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20 hours ago, Maverick said:
I am both impressed and saddened that I immediately knew what video they were parodying. I have no idea how this became a skit because this video wasn't popular enough back in the day to make it on, even though it's totally parody-worthy.
I actually remember that song, now that I've played the video link Maverick so kindly provided us with...serious props for having the useless-memory-recall to enlighten us! The video is astoundingly cheesy, but super random that SNL would do a parody now from a 1986 not-that-popular video.
I found the Melissa bad-at-talking-dirty sketch much funnier last time, and not just because I knew the premise this time. I think it worked better last time because I recall there being more development within each mini-scenario, especially one where she seemed to be doing well at the dirty talk, and then just slayed it with a terrible response.
Donald Glover was excellent as the disturbed Barbie employee.
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I still cannot believe that Pastor Cal was trying to push Molly and Jon together. It makes me despair for the advice he is giving in his pastoral counseling. A pastor's words are powerful in a church, and I imagine there are some very sad and unhappy people being abused in all kinds of ways (especially the subtle and unprovable ways), but sticking it out in their marriage because Pastor Cal said so, and everyone around them buys into that.
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On 5/3/2018 at 8:55 AM, calpurnia99 said:
You are right Zoe mom, and the reason we have so many people who weigh 600 pounds and up is we have such an abundance of junky food we can easily buy and eat. For some they have this available so they will just eat as much as they possibly can since it is right there. These people have no off switch- I like it, it is good so I'm going to have massive quantities of it. This problem did not exist in other eras in history. This is what we have done to our society with the abundance of food not from nature. It's going against our natural biology. I think wow, we have come a long way..
It's not just the abundance of food...it's the "I want it/I deserve it" immediate gratification mentality, and the intolerance for anything that's uncomfortable (uncomfortable in this case being denying gratification).
On 5/3/2018 at 1:25 PM, Elizzikra said:I wonder if it was more that Brandy didn't want to believe how many calories she was taking in. Honestly, until I really think about it, I have to wonder how a hamburger from McDonald's can possibly have over 1,000 calories. But then you look at the quantity and quality of the meat, the cheese, the bun, the mayo... It's not hard to get there. So maybe it wasn't so much that she couldn't figure out how many calories something had as much as she just didn't want to believe that her regular lunch had more than her entire day's allotment of 1200 calories in it.
A McDonald's hamburger has 250 calories.
On 5/3/2018 at 4:32 PM, AVM said:Wrong,Dr Now told other patients they do not need the food, Fact is fat is stored unused calories and they could go without eating ....none of them would starve to death ... They could lives with just water for months.
But the point that Kid was making was "you need to learn what foods are your triggers and avoid those". Eating nothing for months would f*ck with their metabolism and f*ck with their adjustment in their life after the surgery, since they would have had no practice at all with eating in moderation and eating healthy.
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1 hour ago, kira28 said:
Jon was completely in the wrong for starting a, fight then recording Molly's reaction. Yes Molly was wrong for her drunken mocking of Jon for recording her bit I still believe the disgusting was, that he was recording her. He did not include his part of the fight in the recording. I think Jon was hurt and jealous that Molly wasn't into him. He spent far too much time complainijg about how Molly wouldn't show him affection and how he'd never had a girlfriend not make out with, no woman could resist him in a suit etc. I know i would be annoyed if a guy i had just started dating insisted everyone found him attracted and was pressuring me to sleep with him. It just doesn't make sense to me that Jon is this fabulous guy and Molly was just a cold bitch. People thought the same things about David and Ashley
Keep in mind that we don't know that Jon started the fight...Molly said that. And we already know that Molly lied to not-Dr. Pepper, so there's every reason to believe that she was lying about this too.
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On 5/2/2018 at 8:20 PM, Neurochick said:
I disagree with this. People aren't robots. I remember that old Mr. Rogers song, "good people sometimes do bad things," or something like that. Mature people do engage in petty nonsense at times.
I don't think that every time someone is not nice, or says something unkind, means they are engaging in abuse.
Neurochick, you made my day with the Mr Rogers reference...I love him (RIP)! The lyrics you were thinking of are, "Sometimes people are good, and they do just what they should. But the very same people who are good sometimes, are the very same people who are bad sometimes."
And regarding the Jon/crude stuff from early on in their relationship, I just realized something. His best friend is a girl who is basically "one of the guys" and is probably very into his crudeness. So it would be understandable if that was his model for how you relate to a girl you're going to be close to.
