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*snort* Hunter's not hanging around to help his parents-he's hanging around because he's an "actor" and they're filming Still laughing over Whit trying to help Chase with his table manners when I can't even look at the screen when she has food in front of her. The cake testing gave me PTSD and I've not been able to look at cake since. Damn you! Guess the weight lifting is this season's obligatory contest. Assuming once it's over it will go the way of her other new obsessions-remember ballroom dancing? Nice try on the Tall hating, Whit. I would MUCH rather be sitting up eating cheesecake with Blanche and Dorothy then hanging out at Animal House. I'm a southerner and sometimes we eat at the coffee table. Not, like, when we're having people over for dinner or having a big meal but it happens. Southerners don't have the edge on etiquette so quit your pearl clutching, Babs. You're no Emily Gilmore. (Though context would've helped-they were in a cabin at the time.) If Whit wants to pretend that she's Miss Manners then she can start by respecting boundaries and wearing actual clothes in public. I hope Chase is getting paid for this.

She's my snark partner. Our own Pillow Talk for My 600 LB Life is my favorite part of the week. I'm really confused about the wedding dress scene. Granted I was only tuned in with one ear, but what was the purpose? They were getting design ideas or something? Are they STILL trying to pretend that HOE is a real thing?

I'm speechless. My 8yo daughter isn't, though. She saw them and said, "Mommy, it looks like they fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down."

I once went into a small, locally owned department store a few counties over and wound up buying the cashier fish. I was in there, looking around, and the woman at the counter (an older lady who I'd never seen in my life) asked, "Have you eaten at Muncy's before?" I said, no, that I had not. She went on to say, "On Fridays they have a fried catfish basket and it's really good. I just love it. It's one of my favorites..." I made some agreeable grunts but just as I was staring to leave, she called me over to the counter. "If I give you some money can you walk over there and get me a catfish basket?" So I wound up walking across the street and buying her a catfish basket. She tipped me $2, but I ate some of her fries on the way back to the store so it was kind of a win-win for me. I live in a strange place. Am I the only one who thinks these early episodes are boring? I'd like one episode where we meet the American and then, by ep 2, they're meeting their "loves." I want them to get down to business-I don't want 4 episodes of them talking to the obligatory naysaying friend, getting all their beauty things done, packing, Emojing their sweet nothings...I want to jump right into the drama. What I REALLY want to do is not watch the season as it airs and then to binge all the episodes all at once. I hate waiting a week. Netflix has ruined me. And good dog in heaven, how is it possible that they found someone who makes Angela look classy? Do you think they cast people depending on country? Like, Angela is filming in Nigeria so they take on Baby Girl Lisa to cut travel costs since they're already there?

Yes. Imagine most of us and how we function from day to day: we might feel a little down, maybe a little excited, and maybe happy at some point during the day but for the most part we live in a kind of "medium". Borderline people don't. They are either REALLY high or REALLY low and it can change at the drop of a hat. There's no middle ground for them.

My mom has borderline personality disorder and I've witnessed it first-hand for the past 40 years. While I do see some similarities with Darcy, I'm not sold on it. There are some pretty common traits found in BPD that Darcy hasn't exhibited on our screen or in her social media. There are lots of things out there that could fit what we've seen: bi-polar disorder, old fashion depression or alcoholism, body dysmorphia, abandonment issues...In other words, there are several different things that could be wrong with her. I'm generally not a fan of armchair diagnoses, though. What we're seeing is a small sliver of her life-slivers that are highly edited to ensure the utmost entertainment factor is achieved. It seems now that whenever a woman acts crazy Borderline is tossed out there. It's becoming one of the catch-alls. People always want to pull out the big guns, but the "signs" pointed out in that Reddit post could fall under several different personality disorders or forms of mental ilness. It's not all Glen Close boiling bunnies; there are lots of subleties that are much more indicative of the disorder and these aren't necessarily going to come across to us. Maybe it shouldn't matter, since everyone is allowed their own opinions, but for those of us who were raised by Borderline parents it becomes personal. The emotional abuse is something that many of us continue to struggle with. I have friends in my support group who tried committing suicide before they were even teens due to the turmoil of their household. We tend to take a discussion of it pretty seriously.

The story of her baby daddy drama is more interesting than the show. I truly believe that all of this is fake, just as how I suspect Caesar and Maria were. IMO she already knows his true identity and is simply playing along. Jeniffer and Tiny Tim did it. Tricky Ricky did it. Corey and Evelin...I think he DID catfish her but that was a long time ago and she's moved on. Matt's friend didn't really hate Alla, David Poor and Annie weren't really mooching off his friend, Robert's son apparently doesn't even live with him fulltime (that's why there is no bed or toys everywhere), the cereal Sasha trashed belonged to the production team and it was their idea for him to do it, that chickie in the bar wasn't really Tom's ex, and according to some recent interviews Blake's friends really do like Jasmine and the animosity was made up. Sooo many things exaggerated or just flat out made up in this series. But, eh, I like watching it anyway.

