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15 minutes ago, Spencer Hastings said:
I think it speaks better of Jeremy that he'll respect a good faith effort from Kanye and give it a chance, though, rather than just rolling his eyes cynically like I'm sure a lot of Christians would (and probably are). I also think Kim K has a lot more grit than I had heretofore given her credit for, it can't be easy to have people laughing at your husband for 2-3 years straight and calling him weird half the time (and half might be a conservative estimate, lol).
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2 hours ago, Jynnan tonnix said:
Brought over from Jer & Jing thread...
I'm totally a burger enthusiast, and hate an overdone burger (there has to be a hint of pink, and preferably medium-rare), but on the other hand, McDonald's burgers are a total comfort food to me. I probably don't have but one every year or two (or three), and recognize that they are total crap and not even in the same food category as a bona-fide burger, but I can't help it. I just love them! LOL. And the fries. Add in a diet coke, even though I never drink diet anything anymore and it's heaven LOL. Actually, come to think of it, the only time I drink soda is when I have a McDonald's burger as well. Seltzer with a bit of cranberry or OJ, yes, but not soda.
See, now McDonalds is different, especially if it has the "Coke Freestyle" machine, which has a whiff of the soda fountain about it (how I discovered that orange Coke is surprisingly good). And I do go there at least once a month and get crispy chicken. It's just somewhere along the line - I don't even know when - I noticed NYC McD's in particular seem to do bad burgers! I went several years ago in the Bronx and had one Double Quarter Pounder which was actually juicy; and then I went back about a week or so later trying to replicate the experience, it was that good; only to never had its like appear again (I assume they probably fired the grill person who didn't smash all the juice and grease out of it, lol). I also miss McD's french fries in good old-fashioned beef tallow. I still eat them with pleasure upon occasion; but for some reason the occasional batch put me off. Once I swore that one batch when lukewarm/cool tasted strongly of ham, which would be great if I was getting a biscuit sandwich; but was surprisingly off-putting when it came to being coupled with the fries.
2 hours ago, BetyBee said:@queenanne - that was a very well written and entertaining read!
Thanks, @BetyBee! I'm trying conscientiously to be "on" in my writing these days because next month I hope to start National Novel Writing Month and actually complete something this year, being as I was recently laid off from my job and have a bit of severance laid by. In prior years I've always had to work (think the last time I was out of a job was late 90's), and I'm looking forward to seeing what I can do when I'm not worn down from work:
Once upon a time, I heard a theory that said that some pirates' treasure including I think even the fabled Bluebeard, was reported to have washed out to sea off the Florida Keys - along with the actual Key. Because some of the smaller islands (and I'm assuming "really small, ha) have been factually known to erode to the point where they break off their connection to the earth's crust and go sailing out into the Atlantic en masse; which I thought was fascinating. (Moral: Watch out for floating islands!)
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I'll pretty much eat all cheeseburgers except for McDonalds (I object to the lack of their moistness and general over-doneness - Mickey D's in at least NYC are far more interested in cooking them to dry gray pucks; but I'm perfectly satisfied with, say, Wendy's). But if you're a burger enthusiast (or maybe just someone looking for "something different" in your burger, lol), you indeed seem more interested in finding out the fine variations in breads (Texas toast, English muffin, sourdough, challah, pretzel, etc., etc.); toppings (fried/soft boiled egg, anyone? Swiss v. Muenster? I'm sure I could go on); but really, for me anything with (soft, melted) cheese and beef is a home run.
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Felicity looks unsatisfied being held because her legs are so long. 🤣 There was one leaning "action picture" a couple months back showing adorably adult leg definition (sorry, this sounds creepy no matter how I write it - I've tried 3x!); to the point where I instantly thought "I certainly hope Jeremy wants her to be athletic, because I feel pretty sure those are "soccer player legs" to anyone with eyes." (I love the incongruity when you catch glimpses of what the kid will be like as an adult; or vice-versa.)
ETA: Not familiar with Habit personally, but I think Jeremy is probably showing off a "patty melt", which is one of those things which is a Big Deal to burger enthusiasts.
