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It wasn't me, I just wanted to say I approve of the use of "wanker" as an appropriate description for Kody. I wish my American ass could pull off such an insult, but alas.

I hate group workouts! I attended an Orange Theory class once and was so annoyed. I don't want to be told when it's time to get off this machine and go to that one. I'm like you, a nice solo hike, run, or workout is the best for my psyche. The only group classes I can tolerate are the ones where you're learning a skill--martial arts, dancing, surfing, etc. Just working out for health and fitness? Leave me alone, please. But a lot of people really like them! They get motivated by the pressure of having other people around. So...whatever gets them up and moving is fine by me. Except Orange Theory. Those people harassed me for 18 months to join another class. Calling from different numbers when they were blocked. They finally gave up but it was a loooot of calls.

Challengers aren't the Challengers they used to be. Modern ones are basically like loud sedans. And this being a rennal, it's unlikely it has any useful HP to speak of. It's cute that it's purple, though.

My wife turned to me while they were going through the wedding planning (in which Isabel did 100% of the work) and said, "the fact that this guy is dumping all this work on the woman just goes to show that weaponized incompetence is gender conditioning, not genetic." She ain't wrong. I love absinthe. I read somewhere that the "checkered past" is largely a myth; it was and is typically stronger than most spirits back then and even now so people thought they were hallucinating. It's just really really strong booze. Yeah, it makes you feel euphoric, but you don't hallucinate. It's definitely a different kind of drunk, but oddly a better-feeling drunk (you get a slight body high instead of just being drunk) with a slightly less damaging hangover. That's just been my experience, of course, but I am an habitual absinthe drinker. Ironically, it's not very popular in France! I asked several places and the closest I got was a chartreuse, which was good, but no absinthe. I'm pretty sure bars don't carry it because it's not popular. Many people can't stomach the taste, it's extremely strong, and you have to have a whole delicate apparatus to serve it properly, and it's a whole process to prepare that most bartenders don't have the time for. I've been to plenty of bars that have it, but they only use it in other cocktails like sazeracs. I have the fountain and spoons to prepare it, but I had to special order those from Germany. Edit: sorry, didn’t mean to go so crazy, just love abba-sinthe.

I agree. I understand getting upset--my own dad didn't RSVP to, give congratulations for, or even acknowledge my own wedding, although in theory he doesn't object and has accepted my wife with open arms, and I was bummed about it, but it was my wedding day! I'm gonna wallow about it when my favorite people on the planet are out there waiting for me to celebrate joining the rest of my life with the #1 person in it? No way. Getting married means being enough of an adult to stand next to, defend and honor, the person you plan on loving forever. Generally, this means family of origin takes a back seat (there are exceptions of course). Have a good cry in the shower, slap a cucumber slice on each eye for ten minutes, then get your ass up, get dressed and marry the love of your life for crying out loud!

I took my wife to a local park yesterday and we swung on the swings. There were kids around, but they were too little for these swings so it's not like we were taking them away from them. We had a really nice time and it was pretty soothing to just swing for a few minutes and relax. People who gatekeep fun things are just sad, un-fun people to me. If it's not hurting anyone, let people enjoy things!

I have very few claims to fame in life. I don't have any really famous relatives, the circumstances of my birth and life have been moderate at most. None of my ancestors were the first X person to do Y. But I can say with all the pride deserving of such a factoid that I was born on this very air force base where Woodstock II took place some 21 years later. Hooray me.

I figured she was bluffing about the balls, Hot Cop knew it, and she knew he knew it. Balls are weird looking, that's just a fact. Hot Cop probably knows it and doesn't want to hear any more about his partner's balls. Also, if she was supposed to have been a virgin before him, how many sets of balls could she have seen beforehand for comparison purposes?

I'm of the firm belief that fun things are not just for children. Adulthood last sooo long, we should just not enjoy things anymore? No way. And the more you have, the more there is to celebrate! The wife and I go all out for birthdays. It's not always crazy every year, but it's always special. Plus, her birthday falls on/near memorial day weekend, so she always got hosed with friend parties/trips even as a kid. It's important to her (and me), so we go all out.

