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  1. The only reason that Lu was forced to get sober was because she opted to choose rehab as a "get out of jail free" card when she assaulted a police officer and threatened to kill him. If she had just faced the charges and not said "Hey, I clearly have a problem with alcohol and I need rehab please" then they wouldn't have given her a sentence that mandated her sobriety. She chose this route and if she truly didn't have a problem, it shouldn't be an issue. If she does (which I think the fact that she can't stay sober kind of points to her having one), then it means she probably does actually need the help. I sympathize with Bethenny here because she was clearly trying to not laugh inappropriately. It had nothing to do with not feeling for Tinsley about the loss of her dog, she said she felt for her and when they played back the clips of her talking about the dog having cancer, she was concerned and talked about it. I sometimes get the giggles at the worst times when my husband is trying to tell me something that is serious and it is awful. I can't stop giggling, he's telling me about something serious and the harder I try not to laugh, the more I laugh. That's the situation Bethenny was trying not to be in. Ramona kept asking questions about the dog and Bethenny was telling her to stop because it was going to set her off. In and among the things Luann was supposed to be doing and wasn't compliant with, she had missed breathalyzer check ins. This is part of the reason that she is now taking Antabuse, in addition to the mimosas and her not going to the required meetings. So there's no way her slip was a one time thing or just the one time she miscalculated her drinking. There were other times she just didn't even bother to blow because she knew she wouldn't make it.
  2. No, Teddi started it. When they first walked in, Teddi said "Is that the dog?" When they were standing over by the counter. LVP tried to hush things up at that point. Some conversation ensued and Sessa and Teddi seemed kind of peeved. Then they moved over towards the couch and everyone was sitting down, at which point Teddi turns to her daughter (Teddi's daughter, I mean, I can't remember her name), and says "Do you recognize this dog?" That is what reintroduced it and let the story come out. This is how Kyle "found out." Sessa had the dog out, true. But if Teddi hadn't asked if it was the dog in the first place and then followed up by asking her daughter if she recognized the dog, then none of the rest of the situation wouldn't happen. LVP tried to shut it down firmly when they were standing. She tried again when they were sitting. She was also quite emphatic after that the situation was over, Dorit meant no harm. Then she physically left the area and went upstairs to stop the conversation. This was Teddi and Kyle's work.
  3. I think you are forgetting the stellar Bums of Beverly Hills. Here's the other weird thing, you're telling me that Kyle wouldn't have wrapped the gift? Like here's your birthday gift, I put a big bow on the shoebox, so there's no surprise at all about what it is! At least throw it in a gift bag? Nope. It was blatantly there so people could not only see that poor, long-suffering Kyle who only wanted to TELL HER TRUTH! and was thrown out into the cold, cold streets by her meanie friends has yet to be able to give her generous birthday gift. Yes, she's so generous she even got the meanies a GIFT! And not just any gift, MANOLOS! That's how awesome Kyle is. So suck it haters! I believe the quote was actually coNman. Mauricio is looking pretty sketchy. Totally with you on the rent, though. Owning a home isn't ideal for everyone, for a variety of reasons. Rinna and Harry are/were both very successful actors and have huge resumes, but neither of them had the type of hits that make BANK. They don't have Friends/Cheers/Frasier money. They have comfortable money, but they do both likely need to keep working or have a side hustle (like QVC), to pay the bills. Joan Rivers always said she made a fortune from her QVC gig and I'd believe it. Changing gears, in this blog here: https://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills/season-9/blogs/kyle-richards/kyle-richards-we-cannot-ignore-a Kyle says that she was shown all of the texts right after the VDPD filming. So if we take that at face value, she knew the "whole" story way longer than she lets on at first. I don't believe her, though. First (and admittedly, very pettily), when I was re-watching the scene at VDPDs in the first episode, Teddi and Kyle are wearing matching outfits. They're both in blue striped dresses and neither one of them make a comment about it when they see the other, which is kind of strange, not a "OMG! How funny, we thought alike!" They're BFFs and Kyle spends the rest of the season dressing Teddi, so it seems likely to me that they may have planned for this one as well. Second, when everything goes down and Teddi won't stop bringing up the dog (first asking if that's the dog, then asking her daughter if she recognizes it), at no point does Kyle seem to take LVP's hint to change the subject. If I were genuinely confused about what was going on and there was a bit of a tense situation between two of my friends, I'd pretty much jump in with a new subject. If LVP was saying, "It's done, I do not want to discuss it" and Teddi is sitting there like "Well, do you recognize the dog?" I'd be totally confused, yes. But, they know they are filming, obviously LVP doesn't want the subject brought up. Later in the season when Camille starts talking about Dorit's issues, watch every other woman try to tell Camille to stop without actually interjecting themselves. They fall all over themselves to say "Well, maybe it shouldn't be talked about?" But nope. Kyle doesn't do this. She swings her head back and forth and just watches, letting Teddi keep going until the story is out. If I were in Kyle's shoes, I'd have said "Oh! Did I tell you what happened on the flight home from Europe?" or something else to change the subject. Then after the reveal, Kyle's like, "Oh, it's her dog? It's here to be groomed?" Why would LVP be trying to shut down any talk of the dog if it were there to be groomed? Kyle was supposed to bring her dog that day to be groomed, but for some reason, she didn't. That was the whole premise, LVP and Kyle were going to have dogs groomed while Teddi and her daughter were going to play with the dogs. So, wtf? Next they tell the story. LVP reiterates that it is DONE. That Dorit did not mean for it to happen, she had nothing to do with it and it is OVER. LVP then turns and walks up the stairs. This leaves Kyle and Teddi downstairs. Teddi turns to Kyle and immediately launches into a conversation, Kyle has no questions like "Wait! What happened? How did you know this? They told you?" Nope, Teddi just continues to get the story out. "So they told me, Lisa wanted me to know, etc" And then, there it is, Kyle is standing there not with the faux concern, but, with her trademark smirk. The one she normally tries to hide behind a napkin. Since they're in VDPDs, though, she can't. Next scene, they're all upstairs looking at some dogs who have recently come in. This is when LVP says to Kyle that she wishes she had made it to the Daily Mail party and Kyle loses her shit. She flips out and launches right into a rant about how she isn't going to let her do this, that she had just gotten off of a plane, it was 4 am for her, LVP wasn't even throwing the party, LVP always tries to do this to her and anyway, Dorit CAN DUMP A DOG and she says she didn't mean it, but she's going to try to trash Kyle for this. Wait, what? You literally learned that 4 minutes ago and you're already using it as a weapon?
  4. She was a big part of the production company and still owns half of it. I've always thought that part of the issue with Camille the first season was that she knew things were wrong in her marriage and was trying to keep up the façade, even before she maybe knew he was cheating. She was trying very hard to maintain a calm public life, while Kelsey didn't care how he blew their world up as long as he got what he wanted. He could have handled things quietly and they could have separated without him having to publicly cheat. They had young kids who were affected by it. She was downright mean when she was mocking LVP's teeth, but otherwise I don't think first season Camille came out until after the fire happened and it was evident the women were planning a gang up. Oh and the Kavanaugh thing, that was weird, but it also seemed like she realized she was overreacting. Anyway, I think what I'm trying to say is that I'm not sure Camille handles extreme upheaval in her life in the best way when it comes to this sort of show.
