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I've been reading this thread and wondering at what point will TLC look at Derrick's online, realtime breakdown and decide he's making the whole family look too bad, and can the whole thing. I'm always a little relieved to see Izzy looking happy. He so often looks anxious or sad.

J'Apple iBaby.

If Eve really was created from Adam's rib as the bible states, she would have been 100% genetically identical to him, including the sex chromosomes, making her the world's first trans women. You'd think Christians would support trans people, and gender confirmation treatments as following God's path of helping people be who they need to be.

Eh, I'm not a toucher by nature, and no matter how fond of someone I am, I hate being held when I'm trying to sleep. It makes me feel claustrophobic, and I definitely retreat to 'my' side of the bed, when it's actual sleeping time. (Can't believe I'm defending creepy Austin here).

Those t-shirts are ridiculous, because they were never in any danger of being aborted. The only way someone can 'survive' Roe vs Wade is if their mother attempts to have a legal abortion and it somehow fails. Idiots the lot of them.

Doesn't Priss control the internet password as part of their marriage deal. Maybe after years of this life she's ready for some drinking and partying, and was hoping she'd get a chance on the boat. Then David was appalled, so she had to be too.

It's sad when a bunch of internet people who have never met these kids care more about their education and livelihoods than their own parents. Seriously, fuck JB and Michelle.

My friend is a few weeks away from delivery, and she says her OB is less concerned about weight (as long as it's above 5 pounds) than head size, and shoulder width. That's what she looks out for, and over a certain head circumference, she recommends a section, even if the predicted birth weight is in the 'normal' range. Gideon is a nice enough name, and he is cute.

They’d have to be limited in the kinds of used cars they can sell as well, if they are fixing them up themselves. Most cars these days have some form of computer in there for something, that those boys wouldn’t have any idea how to fix. https://auto.howstuffworks.com/under-the-hood/trends-innovations/question113.htm

That typo had me laughing at the image in my head of Joe standing out on a street corner trying to get people to buy used greeting cards, dressed like some poor little matchgirl. "Please buy my cards, I need to eat...."

This is part of why I've never really understood girls who not only stay in the cults*, but extend it to their own kids. Surely at some point, Jessa at least, who seems to be fairly strong-willed, has looked around at the men in her life and thought that she's smarter than they are, so why do they get to be lazy headships just because they're boys, while she is relegated to helpmeet. - and maybe if she hadn't gotten Ben, who I'm guessing does bend to her whims fairly easily, she would have been the one who broke free. *understanding full well how hard it can be to leave the life you've been brought up in.

If there were they probably wouldn't go to them. I'm sure half the fun of a day at the beach is getting to sit in judgement of all the bikini wearing hussies they see, while feeling superior about how modest they perceive themselves to be.

While potatoes are fantastic if prepared well, we know this one is just going to get mashed into a bland lump.

Don't get me started on kids in nappies. I know a few teachers who teach in the 4-6 age range, and they say ever since more and more people started embracing the whole 'let kids toilet train when they decide they're ready for it' thing, more non-challenged kids show up every year in nappies and pull-ups, and don't even try going to the toilet. One of my friends had three in her class last year. Jill seems like the type who'd let toilet training lag because it's too much effort.

If they wanted to be really biblical they'd just chew on thick plant stems and swish wine around their mouths. That's how it was done back in the day.

We're all out here wishing only boys on them (I know I am), so they don't birth any future sister moms, but considering their religion considers boy to be better than girls, they all probably think that having boys is a continuing sign that God finds them extra special.

I'm glad cursive is dying out. I've had to process a lot of handwritten forms in my time, and so many people who know cursive have not only put their own 'flourishes' on the way they write, they also blatantly ignore the whole 'please fill out in block letters only', doubling the time it takes for us to input data, as we try to decipher their loopy scrawly cursive, which somehow looks completely different from the last person's loopy scrawly cursive. At least with the forms coming in from younger people even if the printing is messy, I can still read it. Back on topic, I'm still holding out hope that Jessa isn't pregnant, and the boys will continue getting all the attention they need.

I've got a feeling Nurie's more likely to end up with someone close to her father's age, who is solely obsessed with a having a virgin bride.

I have to say, even if Spurge was just repeating what he was told, rather than sight recognizing the shapes, he still has a pretty good memory for a kid his age, to get through them all without prompting. I've known 3 year olds who would have lost track part way through if they were just trying to parrot back something they'd been told. Here's hoping someone (it'll have to be Ben, won't it - pay attention Ben), notices this and pushes for proper schooling, before he becomes as dull and uninterested as his aunts and uncles.

I was happy to see Henry playing with the dollhouse. I get the feeling the howlers wouldn’t have been allowed to touch something so stereotypically ‘girly’. And well done Spurge, knowing his shapes.

My first glance at that pic with Si and Lauren made me think she looked like a mash-up of Jessa & Anna. Then I stared at it for a while trying to figure out who else she reminded me of, until I remembered I had better things to do. So weird how all those fundy girls look so alike, across so many different families.

I'm trying to imagine how a discussion of so-called 'slutty' behaviour would even come up in contract negotiations. And isn't country music full of Christian-identified singers who don't indulge in outlandish behaviour? If anything, if Amy had any actual marketable talent, they'd be happy that she wouldn't do stuff to tank her career early on, before she'd gotten to the point of being successful enough that fans and labels would forgive her for just about anything.

I think that would be worse, because it sounds like the cow was skinned alive. I really think that if the Duggars had had a normal upbringing, Jill would be the one who moved to a modern day hippie commune, selling scarves and wonky macrame plant hangers at farmers markets, encouraging people to come and join their yoga classes, and of course still handing off the childcare to whomever in the commune embraces the ‘it takes a village’ approach to child rearing.

How do they even know that pleases God. I remember once, actress Sarah Shahi saying in an interview that her very catholic mother had no trouble with her skimpy shorts because God created her body, so she could be proud of displaying it how she wished. Also, fuck you Jill, shorts and tank tops are not slutty. If you see something sexual in a woman with bare legs and shoulders, that’s your dirty mind, not their body being the problem.

My niece was so lactose intolerant she couldn't even have breast milk as a baby, she had to be on a lactose free formula, and once she'd started solids, they cooked with soy milk. Could be Sam has similar issues.