Do you do west coast swing, by chance?

It was the same in my family, and no pacifiers after 12 months. My mom was a preschool teacher and saw many a child with anxiety and messed up teeth from thumb sucking and pacifiers in her classroom. She refused to let us do the same.

Yes, that was one of the main factors. Also the depth and structure of the cave. He was around 100ft/30m below the ground underneath a steep hill. And they’d be drilling into a cave system, not solid ground, meaning there would be a very high risk of a sinkhole/collapse or rock slide. They didn’t just have Jones’s safety to consider, but the safety of rescuers too.

Impossible in the time frame it would have taken to save him, yes. It would have taken days.

Are you dumb, or are you just anxious and sheltered? Your sentence about grad school makes me think it’s the latter. There are a lot of people like you in the world of academia.

Likely behavior for Gary Busey

Just picked this one up today! I’m looking forward to reading it. I love their movies.

In college, I worked in our theater department’s box office. My job mostly involved taking orders over the phone during the day and helping with the ticket window or concessions booth during nighttime shows, but occasionally we would get walk-up customers at the window during the day too. Mostly students and their parents or professors.

One day, two equally short and equally pot-bellied men walked up to the window. Clearly father and son - one looked to be in his 70s and the other in his 40s. They were dressed like a couple characters out of a mob movie - fedoras, sunglasses, gold rings, the works. And they spoke like it too. When it came time to pay for their tickets, the younger guy whipped out a HUGE roll of bills. If it weren’t a random weekday morning and they weren’t clearly related, I would have sworn they were doing a bit or method acting. I still wonder who they were and why they were going to see a college production of Legally Blonde in suburban Chicago.

Beautiful. It’s on my bucket list to do a walking trip in Scotland someday.

I do think he writes way too many books to not be using AI, but he doesn’t, or at least, he had that quantity before AI writing was a thing

IIRC Patterson only does the outlines for most of his books, then hands them off to various ghostwriters. It’s a fairly common practice among pulp thriller/mystery/romance authors, or at least it was pre-AI.

Succession is a great show if you love to pick apart dialogue and character dynamics, but it’s one of the worst shows to watch if you’re looking for any type of visible action lol

I came to comment the same. I love mid century nostalgia and social/historical commentary. Love the cast in everything else I’ve seen them in. Love dramas where it’s mostly people in rooms talking. But I must have started Mad Men 5 times and never got past the first few episodes. It just never hooked me.

I was a teen during the peak avengers era and loved them then. Nowadays there’s maybe 1 superhero movie every 2-3 years that I actually watch and enjoy. It’s amazing how quickly the genre has gone the way of the western.

Same, I know almost the entire discography of The Fray by heart atp 😅

In German, ‘schwül’ is a way to describe the weather when it’s muggy outside. On the other hand, ‘schwul’ is how you would describe a friend of Dorothy.

People had been accusing Cosby as early as the 80s about assaults that happened as early as the 60s. Similar to how UK comedians joked openly about Walliams being a creep long before the allegations ever became public, the allegations against Cosby became public after the comedian Hannibal Buress joked about it on stage. It’s not a 1 to 1 comparison by any means, but there are a lot of parallels in how the situations are playing out.

I vote for any of those songs by bands like The Fray, Counting Crows, Train, Snow Patrol, etc. that were popular on soft rock radio in the 2000s and somehow still play every time you’re waiting in line at the pharmacy or Barnes and Noble.

Seems the UK is going through their own Cosby moment right now with the David Walliams allegations

Easter for sure. It’s just another Sunday for me.