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No, advice is spelled that way in UK usage, too. The s is used in spelling verbs: realise vs realize, organise vs organize. :)

I liked this episode. I've been thinking at least since last week that Laura and Naomi were the same person. I really liked the different "infected" they used on the show tonight. I did pick a bad night to eat guacamole with my supper -- I was spooning up the guac when the algae infected were onscreen. Good thing I have a strong stomach. *laughing* We are meant to wonder which friend Victor was referring to when he told Al his friend was dead: Madison or Cole.

Wow. Everyone has darn near said everything. :) Yes, there's something seriously wrong with Sonja. She's always been nuts, but so far this season, she's been off the charts nuts. And extra-special-delusional. Dorinda. I've always thought she was abrasive and an angry drunk. Now she seems to be abrasive and just flat-out angry. I love Bethenny's investment house. No matter which highway it's sitting on. And that's about all I've got. Everyone else said everything. :)

As always, I'm late to the party. One of these days, I'll get to watch one of these shows in real time and comment within hours instead of days. *sigh* Anyway, a few random thoughts. Dorit. Shut up. To elaborate: Honey, you have a voice. Your voice has grated on my delicate ears for two seasons. Ugh. I don't like to comment on fashion (mainly because my acquaintance with fashion is roughly equivalent to my acquaintance with Olympic skiing -- non-existent), but I know a little about hair and makeup. Bless your tiny heart, those hairpins look foolish. Yes, perhaps hairpins are a thing right now (as shown in that unflattering photo of Her Highness, whom I adore, Angela Bassett --and even in that bad photo, the hairpins at least look deliberate unlike Dorit's, which just look gormless), but that doesn't mean they should be sort of flung at the side of your head like so many Popsicle sticks. Dorit is still vile, condescending, unwilling to accept responsibility for anything, and useless. Erika. I haven't liked her from the get-go. Occasionally she amuses. But she's still, at her core, a contemptuous, unpleasant, nasty-mouthed, termagant. And she's proud of it, which utterly baffles me. I won't read "her" book, but I'm not terribly surprised her husband and family haven't read it either. I'm a writer, and my husband seldom reads my stuff either. When he does, he's either confused or disturbed. (My daughter-in-law is my biggest fan, though.) In the writing world, having family that won't read your work is very common. Granted, Erika's book isn't really her work, but my point remains. Teddi. I still like her. She's hardly perfect, but perfect people are flippin' boring. Add me to the group that finds Megan *McCain* blasting Teddi for perhaps getting a place on RHOBH by trading on her last name to be hilarious. Come on, Megan. Glass houses. Stones. Everyone else. I like Kyle's hair, though I liked it longer better. (What can I say? As a registered "Long Hair Wearer Even Though I'm Older Than The Grand Canyon" sort, I just like long hair -- when it's not ungainly. Kyle's wasn't. LisaVP's is. She should trim a few inches.) Rinna still amuses me, even though she'd hate me on sight 'cause I'm fat.

Ramona thinks she's a maven who just "soaks up" information? Really? Because I think she's a yenta who pokes her nose into things and knows less than Jon Snow. She worked those guys to death, too. They did all that moving because they thought she might buy a piece of their, um, art. I do like abstract art, but I didn't care for the paintings we saw. Sonja's diet. I have (for actual medical reasons) a weird diet. I bring my own ingredients (or buy them after I arrive) and implements, though. I don't expect anyone to cater to my needs. More Sonja: If a friend comes to my house and borrows my clothes *without asking*, I will have a problem with that. It's the *without asking* part that irked Dorinda (because if asked, she'd have offered another item that didn't have the sentimental value, I'm fairly sure). One of Dorinda's good instincts is that of hospitality. She wants her guests to feel at home. She'd have offered something if Sonja had behaved like a normal guest and asked. Bless her heart, though, Sonja is delusional if she thinks she's sensitive to anyone else's feelings. If I never in my whole life hear Luann sing another off-key note, I'll be pleased about it. That woman makes Kim Z from the HoWives of Atlanta sound like a freakin' songbird. More on Luann: I think her Hamptons house is perfection – and it doesn't look at all like a house Luann would like. Dorinda scares me when she drinks. I've said it before, and I'll probably say it again. I've seen mean-drunk-alcoholism up close and personal in my family. I know it when I see it. Dorinda needs some help, but she doesn't think so, and that's sad. If seeing herself so out of control on TV doesn't get her to change, I don't know what will. Not-drunk Dorinda can be fun. Drunk Dorinda isn't. Carol should lock her doors. I forgot to lock my car door *one* time while it sat behind my house, and someone got into it and rampaged all through it. Luckily, I never leave anything of value in my car, and whoever got in didn't want my books and my used coffee mug. But do I make extra-sure my doors (car and house) are locked every time? Oh, you know it.

