See How Complicated She Is

Oh, and while I wait for new seasons of Bosch and The Expanse, I’m also on the lookout for binge-able TV dramas. Recommendations would be appreciated.

I’ve done the ‘didn’t realize it was a date’ thing.
Well, don’t leave us hanging. Don’t worry, we won’t judge.
Not to your face.

Speaking of dating dramas.

Thanks.

Try Goliath on Amazon Prime.

Speaking of TV, I did try Sky’s Catherine the Great recently, but despite the might of Helen Mirren, it never quite hits its mark. The first episode is written and edited so poorly it’s practically incoherent. It gets better, but not by much.

Thanks. I see I’m going to have to start writing a list.

But then I don’t live in Guardian world
I think that in that world, they think there’s something wrong when only half the men you dated now think they’re women.
It’s like the joy of “circumgenderism”, where you’re physically male and think you’re male, too. Well, that means you’re male, doesn’t it? No, not if you self-identify as trans, and feel that you should have been born female and transitioned to male.
All of the drama, without any doctor’s appointments or having to buy a new wardrobe! It’s the new fad!
Of course, “real” transgenders are upset by this because, as one said flat out that “I learned that people will literally do anything to get attention or earn oppression points.”
Yes, transgenders are now openly admitting that they have a point system for their victimhood mentality.
Everybody wants to be at the back of the bus these days, it seems.

a bit facile, but I couldn’t stop watching.
I don’t mind trashy TV. For instance, I’ve been watching The Blacklist, even though half the cast are, at best, mediocre and the whole thing jumped the shark a couple of seasons ago.

After dating for about a year I give a woman access to the bank account I use for paying bills, we had just moved in so it made some sense. She burned through $3,000 and bounced nearly 700 dollars in checks in a couple of weeks.
Thank goodness I hadn’t given her access to my personal account and savings.. she would have ruined me.
Worse, three months after I’d broken up with her she attempted to pay her utilities from my account. I emailed her and told her to replace it by the end of the day or I’d call the cops. She did, and I changed banks.
She had the gall to call me an asshole… because I wouldn’t let her steal from me.

the whole thing jumped the shark a couple of seasons ago
That. My wife simply does not believe me when I tell her that James Spader was once a sex symbol. He and Val Kilmer should start a support group.

My wife simply does not believe me when I tell her that James Spader was once a sex symbol.
Oh, it’s hokum and has probably outstayed its welcome, and whatsherface, Megan Boone, can still barely act; but Spader is having fun and some of the criminal entourage are entertaining. And it turns out that’ll do, just about. A sort of low-expectation, low-commitment viewing.

Also finishing season four of Outlander on Netflix and I realized that Canada is now the go-to country for finding indigenous actors, which probably a good thing. Tantoo Cardinal made an appearance and I was trying to pin point the actor in the Mohawk Chief role. It wasn’t Graham Greene (Dancing with Wolves), Gordon Tootoosis is dead, it wasn’t Lorne Cardinal from Corner Gas. I had to wait for the credits – it was Tom Jackson (known for playing the chief on North of 60, and his touring Christmas songfest – Huron Christmas).
Plus in the credits it noted the Canadian casting agency, which given that the only non-Scottish/English roles were the indigenous actors, clearly they were mostly recruited from Canadian sources.
Good job guys

just finished watching Unbelievable on Netflix.
Thanks, but I’m not sure I’d enjoy it. Real-world squalor’s not my bag.

Electric Dreams is kind of a poor man’s Black Mirror. Each episode is stand alone and can be hit or miss but like Mirror the subject matter is twitchy enough to keep interest. I hope there’s a second season.

Now that’s a really amazing story is it not?
Statistically, yes. Congrats.

+1 for Unbelievable. Mindhunter is good. And as an antidote to the ‘oh dhaling so adorable Fleabag’ I enjoyed Gameface- rough around the edges but it should be…Roisin Conaty.
Just finished Criminal UK and about to embark on Criminal Spain, Criminal France and Criminal Germany to see how the same thing is approached.
Did you see Spotless a few years back?

Is “half-Jewish” a race, a religion, or a sandwich?
But see her collection of identity badges. See how they catch the light.

