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2 minutes ago, Dowel Jones said:
When everyone's locker has their name taped to the front, and Cruz and Sylvie have been working together for years now? Somebody isn't paying attention, and I think it's the writers.
I know the show loves to do an episode long low-stakes b-plot and they are usually stupid, but this has to be one of the worst ever done. Once Cruz realizes Cap was invited to Sylvie's wedding, he should have known his invitation got lost. Having him spend the episode wondering why he was snubbed and working through that was just pointless.
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2 minutes ago, iMonrey said:
Seems like the little fire starter should probably be handed over to the father. The mother can't seem to keep lighters or matches out of the kid's reach no matter how many fires she's started.
I had the same thought. I know the show wanted me to feel for the mom going through her divorce and a custody battle, but her daughter could have burned the whole neighborhood down and killed somebody. She was a danger to others outside of their home, at that point your custody battle does not matter.
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53 minutes ago, BetyBee said:
The lovebirds would have more fun (and could save on gas and food) if they dump their brood on Kaylee. Let KayJon feed and entertain them! Then they could have Nurie and their dear, dear grandsons (that make Jill's heart burst with love) all to themselves before and after the Plexus trip.
And Jill has enough adult children or close enough to adult children to leave the brood at home for a week. The parentification boat set sail twenty years ago now, no need to pretend the other Not Nurie whose name is escaping me at the moment can't take care of her sisters for a few days, and Philip, Tim, and Sammers can handle the other boys (are there other boys, I really can't keep track of all of Jill's brood nor do I want to take the time to actually research it).
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21 minutes ago, DEL901 said:
And add to that,Phaedra is a lawyer.
I want to quip "not a very good one" after that episode of RHOA where she is representing Sheree and Sheree's ex-husband, Bob, schooled her in front of a judge. But, she also is a free woman while her ex-husband did time for fraud or is still doing time for fraud. I do remember Apollo and one of his co-conspirators were quite vocal about Phaedra knowing about Apollo's fraud and maybe even a part of it. That could very well be the chatter of guilty people upset that they were caught or there was not enough evidence to indict Phaedra.
I will say that this is why having Phaedra on this show is so delicious. She is shady AF, and she also knows how to give a good sound byte.
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On 2/5/2024 at 8:36 PM, Dr.OO7 said:
I finally saw this movie from the beginning.
It's pretty good.
I remember 1991, it's when my love of figure skating kicked off, though it's Kristi Yamaguchi who was my favorite. That was such a a great year for Tonya--she landed the triple axel four times--and it's heartbreaking to know what kind of abuse she was enduring behind the scenes. If the movie's version of events is true, it's a shame that she couldn't extricate herself from Jeff before he did something that ended up ruining her career/life.
While Tonya did get shafted by the sport as a whole (figure skating has always had a problem with the less "feminine" and "graceful" skaters who excel at the more athletic parts) and her upbringing left a lot to be desired and led to her latching onto Jeff, she was still ultimately responsible for her actions. Tonya liked to blame everyone else but her. One part of the movie I always get a laugh at is her smoking a cigarette while telling her interviewer all of her woes to get back to the Olympic in 94. That cigarette detail really just shows how Tonya was unable to take responsibility.
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On 2/5/2024 at 11:55 PM, Irlandesa said:
But I think his biggest mistake was assuming the non-gamers had no game when the only difference with the non-gamers is that they've never had to play a game before not that they couldn't play a game.
It also never occurred to Dan that being a Housewife is a different type of game. Just because there's no winner crowned at the end, does not mean that the various housewives are sitting by and the camera just happens to document their lives. Phaedra, Tamra, Sheree, and Larsa all have agendas when the Bravo TVs show up. They plan, plot, and scheme to further their goals whatever they may be--promote their business, take down their rival, or tell their side of a story to sway public opinion. I do find it amusing that the contestants here all know about Dan and how he approached Big Brother, and they know all about Parvarti and Sandra in Survivor, but no one watched a season or two of RHOA in preparation for this show. I can see writing off Kevin or Bergie, their shows are total fluff; but, the Housewives have always been a force.
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1 hour ago, jabRI said:
I can't get over this. Like I drive in NYC all the time, and can barely see anyone else due to focusing on things like traffic, lights, tourist pedestrians, etc. She saw a girl who looked upset or maybe out of it. Is this such an odd occurence? What right would she have to pull over a driver? She didn't see her being slapped or something. Even if it looked odd, I don't think legally she could have done anything.
The only thing she could have done is call in to have an on duty unit tail the van and run its plates. The van was reported stolen in Rhode Island (the show would have to handwave how the NYPD had immediate access to this), so there was cause for the NYPD to pull it over. Olivia was off-duty, been drinking, and had Noah with her. She personally could not have pulled over the van.
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8 hours ago, shapeshifter said:
Very similar for me — not surprisingly, right?
I engaged with some Redditors about an episode of a show that aired.