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21 minutes ago, Jeeves said:
IUntil the early 00's, the only town of any size in that area didn't have decent motels although there were a couple of them. (They may have been okay once, but by the 80's-90's they were dire.) And anyway, we were country people, and when you visited family, you stayed with them. My parents' generation especially, still stuck to that. So we'd all bunk together in the various family homes in the area and yes there were "pallets" (of bedding) on the floor for some people. And if you had to get up in the dark, you had to walk carefully not to step on sleeping kin on the floor.
Oh, that's too funny. I do indeed relate, because usually it doesn't have to go that far; but then again, my cousins are the Duggar-lite family who brought me here, and they are four in number. Growing up I used to babysit the assistant minister's kids and, though plain old Evangelical and not particularly fundie, they had four; and often told my parents "we stay in a lot of hotels when we travel, because nobody wants to see a family of six coming down the road". After a certain while, one in fact forgets that their homes aren't that large; because of the mean or standard on the East Coast being two-story houses with a basement with the aforementioned 2 parents, 2.5 kids in 'em; but when you pack 10 people into one, it starts getting difficult to move around the kitchen/dining room around dinnertime, to say the least.
This can be fine for me, if it encompasses a meal/half-day or similar; and when I have my own room to which I can retreat.
But, while perfectly solidly sized, my parents' home still only has four bedrooms.
They of course take one of them, and things eased up a bit when my sister got married; but once the Family of Six took a spare bedroom and were legit stepping over each other to do anything, until a teen boy finally objected and said "hey, we'll sleep in the living room"; and whenever my grandmother was unmarried (I say "whenever", not because I'm like the Duggars but because the lady has had three husbands), I was usually socked away with her, and it was grim. I loathed and dreaded it like you would not believe; to the point where its contemplation usually ruins my visits because of those earlier occasions. The last time I went home for Christmas, it was my parents' turn to have her, and she did it again - when there was more than enough room for her to be alone in the spare bedroom (!!!).
Me, thinking: "I love you, Grams - well, OK, maybe I don't really love you, but it's because you pull clingy s*** like this around an introvert - but what do you do when I'm NOT in town?? Do you insist upon crawling into bed with Mom and Dad? I think not - and frankly, I don't give a flying fart if you're so clingy you "need" a bed partner because it reminds you of days in the Old Country with your sisters; you are a terrible bed partner and the last thing *I* need. I spend about 2 hours trying brutally to make myself fall asleep, because any time *I* turn over, I hear *you* tense up; and I'm not all that certain you don't lie awake listening to make sure I'm breathing; as I still remember that damn time when I sneezed after about 45 minutes, and instantaneously, I hear you exclaim "Are you sick?!?" It's still a harbinger of a "good relationship" for me, if I meet a man and am so relaxed I can fall asleep next to him the first time without being worried that he's being kept awake by every breath I utter and waiting for me to twitch my foot, lol.
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On 10/24/2019 at 8:00 AM, Churchhoney said:
Ah, Ben....
Actually, though, when I go to Manhattan, there's something about the shape and nature of the city that means I usually do end up hiking for quite a few miles. I'll start out planning to take a bus/subway/cab from the East Village to Central Park or something but I very often end up
walkinghiking the whole way, for some reason. (well, if I'm alone or have a companion who doesn't force me into a motored conveyance ...) So maybe Bin has the same feelings about New York that I do -- he likes being out on its streets. (....he really should have married Jingle.)Yeah, I forgot to add that I've once done a nitwitted speed-walk across the entirety of Central Park... on a hard macadam path... in my good interview pumps... because I mixed up the libraries at which I was supposed to be interviewing (east side vs. west); and at the time I was sincerely so broke that there was no way I could squeeze in an additional bus ride, never mind a cab; and this was before yellow cabs got wired to accept credit card swipes.
That definitely felt like "a hike", or at least "a slog".
And I've been with groups of tourists; say, a friend's set of cousins; and if they're not at all familiar with the city they will propose completely opposite destinations, like the Bronx Zoo AND the Statue of Liberty; or say to you "oh yeah, we'll just walk it"; and then they find out that your/their "oh, it's a little bit of a trek" is like 40 city blocks; only to start wilting after 20. It would not be unusual for me to reach 8,000 steps/day in the city without even trying; and an average day is 12,000-15,000. Compared to "sedentary days" I spend with family in the suburbs; or even "days we think we all need to take a long walk for exercise"; this is an unusual amount of walking; because I can't equal it in the country even when I'm specifically trying to get exercise.
