queenanne

They probably don't get any attention from their parents, and are easily swayed by the smallest of kindnesses/attention on the part of third parties, poor things.

Between the gap in his front teeth and the dark circles under his eyes, he looks eerily like he's recently been in some type of bar fight.

I think Michelle has always had good legs. It's hard to say because usually we don't get a still shot of them; but I've gotten at least one good look at them before and it was similarly favorable.

All I can say is, thank God someone did/does. I mean, eventually you'd think they would catch on that if everyone thinks your kids are emaciated and worthy of a CPS visit that they probably are; but I'm glad to know the general population with eyes does care.

Is it possible she had one of those experiences where the kids went in, and some library patron(s) were watching porn on the library computers? (Former library assistant here)

See, now I was thinking one pronounced it like the announcers pronounce Michael Nouri, which is evenly weighted syllable stressors/as in, "nourishing", but I guess the namer would know... or would she? We've all seen her capitalization skills...

Wow, Jill is pretty without all that hideous slap on, and reminds me of Elisabeth Moss. I realize the "no-makeup" picture may involve a filter, but she looks decades younger. Run, Nurie, run!!

On the bright side, Josie's memorial ceremony dress is really pretty; even with the silly tee shirt under it, which almost looks like part of the dress.

I need readers in my late 40's about 20 years after my Lasik, which was pretty unfortunate and gross, even though they warned me I might fall prey to age-related presbyopia at the time. It's still the best money I ever spent. Mainly though, I wanted to say that the problem I heard about bargain-hunting Lasik, is that the places offering to do you for "$999 per eye!", are able to do so because they bought "hand-me-down" Lasik machines, which the majority expensive Lasik purveyors were unloading because the laser has gone a millimeter or so out of true (!). So ever since then, I've been preaching the Lasik gospel of "pay whatever it costs and skip the bargain-hunting", as I wanted my surgery to be done by the best equipment possible, since I only get one set of eyes!

Gideon is starting to take after Sam in looks, imo.

Well, in the past she's said it's... Izzy!, so if uniformly true, maybe he's mastered centering a human being, but can't make any needed adjustments with the light going in a different direction (I still don't understand "white balance" with the iPhone, as I keep expecting it to make the necessary adjustments in order not to give me yellow indoor pictures. It does not.)

In my experience, the screens and projector are used to put up slides with song lyrics, if you're singing "praise and worship" (i.e., not hymnal-bound) ditties. They might also include screens/slides at the beginning of service like (picture of missionary and family) "Pray for the Sumners who are ministering in Sumatra this year!" "Mark your calendars for upcoming prayer potluck June 26!" They are also intermittently used for Christmas pageants and Easter passion plays. Plus some churches like to record the sermons on tape (or did) for home-bound, etc., individuals. I'm sure there are some televised/mega-church type outfits that have fancier AV setups for shinier reasons; but most of the AV systems deployed in churches are pretty bare-bones, and utilized for fairly dull reasons. I wouldn't be surprised, in fact, to find some using transparencies still for their visual aids, instead of slides.

The key phrase, of course, is "their backyard". Is he on permanent bikini watch in this scenario? Unless the woman is a child or multiple children, I bet she can swim without making much if any noise (a screaming cannonballing preteen playing Marco Polo and splashing each other she's not); and thus who knows how many times she could swim without anyone being the wiser about what she is doing. My parents couldn't tell you a fraction of the things their neighbors do, partly because they're not staring out their windows 24/7; and when they are looking out their windows it's probably because some neighborhood dog started barking and they want to figure out why.

"no man knows the hour, nor the day...", which I always thought was a way of saying Christians should live every day expecting that it could be the last on earth. What that entails in particular, is up to the individual Christian; but at minimum I think it's an exhortation to always be on your best and kindest behavior.

Sometimes it's allergies, and I've seen them on an otherwise healthy toddler; so not always an alarming flag.

