JudyObscure
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I think Audrey likes being needed by these people she's come to love and she also probably likes the endless variety and excitement that comes from being part of the vet practice. I also think the thought of leaving Dash was kind of the last straw for her.
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2 hours ago, Daff said:
Seems like if it’s a happy occurrence, they’re always walking around clutching the belly.
Let's just hope Helen doesn't decide to breast feed.
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Poor Tara. She would have been two when her mother suddenly disappeared from her life to go to Greece for a year. That must be experienced just like a death to one that young. Then her mother comes back to life for a few months and then disappears again. No wonder she clings to her murdering father.
I can't really understand military women with young children taking tours without their children. They said she could have taken a longer tour with family included but she elected not to do that because of resettling the kids. The thing is the military is so good about all that, they pay to pack up all your stuff and ship it overseas. They provide you with housing and schools for the children, plus free medical care for all. Even your dead beat spouse gets to come along. The third choice would have been to simply refuse to go anywhere, in which case she wouldn't get to re-up when her enlistment was over, but there's no punishment.
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The re-hoarding is depressing and gives us at home a taste of what the friends and relatives have had to endure over the years. If Terri has had ten years of therapy and still completely filled a house in 2&1/2 years, I think it's time to give up on her and just let her hoard.
Destiny and Dorothy are the cutest couple, they just thrive together.
Over the years I've enjoyed watching our psychologists as much as the hoarders. Dr. Tolin (my sweet baboo) has steadily gained weight until it peaked in Carl's first episode and now I see he's lost some and got it under control. An inspiration to me!
Dr. Zasio, in spite of being blessed with lots of natural beauty, always seems to be working against herself with her hair and make-up choices and the last few years it seems to be misplaced botox or something. I think she still looks good, just different.
They're all still patient and kind with the Hoarders, so they have my deepest admiration for that. I think I would have switched to an area with a higher success rate like heroin/fentanyl addicts or something.
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49 minutes ago, tennisgurl said:
At the time, it seemed like Germany could have invaded England at any moment, London was being bombed, things were looking bad, they really were trying to find every single man they could find to fight this enemy who were ponding on their door, for a lot of men like James it probably felt like doing their part and fighting was the best way to protect their families, even more than being at home.
I agree with that completely. I didn't feel like James was putting duty to country above duty to family, but that stopping the Nazis was the very best way he could protect his family at that time. Other than emotional support, Helen doesn't really need him. She can count on food and shelter from both her family and Siegfried's and she has women friends she can compare symptoms with. Men had much less to do with pregnancy and birth back then. No prenatal classes, no men allowed in the delivery room, and, in most cases, very little help with the baby.
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2 minutes ago, AstridM said:
I donate $10 per year to my local PBS station and get full access. Absolutely worth it!
Definitely worth it for ten dollars, but my station, and most of them, have a 60 dollar minimum to get Passport. I did it a couple of years but now I've seen most of the archived things I wanted and the new things I can watch online for a week after it's on TV.
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Yay! Now I've watched it thanks to @ProudMary. I had to go way back to "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" to find where I'd seen the actress before. She looks so pretty to me, those hair and clothing styles were what I saw and admired when growing up and I think that remains the ideal somewhere in the back of my mind.
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Aw. Siegfried is intelligent, brave, and extremely kind hearted. He also looks really cute with a rat peeking out from his vest.
But then, I admit I've loved Sam West since he played Leonard Bast in, "Howards End."
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I waited too long to watch this and missed my chance. I bought Passport one year and was disappointed at how little they had so I won't be doing it again for one show.
it's odd to me that I can buy one month of Netflix for 16 dollars, watch a season of the Crown, and many other things, while the "free" public television makes you pay $60 to watch anything at all. 😒
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The Bridge -- James Chambers
This one would have only been an hour if every single person hadn't talked...soo...sloooow. Most boring episode ever with the most incredibly stupid people . Howard with his impulse to shoot a friend because they couldn't agree on what to do that afternoon. Then buried the body, then dug it up, then set fire to it, then dismembered it "so it would be easier to carry," then dropped it over a bridge and promptly forgot which one.
You have to wonder what kind of SAT scores it takes to get into that Bible College.
I hated Hannah almost as much as Howard with her head hung down during the police interview and the whiney mumbling.
The police kept bringing Howard in then letting him go home, even after he had shown himself to be a flight risk.
Just so annoying. The entire episode
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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.
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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.
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30 minutes ago, YorkshireLass said:
I was hoping that when Helen got her bike & said she was off to the farm we might get to see her Dad & Jenny again. Maybe later in the season.....
Yes, and also Jenny's wild little Irish Setter, always trying to pull Jenny's arm off when on the lead.
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14 hours ago, Sarah 103 said:
Birth control existed, it was just unreliable. I can't imagine James buying condoms (although they did exist) but the rhythm method is possible although it was/is incredibly unreliable and not that effective.
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.
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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?
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19 minutes ago, Ilovepie said:
I also miss Callum Woodhouse. It's not the same without Tristan.
Oh me, too. He's the best comic relief actor! He was my favorite Durrell.
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8 hours ago, Elizzikra said:
I have no idea how many times a day I have to go to the bathroom
Me either, so I'm counting today to find out.
I drink a lot of coffee.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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52 minutes ago, seacliffsal said:
So, Susan, who I previously adored, agreed to go along and promote herself
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.
14 hours ago, bequialife said:Sounds like Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood.
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.
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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.
59 minutes ago, Roseanna said:@JudyObscure wrote in Willsmania:
Actually Charles replied in public, and Diana's Panorama-interview happened after separation but before divorce.
Timetimetable:
1992: Diana: her true story by Andrew Morton, source Diana but she denies it
August 1992: Squidgate published (Diana and James Gilbert)
November 1992: Camillagate published (Charles and Camilla)
December 1992: separation announced by PM
June 1994: Charles interviewed by James Dimbleby in TV
1994: The Prince of Wales by James Dimbleby published
1994: Princess in love by Anna Pasternark about Diana and James Hewitt's affair, source Hewitt
November 1994: Diana interviewed by Martin Bashir
December 199: the Queen writes to Charles and Diana
Augut 1995: legal divorce
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.
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Moved to History thread.
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1 hour ago, LennieBriscoe said:
Would you call a McDonald's franchise owner "a fry cook mostly of a greasy spoon" (a term usually referring to a diner, anyway)?
And if Gerry were a fry cook, or later a janitor, is there some unworthiness attached to these jobs? I get the "lies" accusations, but there seems also to be an implied denigration here.
In any case, here is what seems to be the reality of Gerry’s varied career history.
Irony Alert: Mr. Fell in Love So Soon's restaurant was Mr. Quick.
https://www.tvinsider.com/1107927/golden-bachelor-gerry-turner-career-fast-food-mr-quick-golds-gym/
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.
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The Golden Bachelor - General Discussion
in The Golden Bachelor
I'm not a huge Leslie fan, she was far too sure her sexy dance was going to win that talent contest, but Joan is so boring I get sleepy just thinking about her, so I'm glad it isn't her.
My worry is where in the world they're going to find a bunch of retired men who are willing to get out of the recliner for anything but golf.