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On 4/26/2018 at 11:27 AM, IOU Payne said:
My 250-Pound Life isn't that compelling of a show. Although Dr. Now's old-skool rapper outfit was awesome (and a shout-out to the brilliant poster in the Live Chat who gave him the hip-hop name of Lil Now-Now), it wasn't enough to keep my interest. Especially when the tarpaulin skirt made its umpteenth appearance. So, I switched over to Jamie Oliver.
I laughed out loud when I read the "Lil Now-Now" name... I love it!!!!
On 4/26/2018 at 12:15 PM, Maricopa said:Indeed, 150 is not underweight for almost any woman unless she's unusually tall; when I hit that # I started looking like Twitney's Pooh-on-the-beach photo. I'm 5'6 and it's 150 is 25 lbs. overweight for me, according to my MD (just got down to 137, yay)! I do not understand why Dr. Now would recommend weight gain unless someone is showing symptoms of anorexic-type eating disorders. Melissa did it once before, and I hope she can get back down to 150-ish. She looked quite good at that weight.
Hi Maricopa. I'm no doctor, but if you are 5'6" and 150 lbs and a doctor is telling you that you need to get down to 125, then I would strongly urge you to not see that doctor anymore, or to at least have him/her explain why they want you to be so far to the low end of normal weight for your height.
On 4/26/2018 at 12:09 PM, Maricopa said:It's nearly impossible to find motivational speaker gigs unless you are a public figure or have something unique to say, or a unique accomplishment. It's simply not a career for the vast majority of people who try it.
I wonder if something was edited out of that meeting. I think the woman gave good advice about starting out at churches and other local organizations. It's too bad she also seemed to imply that earning a living from motivational speaking was a reasonable possibility for Melissa. Maybe we missed all the context in-between.
edited to add- sounds like she and Chris were done before baby 3 was conceived (makeup sex) so she was probably eating a lot due to depression/anxiety etc. given that she went through two previous pregnancies without gaining that kind of weight I bet it was due to emotional eating on Melissa’s part.
Absolutely!! I don't for a second believe that she gained 100 lbs from the pregnancy...I believe she gained 100 lbs during the pregnancy,
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Just wanted to add that my favorite line was when Bettie Jo told someone (the therapist?) that she couldn't eat breakfast or lunch because she has a 9-month old!
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OMG, I have not been watching Unfiltered, but just saw the clip that was posted, and Jamie looks terrible! I always thought she was a very pretty girl, but the dark hair parted down the middle and plastered to her head, is a terrible look for her. I think that the reason she is wearing the mauve tablecloth is that it appears she has gained an enormous amount of weight (for her...not that her current weight makes her enormous), and she thinks the tablecloth hides it..but all it does is accentuate it.
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1 hour ago, JapMo said:
When you mention smell.......I went out with someone years ago, he was fun and funny and we hit it off fine, but it was his personal smell. It wasn't bad or odorous at all, but he had a distinct smell that just turned me off. Kind of cinamonny with a pungent grease monkey smell. And I knew no matter if he doused himself in cologne, that was his personal scent and I would never be able to handle it. We went out twice and then it just faded away. Now....how would you say something like that on TV? It sounds so shallow, but I was actually repulsed by it. It was the only thing about him that I didn't like. And my guess with Molly is she was instantly not attracted to him, because she hardly ever kissed him or held his hand, yet kept saying they had so much in common. I have to hand it to her....on camera she did not give a clue to what she really felt.
In this case, I don't see how it could be smell, because she seems to have no problem being in close quarters with him (car, bar, etc), which would be too difficult if there was that offensive a smell to her.
I've also wondered about her kiss at the altar, where she didn't seem to have a problem with physical affection to him. So either she was attracted to him then, and for whatever reason (perceived immaturity, etc.) lost the attraction, or she never was attracted and put on a good show because this is where people (both IRL and viewers) would form their first impression and she damn well wanted that to be good.
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I know this is a little off-topic, but how do we get a discussion area for Love at First Flight. I know the show is almost over, but there's still good stuff to discuss, especially with the whole Vegas show debacle with Stephanie and Ryan (and I had really liked them together!).