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On 10/22/2019 at 3:42 AM, jcbrown said:
Jill played some minor chords! I thought that was verboten per Gotthard.
Not when it's classical music I guess (lol). Kind of like how some evangelicals will make an exception for dance class, if it's ballet.
On 10/23/2019 at 1:36 PM, Absolom said:She can practice smiling without lifting her lip way above the gum line if she cares which she apparently doesn't.
True; like Mr. Ed or even your average standard horse flensing away at some grain. I think that is the majority of the problem.
Sammy staring at his feet makes the outside picture; but what crappy "candids" as a general rule.
Also, #cows? I do grant this would be a good hashtag if the cows were the main focus of some picture, then people looking for free cow pictures in the wild could use them in, like, school reports or similar; but the cows are clearly not the focus of their outing.
However, at a similar age my sister was obsessed with them and would insist upon pulling over to the side of the road to pet the milch cows; so there is that.
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23 hours ago, BitterApple said:
They did, yes. Pop tarts and chips.
Oh, this is the type of stuff my folks do (and bring) too; and then express chagrin about "looking like bumpkins" when they're toting several trips of random bags back and forth through the hotel lobby. They also insist upon all of us sharing a room (granted we're no Duggars; but once upon a time we were legitimately two couples and a singleton, all crammed in together); and once when I rebelled and booked my own room on a family vacation ('cuz dang, I may not be rich, but I have enough money that I don't have to squeeze into a rollout bed in my forties); they called up the hotel (without telling me) and stressed to the concierge that our rooms needed to be a connecting suite (*rolleyes*).
This is called "frugality" and "what families do" by such type of people; and when you're feeding 24-36 on the hoof you might very well balk at paying Amtrak/JetBlue/even 7-11 prices; but it's always nonsensically too much stuff and my folks wind up toting much of it home; especially when the overwhelming majority of hotels are comping unlimited breakfast, and you yourselves are looking for "local color destination meal" locales for the remainder. Even my father, who theoretically didn't grow up in such craziness, defined one particular great-aunt of mine as "weird" for booking her own hotel room in the nearest city whenever she comes to visit us, and (gasp!) apparently actually preferring it to hanging off one-third of a bed with her sisters/unmarried nieces/whomever thrashing about next to her; and clinging onto said sofa-couch with her toenails.
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7 hours ago, Spencer Hastings said:
The God/pants thing kind of reminds me of when my mom tries to force me to wear frilly dresses to church. She always claimed that I should look like a girl in God’s house and dress up. But my logic was that if God is everywhere, then He most definitely sees me at my worst and absolutely knows that I dressed like a little lost boy for most of my childhood but somehow still loved me the same. I get that Jinger had to use Gothard speak to get her point across but I just wish she’d said “God literally does not care what I’m wearing.”
To some extent I feel like the rationale I always heard was, it's "dressing up" in order to be in the sanctuary proper for respect (presence of God and all that), regardless of the type of clothing you chose; but you don't have to dress up beyond having your ladybits previously covered in order to be in, say, a small meeting room for a midweek Bible study; nor when the youth group spends 15 minutes fore and aft in the lobby of the church, and then 2:30 in a secondhand schoolbus or gym playing dodgeball. But I've lived in heavily African-American NYC neighborhoods and seen the splendid "church hats", amongst other things, on the older ladies in particular; so I think it is also generational. Church is a thing for which you "dressed up" because it honored God; because a certain standard was expected; and because you didn't want to stick out like a sore thumb against the standard. It's funny to hear that the rationale some mothers/grandmothers clearly used is because you wanted to look "ladylike" for God, because I think to some extent that's a clearly "pre-70's" point of view also, before women wearing jeans/dungarees in any situations became commonplace. I know that sometimes even *I* am surprised by some of the informal getups my fellow (older) congregants show up in for Christmas Eve service; as I always wear at bare minimum my "business casual" pants (and I'm now firmly middle-age by anyone's standards!).