I have little to add. Re: hors d'oeuvre spelling. Okay, maybe both singular and plural are spelled the same in French. The rest of the notice/invitation/whatever was written in English, and in English, we add an s. :) (After all, we swiped the word forum straight from Latin, and we usually make the plural of that word forums, rather than fora which is the Latin plural, even though you see fora once in a while.) Dorit's not a designer. She can crow about being a designer all week, but until I see her actually doing the work, I'll assume she's a figurehead. Whoever designed the suits on display at this "fashion" show shouldn't be called a designer either. Ouch. Dogs. I love the dogs on this franchise. I'm glad Binky Boo has come to live with LVP and Ken. That dog looks SO happy. Kyle's new house. I winced when she said they were taking out that lovely staircase and replacing it with wrought iron. Wrought iron? Ugh. But, on the whole, I love the lines of the house. I could live there. *wink* The reunion ought to be interesting.

I don't have much to add to the comments y'all have already made. Kroy said, "She looks hot, doesn't she?" in reference to his bewigged wife. No, no, Kroy, she doesn't. She looks dreadful. I don't like to comment on people's appearances as a rule, but Kim's plastic surgeries have truly damaged her face. Marlo. I still think she's crass and uncouth. As someone else said, when Marlo was asked about her job, the first words out of her mouth were about some billionaire she used to date. Yeah, that's not shady at all. Nene. When she was asked about her response to the heckler, she said, "It was a poor choice of words." No, Nene. "Honey, you look fat today," is a poor choice of words when you should've said, "That dress isn't very flattering to your figure." "I hope you get raped," is a bad choice of mindset. You just can't weasel out of that. I think that's all I have about this part of the reunion.

All I have to say about this episode is that the level of emotiontal maturity on display is . . . at toddler level. Okay, I have another thing to say. I was surprised that Tonya and Matt communicated well enough to navigate the pool so well, but I'm not at all surprised that taking Amber out of that equation allowed them to do so. Good grief, I cannot imagine trying to have a conversation with Amber about anything at all. Nope, still not done. Having seen addiction in my family up-close-and-personal, I am reluctantly on Renee's side about her request for her sisters to attend the NA meeting with her. Don't say you want to understand and want to support and then say, "Yeah, nope," the moment your addicted sister asks for a bit of support. And now I'm done. Honest. *laughing*

I had some fun watching this episode. Sonja. Any time someone says "my gays," I get the twitchies. I have rather a lot of LGBT friends, and I find "my gays" to be utterly offensive and dismissive. Luann. Any time someone says, "I'm super-fun!" with a snarl on her face, I'm gonna think she's neither super nor fun. She spent the last couple of years beating these HoWives over their heads with her Great Love and marital status. Now she doesn't want to talk at all? Yeah, that's gonna fly when you're on a reality show that's based on talking about your life. Carole. Congratulations on completing a marathon -- and not even being the last to finish. That's something most of us will never do. (And on another topic, I'm old enough to be Carole's mother, and I have "old hands," and won't be adding any fillers or whatnot to them to make them less old-looking. I earned every one of those veins. Of course, I'm not a celebrity, not even a Bravolebrity.) Dorinda. I don't mind sober Dorinda, but drunk Dorinda (whom we didn't see this episode) scares me. She goes from happy to slurring, yelling, and nasty in a minute. Bethenny. I've never disliked her. I still don't. She's taken every opportunity she's ever gotten and run like heck with it. She's run over people sometimes, and that's unpleasant -- but it happens in business more often than not. Tinsley. I've always been "meh" on her, and I still am. I don't understand why it's anyone's business (I'm talking about Sonja in particular) that she wants to live in a hotel. Frankly, I wouldn't want to live in a hotel long-term, but that's me. I'd put that money into property I could own. But, considering Tinsley's personality, I can see why she'd want no responsibility at all, even if she could hire housekeepers and cooks to take care of all her needs. She wants no strings, which you can get in a hotel. Hence her "I can order room service."

That was cruel. And perfectly Dorit. Example Number I-Can't-Count-That-High-Bubba of why I detest her so much. Vile. Granted, the question was shady, but if I'd been Dorit, I'd have assumed the fan meant Coca Cola and replied, "A soda fountain glass, of course, honey." Interesting, isn't it, that Dorit went right to cocaine, though. When the woman asked the question -- and before Dorit went nuts -- that's what I thought she was asking, in effect. "Do you ever drink anything as common as Coca Cola, and if you do, do you have a special glass for it?"

