While I understand the point you are trying to make here, in most cases I would bet adults are not looking for conversation starters with children but rather a way to quickly acknowledge and compliment someone’s child out of politeness, based on little to no actual knowledge of (or, in most cases interest in) that…

What I found is that first-level comments to a post show up pretty easily, as do replies to those comments. A reply to a reply? Good luck with that. I’ll typically see the first part in my notifications but clicking, opening the thread and choosing to see pending comments, clicking on the commenter’s name and seeing…

To be fair to Lizzie Bennet, she lived in a totally different time where women’s literal survival depended on attracting and locking down the wealthiest mate possible. She did not have the option of earning her own living, or, regardless of money, living an independent life without marriage. Under those circumstances,…

I think the question is what you’re comparing it to. If your frame of reference is the first Guardians movie - yeah, it sucked. If it’s the first Suicide Squad movie, it wasn’t half bad. 

I would imagine they’re very different - with the ability to do closeups, etc. in film, things that work on stage might seem too broad. Meanwhile, having to remember a couple of hours of dialogue and do the same show eight times a week requires a lot of discipline. Theater training does seem pretty standard for…

I believe things like this are pretty common in some areas of the country? I know a woman who went to college in Wisconsin who said they would routinely get served something called “cheese patty” for lunch which sounded pretty much like what you see in the April Fool’s tweet. Seemed like an enterprising dining hall…

I saw Craig do Othello off-Broadway a few years back (playing Iago against David Oyelowo as Othello). He was great which is definitely NOT the case with all the famous film and TV people who producers shove onto the stage - two of the worst I saw were Jessica Chastain and Emilia Clarke. Am sure he will rock it as…

The thing is, having Chris continue to anchor a primetime show when his brother was involved in a major scandal was CNN’s judgement call. It would be pretty damn hypocritical for them to now fire him for staying on the air during that time given that it was their decision. Ultimately what they should have done was…

The actual woman involved here herself said she didn’t want to see Chris canceled. Presumably that counts for something???

One of my friends was married to a guy who would cut up everything on his plate into small pieces, mix everything into a round sort of cake, take a bite, scrape it back into a slightly smaller cake and so on until he was done. I suppose this was some kind of OCD and my friend tolerated it but the scraping sounds would…

Honestly, you’d be better off getting frozen fries - they’re cheaper and the end result nets out roughly the same. I tested this out quite a bit recently - my nephew would come over during his dinner break from his summer job and I’d often throw a few burgers on the grill. At first I’d have him pick up fries from…

Ooh, completely lacking a moral compass does NOT make Tom the same as Logan - he’s just too weak. Tom wants to be close to power but doesn’t have the stones to make tough decisions or take on anyone more powerful than him, so being a high level toady at a big company is the perfect role for him. A next-generation…

Yes, the major throughline for Succession is clearly the battle over Kendall’s soul. I’m rewatching now and you can see how they try to show (especially in the scenes with his exwife) that there is somewhere a shadow of a good person deep inside Kendall but that the asskissing, money, drugs and power plays keep…

I literally sold my apartment because I was so embittered after serving on that board. It got to the point where the building essentially split into two camps and people were going door to door slandering each other. I was dreading getting stuck in the elevator with certain people and running in and out to avoid…

Ha, unfortunately it is also possible to be paying a fortune without much getting done for length periods of time when it comes to NYC renovations ;-). In terms of lack of payment of maintenance fees - well, that depends 100% on the building. They certainly could have moved to foreclose on his shares but if the board…

As a former NYC condo board president clearly I am going to have to watch this show, the real mystery is how this building is run! Agreed that “rent” makes no sense, an older building like this would inevitably be a coop and would never allow a long-term renter. And of course a neighbor looking to expand would have to…

Finally checked it out and it was really interesting, thanks for sharing!

Yeah, the whole Friends scenario was indeed totally bogus. First, it’s really hard to “inherit” a rent controlled apartment, Monica would have to have lived there with her grandmother for some time to get on the lease. Second, the main apartment in Friends was WAY too nice to have remained under rent control. I know a…

Well, older people could have bought in a zillion years ago when things were much cheaper. My favorite example that shows this is the movie “The Panic in Needle Park,” which shows a bunch of heroin addicts scoring around a skid row-type area. The “park” in the movie is actually the square at 72nd and Broadway, a very…

Well, if their stated objective is to make buses into “tiny homes” that may indeed be the plan. Perhaps someone might buy this to drive once a year to a summer property, or use it as a she/he shed type thing in their backyard?