Zella
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I agree they're probably not doing much reading, and we know they're not doing anything resembling real school. But in my personal experience, I think people tend to be either good at spelling or not, and it doesn't necessarily correlate with intelligence, education, or reading ability/frequency. So, Kaylee may still very well suck at spelling even if she was raised in a different environment.
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36 minutes ago, AgathaC said:My husband’s father died suddenly and tragically and he still talks about the incredibly insensitive things well-meaning people said.
The best condolence I ever got after a sudden tragic death in the family was from someone who said "This is just awful. I'm so sorry." I don't know why people suddenly decide they need to be a philosopher or a theologian in those moments.
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7 minutes ago, Ohiopirate02 said:
I don't think it's unwitting. Their theology supports the idea of the earth being a prison where they are doing life until Jesus grants them their parole in death.
I get that, but when they're gushing about doing time with their spouse, I think they think they're being flattering. I don't think they're consciously making a theological statement.
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On 12/28/2023 at 9:52 AM, laurakaye said:"Doing life." Interesting phraseology, Jinger.
Between that and them talking about living in The Big House, I find it psychologically fascinating how much the family unwittingly evokes prison to describe their day-to-day existence.
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36 minutes ago, Annber03 said:
I also liked everyone's descriptions of Thomas' poem. Even Thomas himself stated that it went on two hours :p.
LOL YES! When he first described how enraptured by his poetry they were, I was like "Oh I seriously doubt that, Thomas." And then everyone else describing how bored the audience was. 😂
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53 minutes ago, Annber03 said:
And "The Thomas Thorne Affair" (great title, by the way :D). So good. I loved the whole setup and how different everyone's recollections were in regards to Thomas' death. I especially liked Humphrey being able to figure out some of the most important details simply because of his unique perspective on the floor :D. And Kitty knowing the details that were the most painful to Thomas...there was something really poignant about that that I liked. I felt so bad for Thomas. Damn. That's cold.
That's one of my favorite episodes! I also really enjoyed Mary's recollection versus everyone else's with people floating. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This was the episode when Humphrey's head started becoming one of my favorite ghosts.
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6 hours ago, crazy8s said:
living pretty damn well in my opinion.
Perhaps materially, but I suspect the general atmosphere in that house post-Josh's conviction is probably not a lot of fun. I remember being a kid and all the adults in the house being mad and stressed out. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
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20 minutes ago, YupItsMe said:
I live in a very small town in AR (less than 2500) and we have our own “townopoly” sold at the local WalMart. I don’t know if it’s just for towns in AR or everywhere.
Well I live in Arkansas too and I've never seen one for my town! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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14 hours ago, GeeGolly said:
Is Jed going to be demoted down the son ladder for talking to Derick? Or maybe he's gathering info for JB.
I didn't see any signs of Anna and her kids. Anyone know if she's in FL, or maybe TX?
My guess is Jed! has been appointed Daddy's proxy and is keeping an eye on them at the very least.
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15 minutes ago, Blergh said:
I get that MG seemed rather jealous (and, as per her longstanding beefs with Melissa Sue Anderson and Shannen Doherty) VERY capable of holding grudges long after the initial schism's causes had been over.
However, it's puzzling that every other surviving cast member seems to have adopted a code of silence- barely acknowledging JG having been present during the production- much less being candid re whether they have knowledge of his fate after adulthood.
Hence, all I can think of is that since many of the cast members (especially those up in years) are depending more and more on nostalgic reunions, meet-and-greets,etc. for the a good part of their current livelihood, it's possible that MG may have subtly if not overtly threatened the above over the issue of JG's fate.
Now, that you mention it, it's puzzling that none of the interviewers not only haven't thusfar interviewed him but don't even claim to have attempted to seek him out- much less asked others to level about him.
I've thought some of that could simply be respect for his wishes. He doesn't seem to want to be found or bothered with press, so I think the kindest thing to do would be to honor that. And honestly some of it could be embarrassment too. It does appear something was very off with the way he was treated in his family, and it may be easier for the rest of the cast to not talk about it rather than acknowledge it.
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11 hours ago, CalicoKitty said:
I am hoping that Ben and Jessa might start calling Spurge by his middle name--Eliot (or is it Elliot?).
