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Highly doubt it. The Nazis have a real horror of genetic abnormalities, as it strikes to the heart of their "Aryan = Perfect" narrative. In Hitler's Third Reich, a baby born with Ed's condition probably would have been killed immediately. The point is that no Nazi group would give someone like Ed the time of day.

Ruth was on Ben's side and furious with Marty right up until Ben said that he'd confronted Helen. Ruth immediately grabbed Ben's stuff and told him to go with Marty and follow his directions to the letter. She totally understood the line that had been crossed. Bipolar people off their meds will get fixated on something, real or imagined, and let that dominate their minds. It could be anything: I've seen bipolar people in their 30s suddenly fly into a rage because they remembered that time in the third grade when their parents made them wear a dorky outfit to school. They get a thought in their heads and can't let go. Couldn't he have just stayed on his meds and taken a Viagra when he wanted to be with Ruth? A former co-worker of mine was severely bipolar and would disappear (on Leave) for a couple weeks at a time twice a year. I once remarked that he was gone again and was quietly told that whenever he was gone for more than a few days, it meant his meds had become imbalanced, so he would check himself into a mental hospital until they were adjusted properly again. Some bipolar people just refuse to take their meds. They can't see how off the rails they are. What were Ruth and Marty supposed to do: wrestle Ben to the ground multiple times a day and force the pills down his throat? You can only help someone who wants to be helped. For us Walking Dead fans, it was a "Look at the flowers!" moment.

My wife is into the big fashion brands like LV, Coach, MK, etc, and she's told me that a lot of the big designers have outlet stores where they sell more gauche stuff than they normally would at a Nordstrom's or wherever. She'll see someone with a loud, obnoxious Coach purse and think to herself "You bought that at a Coach Outlet, didn't you?" Oh, I've no doubt that Stephanie's online communication towards Erika included of all sorts of X-rated chatter about what she'd like to do with various parts of Erika's anatomy. Then Stephanie arrives and will barely even hold Erika's hand. At first, Erika was just attributing it to nerves and whatnot, but now is coming to realize that she's been had. And, given that Stephanie's YouTube videos apparently feature her bragging about the hundreds of guys she's slept with, she really has her nerve freaking out about Erika having slept with one or two of her (Erika's) friends. I keep going back and forth on David. On the one hand, I find it hard to believe that someone in their sixties who's financially successful enough to fly back and forth from Russia could really be this dumb. OTOH, what would David have to gain from faking all this? He's coming off like a willfully blind stalkerish idiot. My heart ached a little for Rose's father at the pig farm when Ed asked her to take Rose away for a few days without Prince. You could just see a tiny bit of life go out of his eyes. If a Filipino man had put Rose's family through half the crap Ed has, he would have been out on his ear ages ago. But Rose's dad, understanding that this loathsome little troll represents his beloved daughter and grandson's best chance for a new and better life in America, swallows his pride and loses a bit of his soul by accommodating this disgusting pig of a man. In this entire cast, exactly ONE American comes off well: Avery. Ed and BabyGirlVisa are entitled and the very stereotype of the "Ugly American." Stephanie is a sociopathic famewhore who doesn't care how much she's hurting Erika in exchange for her 15 minutes of Reality TV fame. If you combined David and Yolanda's wisdom and smarts, they'd still be dumber than a box of hair. The Trainwreck Named Darcey needs no further comments. And Geoffrey is a lying nimrod. You don't wait until this point in the relationship to tell someone you've been to prison. You inform them early on, so they can decide whether or not to continue. My guess is that she has her hair shaved short on the sides and grown long on top so it's a huge mohawk once she sets it. She must through half a jar of extra strength spiking gel at a time.

