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  1. 16 hours ago, MerBearHou said:

    Parvati came out as gay and is in a relationship with a comedian named Mae Martin who is non-binary.  

    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.

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  2. 55 minutes ago, kristen111 said:

    Is there a difference?.  If so?  What?

    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.

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  3. On 12/29/2023 at 5:31 AM, Daff said:

    My dad enlisted late, due to his young age, and trained as a B17 pilot. I have his flight training logs. After relatively short training, he was sent to the west coast, on a ship headed to the South Pacific. Before the ship left port, the Japanese surrendered (else I probably wouldn’t be here!).

    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!

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  4. 22 hours ago, SassyCat said:

    In my travels around the web, I ran across a forum for geezers, lol. Called Senior Forums . Com  For those who might be interested.

    I have not joined, but have found it fun to read.

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

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  5. 7 hours ago, North of Eden said:

    The only likable person was the son who was awfully cheerful considering the case was about his murdered dad. He seemed like he was baked on marijuana the whole interview and I found his laid-back demeanor inviting.

    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.

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  6. 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.

     

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  7. 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.
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  8. 8 hours ago, iMonrey said:

    "Unspeakable" was the wife accused of stabbing her husband to death. She was found tied up in the closet with a chair against the door and claimed not to remember anything because she had epileptic seizures. I couldn't believe the jury found her guilty

    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?

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  9. 6 hours ago, SnapHappy said:

    .  The charming, handsome young man who was great at challenges & very at home in his body, in a graceful way.  Plus, charismatic & personable. 

    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.

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  10.  

    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.

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  11. 5 hours ago, iMonrey said:

    Around camp she is probably viewed as the mama bear type. 

    Yes.  It always irritates me how quick the young ones are to look at any woman over 30 as the "mama."  They don't often call the older men Daddy but it wouldn't matter if the woman was a green beret or a senator, she's seen as their mommy.

    So I  thought they were dismissing her as any sort of threat, but now they've decided she's a shoe in to win if she makes the finals, -- not because she's been strategic and done well in the challenges, but because "everyone loves her." SMH.

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  12. On 12/5/2023 at 7:45 PM, iMonrey said:

    You may remember Andrea pulling up next to this guy's boat and yelling "Ryan did you have anything to so with Sarm's disappearance?" 

    LOL  I was so embarrassed for her I had to look away.

    The Last Weekend:  I'm going to have to add "waitress" to all the things I wouldn't let my daughter do if I had a daughter. 

    Creepy old dude, ugly as sin, twenty years older than she is, thinks she belongs to him because she smiles at him and brings him food.  Poor innocent trumpet player gets caught up in the middle of it all. 

    I didn't  blame the detectives for going home to sleep, but why did they all have to do it at the same time?

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  13. 9 hours ago, SassyCat said:

    There are those purple shampoos that can really make  grey hair look beautiful and shimmery with white silver highlights. 

    Is there now?  So that's how it happens. 

    My grey hair is truly "grey" not the beautiful soft white of some of my friends, so I put Nice&Easy blonde #9 on it every couple of months for a  color my husband likes. I was a dark brown brunette back in the day, but with my blues eyes and pale skin I find I look better blonde.

    But I love that shiny platinum you're talking about.  I see it on the philanthropist, Darlene Shiley on PBS.

     

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  14. 7 minutes ago, Vivigirl10 said:

      What kind of person would go on a reality show to begin with? 

    You're right.  I remind myself of that when the tears start to flow.

    Look at Leslie, she clearly thought she was all that in the beginning, making  her entrance in the old nightgown and then whipping it off to pose in her tiny, low-cut, mini-dress. Interviewing that  she  knew she was going to win the talent contest with her great sexy dancing.  So if she found out along the way that maybe she wasn't the single most desirable 60-ish woman on the planet -- that might not be such a bad thing.

    I think they're probably all vain and go into this fantasizing about the calls they'll get from Hollywood planning to build a sit-com around them.

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  15. 9 hours ago, Starlight925 said:

    Theresa, once upon a time….that red lipstick is a permanent fixture.  
     

     

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    Great find, Starlight! I've been wondering how she looked young.

    I actually kind of like red lipstick on dark haired women ( certainly better than Leslie's sad and gloomy whitish gloss) but the difference between then and now for Theresa is back then she had lips to put it on. Lipstick smeared on your face does not a real lip make.

    I find Carolyn's story very believable, if she was going to make things up, she would have found something that made Gerry sound worse and something more flattering to herself than, "I'm not going to take you to the reunion looking like that." 

    Isn't that the Gerry we know that would be foremost aware that he was taking her, probably on his dime.  He also gave credence to his fat shaming by eliminating women almost according to size, starting with the heaviest and working down to the thinnest.

    His daughters and wife being overweight has nothing to do with it.  My father first mentioned that he was ashamed of me because I was so fat when I was in high school and had grown to 125lbs at 5'6".  Gerry's wife was thin when they got married, who knows how he felt about her later weight gain or what comments he made.

