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I mistakenly thought a can of Dinty Moore was beef stew once. 😉 BTW I use Gold Bond Friction Defense for certain body areas that rub together where sweat and chafing can happen. It's used by athletes and known for helping with "chub rub", although you don't have to be either to appreciate it. It's an unscented stick that looks like a deodorant and as far as I can see the ingredients seem OK although I am no expert. I think that's a better alternative to Lume as it seems to control sweat in its own way.

What an episode! I have to agree with a lot that's been said about it so far. I also thought the show was trying to make young Georgie more like older BBT Georgie by getting him to speak properly. I always thought it was strange that he spoke so differently from the rest of his family. And yes, it was bittersweet to see the East Texas Tech trio of Dr. Sturgis, Dr. Linkletter and the university president. I've missed all of them for a while now and was wondering if we'd see them again. If this was their send-off at least the show did it justice. I hate the thought that I won't be seeing Wendie Malick anywhere anymore as she's been popping up in shows I watch for over 30 years now. And yes to the beautiful chapel at MIT! I've actually been there. That's what happens when you have a husband that's into architecture, specifically church architecture. When we heard it mentioned on this episode we squealed. And yes to the weather in Boston. Living in CT I get to see the Boston area weather on my TV every morning and I know I bitch about the weather here in the Hartford area but I wouldn't trade it for the Boston weather ever. Where I live we might get snow or rain in the Winter depending on the weather pattern but they usually get snow there even when we don't. This episode left me with a good feeling. It was good to have a Sheldon-centric episode for a change even though there was still plenty of "The Georgie and Mandy Show". It's too bad we won't be seeing Sheldon in that series. Or maybe we will every now and then. I haven't come across anything on that subject.

Maybe part of the divorce settlement included an agreement that he keep his mouth shut. Even if not I'm thinking he wouldn't want to risk legal action from her. And yeah, I can see her telling him how he was never her soulmate while Eddie was, blah, blah, blah. All the stuff she kept harping on publicly about how wonderful Eddie was when she was going through the divorce. It was just so off. Obviously Eddie wasn't that wonderful. We already know why plus she divorced him for a reason so what was that all about? She probably just wanted Tom to feel bad and herself better because she was probably the one to reject Eddie while Tom was the one to reject her. It was easy for her to think Eddie was so wonderful in that case. Maybe she had never been rejected before. She strikes me as a famous person that hasn't had to deal with that kind of rejection because people have always been kissing up to her and telling her how wonderful she is because she's famous. So of course she would make Tom out to be a villain.

Landrum B. Shettles He was a pioneer in in-vitro fertilization among other things. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/babies-bio-shettles/ https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/16/nyregion/dr-l-b-shettles-93-pioneer-in-human-fertility.html He wrote the famous book, now over 50 years old entitled, "How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby". https://www.landrumshettles.com/ And here's the link to "From Conception to Birth: The Drama of Life's Beginnings". I still have my mother's copy. It was the first time I saw photos of a fetus in the womb.

I have a big head too. The only saving grace for my mom was that I was only 5 lbs. 6 oz. Today that would be considered underweight for a girl. The average weight for females is now 7 lbs. 2 oz. My mother was only 4'11" so if I had been bigger she may have needed a C-section. She also had a very skilled obstetrician which really helped and had me natural childbirth before that was a thing. It didn't become one until the 1970s. I was born in Manhattan at Columbia Presbyterian's Sloane hospital for women and of course my mother had to have the best of the best. My obstetrician was famous and wrote books, LOL. It was just like my mom to get him. I was born in 1958. My mother knew she was having a girl because he predicted it based on heart rate. It wasn't perfect but he was right most of the time! I always have to have a follow-up ultrasound on the basis of dense breast tissue. It's been that way since perimenopause.

