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  1. Yes to this ! Not only tiresome, but maddening as well ! Perhaps Rick will go off in search of the errant, ridiculous teens who have learned NOTHING in all their years of being a survivor of the ZA, and then someone will go after Rick, and someone else will go after them, and so on and so on until all of Alexandria is at the Hilltop. Perhaps they can all hide in Gregory's closet together when Negan and Company come a-knockin' again ? The writing this season has been... off to me. There seem to be only four types of dialogue being employed and it's becoming repetitious and annoying: 1) I'm making a lofty speech to rouse the troops to justice 2) I'm ignoring said lofty speech because I have feelings about my feelings and even though it's the ZA I still have to listen to my heart and do the obviously wrong thing 3) I'm scared, stupid, and defenseless and will continue to be scared, stupid, and defenseless because I haven't been paying any attention to current events for the last few years 4) Ow. Ow. Owwwww ! That hurts. I'm dying. I'm dying. I'm dead. I long for the days when I was, quite literally, on the edge of my chair, holding my breath and not even aware of it, while watching this show. They will never, ever top the "Don't Open/Dead Inside" raw, visceral impact of the first episode, but I'd like to think there's still life in the series somewhere.
  2. Far too many things in this episode that made me shout at my TV like a loonie. I hate feeling like a loonie. Does Hilltop distribute Nyquil to its residents and tuck each other in, leaving no one on watch ? Did no one notice/hear the (presumably locked) gate being pulled back, a car entering the compound, and four HUGE bonfires being assembled and set ablaze ? Coorl appeared on screen and I knew, somehow, immediately, that he'd be taking off, yet again, to do the worst, most stupid thing imaginable. For the love of all that is holy - stop going on rogue missions, and stop going after people who go on rogue missions ! What is this, the 8th or 9th time he's pulled this shit ?! C'mon, Coorl, grow up. Roller skating during the ZA ?! All that was missing was The Turtles "Happy Together" playing in the background. Truly the most insipid moment of the season, if not the entire series. I found myself WISHING the walkers would turn up as Coorl roll/clomped around like a doofus. On a good note, everyone who has owned the watch is now dead. Maybe it will go to Coorl after Enid bites the dust :)
  3. ...aaaaand now I have that in my head ! I just know I'm going to say that in front of a group of adults now :) But totally agree, especially about the race car contest - that was so bogus ! If the cheftestants (do we still say that ?) have to compete in silly, non-culinary ways to earn an advantage then how is it still a COOKING competition ? I have crazy knife skills and can competently made four of the five "mother sauces", but can't dunk a basketball and I'm lousy at Jenga. Guess that means I'm a bad cook ?
  4. I thought so, too, backformore ! All of the other "hacks" seemed ridiculous in comparison, especially the martini shaker as a double boiler (what ?!) and the Mason jar shaker, but my French press is going to be coming out of the cupboard-of-the-damned tonight when I make my garlic/tarragon chicken.
  5. If that's the case, Hecate7 (and I think that's a great observation/hypothesis, BTW !) then it explains why the plot unfolded the way it did in the episode and goes a long way toward some kind of reasoning behind Dunham's motivation for making the characters, especially Hannah, the way they are. Still leaves me absolutely reeling, though, as to why Dunham still continues to proffer her chirpy taking head on the Inside the Episode actually defending what Hannah does and why. Living her truth, finding her voice, being her best self, expressing her heart, choosing her choices, blah freaking blah - that happy clap-trap bullshit of misguided feminism and entitled hipster shenanigans makes my blood boil. Since Dunham isn't/hasn't yet explained that she finds what Hannah does as repulsive as we do then I have no choice to conclude that she's just FINE with it. She may actually think that she's created some kind of charming, emblematic TV heroine here, like Carrie Bradshaw or Rachel Green, but, in reality, she's made a character with no character. Someone needs to tell her that if you're going to create a TV persona with no discernible redeeming qualities, like Larry David, you have to at least make them funny or interesting, which Larry David was, and Dunham's Hannah is neither.
