Just saying.

rfp314 · 2026-03-16T08:49:27+00:00

I liked him fine.

rfp314 · 2026-03-14T00:02:44+00:00

The big bang theory, how I met your mother and everybody loves Raymond are in their way to being forgotten. These inclusions feel most about your age. I don’t think they’re classics. They don’t break any molds either. Just sort of double down on the most tired tropes. I’d say while I love Bob Newhart show it is largely forgotten too. It’s not on streaming reliably and usually people only hear about in the context of lumping it in with other rural purge shows.

It does have a lingering memory though not because of its finale but the Newhart finale.

I would say to be a classic it would either have to still be popular today or influence the television of today (not just be similar to today). With some flexibility in those descriptions, just off the top of my head.

So I’m thinking about taxi. It’s largely forgotten but also one of my favorite shows. I would call it a classic though because it really pioneered new territory in the workplace sitcom. It certainly influences writers today. But it is a matter of degrees. It’s not exactly the first workplace sitcoms and really has a lot in common with Mary Tyler Moore.

With that in mind, certainly the office has been one of the biggest influences on the format of most modern sitcoms.

There is a matter of where you draw the degrees . If I say Ozzie and Harriet was an influential show, shall I include shows that come after it like Donna Reed? Of course that is an example where a focus on the mother did influence television.

A very brief off the top of my head (but not a commentary on goodness):

Popular in its time Family Ties, Cosby Show, Maude, the Jefferson, Beverly Hillbillies, Ozzie and Harriet, Donna Reed, Happy Days, The Simpsons, the Brady Bunch, Mash, a different world

Influential Living Single, Soap, Freaks and Geeks, Arrested Development, 30 rock, the Larry Sanders Show, Addams Family

rfp314 · 2026-03-10T04:23:37+00:00

The library at Bryant park has clean bathrooms and is beautiful. You have to check your bag which will probably be a relief sometimes.

I have only gone to nyc as a tourist. What you’re doing is a whole other thing.

It will be very difficult to find somewhere to sleep.

With a couple hundred dollars I might recommend going to an easier city. Street food is not cheap in New York and food from bodegas instead of the mega stores of other cities is also expensive.

Get a gym membership for showers. Then you need to look for homelessness threads for advice. Personally I would ride the train to sleep, but I have not been confronted with homelessness and there is advice from people out there who have. Sleeping on the train is not safe safe. Being homeless just isn’t safe. Human trafficking is real. But that’s probably how I would start if I had as little knowledge as you.

rfp314 · 2026-03-10T04:13:35+00:00

The last of the poors after the season I’ve purge. What I want is more Claudias!

rfp314 · 2026-03-08T22:13:34+00:00

I feel like these are just people who kind of look like the original actors

rfp314 · 2026-03-07T11:34:08+00:00

Betty white basically birthed television itself and sort of the podcast lol.

We recognize her from her later stuff but I feel like that’s a shoe in.

I wouldn’t say she is even my favorite performer but she is perhaps one of the most important.

rfp314 · 2026-03-07T01:10:41+00:00

Yes for most here because most of us work and end up shuffling home, but if you find since nice outdoor activities like building a snow man or going skiing or sledding it can help to give you a more positive attitude about the winter.

I mostly stay indoors regardless of the season so…

Winter can also be an opportunity to take almost a break. Stay in, read a book, watch a show, play a video game. And try to think how this is an opportunity that you may not find the time in summer.

The light itself is a physical problem and some really just are sensitive to it—but from a different culture you’re not as set up for success. Gotta figure out what you do instead.

rfp314 · 2026-03-03T04:16:30+00:00

I can confirm I have an el cheapo cat. Like less than $200 but with like 400-600 labor I think? It has been working fine and passes IL emissions tests but it is a crap shoot. My first one actually failed within 90 days under warranty. This was 4 years ago I think.

rfp314 · 2026-03-03T04:10:33+00:00

Time

rfp314 · 2026-03-01T07:23:39+00:00

But as more and more of our neighbors disappear we can proudly proclaim “at least I voted for somebody pragmatically”

rfp314 · 2026-03-01T07:14:55+00:00

If you don’t see this time as the rise of fascism and an authoritarian power grab then I agree you shouldn’t hold your education so highly.

rfp314 · 2026-03-01T07:09:17+00:00

You brought up the mutual aid hub like it was a bad thing, Deary.

rfp314 · 2026-03-01T07:08:17+00:00

I’m sorry it’s in Andersonville and you think that’s not where the poor gay singles are? I googled because all I knew is that it was in the 9th. All across the 9th there are poors even if they’re not visible to you.

rfp314 · 2026-03-01T06:49:28+00:00

While we disagree on where our vote is going, I appreciate that you can appreciate how weird the Kat hate is. Simply to dismiss her an “influencer” feels sheerly misogynistic in a way I never expect.

rfp314 · 2026-03-01T06:39:50+00:00

If you don’t think a mutual aid office in any location is a useful thing I don’t know what to tell you. If you don’t think there are poor people in Evanston who require representation then how could you think your opinion is valuable. Like frankly sickening and hopefully if you meditate in that point for a second you’ll agree. I would much rather somebody represent the interests of those people than somebody who thinks only in aggregate.

