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Dragonfaerie, I don't know how to block quote your wonderful post above about the neighbors you hope D & J have if they go into married housing, but you made my day with it! Goddess, may it be so!
Talk about exploding heads...
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Yahoo News had a headline yesterday saying T & C are starting to film an 8th season of Flip or Flop.
I'll probably record the new season's episodes. I will watch the beginning, so I can see how awful the house is to start with, and then gleefully fast-forward until I get to the reveal eye candy/open house/"we-stand-to-make-a-profit-of"/finish. Forget the rest - not worth a moment of my attention.
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No one here has mentioned a commercial that makes me incredibly angry - maybe I'm just crazy?
It's the Aleve or Advil commercial (hell, I can't tell one pain reliever from another - I can't take any of them without becoming a complete zombie) with the "What Pain?" theme, showing a bunch of people throwing themselves around in ridiculous ways - hurling themselves off cliffs into the ocean, twisting their legs into pretzels, slamming down a hill on a mountain bike, etc - with the theme that even if your knee or back or shoulder or pinky on your left hand hurts, all you need to do is take a couple of pills and you can do all this with NO CONSEQUENCES TO YOUR BODY.
Yes, the most intelligent thing we can do is take drugs to mask pain and then indulge in some kind of extreme sports activity that will most likely create more injury and pain -but we won't know until later when the pain drug wears off, and anyway, who cares because - we can go ahead and just TAKE MORE DRUGS.
AARRGGHH!!
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I'm kind of burnt out with HH episodes, so I haven't been watching much lately, but I saw the "family" episode last night with a divorced dad and his three kids, two girls and a boy, looking for a place in Austin, and I just fell in love with the kids. They were so sweet and natural in front of the camera, and they seemed to have a great relationship with their father.
I can see how the four of them will have a ball in the huge country house they chose, but when the kids are with their mom, won't he be terribly lonely out there? No city life, no near neighbors, and all those ballroom-sized spaces with no kids around to fill them with laughter and fun...
Dad was HOT, and if he's dating and looking to get married again, I hope he can find a great partner who will love sharing that environment with him, and with the kids when they're around.
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I love the new Christmas commercial I saw last night - it's advertising Mercedes-Benz cars. It shows Santa driving a red MB through the snow with 8 silver ones in front of him like a team of reindeer. He stops the car and lets a lab puppy with a big bow around his neck out of the car so he can go pee behind a tree. Then the puppy runs back to the car and jumps in and barks at Santa as if to say, "all done - let's go!"
The puppy is so adorable. But then I'm a complete sucker for any commercial with puppies or kittens - I don't care what they're selling.
And I want that puppy under MY Christmas tree so bad...
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Did anyone watch "Secrets at the Sunrise Motel" last night? It might have been a re-run (I have the flu and my brain has fogged-in completely). I think I may have watched too many Datelines because the way they showed the picture of Daniel Blizzard at the beginning, I knew immediately that he was the perp. And boy, the victim's ex daughter-in-law (Jill Taylor, who at one time was involved with Blizzard) is a PIECE OF WORK. What a self-serving, cold-hearted, snotty little bitch.
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There's a commercial on the ID channel for LiveLinks, which is obviously a phone-sex line. It shows a young brunette girl posing in various costumes and duck-lipping for the camera. I HATED it when it first came out but now I am curiously fascinated by it and I have to watch it every time it shows up - can't figure out why. Is it the music, the narrator's low voice? I'm hypnotized! What the hell is wrong with me? (No, it does not "turn me on" - I'm too old and tired for that.)
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Silver Raven, thank you SO much for reminding me of where I saw/heard Jessica before. Her voice is very distinctive and I now know why it stayed with me - that Tarzan/Jane Geico commercial is one of my all-time favorites!
