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I'd bet money she had covid again rather than the flu. Either way, a snowy maternity shoot wearing that dress is a little weird. She might as well tattoo LOOK AT ME, I'M THIRSTY on her forehead. Anybody else notice that Kelton's face looks very red in a lot of his photos? I wonder if he has hypertension.

She's an LPN, not an RN. She never used her license -- someone posted that Michael said she only got it to take care of her parents when they are older. They'll just use her and wear her out.

Can we include hair and makeup in this thread? Trace, Warden, and Jackson's hair needs to be discussed! (Not to mention the sisters' makeup.)

"Months" could mean TWO months, but she's a Bates, so I would bet she's exaggerating.

There's nothing wrong with a child who carries around a comfort item. There IS something wrong with her idiot mother who pimps her out on social media.

She looks like a pregnant version of one of those 1980s hair band video vixens. A fundie Tawny Kitaen.

It's the other twin's wife who is pregnant, I think. The wife whose brother is not fundie-unattractive and was rumored to be courting Jana.

In my experience, for participants, marriage "retreats" are just an excuse to get out of the house and get some attention for a few days. Retreats don't offer any marital or psychological benefit like actual, non-fundie counseling would. For the churches themselves, retreats are a long con. It's just another way to get money out of their parishioners. Topic: I'd sure like to know what the pastor and parishioners actually think of the Stews. I imagine that when they're not playing keep sweet, their opinions aren't favorable.

I would be very angry if I were a Florida taxpayer and my money went to religious bigots' "homeschooling" rather than something worthwhile. Topic: I wonder if Princess Erin and her henpecked hubby are looking forward to another roasting Floriduh summer. I hope for the kids' sake that they have adequate central air conditioning -- the kids didn't ask to live in a sauna.

Seriously, that's gross. It looks like an adult spilled coffee, so they can't even blame it on the props kids.

Now, now, let's be fair. It's her makeup and hair case.

I thought for sure I'd see another pregnancy post in this thread.

I feel sorry for the girls if it is. It'll be Golden Penis 2.0

I liked the episode too ("I swear, if you don't have a vasectomy, you're having the next one!"), but it was entertaining implausibility. The thirteen-year-old having a baby, who swore her mother would help her, just broke my heart. I knew girls like that growing up. They didn't get any help from their mothers and most of them were doomed to a lifetime of poverty.

He did indeed. ER's treatment of seizure patients always bugged me (I have epilepsy). Not every person who has a seizure gets or should get Ativan, stat! Not every seizure is a medical emergency. I think the show's unrealistic portrayal of a common medical condition did a tremendous disservice to people who actually have it. Anybody remember the season 2 episode in which the sprinklers in OB went crazy and six laboring women (including a thirteen-year-old who would presumably be classified as higher risk) were sent to the ER? That was another big ol' storyline of crap. Why send them to the ER instead of a regular med-surg ward? Were the doctors and nurses who would have treated them in OB now fixing the sprinklers instead?

No, he hasn't remarried and still wears his wedding ring. When I was little, I thought the "olden days" meant the 1950s, which annoyed my parents because they were born in the '50s.

His father worked from home before his wife died, and I believe he continued to do so and also homeschooled the kids. I'm sure there was a lot of responsibility put on Kelton after his mother died (as in, can you cook dinner, Kelton?), but they probably got some help from relatives and "sweet church friends," too. Quotation marks because that term is so nauseatingly fundie.

Yale, either biochemistry or microbiology. I remember that because somebody -- maybe Gallant or Pratt -- made a comment about how she must feel out of place. That was in her first episodes. Let's be real -- at the time Neela started in the ER, the show writers had already started up the train that soon went off the tracks.

This forum really needs an anger emoticon. Layla is nothing more than a prop to her lazy-ass, attention-whoring parents. I wonder how long it took goddamn Carlin to get the right photo for her shill.

Or fundie sexy wear. 🤢

And it's not like some of the adult Bateses are likely to be much tidier than the children.

When did Carter display a callous attitude toward pets? As for Gamma, she was older, confused, driving at night, and she thought she hit a dog. I'm not sure she even knew where she was.

Personally, I don't get the impression that Kelton is rigid or controlling. Yes, he's a bible-thumping ass, but that doesn't mean he's abusive or isolates his wife from her family. My impression of Kelton has always been that he sees Josie's family as a bad influence, which is a sentiment I wholeheartedly agree with. If I were a parent, I wouldn't want my children spending a lot of time around lazy slobs like Gil or Kelly or some of the other in-laws (outlaws?). Imagine your little kid coming home from Granny's and telling you she doesn't have to wash her nasty dirty feet because they don't have to do that at Granny's house. Or that they don't have to do chores, or work if they're adults, because Grandpa and Granny don't do that or Uncle Evan and Aunt Carlin don't work. To each her own, of course. I don't have children, but I do have some lazy, gross, self-centered family members who I would not want around them if I did. Ironically, as an atheist and progressive, I would see Kelton as a bad influence and wouldn't want him around my children, except for his enviable work ethic.

Granny doesn't take care of her own damn kids, and probably hasn't since Michael was old enough to take over!

Carlin and Evan would be pea-green with envy.