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Yeah I would think with big time athletic programs and with athletes who aspire to have a professional career, they're training year round even when the season is over. I don't know if that's the case with women's soccer at a Ivy-ish school though. If Whitney could make the US Women's National Team, that's beaucoup bucks now, as long as they contend for WC and Olympic medals. There are women's professional leagues but I don't think they pay as well. But the National Team, because of its successes, are now getting paid pretty well and stars are getting endorsement deals. I don't know if Whitney is suppose to be some major prospect or she's going to concentrate on her studies. If she was more serious about the sport, probably better programs than Essex. As for Kimberly, I think they're showing that she's one from a more middle class background, compared to the other girls. Not sure of Bela's financial situation but she seems to be also from a more affluent family, as is the case with Leighton and Whitney. So Kimberly has to work and find other sources of funding. But I don't know if this story line is really a serious look at college affordability. Just gives them an opportunity to put the character in some interesting, potentially comic situations.

It was described as copying Vanderpump. That's enough description for me to avoid.

Real Time with Bill Maher just had on a guest about young girls, age 11 or 12, becoming depressed as they get on social media, see themselves compared to models and celebrities. Some young girls may be sexualized, by porn and such into acting out. But I think many teen girls are pressured into taking part in things like sexting. It just looked like the whole male stripper scene looked like a bachelorette party of women around 30 or older, not late teens or young women in their early 20s. Again some do seem to get influenced by things like easily accessed porn but you would think some of them would be embarrassed, having had a more sheltered background.

Yeah I don't know why they pretend it's only been a week at most since the end of season 1. The girls look different, especially Kimberly with the longer hair. So they're still freshmen? What are they going to do, 2 seasons per academic year? I guess they want the flexibility in case they could go 5 or more seasons.

I guess they want to have at least one BD show on the air all the time and now they overlap as well. Also way more episodes than scripted shows which only have 10 episodes at most in a season, at least in the streaming era. So you get 15-20 episodes for each BD season. Ugh, glad I never fell into that Real Housewives rabbit hole.

Who's Kory? They shoved a Southern Hospitality preview under the guise of Southern Charm into my DVR. Deleted without watching.

They must have got a sunny day when they filmed. Why would they take a pay cut to move to London? She mentioned rotation so maybe it's a good thing to have on an accountants CV. I think the guy liked the loft but acceded to his fiancee's preference. Even a 30 minute walk could be too long, especially if it's bad weather. Can't imagine they wouldn't take the bus or the Underground, though they didn't ask about being near a Tube station. Yeah I wasn't aware that Westminster was available to common folk but if they're willing to pay ...

I don’t know this Jonathan Haidt guy but I doubt “structural stupidity“ is a term social scientist use. He seemed to be pulling the “both sides” thing but only cited the Jan 6 insurrection, didn’t give an example of leftists resorting to violence. Seems like Bill liked this guy because he’s also anti woke, agreeing with Bill that academia is a source of “rot” when it comes to intellectual honesty. Haidt said there was a correlation in the rise of depression in young teen girls — 11-15 years of age from 2012, when the iPhones first had selfie cameras and IG took off. Except it’s doubtful many parents were giving their 11 and 12 year olds the latest iPhone. Don’t they usually get hand me downs? And it’s not like teen girls and even young women well into their 20s didn’t have self-esteem issues long before social media and smart phones. Instead of scrolling through IG, young teens were immersed in magazines targeted at them. They could feel just as bad looking at celebrities and models with Impossible to attain levels of beauty in magazines and other media as girls today looking at IG models. In New Rules Bill continued his hostility to the younger generations, touting instead that independents swung to Democrats yet 4 points. Well Gen Z voters swung to Democrats by mid double digits. In the PA governor race, the 18-29 Year old voters voted for Shapiro by a margin of 44 points. Overall, young voters canceled the votes of the over 65 voters who went for Republicans. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gen-millennials-voters-2022-midterms-favored-democrats-stopping/story?id=93338313 So he should have thanked the youngest voter blocs. Instead he showed some picture of a headline from some dodgy paper claiming 1/3 of young voters suported communism.

Tulum, Mexico, seems like it was purely a budget decision. She mentioned the NYC rents. So they chose the one below their budget, not the one above it. Both would be way below what NYC would cost..

