I’m pretty sure the blind part is true, actually—I first heard rumors about him going blind around 5 or 6 years ago. But why the hell it should have any impact on these accusations I can’t even begin to imagine. “I’m mostly blind now so can’t possibly be a sexual predator” is such total nonsense.

Yeah, maybe they’re just trying to teach their kids that it’s rude to pet strangers? For this, I thank them.

And people with walkies.

This is why the ad doesn’t make sense! I think it’s that she’s supposed to BE IBS. She’s an anthropomorphized disease who doesn’t want to be vanquished. But what I don’t understand is why she then grows to be OK with being knocked out.

I just walked past a car yesterday with several Trump/Pence bumper stickers onto which someone had thrown a large quantity of what I’m just going to assume was vanilla pudding.

He’s not terrible, but only if you’re grading on the Fox curve.

“In totem” actually just makes me feel embarrassed for the CNN transcriber.

Yeah, the first year can suck a little bit. And then you think “if we’re not happy now at the beginning, when everything is supposed to be a fairy tale, then we must be doomed for real!” Which is a fallacy, but it really can feel that way.

HOO BOY. Suggesting that Poppy is too old and frail to be listened-to is a surefire way to lose your place as Mother’s special favorite.

I can’t imagine that their single-day profits are greater than the location-use fee. And if they are: renegotiate the location fee. It’s not like they were being forced into letting them use the location.

Guilty of...cheating on herself, it sounds like?

Good for you, four years is fantastic. Maybe your new location has an AA meeting that would be better? (or maybe not--I tried Al Anon a couple times to help in dealing with an alcoholic in my own life, and really couldn’t hang with it, so I do understand the disinclination.) It’s nice to have a community, though, so I…

oh my God. why has it never even occurred to me to do this?? I go back & forth on whether or not I should use “clinical strength” deodorants, without ever even once giving men’s stuff a try.

I thought that too, but then was immediately distracted by the “Campari and O.J.” part. Is that seriously a thing people drink??? That sounds like a glass of syrup...

Yeah, I had a teacher tell me once that I was “dressed like a schoolmarm today.” In fairness and in retrospect, I absolutely was, but also, fuck off, lady. It was really humiliating, which is why I still remember it 25 years later.

It would show you that at the least she’s able to do a 45-minute impression of a person who is neither dull nor stupid nor boring. It doesn’t necessarily follow that she’s endlessly bright and engaging in person. She may be, but an interview is only going to tell you so much.

Oh my GOD. Did you have to have a conversation with your boss about that horror, or is he understanding enough to just ignore it?

Then your VFX comment makes no sense.

Why are people only able to understand how a piece of entertainment could cost a lot of money if it contains a lot of VFX? People always speak so authoritatively about the cost of VFX, which in truth comprises a huge range of post-production work, some of it more complicated than others, but that ultimately comes down…

I bet he also thinks that the Empire State Building is entirely full of empty toilet paper rolls.