It reminds me of an old Tales from the Crpyt comic I read. A group of men and women were traveling to another planet. A man set his pod deliberately to wake up before everyone else. He wakes up a woman and lies to her about their pods malfunctioning. He kills the first woman he lets out before he lets out another. She…

To be fair, giving little girls men’s names can only help them, career wise (sadly). People are more likely to call back an arlo than an arlene for a job interview :(

“but to know that even she gets shit about her body is kind of awesome”

What did the producer think was going to happen in Iowa?

Is there a finite number of Barbies? Are Barbies not a renewable resource? I’m sure there will be a Demi one in six months or something.

They wouldn’t have hired the chubby actress to begin with. They’ll just hire a historically always thin one, then pressure her to make sure she remains that way.

“A spacecraft travelling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in one of its sleep chambers. As a result, a single passenger is awakened 60 years early. Faced with the prospect of growing old and dying alone, he eventually decides to wake up a second passenger.”

My neighbor’s name is Arlo. He’s a 70 year old Swiss man who sells tractors. I think it’s perfectly appropriate for an old man or an insurance company, not so much for a baby. I don’t like name trends, especially this one of naming everyone an old man’s name. It’s going to peak and die quickly, so there’ll be 4 years…

If this is how a naturally thin woman is treated, imagine chubby or fat actresses. I don’t even want to know what they are told but I’m sure it ain’t pretty.

“Teens across Twitter are very upset at Demi Lovato for stealing Zendaya’s thunder. I’m not quite certain how teen outrage works, but this is over a Barbie doll.”

But the story gets worse,

“Wap is Gucci” does gucci mean good? ugh i want to be cool so bad, i will never fit in the with fetty wappers (in fact i had to google wappers just to make sure it wasn’t offensive).

For some reason when I hear “Arlo Day” I think about an insurance company.

It’s understood that Outback Steakhouse is not actual Australian steaks. They’re welcome to be snobby about Outback Steakhouse—I have no issues with that. No one here takes pride in the prevalence of Outback Steakhouse.

I’ve talked about this before: I can’t choose to do specific topics, as I pretty much have to go with what I want to do. I’ve requested topic submissions before as part of a regular BCO, and it’s never worked. I probably COULD do a bartenders submission, but I don’t know if it’d be any more interesting than just…

I’m Australian. I know people who would do exactly that. My late husband among them.

This seriously just happened by pure chance:

Went to Australia with one of those high school tour group companies. Our guide was delightfully drunk 90% of the time, and one time in the “Outback Experience” portion, licked a frog and tried to get at least three of us to go “Down Undah”.

I feel like we need to get the butter-boner together with the guy who fucked the bread dough. For science or something.

Aussie dude sounds too good to be true.