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Well what's manly* about that? *Macho, which is the only version of manly Kody understands.

If this is not a parody account, as I suspect it is, Lululemon is what you're thinking of. It's excellent sportswear that comes at an exceptional price. Lularoe is some bullshit pyramid scheme. But you know this already, I'm sure.

She looks like a South Park character. But the more I see it, the more it becomes almost endearing. It works for her. I hope she learns to love herself. She does deserve a partner who won't break her heart every single day.

I don't share this concern, generally, but his posturing over her while she was trying to get away, insisting on "walking her out," he just had a really threatening, aggressive posture and I was really concerned I was going to watch some domestic violence in real time (I'm watching this for the first time right now). It's clear these two are super controlling, but he looked like he was barely containing his rage. I am definitely concerned for this poor girl. And NOW they're dragging her back in the house. #savekaye

This was a very informative post. But for the bolded part--oh no, not yoga! I could see the Browns thinking along the same lines as those other religious weirdos in Alabama who think doing yoga will automatically turn you Hindu, or something. I jest, but honestly I do think they would probably find yoga too new-agey and turn their nose up at it. Except Janelle, who would find some kind of rockstar pose and never do it.

Where do you find them? I only just started watching the show and I'm seeing oft-mentioned issues such as Kody trying to "cure" scoliosis with some kind of magic water, and ignoring Truely while she nearly died, but all that has been scrubbed from on-demand episodes. I'm past the part where the catfish was supposed to have happened and there's nothing salacious in any of the episodes.

She mentioned that she "joke" sings. I don't know whose idea it was (TLC's) to make this poor woman sing, or how it came about that she does sing to herself sometimes (who doesn't?), but it was a horrible idea. She already sacrificed her ugly dress to make those ugly flowers (might have been for a different weddingk, who can tell these basic-ass weddingks apart), no need to sacrifice everyone's ears and sanity. I'm an intermediate-level trained singer and I've spent decades tryingk to make sure I sing on-key. Even with tryingk, I couldn't get to the level of ear-shattering off-key that was. I'm far from perfect, and you have to go ugly sometimes just to get it all out there before you can start refiningk it. The time to go ugly is in studio practice with a trainer, not at your kid's weddingk! I'm guessingk her "coach" was an actor or acquaintance just for the show. All she did was nod and say "no no, you sounded GOOD!" Then she starts talking down to the guitarist--"that's too low! My voice is higher!"--you know, the guy who actually knows the notes. Maybe choose a key, Christine? Once you do, the guitarist will be able to play with you. And that songk is not particularly hard to singk, if you're not tone-deaf. You don't have to go a full octave over a male singer just because you're a woman. You can singk in the same range. Even if you choose a different key. It reminds me of a duet I did years ago. I think my partner got distracted or stage fright or something because she suddenly started goingk off tempo, slowing down to a pace that didn't make any sense at all, and the band was just tryingk to follow alongk while givingk each other questioningk looks. That poor guitarist deserved better.

I finally watched the wedding one where she sang. Holy cow. It's okay to not be good at singing. You can just not sing, honey.

OMG--she's only about a month older than me. I thought she was approaching 50! I don't look MUCH younger than my age, maybe 35, but she looks so much older than 42 I thought we were close to a decade apart!

You know that, and I know that, but I'm pretty sure this gang is willfully ignorant about that.

I think I'm just confused. It may be the way it's phrased, but it just comes off as your choices are "religious ceremony" or "elope/courthouse wedding" and nothing in between. Clearly that's not the case, it just seems strange to me to default to ministers performing the ritual whereas actually anyone can. But it may just be a function of ministers and religious leaders already being qualified to perform the ceremony with the state as part of their job function, and anyone else who isn't will need to be, so that's why non-clergy people are being called out. I think I'm reading too much into this. I'm very tired.

When you say "married her first husband," you're not talking about the 27 year old Moroccan ex, are you? I bet you didn't know she had a 27 year old Moroccan ex!

I can't imagine this not being universal? I understand it being state-dependent, but marriage in all 50 states is a legal construct so why wouldn't the granting of an officiant be legal and leave the religious stuff up to the churches? I can't imagine having to get married by a minister. To me that would be the same as being married by an imam or rabbi or Heaven's Gate congregant. My wife and I were married by a friend and the only emphasis the office put on anything was administrative--don't lose this paper, make sure it's signed in blue or black ink, make sure the dates and names are right, etc. While she did have to get authorized by the recorder's office, but it wasn't like a "judge grants you permission because you're super special," it was more like "ok do you swear to do all this crap correctly and not like commit marriage fraud, okay stand over there, say you swear, rubber stamp, ok go marry people." Of course it may be six of one and a half-dozen of the other, it's just very strange that they emphasize "non-ministers" when it seems to me that the default should be just a sentient human over age 18, and you can add on the religious stuff if you choose. Edited to add: Any or all of you could be right in your speculation about Rebecca's dress sizing shenanigans, but I may as well throw in my theory: I assumed she ordered from Wish and assumed she was the same size she'd been when she started catfishing dating Zied.

