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ok bored now. Show everyone more Vermont. If you guys ever visit Vermont, let me know. I know a place that does awesome maple cheesecake

There is room for experimentation. I tend to go with rum, though Vermont is really big on craft beers.

After he picked the fake syrup, they won't let him in Don't act like bringing him to Vermont is a hardship, Gabi. It's lovely here. Probably does him good.

I'd be down with that, though I think the final stop this season is in Vietnam.

I hope we discover Ariel can sing like Bebe Neuwirth.

I'm always fascinated by the differences people have about beauty. I guess that damned aesthetics class I took in college stuck with me. (But it got me a minor in Philosophy which has been exactly as super useful as you'd expect.) There's nothing about Ariel that makes her more physically attractive than, say, Christina Mandrell or Kat or Anastasia or Davia. But her physical appearance is, to me, augmented by an incredibly sexy voice and an unflappable demeanor -- remember her "but that's what you did" comment when Kat was circling the wagons about kissing Zach before Charity's date? And she's quietly funny AF. Zach: "Should we eat some conch?" Ariel: "I'm a virgin." So maybe she doesn't grab your attention in a cast photo (this is an unusually gorgeous cast), but of the women we've actually heard from, she's the one I think I'd most want to meet. (ETA: Of course, I would hip-check Ariel into oncoming traffic if she got between me and Jess. But I admit that's a "me" thing.)

Exactly. I can't believe she doesn't get a lot of attention from guys in her normal day-to-day, but but combining her poise and intelligence with what seems to be a bone-dry sense of humor necessitates a level of pickiness on her part. If she ends up in Paradise, I'm sure she'd be a big hit with the loser dudebros who often come to the beach.

I hope he got paid in advance

I may be in the minority here, but there's only one thing I want from hometowns: CRAZY DADS I don't care about brothers being snotty about the lead not knowing a girl's birthday -- they spend so little time together, they should focus on IMPORTANT stuff like favorite colors and how mentalists work. Plenty of time to add an entry into his iPhone calendar later. But I want someone to be talking to Zach about his precious little girl while slowly putting on gloves and wiping fingerprints off a tire iron. Thought I would get that from Rachel's dad, but he turned out to be a softy. Spare me the "where are you with the other women" questions. I want Ariel's father threatening to push Zach's face into a pot of hot polenta.

Uncle Kronk thinks this season is a mess. He must be a Jess fan too. https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/7448631/bachelor-zach-shallcross-uncle-patrick-warburton-torture-nightmare/

I wonder how Ariel would feel about being ogled by the morons they're likely to cast as potential hookups? As opposed to someone like me who will ogle her through the TV I'm not ready to think about Paradise. I think they have burned through anyone I'd be interested in seeing, except for a few of Zach's women who escaped his attentions.

That was my first thought. I can imagine Ariel being over it. Maybe she likes her job enough to not take more time off? Maybe she met someone? Or maybe ABC finally figured out how to feed misinformation to Reality Steve? I guess we'll find out soon enough.

Ok Gabi has a better connection with Kaity than she does with Zach

I wish someone would fly me to Budapest to get dumped.

Greer might as well have just walked into traffic on the way over

ha! She said Jewish and Ukrainian. But to me it all sounds like Fiddler on the Roof tryouts

Truly. *Sigh*. I would care if we knew anything about Kat

Enjoying the mentalist. I though this was going to be a traumontage

Zach's skin-colored sweater is a CHOICE. Ugh.

How will Zach get Ariel into a swimsuit tonight?

Do we know they specifically weren't invited, as opposed to just being absent?

I think both Ariel and Sharleen would be flattered. Like Sharleen, Ariel can do better than her lead.

I agree with all this. I doubt Zach ends up with someone that cool.

"Look at her face look at her face look at her face look at her face ..."

How many times will he put Ariel in a swimsuit before she gets suspicious?