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8 minutes ago, grisgris said:
I was embarrassed for the people waiting outside <snip>
You could stop right there AFAIC.
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I felt bad for the mom of the blonde heroin addict. She's the one who seemed heartbroken and unable to let go of the urge to help while seeming to have some level of understanding of the hopelessness of the situation. Dad and especially Sister All-About-Me could pound pavement as far as I'm concerned. Did they not hear this woman say she cared more about heroin than her own life? She's willing to DIE for it, and they're whining about how she doesn't even care about her family and how much they love her? She's a fucking ADDICT, try that on for size before you whine about how she doesn't care about you or how you feel or what you're going through. At least Phool did try to get real with them about what addiction actually means, so good for him. And no skin cream at the end, so he gets to keep those points.
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Great. Now the poor Drummond kids are indentured to the Merc as well as the Ranch. Good thing they're homeschooled; wouldn't want all that school learnin' gettin' in the way of all their workin'.
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15 minutes ago, SmithW6079 said:
Wait, is that the finale? All these years, I thought he took the opportunity in San Francisco and was going to try and make a long-distance relationship work with Charlotte. Either way, I didn't like her; the relationship came out of nowhere.
Lilith was the best (and for me, only) partner for Frasier.
When the plane lands, the pilot announces "Welcome to Chicago." Frasier says to the fellow passenger he's been telling all about Charlotte and his decision to leave Seattle, "Wish me luck." So I think he decided to relocate to Chicago.
And yes, Lilith was Frasier's equal and his only suitable partner. Their breakup came out of nowhere but that's actually a subject for the board of another series. ;-)
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On 5/2/2017 at 8:29 PM, CoolWhipLite said:
Animals and elderlies are my top two cry-starters. This Volkswagon commercial focuses on grandparents, and it decimated me in the first 15 seconds.
I saw scarletine's post in Favorite Commercials and came here to post about it.
I've never seen it on TV but oh yes, it qualifies as making me misty. And choked up. And okay, yes, I cried.
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On 5/2/2017 at 11:23 AM, SoSueMe said:
I am cranky and cynical and hate being emotionally manipulated, but damn, kids and animals get me every time.
The little boy who's lost his mom....
Darn you for bringing the onion chopping ninjas into my living room . . .
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12 hours ago, wings707 said:
Ha ha ha! I have 2 kids and didn't start graying until I was in my 60s!
I have no children and I started with the grays in my 20s. (The horror!! LOL)
14 hours ago, Gam2 said:We all age if we're not dead. Just do the best you can to take care of yourself but for goodness sakes, live your life and enjoy the time you have on this earth without spending every day worrying about how you look! We can thank the entertainment industry and the nasty Kartrashians for young people believing that how they "look" is the most important thing in their lives. How about getting a good education, contributing something worthwhile to society, voting responsibly, obeying the law, establishing a safe, secure home in which to bring home the innocent children you decide to have, etc, etc. Geez. We're going to hell in a hand basket if we keep valuing this nonsense instead of the things that really matter in life.
Agree 100%. I think that's one of the reasons I really can't stand $hill plugging wifey's goop at the end of the show. Here, on the one hand, he's allegedly trying to get people to have that changing day in their lives, then he puts Robin on to tell you how she can make you look like an airbrushed 16-year-old and make all your problems go away. It's so discordant.
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On 5/9/2017 at 5:04 PM, peacheslatour said:
Now, now that's a bit harsh. Ree might call a jalapeno a kumquat, but not a banana. I don't think she allows bananas in the house being as how she constantly reminds us that she hates bananas. :)
I'd actually prefer that she call a jalapeno a kumquat because her pronunciation of jalapeno is nails-on-a-chalkboard to me.
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12 minutes ago, MrSmith said:
As for him going straight into shilling Robin's face cream crap ... ugh! I hate that. I especially hated it in that episode with the girl whose stepfather has been calling her lazy and worthless for the last 10 years. He went into that last commercial break making it seem like we'd be seeing some resolution with her afterward. And then we got baited-and-switched after the commercial break by him going on about how "expert" Robin is at face cream. Every time he starts shilling that shit, I think of "Beauline" from that terrible "Cat Woman" movie with Halle Berry and Sharon Stone. I can't help it. Robin's so stone-faced that I keep imagining her face cream is actually turning her skin into stone, just like the "Beauline" did in that movie. And I'm so sick of him shilling that crap that I sometimes find myself wishing she'd trip and splinter into a thousand pieces.
I really, really hate the shilling of Robin's skincare line. Lately, he's been shilling other things that seem nonsensical given the subject matter of the shows. I can't remember the exact show, but once he cut to shilling AARP in the last few minutes and I remember being "WTF does that have to do with ANYTHING?" I don't understand why he does these cutaways at the end.
