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Zahdii

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  1. https://www.pbs.org/tv_schedules/ Fill in your zip code and see if you have it in your area. We got it here a few years ago and I go through periods of time where I watch a lot of it. We also have PBS, PBS World, and PBS Kids.
  2. Why does he have the picture? It's a picture that he thinks is cute? He remembers when it was taken, and it's a special memory for him? He's one of 19 kids and this is the closest he can come to having a picture just of him? Why is it on his nightstand? Where was he living at the time he posted it? If he's at the TTH, his nightstand is probably the only space that's just for him. If he's staying with someone else... Same reason. There's also the darker possibility that he just said that to give the picture more of an emotional meaning to fans. He's a Duggar. They have lived their lives for the public for the last 13 years, and in that time they have been shown to lie, obfuscate, and pander to the public, all in the name of grifting Jesus. He knows no better, it's how he was raised. I prefer to think that it was something fun he and his brothers did together. It's not unknown to have people recreate pictures later on. I've got a family member who took pictures of her three young sons sitting on a rock wall overlooking the ocean. She's got a few more pictures of the same kids sitting in the same order at the same spot, taken every few years. They've never been posted online, though. The family doesn't have strangers fans they need to keep engaged for a TV show
  3. OMG! Meghan has a self-deprecating sense of humor? Where has it been all this time?
  4. I'd tell her to go check on her baby, but maybe it's better if the poor thing stays with the nanny and away from the madness.
  5. There was one of those fundy mothers that bragged about her daughters panicking if Daddy was coming home soon and they weren't all made up like a Godly young woman should be, so they'd rush off to make sure they were presentable. It sounds like Jill, but when would the girls have to worry about Daddy coming home to washed faces? He's almost never gone, and not gone for long when he does go somewhere. Usually he's just taking Jill off for a private meal or shopping while the kids make to with whatever is in the house. Maybe she's talking about the very few times when David went off with just the boys for some man time.
  6. I've got to wait until later today to watch because I promised my daughter we'd watch it together. Just answer one question: How did Akeem have a kid he didn't know about? Just put it under spoilers, if you like.
  7. I've never been able to watch The Librarians on TV before now, but when I discovered there's a channel on my Roku streaming channels called Electric Now, I have been catching up. Good show! BTW, if you go to https://www.electricnow.tv/, from 9:00 pm on Friday until 9:00 pm on Saturday, they're showing back to back episodes. I don't know if this is only for a short time, or what. They also show Leverage more than any other show all week long and all day Sunday, and have the first season of Almost Paradise. All of these shows have Christian Kane in them. (He played Eliot Spencer in Leverage, Jacob Stone in The Librarians, and is the lead on Almost Paradise. I'd say that someone at Electric Now really likes him. I find him yummy, so I don't mind a bit.)
  8. One of my sisters did that, too, with her first pregnancy. Very slender with good stomach muscles, but she was very excited to be pregnant. So when her belly bump wasn't obvious enough, she started wearing maternity clothes and doing everything she could to accentuate her condition.
  9. I didn't notice the dog switching colors, but I was looking away a lot of the time. In the next episode, it was a repeat of a guy suing a woman for defamation because she didn't let him put up a booth at her event. I'm not sure of just what event she was holding, because I wasn't paying close attention at first. I think it was one of those things where someone rents some property and lets other people set up booths to sell items or advertise their services. Anyway, I think she first let him come and then his behavior got weird. He was upsetting other venders, they complained, she herself said she felt unsafe around him and she told him to stay away. He was very upset about that, and started harrassing her and her husband. Her husband eventually committed suicide, but I don't think that she said he was the cause of it, but his behavior was not helping before or after the suicide. This guy lives with his wealthy parents, which explains his large and expensively furnished bedroom, so his claim that he was so much better than they were when he was only 25 was rediculous. When people online asked her what happened, she told them he was banned for his behavior, but didn't get into specifics. The judges threw out his case and pointed out that he was the one causing all the problems. They pointed out that his issue seemed to be that he couldn't accept rejection, and should look into that. I wish I'd taken down the names of the plaintiff and defendant so I could look them up now.
  10. I was pleased that she correctly identified herself as a bitch (but I suspect that in her view that's great and in mine it means you need to work on your personality). Now if only she had added a few other words, like stupid, clueless, whiny, petulant, entitled, narcissistic, etc... Well, I can't have it all, and as one of the 99%, I understand that.