  6. This entire season, with the last episode in particular, has me nodding wholeheartedly in agreement with posters here who have indicated that we're all being set up for a spectacular implosion of Hannah's character, most probably in the two-episode season finale this weekend. The triumvirate of sexual acting out - going down on a random stranger at a spa, flashing the principal, and then blowing a guy she's only friends with - all add up, to me, to Hannah totally losing her shit. Even for her, and this is really saying something, this season has been a slow motion train wreck of epic proportions. The worst part is that Lena Dunham, in all her faux-empowerment glory, doesn't seem to recognize that Hannah's spectacular decline isn't a model of feminism and that her veritable celebration of mental illness isn't something to be lauded. Dunham loses me more and more each week with her Inside the Episode comments that become increasingly more tone deaf as the season drags on. Perhaps next week she'll have Hannah shit her pants in public and then walk around with it all day while explaining that she's just "expressing herself" ? I'm not kidding here - I can actually see that happening. Hanna isn't some adorable, twee millennial who wears quirky hats while "finding her voice" in the Big City. She's a profoundly damaged, insufferable twat who, in the "real" world, would have no job, no friends, and no home. The lack of consequences for her ri-goddamn-diculous behavior is so frustrating that I need to find a better word for "frustrating" ! I just want to yell at the TV screen "That's not how this works ! That's not how ANY of this works !!!"
  7. Oh my good Lord, I KNOW !!! I'm only surprised that Lena/Hannah didn't twist her face and rubber shoulders into yet another unfortunate, wrinked, all-too-self-conscious toddler pose with the inevitable upturned eyes and batted lashes and ask, while proffering five splayed fingers to Ray, "Is it THIS many monies ?!?!" Jesus in a sidecar ! How many random, inappropriate, dangerous, rude, obnoxious, infantile, selfish, bizarre, disingenuous bullshit behaviors is she going to display before she gets 302'd to Bellevue !? Side note: Not making light of mental illness here. Not at all. Just objecting to Hannah/Lena's absolute celebration of her version of it. Her message seems to be "I'm a horrible, weird, damaged person, but I REVEL in it ! I'm SUCCESSFUL in that horrible weirdness, and I'm here to stay !" Ugh. Her Keystone Kops run through the rest stop in pajamas was just too much to bear ! I swear, I really do - I could HEAR the theme to Benny Hill playing in my head as she Prancercised (Google it !) with her pajamas flapping over her cowboy boots (!?!?) in circles through the building. Who does that ? WHO DOES THAT ??? It should be the title of the show. GIRLS: Who Does That ?
  8. Hey guys - hugs and hope to all, but I'm out of here. I've lost my taste for the snark. It's been really, really fun. Y'all are good, good people. I wish you all the very best, I really do. I'll be observing now and again, but I think it's time to get my butt off the couch and start living my life instead of just commenting about it. You've been good friends - real friends, and I will miss you. Truly. Please take care.
  9. Post of the day ! Bonus points for "breatessesses" ! Liquid gold, Jerry ! Liquid gold !!!
  10. You have my every sympathy, CrazyCatLady ! There is nothing in the world like dental pain ! I know half a dozen women who swear they'd rather go through labor and delivery again rather then go through a root canal or anything else more serious than a filling again. I've never had a baby, but I have had root canals - EIGHT ! - and I learned my lesson the hard way. What I do now is arrange to pick up my prescription for the pain meds two hours BEFORE the appointment, take one, hang out for a while, then go to the appointment. That way the really, really bad pain never hits me. And, you don't have to stand in line at the pharmacy in a painful haze while drooling and then having to ask for your pills by pantomiming and pointing at your mouth because you can't talk ! Percotheths ! PERCOTHETHS !!! And if they didn't tell you, as they certainly should - don't use a straw !!! I did with my first wisdom tooth extraction - it pulled out the stitches and the packing and I ended up with an infection in my jawbone and something called "dry socket", which is every bit as bad and gross and painful as it sounds. Sorry for the advice barrage ! I'm not a dentist and I don't play one on TV, but I wanted to pass along whatever I could to be helpful if at all possible. I'll be thinking of you and hope to hear that you're doing better and no longer stuck eating "mushy meat" ! ;) On another note, I tried to get tickets for the David Bowie memorial concert at Carnegie Hall in March, but it was a no-go and I refuse to pay ten (or twenty !) times the face value to StubHub or TicketMaster. They are cultural vampires, and total bastards that ruin the opportunity for normal folk to just enjoy a concert or play like we used to before they started buying all the damn tickets en masse in 17 freaking seconds. Did I mention they are bastards ? I found solace in watching DB videos and found one that I'd all but forgotten - Blue Jean. Such visual artistry, even if the look is a bit dated, the makeup on Bowie's face is simply brilliant, and the deep, jazzy saxophone is like sunshine to me. It came out in September of 1984 - I had just started my senior year of high school, and I bought the album (on cassette !) to play on the school bus to and from school. On my Walkman. Thirty-plus years later it still translates...