Re Ben's age: Charlotte is 17 and Jonah is 14. That means Wendy would probably be in her early to mid-40s right now: it's doubtful she and Marty had Charlotte any earlier than her mid-20s, as the show alludes to a misspent youth of hers. So let's say she's 43 years old. She and Ben have the kind of easy more-or-less-equals relationship you generally only get with siblings that are a few years apart, so that would put him at 39 or 40, assuming he's the younger sibling. No way should he be dating a 21-year-old Ruth Langmore. Ditto to everyone who dislikes the whole "Bipolar Family Member Goes Off Their Meds and Creates Havoc" plotline. I've hated it since ER drove it into the ground with Abby Lockhart's mom and brother. The entire Wyatt-Darlene pairing means (IMHO) one of two things: A) The writers had Lisa Emery and Charlie Tahan under contract but didn't know what to do with either, so they threw them in together. B) We're building up to Darlene being offed by the Cartel (there's only so much crap Navarro will take from her) and Wyatt taking over as the main antagonist to the Byrdes. The tipoff will be if Darlene and Wyatt suddenly get married. Other observations through six episodes (and I have not seen the others, nor have I read anything about them other than the Netflix teaser synopses): Weird how Charlotte and Wyatt, previously BFFs who were on the verge of moving in together, have not shared even one scene this season. If Three moves in with Wyatt and Darlene, will there even be a reason for Ruth to stick around the Langmore's pathetic "compound?" She'd be better off just moving into a room at the Casino's hotel.

I sympathize with James' children and grandchildren. I sympathize with James' father, who went into debt to secure that medical transport to Houston. I sympathize with the many, many healthcare workers (including Dr. Now and his staff) who tried to keep James alive for years and restore him to good health, even as James himself fought them every step of the way. I sympathize with anyone who ever had to change waste-filled sheets or clean his filthy backside because his weight had rendered him unable to clean himself or attend to his personal needs. I cannot sympathize with James himself. Even as slow and mentally ill as he was, he HAD to know that what he was eating was killing him. He had to understand, on some level, that he was eating an ungodly amount of food every single day. In the end, he just didn't care. I cannot sympathize with Lisa, either. When a bedbound person eats themselves to death, the people who brought them that food must be blamed as well. She could have brought him 1,200 calories a day and no more. Hell, even 2-3,000 calories a day would have more than halved his weight and allowed him mobility. Instead, she kept killing him slowly with food. I pity the next victim she latches on to.

I've gotten my share of these. My favorite part is where they said they hacked deep into your computer, recorded all this stuff, then uninstalled all the software so that "no trace" would ever be found of it (anyone in IT knows this is more or less impossible without fully wiping the disk and overwriting it). And the misspellings and bad grammar are intentional: anyone smart enough to know that a super-skilled IT professional wouldn't write like that is too smart for the scam anyway. It's a weird, but effective, method of winnowing down the field of suckers.

But would Williams even know anyone else in her life to send those to? And you can always claim they're photoshopped or whatever.

Exactly. Assuming you're not famous, the odds of someone: A) Seeing the photos, AND B) Knowing who you are, AND C) Caring at all ...are almost nil. Even if some weirdo stalker did meet all three prerequisites, you could always claim it was someone else in the photos, assuming anyone you knew had the nerve to confront you.

When Stephanie began having a cow over Rainbow Brite's dating app, my wife and I agreed that she was deliberately picking a fight. And what exactly was she doing looking through Erika's phone in the first place??? My wife and I have been together for almost five years, married for two and a half, and neither of us has EVER pawed through the other's phone. Either you trust your partner or you don't.

Remember when The History Channel actually ran shows about history? Same thing with TLC. She reminds me of a contestant on the most recent season of The Bachelor, Victoria F. Whenever questioned about anything the least bit uncomfortable, Victoria would burst into tears and start attacking the other person. Later, she'd come back and apologize for her outburst, but then would steer the conversation away from the original question. Basically, she was using emotional outbursts as a way to avoid owning up to her (allegedly sordid) past.

Another pet peeve that reared its head with the final expansion for Assassin's Creed Odyssey (Cerberus, I'm looking at you): sticking a WAY-harder-than-usual boss or sequence into a game in the name of making it "more challenging" or "more rewarding" or whatever. I play games to have fun and de-stress, NOT to have a de facto unpaid second job learning the exact timing, button pushes and joystick moves to defeat a boss that's much more difficult than it needs to be.