Did you see Spotless a few years back?
No. I don’t actually watch a lot of TV. I’m usually here with you heathens.

Is “half-Jewish” a race, a religion, or a sandwich?
Was that meant to be a rye comment?

Was that meant to be a rye comment?
These horrible Jewish jokes make me challa out loud.

Update to Titans Walk Among Us.
One of the “fearless masked heroes,” has had a karma moment. Alaa Alsoufi, the hero in the black balaclava and the orange t-shirt in the video has been receiving some unkind feedback on social media to the extent that his family run restaurant in Toronto has felt the need to shut down.
While I do not condone the kind of threatening behaviour the Alsoufi family has experienced, one shouldn’t be surprised that if you are going to run with Antifa, threaten 80-year-old women in walkers, and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with comrades who call said seniors nazis that you will not be targetted in some way.
What’s also interesting, is the Alsoufis arrived in Canada in 2015 from Syria having been sponsored by a Canadian organization. Within two years they were able to open a successful restaurant and become an immigration success story. Their son’s “activist” lifestyle seems an odd way of saying thanks. I’d say it’s an unusual way to try to fit in to a new country except there are enough of these SJWs in enough places to almost make it appear normal.

one shouldn’t be surprised that if you are going to run with Antifa, threaten 80-year-old women in walkers…
According to the one tweet I saw about this, the family is claiming that although their son was at the demonstration he did not obstruct or threaten the woman and her husband. However, I do not know anything about the truth of their claim because I have not seen video which identifies their son and his activities in that “event”. Nonetheless, if you run with Antifa you can be presumed to be a bad guy.

She doesn’t look the type…
https://twitter.com/CourtNewsUK/status/1181842645540376576

If you watch the Andy Ngo video in David’s post linked to above you will see the woman and her husband are obstructed by 3 people. One…has been identified as Alsoufi.
Thank you very much!

I once dated myself a coupla times.
What a bore.

I once dated myself a coupla times.
So was it an amicable breakup, or did you dump yourself?

“Justified”- yes, definitely.
“True Detective” seasons 1 and 3 are terrific, but give season 2 a swerve.
Mrs. Oik and I enjoyed the adaptation of Justin Cronin’s “The Passage”, a vampire/zombie apocalypse mash-up that took many liberties with the plot of the doorstep-sized trilogy of novels but which turned out to be surprisingly watchable.

Thanks for the suggestions. Will mull.

Gomorrah on Netflix.

“The Boys”
Yes, I enjoyed that more than I thought I would. Rather gory and darkly comedic.

I recommend trying to find some old showings of “Hee Haw”.
Hours upon hours of down-home good corn-pone fun, that.

the agonizing and frankly terrifying oppression experienced by a middle-class 16 year old American girl who’s – sit down for this – 6 foot and 1 inch tall
You can make a good romantic comedy based on the premise of a restricted dating pool, like Marilyn Monroe who only wants to marry a millionaire, or Jane Fonda in Tall Story (1960) whose practical solution to her dating problems as a tall girl is to go to where the basketball players are. In the same year, Paula Prentiss and Jim Hutton played out the “tall girl eventually finds tall guy” story in Where the Boys Are. The premise seems out of date in 2019, when 6′ tall girls aren’t unusual, and they’re channeled into basketball or volleyball where they have lots of tall friends and access to a tall dating pool.
The other theme in the clips is that the girl is ashamed of being tall, thinks everyone is looking at her, wants to be invisible. You can make a good movie about a young person who gets over that phase. In Sabrina, Audrey Hepburn tells her father that she needed to leave home and go to cookery school to learn “how to live, how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch”. That’s a process of getting over yourself, of a self-conscious person figuring out how little space they occupy in the consciousness of other people. It doesn’t culminate in a speech to your entire high school about how you’re not going to make me feel bad any more. Who is this girl and what sorts of grandiose delusions have been stewing in her head?

Have you watched Ash vs. Evil Dead yet? All 3 seasons are now on Netflix and it’s the grooviest thing I’be ever seen on television.