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From the perspective of the jury, here's what I have a hard time with. Battered woman syndrome (BWS) is definitely legit...but...as I understand it, it's for cases where the woman feared for her life at the time of the murder or was so battered/beaten down that she can't take any other action. In this case, it was neither. She had left before, and in her recounting it the first time (not when she was on the stand), she mentioned no coercion whatsoever to take him back. She only mentioned that he acted all sorry and said he loved her, blah, blah, blah, so she decided to go back. She did not describe it like those cases where the abuser basically threatens the runaway victim and everyone there and forcibly takes her back. So it seemed very inconsistent when she was on the stand and said that no matter if she had left, he would have found her and brought her back. This time she decided to leave him, she had already bought the ticket, packed, and ordered a car, so she clearly had the gumption/wherewithal to put everything in place to leave...not one of the victims that feels like they have no other option. Also, a quick internet search showed me that BWS is when a woman is psychologically traumatized to the point that they are incapable of forming rational thoughts. She clearly was capable of forming rational thoughts. And when Benny asked her why she stayed with him, she said "I love him"...she didn't say anything irrational like, "He needed me", or "I'm so worthless no one else would ever have me", which also makes it harder to justify finding her not guilty because again it doesn't fit with the underpinnings of BWS. BWS is such a horrible problem, that I would have thought they would either present a slam-dunk case to make a point (since clearly some of the point of this episode was social justice...nothing wrong with that if they want to), or they would have delved further into the ambiguities to help (the audience) better understand the nuances.
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On 4/13/2018 at 12:28 PM, Gem 10 said:
Cove Haven for us. And, I didn't go in the champagne glass bath for two ?.
When I had been looking on the website about the three Poconos "resorts", I kept wondering why there were no photos of the exterior, like there are for hotels. Once we arrived at Cove Haven (last year), I figured out why. It looks really run down, and old. However, we had a great time, because neither my husband nor I had ever tried archery (well, maybe long ago in summer camp) or bocce ball, and I hadn't played shuffleboard. We also had fun with basketball and horseshoes. The room was exactly what you'd think from looking at the website, and that was actually fun.
6 hours ago, Jack Sampson said:I'm saying it's mostly likely not going to happen. And, therefore, it's probably a waste of time to pursue it further.
From all the comments about this, the one thing that appears to be missing is having the two people actually talk about it! I am not a third-date type of gal, but my now-husband and I talked about the timing, he was willing to be patient, and it all worked out just fine! I get the sense that what is frustrating for Jon, is that Molly talks about wanting more time for things to develop, but she is apparently also not willing to take the baby steps (holding hands while walking around, kissing, making out) that would be needed to build for her to having sex later. I guess now we know that she never intended for any of that to happen, but Jon didn't know that while he was in it.
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23 minutes ago, ChromaKelly said:
I guess it's truly a difference of opinion and musical taste. Cardi B's delivery and her whole shtick just doesn't do it for me. OTOH, I love Jack White, have since the White Stripes. I thought his performance was great, especially the second song. I do like rap in general but there's just something about Cardi B that bugs me, although she is fun in Bruno's straight out of the 90's "Finesse".
I was stunned to realize it was Cardi B in Finesse, since I like that song, whereas Bodak Yellow is just atrocious.
I would assume that this is the dress rehearsal version, although I don't know why they would make that change.
Pete still appears to break at the same place, meaning that his grinning and almost-laughter at that place was planned. Which is weird. I didn't think SNL did fake breaking like that. Unless it's supposed to be a reaction to the appearance of the lobster.
This appears to confirm what I have suspected all along, that SNL's breaking is fake (with very rare exception). I've never found it funny, especially since it just seems to be a way to salvage a lame skit. These people are professionals, and could easily manage to not laugh if they wanted to. (And I think it was mostly fake in the Carol Burnett show too, although it was at least a little funny then.)
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13 hours ago, JocelynCavanaugh said:
I thought therapists weren’t supposed to take sides and get emotionally involved. “Dr. Jessica Griffin” was embarrassing with her “this has been intense for all of us,” (us?! This isn’t about you.) and getting all aggressive and obviously favoring one client over another.
I realize I’m the only person here who doesn’t think Molly is a complete monster for not being attracted to that scary gorilla (or for daring to be thin and blonde, even though that hasn’t actually been the cultural ideal in decades), but I would hope people can at least see how totally out of line and unprofessional that alleged therapist was. If she’s just there for entertainment purposes, then fine, but she’s flaunting her credentials while undermining the basic tenets of her training.
Dr Jessica actually wasn't taking sides or favoring one client over another...she was dealing with her own interaction with Molly, and the fact that Molly had lied to her. There is nothing unprofessional about that. Nor was she undermining her training...in fact, by trying to hold her client accountable, she was living up to her training (for a change, on this show).