Absolutely. In my interpretation of GoT world, the Unsullied are Spartans, Dothraki are Mongols, and the townspeople of KL et al are, well... medieval serfs. This behavior is right in line with droit du seigneur. The serfs did everything only at the pleasure of the feudal lord. Thus I don't find it shocking they weren't particularly empowered.

I'm pretty strong on the editors needing to win the Emmy, myself. Some of the intercutting battle sequences were brilliantly timed IMO, falling like sword cuts themselves, if you know what I mean. I also wouldn't be mad if Maisie got a nomination or win.

I'm so super happy you brought that up, because to me, Robyn is, and was played and shown to us by the same actor when younger, as either mentally age-challenged or flat-out insane, and has no business being anywhere near a ruling council. That creepy high-pitched cackle, and all the begging? "Make him fly, Mother!"... kid clearly was five or six logs short of a full cabin. He was old enough to understand that "making people fly" resulted in their death; or should have been, yet didn't give half a toot that it was actually going to result in their death, so... what happened in the interim to sane him up?

Do Austin's shoes look like that because that's how suede/fleece photographs; or does he badly need new shoes? Because those look both scuffed to high heaven and waterstained, to me.

Well, I gotta say I can't hate on this despite the price tag, as I'm all about the babies having comfort... of course, you're also speaking to someone who frequently sleeps in a giant beanbag on my living room floor, so there is that

It's a scarf. Though, I thought that was Joy...

Well, Austin has already shown more spirit than we heretofore had given any fundie male credit for, with his adolescent "rebellion"; so I have hopes. There is hope that he may in fact then do the opposite of blanket training (even the dimmest bulb who was featured on an episode of "World's Strictest Parents" has to have developed some sort of clue as a result); and Joy's always seemed besotted with Giddy - remember how maddening she was, interfering with his little feet every time he breathed? Also, I've always maintained that Joy is one of the prettiest Duggar girls. It was a kindness to give her some professional makeup, as the recent dress-shilling pictures seemed to show Joy fighting with a considerable breakout of hormonal chin acne; so probably not the way she wanted to be remembered in pictures...and damn, that is a lot of attendants. ETA: I think we've also solved the "mystery" of why they needed Justin - have to find partners for fifteen (!) bridesmaids!

It's an example of the "amazing transformative power of Christ's love to turn badly behaved people back to the path of righteousness" ("CAPMMV", otherwise known as "Christian Autocrats' Phrasing Mileage May Vary"; but that's the idea). Oh, shut up Mechelle: everyone knows what "it's not my place to judge" means in this situation. Translation: "It's totally my place to judge and I know beyond a universal doubt that it's wrong for women to wear men's clothes; I just don't want to have to worry about being hated for saying it; and I certainly don't want my daughters sent to burn in hellfire eternal for wearing pants either, so we're going to blame the husbands." If it's wrong it's wrong. You either think something is represented in the Bible; or you don't. If the Bible was written in a time when everyone wore robes regardless of their sex; then the author/deity means something different than what you think. If it was really important, Jesus could have worked on that whole clothing differentiation thing back in the day. We'll know by how Famy turns out... At this point, I believe that Christians basically say (I mean, I heard it about 25,000 times growing up, so I'm pretty sure); that (1), if the gay person repents on their deathbed within 5 minutes of their death that's A-OK; just the assumption is, that in order for this to happen you have to know you're going to die, and not everyone dies peaceably in their sleep. What's about those people who die in fiery mode-of-transport deaths?; and (2), there are a host of issues that won't let fundies with more than average brainpower be at rest, as follows: More here: https://www.gotquestions.org/Hebrews-10-26.html

Wow, I feel terribly sorry for that idiot's offspring, who had no choice in their parents... thankfully Anderson is a common enough name that maybe they can disclaim all association with him once they are grown!

Wow, looking at that baby picture of Jill you can really see Sammy, particularly in the nose and mouth.