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3 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:
And I think we can all agree it was a vast improvement over the wedding dress from the fake clone wedding:
I wouldn't say vast, but I do find it an improvement, yes. I dislike both veils, probably the one with a bow more because, well, it's a bow (but, then again, that cap - maybe I hate them equally). I despise the bottom of the first dress you posted, so prefer what I can see of the bottom of the second dress pictured. But I like the top of the first dress much more than that of the second.
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1 hour ago, giovannif7 said:
Variety is reporting that the entire One Day at a Time reboot cast (2017) is reuniting in October for table reads of three unfilmed Season 4 scripts, including what would have been the series finale. The episodes were never filmed due to the Covid-19 shutdown. Proceeds will benefit Norman Lear's People For The American Way foundation.
I hope this will air somewhere! If not, I may have to see if I can get tickets (but I don't see anything on the TV Academy's website, nor on PFAW's). I loved that show, far more than the original, and was sad not to have it finished.
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I think that reviewer describes her aptly here:
QuoteSeeing her interact with Cutler and with her staff, there’s no indication that she has set aside her exacting standards. Instead, she’s found a calculatedly imperfect version of herself that people like, and she’s perfected that.
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They should do a follow-up to the Breonna Taylor episode after the last of the trials is over, because they did this one so early it didn't include a lot of information -- like the fact the cops lied on the affidavit to get the warrant for her house in the first place, and then conspired to cover that up. And one thing that I'm almost certain was already known at the time but was not included other than a brief reference to her lying there was that when cops called an ambulance (after having sent it away prior to the raid, when procedure calls for it to be on stand-by) to tend to their buddy, they didn't summon any medical attention for Breonna. The coroner says she could not have been saved anyway, but she took five shots, was gasping for air, while cop sat there awake and aware with one to the thigh. That she was too gravely injured to have been saved is irrelevant to the fact that getting help for him but not her was another one of their despicable actions.
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CNN already did a multi-part documentary on her. I learned a lot, but don't anticipate sitting through another one to see what this one covers that the first one didn't. I guess they're banking on her having enough fans who'll watch her in anything. Or maybe this one she appears in, unlike the first? If so, that would be the big draw.
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7 hours ago, Mindthinkr said:
My daughter drove herself to see her physician yesterday. She has the flu, Covid, and pneumonia. I offered to go up there to take care of everyone, but she stated absolutely not. She said it would kill me (I have medical issues) and she didn’t want that on her conscience. I’m grateful that I raised a strong independent woman, but be that as it may, even she needs help occasionally.
Yeah, you cannot expose yourself to that. I'm sure there isn't anyone she feels comfortable asking that of. Is the one kid who isn't sick old enough to help?
I feel so sorry for your daughter. I once had strep throat and bronchitis at the same time, and I've never been so miserable. But all I had to take care of was myself and my cat, so I didn't need anyone to stay with me, just had my parents bring me some things. She has three illnesses, every single one of which wipe you out on their own, but can't just wallow in bed and cough because she also has three kids, two of whom are also sick, to care for.
Their POS dad should take them, or at least the two sick ones, but since he is a certified POS, we know that's not going to happen (or if he'd even take care of them if he had them in his home).
Terrible situation, and you have to worry from afar. Virtual hugs to both of you.
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8 hours ago, Suzn said:
It reminds me of this said to someone who complains too much: "you'd bitch if you were hung with a new rope".
Yeah, that's the kind of phrase with which I'm familiar for a "You're always complaining" sentiment. I'm struggling how to explain "You'd kick if you were in the water/swimming" says the same idea.
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6 hours ago, shapeshifter said:
Then again, my daughter has always been "bossy."
If we lined up every girl/woman who'd been labeled "bossy" on one side and every boy/man who'd experienced the same on the other, the female side would collapse under its own weight.
