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Right. I don't understand people who have so little control over themselves that they must "stare at their hands" ... I guess to keep from shoving them down their pants and flicking the bean mid movie? Moaning at the sight of th for object of their affection?

I think this sounds pretty entertaining but C.S. Lewis would have a fit.

Well, would *you* want to wear your pricy Goth clothing when you have a job where you might be handling stuff that has bodily fluids and other messy things?

College football with my sister and Overwatch League.

Weirdly, my favorite is Nixon. I just find him ridiculously fascinating. He's totally corrupt, but also oversaw the establishment of the EPA, lowered voting age, signed in Title IX, and did a lot to try and reform healthcare and welfare based on his own dismal experiences while growing up. It's just... kinda fascinating to watch it play together.

Least favorite: Buchanan. Fuck Buchanan.

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I always keep the closed captioning on when I'm watching TV and sometimes the captions just say "speaks Spanish", but other times, the captions display the dialogue on TV in Spanish.

But yeah, it might be better to watch a whole show in Spanish if that's how OP learns best and there's definitely variety in telenovelas. Or, if the dub is good enough, one could watch familiar shows in the language that one is trying to learn. I used to watch Supernatural in French when I was in high school.

I rarely get carded for anything anymore, and when I do I assume it's because of a policy to card everyone who isn't obviously middle aged or older, and not because they think I look that young. Still, people tend to assume I'm at least a bit younger than I am, maybe 30-ish rather than the 38 or reality.

The gray in my hair tends to confuse people. Once in my late 20s, by which time I had visible salt-and-pepper, I went to get it cut and when the stylist was asking for my life story, she kept trying to add more time in there as if she needed me to be older. "So you took a bunch of time off between college and grad school, right? Oh, so grad school was quite a while ago, then?" If I cover the gray, people have tended to think I'm a lot younger. Currently, I get most of the gray dyed over, but leave this one clump where the gray was coming in more thickly, so I've got a bit of a stripe going, and that seems to walk the right line between "old enough to be afforded respect" up-close, and looking young from a distance.

I don't particularly like being mistaken for a high school kid because I'm 56.

none.

Rugby! When I can catch it. ...which isn't often. :(

(go All Blacks!)

I actually agree. This is why I love it when I have DVDs that I can select either English or Spanish for audio and subtitles separately. I usually watch Spanish subs, English audio first, then Spanish audio with English subs, then Spanish audio without the subs. It is a great tool I think for working on my Spanish. In fact, going to be watching Empire Strikes Back in Spanish tomorrow.

Jackson was a murderous and genocidal bastard, both in his military career and as POTUS. So yeah, I'd call him worse than Trump.

Roller Derby locally.

Really?! I can watch NCIS?! Yay! I love me some police procedurals and Mark Harmon, but I can't stand her.

Gough Whitlam for favourite. Not sure about least favourite. Maybe Deakin? He had a lot to do with the White Australia Policy, which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like.

Lincoln was pretty cool. I did a lot of reports on him in elementary school because I thought he was near, but I also remember feeling really sorry for him.

I think I agree with almost all of the choices they made in adaptation, and still think the movie didn't quite work. And if the kids around me were any indication, it missed them as the target audience as well.

I wouldn't say he's my favorite, but I definitely appreciate that he did a lot of things that are super important to me. It's too bad about the evil stuff.

Favorites:
Obama
FDR
Lincoln
Kennedy- I'm not into the whole mythology around this family, but I do think he was a good president
John Adams
George Washington

Least:
Jackson and Trump. There are others I don't love, but none come close to these two.
Well, Reagan and Wilson are also ones I hate. While Jackson was the worst, I think, Reagan raises my rage most often because things he did during his presidency are so much of an effect on my career area and the people I want to help.

I called Capital One today for some customer service. And I was shocked to find that they were Americans! I don't really care what nationality my customer service people are but that surprised me.

I'm honestly not sure. I've heard both. I think I have a bit of a baby face, but I'm a fat woman, which ages me. So I can look either depending on the situation.

Thatcher - fuck Thatcher.

Callaghan - obviously, totally ineffective, which makes it hard to appreciate any good qualities he might have had.

Harold Wilson - very good politician. Generally lacking in conviction or morals, but a phenomenal instinct for the popular elements of politics which you have to respect on some level.

Ted Heath - such a weirdo. Probably the last major representative of the One Nation, Churchillesque conservative line, and really didn't have the imagination or political instinct to pull it off, but he really tried.

Alec Douglas-Home - a political nonentity.

Harold MacMillan - an impressively, shockingly competent, and effective, and ruthless political operator. A harmonious administrator.

Anthony Eden - a man out of time. A deeply aristocratic politician who only cared about foreign policy for his whole career, committed to maintaining Britain as an empire, a la Grey or Salisbury, but at a time when that was no longer possible.

Churchill - he was Churchill. An asshole, a terrible human being, an adventurer in the worst sense, one of the great parliamentary performers ever, one of the last people who could have an impact as a politician solely by his performances in the House of Commons, and he was undeniably the best politician to run the War.

Atlee - phenomenal Prime Minister. So knowledgeable and intelligent and just a master of any subject he turned his mind to. Dry but forceful and deeply moral.

Chamberlain - fuck Neville Chamberlain. His reputation is mud, and he's still overrated. Personally unpleasant and arrogant, committed to totally wrong courses in foreign policy and forced them through against opposition, and probably was on some level sympathetic to the Nazis at least as a bulwark against Communism. Fuck him and fuck his daddy too.

Stanley Baldwin - a much more effective politician than Chamberlain. Probably had a lot of the same beliefs but gets away with it because of when he resigned. But a totally ruthless, brutal, pragmatic political operator much like Wilson.

Ramsay MacDonald - an idealist and romantic. Pretty useless against a politician like Baldwin but, you know, he probably inspired a lot of people and the rest of that, I guess.

Bonar Law - total nonentity.

Lloyd George - obviously, a phenom with enormous self-belief, enormous moral convictions, and a real fighting spirit. I respect him a lot. Even if he was so pugnacious that he wasted a ton of time fighting people on his own side needlessly, and also kind of destroyed his political party in the process, you can't help but like the guy.

Asquith - again, very likable. Also, an alcoholic. Competent personal manager of a really impressive cabinet. Smooth talker (relative to his time).

Campbell Bannerman - really underrated. Combined a capable fighting spirit with real, deep-rooted convictions and beliefs. Slightly old-fashioned, maybe, but in a way that gave him a real integrity and self-possession. Great fella.

Arthur Balfour - garbage. Trash. Second-worst prime minister after Chamberlain. Completely supercilious, useless aristocrat. Totally fucked up his whole party over Joseph Chamberlain's tariff reforms. Just did not have anything close to the ability to deal with it. Dickhead asshole.

Salisbury - probably a dickhead. But he had a real sense of himself and his beliefs, and although they were very cynical, grim beliefs, they worked well in foreign policy, which was all he cared about.

Rosebery - useless arrogant aristocratic prick. Fuck Rosebery.

Gladstone - what can you say about Gladstone? A total zealot and true believer, whose political convictions underwent several seismic shifts through the course of his career. Personally very weird, but an extraordinary performer in the Commons, with an intense certainty in his convictions, and a unique ability to think through and grasp extremely detailed conceptual structures. What he believed often sucked ass, though.

Baseball when the Red Sox are playing. That's about it. Well, occasionally I'll watch tennis. And dancing. I love to watch professional dancing, especially ballroom and hip hop. Not sure if that counts, but whatever. It is totally athletic.

Because I need some advice.

How come?

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