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As a Rust Belt broad living in the South, I will borrow some Southern phrases. "Fixin to" is great and versatile. I do draw the line at "the-ater" for theater/re. That one is nails on chalkboard for me. I also have to watch myself from not using the words and phrases of my youth down here. I drink pop not soda, use a pen not an ink pen, and it's a crick not a creek.

I want to know what Jill is drinking there. Something straight up in a coupe, but the color is what is throwing me. I don't see Jill imbibing on any brown liquor.

Her God of Cake story will never not be funny. It's one of those stories I read when I need a laugh and I also think about randomly. Ditto the one in her second book involving Allie sneaking into her neighbor's house and steal random stuff.

There is My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Toula is a late bloomer and that is never played for laughs, just something that happens when you are an introvert in a loud family. And, her transformation is one she chooses to do for herself and not to get the guy. I do love that Ian remembers her old self at the diner, "I don't remember Frump Girl, but I do remember you."

Did they still sedate you with propofol? That would have been why they wanted the test.

I've heard that there is a new prescription drug for colonoscopy prep that is easier to digest than the standard gallon of GoLytely plus stool softener, and guess which sex gets this prescribed and which one gets the GoLytely?

For me those days are in the rearview mirror (can't eat a big meal after 9pm anymore). I would make sure you know of somewhere close to the facility with a drive thru for you to stop. I was my mom's driver when she last got hers, and she was hilarious. She housed her sandwich in less than 5 minutes. After her meal, she proceeded to take a long nap as the drugs wore off.

Do you remember when you were younger and stayed out all night up until your state's legal last call and you drunkenly stumbled into Waffle House or Denny's and how you were so hungry you could eat a horse? Because that is what he will be after the procedure.

In my experience as a pharmacy tech, they have different printouts listing the instructions for morning and afternoon appointments. There's too much information for them to verbally tell a patient and hope said patient remembers. They gave your boyfriend the wrong printout by mistake. I have seen some offices where they use one, but take the time to write out and circle all the pertinent information. With instructions like this, you write them clearly and specifically and list every single detail assuming the dumbest person you have ever met can understand them. Because there is nothing worse for the facility and the patient to have them do all that prep and show up for the procedure to find out the patient messed up by eating past whatever time or drinking the wrong flavor of Gatorade with red dye and therefore the procedure cannot happen.

Yeah, the doctor's staff gave you their instructions for a morning procedure and not an afternoon one. And, colonoscopy prep is so varied you cannot easily Google to get the afternoon instructions. I swear every single practice has their own version of prep.

Unless its Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. There you will find the local cops always step aside for St. Olivia and her team no matter where the suspect is hiding. One episode this past season had Olivia send her detective to Massachusetts to investigate a murder that happened at least a decade before in Texas.

No Bloody Marys is a crisis, not a first world problem especially because you have no ice. I need ice in my drinks including water.

People looking to get their book on the NYT bestseller list will find a bookstore that reports to the Times (sometimes done by cold calling bookstores) and order hundreds or even thousands of copies of said book through that bookstore before the book is released. On release day, the sale goes through and the number of copies sold is reported to thr Times. The book will then appear on the bestseller list for one week with a dagger next to it. The dagger denotes the presence of bulk sales for all to see. And then the book promptly falls off the bestseller list. Also, those who made these bulk purchases (at full retail) are stuck with them.

Hardcover non-fiction. It's also #2 on the combined print/ebook nonfiction list.

Yes. I actually bought their tights before trying their chub rub shorts, and love them. The tights are well-made, and their sizing is excellent. They are some of the best tights I have worn, and I've tried a lot--Target, Vera Wang at Kohls, Hue, etc.

I also wear slips with some of my skirts and dresses, but there are times when the thighs need to be separated by some fabric and I want to wear a skirt. I used to wear those Jockey slipshorts, but they never fit right. My butt eats shorts and the slipshorts were no exception. The short would roll up and/or the waistband would roll down. I switched to Snag Tights Chub Rub Shorts late last year, and they are everything I need them to be. They don't roll up or down, my inner thighs don't rub together, and the fabric is stretchy enough that I get to decide how long the inseam needs to be. https://snagtights.us/collections/chub-rub-shorts

Jill is also the one who encourages her brood to tape "kick me" signs to the backs of their siblings and document the ensuing wackiness.

There is no limit to how many middle names a person can have. Jessa Deflect Lying Bitch Duggar Seewald has a nice ring to it.

I agree. I have also seen how public schools reflect the values of their community. It very well could be that the rest of the parents in Israel and Samuel's school(s) are cut from the same cloth as the Dillards. I suspect this is the case. Public school does not always equate to liberal or progressive. The public schools in conservative, Bible-thumping communities have conservative, Bible-thumping administrators and teachers.

I began working at 16 and my dad did my taxes every year for me until I moved out on my own after graduating college. The man paid my tuition bill, I was on his insurance, and he owned my car, why would I not have him do my taxes? I expect the Duggarlings felt the same way, and also trusted JB in this.

The Facebook algorithm flat out does not understand people. I like sports and do follow my teams plus a couple of big name general sports pages. Facebook interprets this to mean I like every single NFL team and golf. So I get suggested posts that are a fan page for a team I despise or golf. The AI cannot comprehend the nuance that goes with an actual human person liking something.

The cliques that we had were deeply ingrained. I went to high school with people who had been in the same daycare then went to the same preschool, elementary, and middle school. Also, my high school had 5 or 6 middle schools that fed into it plus the private school kids who made the jump to public school. The petty middle school hierarchies melted away in the 9th grade. We all started from scratch as freshmen. And we also had faculty and staff that made sure to nip anything in the bud almost immediately.

I've said this before on this thread however many pages ago--my high school had cliques but no "popular crowd" and no mean girls who ruled the school. We also had two dances a year, homecoming and junior-senior prom, and no one even bothered to go to the homecoming dance. Nobody cared who was crowned prom queen nor who did not make the cheerleading squad, and it wasn't the end of the world for you to not have a boyfriend while in high school. We all pretty much got along with a couple of fights breaking out here and there mostly girls going at it over boys, but those fights were the "in group" kind and not the country boys beefing with the boys from the projects for example. But we were like this because we all had a chip on our shoulder thanks to the local school board. Back in the 90s there was a huge disparity between the two high schools technically within the largest town in my county. One got all the resources and a carefully constructed school district designed to weed out the "undesirable" students. My high school got its correct geographical students and those students that the other high school weeded out. We were designed by the adults to be the problem high school in the county, and all of us knew it. We chose to defy the expectations of the school board in any way we could. So, we got along because they expected us to be the school where weekly fights broke out. We studied hard and demanded more AP courses. The other high school had a girl's soccer team and we did not, so a group of girls got together and found a teacher willing to be a coach. We were lucky that we had enough teachers who were just as angry as we were about the blatant disparities. They were the ones who pointed out to us the school district map that had the other high school sitting smack dab in our district. The students who lived across the street from it were bussed out to our school instead of being able to walk to the school (exceptions were made naturally for those who displayed athletic potential).

I'm thoroughly confused by the utilities section. $600 a month is the discounted rate of Jill's portion???? And this was for the years she was living in the TTH if I'm reading it correctly. A house with her parents and 17 other siblings. I do not doubt JB and Michelle's electric bill was rather large, but not that large.

Technically correct, and also my answer.