So we have a show when boyfriend breaks up with heroine because she works as - yeah.
Then a female comes and not wish to get touched by our heroine -

You can call it discrimination and being quite rude but similar thing i had mentioned in one of my own posts -

Hygiene - again logic and does have merit.
There can be discrimination - low class, low caste, untouchability
there can be mental state too - phobia n even OCD
The contamination logic has good value( it made homerun in 2020) but not practical in real life

And it is everywhere - surely - In Asia you will be able to see it quite clearly - you can then touch racism and what not.
Western world - you can get class system.

Then it can be spiritual - +ve and -ve energy.

Why am i talking about it - because i try as much possible to stay away from those places - rule is minimum 100 square meter distance from such places - Now you can assume why 2020 tried best to put me in a corner.

That's where my resources are being wasted and that's what lead to decline in my health. And this is the reason i want more automation in food sector(talked about once in open posts)

So interesting. Do you have any good sources (books, etc.) where I could read/listen to more about the history/politics of the entertainment industry?

Similarly in Hong Kong. Actors were persuaded to star in films at gun point. Sounded like this lasted well into the 1990's.

@eazal I suggest we reward ourselves with one Leonidas box for every entry we complete.😋

As I said some weeks ago, I have been less than a year in k-dramaland, but I have watched more than 60 series. Sincerely, very few of them are from 2022. So I would have to fill the themes with older dramas 😅

How about these --

Best age-reversal (for actors who pulled off playing younger versions of their characters)

Actors playing younger version of characters who most resemble the adult version (sorry, can't think of a way to shorten this)

Successful lovers-to-friends couples

Toxic first love obsessions

What about the best subverted trope? Like something you normally expected in a drama but then that drama subverted that trope and it’s so good to see.

Hi Eazal, great to see you here! I've been MIA for a while, but came back to the Beanie playground for the yearly roundup 😊

Do we need #4? We all know is LifS.

While @mmmmm has a sweet tribute to the rewards of shopping and she certainly deserves these very small indulgences, I’m watching Gauss electronics, and my Black Friday shopping thoughts went (as usual) to the sleazy side. The fake ads on Gauss hilariously capture the vibe I associate with 1970s U.S. late-night T.V.

I am the only one here with vivid memories of the 1970s, but I assume every nation had at least one station pre-cable that replayed old B-movies and had numerous cheap-production ads. In the 1970s’ U.S. some of the most common late night ads were for compilation rock and roll albums (pre-cd) or obscure country-western artists. I also remember one for an “international” star, the “master of the pan flute,” but I don’t think he was international nor a star.

But back to products promising emotional payoffs, 3 stood out for their sleaziness. One, the Mr. Microphone from Ronco. A portable mic playing through the radio mostly innocently anticipated the later Karaoke craze, but what everyone who saw the ad remembers is the guy using the mic to shout from the back of the car “Hey Good looking, we’ll be back for you later.” (The URLs are the original commercials as I saw them as a teenager—they are safe and from youtube, so I include them if you are curious.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqIrzkPDtrk Although this mic also promised family and friends fun, the idea that it would be appealing to use it to threaten a woman with sexual harassment and abduction was strange, even back then.

The second product is more ridiculous, the mood ring, which supposedly changed colors according to what “mood” you are in. Of course, as you can see by the commercial it was obvious what “mood” they were talking about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0LGvo6M96E I got one of these as a joke party gift, and it never changed color, either because 1) I was ALWAYS in the mood or 2) I was such a cold fish that the ring couldn’t register my mood. Probably both were true.

Finally, there was the sleaziest 1970s late night product of all, the waterbed. The funny thing about waterbed ads is that they always stressed health or comfort benefits, but the wink, wink understanding was that the undulations of the mattress would enhance the motion of other activities—hence the mirrored headboard. You can see the image of the couple in the background behind this otherwise straightforward ad which appeared in my local area. https://archive.org/details/la-bries-1978-480-test I have never slept on a waterbed, let alone engage in the other activities upon it, but the idea of sloshing around with a partner, accidently knocking heads while getting seasick, does not strike me as particularly sexy.

Thinking of these ads thanks to Gauss Electronics made me curious about Korea and other countries. Did local t.v. stations there have ads for Mr. Microphone, mood rings, and waterbeds? Or was this just my privileged upbringing in a cultured U.S.?

I bought shoes and crampons to go to Iceland between Christmas and New Years \o/

I'm glad your purchases are making you happy. I'm going to try a low spend/high save year in 2023 because of some goals I have. But I think it's also important to enjoy the money you work so hard for. I recently bought a new sweater I'd had my eye on for months and then some Deciem products during their November sale.

Buying stuff makes me happy. Having money in the bank makes me even happier so the latter wins out.

I don't have issue and I use chrome too.

I have never had this issue, but it's Safari I'm using.

I had that problem a few weeks ago on my mobile Chrome as well. I also had to log in every time I sent a comment even though I was previously logged in. But the issue seemed to have disappeared on its own.

I use DuckDuckGo and I always have to enter my credentials every time I login in. But o love DDG.

Please use the following email and they will look into it for you: hello@dramabeans.com

Yay, she’s back🥰