I like Jephte, but unfortunately he has three strikes against him in the boyfriend/husband department...he doesn't know how to handle anger/frustration in general, he said he had no experience growing up and seeing good relationship role models, and he has said he's never been in a relationship (so he hasn't already had that learning opportunity). It means that much of what he might attribute to unreasonableness on the part of Shawniece (while there might indeed be some), is more than likely just relationship things similar to what would happen with anyone, but he doesn't know that,
I had missed the part about the frame with Dr. Pepper and Ryan, so I re-watched that part. As mentioned previously, he definitely missed the point of Dr. Pepper saying that he had a rigid frame of what a wife should be. So his follow-up afterward where he said that Jackie does fit into this frame, only solidified that he is looking at characteristics not the whole person. What it made me picture, is a person standing in a frame, but the frame is too small, so there's parts of an arm sticking out, and a foot, and an ear, and Ryan is running around trying to stick those parts back into the frame. It all reinforces what most of said from the very first episode, when he was Mr. Marriage Platitudes..perfect example of "all hat, no cattle".
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16 hours ago, Yeah No said:
One thing that sells me on Jon is that he's probably the only person on this show that has ever used the form "Molly and I" instead of the incorrect "Me and Molly" (ha, that's a play title). Even Molly said, "Me and Jon" in this episode.
OK, just have to jump in with this. "Molly and I" is not correct...universally. It is ONLY correct if the "I' is part of the subject of the sentence, like "Molly and I went to the store". If the "I" is the object instead, then "me" is correct, like "The book is for Molly and me". There is absolutely nothing grammatically wrong with saying, "The book is for me and Molly"; it's just that by convention, we don't put ourselves first. On the other hand, it would be grammatically wrong to say "The book is for Molly and I." The way you know which one to use, is to remove the other person from the sentence. You wouldn't say, "The book is for I"; you would say "The book is for me". So you don't then magically switch from "me" to "I" just because another person was added to the sentence. Likewise, you would say, "I went to the store", so "I" is correct in that case. It's fine to use "me" when it's correct, but for some reason, there's a weird rap against it.
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14 hours ago, enoughcats said:
And about Abby's MassSpec...knowing what happened usually makes repairs easier and faster. Don't be less than honest with your co-workers. Full stop. It's not a cupcake. It's a multi thousand dollar machine whose accuracy is important to forensic interpretations and trial evidence.
16 hours ago, Kelda Feegle said:.... can't understand why Bishop would lie to Abby anyway
Yes to both of those. Given what we know about Bishop's personality and rational thinking, there is no way she would keep the information from Abby, especially as Abby nears figuring it out, and double especially using the trivial/"cute"/insignificant dismissive shrugs and comments that she has done.
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33 minutes ago, Pachengala said:
I had already suspected that Donna is her caretaker from the way Whitney discusses her in her book, so these two points especially confirmed it for me. There is no way Whitney’s *friend* would accompany her back to the hotel over Whitney’s *parents*—unless it was accepted that Whitney would need assistance and she had a caretaker on hand whose job that would explicitly be.
Of course they’re not going to confirm it on air—that would mean Whitney admitting her ‘fabulous life’ includes someone to help her with bathing herself, powdering her folds, toileting, etc. They hid her smoking for five seasons—hiding a caretaker is nothing.
The one that confirmed it for me also was having Donna get into the van to go back to the hotel, but not the parents or her supposedly "best" friends...
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Picky insider inaccuracy...they used the term Commissary for the food-court looking place at Joint Base Hanover. But on a military installation, the Commissary is the grocery store. The food court would be in the Exchange (usually referred to as "PX" for Post Exchange). This was doubly confusing to me, because when Abby and Bishop were looking at the screen that showed the location information, this guy's showed at the top as "COM" for Commissary, and there was one right under it that was "EXC" (which I'm assuming was Exchange).
But here's what I have a bigger problem with. IIRC, the whole thing that alerted the gang to the fact that there was a problem, was they were looking at a military ID but couldn't find that person in the actual military system. OK, fine. But if that was the case, then how could they also later access computer records of this same person in the military system, that showed what specific location he had been in when he used his ID?
And finally, call me cynical, but even though I love me some Gibbs, I cringed inwardly when I saw the description of the episode, and remarked to myself that we'd have to see Gibbs once again as child-whisperer supreme.
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4 hours ago, shrewd.buddha said:
...But what about his other, actual, crimes? He took stolen money and bought a new identity. He was guilty of identify theft and evading the authorities for 18 years. The DA just forgets all that because he cannot get the bigger conviction? I doubt that.
The wife came around way too fast.
I noticed their poor choice of words when they were defending him and said, "He is not a criminal". Um, yeah he is, cause of the other criminal things he did.
