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OK I am really questioning whether she considers the twilight sedation to be general anesthesia. I don't since there is no intubation and only an iv. Any colonoscopies I have had used mild sedation and they adjusted the dose so that I nodded off during part of the procedure but when the bf had it he was awake and watched the entire thing even though sedated. So I think that Whit's experience was more like that of the bf than mine. BTW I am of normal weight but also avoid general anesthesia and novocaine if possible. I had two pins put in a broken wrist without general anesthesia. I had a fentanyl axillary drip and I although I could feel the pins being inserted and it hurt I didn't care because...fentanyl. After the first pin the physician asked if I wanted a little more and since it felt so good I readily agreed. Bad move, it was emergency day surgery and they wanted to discharge me at 5pm and all I wanted to do was sleep and then I felt really bad - the worst hangover of my life.

This has been around at least since the Victorian era. Regency House Party had a similar scene with the "Countess" acting as serving platter. Just checked around on the internet and apparently eating Sushi off a naked body dates back to the early 1600's.

Yeah, when I was a kid I visited some people outside of Washington, D.C. who had a summer place near ours to attend (as a spectator) the Washington International Horse Show. The first night required formal dress. I was about 16 years old. I returned to my room to learn that their live-in maid had unpacked and pressed my clothes in preparation for the evening's festivities. As an adult I have been on ships in accommodations where a butler is assigned to my suite and although an unpacking service has been offered, I have never availed myself of it. Now, pre-dinner hors d'oevres is a whole different matter although the butlers tend to knock briefly and just walk in regardless of my state of undress. They have seen it all.

Watching the Covid season on the free Peacock network just now. I really don't understand the Captain Lee fangirling. I see him as someone who is suddenly famous and sits up at night writing down his aphorisms that have to be bleeped. Note to "Captain Stud" we don't all think references to sharp things being hammered in to one's body as being particularly clever or interesting. The Captain is paid well, I think it is unseemly that he pays such close attention to the size of the tip. Maybe it is to show solidarity with the crew but still... Wasn't it the first primary guest this season, the "repeat offender" who had reacted defensively about not giving a sufficient tip on the last go round? It is so obvious that he acted out and was extra demanding on this season but then tipped well so it was perceived as being worth it for the crew. Happy that it is free on Peacock and I am mid-binge.

Bugs me as well. GW Bush did the same. I read somewhere that it is easier to pronounce the two long u sounds and once embedded it becomes a habit. My former husband earned a Ph.D. on people's reaction to the threat of nuclear war. His advisor pronounced it the same way as Bob Woodward and he certainly had a lot of opportunity to say the word which was like nails on a chalkboard. Fortunately, the hubs pronounced it as it is spelled. I wonder if NBC threatened Mika with her own show on Peacock to inspire her to improve her performance on Morning Joe. Has there been any more mention of it? I haven't watched for about a week. Busy canning tomatoes. Four dozen quarts and counting.

Ketzel, I usually agree with you 100% however, I would submit that An American Family a show about the Loud family might have been the first unscripted reality show. I don't remember much about it but it followed an upper middle class family from Santa Barbara during which the parents got divorced and the eldest son came out. It was aired in the early '70s.

Absolutely. It is always easier to tell someone what to do than to work on one's self. Mamadrama thanks for the beautiful pictures. When I saw that she was in Bar Harbor earlier a few weeks ago I shared your horror of her and the crew invading our favorite places. Are we going to be treated to scenes of her eating lobster? Dipping her toe in the ocean? Shrieking at the view from Cadillac Mountain? I think that another reason for Glenn and Babs to not move downstairs is that it would be less likely that their monster of a daughter will barge in on them at any time and start ordering them around. It would be for her convenience if she didn't have to climb stairs to harass them.

That's true but I think some may be questioning the fairytale right about now. Perhaps if Pilgrim Media had waited, oh, I don't know, a year or two, after the Chase drama the whirlwind "romance" with the man from France might have seemed more believable.

What is funny is that the man from her past was Chase because he (like the man in France) wasn't into her but the script writers are trying to lead us to believe that the man from her past was Avi. Why else would they set it up to have another of Avi's past girlfriends attend the totally fake "big girl retreat". This is ridiculous. It will be interesting to find out what her minions think of this stupid plot.

I really wish someone had been there to remind Twit that last season (the weekend of the lake house get-away) she fell on the ground when walking off the patio. Buddy was the only one there but I am sure that Hunter or her parents must have seen the episode and known about it.

Well, there was asking Todd to sleep in the same bed in NYC and cuddle with her and the video that she and Tal did while in her closet, naked, and under the influence of something. (Not on the show but somewhere on social media.) Was the iceberg that she french-kissed male?)

Even if she had studied a different language in high school I would think that she would have been more adept at learning french. It is a change in mindset. And as someone else pointed out she has been to Paris, how could she not have learned a few words on her own? (Croissant doesn't count.) It is fairly remarkable that Babs could recall some of what she learned even longer ago. Hold on a moment, Todd has even spoken a few french phrases. I think Twit is truly a dolt and has managed to slide by in life. Colleena, not that I thought I was unique in that mismatching of languages but you are the first one to say you have the same shared experience. I told my friend who is fluent in three languages about it and she couldn't relate.