None of these women would want to be friends with me, and I know that. I could probably maintain a social type of friendship (the superficial sort) with most of them. I couldn't with either Dorit or Erika. My disdain for Dorit is scattered throughout these pages as is my dislike of Erika. Honey, if you invite some friends to go with you to a place (a zoo or a boat ride or whatever), you cannot be the last person to show up. You are the freakin' hostess. You should be there first. I won't even discuss her costumes. The only time she looked like a human woman was on zoo day. Like many of us, I'm sad to say goodbye to Kyle's old house. It's a lovely house. The new one is grander, but it's not homier.

I don't have much to add. 's The montage of the HoWives looks through the years was amusing. Sheree's always been delusional about her fashion sense: I have impeccable taste. Oh, honey. Does anyone know if Porsha is still pretending to be a minister? With her cursing and, um, creative use of narrative (aka lying), and assorted behaviours we see on full display every week during the season, I can't imagine many churches would want her preaching the gospel on Sundays. Kenya was very careful in her new baby announcement. I would guess she's going to have this baby by surrogate. I won't judge her for that. I have lots of other things to judge her for. I'm not always TeamKandi, but I am when it comes to the possibly career-ending lies told by Phaedra and Porsha last year. Porsha has *said* she was sorry, but she surely hasn't *shown* she was sorry. Marlo is vileness in human form. I can't stand her more than any other person on this franchise, even more than I can't stand Kim or Nene -- and, honey, that's a shocking degree of not standing.

Luann. Bless her heart, she thinks she can try to shame Carole about her relationship -- whatever it was and however the two of them defined it -- with Adam for, what, three years and then be all offended because Carole didn't reach out to her when not-a-Countess's seven-month marriage very predictably crumbled? No, honey. Not really. I was bothered by her Diana Ross costume/makeup as well and have never been impressed by an "if I offended anyone," apology. Sonja. Her overly made-up talking head look is horrifying. I try not to comment on anyone's physical appearance because that's just easy pickings sometimes, but gee whiz, what a disaster. Dorinda. I've seen alcoholism up close and extremely personally in my family. I think -- just from what I've seen on the show, obviously -- she shows a lot of the signs. Even if she's sometimes funny (until she switches to rage and becomes scary), she needs to get help. Bethenny. Her work after the hurricanes is admirable. And she did *work* and didn't just collect some money and send it in (which would also be admirable). Her grief for Cookie seemed real to me. I've lost beloved pets myself and found myself crying with her. Tinsley. Eh. "Eloise all grown up." Yeah. Nailed it. Carole. My brother and nieces are marathoners. From other media, I see she did finish the race, so good for her. It's an accomplishment. She should (in my opinion, of course) ditch Adam entirely if they've broken up. I mean, you can keep exes as friends sometimes (I always did), but you can't keep on sleeping with them because that's all kinds of messed up. (Again, just my opinion.)

I'm so very sorry, @JennyMominFL. The kitchen fire is bad, but the pregnancy loss is devastating. *sending you and your daughter much love*

Once again, I'm late to the after-party. Too much work, not enough time to watch my shows, drat it. just a few comments to add to the great things already said. I've never been to Berlin, so I enjoyed seeing a bit of it. I'm glad this set of HoWives succeeded in sightseeing without whooping, hollering, breaking into interpretive dance on street corners, getting drunk and breaking into pitched battle in public restaurants, throwing cakes, and so on. They did have their (totally avoidable had Dorit kept her mouth shut) argument, but at least it was in a private setting. Speaking of Dorit. Yep, I still hate her. I will take her family's tragedy as truth, but I feel she embroidered it for effect. Members of my own family were involved in the liberation of Buchenwald and Dachau. The sights they saw scarred them for life. I have a visceral reaction to the Holocaust, even though I'm not Jewish. But I still think Dorit is playing to the crowd in her story. I could be wrong, just because of my intense dislike for her. Had I been Kyle, I'd have stayed behind and not gone riding. If I'd wanted to see the horses that much, I'd have gone to the stables, petted the horses, and waved my friends bye-bye, settled in with a book at the van and had a nice read. Re; Veal Tartare - I'm a vegetarian now, so this would be off my menu totally, but when I used to eat meat, "no eating of baby animals" was my thing. No lamb, no veal, no piglet. And I was never able to eat anything less than well-done. I just couldn't. Now, of course, I don't eat any meat at all. It's a choice. I don't inflict my preferences on others, but I wouldn't have eaten the veal either. I have quite a sophisticated palate (sorry, Erika, but I don't think you have a sophisticated *anything*), but only when it's non-meat-related.

