I will flee to neidu3.

I too am a good friend.

I'm sorry for being a good friend and I don't know what to do with the kids.

Eh, to each their own. I liked it. I also liked the different pacing than the movie. It made more sense.

I recommended The Painted Man, which I had just read and thought was pretty good. A friend of mine read it (and liked it) and, contrary to my fate, proceeded to continue the series. Next time I saw him he was fairly mad at me, stating the the series took a sharp downturn in quality after the first one. After this I haven't been able to get him to read any other books, despite the one I actually recommended being fairly good. So in a way, this was me recommending a really bad book. Which just happened to be good.

I have personally experienced librarians and they have helped me when in need.

Oh, I've seen some doozies... The one I remember the most, and I've seen this twice, is this:

myClass.TheProperty = myClass.TheProperty;

When I asked about it, the developer said that, well yes, because it reads from one place and sets in another! Not at all difficult to read!

Just a few old ones...

Art of Noise - The Best Of .. but all are good

Yellow - Pocket Universe .. but also The Essential

Moloko - ?

Kosheen - Kokopelli (I think)

Yeah, but there's this one guy who keeps fixing everything.

Not smug, just tired.

See #2 ... Oh, wait... https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/gaslighting

But yes, I get it. That's the reason why this is so frustrating. At this point gaslighting has become synonymous with deceiving. Because people who use the word don't know the (original) meaning!

Sigh...

"Gaslighting is the manipulation of someone into questioning their perception of reality."

• Wikipedia

Can we at least get the definition right when we outright define it?

It always surprises me what people think is the final straw. He's making his own personal army, kidnapping people off the streets, he's taxing everyone, he's taking bribes like it's hamberders, he's lying about absolutely everything, he's demolishing the American government, he's raping people, always revolving around whether this involves children, which seems more and more likely... But him calling a reporter a bad name is surely what's going to fell him.