I, and other Natives call this having to “play Indian.” We are expected to have long braids (um, some tribes used to do that, not all did), show up with fry bread (not a pre-Colombian food and I’m gluten intolerant), talk in broken English, wear moccasins, and cry when you throw your McDonald’s trash out the car window…

Right? Thandie Newton’s whole background, personality and body of dramatic work are the polar opposite of someone who’d spontaneously twerk on a table. You’d have to literally only consider skin color to cast her as such a character. (Unless Amy Pascal was hoping to get a jarringly out-of-character, Charlize-in-Monster…

Fair to say both are cautionary tales for child stars with amoral, money-grubbing parents. When your every move and word are modulated for maximum media impact (traditional and social) how long does it take before all the actual personality is replaced with some sort of instinctual internal algorithm? And what’s left…

The axe forgets but the tree remembers.

“I don't recall" is PR speak for "It happened."

those cookies are biscuits ... they call them biscuits.
(ugh, I just cannot with today’s classless unwashed hordes)

Ugh this is why representation is so bad in Hollywood. I can’t imagine what Michael Bay and his producers are like given some of the content of Transformers movies 

She’s like, “Well, you know, the character, as written, she’s been to university and is educated.”

I agree, and since Lily James seems to have found a thing with rom-coms, please let it be known that I would watch any rom-com starring those two over, and over, and over again.

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am totally shipping this Chris Evans/Lily James thing. 

The lipliner outside of her lips is driving me to distraction. 

Wonder if he’s started sweating over his pizza yet.

He’s the one I used as an example for all the covidiots I’d talk to. The ones who say it only has a .2% mortality rate (which I don’t know where they get that figure and that’s still 750K+ dead, more than the entire state of WY). I tell people even if you don’t die you can still get very ill. Even if you don’t get…

Same in UK. Failure to act straight away cost the lives of too many. Sadly, we seem to be following the U.S. 

This is the “But she still shouldn’t have been walking home alone at that hour” of condolence messages.

This is what drives me crazy about people who are confidently making statements about case or fatality rates or about how sick people can get. He was a 41 year old who was sick with an infectious disease for over three f*cking months and then he died - from something for which there is no vaccine, no cure, and no…

It’s a goddamn tragedy. Each and every death has a story behind it, a family, wives and kids and mothers and husbands and fathers and friends. Here’s one more we can put a face and a name to. Each one could have just as easily been me. Or you.

“THAT’S what happens when you don’t social distance!”

I always recommend starting with an honest evaluation of yourself. You are coming across as a little Cool Girlish, and there is the risk that your coworkers feel that you are judging them as “less than.” I mean, this:

Various friends: So, OtherNico, what fun are you getting up to this holiday?