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Anklets are still done, it's just not as common as they were in the 90's and before. They're more commonly worn when going barefoot, to kind of dress up the feet when you aren't wearing cute sandals or heels. I'd never wear one because I wouldn't want to draw attention to my massive (large boned) ankles, but I used to wear a toe ring because I have tiny toes. I hear they're coming back again.

The R Family watches TV. Jill has mentioned before that they own a lot of Disney DVD's and she plays them on trips to keep the kids occupied. She's also shown pictures of David laying back in his recliner watching sports on their home TV, when they still had a home. I'm sure Jill has to approve everything they watch, but they've watched plenty of TV.

Hollywood has a recent history of awarding 'pity roles' to actors that have made a name for themselves in the past and have now fallen on hard times, for various reasons. Charlie comes from Hollywood royalty, and in the past has garnered acting awards and was a proven money maker until his fall from grace. He's been active in many charitable causes before he crashed and burned, and still does so today. His redemption tour started with his admitting that he's HIV positive (diagnosed around 2011) and bipolar (not sure when or if he was officially diagnosed, but he started saying he might be in 2016). He says that his past of drug and alcohol abuse was caused by trying to self-medicate. It obviously didn't work out very well, as his behavior on his last season of 'Two and a Half Men' proved. Having lost that job, and his bizarre "Torpedo of Truth" tour where he rambled to audiences about whatever he was thinking about that night, I'm amazed that he got a new series "Anger Management". That show ended in 2014, and lasted exactly 100 episodes, which qualifies it for lucrative syndicated reruns. The news stories about how hard it was to get Charlie in shape to film because of his issues are a matter of public record. I'm assuming that he blames his past problems with domestic violence, a predilection for porn stars, threats against people he's mad at, and his his current status of not being allowed to have unsupervised visits with any of his children on a combination of his drug/alcohol abuse and bipolar disorder. He also owes an enormous amount of back child support, fines from past misdeeds and lawyers fees. Charlie now claims to be sober, and he might well be, as he hasn't been in the news for the last couple of years for questionable behavior. Not to mention the number of 'insiders' and 'close family friends' who have recently given interviews stating that he was close to bankrupt and was in danger of becoming homeless. Where is his close-knit wealthy family at this time? I guess they weren't aware and Charlie didn't want to bother them. That seems to be enough for him to get small one-off jobs, just to test the waters, so to speak. He's given interviews in the past where he claims he was blacklisted because of his problems. I actually hope that he's turned a corner and is now headed in a better direction. I'm not sure if it will last, because he still avoids taking responsibility in some ways. He's admitted that while he takes a 'medical cocktail' to deal with his HIV, he's gone off it in the past for short periods of time while he explored other options. He also says that although he's had approximately 200 sexual partners since his diagnosis, he insists he told each of them he was HIV positive, yet he's being sued by several women who say they didn't know that and are now angry that they were exposed. He admitted that he's paid tens of thousands of dollars to people to keep them quiet about the HIV, and only came forward to stop the lawsuits. He admits to knowing he had a problem but still carried on with his addictions until one day he woke up and decided he wouldn't do it anymore, and he hasn't had any formal counseling.

"Hey baby, do the magic hand thing." Mimics holding hand up. Baby, confused, holds hand up "Hi".

Great. Now the kid can spend some time having old paint flake off in his crib.

