Fifty shows in the face, not in the body, if you’ve kept in shape. Rachel can have her catsuits, and you can take my bedlahs from my cold, dead hands.

Yeah, she (and the other Red Room-trained folks) take a lot of hits but keep on ticking. “I doubt the god from space needs an ibuprofin after a fight.” Best line of the movie.

I kept saying “this kid looks like a baby Leeloo Dallas Multipass.”  Nice to know I was right!  She really got her mom’s eyes.

Wondering if I should see Black Widow in the theater tomorrow afternoon, or play hooky during a weekday to see it with hopefully a smaller crowd. I’m vaxxed, but still not thrilled at the idea of sitting in a packed theater. How have the crowds been in your area?

At the end of August when the fall semester begins, I’ll be teaching a class of over 200 freshmen. Our school does not (and cannot; thanks, DeSantis) mandate vaccination, and I cannot ask them their status. I’m vaccinated, but as for the students....who knows? Do you think the unvaccinated ones will wear masks? Not…

I have it on good authority that skinny gold hoop earrings scream “I fight other women”.

Well, compared to the lifespan of many other countries, the US is essentially a teenager. Which explains a lot. Much like your average teenager, it thinks the world revolves around it, it picks fights with everyone, and it dates horrible men.

I question the “talented” part of your comment. I mean, part of being a writer is actually reading your own stuff before hitting “submit”.

‘we haven’t yet gained “independence from the virus” in time for Independence Day, as the President has phrased it over and over.’

Read them both.

If anybody rapes me, I’ll kill them.

I read King’s twitter thread in its entirety.

I’m a prof at a public state university in FL. Wondering when this survey will hit my inbox. I usually delete all of the (many) surveys I get, but maybe I’ll fill this one out with some nonsense.

This is what I don’t get....where’s the rest of her family? Her mom and her sister?  Haven’t they seen the problem with all of this? 

This. If you go on a bizarre diet and f*ck up your metabolism, it stays f*cked. Particularly if you do this while your body is still developing. This is one of the reasons so many people are fat in the US....dieting fads targeted at teenagers. Teen girls convinced that fasting or whatever will help them lose 10…

Something similar happened to me on a highway; I was behind and to the left of a truck carrying a bunch of cattle when one of their tires fell apart at full speed. Part of the tire tread peeled off and hit my passenger side view mirror.

In addition to the cringe caused by using a racist tragedy and resulting worldwide protests to “inspire” changes in a clothing line....

Not directly. From wikipedia, so take with possible grain of salt:

Same. Whenever I see a car with a flag bumpersticker or a twitter handle with a flag, I think, “this is a person to be avoided.”  (Same thing goes for anyone who loudly refers to themselves as a “patriot”.)

He looks like an Ewok with Boris Johnson’s hair. (Sorry to all the Brits about the extending of the lockdown that was just announced)