Do you think one of those clicker things or a can full of pebbles would do the trick? At worst, it'd probably confuse her enough to get her to stop for a fucking second.

I love the way they both commit. I was watching this episode, and they both keep it going until they fall down.

Don't worry, the only flat white ass Australia is exporting is Iggy, and she's tall enough that you can see her coming & avoid.

Be safe, ladybug (or like dudebug, or bug of no gender affiliation, if that's your thing).

It's actually a super not-awesome idea. I lived in the Middle East where wedding guests shoot guns into the air all the time. ALL THE TIME. One of my friends was a facial oral surgeon (maxiofacial? Can't remember the term) and was treating a woman whose jaw was torn off when she got a stray bullet to the face. You…

Someone told me the same thing about headscarves. When I was living in Sudan, I tried wearing one in the privacy of my own home one afternoon, just out of curiosity. I told my friend later that I felt all my facial features grew 10x, except for my already-large nose which grew 10,000x. She said I just wasn't used to…

It sounds like none of the family got out a whole lot. It's possible he had problems all the time and they just progressively got worse, or that his parents kind of lost sight of what "normal" was. TBH the whole scene strikes me as one of extreme isolation even when the parents were alive.

TBH yes. I don't know why even a thin line of liner makes me look "overdone"/raccoon, and other girls can get all dramatic and make it look glamorous, but this is particularly striking.

I don't know if that's true, or where the lines for that are drawn. I know from experience, for example, that here in DC the police can't force someone to come into shelter, even if it's clear that they will freeze to death and die, or they are visibly deadly sick, as long as they can communicate that they don't want…

I wish those Gwyneth pictures were out last week when someone was kvetching about some celebrity's (I can't even remember who!) natural-brunette eyebrows not matching her dyed-blonde hair. I want to show them this and say: THIS! THIS IS WHY NOBODY WANTS BLONDE EYEBROWS. YOU LOOK LIKE AN ALIEN IN A WIG!

It's possible that she somehow let slip her already-developed intention to refuse treatment, but I have to base my reaction to that part of the story on what's being reported until such time as I have new information. I really do think the more important part is whether the hospital is in the right by going to these…

The mother is clearly an idiot. That being said, it seems like a lot of the situation could have been diffused by simply letting her have a second opinion. The mother would in all probability still be an idiot and counsel her daughter to refuse treatment - fine. Take action then if action needs to be taken. But 2nd…

It does seem like a very extreme and sudden jump.

That's the other thing that lends itself to the disability concern - this scheme, and most of the real-life ones I've heard of, is just so lazy and ridiculous. Barring soliciting help from a literal costume expert, I can't imagine anybody I know being able to disguise themselves well enough for me not to recognize…

Definitely blame the salmon.

While I wouldn't call any aspect of this particular case brilliant, I do agree with your general point, especially when you consider that they all get caught precisely because they overreach themselves. They could have made off with one or two million and lived super-comfortably on it for the rest of their lives.

Especially since, despite what the article says, he's not actually particularly "elderly" - he's 67 NOW, when this all started he was 57, not even retirement age.

I've read the transcription of that Letterman interview 5 times and I have absolutely no idea what she's saying. I feel like Hooked on Phonics didn't work for me or something, which is weird because generally speaking I consider myself literate.

Rrrriiight, but people from places where it's not cold aren't actually equipped to handle it? Public schools around DC for example are having 2 hour delays and some closings because you can't have students sitting around in schools with insufficient/broken heating and/or poor insulation. Like you just can't. This…

NPR was reporting that DC's mayor put the city's 'emergency cold weather' plan into action last night to help the city's homeless, but they didn't go into detail about what that entails. I know most shelters here are only open at night, I sincerely hope they're letting people stay in during the day as well.