They arrive at Casa Roja, run by Allie’s friend Isela, a haven for refugees who fought corporate interests. The Foxes feel at unease even though Allie and Margot pick up chores to contribute to the community. Dina hates milking goats and has bleached her hair while Charlie spends hours in the jungle watching butterflies. Allie sets out to build a solar generator while also securing some supplies to make his family feel at home in Casa Roja. Only, Dina wants to get the fuck out. As soon as she gets a fake passport which Allie had promised her, she’s going back to civilization. But she discovers that Isela is selling off thE trawler, meaning they’ve checked into the fucking Hotel California, which as the song says they Can never check out. She tells Margot that Isela is selling the trawler and Margot realizes she has to get her kids out — and she isn’t going to type papers with the old typewriter and a small library that Allie got her. So she secretly refuels the trawler and plan to drug Allie but he discovers their ruse and have them watch the trawler sink. The megalomaniac Allie Is back!

Wild sardine from Spain and Portugal are popular. They've not been fileted but packed in olive oil or tomato sauce. Yes it's all guts though they're smaller than the ones they roasted on this episode. They're good on crackers. They're headed towards Ronda, which is inland and on top of a ravine overlooking valleys around it. I know because I just booked a trip to Andalusia which includes Ronda and Malaga. Looking forward to the next episode.

Looks like the climate refugee is this seasons beefcake.

Michelle may be trying to get in with the in group so that she could keep doing Challenge seasons. So she tries to befriend the vets but Jay and her were not aligned with the vets, would always be lower priority than their alliance members. She needs to toughen up if she wants to win.

Rolled my eyes at the strip show/charity thing. I know some women can be just as shallow as men but they all acted Pavlovian at the sight of shirtless men. Maybe this generation does react positively to things like dick pics. Teens and preteens supposedly have emotional problems linked to social media and the pressure to fit in, which means being sexualized when they're not ready to be. These girls aren't suppose to be much older than that. Seems like women who respond enthusiastically to male strippers tend to be older women, well past college years. Bela's oversexed personal is suppose to be an outlier but the other characters kind of mimic her at times. I couldn't believe the dean would agree initially to co-sign her loan. She obviously can't do that for every student she finds promising. The show doesn't have to be serious but maybe they could have delved a bit into the problems with college tuition costs, which are out of control. But they tried to create comedy out of it, having Kimberly take that job transcribing an Australian reality show.

Show makes me smile while I'm watching. Seems all of Mindy Kaling's shows that I've watched have that quality. First season they really tried to give equal time to all 4 girls and presumably will do the same. But it seems Kimberly and Bela get into the most outlandish situations. Looks like they're going to have Leighton come out in a big way. Now they're trying to find other niches for Whitney besides soccer.

The vets are so whiny and salty about being put in elimination. They expect these newbies to eliminate each other, so the vets numbers are greater. Jay and Michele don't own Johnny and Nanny a god damn thing. They should have put Johnny and Nanny in last week and also made them the primary pick. They were bullying Michele because they saw she was getting emotional about it. First of all, most of the vets would have Jay and Michele towards the bottom of their list. So it's absurd that they think J&M should protect them. What did they expect, for J&M to pick Horacio and his partner or Amber and her partner? Those are probably the only allies they have in the game. The vets are going to cover each other until the end. And Jordan's being ridiculous, he and Aneesa weren't trying to win before? They were just chilling (he used the world "floating") and now they're going to try to win Daily Challenges now? For once it would be good to see the rookies and newbies band together but B-M won't allow that because they think viewers would rather see Bananas and some other vets win. No Bananas is the last person I want to see win.

Hard to believe this show comes from the same creator and show runner who made Veep. Meanwhile, one of the Veep writers creates and runs Succession.

Kyle doesn’t get a clean record. His behavior is on tape and there will be a lot of social media reactions and clips. So while the captain didn’t put something on his nautical record, charter companies can find the clips if he should ply for more yacht charter jobs. Thats why I wouldn’t be surprised if this was scripted with his agreement. Then he can tell employers it was contrived for the show.

This was planned out, a quick exit for Kyle, resulting in a charter where the crew is undermanned. They had a car and a hotel room ready for him. Who knows, maybe he agreed to a short stay going in and was going to raise hell as much as he could. They sure have the BD template down, of course the crew is going out and there is going to be friction between the crew as the drinks flow. The one deckhand who'd worked on large ships said they'd go weeks or months before the crew could do shore leave, which makes sense since those vessels could be out at sea for long periods. But these "super yachts" are going on at most 2-day charters, probably within an hour cruise to port. So that means the crew gets to party every couple of days, not necessarily their choice. They have to dress up and go somewhere, have a good meal but drink a lot so that they produce entertaining footage. They "fired" him based on his threats but he really was getting all up on Kasie. Oriana is too preoccupied with rank. Said she signed a deal to be second stew but the chief stew made her and Kasie equal, because that will lead to more drama, since Oriana thinks she's better than Kasie, whom she scorns for putting on an accent she didn't have when they previously worked together. Kasie says American accent is boring and she's a little bit of everything (ethnically) and her accent may change. OK lets see some more of the fjords, less of the crew drama! Fat chance of that.