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Thank you guys for mentioning the commercial with the tattooed women by the pool, because I am going crazy trying to remember where I've seen/heard the woman before, the one who sits on the right in that commercial. Anyone? Was she on some show, or am I just remembering her from another ad? I know it's silly but it's just one of those memory blanks I'd like to fill in. Because, you know, then I can be at peace.
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Dateline has a new format called Dateline: Secrets Uncovered. They showed the Justin Ross Harris "hot car death" case the other night and as I had not closely followed the story when it was first in the news, I was fascinated.
What I don't get is the eerie calm displayed by Harris's wife Leanna when she met up with her husband at the police station. It was surreal. Her adorable little boy has just been found dead, her husband is in custody because of it, and here she is cooing over him as if HE were the "hurt" child. I know that people who've just absorbed a horrifying piece of news can go completely numb for awhile (it's happened to me) and thus react to circumstances around them in very strange ways, but this was just beyond comprehension. I can see why there were many who thought she might have been complicit in her son's death.
I've never been a parent, but I've done hundreds of hours of babysitting and worked many years as a kindergarten teacher. I absolutely cannot understand how you can FORGET you have a child in your care. And yet, there are hot car deaths in the news regularly, and most appear to be considered as accidental (though not the Harris case, as everyone knows).
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Did anyone watch last night's Dateline about Tracy Richter/Pittman/Roberts killing Dustin Wehde? (Hope I got all the names right). "Twisted" was a very appropriate title for this story! I watched the whole thing and came away not knowing who to believe about what. Was it really self-defense? Was it a set-up by Tracy to look like a hit arranged by her second husband? Her first husband? Why did Dustin park his car right out in the open by Tracy's house if he was sneaking in to kill her? Why was the beat-up, almost useless computer from the house in Dustin's car? Is Tracy's son Bert covering for his mom or did he really see Dustin as a threatening figure that night? Did Bert lie about the abuse he suffered at his stepdad's hands? The abuse he suffered from his biological dad, which was apparently confirmed by a doctor who examined him?
Was there really a second man in the house that night?
And the strange pink notebook - what the hell was that all about? Are we really to believe that Dustin wrote all that stuff about her husband? But then, he was a friend of the family's, and spend a lot of time at the house, maybe he did hear some family stories and wrote them down...
Then there's Tracy's so-called friend who testified for the prosecution, who couldn't seem to keep her stories straight, and who knew about the notebook although it was a "top secret" piece of evidence.
Then there's the EMT guy looking at a picture in court of Tracy's injuries on her neck and saying they weren't consistent with someone strangling her, and then the ER doctor who treated her who said they were...
The only thing that really stayed with me was that Tracy's second husband is creepy and I don't really believe he was telling the truth about his relationship with Bert and his actions towards Tracy. But Tracy also came off as more than a little "twisted" herself, and appeared to have a very shady past - not that that means she's a cold-blooded murderer.
I'm 100% sure Dateline left a bunch of info out of the story, as they always do. I'm too lazy to hunt it down right now - would much rather read other posters' comments here about the whole story. What do y'all think?
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I have never watched anything with Kelly Siegler for more than a few minutes, for a very shallow reason - I can't stand listening to her Texas twang, it grates on my ears to the point that I want to shove my fist through the TV.
I watch lots of other Oxygen true-crime stuff, so of course I endlessly see the trailers for her new season of Cold Justice, which are extremely off-putting. Her haggard face staring at the camera while she croaks "we have to solve this case" just bugs the crap out of me - it seems so "look-at-me-I-care-so-much-I-haven't-slept-for-days-I-tell-you." Bullshit. Knowing her dirty past as a prosecutor, methinks she's back with this program more to redeem her reputation than anything else.
I know, I know, major cynicism going on here. Maybe I'm wrong. But even so, I won't be watching.
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Logging in finally after much lurking to say that I suspect the Idaho Falls couple were Mormons, who do tend to marry younger than you would expect these days. Idaho is pretty heavily Mormon.
