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oldCJ

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  1. These men’s idea of whether sex was good is so typical and sad. The number of times they got off was the sole calculation. To stand around talking about how many times you scored with your fiancee on a tv show... Gross. Whether the women enjoyed themselves was totally irrelevant. I think it would come as quite a shock to these men that what they think is brag-worthy was probably not earth-shattering for the women. Not that the women didn’t necessarily enjoy it but not a single guy there bragged about satisfying his partner multiple times which is actually a more impressive metric. Although keeping the whole what we did behind closed doors to themselves would have been the best choice. 

    Maybe Zainab is cranky not just because Cole is an immature selfish asshole but because five  dry times gave her a uti. She spent a lot of time trying to justify their relationship as more than a one-night stand which I think means that, even though she hates him, she is going to stick it out longer so she doesn’t look like she sleeps around. Because while god is all for men getting lots of babes biblically, god frowns on the ladies who do so, having them stoned to death and what-not.

    I felt so bad for Nancy sitting there drunk and full of bacon-covered scallops and sliders listening to Bartiste go on about Raven being a smokeshow. At least he didn’t hide his feelings only for an ugly reveal at the wedding. She can dump him and move on. 

    SK, why are you with Raven? She is not attracted to you and doesn’t like you and she isn’t even hiding that. 

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  2. Andrew eye drops is not one of the best reality show moments in history. Like that guy was sketchy from the moment he opened his mouth. And then he was super racist and full of shit about Africa right in front of SK too. No water to shower for five days? Masai blankets in South Africa? He is too much and now everyone in the world knows what a snake he is.

    Matt reminds me way too much of one of the men on Love Is Blind Brazil whose name I can’t think of. He looks similar, tattoos, light hair, height, etc. The one who was engaged to Daya. That guy seemed nice and decent but was actually a huge perv who betrayed his fiancee’s trust and privacy and was controlling af. Matt seems disingenuous and there is a vibe that is not right. I do not see his engagement lasting. 

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  3. If there was a male manic pixie dream girl it would be Cole. The reason so many girls love him is his adhd and constant lack of sobriety and any consistency in what he is looking for. His goal in life is to have sex with as many “babes” as possible while also praying a lot to god. And he wants to pop out many “hot babies” (wtf is a hot baby! They look like wrinkly alien potatoes in a diaper covered in snot and drool) while also wanting to travel the world. He has no idea what he actually wants other to say what he has to in order to get laid while being drunk for as much of the day as possible. 

    I feel bad for pick-me girl Colleen. She thinks she has no value other than her body so starts every conversation with ballet thinking men will be into it. Except in real life she does ballet and has a job in pr. She may even have an actual personality if she would grow up from sorority girl desperate to snag a husband. Of course she is shallow. Her entire personality is get a ring on her finger. She’s sadly one of the millions of women out there who daydream about the perfect wedding without ever considering the life afterwards. 

    Raven is hilarious to me. She’s like a caricature of a real person. It could not be more obvious she is on there solely to market her pilates business. And her “confession” of bartending? Nobody buys that is her real side hustle. So many red flags. 

    But not as many red flags as Andrew. That guy is seriously terrifying American Psycho style.

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  4. I actually hated the book. It felt like Gibson wanted the reader to mistake his confusing and vague descriptions with things being interesting and scifi. But they weren’t interesting. And very little he wrote was futuristic or scifi for the 2010s, like 3d printing and personal drones. And even the premise felt derivative with branching of timelines and the role of international politics. The haptics and video game playing in an old trailer felt like it was ripped from Ready Player One. I expected more from the man who wrote such brilliant earlier books.

    Gibson spends multiple lines describing a character making a sandwich but then wtf is the reader supposed to do with a single sentence about how pancakes means they were printing with plastic that can be composted. One of those could benefit from more description, the other one is just adding words which he obviously needed to add given how short most of the chapters were with the interesting things happening off-page. The book has so much padding to the story whether it was two chapters with the same information from two characters perspectives or a character describing to to another character something that the reader already experienced in an earlier chapter. Words solely to increase your word count that don’t move a story forward is disrespectful to readers.

    The misogyny in the book is in your face. No less than three main female characters described as having tattoos as a huge negative. Daedra’s for a plot point, the female patchers’ “meaningless patterns” to be disdainful of them (as if tripling their chests wasn’t gross enough) and Ash having no control over her animals and her having to hide them to be viewed respectfully. And why tf in the future would a woman want androids that look like “anime babes” for her party? That’s all some basement-dwelling incel waifu crap.

