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She really didn't want to go back into modelling, but he badgered her into it. It makes sense that her promise to be there wasn't sincere

I think worse than Andrea's jealousy over Lamar's baby-mama being at the party was her childish and passive aggressive reaction to it. She just got up and left, then later made up some lie about being lost when Lamar didn't take the bait.

I can't believe I missed that. Shower caps are improvised condoms in prison after all.

Scott's dumped so much money, time, and emotional effort into Lizzie that I think the Sunken Costs Fallacy is also at play here. If he were to walk away now, all that $20,000 would be down the drain with nothing to show for it. I mean, that's the way it is now, but at least now he has hope.

No, not directly to the prison. Couldn't get past the mail screeners. They can be pretty fickle. I tried to send a tattoo coloring book to an inmate pen pal, and it was rejected. There are several ways to do this, by getting it in through some unsecured channel into the prison. They always involve someone on the outside in close proximity to the prison. One method I heard is to simply have someone from outside throw it over the fence while someone on the inside retrieves it during yard time. For greater caution, it is stuffed inside a bag, such as a Burger King takeout bag, so it will look more like random litter. Another tactic is to throw it into a garbage can that is open to the public. Then an inmate who collects trash brings it in. It could also be a crooked guard just walking it in through the front door. Myriad ways to smuggle things into the prison. Inmates are very creative at circumventing the rules.

You can do video visits in some prisons. It's sad that Alla is using drugs again. I didn't pick up on that and probably wouldn't have if not for the parole violation. James pushed her back into modelling because she needs a job and that seemed like a logical choice.

Well, many prisons do have photography services that you can buy with commissary money. But, like everything in prison, it's pretty strictly controlled and you would never be able to send provocative pictures. I have a pen pal serving time in federal prison on a drug charge. She sent me some pictures from their service and they're normal, fairly modest pictures of her in the standard prison uniform. I think that when you're a man locked up, virtually any woman would qualify as a dream girlfriend. I think Johnna is kinda pretty, her personality issues notwithstanding.

I wonder that too. You can send money into a commissary account but I think there is some kind of limit, and there are limits to how fast an inmate can spend it too. Moving that kind of cash would either take decades of time or some cohorts doing illegal things. And given that Scott later admits to taking the very illegal action of sending her a cell phone, it would have to be the latter.

I found out about this show through another forum I frequent, on a site about prison pen pals. So I watched the 5 episodes that were available and I liked them. Since this is just about the first episode, I'll try to stay general. I think James and Alla have a good chance. They seem mature. They have conflicts, but they don't seem to let them escalate. Johnna is missing an 'a' from her name and is immature, controlling, and so desperate for this fairy tale idea of marriage that she'll just take what she can get. The relationship worked while Garrett was in prison because his confinement meshed well with her control freak tendencies. Now that he's out and about and she can't be assured of his whereabouts, it is driving him crazy. Garrett has a lot of flaws too, and this relationship will never work. Andrea is pretty horrible. Controlling, distrustful, jealous, and paranoid. She gets threatened by any woman who comes near her man, as evidenced by her reaction to the perfectly innocent car wash attendant talking to Lamar. I feel really sorry for Scott. It is so obvious that he is being swindled by a gold digger, and she has her hooks in him deep. It's especially mind boggling because she admitted she is swindling other men. But Scott thinks he is above that and he is her one true love (as I'm sure all the other men do too).

That's a good point I hadn't considered. I kind of wonder, where do you cross the line from "eating too much" into "eating disorder"? I am overweight as a 270 pound adult male. I wear size 44 pants, but I do that with a belt. I think I could fit size 40 waist, but the legs are too tight. I like my pants to be baggy. I eat a lot for emotional reasons. But I can also endure fairly well in exercise. I can't run more than about 60 seconds without getting winded, but I can keep up a brisk pace of 3.8 to 4.0 miles per hour for a solid 45 minutes. It's not easy... I get tired and very sweaty, but good exercise is supposed to be strenuous. I look at other people running along at 6 or 7 miles per hour and wonder how the hell they do it.

I was thinking again about Whitney's claims of having developed an eating disorder from attempting to diet in her teens. I saw this somewhere else today, on an online petition by someone in the HAES movement. She wanted Weight Watchers to stop advertising to teenagers, claiming that she had joined Weight Watchers at age 9 and developed an eating disorder from it. It makes me wonder if these people are confusing stress about the effort it takes to lose weight with "eating disorder". I was in Weight Watchers at age 15 and I never felt anything close to an eating disorder.

That doesn't make any sense. Whitney is a public personification of what they stand for. Maybe that's the problem. Her high profile makes it harder for them to deny the absurdity of saying that you can be healthy at 300, 400, or 500 pounds. I want to start a "Healthy at Any Tobacco Use Level" movement. I want to stop the discrimination of non-smoking areas, the higher rates for insurance, and the stigma of smoking. It's not nice that doctors tell us that smoking is giving us all sorts of diseases! Non-smokers get lung cancer too! And sometimes smokers die for reasons unrelated to smoking! Like kidney cancer or AIDS or 17 stab wounds in the back.

But she's in poor health too.

I guess, but he's never done that before. It seems like an unfair standard to ask that he start now.

Well... they run promos for "Billion Dollar Buyer" during this show. I don't know what that show is about, but maybe that one? It looks similar.

I just got started on The Amazing Adventures of Captain Gladys Stoat Pamphlet and Her Intrepid Spaniel Stig Among the Giant Pygmies of Beccles Volume 8.

I think he did tell the truth as it was at the conclusion of filming several months ago. Whatever caused the deal to fall through would have happened after they finished up with this episode.

I'm talking about this episode, not Rayjus.

I know, from the Rayjus episode. But what makes this episode a fakeout?

I don't get what you mean. He devoted an entire episode and apparently made a deal during filming. It's not really a fakeout if the deal fails afterwards.

Well at least Whitney finished. I have to give her credit for that. For someone in such poor health I didn't think she could.

I don't gamble, but I think I want a piece of that action. I wouldn't put money on the death bet though. That's really hard to predict. Having watched enough documentaries on these super-duper-mega-obese types, they seem to live surprisingly long. Of course, I could just be a victim of survivorship bias. Nobody would make a documentary about a person who died of extreme weight. Well maybe that one guy on Guam, but it wasn't even his weight that killed him. It was a drug overdose.

Sometimes I like to refer to TLC by its full name "The Learning Channel", just as a sad reminder of the sad gravity well of dreck that a respectable network will be sucked in to because of business forces.

Well.... if a person has weight loss surgery then tries to eat like she use to, she'll definitely start throwing up a lot. But that's not bulimia.

My sister was a big fan of Gilmore Girls but I only watched it in passing. I remember it being very exhausting to watch because everyone spoke like an auctioneer on meth. I got heart palpitations trying to keep up.