Tom Cruise and Johnny Depp... Is Universal stuck in 1996?

Well cast... if it was the 90s. None of these excite me except maybe Sofia Boutella.

One of the engineering societies at my university used to have an event called The Chunder Run. Every loop of the track you had to eat a meat pie and drink a beer. Last one to puke was the winner.

This is my nightmare. Like I have actually had nightmares about this.

It’s on TV all the time so hard to avoid and once I saw an actually funny joke on it, and now I’m even more disappointed because it seems like somewhere in the depths of the writers’ brains there lurks a legitimate sense of humour... that they suppress every day to produce this garbage.

I think you might be my nemesis.

A brand you can get in New Zealand, Libra, put facts on their liners and pads. Like on the backing that you peel off. “There are 32 muscles in a cats ear” and stuff like that.

Another opportunity to share my favourite ever headline! Working for a small city newspaper when the local council decided it really wasn’t feasible to get two pandas for the local animal park - the paper headline was:

Who else would you root for? Team “Pretentious guy who starts fights and WRITES IN YOUR BOOKS” or Team “Yeah, I’m married but I’ll totes take your v-card”?

That’s... not a river. I mean I get that you CALL it a river. But shouldn’t a river have, like, dirt. And trees?

It’s not easy! And I don’t have kids, which I imagine makes it harder to prioritize friend-making activities. The good thing about meetup is that everyone is open to meeting new people, whereas in other places people kind of already have their friends. They might be friendly, but they’re not actively looking for new…

Hi! I did this three years ago and now I have some really really good friends. The #1 thing for me? Meetup.com. It takes some time and effort, and you have to be willing to say “I’m new and looking to meet friends and you seem cool. Do you want to meet for coffee after work next week?” but it’s the best tool I found…

Based on my intimate knowledge of Gwen Stefani lyrics I believe a hollaback girl is someone who yells back at someone who yells at or gossips about them. Gwen Stefani is not a hollaback girl because she is going to beat you up behind the bleachers.

Yeah, I mean, can you imagine if they cast a white guy to play Michael Jackson?!?

Yeah, I live in Toronto. We’re the fourth most expensive housing market in North America (last I checked). 158k sounds legit affordable to me. At this point it’s like “$400,000 but it doesn’t have a roof? What a steal!”

Haha - I love this description and can think of quite a few series that fit the bill!

Sounds about right... It’s been at least eight years since I read any. And no desire to read anything else by that author at this point.

Did you read any of the Anita Blake series? It’s exactly the same issue. IIRC the first six are fun (like you say, not great, but readable) and then it turns out her “magical power” is basically enhancing/granting powers for anyone she has sex with and suddenly the whole series is just erotica dressed up as urban…

Don’t feel too bad - you know about her now!

I love Beverly Jenkins so much - I think I’ve read everything she’s written, some of it twice.