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Do we know who pays them? Does it come out of the Nonnontas House budget, are they paid directly from the NHS, or is there some other government agency who is responsible for their wages?

With fast food franchise wages now being $20 per hour in CA, I can see an interest in this after a lot of modifications. That's probably why their recommendation was to lease at least 3 machines. I remember another food prep vending machine that was similar to the old fashioned automat. It served a lot more than just hamburgers. I don't remember the name of it or what season it was on, but it would be interesting to know if it is still in business. That would be a pretty good clue as to whether or not this machine will produce a viable business.

. . . and after only selling 11,000 units last year, yet he thinks this is a huge money maker. The hand brace for playing basketball really wasn't much better. Mark couldn't even make a basket with it on 3 tries, and he wasn't anywhere close to a free throw line. 2150 units sold last year after being in business for more than 15 years! Ditto for the footwear company. Barbara brought their valuation down from $2.5million to $400K, and I doubt the company is even worth that. They've only sold 1916 units in the last 2 years. In most climates in the US, you can't even wear them 6 months out of the year. More people with delusions of grandeur. It's the end of the season. We're scrapping the bottom of the barrel again.

I do viewer reviews for CBS. Every single season I tell them they need to make a rule to stop collusion between the teams. I'm obviously getting nowhere.

I still want to know what they do with all the plastic after it is shredded.

How did Bizzy and Dizzy manage to get themselves into 3rd place at one point then fall back to finishing second to last again?

I think with the way they hit the mat the other two teams will start the next leg in Group 2, and Danny and Mommy will have to start with Group 3 just because they were the slowest at reaching the mat even though they all technically arrived together. Will the Hanger-On Teams use their extra 15 minutes accordingly or will they be stupid enough to decide that they have to wait for Danny and Mommy thereby giving the other Group 3 teams an advantage?

Were any of the other bubbles playing offense or was it entirely defense?

When he pulled down the smoke detector, I was expecting him to find an FBI bug in it. Since that didn't happen, I think you're right about him working with the Feds in some capacity. If he's not, then he'll turn out to be Thorny's next casualty. Then again, if he is working with the Feds, he could still turn out to be Thorny's next casualty joining Garrett and Maya in her wake of destruction. She is whatever is the opposite of a Golden Goose. Everything she touches turns into a corpse instead of into gold.

. . . after showing up at a wake where she wasn't welcome dressed head to toe in white like she believes she is some paragon of virtue. Have I mentioned how much I hate that woman recently?

I'm not letting them off that easily. Even if secondary drowning hadn't been widely known back then, a child coming to you immediately after a water incident with a fever and saying her chest hurt should have at least set off some alarm bells from her medically trained parents instead of "a good night's sleep will do you wonders." Just considering the possibility that something in the water had irritated her throat, her bronchioles or her lungs should have been basic logic to them.

For me, it's the parents thinking their kids are safe with water wings or other flotation devices that brings me to near hysteria. Those things are a death sentence waiting to happen. The kids using them are too young to understand "I'll float if I have them on but sink to the bottom without them." They see no reason not to enter a pool on their own without their floaties. The vast majority of home pool drownings are toddlers who enter a pool unsupervised within an hour of having been swimming with a flotation device when a parent was poolside. I wish those things would be banned and Infant Survival Training was mandatory for all kids before they are mobile enough to get themselves into a pool on their own.

The way I remember it is they had some animosity over how Chris was being treated at school, and then the sexual tension overwhelmed them (and underwhelmed me), and they suddenly decided to start dating.

Dry drowning and aspiration pneumonia are essentially the same thing. "My chest hurts" should have been a pretty big clue to her medically-trained parents. An immediate x-ray wouldn't have shown anything. It takes a few hours for the pneumonia to set it. That is why anyone with a near drowning episode today spends a night in the hospital being monitored. When she complained of chest pain and had a fever is when he should have immediately thought of a chest x-ray "just to be sure."

That was Ana.

It's basically a BeDazzler for hair. She has sold fewer than 50,000 units in 2022 and 2023, so as usual, the snarks are acting impressed over sales that aren't impressive. You can't brush or comb your hair, let alone wash it, as long as the jewels are stuck there, and then when you do brush them out, do you have to pick up all the little pieces from all over the floor? How many can go down the bathtub drain before you have problems with your septic tank? I can see parents getting tired of that pretty quickly.

It's a fad right now, but who knows how long it will last (keep in mind that Crocs are still with us when you think in terms of longevity of a fad). That is why she has a lot of competition right now. Barbara "restructuring" her business needs to include some long-term investing if she wants it to support her for life. Otherwise, when the fad ends, she'll be stuck with another mortgage she can't pay.

My college roommate couldn't go 5 minutes without having a live-in boyfriend. The year after she graduated, she decided she was gay. I'm still not pretending to understand it.

Those were tenders, not lifeboats. Depending on the cruise line and the location where you need to be transported, some of the tenders are smaller and not enclosed. The lifeboats, however, are strictly for emergency use.

Medical facilities on board a cruise ship are on par with a major hospital's ICU.

Because she's too arrogant. She was going to be the one to save him with her usual "I'm a doctor" schtick, and it got him killed instead. Don't worry. She'll come up with a way to rationalize that it wasn't her fault, or she risked his life for the right reasons. She always does and lets herself off Scott free.

Was this before Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle in 1905, or were they trying to circumvent the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act (now the FDA)?

I have serious concerns about their problem solving skills on the job.

The You Got This count at the roadblock was 14 (that we heard). Five of those were from Vinny when Amber had no competition there at the same time.

We saw a Reclining Feline also.