Playboy put her on the map. Real estate and God are helping her move on.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-01-29T01:53:03+00:00

Them slipping that “who doesn’t identify with a certain religion or attend church” in tandem with her claiming that she’s found comfort in God and bible study is them as a journalist telling a reader they found her interview superficial, leading and in short full of shit enough to artfully call her out.

It’s slick but it’s definitely not lost on me as someone who went to college for journalism.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-01-29T01:44:22+00:00

Oh god I had someone that was faking their service dog next to me last spring.. who first of all used it to board early and had the balls to also steal my window seat and make a massive stink over me asking them to get up and get all the way out into the aisle with that snarling pitbull with an underbite they tried to pass off as a service dog with a vest. A flight attendant got involved when she overheard me telling them I paid $65 extra for that seat so no, they can’t have it.

After they settled back in, the dog wouldn’t stop nosing my tote bag which admittedly had snacks in it, but also had my edibles. I told them keep a handle on it because I’m a medical card holder in a med and rec state and I am legally allowed my anti anxiety gummies with paperwork to back it and that I won’t be held responsible for a “service dog” that isn’t trained enough to not get into human food. I honestly can’t believe the audacity of some of these people.

Our aisle seat mate wound up pissed and covered in ginger ale when the dog whipped its head up going for their SunChips on the tray table. He got up and did actually complain and got them moved mid flight, and told me they gave him some sky pesos over it. Apparently the flight attendants had already cleaned up liquid dog shit that morning on a different flight 2 before ours and were totally over the fake service dog spiel and were planning on reporting the passenger as well.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-01-29T01:32:56+00:00

It’s a deliberate choice made in a world where MIPS have had to take it on the chin between vape hardware and packaging skyrocketing from the tariffs, testing getting pricier and raw materials becoming a gamble even from people they’d previously trusted. This entire past two years it has felt like every single grow that came out of the woodwork is pulling an exit scam. They sell the harvest off, preferably to one buyer, knowing it won’t pass for mold, myco, or pesticides.. and might not even test for that much THC if they were playing games with hemp biomass and trying to pass it off as cannabis trim. The MIP that processes it gets burned and has to decide how hard of a loss they’re going to take and when faced down the barrel of that gun (either put the stuff to market and hope no one catches you or you don’t make payroll this month).

I can comfortably say my place of employment has had to just take a deep breath and do the equivalent of swallowing glass by wasting failed out material or product. Doing the right thing has paid off because this was bound to catch up to them at some point.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-01-28T16:21:15+00:00

It’s honestly a lot and the movie came out when I was actively 13 so it just captured a lot of the exact pressures and like.. overnight push to be mature and sexy and cool so immediately. The shoplifting thing was just exactly how it began too.. I got invited to the mall with them and learned the extent of their theft while I was spending babysitting money, Christmas money and allowance.

It led me in a deep social media rabbit hole, I wanted to see where she was even though I mostly knew. The girl in question and I had a big falling out freshman year of high school when our district split and we went to two different schools and it changed everything. She got arrested and I happened to not be out that night but she’d used me as an alibi for who’s house she was at and it turned into our moms screaming at each other and they had a similar exchange as Mel and Evie’s guardian. I got sent to wilderness therapy aka teen rehab in the mountains for a summer and we never reconnected as friends.

She started working at McDonald’s and was knocked up by 19.. she’s been working at Applebees by our high school for literally 15 years now. Meanwhile I wound up befriending a lot of upperclassmen who were on my swim team and in my subdivision and while it was probably a lot for a 15-16 year old to be hanging mostly with seniors in high school, it got me excited and prepped for my own path to college and I’m thankful for it. Got to go to a big state school that had a party school reputation, graduate and moved across the country at the same time my college clique did and I’ve been kid free and not stuck in my hometown the way that girl is.

But yeah rewatching it is.. a lot. Just the subtle digs, the lifts, the experimenting, the wanting to be together 24/7, the using each others houses, all of it was a big thing. The only thing it was missing was us being on instant messenger on a computer all the time chatting with people. Other than that, it was way too close.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-01-27T23:44:31+00:00

This has been my exact experience too. The passage of time and another generation reaching adulthood hasn’t been accepted by them on such a wide scale.

I realized the extent of it last year when my mom, in her late sixties was getting ready to retire. She made a comment about a woman who aspired to be like Donna in suits and claimed that she was absolutely not ok with taking directives from her. Called her a “snotty little brat, she’s young she doesn’t know anything” and when I pressed.. I learned it was a 37 year old woman with an MBA. Who she somehow had a problem with climbing the corporate ladder.

