Fom what I've heard, Kate is still pretty close with her family, was even at Pippa's wedding and her parents were at the hospital when she gave birth. Also, Meghan still keeps in touch with her mother, Doria. Maybe, Thomas, the problem isn't the Royals, but it's you.

Jesus this guy is embarrassing. I know some people have no shame and will do anything for money but damn. Money isn’t better than having good relationships with your family. 

As with many costume dramas, it sounds like a lot of the issues stem from the writers trying to shoehorn modern political points into history (“Mary is painted as a tolerant, even democratic woman,” “she tells him that then her sister he will be,” “the movie’s casting was frequently colorblind”*).

Accurate in that is was a propaganda piece produced by and starring one of the descendants of the plotters ?

So much of that era’s violence and sheer religious hatred gets softened in movies like this. The only fairly accurate adaptation I’ve seen of that in recent years was Kit Harrington’s Gunpowder.

A colleague died at our holiday party. Major coronary on the dance floor. 

My uncle died yesterday. He was a liberal librarian who used to send me tapes of Capitol Steps. He drove old people to the polls. He spoke out against injustice. His name was Allan and he was amazing and I don’t understand how he could be gone.

One of my earliest memories is of Christmas. I was around 2 and at a family Christmas party. My dad noticed I had a weird look on my face. He asked what was the matter and picked me up. I rested my head on his shoulder and proceeded to vomit down his back.

Scotland is part of the same island as England...

There is nothing feminist about either Queen. They both operated on a sense of divine rightness to rule. Not any democratic or republican ideals, even if somewhat foisted on them by limitations of their court officials or Parliaments or previous compacts, like the Magna Carta.

Portman didn’t say Simpson herself sent mixed messages. She was talking about how the music industry used Jessica Simpson. Both women make valid if not similar points. There is a very creepy fetishisation of virginity and purity in the industry. Particularly with Britney, Jessica Simspon, Miley Cyrus, and Ariana…

The human body is equal parts fascinating and disgusting.

Dude *literally* coughed up a lung. How many people can say that?

I mean, this guy died, so he can’t say that either.  But for a very brief period of time...

They should replant that back in Winterfell where it belongs.

My SILs and I make polite conversation at family gatherings. Outside of that, nothing. I actually don’t think I have either of their phone numbers. Nothing against either of them, we just have very little in common and none of us feel the need to go out of our way to be besties. 

As a Canadian I just don’t understand it, your entire healthcare system. It makes no sense. If you put people in ruin due to medical costs, you lose their spending power. From a purely economy standpoint, it makes zero sense.

That baby doesn’t like pink, pink has been thrust upon her.

As a Canadian I just don’t understand it, your entire healthcare system. It makes no sense. If you put people in ruin due to medical costs, you lose their spending power.  From a purely economy standpoint, it makes zero sense.

This is true. I have been checking this site for well over a decade and I think snark for snark’s sake has finally lost its luster for me. (Except when it comes to Republicans. Then there can never be enough.)

Years ago, I was watching a mastectomy of a transman. The before photo of the nipple was censored but the post-surgery nipple was not. It was the exact same nipple, but less breast tissue and fat behind it, and suddenly it was acceptable to show on TV. -__-