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I hate Jerry Seinfeld and I never thought he was funny. Now in his old bitter phase, he is even less so. I saw the trailer. Not funny again. It's a mystery to me what people ever liked.
Gods help me to avoid becoming one of those people that confuses nostalgia for my youth with thinking they were better days, societally speaking.
The good old days were rarely that. Especially not for women. I hope I won't forget that.
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I actually preferred TWOP when it came to certain shows and threads. At TWOP, mods made sure that posters were reminded that you only need to tell your opinion once and then move on when things got repetitive and argumentative.
Here, I have found that on certain shows, posters repeat their opinion over and over (and with certain posters, I always knew what was coming). And every time one dares to post a different opinion, you get the same opinion again. Yes, I know, you don't agree with me and yes, I know, I don't agree with you. Give it a rest! I never felt like ignoring anyone on TWOP but here, I had a list. Not a long one, but still.
The repetition of well-known opinions didn't happen as badly on TWOP as it did here and I didn't know how good I had it until I posted on the same show here and got so very bored and annoyed, the joy of discussing the show went out the window soon afterwards.
I appreciated the detailed and often hilariously cranky recaps, especially when rewatching an episode after reading the recap. I found they made rewatching even more of a joy with the recappers comments in mind. I loved reading them. I've never been much of a TV watcher until I discovered TWOP. I even wrote one myself once.
I don't watch so much TV anymore, maybe because I'm getting old and it's more fun to rewatch older favorites than watching new ones. Streaming has affected discussion, I'm sure.
I got wristslapped once, maybe twice on TWOP, and found it mildly unfair, but it didn't bother me.
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Sounds like the jury wasn't properly instructed. Do they have to give arguments for their ruling?
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I got into TWOP when I came across the recaps for Alias. I still miss them and others. The good ones were hilarious and worth reading IMO.
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14 hours ago, pinkandsparkly13 said:
On another note, our shop dog Foo Foo died today. She was 14/15. She showed up there in 2012, and the vet said she was 3 or 4. This picture was from last year after we got her hair cut. She's had her good and bad days this past year. But they think she might have been run over by a UPS truck today. 😐
I'm so very sorry for your loss. Foo Foo looks very friendly!
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I heard from a former colleague today. She got married and moved back to Japan over 10 years ago. That was nice.
I also got a grant on Friday that I've applied for three times.
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I'm rewatching season 5 and just finished 2001. I can't believe I never really thought about it but were they not even trying to get the ambassador back?
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How long are you going?
Shoes?
Toothpaste?
Moisturizer. Sunscreen?
Jacket?
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2 hours ago, proserpina65 said:
Neither her love for her children or her supposed oppression by the patriarchy excuses any of the horrible acts she committed or which were committed at her order.
I found her interesting up to about season 5, maybe? I often felt she was, or trying to be like her father. Without the intelligence and the ability for emotional restraint. Lancaster family over everything without actually caring for the children as people.
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6 minutes ago, PRgal said:
My current peeve is with Facebook, which has way, way, too many recommended pages and posts as of late.
I recommend trying Facebook Purity. It's a browser plugin (I don't use the app). I don't know if it works with all phones and browsers but when it does, it cuts down on quite a lot of those unnecessary recommendations.
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He's got quite an impressive list of credits over the years.
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On 4/3/2024 at 9:42 AM, Mindthinkr said:
Sadly BB has gone downhill and the hospice vet will be here later this afternoon to help him OTRB 😿🌈💔🙏🏻
I'm so sorry to hear. I hope you will soon be able to think about the good times without being too sad. You did everything a great cat parent can do.
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By keeping my processed food under control, I know how much salt (or sugar) is in my food most of the time. Unsalted butter, but putting salt on eggs, doing my own salad dressing, very few condiments, no pre-done barbecue sauces, etc. The amount of sugar and salt in those is ridiculous once you look it up.
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I just finished this in one sitting on a grey holiday. The acting was phenomenal and young Elias was heartbreaking. Being manipulated by the cult that he himself created so he could get to that point. I also really loved that it took very little to change his relationship with Polly, which made him change altogether, while he was trapped in his original scheme.
I love time travel when it's done well and I prefer loop stories, so this was wonderful. I'm not sure why only Defoe was split (or possibly Maplewood) but I don't really care all that much.
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8 hours ago, Jaded said:
I wonder if people are going to start asking Jennifer Lopez about it all even though their relationship was so long ago.
I'm sure there will be some people finding a reason to blame it all on her.😉
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2 minutes ago, RealHousewife said:
I'm not sure how many of you remember me venting about harassment at my last job, but I will begin a new one soon. I'm really excited and also like that I will be working with a lot more women. The environment will feel safer for me.
I do remember your creepy colleague. Congratulations!
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Usually municipal water is much better controlled than bottled water. So, yes, just refill. It will be cheaper too. Although I remember Toronto water being not all that tasty. At least in the neighborhoods I lived. Still, it was better than the water in Ottawa. That was nasty.
