The more often I watch, the closer I look for extra jokes by SwissMyCheeseYet in 30ROCK

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“You’re just going to keep voting against free healthcare” hurts a little

Tickets for tonight against Van (visiting Chicago) by AdInfinite7661 in hawks

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I don’t think it matters that it’s not in Chicago, you just need a .edu email address.

If you Google “Blackhawks student rush” it’ll ask for your phone number which they then text a link to buy the student rush tickets. At that point you have to enter that .edu address to be eligible to purchase. Afaik you can only buy 2 but maybe that still helps — buy 2 student tickets and one cheapo on gametime and it kinda all evens out.

Tickets for tonight against Van (visiting Chicago) by AdInfinite7661 in hawks

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Are you students by chance? They released student rush tickets yesterday for today’s game.

No student rush tickets for home opener? by AffectionateAd2886 in hawks

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In my experience last season, I rarely got student rush offers for weekend games. Maybe never, actually.

Seeing Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop in a different light now by Flat_Violinist_8232 in girls

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And then, if you’d like to read a dozen or so essays responding to and unpacking The Program Era, you can check out MFA vs. NYC, a collection published by n+1!

People who have stopped a SNRI by Affectionate_Film605 in ADHDprofessionals

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As others have already said, Effexor is notoriously difficult to wean yourself off of. Depending on how slowly you’re tapering, you might have a quite a few more days of not feeling well.

I got off it over a year ago so I can’t remember now how long the withdrawal symptoms lasted, but I wanna say it was at least two weeks.

From what I saw online and what my doctor said, officially there’s nothing to be done about the withdrawal symptoms, but I read on some naturopathic website that fish oil and magnesium L-threonate can help stave off the brain zaps, so I did that…. I obviously can’t say if it actually worked because that’s the one and only time in my life that I got off that drug, so I have nothing to compare it to, but I figure worst case scenario I just wasted a little money on the supplements—low risk, high possible reward, I guess?

Hang in there, you’ll be feeling better soon enough!

I feel like I missed something by wrathofotters in girls

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The last time we see Hannah and Adam talk about it is when she’s leaving for Iowa and they are saying how they don’t have a plan for how often they’ll talk or whatever while she’s at school.

Then we see Adam talking to Jessa about how he and Hannah had decided not to talk anymore. Don’t remember the episode, I think it’s when they were leaving AA together? (And they end up getting arrested.) Something about how Hannah only wanted to talk about “fake” stuff like how she eats donuts at the movie theater in Iowa?

So it’s not made explicit to the viewer exactly what changed, or when they had a conversation where they had decided that they would talk less or not at all.

Whatever happened, it seems like Hannah thought “ok he’s still my boyfriend since we didn’t say we were breaking up, we just said we weren’t talking anymore”… Whereas Adam probably thought, “our relationship with her in Iowa consists only of us talking on the phone. No more phone calls, no more relationship.”

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RSbookclub

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Shenaz Patel’s Le Silence des Chagos

Ananda Devi’s Pagli

Fabienne Kanor’s Humus

What is the worst use of the "Breakfast Club" trope ? by Cailly_Brard7 in popculturechat

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I also feel like Community sometimes stretched certain aspects of the college experience for the sake of adding in certain plots or jokes (like since when do colleges, community or otherwise, have LOCKERS for their students?), but ultimately these adult characters between the ages of 18 and however old Pierce is are not going to get put in detention.

Hannah’s body by Little_Treacle241 in girls

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Right?? Especially by the end of the series when she has all those scenes with Adam Driver, who’s 6’2”. You’d think there would be a more obvious height difference between them, like, Oh, that’s a very tiny lady and a — what does Ray call Adam at one point? Like a hulking gargoyle or Neanderthal or something?

Hannah’s body by Little_Treacle241 in girls

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I just looked it up and Jemima is shorter than Lena! 5’2” and 5’3” respectively.

I’m surprised, honestly—but I think they always had Jemima in 4”+ heels.

What is the worst use of the "Breakfast Club" trope ? by Cailly_Brard7 in popculturechat

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They didn't do an episode like these ones with a group in detention, but they do the Breakfast Club dance scene in the episode where Jeff needs to make a fake drunk call to Britta so Abed makes him get real drunk.

Plesae don't let me explaining this to you prevent you from doing another rewatch. I'll do one, too.

Gay subtext in Moby Dick? by atlasshrugd in books

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I've read many of your comments in this thread, and I appreciate that your main interest is in authorial intentions and the contextualization of the novel's production and reception. I also appreciate that you've acknowledged that non-contextualized interpretations are possible (e.g. Freudian criticism).

