[S11:E02: The Ultimate Betrayal]

Is the title misspelled or am I missing a pun of some kind?

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Thanks! Bear in mind, I work at home and I have 2 long-haired cats -- hence my lint/fur issue!

[S11:E02: The Ultimate Betrayal]

1 hour ago, farmgal4 said:

I’ve been keeping up with Summer on IG since the day she was born.  From what I’ve seen, Brock does at least 80% of the childcare.  I’m not watching VPR this season, so I don’t know what Scheana said regarding Summer but IMO Scheana has dropped the ball when it comes to being a mother, especially since she was so desperate to have a child.  Personally I think Scheana is too self-centered to be a good mother.  JMHO.

I'm not arguing because what do I know, but I am wondering how a childcare percentage can be estimated based on IG posts. Also, is it possible that Brock is simply the parent who is more available? Would he be considered to be "dropping the ball" if she were the 80%?

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Sheana went with OCD and fear of a nanny for a story this season.  Isn’t she out and about too much for this to be true?

No. People do it every day. I don't have a kid, but I have to (and want to) do things that OCD tries to convince me not to do all the time. 

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I am sure this has come up before, but leggings! Target used to have the best ones and they were discontinued a while back. They were slightly shiny -- not my favorite thing, but the shine wasn't super-egregious and it kept them from getting all linty like matte-finish ones do. I still have them, but the tag with the fabric content has long since faded, so I can't use that info to find a duplicate! 

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Oh, thank you! I don't eat much chocolate (and I get super-annoyed at the women in commercials who take the ridiculously tiny bites) and I don't think I have ever had one of these. I do recall that I kind of liked the Xmas season commercial though; it reminded me of midcentury Xmas cards for whatever random reason my brain conjured up.

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4 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

I'm bewildered. What is the real song you're mentioning? I can't think of any that these lyrics, satiric or not, would fit. 

It's some kind of gold-foil-wrapped chocolate in a ball shape -- I forget its name!

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Hahahhaaa, I actually laughed when I posted! Somehow it's funnier typed out than it is in my head. 

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Oyyyyyyy, I am gonna start screaming if I have to see -- or actually, hear -- some chocolate commercial with a song that sounds like it says, "stars fuckin' up the sky, ripe old malaria." I know it doesn't say that, but it's one of those songs that is supposed to sound dreamy and melodic (or something) but just does not (to me, anyway; I feel the same way about that "Arms of an Angel" cacophonous mess).

And as for some yogurt one that posits that it's "cool" that one becomes a "human vending machine" after having children -- I am childless so don't go by me, but does not sound cool to me at all. 

[S13.E13: Tapas and Tattletales]

On 1/28/2024 at 9:37 AM, Starlight925 said:

What an offensive, disgraceful statement, that if one isn't married, they must be lonely and insecure.  I can't wait to read when their marriage implodes, as it inevitably will, given all that we read about him.

Seriously. I mean, she bragged that all she could manage to get is a dude who numerically ranks her -- and not even with the highest score. 

Early 50s and not married. Have had the same BF for 15 years. We live together and I fail to see how being married would make a difference in my day-to-day life, AnnMarie! So shut it.

[Why Grammar Matters: A Place To Discuss Matters Of Grammar]

2 hours ago, EtheltoTillie said:

So did they really misspell the word Brussels? 

At an old job, our kitchen signs frequently said ""DONOT" -- not "don't," not "do not," but "DONOT."

We also had this gem (that I may have posted here a long time ago) on the refrigerator, which, on top of punctuation and font abuse, makes almost no sense at all.

[S13.E13: Tapas and Tattletales]

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I do not want to have a handbag that I have to treat with kid gloves and be paranoid about it because it is "so expensive."

 

Same! I mostly carry an army green messenger bag and I'm fabulous!

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I feel kind of bad for any office pescatarians who hate the smell of microwave popcorn.

[S13.E13: Tapas and Tattletales]

I like Sutton. I think I would be friends with her over any of the others.

[S13.E13: Tapas and Tattletales]

18 hours ago, goofygirl said:

Here's another little nugget.  When you receive cremains from the funeral home, they'll ask you: Do you want our fancy marble cremain holder? Or a less fancy plastic box or just the cardboard box they come in back from the crematorium?

I have personally never had to deal with any human cremains, but all of my pets' have been in really tightly packed plastic -- almost like a little brick. 

 

 

[S13.E13: Tapas and Tattletales]

6 minutes ago, Cosmocrush said:

If a nurse, any nurse said, “Holy Crap!” When looking at anything on my body I would be very very concerned… about that nurse.

