Mollysmom

Well, he's gone now too. Wonder what happened? He was my favorite.

I used to watch this show, but I can't stand Debbie either. She cries at the drop of a hat - get a grip! She's just obnoxious. I like Mark, and watched for a while after she took over hosting from Cristina, but he's not enough to make up for Debbie.

Most likely cost. It probably would cost 10 times more to manufacture here.

I sure hope so! Haven't seen him this season - but then I've only been half-watching.

I think this is very common. People just really have no clue about the number of calories in what they eat. Labeling doesn't really help either, it's easy to look at my can of Monster Java Loca Moca and see calories are 120, so ok, it's 120 calories. Except it isn't. If you keep reading, you see that it is 2 servings, so it is actually 240 calories. There are a lot of things labeled this way - they are packaged in what you consider 1 serving, but they are actually 2, or 2 1/2 servings. Also, people are really bad at eyeballing servings. I am on the MyFitnessPal boards and had never even thought of using a food scale to actually weigh my foods. HUGE eyeopener! Yeah, that 2 tbsp of peanut butter that is supposed to weigh 33 grams? Yeah, more like almost double. So my little peanut butter sandwiches end up being a lot more calories than I ever imagined once I started weighing the bread (also more than it states on the package) along with the peanut butter and jelly. I kept thinking when she was putting her meals together that she needed a food scale - she put about 3 times the amount of hamburger she should have in those 2 patties. I can't believe they aren't taught this by the dieticians, especially when they are given such a restrictive diet. If I had to eyeball a 1200 calorie diet, I'd easily be over by 3-400 calories if I didn't weigh everything. The other thing about portion sizes that I struggle with - when I was a kid, we would have say spaghetti. That is all we would have - an entire dinner plate covered in spaghetti. That is legitimately what I always thought a serving of spaghetti was. Again, I was floored when I measured out 1 serving. (also really surprised that you are supposed to have something like a side salad with it, or veggies, because we never did.) About 1/5th of the dinner plate serving. Casseroles were the same way. We never really had sides with them, just large servings of the main dish. So that gets ingrained in you that that is the amount you should eat.

I don't like the new format. It seems like it's a completely different show.

LOL! I have often wondered how guys go to the bathroom when they are that huge. Plus, I would think the weight of the fat would be really painful to that "area".

These shows that glorify people who have IVF then have a bunch of kids drive me nuts. I think most do the shows because they find they can't afford to support their now huge family. "Hey, we have 4, 5, 6 babies at once, lets just get a tv show and get people to donate stuff to us!". I find myself yelling at the tv when the parents complain about how hard it is, or how expensive it is, "THEN WHY DID YOU CHOOSE TO HAVE SO MANY KIDS!?" There is a local family that had quadruplets - they are now about 8 years old I think. The parents went through IVF because they "just had to have children", mom "longed for a baby". They had 4. Mom committed suicide about 2 years ago. So now they are having a fundraiser to help fund their education. Private school education, and future college. I have a problem with that. They can't afford to send the kids to private school? Send them to public. College? Maybe some of them won't want to go, or aren't cut out for college. Or a college may give them a free ride scholarship just for the notoriety of having a set of quadruplets. Dad could be putting away some of the Social Security they get. Don't have so many kids if you can't support them on your own. Don't expect society to fund your kids' lives.

I agree with you about kids running and screaming. Kids don't seem to be able to control themselves until they are in upper elementary/jr. high. I am a library director and there are a lot of kids that come in, and we have to tell them over and over not to run or scream inside, otherwise they need to leave. I just think until they are 10-11 years old, they don't seem to be able to walk quietly. So Will isn't that different in his behavior. Sometimes it takes telling a kids 100 times not to do something for it to stick.

Was America ever sober? I absolutely hate this commercial.

I have a 6 lb Morkie and she was pee-pad trained by her previous owner. I have gotten her to finally go outside more, but when I'm at work, and she can't hold it as long as my bigger dog, she uses the pee pad. It isn't laziness. It is actually more work I think because you have to pick up the pad and throw them away, and clean up any misses.

I agree. I am physically disabled and am actually offended by some of the comments from people whom I assume are able-bodied. It infuriates me when someone who has no clue about me or my abilities makes assumptions based on the way my disability looks to them. I have Spina Bifida and walk with crutches. It never ceases to amaze me how people will assume I can't do something, when I actually can. Maybe it isn't the way an able-bodied person would do it, but I can get the job done just as well. I babysat since I was 12 and never had an issue with taking care of the kids because of my disability. I went to school to be a recording engineer and we had to do live sound set up for concerts, and I was able to do 95% of all the jobs needed. But when I went on interviews, they took one look at me and assumed I couldn't do the job at all because my legs looked deformed and I walked on crutches, so I got maybe a 5 minute interview. I was held to the same standards as any other person and expected to do the same work, and I did. I actually tried a lot harder so people would take me seriously. People shouldn't make assumptions about something they know nothing about, unless they have that specific disability and have that personal experience.

One thing that I just remembered after reading Jumper Sage's post - I thought it was really dismissive and disrespectful when the women were talking about the craft room and one of the men (I wasn't actually looking at the tv, just listening) referred to it as the "crap" room. Way to diminish their wants, Jackass. If it weren't for the women, those guys would not survive.

I would hate to have to be the one to clean up that church. What a total mess - it was a mess with all that grass and crap on the floor, but then the confetti cannon! I am not a clean or neat freak, but seeing all that stuff all over the floor gave me anxiety and it looked awful.

Yeah, how passive-aggressive can he be?

OMG! Could the father be any more melodramatic? Makes me want to puke.

I love the Sasquatch Purple matress cover commercial. I could watch that all day long. The full commercial is a long on, but it's hilarious.

I was thinking that too. I thought it was highly unethical to treat your own family. He needs to stay out of it, except to explain things their doctor tells them or to just give general advice, like he did to his dad.

My mom will react the same way he did when we bring up her health issues. I think they think if they scream and yell loud enough, people will back off and leave them alone. But he's still way over the top angry in a lot of other situations. He's going to have a heart attack,, I predict, in the not so distant future.

I want to reach through the tv and punch him. I cannot stand him. What a trainwreck of a show.

I was thinking the same thing - that there doesn't seem to be ANY introverts in that family. How is that? My mother is extremely extroverted, but the rest of us are introverted. I wouldn't last more than about 15 minutes in that house before I would shut down and start pulling my hair out from the chaos.

What struck me is how weird the father is. How completely controlling he is telling his daughter that HE will decide when she is healthy enough to move back with her husband after the baby. WTF? Her husband is a doctor, I think he can help her decide. This is the most dysfunctional family I've ever seen - worse than the Duggars even. ETA: And the 34,000 sq ft house? That's not a house, that's a mini-mall. There are shopping centers smaller than that.