@Mike Caprio: This would have been TERRIFIC.
I have no qualms with using religious allegory or invoking religious questions (fate/free will/meaning/etc) but the "resolution" of this show seemed incredibly hackneyed. I still don't understand why they didn't just say "It's a new universe they created and now they remember the trials they went through and can lead better lives!!" I mean ... time travel, EM crap, polar bears, this would have made MORE sense than anything else!
But to make the switch to the "Purgatory" explanation, ESPECIALLY after the writers and creators had to violently smack down the idea of the island being Purgatory back in season one, was almost insulting. It's almost as though the island being purgatory was their plan from the start, but they got called out too quickly. To extend it and build suspense they denied it, only to put purgatory somewhere else, and in a way that was only tangentially related to the first 5 seasons. Haw haw, made you watch 6 seasons to discover something you figured out in the first.
I have no qualms with using religious allegory or invoking religious questions (fate/free will/meaning/etc) but the "resolution" of this show seemed incredibly hackneyed. I still don't understand why they didn't just say "It's a new universe they created and now they remember the trials they went through and can lead better lives!!" I mean ... time travel, EM crap, polar bears, this would have made MORE sense than anything else!
But to make the switch to the "Purgatory" explanation, ESPECIALLY after the writers and creators had to violently smack down the idea of the island being Purgatory back in season one, was almost insulting. It's almost as though the island being purgatory was their plan from the start, but they got called out too quickly. To extend it and build suspense they denied it, only to put purgatory somewhere else, and in a way that was only tangentially related to the first 5 seasons. Haw haw, made you watch 6 seasons to discover something you figured out in the first.
@shorty63136: I've had more than most humans! Yayyy!
It can be any number of symptoms, one or all.
-Back pain/kidney pain
-INTENSE pain in the lower abdomen to vagina
-Strange, uncomfortable feeling.. When I had one of my first UTIs, I wasn't sure if I had to pee, had some rash down there, or was horny in a very weird way. Peeing, sex, what-have-you, do nothing to get rid of the feeling.
-Urinary frequency
-Pain while peeing
-Pain immediately after ceasing urination.
I've had them so bad that they've literally debilitated me. Also, imagine REALLY HAVING TO PEE, but when you do pee, it burns and stings and is painful as as hell. Try to reconcile the incessant need to relieve yourself with the knowledge that if you do it will be like peeing acidic knives out your special area :(
@sallysparrow: TRUE STORY: I forgot that I haven't finished the first season. One and a half episodes to go. but still: ANGRY! FAKE PREGNANCY! ARJKLNUXOJSJM!
I watch it, but I can't help but feeling as though I'm just going through the motions. There's so much to dislike about it! Most characters get no attention ... and the ones they choose to focus on can be so irritating! They just keep repeating the same issues with the core characters. Why not move on and flesh out the others for more than one "special" episode?
And why, WHY, is this show allowing what is arguably the WORST subplot of all time to keep going? Shu's wife faking a pregnancy and being one of the worst people on the planet to him? Ugh. It's moved beyond "funny and quirky" to ... really pretty messed up and tiresome.
@JaneGalaxy: It's the Awl, most, if not all, of their articles are tongue-in-cheek. I'm pretty confident that they wouldn't claim to have any Super Ace Attorney Reporters on staff.
So I hear a win for cheesecake is actually a win for team cake. Does team cake acknowledge that if ice cream cake wins, it is actually a win for TEAM ICE CREAM and not team cake?
TEAM ICE CREAM! (we have birthday cake, too!)
obviously a lot of this show is wacky and you can't really get all nutty over minor deails but one thing is bothering me...
Jacob and MIB appear to be "very old." They have to be AT LEAST a few generations older than Richard, considering all the people who have come to the island already and "failed" Jacob, and Richard was an adult in 1867. So, why do Jacob and MIB have American accents?
I am still upset that lemon meringue had such a poor showing. BUT REALLY, IT IS YOU, PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOT HAD GOOD LEMON MERINGUE, WHO ARE THE LOSERS!
go back to your watery pools of canned pumpkin puree masquerading as dessert!
(gosh. this competition is really bringing the worst out in me.)
I faked it nearly every time with my last bf. Horrible relationship. I did some growing up, and have since told my new bf that I have some issues reaching a "certain point." He accepts it, understands, and takes it slow. I know he wishes I could do it easily, but he has told me that he would be offended if I faked it. We talk about my problems and what to do ALL THE TIME! Our openness about it is making our relationship one of the best I've ever been in. And frankly, I don't want to bring that kind of weird lying into something intimate with someone I care about. Orgasms aren't the end-all, be-all of sex, either. We take turns giving and receiving and accept our particular brand of sex without worrying about what's "normal."
