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Wow, she's just choppin' fearlessly into that mane, isn't she? No timid reservations there worried about cutting his ear off... Glad he liked it.
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2 hours ago, yogi2014L said:
The Duggars are horrible at social media because they are sheltered, socially inept and undereducated.
They seem too dull to actually get anything out of interactions with people because they do not understand other grown adults and how most people live ( go to school get a job, become independent ect)
Add that into their cult beliefs...failure all around. They don't care to branch out, and are too stupid to see the benefit in doing so. I don't even think the adult Duggars understand that to get through to people ( in order to convert them as that is their goal) it is a good idea to truly relate to them and find a common connection. They throw the " can anybody relate" out there without knowing WHY they should be relating to the heathens on SM. Just parroting lines.
Its actually quite interesting seeing how badly they are failing as adults. I can't wait to see the instagrams of the howlers and lost girls
I think you've also hit upon why they don't go to the library - selfish stupidity on the part of JB and Michelle. They themselves aren't interested in reading or books outside of a small circle of trite pap; so the children don't "have to" be interested in it either (read: "I find it boring so I wouldn't take them"). We've never seen any indication that Mere and Pere Duggar even read as widely as Jeremy; I'm not sure they'd know what to do with a biography of Susie Spurgeon, which would probably strike them as dull as the proverbial ditchwater; and might be why they need their preachers to tell them about the Bible. There's literally no trick to taking children to a library and asking them to run their reading selections by you as parent before the kids take them out. I used to work in a small town library, and I've seen it countless times from all manner and stripe of parents. I was in fact astonished during my lib. sci. classes, to realize that with the benefit of hindsight my mother probably thought librarians were vetting my books for "appropriateness", because when a friend sent me a Peter Straub or similar she thought I'd like for my birthday on the border into 7th grade, my mother called up the friend's mother and read her the riot act for "letting her daughter read such age-inappropriate books" and trying to corrupt me.
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13 hours ago, kaleidoscope said:
Did Jana file paperwork to launch a company called Arbor Acres Group LLC? Super sleuths needed:)
Yes. However, it has the same mailing address as Duggar Aviation, so I wouldn't get too excited...
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34 minutes ago, cmr2014 said:
I will have to respectfully disagree here. I think that a LOT of people completely FREAK OUT if people call their baby boy "she" or their little princess "he." There's a reason why there is such a thing as a baby headband industry, and baby earrings, etc. Jinger is not the only person putting a headband on her little girl.
In my experience I think people are more worried about the latter, which does explain the headbands, because most rational people I think understand that all babies look alike in some way. I have always unofficially suspected they find it less insulting to have someone think your baby boy is so strikingly attractive that people think he's a girl, because at least that has a veneer of compliment to it.
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8 hours ago, QuinnInND said:
No, but it melts wonderfully and makes amazing queso dip and mac and cheese.
Instead of writing on the walls, my kids got into the baby powder and flung it all over the basement. Ugh.. What a cleanup.
I can understand it being in certain recipes, but it's all the kids get to eat! I don't think we've literally ever seen Jill putting real cheese in recipes, unless maaaaaaybe a sprinkling of cotija if she's trying to emulate some dish from Danger America.
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On 4/22/2019 at 2:55 PM, sugarplum said:
I was born and raised in a Baptist church and I have never heard the “pagan” reasoning for not calling it Easter! That’s definitely new to me! People I know do sometimes refer to Easter as Ressurection Day, because it is the day (observed, anyway) that Jesus resurrected from the dead. But everyone I know still refers to, and celebrates “Easter” as well. In fact, after church yesterday, my church had an egg hunt, AND the Easter Bunny there for the kids. And the Easter Bunny came to my house and left a bunch of eggs and huge Easter baskets for my kids. I know there are some people who don’t do Santa and Easter Bunny for their own personal reasons (that I obviously don’t agree with), but I have never understood why you can’t have the true meaning of these holidays while still keeping some holidY magic for the kids. They can co-exist. I grew up with Bible preaching all the time, went to a Christian school...I KNEW the real meaning of the holidays. And yet, Santa still came every year. I was never confused by this. I’m raising my kids the same way. We absolutely talk about the “why” of the holidays, but we have fun with them as well.
