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    Milestone Moments: All The Celebrity Vitals

    in Everything Else TV

    36 minutes ago, MissAlmond said:

    The probably thought Gutierrez-Reed knew how to handle the job because her father - Thell Reed - had an excellent reputation as an armorer and assumed he taught her firsthand.  

    He definitely is highly respected, but from what I've seen, the overriding reason she was hired was because the production was so cheap that other professional armorers balked at being required to do both that job and prop work. I think if she had been a no-name, she still would have been hired because she was apparently the only one willing to deal with that. I don't think that reflects well on her or the production. 

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    Little House On The Prairie - General Discussion

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    7 minutes ago, jason88cubs said:

    It's too bad we didn't get a episode with both Garvey and Edwards

     

    Maybe a storyline of they fight over who is Charles best friend then they both realize they tire of Charles and his ego and they ditch Charles and become best friends instead

    I would pay money to watch them bond over how annoying Charles is. LOL

    "Then he's always trying to get you to cry."

    "And whipping that shirt off!"

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    Little House On The Prairie - General Discussion

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    3 minutes ago, Blergh said:

    Not a bad point.

    Oddly enough, Jonathan's intro episode had a 'humorous' subplot of him having a bit too much of a liking for booze and him doing his best to hide it from Alice and (of all folks) Mary- the resulting disposal of said booze caused Nels to get sloshed from it. It must have been near 200 proof for a mere jugful of it getting diluted in a rain barrel to have STILL been enough to have caused tipsiness.  

    THAT would be the ONLY hint of Jonathan not being a teetotaller in the series ( apart from his numbing himself to mourn Alice) but I'm wondering if perhaps that late Merlin Olsen having been a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints [who are rather strict about their members drinking alcohol] might have been flatly refused to have played a boozing character more than one  or two episodes- even though  it might have made for some potential plotlines.

    Come to think of it,though, neither Isaiah nor his then-wife Grace  ever had any family members visiting them- although we did learn of the tragic deaths of his first wife and their young daughter when there was an outbreak of some kind of plague! Of course, Mr. Edwards DID have both humorous and serious booze storylines.

     

    I could see Olsen objecting for sure, but I also wonder if they decided it made him seem too Mr. Edwards like and that it would be better to have a clearer contrast in their personalities. 

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    Little House On The Prairie - General Discussion

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    6 minutes ago, kav said:

     What would be sell a complete wrapped set w/ boxed case of 9 paperback  books used?  We got one donated to the Friends of Library to sell.  We usually sell a paperback for $1.

    The library where I work usually just charges the same amount for a set as it would for a standalone. Our paperback price is .50, so all the books together would be $4.50 or $9 with your standard price.

    However, we also have a very successful silent auction the library does weekly. When we see things like sets in good condition, we pull it aside and let them duel it out on bids, and that often nets a better sale. If someone really wants it, they may well bid $10-20 for it, especially if it is wrapped.

    Party of One: Unpopular TV Opinions

    in Everything Else TV

    Yeah the 2017 eclipse was a thing then and wasn't at night, at least where I am. I was only in 70-something totality, and my crochety scrooge of a boss at the time still let us all gallop outside with our eclipse glasses to watch and he joined us and didn't even nag about us not working. It's one of my most pleasant memories of him honestly. LOL

    Earlier this week, I was reading anecdotes from people at the time who said the traffic coming out of St. Louis, which had totality, slowed to 10-15 mph on the interstate afterward because so many people came to see it. In another online community I'm in, which isn't astronomy focused at all, a lot of people said they'd traveled to Wyoming for it. 

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    Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)

    in Counting On

    · Edited by Zella

    17 hours ago, crazy8s said:

    Usually a few people going at a scheduled time once a week to sing and maybe pray. Surely no senior would be forced to attend.

    Yeah I used to be part of the nursing home programming my library offered, and we would sometimes be scheduled after a church group that would sing hymns. Participation in these activities was entirely voluntary. You were there because you'd expressed an interest in doing so and you could leave at any time. My library would always send 2 of us. Usually, my coworker would be the one doing the presentation/programming, and I was up and out of the room a lot flagging down staff once someone decided they were tired and wanted to go back to their room and couldn't do so without assistance. I'd argue the nursing home residents are less captive audiences than the church groups they sing for.

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    Milestone Moments: All The Celebrity Vitals

    in Everything Else TV

    3 minutes ago, Kel Varnsen said:

    There was a great PBS documentary that used to be in Netflix called League of Denial about Mike Webster and the pathologist that first diagnosed CTE in football players and how the NFL basically ignored it(it was the basis for the Will Smith movie Concussion). I don't even really like football but watched the whole thing and would watch it again if I could.

    I'll have to check that out! I was just a teenager when I read the article so didn't know who he was--I was that weird kid that read Reader's Digest cover to cover every month LOL--but it was such a sad story. 

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    Milestone Moments: All The Celebrity Vitals

    in Everything Else TV

    1 hour ago, Cobalt Stargazer said:

    I don't believe, however, that it was commonly known that TBIs can occur during sporting events, at least not at the time Simpson was on trial,

    Yes I think you're right. The first time I heard of it was in 2003 when Reader's Digest published an article about former Steelers center Mike Webster. He had died the previous year and was the first NFL player officially diagnosed with CTE postmortem. 

