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Yes, it's essentially a salt cured fish. You have to soak it overnight and change the water several times to rinse the salt out before preparing it.

Ubah is Somali and lived in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya before moving to Canada as a teenager. In all of those countries, women wrapping/covering their heads is a cultural convention that has nothing to do with religion. Somehow in the US, head coverings have become synonymous with religious expression, but there it is just how women dress. I'm not at all surprised that she does it, especially because with her wearing wigs and extensions for work, she probably keeps her natural hair in some low-maintenance protective style.

I also wonder how much Bravo's tacit approval of folks over-indulging at work functions plays into this. I'm fascinated by the storyline currently playing out on Southern Charm where two cast members (including the dude who was filming while an Adderall addict) have distanced themselves from a fellow cast member who showed up at Bravocon and was "blackout drunk" for the entire weekend. Folks change behaviors when there are consequences, and when the network continues to allow folks to film, participate, and get paid while being under the influence what do they have to worry about? All of these people need this paycheck more than they need anything else, and if a DUI jeopardized that, folks like Karen would not drink and drive. But she and the other Bravolebrities know that the network eats this stuff (including the pearl clutching of folks like Ashley and Gizelle) up.

Wendy is teaching again as a guest lecturer at Wesleyan University. Details are in her thread. I wouldn't be surprised if it was her actual spot. Stacey didn't strike me as being the biggest domestic goddess when they showed her at home with Arabella.

Okay, so I'm just going to say that I think this is incredibly mean-spirited and tone deaf. Candiace has been a mom all of 15 seconds, and you are ascribing really horrible thoughts to her based on nothing. It's fine to dislike Candiace, and to say that she showed a less than inviting or nice personality on the show. It's even okay to make assumptions about Candiace's and Chris' relationship based on what was seen on TV. But it's not cool to talk about her behavior/attitudes/aptitude as a mom with absolutely zero evidence.

@bravofan27, just curious which of the ladies do you think is smart/shrewd? I mean out of this bunch Garcelle seems to be one of the better educated ladies. I certainly wouldn't call her dumb in comparison to the rest of the group.

I beg to differ. Robert Jr. is an adult. He chose to be on camera, and how he looks and what information is shared is completely within his control. Having watched several years' worth of "Intervention" I'm always surprised at how open some addicts are about their issues. Let's recall that RJ is an allegedly "married" man who was comfortable having his mother walk into his bedroom while he was in bed with his wife to ask if he had cleaned his room. Both he and his wife (girlfriend??) had to sign waivers to have their faces shown. He's not a child any more than Brooks Marks is, and like Brooks, he should be treated and held to account as an adult.

I assumed she was having a flash and her head was sweating 😁

I don't think he is. TJ strikes me as being very much like a number of guys that I know - raised in the church so contemplating anything other than a hetero relationship is off limits, good-looking enough that both men and women make their interest in them clearly known, and is smart, accomplished, personable, etc. He's just the 2020's version of Al Reynolds. He may come out, or he may end up married and always be presenting this face publicly that's respectable. It really depends on much he grows. Either way, he'll continue to get acting roles and will play characters that are in keeping with his moral values. And if he's comfortable with it, then more power to him.

Good for her. I'd much prefer she talk about this, rather than try and hold herself out as the skin care/candle/sex toy/wine/podcast expert.

And this is why I say Gizelle is dumb. The correct move would have been to meet them at the door and say "You're just in time, we're $x thousand dollars shy of our goal. Here is the QR code, please bring us over the top." Instead she let a bunch of Gen Z gays put a battery in her back to show up all queen b with a bunch of drama. I'm with Jessia (sp?) - if you don't want me, you damn sure don't want my money.

That IS what is meant, but that's not what people hear when they hear "defund the police". That is a horrible slogan because it does not communicate what is actually being proposed. I wish there was a decent marketing person in the room when that particular slogan came up.

The thing about militarizing the police is that armies at war have clear enemies. You treat every person you encounter with suspicion because you don't know who the "bad guys" are. Policing is supposed to be about protecting a community. In that case you are supposed to know who the residents are, who owns the businesses, the principals at the schools, and the local elected officials that can be called on to assist folks with issues beyond law enforcement. Police believe themselves to be an "army" some of which is the result of good marketing and propaganda pushed out by defense contractors, but that isn't fundamentally what police should be doing. It's the thing that frustrates me about "defund the police". It should actually be "police for policing" and activities that are not the primary function of police should be left to (and funded for) subject matter experts - whether animal control, mental health interventions, truancy or social work.

My assumption is there were no direct commercial route there and any flights would have involved at least one and possibly two stops.

1) Menopause 2) Because she's the pot stirrer with no other story line for this franchise.