I've heard Resurrection Sunday as well because it twins with Good Friday, but we've always had Easter baskets in my natal household and celebrations weren't discouraged. Same for Christmas - I was taught at a fairly appropriate age that "Santa wasn't real" but that I shouldn't disillusion any children of my acquaintance; and that if my grandparents wanted to hand me presents "from Santa", that I should just play along and not be rude. So basically, we enjoyed easter bunnies and St. Nick as fiction.
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On 4/15/2019 at 1:47 PM, louannems said:
I can't believe how beautiful Henry is. I'm ashamed to admit that I was one of those who thought newborn Henry to have had some unfortunate defect. He was unusually homely!
Young Jessa had plenty of awkward phases along the way growing up, IMO; including one picture of her as a toddler where I thought her face looked, quite frankly, so odd as to be almost deformed.
As for the Starbucks drink, nutritionally I'm not bothered by it as I know it doesn't have caffeine, and probably isn't that much different from feeding your kid a vanilla milkshake.
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On 4/21/2019 at 6:33 PM, galaxychaser said:
Sammy for once isn’t making a escape face! Jill looks nice too.
What kind of closed mouth passion less kiss is that? It’s like they don’t even like each other kiss.
I have to admit, I'm glad that Jill and Derick have never treated us to an enthusiastic kiss between the two of them. Small dry pecks suit me well when considering the alternative, lol.
ETA: If you can afford to buy a house you can afford real cheese, Jill. Quit it with the Velveeta, which has literally no redeeming nutritional qualities.
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On 4/16/2019 at 10:17 AM, Churchhoney said:
(I started thinking about it originally about 15 years ago, actually, when I was doing a lot of stuff related to political polarization and I started seeing some neuroscience types talking about this. And, as I mentioned -- political scientists I talked to hated the idea! They want to think that discussions of governing principles have a shot at changing people's minds! )
Is it these, by any chance?
https://www.google.com/search?q=the+facts+won't+change+your+mind&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS825US825&oq=the+facts+won't+change+your+mind&aqs=chrome..69i57.4087j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
On 4/17/2019 at 12:44 PM, SunnyBeBe said:Oh my. Well, for one thing his church members wore choir robes. And, the fundie church we attended, (under protest, my parents insisted) felt that a woman should have her skirt to a certain length and that a choir robe would allow her to circumvent that requirement. So, she could be wearing a short skirt and hiding it with a choir robe. As true Christians, you had to put your long skirt on display. I'm mot kidding. Grown people said this kind of stuff.
And, the church service pamphlets that give the order of the service, hymn pages, etc. were not right. They thought that was putting a restriction on the holy spirit. That in order to allow the holy spirit free reign, you had to have it open so there was no set way to pray, sing, read scripture, etc. I never could figure out how the holy spirit could be controlled by a piece of paper, but, they seemed very concerned about that. lol
And, then there was Rev. Falwell being so involved with tv. They thought tv was sinful and having contact with it, even for services was dangerous and playing with the devil. They didn't like it when he fellowshipped with liberals, like Billy Graham. Bill Graham was very sinful and dangerous to the true Christian (fundie) church. (One reason is that Graham did not condemn Catholics, who were very ungodly and bound for hell.) Falwell senior admired Graham and that did not set well with hardline fundies.
And, they thought only Bible teaching was important. Secular education was dangerous and unnecessary. Falwell's dream was to expand the Bible College to a university. And, I could go on. Some of these hardliners have changed, but, some have not. My parents church has come a long way in the last 20 years, but, still disturbs me to the point that I can't attend it. Sort of like PTSD.
Oh, another one. They disapproved on his church's music. It was too contemporary. The choir put out a Christmas album with the choir set up in the shape of a Christmas tree. Christmas trees were taboo at that time. It was highly controversial and my parents church, once again, thought that Falwell was going way too liberal. lol
That is super fascinating. I think I may have mentioned my aunt, who never wanted to allow a drummer or classical guitarist into their congregation, and certainly was not mollified any when at one point, the drummer actually "closed his eyes in ecstasy - like Pete Best!" I wanted to say "So, it's okay for someone to play the drums in church... they just have to look like they're miserable?" but that wouldn't have worked, because she never thought it was OK for drums to be played in church in the first place...
