Had the cookie been fake or the money been clearly fake, they might have understood, but you give a small child (even a fairly well off one) a cookie and they are not going to get that they really don’t get to eat it. These kids live in orphanages, that cookie was meaningful to them.

I’m saying that this isn’t a cruel and unusual auditioning technique cooked up by the Western Imperialist filmmakers as they trawled impoverished schools for children who are, according to you, illiterate at the age of 10.

Maybe don’t adopt? If the other option is adopting from a system where a lot of the children up for adoption have literally been kidnapped, including maybe the one that person chooses.

If you don’t think a bunch of white people swooping in to a country like Cambodia and doing this with kids is a bit problematic, I don’t really know what to tell you.

I have accidentally discovered that my laptop’s screen somehow wedges into the open tray table latch on Virgin in a way that seems to prevent the person in front of me from reclining more than a few inches.

I’m going to go ahead and guess you’ve never explored adoption options. Adopting as a single woman, it would have been cheaper, faster, and less parental-rights entangled to adopt abroad. In short, it is frequently more practical to adopt abroad rather than in the US.

This entire thing is stupid. How exactly do people think children audition for movies? And what the fuck is wrong with people that they think “make-believe” is an exclusively first-world thing?!

They’re kids! They don’t have the same grasp on complex emotional matters that adults do!

This is how you cast non-actor children. You set up a “let’s pretend” game and see what their natural reaction is. This also happens with adult actors - I was once in an audition when I was supposed to act out being on a plane mid-hijack by Islamic terrorists. It was improv, they just wanted to see how we would…

I have a stationary bike/TV setup and I found there’s a steady speed I have to go at to make sure I can still hear the TV but still have enough focus to read the subtitles (different languages). This has ended up providing a pretty steady pace.

God, I wish we only had 6 police shootings in the last year. That would be a tremendous victory in the US.

I’d wager 1/2 the Brexit voters don’t even have a passport. (“I’m not going on holiday somewhere with all those foreigners! Cornwall is fine for me.”)

If you find out how to get to reality from this bizarre upside down world we’ve been trapped in, please, please let me know.

Yeah, but that tweet is from the afternoon, when they were thrilled because they anticipated this would be a great issue to hang around the necks of up-for-election Democrats. Not looking as shiny now the story about wall funding is out.

Calling bullshit on the Earl. Do I believe that it’s totally possible that stiff-upper-lip Charles awkwardly asked his sons if they wanted to be included in the procession and they shell-shocked and awkwardly said yes? I do. That sounds exactly like something that would’ve happened in my family. Do I think that it’s…

McCain will vote for it, saying that there is need for debate. He will then vote for the final bill after a few fig-leaf amendments are attached.

You seem to think I went to college for null-grav yodeling or something.

Still applies to theatre as a major, too.

Your dad was intense. My parents were more low-key but started earlier. I got a clothing allowance in junior high that I had to manage every quarter (it rolled over), I was introduced to banking and CDs when I was probably 10, and I had part-time jobs starting at 13. I was somehow convinced to put almost all gift and…

At this point I kind of enjoy how obviously Lavrov is loving his job.