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I always use recovering alcoholic no matter who I'm speaking to. To do otherwise let's people with no experience in the situation think that if they quit using, they're no longer an addict which in my opinion is quite irresponsible. I'm sure everybody here would know what you meant if you had written "recovering" instead of "used to be". Used to be isn't the truth.

Yep, that is exactly what I thought when I saw the time, heard the kids hadn't eaten yet and saw that Grace wet her pants. I bet they were sitting in some parking lot somewhere waiting for drugs. She's an idiot if she thinks people aren't going to put 2 and 2 together. A poster above mentioned that she "used to be an addict". I have to correct that. There is no "used to be" when it comes to addiction, once an addict ALWAYS an addict. I haven't had a drop of alcohol since December 29th 1995 but I'm still an alcoholic. The only former addict is a dead addict.

That whole sad scene with Isaac wanting to say goodnight to Javi was all Kail's fault. If she had just told Isaac that Javi had to work or something and had waited to whine to her friend, Isaac would have been fine. It was her phone conversation in front of him that caused him to be so upset that Javi wasn't there. To me, that's emotional abuse. So is the shit Adam was doing to Aubree. I hate that phone checking, insecure jealous shit. A while back I told my husband that an old boyfriend had contacted me through Facebook. I said "he was sexy back in the day too". All he did is ask if I was going to write back. I told him I didn't know and it never came up again. We've been living together for 26 years so we're doing something right. I couldn't be in a relationship with somebody who is jealous all the time about everybody.

(Hi Bastet!). I thought the same as you and Bref. At first I was thinking, don't they realize it would be a little more complicated for Jazz to "put herself out there" than it is for them. Then I thought that they probably see Jazz as just another girlfriend, which is a good thing. I like that she has her core group of girlfriends. I hope they don't abandon her when they start getting boyfriends like a lot of young girls do. Jazz just gets cuter each episode. I also love how she immediately and sincerely apologized to her dad after he reminded her of what things cost. I love to listen to her speak. I love that unlike other girls her age, she doesn't say "like" every other word. She's very well spoken for a girl her age. Hell, she speaks better than a lot of adults I know.

There was a post from radishcake in the episode thread that included this...."it's not the trans community's job to educate you, you've been given resources here, please use them". I want to sincerely apologize. I feel like that may have been directed at me because I've expressed an interest in learning more and I've asked a lot of questions. I'm so sorry. I never meant to offend or make anybody feel like they are here to educate me. I tried so hard. I am very interested in learning more but my biggest worry here was that people would think that I looked upon the transgender community as a "thing" to be studied and researched. I just don't ever want to say or do the wrong thing to or about anybody in my real life. I want to support the community if I can, by learning more I can also help my daughter make sure that her kids learn and that they know from a young age that the transgender community are just people like the rest of us, they just had things about them that they needed to change. See. I don't even know if that's the right thing to tell the kids. I am very sorry if I asked too many questions or inappropriate questions. I'm also sorry if I ever made anybody feel like I expected them to educate me. I'm scared of saying the wrong thing so I think I'll bow out of the conversation. I may make a few comments about an episode but I won't ask any more questions. Thanks.

I just saw a sneak peak of the new episode, in it Leah is once again running late and she says "mommy woke up early and everything". Bitch, you have 3 very young kids, your ass should be up early every damn morning. When my kids were young I was up at the crack of dawn whether I wanted to be or not (now I sleep as late as I want and laugh at my daughter when she's up at the crack of dawn with her kids). I wonder if she locks the kids in their rooms while she sleeps it off or if she just lets them run wild in the house.

My friend broke the 3 smallest toes on her right foot and her foot was black and purple and swollen up past her ankle. She was given a boot and told to take Tylenol. She was in really bad pain for almost a month until it got better. Another friend here in the Bay Area was on a pain contract with her Dr after a bad car accident. She moved to Nevada and the new Drs there refused to give her any of her pain medicine. Once a month she has to drive down from Nevada to see her former Dr. This is all because of people like Leah.