  11. Wow ! That's a whopper of a Happy Birthday message ! Seems like Michelle has FINALLY learned her lesson about posting pathetic, generic, repetitive messages to her children like they were interchangeable cogs in a giant machine. She must have had an epiphany and had it laid on her heart and encouraged by the Lord to personalize each message to reflect just how precious every flower in her garden is ? What a spontaneous event ! A miracle ! Right ? That's what happened here, right ? I mean, it's not like they read the blogs about themselves. Or PTV ;)
  12. https://www.instagram.com/p/BASA9I0AJvh/ I look at all of Ben's hopeless, judgmental, fire and brimstone, sad, Oh-Woe-Is-Moe, teenage-posturing posting as the Fundie version of a Facebook post where someone says "Oh, my God ! I just can't TAKE people anymore !", someone asks "What's that matter ?", and the response is always - ALWAYS - "I don't wanna talk about it..." Someone needs to give Ben some Haagen Daz and a Midol.
  13. http://www.webcomicalliance.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/spork_n_beans.jpg Poor Little Jackson in 20 years...
  14. Bingo ! Even though the Bateses are far, far more palatable and sometimes downright pleasant to watch I have to remind myself that the psychopathology at work within the entire Gothard crowd is pretty much uniformly hurtful, misogynistic, and predatory. Even JB and his carnival barker, hyuk-hyuk "I'm a Goober for Jesus !" bullshit is a well-crafted act that has been fooling people for decades. But Gil Bates, in his down-home, likable, charming husband and father role, is a thousand times more insidious, as another poster (whom I can't remember - I'm sorry !) noted earlier somewhere on this board so brilliantly. He's the "guy next door" who is also a monster. That's the problem with monsters - they don't always look the part. We want them to have horns and a tail and red, glowing, laser-beam eyes, but more often than not they look just like you and me.
  15. Gah ! And who eats/feeds directly from a can ?!?! Old timey cartoon hobos, that's who ! Not blaming Jana on that account, though - that one has Michelle written all over it.
  16. One of the first "grownup" records I ever owned was Bowie's Hunky Dory, with the brilliant "Changes". It was actually an 8-Track, and I still have it. Rest in Peace, Thin White Duke. MarysWetBar - I was riveted by your story ! Please, please give us more ! I'm fascinated by the stories of "real" people meeting celebrities, so, please, cozy up on the couch with a mug of cocoa and keep writing !!!
  17. There should be, HFC ! Or, they could do a set design with director's chairs on stage with the names of all the iconic TV and movie stars of the past who have won Golden Globes, and YOU can make them ! Yeah, I like that idea. Somebody get my agent on the phone... ;) I watched the whole show and was pretty underwhelmed. I've always liked Ricky Gervais, but he seemed off his game tonight. But, whatever ! The dresses were pretty, Jim Carrey and Andy Samberg were hilarious, and Brad Pitt arrived looking like he hadn't aged a day since A River Runs Through It. I swear, there must be a painting of him in his attic that's looking pretty haggard right now...
  18. THAT, Tabbygirl, is going to be the name of my new band. Love it.
  19. The whole thing just made me nervous, because the best place for two young boys to have some wrestling adventures is, of course, standing on stools in front of a hot stove with two pots of boiling whatever on them ! Jeez ! And Michelle looked pretty glazed-over, didn't she ? Her reaction times were...poor, to say the least, and it looked like she was moving underwater. I've said it before - if I didn't know better, I'd think Michelle was the biggest pothead this side of Willie Nelson. And she actually said she wants her children to be her "disciples". DISCIPLES ?!? Oh, my God - who talks like that ??? Jesus talks like that. Take it down a notch, Xanax Stare.
