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I just looked up the ingredients in Lume, the special ingredient used to help control odor is an AHA, mandelic acid. It works by eating away the dead skin cells in the area because "odor" is caused by the bacteria naturally living on your skin eating said skin cells. If you get rid of the dead skin cells, then there's nothing for the bacteria to eat and no odor is caused. I am curious as to the concentration of mandelic acid in the formula for it to be safe to use on your more sensitive areas of the body and also work on your feet and underarms. I suspect it's not going to be that effective on your feet and that's why it's so heavily fragranced.

The recaps I remember enjoying on TWOP were the ones for shows with batshit plots and either really good writing or really bad writing like True Blood, Lost, and Mad Men. For True Blood and Lost the snark was needed after watching an episode. And the Mad Men recaps were great for picking up the nuance you may have missed.

The sex doll element was dropped rather quickly. Which is a shame because that whole plotline is something the writers on this show would have explored back in the day. The doll was modeled after a picture of Maddie that was privately shared online. How the manufacturer got that picture of Maddie was never explored. Was it a friend or family member who sold it to them? Was it found on the web because privately shared online is actually meaningless? Did this rise up to the level of a crime that can be prosecuted? I know this is SVU and not the Mothership, but Jack McCoy would have found a way to prosecute the doll manufacturer. And back when this show still cared about the Order side of the title, one of ADAs would have agreed with Jack.

I think it was right before the site went down for a week back in January.

Yes, I knew you cannot put a mod on ignore. I had an issue with a (hopefully now former) mod in one the forums that got sunsetted last year, and had to report one of their replies to me that was way out of line and very hurtful. I mentioned that I could not ignore them because they were a mod. I'm still a bit pissed that I never received an apology from whichever mod received that report or from the old community manager. And as far as I could tell, nothing was done to the mod for that reply.

Regular posters cannot see any warnings you have received. That is between you and the mods. The downside to this is that you will never know if a person you reported for whatever reason has gotten a warning. I have never had a mod reach out to follow up on any report that I have done.

I know it's easy to say "don't feel bad" but I do mean it. I have found on other places on the internet that when a forum of any sort has been around for awhile you will find posters who think they are the owners and moderators. They will swoop in to "correct" posters who err in whatever way and police the tone. And sometimes the owner or moderator of that place will side with those posters, other times those posters are firmly handled. It really just depends on the forum.

whispers sheepishly, I actually like that commercial. The kid is too calm for it to be an emergency, and they sound like they are old enough to 1. find a bandaid 2. apply said bandaid 3. clean up whatever mess. Also, that cat was comfortable and I remember with my kitties how long it took before they got all comfortable like that. I hated getting up once they were settled because that meant I would have to go through the whole rigmarole of kneading and shifting as soon as I sat back down.

Nothing about this episode or the whole Maddie arc makes sense because the story only exists to service St. Olivia. The writers wanted certain beats to happen and forced the story to fit those beats. Whole plot points were discarded and logic went out the window. I still cringe at the idea that "the only witness" was the drug dealer from Pittsburgh who conveniently dies off screen in jail when you have the guy from Episode One who paid George to kidnap Maddie for him, and the guy George sold Maddie to in a later episode. What happened to those guys and the forensic accounting linking George to them? How did St. Olivia's detectives not notice the lock of Maddie's hair in that necklace he was wearing around his neck? Why when that was pointed out to them by Maddie did Carisi not secure that as evidence? I could go on about how badly this whole arc was written just to prop up St. Olivia.

The Streisand Effect will be out in full force with this one. Those passages are available in other versions of the book, and will be shared on social media.

Howard's tone was enough for me to never investigate further, so I had no idea that was a woman. Thanks. I didn't join here until 2016 after finding out about Previously.tv from somewhere. I thought it was on the TWOP boards, but could have been mistaken. I can't imagine I lurked here for 2 years before finally deciding to create an account, but maybe I did.

2017.

The rules and enforcement of said rules on TWOP is why I only ever read the forums and never posted. I could never figure out what TWOPHoward meant by "boards on boards" only that he was everywhere saying it.

Ew. I have yet to see that one. Native is not a brand of deodorant I would ever buy. I will not do "natural" deodorants. I live in the South and I glisten 6 months out of the year.

Which means neither Proctor and Gamble nor Unilever were able to secure a deal to purchase Lume/Mando. So now we get 3 different companies shilling similar products. I'm sure there either is or will be a Dove for Men (TM) whole body deodorant as well.