Who gives a fig about what Kody wants? He's a jerk of the highest order. Sadly, he's stuck with four wives who seem to have varying degrees of fond feelings for him, and since they've all tied themselves to a reality show and a religion that makes the same demands...they're stuck. Meri was first, and she admitted that she only went along with polygamy so she could marry Kody. She worked, went to school, is pretty sensitive about only having one child, and used to use her First (and legal) Wife status to get the cream of the crop in terms of Kody's attention. Janelle was second, bearing him six kids, and for some reason she still follows Kody around. But she's held jobs and lived apart from the family even before the TLC gig came along. She always seems content with whatever she gets from him. Christine was really all in for being the third wife, and she admits that she thought that she was going to be his last wife. She's never held an independent job and seems the most dedicated to getting Kody to love her. She also has six kids with Kody, and has been the primary sitter for her sister wives' kids. She's put up with more crap from him than any of the others, but she keeps hanging in there. Robyn showed up just a few years ago. Supposedly, Meri brought Robyn in intending for Robyn to be her backup in the power war between Meri and Janelle and Christine. There's also the timing of Robyn being brought onboard when TLC was considering doing a polygamy show between several established families, and showing a new wife joining the fold was a very interesting story line. Kody is said to be reluctant, because Robyn was married before and came with three children of her own, but he quickly adapted and suddenly Robyn was his obvious favorite. She has two children with Kody. Now Meri is divorced (legally) from Kody so he could legally marry Robyn and "adopt" her kids from her first marriage. I'm not sure if it's a legal adoption, since her kids still visit her first husband. Meri had an embarrassing episode where she was seduced online by a man who didn't exist and was prepared to leave Kody. That didn't pan out. I think that now Meri is only pretending to be Kody's wife because she get's money from TLC to do so. But she has bought a B&B that her mother oversees, and sells clothing online. Janelle is still hanging around, supposedly working as a real estate agent, and still content with whatever she gets from this whole polygamy thing. Christine is still there. I hear Kody pays more attention to her, but whatever. Robyn still holds Kody's balls in her hands, but she doesn't seem as into him as before. She started an online business, but it doesn't seem to be doing much. ******************** I wonder what would happen if Kody were to die tomorrow? Which 'wives' would really care? Maybe Kody should suddenly take a vacation in a remote tropical location and forget to tell his women. Let them think he's dead. I'm sure they'd all show up for the cameras and sob about how much they worry about him and miss him, but seeing who quickly moves on and who stays to fight it out for the Most Sorrowful Widow would be entertaining. A whole new show! What do they do now? Who helps the others and who tells who to shove off! After a year, have Kody show up and see how he reacts to finding out that Meri is long gone. Janelle may say, "Hey, how are you? Let's get together later for a camping trip as soon as I can get some time off work." Christine will welcome him back with open arms, no questions asked. Robyn will present him with a list of questions to answer and then let him know if he's still worthy of her attention. She'll agree to integrate him back into the show, but what will his role be? She might want to introduce him as the ex-husband while she does other things. It'll depend on what is the most financially productive.

Where did she get the Luke Skywalker costume, complete with a lightsaber? She obviously had a Leia costume. It seems like she had a choice and in the end, she decided she wanted to be Luke rather than Leia. It could be she felt she was more like Luke in personality, or she wanted to be the hero instead of someone who needed to be rescued (although Leia did a lot of bad assed stuff before and after Luke rescued her, but I'm thinking of how someone the age of the kid in the video might see it). It doesn't really scream transgender to me, more like a kid changing her mind about a costume. Either way, her family would have had two Emperial characters and two Rebel characters. It does seem as if her change of costume seems like a big deal to her parents, but in a positive way. The dad immediately goes along with it, and says "You're Luke Skywalker, and I am your father." Then they do a cute thing while they fight with their lightsabers. The girl cutting her hair seems a bit drastic, but it's not really a big thing. It's a stretch, but if she was wrestling with her gender identity and her family was aware of that, then the last minute decision to present herself as a male on Halloween and they realized that, then more power to them. Being transgender is hard, but the way the commercial is presented, it's ambiguous. Maybe that's what Hallmark is going for. A nudge for people to be more accepting. We don't live the same lives, our religions and politics are different, our experiences are different, and our feelings are different. Don't put people in a box and let them figure out what's right for them. Not sure if the statement from Hallmark's director of marketing is applying to the above mentioned commercial.

Maybe someone took one look at that hot mess of a family, slipped the nearest older child a $20 and hissed "Go buy some food!" Gabe knew the proper response was "Thank you and God bless you!" and then ran to get roses for Mama. In that family, no one buys anything without first doing something nice for Jill. But if you've done something that merits a post on Mama's social media accounts, she likes you more for a brief time. In Gabe's case, just long enough for Nurie to show up and offer to take a picture and put the roses in some water.

I may regret this, but what does "mustard and biscuits" mean?

I find it so weird that they'd post a picture of her in the ER. If it were myself, and I felt that I had to post such things, I'd have posted it privately. I'd also wait until I had a more definitive diagnosis.

It was probably "Oh, fuck you."

