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16 hours ago, ozziemom said:
Duggars and gang signs is like people over 40 trying to stay relevant. But it’s just not a good look.
People over 40 are irrelevant? Seriously?
I don't see anything wrong with people using their phones during a rehearsal. It's just a rehearsal -- not a funeral.
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12 hours ago, MargeGunderson said:
I find Philip creepier. I don’t know why, and I’m vaguely ashamed I’ve spent any time comparing Rodriguii in my head.
I think with Timmy, it's the bleached blond hair and dark eyebrows, and the fact that he reminds me so much of Kiefer Sutherland in Lost Boys, a role that has always upset me and freaked me out.
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1 hour ago, iwantcookies said:
I rather see Jana marry Tim Rodrigues
That would be a wedding I’d actually watch
Jill’s shrieking could be heard around the world
Ew. Poor Jana. The creepiest of all Rodriguii males except David.
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19 minutes ago, emma675 said:
In the second picture, Abbie does not look happy to be there. And there is a girl on the far left who is barefoot when no one else is. Yuck.
Is the barefoot one Joy?
Abbie's looks like a "hurry up and get it over with" expression, to me. I don't blame her. Weddings must get pretty dull when there's so many.
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22 minutes ago, GeeGolly said:
Parents of a singleton who gave birth to all female quints. Originally from LA, near where the hurricanes recently hit. Now live in TX.
The show started out when the kids were babies and they were struggling a wee bit financially, but now, since the show, they're well off. The quints are 5.
Sounds like Gosselin 2.0. Let me guess, they used fertility treatments but then "left it up to gawd."
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2 minutes ago, GeeGolly said:
The parents really are awful. Very, very entitled and hung up on themselves and their kids. Much better parents than the Gosselins, but that bar is way low.
What's their backstory?
Khate and Jawn didn't look like such awful parents at the beginning. Neither did the Duggars...
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1 hour ago, Churchhoney said:Unless he pulls a Justin, Jackson'll be eligible in about a year and a half.
Although I suppose the way things are going right now, it wouldn't be surprising if Jackson surprise-photobombed his own wedding sometime in the summer of 2022.
(He turns 17 this May)
I forgot about Jackson. And his birth was on the first special I watched.
I preemptively submit "I Forgot About Jackson...and Random Girl's Name" as his thread title when the inevitable courtship/engagement/marriage happens in the next few years.
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8 minutes ago, GeeGolly said:
They sound worse than Khate Gosselin. FFS.
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2 hours ago, GeeGolly said:
I think I found a family that is worse than the Duggars as far as covid and maybe one step below the Rods. The Busbys. They've basically whined since the beginning of what an imposition the virus has been. They've taken multiple vacations and last night they were shown at a farm Fall festival in October mingling with oodles of folks, no mask in sight. Then they had a crowd of folks gathering together on Halloween.
Meanwhile the mom is complaining about and being tested for a host of medical symptoms. Symptoms that sound like "long covid" to me.
On second thought maybe the Duggars are just as bad, but at least they took it somewhat seriously for the first month or two.
After all these months, I was surprised at how angry the Busby's cavalier attitude made me. I want this virus gone.
Is that the same family that whitened their elementary school-age kids' teeth? They have a "reality" show?
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4 hours ago, sondraK said:
She needs a drawer insert to keep them apart and really organize them
And less stuff, period.
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57 minutes ago, iwantcookies said:
At the rate the J are getting married this thread will be empty.
Nah, it'll be "The Lonely J Club: Jana," for another two years until Johannah is added.
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On 3/20/2021 at 8:58 AM, BigBingerBro said:
Well, Claire has the "hand on my man" pose down. The boy in green looks miserable.
The kid in green looks like his left hand is trying to correct a wedgie.
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9 minutes ago, Suzn said:
I have always wondered what the children have been exposed to/or seen considering JB dry humping Michele at the golf course, the way Michele's fertility was monitored on a calendar and in general, his creepy attitude and discussing of his and Michele's sex lives. It seems that it was a sexually charged atmosphere at the same time that it was a sexually repressed atmosphere.