With the girl whose stepfather was calling her lazy, he promised to show some off-stage conversation with her after the break. When the show returned, he did the cutaway (was it for Robin's line? I seem to remember something else but I could be wrong). Then AFTER that, he showed the promised conversation with the girl. It was the last minute of the show. I only got to see it because I was too lazy to get up for the remote after he pulled the bait-and-switch. So disjointed and stupid.
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30 minutes ago, charmed1 said:
I hope and pray that Simon will be a better social worker than the ones who failed him.
He may not end up a social worker, but there is not a doubt in my mind that Simon will make a difference to someone who needs it. He is amazing, you can see it in his face. Someone that determined, and motivated by a sense of justice rather than hate or vengeance - nothing can stop him. I'm glad he was given a leg up, though. He certainly has earned it.
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9 minutes ago, Gam2 said:
Today's show: 1 minute into it and click. As a mother, grandmother and human being, I cannot watch something that horrendous. Why does he do this?
I totally get what you mean. But I was surprised. This wasn't Shill grabbing at headlines and sensationalizing. It was actually . . . sweet. Yes, he covered some rough territory, but it was more in the context of what those kids endured, and celebrating their resilience. I was touched.
Still think Phool is a narcissistic famewhore and blowhard, but I was glad I watched this through. He did right this time.
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1 hour ago, ed2962 said:
That's what bothers me. I never think he really mean it, it feels like he's just pontificating for the sake of the audience. Like when he tells someone "I'm your worst nightmare! I will haunt you!" It's like no Phil, you are not going to haunt them...we all know you'll just move on to the next show.
Yes, he's a blowhard. Lately it doesn't even seem like he believes himself.
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I was noticing how Phil looked a little off. I don't know how to describe it, but the area around his eyes looks different to me, and it looks like his eyes are uneven somehow. I don't think he looked good.
Those parents yesterday were both nasty pieces of work. Was anything accomplished, other than the father deciding that terminating his parental rights probably wasn't worth the trouble?
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1 hour ago, millennium said:
Joan Lunden and "A Place For Mom."
It's the name of the service that bugs me. "A Place For Mom." Like we don't know what to do with Mom anymore. She doesn't go with the new furniture. She's taking up space. Where can we put her? How about on the shelf in the garage? Not wide enough? What if we put her in one of those vacuum bags and slide her under the bed. No? Well, I don't know what to do then. We need to find a place for Mom.
And Joan Lunden's delivery is so sunny and casual, as if she's saying "We all know what it's like to be stuck with a parent who can't take care of herself anymore. Now there's an app for that."
And what about Dad? We always tell my father if he needs a place, he's S.O.L., because no one cares about a finding a place for dad.
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2 hours ago, anneofcleves said:
You like to snark on Phil, some like to comment on Ree. That's the beauty of sites like this.
Some of us like to snark on both. Vive la différence!
19 minutes ago, Lura said:Anyone can be in a sorority. Some are good, productive ones with popular girls who actually achieve something, and some are losers that take in all the girls who couldn't make it into the good sisterhoods.
And some are good productive ones with unpopular girls who actually achieve something.
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49 minutes ago, Maverick said:
She checked Other because she's got so many ethnicites she never knew about. Yeah bitch, because everybody else's comes back 100% one thing and you're just such a special snowflake. I can't stand any of the jerks in these ancestry commercials. They're so smug and douchy. These things are a scam anyway. I saw some story where they sent in the DNA of identical triplets and got back three different answers. One of the triplets even showed an ethnicity the other two didn't. Thye should say 'for entertainment purposes only' like the psychic hotline ads.
I've mentioned before, I have a friend who found out she was 20% Persian, which came from her mother, who was 10% Persian. Her father had no Persian ethnicity.
Her full sister showed a different ethnic makeup, as did their two full brothers.
I tried to explain how genetics works (you know, you inherit half your DNA from your mother and half from your father). And that your full siblings would necessarily be the same ethnic makeup as you, because, again, half your DNA from the same parents. She said, no, they explained it, that's not the way it works.
I'm pretty sure that IS the way it works, and we've known it since the days of Mendel. But she wouldn't hear it. She just loved the idea of being 20% Persian.
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3 hours ago, mojoween said:
Hahaha he is a very structured cat so this interruption to his routine was very unwelcome. He did enjoy sitting on the register belt rubbing his face all over everything in sight when we were checking out.
He sheds like a maniac when stressed and I had to use six sheets on the lint roller to get SOME of the fur off before I washed my sweatshirt.
Is there such a thing as an unstructured cat? I've never met one.
