So many questions! Warning, do not read on if you feel faint of heart! Or have a “thing” about feet.
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Chatty Check In Post: I’m PUZZLING!!! What Activity Are You Enjoying Besides Watching Movies and DCIBing?
Ha! “DCIBing”!!! I love it! It’s like “being”, but with DCI in front. If you see what I mean. I may be sleep deprived, I was up late working on my puzzle.
Continue readingImportant Questions to Debate! From “Dust or Vacuum First?” to “Protein or Carbs for Breakfast?”
Let’s learn about each other! In all the most important ways! That is, the little things that don’t actually matter but we care about deeply.
Continue readingChatty Check-In Post: Who Here Has Experienced The Following Symptoms of Lockdown?
Just want to check in with my DCIB folks, give us a space to share and support each other and say “oh, you do that too? Then I’m not crazy!”
Continue readingDiscussion Post: What is Your LEAST Favorite Christmas Song? Complain Here!!!!
What a festive discussion topic! In this time of 24 hour Christmas music everywhere, I know there are songs you have gotten absolutely sick of.
Continue readingDiscussion Post: What is Your Santa Story?
Another fun discussion post! Santa Claus! Do you know him? How do you know him? Have you raised your kids to know him?
Continue readingDiscussion Post: Who Here Grew Up With Honorary Aunties in Your Life? And Their Children, Your Honorary Cousins?
I so enjoyed (and continue to enjoy as more comments come in) our post about friendships and what lasted and what didn’t. I want to do kind of a partner post about another sort of childhood relationship that I have found has lasted into adulthood much more strongly, that “my Mom’s best friend” relationship. Or, in Indian English, your Aunties.
Continue readingDiscussion Post: Who Here is Still Friends With People From Elementary School? High School? College?
Honestly, I’m curious! Angie and I were just talking about the film “June” where our heroine stays close to her group of school friends into adulthood, which was not our experience. I’m interested in learning about other people, are you like me and Angie, or are you like a movie?
Continue readingChatty Check In Post: What Did Y’All Have For Lunch?
I feel like we just don’t TALK any more! Also, I am missing my casual office conversations from work. What did you have for lunch?
Continue readingShahrukh Month Discussion Post: What Gift Do We Want From SRK This Year?
It’s snowing in Chicago right now and my work has been a series of disasters since 8am, so I need a distraction. Let’s talk SRK.
Continue readingDiscussion Post: What Is Your Nightmare System For Your Kids/When You Were a Kid?
This is universal, right? It wasn’t just me who woke up between 3 and 13 after a weird bad dream and then bugged my parents?
Continue readingDiscussion Post: Tea! Who Drinks It, Why Do You Like it, What is Your Technique, Does Anyone Put in Lemon or Is That Just Made Up?
Another random fun discussion post! Tea! Counterpart to our “coffee” discussion. Get all your tea opinions ready!
Continue readingDiscussion Post: What is Your Favorite Season and Why?
A vital question! Which hopefully will get us all talking a bit, because I like it when we talk, and also I am procrastinating about writing my next Shahrukh review.
Continue readingDiscussion Post: What Unexpected Thing Were You Addicted to as a Child? (Tarzan books, Adult Sitcom, anything not for children of your generation)
I feel like the DCIB community is mostly made up of people with slightly off beat taste. So I suspect there will be some interesting answers to this question.
Continue readingDiscussion Post (Adult Content): Which 2 Shahrukh Characters, if Quarantining Together, Would End Up Having the Hottest Sex?
Let us put on our adult content hats, block the computer from our children and spouses, and escape into harmless fantasy for just a moment.
Continue readingDiscussion Post: What Movie Character Would You Most and Least Like to Be Quarantined With?
A vital timely question! And now that we are all about 6 months in, I think we have a good sense of the importance of this question and what factors needed to be weighed and considered.
Continue readingDiscussion Post: What Actors from Western Industries Would Have a Better Career in India and Vice Versa?
This may not make sense to anyone else, but I find it a fascinating though experiment, so I will just shout into the ether and see if anyone picks it up.
Continue readingCoffee Discussion Post: What’s Your Feeling on Pumpkin Spice, and Other Vital Questions?
Grumpy Monday! I got super fancy coffee delivered in an attempt to cheer myself up which made me start thinking about the whole coffee experience.
Continue readingDiscussion Post: What Actor/Actresses in Your Life Have Been a Binge Passion?
You know how you find someone you like, and then you are inspired/obsessed with watching every film they have ever been in? Share your stories! Who was it, when was it, why did you get tired and stop?
Continue readingDiscussion Post: Are There Any Cute Female Short Hair Cuts in Indian Film?
I can’t think of any! So many cute shoulder length cuts, so many lovely long natural hair looks, but what about actual above the ears short hair on women? Is there anything good?
Continue readingAnother Internet Thinky Post! When the People Speaking for a Community, Drown Out the Voices of the Actual Community
I just have so much to say about internet dialogue! And the Gunjan Saxena debate that I am listening to second hand thanks to y’all has given me a new thing to think about. Also, once again, NO POLITICS. We have been doing fabulously with productive conversations about communication and internet culture without political specifics, let’s keep that up!
Continue readingDiscussion Post: Mental Health Homework, List 3 Things That Make You Happy Today
UPDATE: This post has been up for 3 hours, and no one has commented. I feel this is a bad sign for our collective ability to be happy. I’m having a moderately hard day today. We didn’t watch Midsomer last night, and I think it has become a vital part of maintaining the careful mental health balance of the household, so now all 3 of us are feeling rumpled. Plus there’s thunderstorms, so the dog is unhappy. I’d go for a walk to get out of the stressful atmosphere, but of course I CAN’T GET OUT OF BED. Anyway, time to count our blessings in a simple effective technique for happiness!
Continue readingHindi Film 101: Social Media Stories and Truth
This is going to be a tricky discussion to start. My Dad just sent me a link to a fascinating story in the New York Times about a twitter hoaxster, and it played into a concern I have had for a while about how anonymous social media internet sources are used again and again as though they are unquestionable truth told to you by a friend. Oh, and remember, NO POLITICS. But I am very interested in social politics, if that makes sense? If you want to talk about gender issues or race issues, totally here for you. Just nothing related to specific political parties and how they use the internet.
Continue readingDiscussion Post: What Are Your Favorite Comfort Food Sitcoms?
I loooooooove sitcoms. Not to make me think and understand the world and blah blah blah, but to make me laugh while I am eating soup on the couch in front of the TV after a long day at work. You know, the ones you watch over and over again and get excited when you turn on the TV at the hotel and catch a rerun you haven’t seen in a while.
Continue readingDiscussion Post: What Movie/Book/TV Show Have You Gotten Absolutely Obsessed About? (yes, you can say JHMS)
I guess also music album/stage show. Anything you think about obsessively, talk about excessively, and so on and so forth, until you are over it all of a sudden and it becomes this nice nostalgic piece of your past.
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