To me, her “calmness” was very similar to the way a horse trainer speaks to a spooked and dangerous animal. She couldn’t risk setting Officer Triggerhappy off on herself or her daughter.

Yeah, I almost went off on a friend-of-a-friend comment that called her reaction “psychotic” because she was so calm. Of course, I’m 99% sure if she had been hysterical, they would have seen this as evidence that the officer was right to feel threatened.

It doesn’t matter what she would have done. If she had been hysterical they would have said she was putting on a show for the cameras.

When you’ve got a preconceived notion of how something is supposed to play out, suddenly everything looks ‘fishy’.

I’ve seen some people on my FB news feed (those that I affectionately refer to as “the asshole contingent” of my family, mostly) questioning how calm she remained throughout the video, and how matter-of-fact her narration was. The upshot seemed to be that there was something fishy about it.

it is amazing. she is the definition of grace.

All those T. McGuire Spider Man movies SUCKED.

Your sister sounds very much like Me Ma, a badass Irish nurse who was cold as fuck to us growing up but in a crisis was the One you wanted there - calm, clear-headed, persistent. I've always thought those traits are what make a nurse as essential a public service as a firefighter or cop.

It must be great to be so perfect.

I know: I LOVE NURSES. My sister is a nurse and she is fucking awesome.

When I had to take ambien I had to start putting my phone in another room. One night I was texting my gf who was downstairs watching tv with some friends that bats were in the bedroom attacking me. I woke up to about 200 pictures of blank walls I took in the dark of “the bats” and some weird Instagram posts. That's…

No idea, maybe it’s stuff that’s really happening to her or maybe she dissociated or something. I don’t know what she took but I had a mild delusional freakout once after 2 glasses of Pinot Noir and an Ambien. Fortunately for me I was in my apartment with my then-roommate at the time, and not on an airplane. If she…

Do people make stuff up like that just because of pills and alcohol, I wonder? Or was she freed from whatever inhibitions kept her from disclosing the abuse? Either way, how awful for it all to happen so publicly.

Gah. I hope she’s all right and it was just a one-off bad reaction to the combo of wine and pills. How scary for the kid too, damn.

Don’t forget the “not a rapist” cookie, it’s culturally significant to these guys.

Oh I don’t know.

just wanna make sure we get “bye” in there in as many different languages as possible, in honor of iggy’s cultural awareness.

There are more, but I’ll stop.

Especially since Bernie can’t find a suit that fits or comb his hair and Trump is orange and has a dead pomeranian on his head.