I desperately want them to retire the emotional manipulation towards the end. This is why I liked Nailed It, I was sometimes scared of the contestants but the show never made me cry or crave cake.......

There should be a word for a show in which it’s nice to win, but that it’s not the point of the show. Because that’s what Bake Off (and to a certain extent Drag Race) is to me.

The diagnostic criteria you quoted clearly says "the individual must have acted on these thoughts, fantasies *or* urges or be markedly distressed by them"

Often those that are attracted to children are victims of abuse. I read an account of a man that went through abuse as a child and never had a relationship as an adult because he was attracted to children and didn’t want to risk having his own kids. He was able to find a sympathetic psychologist and get help. I feel…

Isn’t helping potential abusers before they start to abuse helping victims?

I know it's a bit mean, but I was so relieved that Jurgen went home. He's my least favourite if the group that's left, and now the others will all be in the final.

Granted they are all amateurs and not expected to achieve the same level of technical perfection as professionals, but Paul complaining about Giuseppe’s showstopper decoration while Jurgen’s got praised as if it were faultless seemed kinda biased.

Paul hates Lizzie and BBC One let’s him have his way. They have a reputation of catering to egotistical male presenters.

“I likewise don’t understand what GBBO’s fascination with black forest cake is, especially with calling it gateau since it’s not remotely from french origin and it’s not like they do that with a bunch of other cakes”

I genuinely love that Lizzie got a tattoo that says Finesse, and her and Freya are now BFFs. They seem so opposite but such nice people.

Remember that time they had to shut down production because Bette Davis wouldn’t get the polio vaccine? Oh wait, that didn’t happen because they weren’t fuckin idiots back then.

I really don’t think that’s true. “I’m not an anti-vaxer but I just have problem with THIS vaccine” is standard anti-vaxer language. Andrew Wakefield himself said exactly that.

I’ve generally been more empathetic towards Shiv than some others, but tonight the writers really made her into an Ivanka Trump figure—nasty, clueless, and entitled without the vulnerability.

Yeah Lizzie is sincerely lovely and terrific. Her shock when Georges’ name was called made me sad, she thought it would be her name... She always gets a BUT with her bakes, though her creativity (the blue bowl with roses was so damn cool) cannot be questioned. Crystelle setting her bowl down in triumph and then not…

I mean, there’s a reason Contagion was a number-one rental in the early stages of the pandemic; just as some people prefer their media to pivot away from reality, and others prefer running full-tilt towards it.

I’ll be happy to see him in another project but some part of me also just wants him to stay safe and just, I don’t know, tour his local department store (then again that would probably be more dangerous these days).

Everyone knows you use pigs for this. 

One time on Muppet Show or Sesame Street, Kermit sang “It’s Not Easy Being Green” and there’s a part where he becomes a colourless “ghost frog”... for years I had nightmares of being chased in the forest by an ethereal ghost frog.

Ewan has a plan, and while the attorney was talking I’m thinking he’s going to throw Greg under the bus in the effort to take down Waystar/Royco.

There’s also just another thing: Who poisoned Oliver’s dog and left the note on Jan’s apartment? It clearly wasn’t Jan since she looks around concerned when she finds it and she never admitted to poisoning the dog, only the cat by accident.