Holy cow, did she actually say/imply this?! Just, holy crap. Way to completely absolve yourself of any decisions you made as an adult. How, if it was only one thing he was after, did he manage to have two other kids with her? Usually when you're only after one thing, you move on when you've got it.

Do you do it for safety reasons? That was my point. Some people like PDA and some don't, but for the most part, same-race, opposite-gender couples get to have a choice. Not every couple does.

It wouldn't surprise me one whit if none of them were Cajun, Louisianan or French at all, but decided to co-opt Cajun culture the way Kody decided he was a surfer dude despite living in :checks notes: the middle of the fucking desert.

I'm pretty woke myself, as is one of my closest friends who is a native Louisianan, and this is the first I'm hearing about the fleur de lis as a hate symbol. Like, I don't doubt anything about the sordid history of French occupation of the Americas, but the symbol itself, that's a new one to me.

My wife and I have only been together about four years but yeah, we're every bit as affectionate now as we were in the beginning. I hope it stays that way for a long, long time. One bit of context I may be able to add: when you live in or frequent an area where you don't feel safe holding your partner's hand, you do tend to make up for lost time when you can. My wife and I live in an area where there's very little homophobia, but when we travel we have to be very careful about how we present ourselves. (Even if all we get are stares, they can still feel threatening and make you feel unsafe.) When we feel safe again, the first thing we do is hold each other, or hold hands, or kiss. You have to take advantage of the times where you feel completely safe to hold hands or touch each other. I know you may be thinking "well but they lived in Chicago at the time," but if you really think Chicago doesn't have homophobia just because it's a major city, you haven't been to Chicago. Heck, I got engaged just outside of Chicago and experienced it myself. While I'm not here to defend a very unpopular person, please remember that if you're in a hetero-presenting relationship, you don't have to make these concessions and adjustments, so it may seem like "too much" to you (or worse, "shoving it down your throat"), but to the couple, it may seem like not enough.

That K I L L E D me. These slugs can barely lumber around, the most exercise any of them gets is Kody dancing badly, and they wanted to buy a gym when they can't even sort their own personal finances? Gyms are not moneymakers unless you REALLY know what you're doing. I get that gyms should be accessible to all, but I think it goes without saying that you should understand business AND fitness before you try to run a fucking gym of all things.

One very small, grudging bit of credit I'll give Whitney is that she doesn't shy away from the word "fat." She knows it's not a dirty word.

I can't not dance when that commercial comes on. SPRINKLES! Tarzel are not doing much to dispel the horrible, incorrect misconception that bi people are all down for a threesome or unable to be monogamous. I'm not here to yuck your yum if that's what you're into, but...yuck.

Lucky jerks. My state voted to kill DST three years ago but it didn't pass federally. Why? Hell if I know. God forbid we fix something that's not working, and is actively dangerous, it's too "hard." Not that DST is a sufficient motivator to move to AZ or be involved in any way with these giblet-heads.

Nor should you be, the FLDS cult has a long history of exploitation of young girls and ostracization of young boys and men (competition). There is also a significant amount of scamming (see: MLMs and "bleeding the beast"). The Mormon church was founded on scamming and the grift continues. It's a loudly whispered secret and if I weren't moving houses and had packed all my books, I'd pull out Under the Banner of Heaven and give it a reread.

Does it drive anyone else nuts the way she and Kody talk? I'm not talking about mill and dill and fill, but the way they pronounce their "L"s. Every time they pronounce something with an L, they stick the tip of their tongues way out of their mouths. There's an episode in LV where he's putting the lights up and he shouts to the heavens "WHERE IS ALL MY HELP?!" and on "help" you can see the tip of his tongue poking out of his mouth. Meri does it too and it drives me nuts. I've never seen anyone else do it, and none of the others seem to do it. I'm pretty sure I can talk to other people without seeing their tongues all the time. Why does this bother me so much?

Yep. People ask us all the time which one of us is "the guy." And it's like...neither? That's....kind of the point? We both wore dresses. If we were not getting married in a hot place in the summer, I'd have worn the tux, and I'm extremely femme. People asked us that too, if my wife would wear the tux because her hair was shorter, which...just....what? Wearing pants has a hair length connotation???