Yes, I always got the impression Austen kind of hated Bath and “going into society” and all that; she certainly pours the venom on in Northanger Abby and Persuasion. But it seems like many of the folks in attendance kind of enjoy the wider history of the period, not Just Austen, so fair play to them.

I think of Austen’s works more as highly satirical coming-of-age works than as strictly romantic or strictly satirical. This can be seen more obviously in Northanger Abby, which essentially is just a massive take-down of the Gothic novel genre that was wildly popular in Austen’s day (and which were far more romantic…

I have! 11’s (the lines between the eyes) is actually a pretty good place to get Botox if you’re going to get it- the lines there tend to be deeper and less amenable to things like plumping creams.

I use the same shampoo/conditioner/treatment for my hair but I’m the town bicycle when it comes to skincare. I will say that it makes sense to use a whole line if it’s something like Clinique’s 3-Step system and the individual components are all designed to compliment each other. I just find it very restrictive, so I…

Honestly, if she wasn’t related to who (whom?) she is I don’t think she would work much. She’s pretty and carries a lot of different make-up looks well. But no more so than thousands of other girls.

I will go out an a limb and say I think Kendall has a very pretty face would make a good beauty model. However, her walk is really bad and in her Vogue shoot all of her pictures were very stiff and samey.

Gigi reminds me a little of Gemma Ward, but her face is almost too pretty, if you see what I mean. I think Bella has more potential- her face takes make-up a lot better.

Y’know, I played those thinking “How bad can it really be?” And then I literally said “Oh, my God” in an empty office.

That’s cool. These guys are really good at apparently saying something that confirms what most of their viewers are looking to believe without actually providing any evidence.

Apparently the footage she’s describing matches up with a video the Center for Medical Progress released, but that footage is pretty clearly recycled from another pro-life organisation- and one image was of a stillborn baby, not an aborted fetus at all. The organisation that used that footage also straight-up said…

I think a large part of that might just be visibility. I’m in Iowa, and he’s had a billboard up in Des Moines since early Spring (I remember because we have to drive past it to get to a friend’s house- the first time we drove past there was still snow on the ground) and at the beginning of summer a couple of…

I did jury duty years ago when I was a idealistic young thing. I swear the process added about ten years of cynicism to me. From the court clerk who told me and the one other lady left over from selection on day one to “Go home and do some ironing, ladies!” (and managed to make it sound like we would be MASSIVE treat…

Hah, my husband is like that! I come from a very physically demonstrative family, so the idea of PDAs being seen as possessive is...odd, to me? But the spouse really doesn’t like it at all. He’s gotten better about it, because he knows it means a lot to me. He will even hold my hand in public now! Also, one time I…

I was going to say this. The place I waitressed at was like this. The owner/manager was a screaming, venal, sleep-deprived, and I think possibly bi-polar nightmare person who would come in and out without warning. When she wasn’t there the restaurant ran fairtly smoothly and cheerfully. When she was there, everyone…

DAMN I drank a lot of that stuff when I was about 16. Can’t drink it now, too many bad, fuzzy memories.

“He was just like us, the over-medicated, therapist-dependent twenty-somethings who had a hard time feeling feelings because wahhhhhh.”

As I mentioned above, the “investigation” in this case means that they probably had someone review the show footage to determine whether or not the show or presenters could be interpreted as encouraging or condoning criminal activity. Loose Women is entertainment, but it’s also supposed to be vaguely factual and is…

They could possibly be investigated if their line of inquiry could be interpreted as encouraging or condoning criminal activity. If they’d said things like “Those slutty women deserve what they get! Bitches need to be taken down a peg or two!” for example. Because it’s a daytime show and it’s conceivable that children…

I never got past the third chapter of Wuthering Heights. Too much angst! I used to enjoy Jane Eyre a lot when I was younger, now I find it...problematic. And Jane is SUCH a prig.

Fair enough, I was mostly being snarky! I personally can’t get on with the majority of the Bronte books, but I’m perfectly aware that’s due to my own shortcomings as a reader rather than hers as a writer. They are bother great writers by anyone’s standards, and I find they tend to get underrated where a lot of…