A lot of truth you just said. I'm disabled, can't wear heels (half the time, I can't wear shoes at all because of the pain), but I have established a successful small business, have raised a good family with my husband of over 40 years, and have a circle of long-time friends. Oh, and I still have my own face, my own hair, and my own teeth. :) I'm not expensive, but I'm not a quitter. She can kiss my overweight, disabled, flat-shoes-wearing foot.

I'm finally watching this, and, of course, I have a few things to say. Dorit. Lord help me, I'm starting with Dorit again. Yes, Miss Lady of the Manor, a person can apologise by frellin' phone. You'd know this if you'd ever offered an actual apology. Dorit's elaborate eye-rolls and shrugs are going to bite her when these episodes air. Does she think she's taking these calls in private? Is she that unaware? Or does she think she's just that cute? She's not. Bless her, she thinks letting someone else design some swimwear is like being pregnant and giving birth? Oh, puh-lease. The only thing worse than Dorit's jaw drop face is her loud, obnoxious GASP! Erika. No, honey, you don't empower women. And your Mikey is a creep. To me, frankly, an empowering woman is Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sally Ride, all the women who have worked in NASA, all the women I work with as an editor. Not someone who trades on flashy sexuality. "Stay out of the drama." Have you met yourself? And you think it's too hard to be friends with Teddi -- I rather think it'd be too hard to be friends with you. But that's just me, maybe. You can claim "it's not cold, it's diamonds" all you want to, but you're just icy. LVP. One thing we all know about LisaV and Ken is that they love animals in general and their animals in particular. Their grief over Pink Dog was so real I cried along with them. (One thing I like about this iteration of the Howives in general is that they have pets and are shown interacting with them. These pets are members of the family, not decorative objects.) LisaR. I've always kinda liked her. I like her mother, too. I hope I have that much energy in a few years when I hit 89. Psychics. I've spoken with two in my life. One told me, right out of the blue, first words out of his mouth without any hint from me a totally true thing about me which he couldn't possibly have known. The rest of the things he had to say weren't nearly as accurate, however. The second one, bless her heart. told me a load of codswallop which was completely inaccurate -- and insulting to boot.

I might have more to say later, but I have a couple of things I want to say before I forget. I'm not going to say straight-out that Kim's a racist because that's a really loaded thing to say. I will say that whenever anyone says, "I don't see colour," my "Yeah-right-tell-me-another-one-Buford" meter starts ticking. It's almost like saying, "I don't see gender." Pfffft. The heckler shouldn't have told NeNe to kill herself (and I'm willing to assume she did say that because (a) it seems to be an all-purpose vile thing to say these days and (b) I wasn't there, so I don't know for sure). I think that's a given. But if NeNe didn't have "I hope you get raped" in her heart to say, it never would have come out of her mouth. I suspect she's said it before. Such a thing would never have occurred to me no matter how angry I might have been.

Random thoughts: I don't particularly like Dr. V, but when she stared at Matt and said, "Shut up, Matt," I legit laughed out loud. Amber is a bundle of high explosives wrapped none-too-tightly and with a hair trigger. Jimmy and Jimmy's mom are not going to learn a thing (nor do they want to). Look, I know a lot of the exercises used on this show seem silly, but I believe a person could learn a lot from them. I've been in therapy, though a different kind, and some of the things I did seemed stupid when I was doing them, but they paid off later. But you've got to expend at least a little effort. I was working at my computer (I have deadlines, and they're looming like looming things) through some of this episode, and I couldn't tell any of the Mafia women apart by their voices. They sound so much alike to me. Maybe not to everyone else, but they so to me. Brandi and her father were talking (in the snake pit, I mean) at 100% cross-purposes. "I wasn't an escort!" "But that's what I read!" "But I never said it!" Okay, the problem here is that he believed what he read, and she didn't address *that*. She just addressed the fact that she didn't say it. (And, because I've read some of the same articles, I don't know if she said it or not.) My husband and I used to have some of the same types of arguments (not about escorts, of course, but arguments about two different things at the same time). My therapy (as mentioned above) helped me figure out how to keep myself on topic better, so I'm not fussing about something he didn't quite say.

