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22 hours ago, CrazyInAlabama said:
No garage.
I noticed that neither of the two decoy houses in Phoenix had a garage, or even a carport, but it wasn't mentioned in the episode at all. I normally hate the look of houses with converted garages because you can always tell they're converted garages, especially when they leave the driveway there, but both of these bordered on unobjectionable for me--especially the first one. I actually had to look twice to confirm there wasn't a carport or garage.
Too bad it's in Phoenix, where I think the lack of a garage or carport might be a deal-breaker for me unless I was going to be there only in the winter.
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Written and directed by Ryan, from The Office.
The movie is a fish-out-of-water story, but takes digs at the fish himself, in addition to Texans. I know a thing or two about West Texans, and their portrayal didn't bug me in the least.
The movie is also a commentary on current times, and actually made me do some thinking afterward and I fear the only way we're going to start coexisting with each other again is in the metaverse. Surprisingly deep thinking after a fun movie with some real laugh-out-loud moments for me.
BTW, Ashton Kutcher is excellent in this.
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12 hours ago, Hedgehog2022 said:
I had to spend two days there a few years ago due to flight cancellations because of a hurricane on the East Coast. We drove around and tried to find something, anything to do or look at and the only thing we thought looked kind of cool was the campus of the University of New Mexico.
People like to do the tramway ride.
In the UNM area, the streets are named after minerals(?), and if you're 20 years old and sufficiently stoned while driving around, it is HILARIOUS to refer to Lead Street as "pee-bee."
But other than that, it really is a grubby place.
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6 hours ago, BAForever said:
Was in Sante Fe recently. Beautiful landscaping was all over the place. Albuquerque isn't too far and should share the climate.
Santa Fe is at about 7,000 feet elevation, while Albuquerque is at 5,000 feet. The rule of thumb is a decrease of 3 degrees for each increase of 1,000 feet of elevation (I learned this from people who climb 14-ers in Colorado, so they can predict how cold it'll be at the top).
8 hours ago, CrazyInAlabama said:A friend of mine called the Southwest, E.T. country, for everything tan.
I have a friend who's always referred to Albuquerque as "Bedrock." I think it's a singularly unattractive place, as were the houses they looked at.
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8 hours ago, Andyourlittledog2 said:
She just has to officially file it as full custody against Xaveon (?)
It's X'Zayveon. Sadly, it's missing the K that would make it a perfect name.
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On 8/1/2022 at 9:52 AM, Charlie Baker said:
There was a tech goof on TCM's end--the short started immediately after the fade out of Raw Deal, then after it we get Eddie's outro telling us to stay tuned for the short.
They need to talk to whoever's manning the switches at TCM these days. In addition to this, on Sunday night's TCM Imports, they played Alicia Malone's introduction to Chronicle of a Summer before and after the movie.
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15 hours ago, answerphone said:
Who was placed the the police wagon during the last scenes in Paris?
I'm notoriously bad at plot points, but I remember that it was the trash magnate, against whom the workers were striking. The police wagon scene was part of the depiction of his downfall, including his inability to pay for the dress that his mean wife chose just because it was the one Mrs. Harris wanted and insisting on exclusivity. The nonpayment prompted Dior to either repossess it from or not provide it to the mean lady, which made it available to someone else.
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On 7/24/2022 at 11:14 AM, Mrs. Hanson said:
I really need people to weigh in on mother Patrick.
Since you asked...I thought I'd inadvertently tuned in to the Drew Carey Show.
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2 hours ago, Starlight925 said:
I also remember watching little "Rudy" on Cosby, when it originally aired too. I'm absolutely loving her as the host of this show, and I hope that she either stays with us here or that we can see her on other shows. She's awesome.
Unless your drinking game word is "okay," in which case she's deadly.
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You know how that young client of Mrs. Harris's came over distraught because her dress was ruined and she needed something to wear to the big event? Something occurred to me: She told Mrs. Harris she always gets her out of jams, but in a general "you fix everything" sort of way. But did she know Mrs. Harris had bought a Dior dress? In retrospect, it seems a little fishy that the client had two dresses, and one was ruined (I can't remember how) and the other was at the cleaners.
Or is this one of those "Duh" moments that seem to get past me all too frequently. 😀
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44 minutes ago, mythoughtis said:
It’s my understanding that they sign a contract that says if they get divorced by a certain date, they can’t touch their spouse’s assets etc.
I'm guessing that's the best they can do, because a pre-nup requires full disclosure of each person's financial information, and as we learned last season with Steve and Noi, they definitely don't do that.
2 hours ago, Jeanne222 said:I hope Lindy and Miguel can work out her money problems. Did the experts know about this???? She likes studying rather then working.
I'm not sure what you mean. A person has to have a DPT in order get licensed as a physical therapist, so it's not like she was choosing studying over working when getting it. I got the impression she has fashioned a work life that allows her to either not work fulltime, or work fulltime and take periods of time off, in order to have time to play. I'd normally have no problem with that, except it seems incompatible with a lot of debt.