What, Darcy giving up a day that literally celebrates her entrance into the world? Her own personal holiday? Never! Of course, she may claim to be 43 for the next 10 years... 😉

Darcy trying to drink through the straw=entertainment for me. Geoffrey can go away at anytime. Gah. Darcy's comment on her birthday actually made me sad. She needs help and Tom needs to be bitch-slapped (just in general, not for anything specific).

She's got a bro fetish the same way Andrea has a gangbanger fetish on Life After Lockup. It's weird. Also, Chase and Whitney don't live together so why was the frat party, I mean housewarming party, full of HIS friends?

Until fairly recently I actually thought that eyebrow threading was literally sewing in tiny hairs for people who had sparse eyebrows-kind of like a hair transplant.

I literally have more YT followers than Laura, and I almost never update.

Or it will be a fake competition like the other ones have been.

Do we know that for sure? Just because he isn't from the UK doesn't mean he didn't jump ship from another country and plant himself in Manchester. England has a huge expat population.

I'm HOPING that this is all just a dramatization for the show. I hope that, in reality, she already knows that he's a catfish and she's seen the "real" Williams (at least a picture) but she and her daughter are playing along for the show. I hope.

Have you seen the episode where the dude was totally convinced that he'd been chatting with Katy Perry for several years? Even flying him to England and introducing him to the catfish couldn't sway him from thinking it was all just a setup by Katy herself and that he was still talking to her. The delusion is strong with some people.

I can't see it getting approved even with a co-signer.

I've met and hung out with Juliana, and Michael to an extent, on 3 different occasions now and we correspond on Facebook. He's even more of a douche in person than how he comes across on TV, but she comes across much better. If some of her stories are embellished, IMO (and without blurting things out that may have been said in confidence) it's only because the truth is much bleaker. As you say, nothing snarkworthy there. There are moments when I think she looks a little dead in the eyes and that's just sad to me. I've reached the point where I feel like if she IS making up some things here and there it's because she wants to try to forget some of the bad things that have happened-not because she's trying to garner sympathy in a nefarious kind of way. The poverty is real. It may not be Karine-on-the-Amazon type of poverty, but urban poverty comes with its own challenges. Someone once said, "That may not have been the way it happened, but it's my memory and I'll remember it the way I want to." Her story and experiences don't affect me, nor do any of the others, so I've become much more "whatever" about some of these things.

8 yo mini MamaDrama was coloring while I watched the episode. When his pictures came on the screen she glanced up, looked for a second, went back down to her picture and said, "Catfish!" If she hasn't done a reverse image search or demand some kind of video chat then it's because she doesn't want to know the truth. Seems strange that her daughter didn't look for the images, though. And also...so he randomly sent her a message on Instagram? That's like the 5th 90 Day woman who met her "love" because he'd messaged her through social media. I get at least 3 or 4 of those a day, just random dudes saying "what's up beautiful" or "hello", and I never reply. I just shrug them off. It had never occurred to me that one of them might be my one true love. /s

So I watched the hour preview for next week and...ugh. Stacey and Darcey both looked ghastly. As bad as she looked with the scrunchie, her hair looked even worse when she was having coffee. I did lol when she was trying to use the straw but her big lips kept getting in the way. I can't put all the blame on Darcey, though. Tom's stringing her along and gaslighting her. Darcey's a wicked wreck, but Tom knows what he's doing and while it makes for good TV, it's unkind at this point.

I have mast cell activation syndrome and I also have to be super careful about what touches my skin, but that extends across everything that touches me, not just bedsheets.

I just saw a vitamin commercial and the little girl made her mother "princess toast."

After watching several seasons of this I feel like I could easily catfish a woman for money... 1. Find some stock photos of good-looking dudes. 2. Pretend my camera is broken. 3. Use a voice changing software for phone calls. 4. Send lots of emojis every day. 5. Refer to my lady love with "pet names" so that I don't have to worry about accidents when I forget to whom I am speaking. 6. Write a generic song or poem and substitute names as needed. 7. Make up family or personal tragedy and be specific about cost. 8. Create a fake social media profile. 9. Have no real in-depth conversations but make sure I tell her how much I love her every day.

So Big Ed needs 1000 threadcount sheets because of his skin condition and yet he's able to wear what appears to be regular cotton tops?

Sounds like a job for @Christina...Gives us the low down, homegirl.