Very much so.
Along the same lines, Jill came from an environment where bodies were absolutely considered shameful and something to hide. Hell, her craven, adult mother had to whisper the word underwear because she found it so embarrassing. I can absolutely see Jill being humiliated that everyone knew she was a sex abuse victim because it meant everyone knew 1. She had a body; 2. Her body had been violated; and 3. By her own brother no less. And that leaves out the fact that Jill no doubt blamed herself.
I have never gotten over being ashamed of my body and I think it's largely because of my own history as a molestation victim. And I didn't come from a fundie background, nor was my brother my victimizer (he wasn't alive the first time and he was an infant the second).
I hope all this made sense.
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23 minutes ago, GeeGolly said:
Nor might it that complicated or emotionally charged.
They had their first year while Derick was working, during which time they decided to do missionary work. Shared interest missionary work is one of the reasons they married. Long before and separate from any scandals. TLC was well aware of their plans prior to rebranding the show. No one will convince me that Derick didn't encourage Jill to hang with him whenever she could during his breaks, yet everyone puts that solely on Jill. Jill was absolutely devastated the molestations were made public. (humiliated? I sure hope not) Jill also had a hard time in El Salvador. Neither of Jill's struggles were directly related to JB and in Derick's mind at that time, surely they were completely unrelated. Until that time, though they were fundraising because that's what missionaries do, they had no financial hardships. Derick was still happily enveloped in the Duggar fold until he wanted money, as was shown by the show and their SM posts.
Derick never even mentioned JB until farther into his quest for money, it was all TLC. I'm sure once he found out JB wouldn't be willingly handing over the cash, he became angry with him.
Derick has left a trail of SM posts in his wake. If you lined them all up, there was a definite shift in his anger and tone. Because Derick is a liar, the evidence is even more clear, because he lies changed to make him the good guy and everyone else, including JB, the bad guys. And even then I'm thinking Derick was mad over money and made no true connection of it to Jill's upbringing, until they were in therapy, because once again the tone of their posts changed. Now they do the Q & As to continue to repair Derick's image. And they appear to be working.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending JB & M. They contributed to many of the difficulties the Dillards are managing right now, and that's awful. But like I said, Derick didn't figure this out until recently.
I'm pretty sure Derick and Jill had vastly different ideas of what missionary work actually constitutes.
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18 minutes ago, Zella said:
That may be, but I am pretty sure his audience is predominantly American. And in that case, the percentage of who has taken some college jumps to about 2/3 and makes his whole thing pretty ridiculous, even beyond debating him about whether Jill's classes even count as college.
My point is that he's technically correct or close to it. Derick is a literalist as well as stubborn.
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20 hours ago, Zella said:
Yeah didn't he once claim in Instagram comments that Jill probably had more college than the rest of us?
He's not far off. Only a small percentage of the world's population has taken even one college class*. If Derick thinks or thought that Jill's online "midwifery" thing counted as college, he was correct that she had "more college" than most of us. Of course, nobody with a working brain thinks her education was the same as real college, but that's a different topic altogether.
*The figure my first-ever college professor gave us on my first day of college was that only two percent of the world has taken a college class. I will spend some time with Google later to see if the stats are still accurate. I don't have time right now.
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17 minutes ago, iwantcookies said:
Hi from Jill
Jill looks like she's been smoking the devil's lettuce.
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6 hours ago, iwantcookies said:
How does David NOT have diabetes?
There are plenty of overweight or obese people who don't have and never get diabetes, just as there as plenty of not-overweight or obese people who get type 2. It has a lot to do with genetics. My sister is morbidly obese and not diabetic.
Topic: The Rod kids are getting past their sell-by dates. Jilly better get to selling if she doesn't want to end up with a bunch of old maids.
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On 3/19/2021 at 9:47 PM, beckie said:
The only arranged marriage that I know of ended in divorce. So even that's not foolproof.
