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This needs to happen... (I showed my son the trailer for the DIRTY DANCING remake and he thought it was an SNL sketch.)

Yes! Cause they carry shit we don't have at home. When I go to foreign countries I souvenir shop at places like Aldis (country's equivalent) or secondhand stores. A lot of the tourist souvenir shops just sell generic "made in China" stuff while the "regular" stores sell items that tend to be used regularly in that country. And it's fun to bring back snack food and stuff! Local wine at souvenir store in tourist district=pricey. Local wine at Aldis=cheap. I hit up a flea market in Bosnia where a local guy had collected a bunch of shell casings on the ground after the war and had turned them into keychains and ink pens. I love stuff like that. Foreign Dollar Tree stores are fun, too! I kinda feel bad for Debbie. She was probably terrified since it was her first trip out. Wal-Mart was something familiar to her. I'm still here for the lulz, though!

She could start feeding him baby food while continuing to supplement with breast milk without stopping altogether.

Aladdin doesn't live in Tunisia. Not hard for me to believe that Aladdin saw her and still loved her. Look at Jenny...Sumit literally pretended to be a completely different person. I have a YouTube channel and you can do some amazing things with free filters, the right angle, and good lighting. Only film from the neck up, use a ring light, apply the right makeup, use a filter to smooth your skin...Just look at how different Rebecca looked in her videos. Rose didn't complain about Ed's face, just his height. Which he lied about.

And a very basic Print Shop! Our computer paper was the kind that came perforated. I used to make banners and then use markers to color in each little grayscale rectangle. Sometimes the banner would be 6 feet long. That's how teachers kept us busy in the. 80's. Yeah, I have no idea if they had a computer, how skilled they may have been on it, or what they may have used it for. I was just replying to the price convo.

That was funny, but I kinda get it. Mom and I love going to Goodwill in different cities, as well as charity shops (secondhand places) in different countries. Foreign grocery stores? Awesome. But Walmart? Oh Deb...At least she's easy to entertain-drop her off at a Walmart with a Panda Express inside and Coltee/notLarissa can have all the secksy time they want.

I mean, we had a computer in '88. My mom was a single parent going to college at the time and we lived in government housing. The first one I remember buying (as in, I was a part of the process) was in '91. It was $2,100. I remember this because I was there when we bought it and over the next few years my mom frequently hollered, "Don't drink/eat/play by the computer! It was $2,100!" We had Comadores in my classroom from 1986 onwards and I lived in one of the poorest counties in the nation. (The War on Poverty was literally declared while the president was standing on a porch less than a mile away from our house.) It was definitely possible to own a PC in the late 80s/early 90s for less than $2,500... Some brands could even be had for less than $1,000. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/06/22/cost-of-a-computer-the-year-you-were-born/36156373/

This is so true. Sometimes when I tell people that I married a foreigner I get the "are you sure he didn't just marry you for the green card" speech. I'm pretty sure he didn't. He had a great life in the UK. Lots of friends, a nice house and car, a good job, family, free healthcare, the possibility of advancing in the Royal Air Force...He gave all that up to move to a holler in a state he'd barely heard of (Americans get ridiculed for supposedly not knowing world geography but to a lot of the world the US consists of Florida, NYC, LA, and Texas), in a country in which he had no friends or family. And it's been insanely hard for him to work. He has degrees from two of the most respected and oldest universities in the world, but most US universities won't hire him because said degrees are not from US accredited schools. He can teach at Oxford, but he can't sign up as a sub in my tiny county who's desperate for them. We moved to the US because I wasn't really happy in the UK and I wanted to be close to my mom with my kid. We could've just as easily stayed there. That's a long-winded way of saying that I, too, think Aladdin loved Laura. There have been some obvious cases where the foreigner has married for the GC and is going to skedaddle as soon as they can, but I think there has been just as many examples where that's not been the case. I don't think Karine, for instance, originally wanted to immigrate; I think Pole talked her into it by selling her a pack of lies about how great their lives would be here.

I think I'm on Richard's side this time. I like Sutton, she's my favorite character, but he wasn't wrong in the things he said. However, I do wonder now if it's less that she enjoys the freedom (I think of the "cold, hard Mexican tile" speech from WHEN HARRY MET SALLY) and more that she's afraid of being the kind of mother hers was. If that's the issue then it may be something that could be worked on. Or maybe not. Some people just don't want kids.

Yes, but this un-gross person also wants to have an orgasm, but after that visual I may never have one again.

Fuuccckkkk...

The good old days...That pretty much describes both of my vaginal deliveries. I spent 4 nights in there after my second son, 5 after my daughter. Conversely, I was released 36 hours after my brain surgery.

Yeah, she really fell apart. Even if she'd closed her mouth around her kids and friends, she was still super obsessed and wouldn't have been able to shut off what was going on inside. Her crazy behavior wasn't necessarily her being hateful, it was an outward display of what was happening inside. That's terrifying. Oddly enough, since she'd pretty much convinced herself that Dan and Linda were ruining her life, she probably DID get the best night's sleep in jail.

It even has a full size refrigerator, which is almost unheard of there.

Here's the Airbnb Deavan rented...Looks like the pictures to me.

Yeah, really, but I think these are good examples of how far her mental health had deteriorated. At the beginning of the episode Dan was talking about how one person's perception of reality became that person's truth. I don't think she could control her obsessiveness and stuff either (excluding the murders) there at the end-she'd already taken a dive at the deep end. She had good advice given to her, even had some support, but she couldn't see anything outside of that box she was living in. Whatever broke inside of her was no longer easily fixable. Her lack of impulse control, obsessiveness, anger issues... "Billing" her for her actions wasn't going to work. Keeping her kids away wasn't going to work. Threatening wasn't going to work. Whatever rational part of her brain that normally responded to those things wasn't on. She needed to be in an inpatient treatment facility with around-the-clock care and good drugs. And, even then, I'm not sure it would've helped. Here we are 30 years later and she's still pretty much refusing to admit that when she did was wrong.

Years ago Kevin Costner was in a movie called DRAGONFLY. His pregnant wife supposedly dies in a plane crash in the Amazon, but then later he learns that a local tribe, the "Yanamami", actually found her and took care of her and delivered the baby (who was fine). They'd been raising her in their village. At the end, Costner does this voiceover where he says, "How one tiny baby was able to survive in that jungle I'll never know..." And I always holler back, "The same way the Yanamami children do!"

She's posting on other sites, not on other threads.

You still feel the labor pains. It's apparently not anywhere near as good as the laudadum that my grandmother had in the 40s...😀

So mach thanks. ❤️

Yes. https://uihc.org/health-topics/treating-your-pain-during-labor-and-delivery "Typical opioid (narcotic) medications used for labor pain relief at the UI Hospitals & Clinics include fentanyl, Nubain (nalbuphine), morphine, and Stadol (butorphanol). The pain medications can be given by the labor nurse or a pump device is attached to the IV and the mother can self-administer the pain medication when needed. The device has a safety mechanism to prevent an overdose."

I've had it all 3 times in 3 different hospitals. In my last labor I was even on a morphine drip that I controlled myself.

The safety thing I'm okay with. The native women have babies there every day, and a lot of the doctors actually study in western countries. To me, it's not that much different than having a home birth, and if the pregnancy has been otherwise uneventful it should be okay. For the US to be so medically advanced we have a remarkably high infant and mother mortality rate here. MY thing is that under no condition would I want to deliver in a place that doesn't offer good drugs. And a lot of them. When asked if I wanted morphine or an epidural I responded with a "what do you mean 'or?'".

The fact that this went on for years is crazy.