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9 hours ago, Yeah No said:
I was called a "snot nose" by a teacher and repeatedly verbally insulted by her in the second grade. I can never tell that anecdote now in a way to amuse.
But Michael started it off sounding like it was going to be amusing. He said the teacher said he couldn't go to the bathroom, and he thought, "All righty then," and let it rip. Making the teacher the butt of the anecdote. To which I say, "You go, young Michael!" But then it turned into him getting a hurtful nickname.
All in all, it was just a mess. He needed to pick a lane for that story, but I don't get the impression he's skilled anecdote teller.
I was impressed at how that comb went through his beard so easily. I assumed it was a tangled mess. I still hate it, but at least it's ruly under all that unattractiveness.
I have to say, when Lindsey trashed Mark for "selling gym memberships," I thought it was a little harsh, but then we see them at Planet Fitness, and I assume that's where Mark works. Not that I admire sharpsters who sell gym memberships, but I do think selling Planet Fitness memberships is not particularly challenging.
And I've mentioned this before, but is Mark a good "face" for a gym? He's HUGE in the shoulders, but so doughy in the middle. I know PF is all about no judgements (that's their "e" in the middle and it pisses me off every time I see it), but nothing about his physique would make me want to plunk down even small money to work to get it.
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On 3/8/2022 at 9:33 AM, MerBearHou said:
Yes, how about THAT??!! Billy Clyde is so memorable and when Christine married Matthew Cowles, I was so stunned because I couldn’t picture anyone falling for Billy Clyde, especially the amazing CB — yes, his family history is Old New York.
I learn the craziest things on these forums. This is right up there with finding out that the Sewing With Nancy lady had died -- I was reading the Battlebots forum.
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I've seen quite a few silent films with live accompaniment. One really good one was Buster Keaton's The General at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC, accompanied by the organ. Free!
I used to go to the Telluride Film Festival in the 1980s and 1990s (not free! 😀), and among my most memorable moments was seeing Lonesome accompanied by the Alloy Orchestra. Even though the Alloy Orchestra's cacophony is ideally suited for mayhem, there was just something about this Lonesome screening that really got to me, and it was a sensation among the people who were there. They even brought it back like 10 years later.
As for movie-theater-in-a-movie, I've been to London one time in my life, for maybe 4 days, pre-internet (maybe around 1990?). I was looking through the movie listings in the newspaper and saw that Michael Powell's Peeping Tom was showing. I knew nothing about it, except that people like Martin Scorsese had the highest praise for it, and it never showed on TV or anything. I couldn't believe the timing.
So I spent a day going to see it--figuring out where the Everyman Theater was, making my way on the Tube to Hampstead Heath, getting all turned around trying to walk to the theater, and getting in my seat the second it was starting, dripping with sweat even though it was winter.
So I'm watching along, and it's a horror movie. Not my cup of tea, but it's an important movie, according to important people. And imagine my surprise when in the movie, the main guy mentions the Everyman Cinema, which is right where I'm sitting. Talk about fate!
However, I can't say I loved the movie. TCM showed it a couple of years ago, and I watched it again and I still don't love it. But I've come to realize I don't love most Powell/Pressburger movies, regardless of how revered they are.
I like I Know Where I'm Going okay, but Black Narcissus is so ridiculously overwrought I can't watch it any more. I can watch The Red Shoes, but I would never make it a priority. And I've tried to watch The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp I don't know how many times, and either fall asleep or give up. Now, I've never tried to watch that one in a theater, where films generally fare much better for me. But even if it were showing in a theater, I might not even try. I'm coming to terms with my lack of ardor for The Archers, embarrassing as it might be.
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On 3/8/2022 at 9:50 AM, chocolatine said:
... and apparently doesn't know how to use the present perfect verb tense.
At least he didn't say "could of went away."
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2 hours ago, amarante said:
To physically “shepherdize” a case versus having the notations available. I remember the horror of having to physically drag 100’s of books back and forth to the carrel.
Ahem, "Shepardize." I hate, really hate, reading cases and especially statutes on a computer screen. I was a judicial law clerk out of law school, so all I was doing was legal research and writing. I happily had stacks of open books on my desk. I guess I just like to literally be able to put my hand on what I'm looking for.
