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14 hours ago, ClareWalks said:
Nothing will thrill your beloved lady more than a box full of skin care products that screams "you are an old-looking hag, and I bought you a box of shit being sold
madeby a skeletal plastic-looking hag!"Because let's face it: She's not involved in the making of these products. This is just the cosmetics equivalent of the George Foreman grill.
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2 minutes ago, Adiba said:
is it me, or is this outfit just wrong? Separately, I guess the pieces are OK--but together, and with boots? Not flattering on Meri's figure, imo. She is cut off with a high waist, and the boots cut her off again. When I looked at some other lulu pics, it just seems to me that while many pieces are just ugly, some OK pieces are just styled all wrong.
Noticed that Meri doesn't wear a wedding ring, even though she still has a "husband."
That outfit is definitely wrong. Personally, the pattern on the skirt is also wrong, even if the style of the skirt is otherwise ok on its own. The skirt's pattern reminds me of really old kitchen tile. I can't quite place the decade, but it's still kitchen tile.
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1 hour ago, SL16 said:
But it's autographed by people I've never heard of!
It's nice to see you know what's important in life! :D
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2 minutes ago, Natalie68 said:
When they were taking a bite of the cake did ya see him lean over and take a bite of another cake? MAN he is one slovenly dude! Mykelti was stupid for not wearing the shrug Janelle gave her. Didn't want it to ruin her look I guess? But then she is so cold because its FREAKING DECEMBER IN UTAH! so she takes FT's coat. Mykelti, the pics would have looked better in your shrug. I would have been sitting inside during the wedding. No way would I be sitting outside in that weather. I was glad Kody put his foot down re pics outside.
If they wanted outside in December Mykelti should have gotten a winter wedding dress suited for cold weather. It would have looked wonderful. She looked like she planned a summer wedding, got knocked up and had to move it earlier so her dress would still fit. I would NOT have let my fiance wear what FT did. NO WAY. He gets to comment on her hair and dress and he's wearing ill fitting clothes that are casual (I don't care if he had a jacket on, he was casual, sloppy, and his shirt REALLY didn't fit)? I didn't like Christine's look. She is a youngish woman and her get up aged her. Her singing? Well bless her heart. At least she gave it her all and I gotta give people credit for not laughing. Kody needs to be in charge of his own clothes. It should not have been Christine's issue. Maybe one of his other wives should have been his clothing wrangler since he is seemingly incapable.
I understand the wedding is about the bride and groom. BUT, the guests are coming from far and wide
and they are bringing you presents. The least you could do, in winter, is not make them sit outside in really cold weather. It wasn't just brisk, it was cold. So cold water FROZE the night before. Guests, that spend money to wish you well,deserve to be treated better. Plus maybe there were people with compromised health that didn't need to be in the elements. They WILL remember your wedding Missy. It will be remembered as the one where everyone froze their ass off and your husband is a slob.I agree with so much of what you wrote. I had to make a couple of changes, though. But let's go back to the top, eh?
FT is definitely slovenly. It's .... appalling. Honestly, I think that one reason he likes Utah is because he's surrounded by these desperate, co-dependent, needy, weak, lacking in self-confidence FLDS girls because then he doesn't have to put any effort into himself or his appearance. If he were just about anywhere else in the country, he wouldn't get a second look from 80% (or better) of the single ladies his age. If he weren't in Utah, he'd have to put effort into his mode of dress, his teeth, his hair, his diet, his manners, and - hardest of all - his character and personality. From what I've seen of him, I can't see what he has to offer a mate on any of those counts. Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but when someone takes that little care of their appearance that tells me they don't really like themselves very much and have low self-esteem.
As for Mykelti's wedding attire, you're absolutely right that she would have looked amazing in a season-appropriate dress and accoutrements. If she'd put a little more thought into it, she could've gone with something like https://image.dhgate.com/albu_286831431_00/1.0x0.jpg, https://image.dhgate.com/0x0/f2/albu/g3/M01/3A/67/rBVaHFaCMOmAP_oqAAM8pGd3KOk816.jpg, or https://i.pinimg.com/736x/99/83/3f/99833f33f012122593d579ee57b0ba31--winter-wedding-ideas-winter-weddings.jpg. And I got all of those with a simple Google search for "russian winter wedding dresses"! There are plenty of other cold-region countries that have equally beautiful and functional winter wedding wear. It's a shame they didn't put more thought and effort into their wedding. It's also a shame she didn't bridezilla a little bit on her groom and force some standards on him.
Similarly, they could have selected a venue that was on the cool side and yet provided shelter from the wind and cold for their guests. Of course, that would have required them to be a bit realistic, which isn't possible since they're both essentially about twelve years old emotionally. The same is the problem and cause of their lack of concern and consideration for anyone other than themselves. That marriage is going to be a "big spoons in Hell" kind of a situation for sure.