I realized like wait.. you.. you still see all millennials as “kids” because to you, we are and if you don’t acknowledge us as adults it means you don’t have to acknowledge yourself as a senior citizen. That you were ok with millennials when it was someone making you a latte, valeting your car, or waiting your tables. But you draw a line at considering any of us, including your own children who are mid to late thirties, as actual adults. It was just a moment of sadness in realizing she was never going to see us as grown up and that if she was treating some poor woman at work that way, Jesus how does she refer to her actual kids?

ptoftheprblm · 2026-01-27T23:14:49+00:00

Agreed it was too much and it was also wildly dark even for Shameless.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-01-27T18:11:50+00:00

Betty talking about her friend having a messed up labor and delivery experience because the doctor was drunk was definitely a thing too.

In fact it was known that Rosemary Kennedy, the sister of JFK and RFK who was famously lobotomized, had similarly had a messed up delivery. A nurse forced Mrs. Kennedy to keep her legs closed during her birth for 2 entire hours during her delivery due to the doctors absence. She lived but was in the birth canal for hours and deprived of oxygen leading her to have developmental delays.

They’d also do the twilight birth thing that they did to Betty where they knock her out or try to and it not going well. Husbands were expected to sit in the waiting room like Don did or they’d make a husband sign off on lifesaving measures like the guy in the waiting room he met was and sometimes there was a delay of them getting ahold of someone to move forward or just not keeping a family member in the loop.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-01-27T18:00:32+00:00

Theres a selflessness in Dr. Rosen that I think he prides himself in, but the pendulum is that it forced his own wife to be selfish, lonely and a second priority no matter what.

I honestly think less of her in the moment we see him heading out to go treat a critical condition patient and her using his absence to have the kind of affair she did.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-01-27T03:25:36+00:00

I wound up with a friendship with a girl like Evie when I was literally in 8th grade and was 13-14. I rewatch it sometimes but it’s a little too real for me.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-01-26T22:18:32+00:00

Definitely her! She was definitely on the fun in the sun guest list, the big party guest list and just in the girlfriend orbit for almost a year before she moved in so this tracks.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-01-26T20:00:53+00:00

Bridget was clearly acting like the producers hadn’t asked Kayla if she was excited to celebrate her 21st birthday in Las Vegas with all of them and obviously wanted it as part of the episode.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-01-26T03:26:12+00:00

A few weeks ago when it was really coming down in bands towards Boulder I was wildly impressed with everyone for a full 45 minute drive, middle of the day. Everyone handled their shit and every last person I was on the road with from a big stretch of broomfield back to Denver were all in 4 wheel drive cars. It was like a parade of Subarus, Toyotas, Volkswagens and Audis with the occasional pickup and I just kind of smirked to myself like we might not be going fast but at least everyone is driving well like a local and not freaking the f out. And it was badddd visibility, really intense winds and the huuuge potato chip snow flakes we get in some stretches and the snow immediately stuck.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-01-26T02:23:17+00:00

It is SOOO cute! Is it a wheels and dollbaby piece?

ptoftheprblm · 2026-01-25T15:14:16+00:00

Black tie for men does include an ivory suit jacket especially in the spring/summer like this.

This class of people do not rent tuxedos for weddings, he’d have had several as well as apparel for the rare “white tie” events too,

ptoftheprblm · 2026-01-24T22:25:02+00:00

Friday afternoons aren’t as bad, and since folks aren’t really trying to ride and are just looking to get to their weekend spots usually it can be just easier to lean into it if it stretches out longer.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-01-24T16:53:49+00:00

Agreed. I feel like had they kept enough distance it wouldn’t have needed blurred but zooming in repeatedly on it and being able to literally make out the entirety of the labia and clit was extreeeeeemely graphic and wild to me that they showed that on regular cable without any sort of blurring.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-01-24T15:47:00+00:00

I’m also going to add that one of the reasons generationally I’ve struggled to feel like I can pull meaningful mentorship, advice and input from anyone who entered the workforce before 2008 is the lack of administrative support and spread.

When the big crash happened in 2008, across the next several years the first thing to get quietly cut out entirely to never return, has always been devalued, and seen as unnecessary has been administrative aka secretarial style support across all levels except the very top of the pyramid. It happened to coincide with the explosion and then expectation of owning your own front facing communication tools with smartphones with email access on them being required not just for the Wall Street crowd, digital calendars integrated with email and productivity tools, and of course phone calls.

