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15 minutes ago, blackwing said:
What on earth.... I don't think he's Angelina Keeley delusional but he truly does seem to have a high opinion of himself.
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As always, everything that comes out of Jamal's mouth is just so irritatingly condescending.
If you pay attention, he relates everything back onto himself and his own awesomeness. The "metoo movement is now somehow something Jamal takes personal pride in? Could my eyes roll back any farther?
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11 hours ago, LadyChatts said:
I wonder if Sandra's comment about a woman winning this season is foreshadowing?
I love Sandra and think she has a good handle on the game, even one she's not playing (Rob too). But I also think that TPTB have a vested interest in promoting the whole "idols" concept, and will want to make Rob and Sandra look like geniuses. So I'm convinced that we're selectively seeing comments from both of them that support how the game ends up going.
In other words -- I think you're right!
Also: Sandra gave a version of the "million dollar quote" about Janet. Others who are possibly getting a good/winner's edit: Kellee, Missy, Elaine.
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12 hours ago, LadyChatts said:
Did Missy say at the end she didn't want to look like a punk?
I think she said "I don't want to go out like a punk."
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Jamal: "I work at a girls' school so I know that girls when they get together have some magic juju that destroys us powerless men." Next he'll want to burn the "girls'" alliance at the stake to, you know, save the poor men from their witchcraft.
And then later, "I'm beaming with pride that these girls are now able to speak their truth."
Ugh, I cannot even find the words to describe how furious he makes me.
38 minutes ago, Bryce Lynch said:It would be hilarious, if after all the outrage of Jamal's fear of a women's alliance, Kellee actually organizes one.
This would be great. And in her final TC speech, she could thank Jamal for the idea
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46 minutes ago, JudyObscure said:
I know white privilege is a real thing and that it provides an advantage for white people
Thank you for your post.
IMO, privilege in this context does not mean that everyone (or even anyone) in the group has a privileged life by our normal definition or ease, wealth, etc. It means that the group has the social privilege of being the default. And everyone else is the "other."
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On 11/1/2019 at 8:03 AM, JudyObscure said:
This is the ultimate sort of divisiveness where white people will no longer be comfortable around black people and will start avoiding them and, just like that, we're back to social segregation.
This is the parallel argument that men have starting making that you just shouldn't hire women in the workplace because it's too difficult for men to not sexually harrass them.
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On 11/2/2019 at 1:07 AM, SVNBob said:
Because of this statement from the interview:
I'm leaning, but not very heavily, towards this
There has to be a reason they spent so much time on Dan's inappropriate behavior during the first episode.
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10 minutes ago, lilabennet said:
This just makes it even more stupid/hypocritical for all of them to be so damn mad at Aaron and Missy for sticking with their original tribe.
Or perhaps it explains why Tommy's Death Stare looked so idiotic. Bad acting.
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2 hours ago, Lantern7 said:
And I had forgotten Elaine labeled herself “A little busted can of biscuits.” Is that an euphemism in the South? Sounds like it should be.
Would those be whoppita biscuits?
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I am charmed by Elaine. She falls in the category of smart Survivor players from the south making damn fools of the others who assume they are dumb. Nick falls into this category and he took it all the way to the million dollars. I don't even care if she's playing it up, since they (Lauren, ahem) are eating it up with a fork and knife.
Donathan, alas, does not fall into this category.
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3 minutes ago, The Ringo Kidd said:
That is the hardest part of being a leader. Captain Sandy has the same problem on Med. She wants to be a buddy but wants the respect and deference she is entitled too as well. Captain Lee to his credit at least accepts the loneliness of his position.
Kate should gossip and socialize with her peers. The other department heads. The bosun and the chef. But she never gets along with them ever. So she has to cultivate a minion for her mean girl reindeer games.
While a highly particular work environment, the BD situation seems to mirror a lot of what you would find in any workplace.
Bosses without boundaries inappropriately forcing staff into personal interactions: Sandy
Passive aggressive leadership: Lee, Sandy, Kate
Favoritism: Lee, Sandy, Kate, Hannah, etc., etc.
Territoriality: Hannah, Kate, All the Chefs
Backstabbing/Ambushing: Kevin, Kate, I'm sure there are others I can't think of
etc etc
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1 hour ago, Bryce Lynch said:
According to Wikipedia (Where, anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information), it is spelled "do-rag".
I didn't read the Wikipedia entry, but I think do-rag originally referred to scarves that women wore to protect their hair-do while doing housework. Since much domestic labor was done by people of color, the word was associated with black women. It was also used to protect the hair-do while sleeping. (White women also used scarves and bonnets to protect their dos while sleeping and working in the hair-do era, but they weren't called do-rags, I don't think. And don't even get me started on snoods.)
I think it became associated with black men beginning in the jeri-curl era, which I want to say was the 70s. Like the undershirt, it was basically at-home attire that became street wear. Thus "thug" I guess.
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The Tommy Death Stare was one of the funniest moments in this episode.
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Since when is it spelled "durag," not do-rag. After, all it's not used to protect your "hairdu"!
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2 minutes ago, Yours Truly said:
But she's at work and it's only temporary. It's not like she's going to loose her curls after one season only lasting a few weeks. Also, that loose pull back looked like a perfect solution. It's not a hard problem to suss out and ahem, your Captain told you to figure something out. It just seemed like the resistance was more bratty than anything else.