He'll still get all the microplastics from the bottle if that's what he wants.
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Since I'm a linguist by trade, I have to add a correction as the beleaguered minority. Descriptivist linguists don't think teaching grammar is useless. There is nothing I would love to see more of in schools is grammar teaching. Just not, you know, teaching kids that having prepositions at the end of a sentence is wrong and similar nonsense.
I love teaching my students that English is quite interesting in that it allows such a thing under certain circumstances. THAT is grammar teaching from a descriptivist's perspective. That formal language has certain conventions and spoken language has other conventions. That there are instances where you can leave the preposition at the end but probably wouldn't in formal writing and there are instances where you HAVE to leave it at the end, regardless of the style of writing.
Where you have to leave it: I wish I remembered where she was FROM.
Most speakers would be unlikely to say: I wish I remembered FROM where she was.
Where you cannot leave it behind: I can tell you IN what order the words go.
But not for most variants of English: I can tell you what order the words go IN.
I don't know what kind of descriptivists this person talks about, but maybe it's better to talk to a linguist instead.
There is teaching grammar as a part of human language and there is teaching the tools of grammar to write. These are very different things. And they have very little to do with the difference between prescription and description. English majors and educators tend to confuse the two. And often make students worry so much about this grammar monster, they forget that they have grammar that they use every day. Language doesn't exist without a rule system.
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2 hours ago, Morrigan2575 said:
And I still resent how they keep trying to frame this as superhero fatigue instead of audience rejecting crap products
Can't it be both? Personally, I am superhero-fatigued to the point that even when something good came along, I probably wouldn't watch it. The last one I enjoyed was most of Wanda Vision and the last Spiderman movie. But I watched a few movies since and I was utterly bored with them. And I skipped the possibly good second Spiderverse animated one. These days, whenever I see a CGI fight of some sort in any movie, I'm outta there.
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This clip tells me most of what I need to know about gendered behavior in children and how it develops. It's mostly adults who impose it at a very early age as soon as they know they're looking at a girl or a boy. You see it in small things like the stranger who will tell a mother on the street how pretty their girl baby or toddler is while they would not say that if they're told it's a boy. Even those of us who try are often trapped in our own gendered world and behavior.
It happens so early we don't even remember it happened. And as adults it's so ingrained that we barely notice doing it. We talk differently to them and we treat them differently in so many little things. Even us tomboys become aware eventually that we're not "appropriate" and change behavior to some degree. I do hope the discussion about gender continues, so the next generation of parents will have an increasing awareness.
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I've seen threads here where posters incessantly keep repeating themselves, constantly arguing against someone else's opinion even after warnings. I don't want to mention which ones but one was shut down, another was for a TV show that doesn't air anymore, so the thread itself quieted down. But I can see that some shows may be prone to that kind of behaviour. I'm guessing that it's not about voicing an opinion about the TV show but how that is voiced and possibly repeated constantly. And if it's a reality TV show, actual people get attacked in various ways, not fictional characters. That can get uncomfortable when repeated constantly. Granted, I don't watch this stuff, so I don't actually participate in those but, giving the moderators the benefit of doubt, I'm guessing that is something they want to shut down if posters can't reign it in.
Just to give a hypothetical example. There is a difference between snarking on a fictional TV character's dress sense vs snarking on a real person's weight gain.
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20 hours ago, annzeepark914 said:
I think this is another example of immigrants from countries that do not pronounce "th" trying to use an English word.
If that were true, you would find pronunciations like that around the country, not just in one town. And with other words too.
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About saying no. I'm watching a documentary on Netflix: Feminists, what were they thinking? and Jane Fonda says about all the times she said yes because she didn't know how to say no. "I've only known for 10 years that no is a complete sentence". The film is from 2018.
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17 minutes ago, shapeshifter said:
Women who have made changes for civil rights for women are often accused of being not real women
Women are still accused being not real one way or another. Having short hair, wearing this or that, no makeup, having no children, staying single.....being a lesbian probably gets you also told you're not "real", never even mind transwomen.
Any time someone accuses people of being not a real something or other, I always wonder WTF that is supposed to mean. Unless there is something like a passport documenting membership of "real group", it's an entirely pointless accusation.
And if we are still debating how wearing pants is not womanly, then we are really still debating on the level of about 100 years ago.
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Pet Peeves: Aka Things That Make You Go "Gah!"
in Everything Else
In Germany, that changed in 1958. Even though equality was in the 1949 constitution (West Germany). Still, women were only allowed to have jobs if it didn't interfere with their "marriage and parental duties" until an amendment went through in 1977 that got rid of all that. Until 1958, they weren't even allowed to have a driver's license without the permission of their husbands or father.
My parents got married in 1968. So, for 9 years, my mom would have had to ask my dad if she could get a job. I really wonder how that discussion went. She only started working part time around early 1990s, I think.
The right to vote for women: 1918.