I think that ship has sailed. They seemed determined to double-down on the awful name from the beginning, and I don't think the ensuing years have made them any less ridiculous about it.
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8 hours ago, GHScorpiosRule said:
Ironically, Puzo also worked on the screenplay with Coppola.
Coppola must have really reined him in!
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52 minutes ago, EtheltoTillie said:
The movies really elevated the original material.
Agreed. The first 2 movies are some of my all-time favorite films. That book is one of the most singularly ridiculous (and not in a fun way) novels I've ever read.
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16 hours ago, jcbrown said:
And Monopoly is an objectively terrible game, no matter the variant. My spouse and I agreed more than a decade ago that we will no longer play it because we would like to stay married and one of us is hyper-competetive, which that game really rewards.
My family refuses to play too. The last time we played, also probably about a decade ago, they all got mad at me for having good strategies and accused me of being a slum lord. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
On a side note, I find it hilarious that Rogers has its own version of Monopoly. I never knew that, and I'd have thought Bentonville with all its Walton money would have been a more likely candidate.
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7 minutes ago, Notabug said:
Fentanyl and vicodin are both opiods. Prince apparently purchased vicodin, which he had used for chronic pain/narcotic addiction for years, from a non-medical source and it turned out the vicodin was contaminated with fentanyl which is far more potent and it caused his death. This is the sort of OD we've seen so much of over the past decade or so. Fentanyl is relatively cheap and easy to obtain, so mixing it with a more expensive, but less lethal, narcotic is not unusual amongst dealers.
Matthew Perry was using ketamine, a drug that is used for anesthesia and can cause hallucinations and dissociation. The dissociative aspect, which allows people suffering from PTSD or depression to escape from their thoughts, memories, selves for brief periods has been shown to be useful in people who don't respond to the usual therapies for depression/PTSD. Perry was being seen in a clinic where the drug was being administered by IV infusion at intervals and the effects usually last for weeks afterwards. The problem is that this is a very expensive therapy because of the infusion and monitoring needed. It has more recently become available as a nasal spray which is less expensive and needs less monitoring than the IV drug. However, it is an anesthetic, it causes drowsiness and I guarantee you that Perry was probably warned every time he got the drug prescribed that he should not operate motor vehicles, etc. No one would've ever suggested that ketamine nasal spray and a hot tub were a good idea. He used the ketamine, it made him sleepy and he drowned. End of story. A good guy did a dumb thing.
If anything, this reminds me of Prince Harry and his assertion in Spare that he uses magic mushrooms for PTSD from combat. There is some good research indicated that certain hallucinogens can help PTSD patients. but this therapy should be done in a medical environment with monitoring and supervision for safety. Harry even goes into detail about this in his book before announcing that he doesn't do it that way, he just uses it when and where he wants with no medical input. Because he is just that dumb. Ironically, he tells of using magic mushrooms at Courtney Cox' home while visiting LA years before he married.
Would nasal spray usage account for the amount in his system? From what I've read, he had 3,540 ng/ml, which the article I was reading claimed is essentially equivalent to a dosage that would be used for general anesthesia.
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4 minutes ago, Bastet said:
Thanks; I just read a summary (which did not note that), not the actual autopsy report, as I do not like having access to the extreme detail they get into.
You're welcome! The reporting on this has been a bit odd. I hadn't initially seen any of the additional clarification either and had been really confused too until I read the more complete explanation.
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38 minutes ago, Bastet said:
Yikes; I have a friend for whom ketamine is pretty much the last remaining treatment option for depression, so news of Perry's COD is going to freak her out (since the biggest issue seems to be finding the best facility and doctor, and he'd have access to the best of the best). She has a much healthier heart than he does, though. Getting in a hot tub was probably not a good idea.
FWIW based on the autopsy, the coroner reported the levels in his system would not have been from his treatment because it would not have stayed in his bloodstream that long, suggesting he was likely taking additional amounts of it on his own beyond those treatments.
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11 minutes ago, iMonrey said:
I also think the Christmas episode was originally an hour long, which means CBS really edited the crap out of it.