  5. This is true. Honestly, though, she married Charlie Sheen. Even at the time I was like, you know who the hell this is, right? You're having kids with him? Ok . . . and then it blew up and I was like, well who saw that coming? I do wonder if Charlie ever really seriously tried to get custody. I'm not saying that I don't think he cares about his kids (when he's not all hopped up on tiger blood, that is), I just don't see him being the type of person who is committed to being "dad" day in and day out the way other people are. It's not really that hard to picture someone like George Clooney or Matt Damon or the Rock making sure the kids have breakfast in the morning and then dropping them off at school if they are home. I just don't picture Charlie doing that sort of thing. And it's fine, there are plenty of people who are like that, it just doesn't generally show up unless people are divorced. Her explanation doesn't make sense because she's changed it so much. Somewhere along the line, though, they said she showed Kyle the texts before they went to VDPDs that day and yet when they were there, Kyle was all "Wait, what about this dog?" So Kyle was lying about not knowing about the dog or what happened. Which means it is pretty likely that Kyle and Teddi concocted the plan, thinking they could blame it on LVP using their pruned texts and try to manipulate it. I really liked that Dorit called her out right at the end about not actually stopping it because she thought it was the wrong thing to do TO Dorit, but just that she didn't want to be the ONLY one to do it to her. What happened is that Denise made that comment in a talking head during the show. Then at the reunion Andy was talking to Camille about her marriage that had just happened. He asked Camille about her name, because she is still using Grammar in some places. He asked why. Denise interjects (for no reason at all), that she couldn't wait to dump Sheen from her name, which was strange given that she was never known as Denise Sheen publicly anyway. Andy then brings up Denise's "greedy fucking whore" comment and asks Camille about it, because Camille had a pretty public divorce on the show. Camille said that she wasn't familiar with Denise's situation, and also said a quick, sorry, I didn't follow it at the time to Denise. Denise basically said, no problem. Camille was put in a position of explaining why she took a settlement, which wasn't cool, she was essentially forced to "defend" herself when she hadn't done anything wrong. She did what was right for her. Denise did something different, which was fine, it's what worked for Denise. Camille didn't judge Denise, but Denise had no problems judging everyone who didn't do things her way.
  6. It's important to get a pre-nup and also make sure you keep assets separated if you are re-marrying and there are children involved. Things like this happen even when there isn't a divorce that hasn't taken place. Say Carol Brady had gotten a huge estate from her late husband and it was supposed to be passed on to her girls after her death. She marries Mike Brady, but then dies before he does. Everything goes to him and she trusts him to leave the stuff to her girls. He either decides, screw them and I'm going to give my boys everything or worse, he remarries a new person and then he dies and the new person now gets everything from Carol and Mike and keeps it for HER kids. She didn't say that though. She was asked about Dennis, she answered with an example about Dennis. It happened to include Mothers Day. But at no time did she say that she had an issue with spending Mother's Day with just Brynn. She was just saying this was an example of a time that he had said we were going to do something and he didn't show up and that's a reason why we had issues, he was not reliable.
  7. I can't imagine that Bravo would have had an issue with LVP not attending Jax and Brittany's wedding because of the death of her mother. First because there's been a bunch of press about how she should have taken time off from RHOBH this year (even Andy has said they should have given her time off), after the death of her brother. Second, though, because you could also have all sorts of intense, worried interviews and tearful conversations about how the "kids" are worried about LVP after losing her mother. Jax and Brittany can have a conversation with LVP where they tell her not to worry about coming, then they can have solemn conversations about how they love her and wish she could be there, but of course she should be more concerned with her family, etc. So Kyle has had this gift for months, but somehow she didn't have it when she went to LVP's house the day before her birthday to confront LVP and tell her she had to confess and how everyone had decided she was wrong? Ok then. One of the things that I have always liked about Erika is that she generally didn't get super involved in the petty BS that the women tended to snipe at each other about. Dorit and Kyle arguing about who is LVP's very favorite most bestest friend ever? Erika doesn't care if you like her or not. I appreciated that about her. This year with her wading into the crap with LVP and talking about the dark clouds and all of