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I watched the episode about the terrible Australian wildfires, and find myself fixated on the father/daughter duo who stayed behind. The mom (who is presumably the brains of the family) evacuated with the younger kids, but dad and legally adult but seemingly still quite young woman stay behind. Okay, but then as we view the daughter's cell phone footage - because, of course, she's filming the whole thing - we learn the family dog was left behind as well. Oh, hell no. Why wasn't he shipped off with the mom and kids? Dad can certainly make his own decisions, as can barely legal daughter (although, if she was my kid, I'd have snatched her by the hair and thrown her in my vehicle), but you don't subject a pet to that!
Then at the end we learn that oldest daughter had heard her mom say Dad was bummed about having only daughters, and that when she asked her dad about it after this debacle, he said he didn't need a son because she has more balls than any man he knows. So if she wasn't a stubborn mule like him, he would be bummed? He's bummed by his other daughters? And he apparently recognized the writing on the wall and took shelter, but when she couldn't hear him yell, he just stayed there while she continued trying to fight the fire? I'm glad they survived, of course, but the family dynamic was disturbing -- Dad sucks.
I'm one of Those People, who feels terrible for the people affected by fires - especially if they're killed, of course, or displaced - and agrees that should be the primary statistic, but resents that property damage is reported as worse than the loss of pets and, especially, of wild animals. So to hear that approximately one billion wild animals lost their lives was difficult, but I'm grateful that was included.
The cranky, crazy neighbor who demanded her two sheep be evacuated with her (I'm not sure why those two were more important than the 50-some who died) and the couple farther away from the fire agreeing to accommodate that were interesting; I love that when they realized they had lived, they decided to get drunk, and remain friends.
Kudos to the woman running the camp for displaced people (and their animals) for how she handled the climate change-denying Prime Minister's photo op. I love that she always addressed him as Mr. PM, but others yelled insults based on not just this but a history of inaction when this community is under siege, and she reminisced that probably even her goat called him out.
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The episode about the misogynoir on full display after Janet Jackson's breast was made visible for 9/16 of a second was good, and gave Les Moonves just a ration of the shit he deserves. Good for putting David Letterman and Chris Rock on blast, too. After so many years, the FCC guy admitted the reaction was overblown, and Justin Timberlake apologized (that guy is such a consistent jerk, I have trouble believing he truly understands and feels remorse), but nothing can make up for the damage done to her career.
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The straws at which a couple of people were grasping to try claiming beauty pageants are feminist was hilarious, especially when one woman said they wear sashes, and so did the suffragettes.
The episode about Nate Woods got me even more angry and sad than I expected. I'm pretty familiar with his case, and with the history of the bullshit law under which he was convicted, but I wasn't prepared to be so thoroughly repulsed by Curly's daughter. I think a lot of people in her shoes would convince themselves their dad wasn't a crooked cop, but that she buys this ridiculous theory that Nate was a mastermind who planned this whole thing and lured them in the house is not something that can be excused by grief. At least Robocop's sister stepped up in the end, acknowledging Nate was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and asking for clemency.
You gotta love the police chief saying these apprehensions were done by the book, because they knew there would be public scrutiny in this case -- in other words, the norm is not to follow the law.
They did a good job letting numerous people in the community express their experiences with the cops. I particularly liked the man who said he's not happy they're dead, but plenty of people are. That they treated some people well, but everyone knows they're drug dealers, and it broke his heart when the young cop, who'd been considerate and cared about the community, got corrupted by them.
I'm glad they juxtaposed the differing perspectives of the jurors, particularly when the Black woman described Nate's comportment as being as serious as the case, saying he looked defeated because he knew his fate was sealed, and then the white guy says "he was trying to intimidate us" because he stared at the jury. And I think he was the same one who had the "OMG, really, that's what you're going to say?" reaction about Nate's "If y'all want my blood for theirs, so be it" statement. He wants this man to be contrite and remorseful about ... being in a house in which someone else shot people.
Nate's dad touched me in the beginning when he said he'd moved Nate down with him to get him away from his abusive mother, but Nate would have been better off staying because this wouldn't have happened. And at the end, when he shared Nate's last words to him, about being a free man on the other side, I cried.
I cheered Nate's sister when she had the guts to walk up to the governor and say "You killed my brother".
