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Emily Becca looks distractingly like Emma Stone to me--her mouth moves exactly the same way when she talks. The one with the watermelon breast about to self-harvest? I couldn't take my eyes off it. That said, I loved his sister's look--the suit with the loose tie, and loosely pulled back hair. She looked sharp. Mr. Outlier does a lot of mountainbiking in the Denver area so I showed him Cameron. I'd noticed his shirt said "Broken Carbon" and I said, "I thought broken carbon is a bad thing." He said he'd heard there was a guy in Denver who fixes broken carbon bike frames. There's a bunch of specialty bike repair shops around there that have a national presence (people outside the area send their stuff to them to fix). Cameron's shop fixes carbon frames, there's a place that re-soles the shoes mountainbikers wear, another rebuilds shocks, and there's a guy who makes custom bags for bikepacking. I've been to all of these except Cameron's place--thank god, because carbon bike frames cost thousands of dollars, and repairing them would probably be a lucrative business and the opposite of lucrative for its customers, but less of a hemorrhage than buying a new frame. But if he does break his frame and we're in the area, I'll offer to be the courier--I'm assuming it will be much more fun going there than the shoe repair place. And to Clare's credit, as confused and dismissive as she was about the stuffed animal, she grokked the minute he opened his mouth. But man is he tall. My maximum height difference ever was 9 or 10 inches, and it seemed like a lot. Cameron's at least a foot taller than she is, maybe more.

Boy, I don't know. I'm a proficient bike rider and tried a tandem bike once and it was awful. Like, so bad I happily went back to riding my own bike, where I have to do all the pedaling myself, and I'm lazy.

I'm the only one who's mentioned Dr. Phil's wife, but it was because Kathy, not Faith, reminded me of her. A lollipop head and mincing steps (the way Robin walks when Phil leads her out of the audience). And always kind of hunched over. When I looked back to see if I'd actually posted that, I ran across this post, about Susan: https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/140754-the-golden-bachelor/?do=findComment&comment=8157878

I figured serial killers were includable when talking about rapists and monstrous dictators. But now that you mention it, I believe raping and monstrously dictating are the province of men, so maybe there was an effort to exclude crimes and behavior that women commit that I didn't pick up on. Apologies. There are plenty of people I wish could rise to being moderately stupid. Then again, how do you define "good"? Will they be happier if they're not so stupid? Probably not, actually.

Amazon Smile? They discontinued that program earlier this year. Are you still getting donations from it? I have a friend who drowned in his bathtub. He was mid-30s and very athletic (i.e., younger and in better shape than Matthew Perry). He snow skied every day and one day came home and poured a glass of wine (which I assume Perry didn't do) and got into a hot bath and passed out and drowned. And Aileen Wuornos was once a little girl.

Was your mom around when this guy was first going out with his first wife and he wasn't affectionate even then? I've been doing a thought experiment by inserting Toni into the lineup, using the photos we've seen as a guide. Would he be attracted to her, as a stranger, over the others?

There's suspicion that in the young version of the show, people do put down their greatest fears and producers intentionally send them on dates doing that very thing. I'm not a historian of the show--has anybody ever flatly refused to do a one-on-one's activity? Conquering your fear in the protective arms of the bachelor is a thing. But that brings up an interesting angle. Would a 25-year-old you with an eye toward either finding your person or boosting your social media numbers tell the producers "No, I'm too scared of flying"? I consider my ability to say "no" to just about anything I choose to be a benefit (and result) of getting older; I was much more compliant and cooperative when I was young. I wonder if the producers have had to "adjust" their approach. Then again, we have Sandra, the oldest combatant, eating ice cream she knows will make her sick just to play Never Have I Ever, and that wasn't even a chance to prove herself on a group date (although it worked out well for her).