I know several people who had arranged marriages. The first couple I'm thinking of has been married 21 years. She is Albanian and Muslim; he is American and Christian. He went to Albania to meet her knowing she had no choice but to marry him if her family told her to. They seem happy.
The other couple is Chaldean. Their marriage was arranged while she was here and he was in Syria, where they married. I believe they're also cousins -- her mother, who worked for me, said so before she realized cousin marriage is taboo here. They have a couple kids and also seem happy.
I'm quite sure that a lot of "our" cultural things seem FUBAR to them.
Topic: Is anyone taking bets on whether the infamous tin man dress and shiny gray suit will reappear for this wedding?
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1 hour ago, Panopticon said:
Jed! and Katey: Bunk Bed to Ballot Box
Bunk Bed Jed! and Katey: Haste to the Ballot Box
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49 minutes ago, BigBingerBro said:
I also wonder if Miss Cathy also had a "come to Jesus" meeting with Deertick as well. He really made a 360 in terms of getting a solid lifestyle going for his family
Or his brother did.
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9 minutes ago, Jeeves said:
Ah, fairytales, rainbows, unicorns, and pee sticks. A perfect fundie wedding/honeymoon, a perfect fundie marriage.
But wait a minute. I thought the IBLP/Gothard/fundie crowd has preached against magic and fairytales as evil. Don't they forbid their kids to read Harry Potter? Or is that not a unanimous position in that crowd?
Their entire religion is a fairy tale, but it's the *right kind* of fairy tale. The controlling, mean-spirited, domineering kind.
46 minutes ago, beckie said:Yet they chose to air his courtship announcement knowing that its usually pretty serious by that point. They probably filmed it, but it'll probably be a surprise for the season.
Maybe they'll show the wedding in three years and pretend it just happened, since a courtship for a barely legal kid was more palatable than a wedding.
WTFK.
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1 hour ago, Birdie said:
I have some questions about a couple of episodes recently shown. Maybe somebody can answer them.
1. Wouldn’t they know Mark never shocked Fossen given the readout of Fossen’s heart rhythm? I would think there would be a spike in the reading when he shocked him, but he shocked the air. Wouldn’t that not show anything on the reading, so Mark couldn’t lie his way out?
2. Luka “explains” Nicole’s kleptomania as her “inability to trust people.” Like, what? I think an overwhelming amount of people on earth can say they have trust issues, but they have no compulsion to steal. I admit I have no experience with psychology. Hoping to take an intro course this summer though.
3. Carter having to turn his grandmother into the DMV because of her recently diagnosed condition. Do doctors really have to do this in some instances? I am a Type 1 (juvenile) diabetic diagnosed at 11, and I just had to promise I’d check my blood glucose before every time I got behind the wheel (I wear a CGM which makes it easy). And I wear a medical bracelet. But is there a list or something doctors are aware of when they have to report a patient?
Sorry for all questions, but I know there are a variety of experienced people on the board that might help answering my curiosity.
All this was well after the show jumped the shark, but I can say for sure all states regulate driving privileges for people with certain medical conditions. Some states make it mandatory for doctors to report, some do not. For instance, the state of Illinois does not require doctors to report patients with epilepsy; California does. Illinois, surprisingly, doesn't even have a set period during which patients must be seizure-free before driving again. https://www.epilepsy.com/driving-laws/2008871
I have epilepsy, and this is something I've had to spend a lot of time thinking about.
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12 hours ago, Temperance said:
So TLC has announced a birth special for Kendra with her daughter Brooklyn. They have yet to acknowledge Justin and Claire got married.
This is highly unusual. They usually make a video right after the wedding.
I think his age has a lot to do with it. Not only is he 18, he looks younger. Nobody in their right mind thinks it's cool to marry off a kid who looks like he doesn't even shave yet.
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Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)
in Counting On
Nurie isn't wearing her engagement or wedding rings. Someone might think she's a *GASP* unwed mother who enticed a god-fearing man and gave him unrighteous thoughts!!!!!!!!!!!