Doctor Who. I weep.

You could just go hang out with the middle aged women for an hour? It’ll give you an idea of what women feel like going into a weightlifting gym.

Yep, both the Monogahela and Duquesne Inclines (that’s the Duquesne in the picture) are running still. If anything, I think Pittsburgh needs more funiculars, not less.

Last time I was in Scotland, I got a sunburn! When I got back to England, no one would believe me on that point.

It’s a beautiful city with really striking, complicated topography. We’re one of the greenest cities in the world (tree-cover-wise) just because there’s so much land you can’t build on. It’s too steep. And a legacy of robber barons means we have a lot of former-estates-turned-parks.

I live in Pittsburgh, so, like, everything?

My canned response to any and all #notall[whatever]:

This is all the more hilarious because honestly Oliver kind of soft-pedaled the gender aspect here. The vast majority of his statements were phrased as people being shitbags to other [non-gender-specific] people on the internet. He mentioned online harassment of women specifically a few times and his examples were all…

With you. And I get flamed on Gawker sites every time I say it, but whatevs.

Ah okay. Just as I expected: it was a custody battle. I know there are dudes who sincerely love their kids and want like hell to spend more time with them, but honestly, what I see way way way more often among my divorced friends is dads who blatantly give zero shits about their kids except as ways to control or get…

These books were (still are?) an integral part of many a young lady’s coming-of-age. I have no idea why, but it’s completely a thing and I completely read them when I was 13.

So what’s up with the father here? Are they divorced or what? Because this seems like a superduper dick move.

I’m banned from giving blood forever because I lived in England in the 80s. The year is now 2015, but I am still not allowed to give blood because of Mad Cow. The rules are conservative in the extreme.

#notallwhitepeople?

That’s bananas.

Up until a year ago I was making $15/hour as academic research staff with a Master’s Degree. Like hell I am paying the kid across the street that much. Here in flyover country, $15/hour is actually a living wage for an adult person with a family, not a teenager or someone doing a few hours of casual side-hustle.

I love York. Tourists who visit England and stay only in London and the south are really, really missing out.

Nerdy quibble: The faces in the trees are associated with the Old Gods of the Children of the Forest, not the Seven. Two different faiths.

When we:

I’m also loving it (but then, I also loved the books). I actually think my only quibble is Marc Warren and the portrayal of the Gentleman. Way too on the nose for me. One of the things I loved so much about the book is how under-the-radar the Gentleman is. He’s not immediately identifiable as the villain, he’s got the…