StatisticalOutlier

Me neither. I found her unbearably loud, and the way she laughed at her own jokes is annoying. If she were the permanent host I'd never watch the show again.

The basketball player on Weekend Update? I couldn't get over how much he looks like Pete Davidson. The looks, plus the way he reads his cue cards and the way he pauses before answering questions.

I love running across factlets like this.

Was it this? Jesus loves the little children. All the children of the world. Red and yellow, black and white, They are precious in his sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world. I remember it from the 1960s in Texas. Given that, I doubt it was an anthem for inclusivity. Probably more like Jesus loves them so you don't need to. I'm on the fence about Orion. I have little patience for people who get butt-hurt over all sorts of stuff that I don't think should bother them, so I tend to think "just get over it, man." But then everybody says people are entitled to their feelings, and if he was horribly hurt, then that's how he was, and who am I to judge? What I do know that even if he's horribly wrong by some objective standard, I detested Keshia's bullying him on the after party. I really felt sorry for him having to sit there and take it from her, and from Emily.

That happened to me when I was watching an episode of HH International once. It's a gas. What was her job? She said something about going back to being a doula, and I thought, "That make sense." But I (obviously) don't know if that was her only career.

Didn't they say he's on tour though? Several years ago he was on the show and was breathtakingly handsome. Like it made me gasp. Then a couple of years ago he grew the beard, which was nicely groomed, and even with it he was still more handsome than pretty much anybody else on the planet, but not quite as perfect. But close, so I gave him a pass. But the scruffy is getting close to a bridge too far. I kind of have to look for the perfection, when it used to be unavoidable. I think of him kind of how I think of Cary Grant--no beard, thank you.

Except he didn't know that until dinner at this fantasy suite date. He just knew she did something with "stocks."

That couch was more cramped than usual, for no reason because there was room at the other end. I don't know if Boy George just didn't know he could/should move down more. I was feeling vicarious suffocation watching Greta Lee being smushed. Then I watched the episode with Schwarzenegger (out of order) and it was such a relief; I felt like I could breathe. I'm sad that Jack Whitehall is going scruffy because a few years ago he was on and he looked like a matinee idol. He's still good looking, but I don't swoon like I did.

But will the HH be a landlord to her roommate? Do roommates have different rights if one of them happens to own the property, or is the one on the lease? There was no kitchen in the lower level, so I'm assuming they'll be what most of us think of as roommates, plus at the end, she referred to this person who will be moving in as a roommate (although along the way, somebody used the word renter). What I found odd is that she's apparently from Burlington, since her parents live there, too, but she met the girl who was on the episode with her on a website for finding friends. I guess we do everything online these days.

I'm the opposite. I wish they'd have an officiant do the ceremony on the spot. There's a photo of Leslie's infant son on a piano bench in Prince's studio. Doesn't prove they'd dated in the past, but there's no way I could get a picture of my infant son on Prince's piano bench, so there's got to be some connection. I was shocked. He had only the vaguest notion of what she currently does for a living, and she's in the final two?

She complained that the pattern on the sleeves of his rash guard didn't match the pattern of his shorts. What would she prefer? A matching rash guard and shorts? Most men don't do that, and if one did insist on an "outfit," it probably wouldn't be for standing around trying not to fall in the water. Then again, when I was about Clare's age I was at a baseball game and a friend showed up wearing something like plaid shorts and a striped shirt. (Much worse than what Cameron had on.) I made a joke about his interesting fashion choice, and he said, "It covers my nakedness." That told me! Fast forward a few decades and when I go windsurfing, all of us look decidedly worse than Cameron, with random stuff on the top and bottom, and a big hat. Or in my case, a rash guard on top, tights on my legs, AND a shortie wetsuit over all of it. Oh, and SOCKS with my water shoes to keep the sun off my ankles and the mud out of my shoes. But not even I would wear a crocheted top for a water activity, Clare. No way. Get her off the aftershow, too. I watch it just because they sometimes drop an interesting nugget or two, but this episode was too much. I wanted to throttle Keshia when she was confronting Orion about the conversation. She asked him if he felt any differently now than he did then, and he said no. Not acceptable, Orion. So Keshia proceeded to bitch at him, saying Lauren had given him grace and understanding and she therefore deserved it in return. She said it wasn't done in malice (but didn't mention the unsettling (to me) guffaw Lauren let out when she said she was looking at his face when the word came up). Orion said how much the word affects him, how he was having his own internal battles about how to handle the situation, and that they sent the crew away and he went and sat alone for 2-1/2 hours thinking about it, trying to find a way to give Lauren grace. Keshia interrupts him and talks about how Lauren knows about being marginalized, and she does empathize. (She's quite the mindreader, that Keshia.) Orion finally said he doesn't hold it against her and then the drunk girl says no, you absolutely do hold it against her and you showed her absolutely no empathy. Then fucking Keshia starts in again, saying she feels like he was really shut down and so seated in his feelings about being offended that he no longer connected to Lauren's olive branch. So much for the "party" part of "after party." And for those who wondered, Clint was there as an experienced contestant. I guess under the theory that those who can't, teach? To borrow a word from Orion, Clare certainly showed some ignorance in arriving at her judgments. She told Cameron she was surprised at his balance on his first paddleboarding foray. He's an accomplished mountainbiker, FFS. Riding through and over rocks or jumping over obstacles, and riding on an inches-wide sliver of flat trail cut into the side of a mountain. I'm shocked, shocked that he would have good balance. Plus he has a master's in mechanical engineering and is using that to do work that he enjoys. Work that is highly prized by people who spend thousands on their bikes. His website mentions how many grams of weight a typical repair will add to a bike. Grams. And as I mentioned in another thread, Mr. Outlier is an avid mountainbiker and when I was telling him about Cameron, he said he'd heard there was a guy in Denver who can fix broken carbon frames. Maybe Cameron is the biggest jerk in the world, but his job? Lots of people would kill to have a good and demanding education AND use it to build a bespoke business related to their favorite activity, with customers who appreciate their work and come with open wallets.

