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I guess I'll take one for the team. From wikipedia: So basically, either liquid or solid matter came out of terry's anus unplanned or not prompted by his efforts to expel this matter. Or, possibly, he sharted.

Eddie is looking rough. Perhaps this proves that Tamra is a succubus that is sucking the very life out of him. This is my favorite description of Brooks ever - a Margaritaville tee shirt that somehow has a circulatory system and a SSN. I will be laughing about this all day.

Terry did offer up his little anal leakage story this week. He really will do anything for camera time. Since dinner was filmed, I think the real discussion was should we go ahead and go to dinner as planned or should we stay here in case this becomes a warning and there is a touch down nearby. If there is a tornado near here, we may need to get into the shelter. But of course, the sight of Vicki in the tiny storm shelter was too good of a visual (and audio) for production to pass up, so we had to see that option up close and personal. Throughout that scene I kept thinking "Nobody puts Vicki in a spider hole! Nobody!" Can you imagine Vicki trapped in there? She would be the first one rescued. Even if the entire house fell on them, her caterwauling would be heard for miles around. The responders would have to get her out of there first because they wouldn't be able to hear the sirens otherwise. For Briana's sake, I hope her kids didn't inherit Vicki's lung capacity.

I believe this and Vicki over-reacting are the two constants on this show.

Tamra, you did not have a “sex party”. You held a sex-themed party. From all accounts, you held a very boring sex-themed party. At a sex party, people have sex. Or people engage in sexual activities. At your party, people wore bad wigs (really bad wigs), looked at some cheap sex toys, and gossiped. At your party, idiots got into fights over nothing. People showed their leech wounds. But no one had sex. Mkay? So you did not need to tell the “pasture” that you had a sex party. I have known sex parties. I have been to sex parties. You, Tamra, have not held a sex party. On a completely different note, Ragey Ryan ordered a new fashioned rather than an old fashioned. That is a really sweet drink. I almost started making Vicki heaving noises.

Caitlyn has played on a public course recently: http://www.tmz.com/2015/08/25/caitlyn-jenner-golfing-photo/ The show has provided a very slanted view of the transgender experience. They focus on the negative experiences that transgender people have had. They have included some very powerful advocates. However, they have chosen to not show how their advocacy has helped other transgender people or how they have progressed in their own lives. I added the link to Angelica Ross' article in the media thread and someone re-listed it here. It is an interesting read; it shows how the show has manipulated the narrative and further explains the totality of what has been said. So, while I can understand the complaint that the transgender people featured in the show are trying to push Cait in a certain way, this is very much a decision by the producers to create this story. The experiences of transgender people are not monolithic. As with all of us, there is a great variety of life experience. Also I would add in the idea of intersectionality. The experiences of a famous, wealthy, white transgender woman will be very different than those of people who are non-white or not wealthy or not famous. Very few of us, regardless of whether we are transgender or not, can identify with Caitlyn's experiences. Cait may currently be in her pink cloud of early transition. However, her change does affect the people who are close to her. She is so self-absorbed (not an effect of her transition, she seems to not have any goof understanding of how other people live) that she is ill-equipped to understand how her family is affected. Just a grammar note, transgender is an adjective, not a noun. So you can say transgender person, transgender man, transgender woman, transgender community, etc. Transgenders is not a way of describing a group of transgender people. Also, the term transgendered is not correct (even spell check doesn't like it - I know, that doesn't mean much). I know no one means any offense with the use of these terms. We are all learning a changing language. The more you know!

The funniest thing about the Daily Mail photos is this caption: "Despite her family's troubles, Michelle Duggar (right) kept a smile on her face to attend her niece's wedding". How often have we seen Michelle without a smile on her face? She would smile through a nuclear holocaust. Anna has six months to figure out whether she wants to stay with Josh. She may wait and see whether the "treatment" has helped him. It has certainly done wonders for my viewing pleasure.

If you are interested in the legal issues affecting transgender people in the US, you may want to look into the Transgender Law Center. http://transgenderlawcenter.org/ Discrimination in housing and employment is specifically called out in a few states; transgender persons are specifically included in the statues that ban discrimination based on race, gender, etc. However, many jurisdictions do not provide protection to transgender people. Recently the EEOC made a statement that they view transgender persons as falling under the statutes that protect people from gender discrimination. This will most likely be battled in the courts in the up-coming years. "Rights" are often decided by the application and interpretation of law. If the EEOC statement stands, then transgender people, by federal law, cannot be discriminated against for employment. Of course, there is always the law and the reality.