that? Not a fan. Denise made her feelings clear, basically she seems to think that the way she handled her divorce is the way they should all be handled. What does it matter to her if someone else has a different settlement? And why does she care if Camille kept Grammar in her name? Denise was ALWAYS Denise Richards, even when married to Charlie. She is STILL Denise Richards, while married to Aaron, so it's not like she was publicly changing the way she was known. I have friends who are older than my parents and also young enough to be my children. I don't think it's necessarily strange that a 23 year old would be close to a 58 year old if they had similar interests. I also don't think that Sessa/Blizzard are personally all that close to LVP, I think they're work associates but not necessarily social friends who are in touch about personal issues or anything like that. Teddi spent the whole season showing all of these texts that she had from Blizzard as her "proof" that she was set up by LVP. Now she's saying that she didn't even know Blizzard that well and only dealt with him regarding events. That doesn't really seem to add up, given that she has all of these texts that have nothing really to do with the events. I snipped some stuff out of your post for space reasons. NY works because they all treat the show like it's a job, which it is. They leave what they have "at the office" for the most part and then discuss it at the reunion and then let it go, because it is done and over with. They also recognize that they will have to work with the same people next year. BH, on the other hand, are all busy pretending that they are real life BFFs and also make it about teams. They catalog every potential slight and spend their time trying to prove they are the best friend and their life is the best ever and everyone else is just jealous of them. Because she can look like the long suffering great friend who has just been trying to move past this horrible situation. All she has wanted to do is give LVP her birthday gift and she won't talk to her! Pity Kyle! I also agree that people who say they never lie can't be trusted. Seriously, what do you do when someone invites you somewhere and you don't want to go but there isn't a graceful way out? How is it not polite to say "I need to check my schedule and make sure the kids don't have something, etc." Rather than saying what you are thinking, which is "Oh that sounds like torture, no way am I going to do that?" I think Erika had good work done and is also good with aging. She wanted to look better, but is fine looking her age. Kyle is determined to look 20 or 30, rather than aging well and that never works out well for women. I actually don’t think Camille cares that much if people know who she is. I think she's good with living her own life in the way she wants to, but I don't know that she's super concerned with being a celebrity in the same way that Rinna and Kyle are. I watched ER back when it was on and had no idea who Kyle was. Later when I was watching it again, after having seen RHOBH, I realized who Kyle was on the show. She played a nurse, specifically a dialysis nurse who popped up in the background off and on throughout the show. Her name was Dory, and she might have a line once in a while, but it wasn't like she was a major player on the show. I find this kind of thing insulting. Together, during their marriage, she and Kelsey invested in a large portfolio of real estate. They also had a production company, and she worked as a creator, writer and executive producer in it. On top of that, no one ever contradicts Kyle when she claims credit for what has been created at The Agency. In her speech she talked about how she and Mauricio went and got their real estate licenses and now look at what they've built. Yet we never see Kyle showing houses or doing paperwork. But no one would argue that she doesn't help to promote his business, and host parties for him, etc. So why trash Camille for doing a similar role in Kelsey's life?
  8. LVP was the officiant for Tom Schwartz and Katie's wedding. Lance Bass officiated for Jax and Brittany. I think she mugged a 3 year old's dress up trunk. Seriously, how did they not have a conversation ahead of time about this? "What are you wearing? I'm wearing a highlighter." "You are?! Me too!!!! It will be gorgeous!!!!" Give it 10 minutes, Kyle will start her splits soon. I thought we ALL agreed to stop doing this look? Why is Rinna trying to bring it back? This was unfair. Camille put in the time and work alongside Kelsey to build what they had. It isn't wrong for her to have gotten a settlement for it. It also isn't wrong for Denise to have not taken a bigger settlement for her marriage to Charlie, despite having spent the time with him and gotten him on a path to rebuilding things. They each are free to make their own choices about their own situations and if they did what worked best for them, then that's great. That's also what Camille was saying. Denise, on the other hand got a nasty dig in there about anyone taking a bigger settlement being a "nasty fucking whore" which is not cool. I'm not really sure if those are in her budget these days either, what with the latest news and all.
