I’m not even clear on how much wiggle room he had to refuse to do the spinoff. For a franchise that huge, I’d imagine they’d have locked in first-in-line rights and whatever else they had to to make sure they could do whatever they wanted with the Rock’s time and the time of any other members of their central cast.

This is the thing about The Rock that explains why you’re never going to win against The Rock - he’s not just big and lucky and dumb. He’s dedicated and works his ass off and he’s smart. He’ll put in more work, he’ll stick with it longer, and he’s overall cleverer than almost anyone else going, and the fact that he’s…

“People either like you enough to hang out with you or they don’t” is an all-or-nothing idea, no matter how you qualify it. What’s more, it’s just not true. I’m not attending my best friend’s costume party even if she paid for the drinks and the Uber, because I hate costumes, but I’ll walk to drinks at a bar with…

Should I have put the “Don’t @ me, bro, I don’t know the actual numbers” part in bold, or do people just love seeing themselves type?

This kind of all-or-nothing thinking is so weird to me. People don’t just fall into “I’d take a bullet for them” or “I don’t care if they die in a fire” categories. I can care for someone but not as much as I care about having a night in after a shitty day. I can care for someone but not enough to put together a…

She should have gobbled it as fast as possible only to lean over and vomit it into his lap.

I wish this had been posted a few days earlier! I’m having a new job/moving party at a cheap restaurant tomorrow, and a big fear of mine is how many people are going to show up. On the one hand, I already have a 5-6 person strong group that meets up for drinks twice a month at this same restaurant, and if only they…

I would kill any family member with a “hang up” about sweet potato by talking them to death. Sweet potatoes are SO good, AND they’re good for you, AND they’re easy to grow almost anywhere, so they’re an amazing food source for people in marginal areas (which is probably not your family but is an important point in how…

Victoria was only five feet tall as an adult! Eventually, she was significantly wider than she was tall, but as a young woman she was also fairly slim.

I’m not going to ever argue that what he did was okay (and already explicitly stated that I wouldn’t). I can imagine the scenario where parents would press charges against the will of their offspring, I can imagine that it happens, but I need more data on how often and to whom before I start worrying about how we…

I agree, I need to know more data before I know how to feel about this. I have the anecdata - my best friend’s fiance has a sex conviction from a relationship that was consensual but illegal and more than 15 years in the past (I wanna say 16 vs. 22? But don’t hang any argument on that, I’m not certain of it). They’ve…

You’d think that, but the fact is that any country can be a source of, a passthrough of, or a destination of trafficked people, including children, and the world is waking up to that fact. Countries you wouldn’t necessarily think of in this context (Mexico and the Carribean Islands come to mind) already regularly…

It was disappointing, but I read it as the Wheeler’s marriage is now so unfulfilling for Karen that it’s affecting her ability to be present and engaged with anyone in her family, especially since definitely Mike and perhaps Nancy as well have been acting out and pulling away in the year since Season 1. Like, that…

It’s weird to me that Steve keeps the bat that was originally in the Byers house and is modified by Jonathan.

This is the only take I like as much as my own personal one, “Fuck love triangles, give me polyamory,” and has the added benefit of being actually possible on a show that stars as many children as this one.

Right? Fully two-thirds of their children disappear for days at a time within a year of another neighborhood kid going missing and being presumed dead, and it’s just - nothing? Don’t forget that while Nancy is off spending the night at an adult male stranger’s house with a teenage boy, Mike is also away watching his…

I kind of love it. Period pieces always have to make tradeoffs between “what people really looked like” and “what people now will be willing to accept as attractive.” For proof, note that Steve Harrington is just a slightly-amped version of Joe Keery’s day-to-day style - He’s a good-looking guy who we accept as a…

For a moment I got confused between Bryan Fuller and Bryan Singer and my heart fucking sank.

Absolutely. She’s extremely polished and fun in interviews, and I keep hoping against hope that that means she is having fun, but no child should be supporting her family - the income she’s getting is hers and should be saved for her to use in the future.

As the daughter of crazy people, I salute you, but I still say you’ve gotta start ordering your own meals on your own check and then pay for yourself. I can literally feel my blood pressure rising just thinking about this situation.