TattleTeeny

Well, I should have been clearer: do advertisers find that an older demographic enjoys watching true-crime documentary shows?

"Matlock will solve it!" "Grandpa, Matlock isn't real!"

Oy, catheter commercials. The latest I've seen has an old cowboy on it who tells of all the rugged pain he's been through in his cowboy career. He wants no more of it, especially when he has to "catheter" (apparently it is a verb). Also, I notice there are many catheter commercials--as well as ones about bathtubs with doors and "I've fallen and can't get up" buttons--on the crime channels! Both ID and CI. Do old people love crime?

Ugh, same here. And I do want to know the details of the causes I support. However, I am of the mind that showing positive results in these commercials might just yield more donations. Otherwise, I wonder if people adopt a philosophy of, "Well, clearly my money is not making a dent here--it's hopeless!" Show me the successful rehoming of formerly abused animals and tell me how my donations made it happen.

No, just Uncle Wayne (maybe I will next time I see him though!); he's just big (and still likes to pick up and bear-hug his nieces, all of whom he refuses to believe are no longer nine years old) and, yes, he's the only Wayne. All I know is that no one in that commercial looked particularly large!

Well, thank you for saying so -- but, you know, there will always be rude dopes somewhere…or people who legitimately don't realize it's not really OK…or people who choose words really badly. And, of course, old guys who are probably just trying to be charming or sweet or something! All in all, people should probably shut up about the bodies of most other people, but I won't lie--someone gives a compliment (even if it's a little too…familiar), I just take it as such and go about my business (and thanks, lady at convenience store who loudly exclaimed, "Whoo, if I had your legs I'd wear a short skirt too!" Haha, I felt simultaneously flattered and "skirt-shamed" a little!). Oh, and I will never get the people who just trot out the anorexia stuff! Come on now; even if that were the case, would one really just answer and/or confide in a nosy stranger about it? People are weird, man. I wonder if Brandi's ever gotten that kind of thing? I know nothing about her business in that regard, but to me she just looks naturally long and lanky--and perhaps even hated that about herself before she grew up (or, "grew up," in her case) and made it pay off.

Unrelated update: I told him to go in the bedroom if he was so into snoring so much, and he haughtily walked away all pissy! Go to bed if you're sleeping? That's just crazy talk, I guess! Oy, that guy...

YES! And, while I do remember these things being said and while there have been times that the remarks really began to pile up and get to me, I'm one of the lucky ones who, for the most part, doesn't care too much and will just say (to myself, usually) "...eh, fuck it." But the fact that I do clearly remember things like this makes me wonder how someone more sensitive must feel when the remarks get darker than those old "innocent" standbys, "Do you, like, ever eat?" and "You aren't 95 pounds soaking wet!" (I certainly do, and yes, I am too, and then some!) I mean, my BF is a white man. If someone ran up to him and accused him--the individual--of being a raging racist and rapist and whatever else, I'd be very upset at that person on his behalf! (This is a terrible example, if only because the picture I've created in my head of this scenario is actually making me laugh as opposed to feeling horrified or angry…especially since my BF, at the moment, is passed out on the couch completely oblivious and snoring. It's so annoying that I might yell that at him.)

I'm not about to call you an idiot or any other name because you seem like a nice enough person. However, I am not cool with assuming that I know how much or how little "sting" someone who isn't me feels when on the receiving end of rudeness...even if that individual is part of a group that enjoys more privilege than I do. In fact, isn't applying a blanket assumption to an entire group the very meaning of bigotry? Anyway, I don't think you're a bigot; I just think that a 110-pound chick can feel just as shitty as a 250-pound one when someone offers an unsolicited "Are you anorexic?"…or the ever-classy throat-poking finger motion. That said, Lisa's daughters were being pretty assy.

Eh...I kind of thought the "which Lisa is better?" thing sounded legit enough, and like one of the more typical-for-her-age things that Portia has said lately. I'm not; she says this shit outside of the interviews too, at different events. I don't disagree with the first sentence or anything but the rest is coming off as very hypocritical. Weight discrimination does not apply only to the heavier among us. Why on earth should the "inherently thin" have to experience anything other than what they experience? At the risk of having the dreaded "thin privilege" label attached to me, I can tell you from experience that the skinny bodies get their share of horrifying remarks too (I can't even count the number of times the cliched "eat a sandwich" appeared on TWOP) and often to our faces. I don't care who weighs what, but if making remarks about one body type is wrong, then the same goes for others. Also, I don't find it weird for someone to throw a party after moving, whether it's a rental or not. Moving blows, and setting up a nice new place--even if it's just a bigger and better apartment--seems like a perfectly valid reason to host a party, especially if you didn't have the space to do so before. I don't know; I just don't see what's so crazy about it.

I agree on this "more Kristen" business. If I am going to watch overdramatic crap, I want the queen of it onscreen as much as possible!

I am NO KYLE, by any means (though, it's all so far, so good, as I've said)--though I simultaneously want hair as long as hers and also do not want it. But yeah, I feel like, out of all of these people, Schwartz seems more "effortless" than the rest. Like, leave shit alone and it will look OK.

YES! Again, not my thing, but I see the "at first glance" appeal of Jax. I also wondered the very same thing about Vail! (In relation to Scoobie's post).

He's good-looking enough, I'd say, if you didn't know his issues. Not my style, but not gross by any means. This Tiffany is a brunette and pretty, and seemingly a regular adult.