  9. The circus thing was different, too, because both Sonja and Dorinda also had a part in it. Their parts weren't aired on the show the way Tinsley's was, but they weren't just there as spectators. Sonja wasn't just randomly pulled out as a lark. Now would they have gone to support Tinsley? I hope so, because she does go to their stuff, but it was a big overlap with 3 hos in the event. What she was saying about Dennis and Thanksgiving was that he was sort of a security blanket in that they were off and on with their relationship. They would be together, things would go wrong, she would know the relationship wasn't ideal/healthy/good/whatever and so they would break up, but they never really made a clean break. They were friends, the feelings were still there as were whatever issues, and what would happen is that if something was coming up (for instance, Thanksgiving), and she wasn't going to be with Brynn and didn't have other plans, he was always there. She could call him and knew he was a fallback. But that meant that it started the cycle of them dating again, etc. Now, they obviously had issues. Dennis clearly had addiction issues and it's not clear how well known it was. But one of the problems that they had that caused them to be "off" again at times was that he would disappear. This is something that addicts do, whether they're using and they vanish or they're trying to stop using and are sick and can't function. It's also something people do when they struggle with mental health issues, so it might not trigger warning signs if he had hid his usage otherwise. But, when she said she was alone on Mother's Day, they had plans to spend the day together and he didn't show up and wasn't reachable. This type of being unreliable was one of the reasons they would break up and be "off" Both of those statements kind of illustrate the on/off or push/pull of a dysfunctional relationship. I've seen friends go through those sorts of cycles and can say that I had a real winner in my early dating years. I do not miss that kind of drama at all. I honestly don't know how anyone has the energy to date so I give all sorts of praise to anyone who jumps back into that ring. I think it would be exhausting, but I've gotten way more introverted as I've gotten older.
  10. It's also rude to call people abnormal for their choices. If they aren't yours, that's cool, but you don't have to shout at other people because you don't agree.
  11. I agree. Corey, even before his current wife, was a much better house for the kids than Leah's. I think Jo has always kept a room for Isaac. And I'm confident that Javi has space for his kids. Gary clearly cares for his kids. I think even Nathan makes sure that Kaiser is cared for and has a clean, safe environment. Tyler I don't want to give a pass on because his kid did literally hand someone poop. But considering the rest of their family, he and Caitlyn are living in a better situation than you'd expect. It's pretty much Ryan and Adam that suck, along with Jace's father who isn't even around. Oh, that's right, he's modeling and feeding the homeless, so he hasn't had time.
  12. This is the case in my family. I was baptized, as were some of my siblings, but not the youngest. My parents were all different religions (between biological parents and step parents, there are a few in there), and none of them were big on church or religion to start with. They did all kind of like the idea/ritual of having a baptism/christening, it was just one of those things you do when you have a baby, so most of us where baptised. They did intend to have the youngest done as well, it just kind of fell through the cracks, as things do with a youngest kid. Scheduling, making the gown, trying to work out the date with the extended family and then, oh, we were moving, what church would it be in? We moved again and then suddenly the kid was in middle school. Growing up if we were interested in religion, any and all questions were answered and if we had wanted to go to church, they'd have taken us, but it wasn't a thing. They never intended to raise us in any of the churches that we were baptised in and it was always understood that we could make our own choices to go to church, not go to church, be Catholic, Jewish, Methodist, etc. They didn't even pick the same faiths for all of the kids to be baptised in. I can also say that having grown up without any sort of religion and having married someone who was raised Catholic but has now pretty much rejected it, if we had a child, we would likely have some sort of christening/baptism. It would be for the same reason I was baptised, I like the idea of family and friends coming together to welcome a new baby and offer good wishes and thoughts for their future.
  13. "If you were on tv this would happen to you too" No the fuck it would not. You might see that my house is messy sometimes and that I don't always put my laundry away the same day I do it, but you wouldn't find a bunch of random pill bottles, screaming kids, booze, trash and the general chaos you see in her household. And you damn sure would NOT see animal cruelty, child abuse or any random animal disappearances.
