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7 hours ago, Alonzo Mosely FBI said:
Let me tell you about the life of a horse trainer on the track and their children because let's just say, I know.... Life on the backstretch is 24/7 caring for expensive animals who cannot talk. You have to have eagle eyes and decades of experience and sense to succeed. No shortcuts to micromanaging their care and well being so you can put food on the table. Horses cannot speak so you become part vet, psychic, animal psychologist and you have owners to deal with- that's where accountant, PR, sales, marketing come into play with a whole lot of human psychology involved. Bethenny wants you to think that life a the track is all dirty "Jimmy the Hat" and railbird stereotypes- and there is some of that. But respect on the track is earned from very dedicated animal care and handling and the work that is involved. There is no shortcut (unlike cutting calories) for cleaning stalls, wrapping legs, walking hot horses, and up all night waiting for a vet. Sorry for the rant (but not really) she drives me crazy. There are big ups and downs with the horse business. One minute you have THE fastest best horse and the next a horse shoe nail makes them founder and you're down again.
I'm not in the racetrack business but I am in the horse business and you speak the truth my friend. Horses and their care of the utmost importance and no matter how hard you try they get hurt and it's usually THE most expensive one, too. You can see a lame step from a mile away if you don't first feel it when you ride. I have a lot of friends that still deal with the track to find really good reject Quarter Horses for our discipline and some even like the TB's, too. I also believe that you are right that Bryn will want to ride, if she doesn't already, and Beth will be able to ride right along with her, but then she will claim she knows good horse flesh from throwing dice on the backside of the track and hearing the jocks and trainers spin their tales. She makes me want to vomit.
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1 hour ago, DNICE said:
I wouldn't be surprised if having his own children perhaps stirred up some of the trauma he experienced with the bombing. The timeline seemed to have the drinking progress around the time his son was born. I know for me once I had kids, certain images of children that I could have previously viewed without an issue suddenly became more upsetting (think baby Dawn in Trainspotting...I can't even with that...)
I was thinking the exact same thing. I think the OKC tragedy and his alcoholic dad tormented him and he just couldn't deal anymore. He seemed devoid of any feeling even after 60 days clean. It is almost as if he didn't feel comfortable around his own kids or his aunt. He just seemed distant. I really feel for this guy and I hope he finds peace. He has seen a lot of death.
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12 hours ago, Petunia13 said:
If you read a page or two back in this talk thread a couple of those machines are linked in here already.
Also if you google "sonic ice machine" there's a shit load of articles and ads for those type machines for residential purchase.
Thanks Petunia13, I had not read all the posts yet when I posted this! I checked out some of them and they are quite cool.
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On 7/14/2016 at 10:13 AM, archer1267 said:
Bethenny has been picking at Jules' frame and eating habits since Day 1. She's the one who started making it an issue. She can't have it both ways - build a business that is based on women being conscious about their weight, and then criticize a woman for doing just that. (Just like she can't show off wearing Bryn's clothes on social media and accuse other people of having body image problems.)
Like they say, "Game knows game."
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On 7/14/2016 at 5:54 AM, Lizzing said:
Does anyone have any idea what Adam used as a pizza crust? It looked like a car floor mat to me.
I have no idea but it looked gross and I have zero attraction to that guy. Not that great to look at and he doesn't have a great personality either and enough with the knit hats. Blech
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On 7/12/2016 at 6:24 PM, snarts said:
Another carsick victim here. I can't read or look at my phone, so yes, I typically offer to drive
I can't read my phone either if I am in the passenger seat or back seat. I can read a quick text but not reply with great length. I grew up with the map reading generation and I was of no help to read those things while the vehicle was moving. I have always felt like a damn freak because I see so many people that have no problems like this. I wish I was just more normal! The dramamine does do the trick but you can't take that for a short hour long trip. I drive a lot.
