My brother told me that if I swallowed watermelon seeds I might grow a watermelon in my belly. I remember being pretty worried about that for a few months.

Yes, fine, but your entire premise is that only women are incapable of adjusting correctly because if that’s what’s causing the 73% higher risk number, it means men are doing it perfectly (or fit perfectly) and women aren’t. I don’t think I have ever gotten into a car and not had to adjust the seat and mirrors at…

You’re missing the point that while they have made cars safer and better able to pass the tests, the tests are not a good standard, but that’s what they continue to build cars to meet. There is blame to go around, but just because someone is working hard to pass a test, it’s not useful in the real world if the test is…

If you’re short, you need to move the seat closer so that you can reach the steering wheel. If you raise the seat too high, you can’t reach the pedals. It does help to try different cars and see which one you fit into best, but a lot of people are buying a ‘family’ car and the man will often take the lead on this and…

Yep, that’s it we wimmens are just too dumb to adjust the steering wheel and seat. It has NOTHING to do with the fact that they ballyhoo all this testing and do none of it or designing with women in mind at all. /s

Trump has not essentially changed- everyone knew he was racist, ignorant, misogynistic etc. when they voted for him the first time. It’s a feature, not a bug. Changing their minds is a waste of time. Only 58% of eligible voters bothered to vote in 2018. That’s where we need to focus our efforts. Get the 42% of people…

Britain didn’t ban slavery until 1833. Indentured servitude is not the same as chattel slavery

Yes, slavery had existed for thousands of years, but rarely was it chattel slavery of the type that developed in the US. It is significant that though the colonists could hypothetically have enslaved white people, they never did. Your two examples of slavery are poor as neither the Romans nor the Africans generally…

All great. Harold and Maude is dark though- just be warned. Very funny, but a dark undercurrent and highly unusual. I’d start with My Man Godfrey; Carole Lombard and William Powell. 

I’m guessing most people are younger than me here- I’m 52. I didn’t really get the John-John obsession either. He was a good looking guy and I felt badly for everyone when they died, but it wasn’t an obsession for me before or after his death. Coincidentally, my mom was on holiday in Martha’s Vineyard for the first…

I wouldn’t call his life charmed by any means. He was a child (and man) of wealth with extremely famous parents and surrounded by much tragedy while simultaneously being hounded by the media for his entire life.

I can honestly say I’ve never cried that hard over a movie (and possibly over anything). I’ve always assumed it tapped into other things going on it my life, to provoke that reaction- but I may well be wrong. As you know, it’s truly funny, but also just devastating. 

Happy viewing! Which ones have you not heard of? 

One of the great tragedies of her murder is that she was with a coworker at the time. They were running lines when the murderer showed up at the door. The coworker watched her get strangled to death and called his fucking agent to figure out what to do rather than try and intervene. I know there’s fear and…

If he’s the one I’m thinking of, he was a chef and was hired by a well-known restaurant in LA when he got out of prison. I never went there again. 

I agree! Agree to disagree. 

Ooh, that reminds me of Truly, Madly, Deeply which I think is a brilliant rom-com and made me laugh and cry my eyes out the first time I saw it. Such a great film. I’d call it a true rom-com, but it will make you cry.

that was a very short part of the exchange, by no means the whole thing. I have nothing particularly against trigger warnings, though a recent study showed that they might be counter productive, but I don’t think some of the texts written to someone else, and in the context of a reply to an article on a particular…

Thanks for that name; I’ll check him out!

I’m not missing the point. It’s not irresponsible to post on the subject of the article. It’s a fraught subject and all the trigger warning necessary is in the subject itself.