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queenanne

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  1. I keep forgetting to mention, this is because they're also told that "women are supposed to be in charge of The Home, which also means children." So what this really means is, the woman can (and usually does) do anything up to the line that involves "putting his foot down". Papa is supposed to step in only whenever Mama can't browbeat Child into doing whatever she thinks Child ought to do. This in fact generally results in women finding passive men who are completely happy to let the mother do all the child-rearing; and who in fact proffer opinions only after much haranguing on the part of the mother in his direction. This is supposed to convey "what your father says, goes". In reality, what this means is that generally said fathers loath "putting their foot down", and would rather be seen as "the kind non-disciplining father", so the kids get lots of seeing and hearing Mama tell Papa what to do, to which Papa generally reacts with silence until forced to make a decision. (Unfortunately, I think the brainwashed kids generally see Papa's silence as assent to whatever Mama is saying.)
  2. Dingdingding! I think we have a winner! Frankly, I'd have the same reaction, even as a heathen. Few people can withstand being descended upon by 3/4 of a football team, half of them caked in makeup that would do Tammy Faye proud.
  3. "Man of my dreams" = (1) Has penis; (2) Said "yes"; (3) parents gave permission; (4) presence of beloved results in first hints of acceptable sexual feeling. I'm positive, although I'm unclear as to how it makes psychological sense (or maybe that's the point), but the kids have developed this voice specifically because they don't want anybody to take them seriously, and/or are hoping their statements get lost in a crowd. Just in case Ma and Pa Rod take it into their heads to start lecturing them about said statements; at which point they can say they were "joking" or similar. Or, maybe they've adopted these stupid voices for the "in the world, not of it" campaign... On the bright side, if any other Rods ever get to move out on their own/go to school like Timmy, and are savvy enough not to tell the story of how the bear really came to be, I suppose they can attribute the Build-A-Bears to mushy teen presents from a boyfriend or girlfriend.
  4. The Build-A-Bear strikes me as a criminal waste of money; but no real surprise there. Jill probably got a teddy bear from a family member/admirer at the same age.
  5. Good-looking little potato. I too would have preferred Mariella.
  6. Yes; aka ‘don’t let us get killed while we’re away from home’.
  7. I’d amend that to ‘Jessa is the mom and Bin is her first child’, lol.
  8. Probably Switchfoot, or anything similar the Duggars object to because it has a beat. Outside possibility that someone failed to groom all their CDs of every occurrence of ‘Here Comes Santa Claus”, etc.
  9. I can’t even see the baby clearly when I zoom in, the photo composition is so poor and blurry. What kind of hideous old tech did they use?
  10. isn’t judging, rating, etc. the looks those kids under 18, against the rules of this site? Like the discussion of whether or not any of the under 18s are gay? I thought it was... then again, as someone who spent 20-some years reading the comments sections on Slate and Salon, I can attest that there’s nothing particularly daring or countercultural about running down the looks of infants, or ‘not thinking all babies are cute’. Seinfeld did a whole episode about it quite brilliantly, and that shit’s already 20 years old.
  11. Multiple strippers and escorts hired by multiple men in the same family? Yeah, that lets the Duggars right out... I know protests like these are often the equivalent of shouting into the wind, but no way is this accepted underground (or even networked) operating procedure for multiple Duggar men including the patriarch. These people are too prudish, sheltered and trapped.
  12. I had such profound secondhand embarrassment for Nurie that I didn't make it past Nurie. Now everybody can see why I was rooting so hard for Timmy to stay at Moody. I mean... Nurie clearly doesn't even know what the "bad schools/kids" do that is so bad; or is too mortified a little mouse to say bad things like "using ungodly language" - because her crippling parents are so determined to keep them ignorant "until [Nurie] is ready" for these things. (That being the point in time where I wanted to stand up and scream at the "parents", "You idiots, that's the point. None of these kids will ever be "ready" for anything, because you won't even have had them slowly walk from the shallow end to the portion of the pool where their feet start to give way.") For anybody who thought that no real family could possibly live like the Flanders', the Rodrigues kids are literally like Rod and Tod. I'm surprised people haven't come upon them falling to their knocking knees in the middle of a shopping mall/parking lot/grocery store quavering out prayers. Nurie would make a terrible witness to any heathen; as she literally doesn't know how to frame anything about her upbringing in a positive light. (Paraphrase: "Well, it's much better to be homeschooled because then we can all run on Rodrigues time, and never have to worry about being anywhere at any given time, and will never learn anything necessary about meeting disciplinary markers or milestones in life, or functioning as productive members of society making the trains run on time; because nobody cares what we do. They certainly don't care about what we girls do outside of slaving away at chores and landing a man; and it's even pretty questionable that they care if the boys do anything with their lives.")
