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I just finished Season 10 in my blast through the past. It is astounding how few of these I remember although I know my DVR recorded every season. I watched the episode where Amanda Namer had come in for another Pnina dress because she had decide the original dress wasn't good enough. She was very typical NJ Shore - think Real Housewives of NJ type and her father was there with what I immediately though was his goombah as she wasn't introduced as mother, wife or step mother. How he was affording this was already questionable - Bride decided on a custom Pnina with more bling - Pnina half jokingly told him that he was going to have to rob a bank. He said it's only money and you can always make more money which immediately made me realize he wasn't making his money legitimately because that is not something that most people with honest incomes generally say and he exuded an aura of illegitimate funds My Spidey sense alerted, I googled and there it was - ephemistically makes money from the porn industry and googling further was arrested a few years after the show for dealing drugs from one of his adult boutiques - Jeffrey Namer and Amanda Namer was the bride and his daughter OWNER OF CHAIN ADULT BOUTIQUES AND SMOKE SHOPS OWNER There have been other trashy brides in which I question how they are affording their $10,000 but I think this is the first dress that was absolutely paid for with criminal activities 🤷🏼‍♀️🤣

I was commenting in the first scenes where she was discussing worrying about being approved. It would seem odd to need approval in order to be a surrogate for a sister and if approval was actually necessary, then not having been pregnant is generally an immediate cause for rejection. And why would sister’s eggs need to be used instead of just Hannah’s eggs which is a much more sure fire way to produce a baby. Especially when you would be sharing a high percentage of DNA with what is genetically your nibbling.🤷‍♀️

The theft of the lungs came as a complete surprise - sarcasm fully intended. And I appreciated the disclaimer at the end regarding that all characters are fictional and not based on real events. I assume NBC Legal got antsy that a litigious multi-billionaire might sue although I doubt EM is that invest in his herd of gene bearers - especially one that might have defective "cancer genes" I don't know the protocol of surrogacy between relatives. Normally one needs to have borne a child in order to be eligible to be a surrogate - but that is commercial surrogates who are paid. Why would a surrogacy between relatives be subject to the same kind of restrictions. Also would this be Hannah's eggs or is the sister going to insist on making sure that it was sister's egg that was used which makes the whole procedure infinitely more complicated and subject to failure.

Randy hasn’t worked at Kleinfeld since 2013 as he is only there to shoot for the show.

When worlds collide I am still working my way through the past seasons of the show which are streaming on MAX and reached Season 9 Episode 10 and who should be the bride but Ashley Darby who is on Real Housewives of Potomac. This was when she was engaged to the gollum and even without knowing anything about the pair, it was obvious that she was a gold digger who had snared a rich unattractive wallet. The show was starting to trend towards stunt casting and obvious reality show wannabes because Ashley was seeking a very specific dress which she had a picture of on her phone. The store didn't carry it and had almost no similar styles. It is simply unbelievable that someone from outside New York City would go to Kleinfeld without seeking out the specific dress they wanted to try on in their area OR at the very least at a bridal shop in New York which carries it.

Of course there would have to be damages but if anything went wrong, it would be a slam dunk It is the reason why doctors step away from treating certain patients because the risk of it being used against them is too high. But there are so many breaches of normal medical behavior that one could go insane if one didn't just ignore. Once in awhile there is something so egregious that I find the stupidity to be insulting in terms of the audience being expected to know go WTF?

The Founding Fathers were almost all Deists which is a belief in "rationality" instead of religion. They were probably atheists but at that time it was acceptable to be a Deist versus being a complete apostate.

I realize the show is a fantasy but I can't imagine a doctor being allowed to operate on a patient whose husband had confessed to cheating with. That is a slam dunk malpractice claim Also - and I admit that I have a dark heart - but why do these never before done surgeries never fail. The reality is that they almost always fail at first because there are learning curves. I was rooting for the kid to die but dogs and kids almost never die on these shows. Not to mention that there would need to be some kind of insurance authorization as in general very experimental stuff is not covered by insurance. But I quibble since one has to suspend disbelief on so many levels.