For the wife, the part that was completely glossed over, was his lying about his parents/names/etc. The wife even said that there hadn't been a need for that lie. That's the part that would be very hard to move on from, and ever trust the person again, because if they could lie about something that made no sense whatsoever to lie about, then what's to stop them from doing it again and again? It actually put me in mind of the "old" Will & Grace (prior to the reboot), where Grace finds out that Harry Connick Jr. (don't remember the husband character's name) cheated on her, and they try to make it work, but she finds that she just can't trust him again and they divorce (actually, a rare depiction of cheating on scripted TV where they don't show that it's all hearts-and-roses-forever when one spouse takes back a cheater).
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I flat out can.not.wait until next week's Molly smackdown. They better not be fooling us with editing hijinks, but if it's real, it looks epic!
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1 hour ago, Maricopa said:
I don't think so, and I just spent a lovely few days burying my mom around those parts. It's in Morrisville, which is a good 50 miles from G'boro. Online I've only seen him described as a manager of the printing shop, which sounds fairly desperate.
Keep in mind that there's plenty of people (men especially) who want to stay busy and productive in the workplace, even in their 60s/70s, but don't need/want a high-powered, responsibility-filled executive position. I'm not saying that's the case here, but it sure could be,
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14 hours ago, Pachengala said:
That was funny, but also, why in the hell didn’t KODY tell her not to call? The woman clearly made his wives uncomfortable, and it was his responsibility to respect them and tell this woman where he stands. That was so gross to me, how he gets to giggle and toss his hair all, ‘Oh, these ladies fighting over little ol’ me!’ when he’s supposed to be the HEAD of this family. Ugh!
Absolutely Kody should have put a stop to it, much earlier, but of course he wouldn't because of the ego boost. However, from watching/listening to Christine re-tell it, it looked like she enjoyed the crap out of playing that role -- the woman who has a man that another woman desires. I was super surprised how weak Meri was in her own depiction -- that when the woman called, she didn't want her talking to Kody, but just meekly handed the phone to Kody anyway, as though she were completely powerless.
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It was Paedon who said he hadn't changed a diaper...not sure why he was asked (actually, there's probably a lot of footage that is cut, so maybe more guys were asked this question, and they only showed us Paedon for some reason). Also, if I am not mistaken, Robyn's first marriage was monogamous, so it doesn't give us an example of leaving a plural marriage.
I was truly dismayed by how much weight Mykelti had gained, especially because there is no reason to believe that it will suddenly stop. On the other hand, Maddie looked the best I have ever seen...she looked, pretty, bright, clean, and happy. It's odd that Audrey had also gained weight, when Mariah has (had?) lost over the past year or so.
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1 hour ago, jcbrown said:
I think this is very well said. Week after week on this show, we see these morbidly obese people shoving crap high-fat high-calorie processed food in their faces. There are certainly socio-economic issues at play here and huge buckets of denial. I wish the show could do more to explore the factors that lead to someone getting to this size, not just on a case-by-case basis as it does now.
How they got that way is interesting, but what truly interests me is how/when/why people finally arrive at the decision to lose weight (as evidenced by my question a few weeks ago about people's turning points/rock bottom). One of the things I found fascinating about Biggest Loser, is that here were people who a few days prior to coming on the ranch, were finding any and all excuses to not do what they needed to do. But once they got on the ranch, they basically did anything and everything so they could keep doing what they needed to do. It's like they flipped a switch (whether motivated by the $$, or pride, or avoidance of shame, or experiencing success, or whatever), and it makes me wonder about the "why now?" for the My 600-lb Life people.
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S15.E22: Two Steps Back
in NCIS
The show is set at the Navy Yard near the shores of the Anacostia River in Washington, DC. IRL, that is where the NCIS headquarters used to be...it's now in Quantico, VA, about 45 miles away. I live in the DC area, and the cost of her apartment depends on where it was located, which I don't think they told us. If it was in DC itself, and if she supposedly has been living in it since she started at NCIS, then I would find it highly implausible, either in terms of renting or buying, since her salary would not have been high enough. But many people who work in DC, live in the suburbs of Virginia or Maryland, and depending on where she lived, she could have bought a place of that size and torn down the interior walls (at least that's how the place looked to me). I don't see how she could have plausibly found a place to rent that had that configuration of living space, especially years ago when "open concept" wasn't yet a thing.
Yeah, if I were a wheelchair-bound wife with twin newborns, Tim's decision would not go over well, especially when they were throwing around a timeframe of months, not days. And it's not like he could actually do something there that would make his presence vital to her recovery.
But what I'm really puzzled about, is what was Abby planning to do with the the confession if Gibbs and the gang hadn't shown up? Did I miss something?