That baby was doomed from the get-go, honestly. Even if it had survived birth, even if Shauna had been given extra calories during her pregnancy, as Nat pointed out, she's been starving. How was she going to feed it? TW: loss of pregnancy Here's what I don't get, and why I think Shauna cracked well before rescue: she lost her best friend/lover's girlfriend and Jeff's kid. She's free of him. There's nothing tying them together. Even when they were screwing she didn't love him, and barely seemed to like him. So she then goes on to marry him and have his kid? Her guilt must have been chewing her up for years--either that or a misplaced desire to maintain a connection to the past you lost. No wonder she's such a mess now. And oh, my god, please, by all means, idiot family, discuss your crimes in loud arguments parked outside of the police station with the windows down. The only people more bumbling than this family are the police that they keep fooling. And...is Callie underage? She seems like she's in her early 20s to me. She openly drinks at a bar, flirts with a cop who could easily find out her real age and refuse to engage with an underaged minor who's not able to drink. I get that stachecop is an idiot without scruples, but if he knew she was underage it was even stupider of him to go out with her, even if he did refuse to engage physically. I get that fake IDs are a thing, but it doesn't ring true to me. And if she is underage, why in the world would the cops have separated them? Shauna even calls them out for it, but then allows herself to be led away by Stachecop. Also, did anyone else think that baby was HUGE, especially considering it was born to a starving teenage mother? That thing took up the entirety of Shauna's torso. That was a dead giveaway to me. No newborn is that big, not least one who's been shriveling up inside a starving mom for so long. I don't know the first thing about babies, but I'm pretty sure they're not toddler-sized right after birth. I'm glad they didn't have everyone eat it, though. There's a line you don't cross and the writers knew what the consequences would be if they'd written that in.

I would like to humbly add a donation of Swiffers and vintage Playboys to the museum. Along with Meemaw's underboob pack of cigs.

Wow, she's 36 in that picture. It's no surprise that abusing her body has made her look so old, but it's so hard to see how she looks worse than my grandmother did in her 80s. BRB, gonna go drink some water and eat some veggies and apply moisturizer.

Oh thank god. I thought I was the only one. Write a lyric, for crying out loud!

Is that the last episode? There was a recap at the end. These people are just not interesting. Kim cracks me up. She gives up handsome Vinson to go on a boring roller skate date with an ugly guy to eat M&Ms off a filthy table and never see again. I wouldn't be surprised if Vinson was an actor; they have zero chemistry, he seems like he doesn't give a hoot about her, and his friendship with Dustin is more sincere than any sort of interaction he has with Kim. She's like sentient mayonnaise. Speaking of sentient mayonnaise, the small-faced guy with the cheater wife (forget their names) are so terrible together. They're arguing while half-heartedly kicking a soccer ball around the beach. And his milquetoast "I'd rather you didn't" when she asked if she could bring guys home? Come on man, grow a spine! Though it's pretty clear she thinks she's hot shit and wants to fuck around, while he wants her to be as mayonnaise as he is and make a bunch of babies. At least Kenya's commitment ceremony was genuine and sincere. They seem to actually care about each other. Good for them. And their guests all looked so beautiful in their bright white clothes. I think the reason this show doesn't work (as well as the Seeking Sister Wives show) is that none of these people have any sort of personality. Their whole beings are wrapped up in being poly (and let's be honest, they're polyamorous, not polyandrous), and if you've ever met a poly person, trust me, you'll know it. It's like meeting a Burner. They won't shut up about it. It's all they can talk about. They have nothing else to them. They drag you into conversations about their polycule when you ask about the weather. The Sister Wives show only worked because it was steeped in religious cultism, so they really had to work to get out of it. And even that is boring, and has elements of the same--shoehorning their poly relationships into conversations with salespeople and vendors who are glancing off to the side for an escape hatch. I know a lot of what we saw was TLC-driven, because it's the point of the show, but trust me, being in a conversation with a poly person, you can feel the moment they bring up their other partners and out themselves. There's a big dramatic pause while they wait for you to react in shock, and disappointment when you don't react because let's face it, poly stuff is nothing new, no matter what kind of shock value TLC tries to add to it. I know someone who "came out" as poly on National Coming Out Day. For three years in a row. My guy, you were out after the first time. I don't really want to debate whether polyamory is a sexual orientation, but as a queer person, I have thoughts about this.

I find it interesting that practically the entire team was excited about the celebrity sex video leak until it was revealed that someone they care about was impacted. Women only exist for my consumption until it's a woman I care about, then I'm outraged. Very much shades of "what if it was your daughter/sister/mom" without consideration that a woman deserves respect and autonomy regardless of her relationship to a man. I appreciate that they're showing growth and publicly decrying revenge porn, but I'm really angry that it takes this (seeing someone you love and respect being objectified) to stop doing it yourself. I'm glad Keeley decided not to make a public apology or statement. I really appreciate Keeley asking Rebecca to change the world so that women are not constantly sexualized and then vilified for being sexual. And I'm going to out myself as having the very unpopular opinion that I hate Hey Jude. It's the British equivalent of Sweet Caroline. I thought the redheaded guy's conversation with the kid was cute but partially because it talked over most of the song. I was roundly shushed when I brought that up to my wife, but none of you know me here, so I can express my unpopular opinion without risk of divorce. :) I'll go stand in my corner now.

