I guess I don’t understand the witch hunt, which kind of takes Zeke’s agency away. Zeke says he’s happy with it. Can’t we be happy for him?

Oh, it’s DEFINITELY a US vs UK thing.

Aggh I wrote a long reply but lost it so quick replacement

Yup! As a brown woman traveling with an arabic boyfriend, we like to err on the side of “lets not get killed tonight in a random city”.

For me the essential problem with these things is that I don’t know exactly what I am going into or if it will be there to begin with. I prefer the relative safety of a hotel situation for short stays.

I’m not wishing death on anyone per se.....I mostly just want a mortar fired in his vicinity to scare the shit out of him and make him realise this is not a fucking game and he’s in way over his head. Iraqi politics are extremely delicate, and a little screw up by an inexperienced but powerful individual with no…

I cannot, for the life of me, decide who I hate more - I read this, and set my rage on Ivanka. But then! I remember that Jared - a 36-year-old who fell into this position by way of marriage with zero credentials - is currently in Baghdad, “solving” Iraq’s complex, multi-faceted, interlinked, and very bloody crises…

She had the audacity of being enthusiastic about her craft while at the same time participating in a number of high-profile projects, then - horror of horrors - being recognized for her talent and dedication.

She had one too many good things happening and some people with internet access just couldn’t let that stand. I mean, an Oscar! Who the hell did she think she was?!

Man, you guys owe this woman a 50-page apology. I don’t know why anybody hates her— someone didn’t like the sincerity level of a speech she gave and that’s why so many years of public abuse and loathing? Or something? But she sounds 10x smarter & more self-aware & more gracious than any writer here, in any event.

As a British person, I am completely baffled that Cat Deeley is famous in the US.

But there are no details aside from needing to return food 5 times. Was the food too cold? Too hot? Meat, when it should be vegetarian? Hair in the soup? Were there cockroaches? Too much sun shining through the window and blinding her? Why is the manager terrible? Did he punch her? Was the bathroom dirty? Did the…

Playing devil’s advocate here (and also, I admittedly have soft spot for Swift because {short story} she regularly visits Hasbro Hospital here in Providence and it’s totally unannounced, never has a group or anything with her. My friend Shannon’s son was in treatment there when he had cancer....she sat with him for…

This is what I was thinking too. Even if she loses a lot of fans because she does some bare minimum like speak out for women’s rights in her own country, she’s hardly going to end up in the gutter. That makes it even harder to stomach imo: the only thing she has to ‘lose’ is getting even richer than she already is…

This whole discussion is just a reminder of how awesome the Dixie Chicks are.

you act as though anticipating changing market conditions is easy, or even possible at all in many cases.

Kate bought the dress off the rack. It wasn’t a commission. As was stated upthread.

Well, yeah. If you get a flood of orders you aren’t prepared for, sometimes you just can’t fulfill the orders. And once that happens your brand gets a bad reputation.

The dress

because schwartz is a baby who wont do anything that takes him out of his comfort zone and katie is obsessed with the idea of hitting social milestones