting his shit together storyline.

Moses jumping up and down like he's on a trampoline instead of a floor was hilarious, but he needs some training to settle down a bit overall, so it was nice to see he'd done so in his new home -- feeling secure, a little less going on around him, and he's a good boy. A seizure is scary, because you often don't find the cause, and then don't know if it will ever happen again; good on his adopter for taking that chance. I diagnosed Wooky with behavioral peeing from the beginning. Poor Dexter looked miserable, so I was happy to see him perked up on his second visit. His daddy lying on the floor kissing him was adorable. Whatever quality time the treatment gives him will be filled with tons of love. Dr. B. telling Melody to stop petting the squirrel, he needs to remain a wild animal, was cute, because you can tell they have this conversation with every squirrel. That baby squirrel going to down on the syringe of formula was adorable! I liked seeing the wildlife rehab center, and that Malia has inherited the family love for animals. Can you imagine how many kids that age would get bored waiting to see if some squirrels came out of a box, and she thought it was the greatest. Work in the Bird ICU must be exhausting. But obviously rewarding. It looks like a nice place, and I bet they'll get a few new donors with this exposure. Biggie got put back together nicely, and was another one it was very nice to see feeling better after seeing the misery in his eyes before and after surgery.

There are different ways, and it may depend on what device you're using as to which ones will produce the right result, but on my computer I still use old-school ASCII, in which é is Alt 130.