I was there when my mother finally got her own credit card in the 1970s. She was a big proponent of women's rights. Emily is not a feminist but she is the embodiment of the new freedoms that women now enjoy. In the 1950s she wouldn't have felt as free to act like a traditional man about relationships without a thought about her "reputation". If she did she would have suffered way more social ostracism and judgment from men and women. She still does but not as much, especially from the younger generation. Emily is immature and unfortunately at her age catching up is going to be very difficult if not impossible even with therapy. She is stuck at a high school level of maturity when it comes to relationships. It is sad. As others have said, she is acting like a high school girl whose first boyfriend dumped her. She is stuck in that anger/hate phase of the breakup and isn't coming out of it so fast. And even sadder is that it wasn't even a full relationship! She never even had sex with the guy. Unfortunately Brennan fed into all her Daddy issues and she reacted out of proportion to the situation. Now I know why she never let herself get emotionally attached to any man. She has too many Daddy issues and it brings all of that out for her. She might get past her anger and hate in time but for now she just looks immature and vindictive. Here's more of my assessment of Emily: When she keeps going on about how attractive she is to men, etc., it's because she sees Brennan like her father that never noticed or appreciated her and it presses her buttons of how rejected she felt by her father, so she has to come back with how attractive she is. She is reacting like a victim, she is not being a narcissist, in my opinion. There's a difference.

I pegged Chloe early on as a phony and I still believe that. If anyone is into "optics" it's her. She kept herself apart from the others and is now blaming it on them to look better than them, to steal back all the attention and support from the audience because she probably didn't think she got enough of it next to the pink posse. If the other women had kept her out we would have seen some evidence of that on the screen. She never acted like they were ostracizing her in front of them. In fact it looked like she didn't want to be a part of them because their fight was not her fight and she looked down on them for their behavior. And would the show refrain from using that as drama if it happened? I doubt it. I think she stole Lauren's position from her on purpose. She kept herself away from the pink posse because she knew it would make her look above them. People were saying that all season, not just me. She took advantage of the fact that Lauren stuck by the others to make herself look like the one that was above all the women. I don't buy her for one minute. She said some nasty things about the women behind their backs in this episode but they never had ONE bad thing to say about her except when Lauren revealed what happened between them and even then Lauren didn't insult her, just told the story. Every time Chloe has been on screen with the other women the energy from them to her is benign but she looks like the one who is holding herself back. So I don't buy her AT ALL. She is hiding a lot of nastiness under that phony exterior. There is not one genuine bone in her body. She strikes me as the real narcissist here. It's definitely not Lauren. YMMV.

I consider that commercial to be more tongue-in-cheek than serious so I don't see any of that as actually ever happening. It just makes pet owners chuckle because they may see a little of themselves in it even though they never would really act that way and no one would ever really confront them about putting dog food in the fridge. Even if someone thought it was strange they probably wouldn't say it to the person's face. I don't think it's strange to have refrigerated dog food. It's higher end food so of course it's going to be made of better ingredients and fresh is usually better than canned or dry food in general so it's just a function of that. If someone has the money to spend on it, why not? Traditional dog food, no matter how the companies push it is often not as good as fresh would be. At least in general. I don't see it as an excessive thing. I've known people whose vets have told them to put their dogs on special diets and have ended up actually cooking the food themselves and freezing it in big batches in small containers just for that purpose. The health and well being of one's pet is important to them and I can see how someone scoffing at that would irritate a pet owner.

Me too, fingers crossed that this trend passes quickly. Yesterday my local TV news program had a spot where they asked a doctor if these new whole body deodorants were really necessary and he pretty much said "no" and it's really just a marketing ploy. He did say that they do have ingredients in them that prevent odor in a different way from antiperspirants but he said they might cause other issues in some people because they tend to have strong fragrances that some people are sensitive to, and putting them on certain parts of the body might do more harm than good if people actually put them on their private parts, especially women. He said that they are not formulated to be gentle to those areas, even the "butt crack" area.

The more I think about it the more I think Emily's "therapist" is one of Clarapist's therapist friends. I have a feeling that Clarapist has taken Emily on as her little pet therapy project and that might not be a bad thing if she has referred her to an actual therapist that wouldn't appear on this show. It does look to me like Clarapist has moved on somewhat and isn't as bitter anymore (same for Becca) and is probably encouraging Emily to work on her issues before she attempts another committed relationship. I don't think it was any accident that Emily talked about her "daddy issues" and how Brennan's way with her (and rejection of her as a person) triggered her big time. I see a lot in that admission, including potential reasons why she's avoided getting too emotionally close to any men so far in her life. If she's as far along as that, I see that as progress and so perhaps she is coming along and Clarapist's influence has now turned into one of helping her instead of encouraging her to stay stuck in her hurt/anger phase.