3 hours ago, rhofmovalley said:I'm currently living in 450 square feet. Depending on the layout it's really not that bad.
I agree. With the advent of websites for apartment leasing, I'm able to look back at apartments I've lived in and find out the square footage. When living in them, I had no clue.
My first one out of college was 500 square feet, and the next ones over the years were around 625-650 square feet, and finally at 750 square feet--that one I lived in very happily for over 15 years. Thinking back, the 500-square-foot one was definitely smaller than all the others, but I didn't even think that until I looked at the numbers. Probably because it was very livable with two features I like--a walk-in closet and a tiny bathroom with a bathtub. And no hallway eating up square footage.
So I bristled at the HH's mother harping on and on about the space, even when thinking about "the future." Who cares? She doesn't need or even want the space and wants to live near the action. Every time the mom mentioned space, the HH should have said, "You're lucky I'm not looking at tiny houses with composting toilets." Or pointed out that yes, you get a lot more space for the money in Florida. But you have to be in Florida.
I'm glad I'm not on TV--the realtor at one point said the HOA "includes your common space maintenance, your water, snow removal and just all around keeping the building up to flow." I prefer the stupid stuff I say not to be broadcast, or preserved for posterity.
As for the HH's choice, when my sister got married in 1970, she and her husband moved into one of those row houses in Adams Morgan. I was a kid from Texas, and thought it was just the coolest thing. I found out recently that their apartment, which was one of the ground floor ones you walk down a few steps to get into and is rather dark but also gets the "yard" in the back, was infested with rats. Maybe not so cool.
After a couple of years, they were buying a house in the suburbs. My brother-in-law was a Yale graduate, Vietnam veteran who'd been assigned to the White House as one of those Marines you see on TV, and a student at Georgetown Law School, and my sister was a Vassar graduate with a job in government. They tried to get a mortgage through the VA but they wouldn't count my sister's income because she was female--it was assumed married women wouldn't stay in the job market. So they had to borrow money from his parents for a down payment so they could get a commercial mortgage.
On 3/4/2022 at 2:12 PM, pdlinda said:As I mentioned upthread I spent many years working with criminal defendants. One can only imagine how many tattoos😄I saw.
And speaking of other old-timey things, in the mid-1990s I had a friend who was a new doctor, and she would say that her ideal was having patients who had more teeth than tattoos. These days, that could be a tall order.
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9 hours ago, gingerandcloves said:
I rewatched and it does seem like he says "break a tear" but what does that even mean?
9 hours ago, ByTor said:I guess cry?
What he said rhymed with "air," so it definitely wasn't "tear" as in cry (which rhymes with "ear").
I can read lips, so I rewatched it but there's a cut exactly when he says the word. If I were a suspicious person...
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QuoteBreak a tear like cry (which doesn't sound like "chair") or break a tear like go on a rampage (like "go on a tear" which does sound like "chair")?
If we could see his mouth, it would be easy to tell if the sound was "tare" or "chair." Just look at yourself in a mirror when you say "chair" and "tare." Or "bare" or "fare" or "mare" or "dare." You can tell all of these apart, but the "ch" is particularly distinctive. And that's the one thing we can't see.
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5 hours ago, kristen111 said:
I never even heard him say the chair thing. When he did say that, why didn’t one of them call him out for that remark?
There's a photo of it upthread. They showed him saying it twice--right before a commercial and they repeated it after the commercial.
On 3/2/2022 at 8:57 PM, JenE4 said:O pronounces the L in salmon—a hard L at that: sahLman.
The cooking teacher did it, too, so I'm giving Olajuwon a pass.
I've tried, and I just can't detect the "tone" that Katina keeps saying Michael has that she finds so objectionable.
ETA: I'm tired of them putting significant information on the after show. I think it's less important for us to see a stupid scavenger hunt (that apparently took him two hours) than to hear that in the last 10 years, according to Lindsey, Mark hasn't had a relationship that lasted longer than 2 months, and that he was always a side-piece, and even proposed to a woman who had a boyfriend.
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Well, this movie's not getting any love (or hate, actually) here, so I'll just point out that I typically don't go to movies twice, but I made the trek to see this one again. I still love it.