  11. This show. We're all trying to figure out what's going on. Studying every frame, discussing it, speculating, just eating it all up. Wanda is real, but is Vision? After a few episodes he seems to be real, too. (Last episode I thought that he couldn't live outside the Hex, but now I'm not so sure.) Is Wanda being manipulated or just creating a reality to deal with her grief? We go back and forth until Wanda admits she's running the show, but she doesn't know how or why. Are the boys real? I guess the jury's still out on that. Agnes is suspicious. Is she being used to push Wanda along or is she doing it on her own? We go back and forth, and now Agnes says she's doing it all, but not why. But she makes sure to point out she's evil. Is she also being manipulated? At this point, I'm not sure. But she got the boys away from Wanda and now they're MIA, and she directed Wanda to the basement/dungeon. Then she shows up to tell Wanda she's really Agatha Harkness and provides proof via flashbacks showing how she's got her own show going and has been lying to Wanda (and her viewers) all along. Oh, and she killed the puppy. But who is watching Agatha's show? Why have a show if you don't have an audience? The people outside the hex provide more clues. They have different views on what's going on and different motivations for how they react. We get the bad guy and the plucky group of three who are working against him to try to find out why this is happening, and how to help all those inside the Hex. And now I'm here along with others in the early hours of the morning trying to work it all out. We're like a benign version of Q followers, obsessing about all the things we see and feel, and trying to figure it all out. But we're not going to do anything except wait for Disney to finally tell us what's going on. Then we'll pat ourselves on the back for the things we got right, feel chagrin about the things we got wrong, and look forward to the next season and the resulting spinoffs.
  12. I don't know. I've been trying to watch all the other movies to catch up on stuff, but I've apparently not watched the one where she is called the Scarlet Witch, or maybe it was a throwaway line somewhere that I just didn't catch. But I felt her eyes glowing red made sense because the barrier is red when you're close enough to really see it.
  13. The commercial. That was disturbing. A shark jumps on a deserted island that contains one palm tree and one small child, gives the kid a package of Yo-Magic and leaves, taking the kids boogie? board with him. The kid can't get the snack open and dies. Are we supposed to infer that when things are bad in Wanda's world, don't accept the 'help' offered by the 'shark', it'll only lead to disaster?
  14. OK, that's really something. Pietro isn't even pretending to really believe the scenario. Wanda admitted that she's the one doing all this, but she's not sure how or for how long; she only knows that before this she felt incredibly alone. Wanda and Vision are walking on eggshells around each other. One of the twins has super speed and the other is able to 'hear' Vision's cry for help from a mile away. We now know that Vision can't live outside the barrier, so Wanda expanded it to include Vision back in it again, but she was barely able to hold the entire town together before, trying to run an area twice the size isn't going to work.
  15. Someone has decided that insisting that if the lead is from a "close" family, it means the lead spends a lot of time with them and values what they think of the person the lead is thinking of marrying. The show is ignoring people who come from a more independent family structure, or those who are more more distant or even estranged from their family. It ignores the reasons why someone might fall into another category, which is silly. People who become a long term couple have to navigate their interactions with family members. If both people are really invested in spending as much time as possible with their own family, think of the problems that will arise when they both want to spend every holiday with their own family, or get their family's feedback on every major decision. The compromise that most couples have to go through to incorporate their families into their married lives is a real thing. Not something that a TV show wants to deal with when the people are given small amounts of time together with cameras rolling while producers are just off screen dictating every moment. They have an overall script in hand and don't generally tolerate variations from it. If they wanted a show that truly showed what it was like for the lead to figure out who he or she liked best when given a number of possible options, they'd put the lot of them on an island with cameras everywhere and let it play out. As soon as the lead decided that he or she knew that someone wasn't for them, the rejected person would be quietly removed from the game and sent to another location with counselors available to deal with them and then send them to a nice resort to keep them off the internet until the show was over. No need to hear people's sad life histories, those would come up naturally over time. No need to put in obviously unstable people for the production value, everyday people can melt down all on their own.