I was incredibly moved by Joni Mitchell's Grammy performance, crying more than I have in years, which turned into crying about my Mom who passed at almost 92 in 2020 after a terrible 5 years with physical struggles similar to Joni's, but Mom was in too much grief to even try to overcome it.
https://youtu.be/awyl_RLlNl8I'm a bit too young for a Joni performance to hit me in the feels. I respect her as an artist and have a couple of her songs on my playlist, but she does not move me the way other artists do. The Luke Combs-Tracy Chapman performance, OTOH, got me.
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5 minutes ago, Xeliou66 said:
I’m beyond sick of the Maddie subplot though and I couldn’t give a rat’s ass about St Olivia trying to hold her family together while taking it personally. Get this shit done with already.
Same. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth, the thought of a season long crusade by St. Olivia to bring back Maddie. She's the most stereotypical "perfect" victim that I cannot root for her even though I know I should. If the show really wanted to do a season long arc of Olivia and the squad looking for a single victim, why not make her/him/they a more imperfect victim--non-white, from a bad background, drug addict, etc.
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12 hours ago, Annber03 said:
They actually had an episode that flashed back to how that setup came to be. It was actually Debra's idea to move across the street from them, because their house was in a good neighborhood and Frank was a realtor, so they would get a good deal, and it had enough room for them and their growing family.
Ray was actually the one who kept saying, "No, moving across the street is a bad idea..." but Debra still had a friendlier interaction with his parents at the time and she shrugged off his concerns.
One of those decisions that sounded good at the time, but in hindsight, Debra definitely was kicking herself about.
I love Ray pulling out the map of the greater tri-state area to show Debra where they needed to look for housing. "This is the hot zone" meaning anywhere that Marie could deliver a lasagna and it would still be hot was out of the question.
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26 minutes ago, StatisticalOutlier said:
But how do you know you're guessing?
With the ones shown here, you know you can't read it and of course you'd dig to find out what it says.
https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/can-you-read-these-rxs-09-2014
But isn't it also possible to encounter something that's sloppy but not illegible, and you unwittingly go one way when the other way was actually correct, like you look at a character that looks like a 1 and nothing like a 7 to you, but it actually is?
The answer to your first question is training and entering in a lot of prescriptions. A fulltime technician at a busy store is typing a thousand or more prescriptions into your employer's proprietary computer software. The software contains medication databases that tell you the different available doses of different drugs. You learn what drugs are most commonly prescribed and how those drugs are dosed. Medications have documented standard doses. And these software have built in safeguards to stop wildly incorrect prescriptions from being filled. The pharmacist would have to override in order to dispense which forces the pharmacist to sign off on it. Then the insurance companies you submit to also do their own checks. Insurance companies have their own pharmacists and doctors on staff who help them decide the hows and whys of them paying for any prescription.
You also learn your local doctors' handwriting quirks. When you encounter something unusual, you stop and get clarification. You also have access to the patient's profile of everything you have filled for them plus the old originals. And any time a pharmacist calls for clarification, they annotate the doctor's response because their license and livelihood are on the line.
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1 hour ago, Sake614 said:
Does Maddie’s mother know Liv is wearing the kid’s bracelet? Wouldn’t the mother want that? Honestly if this is going to be a theme for the entire season, I don’t think I can stand it.
Olivia is not wearing Maddie's bracelet. That would be evidence. It's worse, Olivia is wearing a bracelet from one of the Maddie sex dolls.
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34 minutes ago, StatisticalOutlier said:
And...wasn't there criticism years ago about doctors' handwriting? There have always been jokes about it, but the joke quit being funny when their prescriptions were being filled incorrectly because of the bad handwriting.
I was a pharmacy technician for over a decade working in multiple states, I never worked with a pharmacist who did not clarify the illegible prescriptions before dispensing. Pharmacists have their own licensing boards and are just as liable as a physician when mistakes are made. Deciphering the illegible handwriting was part of the fun we had, but we never dispensed our guesses even the one pharmacist I worked with who needed his license suspended for other reasons. He was negligent in other ways.
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1 hour ago, peacheslatour said:
I was the office manager at an engineering firm. There was a big sign over the microwave - NO BRUSSLES SPROUTS! EVER!
I know enough engineers, and can just imagine different scenarios which necessitated that sign.
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Current workplace pet peeve--people who bring tuna fish to work and eat it in the breakroom. I do not care about the health benefits of fish, or how economical it is as a protein source, or how easy Starkist has made the packaging for you to bring it to work. It stinks, and the smell lingers.
The only saving grace is my co-worker did not microwave it.
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1 hour ago, Raja said:
Because Jack didn't want to know and could play Sergeant Shultz. But that doesn't excuse them not letting us see the ambushed defense react. So to short hand the story the defendant did write with his left and shoot with his right.
1 hour ago, blackwing said:I think it's because Jack suspected the video was fake (and clearly, Nolan and Sam did too) and he didn't want to know the truth and get confirmation that it was fake. The guy already confessed, Jack just wanted to ensure that the guy was convicted, no matter how they got there.