  14. I still think Seventeen magazine prom issue when I hear Jovani so it just cracks me up that Lu is going to town on a single about it. The challenge with this, for me, is that Lu is wrapping herself in the "struggle" of sobriety, but not actually doing any of the work of being sober. She chose to go the route of having a drinking problem to avoid the consequences of her actions (threatening to kill a cop, assaulting a cop), which is fine, I don't fault her for that. But she hasn't actually complied with the terms of the probation she was given. It shouldn't have been difficult for her to go to rehab, go to the mandated meetings, do the community service and be done with it. We know from news reports that she wasn't complying with the terms and conditions at the very same time that she was going on and on to the women, on camera, about how hard it is to be her and how hard it is to be sober and do all of the work, etc. It rings hollow, since she clearly wasn't doing it, otherwise why not do the breathalyzer as mandated? Why not go to your meetings? Why refuse the ankle monitor? This. I was laughing so hard at Lu in this scene. They make her watch her own behavior, ask her to explain how she felt watching it back. She knows she has to say something that isn't "I don't have a problem with it, they shouldn't treat me like that!" So she comes out with "Well, you know, this was so difficult for me, it just makes me feel cold inside" and then when Dorinda kind of starts to say something negative to her again, she jumps up and runs over to hug her with "I don't like the way you are looking at me right now!" Andy is all "Oh look! They are making up!" And I'm sitting there like, wait, did anyone else notice that Lu hasn't actually apologized or said she did anything wrong? She totally made it about herself, made Dorinda apologize and somehow has Dorinda thinking she apologized, but she never did. It's true, though? We know from her probation issues that she was drinking. I think many people can wear braids at a variety of ages. I also think Lu looks like an idiot in braids. Lu has to understand that her cabaret is basically like when your little kid learns a new song at school or gets a recorder and their whole class learns to play hot cross buns. Everyone who comes over to the house is willing to humor your child and listen to them play the song, because little kids are cute and even though recorders are annoying, it's what you do. You listen to the song, you clap and praise them. Then you pretty much expect that the kid is redirected off to something else, not that they launch into 2 hours of recorder recital. If this happens every time you go to that person's house, people will stop visiting. Lu is the kid with the recorder, and everyone has heard her damn songs. Ramona said, "How smart can Dennis be? I mean, he was on drugs." Saying he used drugs is one thing, but saying he was stupid because he used them and died is horrible. It's different to me when they have an event to attend for a product (or a product is at an event), and what Lu is doing, because if Ramona has a launch party for her skincare line and someone else has a prior commitment they can drop by for 30 minutes and leave. Bethenny has a party for the holidays and yes, her products are the ones served, but the party itself is for the holidays. People can come late, leave early, whatever. With Lu's cabaret it's a specific time commitment and she has demands for pre and post show. I absolutely think all of the women should go and see her, but they've gone several times. Getting mad that Bethenny couldn't stay the whole night for the Halloween thing was crap, as she told her ahead of time she had to leave by a specific time and Lu didn't bother to try to visit with anyone ahead of time (and Sonja was also a host of the party, so Lu could have been down talking to the women too). She gets mad when they arrive and interrupt her pre-show (despite the fact that there are like 30 other people in her dressing room), and then is upset if they aren't there ahead of time too. Then they have to stay for so long after, it's just a no win situation.
  15. Joao is falling into a classic trap of managing people where he's relying heavily on his good people and ignoring his problems. He knows that Collin is reliable, so he tends to put a lot on Collin, because it will get done. It seems like that's the reasonable thing to do, but it's not fair to Collin and it lets Jack off the hook (as well as Travis, to an extent). Then Collin is put in the position of making a mistake that isn't really his fault, he was trying to do something by himself that required two people. Instead of Sandy being pissy that he was left alone to do it by himself, she comments about him making the mistake. Joao needs to be more up Jack's ass about doing an equal share of the work. He also needs to bring Sandy into the loop with the issues with him. I have had the displeasure of being at an event with some members of this family. It was . . . not enjoyable. Well, the event itself was, but they were not. They stood out and not in a good way. Jackie wasn't there, but the whole family is just crazy and entitled, I really feel for the crew for having to deal with them.
