Honestly if you went into the subforums (well, most of them) everyone was normal! I ended up spending a lot of time in The Book Barn and No Music Discussion back in the forum's heyday and got so many great recommendations from people.

This is such a relief to my ears, especially after her last one which I did not like at all 😬

Andrew Scott is swell but Hot Priest was NOT hot.

I also don't know what being a Catholic priest in England entails but he was written more like a vicar? I don't know of any priests from my own churchgoing life that were ever so available to just hang out with parishioners like Hot Priest was.

Ha, and yet another spiritual truth is there is nothing (except perhaps being named Ashley) that could out me more as a middle class person born in the Midwest in the mid-80s than my specific combination of Amanda + middle name.

(I am in practice, however, the chaotic Amanda that goes by Mandy)

And the glue!! I had glue from those things stuck on me for WEEKS the last time I had some on me.

Yes! I have become an almost exclusive audiobook listener after having to transition to using eye gaze technology, and I DESPERATELY wish narrators of adult books would stop doing voices. Unnecessary, and more often than not it negatively impacts their vocal clarity!

Independents are real too because they are just Republicans with the awareness to know admitting that out loud is embarrassing.

Love the "losing interest" framing like the Ukraine war is the latest season of Stranger Things

Exactly. What's funny is even the political pundit's favorite meme of how something "plays in Peoria" as code for country bumpkins is derisively ignorant of active reality: Peoria is a city of 113k and its county has voted for the Democratic candidate in presidential elections for the last 30 years.

Years and years ago I read on a message board (!!) the clearest distillation I have ever seen about our presidential politics, and it plays out the same every fucking election: the Democrats have to fall in love with their candidate while the Republicans are busy falling in line.

This is what I keep coming back to: who is this national-level Democrat that 1) is not Biden 2) meets all the requirements of disaffected voters 3) could beat Trump? With a press that is wholly in the tank for Trump. Does such a person even exist? This is also a genuine question.

I've had this exact issue for several local elections now. Sometimes if I'm lucky I can find stuff on Facebook but it's incredibly time consuming.

Combs not changing the gender in the lyrics feels like a centimeter of progress for Nashville, too.

Right?! It's been a little concerning that so many women my age are being awoken to the basic tenets of feminism by it.