You’ve just expressed what I’ve been thinking about Catastrophe. I enjoy it but I don’t think it’s a portrayal of an average relationship. Fictional Sharon and Fictional Rob have no respect for each other.

I love this show so much!

I love Catastrophe and Sharon Horgan. Weirdly I always think I know her. I’ll see pictures and think “Oh there’s Sharon”. Maybe it’s because she’s Irish and other members of her family are also so well known here? I dunno, anyway I always feel like I’m rooting for her. I digress...

“As good fortune would have it, we had a bodyguard that summer,” she writes. They persuaded their bodyguard to buy lemonade, and then their driver, and then the maids, who “dug deep for their spare change.” The lesson, she says, is that the kids “made the best of a bad situation.”

The main event of the day (TCM is running a Barbrathon this evening to celebrate)...

Yes, it glorified heroin, just as every single film depicting heroin use glorifies heroin, to those inclined to find heroin use attractive. The worst toilet in Scotland? Ceiling-crawling dead baby? Those are no barrier to someone’s finding heroin alluring, if they are already on that path. (I’m going to point out here…

Our Lady of Botox, pray for our sins and wrinkles to be miraculously smoothed away...

Hotter take: Is there a way to portray suicide without glamorizing it?

Pictured: my reaction to anything related to Nicki now:

That’s fair, though I have to imagine that a) you could find some incredibly amusing statistics if you dug into the data, which would basically demonstrate that the demographic bloc most committed to preventing “socialized medicine” is the same demographic bloc that’s on Medicare, and b) you could probably also find…

Wow congrats Serena!

I’ve had to tell girls if you call me nigga I will get up and leave mid-stroke. I don’t play that shit. Like, I’m comfortable with a certain level of objectification. The game is the game. But my line is very firm. I don’t know you like that at all.

I don’t live and die by the Property Brothers, but HGTV is my go-to background TV station, so I will probably end up watching this. I like what the Property Brothers end up doing, I think they are better TV personalities than most, and I’d rather watch hours of them or most other HGTV programming than 10 seconds of…

Completely agree, but I guess we’re in the minority here.

No. That’s exactly the claim he wants to make. And he’s proud to do so.

I think it’s really, really important that people who don’t come from cultures where FGM is actually practiced make sure to listen to and take the lead of women who do come from those cultures. One reason why is that outright banning FGM and strictly enforcing it in the West can result in people bringing their…

Aid groups/NGOs working to combat it often state that it’s local women who are the hardest to convince, particularly grandmothers.

Given that he did five years, I rather doubt that he was just an innocent caught up in the nefarious scheme of his employer. “Working” to vacate a conviction carries no assurance that said conviction, particularly one that led to significant prison time, will be vacated. In this case, I strongly suspect it’s more of a…

As Dita Von Teese said “You can be the juiciest peach in the world and there’s still going to be someone who doesn’t fucking like peaches.”