Lin-Manuel Miranda, the certified best person in the world, seems to like The Rock, so I think you’re on safe ground:

I don’t see any similarities to Beyonce’s videos. None. Plenty of videos have these poses. Most videos with a dance number have these poses. They don’t even look similar, aesthetically. Beyonce fans should calm down. If you want to complain about Taylor Swift, just focus on the fact that this is a bad video and the…

I’ve never seen The Rock in any films, but I get the sense what he’s selling is...Major Enthusiasm. He’s like Tom Cruise without the Scientology. Also, it seems like he’s replaced Tom Cruise and Will Smith. I could be totally wrong, but this is what his career looks like from afar.

The Rock Obama

hi there, john!

Yeah, this guy’s been an infuriating joke in literary circles for a while now. Very happy to see him getting the wider ratfucking he deserves.

You know that scene from Broadcast News where they’re editing that report to the very last possible second? Holly Hunter is completely cool about it but Joan Cusack is hyperventilating and screaming “We’re never gonna make it!” Robert Mueller is Holly Hunter and I and a lot of other people are Joan Cusack.

Right, buddy. You and Submarine guy, a pair of innocent lambs.

Bruce has a pretty good body for an old dude, but those trunks man... are they his swim-proof Depends?

Can’t a man smuggle Xenu in his tighty whities without causing an internet stir?

The word “inspo” being used in actual out loud conversations is painful to my soul. I just don’t get it. It’s not inspOration.

To me he always looks like he reeks of a dirty catheter and old cheese.

Fucking white people.

“Maybe I have overlearned the lesson of staying calm, biting my tongue, digging my fingernails into a clenched fist, smiling all the while, determined to present a composed face to the world.”

2 guesses. 1- you coincidently had some abnormal cervical cells. or 2- you were on some type of treatment that made cervical/uterine cancer more likely. Sure they weren’t endometrial biopsies? Those are done in the office as well, and from the patient point of view, somewhat similar to a pap. That is the better test…

The brown star.

So why were they doing this? Haha. Sounds like a naive question given that this is basically done and dusted (fingers crossed) but I definitely remember an enormous amount of colposcopies.

Right. I added an ETA and you may have missed it. I have had ovarian cancer and remember many many paps and colposcopies that were evidently to work out how the chemo was working, but I assume these were not the usual pap smears, anyway.

I’m not sure this is *entirely* true. If they are looking for evidence of ovarian cancer there is some sort of change in the cells that are visible on the pap? Unfortunately my experience is nearly a decade old now but IME there was some specific change in, I believe enzyme?, that indicated the health of the ovaries…

I would not worry too much. First, the research has either shown no correlation or a very minor one (think a slightly increased chance of ovarian cancer). Second, talcum powder used to be cut with asbestos until the 1970s, so a lot of statistics on long-term use are capturing that. Third, 7 years is not that long. And…