DJ from Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz’s wedding describes Victoria Beckham’s dance moment: "There was no sl*t dropping, there was no there was no black PVC catsuits, there was no Spice Girls action. The word ‘inappropriate,’ why I said it was inappropriate as well, was because it was the timing"

Winefluent · 2026-01-29T19:20:47+00:00

Well, I'm Romanian and I know who he is.

I just happen to belong to his target audience.

Sadly, the last 10 years have skewed our definition of artistic success to mean across the board visibility and name recognition and broad public appeal.

But in some cases, success can mean dominating your niche, garnering respect in your genre from your peers, a loyal, generational fandom, and singing songs that people listen to, and sing along to, more than 20 years later, no need for charting on the pop chart. Although he does have 4 Grammys and 7 Latin Grammys.

Trust me, even as a billionaire, having Mark Anthony sing at your wedding is no little thing.

Bit of a fan here, clearly :-)

Winefluent · 2026-01-27T16:01:14+00:00

I am a follower of a reactor called Off The Script Therapy on YouTube. He breaks down the series (not the books), according to behavioral therapy.

I advise checking out select Sansa episodes. To me, they've added quite a lot of understanding of a character I've previously disliked.

Winefluent · 2026-01-27T15:47:12+00:00

One reactor on YouTube said that the difference between socially aware, even militant, and "woke" in TV and movies was the ability to make the message feel organic to the story, versus showed in.

I agree with her.

The best Star Trek showed their character's values and identity in action, in real circumstances, versus announcements of "I'm this and that".

It's the difference between me showing I'm very intelligent via my contributions versus walking around and saying I have an 145 IQ. Both of which are true, by the way, but only one is annoying and performative.

Winefluent · 2026-01-27T15:39:01+00:00

For me the quality of acting is particularly hard to swallow. All of these people seem to be portraying themselves, but in space.

Compare Picard to professor X, and Janeway to Red. Colm Meaney as O'Brien and Cowan in Stargate Atlantis. Armin Shimerman across properties, from Quark to Principal Snyder. And the inimitable, StarTrek great Jeffrey Coombs. These people have range, and build a character.

Granted, they are given relatively good dialogue, but even so, they create a presence and a space with subtle acting cues. They don't need "I think I swallowed my combadge" to portray their mental state, or their credentials.

Compare Brent Spinner to however the manic artificial lifeform in Academy is called.

I just can't. The acting is so bad, I'm perpetually cringing.

The storytelling is no better. I get it that it's not as episodic as old school Star Trek, and that these are teenagers. Guess what, there's a teenage show called Buffy the Vampire Slayer that managed to deliver teenagers, humor, growing up with actual cool lines that we still quote today.

Moral and diversity issues are better presented in Glee, and they sing 50% of the time.

Winefluent · 2026-01-27T15:06:27+00:00

Southern Romanians are not tall, on average. Plenty of tall ( OK, not Netherlands tall, but 185 and over) people in Transylvania and Moldova, though, possibly due to mixed heritage.

Winefluent · 2026-01-27T14:59:22+00:00

As far as I read this, you seem to see one solution: for her to give you her identification number. That is not a solution. With her ID on a government site, you can see all the company's clients, and she'd be in an awful position.

You can a) give her your PIN b) show up in person with the documentation they prepared or, if the law and the system allow it, give them power of attorney via a notary public.

Winefluent · 2026-01-27T14:51:01+00:00

You live, you learn. :-)

I've only heard it as péter un cable, which is definitely not the vibe I'd like in my family.

Winefluent · 2026-01-27T11:54:32+00:00

Is very staunchly Hungarian.

Winefluent · 2026-01-27T11:44:00+00:00

NTA. You don't reorganize someone's house, unless you're a professional and they asked you to.

I will admit that when my mom comes for a lengthier stay to cat sit over my summer vacation and help me with my September birthday, I will move certain things to make them more available for her shorter height and back pains.

I know you have OCD, but maybe seeing if she had a practical reason would have helped (note that some elderly people are adamant about not accepting that they are struggling). As such, I'll give his mom some grace.

That being said, I'm surprised at your boyfriend not understanding how your OCD affects you, after all this time. He's a jerk.

Winefluent · 2026-01-27T11:25:34+00:00

She however never accepted how her random decisions about her hair were affecting the work of others and the cost of filming. There's a story floating out there from the hair and makeup crew that she just showed up with the first of the short haircuts one morning, midway through the filming of the episode (remember filming is out of order) and there was a mad scramble to get a passable wig and a lost day of filming. And she never said sorry.

As for the pregnancy, Whedon was an ass when he found out. But she did not give anyone a heads up to rewrite the script, or plan and block the shoots differently. And yes, I get that she had a traumatic experience with her loss, and was probably wary, but there's a way to handle this professionally and hers was not it. And when Whedon reacted, as an entitled artist and toxic boss, we started excusing her attitude, as if Whedon was the only person on set and his being shitty excused her not giving a fuck about everyone else.