I thought it's because the overhead bin will get taken, but you make valid points. I've just never been down with "I am a strong independent woman," and oh, if you're a man and we get to a door at the same time, you'd better open it for me or you're a boor. The other day I went through a door behind a few 20-something-looking guys, and the last one before me just kind of propped the door a little as he finished going through, like the guys before him did for the other guys. It gave me a little hope that in 70 years we're not going to have 90-year-old men insisting on holding a door open for women who are MUCH more capable of handling the door than they are. [Moved the rest to the right discussion. Duh.]

I thought it was just her lips sliding up over those giant teeth and getting so much momentum they push her nose up.

I don't watch the show any more but there was an episode celebrating their first jobs and a description said something about Sunny's Nacogdoches cherry limeade so I had to tune in. Yep, Sonic. I have to say the picture of her on her first day of work in her uniform was cute. And apparently she skated. Impressive. And yep, their much vaunted cherry limeade is just Sprite with some cherry syrup and half a lime. But MAN did it make me want to go get a cherry limeade, even though I've been pissed at Sonic for years because I was looking at my receipt once and saw a "misc" charge for 10 cents or something. I know, ten cents, who cares. But it's the principle.

I realized while I was watching and enjoying this that I'm a sucker for stories where people of different stripes are thrown together. Even though they were there for only a little bit, I was quite interested in the two little boys, who were thrown in with the three older ones--just the dynamics of how everybody navigates that situation. And the matter-of-factness of how the father of one of the older boys was some muckety muck with Pratt & Whitney--I'm a sucker for boarding school movies, too. But of course the main story is Angus, Paul, and Mary, and it was one of those cases where I want to hang out with those people, sitting on the couch while watching The Newlywed game. But they had me at the opening credits--those popping sounds might be my favorite sound on the planet.

Another case of "gentleman"--on the TV news last night, there was a story about a January 6 rioter, and when the cops were coming to his house to arrest him he ran away and there's now a manhunt for him. An official said, "They are determined to detain this gentleman tonight."

I was confused by the Paris episode. The son lives in San Francisco but the map with the arrow showed it going from Irvine to Paris. So his mother was living in Irvine? What was she living in there? Also, I just now watched the horses in Spain episode, and I was SO distracted by the realtor's beard thing. Okay, so I'm an oldster, and not part of the porn generation, and my exposure to women's naked bodies is limited to the post-water aerobics women at the Y. So I'm very much not up to date on current pubic hair styles, but I've heard of some and use my imagination, and that's exactly what the lower part of this guy's chin hair looks like. And if you add in the upper part, it looked like a uterus.

If you like Lily Gladstone, I highly recommend Certain Women. She'll break your heart. (But I feel like I should issue a warning that it's a Kelly Reichardt movie.)

It happens too spontaneously for that to be the case. Like when people are being interviewed on TV after some sort of incident.

I didn't read the book, so I'm not sure what the facts are. But it seemed to me that the audience was being allowed to infer that Priscilla had something going on with the karate teacher, from the way she interacted with him in the scene with him and some of her friends. Good description. A very stylish series of vignettes, though.

Variety got its hands on some emails that Lisa Marie sent to Sofia Coppola a few weeks before production started. Lisa Marie read an early version of the script and was not pleased. Pretty juicy article, and I'm assuming accurate, since Coppola was asked for comment and her representative quoted from Coppola's reply to the emails. https://variety.com/2023/film/news/lisa-marie-presley-slammed-sofia-coppola-priscilla-script-1235777982/

I didn't like him at all. He had a previous show on Comedy Central and I watched it a lot because I kept thinking I should like it, but I just didn't. But if he IS going to be the new host, I hope like hell they give him a pencil with an eraser on both ends instead of a pen, so maybe it won't make so much racket when he keeps tapping it on the desk.

Today, on the radio I heard Jacky Rosen (Jewish senator who's been threatened) say, "The antisemitic threats issued against me by this gentleman..." Gentleman?? People do this all the time and I just don't get it. Why go out of your way to use "gentleman" in a context like this, when the perfectly serviceable (and actually far more appropriate) "man" and "person" or even "individual" (if you want a long, smarter-sounding word) are available? Plus she pronounced antisemitic as antisemetic, which I bitched about upthread. She hit two hot buttons in the course of just a few words.

This looks like it's right up my alley. I think I'm going to love the cook. I can never keep Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Alexander Payne straight. Fortunately, I like all three so I just go without trying to figure out exactly who directed it.

I'm working from memory here, but I remember on an earlier episode Orion mentioned being raised in a matriarchy and I thought, Oh that's good--he gets it. But then when he mentioned being raised in a matriarchy to Lauren's father, it was in the context of not wanting to be bossed around. Heh. I thought it had to do with her recent appendectomy, which was also the reason she didn't want a dress that was tight on her torso.