I was blown away at how much better the house they picked looked after the husband had done work on it. The wood floors were gorgeous (probably laminate, not wood, but still beautiful!).
RE the Ridgecrest, CA couple - I actually rather liked them. She seemed a bit of a princess at the beginning, but her requests weren't that outrageous, compared to other HH ladies. I could understand her not wanting their two adorable basset hounds having to climb stairs, and I can also understand why carpet would not be ideal for the dogs, although living in the higher elevation desert where Ridgecrest is located, those carpeted floors would be welcome in the winter - it can get really cold there.
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I'm sorry, this is gross, but that picture makes me think that maybe what JB really needs is a good laxative.
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Aradia22, I'm with you. What I'd love to see is a Spinal Tap-like scene showing Markus blowing up on stage. Then we can forget he ever existed.
I love Hayden, too. But the Juliette-in-major-meltdown stuff needs to end. This makes me sound like a terrible person, but I would rather have seen her go off the ledge and not Jeff. I found myself wanting to laugh out loud during the hotel room scene when she's drinking and drugging. It was so ridiculously OTT. There's a fine line between high drama and parody, and the show went way over that line. When you find yourself wanting to LOL at a character going through a full-blown mental, emotional and physical breakdown, guess what? That character's storyline is officially a piece of burnt toast.
It's getting harder and harder to feel sympathy or connection with the people in this show. The acting is outstanding, as always, and I love the music. But the writers are turning almost everyone on Nashville into endlessly whining, self-pitying, self-absorbed, weepy little drama queens, who all need desperately to GROW THE HELL UP. The only person I can stand anymore is Rayna, and even her perfectly loving, understanding earth-mother schtick is wearing thin.
I do plan to watch some of next week because the trailer showed Rayna ripping into Deacon about the idea of partnering with his AA sponsor to run a bar. Sounds like fun! Of course, this whole scenario means that the only happy relationship on the show is about to go off the rails, at least for a bit, and Deacon will have more reasons to break things and have a sad. And we'll have Layla wailing over Jeff's death, and more Scarlett whimpering about her "sainted" dead mother, and Will moping and sighing because Kevin is gone, and Maddie and Daphne crying in their rooms over this, that and the other, and basically enough tears flowing to drown the whole damn city of Nashville.
Really, it's time to find another program to watch. Bad show.
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Alert - astrological stuff ahead - detour if you find the subject offensive or boring or just laughable:
Jessa is a Scorpio, and I can't imagine a more infuriating culture for a Scorpio woman to be born into than the "keeping sweet", submissive, "precious", stickily saccharine, pathologically controlling, isolated, puritanical Duggar/Gothard one. Scorpios are ruled by planet Pluto, named for the Lord of the Underworld, and there is nothing sweet about them. With Scorpios it's all about the deep, primal experiences - sex, death, and regeneration - and the use/abuse of the profound power at the core of those experiences. There is absolutely nothing in the D/G culture that provides a Scorpio woman with a healthy, disciplined, open way to express Plutonic energies and emotions.
The only way for Jessa to vent those powerful energies is via self-righteous rantings about her religious beliefs and the heathenish behaviors of others, with her brother Josh now as a special target. Oh, and by her many and varied passive-aggressive attitudes and actions within the family circle.
Jessa may never choose to expose the full collection of skeletons in the Duggar closets, and Josh's deeply dysfunctional behavior may well continue to be the main source for the family's public humiliation, but Jessa's penchant for delivering the scorpion sting to whoever has earned her contempt or anger is not going to stop - and that venom can be fatal.
JB had better watch his back with this daughter.
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Michelle's FB post, translated for the bullshit-detection-impaired (which, by the way, none of us here are and that makes me so happy):
"I've thought all day about our Josiah"
See, I remember and name my children and I can give one of them a whole day's worth of thought! I'm still mother of the year!
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOSIAH!"
See, I can also remember their individual birthdays. I'm still mother of the year!
