I think of that too. Where I live a whole industrial area over the period of a year turned into incredibly expensive mixed-use area. Luxury Apartment buildings stacked over top of Shake Shacks and restaurants. But as you walk around there are no city services. Nothing that makes it feel like a neighborhood instead of…

To see her performance as Precious and then watch her in interviews show her personality to be almost 180 of her character I’d say she has the range at least. It’s tough to say. A lot of the material she is given is not very good.

I have a doozy. Sewage systems being what they were, and the Thames being a tidal river, many homes in London had their basement level flooded in various amounts of sewage twice a day. Mind you, in your standard row houses, the basement levels were often occupied dwellings...

I read about this somewhere else and ppl were throwing out replacements, rightfully calling for a woman and looking elsewhere at an interview with Wendy Whelan I just want to highlight something she said. First because she highlights some really talented artistic directors who are women, but also for an interesting…

100% That meeting with her where he basically tells her he isn’t going to cast her in anything after her being their principal for ages was so cold. I know that is ‘the world’ but it was seriously messed up.

EGG-zactly! My friggen 8 year old niece covered her ears a couple seconds into the silent scene, later saying she knew it was going to be “really loud when it came back.”

I think what we are interpreting is the tension between what LMA is want to write and the way it is set up in th first half and what she understood would satisfy her readers and how ‘her’ guy was introduced in a rush in the second half. She actually never intended for Jo to marry, much as she herself had not, finding…

And the thing is it was kind of true to life to. Louisa doted on and sacrificed for her family, particularly May whom Amy is based on, and one could argue she didn’t get much in return (I mean, I would at least). She was however super proud of how much she worked for her family and provided for them. I mean, good for…

Gossip is what it is, which is kind of my whole point. What are we to ever make of it? Apply the smell test, for sure. As in this case. But that’s so subjective. The Weinstein case may be different as it regards a number of women speaking out and being silenced. But if all you heard was second hand? How responsible…

If that’s true it really makes me sad...

It’s in blind items scattered about, here’s one https://blindgossip.com/?p=87674

The gossip about Meryl is that she heard some gossip about Weinstein and warned her daughters to avoid him, all before the worst gossip about Weinstein was confirmed soooo...well, it’s just gossip? FWIW

Yah probably. I think beer was more popular? I’d guess beer was a heck of a lot cheaper too...

Yeah I’d say increased drinking is a result of the moral judgments regarding alcohol as a result of the international prohibition movement diminishing over time.

I think it has something to do with what wine used to taste like as well. Even a generic ‘bottle of red’ was much sweeter than we like today. Kind of hard to take in larger portions. The fortified wines such as sherry and madeira were all the rage and those as a rule tend to be very sweet; to this day they are drunk…

Yeah I often think that since we are able to talk about mental health in a much more open way, particularly regarding children who I understand it was always thought were somehow magically more resilient than adults. This makes some head-in-the-sand dearhearts say, “What is happening these days/to the youth.” I, a…

They want people to have large families and the woman to stay at home. Which completely is at odds with their claim that they are best for the economy and super supportive that they are backward idealogues.

Sadly its not even a bootstraps principle. Its not even ironic. Its only ironic if you suppose they want women to work. If women don’t work, childcare is free! No need for maternity or paternity leave!

No. You aren’t supposed to have a job. Stay home and let your husband work! Problems solved (/s just in case anyone would presume)

I know you’ve gotten very many replies, but as a person raised Catholic who’s scratched their head over it before I’ll let you know what I found out. Essentially its an old political profile, equal in age to stating that the South is a Southern enclave.