thanks! someone else mentioned piriformis stretching, so i’m definitely going to check it out.

i have yet to be treated by one of these creatures, but i do believe they’re out there. somewhere.

yeah, that’s true. it also makes them resistant to outside ideas, and slaves to their own ideas.

thanks for the stretching tips!

i learned this 9 years ago. a friend of my husband’s and mine from law school lived with us the summer we were all studying for the bar. i knew this guy was conservative. he’d been the president of his college’s college republicans. he was catholic. he was personally very financially conservative. fine. he could be…

that is helpful. i have excessively high arches and i’ve always had a lot of foot problems (i had bunion surgery when i was a 21 year old athlete). i hadn’t thought of looking into stretches to strengthen my feet, and my doc didn’t say anything about it.

ya know, i really, for the most part, have a low opinion of medicine in this country. i have a good PCP, though she has a tendency to punt to specialists a bit too often. i have trouble with that because i have a bit of a phobia about doctors and hospitals and all the accoutrements of health care. so i hate having to…

hi! can i jump in and ask a question?

when i was in college, i played rugby. i was also dating a member of the men’s rugby team, and good friends with a lot of their players. we both did what we called “special socials,” which were our version of initiations for rookie players.

i have a friend who’s a prosecutor in a large county, and she mainly prosecutes felony sex assaults and domestic violence, and deals with murder prosecutions when those acts lead to death.

thanks!

yeah, that is about right.

old white men are utility racist players

is gateau basque a cake or a pie?

i like cake, especially a spongey type soaked in something. but my husband hates it, and at our wedding, we had an assortment of pies. we didn’t do any cake cutting, because we didn’t do most of the traditional wedding stuff, so that wasn’t a concern.

yeah, there’s a whole undercurrent of tension in the show that despite their wealth and apparent success, joel and midge’s families are not exactly part of the ruling class.

yeah, i always assumed that they had women with their hair down to make it easier to film with a stunt double.

you said in four sentences what it took me like 100 sentences to say, and you said it better!

the only consolation is that those things probably get like 10 mpgs, since they’re roughly the size of a small yacht. and parallel parking can’t be very easy, since the front and back ends of those things are a mile long.

man, everyone else is responding to me with facts as if i was actually wondering why people would buy those cars, and as if i was wondering why the spotlight was still there.