I'm on strong pain medicine and will be forever. I'm not saddened at all by what you mentioned but I'm pissed the hell off that abusers like Leah make it hard if not impossible to get the medication a lot of people need in order to function without pain. Abusers like her is why after 6 major surgeries in less than 2 years and being in a wheelchair I still get treated like an addict when I get my medication. Abusers like her have Drs under treating patients because they are afraid of getting into trouble. Saddened because poor everyone is treating poor little Leah badly for simply taking medicine as it's been prescribed? Fuck no. She's abusing it and it's plain to see.

Is the dark haired girl in the cast picture supposed to be Brenda or Val?

Morbs, I didn't hear that animal comment but after hearing some of the bullshit that spews from this woman's mouth, I wouldn't be surprised if she did say it.

This woman is a moron. Charlize Theron (a name Wendy still can't pronounce correctly), still has a friendship with Sean Penn's daughter. According to Wendy that is wrong. She says once the relationship is over with the man, the relationship with his whole family should end as well. Wendy thinks Robin Wright should be pissed off about this friendship and remind her child that SHE is her mother. What? I'm sure these people are much more evolved than Wendy is and they're all fine with this. I know this isn't the case with Theron, but this idiot thinks if a person has a long term, good relationship with their young step child, that relationship ends when the marriage ends. What is wrong with this woman?! My son is almost 30, he had his first love when he was 16 and his girlfriend was 18. They were together for 3 years before they broke up. He's been living with his girlfriend for 6 years and I have a great relationship with her but, I also still have a great relationship with his first girlfriend and her mother. Guess what Wendy? Everybody is fine with it! She also called her guest the wrong name to her face today. She called Kimberly Stewart Ashley which is her brother's name. The best part if the interview was when Wendy asked about the father of Kimberly's baby. She asked if he was "anybody we would know". Kimberly gives her a look like she's an idiot and says no. Wendy doesn't do her research. The father of Kimberly's baby is Benicio Del Toro. Shouldn't Wendy have known that?

I've tried many, MANY times to talk with her. It's always deny, deny, deny and then cry, cry, cry. If I really catch her doing something red handed, she'll tell me she's dying. I've heard that one about 6 times. She has destroyed a lot of friendships. The only way she can get anybody to hang around with her these days is to rent rooms in her house to people who have nowhere else to go. Even those people only last a couple of months before they run away in the night. It just makes me so sad, we've been through everything together, we should have an amazing friendship. Instead it's down to a few texts here and there and her texts are either her begging me to get together or her telling me all of her new (nonexistent) medical problems. I honestly don't know what to do. I don't know if I should walk away for good this time or just keep going as we have been. I know she's not going to change because she doesn't think she does anything wrong. It's always everybody else's fault. She wants to come over on my birthday and I'm trying to avoid that if I can. She frustrates me so much and I don't want that on my birthday. Edited to say, I've also written her a letter about it and told her how I felt, again it was nothing but denial and blaming everybody else. There's just no getting through to her.

I think Jeremy got exactly what he wanted out of his relationship with Leah, same as Nipples wanted out of Jenelle. They are now Z list celebrities, they make some decent money and Jeremy can now get a better looking girl then he could before. I think that's all either of them ever wanted. Speaking of better looking, after seeing Jeremy and Corey's double date picture it's obvious that both men have traded up.

I'm stumped that somebody would think any parent would actually try to do that. That would be horrible. I can't even imagine a parent even thinking of doing something like that. I would think (hope) that in this day and age having a gay child wouldn't bring that extreme of a reaction. I used to say this silly little thing to my kids after I taught them what being gay means. I always said "I don't care if you bring home a Steve or a Stephanie, a John or a Jennifer. As long as you're happy, and that person treats you well, that's all that matters". I started telling them that when they were around 11 or 12 and they still remember it.

Please don't leave PupCal! I'm sorry if I've said anything offensive. I'm just trying to learn more about the transgender community so I probably ask too many stupid questions. I understand if you leave but I hope you don't. Please take care.

I realize that Heather made the comment in her talking head and not at the table, I never said otherwise. If somebody is complaining about their weight while stuffing food in her mouth, or eating if you prefer, then stop eating so much and hit the gym. I'm just saying that I don't think there is anything wrong with Heather saying that. I'm done with this now. Edited to remove double negative.

Heather never said to "not eat". She said stop eating and that was because the entire time Shannon was complaining about her weight she was stuffing food into her mouth. I'd have said the exact same thing. I'm underweight and get so sick of being accused of having an eating disorder. Some of us were just born that way.

