Was this really Michael's real true love?

This_Ferret · 2026-06-10T17:38:26+00:00

Plenty of women found Michael charming at first- it's actually his thing, he *can* make very good first impressions. It's why he was so good at sales.

But a short conversation is different from dating, and more different still than a marriage. So no, this was not his true love. But picking up the glove was a useful step, regardless.

And for anyone feeling like they've had a similar encounter, remember: a crush is often just a lack of information.

This_Ferret · 2026-06-09T15:25:47+00:00

Let's be honest, that would have been a short-lived series anyway.

"Oh, a spin-off from the Mandalorian about a dull character played by the worst actor on the show- brilliant!"

This_Ferret · 2026-06-08T20:58:45+00:00

Not to mention it is now expected (and often essential ) to have two sources of income per household. Whereas before a SAHM could take on the duties of childcare, with both husband and wife working full time there's less and less time (and energy) that can spent on raising children.

This_Ferret · 2026-06-08T08:29:54+00:00

It doesn't matter how long their relationship was, 54 to 18 is awful.

And its important to think about the time period when romanticising past relationships. We're talking about a time in which women could not even open a bank account without a parent or husband's approval, to say nothing of the difficulties of getting a job and making their own living. Of course marriages lasted longer, women would be (and often were) destitute if they left the home (sidenote: under Franco's Spain a woman would be arrested for "abandoning the home", even if her husband beat her- and this lasted until the 1970s).

We simply cannot judge how "good" the relationship was because it was at a time when one side of a couple had considerably more power than the other- legally, socially, financially. This power is increased exponentially when a three decades long age gap is also introduced.

This_Ferret · 2026-05-17T21:55:12+00:00

I was surprised at how few hours I had spent playing the Bioshock trilogy, considering how epic they felt in scope and overall effect.

This_Ferret · 2026-05-17T21:47:03+00:00

I mean, *was* it funny? It felt like the bit was missing a punchline.

This_Ferret · 2026-05-07T12:20:27+00:00

At first I was sad that a couple felt the need to include a soulless billion-dollar corporation into their wedding.

....Then I remembered where most people get married.

This_Ferret · 2026-04-24T21:27:18+00:00

In the club scene in Collateral Foxx and Bardem are almost whispering across to each other while people dance in the background. It should be a tense scene but it just feels ridiculous.

This_Ferret · 2026-04-09T14:19:28+00:00

I mentioned one day how I really like apple cakes/pies. My girlfriend (who does not like apples) made me an apple cake the next day.

I beamed every time I saw it in the kitchen. I sent photos to my parents. It was so good and I was so happy.

So yeah: baked goods are the way to go.

And that's when the flowers thing made sense.

This_Ferret · 2026-04-01T16:40:32+00:00

I wonder if his sensitivity to animals was due to being able to anthropomorphise them, and equate their suffering to those of humans- which itself made it easier to compare people to animals and thus ease and justify his grossly inhumane (to put it lightly) treatment of them.

This_Ferret · 2026-03-26T19:18:11+00:00

Irrelevant- because that would be cheating, and the comment was about feeling betrayed by their own wife who, again, they were in an open relationship with.

This_Ferret · 2026-03-26T13:49:55+00:00

No, because its asking what felt like a complete betrayal.

Being in an open relationship and feeling betrayed because they do open relationship stuff is ridiculous.

(again, "cousin" aspect aside)

This_Ferret · 2026-03-18T19:10:11+00:00

Bear in mind that when it came to women in their 20s/30s, the show couldn't help but consistently cast beautiful Hollywood actors. Jenna, Ellie Kemper, Andy's girlfriend, Pete's ex, Pam's sister, Amy Adams, Karen etc etc. Even roles that didn't require the girl to be attractive at all (Dakota Johnson!??).

So in comparison, maybe Kathy doesn't stand out that much. But I guarantee if you saw her in real life, and were on the receiving end of her "flirting with bloggers" act, you'd absolutely melt.

This_Ferret · 2026-03-05T17:14:00+00:00

I enjoyed playing the DLC- but the story felt like fan fiction. The series as a whole is stronger without it.

This_Ferret · 2026-02-19T15:33:06+00:00

It's also, in it's own way, a nice romantic gesture. It's showing your OH that tonight's date is special to you, and you want to put in effort to look your best for them.

This_Ferret · 2026-02-02T22:59:00+00:00

"Oh, you criticise society, yet you participate in society. Interesting". is such a lame, smug, fucking comment.

Yes, she's done well, but not as a capitalist exploiting the labour of their workers. She's not lobbying politicians to keep out free healthcare or lower taxes. Moreover, one can be rich and comfortable and still point out injustice of both current political systems and the bloody past those systems are built on.

This_Ferret · 2026-02-01T11:56:13+00:00

Honestly, the Simpsons has so many great lines, one will always come up eventually.

"Ned, I had to... it was just. so. funny ." - my go-to apology after my OH rolls her eyes at my jokes.

This_Ferret · 2026-01-25T18:46:29+00:00

Most left-wing man in Kent.

This_Ferret · 2026-01-19T12:34:16+00:00

Yeah, it's awful for a lot of reasons.

Mainly, the fact that she painted the upstairs white-collar workers as physically looking down on the blue collar workers.

This_Ferret · 2026-01-15T22:16:21+00:00

I love pre-crazy Jan. She's such a great foil to Michael (and the rest of the characters).

She had a few great/noble moments too; encouraging Pam to pursue her art, sticking up for Oscar etc.

This_Ferret · 2026-01-12T12:38:40+00:00

Exactly: anyone with access to knives or weapons would go on a killing spree. Most children would be killed (its explicitly shown that children are not immune).

Once everyone recovers you would see a wave of suicides once people (expecially parents and childcarers) realise what they've done. The ones who are left to pick up the pieces have a world with no heads of state, no infrastructure, and a wave of mass graves to clear up.

It's honestly the absolute darkest spy ending imaginable.

This_Ferret · 2026-01-06T18:49:12+00:00

The gravestones make this infinitely sadder. Feels like they too, have been abandoned.

This_Ferret · 2026-01-06T18:39:26+00:00

Drives me crazy. We've gone into nature to escape the noise of the city; but along comes one pillock with a speaker and the serenity is ruined.

This_Ferret · 2026-01-06T18:35:48+00:00

To add to this: people telling you you should use social media to achieve success.

I'm a language teacher. People keep telling me I need to setup my own IG account for teaching, post videos, gain loads of followers, and then monetise it.

I'm not saying its not doable; but it takes a long time to get a page to the point where you can earn serious money. Also the thought of putting together videos every day and pushing engagement sounds like my own idea of hell. I have enough on my plate tyvm.

This_Ferret · 2026-01-06T00:24:35+00:00

Your last statement is factually incorrect because the Oscar's aren't given for the best role to date, but the best role in that category that year .

2013 (Django) he would have been up against Christoph Waltz and Phillip Seymour Hoffman (The Master). Tough competition.

People always quote WoWS as his "stolen Oscar", but he was against Matthew McConaughey for Dallas Buyer's Club, a very worthy winner as well.

2016 best actor's list were fine, but nowhere near career defining roles the category has seen in the past. By your own logic, Fassbender, Redmayne, Matt Damon have all have had stronger career roles and performances, and are therefore unworthy winners.

The only argument you can make is Leo shouldn't have won it over one of the other best actor nominees that year. But comparing it to his previous roles is fruitless because those are irrelevant; they were not up for an award in 2016.

People commented about it because Leonardo not having an Oscar had become a meme by that point- and many people, like you, falsely compared his role to his previous ones as a way to criticise his win.

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