Me, neither, but anyone who comes up with "I have more in common with a pilgrim" deserves to be searched for. I found a couple of his comedy specials free on Tubi. On edit: I searched for Bargatze and it turns out what I found on Tubi were specials directed by Nate Bargatze. However, I'd read this upthread: and one of the descriptions of programs I found mentioned a Starbucks story. So I got confused. But I ended up watching a performance by Greg Warren and it was a riot. And I'm guessing that every standup act has a Starbucks story these days, so I shouldn't let it be a filter.

Yes it was. The only place I see most of these people is on this show, so I'm pretty sure Patrick Stewart has told the story about Ian McKellen's note to him about Macbeth before (the important word in "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" is "and"). Shakespeare pretty much always flies over my head but this made sense and stuck in my memory. It was particularly apt this time because he was passing it on to Ralph Fiennes, who's currently doing Macbeth. But to be honest, if he's going to repeat stories, I'd much prefer the one about how he thought for his entire life he'd been circumcised, only to find out from his wife, and verified in a subsequent doctor visit, that he wasn't. That's one hell of a guy who can tell that story on himself, and it makes want to read his memoir (to the point of actually buying it, because I doubt it'll show up in a Little Free Library any time soon (my sole source of books)). And who knew there was pushback on having a bald Picard? That seems crazy, in retrospect. (I'll add that in my book, it's a rare white man who looks good bald, but yes yes yes to Patrick Stewart.) I don't know this Bella Ramsey, but she's adorable. And she really does look 12. I just checked this episode on Spectrum On Demand and they have the Barbies and TVs. It wouldn't surprise me one bit that different platforms show different stuff. On Battlebots this week, I recorded both the live version on Spectrum and the on demand version; the on-demand version was 15 minutes shorter and it wasn't just ads not being shown--the on-demand version abruptly cut away from one segment about 15 seconds before it was over, but the live version aired that part.

I really enjoyed Desus Nice. He's such an appealing guy, and the material was perfect for him. When he showed the nine men running for speaker of the house and three of them were the same photo? He was right--I didn't notice. But really, the whole week was a lot of fun (but I don't always watch the interviews). I'm kind of thinking I might like the carousel of hosts to be permanent.

I'm thinking she should go ahead and get him a teardrop tattoo while she's at it.

But the first place didn't have a living room--it was more like a very large entry way. I assumed the living room would be on the second floor, but nope--only bedroom. AND there was a half bath right there by the kitchen. While we were touring the second house, I thought, "I guess it's good that they're showing it to us because it's interesting, but there's no way they'll get that one." But they did. I was shocked. And then I got shocked again when I realized I heard correctly, and the Charleston, West Virginia, HH named her son Havoc.

Hmm. I don't know. My TV isn't good enough to get a real good look at the object, but it looked like it curved around the lash line, and was shiny like it might be metal.

That was incredibly awkward--the one in the middle trying to figure out how to get in on it. Weeeeeird. I noticed that, too, but can't figure out exactly what the hair is concealing/why she looked so different with it pulled back. I also wonder if her glasses also make her look younger. I swear I remember people used to say Sophia Loren wore glasses because it disguised the wrinkles around her eyes.

Aah, right you are. It was when they were looking at some castle. I did hear something about a dragon, but not the foster system part. But re-watching it reminded me that the one guy said he would make the bathroom next to the kitchen off limits while he's preparing dinner. Maybe I'm unusually careful in my bathroom habits, but I just don't get it. What's going to fly out of the bathroom and turn the corner and get on the food?

Can someone tell me what the pink thing is that Lauren has near the outer edge of each upper eyelid? It looks like a piercing!?!?!?

Sorry, wrong place. Carry on.

I swear I didn't hear them say they adopted them from foster care. One of them said something about being able to move to England once the adoptions were finalized; does that happen only in foster care adoptions?

