I thought it was telling that none of them seemed to move to comfort her even after she let them bully her into the whole ‘I need to forgive him’ thing.

I feel it revealed a lot about who those people really are. She was so upset, she was in tears, and unless I missed part of the interview there was no attempt to comfort her even when she gave in their paradigm that she was the one who needed to do something. ugh.

It just made me flinch for her. I’ve seen so many women in that same conversation, trying to stand up for themselves and just getting steamrollered until they give up. The implication is that she’s being ‘difficult’ and putting the show on the line, but why does no one bring that pressure to bear on Tambor to stop him…

What she realised was that none of those people had her back, and that if she didn’t back down they’d turn on her to uphold Tambor. Ugh, the whole thing was REALLY ugly.

Reading the way these guys dismiss the incident in front of their co-worker who clearly DOESN’T THINK IT WAS NOTHING is very discomfiting. I get loyalty, even misplaced loyalty, but they don’t seem to have any toward Walter.

I swear if you use the phrase ‘new drug fad’ you could get the papers to print a story about how people are snorting cake out a panda’s knee fold to get high. ‘Everyone is doing it!’

Pretty much. I’m alright currently so it didn’t bother me, but back when I was a sad!teen with lots of suicidal ideation...it was pretty much my thought process about how it would go writ large.

Admittedly I didn’t watch the suicide, that’s based on what other people have said. It isn’t a good place for me to go. I did watch the rest of it though and while it’s a good story, I’d argue that is ONE of the things that happens. She kills herself, sets up this complicated plot to explain why to the people she…

It a: makes suicide look fairly easy/peaceful and b: shows that committing suicide is demonstrably the right thing to do. The main character kills herself and everyone is distraught over it, the people who’ve wronged are shamed for it, and lessons are learned that make life better for other girls like her. It’s…

Didn’t Michelle Macnamara coin the ‘Golden State Killer’ name? Previously when his moniker had referred to him being a rapist, the coverage of the case was lacklustre. Serial rapists apparently generate less column inches than serial killers. It’s not as direct a contribution as ‘collected the DNA sample’ but it’s a…

I was playing a rogue in a Forgotten Realms game. At some point the bad guys my group was trying to expose raided the camp and captured everyone. Except I said my rogue hid in a tree and rolled 20s. I suspect this was not how the DM planned for the game to go because he then had the bad guys camp in the clearing and…

Pleurisy is the worst! It’s like your ribs have become cheese graters. Still, my only regret is that I can’t go back and tell that dude off who said I should lose weight and then I’d not be breathless when I ran up and down stairs.

It was really nice! My friend mocked me because I bought the white chocolate one and she was all ‘men are going to prefer the dark chocolate one!’. I was sniffing my own arm at the time, like I care about what a guy thinks right now? I smell DELICIOUS!

It sucks because for years I was just a bit wheezier than other people. Then I got swine flu that year and it ground my lungs up like a mincer. No more perfumes for me:(

I bought...I think it was Jessica Simpson’s...celebrity perfume. Mostly because it smelled like chocolate. Alas and alack, asthma has dimmed my enthusiasm for perfume since then.

I get that. I’ve got asthma and I’ve worked with people who couldn’t stop applying liberal amounts of body spray despite the sound of wheezing from my desk. This woman was just so intent on these damn m and m’s though. It was weird.

If I was informed about it before hand...probably? It seems a bit of an imposition but if they’re going to up and die if they smell deodorant I wouldn’t want that on my conscience.

I was on a flight to Paris recently where the plane wasn’t going to serve peanuts because someone had a severe allergy. About ten minutes later the people in front of me where having a MASSIVE argument because the mom wanted to eat her ‘goddamn M&Ms’ and the grandmother wouldn’t give them to her because ‘it’s like a…

For me, I prefer servers to write it down because I have a food intolerance that’s going to make me sick as a pig for a week if my order is wrong and they don’t sub *whatever* for *whatever else*? It’s possible it’ll happen if they write the order down too, but at least there’s a chance the note will prompt someone’s…

As far as the ‘well it’s your dad’s name!’ thing goes (although mine would actually be my grandfathers). I have had this surname since I was born. If I can claim adverse possession on land, I can do it on my name too.