First of all, he can keep his FUCKING hands off me. Period. Second of all, he’s not the gate agent or the “premium experience” police. If I scan my boarding pass and I’m not in first class, the gate agent will not let me on the plane. End of discussion.

I’ve been married to Mr. Realist for 26 years. They haven’t been perfect years but they’ve been good. There are times I fantasize in vivid detail about punching him directly in the throat, too, but so far I’ve managed to avoid it.

Did you see this part in the New Yorker article?

Your statement here can’t be underscored enough - THIS is the Fox target audience. They don’t care that leprosy is a skin condition that is curable with multidrug therapy - they care that it’s referenced in the Bible, and that the disease makes your fingers and toes fall off and go blind. (Except that’s not true - if u…

Our Amazon (a Double Yellow, in the back of the picture above) loves me and never bites me, but she bites my husband when he pisses her off. (“Clip my toenails? I’ll show you, asshole!”) Amazons bite then grind/pinch which, despite their smaller beaks, is worse than macaws. Our Amazon is a little love bug in general…

This interpretation checks out. Our macaw (a Green Wing) blushes frequently. The Husband - the bird guy around here - can interpret his nonverbal cues very accurately. I, however, can not, and I’m apparently too stupid to learn this. On Thanksgiving 2017 (house full of noisy people, disrupted schedule, etc etc), I…

We have a Green Wing Macaw. Macaws - and psitticines (hookbills) in general - don’t flare or otherwise dilate/constrict their nostrils as part of an expression of emotion. Their nostrils should be patent and remain so - that bird needs to see a vet. (I’m guessing that isn’t one of Irene Pepperberg’s subjects, because…

I’ve liked Boseman, too, but really fell in love with him in 42 and Marshall. And I’m a giant, ridiculous Marvel nerd, so when that penny dropped, I was pretty glad to hear it. And you’re right about paying the actors fairly - look at Solo - it grossed $200 domestic, $180 overseas, IIRC - a true failure in Star Wars…

Plus - unfortunately - Black Panther, much like Wonder Woman, was a crap shoot. The lead was atypical, and unlike even WW, nearly every single character was black - ethnically, African Black. MCU took a (long overdue) chance on it, but threw the Marvel magic at it and enlisted Ryan Coogler for top-notch directing…

My daughter is also in the industry and, while she hasn’t worked with him, she agrees with you - she’s never heard a single bad thing, and everyone literally raves about their experiences on his films.

YES. Great concept and movie design. I watched it because of Emily Blunt - I love her so much - and she absolutely CRUSHED the movie. Was more than pleasantly surprised by the rest of the movie. There’s a funny interview with Blunt and Cruise on the Graham Norton Show - look it up if you have a second. Their whole…

Spades, Clubs, and Euchre are all interesting strategy-based card games, too. Euchre seems to be limited to the upper Midwest, though, so I’m always happy when I find someone else who likes to play it.

I mean, what is his end game, beyond getting paid for these interviews? He was planning to come to the wedding, so I have to assume that at some point, he wanted to have a relationship with his daughter, and it wasn’t all about the money. Does he honestly think that this is the way to go about rebuilding that…

Emily Blunt also said the same thing after “Edge of Tomorrow” with Cruise, and I get great vibes from her. She gushed about his work ethic and positive attitude and how he supported her (the exosuits they wore were apparently really heavy, and she had a hard time adapting in the first few days/weeks.) EoT is one of my…

You broke the rule. The rule gets more and more important every week that this fucking year drags on. With the exception of very finite, like-minded communities like Jez or specific groups you’ve created on social media, you should never, EVER read the comments.

Don’t you think that ANY likelihood of the craft going airborne is unacceptable? There were three human lives on that craft. One ended, and two are irrevocably affected. The ride shouldn’t have been BUILT to the design specs, and that would have been the first step. After that, yes, the manager should have reported…

My mom would NEVER let us go on traveling carnival rides, and I always thought she was the meanest mom in the world - until I had kids of my own, and they wanted to go on one of those rides, and then my mother LEAPT into my body and her words came out of my mouth somehow. No effing way was I letting my kids on one of…

We call that an “undocumented feature” in the IT world.

Sorry, but it’s a little gross to criticize his weight when we slam him for the body-shaming bullshit he pulls on a daily basis. We’re supposed to be better. And I know there are people who will say it’s not getting us anywhere, or we need to fight fire with fire, or blah blah blah, but I guess I don’t want to get…

Try being an LGBTQ+ person of color. (I am not speaking from personal experience, but from observation and intersectionality.)