The only statements Hollywood makes are fashion statements. #MeToo, Time’s Up... cause celebre du jour and then we move on... oh, the irony of naming it Time’s Up. Weinstein gets thrown under the bus for the cause, alongside a few other token targets, and that’s it.

Excuse my shallowness but since this thread is all about looks, but a few actors and actresses left me miffed: All this effort into dresses/suits and make up and then forgetting to schedule the hairdresser’s appointment to get your roots covered...?

Intravaginal therapy does exist, but when I was told of it, it was with great care of explaining the exact hows and whys, and a clear instruction: if you don’t want it, you don’t have to, and even if you have it, if at any point you feel uncomfortable you say “stop”. Also, I was considerably older than these gymnasts.…

Black Lives Matter points out issues that most people in power won’t experience first hand, issues that don’t affect their loved ones in areas they don’t live. When someone’s unarmed black son is shot, they can rest safely in the confidence that that won’t happen to their own white sons. But when they see white high…

Does this mean he wasn’t even able to get a spot on a reality TV show?

People like him receive media training and a podium by way of press conferences. I appreciate that as a sportsperson before and during the Olympics you want to focus on sports alone, but was there no one in his entourage clever enough to pull him aside for some one-to-one coaching so he could have entered this press…

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.

Thanks for the warning! While on the subject of VPNs, does anyone care to recommend a VPN I can use across MacOS and Windows (and possibly iOS/Android too)? I only need it for use in public places, on public WiFi networks, really, and Spotflux no longer seems to work as well (if at all). Happy to pay but would like it…

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 ;)