  20. Jumping on the band, errr...poowagon here ! My gorgeous goofball, a Belgian Malinois rescued from Duggar country, likes to poo in a circle, then gets confused when he has to jump out of it ! I dunno - he's such a weirdo ! He's also pooped on a small evergreen, and I'm thoroughly convinced he was decorating it for Christmas... I use biodegradable poo bags, and carry them with me everywhere. They've fallen out of my purse and pockets in every conceivable public and social situation including a restaurant date and at a viewing at a funeral home. I just hate being caught off guard ! While I understand that everyone is human and can be forgetful I can't STAND when people don't clean up after their dogs ! I'm usually very vigilant in looking where I walk, but stepping in it is inevitable. I just throw the shoes away and I'm not kidding here ! I'm not a vet or educated in contagious canine diseases so I may be going overboard, but I wouldn't bring shoes into my house with God-knows-what on them and then proceed to scrub it off. So much yuck - there isn't a Hazmat suit thick enough to erase the heebie-jeebies for me. Oh - please add me to the list of people having trouble with glitches here and formatting problems while posting. Though it seems to have resolved for me in the last hour I still wanted to post that so that no one thinks that it's just them. Maybe some of the elves at PTV had the weekend off ?! Very excited about the Golden Globes tonight ! I watch very little mainstream TV, and rarely go to the movies anymore, but I'm all about awards season for some reason. Gonna make popcorn - the real kind on the stove - and watch Ricky Gervais skewer people mercilessly. Anyone else watching ?
  21. The thing is, with Jill and Derick - what is it, exactly, that makes them so sure, so superior, so all-knowing, that *their* God, their religion (CULT !), is "better" than anyone else's ? That their way is the ONLY way ? NOT damned if you do, but surely damned if you don't, so to speak... Anyone - and I mean ANYONE - can claim that they are a member of the one and only "true" faith and then proceed to condemn everyone else to eternal Hellfire and dalmations (tee-hee), but who would really know ? Without verified, documented evidence (pics or it didn't happen, y'all !) of one God or another going all badass on the evil and saving the righteous and just, how would anyone know they backed the right horse ??? I think that their brand of missioncation/conversion attempts is nothing more than a pseudo-religious game version of "My dad can beat up YOUR dad !", and it's detrimental - even harmful - to the people they're purportedly "ministering" to. They want to "save souls" in a dangerous, violent, pitiably impoverished country with drugs problems, rampant unemployment, horrifying infant mortality, bad water, intermittent, undependable electrical power, street thugs, and a government that is rife with corruption. How about saving a *life* before you save a soul ? They could have done SO much more if they'd just stayed in Arkansas and sent the money to a legitimate charity. JillyMuffyn could have stayed put to make bad dinners for Derick when he came home from his job at Walmart while changing Izzy into a dozen different outfits for her Instagram account while people like the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders addressed the REAL problems in Guatemala. Meh.
  22. MunichNark - I LOVE the conversation your questions sparked ! This gets to the heart and soul of why I find the Duggars so abhorrent... In this country there is a great disparity of wages and food availability. People who struggle to make ends meet often live in what we call "food deserts", where the only option for food is to shop at a "mini-mart", where the prices are outrageously high, the selection is limited to junk food, processed crap, and candy, chips, etc. The alternative is to spend an hour - or two - on a bus to go to a "real" grocery store where they have fresh fruits and vegetables and more to offer than overly-salted, fat-laden, highly processed gas station fare. Its an untenable situation that the government here has tried to address repeatedly, but to no avail. Our political/agricultural/manufacturing lobbies are simply too strong to break the hold. Thus it's easier, and far, far cheaper, to buy a mass-marketed loaf of processed, starchy, sugary bread than it is to purchase a loaf of healthier grain or whole wheat. We're talking 75 cents versus four bucks or more. If you're poor, you make that choice because it's the only one you have. Sorry for rambling, but THAT'S why I get so pissed off at the Duggars. They have everything - and I mean EVERYTHING - at their disposal to live and eat in a virtual Valhalla of healthy food ! They have the means, certainly - that TLC money wasn't small change ! They are millionaires, perhaps many times over, so cost shouldn't be an issue. If they want to penny-pinch by throwing shitty weddings and decorate their house like a Sears from 1985 exploded over their land then that's just fine with me, but to put the whole "buy used and save the difference" bullshit into place with the food they buy is just ridiculous. They are gambling with the health and nutrition of their children in order to save a buck. They have the transportation and labor to buy what they SHOULD be buying ! There are, what ? TEN people in that house with a driver's license ? And a fleet of vehicles capable of large-haul grocery buys ? They are within a reasonable driving distance to many stores where they *could* buy healthy fare, but they choose instead to hunker down with their bomb shelter provisions on a daily basis. Once in a while they'd trot out some mini carrots or a spartan, limp-looking salad, but, for the most part, they reject "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" in favor of "Snap into a Slim-Jim !!!" They also have the means and labor to create what could be a healthy, sustaining garden on the GIANT parcel of land they own. They did, of course, do an FU Internets episode a few years back where they *pretended* to care about creating a garden, but that was absolutely a one-off, and it disappeared by the very next week. So what is it that stops them from planting a few rows of corn, tomatoes, beans, potatoes, etc ?! When I was a kid we planted just about anything we could successfully grow in a NE climate. More often than not we had so much we were actually GIVING it away by the end of the season - even with canning what we could for the fall and winter - and I was one of just TWO kids at home ! If we could make a good run of it with a very tiny backyard in a relatively urban setting with just two "workers", why in the Hell don't the Duggars exploit all the positives they have - means, labor, time, opportunity - to make a kick-ass garden that would actually *save* them money, and be healthy and nutritious to boot ? I just don't know - this issue just infuriates me ! Like Kokpetl said, maybe it's just too haaaard, y'all, to actually peel potatoes. Can't cut into the time Jana spends being the SisterMomSlave to umpty-whatever number of siblings, of course, while Me-me-meChelle gets her Starbucks and treadmill on in her black tights and denim skirt... Priorities, people. Priorities. ETA: Yes, that is a child feeding a toddler cold peas directly from the can. Thank you for the picture, Kokapetl - it's worth a thousand words.