This is exactly why I do not have a primary care physician right now. I had two that I liked who moved out of state to be near family. After that, I haven't had one that was able to listen carefully and did not bring so many preconceived notions into the conversation that they could not understand my health history.

My sister lived in a converted warehouse project. One of her neighbors, Charles, would wake up, go out on his interior balcony and yell, "Everybody wake up and scream!" Fortunately he was a very late sleeper so everyone laughed it off. This douchebag reminds me of Charles. I want every one associated in any way with the Yoplait Amelie inspired less sugar commercial to be blocked from ever being allowed to create anything ever again. I cannot get to the remote fast enough. The precious voice. The quirky faces. Aaaargh! No matter how much sugar Yoplait has, it is still the consistency of snot. It is milk snot.

This kind of attitude is happening more and more. Doctors want to be the ones to diagnose. Part of it is due to the increased usage of medical websites which can both help and hurt. There is a phenomenon - internet enabled hypochondria. People diagnose themselves with all kinds of unusual things. After all, on WebMD, everything leads to cancer. When I had a negative reaction to Cipro, the ER doc accused me of having researched my symptoms on line. I couldn't read well through the hallucinations so I did not do that. And why would I want to mosey on down to the ER for fun? The problem is they assume everyone is making things up or over-analyzing things. I'm sure you've had the flu before and can tell what's going on. A smart doctor would understand that, then check that things weren't different somehow or had progressed. Drives me batty. Then again, I broke a cervical vertebrae two years ago. The first doctor did not read the x-ray correctly; he missed the break. So I never got treated for it. Instead I had multiple doctors tell me they couldn't figure out why I was in so much pain. I have re-injured the area and can no longer bend my neck to the left. The whole circle of suckitude is starting up again. One of the biggest problems we have is our medicine is now much better at handling things that used to be major issues. Heart surgery and orthopedics are two areas that have progressed greatly. Unfortunately, we do not handle everything leading up to the extremes very well. Sorry, it's a cranky morning.

If they do move her locker, maybe she'll encounter a smidgen of what the other people have felt. She will be safe from being physically assaulted. But I can imagine people whispering, perhaps even openly confronting her, and certainly complaining to the club. The problem is I don't feel sorry for her. She chose for all of these years to be a member of a club that, while it accepts women, does not allow women full privileges. Cait obviously did not have a problem with that up until now. I do not believe she is really going to follow up with any of the other activism that has been presented to her. This is the only activism I can see her getting involved in. If the club tells her that as a woman she is no longer welcome in the club house and dining hall unescorted, suddenly she will be all for women's rights; that is, wealthy women that are members of her club. There is an article in the media thread that points out she has not yet paid the tuition for the young women that was on the show. Cait said they would help her thorough nursing school. Oops! Looks like that slipped her mind. Ooh, ooh! Pick me! I can answer this one! Because she's a self-absorbed narcissist. If we made a drinking game based on every time they used the "Cait's in the closet" joke on this show, we would all be hospitalized with alcohol poisoning.

She may have had an NDA that only went until the show was aired. The concern would have been that she would ruin the episode by telling people what to expect.. It may not have occurred to the producers that an intelligent, educated, thoughtful, confident woman like Angelica Ross would refuse to let herself be reduced to a cliche without fighting back.

On a purely shallow note, Cait’s upper lip barely moves and she is already starting to get bunny lines from Botox. She can look really lovely but that drives me nuts. Cait came off very self-possessed this episode. It seemed like she was ready to yell at Ronda about the golf course application, then she remembered she was on film. I would hate to see her in that situation off camera. Her comments about her mother’s broken hip also came off very me-me-me. Since they showed the clip that I assume came from KUWTK of Cait telling Kris that she had not been treating her well for 4-5 years, I think we can say that the marriage did not fall apart because of Cait’s transition. I’m sure it didn’t help, but there were other issues in that marriage. I yet again love Chandi. It was wonderful to see that she runs a support group for young people. They are such an at risk group. Because it was for the show, the focus was on Cait’s name change. I did enjoy hearing a variety of people speak about their experiences. I know this show is an odd mix of learning and fashion focus, but I did enjoy this part of the learning curve. Though I agree, Cait does not exactly come off as thoughtful. In fact, a little dim is a good way to describe her in this context.