@DeezerD: The disk that comes with it is kind of useless, in my opinion. I was excited to try out the yoga routine, but it's unbearably slow compared to an actual class (or even to my natural breathing rhythm!). I'm not sure about the rest of it, but it's so low-key and slowed-down that I can't see how anyone would physically benefit from it.
@angelina jolie-laide is a gaudy tulip: oh god, i'm a little drunk and just made an AWESOME (at least, i thought it was) song on that... i think i played it a little too long considering the looks on my family's faces.
I'd like to share My Favorite Story of the past few months. At a big party/festival, my friends constructed a bar (it had flames!) We served all sorts of liquor. I stuck to harmless, delicious things like coconut rum & pineapple juice. As the weekend wore on, however, our supply ran low. Toward the end we had a large bottle of Creme de Menthe and lots and lots of gin. Through the power of "DRINK IT, DRINK IT, DRINK IT!" we served several of these foul, green shots.
At the VERY end, customers began coming up with drink names. The greatest shot name ever (told to us by a drunk guy, exuberantly) was GALAXY. He then demanded this completely fictional drink. We had no liquor left. One of our friends, arguably the most creative of the bunch, took a shot glass from the "dirty" sink, filled it with dishwater, finished it off with chocolate syrup and coca cola, and served it to him. Everyone started chanting "GALAXY, GALAXY!!" The guy knocked it back and everyone cheered.
The next day he came by again, to thank us. Basically, Galaxy was THE BEST SHOT HE HAD EVER HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!!! YEAAAAHHH!!! PARRRRRTYYY!!! We were forced to chant Galaxy along with him once more. He then left us, thinking us to be the greatest bartenders of all time.
The Edward Munster shirt is real, and has been real for some time! It's from Jeffrey Rowland at overcompensating.com.
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I just got back together with an ex of mine (year and a half relationship). We want to try it again, but in an open relationship. Suddenly we are full of honesty and sincerity toward each other. It's very different from the relationship we had before. I care about him deeply and we have a lot of fun together. The sex is good, he's hot, we share interests, I love spending time with him, and we have good ground rules and I honestly don't forsee major issues based on the open relationship.
What's hard is... I was so torn up over the breakup with him. I honestly didn't think I was going to make it through it. Now that we're trying again my first thoughts are about how I'm only resetting things. Our relationship is much healthier and honest now, but there's obviously a chance we'll break up and I'll have to go through this pain again.
Being with him is what I wanted for so long. I had finally gotten over it. But, now that we're back together, I feel so nervous. Is it really right? Should I give it more time? How do I know what's right? How can I stop thinking that I'll just be hurt again? What makes a relationship good? My serious question here is: WHAT IS LOVE, EVEN? #openthread
@boobookitteh: I'm going to go with: EXTREMELY!
He sounds like a gentleman. It's a story I'd like to tell my mother.
@TechLackey: I dutifully volunteer to beta that fic.
Once someone sent me a message on OkCupid that said only: "hey sexxxy" I think it goes without saying that I immediately ran out of my apartment and drove to his house to have crazy sex with him all night long.
That's just how us women work!
I think Donut Mitosis would look awesome above my fireplace.
I'm looking for some semi-related advice. I'm still on HBC (lo estrin 24 fe) but I've been dumped by both my boyfriend and my insurance. I wanted to keep taking it, because my periods used to be horrible and the HBC makes them light and short, but I'm thinking that maybe I should go off it.
Is it bad to go on and off birth control frequently? Or is it weirder for a single girl to remain on HBC considering the possible side-effects?
By the time the Boston Market had been hit, the protest had been split into several groups, and most of the original peaceful protesters were left behind. I've heard numerous accounts of protesters being embarassed by their companions, yelling at them to stop trying to destroy property, pulling people off of atms, etc. Some of them tried to take a dumpster from a local restaurant and were stopped by others who politely returned it to it's place and apologized (I actually saw this happen.)
It really just turned into a free for all where a handful of people screwed up every possible benefit the protest may have had at first. The cop-to-protester ratio must have been 5:1. When all the cops showed up to stop a bunch of people from eating hummus sandwiches in a park, the locals called excessive force. Everyone was so freaked out about the protest and then they saw it, and realized the police were the ones overreacting. Then a few people went and started breaking windows and suddenly the police force was justified. It's really unfortunate.
