As a former depressed teen with pretty wonderful parents, thank you for being the safe person. They might not tell you right now, but the empathy and support does make a difference.

Yeah, I really love the new keys, but the way you get your first one one at the kiosks makes little to no sense.

Men’s wallets and those tiny zipped coin purses/mini-wallets, or whatever they’re called, are going to be your friend!

Those bugs were good friends to Joe!

Also why did the answer to that one boil down to “start dating someone (anyone)”?

Tbf, the cockroaches have done pretty well for themselves over the years.

If I were a dude I would 100% show up in one of those creations, preferably on roller skates.

Flying Nun, if you want to really get avant garde.

I enjoyed Battleship more than it deserved on the so-bad-it’s-good scale, but jesus christ was it transparent. Hawaii 5-o’s another egregious offender there, in a way that makes me physically queasy.

How many blockbusters get money from the military to turn them into glorified recruitment ads? I know it’s not uncommon (see: Man of Steel), but is it basically all of them except the first Avengers?

Actual footage of the grenade scenario:

Hotels were my first go-to, but B&N and department stores are more reliable these days.

Unless you’re going for the original Elizabethan pronunciation, Shakespeare is generally best in the actor’s home accent. Jack Lemmon did not feel out of place in that 4 hour Kenneth Branagh Hamlet.

For the general British age of majority and consent, yes. For marriage without a parent or court’s permission (outside of Scotland), no.*

Catholics do the stations of the cross around Good Friday, which is (I think) what you’re essentially describing, but it’s usually inside, w/ the stations along either side of the church.

The failed proposal is always so tense (as it should be), but that Rain of Sexual Tension really and truly brought it to another level.

In Mansfield Park, the baronet uncle reads his poor-relation niece the riot act for refusing a well-off man without considering what accepting him could’ve meant for the rest of her family. Someone needed to do the same to Elizabeth. Stick to your guns, by all means, but at least think about your poor siblings.

Ice ^4

I have been blessed with ignorance re. terrible BBC radio presenters, but Wikipedia is telling me that’s the dude who married barely-legal Billie Piper despite being almost twice her age. Ick.