    The show on the other hand feels a bit dated in the stereotypical roles men and women play in the Flynne timeline but not in an over the top offensive kind of way like the book, more in a this is a story by an old man who was once very prescient in his ideas of the future but now has a sadly limited imagination given the reality of the current millennium kind of way. 

    It’s frustrating because in general I prefer the original books to the tv show. And I used to love reading Gibson’s books. In the case of The Peripheral, though, Gibson’s imagination and writing is patently terrible and sexist. But I am loving the show! Am I am really glad how little it has in common with the books at this point. 

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  5. Thankful Carole is finally off my screen. Her xenophobia and total lack of preparation each week was neither cute nor endearing. Seems like a producer saw her walking by and decided her hair gave her enough personality to be on the show because that woman had zero baking experience. Her bakes belonged among the joke bakes Jo Brand laughs at on Extra Slice. Ridiculous that poor James and Maisam left before she did. 

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  6. I really want to like this show, but the cameos have been the best part. I need a Wongers and Madisynn show to happen.
     

    Jen is just unlikeable and annoying. The “law” on the show is laughably bad. Night Court was more realistic.  And funnier. I miss Night Court. Roz is a comedian now and she’s quite funny.

    Seven episodes in and still waiting on an actual plot other than Jen and friends win by the end of every episode while nefarious forces lurk behind the scenes to get her.

    Jen is supposed to be a grown-up, right? And was a prosecutor no less. Yet somehow she is totally trusting and naive and stupid. “Bad guys jumped me outside my apt trying to get my blood, my nemesis showed up at a friend’s wedding which means everyone knew I would be there, and there’s an entire community online devoted to taking me down. Def nothing shady when a rando appears out of nowhere trying to get in my pants.”

    Also who doesn’t bother to investigate the electric fence and trapped chicken? Let’s completely trust what the supervillain is saying, guys. 

    It’s really annoying when a show has post-credit scenes for half a season and then decides to do away with them. Then you have to check just in case they have them again.

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  7. The sheriff does not seem to have any basic understanding of the justice system or even the purpose of a jail. The majority of people in county jail are there for pretrial detention. Depending on the county, up to four out of five inmates in jail are not guilty of committing any crime yet! Yet this jagoff acts like its his job to punish everyone in his jail. And to do so as inhumanely as he can get away with. 

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  8. On 9/26/2022 at 11:21 PM, RoxiP said:

    Isn't Joel Madden married to Nicole Ritchie (Lionel Ritchie's daughter)? 

    Yeah, he’s also the grown man who took Hilary Duff’s virginity when she was sixteen and he was almost ten years older. 🤢

    On 9/21/2022 at 10:20 PM, sharifa70 said:

    I think if they’re going to stick around the show needs to switch to blind judging.

    Totally agree. The judges are so biased. Ryan Ashley in particular comes off a someone who hates the idea of another woman being successful. 

    On 9/16/2022 at 6:39 PM, TVbitch said:

    I love Dave, but could do without taped video Dave. I would rather he show up in person once in a while or as a special guest judge.

    Right! The floating head of Dave is tiresome. It doesn’t feel like he’s adding anything of value to the show. 

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  9. Compost Carole can’t leave soon enough. I hate people who brag that they don’t use “exotic” ingredients like that is something worth bragging about. This is the thirteenth season of GBBO, no one wants to see another lemon poppyseed cake or chocolate orange biscuit.

    If you are going to use tried and true recipes, there is no excuse not to make them perfectly, but it looks like Carole doesn’t even practice her bakes beforehand.

    First week, she used so much chicory it burned the judge’s mouth. And she lied and claimed she used coffee. Why? If she admitted it wasn’t coffee, the burning would not have been a strange outcome. Too much chicory extract has bad effects.

    Second week, her use of orange essence in her macarons was unpalatable. And at this level of competition having your “decorations” be cut up bits of store-bought fondant is ridiculous. Her biscuit lard recipe would never have worked. There is no way she successfully baked the mask before trying it out for the showstopper. Paul even warned her about her recipe but she ignored him.

    Now this week, she drowns her pizza with too much cheese. The pizza recipe she made was a classic recipe, so of course the flavour would be good. Her execution showed she hadn’t practiced. 

    I can’t recall a previous time when Paul actually gave advice to a baker about fixing a recipe other than a raised eyebrow or saying “really?”. For her, he has done so at least twice. This time, he outright told her she had too much flour to water in her bread for the showstopper. Yet she still managed to screw it up.