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    Small Talk: The Prayer Closet

    in Counting On

    32 minutes ago, GeeGolly said:

    my husband prefers more of a smooth ride,

    Yes! The rest of my family all drives either Toyotas (or Dodges). All the Toyota drivers concede my Honda is a smoother ride by far, but they always still go back to the Toyotas when it is time to buy. LOL My first 2 cars were Accords, but whenever I buy again--hopefully not any time soon--I'd definitely get another CRV. I don't like SUVs that are really big, so I like that the CRV seems sturdier than the car but doesn't feel like I'm driving in stilts. 

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    Small Talk: The Prayer Closet

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    2 minutes ago, GeeGolly said:

    LMFAO.

    Our last (partial) eclipse was in, I think 2017. Our entire clinic, clients and all, were outside with our glasses and cereal boxes, lol.

    We had 70-something percent totality then, and my entire office I was working at at the time ran out there with eclipse glasses. My brother told me everyone at his shop was out there with welding helmets. LOLOL 

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    Small Talk: The Prayer Closet

    in Counting On

    99% here! They've predicted anywhere from 250,000 to 1,000,000 surging into Arkansas, so I'm not going to try to travel to an area of totality, though it's only about an hour or so away. But I have the day off and eclipse glasses. 😁 They keep wavering on whether or not we'll have clouds. 

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    What Are We Currently Reading?

    in Books

    7 hours ago, EtheltoTillie said:

    I don't know what it was about the Moscow book, which so many loved.  It just dragged for me. 

    I found the premise so farfetched that I couldn't really get into it. I've read way too much Soviet history to suspend my disbelief. 

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    Jessa, Ben and Their Brood: Making a (Diaper) Mountain out of a Mold House

    in Counting On

    14 hours ago, jcbrown said:

    It has to be a challenge for any Duggar "kid" to figure out that schedules and structure are actually good for kids (or for them!). They were raised pretty feral without much in the way of structure and they were raised to actively resist any hint of critical thinking so breaking out of that to see a different way seems like it could be a real shift. Not defending Jessa letting her kids stand in the fridge drinking milk out of the container or waiting until they fall over asleep to put them to bed, just thinking "out loud." 

    That seemed to come up for multiple spouses in the marriage retreat episode. I think they were used to chaos. I also think it's why Jessa was billed the family organizer, even though she's really not a natural organizer. She just had a forceful enforcer personality, and I think that's how they view any imposition of structure or order, a necessary evil that has to be rammed down your throat. 

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    Josh and Anna

    in Counting On

    20 minutes ago, Notabug said:

    I think Michelle couldn't bear to face the truth about her baby boy, the golden child.  And, even moreso, she couldn't bear to face the phalanx of reporters shouting questions at her about the 'sin in the camp' and her role in enabliing it.  She's more than happy to ride in the parade, baby on her breast or accept an award for mother of the year; she cannot face the truth about herself, that her mothering skills weren't as great as she liked to pretend, her kid was seriously messed up and all the interventions they concocted with the help of their brethren did nothing to change Josh' ultimate course and may even have made things worse.

    I can totally buy that too! I also think that's why Jim Bob was so defiant. Josh undermines what he's built his entire family and identity on, so of course he's going to double down. That being said, I did find Jill's comments from her book about Michelle's irritation with Josh in the middle of the scandals interesting. 

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    Josh and Anna

    in Counting On

    3 minutes ago, GeeGolly said:

    By the end of the trial, I think most, even JB&M believed he was guilty - to some degree.

    I agree, and I've wondered if this is part of why Michelle never attended the trial. 

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    Josh and Anna

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    · Edited by Zella

    16 minutes ago, emma675 said:

    That's what kills me, they knew full well what their son had been doing, under their own roof to their own daughters, and Jim Bob and Michelle still had the audacity to present themselves as the perfect Christian family to millions. All while judging others. Their son was a predator and they just tried to sweep it under the rug like it was no big deal.

    Yes I actually do have sympathies for families who find themselves in this situation. It would be heartbreaking as a parent to discover one of your kids is preying on your other children (I say that not as a parent but just as someone with basic levels of empathy).

    I do not, however, have sympathy for people who then continue to prioritize the child who's a predator at the expense of the other children. (And I firmly believe even the siblings who weren't attacked were still victims of the bizarre household rules the molestations led to, which then policed opposite-sex sibling interactions. That's not healthy or fair to the other brothers who didn't molest their sisters or their sisters who suddenly can't spend time with their non predator-brothers without their parents making it weird.) Nor do I have sympathy for people who also then continue to go on sanctimoniously making a career out of judging other people for wearing pants and peddling misogyny and child abuse under the veneer of godliness while this is going on in their own house. Both of which the Duggars did for years.

    I'm not judging them because they're Christian. I'm a believer too. But I think their behavior is noxious and they've well earned the scorn being heaped on them. They're reaping the consequences of their own actions. 

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    Josh and Anna

    in Counting On

    1 hour ago, Notabug said:

    His fall from grace was steeper and more catastrophic, but he's the one who climbed up on that pedestal in the first place.  Josh did much the same and his fall has been steeper because of it.

    And this is true of the entire family thanks to Jim Bob and Michelle too. They're the ones who kept presenting that their family was somehow more wholesome and godly than everyone else and also instilled Josh with the idea that he's superior as the eldest son, while they're sitting on top of his numerous sex scandals. 

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    What Are We Currently Reading?

    in Books

    · Edited by Zella

    I've added James to my to-read list! Thanks for the recommendation!

    I'm currently reading Vanessa Chan's The Storm We Made about the Japanese occupation of Malaysia during WWII. It's not an easy read but is very good so far. 

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