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Celebrating 25 Years Of The West Wing

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    S06.E17: One Ton Family: Part 1 LIVE CHAT

    in My 600-lb Life

    Just now, aliya said:

    Hello UMGOBLUE. I don't think we've met before (I also forget a lot of names, so don't hold it against me if we've had a long conversation somewhere along the line). And a happy Go Blue to you, too!

    We haven't yet!  Glad to meet you Aliya!  Thank you!

    I have to go ... By the way, the dinner is for MY DAUGHTER!  I will see my way out now.  Yikes

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    S06.E14: Jennifer & Marissa's Story

    in My 600-lb Life

    7 hours ago, calpurnia99 said:

    It's a long road to travel, but you have to take the first step in the journey. 

    Cue: obese person laying in bed saying: When I wake up in the morning I am in so much pain. I feel like I  am suffocating under all this fat. I often am surprised I am alive and didnt die in my sleep.

    I have to rely on so-and so to wipe my ass, wash me and do everything for me. I hate that. 

    Cue: shower scene

    Then: BRING ME MY BREAKFAST I'M HUNGRY

    Cue 14 eggs, some kind of fatty meat and a loaf of bread/biscuits/rolls piled on the plate enough for 6 people which is consumed in bed while lying down

    Cue childhood story:

    I was not a fat child but then I was molested/abused by my stepdad/mothers boyfriend so I turned to food for comfort- I just wanted to eat

    When I was 8 I weighed 200 pounds then my dad/mom was doing drugs/drinking so they divorced and

    This caused me to eat even more so by the time I was in High School I was 350. Right after high school I got raped again/got involved with drugs. This made me turn to food EVEN MORE AND i GOT EVEN BIGGER!

    I then met my partner so and so and he didn't mind that I was 500 pounds because I was jolly. Cue partner: I didn't mind he/she was big he/she just have a loving spirit'

    Then we got married and I miscarried/my dad died/my grandmother died. This was so traumatic that I had to eat EVEN MORE and I got EVEN BIGGER

    you all know the rest eventually this person is in DR Nows office and he says 

    TELL ME ABOUT YOUR EATING HABIT

    Don't forget the obligatory grocery store scene!  I don't do ANYTHING at all, but I will muster up enough energy to leave the house for one thing....Grocery shopping, because if I don't go, they won't buy what I want! 

    Cue: horrible stares, rude comments, bumping into displays.  Then:  "I am so HUMILIATED" and tears...so many tears....but I will see you to do this all over again next week.

    Grrr...

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    S06.E14: Jennifer & Marissa's Story

    in My 600-lb Life

    8 hours ago, SunnyBeBe said:

    This might seem odd, but, do people routinely order pizza with extra cheese?  Just curious. 

    We started ordering extra cheese after about the third time a pizza arrived missing cheese on half of it (I am talking about you, Pizza Hut).  Extra cheese = cheese over the entire pizza, like the days of yore!

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    S04.E08: Episode 8

    in Call The Midwife

     

    Frankly, I was  startled to hear  Nurse Crane  use it.

     

    Me, too,  It seemed so random to be thrown in while on the phone with him.  I don't recall hearing any of the other midwives  (or Crane for that matter) describe a patient demographically or characteristically (fat, poor, young, abused, Irish, unwed, prostitute, etc.) on the phone when looking someone up.  I was sure that it was included to be addressed at some point, especially when the husband abruptly stopped talking for the rest of the conversation. I actually wondered if a scene had been cut.  Felt very weird and out of place to me.

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    S04.E08: Episode 8

    in Call The Midwife

    The editing/script/directing (?) seemed really odd to me when Nurse Crane took the call from the deaf woman's (June) husband regarding her false labor.  It seemed unnecessarily crass for Crane to state June was deaf ...and dumb to her husband on the phone.  There was a pause and subsequent silence from him as Crane rattled off some other words (blah, blah, blah).  Later when Trixie was at the house and June started crying, I thought it was because of what Crane said, but it was never addressed.  Maybe my 2015 sensibilities are ill placed in the 1960s ;), but it seemed like that comment would have some type of follow up.  Perhaps the comment was added to give another example of Crane's vascilating empathy/lack of empathy skills? 

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