I see what you mean, but I'm enjoying it so far. I've had shows that followed a progression from one episode to the next, but so many times the writers seem to worry that the story must keep topping itself. The main character(s) end up with a stated mission or villain that they must defeat by the end of the season, and then the next season a new and more alarming theme is presented. It gets to be rediculous in the end. I don't mind this first short season to be more about Mando finding himself to suddenly be the protecter and father figure to an alien child, cut off from the other Mandeloreans, and the Bounty Hunters Guild. He's seeking work and support whenever and wherever he can. The bad guys are constantly chasing him, and he has to learn as he goes along. Mando has to learn more about the baby, what Baby needs, what Baby can do, what Baby actually is. He's aware that the baby has a much longer lifespan than Mando has, but he has to support the both of them and keep them safe as he figures out what to do next. Right now he's realizing that the more people he deals with in 'real life' and the more people he has traveling with him, the more people he has to keep safe. There are already several characters we've seen that I wouldn't mind Mando going back for as permanent or temporary traveling companions. Now if the story doesn't change much next season, I might start to get bored, but for now it seems reasonable.

I'd do it back when I had to be at work at 6 am, or when I had that horrific job where I had to be there at 4 am. Take a shower just before I went to bed, spread my hair out on my pillow to dry overnight, and one less thing to think about when I woke up.

Does anybody remember Luke and Laura from the daytime soap 'General Hospital'? I don't know all the details, but it's 1979, and a lot of the girls at my school were obsessed with them. After a lot of OTT stuff where they were attracted to each other but couldn't be together, Luke gets drunk in the disco he either owns or manages. It's after hours, and no one else is there except Luke and Laura. He gets her to dance with him. Party ball overhead, loud music playing, Luke pulls Laura to the floor out of frame, as she's begging him to let her go - the music gets louder, and fade to commercial. People were pissed, but the teenaged audience girls loved it. The rape was suddenly presented as a forced seduction, later on as simply seduction. Girls across the nation phoned radio stations requesting they play "the rape song". (It really was a more modern and edgier version of a Barbara Cartland book, where the 1800's era young woman meets a handsome man who is older, wealthier, titled, has issues from his past that have left him damaged and determined to never marry; and has no interest in her. Cartland was actually more restrained in her books. The protagonists realize they're attracted to each other, but they fight against it because they both feel they're unsuited or not worthy of each other, and talking about their feelings just wasn't done back then. Yet circumstances always throw them together. The man dominates the woman (always referred to as a girl) and controls everything until something happens to bring things to a climax (snerk). The stunningly beautiful, chaste, naive, yet surprisingly intelligent young lady never gets raped. The girl might get kidnapped, held hostage by her horrible family, or be beset upon by scofflaws with evil intentions, or any number of things. But she's powerless to do anything more than protect her virtue and has to wait until the man saves the day. If she doesn't fall willingly into his arms after that, he forces a kiss on her and she suddenly realizes that this is LOVE, and all she has to do is relax and let the man take control. They pledge their undying love for each other, admit that this is what they've always wanted, and wander off to get married and live happily ever after.) Since Luke and Laura were more modern, they had a more difficult time coming to terms with what had happened. Luke was anguished and tried to redeem himself. Laura sought help to deal with the rape, but she refused to tell who raped her. Circumstances and other people got in the way. In 1981, they finally got married in the most watched soap opera episode of all time. Thirty million viewers tuned in, most of them female. The VCR was still pretty new, only the rich people had them in the US at that time. If you wanted to see the wedding, you had to be in front of your television to watch it. Many viewers skipped work or school to watch. Some fans gathered together for viewing parties, complete with decorations, and cake. Some even dressed up as if they were guests at the wedding.

I know he was going for a shot where he's sitting there with a tray of a water glass (or vodka?) and something that needs a spoon. He's supposed to be trying to think of a reply to something... But I see a pretentious fool who just heard someone laugh in the distance and he's checking to see if they were laughing at him.

Oh yeah. Every post will start out with "Oh, Dad, if you could only see this now"

Hey Mando? If you're so desperate that you'd tap that, I'll be right over. I'm bringing the baby some cute toys and books, too.

I doubt any of them thought of that stuff. Did they even call the hospital to let them know they were coming, and why? It makes for a more dramatic story if they had to rush to the hospital. The younger Duggars seem to have a very lackadaisical attitude towards birth. Everything's fine, until it isn't, and then they expect the heathens to sort it all out for them. Yet Michelle has had the majority of her births in a hospital. I guess it's a combination of the youngers not having good insurance (or none), and being convinced that giving birth on camera is better for the brand (We're so holy that we can have substandard medical during the pregnancy because Jesus protects us). But when the shit hits the fan, video of a fast transfer to the hospital also makes for good TV, but the viewers lose the footage of the heathens actually delivering the baby or saving the mother's life. For them, it's all about the show/ministry. It's a win either way, unless the parents opt out and refuse to gamble on the outcome of the mothers or the babys chance of surviving. Then it's "so and so had their baby *yawn*. Anyway, here he or she is *yawn*.

