Heathen

I've always been skeptical that the breakdown ever happened.

Felix is a pretty widespread name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_(name)

I don't think Kelly Bates is any taller than average. Gil is short for a man, and that makes Kelly look taller when standing next to him. As for Mullet -- she's shrunk a lot since the first special. I hate speculation about other people's health, but my guess for her is osteoporosis. Michelle looks like shit pretty much no matter what she wears. Some people have a presence and sense of style, but she isn't one of them.

Some of my family is southern, and we don't do that. Not every southern family does things the exact same way. Rinse and repeat.

If Jessa had a dollar for every time someone said her face or stomach looked fuller, she'd be loaded and Jim Bob would be totally jealous.

Not only that. Gothardism, and fundamentalism in general, centers around their misconception of the good old days, when men were men and women wore skirts, raised the kids, and never talked back. Before those troublemakers came along and suddenly women wanted to vote and not be property, blacks wanted equal rights, and (whispers) the gays were out in public!

Wake up and realize Gothardism isn't sustainable unless they actually want their kids to live in poverty. It's possible to be conservative Christians, even extremely conservative, without subscribing to a belief system that is more or less designed to keep families dumb, dirt poor, and constantly reproducing.

It's called "because Jill can't win." If she used full-sized, organic, locally grown carrots, somebody would gripe about that. Baby carrots are as healthy as any other.

Did they ever bake bread when it wasn't scripted and filmed and they weren't getting paid for it?

Ding ding ding...

That would surprise me not one bit. I'm sure that Jim Bob was dorky even by the standards of a Small Town, Arkansas 1980s Christian school.

Dark, flat colors are harsh on older people, anyway. Look at Loretta Lynn or the late June Carter Cash. (Also see: overlong hair does not look good on older women, Mullet.)

My grandparents were the children of German immigrants. Back on topic: Where are the Josiahs honeymooning?

It looks like Mary to me, too. Not surprising that her hair is thinning at her age.

Is that a rhetorical question? Her leghumpers and her haters want to see it. As far as the vanilla goes -- how many people can tell the difference between real and fake in a recipe? It's no nastier than any other flavoring, probably less nasty than store-bought baked goods. Lots of people like that "crap."

It's my informal observation that the more fundie the denomination, the more cavalier they are about dressing in a traditionally appropriate manner for church, and the more likely they are to treat church like going to a movie. I knew some Assembly of God born-agains when I was growing up. They were all about church three times a week and only "Christian" music and so on. Their kids wore short-shorts and tank tops to church and ate candy bars during the service and chewed gum like cows chewing their cuds. (Their family was also the biggest hypocrites in town -- all about promiscuity and adultery and scams and treating other people like garbage. But it was okay because they were "Christian.") My grandparents were devout ELCA Lutherans (it obviously didn't take with me). They always dressed nicely even when they lived in hot-ass Florida, and coffee/cookies/snacks were for after church, not during. Now get off my lawn.

In all fairness, I don't think Dr. Jill At Your Cervix was even in the country when Spurgeon was born. That one can't be on her. I do blame her for her own near-disasters and Joy's as well.

Spurgeon Poshsprinkles? ;) Good for the Vuolos for picking a good name and a hospital/birthing center birth. Stuff it, Aunt Jill.

Not exclusively. https://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/mens-health/articles/2011/02/22/what-causes-hair-loss-9-myths-about-baldness From the article: "Not entirely true. While the primary baldness gene is on the X chromosome, which men get only from their mothers, other factors are also in play. The hereditary factor is slightly more dominant on the woman's side, but research suggests that men who have a bald father are more likely to develop male pattern baldness than those who don't."

Well, we know where the Duggar boys' unfortunate hairline came from.

And a toad. "My firstborn son." He must think his magical penis will automatically grant him more sons. What a jerk. He's the kind who values sons over daughters and doesn't care who knows it.

He looks like a bobblehead. *shakes him back and forth*

Fundies tend to be dorky! Jeremy being literate doesn't make him a pseudo intellectual. Do you think Ben and Jessa are pseudo intellectuals because they saddled their firstborn with a hideous, "meaningful" name?

It's kind of a dorky name, anyway.

Same. I'm kind of jealous of that kitchen. (My guilty pleasure is interior design and real estate listings.)