  16. I'm glad for the episode a week drop because it forced me to pay attention. It's given me a chance to really think about what I've seen and what it could all mean, then come here to read what others think. Then I go back and re-watch to pick up on stuff I missed during the first viewing. I've not watched a lot of the other Marvel movies, so this show is new to me. I've never heard of Wanda or Vision before. I've watched both Guardians of the Galaxy movies, a couple of Thor movies, Dr. Strange, and one of the Captain America movies. I watched the Avengers: Infinity War. On TV I watched both seasons of Peggy Carter. So far none of those characters have shown up on WandaVision, so I'm flying blind. If a character I watched before on one of the other movies has made an appearance yet, I don't recognize them, maybe they didn't play a large enough role on the other movies for me to pick up on them. Anyway, I've already decided that Wanda is trapped in a virtual world, and not really well-prepared for it as she realizes that she and Vision don't have any sort of back-story. They both seem to to want to fit in, indeed, they agree that they must fit in. They know that Vision isn't a human male and must not be found to be different. Not sure about Wanda. Her origins are from some place or country I've never heard of. But neither of them are surprised to have 'powers' and know to keep them under wraps. Wanda is unprepared to have a dinner party for her husband and his boss, because she's been thinking that she should have been making a special anniversary evening for herself and Vision. Hilarity ensues. But Wanda can call on her new friend Agnes to come over with a four course dinner for four, complete with recipe cards and instructions on warming up and finishing the meal, no questions asked. She does not find that odd. Then she messes that up, but manages to come up with the unique of breakfast for dinner. The question about why they didn't have children yet was odd. Back in the '50's, that sort of thing just wasn't discussed between people who didn't know each other well, and definitely not in mixed company. At most the Mrs. Hart would have asked how long they'd been married, but not inquired further. If Wanda and Vision had simply said they got married just before moving to town no one would have expected them to have children. I think there was another hint to just make something up when Mr. Hart, obviously suspicious of why WandaVision stumbled over answering the most basic questions, Mrs. Hart suddenly started telling her husband "They're setting up their story. Give them a moment." That pretty much confirmed their NPC status to me, but whoever was controlling the boss NPC didn't dial it back and let it go. At first, I didn't think that Wanda caused Vision's boss to choke. Maybe, in a moment of panic she could have caused his food to stick in his throat, but she could have also caused him to "throw up" the food when she realized the implications of killing the boss. Could she have been cold enough to wait long enough for the circumstances to be dire and then tell Vision to "Help him!" Vision was staring more at Wanda than his boss or the boss's wife during the choking sequence. Was he wondering if she was causing his boss to choke, or knew she was doing it and wondering how to respond, or did he believe his boss was truly choking and wondering how a human male would handle the situation? I know that Wanda/Vision were flummoxed by the boss getting irate and demanding they answer some basic questions about themselves. Wanda at least realized that people were going to be curious when earlier in the day she met Agnes and Agnes started asking questions. I think that was a warning to Wanda to make up some sort of a past, but she missed the clue and focused on preparing for the upcoming dinner party. Whoever is controlling the environment should have given her at least one evening to talk to Vision about it. They should have realized that she needed more time and had the boss to tell Vision that they'd have to cancel the planned dinner and ask if they could do it the next evening instead. Maybe someone was more interested in finding out how they'd handle unexpected company when Vision has been clued in about what the heart on the calendar meant (Boss man Mr. Hart and his wife are coming to dinner at the insistence of Mr. Hart so he can evaluate Vision's fitness to continue working at his firm). But Wanda has been given false hints from their next door neighbor Agnes. Either way, it caused a problem that made it obvious something was not right. Whatever was going on, Mr. and Mrs. Hart immediately moved leave without mentioning they hadn't finished dinner, the choking, or the unbelievable act of Vision moving his hand through the mans throat to take the offending piece of food out. They just went straight to "Oh look at the time. Got to go now. Lovely dinner." Boss shakes Visions hand and calls him 'Son'. Was he talking about Vision saving his life or did the script go to the end of the evening where he was supposed to be won over by a lovely dinner and conversation to decide that Vision was management potential and can keep his job? But why did Wanda and Vision not really discuss the evening after that? They just cuddled on the couch and decided that they now had a wedding anniversary and a special song, and Wanda created their wedding rings. Then they kissed and turned to watch the TV. Wouldn't this have been the time to have a long talk about who they were supposed to be, their ages, education, how long they'd been married, etc. They should have stayed up all night setting up a story for who they were and what they've done before they got here.
  17. That sounds familiar to me. Has she posted this recipe before?
  18. They WERE on a break! I hated Rachel the moment she acted like Ross cheated on her when he slept with that girl because Rachel told him she wanted them to see other people for a while.
