Sadly, the dems only had a real supermajority for a couple of weeks (I think, maybe it was a month?) Reps wouldn’t seat Franken, then Bird and Kennedy were sick and died. Kennedy was replaced by a Republican and the potential 60 seats were gone.

I know your advice is overall good and the general consensus, but as someone who graduated right before black monday 89?, I’ll tell you that getting nailed in that, dot com, post 9/11, and 2008 has taught me to be cautious. I would have been much better off if I had managed to time the market at least a little and…

You win. That drew me up short too. 

I saw it as an adult when it came out- I had all the same problems with it then that I have with it now. 2003 was not that long ago. 

I know! Not only does the Thompson character give Neesom a hard time for being sad about his wife’s death and tell him no one will sleep with him if he’s all weepy (the day of the funeral? The next day?) but the beginning of the story of the kid is weird too and a total failure of Chekov’s gun. Neesom understandably…

I only read the recap too. It says it’s from a BBC report and the title of the judge is not a US styling. 

I’ve heard that too, but the whole movie is covered in fat shaming (of actual fat people too), which doesn’t make sense with that supposed lofty idea.

He’s in a hospital setting the whole time. He just calls her constantly and she drops everything to be with him. It’s pretty awful that she is portrayed as fulfilling her role by having a miserable life so that she can be constantly on hand to deal with him. 

Oh yeah. Aurelia ‘tells’ Colin Firth that he’s getting fat and will soon be as fat as her sister, etc. a couple of times. He, of course doesn’t understand and thinks she’s saying something nice. When he gets back to France (the part of France where everyone only speaks Portuguese) he’s initially presented with the…

And then he brings two home as souvneirs- one for his friend too!

He was sort of trying to keep it secret. He way over inserted themselves into their wedding by surprising them with a huge performance- that would NEVER go over well, by the way. He also spends the reception creepily filming the bride for what is unquestionably a spank bank. And he only say, “Enough” once she’s…

Not only does the film not condemn him for it, it rewards him. When Kneightly’s character kisses him, he’s won what he wanted in a way. It implies that she is attracted to him and maybe, if they’d met first... He gets to walk away validated and knowing that he ‘had’ her in a way and that’s when he’s ready to hit it…

One of my main problems with the film is that none of the romantic relationships are about ‘love,’ they’re at best about physical attraction/lust. And according to the film, the fact that the men have a hard on for someone fulfills all relationship requirements, ‘cause it’s not like their looking for anything but an…

I always thought it was pretty clear they slept together? I can’t remember if we see him leaving her house, but she gets out of bed and puts on the necklace that has clearly JUST been gifted to her. Maybe I’m remembering wrong?

He only gives that speech out of sexual jealousy, not patriotism. 

Wow, Curtis, the director, thinks there’s a scene in which we are ‘back in Portugal?’ The movie doesn’t have a single scene in Portugal as far as I remember. I do know that when Firth flies in for his big proposal there is a huge sign behind him that says “Marseilles Airport.” His love interest seems to think he’s…

THIS. 

Oh come on, only the deficit will be soaring, I still have faith that the idiot will manage to moron tweet us into a nuclear war way before we really have to worry about coastlines and wide-spread pollutants.

Yep. Whenever I say this to anyone (often not from the States), they say, “oh, you mean they wrote, states rights and you’re interpreting that to mean slavery?” And then I try not to yell, “NO, they were not embarrassed about their reasons, they were VERY clear and wrote very clearly why they were going to war- for…

Wasn’t that obvious from the BBC report and the way the judge is styled? They probably should have said, UK, but I got that from the article without it.