FWIW authentic tiramisu is not made with American style ladyfingers but with ladyfingers that are significantly denser than American so that moistening them doesn't make them soft and collapsable I think watching Bailey's faux tiramisu even with HD probably didn't really provide a real picture since everyone at the table viewing it in person thought it really looked like a sweet dessert.

As I've posted a few times I am currently rewatching the series as all of the seasons except 23 (current) stream on MAX. The early shows really were relatively reflective of the women who actually shopped at Kleinfeld's as well as the actual experience. Obviously cameras might have changed the dynamics but it was a completely different feel. Now almost every bride has been screened by the producers of the show to be "exciting" in some way. And the people participating also consist of people who deliberately want to be on camera because in general there is no rational reason why they are shopping in NY for a bridal gown as logistically it makes absolutely no sense. The brides aren't amusing - people like Vanisha and her entourage are but are just awful. I don't believe for a second that anyone actually staged a surprise wedding at Kleinfeld's nor did I have any interest at all in watching it. I think the show has run its course and they should stick a fork in it and be done.

I was watching Hysteria which is a movie about the invention of personal vibrators. Evidently a London doctor was manually stimulating women so they would have an orgasm and cure their "hysteria". What a hoot is was to see Miss Higgins straddling the stirrups and being stimulated by the doctor into a loud and prolonged orgasm. There was a first on Pitt - a closeup of the actual vaginal canal as the head of the baby was emerging - this was in the ER

As I am traveling back through time by watching the old episodes - now on Season 4 - I realized that there truly are classic timeless designs. They might have some element of trend but they are still elegant in 2025. Even some of the odder or 'wow' style dresses can be timelessly "quirky". I still liked the dress a Canadian women got whose fiancé was a forest ranger - it was boho and had leaves fluttering on it. It wasn't cutesy as it could have been worn in the 1920's with its somewhat straight lines. There was the Priscilla of Boston ball gown style with the pockets which still remained timelessly elegant. What was really amazingly ugly are all of the gowns with the "pickups" - not sure how that design trend for bridal gowns caught on. And of course the corset gowns that are see through which seem to have receded to a great extent. Wasn't the Randy version available in blue? Pnina actually made some non-see through non over the top dresses that were quite elegant. There was an Indian bride who needed a red dress and and the dress was quite subdued with no sheerness or over the top eaters.

I understand why they wanted to do a public service type of thing. However the same point could be made without being completely inaccurate. Other shows have dealt with the issue by having veterans without alternative good health insurance have consequences because of falling through the cracks or otherwise having problems with the VA system. Not that I begrudge police officers or other government employees, but health insurance benefits are one of the reasons people opt for jobs as often they have lower pay checks than they could earn in other private fields. My parents were both worked for a large city and their benefit package was good - especially so in terms of retirement with pensions as well as medical care in retirement being paid for.

I am enjoying my journey through Say Yes - am currently in the middle of Season 4. I remember a very few of the brides but some I did. Yesterday there was the extremely sour twin sister who eventually came to the dressing room and told the bride to wrap it up because everyone had other places to be. And the extremely 'picky" bride who eventually confessed that she had found a dress for under $1000 in New Jersey. Randy was a bit miffed by the duplicity since he felt that if she had been honest at the beginning they could have shown her gowns that might have been contenders at a low price point. Ironically the dress in the photo shown look hideous. There was a bride in a wheel chair for whom Kleinfeld's had done a special train that attached to the back of the chair. It was lovely and bride looked lovely. Dress was chosen and altered to look good in the chair while seated. There was the bride who was getting married in India where you sit on a couch and so she needed the dress long enough to cover her shoes while on the couch. I like these earlier episodes as they seem more organic and not people who are obviously doing crazy shtick to be on the show. ETA And I hadn't realized Dorothy was that large when I saw the early episodes originally. She was generally in the background and since a lot of the women wore smock like clothing in black it really wasn't that obvious in those shows. Congratulations to her.

Except that he is a police officer in a major city and would have very good health insurance which he would use. My father was eligible for VA health care but generally used his "regular" insurance he got through work because it was more convenient and less bureaucratic. He used VA for hearing aids which weren't covered by his "regular" insurance and then for some expensive medication which was free through the VA if prescribed by VA doctors.