The thing that gets me is that the runaway bride must have been at the bachelorette party, so all the other brides got to know her at least a little bit. Becca was defending her (to a certain extent) so I wonder if she liked her. On the aftershow, she said Brennan drank a lot less than she did at the wedding, which makes me wonder if he has a "thing" about drinking given that he chose in their introductory chat to tell her his dad drinks vodka instead of water. We shall see. I usually don't have high hopes for a couple where both like to drink, but Stephanie and AJ seemed to enjoy drinking quite a bit a they're still together. But I generally have even lower hopes for couples whose drinking preferences don't match. And the producers WANTED everybody to think it was his idea to wear a crown at the altar. When people complain about their edit on a reality TV show, the response is always, "They can't show what you don't give them." This is a great example of how that isn't 100% true. I wondered if it was staged the first time they showed a little bit of it, in the previous episode. There was nobody in the first couple of rows of the bride's side, which looked suspicious. And it just seemed "off" in the ways you described. If they made that poor guy stand there and do a re-enactment, then the show is even lower than I thought. No wonder he was crying afterward. Between this and the crown and sword at the altar business, I'm putting this show on a short leash. I wouldn't watch it at all except I've spent a lot of time in Denver and was curious to see it portrayed, but the producers' brazenness and obvious manipulation of viewers, and possible cruelty toward the "talent" is pissing me off. Yes, they're idiots who go on MAFS, but they're still people. And so are the viewers. We all deserve better. (I used to be able to watch it without any record anywhere that I was watching, but now I have to stream it, so they directly benefit by my watching, and I don't feel good about lining their pockets.) I particularly hate when they stand on the pedestal and talk about their struggles in life to people who know them inside and out. Like on reality shows where a girl is shown talking to her mother and says, "You know my ex who works at the gas station? He texted me..." Instead of oh, I don't know, "Brian texted me." Yes! She looked so youthful and fresh without makeup on. It made me sad knowing she was going into a den of makeup. Screw turquoise and perfume. On the aftershow, Michael said his gifts to his runaway bride were a pair of earrings that he said represented him somehow, and a tennis bracelet. All the women gasped, "A tennis bracelet?!?" I think the boy has coin. I liked that he kept the sword.

I swear I remember Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill being a thing in high school, almost 50 years ago. I know basically zero about wine, but I like sangria and am wondering whether I ::shudder:: might have a taste for a strawberry wine. I'm not a big beer drinker and detest anything dark, but I've tried both blueberry and huckleberry beer and I liked them both.

You're asking this of people who go on a highly manufactured reality TV show to marry a stranger selected by people with a dreadful success record?

Leslie's hair tends to cry out for a hairbrush a little more than Faith's, but it's a subtle difference. She knew him when she was in her late teens, early 20s, I gather. The extent of the relationship isn't clear, and there's no proof he wrote Sexy Dancer about her, but there's a cute photo floating around of her infant son in Prince's studio. Yes. (I have kept the motorcycle endorsement on my driver's license all these years because you never know, right? Also, it makes my license classification scatological BM instead of boring old B.) Yes.

This is one reason I watch this show. The chyron said the horses have five gaits as opposed to the usual three, so Mr. Outlier and I, with our vast lack of knowledge about horses, had a long, satisfying, and ultimately inconclusive discussion about what the extra gaits might be. I was satisfied with that, but he couldn't help himself and consulted Professor Internet and got the answer. There's a video, and it looks a little funny because the horse is so little, but man is that rider smooth. https://www.horsesoficeland.is/the-icelandic-horse-gaits

I haven't noticed it. With the youths on the regular show, what are they talking about when they mention their journey? If it's their time on the show, I think this version has an abbreviated timeline, so maybe they haven't had enough time to build a journey. If it refers to their future, maybe these people realize they don't have enough time left for a journey. I'm going to start paying more attention to the way they talk. I don't recall hearing like like like like, for example. Could it possibly be that people enjoy watching this version not necessarily because of the people but because listening to them talk isn't annoying? I've been known to quit listening to something I'm really interested in if the speaker has an annoying speech tic. Maybe it's just refreshing to watch a reality TV show populated by people who don't butcher the English language.

Yay! Another fan! I have it on my DVR and every once in a while I watch the scene at the end where he's singing Peaceful Easy Feeling. I need to watch the whole movie in order for it to make me cry, but it comes pretty close just as the snippet.