I share your unpopular opinion and will even go a step further in saying I enjoy it more than the BBC version for all the reasons you stated. I think all the creative choices gave the material an added dimension and I really love Matthew MacFadyen’s take on Darcy - he seems like an asshole more because he’s shy and a…

Yep on the Mrs. Bennet front. I admittedly read P&P at a feminist, all-girls’ school, so my analysis of it is different. But it was always pointed out that yes, Mrs. Bennet is annoying. But at the same time, her lazy-ass husband isn’t helping by locking himself up in his library all day and ignoring his husbandly…

Dried herbs and spices do not spoil but they do lose their flavor over time, some more quickly than others. If you’ve ever tested freshly ground nutmeg alongside the jar of nutmeg you’ve had in your cabinet for a decade, you’ll immediately notice the difference. Same deal with freshly ground pepper vs a jar of…

My sister is a big fan of Blue Apron. Her and my BiL work full time and they have two kids. For her, the mental exhaustion of planning meals and grocery shopping meant she was basically cooking the same meals every week, so a service like this helps them add variety to their diet and get their kids to try new things.

Meal planning was a big thing for us too. Too much mental energy went into my partner and I discussing, debating and deciding what to eat that week. Now we have 2 meals a week decided for us and it’s stuff we wouldn’t ever choose to make, mainly because I think squash is bleh and don’t buy fish very often. It’s also…

Those are exactly all the things I hate about cooking. I like the cooking part. We did BA for a few months during my busy work season, and it was really nice not having to guess what we’d have for dinner or order takeout. The BA customer is not someone who is replacing it with cooking at home, it’s the person who…

Meal planning is annoying. This service is for people who will pay extra to not have to do that. I strongly considered blue apron, but too many of their meals seemed carb-heavy (type 1 diabetic, I don’t want to eat a grain-based dish for dinner) and I couldn’t get over the high cost per serving. But I also rarely have…

I don’t want to do those things all the time

I was conducting focus groups on cleaning supplies among women 40-60 in downtown Chicago. My one group was doing great until I suddenly realized I had lost their attention. Some very hot dude (I’m a big ol’ lesbo, so this was aesthetic perfection, not just random peen) came out of the bathroom in his hotel room across…

Hotels are always so dark - dark carpet, darker walls, I don’t like feeling like I’m in a cave. So I leave them open until it’s nighttime and dark already.

Counterpoint: Do it in a NYC hotel with the blinds open. Just make sure you’re on a high enough level to do so with minimal disturbance to folks on street level or lower building levels.

I was also say no (agree, unless abusive), but more because can you float your new rent and your old rent? If you are on the lease, your rental agreement doesn’t care that you broke up. I would work out that first and then figure out what your plan is — I think you would need to find someone to sublet or he needs to…

You can sure as shit bet that if they committed a murder then they’d be found fit to get the death penality, but god forbid they be allowed to have their children.

Because they will go on forever - as they should. They are national treasures and anyone who thinks otherwise can fight me.

That’s not how you spell “misogyny”, friend, but given your slippery grasp of grammar and punctuation, we’re not surprised by the error.

they now know that you lack even a basic understanding of what you’re talking about.

I’d say that a slightly different interpretation could also be valid : uptalk not necessarily functioning as a demand for attention or agreement, but as a signal that says “I’m seeking your empathy and understanding of what I’m talking about, and I’m crediting you with the ability and/or willingness to give it.”…

I definitely find too much of it annoying, but I don’t think most people are doing it on purpose.

You’re right that we should be smart consumers and make a point of paying for stories that eschew stereotypes, but there are countless examples of diverse films that have made plenty of money, and yet a curious amnesia comes over the people making the decisions about what kinds of movies get made - they forget where…

Yep. The fact that people are so starved for diversity is part of what’s making films like Hidden Figures such smashing successes; what we need to worry about now is specifically rejecting films that lack diversity, rather than focusing on “diversity films” as some kind of trendy subgenre. At the moment, it seems that…