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I would think it's more that Valentine's Day & the like bring into high focus everything that is wrong in the relationship.

I know, but that is what he was referring to - it's the only stuff they sent to the lab. He may have simplified things, but in any event, apparently no foreign matter or pathological tissue findings and essentially just blood.

I won't spoil you on who won LCK, but just FYI, they did announce the winner. I was surprised they didn't hold off! I was having trouble seeing how they were going to work a dinner around boxing matches, but I thought it went well, and I agree it was nice to see them working well together.

Coagulated blood.

I've seen recipes for tomato tarte tatin before (for example: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017616-caramelized-tomato-tarte-tatin), so that's what I thought of, but I agree, the idea of a regular double-crusted pie filled with tomatoes sounds really unappealing. I love rhubarb pie - I asked for it every year as a child for my birthday - but I've have never understood why people add strawberries to it - I don't really care for the taste of cooked strawberries. All rhubarb needs is some sugar and spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, etc.) & a little thickener of some kind (I use tapioca).

The ones I know mostly worked with pacemakers and such. They would sometimes be there for procedures. I wasn't really clear on the nature of their involvement. Here's a link that describes "a typical day for a medical device sales rep": https://www.advancerecruitment.net/a-day-in-the-life-working-in-medical-sales which confirms there can be a good deal of back and forth with device reps during procedures.

Device reps often do.

Seems like they could get a good story line out of a confrontation on this issue. Javi & Lauren, if you want to take a stand on something for the sake of airtime (& to protect Eli) maybe this is a good choice. (I was thinking it's a possible PSA type subject for MTV, too, but maybe they fear it'd do more harm than good, by letting Kail air her point of view at all.)

I rewatched recently, too, and didn't mind Richard or Dale (although yes, he was hot-tempered), but detested the various bro brothers - Spike, the guy from NZ, at al. Lisa didn't get that frustrating to me until later - she just lasted longer than the other unpleasant people.

Well, shoot. Lexi was the one I liked most. Did MTV find her life insufficiently fucked up for television? I don't care about any of the others enough to want to watch, so I suppose I'm out.

An uncle of mine paid for his brother's plane ticket to come visit him for a long weekend; it was only in talking with the younger uncle that I realized that, although he was grateful for the ticket, he was also extremely stressed about the income he was forgoing by taking the trip - he's a musician and earns most of his money on weekends. So, I wondered if that might have been a factor for Louis as well, and that he was simply trying to make up for foregone income. Still, he said he wouldn't do any DJ'ing while he was there, and it doesn't seem like he's been much help.

Cynthia Hiyashi, the woman from Brazil, I believe. I really wish they still had photo galleries of the runways for each week! It was a great way to remember who had done what, and to have a closer look at it. I recall liking that one, although the shape of the dress was a little uninspired, Jasper's, the hoodie, and Anya's (I usually like Anya's stuff, although I can see that sometimes it isn't the hardest to put together); and flat out disliking Seth Aaron's & Irina's (and expecting that one to be in the bottom), and not thinking much of the sunglasses display at the mall ensemble. Michelle's was pretty & shiny but just gluing stuff onto such a basic muslin shift didn't seem hard enough. At this point I can't really remember what anyone else did. Oh - I thought the Australian woman's was ok but deservedly in the bottom; I'm glad she's not gone yet, and I wondered whether she'd ever had to do an unconventional materials challenge before and whether that might have thrown her off; and I remember that it was the Dutch guy who made the mini skirt of mylar peanut bags, with a top that I thought worked well with it, although I can't remember what it looked like. So, I guess I remember more than I thought, but I still really wish I had a gallery to look at whenever anybody comments on one of these looks.

Good for you, @Maharincess! And it sounds like your family is picking some great destinations. I'm glad you're still doing well.

Auburn, Florida, & Boise State, too.

The guy from the Netherlands. I don't remember his name yet.

What an awful man. It feels particularly scary and threatening with the racial component thrown in.

I'm hoping that boasting about the crime on youtube might lead to the judge opting for jail time and the maximum fine (since they're clearly not wanting for money). It's not as though he's a first offender with a sense of remorse.

It also matters here that Kayla is 20 years old, not 16.

Kayla has had more than enough chances on this. Stephan has beaten Kayla, and has stolen from Jaime and acted physically threatening towards her as well, and clearly has no self control or insight, and she laid down the rule long ago that he is not to be in her house, and yet Kayla keeps breaking this rule. How else is she supposed to keep him out of her own house? As others have noted, talking about it doesn't work, because Kayla either yells that the conversation is over, or says fine and then does whatever she wants to do anyway. Kayla also, instead of following through on getting a restraining order, continues to hang out with Stephan and invite him over to the house! I see no reason why Jaime should have to go through some graduated series of punishments like not paying for Kayla's phone before kicking her out. That is highly unlikely to work, anyway. Just because she is Kayla's mother doesn't mean she has to take any more of this from either one of them. (And it's not like she's disowning her or anything. She just can't have Kayla living in her house anymore if that means there is a serious risk that Stephan is going to be there.)

I like Natalie, too, and hope that she at least earns herself a spot on another season if she wants it. It's an awfully early exit for someone to come back from, though, and have me still feel like they competed on Top Chef.

It doesn't look like Jenelle paid close enough attention to David's tutorial on how to lay down a gasoline fuse - that thing ended up burning behind her as well as towards her target.

I heard on one of these shows that red food coloring, in particular, has a bitter taste, so you have to be careful with it. ( I've been half-way watching this & the Christmas Cookie & Holiday Baking competitions on FN; I couldn't tell you who said it but I think a couple of contestants, or possibly a contestant & a judge).

She did but I think most people were skeptical, since she flies a lot and has never complained about it before. Some speculated that if it was true, she was describing withdrawal symptoms. I don't buy the notion that they were buying drugs and then driving them cross country, a theory I've also seen floated, because why would you take the chance of being pulled over with a bunch of contraband when you can buy stuff closer to home? I'm sure they have a west coast contact for when they're out there, though.

It says a lot about this season that they didn't post images of the contestants' tattoos online, just a selection of Christian & Cleen's "best" work (from which I learned that Christian likes to tattoo images of topless women with vapid facial expressions and large breasts, that Cleen likes color, and that I like almost none of what either one of them does).

I don't consider that a reliable source - the watch list isn't public - but I did wonder a bit when they decided to drive cross country to get home whether one or the other of them hadn't been kicked off a plane or something.