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@Granny58 You make me laugh sometimes! Thanks!
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17 minutes ago, Tabbygirl521 said:I agree because, for all her bratty tough-girl antics, the camera frequently catches her looking hurt after Tony makes one of his pronouncements. She holds it in but I think he is already hurting her feelings. Kudos to Kody for punching the guy.
What's even worse is just what kind of an indictment this all is of the utter failure in parenting this child as she was growing up. It's sad and a shame that she grew up to be that needy, desperate, and lacking in confidence that she's unable to choose a man as a life partner that would be supportive, gentle, considerate, loving, and positive.
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4 minutes ago, Granny58 said:
women know where their boobs are. She knew.
True, but sometimes women end up showing more of them than they realize. I wouldn't have been able to remain seated in that situation and I also wouldn't have been able to let her leave the table without giving her a heads-up. I've had to do that before at a wedding, actually.
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@Gothish520 Here's my take on the Browns and their cultural appropriation (we can agree to call it something else in order to avoid triggering you; I'm open to suggestion). Madison and Caleb get, in my opinion, a pass on the use of dreamcatchers because they're not running around trying to shill shit that looks like it or is "based on" it. They're also not acting like using them in a wedding is some grand tradition that's almost the exclusive domain of the Brown family.
However, when it comes to Claddagh rings, this is not the case. When they first gave (Robyn?) a Claddagh ring, they acted like the giving of a Claddagh ring was something that was almost entirely unheard of; like it was something almost completely unique about the Brown family. Also, there's this: https://mysisterwifescloset.com/search?q=claddagh. They're shilling cheap, poorly made trinkets based on Claddagh rings and the traditions and meanings around them.
The-term-we-will-agree-not-to-use is about whether you're showing respect for the traditions you're borrowing or whether, like the Browns, you act like a Johnny-come-lately that invented it out of whole cloth.
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@Kyanight I read your post before you edited it. I wish I wasn't at work right now because that is uproariously funny! I wish I could just laugh out loud and enjoy the fullness of what you've written.
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4 minutes ago, Fuzzysox said:
I NEVER would say this to anyone but those two NEED to use birth control stat. Until they grow up or grow to see what a huge mistake they made, a baby should not be added to the mix.
Eww they look like brother and sister in that picture above.
I was trying to figure out what struck me as "off" about them in that picture. I think you've nailed it!
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You've gotta love Starcasm. This picture really shows just how stupid and stupid-looking these two really are. Perfect!
10 minutes ago, Gothish520 said:I disagree about the rings, many of the Browns have talked about the symbolism on the show. I think they get it, and I think it's nice that they have embraced them and have made it a tradition.
I recall them talking about the symbolism a time or two. I still feel they act like they're super unique because they give Claddagh rings and that they're among the minority of people who give them, while completely ignoring there's a whole culture wherein the rings and associated symbolism were created. Seriously, if they were appropriating Native American culture the way they're appropriating Irish culture via Claddagh rings, they'd be receiving hate mail and threats.
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7 minutes ago, Gothish520 said:
On a positive note, Meri's hair looks great.
I wonder who the crazy-eyed woman that looks like a cross between Meri, Kody, and Christine is.
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1 minute ago, Miss.Queenie said:
Also, is Tony well like on the boards? I hate to be mean and judging. It's just something about him...I'm not a fan of him. I'm sorry!
Tony is basically universally reviled on these boards. If you see the abbreviation "FT", it means "Fat Tony" and that's what many call him. LOL
QuoteAlso, do people not give Claddagh rings or jewelry? I thought this was pretty common. But again, I grew up in an Irish family living in Massachusett and everyone around me usually had a bunch of Claddagh Jewelry. Either ring, wedding band for men and even tattoos. I always thought that style of jewelry was common and everyone knew the symbol behind it. Because that's been my experience everyone I know owns one. Because the way they describe it sounds like an obscure Irish tradition in one village.
It's not that people don't give Claddagh rings. It's that the Browns have co-opted it and thrown out all of the cultural and historical context around them, and then are acting like they (the Browns) are special and unique because they give Claddagh rings to each other.
These are the answers I could provide you. I'm sure someone else will be along to help you out with your other questions.
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13 minutes ago, Onceafan said:
For the amount of money they probably spent on this wedding, it was very poorly planned and executed. I could give a list of 20 other things that were just wrong.