  19. I miss Elizabeth Taylor 'White Diamonds' commercial.
  20. I love that one! I tear up every time.
  21. Must not be a federal law. When my daughter had her first kid and came back to work, she tried to pump and was given a chair in a closet that housed files. There were no windows and no separate thermostat to adjust the temperature if it was too hot or cold. There was an office chair to sit in and next to it was a small cabinet to rest her pump on when in use, the rest of the time it was to be stored in the cabinet. She was expected to provide a cooler to store the breast milk in, and it was up to her to get there early each day to take the cooler to the cafeteria and get ice from the ice machine. There was a radio to listen to, but it didn't work very well and she heard mostly static. She was constantly being interrupted by someone knocking at the door asking if they could come in and look for a file. She gave up and switched to formula. Not long after that, the company assigned an underused conference room in another building for pumping. It had a window, donated recliner, a shelf to store pumps, a couple of potted plants, a mini fridge, and a TV. It was soon taken over by people who wanted to use the fridge to store soft drinks or their lunch, or watch the TV on their breaks. Eventually the space was put back into service as a conference room because the few breastfeeding mothers who tried to use it gave up and pumped in the bathrooms or their cars. Just before Covid, my daughter was in the latter stages of her second pregnancy, and her boss assigned a corner of the floor as the new pumping station. It had most of the stuff from the earlier room, but it didn't have walls. It was surrounded by curtains. My daughter had already decided she wasn't going to thread through the desks to the corner and pull a curtain so she could pump. People were already using the fridge and sneaking in for catnaps. They all assured each other that they'd stop when the corner was needed for nursing mothers, but until then...why not use the space? In her last week at work, her boss said that this virus thing was too big of a risk, and sent her home early. She worked from home for the last week and then went on maternity leave, had the baby, and hasn't been back since. By the time she was ready to go back to work, everyone was working from home. Her division has been told that they should expect to continue working from home for at least another year. Covid has actually had a benefit in this area. More women in the company have admitted that knowing that they wouldn't have to pump has made it easier for them to breastfeed. Now the shocker here is that my daughter works for a large hospital network. You'd think that a hospital would be better at providing for the needs of breastfeeding mothers. The women who work IN the hospital have fewer problems, they're pretty vocal about what they need and getting it. But my daughter works in a building that provides services that support the hospital. The financial, IT, maintenance departments, etc, have been slower at getting on the bandwagon.
  22. I know it's been said before, but I'm adding my opinion: I hate the new Hershey's Kisses Christmas commercial! For years I've seen and heard the little Kisses ringing out 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas'. It's so cute when the last little Kiss rings out that last note and swishes it's little plume across it's 'brow' with a relieved "Phew!" It's like there's real live chocolate Kisses out there bringing Christmas cuteness and joy, and the ones we buy and eat are mere candy replicas, like a picture of Santa is not the real Santa. Now suddenly, the Kisses start ringing out their song and a hand reaches in and grabs the little guy, while the music changes to a jaunty version of the old tune. He's stripped bare, and plonked down on a cookie! Are you going to eat him? I'm not going to eat him. I'll never eat another Peanut Butter Blossom cookie again, it's been tainted for me. What's worse, some recipes call for the baker to take the cookies out after 6-7 minutes, add the Kiss, and bake it for an additional 1-2 minutes! (Keeps the cookie soft and softens the Kiss for easier eating.) That brave little Kiss, who only wants to spread Christmas cheer and is so happy to do a good job, is ripped from the bosom of it's brethren, only to end up as the focal point of a sweet treat! And the human child who did it is held aloft by her father in a joyful display of triumph and affection while she looks around for more approval for a job well done. What's next? Are we going to be asked to celebrate children kidnapping Santa in exchange for extra presents, ripping the diaper from Baby New Year for laughs, or trapping the Easter Bunny to make a nice stew? Where does it end? I weep for humanity. /s /rant (But seriously, just leave the earlier commercial alone and use the footage from the latter for an entirely different one. 2020 has been bad enough, don't add to the pain.)
  23. Or Justin was experiencing his first crush and his parents were obsessively hovering to make sure it didn't become another Josh problem. After the Josh molestation's, what 12 year old boy in their family would have enough freedom to spend alone time with a girl? Jill probably meant to say Jessa, as suggested above. It was obvious even on the show how controlling JB&M were with Jessa and Ben.
  24. She hasn't posted since the latter half of August. Maybe real life got in the way?
  25. I've always hated that yell/scream thing she does.
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