Yellowbug2001
Yellowbug2001 t1_j2bvv4t wrote
Reply to comment by FreshChickenEggs in I just can’t with the forced romances in mysteries and thrillers! They are so ridiculous by ginnygrakie
Sometimes I wonder if I'm strange because I'm a woman with a number of male friends from high school, college, and grad school, we've always been just friends, it's never been weird, there was never any question of romance, we went to each other's weddings and were happy for each other and are now friends with each other's spouses, too. I literally can't remember having seen this dynamic in any work of fiction outside of like, The Muppet Show. Are most people just randomly horny about literally every member of the opposite sex they meet and very short-sighted about who they decide to flirt with? Or is this some weird thing where fiction doesn't reflect real life at all and writers only bother writing male/female friends if they're going to use it to inject some drama when the plot lags, because "seriously, actually friends" is boring on paper even though it happens all the time?
Yellowbug2001 t1_j1eme2h wrote
Reply to comment by dgodog in TIL that Vidal Sassoon (his real name) started styling women's hair in wartime London as a teenager, but he took a hiatus at age twenty to join the elite Israeli commando force known as the Palmach. by p38-lightning
LOL if Max Factor wasn't destined to found a beauty brand when he was born he definitely was the second his parents gave him that name. I had no idea it wasn't just a marketing phrase like "Ultra Luxe" or "Va-Va-Volume!" or "Glamwow" or something.
Yellowbug2001 t1_iub8ts6 wrote
Reply to 'Arachnophobia': Frank Marshall reflects on his eight-legged directorial debut by JannTosh12
I made 4 different people take me to the theater to see this on 4 different occasions the summer it came out when I was 12. I haven't seen it since, but that summer I LOVED it. Looking forward to rewatching it with my daughter when she's a little older to see how it holds up. It's still about as scary a movie as I can handle, ha.
Yellowbug2001 t1_j2fdkkx wrote
Reply to comment by hodler41c in I just can’t with the forced romances in mysteries and thrillers! They are so ridiculous by ginnygrakie
Not YET, surely it's only a matter of time.