Let's not forget that while a lot of sites ask you to disable your adblocker, the sites requiring it (usually local newspaper sites) invariably have the most obnoxious ads, i.e. autoplaying videos, full-page banners, etc.

All of the Grand Theft Auto and Saints Row games I've played had awesome soundtracks. The only exception was the Saints IV add-on Gat Out of Hell, where there was no ambient music. However, I found that the album The Devil You Know by Heaven & Hell made a good informal soundtrack. GTA IV deserves special mention for its "Independence Radio" station, which was what you used when you had the game play from a downloaded Mp3 folder. Taglines included "Independence Radio: Because nothing says Freedom like a bunch of music you didn't pay for!" Scarface: The World is Yours had a soundtrack with options including both 1980s tunes and more current ones (for instance, you could play Ministry's 2006 Bush Trilogy track "Seńor Peligro" in a game set in the early 1980s). L.A. Noire had a unique soundtrack filled with not only 1940s music, but also authentic 1940s radio plays. Games with great original music soundtracks would include Half-Life 2 and Bully.

He's still thinking Lana will have a logical explanation, they'll end up together, and all the neighbors and friends will seethe with jealousy over this hot Russian chick he managed to bag. Thanks for the background. That also explains the blank faces at the premier party and Usman's disgust with Lisa later: he realizes he may have just committed career suicide (in his hometown at least) for a woman who's not the least bit appreciative. That would make a lot of sense, and also explain both her attitude and why the producer, manager, etc, are putting up with her (at least to her face): they don't want their cash stream cut off. I remember when Farrah Abraham and James Deen released their sextape which was supposed to be "stolen candid footage." Deen readily admitted the whole thing was a paid performance. When Abraham suggested via social media that he should have kept the ruse going, his response was basically "I don't want people thinking I'd actually be in a relationship with someone like her." For the first time, she faced the possibility of returning to America alone and having to explain why this "celebrity," who she obviously considers beneath her, decided she wasn't worth the trouble. Other thoughts: Tom is a good-looking guy who could walk into plenty of high-end NY bars and go home with someone that night. Why, oh WHY, is he putting up with harridan and self-made freak Darcey berating him in public? If someone acted half as nasty to me, I'd leave and block their number. So Williams' Instagram account now directs to some Nigerian company. Will it EVER occur to Yolanda that this guy doesn't exist? If they have a reunion show for this season, they should put David and Yolanda on one couch, then have an empty one for Lana and Williams.

It's worth noting that Tyson's purchase of the peanut butter seems to have paid off. There's something to be said for buying an item that has no strategic value but will strengthen your body.

I can see David convincing himself that "something must have happened to Lana" or whatever. He seems 100% incapable of accepting that the "Lana" he thinks he's fallen in love with is a combination of a professional model's photos and somebody else entirely (who may be a woman or a man) behind a keyboard. His "Lana" simply does not exist, but that would require him to face the ugly truth that he's been scammed for probably half a million dollars or more (going by the website charging $100/hour to chat and his admission that he's spent thousands of hours on it). The reason she's suddenly disappeared from the site is because they've wrung all the $$$ they can out of the "Lana" character and have now moved on to their newest addition "Natasha" (or whoever). Usman appears to have very little stage talent. The one song they showed before the Lisa song (and since it's been at least 10 seconds since she mentioned it, let's not forget that the song was written for her) was him scatting over an energetic dance beat: in other words, something that every DJ in every medium-sized US city knows how to do. Usman may be something of a star in his hometown, but he'd have a hard time headlining your average US Karaoke Night. In addition, he'd quickly get a Cease-and-Desist letter from Soulja Boy's lawyers. Those shots of the women in the audience wondering why he'd "sung" his lousy auto-tuned song to some middle-aged American woman were hilarious. Ed, get your awful mayonnaise-infested hair off my TV screen. Thank you. Geoffrey: So it's OK for YOU to talk to any woman you want, but a capital crime if SHE talks to other men? Whatever.