  16. He does think that, though, even without the booze. Craig is beyond delusional about his actual abilities and how he interacts with others. He has some personality disorder that he is not treating and could benefit from quite a lot of therapy. I'd venture to guess, though, that he'd be difficult to treat, since he's pretty manipulative and just lies and tells people what they want to hear. It would have helped if she had read the recipe before starting, though. Part of the issue was that it was supposed to sit overnight and then she also didn't have cream and subbed half and half. Not that I haven't been in that position before, I'm totally the person who is like "Oh, it calls for thyme? Rosemary will work!"
  17. Robyn likely wasn't planning to bring it up, I think she was good with not mentioning it in the group at all. I think Candiace deliberately brought it up to Robyn and Gizelle so that it was on the table and was planning to bring it up in front of everyone when Ashley was there. Gizelle flat out said she was going to bring it up when Candiace went to the door to let Ashley in. I find Gizelle amusing as hell, but I'm not involved with her at all, so she's an awesome character. I can't help but laugh when she's announcing that she had something to bring up to Monique but there's late breaking penis sucking news and so therefore it will have to wait while they investigate this new situation. But she did engineer Ashley and Candiace fighting. Robyn even seemed like she was trying to point out that Candiace seemed to be coming for Ashley in a kind of relentless way, which is when Candiace took the opportunity to drop the news about Ashley's husband. Gizelle also threw Robyn under the bus with the announcement and that wasn't cool. Ashley had no way to know that, though at the Pride event, so Robyn was in a shitty place, as she's trying to say she wasn't going to bring it up and Gizelle did, but as far as Ashley knows, Robyn is the one who outed the info.
  18. I think Nathan has a lot of issues, but for me, the difference is that Nathan's issues are something that he acquired while he was doing something useful and decent with his life. He's clearly fucked up from his time in the military and while that doesn't excuse the fact that it he doesn't get the treatment that he needs or his self-medicating with alcohol (and steroid use?), it just seems different to me than Jenelle and her perpetual bullshit vortex. I know that Jenelle also has legitimate mental health issues that she chooses not to treat, and obviously she can't help the fact that she has them, but, she doesn't even attempt to be a decent person. Nathan at least seems to try and then gets stuck and fails. When he and Jenelle were together, he was clearly bonded with Jace, more so than Jenelle. There were several scenes of Barb coming over and fighting with Jenelle, meanwhile, Nathan is in the background just carrying Jace around, talking calmly to him, to help soothe him. Neither Barb or Jenelle were worried about how it was affecting Jace, but Nathan gave a shit. And it's clear that Kaiser is bonded to him and he has a good time with him. That little boy has such a different affect around Nathan it's like he has a twin. I don't think Nathan is father of the year by any means, I just think there's hope for him, while I think Jenelle has peaked and is sinking fast. I don't have a dog or kids. If my husband had murdered my hypothetical dog, I'd be living somewhere in hiding, with some sort of restraining order. My hypothetical children would be with me, because that's a major red flag. There's no way I'd be over that in "almost a while week!" That's a "I'm done with you forever, you can't come within 500 feet of me or my family" kind of situation.
  19. I completely forgot that I wanted to include this link in my previous post. This is why I say Shep is who Shep always was, we've just known him long enough that the charm has worn off. Or maybe not. Shep continued, “I have never, ever, ever, ever gotten a gift for a wedding. What a stupid, stupid thing. I am spending literally a $1000 to come and see you — that’s enough.” Read more at https://www.realitytea.com/2019/07/05/shep-rose-explains-why-he-didnt-get-jax-taylor-brittany-cartwright-a-wedding-gift/#uMfmErYt7Avd2euG.99 Really? With his mailbox money and his "Southern Manners, he thinks showing up at someone's wedding is enough? I know that when I got married I didn't care if people brought me a gift (seriously, I didn't), but at the same time, I wouldn't dream of going to a wedding and not giving a gift. It's how I was raised. And even if you don't feel like you have to get someone a gift, in what world is it tactful to be openly scornful of it?