4 hours ago, GeeGolly said:So I think Ben is used to having more of a clue to what is being asked during talking heads, than the Duggars. And if I'm remembering correctly, the hiking question was just a question, not a stump-the-Duggars question.
The producer was a tad surprised by Ben's answer. The dutiful, know-it-all wife that is Jessa tried to save Ben and make his answer a 'correct' answer. Ben did a fine job on his own explaining his answer and didn't need Jessa to try and make him look informed.
So it appears to me anyway, that Ben enjoys being a unstumpable Duggar during the talking heads and is growing tired of Jessa condescendingly making Ben 'right' in any situation. Michelle does this with Jim Bob frequently too. It's their passive aggressive way of not publicly disagreeing with their headships, yet sharing their opinion. A Gothard rule work around.
It would have been a non-issue if Ben wasn't so reactive. To me, it gave a glimpse into Ben's and Jessa's dynamic.
What is funny on top of that was Ben's rather cute, but very clueless answer about what Finland is known for - he said scissors. I found his explanation kind of sweet. But that might be because I have sewn my whole life and my kids knew not to use mommy's good scissors, which I think is what Ben was alluding to.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're 3/4 of the way there; as I remember the "talking head" where Ben was quite pleased with himself when he was asked about "Greek mythology", and his answer was basically a one-word "Hercules", coupled with some smugly self-assured head-nodding and smirking at the camera. He clearly prides himself on such scraps of worldly knowledge and doesn't want the informal title of "the worldly one" taken away from him; plus, if you actually do know the answer and are using your phrasing colloquially/ to make a more interesting turn of phrase, I can see you getting madder and madder when pedantic people try to make it "make sense". I generally know what the words I use mean myself, and whether they've got positive, negative, or neutral connotations and in which situation; so I'm a little irritated when I have to explain it unless I know the reference is clearly so esoteric that quite a few people would have to go fishing about to get the answer; like some of the older generations' "Victrola/blancmange/23 Skidoo!" type of comments The Simpsons spool out for Grandpa Simpson and Mr. Burns.
Giggling about your scissors, as I've spent 30 years off and on going into cabinets assuring my mother that no, I'm not going to use the "sewing scissors" to cut my toenails; or the "hair scissors" to cut thread...
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19 hours ago, GeeGolly said:
True, but Ben was talking about the city.
I feel we have to give him the benefit of the doubt though, as per the OED (with bolding mine):
the activity of going for long walks, especially in the country or woods.
It doesn't say "solely", and I for one will still colloquially say things like "I've hiked all around the city" as a synonym for "strenuous and long trip on foot across lots of hard pavement for 15,000-20,000 steps"; so I feel I understand and agree with the spirit of his thoughts. There are also areas of the island of Manhattan that are so steeply graded I was shocked to first come across them; whereas before I came across these side streets, I had this naive and completely wrongheaded thought in my mind that the designers of NYC had graded all the streets down to a charmingly moderate and barely noticeable slope at most (they had not).
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I am so shocked its showrunner isn't Ryan Murphy.
I mean, it may eventually be; and I admit he surprised me with AHS so I shouldn't be so cynical; but just the concept, and he was the first person I thought of.
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13 minutes ago, GeeGolly said:
It was a bit sad watching Jinger at the Walk of Fame. She had no clue who anyone was. She might as well have been in a foreign country, yet she was in the US walking down a sidewalk with so many universally recognizable names, none of which she recognized.
If I'm remembering correctly, the most popular boy band for guys back then was Boyz II Men.
Ben wasn't having it when Jessa condescendingly tried to make his "hiking in NY" answer make sense. He actually snapped back and said "it's a thing".
Jessa prays for a husband with a beard. Jinger prays that God will allow her to wear pants. God shakes his head and says, "This is not how this works, this is not how this works".
Kade looks like the beast from Beauty and the Beast.
That's cuz Jessa isn't smart enough to know that NY is more than NYC (Adirondacks, anybody? Poconos?). There's plenty of hiking territory. Hell, there's probably lots of hiking territory 25 minutes away in Westchester County for all I know, there are lots of cliffs on the coastal side.