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On 7/12/2016 at 11:34 AM, psychoticstate said:
I used to get carsick when I was young and I can still feel massively grody as an adult passenger if we're driving through the mountains
Oh my friend I hear ya! I still can get car sick as a passenger especially in the back seat so I try to drive as much as possible. I have to take Dramamine to go on trips in our friggin motor home or when we fly. It is so annoying because even a tiny dose of Dramamine knocks me out. Bleah
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On 7/12/2016 at 11:08 AM, Lisin said:
You guys? I know it's an unpopular opinion, but that Ice Pyramid is FIRE and I wish more than anything (almost) that I were rich enough to have four different kinds of ice to choose from. Especially the tiny square ice and the "chew-able" ice. It's kind of all I want in life? Like, I didn't know you could get appliances where you can pick the kind of ice it makes but I did know you could buy "pebble ice" machines (like Sonic ice?) and I've priced them and seriously considered buying one... because I love Sonic ice! Chick-Fil-A ice is pretty good too but it's Chick-Fil-A so... anyway, YAASS to all the ice choices! I could care less about basically the rest of the house stuff but Ice Pyramid is my new spirit animal.
So funny that you say this because my husband sings your praises over Sonic ice! Where do you get that kind of ice maker? My husband chews ice all evening long every night! LOL Help a girl out and spill the beans on that kind of ice maker. Sure would appreciate it. ;)
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On 7/12/2016 at 7:18 AM, StevieRocks said:
It was very strange (and awfully sad) when the two wildebeests drove by a herd of cows and instead of telling the children to look at the cows and how they say, "moo," and how special animals are, and how milk comes from cows, Wildebeest, Sr. just squealed that she's never seen so many cows, and Wildebeest, Jr. just squawked, "PEWWW! PEWWW!" No discussion of animals. Or geography. Or landscapes. Just Wildebeest, Sr. braying that there's no place to go shopping. These are THE most soulless hicks I've ever seen in my life--even when they're around children. Honest to God. Smh.
Exactly! My family is from that area and ranching is a way of life. Those were feedlots, ickie and Bri. Of course they smell but they are a way of life for many in the Texas panhandle. I have lived all over the state of Texas and you will not meet more friendly people than those from the plains or the panhandle of Texas. Also, just before they passed those feedlots in Wildorado, they just missed Cadillac Ranch. Everyone has stop on I40(Route 66) just west of Amarillo and see the 10 buried Cadillacs! Those boys could have climbed all over them and even colored on them.
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8 hours ago, HunterHunted said:
Never seen it. How is that even possible? It's a nationwide dealio. I live in Texas. When she first sold the wine and spirits, I saw it everywhere. The spirits you can still find in most liquor stores. The wines and some products in many grocery stores. The other products you can find at many TJ Maxx's.
I'm in Texas, too, and even in small town Texas we have that crap. I always see the popcorn. I highly doubt it even sells because folks out my way are reallllly cheap and won't pay extra for anything. Bwah!
Jules' plastic surgeon needs to step away from the plastic surgery for himself! YIKES! I think he plastic surgeoned(is that a word?) himself into a speech impediment.
As others have said, Dorinda imitating Ro was pure gold. I literally did laugh out loud and I have not been in the greatest of health for several months so it was nice to laugh like that. Thanks D!
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On 6/28/2016 at 8:13 AM, Redcookie said:
Daniel set off my Gaydar.
Me, too, in a big way.
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Do Heather and Terry not realize they have three other children besides spoiled Coco? And Terry, you are a shitty dad. I would be heartbroken, as a child, to hear that shit he said about not feeling guilty. I am almost 50 years old and my dad ADORES me and my siblings like a mother hen.
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22 hours ago, archer1267 said:
Now I can see that her "not really!" shrug in Turks and Caicos was genuine.
I think that shrug was my all time favorite HWs' moment. I have rewound that back several times and it still makes me laugh. LuAnn is so bawdy!
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6 minutes ago, WordsWordsWords said:
Other thoughts: Dorinda is a kind person when she's not drunk. I know a good number of nice-when-sober/horrid-when-drunk people. I'd love to go to Home Goods with her. I like shopping at that store anyway.