That look on his face is pretty priceless.
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A business that I frequent went from a cash register to a point of sale system a couple years back. For a time, before they got used to it, the staff referred to it as "Piece of Shit."
As for the tobacco ads, in my market they are brought to you by the folks at NY Quits - https://www.nysmokefree.com/.
Here's one of their compilation numbers.
I suppose they are syndicated or something, like PBS programming. (Probably not the technical term.)
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8 minutes ago, wings707 said:
Tanya is typically prounced, tan (what the sun gives you) - yuh.
Not the Tanyas I have known. Nor the Tanjas and Tanias.
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9 minutes ago, wings707 said:
Not that it matters but they are pronouncing her name Tonya Dawn, not Tanya.
How does one pronounce "Tanya" if not "Tonya"? My college roommate was named Tanya (no Dawn, just Tanya), and that's how she pronounced it. I've never heard it pronounced like "Tan-ya."
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46 minutes ago, chenoa333 said:
Is that the (anti smoking?)commercial with the guy showing how he has to shave cause he has a hole in his throat to breathe? And the guy who has to take extra precautions to spray paint his house cause he has a hole in his throat as well?
Hey anti-smoking crusaders....people are going to do what they want to do if they're addicted. Whether it's cigs, booze, meth, oxycontin, gambling, sex, shopping. So take your hideous tv ads and shove 'em. You gross me out.
First of all, who the heck spray paints his house?
And second, HALLELUJAH! I hate, hate, hate watching the NY networks because apparently the state is pouring endless amounts of money into these ad campaigns. All they do is make people who don't smoke want to barf, and people who do reach for another cigarette in defiance of the other-the-top preaching. Good job, NY Council for Self-Righteousness or whatever your real name is.
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I didn't think the aunt and mother kept harping on her good looks. They kept harping on just about everything else, though. "Harpies" is a metaphor that would be insulting to the monsters of myth. What wholly unpleasant people. Discussion? No, let's just YELL to MAKE OUR POINT! I think I might disappear for days if that's what I had waiting at home.
There was another aunt, worse than the one on stage. Can you imagine what she must be like? Holy moly.
Yes, from birth and her unfortunate name, Tanyadawn never had a chance. Peach trees don't grow pears. She was awful, but she was only 17. What excuse did the two fully grown adults with her have?
It's sad that Tanyadawn had to go and procreate. She'd do well to find an adoptive family for that child. There are open adoptions these days, and that would probably be her best option if she wanted to give her child any chance at a real life while maintaining contact.
I loved how the aunt's plan was "calling Dr. Phil." OK, whatever. At least even Phool had the sense to feign falling off his chair at that one. Although you could tell, he loved it.
I was pretty surprised, though, that at the end Phool didn't call on Robin's skin care line to help them all with their low self esteem. I guess that's a plus in his column.
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10 minutes ago, cooksdelight said:
No one has commented on the episode last week where the daughter came to Dr. Phil because her alcoholic mother was ruining her life, she was faking shaking hands and other things..... I watched it and was really taken aback by how Phil attacked the mother. Is he not aware that alcoholism is a disease, and the people afflicted with it cannot control their actions? He's worked with other alcoholics in the past, I was surprised he jumped on this woman so quickly.
Yes, I thought that was Phool at his blow-hard worst.
What was the point? So that the daughter had a safe place to get up in front of the world and let everyone know her mother is a blathering alcoholic mess? The woman douses herself with a fifth of whisky a day (for starters, she then needs five shots to get to sleep at night). Not only is there a dependency there, it's likely she's trying to obliterate herself because she can't deal with what a mess she's made of her life and what an awful person she has become. Why would we parade her out in front of everyone and carry on about what an awful person she is? She does bad things when she's drinking - she admitted it - she lies and steals and doesn't put her daughter first. Some of these things aren't necessarily directly related to the drinking, but it seemed to me she was trying to take ownership of those things as well. So why the need to attack her? Just to prove you can "get real"? Yeah, tough guy, you made an alcoholic woman break down and cry. That's getting real.
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That Southwest Airlines one was good. This is my favorite one.
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All Episodes Talk: Let’s Talk About Dr Phil the Show
in Dr. Phil
Jeez, I truly hope the people on today's show were actors. I hate to think there are people that horrible and/or stupid out there. And that they're breeding.
And WTF did Rosie Mercado's modeling career and weight loss have to do with anything?
Phool dismisses the merry band of idiots with an "OK, good", then turns to the camera and cheerily announces next we'll be meeting a woman whose gaining weight and says it's all her grandma's fault. Not that the idiots didn't deserve to be dismissed but that was one ungraceful transition.
This episode felt as weird and disjointed as a fever dream.