Agree that blue was an easier color to work with than purple, pink and orange. The M+M team also seemed to understand earlier that they didn’t need to use all of their colors. They focused on blue; Swapnil added a hint of yellow. But the other very smart thing the M+M team did was create a textile based on a softened shade of blue. The accent material they were given looked very cheap on my TV – too shiny and thin. M+M relied on the cotton sheeting and jumpsuits and elevated it. They used the pure blue as an accent. Nina mentioned how good their fabric looked; it was only when she felt it that she could confirm it was the cotton. Since the all women team ruined all of their sheeting, they needed to rely heavily on the cheap looking purple material. If you look at the rack of the sheeting that the women had dyed, a lot of it did look more pastel. However, they seemed to have all of their colors on each piece. The only one we got to see them create was the smash the paint balls version. If they shook it out, it reminded me of the material that Candace and Ashley used on their winning cape (not a look I particularly liked but the judges did). However, even if they decided to use this, they only had one piece to share among them since they had done other treatments to their other material.

I'll drink to that!

Here is an interesting article from Angelica Ross who was one of the women Caitlyn spoke to at HRC. she has an interesting perspective on what the producers chose to present from their discussion. http://www.missross.com/call-me-caitlyn-sincerely-miss-ross/

My babcia used to give us blackberry brandy in tea with honey and lemon. She was totally anti drinking, until we were sick, that is. I always suspected she got us liquored up so we would pass out and stop complaining.

I'm pretty sure they don't trust gay men either. After all, they might see Smuggar in shorts and not be able to control themselves.

I overstated earlier when I said I never talk to friends about personal grooming. I think you hit the nail in the head here. There is a difference about talking to actual friends. These are coworkers pretending to be friends. And Bethenny does like to push things. She's so edgy and cool and racy and . . . . Except she's not. She just talks about pubic hair, blow jobs and penises to try to prove that she is edgy. I find her exhausting. I am forever amazed by otherwise knowledgeable people putting stock in psychics, On these shows, production uses psychics to forward or promote certain story lines. Of course international lifestyle brand guru Sonja (with a sexy J) considers herself psychic. I think we can see her talents in the major decisions she has made in life. Sonja as psychic: I sense you will invest millions of dollars that you don't have then lose a lawsuit forcing you to sell much of your property and putting you at rick for bankruptcy. Sonja as Sonja: I guess I have to do it then.

This is one that ends with kill yourself because marrying or fucking any of these three would scar you for life. If Joshie was a nice person rather than a smug, sanctimonious hypocritical ass, he would not be horribly unappealing. At this point, it is impossible to look at him and set aside what a slimy weasel he is. So, anything unappealing or neutral in his looks spurns absolute revulsion. He's a nasty piece of work.

I think the little crotch fruit is about to crap himself. That'll teach them to put him in white pants and belt he cannot remember how to take off. Perhaps the wee lad had some bleachable moments when he was younger in which he was huffing bleach fumes, destroyed brain cells and is thus now stymied by belts. You should see the little guy with the toilet paper. He can't figure out how to tear it off, so he just empties the roll on the floor and rolls around on it. That is, of course, if he was able to get his pants off first.

What exactly would a Bachelor of Biblical Studies in Business Applications degree prepare someone for? Say a prayer to make a macro work in a spreadsheet? Or is this only related to businesses that are found in the Bible. He could become a shepherd, a pharisee (boo, hiss), a tax collector (boo, hiss), a fisherman, a carpenter, a prostitute . . . Perhaps they teach people how to build an ark. I am so confused. I think it would have been better if he went to clown college. At least he would know how to juggle and make balloon animals. He could help entertain the multitude of children.

Oh sure, the bug-a-salt seems fun until somebody puts an eye out. Then who will be laughing?

I think Ashley struggles with fitting a pant on a slender model. As a plus size designer, she is used to very different proportions. The cut for a full skirt is not affected as much by the model's build. It will be interesting to see how she progresses.