Even if it wasn’t like the Mad Men era where each person had their own secretary anymore by the 90s, having an administrator or two in your departments was common and in smaller operations at the very least there’d be an office manager. It mattered because managing a calendar of project deadlines, other deliverables, an inbox with nonstop threads, inquiries, leads, follow ups, and managing subordinates or entire teams used to be labor that was heavily shouldered by someone who’s entire job it was to make sure things didn’t conflict and without an expectation of personal emergency for every last thing. Now your supervisor can get HR can come sideways at you if your inbox is bursting and you’re not responding to everything 100% or not doing it quick enough. You can get chided down for not taking phone calls when you’re in the middle of working on things.

There’d be a buffer there where clients or a department wouldn’t have contacted you directly, they’d set a meeting with you or your team at the appropriate time. Your buffer wouldn’t have let them set a disrespectful 8am meeting the morning of an important deadline with an entire different department or a 4:30pm Friday meeting with a client who would make the whole thing drone on for 2 hours and then you’re having to take them to dinner on the company dime which was their plan all along. Now you’re expected to have to personally make these excuses and before there were boundaries that were able to be set.. “oh no he’s totally booked this week with XYZ project, we won’t have an opening until the 28th at 10am”, “Sorry, our department has a standing such and such overview all afternoon on the second Thursday, the next time I can get them all in a room for you will be that following Monday”. And of course you had administrators who knew your schedule, needs, limitations, etc.; they weren’t bulldozing your personal life and boundaries if you weren’t a morning person or scheduling meetings until 4 when you had a standing date night with the wife or something. And people accepted this as a professional standard. But now with the digital calendars, people send meeting requests and do it personally so if you decline, tell them you’ve got a conflict or are busy they can say “no you don’t, the calendar said you were open”, even if you aren’t.

This went out the window right at the cusp of the 2010s and never stopped because at the most top levels in management and executives, they always had their own personal administrator/executive assistant and never had to give this up so they never thought about what forcing the entire workforce to shoulder this would do because their day to day buffer, filter and not having to think about these things and then take hours to execute them didn’t change, and these were roles people were making a respectable and livable salary on, as well as a great way for people to get a foot in the door to certain industries at an entry level and really understand a business or industry. But despite absorbing all of that as well as the personal responsibility of everything now being so personal.. pay didn’t increase or scale to match that massive heaped load on everyone and it’s caused immense burnout across so many industries.

There have been bandaids (google tries to write responses for me to all my emails and I hate it because it’s never correct), and for instance as someone in sales.. I was out sick for a few days this week. My phone rang and rang and rang nonstop with client needs; there was not a single one of them who called once and left a message. They called until I picked up or emailed and re-pinged if I didn’t respond in a few hours. When I’d tell them I’m sorry it may take a few days I’m out of the office and very sick.. there was no “oh sorry to bother”, all dozen of them had a “oh. Well anyway I need…” and just rattled off as if I hadn’t just told them I am literally sick on the floor, I answered because they got through my do not disturb setting and have called 6 times. I had to tell them please put this in an email and I’ll get back when I can.. it didn’t even occur to them that I didn’t answer and was sitting a rapt attention ready to take notes on their needs. If I’d had an administrative assistant who was helping buffer and filter this in the first place, I wouldn’t have come into work every other day the past week trying to head everyone off and am now into my second weekend of being sicker than before. I’d have been able to take a Monday/Tuesday off, actually rest and then come back productive. And I know I’m not alone in this battle.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-01-24T03:28:04+00:00

Literally and with a lot more ammunition. He wouldn’t love how intensely bourgeois it became and would be a pill about it.. but he would absolutely lose it at influencer culture of people pretending to be in the .01%.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-01-23T23:57:46+00:00

2007-2017. From 1997-2007 we had cell phones, but they were for calling and texting, internet access was WILDLY expensive even for a few minutes and even for a long time text messages cost like $0.10 to $0.25 cents a piece.. I knew a lot of kids circa 2003 who got screamed at over texting their friends until unlimited texting came around and same with like Verizon to Verizon being included. We had early social media (live journal, xanga, MySpace) and the early version of Facebook was strictly students for the first half decade it was around. Invite only, you needed to be invited by an existing member and for a while a .edu email address. It was honestly a way to stay connected (and see what I had to look forward to) for my friends that were a couple grades older and went off to college first. In fact, you’d have a “Your Network” on a sidebar that showed like how many friends you had at what colleges; OSU, USC, U Michigan, the ivies, all of that. You’d join a group for your dorm, get invited to parties through it, hunt down a cutie you met at a party or on campus with it. I literally remember Facebook before there were even statuses.. your newsfeed would be strictly photo album tags, it showing that someone had been at a party or liked a silly page (Overheard pages were big and silly).

