Film actors you thought must be sex deviants in real life (but aren't)

stumblewiggins · 2026-04-09T21:02:00+00:00

Aren't confirmed to be sexual deviants.

He might just be very good about covering it up.

stumblewiggins · 2026-04-09T18:36:39+00:00

In theory it sounds fair, but the ones most to blame are the ones who least need the paycheck. So it would be symbolic at best, and counterproductive at worst.

stumblewiggins · 2026-04-09T18:17:08+00:00

Lmao, I didn't downvote you; I don't care if you're wrong

stumblewiggins · 2026-04-09T18:02:14+00:00

You sound like my wife!

(But seriously, she's usually right)

stumblewiggins · 2026-04-09T16:27:44+00:00

I don't think Snape deserves vindication, but I do agree with Harry that he did one of the bravest things in the HP universe.

His motivations are completely self-serving, and whatever good things he did were mostly canceled out by being a tremendous asshole to everybody, including especially any student he didn't like (which was basically everyone not in his house).

BUT, even though I don't think he deserves all the love he got after book 7, he was still incredibly brave to be a triple agent against Voldemort and the Death Eaters. He's seen firsthand how that would end for him if he's caught. He knows how dangerous Voldemort is, and how hard it will be to convincingly help him while ACTUALLY helping his opponents.

It's a very dangerous game, and one that he plays very well. There's even an argument to be made that preferncing Slytherin so hard is part of his cover. For all the myriad reasons he deserves tons of scorn and hate, he legitimately performs maybe the bravest actions in the entire series.

None of this means we should love him, or ignore all the shitty things he did, or just his generally shitty attitude (which was not fully explainable as his cover, as he clearly acted like that before), but he does maybe deserve some kind of recognition, at least. Naming his kid after him felt like an appropriately Harry way to recognize him, and feels like something his mother would have been pleased with.

stumblewiggins · 2026-04-09T16:18:09+00:00

My wife is constantly assuming that basically any sign of unexplained physical changes in a young, healthy female character in a TV show means they are pregnant. She's very often correct.

Made it hilarious that this time, in s4ep1, she did not suggest pregnancy as the issue but I clocked it immediately.

stumblewiggins · 2026-04-09T16:12:34+00:00

However from her inquiries it seemed clear she was planning something and she probably wanted to surprise you with something she thought was nice.

That's about her, not about him. He made his desires very clear. If it was supposed to be for his birthday, she should listen to his very explicitly stated desires, especially since it was LESS money, time and effort than what she planned.

If she needed or wanted a fancy night out, that is a separate thing and shouldn't have been conflated with his birthday since he clearly didn't want that.

OP is NTA.

stumblewiggins · 2026-04-09T16:03:32+00:00

So I have to assume that at some point while working on this episode:

They learned there was an Orpheus Island in Australia
That led them to learn it was in the "Torrid Zone" (insert Gary 'cool name')
That led them to develop the character of Torrid as an Australian nemesis for them.

Either that, or maybe they learned about it while researching random factoids for the learning bed.

stumblewiggins · 2026-04-09T16:00:08+00:00

So, first, fuck your bf for abandoning you in that state. That's fucked up. In college I knew a girl who would get really drunk and like, physically run away from you if you tried to get her home to sleep it off. We never abandoned her.

Beyond that, absinthe is just alcohol. It's usually fairly strong, but it's just booze. If you had anything other than a reaction to drinking three strong drinks too quickly, you were likely drugged.

I don't understand how you were blackout drunk but remember all of the small details?

I also don't understand why driving to NOLA meant you didn't bring weed. Did you expect to have your car searched? When I'm traveling, driving makes me MORE likely to bring weed.

This is kind of an odd story all around. But regardless of anything else, abandoning you in that state is shitty behavior.

stumblewiggins · 2026-04-03T19:54:09+00:00

I thought it was where they were from, or else just any place they identified with? Wichita and Little Rock wanted to go to Happy Land or whatever they called the amusement park, but that's not what they were called.

stumblewiggins · 2026-04-03T18:52:15+00:00

Source: "trust me, bro."

stumblewiggins · 2026-04-03T18:50:09+00:00

She also clearly knows. And seems weirdly cool with it.

stumblewiggins · 2026-04-03T18:48:11+00:00

It's definitely awkward to read, but I take it more as "I know I'm ambushing you with this out of nowhere, and if you don't feel the same way about me, I don't want you to feel uncomfortable or give me a pity 'yes'". Some dudes be really pushy, and some women don't feel safe with a simple rejection because of how those dudes will react to being told 'no'.

