I worked with Hercule Poirot. I knew Hercule Poirot. Hercule Poirot was a friend of mine. Mustachioed Branagh, you’re no Hercule Poirot.

In the books he is described as short, has an egg shaped head, so fastidious about his personal appearance a speck of dust might kill him (look at that tie and that collar!!), dark haired well into old age. His clothes are impecably cared for but hopelessly old fashioned (this is what anyone would wear.)

“But consider, Hastings. The absurd fake mustaches...the ridiculous goatee...the supremely obvious wig. Such a childish effort to alter his appearance! Could it be that we were meant to write him off, to dismiss his disguise as too obviously a disguise?”

I love the tweet about a “real journalist, finally”... referring to a video of himself. I know POTUS refers to himself in the third person and piles on praise, but it’s still such a weird thing to do.

It’s definitely worthy of an eye-roll, but I see this situation posted in every single article about Sam Bee as though the commentor has uncovered a secret membership in the KKK and not that she and her husband are both well-off and have rich people problems. Why this should make me feel guilty about admiring her or…

Sorry for the ramble, but this comment shows up on EVERY mention of Bee, and the comment ALWAYS ignores the other context of the argument.

I’m not trying to start anything, but is that joke so vile, really? She isn’t saying that being in Rikers is a vacation-not at all. She’s just saying her phone was taken from her and being unplugged for 8 hours was good for her (unless I missed some of the text, which is possible). Is it in questionable taste due to…

There actually is “an easy answer”, but we’ve been forced into this false dichotomy, so we don’t see it.

Taken out of context. She’s talking about how she couldn’t have her phone with her there and couldn’t obsess about the news. It’s really not that bad.

Let’s offer him and James O’Keefe a million dollar prize to fight to the death on live TV. I feel like they’re both thirsty enough to actually do it, and whatever the outcome it’s win for humanity.

Agreed. I think there are much stronger critiques of her than “maybe-hooker/gold-digger who landed a rich fuckwit”. She went to bat for the whole “Obama is a secret Kenyan!”, lies about her accomplishments, and is complicit while partially living off of taxpayers and generally being disdainful of even superficial…

Brit here. Let me straighten something up about the TA:

So yeah, the thing about military uniforms is, you’re not allowed to have an “iconoclastic take” on them while you’re on duty.

Yeah over here those who do TA (now Army Reserve) are known as Weekend Soldiers.

I think the larger question is about the implicit assumption that 3 years in the TA makes anyone an expert in anything. Much like the US Army Reserves, it amounts to two weeks a year plus monthly meetings.

Hopefully there are no TA folks here to shout at me but... [everyone whisper now]... the British Territorial Army is generally considered to be advanced Boy Scouts, for angry middle management types who spend their nights rage-wanking over Excel pivot tables.

The TA isn’t the army. It’s a place for overly-testosteroned cowards to pretend to be soldiers on the weekend.

I mean, she’s not inherently wrong making the argument. Because yeah, just because you aren’t angrily disputing something publicly doesn’t mean you aren’t fighting the issue “behind the curtain” if you will.

So we have to simply forgive her and her husband for setting themselves up to make millions (if not billions)off of the administration, at the expense of benefits for the poor, for sitting silently by as her father signs executive order after order denying human rights to women, muslims, and people of color, and…