Sofia Vargara is hilarious, in a really dry but smart way.
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I <3 Sofia Vergara. She is incredibly funny in a deadpan way (like the thing where she explained that she became a movie star to do ads and spend her money on handbags).
This is why I'd pause at even thinking of living in the USA. Even the potential dismantling of the NHS (don't get me started) is better than this.
One of the best manufactured girl bands OF ALL TIME? I hope you mean that the original manufactured girl band is no.1
I know it's tokenism (she was basically the one minority character in Gilmore Girls) but Lane Kim was pitch perfect: an American girl (obsessed with music!) struggling with her strict upbringing and actually finding some peace with it!
Given the subject matter, not sure if it's entirely fair to point fingers at GoT or Mad Men. No mention of Grey's Anatomy though? For all the soap opera stuff, its colour blind casting was fantastic. And Cristina transcended any stereotype: she was uber type-A, complicated and interesting who happened to be Aisan.
One of my worst memories as a kid was having lice for *almost a year*. We had very long hair which made it hell to treat, and given it was the 90s there wasn't all this other stuff available. I remember crying cos the nit comb hurt, and then still finding eggs. And of course you didn't want people at school to find…
I remember watching You've Got Mail and Sleepless in Seattle back to back, and finding both break ups a little too convenient. However, I did warm to the YGM one when I found out that Greg Kinnear had fought hard for his character to "not just be a Ralph Bellamy character" that gets dumped. Apparently there was a lot…
Apart from the Netherlands. I tried to order cider in a restaurant in Amsterdam and the server looked at me strangely!
There was another survey a few years back that showed that eldest children were likely to be doctors or engineers younger children were far more likely to do artistic careers. That one seemed like familial expectations.
Oh god, my childhood was made up of 'look after your sister'. At the time I hated it, but in hindsight I did think it taught me a bit more empathy.
The original article talks about 'firstborn' and in some cases explicitly says 'eldest or only'. The general rule seems to be that only are even more ambitious and definitely not needing the company of others (my mother is an only child and I've in later years noticed how she and some only children I know have similar…
It ocassionally lays it on a little thick (the overt mentions on the benefit of the NHS were a bit of a clang, but perhaps an act of politics since the NHS is starting to privatise) but yes. I love that were there an inverse Bechdel Test it would probably fail.
Not that the US often pays much attention to British shows, but the runaway success in the UK of BBC's Call the Midwife—where the nurses stay in a convent and the lead midwives are in fact nuns—might also play into it?
There were weird different universes: ones where Elizabeth is still with Todd, a 90s version where they split up, and then an odd high school year one where half the people get killed in an earthquake.
The Photoshopped one? It's Crazy Stupid Love.
One of the best things that my high school did for sex ed was have some incredibly 90s (hey, it was the 90s) sex ed leaflets that also explicitly said that masturbation was OK (and some not-graphic-but-instructional-enough-to-get-the-idea copy). No one ever talked about it but I'm pretty sure it made all the…
I've spent a lot of my adult life around people with small children (I'm in my late 20s, no partner or kids and not particularly fussed about it). What's been interesting as of late is that my co-workers have started talking about what this means. Two things have stood out to me:
" Calum is of Maori and Scottish heritage". Basically your standard Kiwi then (we're a mixture of everything!) And by god do they look young without all the gears. Props to them though!