I think I could handle an enclosed gondola (aside from the bathroom situation), but those little ski lift benches with nothing under your feet and only a bar across your lap to hold you in scare me silly. I don’t ski, but one of the local annual fairs has a ski lift going all the way across the fairgrounds so you can…

It’s all fun and games until you need to take a dump

My fourteen-year-old self totally had a very PG-13 sexual fantasy about this exact situation! Obviously, if I got stuck on a cable car with my crush overnight, we would have to snuggle up inside a single coat to stay warm and then we would make out a lot. I hope that someone is at least getting a steamy make out…

I have never had any interest whatsoever in a threesome. I’m not morally opposed but I suspect it’s like showering with a partner—one of you is always standing away from the water, feeling chilly with shampoo in your hair.

We all know that’s not as disrespectful as quietly sitting down during the national anthem. Geez.

It’s just as likely that she was being bullied by another girl. Can’t say I’ve met anybody from Texas who wasn’t a little off or xenophobic.

Why on earth would they go with fucking Lauer for the forum when they have Maddow? Matt Lauer is an idiot.

But I don’t take my advice and I don’t take anything seriously that comes from the RNC.

“I’m going to let you ponder that question.”

I find her insufferable. She seems like such a self-absorbed asshole. She would make another person’s cancer diagnosis about her own journey. Forget about pesky husband #2. I hope he and Husband #1 team up to write a book about what a phony narcissist she is.

I am being deeply uncharitable because I think “falling in love” with someone after they have a terrible diagnosis and then writing about how you changed your whole world for them because you’re such a loving person is a) fucked up, b) stupid, and c) incredibly narcissistic.

I’m going to be cynical and say that it’s likely that a big part of her realization about the nature of her love is exactly that Rayya will soon be gone.

Judging from the number of people in this previous jez thread arguing that there was no way she cheated, I assume it may not have been as obvious to some as it was to you.

She certainly gets bored easily. Having a dying lover must feel so noble and romantic. I hope her friend has a strong, stable support network.

“In the middle of this there is a central thing which is ‘I’m learning to love myself’. And I’m sitting there thinking, ‘Yep, alright, go on’. What would have been really great is if at the end of the film what the person had learned was; you know what? (German accent) ‘There is nothing but fear, desperation and…

I'm having a hard time finding sympathy for her, because it's not about her. I tried the book and just couldn't get through Italy with her. Almost didn't even get through the divorce part, I just kept yelling at her to grow up. The really cynical side of me is noticing that she has a relationship with a built in exit…

Wasn’t she certain at the end of her last book?

Everyone deserves to find their person.

So ... Did she cheat on her husband with her best friend? If so, that is ice cold.

I’m glad she found her person or whatever, but this line ruined it: “Death — or the prospect of death — has a way of clearing away everything that is not real.” She is so insufferable.