I thought that choice was ridiculous, unless they have a lot more money than they're letting on. Maybe he banked a lot of equity from a previous startup or something. Even $950k was a healthy budget, though maybe not in the Bay Area. But the idea that he could always work from Scotland for a Bay Area/California company seems dubious, unless he has some high level coding skills that employers are willing to accommodate him. Generally, tech companies are pushing their employees to return to office rather than work from home, even though many of them are spending most of their days in front of a computer screen. Wife said she hoped to find a job in event planning in Edinburgh. But the home she pushed for is much further than the other home they were considering. Who does all the upkeep though? In addition to all the rooms in that castle, it had huge grounds. Do they mow the grass there? I can believe that they decided they need to be near family, to help take care of the kids, though I don't know if elderly parents are always going to be able to do that. Another reason seems to be they're getting a bigger space than the apartment they lived in. Husband seems to believe being near the countryside is a great childhood for their children. Yeah they may love the animals but there's a big tradeoff in weather. Certainly for the $1.1 million they spent, they wouldn't even get 2 bedrooms in the Bay Area.

Well for this Daily, the winners got $5k each.

They have strict rules about posting in the media thread there. But Oliver talking about tHe Kenyan atrocities perpetrated by UK officers in Elizabeth’s name is entirely germane to that show. Doesn’t it depict Elizabeth cultivating former English colonies in Africa? Or Charles giving the most inadequate apology to a survivor of atrocities perpetrated in Canada, another country under the Crown.

Ringer Prestige Podcast host said Valentina is a repressed lesbian. She doesn't want attention from men but she perked up when that female underling praised her.

Episode starts with what turns out to be a closeup of the skin of Justin Theroux, as seen by some insect which bites him in the back of the neck. Their boat isn't capsized as the episode description says. The hull is pierced and it's taking on water. Allie is working on lifting the boat up to fix the leak when he collapses. Charlie, without Google, figures out he was bitten by a specific insect and the bite is life-threatening. So while Allie is out of commission, just burning up with fever, Margot and Charlie go look for medicine -- they had seen a plume from an oil rig -- and Dina is suppose to figure out how to patch the hole in the hull. This is suppose to show the kids have some of the ingenuity of Allie and maybe the passion/idealism of Margot. She tells Charlie the people at the oil rig may be wary of strangers coming up to them deep in the jungle. My thought was, they might feel a certain way about a woman. But she suspects the oil rig workers are probably having to fight off local tribes and she says sometimes violence is justified against forces which have a lot of money on their side. They see the oil rig camp has been the site of some shootout, with bullet holes and blood stains everywhere. No survivors left, not even corpses. They happen to find the drug for the exotic bug bite that Allie has and of course Allie is saved and Dina found a way to fix up the boat so their journey continues. They always say the journey is the reward. Seems like the writers really buy into that, because so far, the main characters are always on the way to something, but they face various obstacles and they overcome them and stick together. Do they have some ideas for what happens after they finally reach this community which has dropped out of the rat race? Or are they going to keep showing only the journey, at least through this season?

Episode is called bull elephants, referring to what Daphne learned when she went on safari and learned of the social or asocial lives of male elephants, while the females and baby elephants lived joyfully in pod. Dominic gives Lucia and Mia 3000 Euros but then tells them he can't see them any more. So Lucia wants to find another rich guy because she's spending money as soon as she gets any. Dominic the feminist though starts looking at every woman in the restaurant not long after he blows off Lucia. Harper tries to spice up their love life but Ethan isn't interested. He isn't interested in Mia either, maybe just the porn on his laptop. Though in the previous episode, he ran by Lucia and then came home aroused, which made him open his laptop. Maybe they could spend some of that money on sex counseling. Instead Cameron turns out to be some kind of wealth manager so he's trying to rope Ethan into "investing" with him which involves hefty management fees for inferior returns than index funds. Portia has put Albie in the friend zone. She says he doesn't get her heart rate up. She should just tell him she wants to be friends but she doesn't want to be stuck on her own? Instead she wants the pool guy with the sensitive nips? Greg leaving for two days is bullshit. It's about 30 minutes to an hour to get to the nearest airport to Taormina, then probably have to fly to Rome or Milan and take an international flight there. If Greg goes back to the west coast since Tanya is from San Francisco, that's about 15 hours if not more. So over a day just to fly back to the US and then fly back to Sicily. What's he going to do, go to the US and turn around and fly back after like 8-10 hours? Valentina does look like a forlorn figure but her open contempt for Tanya is something in the service industry.