The song at the end is "Waters of March," in a version by Art Garfunkel. I knew I'd heard it before in a movie and loved it then, too, and did some digging and found out it was in Gloria, the Chilean movie from 2013 (which was remade by the same director in an English version called Gloria Bell, starring Julianne Moore). In Gloria, the song was sung by some characters around at a party, and it was just lovely. And somehow equally effective in a very different version at the end of The Worst Person in the World.
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On 2/11/2022 at 12:15 PM, Brn2bwild said:
I'm surprised this is Kirsten Dunst's first Oscar nomination.
Oscar schmoscar. Kirsten Dunst soared above all prizes when, in a Fresh Air interview, she said, "In terms of Jesse's and my relationship..." It was thrilling.
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22 hours ago, Jeanne222 said:
I can’t remember half their names. It’s all becoming a blur.
The new girls are named Emersyn and Kylen. But you probably could have guessed that.
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2 hours ago, Gator Stud said:
Noi is telling Steve he better make $3M off the bat, if things are going to work. She doesnt say that directly, but you can do the math.
Three million dollars? A year? Right off the bat?
You're right that she doesn't say that directly, but I don't hear it indirectly, or even hear any math that would result in that.
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46 minutes ago, Browncoat said:
And no, there is no universe in which New Zealand looks like Montana,
Over the last several years, I've spent a total of 30 days in Montana, which has to be a lot more than the vast majority of moviegoers. And I never thought, "This doesn't look anything like Montana."
Or maybe I just didn't bother to notice, having gotten used to every cowboy ever hanging out in that relatively small patch of land in Monument Valley (which, if I may digress, is the ONE place I've ever been to that looked exactly, exactly, like it was supposed to).
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1 hour ago, Gator Stud said:
He isnt broke, he lives in Beverley Hills, but he would rather be broke than work in a job that he hates.
Well, he says he'd rather be broke, but he apparently hasn't actually been presented with it. I think about all these people who quit their jobs during the pandemic, but had the cushion of loosely scrutinized unemployment claims, along with generous additional pandemic unemployment benefits. It's not that hard to quit your job when you're getting paid not to work as a matter of public policy. But that generally doesn't last forever, and then it becomes a matter of needing to make money to survive, and being idealistically principled becomes a little more difficult.
1 hour ago, Gator Stud said:Why does Noi think that 3 kids are reasonable? Maybe if she only had one kid, she would not be so freaked out and annoying about Steve's choices.
Well, we want what we want. (Each word in that sentence starts with a "w" totally by accident!) I'm pretty sure she didn't keep her desire for exactly three kids a secret from the "experts," and I particularly don't think she should abandon that desire just because the guy they matched her with doesn't appear to have the type of stability she's seeking for her family. (However I do think she should abandon her desire for exactly three kids because it's dumb.)
There might be the possibility of compromise in their situation, but that would usually come from being invested enough in the other person that in order not to lose them, you (preferably both of you) compromise. I don't think any part of MAFS is an ideal format for that to happen when it comes to major beliefs or lifestyle choices.
3 hours ago, Gator Stud said:Why does Noi think that Corporate America is secure? Didnt she just hear about Steve getting laid off?
Maybe she noticed the pandemic, and thinks it had something to do with Steve's layoff. In fact, all evidence is that he had a very secure job--he didn't get laid off--until the pandemic.
3 hours ago, Gator Stud said:Noi wants to force Steve back on the Hamster Wheel but Steve has better plans that Noi is incapable of understanding.
Steve has different plans. He thinks they're better, while Noi does not. Maybe she doesn't understand them, or maybe she does understand them and has formed an opinion about them that doesn't happen to match Steve's.
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On 2/28/2022 at 8:17 AM, tv echo said:
UPDATE: Belfast did not win any SAG Awards.
Then I guess it sucked. Dumb me--I loved it.
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6 hours ago, Simon Boccanegra said:
As for the part of its being shot in New Zealand instead of Montana...I cannot bring myself to care.
I was unaware it was a documentary.
A story I read about the podcast quoted him as saying, "There’s all these allusions to homosexuality throughout the fucking movie.” Uh, yeah Sam. It's called the plot. Or story. Or maybe theme. I've never been able to get those straight. But it's an integral part of the movie.
