It’s a cliche that the historical biopic about the saintly black guy and his friend the good white guy ending racism forever gets all the awards, but they don’t, really? 42, The Butler, Race, The Great Debaters, Antwone Fisher, Remember the Titans, Men of Honor were all nominated for a collective nothing.

Disagree about the crunchy bits. They’re one of the best parts of baked mac-and-cheese, the textural contrast of buttery crumbs (maybe with some crispy bacon) is worth the extra step of baking. We’re not talking about health food here.

If someone knows of a baked mac-and-cheese where the sauce doesn’t completely disappear in the oven, please, send me your secret.

Hasn’t he gained and lost weight a million different times by now? I’m pretty sure he knows exactly what he’s doing in this area and if he wants to shill for a standard whole foods, vegan, low calorie diet that brings the bible into it for some reason I guess . . . . you do you?

I recognize a lot of myself in the article, like “all I have to do this weekend is get a haircut, do laundry and go grocery shopping” but the fact that I end up not doing one or all of those things isn’t because I’m burned out with too much work, it’s because there’s too much good tv, or there’s a video game, or the…

Peanut butter isn’t that much better, depending on your definition of what is the nutritional “enemy”. It’s got more total fat (although less saturated fat), more sodium, less carbohydrates, more protein, and a whole 10 fewer calories for the same serving size.

Low grade chocolate (cocoa; chocolate minus the cocoa butter) makes it not worth it. Palm oil...eh...if it was lard it might be better ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. But that it is sugar, meh fat, and questionable cocoa...yeah...garbage. Make your own with real chocolate and hazelnut butter...I’m sure just about anyone’s would be better.

Have you read the nutrition info for Nutella?

I have to disagree with you here. Alan Rickman’s character is clearly meant to be seen as a huge asshole for doing this, or we wouldn’t have been treated to so many shots of how devastated Emma Thompson’s character is by his affair.

If some asshole doesn’t vote for Mariano just because they don’t believe first-timers deserve a vote, then that asshole needs to have his voting privileges revoked forever. After fucking up the Ken Griffey Jr vote (he should have been 100%), Rivera is the absolute embodiment of the 100% vote.

Curt Schilling not only espouses vile and utterly repugnant personal and political beliefs on the reg, he also defrauded the state I’ve called home for the last eight years to the tune of $75-plus million dollars. He’s a terrible businessman and a terrible human being..

Natalie: You probably missed upthread how the screenwriter has said that the stuff about McCutcheon was intended to be a riff on how dumb fat shaming her is, but it just didn’t land. I don’t know that I think that material is in the film, but there is that explanation, at least.

Again please list your claims of literally everybody because it’s just the 2 I mentioned and the reasons which don’t have anything to do with her actually being fat. The sister looks like she got hit in the face with a hot shovel the joke works just fine with her being ugly.

I don’t think the Lincoln character was trying to steal Knightly away. I think he just found himself in the unfortunate position of falling in love with his best friend’s girl and was trying to deal with it the best way he could. Perhaps it is creepier that the 17 year old Knightly was paired up with two men in their…

Whenever I rewatch Love Actually, I always wish that the whole film was about Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson’s characters. Not just because they’re the best actors in the cast by far, but because the story is genuinely heart-breaking.

I actually like Bill Nighy’s story the best because of how good he is playing a jaded rock star who doesn’t give a shit anymore about playing the game. I could watch a whole movie of him just going full-Bullworth on the celebrity culture.

My favourite is the Bill Nighy one (the sole love story based on friendship), but of the romantic stories I agree Rickman and Thompson’s is the best, partially because those two are superlative actors.

The movie is a total male fantasy. Be a guy, a completely ordinary schlubby guy and hot women will throw themselves at you and serve you coffee. You won’t even have to talk to them!

God, I love Bill Nighy so much in this movie. 

The love in the Linney story line is the love she has for her brother. I agree with you. Put the guy in a home and go have a life. Visit once a month but don’t deprive yourself.