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On 10/22/2019 at 10:53 PM, Spencer Hastings said:Boybands were the biggest thing in music when Jeremy was coming of age. Even the most macho guys my age will drop everything and sing every single word to “I Want it That Way.”
Austin’s “Oh I know who they are but none of them do” cracked me up. He knows they were robbed.
I'm always surprised that anyone is surprised when the Duggars don't know anything secular; and/or think the girls are laying it on thick/pretending when they cry over "straying away from their parents' convictions" in the manner of wearing pants. Then I remember that most didn't have the benefit of a knock-down drag-out verbal screaming match with their parents over the "music of the 60s, 70s, and 80's" station in 1985, for example, like yours truly did. I have a cousin, probably 25 now, who used to carry around a contraband cassette tape he'd made taping Elvis (yes, Presley) off the radio... he and his siblings were all homeschooled to college, where their parents finally had to break down because they're all STEM people and even a talented STEM family tutor couldn't teach them anything new. Not too long ago, I was watching a music competition show where one of the women contestants showed up and said it was the best time of she and her siblings' lives when the church service ended early enough that they could sneak out and listen to the "last 7 songs of the Top 40 countdown in the car before my parents got there", and I knew exactly what she was talking about.
It's Jinger's fault that she's being a drama queen crying over pants? Her tears are sincere, and it's because she's been psychologically warped by her mother, and there's clearly, CLEARLY, as people have been trying to say for years, none of this "tolerant" nonsense in the Duggars' household with Michelle telling her daughters that "wearing only skirts is a personal decision that I have made. I surely don't expect all of YOU to think of yourselves as hussies if you're wearing pants!" Any time she says that, somebody should check her nose to see if it's grown longer. The Duggars, as I was, have clearly all internalized the proper intended message of their parents/the church/etc., regardless of what they preach to make it acceptable to the masses, which is, "pants and secular music are capital-E Evil."
Imagine being told that most of the normal everyday choices that you incline towards are Evil; and that nobody had better be seeing you doing it, or find out that you indulge in it; or else you or your parents will be shamed until mortification amongst all in your extremely narrow circle of peers. You yourself will be in a constant state of translating rafts of natural healthy personal impulses that you have into Evil; and then you wonder why the Duggars can't make the simplest of rock-bottom choices without assigning them a moral weight and implication so frightening you'd be surprised you could move down the street after making such a decision on your own.
You have next to zero sense of self-identity coming out of this type of home situation. You don't even know how to see yourself; never mind having any impression of how strangers out in the world at large are seeing you. "Well, my sainted authority figure parents, whom I am told are next only to God in importance my life until minimum 18, are barking and shrieking at me that this is "wrong". They are so insistent and loud, that clearly the loudness and insisting conveys that this must be an extra Evil impulse that I am having, because they can't even discuss it without shrieking at me. Clearly my natural inclination in any situation is to choose the most Evil of options, and therefore I clearly cannot be trusted to make decisions on my own."
I imagine Lauren might have learned all the reindeer because she has a heathen set of grandparents who believed in playing all sorts of Christmas music at Christmas, for example. I also imagine that some of the Duggars might know some of the boyband songs when they hear them, because they go to stores and other places that play Muzak; but these probably aren't venues where they have a DJ announcing what is going on.
As for super lightweight pop music, I hear from English friends that it's a totally different scenario in the UK, where even some of the the manliest football-playing beer-can-crushing gentlemen have no shame about standing up lipsynching or even dancing like idiots to girl- and boy-bands alike; which has always struck me as hilarious.
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Yeah, shouldn't the bonfire be ringed with stones or something for containment?
Kendra's sister is pretty. She looks a little bit like Hayden Panettiere.
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7 hours ago, crazycatlady58 said:
How else would you say it? Native Texan here.
"Ken", as in "Ken Doll", or "things beyond your ken".
But I grant not with the stabby spelling, which is probably included specifically so they can pronounce it "Kinzie".
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On 10/12/2019 at 3:48 PM, dargosmydaddy said:
I see a lot of Joy and even a little Jana in her in the middle picture with JB.
It's the chin. I'll be interested to see how her looks settle out after she's finished growing into them.
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6 hours ago, Churchhoney said:
Why, yes. Yes, they can.
