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It strikes me as rather performative too. If you want to keep your children off social media (which I do think is very wise), then keep them off social media. Don't play games with it.

I'm sorry your uncle had to deal with that. My broken nose story is really redneck. I broke it on a hay bale when I was 10. It's still slightly crooked. [My nose. I am sure the hay bale suffered too. 😂]

I didn't realize that about Richie Rich. Parts of The Last of the Mohicans with Daniel Day-Lewis were filmed on the Biltmore estate too. I got in a pretty heated argument with one of my college professors over that. She assumed the movie was filmed in New York State, where the story was set. Nope. It was all filmed in Western North Carolina. I think it really pissed her off that I was right. LOLOL

I've seen some speculation he finally agreed to the reunion because he was hoping to drown out some of the unflattering reveals from Britney's memoir/build himself some positive hype with that news.

😂😂😂😂 Okay I give up.

It is a really beautiful house and location.

Aspyn is really awful. I wouldn't name a kid Truly, but I have read a book with a protagonist named Truly, so I will allow it if it were spelled Truly and not Truely. LOLOL Mykelti--I wonder if they got that from actor Mykelti Williamson, aka Bubba in Forrest Gump and Limehouse in Justified.

Yes that sums up perfectly! After I posted, I remembered what really always got me with them too. It was like they cultivated these interests because it was the thing to be interested in rather than because they had any actual passion for it. Their hobbies and interests aren't the problem. It's the way they go about it that is. I'd rather talk to someone who genuinely likes what they like, even if it is something I care nothing about, rather than listen to someone be performative about something even if that subject genuinely interests me. And yeah I can see how he's not someone Elizabeth has encountered before. Join a humanities department for a year, comrade, and you'll see right through him because you'll see so many of him. 😂

He reminds me of very annoying men I met in grad school. 😂😂😂 They're not necessarily bad people but nowhere near as deep or interesting as they think they are.

It is! I also totally buy the rumor that Jessa originally named him Gabriel and then changed it because her sister-in-law spilled the beans on the name early.

Lordy I think I would rather be Wilberforce. You can at least shorten that down to Wil.

Yeah Jessa's sons really get the short end of the stick when it comes to names. I think Henry is a perfectly nice name, but Wilberforce is a lot. And, well, Spurgeon speaks for its own awfulness.

I watched it yesterday and this was pretty much my take too. It's the first time in a long time I actually felt like De Niro was acting and not just doing his own spin on De Niro. He was quietly very sinister. And truthfully I felt like this was the first time Leo felt like he was doing more than Leo in a while too. I am not sure I have ever seen him play a character that was quite that willfully dense before. But the performance that really stood out to me was Lily Gladstone. I hope she gets an Oscar. I really liked a lot of the supporting actors too. It was a long movie, but I didn't find it boring or slow. I did find the earlier parts of the movie more interesting than the courtroom drama--which I am usually a sucker for--but it still worked for me. That being said, I am glad I watched it in an IMAX theater with reclining seats, and though I look forward to seeing it again, I will be happy to do that at home where I have control over when I can pause it. (In the early afternoon show I went to, there were a lot of people in the premium reclining seats, and one group came in, saw us in the reclining seats and were like "Oh we're paying extra to upgrade to that." But I think the lengthy runtime was definitely why so many people were doing that.) I am a big Sturgill Simpson fan. I was introduced to his work by my brother, whom I watched the movie with, and we totally started elbowing each other when we finally saw him. LOL I also thought the cinematography was stunning and appreciated the set and costume detail. I loved the music, too. I've been listening to the soundtrack on repeat ever since I got home last night. This was my take too. I burst out laughing when he was claiming he was not even allowed to communicate with his client. It was over-the-top, but I think intentionally so. It seemed to me like the kind of mannered performance a dodgy lawyer in the 20s would do in court.

This is the one that was sending me and my coworkers earlier this week:

Yes when we have conversations on here about abusive people and why women stick around, I always think about 2 of my friends from college. They're both very intelligent, accomplished women in their own right. They're both also finally getting divorced from the abusive pieces of shit they married shortly after college. In both cases, it took over 10 years. And when they were dating and getting married, none of us in my circle of friends really clocked what was happening as abuse. Now to be clear, none of us liked their husbands. We all thought the guys were assholes and their wives deserved better. But I don't think any of really identified what was happening as abuse since it was never physical to our knowledge instead of just "Wow he's an asshole." It's only now that we all recognize it for what it is, and in both cases, what was happening behind the scenes was even worse than what we knew about. I've talked a lot more about it with one of them, and I was also much more forceful in trying to warn her about her husband before they got married. I finally realized if I wanted to maintain the friendship, I'd have to stop shit-talking him and I did for a long time. Both of them had different troubled childhoods that left them very vulnerable to wanting approval from other people and/or excusing bad behavior as normal. The friend I've discussed it with the most told me she knew shortly after marrying him that she'd made a horrible mistake, but they still didn't separate for another 10 years.

Every day, many people throughout the world are living with and sleeping next to their abusers.

They both are absolutely obsessed with incredibly ugly but trendy shoes. As someone who only wears comfy shoes, I don't get it because they never look like ugly but comfortable shoes.

That does sound good! It's also tasty with cheese and peppers together!

I love beans and cornbread too, but I looked up her "fancy cornbread" recipe, and it's a pretty weird recipe, at least to me. Granted, I've been pondering the logistics of cornbread a lot recently because I finally talked my grandma into sharing her cornbread recipe with me. It's like the gold standard of cornbread with me, but I know everyone has their own special twist. LOL

Asking the most important question!!!!

Yeah Collins is so batshit crazy that I have become uncomfortable following her to snark on her. I am very concerned about the safety of her kids. The frequency they end up in the hospital for issues that seem like they're caused by, at best, neglect and lack of supervision is disturbing.

I can't get over what an awful name Paedon is. It makes some of the Duggar gems, like Jinger and Spurgeon, almost sound like poetry.

My guess is no. The homeschool family I know that reminds me the most of the fundies we discuss here didn't really read anything but the Bible. Like the Rods, they were originally from New York State. The one exception was Pilgrim's Progress, which the dad thought was the greatest thing ever written. Their teenaged children had no idea Alice in Wonderland and Sherlock Holmes were based on literary works. I was appalled. They also thought me being into Southern Gothic lit meant I was a goth. 😂😂😂😂😂

One of the more telling stories I've heard about their friendship is that when she started dating Smith, she begged Shakur not to beat him up, and apparently Shakur was really confused and even rather offended that she thought that would be his reaction to the news.