It happened to me -- but only at my allergist, not during anything super-scary. I was getting that test with all the stupid potential-allergen-containing stickers you have to leave on for 2 days. She turned around to get more of them and, when she turned back, she gasped at how fast my skin said "nope." (Turns out, I was also allergic to the adhesive of the stickers, so that was some extra fun for me!)

[S13.E13: Tapas and Tattletales]

3 hours ago, MaggieG said:

She also kept going on an on about how the ashes were in a ziploc bag.

I assume that Sutton has only some of the ashes, hence a bag, but does Kyle think that ashes are sent to people just loose in a box or an urn? They're not.

[S13.E13: Tapas and Tattletales]

19 hours ago, Keywestclubkid said:

Erika that didn’t prove ANYTHING… let the fucking earrings go .. it’s just gross at this point 

Seriously, I was thinking, OK, you got the earrings, great, whatever...but keep it to yourself! Even if she has legal rights to them (and I don't know or care if she does), that information is not what will prove anything to the people who took issue with the earrings in the first place. Have the earrings, whatever, but crowing about them looks bad.

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I usually just leave mine in whatever shoes I last wore with them. If I am in organization mode, they get a slot in the shoe shelf. However...

That shoe shelf has available slots only because I recently did a purge -- working at home and last year's busted foot/dr's advice made many pairs obsolete in my life. I am wondering if one of the inserts found its way into a Goodwill-bound bag. Like I said, they're $50; I'll grab another set (and I am sure that the minute I do that, I'll find the missing one).

[S04.E19: Reunion Part 3]

9 hours ago, princelina said:

IT = I believe Bravo knew about Monica and the reality von tease stuff - down to the hairdresser who was part of it.  They saved it up to manufacture the big reveal in the finale, of Heather finding out, telling the others and accusing Monica at the last dinner in Bermuda. The other explanation is that Heather had an out of nowhere revelation, called the hairdresser whose guilty conscience got the better of her at that exact moment, and lucky for Bravo it all happened just in time to give them a juicy season finale! 😄

Makes sense, but I was talking only about the black eye and its ongoing non-explanation.

[S04.E19: Reunion Part 3]

1 hour ago, princelina said:

Because they were in on it!

3 hours ago, SemiCharmedLife said:

But what is the "it"? I hate it.

[S04.E19: Reunion Part 3]

This fucking black-eye bullshit must either be a big something or a big nothing. I find it super-weird that we still don't know why it happened and in what context, and the fact that none of the viewer questions on WWHLwere about this makes me think Bravo weeded them out for some particular reason. 

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On 1/13/2024 at 8:19 AM, Blergh said:

First World Peeve Alert: I hate when I lose clothing but especially when I lose something that's cool and a pragmatic item!  I'm so mad at myself for having lost my fave scarf that not only wrapped around the neck several times but was warm and thick so I could keep the whole neck and upper chest area toasty warm even in the most freezing temps!  All I know is that I brought it to work, then sometime between the time I changed from street clothes to work clothes then back, it was gone. I'm not even sure about that because the first time I noticed it was missing was when I was about to walk out the building and I didn't feel that usual toasty embrace- and all my efforts to retrace my steps back to my locker and change are to spot it were for naught! Yep, and right when my neck of the woods is having a long spell of subfreezing temps!ARRGHH!!

 Yeah, I'm going to try to buy a replacement ASAP [and hope that the stores aren't sold out] but it makes me so mad at myself! PHOOOEY!!!!!

Revisiting this...

You guys, I lost a SHOE INSERT! A single shoe insert; I have the other one. Luckily, I don't mean the expensive Rx ones that were custom fit to me; these were my "extra set" that I use when the custom ones don't fit well into a certain shoe ($50-ish in stores). But what the holy hell could have happened here? How? I looked in all my shoes!

 

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I have a vitamin subscription that is supposed to be monthly, but their timeline has always felt screwy. I just yesterday finished one bottle and I have another in the cabinet that I will open tonight. Yet, I got an email today that my next one is on the way (I usually get the "we're getting your order ready" email only about 2 weeks into my current bottle). I don't often forget to take them, and I have talked to CS, thinking it needed to be adjusted, but they say it's normal. I guess this is not a big deal, but for whatever reason, it gets on my nerves. 

[S13.E12: Bitter Pill to Swallow]

What was that face thing/treatment being used on Garcelle? Do I want it?!

Also, a not-full refrigerator can just as easily suggest that someone does eat.

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Ugh, kind of commercial related, I guess, but targeted ads for online games and casinos! WTF? I have never, ever once in my life searched or shopped or paid attention to anything that would lead anyone to believe I was a potential consumer for these things -- not Candy Crush, not way back in the days of Farmville, and I maybe did Wordle 3 times when it was new. But they are relentless. And also aesthetically displeasing. So ugly.