My roommate was once robbed at knife-point. Her boyfriend (who was elsewhere when it happened) decided that the appropriate reaction was going out and pulling a knife on some random dude because he thought dude was the one who did it, as dude fit the description (skinny white boy; so, about 70% of the boys in our…

Random take: I liked Proof! I saw it on a bus though, so that increases my estimation of a movie by 1,000%. When the other option is “stare at cars go by next to you” and you grew up with ONLY the “cars go by” option, I’m totally in for pretty much any movie. I also loved that Shia LeBeouf golf movie on the bus, too.

Adding to that: These allegations *were* made. We all knew about them long before his death.

Not a single person who is insisiting “HE DIDN’T SAY ANYTHING” must never have been bullied or witnessed bullying happening to their friends, then, for ANY reason (racial or otherwise). As a teacher, all you have to do is take one look at that still and know that bullying is happening.

So, you’re all about digging into/doxxing Nathan Phillips, the man who, if anything, was a victim, and if not, more of a bystander?

Methinks you don’t have much experience with bullies. So good for you? As a teacher, that expression/posture set off ALL of the bully alarm bells. If he and Phillips were kids at my school, I’d have sent Sandmann on an errand, walked Phillips to his destination, then brought the situation up at the next meeting as…

YUP. Here’s what I see as the sequence of events here:

Different people get hit differently. I have acid reflux, so I can have literally ONE cider and feel ill and sick for the next 24 hours (cider on its own is hard to handle; the alcohol makes it pretty much impossible for me, BUT I LOVE IT so I keep trying every few years).

Aww I’m go glad you got the help you needed, from someone with a just-right name =)

I was in an ER waiting room once at 3am and the only other person was a lady there checking herself in because she was suicidal. She was REALLY into making jokes about it.

My students started quoting his “horse in a hospital” bit to me the other day, and it just really made my day. 

Exactly! I can’t think of...any other actress working to day that hasn’t done romantic comedies. Even the big “actor” names (Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep) have done the genre.

True! I should have revised “trying for” and changed it to “pushed into,” because I bet she wasn’t exactly swimming in other offers.

I say this as a teacher: Since fucking WHEN has being a teacher been modern and untraditional? Just because of her position as not-even-first-lady?

Ah, another film about deeply unlikable people. I wish that, if someone was going to disassemble tropes, they’d find a way to make it about people who deserve happiness in some way. The implication here is if you’re likable, you get a romantic comedy with a happy ending, and if you’re not, you don’t end up with anyone.

I think her roles haven’t been right for her, really. She gives off a “take no shit” vibe, and I’ve only really seen her have good chemistry with Seth Rogen, who balanced her intensity a little. That she kept trying for the romantic roles seems to be the issue to me, from an acting standpoint (if we’re ignoring the…

Yeah, I feel like it’s just a Heigel rom-com with an easy-to-remember title. I *just read* the title of the terrible one she did with Gerard Butler, and I cannot remember it (“Opposites Attract”?)

It was actually Ackerman’s character that I hated. I think the comparison to Sense and Sensibility is apt, but Maryanne in S+S wasn’t unlikable- she was impulsive and young and lovable in her own way and fell for a duplicitous guy; it made sense that Elinor was on her side, even when Maryanne wasn’t at her best.

It’s all reminding me of the time when, for my senior class trip, they took us to a Medieval Manor and it was *all* fucking dick jokes. It wasn’t funny; it was boring, but it certainly let all of the disgusting 18-year-old dudes in my grade fly their asshole flags and start sexually harassing everyone around.

“The whole point of comedy is to say things that you shouldn’t say. That’s the entire point.”