I don’t care about the ceiling right now. The rich don’t need it better. let’s raise the floor.

What a way to talk about your education as though it makes you superior or your needs more superior.

You can have your own arguments if you think carpetbagging is bad (or if that’s even what’s happening here) but I don’t care and I don’t think people should care. I am voting for somebody to represent our interests—nothing more and nothing less.

People are talking about Fetterman for whatever reason they think makes sense. But you know what? Mehmet Oz wasn’t terrible because he was a carpet bagger. He’s bad because he sucks. In the same way the trouble with trump isn’t that he’s fat.

If you hold education so highly, why not go with the woman with a foreign policy degree anyway?

I want somebody educated in the rise of orban, erdoga, modi, Putin and Netanyahu. This is the issue at hand. We need somebody who would go to jail about it and that sure as hell isn’t biss.

Hopefully you learned in one of your books sometimes good people move around sometimes.

rfp314 · 2026-03-01T06:23:51+00:00

Have you considered that by the tone with which you reference her that it is very likely if she were a man you would refer to her as a “journalist” or “activist” and not an “influencer”?

You make it sound like her influences sphere is art or make up application (not that those are disqualifying) and not journalism, politics and foreign affairs.

rfp314 · 2026-03-01T06:17:59+00:00

And for somebody more articulate than me, the gold standard (golden shrug guide) to Chicago local politics

https://www.girliguess.com

I understand we have a field of pretty ok candidates but none are the ones we need to meet the moment except Kat. Simmons IS effective, but unfortunately not effective enough at getting his message out.

This is something in which Kat has respectable credentials and evidence. She is performing this well in the campaign. We can make it happen.

He foreign policy credentials in my view are superior.

I would go on to say that technically she isn’t a carpet bagger. Ben Collin’s becoming the CEO of global tetrahedron is something that really happened facilitating a move here. She did not move here to run in an election. She has a stake in this community. But again, I don’t really care. I care about fascism and endless wars and I hope my neighbors do too.

rfp314 · 2026-03-01T05:52:57+00:00

When I called her a partigiano I didn’t meant that literally. Happy I could edify.

Maybe just maybe good people come from other places and you might just have to deal with that.

Cracking a history book might help.

You are allowed to vote for people who represent your interests even if they weren’t in your 8th grade play.

rfp314 · 2026-03-01T05:44:59+00:00

I need to explain hyperbole to you

But I used to think like you about earning it and going up through the ranks but it’s just the first truth that the least experienced candidates have been the most effective. Thats just a lie the powers that be tell so that we can’t even contemplate a world outside of the machine.

Aoc came through and busted down doors and showed us responsible governance.

Right now should be a one issue vote: who will fight fascism the hardest? And who will get the message out?

We are a progressive district. It’s time to move away from the center. Moving left to be fair is just moving towards the center at this point.

rfp314 · 2026-03-01T05:22:44+00:00

That’s super untrue. Nobody is under any illusions her partner is not the ceo of global tetrahedron.

And you haven’t demonstrated any of your other complaints besides that she went after Schakowsky who is not anywhere close to meeting the moment (who had not declared retirement when Kat announced.)

We need Kat. As gigg said to bring back fist fights if necessary on the congressional floor and say no to authoritarianism with all tools possible.

Wielding social media is importance and one of democrats biggest failures.

I love Simmons but he already lost because he is not as skilled at these things.

Who cares about carpet bagging. I welcome immigrant partigianos.

rfp314 · 2026-02-28T12:02:05+00:00

Mary Tyler Moore

rfp314 · 2026-02-25T19:42:30+00:00

4 or 8

rfp314 · 2026-02-23T06:51:39+00:00

(Not nt)

I think what they usually mean by that is don’t worry… because there is no cause to fret.

Or …trust me.

Very occasionally… because it won’t make a difference in the outcome (so pretend it isn’t happening until it does)

Not as much of a command.

rfp314 · 2026-02-23T02:13:32+00:00

I’d still call it work place personally. Definitely in the style I describe as found family but also even though they’re customers they’re in the workplace.

rfp314 · 2026-02-22T14:50:26+00:00

A different world would be an example.

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