    She is going to keep squeaking through unfortunately, because Prue sees herself in Compost Carole.

    /rant

    Loving Syabira, Sandro, Januzs and Maxy. The other remaining bakers are so unmemorable, I don’t know their names yet. 

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  10. Watching law shows is always frustrating but there wouldn’t be much of a show if it was real.  

    There was no reason to fire Jen. Very little prosecution ends up in court, let alone in front of a jury. Not all district attorneys appear in court. Many in big cities have desk jobs working on briefs and appeals.

    She has a good discrimination case against the da’s office for firing her: skin color, size, medical condition. All protected categories.

    Jen’s ethics are quite malleable to take that job with a firm whose clients killed people. Going solo would be so easy given all the free publicity she has.

    No lawyer would sign a liability waiver without reading it first.

    Any decent lawyer in a parole case would ask who the seven soulmates were because the parole board sure will ask where he plans on living and who he will be associating with if he gets out. 

    There are enough superheros whose abilities include shapeshifting that it would be easy to argue it wasn’t him outside of prison but rather someone else pretending to be him. I mean no one wants to admit criminals are waltzing in and out of the fancy high security prison. 

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  11. 13 hours ago, Mahfouz said:

    In re: somebody's look the guest judge said it would make them stop on scrolling on IG or whatever, zoom in, and maybe even give it a like. Uh, that's great but what did you think about it? Are we at the point in our existence where that is supposed to mean something tangible?

    He was giving the designers the best advice of any of the judges. Nicole wanting to wear your dress to her chicken’s funeral is not getting you a win.

    Amazon wants people to stop scrolling and buy. It’s literally the entire point of the show. A person whose highly successful career is based on knowing what people want to see online telling you this is what people want to see? You listen. 

    13 hours ago, Mahfouz said:

    Sierra should have been sent home for anti-social behavior.

    Judges: to be a designer, you need to work well with others, so this is a team challenge
    Sienna: eff that. I’ll break the team’s agreement and screw over a teammate. 
    Judges: Sienna, your dress was the worst of the bunch. But you caused drama, so no one goes home! 

    On 8/28/2022 at 3:20 AM, raven said:

    The whole conversation starting with Heidi saying she likes to see more skin and ending with Sienna saying she's not making clothes for the cheap woman on the street, was A+. 

    For a designer whose previous dresses have plunging necklines and lots of leg, Sienna came off as a hypocrite with her response to Heidi.

    On 8/28/2022 at 2:58 PM, Pepper Mostly said:

    ANYONE would be better than Jeremy.

    This!

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  12. On 8/2/2022 at 3:41 AM, Taeolas said:

    So anyone else get really disappointed when there are two songs, and you know they're picking one but you wish they picked the other? 

    Watching tonight's ep, he has the choice between Party in the USA and Stacy's Mom, and I would have loved to see him do Stacy's mom but I knew he'd be doing Party. 

    I do, too! And yeah, I was hoping for Stacy’s Mom. 

  13. On 7/21/2022 at 4:30 PM, TVbitch said:

    Not sure I agree with them sparing the girls again in the semis. Word of Dinosaurs with no dinosaurs seemed pretty lazy to me,

    I Shan and JoJo’s dinosaur-less Land of Dinosaurs was far more appropriate for the challenge than Jemima and Zach’s fire-breathing dinosaurs. Did they legitimately think dinosaurs breathed smoke and fire or did they mistake the challenge for Land of Dragons?

    From the start, this season was Nathan and Kevin’s to lose. I like that they got along so well unlike some of the other teams whose constant bickering was exhausting to watch. Nathan’s interactions with Stacey were a lot of fun.

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  14. On 7/7/2022 at 8:42 PM, Tachi Rocinante said:

    I'm going to check this out, but, seriously, Bella Sway?

    Are the writers that frakkin lazy?

    The first character we see is named Chill and Chill’s sister is Asus. The cop’s wife is Lone. I’d say a resounding yes, that frakkin lazy.

    I imagine a writer sitting at his laptop (gee, I wonder what brand) putting in placeholder words until he comes up with better names for the characters, but then accidentally turning in that draft. 😂

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  15. 1 hour ago, Spaceman Spiff said:

    I can't help but look at Bruno and see Doogie Howser or as I will refer to him from now on Young Neal Patrick Harris (YNPH).

    Yes!! I said that exact thing to my partner.  Or I think I phrased it as NPH jr. 😂

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  16. On 6/4/2022 at 10:42 AM, Aulty said:

    I am probably in the minority, but the 'tell us your story' creative briefs are starting to bore me.