If you enjoy Blacklist for what it is (rather than what it’s trying to be), you may like Covert Affairs on Amazon Prime. It’s very fluffy and silly but it’s not trying to be anything but, and Piper Perabo is actually likable. She does “plucky” well and doesn’t strain the Mary Sue tolerance.
Although if I’m honest, I watch it mostly to see just how far they’ll push “the ROM and Union Station in Toronto are every location everywhere in the world“.
I saw a nod to Justified – well worth the time, and also consider Banshee and The Americans. Westworld is excellent although they do lose the plot a bit in S2.
I’m not even going to chime in on the bad dating stories. It would be like Agassi playing the local high school girls’ intramural team.

“Although cannibalism is portrayed in a less than favourable manner.”
Bigots.

The other theme in the clips is that the girl is ashamed of being tall, thinks everyone is looking at her, wants to be invisible.
I’m 6’4″, which means I used to attract women like this like moths to a G-class star. There is absolutely a “tall girl slouch” affected by such women, a kind of weird contraposto intended to make them look shorter than they are. It mostly just makes them look like they have scoliosis.

@Dr Evil
This is a family-friendly blog. Please keep your perversions to yourself.
Is “half-Jewish” a race, a religion, or a sandwich?
It’s the confession of an intersectional pauper.
You know, the kind who bemoans not having even one Native American great-great-great-great-grandfather…
@Darleen
There’s an excellent takedown/review of Jessica Valenti’s memoir, written a few years ago by one Robert Stacy McCain. However, it was posted on medium.com, and subsequently removed from there, and I’ve been unable to find the whole text since. Perhaps someone else has a link?

Zionist Overlord, perhaps this is the review you are thinking of?
https://theothermccain.com/2016/05/29/new-york-city-is-a-wretched-hive-of-scum-and-villainy-just-ask-jessicavalenti/

Related … HOW DARE YOU FORCE US TO SPEND MONEY TO LOOK GOOD!

1) this would obvs never be a story about a man

Meanwhile, in 1993…

They do so like telling the rest of us what to do.

I’m dead on 5 foot…
[ Adds extra cushion to Sue’s chair. ]

Thousands of brilliant & good people… according to themselves,
Another twat.

Another twat
“I’m extremely sorry for the inconvenience…”, videoing himself the whole time, yeah, it is not at all about themselves.

Another twat.
Again, they target decent, polite, white-collar citizens whom they can be certain won’t put up a fight. Time and again we’ve seen it, from Antifa to BLM to this current crop of enviro-loons. Hell, I see it writ small every day, usually from urban yoof on public transport who’ll play their favo(u)rite musical celebration of illiteracy at full volume on their tinny little cellphone speaker, just to get a rise out of the normals. Or who cross against the lights, knowing that drivers will give way.
Neither our Moral Betters nor our Designated Victim Classes seem to realize or care that patience is not infinite, and decency can be driven out of even the most decent person if the incentives are applied hard enough for long enough. It may take a decade or more, but the time is coming when the preachy geography teacher on the airplane gets knocked cold and tied to his seat by a passenger while the flight attendants focus their attention elsewhere. The man on the bus may throw the mobile out the window, to the delight and applause of everybody except the offending yoof. The commuter may decide that it’s not worth getting rear-ended in traffic just to keep from hitting a jaywalker.
What’s more, juries are going to start acquitting their neighbo(u)rs for these breaches of public norms, because they’ll understand the circumstances and sympathize with the defendants. And if juries won’t convict, prosecutors won’t prosecute, and cops won’t bother enforcing the outmoded laws any more.
I don’t want to live in that world, and I resent those who insist on pushing us toward that end. I can only console myself knowing that their antics are going to be punished much more severely than any transgression I might commit. Even if I must see to it myself.

And I can’t write in a house where something is wrong.
BPD. This kind of OCD and gaslighting is a coping mechanism for constant low-level trauma arousal.

retroactive lesbianism
Album title.

If you search The Other McCain’s website, you’ll find that for awhile he read and deconstructed a number of feminist books, quoting directly from them, and proving these harridans are underpants-on-head cray-cray.

Another twat.
I wonder would he try that on an Easyjet flight from Glasgow to Tenerife?

No, please. Take a seat.
Two crows, feasting on a battlefield in ancient Israel. Younger crow says, “why is this knight different from all other knights?”