As for "hiding" short skirts under a choir robe, doesn't the choir robe then, de facto, become the skirt? (I have some experience with this, as I was so broke in college that when I went up to get my degree, the waistband on my stockings [we wore stockings then] had actually broken, and I didn't have the money or time to buy a new pair. You can probably imagine that I was very glad I was in fact wearing a graduation gown.) Things that make you go "hmmmmm..."
Also, I would have loathed skipping over a printed bulletin, because I'm nobody's fool and would have seen this as a simple attempt to tie people to the pews for unknown amounts of time (like many people, I might not care if my church service was 1, 1.5, or 2 hours long; but I care very much that I know which one of those it is when I sit down).
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3 hours ago, lookeyloo said:
Oy. We lived in south Louisiana for many years and giant roaches abound. My brother lived there for a while too (we grew up in NJ) and one day he called me to say he saw a roach so big it had United painted on its side.
2 hours ago, Heathen said:Same in South Carolina. They call them palmetto bugs, but a cockroach is a cockroach. We lived in the country, so we had biting ladybugs, flying biting things, fire ants, and lumps on the sidewalk after dark that slithered toward you. And the people were pretty creepy, too. I was happy to move back to the north, where it's cold but at least the wildlife usually stays outside.
Once our office manager, who was born and bred in NYC and thus you think would know better, responded to me after a sighting: "The exterminator said that was a waterbug." Me to OM: "A waterbug IS a cockroach. Don't let the name fool you. He's trying to snow us so that we don't know how bad a job he's doing when he's spraying."
...Er, what were the lumps? Alligators?
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8 hours ago, Jeeves said:
That's an interesting take and makes sense to me. Although he may have shut up about it lately, Ben's dad went through a phase of posting long rambling super-fundie sermons/essays/rants somewhere online. This was back at the time that Ben and Jessa were getting engaged/married. Seewald Senior (Mike?) had at some time also been a follower of Vision Forum, the same fundie patriarchal organization that named Michelle Duggar "Mother of the Year."
I've speculated here that Ben's dad may have been lusting after his own share of celebrity and glory in fundie-dom when he facilitated Ben's introduction to Jessa, but that didn't happen. Either Seewald Senior was rebuffed in some way we don't know about, or his fundie fervor has cooled, or both. Anyway, Ben's sisters seem to be living their lives in ways that appear to be very un-Duggar-like: going to school, getting trained for and working in jobs in the real world (police officer and hairstylist/cosmetologist). I never got the idea that the Seewald kids were sequestered from the larger secular world in the extreme way that the Duggarlings were.
For all I know, the whole Seewald family may be fairly fundie evangelicals when it comes to their religious beliefs, but they don't appear to be living the separatist kind of life that the Duggars do. Well, except for Ben, who as a horny teenager married into the Duggar cult and doesn't seem to be in a hurry to move away from the TTH compound. He's doing his job to increase Jim Bob's fold of descendants. Maybe he's got a long term plan that includes moving away, but whatever he's doing in terms of work and education, he's keeping it pretty quiet these days.
Maybe the homeschooling co-op thingy Ben went to in high (?) school, had regular crunchy-granola home schoolers involved as well, and not just fundie ones?
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On 4/13/2019 at 10:20 AM, lookeyloo said:
I have a snake phobia. Mr. lookeyloo recently found one in a bush outside our house. Kindly, he put gloves on and carried it to the lake (he said it was a water snake). Lucky for me he is not afraid. I am terrified. But I don't want them dead. If one got in the house, I'd go stay with the son across town til it was cleared out. Certified and verified!!
Occasionally I find a huge American cockroach in my apartment (this is NYC, they're like rats). Whenever preferable, I spray and then cede the room in question to them for several hours 😃, preferably a full day at work, so I feel your pain. Once a lucky shot knocked mine into a paper bag I was using for recycling, and the roach was so large you could hear its death throes as its legs (wings?) drummed against the paper. 🤣
Also, my father and I are both deathly allergic to bees, and he in fact was stung in the throat by a wasp trying to take a nest down from the storm gutters above the house, which required the ambulance to come and whisk him away (I was 8 or so); so yeah, my opinion of them is pretty low regardless of how much I like Haagen-Dasz vanilla ice cream.