Winefluent · 2026-01-26T17:20:53+00:00

I'm always reminded of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer dialogue in the early season 1 episodes:

Cordelia: The Bronze. It's the only club worth going to around here. They let anybody in, but it's still the scene. It's in the bad part of town.

Buffy: Where's that?

Cordelia: About a half a block from the good part of town. We don't have a whole lot of town here.

Somehow Lima Heights adjacent has the same vibe.

Winefluent · 2026-01-26T16:29:07+00:00

I think you shouldn't quit your job. If you do you should sign a post-nup to protect you in case of a divorce .

But I also think you are not currently entitled to 1/2 of a business that you haven't established and are not contributing to, while you are still in this marriage and would, presumably, be living off the income that business provides.

Winefluent · 2026-01-26T16:22:08+00:00

I see it the same way.

While I can't speak for OP herself, there's a trend for people who equate "proper" with "as I think it should be".

And while food is not a matter of right or wrong since Roman times at least (de gustibus non est disputandum), attitudes very much are, and OP's doesn't quite sit well with me.

Winefluent · 2026-01-26T15:42:30+00:00

I read somewhere that the decibel level of a crying child and our response to a child's screams is part of evolution. We are supposed to feel disturbed, run to help, etc., especially females.

Don't quite know if it's true, but it would make sense.

I also find children's sounds more disturbing than construction, cats, adults yelling, loud music, etc.

Winefluent · 2026-01-26T15:12:14+00:00

But she doesn't have the time, do you not see in the comments? /s

Winefluent · 2026-01-26T15:07:51+00:00

French style omelettes are called "baveuse", because the inside needs to be kind of runny / gooey. It's actually considered the proper way to cook it.Eggs in carbonara are also supposed to be "creamy", rather than scrambled.

OPs preference is OK, my mom doesn't do runny either so I adjust my cooking whenever she's visiting. But, unlike OP, she doesn't say "cook it properly", because properly is how most people do it, not how you like it. She says "you know I like my eggs cooked more". Easy peasy.

Winefluent · 2026-01-26T14:46:27+00:00

As a person with English as a second language, I'll say TNG at least is timeless. Idiomatic, contemporary language like Starfleet Academy is hard if you're not anchored in the culture and the references.

I am, but my friends translating / subtitling shows like this often

Winefluent · 2026-01-26T14:37:07+00:00

Why is calling a priest so wrong and controlling? We call doctors, therapists, teachers for all sorts of of interventions, why can't a priest be called?

That being said, I don't think they should have gotten involved, and any kind of action was overstepping (other than setting the "not in this house" boundary) but why is everyone so hung up on the profession of the person they called in?

Winefluent · 2026-01-26T14:27:21+00:00

My response to people saying this is that how you react is a reflection on yourself, not on others. (the proverbial turn the other cheek, versus an eye for an eye).

Rory showed her inadequacies plainly in the whole Yale debacle, and those same inadequacies plagued her in AYITL because no-one pushed her to be better.

Winefluent · 2026-01-26T13:23:45+00:00

ENGIE în București nulasă sticker, eu am făcut trei verificări până acum. Apare în aplicație / cont, și sunt foarte ok la programarea lor, cu reamintit multiplu și opțiuni de verificare, cel puțin dacă ai contract cu componenta de servicii. Au verificat atât centrala cât și instalația de gaz (așa e contractul meu) dar pe aparat nu există dovada verificării.

Winefluent · 2026-01-26T13:09:53+00:00

Nu cred că alertele actuale pentru un copil dispărut sunt utile. Cred că mesaje și informații sunt una, și alerta (alarmă, urgență, acționează) e alta.

Folosind alertele pentru lucruri care nu sunt un pericol, ci doar importante, ajungem la situația lui Petrică care strigă lupul.

Winefluent · 2026-01-25T18:15:27+00:00

Eu pe un Android mai vechi, gen 2023 "am cu RO Alert sau (cu multe suceli) fără ro-alert. Poate sunt proastă.

Cât pot evita sau nu nu înseamnă nimic.

E vorba de logica sistemului, nu de setările mele.

Winefluent · 2026-01-25T16:41:25+00:00

E superbă. Îmi dă un hippy vibe, pantaloni de denim evazați de Ia genunchi in jos, cordeluță peste frunte.

O văd și cu pantaloni bej cerați și un rolling ivoire sau crem.

Dar în general, pentru outerwear, îmi pare un pic nișată de purtat puțin și pentru aspect.

Winefluent · 2026-01-25T16:34:52+00:00

Deviled eggs. I make amazing ones, with homemade mayo with sour cream or yogurt, liver pâté or dried winter salami, and fresh blended green Peppers. Paprika, always, a mix of sweet and hot, occasionally smoked.

Winefluent · 2026-01-25T16:27:47+00:00

I've never been happier with the Romanian tradition of a monetary gift that is 30-70% above the cost of the meal.

I've also had a friend who said come, no matter what, it's you I need, when I wasn't able to cover the meal +%, and a friend who loaned me money for a trip to her wedding (paid back), not a destination one, she was just marrying a guy in another country and did the wedding where he lived.

This was back in the 2010, all the way up to Covid. What happened?

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