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I've enjoyed the first 2 episodes more than I thought I would. Good chemistry among the cast, and I could probably watch for a little while even if it sucked, because the youngest sibling's cute.
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If you've tried therapy, was it worth the $$$?
samhexum replied to + FreshFluff's topic in The Lounge
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Michelle Forbes is always good. The marshall looks a little like Greg Kinnear. Horst is an interesting character, and the actor is practically unrecognizable compared to his role as the captain on MONK.
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Your most handsome baseball player please...
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‘Bachelor’ Star Colton Underwood Reveals He’s Gay in Emotional ‘GMA’ Interview Former “Bachelor” star Colton Underwood sat down with Robin Roberts on Wednesday morning for a deeply personal interview, revealing that he is gay. In the interview, Underwood, who is also a former pro football player, was very emotional revealing the truths he learned about himself during quarantine. “Obviously this year’s been a lot for a lot of people, and it’s probably made a lot of people look themselves in the mirror and figure out who they are and what they’ve been running from and putting off in their lives. For me, I’ve ran from myself for a long time and I’ve hated myself for a long time, and I’m gay. I came to terms with that that earlier this year and have been processing it,” Underwood told Roberts. “The next step in all of this is sort of letting people know. I’m still nervous, but it’s been a journey for sure.” “I’m emotional, but I’m emotional in such a good, happy, positive way,” he continued. “I’m like the happiest and healthiest I’ve ever been in my life. That means the world to me.” When Roberts asked what brought him the courage to come out, Underwood said, “I got into a place for me in my personal life that was dark and bad. I can list a bunch of different things but they’d all be excuses. I think overall the reason why now is because I got to a place where I didn’t think I was ever going to share this. I would rather have died than say I’m gay, and that was sort of my wake up call.” Roberts then asked if Underwood ever thought about hurting himself during this process. “There was a moment in L.A. that I woke up and I didn’t think I was going to wake up,” he said. “I didn’t have the intentions of waking up, and I did. And I think for me that was my wake up call, that, ‘This is your life. Take back control.’ I think looking back even beyond that is like even just suicidal thoughts and driving my car close to a cliff, like ‘Oh, if this goes off the cliff, it’s not that big of a deal.’ I don’t feel that anymore.” Underwood then addressed being on “The Bachelor” and confusion fans and the women he dated might feel about that season. “I thought a lot about this…Do I regret being ‘The Bachelor?’ And handling it the way that I did?” he said. “I do think I could have handled it better, I do say that. I just wish I wouldn’t have dragged people into my own mess of figuring out who I was. I genuinely mean that but I also at the same time I can say ‘I’m sorry’ to all of those women, I can also thank them, and without the ‘Bachelor’ franchise, I don’t know if this would have ever come out.” Underwood was first introduced to viewers in 2018, as a contestant on Becca Kufrin’s season of “The Bachelorette.” He then joined the cast of “Bachelor In Paradise” Season 5, before becoming “The Bachelor” in 2019 for its 23rd season. Underwood was heavily marketed as “The Virgin Bachelor,” and his virginity was a major storyline throughout his season — something that he later told Variety he believed was “overblown,” but not necessarily exploited. Ever since starring as “The Bachelor,” Underwood had continued to speak about his virginity and sexuality. In a media interview last year, he said that “The Bachelor” helped him realize that he was not gay, after struggling with his sexuality. And in a book he published in 2020, “The First Time: Finding Myself and Looking for Love on Reality TV,” he revealed that growing up, people would question whether he was gay, since he was a virgin and a football player. He spoke to Roberts about how getting cast on the show, combined with his religious background, further confused his journey. “I literally remember praying to God the morning I found out that I was ‘The Bachelor’ and thanking him for making me straight,” he said. “I remember that vividly, saying, ‘Finally, you’re letting me be straight. Finally, you’re giving me the wife, the fiancée, the kids, the house, and then I’m going to have all this. I’ve known I’ve been different since the age of six, and I couldn’t process it and put my finger on it until high school, freshman year, when I knew I was gay. And by that time I had already grown up in the Catholic church, I had been to Catholic grade school, I learned in the Bible that gay is a sin. I had made mistakes in my sports and in my athletic career, and when you make mistakes, gay was always affiliated with a connotation of negativity, and there’s a lot of things when I look back, like, ‘No wonder you held it in.'” Underwood was a tight end at Illinois State, was signed by the San Diego Chargers in 2014 as a free agent in 2014, and was on the practice squad of the Oakland Raiders and Philadelphia Eagles. In an interview with Variety last year, Underwood spoke about his struggle with his sexuality growing up, explaining, “It was challenging for me to be standing up for my values and my beliefs, and looking back now, growing up in sort of a hyper-masculine culture as football or a conservative family…I always felt like I was on the defense. It was one of those things when you hear it so often and so much, you start believing it or you start