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On 3/13/2019 at 8:44 PM, jcbrown said:
Sadie, right? She's the one who bugged me the most.
Sadie is rather pretentious (sorrynotsorry), but as I'm pretty sure she's also the one who "wants to cook for celebrities like Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand", it's clear that any offputting personality traits can be laid 100% at the door of Sadie's mother. 12-year-olds aren't inherently obnoxious in a vacuum; they learn it from obnoxious parents. (And for the record, I don't think we ought to politicize anything for children until they near an age to vote; I'd go at least age 14, when presumably they are starting to study history in earnest. More like "my mother has spent the past 8 years drilling into me that I'm a fierce feminist just like she is"; and that's not a statement I make just because I would be surprised to find that Sadie has friends - I just find it hard to believe that everyone in her circle of 12-year-olds is so woke that they know what they're talking about when they breathlessly praise you for your political stance.)
Thank you to the person who posted the intel about Kyle's (?) father! I was uber-wondering what the parents who owned that mansion did for a living. I wanted to show it to a friend who doesn't watch, and I had to invoke the burst setting on my iPhone in order to capture the entire rollout of it, lol.
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I had no idea it was possible to make an empire dress look unflattering on anyone... or to make an unflattering one in the sweatshops, really. Maybe it's the angle at which she's standing?
Because no, I don't find that cute at all. The skirt has a sort of organza look to it, which could be good and flattering with something sophisticated and cocktail-ish atop it instead, or maybe even a blazer-type jacket; but the striped portion, with the curved seam at the waist no less, drags the rest of it down.
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1 hour ago, Churchhoney said:
Exactly. I knew it wouldn't say anything. But this really doesn't say anything....And i assume that you'd pick one of the more interesting snippets for your sneak preview....wouldn't you? Or at least you wouldn't pick one of the dullest ones?
When I was reading it I wondered why you'd bother to write such a thing. I don't think Teri's exactly stupid.
Then I realized that a buck is buck. So....duh.
Now. except for their closest friends wanting to make a donation, I have no idea why anybody would buy it.....Although maybe they're desperate to find their marriages and husbands delightful. I can see how that might be true.
Maybe she couldn't find anything less dull in it....!
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59 minutes ago, peeayebee said:
I took the test tonight, and it's so frustrating when I know the answer but just can't bring it to mind. That happened three or four times. Maybe more. Tomorrow I'll be googling to find the questions and answers so I can see how I did.
You can do it tonight if so desired:
https://thejeopardyfan.com/2019/04/april-2019-adult-jeopardy-online-test-questions.html
I got, I think, 33; and had the same problem you had in several embarrassing places. For Q5, for example, I said "revolution" instead of the proper "R" word, as I'm no gamer and could only hope to remember from the big-ass posters in the store windows advertising it back in the day; and for Q46 my mind just went blank. (Also, I think Q4's question was drafted wrong by the show itself; based upon the answers the above link provides, plus a quick Google, tells me that Q4's proper answer was the daughter of the second of said name; and not the third. I mean, I got it right anyway because it's such a gimme I can't imagine anyone missing it; but still, it should have been written properly.)
I shouldn't really be surprised that science and geography are my downfalls in general though... sigh.
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4 hours ago, mythoughtis said:
So the only thing they can say about Israel is that he’s a good big brother? In a way this doesn’t surprise me since they only valued their own older children as buddies to the younger ones. It’s very sad however that they only have 12 grandchildren so far and already don’t know anything about them.
Well, to be fair, in many instances the "bigs" pride themselves on their caretaking abilities for younger siblings, dolls, pets, etc., and are flattered when adults notice and bring it up.
I'm still laughing over Michelle thinking that we should take our societal cues from bathroom signage caricatures.
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3 hours ago, xwordfanatik said:
As one of my aunts used to say, he's got a lot of face to wash.
That's my friend's line... "I haven't used shampoo in X years. I just use facial cleanser; because once you get past a particular hair loss percentage, it's ALL face."