I just hope he doesn't see The Harder They Fall, the recent western with the Black cast. It had an all-white town in it that the Black characters went to, and it was literally white. The buildings, the boardwalks, the dirt street. How dare they?!?
I guess he considers himself an expert because they filmed the masterpiece The Lifeguard on an actual beach. That is how you make art.
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3 hours ago, Ilovepie said:
I don't think it's fair to judge a person we've never seen and the only thing we know about is from Lindsey, which, consider the source.
Actually, I would consider that our job. Or at least the producers' expectation of us.
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19 hours ago, watchingtvaddict said:
But it doesn't mean Steve is a bad person.
I didn't mean to imply he was. Far be it from me--I posted upthread that I've done the work-a-while then don't-work-a-while thing myself (although I wasn't trying to find myself--I just liked it that way, so if Steve is bad, I'm worse).
But living that kind of life is incompatible with, to be honest, even having a partner unless the partner is 100% on board with it, and pretty sketchy for taking on big financial burdens like having kids.
I don't think Noi would be on board even if they weren't planning to have kids. When I was "between jobs," I actually asked a new boyfriend if he minded that I didn't have a job, and he said he didn't. But the fact that I asked the question shows that I knew it could be an issue some some people.
It's not how Noi rolls, and given her background I can see why. I do think she's being ridiculous with her insistence on exactly three kids, and that does point to a weird inflexibility, but I'm not sure she's just being "inflexible" when she's dealing with what she's likely to view as an existential threat, like Steve's lack of income.
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14 hours ago, gingerandcloves said:
I thought I read somewhere that Mark was a Beachbody sales rep, which if true, would fit it with his "inspirational" quotes.
They apparently don't inspire him to have a beachbody.
14 hours ago, gingerandcloves said:Now I believe he is employed at an actual gym as their sales manager.
That's what I think.
16 hours ago, Gator Stud said:Noi is going to have to give up her dream of Steve being chained to his cubicle 8-7.
I seriously doubt that's Noi's dream. I think she wants him to have a steady source of income that is enough to support the two of them and their three children, possibly with her staying home with the kids.
Imagine Steve had quit his corporate job five years ago and now said, "I've been doing freelance work from home since then and am making $200,000 a year." I don't think Noi would have a problem with it, because he's shown he can do it. All he's doing now is telling her he can do it, and she has no basis to believe that.
Even Steve's friend, when discussing Steve's job situation with Noi, said his company is always hiring sales engineers, and Steve could get a job there any time. He didn't say, "Steve is killing it freelancing and never needs to even consider having to work for the man ever again."
16 hours ago, Gator Stud said:If Steve can work for himself why would he work for Corporate America? I hear he has savings and doesn't need to rush back to work. Why is Noi sweating him?
Because she's planning for the future, which living on savings is the opposite of.
16 hours ago, Gator Stud said:I had a friend who quit his job tell me that he would rather be broke than work for his asshole boss.
It doesn't sound like Noi wants to be broke, so she would be an unsuitable partner for your friend. I don't think that makes her an bad person, or even an unreasonable one.
16 hours ago, Gator Stud said:Steve should probably communicate more effectively about his work situation.
What's to say he isn't? It's possible he's communicating very effectively if the facts are that he doesn't have a job, and doesn't want one right now, or even think he needs one, because he has enough savings. And if/when it becomes necessary, he'll get one, just trust him.
I don't think Noi would be comfortable with that, and it wouldn't be because of a failure of him to communicate effectively.
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15 hours ago, Jeanne222 said:
I don’t know how to start a topic for the new season but would like to follow this one.
I started an "all episodes" thread. Have at it.
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These people appear to be back.
I was watching the show and it was boring and I was actually thinking, "Maybe I'll break free" And then the New Hampshire Hillbillies showed up, and I'm afraid I'm not strong enough to resist. Is it possible for a person to have just a "touch" of Down Syndrome? He looks like it, and actually, the teen mom kind of does, too. And we have the non-moneyed teen mom moving in with the moneyed (or at least more-moneyed) teen dad's family, although the teen dad claims he will have a fulltime job and support them, current joblessness notwithstanding.
