Why did I think I would like Clear History? I ended up switching it off with fifteen minutes left to go. I couldn't work out a happy ending, and I didn't think the whole island would be swept by holy purging fire.

However, the casting was *brilliant*. Keaton just about killed me.

This mouse [link] doesn't go far enough. This [link] is a bit much for everyday. This [link] is actually pretty, but a) not looking hot on the ergonomics and b) my hand is over the pretty!

Does anyone have a fancy mouse?

There's a weird intern at work. He's very dorky and cute in a Joss Whedon way. Far too intelligent for normal people. With the social ineptness that seems to come with.

I find him charming and lonely. Apparently he actually caused one of my benevolent coworkers to seethe with hate. He was asked if he could help with breaking down tables, and instead of answering yes or no, he came out with something like "I can endeavor to make myself available to aid you in your time of need". I would have found this hilariously entertaining. But my coworker, who thinks the best everyone, could not abide it, and was seething with vitriol over his incapability of answering the question straight to the point.

Which suddenly had me looking askance at her.

It reminded me of when I was at Fort Bragg in the difac, and asked the shift sergeant what she wanted me to do with the contents of the pan. She got offended and said it was "stuff", not "contents" and made me feel like a douche and a scumbag at the same time.

Even now I fight with people that using the latin for a plant isn't intellectual snobbery, but industry standards, so that people in America know what people are talking about in Germany, and common names are so regional.

Dudes, we're not being snobs,and we're not trying to lord our vocabulary over the lesser beings. Please to stop showing your insecurities by caling us snobs, because you're being snobs right back.

Yes, there are people who lord the fact that they know things others don't, but just because someone knows something you don't, don't act they're an automatic asshole because of it. Knowledge isn't a dirty thing, and I'm hardly the smartest person in the room.

I actually liked Clear History quite a bit, but I find Curb Your Enthusiasm inexplicably hilarious. That is, if I consider the various elements that go into typical episode I would figure I'd hate it, but it all comes together and somehow works for me. Eta: I didn't expect Clear History to be so Larry David playing the same Larry David from Curb but with a different name and in a different situation from the promos or whatever.

Anyway, I think they did okay with the ending. And the casting was amazing.

I didn't expect Clear History to be so Larry David playing the same Larry David from Curb but with a different name and in a different situation from the promos or whatever.

I did come to the conclusion that I should probably consider it an auteur problem, not a one off. It was very STAB HIM IN THE FACE with no payoff for me.

Was there a cleansing fire? You can lie to me.

There was some cleansing fire, actually, yeah.

I had no idea your mother was robbing the cradle! I LOVE it.

Yes, I followed in her footsteps!

Ugh, Juliebird. I have encountered this and find it very frustrating. Also if someone responded - "I can endeavor to make myself available to aid you in your time of need" - I would melt. Our receptionist at the office speaks like this all the time and my customers and everyone in the office adore him. His email exchanges when he applied for the job simply made me swoon.

he came out with something like "I can endeavor to make myself available to aid you in your time of need".

I don't know. Speaking as someone who is ridiculously socially awkward, I feel like things like this (speaking this way) is a case of Know Your Audience Or Face The Possible Consequences Of People Who Don't Think You're Half As Clever As All That.

(To be clear, many times, I'm willing to let people think I'm an ass because of how I speak. And your intern maybe have made that judgment call. In which case, rock on, awkward smart boy. Rock on.)

There was some cleansing fire, actually, yeah

After the house blew? That's where I bailed. I was going to bail after the disease (cancer, I assumed) reveal, because I knew there was a lot of pain for me ahead. And lo!

Oh hey, I have a weird question: Does anyone have any idea if stainless kitchen appliance are here to stay? I don't really like them, but if they are going to be the nice standard for the next 5-10 years, I should get them.

I wasn't there, I don't know the tone of the whole situation. But I've had indecipherable conversations with him where he ends with "you know?" and I smile for five seconds and then shake my head because I have no clue how to parse what just came out of his mouth, and he never made me feel dumb for not knowing (I just felt dumb naturally).

Dudes almost thirty and still lives with his mum. I'm not sure how much he gets how to gague responses to different audiences.

Maybe I'm defensive of him because I find him terribly sweet and not malicious or pretentious, just alien.