I have little to add to what everyone else has said. I love Kyle's netw house, though I don't know what she and Mauricio will do with all that space. It's a lot of house. I nearly didn't recognise Dorit in the early scenes because she wasn't wearing her trademark racoon eyes. I do understand why Teddi brought the PK and Dorit Rinna-bashing (and it was a bashing) up to LisaR. And I agree with other posters who said she should have done it months before she did. Maybe LisaR just never said anything about her shiny new relationship with Dorit to Teddi before. Who knows? "I'm tired of being nice to you." Erika. I have never liked Erika. She's always been snotty, crass, ("This is expensive." Yeah, it might be expensive honey, but it's also tasteless.), explosive, entitled, coarse, talent-free, tawdry, useless. If she'd gone off on me that way, waving her long finger in my face, she'd have drawn back a nub. I'm an old-school (also old, frankly) Southern broad, and I'd have sliced her into little tiny pieces while never raising my voice or losing my smile. I dislike her as much as I dislike Dorit. They should both take all the seats.

Eva shows clearly in her poses on the stairs the difference between a trained model and a reasonably pretty woman with no idea where to put her legs. Bless her heart, Sheree should have kept on saying, "No." She should especially have said, "No" to letting Marlo style her. I still like Eva. She's interesting to me. I don't know what's up with Cynthia and her flirtation with Kandi. The scene at the beach with the candles was lovely. I hope at least a little of it sticks. But then the show would be canceled. Right?

I missed watching (or recording) this. So I just watched it on the WETV website. Wow. I always say I watch these shows (all the reality shows) for research. I know I'll get some good stuff for my writing this season because all of these folks are nuts. Some are sympathetic-more-or-less nuts (the mafia women -- and I remember Renee from her earlier season), some are delusional nuts (the Joneses) and some are angry-loony nuts (Amber and Brandi). So far my least-favourite inmate is Amber. I've never watched Teen Mom, so I have no prior experience with her, but woof. She's both explosive and stupid. What a combination.

Now that's FUNNY! *laughing* Love it.

I don't have much to add to what everyone else has said. I've only now had the opportunity to watch this episode. (Being too sick to watch TV is just zero funs at all.) I'm not usually a fan of seeing someone being systematically humiliated. I'll make an exception for Dorit. If she'd jumped on me squealing how she was my "lovey dovey lovey dovey" not to mention literally leapt onto me, straddling me and not allowing me to get up because she needed me to stay put so she could blather at me, I'd have been even less charming and kind that LVP about it all. I still think PK is a pig, but he had good instincts when he tried to hush Dorit. (I can't believe I said something semi-nice about PK.) And about husbands, brothers, and sons with the same name: I didn't want to fall in love with a guy who had the same name as my brother either. But I did. We've been married over 40 years. My own given name is so common in my family as the first half of a Southern double-barreled name that at family reunion time, if you just call out the first part of the name, I swear forty middle-aged-to-elderly women all look up to see which second name you're gonna say. *laughing*

I don't have much to say about this episode, mostly because everyone else hats already said everything I'd have said. :) A couple of random bits: Re: Hair - I am 70 years old, and my hair is currently halfway down my back (in July, I cut it to just below my shoulders from sit-on-it length because of some damage that had occurred). It's mostly silver because I had to give up colouring it a dozen or so years ago. And I get compliments from strangers in the mall quite often, so I figure it still looks good. I know I look like a turnip when I cut my hair short. Re: Mason - She needs to learn the runway walk. I think she's attractive enough to be a runway model, though. And I just LOVED the final gown she wore. I was so embarrassed for her, though, when the HoWives stood up and whooped during the final walk. Good grief. Re: Dorit - Wow. I didn't start with her this week! That tee-shirt and skirt with the bow on the hip outfit is one of the ugliest costumes she's worn this season, and that's saying a lot. Her TH cat-like hissing was stupid. Her refusal to accept responsibility for her own actions -- any responsibility at all -- continues to annoy me. Re: Teddi - I still like her and like her straight talk to LVP about how Kyle just needed to hear a flat, "I'm sorry." And I liked the way LVP, despite her face-making, really listened and then followed that advice. Seriously, a heckuva lot of trouble in interpersonal relationships can be eased by a judicious application of "I'm sorry." Re: Ericka - Bless her heart, does she really think changing your hair (and wearing costumes, often silly-looking ones) gives you depth? I have no civil comeback for that. None. Re: Kyle's trunk show - I loved those fake fur coats. The one I liked best didn't get the airplay of the red and multicoloured one. I liked that leopard print coat. Y'all, if I could fit that size, I'd absolutely buy one of those. Don't think for a second I haven't checked out Matt Sarafa's website. I have. :) That's all I have this week. *looks at the list* Okay, so I had more than I thought. :)