I expect that a lot of the TLC production staff is joyously trolling the Duggars by putting all manner of their stupid stuff on the air -- and arranging situations that lead to such ridiculous statements and behaviors..... After all, they gotta create some fun TeeVee for the hate watchers, too, right?
And they aren't permitted to put the seriously terrible crap on, for the most part. So they have to go with stuff they can tempt a bunch of super-repressed, super-sheltered ignoramuses to unwittingly say and do.
Absolutely. Exhibit A: Michelle, who went to real high school, has never heard of foot fetishes ("feet aren't sexual!").
Exhibit B: Jessa, she of the pop-out-turkey-thermometer-belly-button selfies, has also clearly never heard of pregnancy fetishes.
For me, I generally take on the mantle of all the Hollywood caricatures of sheltered virgins and apply them to the Duggars; that, or imagine the Geico cavemen walking around.
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7 hours ago, becca3891 said:
For a 21-year-old to be openly staring at a 14-year-old is extremely creepy, for sure. That's what stood out to me when I read this. I'm not trying to act morally superior, but I'm uncomfortable making fun of anyone for their weight, teeth, ugliness, etc. But I will make an exception when it comes to David's weight because of the extreme thinness of his children.
IMO, it would be unusual in the extreme for anybody not to notice that David R. is hugely unattractive; plus his personality matches, so there is that. Judge away!!
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Yeah, the Duggars Mackynzie sounds indistinguishable from "Kin" to my Northern ears. As in Amazon Kindle.
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On 10/15/2019 at 6:33 AM, Trillium said:
I saw the picture on Reddit and I won’t repost it here, because there is something very icky about posting a coffin for an adjacent relative’s child. I don’t think Jill is close at all with this poor baby’s mother, so any sympathetic comments won’t go to the person who needs to be healed. Nope, all so people pay attention to Jill. It’s so gross.
Wasn't this the family member whom someone once said Jill was all gung ho about assisting with her birth (which I assume would have been Tyler's), before JimBob forbade it because the family member wasn't married? I assumed so, because it seems like the kind of thing that excited cousins would think up on their own if they had their own separate relationship; and we know from some things Amy has said, that she spent a lot of time with her cousins growing up. It also isn't surprising that Tyler's mom getting teen-pregnant was deemed so mortifying that Jill couldn't doula; and possibly had to pretend she didn't know the cousin for multiple years if she was making a raft of other bad lifestyle decisions (which it seems she was).
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15 hours ago, MsJamieDornan said:
I think everyone missed my point. Jessa isn't in the promo pictures and this season has started, she hasn't been active on social media so if she wants the TV cameras back in her life and all the fans attention on her, she has to do something like that. The camera's would follow her every move if she put the boys in preschool.
Which wouldn't happen, because nurture trumps nature, and then they might mingle with heathens. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't even enter her mind on account of that.
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On 10/10/2019 at 2:56 PM, libgirl2 said:
Never ate there, but the one by us is disgusting. People have gotten sick after eating there.
Yeah, my BIL used to extol its virtues driving everyone nuts about it; until one time he went with his parents while Christmas shopping and got sick. Then they didn't have to hear anything more about the Golden Corral, as you might imagine.
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28 minutes ago, xwordfanatik said:
Joy is really beautiful. Giddyup is a cutie.
Yes, he's getting more of her looks, even if things in the facial area aren't firmed up yet. Between she and Austin, I predict their offspring will all have mighty chins, lol. Austin's looks better with his beard and mustache, though - distracts from the nostrils. He should keep it like that.
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1 hour ago, ginger90 said:
I am from New York, living in Pennsylvania now. I laugh any time I see an add touting “New York pizza” here.
I do think, to some extent, that people who say "New York Style" mean "crust style", like "Chicago style" means "deep dish"; and aren't necessarily concerned with the rest of it.
I have eaten some abominations though under that sobriquet, and their taste is always so indefinably... weird and wrong. Like, I will have no idea where said establishment got their idea of "tomato paste/sauce"; or I'll be wondering about the age of the flour used in the crust.
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Jessa, Ben and Their Brood: Making a (Diaper) Mountain out of a Mold House
in Counting On
Well, at least she gave us an adorable picture!