I think the captain may think he's being ethical if he doesn't give into giving the donors by doing them any favors, but his suspicion about what they're doing and not being honest about it is a problem. He may think it's going to a good cause and not want the contributions to stop. So he thinks if he doesn't give in there's no issue, but if there is reason to think something shady is going on even if he's not giving into it he's somewhat complicit in it himself if he doesn't tell the department about his suspicions.

This is exactly how I've been seeing it for some time now.

I'd rather hang out with slightly immature people that are genuine and getting over hurt feelings than stuck up phonies that think they're better than them. But that's just me, and maybe Lauren too. I did see progress in the women in the final scene with them together. It gave me some hope that they are headed in the right direction. Emily is the slowest one but that IMO is understandable and I think the others have empathy for her.

I don't know why the show thinks seeing more of these people is going to make people watch the show. It's only making me want to watch it less. I hate most of these people more with every episode. Get over yourselves and STFU already. You're not as great as you think you are. I don't know why these people should feel like they have to hang out with their former spouses anyway. After decision day it should be OK to move on and not have to relive the experience over and over again. This show is just greedy trying to keep it going when it should be long over. And I don't like the catty way Chloe, Michael and Austin were talking down about the other women. They may have a point, but if they think that makes them look better than them they are wrong. They are just as bad as the pink squad for acting that way. I don't think Chloe and Michael are so mature. They think they are but they're just phonies. They were never really into each other and so it's easy for them to be nice to each other. I've been saying that all along. They're just lauding it over the women to look above them. And Chloe, just stop pushing Austin and his roommate together. I hate when people push opposite sex friends together. I also don't like what Chloe did to Lauren for following Michael on SM. She is as juvenile as the rest, just a phony and acting like she's above it all. I actually would believe Lauren over her on that issue. I have never bought anything out of Chloe's mouth all season and I still have great respect for Lauren even though she banded with the juvenile pink squad. I get it. She is more mature than them but she empathized with their plight having gone through something similar herself with "O-liar". I don't think the shit talking from Cameron looks good on him. The men talk about the women but they don't look good doing it. He is one to talk about the women being "toxic" and only caring about "optics". Does he own a mirror? He's always flipping the script! Emily and her "therapist" - I'm not buying it. He doesn't talk like any real therapist, just a friend. Maybe he's one of her "dates" who volunteered to act the part of a therapist for her to show how she's trying to move on from the experience. I wonder if the show or Clarapist put her up to that since she probably has no friends left other than the pink posse. Maybe he's one of Clarapist's therapist friends that she lent her to film that segment! I don't like how Michael and Chloe are redefining getting married as a "great experience". It just makes me think it was not for real or for keeps for either of them from the start. If it's just another bucket list "experience" the show loses its value and purpose to marry people for life. Why watch it then? I'm not interested in seeing singles have the time of their lives and not really find love. I still don't believe for one minute believe that Chloe or Michael were really invested in finding a spouse. They just wanted the experience. I was saying that all season. I think it's great that they can be friends but I think they're showing that off in the face of the others' trauma and hurt feelings. Good for them if they have no hurt feelings but they shouldn't gloat about it and judge the others for not being ready for that. The other women had some legitimate beefs with the men. I think the women do want to heal but their experiences were much more hurtful so it will take longer. The way the others act about them shows how little they were invested in their relationships or their marriages. For all their faults and immaturity, at least the "pink posse" took it seriously. It does look like the pink posse is making slow progress toward healing and getting beyond their grievances. I do think it will happen but slower than the others because they were really all-in on this and felt very hurt, unlike the others. And in my opinion that was understandable. It was obvious to me that the other women know that Emily is immature and is reacting like a high school girl to her first boyfriend. But I think it is nice that they are being empathic about that and only teasing her in friendship about it, not snarking on her and putting her down. Good on them for that. I actually think she might benefit from their input on that if they continue to be honest with her about her progress. So there is some hope that they will actually help each other to heal instead of staying stuck in their grievances.

I got a warning back during the pandemic for mentioning that my state had issued a mask mandate on the grounds that I was discussing politics. I did not mention anything political at all. It was just a simple statement. I got another permanent warning telling me that a temporary warning issued to me previously was now becoming a permanent one. So two for the price of one!