Also, while I can't see Jeremy saying "I have pastored the congregation with faith and maturity beyond my years", I can see him saying "I have tried to". Maybe the Redditor dislikes him so much they heard and reported it the way they wanted to hear.
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3 minutes ago, ehall1052 said:
Yes, our adult Sunday School class takes place at the same time as all other Sunday School classes. We call it adult Bible Study class now because some thought Sunday School sounded too childish. So for us, there is no difference between adult Sunday School and adult Bible Study. But yes, some people do meet at other times for Bible Study.
Interesting, because I would think that some people could make a good case for "faith like a little child" and that "you're never too old to learn", etc. Primarily, I just meant to support that "adult Sunday school" is indeed a "thing", and that varying attitudes about the use and nomenclature of such a thing abound :). I feel like I've also heard ministers make the above arguments, after some poorly worded phrase involving "adult Sunday school" in the church service caused some giggles among the congregation.
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3 hours ago, ginger90 said:
I had to crop them a bit:
This, IMO, is what Jessa wanted to do yet failed miserably at.
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I agree, if that's MomSackett, she seems to be a pretty youthful mother, from what little I can tell of the pictures.
OTOH, she needs better pants as well, as that length plus the shortie sport Peds, make her look like a caricature of Steve Urkel. They kind of both seem like they shop at thrift stores and don't really care what they get, although maybe BrotherSackett is/has been ill, which could account for the extreme skinniness.
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55 minutes ago, ehall1052 said:
My husband and I teach an adult Sunday School class, although many churches now call it adult Bible Study class. But in the old days, it was definitely called adult Sunday School.
I always thought the difference was that "adult Sunday school" took place congruent with "children Sunday school" (i.e. pre-church service); and that if they called it "adult Bible study", it took place on a day other than Sunday; usually and traditionally Wednesday nights.
ETA: after going back to look at the original post, I would say that Jeremy is using it correctly and in the way it was intended; as the "adult Sunday school" clearly sounds like it is taking place pre-service.
PS: Felicity's wee skinny legs on her steed just knock me out.
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8 hours ago, JoanArc said:
Drinking coffee in the shower is actually a thing, as is having a beer, there too. It's gross, and it's (obviously) adults doing it, not kids.
Jill has absolutely no idea what clean is. I seriously wouldn't eat a meal she prepares, or want to sit down in her house.
One of my friend's roommates was a big fan of "cold beer in hot shower", which I find not as gross as the coffee because I've always assumed the cold beer fan drinkers were using the bottle and not an open-mouthed stein/cup...
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4 hours ago, GeeGolly said:
I realize we all brush our teeth in the bathroom, however I strongly feel having food products in the bathroom is gross. My kids learned of this hang up of mine at an early age and there would be times where I would walk by and see a cup of dry cereal or bag of M & Ms, etc (and yes, once an unfinished apple, ew) placed carefully outside the bathroom door. My kids would finish up in the bathroom and grab their snack and carry on.
Why on earth couldn't Iz and Sam finish their dinner and then take a bath? It's not like they needed to get to bed early for school in the morning.
Every couple of years or so I take a pen or a piece of paper with me into the office bathroom, and I'm always appalled at myself. ;P. I will have literally no intention of walking with the paper into the bathroom; I'll just be so crazed I'll be running around trying to get things done, that I'll forget I meant to stop by my desk and drop it before trundling off to the powder room.
That doesn't even take into account the discovery they made a couple years back, that microbes from the toilet flushing can literally fly anywhere into your bathroom; which includes flushes where the lid is shut (how? I don't know. Water droplets bending to get out from underneath the seat seems a little improbable to me; but I don't argue with science).
Which, I regret to report, means that toilet water is flying onto toothbrushes left displayed in holders and on counters inside the bathroom, even when the "flusher" thinks that they have forestalled this by closing the seat and lid.
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Michelle and JimBob aka J'Chelle and Boob
in Counting On
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I feel that "the stone that was rolled away from the tomb" has to be involved here somewhere in the diorama, but they weren't obliging enough to post zoomed photos...
They also missed a fine chance to dye some shredded coconut into a bright grass green, it looks like.