  23. <<<< As horrible as they are, I do believe the Duggars are sincere in their courtship obsession. I don't think they'd do a fake one for the purposes of cameras. And I have to agree that if Josiah really was pressuring Marjorie for phone sex, then that would have been the end of the family friendship. That one just doesn't ring true to me. I can definitely picture any of them starting up an anonymous online friendship with someone and being tempted for phone sex, but initiating it with a close family friend with the same values -- a lot less likely. >>>> (Sorry ! My quote, bold, italic, etc, buttons just disappeared !) I wholly agree, Becca3891 ! My take on the Josiah and Marjorie split was that her parents took one long, hard look at the maelstrom that is the Duggar Machine in the wake of the revelations about Josh and put an end to it right then and there. They may still be preserving the tenuous "friendship" because they are still in the Gothard/ATI/ILBP bubble, and they know what side their bread is buttered on, but wiser heads prevailed and they yanked their daughter out of being chained to a family that's just circling the drain.
  24. MunichNark - "White cake" is a generic, cover-all term for cake mixes that are vanilla-based, and are usually blindingly white because they are so heavily bleached and over processed. Not that I don't love it, but it has more chemicals in it than a meth lab ! It's disgustingly delicious, and therefore a Favored Duggar Food, as they like to preserve as many degrees of separation from real, natural food as possible. I don't know if it's just an American thing - I've never seen it in Canada, Mexico, or Europe - but it's very much a Duggar thing. If you ask the kids what kind of juice they want, they don't say "orange" or "apple" - they say "red" or "blue". On behalf of people who actually eat fruits and vegetables, try to cook creatively and healthily, and don't think dry ramen is an appropriate meal for toddlers, we apologize. Funny, but the Duggars don't need to leave the country to be The Ugly Americans.
  25. I can only imagine the total silence, zero-gravity, suffocatingly dense atmosphere at the DuggarDome if they tried to play REAL Pictionary. I'm envisioning blank, panicked stares all around, uncomfortable squirming, and tense, forced smiles as they all start to realize that they don't know anything. ANYTHING. I wonder, if you asked them, or at least the older teenagers and adults, what the Titanic was, how many could clearly identify it ? I'll accept either the actual historical event OR the movie here ! Do you think they know what Mount Rushmore is ? The Grand Canyon ? The Pentagon ? Could they articulate any version of things from the moon landing, the Civil War, the Great Depression ? I could go on for PAGES... Most likely they'd just make their own version of the game - all the clues would be babies, broomball, babies, Stinkbus, babies, denim skirt, babies, hairspray, babies, Starbucks, babies, and babies. Seriously, through the Law of Diminishing Returns, the J-Crew are less educated and culturally aware than JB and Michelle, with their fancy high schoolin' ways, and Jill, perhaps because she was the Favored Daughter, seems to be the dimmest of the dim. She doesn't seem like she's... connecting with her surroundings or her own thoughts when she talks. Her eyes are constantly searching, like the answer she's looking for is written on the walls of the room she's sitting in. Hmmm. Maybe it's why all the families in the Duggar clan have all those sappy, insipid quotes and platitudes plastered all over their houses... So they have something to say.
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