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9 hours ago, Mindthinkr said:
Her ex refuses to help in any way (get groceries, tote anyone to the Dr or drop off medications when his oldest needed a Rx filled).
What a piece of shit. Unless they divorced because she did something horrible to him, he should be able to interact with her on a humane level. Even if she were the only one sick he should be helping with those things because she can't take care of the kids the way she normally does right now, so he should be stepping up to make sure they have what they need. But that his children are sick, too, and he won't handle their doctor/pharmacy runs? Oh, hell no.
6 hours ago, shapeshifter said:My daughter doesn't hesitate to ask her DH for help, but often the "ask" is more of a bark. I think she's working on that.
The problem is that too many women have to ask their husbands in the first place, instead of the husbands simply functioning as grown people: Seeing a household/childcare task needs to be done, and fucking doing it. That's a shared responsibility, not hers with which he magnanimously helps.
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Beef stroganoff for dinner tonight. It's not something I normally make, but I've been cooking for my parents again while my mom recuperates from surgery and gets used to her new cancer meds, and I know they'd like it. I'm not a huge beef fan, but I love ribeye so used that and it came out really well. I'll have it over some egg noodles, with roasted broccoli as the side. The salad will just be a simple mixed greens with balsamic vinaigrette.
I also made them chicken piccata, so had a small piece of that for lunch today.
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I can't stand Katsuji, so I enjoyed Michael calling his confidence "cute". He wasn't anywhere near as bad on this as he was on Top Chef (although I strongly suspect there was more than the two juvenile "my tongue" remarks they showed), but I'm bummed he won. I don't like tongue, so didn't want either of the final dishes, but I would have loved to taste everything in the first two rounds.
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Temperatures here have hit triple digits. I had to go to the store a couple of hours ago, and had there been high humidity as well rather than a dry heat, I'd have keeled over in the parking lot. This is too damn hot! And my tomato plants look like they've been subjected to a blowtorch.
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11 hours ago, MissAlmond said:
HLN - when it was Headline News and rotated news/weather/sports/entertainment.
I miss all the things you listed, but particularly agree with this one -- I could tune in any time and quickly get up to speed on what had happened so far that day.
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I watched Kaleena's episode, and felt for her with how her nerves were clear to everyone in the first round. It was good to see her calm down after getting the lay of the land. I have no idea why she didn't use more eggplant in her final dish. She still would have lost, but would have been at least one point closer. I liked Brooke's answer to how she felt going up against her: I'm the one who taught her how to compete, and she's done a whole lot of it since the last time I saw her. It was nice to hear Kaleena say she hopes Brooke is proud of her, and to hear Brooke say she is.
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I could not decide which way Brooke and Mike were going to go, since they were having such a hard time deciding between those two egg dishes, so I wasn't terribly surprised by the tie. I like egg whites, but hate yolks, so I didn't want to eat a single thing in this entire episode, but still enjoyed it because there was a lot of creativity going on. And a lot of the dishes were visual delights, so appealed to me on that level, at least.
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1 hour ago, DanaK said:
The somewhat recent one about the deaths of racing horses was tough to watch and I'm not sure things will ever get fully fixed given the amount of money involved unless the industry crashes from their own greed
I don't know if I'll ever bring myself to watch that one. With the way the horses and jockeys are mistreated, I am completely opposed to the sport. I already know the abuses, so don't need to watch in order to learn anything, and I'll get upset about the horse deaths.
The Breonna Taylor episode is one I'm saving until I'm in the right head space, too.
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Miss You Already, with Drew Barrymore and Toni Collette. I never heard of this film when it came out, but it popped up as a recommendation; between the cast, director Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen), and billing itself as "The Beaches of 2015", I figured I had to give it a look. Given the Beaches comparison, you know what you're in for - and I appreciate they didn't bother playing coy with how it was going to end - but I didn't cry any less for knowing. It has good bits of humor, and the actors have great chemistry together (according to the IMDb trivia section, Barrymore, Collette, and their respective kids have been friends ever since).