Come on, now! Don't hold out on us! These are the kinds of posts we
livelove to read. Get crackin'! :D-
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27 minutes ago, AZChristian said:
Maybe she's using her iPad. Most treadmills have a little ledge so people can read while they walk. And the iPad will let you use your voice to "write" things. So her e-mails say: "Hi. Puff puff puff Thanks for asking about why you puff puff puff haven't received your order yet. We're puff puff puff workin' on it and will get it to you puff puff puff as quick as we can. Sol stop smackin' Ari."
OMG. I almost started laughing out loud at work when I read this!
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29 minutes ago, little hermit said:
Oh Lordy, does anybody have Charter/Spectrum? Their commercials are are the worst and they run them allllllllllllll the time. Their service is horrible. Why do they have to advertise working for them. If they're such a good company to work for why do they seem to have so many openings. They used to have these really awful commercials where they would have people in an office, or pirates, or young people beat boxing, singing, dancing around like fools etc. On one of my numerous calls about a problem with some aspect of their service, or lack there of, I complained about the commercials and the CSA said they get a lot of complaints about them. Now they don't have those. I like to think my 2 cents and others who complained got through. Now they have some evil characters that aren't so bad. Still they ad for business service with them and jobs and there is this smug dude (whose been hawking for them since I moved to this location 6 years ago) with big ass feet that just disgust me and a girl with dirty blood hair (put up) in a blue dress geeze, I can't stand them! I complained about them too but they're still around. I ask the CSA why did they run their ads so often if their so great wouldn't people use them especially if you have Charter/ Spectrum already. I have a friend (not in this area) he has dish and he never sees them. I don't have a choice in the area I live now plus I moved to an apartment and you can't have a satellite and they tell you when you move in they are serviced by Char/Spet. Never see a U-verse out here.
I have Charter/Spectrum. I'm going to try not to get started too much. I just want to say I find the commercials with the monster characters quite funny and enjoyable. I particularly like the one where Death accidentally touches a guy on the train, marking him for death. (I know that sounds sick and twisted, but the way the commercial does it, it turns out to be a good joke.) I rather like Charter, actually. Their customer service leaves a bit to be desired, but the service otherwise is quite good. I had Dish a couple of decades ago and I hated that service with a passion. Every time a drop of water fell on the dish, the service went out. (No, not literally. It just seemed that way.) I would never get DirecTv since it's the same kind of service. In my area, there is a competitor to Charter. The only problem is that they're $30 more expensive than Charter's most expensive package. My mother-in-law has Time Warner Cable, which has recently been purchased by Charter. Their service is abysmal and more expensive than even Charter. I have Charter's most expensive package and I spend $200 a month on it. My mother-in-law has expanded basic cable with HBO, Internet service, and phone service (for the "triple play" discount) and she pays $220 to $230 a month - which is what HBC (Hiawatha Broadband Cable - Charter's competitor in my area) would charge me for their most expensive package. My parents have U-verse and my father has come to loathe them. They still have it because my father hates Time Warner Cable more (and they live in the same city as my mother-in-law).
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On 2/10/2018 at 8:40 AM, Sandy W said:
"a slice of pizza" right Janelle!
I would just like to point out that if you don't cut the pizza, then there is substantially no difference between "a slice of pizza" and "the whole pizza". Just sayin'....
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On 2/10/2018 at 8:21 AM, ginger90 said:
Basically, she could've written this much more succinctly by simply saying what my father taught me: Don't borrow trouble. It's served me well over the years. Though I suppose that's probably a bit too succinct for most people. If anyone wants an explainer, I'll be happy to post one.
12 hours ago, answerphone said:I feel a bit ashamed to admit, but I'm always distracted how Janelle sits on the sofa during the Talking Heads.
Her legs are always apart, which looks so unflattering.
Bless you! It's nice to know I'm not alone. I always think she looks like a Pacman frog when she's sitting on the couch like that.
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On 2/10/2018 at 8:13 AM, Kohola3 said:
Nope, nope, nope. Not seeing Robun doing this. Of course, the millisecond it takes to answer one email, well....
LOL. BWAHAHAHAHA! There's no way that's what she's doing. Do you really think they can afford $1500 for this: https://www.fully.com/standing-desks/treadmill-desks.html? I'm sure that all Sobbyn is doing is using a treadmill and replying to email using her phone.
Oh, and that's $1500 for just the smallest, most basic configuration. If you start customizing that desk with the contour top, change the material, or add any goodies, the price ramps up quickly.
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On 2/7/2018 at 9:44 PM, Pachengala said:
I’m so relieved to read that I’m not the only one who hates Auralee’s passive-aggressive victim routine—another board I’m on is 100% #teamauralee and I was starting to gaslight myself. Oooh, she is the very worst. When they were all bickering and she went over and draped herself like a child around Bootleg L Ron Hubbard, I was done. April’s abrasive and awkward, but Auralee’s got this down to a science—she’s even played Angela onto her side; April’s lost this game.