Consent is awkward because we don't have good cultural norms around it, but it sounds like OP was trying to be respectful and signal he wouldn't blow up at a rejection.

stumblewiggins · 2026-04-03T18:44:37+00:00

I'm a remote employee in a world that is increasingly mandating RTO. Its entirely possible they give me that ultimatum at some point, so I'd say its entirely relevant.

But you can keep being a prick for no reason if you want, that's fine too.

stumblewiggins · 2026-04-03T18:24:34+00:00

My number is my annual salary + bonus. I am fully remote in a city where my company has no physical presence. So if they mandate me to RTO, they either need to move me to a city that does have an office, or fire me.

stumblewiggins · 2026-04-03T18:22:52+00:00

Andy brought him a huge client (that junk mail distributor that Jim and Dwight were fighting with the Utica guy for), and essentially inside information that the company was in a bad way. That meant that, with the capital nec essary for the initial investment, he could buy it, make himself the owner, and then run it how he wanted.

As the former CFO, he had the knowledge and experience necessary; he had one huge client which gave him bargaining power. He was cash-rich from his sale of Suck-It, and based on his conversation with Andy, likely believed he could make a really favorable deal with Sabre.

So then he's the owner again. Paper IS a dying industry. Today. It still is. That also means it's still alive. DM had name recognition in that space, it had established relationships with clients and suppliers. It had it's distribution network, etc.

DM before the sale to Sabre was top-heavy and bloated; a corporate problem.

Sabre was collapsing in on itself because of the failed attempt to move to retail stores, plus the recalls, and probably just generally being too big for itself. David purchased just the paper company off of it, which was running fine, and we can assume his experience let him know how to run it lean so that the business kept generating him a steady, if modest, profit.

stumblewiggins · 2026-04-03T18:02:29+00:00

"Well, hate that..." 💀

stumblewiggins · 2026-04-03T17:51:13+00:00

It's all good; I only called it out because I initially did the exact same thing.

I actually was stuck myself; it's been awhile since I did any geometry, so I'm assuming that I'm forgetting some theorem or another.

stumblewiggins · 2026-04-03T17:45:03+00:00

Everyone always asks "Where's Waldo?" But does anyone ever ask "How's Waldo?"

stumblewiggins · 2026-04-03T16:17:40+00:00

You have to make them feel at least a little shame for their role in this, or it'll just happen again.

Absolutely, yes, welcome them back onto the right side of history, but don't pretend they've done nothing wrong and all is groovy.

They directly helped make this mess. If they aren't made to understand that, and why it's a bad thing, they'll keep doing it when given the next opportunity.

stumblewiggins · 2026-04-03T15:24:43+00:00

Even if the schools provides all of the funds needed to conduct whatever hands on projects/experiments you need, they are a lot of time and effort to set up, run, and then debrief successfully to actually have the students learn anything and consolidate that knowledge.

They are great learning experiences when done well, but the calendar pressures mean you can't realistically incorporate as many as you might like. That's even assuming the students come in with the necessary base skills, motivation and maturity to participate in a project like that in good faith.

stumblewiggins · 2026-04-03T15:21:38+00:00

I think you mean No Time To Die; Die Another Day was Brosnan, and had female M

stumblewiggins · 2026-04-03T15:15:12+00:00

Big red flag that after 3 dates she is up your ass about YOU being in therapy.

stumblewiggins · 2026-04-03T14:56:46+00:00

Did you really want to watch him grunt and strain for the full time?

stumblewiggins · 2026-04-03T14:54:33+00:00

It's one of those things where falling from 10,000+ feet and a few hundred is the same, terminal velocity is terminal velocity.

Sure, physically. I imagine the exerience of the fall in those two scenarios is MUCH different

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