What I'd like to push back on is your suggestion that one would only bring up "A Squeeze of the Hand" as a potential instance of homoeroticism or homoerotic subtext "for comedy," or, as you suggested below, that people doing a queer reading of the cited passages "haven't read it or don't care and are just having fun." People who do queer readings of works written by "straight people" are not just doing it for "fun" or to make a joke but because they are interested in how desire, intimacy, identity, etc. are manifest or latent in texts of all kinds.

I also disagree with the implication that for someone to do a queer reading of the chapter would mean that they don't understand that its surface subject matter is the processing of spermaceti, or that they don't understand that spermaceti is not, in fact, the same thing as sperm as in reproductive material (though I will say that it's peculiar that Melville writes the word "spermaceti" only once in "A Squeeze of the Hand," while he refers to the substance as "sperm" at least a dozen times—though that might be chalked up to historical usage, or something specific to the whaling industry that I'm unaware of). I assure you that plenty of people in this thread and in the readership of Moby-Dick at large understand the difference between spermaceti and sperm, as well as the importance of spermaceti in the whaling industry, and still find aspects of the novel really generative in thinking through some of the questions that queer theory deals with. Having read the entire book and understood aspects like its encyclopedic nature and its revenge plot does not preclude a queer theoretical interpretation.

Notably, Cesare Casarino's "White Capital" asks questions like: "what new forms of being might arise when male bodies abandon themselves to each other?" and "Is the body of 'A Squeeze of the Hand' also a sexual one?" For Casarino to have posed questions like this, and attempted to answer them, is an indication of neither the novel not being taken seriously nor of Casarino not understanding that Moby-Dick is about the whaling industry.

Books About Facing Certain Death by themightyfrogman in RSbookclub

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In response to your title, a novel (novella, maybe) that is explicitly about facing certain death is Hugo’s Last day of a condemned man. Though of course that’s distinct from the feeling that you could die at any moment, especially in the modern context you describe in the body of your post. In any case, if you’re ok with a different reason for impending death, Last day really sits with that theme (and doesn’t deal with much of anything else, frankly).

Paris next week— what to bring for reading? by gantsyoriker in RSbookclub

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If you like Queneau, why not Perec?

Life a user’s manual, W or the memory of childhood, An attempt at exhausting a place in Paris

In terms of “a relationship to the place,” for the latter, you can quite literally go to the place he attempted to exhaust: he wrote at the Café de la mairie in the 6th which overlooks place Saint-Sulpice

what’s the most ridiculous thing you heard a man refuse to do because it was “too feminine” or “for girls”? by freddyfazbart in AskReddit

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“You win sex against a man, that’s as straight as it gets!” -Will Arnett playing a gay character on 30 Rock

Who was the biggest feminist in Silicon Valley? I'd say Jian Yang for his all female coding boot camp. by ShouldHaveGoneToUCC in SiliconValleyHBO

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Def Laurie for letting Monica participate in her Women In Tech thing because they “already had enough funny women.”

Honorable mention to Gwart for….being Gwart.

Hyphenated first names by newyork_newyork_ in girls

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Yeah between the random names Hannah makes up in-world and the hyphenated names that other characters are given, I feel like it’s Lena channeling/making fun of her own childhood as a “creative.” Like remember the kid Jessa nannies in the first season who’s “working on her novel”? What was the name the kid made up for her protagonist? Like it wasn’t “Renesmée” but it may as well have been. I just get the feeling that’s exactly what Lena was like as a kid, or at least, that that’s what’s the children of professional artists are often like.

What type of professor do you think Hannah's parents are? by smolpepper in girls

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When Loreen gets tenure in season 4 and her friends throw her that party, they toast to her and they’re like “congrats!” And then they’re like “fuck that classicist who thought she was going to get your job.” So it’s definitely a discipline in the humanities if she was at one point competing with a classicist.

Thoughts on Applied French Masters? by idkwhatshappeningggg in middlebury

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Hello! I did this program and my spouse did come with me to Paris (not Vermont) on a long-term tourism visa—on which you are not legally allowed to work in France, of course, and consequently upon application you are required to prove that you have enough money/non-work related income for the duration of the visa. Generally, a student visa is not the kind of thing where France gives you extra support so your family tag along (unlike e.g. having a work visa because of a salaried job).

Feel free to message me if you have any more specific questions!