>Wednesday is fundamentally a fairly typical teen drama.

Yes. I'm not interested in in per se, but it's high quality. When my teen wants to watch I am happy to watch too.

The look is the ONLY axis where Guzman is a good fit. Very few of the critiques I see are about looks, and yet the responses always seem to bring up looks as if they can debunk the problems by pointing out the non-problem.

He's not dynamic enough.

The biggest problem is that, he and Morticia look like they're faking it. Past iterations have always looked like they couldn't wait to be alone together. These two look like as soon as they're alone they can change into sweats and go to separate rooms to relax.

It's also tricky that G&M have to do the "concerned parent" thing a few times. They skate awfully close to the thin ice of being "normal parents", threatening to put some of the core Addams on the wrong side of the "normal / weird" divide.

As others note, those latter two problems are writing and direction, not casting.

I live in Seattle and I am so glad we managed to get our brush with freezing rain completed before the actual holiday began. My sympathy to everybody who is in the middle of it or has it looming over them.

Try a different therapist

It’s not because every generation is more shallow that the previous one. It’s because every generation gets older, there are a few point changes and they certainly see younger people as shallow. It’s a cycle of perception.

Even if none of them come true, YOU are going to die. People avoid that and don’t come to terms with it. I feel like projecting your angst onto the species is just another way of avoiding looking at your own mortality.

Counterpoint: millions of kids are tucked up, but we notice the celebrity ones. I hate to say it but, I don’t know if we have data that it’s worse to be a celebrity kid than not. Which is not me endorsing celebrity status for kids; rather it is me being gloomy about how awful childhood can be for so many kids.

It’s a fun toy. It’s a terrible TV

Canoes were often portaged.

They put the steam on a boat.

“I understood this, and I’m honestly not that smart, so if I have to explain to you, you’re a dunce.”

Everybody clapped.

Ah, so it was “current events”.

Where “it” was the misconception. Not the war. :)

Buckler on the left.

There’s a reason that many castle entrances are set up to force you to lead with your sword arm. Because that’s less safe than being able to lead with your shield arm and keep your sword arm free for stepping back at somebody.

I think the fallacy fallacy is intended to avoid poisoning the well through an easily refutable argument and favor of some proposition.

If a proposition is argued poorly it can be seen as less true than a proposition that wasn’t argued at all. This is commonly a useful observation, but strictly speaking it is fallacious.

Are you comparing a cheeky letter with extra formality added for effect written by a master of the English language, to your work emails?

Next up: were the top painters of the Renaissance better than my webcomic?

British English.

I have a hypothesis that because so much damage is done to stone by the freeze and thaw cycle of water, that a cliff made of butter would be more durable than a cliff of relatively weak stone. I like to go to the next level and try some experiments, but so far nobody has been willing to underwrite my proposal for $1.7M worth of butter to build my test cliff.

Also, check out “earthquake straps”. Sometimes it’s the same product, and baby safety items often have a significant price markup.

You can find these on Amazon as earthquake straps. They work great for bookcases and other things that are close to the wall. If the cat tree has no place on the high end that’s close to the wall you could tether it in the middle.

Are you renting? Are you going to move soon? If not, then, I would not worry too much about how you’re going to cosmetically hide these once you take them down. You will likely want to leave them up for several years, and even more if you decide to have another kid. At some point years from now you will need to remove some anchors and patch some small holes, which is relatively cheap and easy to do. God bless YouTube.

I suggest ANY house do this for heavy furniture that might fall in an earthquake, as well.

First six months you’re fine. Children start walking at about a year but many start pulling up on things before that, so there’s going to come some surprising moment between six months and a year where you have your kid grabbing onto things and performing maneuvers you swear are supernatural.

I can’t tell if this sounds improbable because it’s made up or if it’s real life and therefore improbable. I do know that if it was fiction, I would be yelling at the characters for being so poor at anticipating outcomes.

Anywa sorry for your losses.

Everything you are saying about Vietnam is true, but I feel like you are mischaracterizing the timing of draft and its enforcement. Elvis Presley was famously drafted during peacetime. The idea that we could maintain a fully staffed military with volunteers only, wasn’t seriously considered during this era.

What Vietnam did was contribute to killing the draft, although mandatory registration for selective service continued.

https://www.sss.gov/history-and-records/induction-statistics/

Notice that the pattern is pretty much, more people for war, fewer people for peacetime, and then it tapers off to the end of 1973, because Vietnam and the ensuing backlash and protest, exposed all of the worst problems with the draft

The draft was in effect from 1940 to 1973.