I think I agree, I mean, I don’t know if she’s playing herself or a character in Death Proof and Hateful Eight, but she comes across as natural and credible in those two, so I don’t care — I’m more bothered by celebrities playing themselves in movies and coming across awkward and wooden.

So these lawsuits are people (privately) suing them, presumably? Isn’t what they’re doing illegal? Shouldn’t they be investigated and prosecuted criminally, then?

I’m a great believer in meritocracy, except I don’t dare say it out loud too often because all too often out-of-touch politicians’ misinterpretation of the concept of meritocracy works out as rewarding rich people and punishing poor.

Is it known if the episodes had been broadcast at the time the current owners bought the house?

I just think that that — that when people keep saying that word “fake news” over and over again, it implies that you can do things and you can never be held accountable for them because you just say that it’s fake. That repetition of that term, I don’t think, is good.

Are you trolling?! Seriously, f*** this argument and any other “yeah but other people/countries/etc” arguments. No amount of wrongs make a right. People die because of not getting medical care and all you come up with “well at least it isn’t as bad here as it is in other countries” as if that f***ing makes it alright…

Things get cancelled from time to time. Take out travel insurance and book flexible flight tickets and hotel reservations, you know, so you can cancel or change them if ever brown stuff hits the fan, and don’t have to blame artists, performers, organisers, airlines or whomever.

This reminds me of the story this week of the lottery winner who could finally afford to visit a doctor, only to learn it was too late. He died 3 weeks after his win. (Link: http://abc13.com/society/man-dies-weeks-after-winning-$1m-on-scratch-off-ticket/3008133/)

Indeed. Most illness is really just a matter of bad luck. Other illness may well be the product of working, particularly in dirty industries where pay may not even be sufficient to afford health insurance.

This, so much. Based in the UK, I was chronically ill for 11 years. Was being the key word here. Because, even though there is no cure for my condition, life-changing surgery in 2015 means I’m symptom free now. I got the surgery in a private UK hospital, but paid for by the NHS. It would have cost £30-40K ($42-57K).…

She said she made the statement because she supports adoption over abortion, and she was inspired because she gave up a baby for adoption when she was 21.

Yes, but it leaves the eye bloodshot for ages after

Just bought it on Amazon UK, I’m intrigued by the synopsis. I told myself I should stop buying new books before I’ve finished reading the prior, but oh well... now I’ve got 1.5 book to finish before I can start yours ;)

Yes, you’re going soft. I work freelance and spend way too much time politely declining offers of ‘exposure’. Neither the polite rejections I write nor the time it takes me to do so pay my bills. Dignified, perhaps, but I win nothing from it

“I never signed an NDA, actually,” McGowan said. “That was a mistake the press made, and actually a mistake that I made for a long time. [I was misinformed] by a lawyer that I had signed one, when in fact it turned out I hadn’t. I thought I remember refusing that. I think NDAs, as we’re finding out, can be broken.”

This isn’t about masculinity, it’s about cowardice — no matter how hard those involved try to present it as masculinity. You can package a turd to make it look like something else on the outside, but it’s still a turd.

Hazing, like any form of bullying or degrading, is a sure sign of cowardice.

She would have made more of a point if she hadn’t, after quitting this job with the BBC, instantly started another job with the very same organisation. That bit makes no sense to me.

What I know for sure is that, in this day and age, speaking your truth is only possible if and when you can afford to. As such it is a powerful tool, but not one that all of us have.

Sorry, but in this day and age, what I know for sure is that speaking your truth is only possible if and when you can afford to. As such it is a powerful tool, but not one that all of us have.