I feel like UK TV shows are different from anything the US produces in the sense of age and size representation- I watch the UK Office and think the cast looks a hell of a lot more like my actual officemates than the US Office does. Lots of British actresses (Olivia Colman, Jessica Hynes, Miranda Hart, etc.) seem to…

The Saudification of Islamic practice is a problem even in Muslim countries - I’ve lived in Sudan as well, and plenty of people opt for the regional traditional clothes (thoub), which are a lot less covering and restrictive than an abaya, and developed as a fashion naturally from the particular climate and…

They certainly look boring enough to be Brad and Janet in the beginning, but I have serious doubts that they’re going to be able to carry off the transformation they undergo throughout.

And I love you but hate your wrong opinions about the obvious greatness that was the Anna Karenina movie. :x Ah well. Differences of opinion make good horse races (as long as one of them doesn’t leap over the proscenium and fucking crush you).

There’s always some confusion in my head, because Channel Four shows things I like, like sex and violence, but BBC 4 shows things I like, like history documentaries hosted by Lucy Worsley.

“Like that gorgeous Anna Karenina movie but actually it’s a different Tolstoy epic!” Done. I’m sold. Say no more.

The single oath I ever took was to treat every pizza as a personal pizza. I’ve never backed down on that oath.

Oh c’mon, it’s kind of endearing how this person has only been alive on the internet for 2 and a half minutes, and already they’re engaging with the natives. Points for effort to them, and 7 hours of mandatory Tumblr reading to get them up to speed.

I support this theory. My mother is a registered Democrat and has voted with the party line in every election, but her personal views are getting more and more virulently conservative, propelled by her Facebook feed, filled with ex-cops, -paramedics, and -firefighters, who overlap heavily with the…

Despite his lack of aggressive mug-rattling, he’s still pulling in donations. And he’s been running a very low-cost campaign - t-shirts and town hall appearances don’t cost that much, and he hasn’t had to spend a dime on traditional media ads, because the media has been giving him all the airtime he could want for…

Congratulations on successfully identifying the joke. If you keep on like this, 2016 is going to be a banner year for you.

The best part is, he’s too arrogant to quit, and has raised more money than any GOP candidate but Cruz, so it’s going to take a while for basic economics to run its course and force him out, so he’s going to stay weirding up the candidate pool and keeping this from turning into a normal election. I doubt Trump is…

The older I get, the more I appreciate these opportunities for either disaster or adventure to enter my life. They are less frequent than they used to be, but more cherished.

I’m going to a party thrown by two college friends who got married to each other. They’re going to try and have a baby in the new year, so this may be their last opportunity to drink irresponsibly for a while. To honor that, we’re doing a power hour - we did one once in college and it was awful, but this time we’re…

I dunno, bro, I think this was well-worth the $3.62 after taxes and a moldy Triscuit.

His most-popular show is literally just “oh, that thing you make really well? I can make it better. Let me come show your whole hometown how much better I, a professional chef am than you, an amateur” which leads me to 100% believe that he was the kid who was universally hated in school, not for being smart, but for…

I’m with you. If there was anything worth finding, it’d get found anyway, and if there’s nothing to find, like there wasn’t in the last dump, they’ve still made a story out of the sneakiness.

Someone wake me if they find anything, I’m still snoozing from the last time they did this and it turns out there was nothing much there to talk about. It’s been a long nap and I’ve started to develop bed sores.

Watching this, I’m thinking if it WAS a conspiracy, everyone involved is lucky he pulled it off, and didn’t read the names in the correct order by accident.

Yes, but it’s rare enough that I even remember that Monaco exists that the number of times I remember it has a monarchy is vanishingly small.