I get the character motivations for not definitively proving the footage. It works in universe, and for the story the show wants to tell. I think what I am struggling with is the show choosing to leave it open ended for the viewers. Better writers would be able to keep the ambiguity within the work while also letting the viewer know the truth. Or tweak the script so that Red Herring Suspect #1 did not encounter the victim in view of that camera.
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What bugs me about the video is the show already established that the wannabe rapper/drug dealer was at the scene when the victim was shot and that he stole the victim's wallet and watch. The police know this, but the British partner maybe would not have known. Why would the police not ask for the next ten minutes of footage? That would establish whether or not it's a deep fake.
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1 hour ago, iMonrey said:
I don't know that anything will come of it. They just have to give Herrmann something to do because he's a main character. Last year it was Cindy's cancer. This year he's losing his hearing. I suppose it's a step up from the get rich quick schemes they used to involve him in.
At least this storyline is more organic than those get rich quick schemes. The actor has been diagnosed with hearing loss and may already be wearing hearing aids these past few seasons. They made it a plot point for his character in And Just Like That, doing it here makes sense.
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11 hours ago, millennium said:
Did I miss something? Shannon Klingman of Lume doing Mando? huh?
Mando is the men's version of Lume.
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20 hours ago, graybrown bird said:
Abbie is "loosing" her curls.
As much as I absolutely cringe when someone uses loose when they mean lose, she's not necessarily using incorrect grammar here. There are different types of curls that occur naturally and loose curls are one of them, so are tight ringlets. Abbie very well could have had her normally tight ringlets become looser over time due to her pregnancies and caring for her children. And now that she is spending time doing her hair, she now has her tight ringlets back. I am not going to credit Monat for this change. What changed is Abbie taking care of her curls. She's spending the 30-90 minutes necessary to wash, condition, detangle, coat her hair in gel, then coax her curls into shape using whatever brush or comb she prefers, drying her hair by whichever method she chooses (diffuser, plopping in an old tee shirt, airdrying, or another method I am currently blanking on), and finally breaking the cast with her hands and maybe an oil. She may have even sprung for a satin or silk bonnet to sleep in plus a matching pillowcase to extend the life of her curls. When it comes to curls, method trumps product.
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2 hours ago, GATenn said:
I find it odd that no one figured out that Oliver was up to no good. His sudden pivot to manipulative dom should have clued someone in. One of them should have let Sir James know so he could be discreetly thrown out into the night - for instance, Felix. Once it’s discovered that someone is crazy, confronting them directly is not the best option - you don’t engage. It just sets them off, and then people start dying in mazes and bathtubs and having ventilators ripped out.
Yeah, all Felix had to do was discreetly tell his father that Oliver is not who he says he is and he needs to leave. Then Sir James instructs the staff to pack his bags without Oliver even knowing. Or Felix could have just told Duncan, and Duncan would have handled Oliver. Duncan has been around the Cattons long enough to know how to handle someone like Oliver.
And the party could have gone on without Oliver, and none of the guests would think anything is amiss. The Cattons are eccentric aristocrats, they can get away with throwing a birthday party without the birthday boy being present. Elspeth would have been disappointed for a few minutes before someone or something else appears to take her mind off of him.
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NBC reaired this episode last night, and I saw the opening again. I know St. Olivia's whole thing is Taking!It!Personally!, but she had zero reason to stop the perp at the beginning. She's off-duty and had at least one glass of wine plus Noah is with her when she spots Maddie in the van. She cannot just pull the guy over based on her intuition and vibes, and would the Brooklyn cops take her seriously if she called in "there's something off about the girl in this delivery van?" I know she's St. Olivia in Manhattan, but I did not think that carried the same weight in another borough. Though it would be an interesting episode if she did pull the guy over and arrest him based on vibes alone.
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Did I miss the show figuring out how Maddie became a sex doll complete with bracelet or is that still up in the air? Between St. Olivia pontificating and the victim's mom over-emoting and the shoehorning in of Rollins to set up the most basic next step in the investigation (seriously St. Olivia needs to see Rollins in order to figure out the next step is getting the list of buyers of said sex doll) I did tune out for a bit.
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10 hours ago, MerBearHou said:
I rolled my eyes at how *many* current news issues they tried to squeeze into the first episode. Plagiarism by a University president, anti-Semitism by students defacing posters, manipulation by college leaders, the killer seen on camera buying lipgloss for himself (if I followed that correctly), Israel and Palestine, the new detective having never shot anyone before even though he sure was threatening to shoot at the beginning of the episode and reacted so arrogantly to his partner — my head was spinning. It was a clunker of an opening episode IMO. The trial side has not improved one bit in the writers’ time off.
Same, and I was trying to figure out when exactly this episode was conceived and subsequently filmed. Some of those headlines the writers ripped their story from were from December. Did they go back and add the plagiarism by a university president after the episode was already written? Or did they shelve their original episode one for this mess?
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The Traitors in the Media
in The Traitors (USA)
I would have negotiated the same deal. His costumes are fabulous, and you can tell he's having a ball wearing them. His getup for the funeral procession needs to be in my closet like yesterday.