I loved Alan Rickman as the voice of Marvin, although I loathed that movie in general. That said, I felt he didn't quite nail the ... hopeless despair the way Stephen Moore did in the original radio broadcast.

Yeah, I was surprised to see 'cancer' as a single category. Breast cancer seems to be vastly overfunded and lung cancer is seriously underfunded, relative to mortality. But that seems to be based on the assumption that lung cancer is always self-inflicted and therefore 'earned' and 'save the bOObies!!!', right?

#corrections - a few times you use the term 'change' when I think you mean 'tip' - it's confusing.

"Q. I'm a customer and if I tell you to read me the specials, you read me the specials pronto!"

I lived in the Canadian prairies from 1970-1989 and I assure you, waterbeds were essential living. Heated in winter, cooling in summer - those heat-sinks kept us alive! We also had more cats than humans in our house and they loved the heated beds. We did make use of a lot of patch kits but the cats loved those beds.

That was exactly my reaction: "Oh! Right! Now I know what to watch this evening - YAY!"

To be fair, we Canucks are a bit screwed on the metric/imperial front. I measure horizontal distances in metric (km, m, cm) but vertical ones in imperial (I'm 5'4"). My apartment is measured in sqft and my ceilings in ft. I know my weight in lbs but not kg, but I expect to buy all my groceries in grams/kg (That said,…

But... what's the alternative for them at this point? Just write the kids off as broken forever & keep going? No, it would have been better for things to not get to this but they have at least realized it now & are working on addressing it.

I dunno. If the chef said "my staff"? Is that something a non-eponymous head chef says about the front-of-house staff? Based on what else we've heard about how awesome Jean-Georges is, I prefer to believe that it was him (might have been working there for a menu change - I've seen that at high-end restaurants (chef…

Holy shit, ColecoVision was AWESOME. There was that one carnival shooting game where you had to shoot the ducks ... even though I was 9 and my brother was 6, in our family, we were allowed to swear when we talked about playing "the fucked up ducks" game!

I was under the impression that IUDs WERE now recommended for teens.

I'm a bit confused about this. My understanding is that the nature of the muscles that control focus in the eyes is such that there are no exercises that can strengthen them (unlike our skeletal muscles which are affected by exercise).

Was coming to say a similar thing about 'harmless'. I'm a lot more likely to pick up female hitchhikers than male ones b/c _I'm_ female and would consider that lower-risk myself.

But... he had already moved her out of the villa to be one of Lady Tanda's maids. She had been in the castle for a long time before the trial.

This post makes me so happy, not least because I was going through exactly the same analysis in my head! To quote Sara Benincasa: "The dork in me bows to the dork in you."

Hm. I deduce 'Canadian' and either from a smaller town or from the prairies. I'm from SK & have lived in Vancouver for ages, now. If you're here (as opposed to That Other City) I'd be happy to get together for coffee to bemoan what that kind of going home is like.

I thought the point of burning a bridge is to raise your commitment level - isn't it a war metaphor? If you burn your bridges, your troops know that they can't retreat over it and will be more committed to winning.

I guess the reason no one has mentioned "dialing zero" is because no one else here is old enough to remember a rotary phone? I'm sure I've read that euphemism before...

I think I'll be printing this one out on business cards to hand out to people when they do it. Brilliantly, perfectly stated:

'Culture fit' is actually a very bad way to assess potential employees and contributes to non-diverse, subtle discrimination. It's increasingly being called out as ineffective and harmful. Not to mention, borderline illegal.