JudyObscure

I think it was the first season where they had a couple of ex airline stewards, both very immature. The man cried over everything and the woman said her mother had spoiled her and never asked her to do anything while growing up. They had a sweet little boy, about eight, who bonded with the crew and worked with them the whole time. By the end of the show he was teaching his mother how to sweep with a broom. He told her to make one big pile, she was making little random piles all over the room. It was so pitiful.

John and Andi were so interesting. I loved how much they looked like each other, like brother and sister. They were both so tender hearted, I hope they were truly kindred spirits. The only thing that worries me was Andi saying she had cleaned it once and he had messed it up again in weeks saying, "Did you expect it to stay this way?" I've noticed that lots of hoarders have no idea how to maintain a house with a daily routine of making the beds, taking out the trash, washing the dishes. Much less a weekly schedule of doing the laundry, cleaning the kitchen and bathroom fixtures, sweeping and mopping, dusting and vacuuming. They think it's just about not hoarding anymore. I think the show should do more teaching about how to keep a house under control once they've left.

Yes, and also Jenny's wild little Irish Setter, always trying to pull Jenny's arm off when on the lead.

I think the rhythm method was probably better than we think. My parents generation had the baby boom after WWII but I think the average number of kids in America was only about 2.3. I think couples were probably planning the first two and then some had a third by accident. That's how I got here after my two brothers. Considering that the average age of marriage for women was early twenties, that means lots of successful rhythm time. Oddly enough, the abortion rate and the unmarried birth rate was a fraction of what it became after the pill became widely available. Let's face it. They were more responsible than we are.

I hate my house now. I also hate that Bob's incredibly beautiful house still looks cluttered in it's best rooms. If Ken and Bob are no longer friends I must blame Bob. Bob is a sweetie, but often unreasonable. Ken and the silent Daulton probably carried a hundred loads down two flights, organized and then carried most of it back up, and then Bob saw them throwing out a cat urine soaked embroidered tea towel and got yelled at. Good episode! Interesting hoard. My father was an artist and left a lot of paintings but not a tenth of Bob's. Where did he ever find the time to do all that?

Oh me, too. He's the best comic relief actor! He was my favorite Durrell.

Me either, so I'm counting today to find out. I drink a lot of coffee.

The person I wanted to hear from was the neighbor who's had Terri knocking on her door six times a day for several years, so she can come in and use her bathroom. I think that would be awful -- early in the morning, late at night when you're cooking dinner, when you have guests. I wonder if Terri ever took responsibility for that.

I knew the rock throwing boy and the lonely sheep farmer were going to end up together as soon as I'd met them both. Which was still great to watch! In my mind Wesley and his Granny are both living with the farmer and all of them are eating scads of carrot & swede buns. I'm just a sucker for this show; lambs, Jess and Dash, nice people, breathtaking scenery, set details to die for. I really don't care if they actually have a plot, they could just mill around and I'd be happy.

I love that they cleaned and painted before they put the thousand kept items back in. In the past I think only "Hoarding Buried Alive" did that and it depressed me to see the empty rooms with scuffs on the walls and trash in the corners of the floors. One thing I wanted Dr. T to do was call Terri on her repeated statement, "I come home from work exhausted, so I just drop everything on the floor and go sit down." What is this "everything" that she drops? If she was exhausted, why had she gone shopping?' Terri was ready to admit (over and over) that the giant mess was her fault, but I felt like she wasn't addressing the shopping part very well. Still she's maintaining, so I guess everything is okay, but I share some of their concern that Terri hasn't found another coping mechanism for her PTSD. I read somewhere that people who have bypass surgery very often become addicted gamblers when they can no longer overeat. It seems like compulsive behaviors are compulsory for some people.

I was never as big a Susan fan as others and I couldn't have said why until I just watched a clip of Theresa's first date with Jerry. Susan was doing her hair and Theresa asked her quietly to roll the curling iron backward on the curl next to her face and Susan went into a loud, "You're telling me how to do hair! I've been doing hair for thirty years!" Susan was laughing, but it was still harsh enough that Theresa instantly backed down and apologized. It reminded me of all the hairdressers I've tried to warn about my quirky hair, they never listen, they always wish they had later. No matter how long they've been doing hair, it's never as long as we've been living with ours. Susan was just over the top bossy and her crude humor never really seemed that funny to me. That's who I always think of when I see white boots. All the boys were crazy about Nancy and all I ever saw was an overly skinny body under a too big homely face.