Agreed! I didn't mean she'd lose her curls permanently, just until the next shampoo. 🙂
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1 hour ago, BodhiGurl said:
It bugs the beejeezus out of me too. And it's not like it looks "sexy" while it's down - all impacted by the humidity, it looks like a wet mop on her head. And incredibly uncomfortable. Most importantly, a safety hazard. If she were a stew it would be a health hazard. And her balony about having "one elastic". Come. on. I'll be surprised if she lasts the entire season. Maybe she'll have a "come to Jesus" moment and straighten up, but I'm not expecting it.
Not defending, but conjecturing as a curly head myself. She might not want to put her hair up because it will pull the curl out, and she clearly likes the way it looks. When she does pull it back, it's loosely, in the "pineapple," top-of-the-head method that curlyheads use to keep their curls from being crushed overnight while they sleep.
When my hair was long, if I pulled it back into a pony, and then later let it out, everything that was pulled back would end up straightened, with a giant dent where the elastic was, and the ponytail part curly.
Maybe it's kind of like not wanting to wear a hat because of not wanting hat hair? It's still kind of ridiculous since her job is basically manual labor. You'd think she'd've figured out how to manage her hair by now.
Also, not sure if this is a curly thing, but when I pull my hair back tight, I always get a splitting headache.
That's why my hair is short. 🙂
And for those who say she doesn't comb her hair: you never comb or brush curly hair unless it's wet, and probably shouldn't even then.
Curly Hair PSA over and out.
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17 minutes ago, PaperTree said:
That whole business confused me too. He made a mistake not telling Ashton first, but I can understand the adrenaline rush of fear and the desire to just fess up to the captain and get it over with.
We have no idea where Ashton was or what he was doing at the time.
He did the right thing in going to the Captain, but he should have also told Ashton, if not before, then after. He should have told Ashton what he did and that he had already spoken to the Captain and taken responsibility for it. That way, Ashton wouldn't have to hear about it from the Captain, and could be ready with a response (this is how we're going to avoid such things moving forward, etc.)
Not the end of the world, and correctable, since Brian's intentions were in the right place (taking responsibility straightaway).
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2 minutes ago, SuprSuprElevated said:
So you're saying she's never watched Below Deck.
Or she didn't come on the show to find a man.
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That Brandy was some piece of work. Drinks herself into a stupor for two weeks, at great inconvenience and worry to the professionals around her. Then, she arises out of her stupor, demands more alcohol, and sits up, yelling and complaining into her phone in the middle of the night. You'd think she'd wake up chastened or at least a bit embarrassed. Where do they get these people? Is this her idea of vacation? Girl needs rehab.
Bravo for Courtney for not giving her alcohol. She's becoming my favorite. Good sense, no drama, and nice snark. Interior crew is great this season.
Kevin is an idiot. Most catering chefs will prepare a few extra plates just in case -- what if someone wants a second portion? Haven't we seen, in other seasons, the crew eating the extras? He's spent so much time complaining about the conditions and people around him, he forgot to be on top of his own damn job. But Lee was unnecessarily passive aggressive with him, I thought. Unless he was silent because he was trying to contain his rage, which seems a strong possibility.
Abbi -- the job requires you to change your clothes. Yes, you have to put your hair up. No, it's not a sailboat. Yes, you have to report to work on time. If you can't handle those basic realities, it's not the job for you.
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14 minutes ago, Rachel RSL said:
LMAO at the memory of the "cloth of spaghetti"! That was the nastiest reward in the entire history of the show.
It should be a rule that every season, one of us has to invoke the cloth of spaghetti, just so I can laugh like a hyena.
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Just weighing in to say that the contemplation of what precisely is wrong with Dean's face on this thread has me LOLing.
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On 10/6/2019 at 10:19 AM, peachmangosteen said:
This part makes him sound like such a douche lol.
Shirley probably doesn't exist. She is merely a fiction, so he can humblebrag about teaching underprivileged kids
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1 hour ago, Bryce Lynch said:
Voting out Karishma or Dean would be a better choice, but the difference, to her, is probably not worth fighting the tribe over.
I think they, probably rightly, surmised that Tom was the one with the closest ties to his original tribe, and, of the three, the most likely to re-align with his old tribemates after the merge. They know Karishma despises her old tribe, and Dean was the collateral damage of an epic blindside, so.
But I also agree with Boston Rob that they're going to keep losing challenges.
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25 minutes ago, Nashville said:
I was noticing that as well, and I think it’s because Dean’s face is so... featureless as to approach artificiality. Unmarked by wrinkles or blemishes to the point Dean’s face looks - unfinished, more like an anime pencil drawing than real life. And it’s not exactly an appealing quality.
I think it's just a matter of asymmetry. Like each side of his face is good-looking on its own, but together they seem askew. It has the look of a handsome face that was in the boxing ring too much.
25 minutes ago, Nashville said:Kuru? Not unless Noura is a cannibal who accidentally ingested some infected brain tissue. I don’t really care that much for Noura, but slapping THAT label on her is going a bit far even for me. 😄
HAHA! I think the original poster was referring to Tourette's or Pseudobulbar disorder.
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S07.E05: Magic Ashton
in Below Deck
Especially since it included a blase discussion of their future divorce.