And Jenna looks like a completely different person for some reason I can't put my finger on. I thought maybe her face was just fat, but her body isn't so I don't know what's going on. I admire her commitment to breast feeding, but don't really care for planning one's life via tarot (be sure to pronounce that second "t" if you wanna be like Jenna) cards.
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18 hours ago, chocolatine said:
Our company is fully remote, so we have a "random" Slack channel for non-work related water cooler chat.
Is this considered a good thing? Do a lot of companies do it? Because I've never had any water cooler chat that I wanted broadcast to everyone in the organization.
Even "Who shot JR?" I talked about it with various people at work, but would never want my opinion broadcast to everyone. And that goes for any of my opinions.
Are people just so used to everybody knowing everything about them that they don't even notice?
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1 hour ago, LennieBriscoe said:
John Mullaney is still brilliant.
True dat. I'm glad I knew nothing about the scandal when I watched the show, because I simply enjoyed it.
Then I looked into what happened (it occurred to me during his monologue that having a baby that fast after rehab probably isn't recommended, and I was curious about that). And now I know about the scandal AND all the drama and analysis surrounding people's reaction to the scandal and long for my blissful naïveté of just a few days ago, enjoying a hilarious monologue and a guy dressed up as a monkey judge.
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On 1/31/2022 at 7:44 PM, mostlylurking said:
I FaceTime with them so they can see their grandchild
You said in a previous post, too. Do they even want to see their grandchild? It sucks if they don't, but it sucks even more if they don't and you endure what you do in order to give them something they don't even want.
For god's sake, don't just say, "Do you even appreciate that I make time for weekly Facetime sessions just so you can see your only grandchild????" Maybe just cancel one, and see how they react. See how much it takes for them to start squawking. If it's a lot, then maybe they really don't care, and I would consider that very useful information.
If they complain, then maybe you can be happy they want to see their grandchild, and grateful that technology allows them to be able to do it without flying over an ocean.
On 1/31/2022 at 3:39 PM, mostlylurking said:However, the above is a no-go. All they want to talk about in the past is what fantastic parents they were and how I wanted for nothing. So I keep conversations to the present.
No--farther in the past than that. All of our parents had lives before we came along, and maybe people are better about it now, but I don't know how my parents met, and I don't know much about what their lives were like before that. Or what my mother did while my father was in Europe fighting the war--they weren't married yet. In other words, I know about them as parents, but not as people, never mind kids.
You may not care about your parents' experiences right now, but you might in the future, and it could be too late to find out. And regardless, it's probably a safe thing to talk about, and you know what they say, people love talking about themselves, and probably love being asked about themselves even more.
On 1/31/2022 at 3:39 PM, mostlylurking said:I kind of feel like telling them that if they are going to treat this trip as some sort of huge sacrifice on their part, they shouldn’t bother. Like, don’t make yourselves into martyrs on our account.
What would be your desired outcome from saying this?
It's doubtful they'll say, "Oh, you're right. Now that you mention it, the only reason we're doing this is to look like martyrs, and that's terrible, so we'll cancel the trip." And if that were to happen, how would you feel about it? Maybe I'm wrong, but I get the feeling you wouldn't be going, "Yippee!! They're not coming!!!!!"
And if they come anyway, they're probably not going to forget this. And you might not want them to forget it, but again, to what end?
On 1/31/2022 at 3:39 PM, mostlylurking said:I also hate that I care how I will be judged by others who think they are just the best parents ever and I am just the selfish daughter who won’t give an inch. Why do I even care? And how in the world do I stop?
That's a much tougher one. But who are these "others" and how do you know what they think? One way to not care what people think is to not know what they think.
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21 hours ago, sheetmoss said:
People keep saying there was a monologue, in the Chicago airing, the show opening went from the choir to the dog food commercial.
I watched the show on over-the-air channel 5 in Chicago, and it had the monologue.
Melissa Villasenor just has that face that makes her perfect for playing the churro lady.
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The Bachelor in the Media
in The Bachelor
That's not unexpected, but still pretty low.
But mad props to Clayton for looking up the term "gaslighting." He's among the few.