I think it was more a reaction to him demanding she take the test but coming up with stupid rationalizations for why he couldn't take it. She's realizing any future with him is going to include copious helpings of "Do as I say, not as I do."

The difference is that Geoffrey is looking for true love; Varya is looking for a transactional relationship and is being kind of obvious about it.

Rose is not terribly attractive (although she's still way out of his league), lives in an impoverished situation, and has a young child (which will turn off a lot of potential suitors). Ed is literally the best she can do right now. And ITA with those who can see the anger and heartbreak building up in her. I could see this going one of two ways: 1) She breaks it off with him despite everything that will cost her, or 2) She comes to The States, marries him, then starts sleeping with every guy she can and rubbing his face in it as a way to get back at him for what he's putting her through.

That knowing "Ah" when Lisa tells her friends she's dating SojaBoy is people thinking she's claiming to date Soulja Boy, who I understand is a legitimately famous rapper. I talk to a lot of women as part of my job (Tech Support) and my wife talks to a lot of guys as part of hers (Sales). If each of us got jealous any time the other talked to someone of the opposite gender... The issue is demanding SHE take one, then making stupid excuses for why HE won't do the same. And let us not forget: HE LIED TO HER. He told her he was 5' 2" when he was a good three inches shorter. It takes a lot of nerve to lie to someone, then claim doubts about THEIR truthfulness. You've traveled all the way around the world to be with this person. Would you rather talk about HER past, or YOUR combined future? And the old joke about men wanting a 100% pure virgin who's also an expert in bed applies here as well. Virgins are generally terrible in bed (I know I was -- I'm told that I've gotten a lot better). The great thing about her being on this show: she doesn't have to tell them. They'll figure it out when they tune in. A potential couple can disagree about a lot, but if they disagree on the children question, they might as well break it off now. There is NO getting around that. If one wants kids and the other doesn't, the relationship simply will not work.

I read somewhere that Fleiss and co. were casting for 25-year-old Hannah Brown, but they couldn't meet Hannah's $$$ requirement and she opted out. 39-year-old (as of next week) Clare was a last-minute substitute. When she was announced, a number of the younger contestants didn't want to date someone old enough to be their mother and resigned from the show. The eight thirtysomethings (and one fortysomething) are the replacements for the guys who bailed. Personally, methinks they should have recast everyone younger than 28 or 29. What will Clare have in common with a 23-year-old from a relationship standpoint?

If this is successful, I wonder if Fleiss and co. will try marketing both young and "old" versions of future seasons?

Some major stuff obviously went on behind the scenes. My guess is the mom just reached her limit with this blob of a daughter who's eaten herself to 650 lbs but won't lift a finger to improve her situation. I almost wonder if they didn't verbally throw down over Seana "losing" the diet instructions and refusing to get a replacement. Were I in the mother's situation, that would be a breaking point for me. The bottom line is this, IMHO: Seana is committing slow suicide with food. Nobody who wants to get better loses the diet instructions three separate times but never asks for a replacement. And even as dumb as she is (Seana could give Jim Carrey's Dumb and Dumber character a run for his money), she has to know a breakfast consisting of 4-5 burritos, followed by almost an entire Stuffed Crust Pizza Hut pizza accompanied by an entire family-size bag of frozen pizza rolls, is not normal or healthy. As Dr. Now pointed out, you have to eat 7-8,000 calories per day to maintain 650 lbs of weight. She doesn't want to change her life. She SAYS she does and maybe even THINKS she does, but she really doesn't. She will continue mumbling and eating until she passes away. And except for her mother and her dog, the rest of the world won't even notice. What a waste.

Seana may the dumbest one yet. When Dr. Now was giving her that closing speech, she literally looked like she couldn't understand what he was saying.

Look at the bright sides: 1) He's as tall as Tom Cruise and taller than Michael Bloomberg, both of whom have certainly led financially successful lives. 2) He's tall enough that he'll generally be able to find his clothes in the regular Men's section of most stores. 3) He's shorter than average, but not overly so.