    I completely agree. Worse is how often a contestant pours their heart into their incredibly personal idea and the judges tear it apart. 

    I think it’s very telling that the two MUAs who excelled at the makeups for the largest worldwide audiences don’t do as well in the creative briefs. This show feels more like Face Off with special effects and prosthetics as the emphasis rather than actual makeup. 

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  17. When Stacey took a real drink of the liquid chocolate I was cackling. And her teeth after.

    I do not miss Tom. Liam is becoming much more natural at this. His rapport with his new cohost is fun- especially his voiceover when she said “some strawberry thing” and then it cut to his description “this particular some strawberry thing”. 

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  18. On 5/29/2022 at 6:21 AM, hoodooznoodooz said:

    therapists don’t disclose much about their personal lives to their patients because it hinders transference? I thought transference interfered with therapy?

    The usual analogy to explain how transference works is that of a blank screen. Essentially, the therapist wants the client to see them as a blank screen. Then the client then will project their unconscious feelings, etc on that blank screen. If the therapist reveals anything personal, it will change the client’s view of them and prevent that kind of transference. 

    For example, if the client has mother issues, like all of these clients seems to have on the show,  Orna just existing as an older woman will bring those feelings out in the clients during their interactions. Then she helps the client see those issues and work through them. 

    On the other hand, strong sexual or romantic feelings towards the therapist are the kind of transference that does interfere with therapy. 

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  19. I am so glad Ping decided to leave Will. His silent smirking and smugness made me want to punch him through the tv. Together they showed all four of John Gottman’s horsemen: criticism, defensiveness, contempt and stonewalling. And while Ping showed she was working on her behavior over the course of therapy, Will couldn’t even be bothered to read a book that might help them. 

    Cyn and Yaya were the only couple that didn’t have the angry wife, emotionally-withdrawn husband dynamic this season. It was interesting to watch the other three couples’ interactions play out over the course of the season. The woman comes off as crazy and mean and the man as put-upon. As the story came out through the episodes, however, it turned out his behavior is the thing driving her crazy. I loved the analysis of that in Orna’s therapy group. 

    I think Cyn brought up crushes, not as a sabotage but rather as a clue as to why she isn’t physically into her wife anymore. My guess is she is into someone else from the volleyball group. It would explain why she only got randy on Fire Island (her crush would have been there) but when finally alone with Yaya again, the flame went out. The mommy-child dynamic between them was creepy. When Cyn was like “she didn’t wash my clothes so I couldn’t go out” all I could imagine was a teenager bitching about their mom. I hope Yaya finds someone who treats her like she deserves and not as a substitute mother.

    The Molly and Josh situation was nuts. He has an affair, she aborts the third child she knows he didn’t want anyway, she gets addicted to percocet, he seemingly does nothing and she crashes a car while on the painkillers, she gets her emotional needs met with a male student, he gets jealous and controlling about it but still refuses to support her emotionally, she hooks up with her high school ex, he can’t even pick out a marker color. I started out hating her and thinking she was totally awful. Just like the Ping-Will dynamic, the more the husband talked, the more my opinion changed about the wife. I don’t see them staying together after their kids leave for college.

    This show is a rollercoaster and I can’t wait for more.

     

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  20. Can someone explain to me what Buddha did for 2 1/2 hours with store-bought pasta and canned tomatoes? While his sauce was simmering on the stove for much of that time, all he had to do was boil pasta.

    Also, can someone tell Buddha’s wife to buy clothes that fit and are appropriate for the occasion? And that black undergarments under sheer, light-colored clothes is not a great look. Maybe how to brush hair while we are at it? That woman, who otherwise appears attractive in photographs, looked a mess.

    Needless to say, I thought it was bs that the judges gave Buddha to win this week. He made a six hundred year old classic recipe as the recipe exists and didn’t even make it from scratch. 

    It felt like all Sara did was make excuses from the moment she appeared on screen. Her passive-aggressive relationship with her sister was entertaining, especially the “put the whole thing in your mouth, no one’s looking”. 

    I think not knowing how to slice fish or sear ahi properly is a bigger fail for a chef at their level than undercooking squid on a grill. But when a judge spits out your food, a pykag is coming.

    I loved seeing the chefs interactions with their parents. It was so sweet. 

    I hope Evelyn or Nick wins this season. It was interesting to hear Gail explain how much she enjoyed Nick’s macaroni and then Tom complain about it. 

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