Shannon is an idiot. It's parents like her who produce teen mothers. She doesn't think a 17 year old should be on birth control or even be talked to about it? Both my son and daughter knew about every form of birth control before they were even teenagers. It's not a free ticket to sex and they never thought it was. It was simply making sure they were prepared for the inevitable. It's so important to be open and honest with kids about sex. Like I said...Shannon is an idiot.

I have a friend like the family members some of you have described. We've known each other since we were 4 and I'll be 50 on Thursday. We went from pre school through high school together, are godmother to each other's kids etc etc. She's become a horrible person in the last ten years or so. My husband and kids have both begged me to not tell her anything about them and I no longer tell her anything personal about myself. She doesn't know the word secret. She'll take a tiny grain of truth and twist it, turn it and stretch it into something that no longer resembles the truth, then she tells everybody. Or she will take what I've told her and use it against us. I once told her something about my daughter's marriage. A month later she got mad at me and plastered what I told her all over Facebook. I made up a story once like backformore did. I told her not to tell anybody and during that text conversation she told her roommate what I had just asked her not to tell anybody. I keep cutting her out of my life but I always let her back in. My childhood sucked. Alcoholic parents who ignored me in favor of my older brothers. They would take my brothers places and I'd get shipped off to this friends house and her mom would watch me. All of my childhood memories have this friend in them. It's the history I can't let go of. Plus I keep hoping the good parts of her will come back. I know this is a family thread but after 46 years of friendship. This chick is like family, even though I can't stand to be around her now.

I use my dog as my profile picture on Facebook. Nobody has ever complained about it. I don't know a lot of people who use their own picture. I don't see anything wrong with using something other than your own picture.

What is AIUI? Electric Boogaloo Is Audrina for sure going to be a mini series? I wish all of the Flowers movies had been a mini series instead of the choppy 2 hour movies they did.

Suboxone isn't an opiate. It's actually the medication they give opiate addicts, it blocks the opiate receptors in the brain so the opiates have no effect on you. I agree on the other part I quoted. I was looking forward to seeing the crew on this show too. I wonder if it's the same crew from the other show. I wonder if this crew fights to be the crew with Chelsea. She seems like she'd be the easiest to work with. I bet they have to draw straws to see who gets stuck with Jenelle. Your explanation for the crews absence is hilarious and probably true. I can't think of another reason they did it on the OG show. Granimal, I love your name. It reminds me of the old Garanimals clothes. My kids loved those because it was easy for them to pick their own clothes.

I don't understand why any woman would be offended by Caitlyn or anybody identifying as and declaring themselves a woman. But I would be very upset if I ever heard somebody telling a transgender person that "you're not a woman". Unless something or somebody negatively effects my life or the lives of my kids and grandkids, then it's none of my damn business. That's how I live and that's how I taught my kids. I was raised in an extremely racist home. The n word was a regular word in my house growing up. My brothers haven't broken the cycle and raised their kids the way we were raised. I broke that cycle so if I see somebody being wronged, which I consider telling a transgender woman she's not a real woman as her being wronged, I can't keep my big mouth shut. That big mouth has gotten me into trouble and almost gotten me beaten up more than once but I still can't/won't keep it shut. Sorry guys for my multiple, long, boring, nonsensical off topic posts. Being laid up for the past year and counting makes for some long boring nights.

Comparing her boobs size to that of her friends to the point of knowing that she's the second smallest is so typical of a girl her age. That scene cracked me up and I said the same thing. She's definitely female in every way. She's an adorable girl, just cute as quickly button and so well spoken. I have no doubts that she will find the right guy when it's time. She has so much to offer, she'll be just fine. I agree with krandinski. Something about Jazz's mom that I really didn't like. I can't quite put my finger on what it is but something about her rubbed me the wrong way. I love that she lets Jazz be who she is, not many parents would do that and I applaud her for that. Maybe she just seems a little too pleased with herself or something, I don't know. I just didn't like her very much.

I don't know if any of you know (or care), there is a transgender person on Big Brother this season. She's a beautiful woman, she's kind of a bitch but she's really pretty. My husband always has a BIg Brother crush every year, there's always one woman on the show that he loves. Audrey is his crush this year.