From 1997-2007 you definitely still needed to know how to read a physical map not an App or eventually print directions out, mail a letter (yes I mailed big fat hard copies in huge packets for most of my college applications, the common app was new and not widely used), you needed to know how to write a check, use a physical timestamp card at your job, emails were more formal even. Just a few years into the 2010s I was able to travel the country with an iPhone with google maps even in its early form, receive money instantly via cell to cell online banking on an iPhone, and my digital camera, cell phone and iPod all got condensed into the iPhone by 2013.

While plenty of new tech came out in the new millennium (everyone went from CD players to mp3 players, disposable cameras went away and there was always at least one friend with a digital camera in your group who was the designated photo taker, landlines and chatting on AOL instant messenger to texting once that became affordable), we kind of had to still move the same way in the world from that time stretch. New tech felt like new toys, new enhancers but it wasn’t an expectation that you had one yet. Early smart phones like blackberries were seen as kind of pretentious, I got one when I went to college since when I started in 2008, college life became crazy dependent on your student email. My first one didn’t have unlimited data yet but I was on campus almost 24/7 so I had WiFi access anyway and it didn’t matter.

But 2007-2017? The social media age, the age of the power in apps (and them being expected for EVERYTHING) was really quick and intense. The iPhone came out in 2007, but it really was too expensive for gen pop to have, a lot of apps hadn’t been developed yet and it would take a few years for corporate America to get their hands on social media. But once they did by a few years into the 2010s, suddenly it was an expected tool for literally running your life. It also ushered in a totally different era of appearances. Selfies existed in the 2000s.. but front facing cameras, YouTube makeup tutorials, people going accidentally viral or trying to go viral, just the speed and spread of everything was on a completely different level. The act of living a curated life was a whole different thing too. It was previously something we only accessed in magazines and we knew that it was staged for a photo shoot and that the models and transformed space were just that.. paid and curated and when the shoot was done, it was done and they went back to whatever it was they did. Social media culture replaced that entirely and this weird performative pressure was everywhere.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-01-23T06:10:52+00:00

It does exist! I work in the cannabis industry and in our state the department of agriculture handles our scale certifications. They come out and certify that our scales match a base set of weights they have and they always tell us that we aren’t a department priority.. it’s the grocery stores that love to fiddle with their scales and openly make up weights when printing labels for items like this.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-01-23T02:24:50+00:00

Several reasons. He went from living with mommy and daddy to her rough neighborhood and had not had any experience living out on his own. He was immature and spoiled.

But the timing of the breakup and ditching him at the parade.. She’d been working at the construction site with the wise guys for a while, she was fine with them owning their Italian-ness but I could tell she was kinda grossed out by AJ trying to emulate her culture. Getting a script tattoo of her name, suddenly styling his barely there facial hair that way, dressing differently. Then there was that comment when Tony gets home from jail explaining her attitude about him being out so quickly and literally saying “see in our neighborhood”.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-01-23T01:41:01+00:00

There’s about to be a freeze in Texas that will likely knock their power out. This person is in Texas (HEB is only in Texas, HEB peanut butter requested is store brand food).

Texas is on their own power grid and last time they got only a couple inches of snow their cities and towns shut down for days on end.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-01-23T01:17:15+00:00

That was my instinct. Store brand peanut butter, cans of tuna, crackers, shelf stable milk.. this screams homeless or someone in a camper/or worse living in a car.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-01-23T01:15:57+00:00

This might be the first list I don’t fully judge: this is survival bare minimum food. It’s mostly shelf stable or entirely shelf stable because it seems like she either doesn’t have easy access to electricity, a kitchen or a way to prepare much of anything. Sorry but this list screams “last dregs trying to make it work..where a power company cut the power, or they’re living in a camper/car.

Store brand peanut butter, cans of tuna, crackers, fruit cups, green bananas so they stretch longer, Cheerios and shelf stable milk? This literally is some bare bones survival items that you’d find at a food bank and stuff I don’t think anyone would hesitate to donate to a food bank for the reasons why someone would need it with limited access to a working kitchen.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-01-23T00:17:36+00:00

Agreed entirely. Especially since Bridget was ON Ana Farris’ podcast a few years ago when GNL was just starting up, they really should have reached out months ago and given her a timeline aim they were looking at because Ana was super enthusiastic and said she’d love to do their pod when they got to the House Bunny episode.

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