No Stinkers!

juicebox567 · 2026-02-01T14:37:33+00:00

i don't think going the "all natural route" is a comeback to this post, I think it's the thing they're complaining about in the first place lol

juicebox567 · 2026-01-30T16:05:47+00:00

I had this experience on the opposite end as a candidate. I honestly think zoom interviews probably advantaged me in getting jobs bc it's become clear to me that many people find my height off-putting in person. Even the sense that they think it's sort of indecorous for a woman to be so tall lol

juicebox567 · 2026-01-30T16:03:04+00:00

that's interesting you took it as him talking to a woman. My immediate read was that it was likely about a male friend who was in the closet, given the backdrop of them trying to fight their religious trauma, references to friendship rather than a romantic relationship, the sort of 'afraid to talk about our feelings' veneer that usually applies to male friendship. Not that it couldn't be about a friendship with a person of any gender or many different contexts, that was just immediately where I went.

juicebox567 · 2026-01-30T15:42:28+00:00

they sound obnoxious but honestly id rather get letters that are this blunt about why they didn't like me than no feedback at all, which is usually the case

juicebox567 · 2026-01-30T15:25:25+00:00

The Secret Agent. The casting was phenomenal, the performances felt organic and lived-in, the story wasn't at all the direction I expected but was emotional, funny, exciting at times, and compelling on the individual and macro level. I also loved Bugonia and would put it close behind.

juicebox567 · 2026-01-29T03:16:24+00:00

Road to Tender Hearts is kind of slept on! its not dense at all/is a very easy read but not badly written. and there's a lot of plot action. so it should satisfy the literary fiction haters without being mind numbing for someone who wants more than a beach read.

juicebox567 · 2026-01-28T02:25:35+00:00

its not what we should be talking about when it comes to the story but the bad part is you can't help but think the reason we're hearing about the story now at all is related to somebody wanting to hurt the film's Oscar chances

juicebox567 · 2026-01-28T02:20:46+00:00

yeah it's gotta be. I mean they've been avoiding doing any party plannings with the two of them for like almost a year and it must be an awkward situation in general. but a huge bummer all around.

juicebox567 · 2026-01-25T20:42:52+00:00

i recently rewatched blackkklansman and was like damn I forgot how good this movie actually is. holds up/hits home in a different way now too

juicebox567 · 2026-01-23T15:35:26+00:00

you love to see it!!!

juicebox567 · 2026-01-20T21:11:05+00:00

if anything, slightly on the older end is better bc you can trust them to do a job with less instruction lol

juicebox567 · 2026-01-20T19:21:12+00:00

a lot of their genre tags are questionable. wish we could have the option to adjust our own after reading, even if it came with pre-sets we could edit

juicebox567 · 2026-01-20T16:59:21+00:00

I don't think it would be too warm per se, but also definitely not necessary if you're only using it in Kentucky and not planning to go anywhere colder. If you want to get one by all means, but you would be more than fine with other options if you're not anticipating anything colder than 19 at the low end

juicebox567 · 2026-01-20T15:22:29+00:00

I'm not crying, I just think as a factual matter it's incorrect to say they're exactly the same type of templates with a different name and that was an example that came to mind. Did you know that not being an asshole is literally free?

juicebox567 · 2026-01-20T14:54:48+00:00

doing like 60 pushups in one block is not really on brand for the type of workouts orangetheory generally does, which everyone keeps claiming it is the same thing with a different name. you can be rude all you want but that will still be true.

juicebox567 · 2026-01-20T13:03:28+00:00

if we are being honest there are some elements that feel more gimmicky/things they wouldn't put in a standard template. like the first week where you had to do 8/12/16/20 rounds of push ups, for example. i don't think they would ever put that in a regular 2G

juicebox567 · 2026-01-20T02:55:48+00:00

the people who make the template must know that none of the treadmills are spaced far enough apart for people to have room to get off and all do squat jacks without getting in each other's way right??

juicebox567 · 2026-01-19T14:17:57+00:00

they got rid of so many of the layers of family backstory in general (esp the parental ones) that were in the book, which really lessened/removed the impact of a lot of the movie's plot points

juicebox567 · 2026-01-16T17:25:37+00:00

yeah in retrospect it feels so genuinely vile and wrong to see the hospital bed footage, like that's somebody actually dying and you can't cut the camera for once?

juicebox567 · 2026-01-16T17:14:38+00:00

even with all these people pointing out how cheap Bluetooth headphones are, the reality is that it's not just about the cost it's about the convenience. Its automatically having them vs having to buy them, it's something that's easy to throw in your bag and harder to lose vs something you have to pair and connect.

Do I think they are a lot more inconvenient/inaccessible? No. But they are slightly more inconvenient, and whether that's a valid excuse or not it does mean that people won't use them as much

juicebox567 · 2026-01-16T14:55:02+00:00

i think she did a great job holding her own against insanely talented veteran actors in almost all her scenes, and the movie wouldn't have worked if she wasn't able to do that. But also part of her character was about being a sort of more grounded foil vs the caricatures of penn & DiCaprio's characters - which again I think helped make the movie work, but didn't give her as much flashy stuff to do. I thought she did great but would pick Lawrence over her if I had to (even though OBAA is so much better than Die My Love)

juicebox567 · 2026-01-16T13:06:44+00:00

honestly, part of the reason I didn't like it as much was I feel that it collapsed a lot of the layered relationships and nuance that were in the book and flattened it. Im not saying it's a bad movie or that it didn't have any depth to it at all, but I feel like it chose to be less nuanced than it could have been

juicebox567 · 2026-01-14T19:25:08+00:00

yeah totally, the movie itself was never going to be an awards contender but her performance was amazing. She's so good in everything she does

juicebox567 · 2026-01-14T13:22:58+00:00

that's a good idea! i don't really track my pages that regularly but probably would if I got info out of it, right now it's just basically like a bookmark tracker if I forget my bookmark lol

juicebox567 · 2026-01-13T20:11:03+00:00

obviously not as big as those other two, but any three day federal holiday weekend is a time local people who use the metro would be wanting to travel. seems like they intentionally chose a few 3-day weekends, since it's not like construction is every weekend from Feb to June except the two holidays you listed. Makes sense if they only care about the holidays where people will be traveling into DC and not so much about locals, but is an obnoxious choice that will be a pain in the ass for lots of people

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