Probably not a full-on textbook sociopath--I think he might feel empathy sometimes (but perhaps have no idea why…or how to spell it)--but yes, there's probably something! It's like there's a part of development that just got skipped with him. Ok, he's not my cup of tea looks-wise, but I guess I can see why someone would think he's cute. So there's that. People seem to (initially, at least) like him and find him pleasant and personable. He goes to a therapist (probably producer-driven but let's assume it's stemming from some kind of self-awareness). He has (had?) a modeling thing going. Perhaps he's a good enough bartender (do that job right, and I think money is going to come in--there will never be a dearth of drinking customers). Perhaps the show makes it seem worse. So come on, what is this man-child's problem? He has some things going for him. So, why can't he, at age 30-whatever, at least start thinking these antics are sort of silly? I did--we all did, I assume! He's like a teenage silly girl (I'm sorry, that's a little sexist) with his love of drama that he creates!

Oy, these people! So much time and effort on keeping one step ahead of your supposed loved ones, it's exhausting! If they'd put that much commitment into working, imagine the careers they could have! Just get new friends already, all of you! Or maybe they can't, because no one normal will take them? I wonder if this Tiffany ever saw the show? Maybe he was somehow able to act like a regular person when he met her, or kept quiet enough that he seemed OK.

Oh my god, alright! I am convinced (except maybe for the "many friends" part). Hallelujah, I have been saved from my diabolical bleaching (which I've also done for years) and flattening! In fact, I've been reborn as a curly brunette! As for luck, I'll concede that maybe generally healthy hair is luck in itself (and drinking a lot of water and eating a lot of vegetables helps, I suppose). But, ahahhaha--do you think I feel sad that you call my sight-unseen wet/dry hair applian--I mean contraption--"horrible-looking"? I don't care; it looks like any other flat iron. And, do what you need to do, and be whatever emotion you like about it. You should--we all should. Thanks for the concern about a complete stranger's hair; while I'm sure it is well-intentioned, it is also, quite frankly, somewhat creepy. Your friends' hair = not my hair. Edited because I felt like I was too mean (a little) and I don't want to get in trouble because I like chattering about this nonsense show with some of you! Sometimes watching dumb junk is what I need after a rough day of trying (and failing) to ruin my hair.

Unless Jax had as-yet-unrevealed proof though, why would Tom worry? Jax already tried to tell this…didn't he? Or was that Kristen and I'm all mixed up here? Maybe I am. I'm just thinking that, because Katie already seems convinced it was only a make out *, and that Jax is always full of beans, that Jax's info wouldn't make Tom feel threatened. But, yeah, the "admit to a lesser crime" thing is possible (and a tactic murder suspects often use in interrogations to appear more trustworthy and forthcoming). * I don't even know why it makes a difference; if my BF made out with someone, he may as well do it all, because he's going to get dumped anyway if I find out.

No, it's not my choice to damage my hair, which means it's a good thing that I purchased a high-end model recommended to me by the hairstylist I've trusted for over a decade, and an equally good thing that some people's damage does not equal an across-the-board definite outcome. My regularly flat-ironed-while-damp-for-years hair is very healthy (too much so, in my opinion, as it grows like a damn weed) but ol' misguided me thanks you for your pedantry! If it's exactly what unequivocally will happen, I'm still waiting… and I don't care what this Tom does, haha! Who would? (Also, I could be wrong because I've never asked, but I have my doubts that my gynecologist or allergist would have much of an opinion about flat-iron use vs. hair damage.)

The Jax story line is making me think this is so scripted. Not that I didn't think so before--and not that I believe he's not big dumb cheating dope--but it's really sticking out more here. Like, even a 19-year-old frat boy would realize he's been caught before and at least TRY to be sneakier about it (or, god forbid, learn to stick to one-night-stands already). Plus, he's been called out for lies so often already in every season. That said, the whole intra-"office" dating and drama reminds me of when I worked at a big bookstore (one of the first gigantic ones with a cafe and all that, open until 11pm), and all of us were young and cute and probably acting the same way, to my embarrassment. I would, if I were in a position that would help them. But my BF--a working musician who sometimes travels--isn't remotely like Jax and would never cheat, but there are willing people everywhere if one is the type to encourage them. There was a time I bristled a little bit at ladies sending him shots and then hovering around the stage, but whatever, man; can't blame a chick for thinking he's cute (and it's not like he gets up there and proclaims his taken-ness into the mic)...and our mortgage doesn't get paid as easily if people don't want to see whichever one of his bands is playing (or, apparently, appearing to need drinks, which, incidentally, are often free for the band anyway). It's not a no-no; I have one that's made for it too. They look the same, of course, and work OK enough--though these people are probably more skilled about it than I am.

I actually have a lowercase-b big Uncle Wayne.

There's an Optimum commercial that makes me actually feel bad for the guy in it. It's moving day and he calls his friend, who is apparently supposed to help but is very late because he's playing a game. What a horrid thing to do to someone! Oh my goodness, I know it's not real but moving is stressful as it is, and it's not like it's easy to postpone it last minute! That friend sucks.

Aww, like Tony Soprano and his ducks!

Brandi's ass-kissing, followed by her endless vows not to ass-kiss, is annoying. And, like I mentioned earlier, Yolanda's "that's what friends do" shit…ugh. Apparently another thing friends do is act like the aggrieved martyr and call you out on something minor in front of everyone at a social event as well. Oh, it was so whiny and passive-aggressive!

I laugh every time at it--I have no idea why it's funny. Maybe simply because "sexy" is so obviously not the word that belongs in serious sentences about one's pets (and I am sure Lisa knows this). Sometimes I call my kittens sexy ("Go, go, sexy kitten!" when they're racing around during the "Nighttime Crazies") and then laugh and laugh…at myself. Oy.