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  16. 20 hours ago, Gigi G3 said:

    It cast a pall over he and Theresa getting together and I went from liking the show to hating it. The two of them seemed awful to me to have made to the end of this competition with like the dead bodies all around them.

    Me too, I couldn't stand either one by the time it ended, much less be happy for them as they gloated.

    17 hours ago, Armchair Critic said:

    “I guess I haven’t really looked at it as how accurate it is. I’ve more looked at it in terms of timing

    "Sure it's a bunch of lies, but it would have been better for me if it hadn't surfaced so soon. "

    6 hours ago, SassyCat said:

    I think Theresa is very calculating, just as I thought she was calculated in her little conversations with Kathy, and pretended she did not realize that what she was saying to her was offensive. She knew damn well what she was doing while feigning innocent ignorance of how her words fell on others psyche, which caused them anxiety and feeling like they lost to her, before the “game” even really started. Shes a slick one, for sure. She played the game like a chess master.

    Great post.  It takes me back to when Kathy said something to the effect that Theresa was either really stupid or  very cruel.

    Theresa's a very smart woman who uses her brain to say exactly the right things to manipulate people.  Yeah, Gerry, she knows how to "nurture a relationship" alright. I'll bet she spent that whole fantasy suite night telling Gerry flattering things, watching carefully to see when his eyes lit up most, giving more of that, quickly  backing off anything that didn't click, making constant eye contact and casually touching him at every opportunity, dropping lots of humble brags.  No wonder she got that finance job over more qualified people.

    Too bad they didn't keep the cameras rolling so we could watch the master at work. Also too bad that all she got for all that work was Gerry.

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  17. I can't read "Maricopa county" without thinking of "Raising Arizona," one of my all time favorite movies.

    I found Alessa's story sad and unsatisfying.  Poor young thing had lost her mother, her step-father was a nasty man who called her awful names (at the very least) her teachers let her down and her nice aunt in California and kind older brother, who would have loved to help her, just weren't close at hand when she needed them.

    I agree with everything @Peanut6711  said.  There just isn't enough proof.

    10 hours ago, pdlinda said:

    Andrea was up to her usual "fashion faux pas."  The outfit that particularly caught my eye was some frilly  pink-and-white number the hemline of which was half way up her thigh.  Looked like a chiffon-type fabric one would wear to a garden party.

    Garden party dress is what I always think, too.  I wonder if she has someone make her clothes or she finds them in some sort of store that caters to pre-teen girls. I never see anything like them when I'm shopping.

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  18. 8 hours ago, Nashville said:

    Maybe, maybe not.  Jiffy flat-out told everybody the trick to the comp, which I thought was pretty obvious before Probst even opened his mouth; wedge your heels up against & a little under your ass with your feet flat on the board, and the load-bearing shifts from your arms to your heels and feet.  If you can’t figure that’un out even after somebody done told you, then maybe the problem ain’t the comp….

    That was exactly how Dee had her legs and she was doing fine, until the part when they all were ordered to straighten out their legs, at which point Dee's long strong legs became a liability pulling against her arms and she immediately dropped.

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  19. 14 minutes ago, Realitystarr said:

    I also can stop thinking about the dollar signs in his eyes when he heard Theresa  was wealthy, or so she claims. Now  wouldn't  it be a hoot  if she embellished her stock performance just as  Gerry and the producers embellished Gerry's  accomplisHments.  

    Yeah, I've taken her career with a grain of salt. My parents lost a bundle when their smart, young stock broker failed to tell them something important, someone I know who is reputed to be the best in that area lost over a million of his own money in the recent slump and we lost a lot recently and we have our savings in one of the big mutual funds where supposedly many great financial minds work together.

    Treesa did great teaching herself the business and getting hired over lots of other applicants, but that doesn't make her rich or mean she can't make some bad calls.  It's a risky business.

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  20. Well I woke up this morning thinking...$60,000 for a dress! 

     I just saw a long red velvet one from temu for 29.99.

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    *The one that Jesse said was the nicest one he'd ever seen and all I could think about is how Gerry straight up negged Theresa with his "I realized I can't live with you..........................................................I can't live without you."  Maybe some women would find that romantic but I don't think I'd ever want to be with someone who wanted to make me feel uncomfortable at the most romantic moment of our lives.

     

     

    I agree, I think I saw Treesa's permanently stiff upper lip quiver. I hated that. What a jerk move.  He expected her to go  from a crushed heart to rapturous joy in seconds.  I wish she'd said, "I just realized I can live without someone who thinks it's funny to make a fool of me  in a vulnerable moment.  Take your adolescent humor back to Leslie."

    I don't think I'm going to make it to the wedding.  Two hours of Treesa repeating ohmygod in that monotone drone would just be too much.

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  21. 1 hour ago, dancingdreamer said:

    She swam well after that. I thought  Jeff felt for her, and was very kind.

    He was  kind.  Everyone else was caught up in their own little world and he seems to be the only one who noticed Katurah wasn't just shaking from muscle strain, but was going through something serious. Even after it was clear she needed help he had to tell Emily to give her a hand. 

    We complain about Jeff a lot but he really does love the game and invests himself in all the players in a way you seldom see in other  hosts.

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