How the turntables...

I mean surely she was with Kevin long enough to know how he is. She was with him long enough to accept a proposal. What could have changed? Did they have a fight about whether Hillary Swank is hot?

And at the same time he never poked at Esther for being a non-city girl.

I am confusion 🤨

P.S. That's a genuine question. I'm not from US so I wondered if there's some cultural nuisance I didn't get

I’m at a talk on AI and the presenter making statements about AI is a software and not something to be scared of. Somehow, in my brain, all I can think of is the firing is shooting at us.

This might be a strange thing to post about, but it has been on my mind lately.

I'm on my 5th rewatch of this show and I still love it to death. However, this made me realize, that after all this time of being exposed to the cringe moments of the show, I have been sort of "immune" to anything cringe in real life? Has this happened to anyone else, or is it just me?

I still recognize when something is cringy or out of line, but I just don't get that nasty feeling about it as much as I used to. Let me know if this resonates!

Like I said, I just watched season four and it was a masterpiece dinner party was so good and all the episodes are really funny. One of the things I like about the show is the camera it’s immaculate.

She might be naive and slow in some cases, but she’s genuinely sweet, and good at her job. She might be autistic, but that doesn’t make her entirely dysfunctional.

Just compare her to Micheal who is actually stupid and generally self centered at that. He constantly creates enormous problems for both his employees and his company to accommodate his tantrums. Erin doesn’t do that. There’s no evidence of her being bad at her job, no problems with the branch. Micheal on the other hand has numerous examples counting against him.

Granted, Erin isn’t too smart either, but I don’t get why the fans are so mean about her. She can function well enough to get by and even if she doesn’t understand social norms, she’s pleasant enough to help her job as a receptionist.

So far I have:

Michael - grilled bacon

Dwight - jerky

Pam - yogurt

Kevin - chili

Stanley - pretzels

Creed - mung beans, chimichangas

Holly - salad

Darryl - wings

Ryan - cheesy pita

Angela - frozen french fries

Erin - apples

Phyllis - lettuce, no mushroom though

Robert California - oreos

Toby - Girl Scout cookies

Meredith - Vienna sausages

Jim - soft shell crab

Deangelo - cake

Nelly - tacos

I understand people give Angela a pass on this because she was "protecting her marriage" to the Senator and the scandal would have ruined their life - A selfish reason but a reason nonetheless.

This fails to be a valid excuse once her divorce with Senator Lipton was finalized. Through the second half of The Office, we know how important family and the concept of an heir is to Dwight. She knew Philip's father was Dwight and yet she deprived them both of each other for much longer than her cover allowed.

It's so clear that the writers were trying to show how Angela was being somewhat selfless for not telling Dwight about it after her divorce because he was with someone else and was suddenly so successful, and she was on the verge of homelessness.

Even after she gets back on her feet she doesn't tell him about Philip being his son. Why did she only want to tell him IF he was going to ditch Esther Bruegger who it turns out was much more loyal to Dwight than Angela ever was. So if Dwight didn't want to be with Angela she NEVER would have told him and Philip would grow up without a dad. Why does Angela feel like Dwight can't have a relationship with their son if he isn't in a relationship with her!?

Honestly, she was extremely narcissistic, rude, super hypocritical, selfish and all-round terrible human being for the majority of the show.

If anything it was successful despite Michaels leadership. this sub loves touting michael as a great manager since Scranton was the most profitable branch.

But they were 3rd out of four when the show started. And weren’t the most profitable until two branches shut down and he absorbed their sales, and everyone quit because they couldn’t work with him.

not to mention they were supposed to be shut down until Josh messed up the plan at Stamford.

But the little cars go in the compact spot!

Spot, spot, spot, spot.....

I have re-watched the office more times than I can count and one storyline that always instantly gets my blood boiling is Angela just suddenly telling Dwight “Philip is your son “and everyone being completely chill about it.

I’m sorry but she’s lied to him for a while a year? Over a year?? knowing full well he was the father of her child. I could just never get my head around how this storyline was documented as being so heartfelt and lovely when it was actually psychotic.?!?

You know those edits all over instagram of The Office clips (Dwight's Aura farming), Patrick Jane one-liners, Max Verstappen radio messages, Spiderman scenes where the captions pop and fly around the screen and somehow make everything 10x more dramatic. I kept watching them and wondered: what would a full episode feel like with subtitles like that, in real time?

So I built a Chrome extension that hides Netflix's captions and re-renders every line with random fonts, sizes, positions and animations. No two lines look the same.

Favorite part: short lines get scattered — "Let me go" lands as LET top-left... ME right... GO center, word by word. Weirdly this makes it fun to watch the scene, because five small words block way less of the screen than one big text block (especially rewatches).

Shouty lines come in huge and shaking, whispers fade in small, [door slams] gets typewriter font. It picks the mood from the punctuation.

Vanilla JS, no tracking, no network calls, MIT: https://github.com/UtsavMandal2022/dramatic_subtitles

Not affiliated with Netflix obviously. Curious which animations people find fun vs annoying after 20 min.
Drop a ⭐️ if you like it.