Milly (Collette) is a PR exec, and decides to tell her kids about her cancer by creating a presentation on chemo, one of the film's great scenes; she gets them into the mindset of cheering on chemo as it does battle in Mom's body, while preparing them that it's also going to make Mom feel pretty awful sometimes. It's nice to see someone who's brash and flashy also presented as a thoughtful and warm mother. But dealing with cancer also eventually kicks the selfish parts of her personality into overdrive, which is a nice change from the noble warrior trope.
She and Jess wind up estranged for a bit because of it, and Milly reaching out to reconnect is well done. They both have husbands, generally good, loving marriages, but their bond to each other does not take a backseat; it's nice to see the foursome, and the friendship the husbands have developed with each other. The men chafe sometimes, but understand the women loved each other long before either of them came along.
Jacqueline Bissette is a nice touch as Milly's mom.
It's not spectacular, but it's solid, and I'm glad it was brought to my attention.
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8 hours ago, Browncoat said:
I saw a delightful film last night. "Thelma" is about a 93-year-old woman (played by June Squibb), who gets scammed out of $10,000, and goes on an adventure with her pal (played by Richard Roundtree in what I think was his final role) to get her money back. It was hilarious, heartwarming, and heartbreaking, and was inspired by true events. I highly recommend it!
I'm waiting for that to come to something I have, as it looks great.
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I recently discovered this series and have watched about half the episodes. They do a great job exploring the bigger issues at play in all the stories. One exception is the first Britney Spears documentary, which pretty much ignored the pervasive problems in the conservatorship process. The follow-up was better, but they could stand to do a third now that she's free, and finally get into when it's supposed to be granted, and when it actually is. Because there are still tons of people flapping their gums about "See, her dad was right" every time she does something that reveals she's a hot-ass mess. People are allowed to be hot-ass messes without losing their rights! That's not the standard.
(And with a family like that, and working in a toxic industry from the time she was a child, what was she ever destined to be other than a hot-ass mess? Add in losing her freedom for the years when she could have possibly matured, and she never stood a chance of immediately emerging as a well-adjusted member of society.)
I liked the first one, about NYC healthcare workers at the height of the pandemic. The attending who talked about having an epic meltdown and then feeling guilty about not being stronger, then worrying when her mentor committed suicide due to the same stress -- she really got to me. Along with the pulmonologist who ramped up his efforts to create photo albums, so that if he died his daughter would have plenty to look at.
The one about superspreadors of misinformation was a hard watch; like the FDA head said, it has become a leading cause of death. That lady who plans to treat her cancer recurrence with snake oil made me equal parts sad and angry. I'm glad the rest of Mercola's followers they interviewed had come to their senses.
The latest one, about the movement to get the FAA to update its policies regarding evaluation of pilots with mental illness, was another great example of using one person's story as a launching pad to explore an important issue.
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I don't like chickpeas (I pretty much hate all beans), so I only like hummus if it has plenty of other stuff flavoring it. Same with sour cream -- I hate it on its own, but if used as a base for enough strong flavors that I like, I am perfectly happy with the resulting dip.
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3 hours ago, possibilities said:
Is anyone having trouble logging in to Hulu?
Not me, I'm watching right now.
Family Ties: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
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@MindthinkrOh, good, they're not little kids. That's easier to manage. Still a difficult turn of events, with only one member of the household fully functioning right now, but not quite the nightmare I was envisioning.
Do they live in an area where farm animals are common? If so, maybe a neighbor who knows how from caring for their own could care for the chickens and pigs for a time, helping out without having to enter the House of Germs, and the son could concentrate on the patients and the inside pets in between his job and school.
I hope everything goes well with your granddaughter's ultrasound Monday, and that everyone enjoys a full recovery reasonably quickly. (I still can't wrap my mind around your daughter dealing with those three illnesses at once; that poor woman!) When I was sick as a kid, my mom always told me she wished she had a magic wand to make it just, poof, go away, and that's how I feel when my cats are sick. I know you'd give anything for that wand right now, but since it doesn't exist, just keep doing what you can safely do, like delivering food (great idea on the paper plates) and giving emotional support.
Also, this internet stranger hates your former son-in-law. May the fleas of a thousand camels infest his armpits.