I like Dorinda, too, if she isn't drinking. I would guess, by watching, she makes a really good friend and I really like that in a person.
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2 minutes ago, Almost 3000 said:
Well, Yolanda did say that she's good because she has a pellet in her ass. (I want one too)
I always thought Yo was dealing with menopause and not really Lyme's disease.
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2 hours ago, izabella said:
Yes, yes, these women are all in menopause or much closer to it than to having babies (huge eye roll at ALL of them who bring that up) except for Jules. These "girl's girls" sure do like to disparage menopause and the women who go through it (all women) as a natural part of life. It's a way to shame them for being "OLD" and MY GOD, women who are OLD should be put out to pasture rather than openly discussing menopause because OMG, it's something to be embarrassed and ashamed of and should be hushed up.
Yeah, guess what? All that hiding of menopause means women often have no idea what their options are and why they should be beating their doctors' doors down to get the right hormone treatments, don't know that HRT can help prevent the #1 killer of women (heart disease), and what is worse? DOCTORS also don't know. You have to go to an endocrinologist, for pete's sake, to get any knowledgeable doctors. Gynecologists should be all over this for their older patients, but I guess they only care about younger women. There is also very little funding and research for menopause, unlike the wide wonderful world of Viagra and it's ilk.
So these women could raise a lot of awareness, but instead, they use menopause to shame others.
IZABELLA, shout it from the rooftop, my friend! You are absolutely right that the gynecologists have no clue about HRT. I did end up going to an endocrinologist after my hysterectomy because one bio-identical gynecologist("expert"-HUGE EYE ROLL) almost caused me to commit suicide she had me on so much effing compounded crap and did not recognize the symptoms of HIGH estrogen!!! Good god it is scary out there. Since the Women's Health Initiative back in 2002 put a false scare into HRT most gynecologists these days are not schooled on HRT or still think it causes breast cancer. The benefits way out weigh the risks for those of us that don't have a risk for female cancers in our genetics. The damage that is done to our bodies once we reach menopause without HRT is ridiculous-heart disease risks, osteoporosis, dementia, Alzheimer's and not to mention the extreme drying, to the point of bleeding, in our vaginal walls! I see all the pee pad advertisement and think how many of these women could be help with the right HRT.
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3 hours ago, WireWrap said:
Actually, I would find it refreshing if the older HWs, 45+, would address the issue of Menopause and how they are facing it. Instead it is used to shame other HWs or something to be avoided at all cost by those already in perimenopause or menopause itself.
I think that is a great idea as it always seems like a dark shroud of mystery, especially in the U.S of A. since going through my total hysterectomy I often wonder if women around me, say at the store, have been through it because I have found it scary and lonely to go through it without really knowing many women that have gone through it before me. I wonder if any of the HW's have had a hysterectomy. My grandma had one in the 1950's and she died in 2000 at 91, so she is the only female in my family to go through this surgery. You honestly feel like you will be this, "not really me anymore person", for the rest of your life and the doctors are zero help.
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2 hours ago, beaker73 said:
Mine does as well. I wish him and you all the best.
I really hate to hear about all this cancer for y'all and your loved ones. My thoughts are with you all.
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2 hours ago, ZaldamoWilder said:
raiderred, thanks for sharing that information. I hope you feel better now that the mystery is solved ;)
Thank you sooo much ZALDAMOWILDER. It got so dark in my world, psychologically, that I feared for my life. I never would have thought that of myself in a 100 years. I absolutely hope this patch is the answer to all my fears.
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4 hours ago, ghoulina said:
I just have to say - I'm sorry, but the doggy wedding was ridiculous. First of all, I'm just one of those people that doesn't care for this trend of dressing up dogs. I understand if it's cold and you take your dog out and you want a nice sweater to keep them warm. But overall, dogs don't need clothing. They're not made that way. And they can't speak up for themselves, so how do you know if they're uncomfortable or too hot or something? I don't know, it just bugs me.
