My pediatrician told us not to introduce our kid to juice, either.

I know my pediatrician told us not to introduce our baby to fruit juice, like, ever. I drink my iced tea unsweetened though, so it’s really just the caffeine in it that every odd day I will be told is bad for me, and every even day I will be told is good for me.

I try to board last no matter what. I don’t carry that much on to the plane, and I therefore see absolutely no reason why I, an adult, would want to spend more time on a plane than necessary. I am always baffled when I see people desperate to board early. Even if you have a large carry-on, you can get it stowed…

I wish there was a DND sign that said, “Please clean in the afternoon. I sleep in on vacation.” Because I always want housekeeping service, I just drag ass in the mornings and often can’t manage to get out of the room in tome for them to see I’ve removed the DND.

How much do I have to tip to not pick hair out of a drain?  Because that activates my gag reflex like nothing else.

I think there is some societal-level bystander effect going on there as well. “If everyone else is accepting this, I guess I am too?”

“Getting rid of the Electoral College is no guarantee of a liberal victory.”

1. There’s only been five times that the electoral result didn’t match the popular result.

I am very slowly figuring out how. For a very long time it was just for ice and the occasional ice cream. Then I did some make ahead and freeze stuff, which worked well, but my shitty apartment fridge found it too taxing and the entire fridge broke, and like $200 worth of groceries were ruined.  That kind of stole my…

What’s funny is, vocal fry is one of the natural things that happen when you try to artificially lower your pitch.

You mean the very things that alert me that she may have sociopathic tendencies is the thing that drew these men in? I’m not disagreeing, I just hadn’t considered it, and I find it intriguing.

I agree with your first sentence. I can’t say I agree with your second sentence. We have a system that rewards, protects, and exploits artists who are fucked in the head. That kind of ecosystem is going to select for a higher proportion of very messed up people, but by no means do I believe most artists are fucked in…

I never heard that about Freud.  That’s fascinating.

Yeah, I think that might be the case here as well.

True, but the actors on Friends did facially react during those pauses for laughter, so I don’t think it’s as stark as Big Bang, where it looks like everyone has gone dead inside during every laugh.

Since this appears to be the place where we are complaining about how recycling is structured, let me tell you about unintended recycling consequences from something they did at my work:

I mostly meant the sexism, but I take your point about the cartoonishness.

“If Leaving Neverland is true, then Jackson’s point of view was amongst the rarest in mainstream pop.”

The chemistry and timing of Friends is just better, and the characters are more charming. Watching an episode of Big Bang, everything feels very labored, and the characters are wildly off-putting. There are things about Friends that don’t age well, but overall, I like these people and I’m rooting for them. I hope they…

And several of Hitchcock’s plots were novels or short stories from Daphne Du Maurier.  Rebecca is the obvious one, but The Birds was also hers.