Maybe the girls who wrote letters to William had heard how Diana first got Charles's attention on that famous yacht party, back when he was her sister's boyfriend. Diana told him how sorry she was about his uncle's death and how sad she thought he looked, walking behind the casket. I never liked Diana, I always thought the Shy Di thing seemed fake and was belied by all the attention getting tricks she used at the same time. I was living in England when she told the press (through Andrew Morton) her side of her marital problems, quickly followed by her self-serving TV interview, all before anyone even knew they were getting divorced, blindsiding Charles and the BRF. The royals couldn't reply with their own side of the story without turning the whole thing into a Jerry Springer show, so they just had to sit quietly while almost everyone took Diana's side. I thought it was an unforgivable thing for her to do, particularly to her children who never needed to know there were "three in the marriage," she certainly didn't mention that she had, had an affair before Charles and Camilla did. If she had counted her own affairs, there would have been about seven in the marriage. The Crown has been my favorite show and I knew we would eventually have an episode about her, but this many? I thought it was over after Season five and now I've just watched Part one of Season six and had to listen to William being told that it wasn't Charles's fault -- but stopping right there. If only someone at some point in time had told Charles and Harry that their mother was not killed by the paparazzi, the Fayed family, or Charles. If they must blame someone, blame Diana, a grown woman with children who wasn't mature enough or responsible enough to put her seatbelt on. In the official final report, doctors agreed that the four people in the car would have had an 80% chance of survival if they had been wearing theirs. Thanks, I left England and wasn't watching it all as closely by the time Charles was interviewed by Dimbleby, I wasn't aware of that.

Moved to History thread.

Ooooh. That Mr. Quick looks pretty sweet to me, with the picnic tables outside like that. Ever since I saw Breaking Bad's Gus Fring running his spotless chicken restaurant, I've had the urge for a franchise of my own -- skipping the side deal with the cartel, though.

That's very interesting. I remember one of the women cast members saying that Parvati had a magical sort of charm that even the women fell for.

Senior Forum is for older people to talk about anything and everything. For example they have a thread that's been running for years that's nothing but pictures of tea pots. There are also serious threads about things in the news, health, pets, finance, any subject at all except politics. So that's all fine, but a forum like Primetimer takes the focus off us and our problems, and puts it on TV Shows, so we have far less chance of personally offending each other. We can just let ourselves go and get snarky about people or TV characters who are either fictional or just unlikely to ever read this board.

I've read that the life expectancy of those pilots was extremely short and I think any old men sitting in an office deciding that those who balked at going, "lacked moral fiber," should have been the next to go up. My dad was on a ship headed to Japan when the war ended and he has a vivid memory of how the ocean looked when the great ship made a U-Turn. We're both lucky to be here!

I've belonged to Senior Forum for 7 years. It can be fun, but not as much fun as you guys on a roll.

LOL It's people like him who make this show so much fun. I wish they had more episodes. I know there's no shortage of neighbor feuds, they don't have to end in grizzly murders. The Brits have a nightmare neighbor show where they get mad and tip over next-doors wheelie bins. It's still pretty good.

Thanks for finding the painting for us @HappyHanna, saved me a lot of hunting. I actually don't see any wings on the little one who is kneeling over the manger and I think he looks just like the shepherd who is center back. I wouldn't tell anyone in Poplar that, though. I agree that they tried to pack a little too much in. My TV plays the background music too loudly and I think I heard, "big emotional conclusion" music about eight times. It still made me cry even when I knew I was being manipulated. Darn show.

Well I never bought into Emily's great growth arc, I just thought Kaleb had taught her how to fake it better. So we got her last minute hateful dig at Austin, for what? We don't know, probably for being a "boy." I wasn't surprised at Dee's win either. The jury always awards the best bragger and Dee was really good at it. Most men would be embarrassed to call themselves a giver and claim credit for all sorts of things that were either luck or part of the group effort.

I know. Did they think she hit herself in the head to cause that big goose egg? The prosecuting attorney demonstrating how she could wrap her own hands in a tie and pull a chair to the door? So what? I really wanted the defense attorney to act out a long scenario of the daughter's ex boyfriend coming in, pulling all the drawers open, stabbing the husband and hitting the woman in the head. If you can act it out it must have happened, right?

Yes, I was watching everyone struggle through the reward challenge in the last episode and then Austin stepped up and I thought, "His body simply does what ever he wants it to do." It's beautiful to see. I can barely get mine to lift me out of a chair these days. I miss watching Emily in the challenges. She had a uniquely feminine way of moving. Not so great for the challenges but pretty to see.

From interviews I've read Charlotte Ritchie always says things like, "Sometimes I'm sorry I left the show," so it seems like it was her idea. She must surely prefer being the star of "Ghosts" over an ensemble part shared with a half dozen other women on CtM. Plus she has a long relationship with the leading man in Grantchester. I bet the other actresses who left wish they had been given such good parts.

Survivor is also a crazy place to say that, just after the producers have picked you out of thousands of others.