All the Christmas episodes I've watched were a half hour long like regular episodes. But I agree it's a shame they're cutting several minutes per episode. It's why I'm not rewatching them on CBS. From what I've read, a lot of my favorite little jokes/funny moments are being cut due to it.
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1 hour ago, Haleth said:
I stayed up late to finish William Kent Krueger's latest, The River We Remember. Once again he turned out a beautifully written ode to a small town in a simpler time. It does get gritty and it does get suspenseful, but when he's just writing about the town and it's inhabitants it's like being wrapped in a warm blanket... that is, until the secrets start revealing themselves. Really good book.
Oh that's been on my to-read list! Glad to hear it's really good.
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11 hours ago, Ohiopirate02 said:
The replies to her apology tweet before she locked her account are hilarious. Many a "what drugs make you a racist."
Yeah while I can easily believe she wasn't sober while doing it, I don't think it's really the excuse she thinks it is.
My favorite part of this is she went through the effort to make so many different accounts to cover her tracks but then made sure to like her own book and friend herself with each one. LMAO Like, you don't really have to be Columbo to put that together, but I am sure she thought she was really slick!
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1 hour ago, DearEvette said:
In yet another example of how to fumble the bag:
Author Cait Corrain has a debut for a fantasy novel coming in 2024 and a two book deal with Del Ray publishing. Well I should say had a debut novel and a deal because her book has been removed from the release schedule for 2024 and both her agent and her publisher has dropped and and she's lost a lucrative deal with Illumicrate, a boutique book subscription service.
Gizmodo has a good write up about it, but highlights.... Cait created a whole bunch of sock puppet accounts in Goodreads and proceed to one-star bomb other authors who were debuting around the same time as her in the same genre who she perceived as possible rivals. Most if not all were POC. Meanwhile her book was being reviewed with 5-star raves by these fake accounts.
An Eagle eyed reader noticed and started gathering the receipts. Cait was confronted with it behind the scenes and was offered the quiet opportunity by to explain and fix it. But instead she decided to create a fictitious person named 'Lily' to blame on who did all of this (complete with fabricated screen shot conversations with 'Lily' where innocent Cait confronts superfan "Lily' about what "she" did and claiming that Cait did not really know "Lily" they were just friends through the Reylo Discord fandom). This all blew up on Twitter this past weekend.
Her house of lies came tumbling down when a) people immediately got suspicious of the screen shot conversations because they did not read as if two people were talking to each other and b)the Reylo fandom chimed in that they had never heard of this Lilly person in the fandom and there was no history of any chats or of her presence on Discord.
And finally came the admission complete with explanations of depression, mental breakdowns and meds..
The irony of course is... her book was getting good word of mouth and there was going to be a major marketing push for the book. She didn't need to do all that. This is the type of stuff new authors dream of and she piddled it away out of unwarranted envy.
Thanks for posting this--I've been following it and it's a mess! The entire time I was reading about it, I kept thinking it was like R.F. Kuang's Yellowface come to life.
I saw today where one of the authors she targeted really tore into the apology, noting that the timeline Corrain uses for explaining her behavior does not really match her actions. She was apparently posting these bad reviews months before she acknowledged in the apology.
In the apology, Corrain also claims she wasn't sober while doing this--that I can believe--and she says she's going to rehab.
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4 hours ago, beckie said:
I thought Tozer was what we were thinking, but I could be wrong.
It was a joke to go with the first three kids' names because their initials would have then spelled out SHIT. Jessa ruined it by choosing Fern. Now if they go with Tozer we get the decidedly less amusing SHIFT.
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8 hours ago, Salacious Kitty said:
I dunno. They managed to "graduate" Phi!lip on the same day that Nurie had a taco gender reveal. Jill was front and center, giving speeches at both events (held at the church).
I don't think she can multitask quite as well now. Even by Jill standards, she's seemed unusually unhinged lately.
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32 minutes ago, Snow Apple said:
I have a question for those who saw more, or all, the episodes than what's shown on CBS in the US so far. Does the little girl ghost appear again?
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Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)
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Yes I'm aware. I was just pushing back on the underlying assumption a bunch of people are repeating on here that reading and education automatically make someone a good speller. That's just simply not always true in my experience, and I think sometimes people are overly simplistic about it.