Lady Whistleup

Oh yeah and the girls are always wearing those cute heeled booties. No one's wearing the UGGs or galoshes that women in the NE wear so often because of the constant rain or snow or freezing weather. As for hose I'm always in between shades. If I go light it's too light and looks like someone rubbed chalk all over my legs. If I go a darker shade it looks like the figure skating dark tights. I can never find my shade ever.

Women on tv only wear the nice, see-through pantyhose with garters at the top. No one on tv is ever wearing the thick control-top pantyhose that's about two shades too dark for your actual skin tone with a big run down the thigh because you snagged your hose against a door leaving the house.

Kate Winslet says a lot of actors are still hiding their sexuality. https://pagesix.com/2021/04/05/kate-winslet-knows-actors-hiding-sexuality-over-homophobia/?_ga=2.56964650.125007426.1615308047-972973328.1615308047 I can guess who she might be talking about. Several A-list actors ...

What do you want to bet that Jed will try to steer Katey away from contact with Katey's gay hairdresser brother? It's totally on brand for the Duggars.

One thing that was a shock was seeing that shiny, bright, waxy orange makeup on Trump. For four years that was just a reality but looking back it just seems so absurd. It also contrasted heavily with all the natural complexions we saw in this documentary. I was also shocked at the crudeness of Marjorie Taylor Greene's stump speeches. I'm familiar with her persona but I didn't expect all that foul language. And she says she's a Christian.

Watched the fifth episode just now. One thing the fifth episode made really clear was just how much the documentarian bonded with Fred. Looking back, the whole documentary seems very much from Fred's POV. The symbiosis between Fred and the filmmaker was clear at the airport -- we see everything the way Fred sees it. This is both good and bad. I think that Fred is an appealing personality and more trustworthy than the Watkinses. But we view everything through how Fred views it.

Katey is pretty. I hope their kids inherit her bone structure and not Jed's. But the Duggar genes are strong.

Think they've just run out of things to film. They live painfully boring lives. The only way to drum up ratings is weddings.

Another heartbreaker of a game. I felt horrible for Aari McDonald crying at the end. Aww. She's a beautiful girl, by the way.

Serious question here: do any of the Duggars know the value of investing in a nice pair of shoes? Not "Nike" sinful stiletto heels, but a good pair of leather sandals or loafers? Joy is always in those flimsy flip flops or slippers. Her kids are barefoot. Like that's one thing about Anna: her kids always have nice shoes. https://www.instagram.com/p/CGvzj8MjBaK/

You can hate Duke if you're a UNC fan or whatever. But to hate the individual players -- why? Like what's there to hate about, say, Zion Williamson? Just curious. He's a very kind, generous and humble young man. There is a huge difference between amateurs and professional athletes. Professional athletes are getting paid millions to play ball. Amateur college athletes are getting paid nothing. To me, hating and harassing an NCAA athlete is a bit like heckling a kid at a high school varsity game. Why? They're just kids.

I find it really weird when people hate amateur athletes. They're not getting paid millions to ball. They're not getting paid anything. The vast majority of them will never see any professional minutes. They work very hard and tbh are being exploited by the NCAA. And most of them are kids really -- 18, 19.

That was amazing. The "Will You Take It?" sketch hit way too close to home.

Well Kate's family seems more diverse than the usual Duggar bride. She seems to love and value her gay brother. So hopefully she's made of a strong constitution and won't just be a mindless churner of babies. ETA: I always wonder if it secretly hurts the Duggars' hearts when they see families who actually like each other despite, uh, "sins" like being gay or whatnot. Like that's a level of familial affection they're just not acquainted with.

On a shallow note, Johnny Juzang is a cutie.

This game is really great though. One of the best games in this tournament. Holy shit that was one heartbreaking loss for UCLA.

The Arizona womens' basketball coach is intense. Reminds me of Pat Summit.

I get this POV. But if any film shows the banality of evil, it's this doc. Jim is that slick used car salesman you'd avoid, and Ron is that creepy guy in the dorm who spent all day in his room watching porn. Q-anon adherents think of Q as this symbol of courage/patriotism, but Jim and Ron are the dullest, most banal people ever. I also think that somewhere along the making of this documentary, the documentarian decided that going down the rabbit hole of Watkins creepiness was easier than trying to follow the myriad nonsensical conspiracy theories. I mean I tried to "follow" one this summer in that defunct Facebook group -- it tracked all the times Melania wore green. To them that was obviously a nod to Pepe the Frog, who for whatever reason is a big alt-right symbol. Eventually I couldn't follow the analysis of the colors anymore and found the people to be deeply unwell and paranoid.

I'm confused as to why the Duggar girls aren't allowed to cut their hair. Mary Duggar always had shortish hair.

I think the pandemic got a lot of people into the wacky conspiracy theories that sort of LED them to Qanon. I actually lurked at a Facebook group (now defunct) that was about Q drops and it wasn't nearly as nerdy as Ron and Jim and Fred make it seem. It was a mix of anti-vaxxers, white supremacists, and some very troubled souls who seemed obsessed with making deep-fakes of Democrats eating children. That was actually really disturbing. There was an obsession with "adrenochrome." Kobe Bryant is a huge obsession of theirs, as is JFK Jr. Very, very weird stuff.

They think that Tessa;s new life in Vancouver is fake and she's really back at home taking care of their three kids. Or four. I lost count.😁

What I always understood from my fundie neighbors was that Santa was considered a pagan tradition and therefore not allowed. So were Easter eggs and Christmas trees.

Fred does seem like a very intelligent, funny person. I think you're right -- it's hard being such an intelligent, lively mind stuck in a tortuous physical condition. As for Ron my guess is he;s mid-20's. Jim is only 57. Ron seems totally on the spectrum, and I doubt he actually writes the Q drops. I think Jim writes them and Ron posts them. Maybe Steve Bannon writes them sometimes. But Ron seems so painfully withdrawn.

The amazing Bill Russell still got April Fools jokes.

Ben wasn't even trying to fake emotion when he saw the ultrasound. He doesn't care.