Crossbows? I hope the grandkids didn’t play with them inside the house after opening presents. Reminds me of the time my sister got my dad a damn sword for Christmas, which he never asked for, but she thought would be cute ( I think Braveheart had just come out). When we were in the kitchen I asked her if she thought…

And Hoffman bragged about slapping Meryl Streep right before they were shooting a scene for Kramer Vs Kramer back in the seventies so he could get a better performance out of her. Um, it wasn’t his job to get a “better” performance out of anyone, but the directors.

I hope this helps, so we went through something like this before my dad died a few months ago. My mum was a mess (and still is) so people thought they were helping by offering advice. It appeared to me to be meant as a kindness but just really added to her stress. They mean well, but they are also feeling as helpless…

Your husband sounds like me. I like to joke that when I blink I lose weight. Despite gym workouts and drinking tasteless protein powder, I never managed to get that male speedo model form. I thought I looked okay but some people would comment about how thin I was despite me not asking their opinion or offering mine on…

It happened to me. I needed to go on UI once and for some reason they decided they wanted that money back, and just cleared out my bank account one day (right before rent was due, of course). So it can and will be done quite easily much to my shock. If it was offered at the time, I would have gone to work at Jezebels…

I’ll add to what people have said in this thread. In the book Offred says she checked her own personal bank account and all her money was gone, stolen by the government. The same thing happens in the series during the coffee shop scene. Even if you got 24 hour news cycles, having all your money stolen leaving you to…

Hey! I’m watching Celebrity Big Brother right now and Boris’ sister is on it. Not sure what exactly she is famous for, but she comes across as intelligent and nice.

First of all sour cream and cheddar chips are delicious,so no need to feel guilty. Secondly my family kind of lucked out in the gene pool and have all been thin Then my sisters started getting hippy because that’s what happens after someone gives birth. She came to me to approach them about their supposed eating…

I took a picture of my ex BF when he was in his kilt just for laughs and it was with his phone, so he had the only copy. A few years later I came across it online and was appalled! The only thing I can think of is that he probably sent it to his future BF who shared it. Then I remembered that he also took pictures of…

I actually liked Emerald City. It was a interesting take on Oz and fun to watch. Yes, it was no Hannibal (which I hope they bring back) but it was still good for what they were trying to do.

I thought the ending was great. But I think the problem was that after the premiere episode people guessed that the whole thing was set in some sort of afterlife purgatory and the producers said it wasn’t and they had something better planned. Turns out we had guessed it and felt lied to all those years.

That reminds me of the time when Joan Collins was asked why before when she hit it big with her role on Dynasty she had done low budget horror movies and softcore porn. She just said she was a working actress and took whatever job so she would get paid. I thought that was a great answer, and now I am off too watch…

No need to feel ashamed about not knowing some bit of obscure history, but I will rub your nose in my apparant superior knowledge because this is one area I know stuff about. Eckner was lobbying hard to buy helium from America so he could use that in the ships instead of hydrogen. America said no because they thought…

Interesting because I grew up hearing my Scottish parents using “bloody blue murder” all the time. lol. Of course they also called pooping jobbies, and farting was pumping. Scottish people have really funny terms for things. Oh and anyone they didn’t like us kids hanging out with was referred to as truck. How that…

I see what you did there, but I feel I should clarify something. The guy that ran the company, Hugo Eckner, hated the Nazis. Hated that he had to put the swastika on the Hindenburgs tail fins. Hated that both the Hindenburg and the Graf Zeppelin were used for Nazi propoganda. Goebells wanted to send him to a camp, but…

I can add to this, though I don’t know if it will help. In the late 70's there was this TV station in Toronto who would air late night on Fridays called Baby Blue Movies, which were either softcore porn or erotica depending on your artistic tastes. Nudity abounded, though almost never male nudity except for a wee peek…

What a jerk! I’ve worked as a janitor several times and while there were some regular maintainance, people for the most part were pretty good about picking up after themselves because it is not that hard to put something in the garbage bin.

I’ll just respond to this post, though it is directed at everyone asking the same question. Why should he have to give or donate the money he made for the work he did? I’ve never heard of him before today, so I doubt he is commanding a huge salary so he can keep up appearances in his mcmansion. He is probably working…

I have a feeling that some point during the shows run (possibly up to 7 seasons) the group eventually do get into the real good place, but find it incredibly boring and want to go back because the fake good place is more exciting.

I surprised myself at how happy I was Mindy finally got her coke. And a robot sex as well.