Heathen

Garret Dillahunt was wicked, unintentionally funny in No County for Old Men. In ER, he was just creepy and gross-looking. He was on SVU as well, I think. In one of those six-degrees-of things, he's married to Michelle Hurd, who played Monique Jeffries on SVU and Kerry's last love interest, Courtney Brown, on ER. ETA: He's been on SVU and the original recipe L&O.

Personally, I hope all Duggar and Bateseseses swimmers stop swimming. It would be ok with me if the constant reproducing of more little bigots stopped right now.

The Duggar kids better get to procreating. The Bateseseses are catching up quickly. By my count, which admittedly might be off because I don't pay close attention: Six -- Smuggar One -- John Two -- Jill Three -- Jessa Two -- Jinger Three -- Joseph One -- Josiah Two -- Joy (three if counting Annabelle -- not discussing that inclusion or any miscarriages)

I liked Adele, the old social worker, a lot better than Wendall. Wendall was deeply annoying.

In all fairness, the Benton appendectomy storyline was pretty damn funny. "Maybe I'll staple my name into his belly." "Dr. Doyle, you want to suction out Dr. Benton?" The Kem storyline was absurd. They should have put Carter with Debbie, the ICRC worker with whom he had actual chemistry. That pairing made sense. Carter + Kem never, ever did. Remember when Weaver was injecting hormones or fertility drugs in the restroom and dropped the syringe?

She's certainly not leaving her hair color up to god. Hypocrite.

It looks like it's about to throttle Mullet. Too bad it didn't succeed. Cathy actually looked better then than she does now.

I don't watch the show and haven't in years. That said, from Instagram and media coverage, I see a big difference in Jill. I think it's more than just a good schedule and stability could give her. I don't remember any concrete confirmation that she's in therapy, but if she is, I think that's the game-changer for her. I don't have any use for the Duggars, and I don't even find them interesting in a freak show kind of way anymore. But I wish Jill and the other molestation victims the best, and their abusers the worst.

I think his "pivoting" is a thing of the past. He wouldn't be the first person, or the last, to realize his undergrad degree led to boring and unfulfilling work, and he wanted to do something else. I attribute the missionary work and reversal to the multiple life changes he, and Jill, went through in a short amount of time. Derick has stuck with law school, and the Dullards have apparently settled down, for the time being at least. They own a home near their families and Israel is in public school. That looks like stability to me. Have the Dullards said that Derick took out loans for law school?

People on this forum said he wouldn't make it through law school. Derick may be an ass, but I think a lot of snarkers underestimate him (that includes me, in the past).

I went to undergrad with international students who were applying to med school and weren't citizens yet. I checked with Dr. Google -- it's complicated and not common, but not impossible. https://studentaffairs.jhu.edu/preprofadvising/pre-medhealth/applicants/special-applicant-groups/international-applicants/ As for the rest, number one, this is ER world, where nothing in the later seasons resembled reality. My guess is that Parminder Nagra could not act with an American accent, so they had to make her British. If she had a facility for accents, they could have made her be from Michigan, and had entire plotlines about Chicago v. Detroit and who had the best paczki or whatever. (Pratt had family in Detroit so they could have bonded over it and pissed off Jing-Mei even more.) It would have been more believable, but by that point the writers weren't going for authenticity. I remember an episode in which Neela (at work, of course, for ostentatiousness) was writing a large check to her parents for her siblings' education. Wonder Doc Abby commented on it, I believe. If I have time anytime soon, I'll watch some episodes and find out which one it was.

But remember, this is in ER world.

I'm not sure if it's three times the rate for citizens in the US, but International students pay full tuition price. No loans, no grants, none of that. One of my professors in undergrad made a point of saying that's why our university had a very large international student body. I think ER stopped being good, at the very latest, at the end of season seven, with the exception of certain episodes. By the time Neela and Ray and Morris arrived, it was a joke. Not even mentioning Super Doc Abby.

Who knows? Her internship was to be in internal medicine leading to dermatology. Maybe her parents thought it would be enough of an intellectual challenge, while also being lucrative but allowing time to have a family. Maybe they picked dermatology at random and thought she'd pick something else like nephrology during her internship. Maybe ER already sucked at that point, and the writer who wrote that episode had just returned from getting his acne treated at the dermatologist's office!

When her parents came to Chicago to force take her back to Ann Arbor, I think her father (always Mr. Bhamra to me) said something about dermatology being a lucrative field. They expected her to help her siblings through school since the family had sacrificed to send Neela to college and medical school.

You know you've been watching too many episodes of Hoarders when your to-do list includes "take pop bottles to car" to return for the ten cent deposit -- and every time you look over your list, you think it says "poop bottles." I am so disgusted. I have been watching, or listening to while I work, all the episodes on Amazon Prime. Some of them are burned into my brain. I'll have to reread this forum to see if there are any updates on them. Shanna in Washington is the first one who comes to mind.

That's a generalization and not necessarily true. I got tested immediately after symptoms started. My first test took three weeks (seriously). Second took a week. My test and retest when I actually had covid-19 took four days each. However, I spent most of the month before my diagnosis listening to the hoaxer at the next desk cough and cough and blame it on "allergies." He never got tested at all. Topic: I'm sure Derick's definition of civil rights law has nothing in common with the ACLU.

There's always a National Coney, which I think is better anyway. *neighborly wave*

I read that as "Jill's other husband" and my mind jumped to her brothers. My mind is deeply troubled now because I don't understand how or why this thought process happened.

Involuntary cackle for "hotbeds of lechery like the grocery store."

I hate the ever-popular "I'm OCD." Unless OCD is your name, you're not! Language is important. Back on topic -- after the filth and crowding the older Duggarlings experienced growing up, I wouldn't be surprised if one or more of them has issues with cleanliness and neatness. NOT OCD.

I have a generalized anxiety diagnosis, and I agree that anxiety is frequently dismissed. At the same time, I think anxiety is often overused (or misused) as an excuse by people who don't actually have anxiety. I think Jill does have anxiety. It's no surprise after what she went through from the time she was a young child, thanks to her worthless parents.

I happened to catch a season nine L&O/Homicide crossover today featuring the wooden one. Not only was she not even in the same stratosphere as Orbach or Belzer, the episode made it patently clear that her only task -- only expectation-- was to be a pretty face. I almost felt sorry for her. The episode sucked, too.

Except Mullet didn't name that pregnancy until years after the fact. I guess she realized she needed to name the embryo for it to "count."

I didn't think Chuck was a completely awful character, but with Susan? That pairing never made sense, especially the Las Vegas thing. Susan always looked like a professional, while Chuck looked like he smelled. Susan looked like she thought Chuck smelled.