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On 7/17/2022 at 2:39 PM, kiddo82 said:
Saw this today and it was super adorable and earnest with just the right amount of bite to keep it from becoming overly saccharine.
I completely agree. Marcel was funny, too. I loved the way Dean would laugh at Marcel's observations.
Marcel throwing up in the car was hilarious. And his song at the end had me crying.
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On 7/25/2022 at 10:29 AM, Mercolleen said:
ETA: Did Alexis just say that she had a designer vagina?
Maybe it was on the after-show, but I remember her saying that in her efforts to love her body, she made a mold of her vagina, and had a friend help her, maybe? Yikes.
I'm not sure how that would make it a designer vagina, but maybe there's some new terminology in the vagina acceptance world I'm not completely familiar with. And would prefer to remain so.
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This is a charming little French romp, with beautiful scenery. I normally at most chuckle at movies, but the two scenes of Patrick the donkey braying in this one were so expertly handled I was unable to stop laughing out loud.
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I wonder what kind of toilets led to the theories about poo particles flying around. Residential toilets seem pretty gentle to me when they flush, but some of the ones in office buildings flush with real gusto, especially the tankless kinds.
Besides, doesn't everyone know that all stomach upset definitively comes from whatever restaurant someone's reviewing on Yelp, within mere minutes of being there?
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On 7/20/2022 at 7:49 PM, Elizzikra said:
For Heaven's sake, can't any of these people Google "how to tie a bowtie???"
I noticed that the stylist they called in was looking down after every bow-tying move, which I'm guessing was either instructions or a video on her phone.
On 7/20/2022 at 8:23 PM, mythoughtis said:Lindy has already said she left that religion behind. She seems to be a person that believes in G*d but not worried about church. Obviously not all her family has the same belief.
And on the after-show, Miguel said she had warned him that her family is super-religious, so he wasn't blind-sided by her brother's questions.
I guess Miguel was busy thinking about other things, but a better answer would have been, "I'm planning for Lindy and me to deal with personal matters on our own." (Yeah, I can dream. No doubt it would actually have been, "I'm planning for Lindy and I to deal with personal matters on our own.")
On 7/20/2022 at 8:43 PM, Elizzikra said:Me too. I thought he was very sweet and thoughtful with his response to her awkwardness at the first dance.
In an earlier episode, Lindy mentioned having one-night stands, in contrast to her sheltered upbringing. She obviously navigated that, but didn't think to ask someone (even a girlfriend) for a couple of tips on doing a wedding sway-back-and-forth dance?
On 7/20/2022 at 8:56 PM, Kiss my mutt said:Lol at Miguel’s friends singing “Business Time” from Flight of the Conchords!
I didn't catch that. I would have noticed my favorite, Too Many Dicks on the Dance Floor, though.
On 7/20/2022 at 11:02 PM, Retired at last said:I am disappointed that the language used by both men and women is requiring so much bleeping.
I have a foul mouth, so I rather like it. But even I was shocked to notice that Mitch and maybe other grooms were dropping F-bombs in their first private conversation with their bride. I prefer to read a room a little before letting them fly.
On 7/21/2022 at 8:30 AM, Shauna said:More surprising is that she's a doctor?
As others have pointed out, she's a DPT, which is the qualifying degree to be a physical therapist. What got me was that at the wedding, she said something like "I married a doctor," about someone with a PhD in science. You'd think she of all people would know the difference between a doctor and someone with a doctorate.
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Just to add...I just looked at the reviews on Metacritic and was shocked to see that Rex Reed's review was scored as a 100, because he and I are reliably on completely opposite ends of the movie-rating scale. It actually kind of scared me enough to think, "Rex Reed loved it? Did I get this that wrong??"
I don't recommend reading his review in deciding whether to see the movie because it's spoiler-y, but I'll put this part out there:
QuoteVersatile and fearless, I applauded her Oscar-nominated turn as the villainous sister of Daniel Day Lewis who poisoned him with mushrooms in The Phantom Thread...
First of all, I like Rex calling himself "versatile and fearless." Grammar matters, y'all. But even I know it wasn't the villainous sister who did the poisoning in The Phantom Thread, and I'm terrible at remembering plots. What a hack. But he got this right:
QuoteNothing wrong with a movie in today’s troubled winter of discontent that exists solely for the purpose of creating joy and good will, and Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris spreads them around like butter.
But the movie isn't all sunshine and roses (although that flower market scene made me swoon almost as much as the Dior showing); there were two unexpectedly heart-breaking moments for me, such that I was thinking, "The movie better not end like this." And it does indeed have a happy ending.
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On 7/20/2022 at 10:11 AM, aghst said:
She had a thing about old and dirty or like chipped areas of the shower and sinks.
What got me was her objection to the toilet room that had no sink because she'd have to walk a few feet into the kitchen before washing her hands. Does she drag her hands along every surface on her way, like people do along the clothes on racks in department stores?
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If the trailer makes the movie look remotely like your cup of tea, then go see it. It's just as lovely as it looks.
