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It would've been a big deal to someone like Flower, who spent all that time in the cult and commune having sex with lots of people. I think her reaction was pretty true to her character and mindset.

I didn't mind the commercial at first. It's kind of a sweet idea. But I've seen it during almost every break in the last few days and now I just want it to go away.

I thought he was attractive too. They're still in use at my house. They hook up my dvd player to the tv. I was just assuming these young whippersnappers on the show didn't get it because they were too young, lol. I did okay last night. Ran Man-Agrams, State Holidays and WWI. Got all but one clue in Communications, Outdoor Cats (Damn you, caracal, why weren't you the serval cat I keep saying you were?), Starts With "H" and TV Foursomes. Also got 8 stumpers/missed DDs: Mt. Ararat, semaphore, Timbaland, snow leopard, Helios, Sopwith Camel (no Great Pumpkin fans among the contestants?), Liege and Three Rivers Stadium. FJ was an instaget for me. I actually good see my copy of Paul Theroux's book by that name on my bookshelf while watching the show. Yeah, I was just assuming relative youngness as the reason none of the contestants got the clue, figuring they'd all be more familiar with other methods of connecting to their tvs for streaming and whatnot. Now get off my lawn. Congratulations for making it! Hope you enjoyed your experience and will be rooting for you to do well.

It does explain why he wasn't really ready to get married, imo. He needed more time to become comfortable with himself before rushing into marriage. And he and Nigel did rush.

I feel like 5 hours was plenty of time for this challenge. It was much less complicated that some previous years. They've much more complicated things in the same amount of time on the Great British Baking Show. Rafi didn't use nearly enough decoration and didn't meet the "make it look like a gingerbread house" portion of the challenge. Had he done that, he would've won. I tasted it once, but the person who made it had used a lot of rum, so that's all I could taste. Otherwise keep that nasty stuff away from me. To me it looked like a ski chalet, not a Tudor house.

More thoughts later, but here are two right now: I knew Stephen was the winner when the judges had almost no criticism of his cake at all. No one on this show, judges, contestants, producers, have ever seen an actual Tudor house, because as much as I loved Raffi, his cake barely resembled one.

Oh, Arsenal, I despair, I really do! You could've gained 2 points on Liverpool this weekend but, no . . .

He's the It mythological creature of the moment!

Allegedly beautiful people.

That line annoyed me as well, although I didn't see the HHer behaving as an ass overall. So not my favorite but far from the worst, imo. To be somewhat fair to what's his name, in some cities this would've been possible but Falkirk is not one of those cities. But a lot of this crap is producer-driven to begin with, so I usually try to let it slide unless it's really egregious or repeated ad nauseam. Mostly I found this guy okay-ish.

Don't know any swingers personally, but judging from what I read in the comments on Slate, they vary as widely as non-swingers in how they might think about such things. I think a shark bed's snout would be less rounded. Definitely struck me as T-Rex inspired. But, as Nigel pointed out, not particularly anatomically accurate. That happens in TV land all the time, but in real life, you gotta have the inspections if you're doing permitted work. And if you're doing the work without pulling the permits first, that's a whole 'nother can of worms. I'm willing to let it pass because it's minor in the grand scheme of things on a show with ghosts. Be interesting to see if it comes back to bite them in the ass later, though. Yeah, it's a place of business so people walking in to where the reception desk is located makes perfect sense to me. I've stayed in a few. The bedroom doors all had locks, but the front doors weren't generally locked during the day/until a specified time in the evening, allowing guests to come and go as they pleased. That did vary a bit depending on how large the B&B was and where the owners' quarters were located vis-a-vis the guest areas. In a place as large as Woodstone, I imagine the door to the public areas is only locked at night. It actually strikes me as closer to a small boutique hotel than strictly a B&B. One of the B&Bs I stayed at did this, but at least one other, the key I was given was just for my room, not the front door. Isaac has only just recently (relatively speaking) accepted that he's gay, so yeah, much less experienced than Nigel, who clearly knew that about himself in life.

Carol seems like she'd appreciate a challenge. And probably has all kinds of experience, lol. I did wonder about that. As for sending messages via Pete, that would work for some things, but I think Thor and Bjorn would find it unsatisfactory, bonding-wise.

Mothers and daughters can have all sorts of bonds and relationships, and I don't think it should be emphasized that any particular sort, good or bad or in-between, is always the case. I think we can definitely agree on that.

I don't expect shows to have holiday episodes. If they do, and it works, great. If they don't, I don't much care. I do hate when they make saccharine, schmaltzy holiday episodes because "It's Christmas and family!". His father-in-law may have given him his current job, but Georgie's been hustling since before he dropped out of school, so I don't count that against him. And the towing thing was entirely his own idea, not Jim's. I think seeing George die youngish and seeing Georgie having to take on so much of the burden in the wake of his father's death has made Jim think a little more about mortality and the future. We know that George had heart problems, but I don't think Jim would know that. I was a teenager more than 30 years ago. Not that much has changed in how highly they thought of themselves. Except we've already seen Georgie grow from the immature, self-centered guy before YS ended. (I'd dispute that Georgie was ever particularly surly except for one or two episodes. He was mostly the easy going one in the family.) Hell, we saw him start to mature before he even met Mandy. So his continuing to grow up after becoming a father is not really such a big change. And it actually is fairly realistic. Some young men do mature rapidly when faced with the responsibility of a child. Not all, sure, but a lot of them do. He certainly seemed to be doing so in the Thanksgiving episode, far more than Mary was.

I did pretty well, if not great, with Friday's game. Ran Technology (which surprised me), Word Addition (another surprise), Literary Character and Airlines. Got all but one clue in People In History (should've run this one, but something about the Thomas Paine clue confused me), You Don't Know Him From Adam (I knew who they wanted but couldn't come up with Adam Scott's last name), TV Movies (same thing with Claire Danes) and "T-W-A". And I got 5 stumpers: Andrew Jackson, coaxial cable (Yay for being an old person!), miniature, nanobots and marmoset. I was really surprised no one got miniature. I usually suck at scrambled words categories, but come on people, small golf!! FJ was an instaget. Funny science fiction = Douglas Adams, always and forever. Although Carla's initial guess of Terry Pratchett wasn't terrible because his work definitely contains a lot of humor. Although he was more of a fantasy writer. Carla screwed up her wagering. If she'd bet everything, she'd have won. Not an entirely off-base answer, although he died much more recently. But Adams' work was much more in the absurdist vein one associates with Monty Python. Back when I was on the show, we were told to do our own hair but there were professionals who did our makeup. (Only time anyone has ever managed to adequately hide the dark circles under my eyes.) Personally I had no problem with how Ram looked, but to each, their own. That's all I could think. Me, I just needed small golf.