Well, and also, the producers were 100% going to get what they needed. For example, going back to the end of Victorian era in 1900, I have 16 individual direct predecessors. Some people will have even more if their family members got married and had kids young, but almost no one alive now is going to have fewer - my…

I know Czech Silesia fairly well (I lived in Prague for a while and did a lot of traveling around the country). It’s gorgeous. Even if you don’t think you could track down the exact location of your family’s farm, it’d be worth a visit. And if you could figure out where your farm was, even more so.

I think it depends on the experience as well, more than the nationality of the people involved - I remember watching the UK Manor House series where the rules had to be modified over time because they just could not keep the servants going for the duration of the experiment, particularly the women playing the scullery…

Oh, right! I forgot the circumstances under which they decided who got to live at what level each week - although, c’mon, it’s reality TV, even if it’s British reality TV. That rich family was going in the slum no matter what.

I liked the one where they got 3 different families to live at 3 different class levels for different eras each week. For one thing, during the Georgian week when the family that was extremely wealthy in real life got put in the slum accommodations (of course), I was pleasantly surprised to see how well they pulled…

The double-breasted suit is having a renaissance in reaction to the extremely slim-cut Italianate suit that’s fashionable right now. The slimmer suits look amazing on younger, slimmer men, but they’re nearly unwearable on a heftier guy. Similarly, double-breasted suits get a bad rap because smaller guys start to drown…

Oh god that coat. Until the release of the pussy-grabbing tapes, the worst thing unleashed on the minds of this nation during this election.

Nope! It just flaps sadly around your ankles and gets soggy from road slush. Badass motherfuckers in movies are usually walking away from massive explosions, whereas I’ve never done that, and that’s got to be the difference.

I’m 5'10" and slim and I can tell you it literally never looks as good on a moving person as it does on a stationary model.

That’s basically it. There’s a bunch of comments on here already about “who made Sharon Osborne and arbiter of what’s good?” and “But Kim got it bad, too!” but... where was ANY media personality of any taste level standing up publicly for Nicki when she was getting it on all sides for her picture? Specifically and…

I’ll be ready to move as soon as they put out a $20 that plays “O Canada” when you scratch Queen Elizabeth’s nose.

It’s so annoying that people can’t recognize that when they’re selecting the group of people they most want to listen to, they’re almost certainly selecting the people who are saying what they want to hear. Which is fine, right up until the point where you try to base an actual argument on that.

Not only the color, but English banknotes are also different sizes based on denomination (although there’s also pound sterling banknotes issued by a handful of Northern Irish banks and two Scottish banks, and I couldn’t find out in a quick Googling if they’re also different sizes, and although I’ve been to both places…

The only other major change in design since I’ve been alive is that they are now more or less black and white rather than green. Meanwhile everyplace else on earth I’ve ever lived (including motherfucking Sudan) has prettier money (at least, in Sudan’s case, it’s pretty until it gets passed around so much it’s…

I once had a British customer ask me (a cashier) how we told the difference between the values of our money. I was like, “Uh... the big numbers on it?” It was so inconceivable to him that there was no way to tell at a glance from any angle what value of bill you were holding that he assumed there had to be some hidden…

This is hands-down the most perfect comment to ever appear on an article dragging Gwyneth Paltrow for being precious while pretending to still be a Real Human.

Also also: That eye makeup. Yike. In fact, everything about that header photo is pretty offensive to the senses.

I’m pretty sure of it. The fact that this tape involves two NBC personalities is bad for the brand, and the fact that it came to light because one of those personalities bragged about it (meaning both that it could have remained hidden and that Bush made light of the whole thing) means that NBC now knows exactly who…

Schadenfreude may be the only emotion I’m still capable of feeling, and usually it is my very very favorite, but at this point it’s like masturbating after you’ve already come. Like, enough already, I just want to go to sleep.

Oops he fucked himself.