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On 7/18/2022 at 3:23 PM, SuprSuprElevated said:
Often, non-competes are required in return for compensation (bonuses, etc), though I'm sure that isn't always the case.
I'm pretty sure it wasn't the case at Jimmy John's:
QuoteThe Jimmy John’s agreement prohibited employees during their employment and for two years afterward from working at any other business that sells “submarine, hero-type, deli-style, pita, and/or wrapped or rolled sandwiches” within 2 miles of any Jimmy John’s shop in the United States, according to Madigan’s lawsuit. An agreement in effect from 2007 to 2012 extended that to 3 miles.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-jimmyjohns-settlement-idUSKBN13W2JA
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I'm happy to report that the it is expanding to more theaters each week, kind of rolling out the release.
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Genius premise.
It's scheduled as a Fathom event on two nights in September, but I'm hoping it will roll out to regular screenings.
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12 hours ago, ByaNose said:
Also, why do parents allow their kids to have purple hair? Just because they want it doesn’t make it right.
I don't think it's that different from experimenting with makeup, or glasses, or a haircut. At least it's temporary (unlike a tattoo) and not nauseating (unlike a facial piercing). I've also noticed purple hair being popular among women of a certain age.
12 hours ago, ByaNose said:Give me sunshine and a pool all year long and I’d be a happy camper.
That sunshine's not quite so wonderful when it's 110 degrees. But if I had to pick between being in Phoenix when it's 110 degrees and Palm Springs when it's 110 degrees, I'd take Palm Springs mainly because of the way it looks. Except electricity is waaaaay more expensive in California, so winning the lottery is a sound plan.
Mid-century modern is by far my favorite architecture, even before I knew what it was called. I think I've mentioned before that Mr. Outlier and I once did a 20-mile slow roll on our bikes all around the Palm Springs neighborhoods where the MCM houses are concentrated. It was heaven, except a little artificial because it was pretty obvious that many of them were Air BnBs, where they make an effort to make it look like it's "supposed" to.
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6 hours ago, amarante said:
In California you can't have more than one shower fixture able to operate at the same time. You can have multiple fixtures but they can't work at the same time.
That's not quite right. Each showerhead in California is limited to 1.8 gallons per minute (gpm). If you have one showerhead in a shower, it is limited to 1.8 gpm. If you have multiple showerheads servicing a shower, you have two choices: (1) limit the total combined flow among all showerheads to 1.8 gpm, or (2) design the shower to allow only one showerhead to operate at a time.
Perhaps it could be argued that nobody would want to split the 1.8 gpm total between two (or more) showerheads, but it is allowed.
2 hours ago, amarante said:I don't think most people have showers that large in their bathrooms so I think it is more for communal types of bathrooms where you have multiple shower heads along a wall like in a gym or barracks.
Those are called "gang showers" (!) in the California Plumbing Code, defined as two or more showers in a common area.
In the Plumbing Code, there aren't any specific provisions or exceptions relating to showerheads in gang showers (but there are other provisions, like for gutters and mixing valves, so it's not like they were inadvertently left out). The "six feet" rule you mentioned actually does apply to residential showers only, but it's not actually in the Code, and because of where it is, it's not actually a rule.
There's an Appendix L in the Plumbing Code, called "Sustainable Practices," which says right below the title, "The provisions contained in this appendix are not mandatory unless specifically adopted by a state agency, or referenced in the adopting ordinance." So presumably anything in the appendix that is required has been adopted into the Code itself. Appendix L is where the "six feet" rule appears, in a section addressing multiple showerheads.
That "six feet" rule is actually 1800 square inches--Appendix L provides that if you have a shower compartment with more than 1800 square inches, you can double the total amount of flow you're allowed, and it doesn't dictate that the showerheads have to be any particular distance from each other. And it provides an exception for gang showers "in nonresidential occupancies," which are allowed to have a total flow per "showering position," so the 1800 square inches rule is obviously meant for residential showers and not gang showeres.
However, the 1800 square inches rule doesn't appear anywhere that I could find in the Plumbing Code, which means it doesn't apply at all. If that's the case, then no residential shower compartment can have more than a total of 1.8 gallons per minute of water flow, regardless of how big the shower compartment is.
But I'll tell you--if you're just reading the California Plumbing Code, it's not at all apparent that none of the appendices are part of the actual law. I did find portions of the Plumbing Code that referenced an appendix, which indicates that if any of the provisions of Appendix L (such as the 1800 square inches rule) are intended to be mandatory, the Code itself either would have a reference to that provision in the appendix or have the language in the appendix included directly in the Code.
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I Love My Dad (2022)
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I gotta hand it to Patton Oswalt: He played a (surprisingly) dark character in Big Fan, but that's nothing compared to this. There was a trailer for a George Clooney and Julia Roberts movie before this, and I have no problem with them cashing a big paycheck for playing affable people and will probably go see it, but at the same time, I appreciate someone like Patton Oswalt, who's willing to play such a despicable character.