  20. You don't actually touch your eye, you just get close enough to grab the tear before it falls. I am one of those people that even waterproof mascara runs and streaks on even if I'm not crying (by the end of a night, I look like a raccoon no matter what I do), so if I'm crying, I try to head off as much damage as possible. In fairness, though, I have also worn contacts for more than 20 years, so you could probably sit here with your finger on my eyeball and it wouldn't bug me. I think Ashley is super messy and I have not liked her behavior in the past. I also think, however, that Candiace has been gunning for her this season, so I'm not super upset with her saying that it was her mother's house when Candiace took things to a 48 right away. Candiace came in snotty, Ashley responded, and it just escalated. They had been planning an ambush for her to begin with, which always sucks, and Candiace had been running her mouth about all this stuff that Ashley did that she felt she was lying about, but don't bring up Candiace! (And yes, I realize that Ashley is the same, but she wasn't swinging a butter knife in anyone's face) I did like the way Karen handled the Michael situation, weirdly. Normally Karen isn't my favorite, but for her to just say, look, this is what it is, we have to let you know, you need to have a conversation. We know it's hard, but go and have it, and figure things out. That's all you have to do. And then want to move on, I think that's a big change for her, and I liked it.
  21. When the show started, it was mentioned that the boys in Charleston had major Peter Pan syndrome and it's true. (It's also true elsewhere in the South, in my experience, not all men and not everywhere, but there's definitely a Southern guy type that these guys fit into) Shep is exactly the same as he was day 1, he's just less guarded and more drunk, and this is what happens the more you spend time around these sorts of guys. Meet them the first time and they're great, hang out a few times, they're super charming, seem like good friends, etc. As time goes on, though, the cracks appear and you realize they're just overgrown children with "show manners" and are basically toddlers who feel they are entitled to whatever they want whenever they want it. This is the current stage we're in with Shep. Whitney, on the other hand, kind of started at that stage. He was always pretentious and judgey, he openly looked down on people, so you never doubted that he was a snob. He was imperious and nasty. He vanished for a bit and is being more cautious in how he appears, so at the moment he looks better.
  22. I'm allergic to a whole bunch of things, allergies that developed later in life and have gotten increasingly more severe and difficult to treat. But I haven't been given an epi-pen. The list of things I have to avoid (or try to, as some aren't entirely possible), grows each year, but thus far none of the drs I have seen for my allergies have brought up an epi-pen.
  23. Because you have to be prescribed an epi-pen. Her allergy escalated in severity and previously it was manageable without the epi-pen. Sometimes drs will decide that you don't need an epi-pen until you hit an anaphalactic response, others will judge an escalating response or a more serious reaction and prescribe it just in case. But if you don't have a prescription for it, you can't just go get one.
  24. She did. This reunion number was one of them, it was quite the disaster:
  25. Captain Lee is pretty outspoken on twitter. He tells people off and gets into some disagreements with them, so while I think he may be somewhat restrained with Captain Sandy as she's a colleague as far as the show goes, he has disagreed with her calls on some things. I don't think he'd hold back and keep quiet just because, though. There were a few things Joao did last season that were really over the line. I'm forgetting exactly what one it was, but Colin tweeted during or after that episode and said something along the lines of "That wasn't cool" It was clear that he was still friendly with Joao, but he disapproved of that particular behavior and thought it was out of line. He wasn't nasty, just, said it was wrong. Sandy then retweeted Colin's tweet and scolded Colin for criticizing Joao, saying something along the lines of he's trying and it's unfair to trash someone who is working hard, etc. Now this year, when she's asked about his behavior towards Hanna or how he was when drunk last year, she's all "You have to remember, I didn't see any of this until it aired" Which is fine, except she WAS seeing it when she decided it was ok to reprimand Colin for calling out something Joao did that was really screwed up.
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