londonfroglet

Totally agree... I had watched casually in the past, but when I got laid off on March 16th (travel industry), apparently RHONJ (and now Atlanta) was the only thing my brain could process. I did the whole Seasons 1-9 and was crestfallen to find that Hulu wasn't offering Season 10 yet. The various family entanglements (plus Danielle I guess) are definitely worth getting to know from the beginning, so I would just start there and run with it.

It may be totally irrational, but nicknames like this just grate on my last nerve. Same with Amber's "Booger." It's like you don't even know your fucking kid well enough to lock in on something endearing and original about them, not to mention the complete lack of creativity and engagement with the English language. Out of the myriad of topics that aggravate me about these two, I don't know why it's this one that bothers me enough to post about it. I think it's because they think it signifies something cute and unique about their connection with the child, but it does the opposite.

God, I... I can't believe it made sense to me on first read, but I believe he was referring to the year as a thing that had ups and downs, not himself. Like, "Oh, 26, you crazy year... you've had your ups and downs!" I talk that way about months... "October, you were beautiful," while posting pictures of trees and marshes at the park, not my own dumb ass. I have to go.

Oh, man... I'm really not into kids, but her smile makes me smile.

You are so right. My dog Harlan's came in right around $5K, and went straight onto the credit card, not a second thought. My heart aches seeing Penny. Not a day goes by that I don't see Harlan's sizable scar and know I'd do it all over again in a second. It was terrifying to see her in pain and paralyzed, and hers was an emergency situation; I cannot imagine seeing that condition take over your pet over time and sitting there hemming and hawing over surgery with the money she makes.

He did say "laying" next to his wife... perhaps he just dragged the bed sheet out of the door with Cate atop. No need to wake her really. One of the comments on the post seems to have been made by a "DP," so I do assume they're filming for MTV.

"I didn’t know know who he was. I had never seen him before. I had never heard of him. I don’t watch programs like that." - Terry Hill. Not sure we deserve him, but he's the hero we need.

Yes, I think it was something like, "Absence makes the heart grow fonder... SO LET ME LEAVE." Followed by a hearty cackle. It was after Suzi took Kail to browse for baby furniture, bookmarked the most expensive shit, and then tried to make a case for purchasing it to Janet. (For some inexplicable reason, I have five original episodes of 16 & Pregnant DVR'd in the basement for when I'm desperate on the exercise bike, and Kail's is one of them. I just watch them again, and again, and...)

This has been incredibly enlightening, and I thank you all for the feedback. I'm sure I couldn't make heads or tails of her recipes, but I had no idea about the Drummonds' personal wealth and land ownership, and could absolutely see how the simple prairie lady persona would seem manipulative/disingenuous at best, not to mention grate on one's nerves to high holy hell. It's slow at work, so I think I'll venture back another four or forty pages here and do some more reading. Thanks again! PS - Thanks to some fine local news reporting, I can happily confirm that Desert Window Scene Lady from Albuquerque did win the Christmas Cookie Challenge, in what was apparently the sixth episode of the 2017 season.

Long story short, I've been watching Food Network for the first time in my life while visiting my grandma at the nursing home. I visit between 6pm-8pm and watching any form of the news is unbearable. Tonight, I caught half of two episodes of Christmas Cookie Challenge, both judged by Ree. I had to leave midway through the second one, and was apparently more invested than I realized... fast forward 1.5 hours later, and I'm still searching for the damn winner (no idea what year, what season... all I know is I was rooting for the New Mexico window scenes by the baker from Albuquerque) and have made my way through a half-dozen pages of this thread, never having laid eyes on Ree before tonight. I have snorted with laughter many a time over the past few pages, but I admit I'm positively intrigued. Is anyone willing to summarize what exactly makes Ree so contemptible? It's not a challenge to your opinions; I am just truly wildly curious at this point. Step forth, please and thank you, any who are willing to enlighten me! On what is probably a related note, I feel like this description from the fanatical Facebook group is something I will think of in bed tonight, or at work three months from now, and die laughing all over again: The coating on the steak fell off. Thank you.

To be fair, the fact that I am alive is probably my favorite thing about my own existence, so... I get it. I never knew about what happened to their previous little dog, and based on the comments, I probably never, ever want to know. Disgusting.

I've never found Javi to be unattractive, and I admire his commitment to physical fitness, but this is remarkably unappealing.

There is a band that I love... sweetest, hardest-working, most family-oriented folk rock band on the planet... and they're always flipping off the camera. Even from them, I find it tacky, unimaginative, and unnecessary. With these idiots, multiply the sentiment by a thousand. Even if you don't want to smile, just defer and be grateful that someone, anyone, wished to commemorate the presence of your useless ass at this event with a photo, a miracle in itself as I know I'd be trying to forget.

I absolutely think it was, because I could've sworn that Megan was the same overly enthusiastic weirdo realtor who showed Farrah around Los Angeles when she was house-shopping earlier this season. I just assumed there was some producer overlap. I really only noticed because I remember being distracted by how Megan's overall size completely dwarfed Farrah. One and the same!

"My dream is coming true... I'm going to Japan! I just want to do everything." "Now that my dream is coming true, and I'm going to Japan, I just want to do everything." I know this comment wasn't necessary. I just couldn't live with the construction of that tweet. And it still doesn't even make sense.