This is so true. I have spent the entirety of my life moving every few years. The most time I've spent in one place was three years, and even when I stay in the same city I usually move houses every couple years. It's usually circumstance-driven, or grass-is-greener syndrome, but I look forward to moving every so often. I bought a house a couple years ago and my first thoughts were how long we'd have to stay before we get a new house. I love where I live, but the wanderlust is part of my personality. I find a great place in a city I love, then visit another city and wonder what it'd be like to live there. Setting down roots isn't for everyone, and as long as Janelle is happy, I like seeing all the other places she moves to. I can't handle the desert (even high desert), so it's cool to live vicariously seeing her move around Utah and NM.

I don't mind seeing where these women go as they move on with their lives post-Kody. But I can't imagine why Mykelti (those names, my god) and Tony would think they would warrant a show for themselves. Do they do anything besides lie around and get pregnant? Yawn. There's nothing interesting about doing the same thing nearly all married couples do. What's next, a show about folding laundry or cleaning the cat litter?

Goes to two (2) places, is world traveler. Yep, checks out.

This was the first audiobook I ever listened to, and the actors were so convincing I went and looked up the band after finishing it because I thought they were real. I haven't revisited the book since and I wonder if I thought it was really really good because I had no other audiobooks to compare it to, and the actors did such a great job. Then I listened to The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and was blown away. I was convinced TJR was an incredible writer, a new favorite, and I would want to read everything she wrote. So I followed that with One True Loves and Malibu Rising. Oh. Oh, god, no. Just absolute drivel. Like, yeah, it's cute that some of the characters intersect throughout the novels, but other than those little easter eggs popping up occasionally, there's really nothing special about her writing. It is awkward and clunky. It's over the top with its descriptions of how beautiful and successful yet flawed everyone is (makes you want to scream "show not tell!"). I hesitate to revisit Daisy Jones or Evelyn Hugo because I enjoyed them so much, and after thinking critically about her writing, I'm afraid I won't enjoy them a second time. I keep seeing ads for One True Loves so I assume they're making that into a series as well. I don't get it. It's an interesting premise, but poor execution, and I can't imagine a series about it being interesting at all.

The Browns have never been good at road trips, though. She's just lucky she's unloaded herself of Kody, or else they'd be suffering from at least one flat tire along the way.

I moved to California 15 years ago and made a very determined effort to not adopt the vocal fry or uptalk that is so common here. It was a successful effort. Unrelated, a few years ago I started taking singing lessons and am ramping up to start performing. I've had to take lessons to increase my vocal fry to sing some of my favorite rock songs.🤦‍♀️ I cringe so hard, but tell myself that it's okay if I only do it when I'm singing. There's a stylist I follow on Instagram (mostly because of her adorable cat stories) who sells modest wear. She's beautiful and so are her clothes. Some of the clothing in modest fashion is so beautiful and creative! You don't need to show your hair or body to participate in fashion, and I love it.

Wow, she looks like a totally different person! And she's always been beautiful, but you can see it even more now. Good for her!

Tammy: I got approved for surgery, bitches! Amy: Wow, yay, bitch! Chris: Great job, bitch! Amanda: woohoo, you did it, bitch! Chris's wife: oh wow, that's wonderful, I'm so happy for you.

Plenty of us charge hourly rates. Contingency fees usually come in when there is a deep-pockets defendant or a class action where individuals aren't solvent enough to pay hefty lawyer fees. The main issue I see with this "NDA" (which I'm sure was pulled off the internet, has tons of inapplicable clauses and misapplied Latin phrases) is that she'd have to show damages. What damages could she show? What is the harm to her business (LOL), safety, intellectual or physical property? What damages could she possibly (and realistically--they have to be actual, not theoretical, damages) incur from someone speaking truthfully about the "retreat"? NDA violations rarely have significant consequences unless we're talking about a high-dollar tech company going after someone who disclosed a trade secret, or a celebrity whose livelihood or safety are threatened by the disclosure. Behind all those consequences are a common thing: the money and legal footing to actually follow through. Meri has neither.

I went to Arizona for the first time this weekend for an event, and was thinking of the Browns, oddly. I live in California and was surprised at how easy it was to get from the Phoenix airport to other cities (we were staying in Eloy and it was about an hour drive; Flagstaff would've been maybe 2 hours in the opposite direction). For me, a 2 hour drive is typical to get from the coast to the east bay in traffic! Anyway, visiting the desert in January was a very weird experience. Freezing in the morning, sunny and hot in the afternoon. Our temperature shifts are much milder in comparison, and vary more from city to city than throughout the day. Some of the photos of Flagstaff I see are very pretty, and I'll admit that a desert sunrise was breathtaking; I know Flagstaff is not exactly like Eloy, but I imagine it's somewhat similar. It still seems very desolate to me, and I'll take my trees and hills and streams over the flat emptiness any day, but I can see why it suits some people. Growing up on the east coast with trees and humidity, the desert always seems so incompatible with life, so it was cool to see some of the genuine ecosystems out there. Also, I jumped out of a hot air balloon and landed in the desert, miles from anything, and walked past a cattle graveyard on the hike back to be picked up. Surreal.