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The weird bit about leaving Tim literally ripping out a bit of her heart, and how they’ll all be together again in heaven, makes it sound like Jill isn’t planning on ever seeing Tim again while they’re all still alive.

Eve, being made from Adam's rib, would have had all the same chromosomes as Adam, making her a transgender woman. So the bible would technically be pro-trans, if they acknowledged the science of it. It sucks that Izzy is being educated in such a bigoted, restrictive way, but I'm not at all surprised,

I'm all for kids knowing the correct names for body parts, being told their private areas are not to be touched without consent, and having correct explanations for things (i was taken through a 'where do babies come from' book at 4, because my mother was pregnant, and I asked), but 'the importance of being a boy or a girl' and 'why God wants every baby to have a mommy and daddy' is just wrong and stupid teaching. Also someone needs to ask God, if wants every baby to have a mommy and daddy, why does he let people die when their kids are still little, and sometimes unborn, leaving young widows/widowers with kids? Amazing how the 'kids need a mother & father' argument comes up when it's about gay parents, or evil single mothers who sleep around, but is glossed over when it's through death.

That's the problem with Gothardism as a whole. They claim it's this great system that raises perfectly godly children etc., but if the people who belong to this religion, and follow its teachings aren't able to go out unchaperoned, without being tempted into sin - when even completely non-religious people manage to go out alone without sinning all over the place, then the teachings really aren't that great. Back on topic, Felicity is still cute.

When my brother makes potatoes like that he calls them 'home fries'. If he cuts them in regular long lengths, he just says fries, but if he's inviting you for dinner and says something like 'it'll be steaks, salad and home fries', we know we're getting fried potato chunks of varying sizes. (And I just googled home fries, and the pictures all look like what my brother, and Jill are serving, so I guess it is a thing.)

I like that we see him telling stories about Peter Rabbit rather than trying to recite bible passages that he wouldn't even understand.

If they really set their own courtship rules as JB claims, then they could have as many side hugs (or sinful, sinful, unchaperoned front hugs) as they wanted.

I think the problem with the beans is that the sauce is too thin, making it look like a weird soup. (I'm assuming it's supposed to be a baked bean type thing, and thus should have the thicker consistency.)

Turns out she was the demon at the centre of the earth all along.

The best cornbread recipe I've ever made is the jalapeño cheddar cornbread from Ali Larter's cookbook Kitchen Revelry. It's made from scratch, but is less complicated that what Jill has up there involving packet mixes.

The no dancing thing annoys me. I’m not even religious, and I know there’s passages in the bible that say things like “let them praise his name with dancing” and “he danced for the lord with all his might”. Nobody ignores the spirit of the bible more than the fundamentalists who claim to live by it.

Wasn't there something further back in this thread, that I am too lazy to search through, so relying on my admittedly not perfect memory, saying she works in some kind of care facility?

Izzy doesn't even look like Izzy to me. With his height, and his face looking quite different, it looks like they've grabbed some random disgruntled 5 year old to take a photo.

In Duggar land that would be handing over the household scutwork to an unmarried sister, so probably.

Considering the police report said Jinger was molested in the laundry room (up on a washer or dryer, can't remember which), it is super fucked up to make her part of the laundry team, so she had to be in there probably every day.

Yep, that was where I first heard of it. They did make a TV movie too.

I'm a few pages late to this, but as a true crime buff, I hear the name Cinnamon, and my first thought is Cinnamon Brown, who at 14 was manipulated into killing her stepmother by her father. Back on topic, Felicity Nicole is nice, and I hope she gets to grow up happy, well-educated, and free to be a daughter, not a sister-mom.

A friend of mine had a baby 3 months ago and toward the end of her pregnancy was always doing that when she stood. I asked her about it and she said whenever she had her hand under her belly, it felt like it was taking some pressure off her back. I’m guessing Alexandra for the name.

Yeah, I never ding them on the bare feet thing, because when I was kid you couldn't keep shoes on me. Double knots, fancy buckles - nothing could stop me from taking them off. Eventually my mother gave up and just let me roam everywhere without shoes, even though I was a tree climber etc. living in a country known for its spiders. Spurge continues to be cute. I am amused their mower brand is Hustler, considering hustlers are people who try to fraudulently get money/goods out of people. (Also the magazine - wonder if they've ever googled Hustler looking for tractor parts, and come across pictures of naked women leaning on tractors instead.)

The eggs make it sound more like a quiche than a casserole, so I'm guessing that where the crust would come in if she was up to making a quiche shell.

It's a regional thing. "European standards require that child restraints be able to be released with a single motion, so chest clips are de facto illegal, not because they’re dangerous but because releasing a child from a harness with a chest clip requires the caregiver to unbuckle both the buckle and the clip. European seats use other methods to position the harness correctly. Often this involves large, rigid covers on the harness with a grippy backing that keep the harness from shifting. Australian standards also do not expressly disallow a chest clip, but car seat manufacturers down under, like European ones, do not habitually use a chest clip to keep the harness in position."

"Because every damn thing in Australia is a spider" - quote from someone on tumblr. (I'm Aussie too, and I've always wondered why).

Am I missing something with eating ice cream in the car being weird? I do that with my friends - driving somewhere on a hot day, we notice a Maccas, go through the drivethrough to grab some ice creams, eat them in the car while we keep driving to wherever we were headed...I've never thought there was anything strange about it.