questioning things. It really did affect me and it really was a weird time in my life, and I internalized a lot of it because I had nobody to talk to and nobody to vent to about it.” In the years following his time on “The Bachelor,” Underwood has stayed in the headlines, not only for his commentary about his own sexuality, but also for personal legal matters between him and his ex-girlfriend, Cassie Randolph, the contestant he met on the reality TV show with whom he was in a relationship for a year-and-a-half. After breaking up in 2020, Randolph filed a restraining order, accusing Underwood of stalking and harassing her, and filed a police report with claims that he had put a tracking device on her car. Later, Randolph dismissed the restraining order against Underwood and requested to drop the police investigation. Underwood addressed the relationship in the interview. “I would like to say sorry for how things ended,” he said. “I messed up, I made a lot of bad choices.” Confirming to Roberts that he was indeed in love with Randolph, he continued, saying, “Yes, and that only made it harder and more confusing for me, if I’m being honest, I loved everything about her. And it’s hard for me to articulate exactly what my emotions were, and going through that relationship with her was, because I obviously had an internal fight going on. I would just say that I’m sorry from the bottom of my heart. I’m sorry for any pain and emotional stress I caused. I wish it wouldn’t have happened the way that it did. I wish I would have been courageous enough to fix myself before I broke anybody else.” Roberts, one of the most prominent broadcasters of all time, was a seamless fit to speak with Underwood. Like Underwood, Roberts is deeply familiar with the sports world, having joined “GMA” after a star-making career as a sports anchor and a long tenure at ESPN. She was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012, and has been honored for her stature as a LGBTQ leader, ever since coming out in a 2013 Facebook post, where she acknowledged her longtime partner, Amber Laign. Prior to the interview airing, Roberts wrote on her Twitter that she “had the opportunity to spend time” with Underwood, who “has something very personal he wants to share.”
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A Brooklyn Building Is Screeching, We Asked an Acoustician Why On an otherwise sleepy block in Brooklyn is a brand-new 15-story building that shrieks on windy days. Residents have likened the sound to a shrill whistling, a maddening screech, and — most colorfully — a screaming dinosaur standing on top of the building. Amanda Sue Nichols, from the Cobble Hill Association, says it’s more like that “metallic screeching sound you hear on the subway.” Whatever it is, it’s nails-on-a-chalkboard annoying. And neighbors of the property at 347 Henry Street, who can hear it day and night, are at their wits’ end. The building in question is part of the Long Island College Hospital redevelopment and is owned by Fortis Property Group. Nichols says residents first began picking up the screech in January, apparently after some scaffolding was taken down. After the Cobble Hill Association raised the issue, Fortis is consulting an acoustical engineer and believes it can remediate this bizarre problem with “an adjustment to the balcony railing.” So what exactly is making the building sing? Alan Fierstein, an acoustic consultant who owns a 45-year-old firm called Acoustilog, says it’s likely a few factors at play. Fierstein — who took pains to say that he has not performed tests at the building and was just offering an educated guess — pointed to the building’s scale. The tower is a 15-story project mostly flanked by brownstones and low-rise brick buildings. Since it’s one of the tallest in the area, there are no other structures to disrupt the wind around it. “So above that height, a streaming wind can act like the effect you get when you blow over the top of an empty soda bottle and create a pure tone,” he said. (These tones are especially annoying because they’re not natural sounds.) The proverbial bottle top here may be the series of balconies jutting out on the north corner of the building, which appear to have slatted rails. Since wind in New York typically flows from the southwest toward the northeast, “it would skim right past these triangular openings,” according to Fierstein. That could produce a whistle generated by each balcony, and when multiplied by several, is amplified to create a loud whistling tone. That’s one theory, anyway. There are other possible spots where the wind could be making a piece of the building vibrate, and the sound could even be coming from somewhere else entirely, since tones tend to bounce and can be tricky to locate. They can also sometimes form what are called standing waves, which can actually generate sound that gets louder further away from the source. These sorts of unexpected sounds are a tough thing to plan for and can’t be categorized as some sort of civil-engineering error, says Fierstein. But they can be fixed. If the balconies are the culprit — which can easily be confirmed through measurements and tests — one possible fix could be to put up a glass shield or another relatively simple structure that disrupts some of that airflow. “There’s all kinds of little tricks you can do to make things a little bit more irregular,” said Fierstein, including experiments with the placement of different structures on different balconies to see what manages to diminish the sound the most. For all the agita the sound has caused, the potential solution could be pretty basic. Fortis, for its part, says it’s moving “as expeditiously as possible to resolve it.” The neighbors, of course, just want that sound gone. “We just don’t want to be left with a screeching sound when the construction ends,” said Nichols.
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