Rosebud is a sled.
Wow, didn't know that. Good point. What a sad end for Whitney Houston. The fact that the Grammy pre party went on after her death tells you pretty much everything you need to know about the music business.
Arg! What happened to my paragraphs?
I kind of agree. And I think these guys pretty often play the same role as The Incredibly Hot Girl, who appears mainly as an object of desire but is not really a character, as opposed to the More Real, Yet Still Gorgeous lead we're meant to identify with.
Perhaps this is the right place to nominate rom coms that stand the test of time? That way avowed, and crypto, rom com fans might have a reference?
I nominate The Philadelphia Story, Say Anything and Truly Madly Deeply.
Well done! And dead on about the male lead, he has to be a romantic with a cynical shell.
If you don't want to read this, I totally understand, but it's late, and I'm a bit amped up.
Perhaps you could have a bit of fun with Not-Right-Girl, and Not-Right-Boy and bring in the "two couples" premise that worked so well for so many (like Shakespeare).
The two leads dream up a mate that makes sense "on paper" for both in every way except romantic love. The right career, right school, the right cultural preferences, even the right contrasting hair color. But these "rights" represent high-order desires for our guy and girl, not what either is like, or truly wants, deep inside.
And lo, they each find such a person for the other. So two new couples are formed, but our Girl, who is more savvy about these things, due to her long study of romantic comedy perhaps, realizes that Mr. Right really isn't.
But no! Our Guy doesn't realize it. He and Ms Right are moving ahead. In a twist though, Mrs Right isn't a bitch who gets her comeuppance, but another lovely woman who has resigned herself to a relationship that looks good on paper. She sees that our Guy truly loves our Girl, and she him. So she, not the Girl, arranges a moment where Guy must realize who he really loves.
So now Mrs Right is watching the two walk off into a twinkling twilight street, crying her eyes out because she's not cold at all. And who should appear, but Mr. Right, who had come to bring back the incredibly cool LPs Our Girl loaned him. He sees the crying beauty, offers her a hanky, she spies the box of records, and asks "Do you actually like that."
Mr Right, all dimples, and brokenhearted as well, smiles ruefully and says "Not really. I like Incredibly Uncool Sappy Romantic Stuff."
Mrs Right "So do I!"
And they too walk off into the twinkly twilight, because their compatibilities are a perfect match, because they, too, let their higher order preferences mask their true desires.
Nobody is bad. Nobody is humiliated. We get surprised by Mrs Right being a really decent woman, and ti ends in a wedding for everyone. Rom Com boxes checked.
Bulldogs are even worse than that, bulldog puppies have to be delivered by cesarean section in most cases. (80% is my understanding - it's because their heads are too large.)
German Shepherds with hip problem are in many cases an issue of irresponsible breeding more than anything else. They're popular dogs and unscrupulous breeders and puppy mills will breed dogs that have hip problems, rather than only dogs that don't. Finding a sound and healthy dog from a popular breed is more difficult than you might think.
I don't like to see animals that are bred in a way that makes them unhealthy, miserable, or mentally deficient compared to an average dog. I'd very much like to see that ended. Unfortunately, as long as people will pay for such dogs nothing much will change.
One thing to keep in mind on your show dog comment, though, is that upper end show dogs represent an extreme, where the dogs to be shown are chosen for conformity to (very strict) breed/show standards. This means you'll often see dogs that are very similar to one another as breeders and dog show enthusiasts strive to attain those standards. FWIW other than health problems that simply are part of a breed, like the bulldogs you mention, high end show dogs are generally bred free of any genetic issue it is possible for them to be free of.
I don't show dogs, and never have, but I think many breeds are worth defending, as they're generally healthy happy animals with a purpose in life they joyfully fulfill. Those purposes are often useful to people (and once were critical). I'm not talking about sick cases like fighting dogs, but herding animals, hunting dogs, terriers and the like.
Exactly! Summonses, we hates it forever!
No one who would do that should be deciding legal cases of any sort whatsoever. Good riddance.
I think she was shot leaning against something, with her shoulders and elbows touching whatever it was. They cropped it out. Try actually standing like that with no support, head forward, rest way back.
The boobs are the same, in the SI pic she's leaning way back against something and they cropped it out, that's why the boobs did that, versus standing straight up with some sort of cantilevering going on with the bra thing.
Well ok, maybe the color, but look at the body position. It looks like she was shot leaning against something, with her shoulders and elbow touching it. Try standing like that without leaning on something.
She looks great, the photoshopping is kind of scary. Orange. Anatomical weirdness below the waist. It looks as though she was shot leaning against a palm tree or wall or something and they cropped it out.
Really, try standing like that, not leaning on something, with your neck in that position. You can do it, but it's far from comfortable - I know - modeling, but still, I think she was leaning against something. It makes much more sense.
Those are some really cute beagles there. A little small for my taste, but ready to bring show judges to bay anyway.
Do you have any actual experience with dogs? Just curious.
That sounds like the sort of remark she'll probably outgrow.
I think that means she doesn't weigh under 100 lbs at 5'9"
Since a non-vaccinated child can actually kill other people's children through spreading disease, why isn't failure to vaccinate a crime?
Her children's rights? Yes, she's violating them all right. They have a right not to be physically endangered by her stupidity.
If God didn't want anyone vaccinated God could probably do something about it.
Do people realize that Mumford and Sons is a folk band, btw?
Of course it doesn't! That would be inconc.......