Do we know if Twit studied any foreign language in high school? If it wasn't a requirement it is a terrible commentary on the american education system. When I was in high school we had short courses in Spanish, German, French and Russian to give us a taste of each language so we could choose which one to study more intensively. I chose French but I never became proficient. I had that unsettling experience of trying to speak French in Paris and receiving the answer back in English. So maybe that's why Twit was reluctant to try her newly acquired skill. A few years ago I decided to try to learn Norwegian and whenever I couldn't remember how to translate a word - the french word would pop into my brain. It was interesting to realize how that knowledge had been deeply embedded.

lightninggirl, I wanted to thank you for your detailed answer to my question a few days ago. I thought I had posted a reply, but then, Ida came along and took out the power for two days. I really appreciate all the time you took to post your well reasoned answer. It is so great to have so many professionals around here.

I really appreciate your expertise on his native tongue when you hear his accent. Although I am curious about what you are seeing that supports his origins. Is it something about the clothing, body type, or what you can see about the part of his head that hasn't been obscured?

But what's with Mika cry tweeting to Elise to get vaccinated WHEN SHE SAID THAT SHE AND HER HUSBAND HAD BEEN VACCINATED and that the course of their illness was less severe as a result.

Apologies for dipping a toe down a rabbit hole while at the same time trying to stay on topic. And it involves Ivermectin (the drug used to deworm animals) and that magical elixir which I now consider to be a health drink - coffee and how they are related. Miraculously, I still have a friend who has exactly opposite political views from me and therefore gets her news about Covid-19 from friends who scour social media for alternate treatments and are also anti -vaccine. Last week she forwarded an article from a small newspaper that claimed a conspiracy to not administer Ivermectin due to the pharma-industrial complex. The article was pushing a book (not a paper in a peer reviewed publication mind you) by someone with M.D. as part of his name but a name so weird that I had to look into his credentials. Well, the name he is using is a pseudonym for a real physician who has no background in virology, infectious diseases, or statistics. He has 12 judgements against him and has had his hospital privileges revoked at one time, has been sued for malpractice amongst other charges so it is little surprise that he is trying to sell books to the uninformed. As for the connection to coffee? He wrote another book about the miracle of coffee, that it not only extends life but makes one look younger. Even though it is probably junk science I like it! I know it is probably not based in fact but I will happily drink my cup of Joe. Full disclosure: there had been some experimental evidence that large amounts of Ivermectin killed the Covid virus INVITRO not invivo. The dosage of Ivermectin to kill nematodes in humans is approximately 1000 times less than what would be needed to treat Covid. The safety for that large dosage in humans has not been established and, that is why people who are buying it from farm stores are poisoning themselves.

You left out the part about using religion as a reason (excuse) to not have much physical contact before marriage. It would explain the photo at the restaurant with his arms crossed while she clung on.

Regarding the wrapped hamburgers and hotdogs. It's BS to think that someone as lazy and lackadaisical as Buddy would go to the effort to cook them and wrap them. I think it is all producer hijinks. They might have even set it up for Buddy to be late to the BBQ and made a back-up plan by arranging for the "main course" in case the guests became impatient. There had to be something to put on video after all the expense they incur for this stellar bit of fantasy.

sagittarius sue, are you from Minneapolis? I have been listening to one of your radio stations for years - back to Ian Punnett days. I have been looking for a site similar to this one for discussing that station and the personalities. Over to SmallTalk?

On a big news day who is absent? I know it is a Friday and all but one would think that it would be a day to be in front of the cameras. For cryin' out loud, Brian Williams can get on the air for commentary in a few minutes notice when news breaks.

I think he is angry with her continuously trying to create situations to trap him into a romantic relationship. and the only way he has some control is to be passive aggressive. Easier to agree to do something and then either forget, or be half-assed about it. He wins, she loses. I agree that when he has brought girlfriends to meet Whitney she has tried to ruin the relationship - all the way back to Heather. I think that she has had designs on him from the very beginning. Who can forget the time she and Buddy took the cat to the park in the stroller? She mentioned way back then something about taking their"child" for an outing or some such thing. The relationships with other guys, whether real or fake were probably to make Buddy jealous in her pre-adolescent mind.

Perhaps Princess Erin is positioning herself and famiy to move in with G&K at some point and, by extension, inherit the house. She could be the caregiver to her aging parents and Chad could do maintenance. Not tomorrow, but as the Paine children grow and they no longer can fit in their little cottage.

Couldn't agree more that a good host provides the food and makes their guest feel comfortable. But, look who we are talking about. Out of a need for actually getting something to eat I would probably take some food to one of her "dinner parties". Heather never got the main course and had to leave. Twit was so busy making fun of her Mother's hosting that she learned absolutely nothing. She is one sad, disturbed individual.

Oakville I wonder if you are in a time zone other than EST? I suspect they edited her flub of Horses since she corrected it from what she initially said which definitely was "Houses". I know sometimes I watch the third hour to rewatch something I observed during the first only to find that it has been edited out.