She’s cute, but the kid is so obviously ACTING. Super precocious TV kiddies are never really believable. She’s a first grader? Yeah, OK, right.

The real estate porn in this show is something else. Is your pad that nice?! :)

She has the same kind of acting style as her mother — just suuuuper laid back and chill and understated. Like they just did three hours of yoga and smoked a bowl.

Yeah, but you might recall that her early years with Francis were not at all good, and she even lost custody. Kurt’s mother took on the lion’s share of raising Francis, and I think we can mostly credit her and other extended family members for how well she turned out.

People on this very board are SHOCKED that anti-semitism still exists “in the West.”

No, not really.

You have not been paying attention if you actually thought anti-semitism in the West was practically over, or did not include visible incidents. There has been quite a spike in incidents over the past several years, including in Western European countries such as France.

My guess — it’s hard to read because it’s a big block of text. Big, ugly blocks of text often get passed over. Short paragraphs are your friends, posters!

Ha, ha, by the time we’re in the retirement home stage, I think we’ll be existing in virtual reality pods in which we can remain — electronically, at least — forever young (see the related Black Mirror episode about that very thing). ;)

It just happens. But we keep telling ourselves that 40 is the new 30, 50 is the new 40, 60 is the new 50, 70 the new 55, etc. — until we die.

Even a lot of asexual people say they masturbate, as a strictly mechanical, physical act. Their whole thing tends to be that they just don’t find any other people sexually attractive. But they can still have sexual urges.

I do think life is ultimately short — because one minute you are relatively young, and the next you are facing that decline, whenever it may come (some enjoy good health until well into their 80s, some are declining in their 40s and 50s, etc.). So it all speeds by, and then you find you are dying or close to it, and…

Is he still kicking in Vegas with Elvis?

It’s true — in rock ‘n’ roll, dying young and leaving a pretty corpse generally makes you a much more valuable commodity.

Courtney actually seems to be doing quite well these days.

Ha, I feel mixed about that whole thing as well. I mean, it would be great if Trump’s first term speeds by, but on the other hand, it also means I’ll be that much older. :( (Turned 44 in Jan.)

Me, too — started college summer ‘91. Forty-four now.

Sounds like you might have related to the Bee Girl back then. :)

I turned 44 in January. It’s all speeding by so quickly now that I can hardly avoid getting whiplash. Jesus Christ, life is SHORT.

I think young children who are abused can become very confused because their bodies can and do respond sexually to such abuse, so they can feel physical pleasure that makes them think they “liked it,” and that somehow it was OK or they were at fault because they had that kind of physical response. It’s very hard to…