I think he lost his patriarchal privileges when he and Jessa fought over the naming of their first child, and Ben's first and only 'win' turned out to be a disaster. Jessa now runs the show, and Ben is the hapless sidekick.

Re: the Pelaton ad. I think we should see the husband gleefully rubbing his hands together and proclaiming he was finally free. His wife had sadly said for years that if she got one of those fancy stationary bikes she'd ride it every day. He'd actually expected her to give up after a few days like she did everything else and he'd send it back, but this time she stuck with it. He thinks she was crushing on one of the instructors, but whatever it was, it worked. Her depression lifted, energy levels improved, and her self-confidence increased enough that after she showed him her year long blog, she thanked him for the experience and handed him divorce papers. It was the happiest day of both their lives. Now she's training for a marathon with the Pelaton guy, and her ex can finally get through the day without her constantly phoning or texting him, always complaining and seeking validation. He can talk to his parents on the phone without her hovering nearby, listening to everything he says and grilling him about it later. He can spend time alone with his daughter, and they're planning a trip to Disney World. He's accepted that promotion that will have him traveling a couple of weeks a year to their Paris and London offices. He's started dating. To do all that he's going to need to get in shape. Since the Pelaton is in his name, he's keeping it. Look for his upcoming vlog coming up soon.

I get that Jill and the wreck are plenty snarkworthy. They invite it by being so clueless to so many things, and they keep putting it all online. They are both stunted by their backgrounds and seem to have a slow learning curve. They're hamstrung by the leghumpers who continually assure them that almost everything they do is completely wonderful, Godly, and a positive inspiration. That said, I've criticized them plenty, but I refuse to throw a fit over Jill making hummus with bottled lemon juice and jarred garlic.

@Nysha and @SMama It wasn't my friend who saw the Rod family, it was the friend of a poster on FJ. As for the woman who saw the Rods at a pizza parlor, I don't think she heard what they ordered or was still around by the time they were served. She was just there to pick up a takeout order.

Jimmy Kimmel was the first time I saw someone encouraging that "funny" thing, and I was terribly disappointed in him. I think he's stopped it, but I watch Stephen Colbert most often these days, so I don't know for sure. I hope Jill and Derick do such a thing. It serves no purpose other than to give pleasure to people who like mean pranks.

That last picture, with Nurie sitting next to Tim. Does she look to you like she's looking at the camera and thinking "I'll smile for one last picture, but if you try to take another I'm going to make you eat that blessed phone." Tim seems to be happy to have his picture taken, and he looks more filled-out and healthier than he did while living at home. I hear he's living with a local family in Wisconsin, so he's probably able to eat much better than he used to. I think that he's better off physically now, but I still think he's having a tough time living so far away. Returning to the nest agrees with him. It must be nice to come back and soak up all the attention, because he's probably not treated like a conquering hero in his daily life. The FJ poster who has a friend that saw the Rods at a pizza parlor in Ohio has updated:

Another good episode. Didn't recognize Fennec Shand, the assassin, but she seemed familiar so I looked her up. She's done a lot of work, but it's mostly in things I don't normally watch. Was kind of tickled to find that she was the voice of Mulan, hero and lead in the Disney movie; and played Senator Michaela Wen in Eureka. I remember Sen. Wen. A villain, but also smart, efficient, focused, ruthless, and oddly respectful towards the disposition of Holly's body after Wen killed her. If we see Shand again, I wonder if she'll be an adversary or a supporting protagonist. Amy Sedaris as Peli Motto, the mechanic? Again, I suspected I'd seen her before. Looked her up, and I found I've heard some of her voice over work and saw her many times on TV. I got to know more about her during the show, so I loved her character. She knows her craft, and is also a no nonsense Mama Bear. Bring her back anytime. The gunslinger? A wet behind the ears wannabe, who should have started small and worked his way up. All of his posing, cutting corners in how to be a bounty hunter, and attempted double dealing turned out to be one big example of What Not to Do. The Mandelorian could only put up with so much before he delivered a richly deserved smack-down. As for Baby Yoda (guys, give him a name already!), he's still adorable and has more play on social media than the election news. I now want a "Baby Yoda for President!" T'shirt for Christmas.