"We love you so much!"
You're not Josh, thank GOD!
"You are an encourager and can brighten any room you walk into."
You make us so happy because you're not Josh.
"You have made a big impact in all our lives."
We are so RELIEVED you broke off your courtship with that jeans-wearing, book-writing, smart-talking slut Marjorie. Whew, we dodged a bullet with that - just think of how she might have influenced our sweet, holy little daughters with her satanic worldliness.
"Your love for God, humility, diligence, selflessness, giving spirit and so much more has challenged us in our relationship with the Lord"
We know you're not at all like Josh (right?) And we thank you for stopping us that time recently when we were about to hunt him down and beat him senseless with a pvc pipe. It would have made us look kind of bad to those tv executives we're trying to persuade to give us our show back.
"We are so blessed to have you in our family"
We can focus on you and present you as the good son, because you're not Josh.
"We love you!"
Please help us find a way to get our fame and fortune back because, well.....JOSH.
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Zahdil, the "needs more cowbell" is a reference to a SNL skit with Will Ferrell, where he portrayed a cowbell-ringing member of a rock band of some kind. At least, I'm pretty sure that's what it references. I only saw a small part of the skit and although I love Ferrell, I was never a huge fan of SNL after the original cast was gone.
Feel free, anyone, to correct my post if I'm way off about this.
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I gotta say, if a Duggar kid ever does write a tell-all book, my money is on Jessa. That girl is COLD. If no one minds me getting all astrological and stuff here, Jessa is a Scorpio and when Scorps decide they've just damned well had enough of whatever situation/person has offended them, well, fucking look out. The scorpion's sting can be lethal.
She's already pissed about the media circus around the molestation scandal, which took the focus off her marriage and pregnancy. Now here comes another Josh-generated hit to the fame and fortune she thinks she's entitled to.
Jessa might not be willing to expose anything about JB and Michelle, but I can see her, at this point, wanting to hurt someone very, very badly for what's been taken from her. I think Joshie had better keep a safe distance - and Jill, as well.
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I haven't watched any of this, I wouldn't survive it. There's enough mental and emotional stress in my life right now. I thank God for all the posters here who had the courage.
Throughout the Duggar debacle, a favorite line from Friends keeps popping up in my head. Please note that I am presenting this without an iota of facetiousness.
"Can's open - worms, EVERYWHERE!"
It sounds like the interview with JB and Michelle just opened a whole pantry full of cans. Sorry, folks, you will not only NEVER get the worms back in, you can't dress them up in pretty pink bows and make us think they're anything else except exactly what we KNOW they are.
Just put the damn can opener away, hush up, go home and try to properly raise the kids you still have under your roof. Show's over.
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Thanks to some weird DVR dysfunction, Nashville didn't record last night (we had company, so TV was off) and I missed the grand finale. And after reading all the comments here, and the recap, I can honestly say I don't give a flying you-know-what.
This show has gone completely around the bend. It has almost no grounding in any kind of reality or genuine humanity (except maybe for the relationship between Deacon and Rayna). Who are the damn writers on this thing, anyway? 100 stoned monkeys in a room full of typewriters?
Anyway, I'm pretty much done with it. I may tune in for the first episode next season, just to see if Beverly's croaked and Deacon lives. Then, on to better things like sorting my sock drawer and doing crossword puzzles.
We had a magnificent, oh-so-rare, thunderstorm tonight here in Southern California. Lots of desperately needed rain, lightning, thunder, even a little hail. A thousand times better than anything Bizarro World Nashville would have provided. Thanks, Mother Nature - YOU really know how to put on a show!
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There's only one thing about the Duggars (specifically, Michelle and Jim Bob) that truly gets on my nerves.
They have essentially destroyed the gift of free will that God gave their children. That God gives all of us.
It doesn't just get on my nerves. It enrages me. They have no right whatsoever to do this. It's EVIL.