  13. I thought I had that colander (Oxo I think?), but then I remembered that mine had triangular feet as well, so now I'm just stumped. It is a really nice colander; but of course I can't speak to its comfort upon the head 🤣. I had to farm it out to an aunt after I switched boroughs (I gained in overall location what I lost in kitchen, and had no more room for such a kitchen behemoth). Ivy looks as if she is actually reading the book (aw!).
  14. Did you note how Nurie made it pretty clear that they're not even allowed to socialize with the church kids who go to ebil public school? "I imagine they would say that their fellow students are the people they spend the most time with..." So, Nurie, you "have to imagine" because... they're mutes? Can't you ask them what they think of public school? Bless the Rodkids' poor little stunted hearts, JillR probably ushers them away from the half-heathens every Sunday, with a loud judgy stage whisper about their "corrupting influence". And then some people don't understand why or how the kids are so sheltered, and speculate about all the (nonexistent) exposure to regular people they've inadvertently managed to get, lol. Of course not - you were raised normal. Also, I've been storing this one aside... Jill, there ain't nobody in the world who believes that every person in a family of 15 magically "forgot" to pack proper swimwear. Nobody. Lying is a sin and you know it...
  15. That's what I'm thinking - that TLC pays some sort of "Duggar Family Trust", instead of a batch of individuals; which means he can negotiate for everybody. How/if this continues to work when everyone reaches their age of majority, I do not know.
  16. In my menu-reading experience, "country fried" steak/chicken is always referred to as having "cream gravy". I think pan drippings are involved; but the main distinction is the white color of the sauce.
  17. Plus, law firms now are all about "real people", says the person who used to manage miles of attorney contacts for her bosses. Once upon a time, law firms were so insular, afraid of stalkers, etc., that they would never, ever use pictures of real people upon their law firm webpages, and instead did use uniform pretty stock models whenever people were called for. Somewhere along the lines, this changed 180 degrees; and now law firms have "picture taking days"; and derive all their website pictures from the source of their actual employees, including group shots in a conference room. Probably some sort of push towards "customer service" orientation. You know that the only reason Jill didn't say "study group" etc., is because she's so ignorant of what goes on in a real school that she doesn't know/can't remember the highly technical terms such as "study group"; so has to flail around to figure what to call it.
  18. Funny! but I'm pretty sure, it's "blonde" for females and "blond" for men, and "brunette" for females and "brunet" for men, because this terminology is derived from the French: https://www.dictionary.com/e/blond-vs-blonde/
  19. I imagine it's a household of females above a certain age encouraged to "sweetly demur", much in the manner of ladies in the workplace "Oh no, that piece of cake is MUCH too big... cut me half of that. No, less. No, that's fine - I'll just take the top triangle!"
  20. GOOD! They are clearly too immature to parent children; they think like teenaged bullies. Even if it was funny because Izzy told Sam to kick him and then didn't like the outcome, because who couldn't have envisioned that happening; you smother your smiles while he's there in front of you and COMFORT HIM! Giggling about it is for later as you're falling asleep in bed. Who teaches their kid that hitting someone is hilarious???
  21. Pretty sure the answer is "yes, because Moody is a real accredited school", no? I have this vague thought nagging at the back of my mind that if you're going to be affiliated with one of the accreditation bodies, you have to accept the government-connected financial aid program...? It's Jill and David whom we're pretty sure wouldn't fill out a FAFSA because of the "nasty government oversight"; which leaves me hoping that subsequent siblings who want to attend college have enough knowledge and grit to get themselves emancipated.
  22. Yeah, "Buffalo" definitely seems easier to go with as a label because of the football and hockey team, you know you at least stand a fighting chance of running into someone who knows enough to say, "Oh yeah... it's cold out there, right? Like, really cold?" Whereas if you tell them where you actually are ("Elma?" "Orchard Park?" "... no?"), nobody's ever heard of it.
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