But okay, they're throwing this elaborate doggie wedding to raise awareness about puppy mills. Great, I support that 100%. But they only raised $10k? I don't go to charity events, so maybe I'm speaking out of my ass, but that seems like a low amount in contrast to all that went into the event. I mean, the "bride" alone was wearing a custom Marchesa dress. How much did THAT cost? I just hope that they made a lot more than they spent, and I'll eat my words if I'm wrong, but it looks doubtful.
Right on! I LOOOOVE dogs and have six of my own but only when it is really cold, which it doesn't get THAT cold in Texas, do the smooth-coated Wiener dogs get some sort of a sweater and they don't seem to even like them. I rarely put sweaters on them. I even hate them having collars on when we are at home so watching people put clothes on dogs makes me sad. I'm especially looking at you Lisa V from RH of BH's. Poor Gigi, he never stops panting, ever!
I was shocked that the boring event only raised $10K as I think it cost a whole lot more than that to put the event on! BTW, this story line is Carole's only story line, OH BOY! She is so boring.
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I just finished watching the show and as much as I can't stand Beth I can totally relate. I had a total hysterectomy with ovaries removed due to a burst cyst that became abscessed in my peritoneal cavity. Having the hysterectomy has been the worst decision I have ever made as I can not get my estrogen balanced because I had two gyns not know how to even work with human identical hormones. One had me on estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA and thyroid medicine that I absolutely did not need. I went hyperthyroid and lost 30 lbs in 10 weeks. I kept telling her I feel like I am going out of my mind and all she did was up the dose of all that compounded crap, so she could make money off of the poor suffering woman. I started to do research and learned to be my own advocate. I found an endocrinologist and she just shook her head when she saw what this so called "bio identical" EXPERT had done to me. I am just now digging myself out of that horrible hole and it has been a living nightmare. PLEASE, PLEASE learn all you can about your reproductive health before things start to go badly quickly. I am finally on a low dose estrogen patch and the only reason I am finally here is because I did my own research and found no one was looking out for me, I had to do it myself. I would not wish this on my worst enemy, truly. It has been the worst year and a half of my life, but I think there is some hope in the future.
If any of you are out there and dealing with reproductive issue whether through natural or surgical menopause the one site that has saved my life is "A Survivor's Guide to Surgical Menopause" It is a wealth of solid medical studies done through reasearch through the American Endocrinologists Society. That's not the actual society name but I can't recall exactly what is. It also follows what the NAMS guide to taking hormones. Even if you haven't had a hysterectomy and you are having female issues it is an incredible site. You actually have to join the forum in order to ask questions and the moderator is unbelievably knowledgeable. Women's health, especially after our fertile years, is totally ignored by the healthcare industry. It is extremely sad and upsetting. I hope this has helped someone that does not know where to turn.
I am guessing Beth will end up with a hysterectomy because the fibroids are so bad. Her MD was right that progesterone should be taken extremely seriously because it can cause extreme depression in a lot of women.
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Tamra's body does look great but it is so hard looking at her tummy in that one shot with no belly button! Bizarre!
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So, am I the only one that has never liked Jeana?
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I know I have brought up the eyes with regards to Cary and Marie so sorry for beating a dead horse but have y'all noticed how Cary, throughout the season, would squint her eyes? It's as though she can't close them enough anymore and they look bug-eyed when she doesn't try to do anything with them. It is so strange and intriguing to me. I guess Mark is to blame for this shitty work on her. I will be in that area of their building in Uptown, in a few weeks, I might just pop in (rubbing hands together and quietly giggling) and ask the cost of the "Cary" special.
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S15.E12: Robert
in Intervention
Another Intervention that seemed like a huge setup with lots of acting. I don't doubt Robert is a drug addict but this episode and the other with the alcoholic guy(sorry don't remember his name) didn't ring true. Are they running out of "real" families with "real" issues? Intervention, you're are getting really sloppy.