They can eat whatever crap they want, wear whatever fundy costumes and weird hairdos they want, have as many children as they want, hold whatever political and religious opinions they want, talk like developmentally-challenged toddlers all day long. I couldn't give less of a fraction of a fuck.
But when I see their children caged in, programmed, held back, married off and turned into parents WAY too young, shamed regarding all sorts of natural emotions, thoughts and actions, starved of proper education, healthy friendships, and the development of their unique talents and interests, forced to conform to a rock-rigid litany of rules, restraints, and "letters of the law" - even well past the age when they should be creating individual lives for themselves and following their own very personal passions, ideals and dreams - I get absolutely furious.
This is not love. This is not righteousness. This is not "morality". This is spiritual, emotional and mental abuse. And it should be against the law.
(Rant over - thanks for listening)
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Now that the new royal princess has arrived, do you think perhaps the Duggar media train might derail a bit? And the Kardashian one, too?
Dear God in Heaven, I hope so...
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I haven't viewed all the episodes yet - as I mentioned on another thread, I'm a newcomer to this show - but I've already cringed at a number of scenes and set-ups.
1. The Rachel/Tag stuff is very unpleasant to watch. To say that Rachel's whole THING with him was unprofessional and irresponsible, given their working relationship, would be a major understatement. Ugh, just ugh.
2. As others have pointed out, Carol and Susan were just unbelievably nasty and dismissive with Ross, and it makes little sense. Carol was the one who cheated on him with Susan, and left him because she wanted a same-sex partner. Maybe I've missed an episode or two that reveals more information about his marriage to Carol, but so far I haven't seen one that paints Ross as anything but a completely innocent victim of Carol and Susan's betrayal of his trust and devotion. They have no right to disrespect him the way they continually do.
3. The duck and the chicken as pets. So wrong I don't know where to begin. Bird poop everywhere. GAG.
4. Rachel's hair. Why is it so stringy and awful in so many episodes? Jennifer Aniston is a gorgeous woman, why did they do this to her? I get so tired of watching her try to keep it out of her face.
5. Monica's personality was sweet at some times and then over the top bitchy/judgmental at others, in a way that made her appear almost psychotic, and it is so not funny. Same with Phoebe, especially in the later episodes. It's like the writers really didn't know what to do with these two after a certain point in the series, but turn them into unflattering caricatures.
6. I haven't yet caught the ep where Joey tries to learn French, and if it's as lame as most here say it is, I will probably skip it. Joey's sweet but dumb personality is a great set-up for comedy, but it's easy to overdo it, and I've already seen a few episodes where the joke has fallen a bit flat. Ironically, in real life Matt LeBlanc speaks French fluently, so that makes it seem even more lame to me.
7. Ross and Rachel, Joey and Rachel, Any man and Rachel. So far I haven't liked her character as a romantic partner with anyone, and the show would have done better to just keep her as a single career woman raising a child - which they kind of did, but not completely. She was portrayed as funny, smart, hard-working and caring, but also rather selfish and self-centered, as well as very materialistic. NOT good long-term r'ship or marriage material. And I hated how she tried to undercut Ross's relationships with other women, while at the same time not really wanting to fully commit to him.
8. Fat Monica. What an ugly stereotype the writers turned that into. No, no, no. Very not funny.
9. Mike and Phoebe. This is not the man she should have ended up with. David was perfect for her.
I will probably come up with more as I continue to watch, but that's enough snarking for now, because in spite of it all, I totally love this show. No sitcom in the history of tv has gotten everything right, and when one showcases as much laughter and great acting as Friends does, a LOT can be forgiven. May it be on re-runs for years to come!
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The bickering in the latest episode was terrible. I DON'T need to hear or see this. It spoiled the rest of the show for me.
I think I'll start watching Desert Flippers and slam the door on T&C. They have officially FLOPPED as far as I'm concerned - and I've been a devoted part of their audience for years. No more.