I can so easily sympathize with April—she grew up LDS, where the fundamental tenet for girls is obedience, and fell in love with a cute (to her), ambitious lawyer-to-be; I’m sure she thought her life would play out perfectly: perfect, successful husband, perfect homemaker wife, perfect children, the perfect LDS family. Then, almost a decade in, L Ron (and his ego) decides that there’s too much of him to waste on just one little lady, and he’s going to take another (and possibly more) wife. What are her options here? She doesn’t work, she has no skills, and he’s a lawyer. Sure, she could tough it out as a single mother, but you can kind of understand the temptation to believe that god really is speaking to her husband, that it’s not just that he’s a faithless piece of shit with a wandering eye, and that you can make it work through the power of love and faith.
Unfortunately she bet on the wrong horse—all these women did—and now she’s just stuck. I just feel so bad for her. What a nightmare to find yourself in.
I was originally going to disagree with the bold part (since I made the mistake of reading from page 3 backward to page 2). Good reminder to me that context is important. heh. So I had to delete my previous reply and just say that, yes, in this context I can understand this. Especially since April is still technically part of the religion she grew up with, and that's a hard thing to overcome. I've spent a lot of years wandering around blowing up my own religious beliefs over and over until I could figure out what I really believed. It's a hard thing to do with little comfort to be found along the way. While I think that everyone should do this because it's good for them on many fronts, I can't fault people too hard for not doing it.
The reason I'm still Team April is because it would be very easy to restate and misconstrue April saying "There are spare mattresses in the basement. Why don't your children use those?" into "Your kids can have my kids' mattresses and then we'll just get my kids new mattresses, instead." Another thought I had is that it's possible April was volunteering to have her kids double-bunk in order to free up mattresses for Auralee's children to use until they got new mattresses, which would be even easier to twist into "April's trying to get her children new mattresses instead of mine! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
On 2/7/2018 at 2:34 PM, Meghzie said:I’m not surprised by people not liking her. But I am kinda surprised by all the mocking of her speech impediment
It seems to me that she's playing this up a bit because either Drew thinks it's cute or she believes he does and also because she probably believes it makes her sound/appear less threatening and less manipulative. Also, there's surgery available for what I am sure is a cleft palate**. Perhaps instead of having eleventy-million children and "marrying" a dweeb who's already married, she should invest in corrective surgery. So that's why I had mocked it.
**My older brother was born with a severe cleft palate. It's been corrected through surgery and he speaks perfectly clearly and can be understood with no effort.
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Wow! I have made it through the first page of comments in this thread and it sounds like this episode is MUST-SEE TV. Guess I'll be getting the wife to put off viewing until I can watch with her. Damn it, too! All I really want to do is turn Netflix on and go back to Murder Maps! *shakes a tiny fist*
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1 hour ago, Kyanight said:
They are probably celebrating Earth Day - which falls on April 22nd of each year. I'm sure Christine sang a song by Earth, Wind and Fire.
Listening to her sing probably makes the audience wish the Earth would swallow her, or the Wind would carry the sound of her singing away, and I got nothing for Fire.
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21 minutes ago, chenoa333 said:
True. But you have to admit, that was some funny $hit! I'll bet that comment took the wind out of Robin's sails! Lol!
It's also frightening that the woman worked for Homeland Security for 20+ years. Unbelievable!
Not to be a pedant, but the Department of Homeland Security has not yet existed for 20 years, let alone 20+. It was created in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attack, which would make it - at best - almost 16 and 1/2 years old.
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S09.E05: PolygaMexicamist Wedding
in Sister Wives
Fair enough. My wife was somewhat insecure when I met her, largely because she weighed about 350 pounds. I probably spent the first five years of our relationship patiently reassuring, complimenting, and supporting her, and that solved that problem. When she fractured her kneecap at work in 2002, I realized she needed help adjusting to not working outside the home and having a paycheck anymore. I had to help her change her "currency" from "I earn a paycheck" to "I take pride in running the house", which was largely about showing my appreciation for the fact she was keeping the house clean, doing the shopping, making meals, and etc.
I just think that parents don't have enough conversations with their children about how to choose a mate (of whichever gender to which they are oriented) and create a successful, long-lasting relationship. For example, my youngest sister-in-law has said for years that she wants to find someone who supports and cares for her like I support and care for her sister. So she knows where she wants to get to, so to speak, but I don't think she really has the map to get there from where she is. She's spent the last 10 years fucking, by turns, three of the biggest losers you'd probably ever meet that travel in her circle of friends and naturally ended up pregnant by one of the least mature of the three. I feel like I'm going to have to talk to her a little bit about it, which I've not yet done because it's always felt like I'm over-stepping.