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2 hours ago, sadie said:
Do you think they fill out info about themselves like things they simply won’t do. I’m terrified of flying and it makes me sick so when I saw the helicopter I was like “nope I’m out”, like I seriously would have refused. Can they do that’s?
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).
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On 10/29/2023 at 7:01 AM, NeenerNeener said:
I had no idea who Nate Bargatze was before watching this.
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:
QuoteBe sure and check out his specials on Amazon or Netflix. If you aren't in tears laughing at the Starbucks story, then I can't help you.
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.
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On 10/27/2023 at 7:51 AM, JustHereForFood said:
Patrick Stewart remembering his childhood was so nice.
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.
On 10/27/2023 at 6:39 PM, dubbel zout said:I've noticed that after the guest says "Let's start the show" (or "Make it so," depending), we don't get the opening credits anymore, with the Barbie dolls and TV sets going into water.
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.
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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.
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6 hours ago, amarante said:
And oh my god the name - there are studies indicting any unusual name can have adverse impact on a child. But a name associated with negative behavior patterns.
I'm thinking she should go ahead and get him a teardrop tattoo while she's at it.
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8 hours ago, Mediocre Gatsby said:
Cincinnati: I was sure they'd take the first place, since the second had no parking and the third was full of furniture.
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.
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5 hours ago, JenE4 said:
I thought it was some blinged-out fake lashes.
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.
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5 hours ago, LEILANI2 said:
Unpopular but I have said before I don't like Gerry and did anyone else get 'seeking sister wives' vibes when the final three and him hugged lol.
That was incredibly awkward--the one in the middle trying to figure out how to get in on it. Weeeeeird.
17 minutes ago, Salacious Kitty said:[Sandra] pulled her hair back at the rose ceremony and looked her age. She needs hair around her face.
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.
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16 hours ago, CalicoKitty said:
I did hear them say they adopted from the foster system. It was only mentioned once, I think, so I think a lot of people may have missed it.
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?
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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!?!?!?
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Sorry, wrong place. Carry on.
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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?
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Spotlight on Michael. No big insights into what happened. Becca praises him for being so gracious to his non-bride.
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.
QuoteEmily and Brennan - Who knows at this point? I think they have tons of chemistry so far but other than that it's too early to tell except that I don't have high hopes for a couple that both like to drink.
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.
7 hours ago, suzeecat said:Color me shocked that Michael's bride-to-be gave him the sword and crown. Seeing him standing at the altar in that getup, I was NOT surprised that she backed out. Now to find out it was HER idea?!?!?!
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.
19 hours ago, ChiBurbsMama said:I thought the editing monkeys created that whole scene.
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.)
11 hours ago, Empress1 said:Can we please just put all the gown shopping in one episode and the weddings in another? Or skip outfit shopping altogether? I read my book during those scenes; I just don’t care.
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."
3 hours ago, Ilovepie said:She looked absolutely gorgeous in the car on the way to the wedding when she had no makeup on.
Yes! She looked so youthful and fresh without makeup on. It made me sad knowing she was going into a den of makeup.
QuoteAnd contrasted with the perfume and turquoise necklace the other girls got, it is kind of lame even if it was about his heritage.
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.
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On 10/24/2023 at 6:09 PM, amarante said:
Makes me nostalgic for college and Boone’s Farm Apple Wine. 😂😂😂😂
I can’t imagine a viable business selling strawberry wine.
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.
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On 10/24/2023 at 1:33 PM, Ilovepie said:
why get married if you can't take it seriously from the get go!
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?
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24 minutes ago, Vivigirl10 said:
Count me in with those that can't tell Leslie and Faith apart.
Leslie's hair tends to cry out for a hairbrush a little more than Faith's, but it's a subtle difference.
QuoteLeslie is the one who claims she dated Prince, correct? Sure, Jan. Me too.
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.
QuoteAnd was Faith the one who rode in on the motorcycle?
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.)
QuoteI like Ellen. ... Is she the one who had the best friend who passed away from cancer?
Yes.
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On 10/18/2023 at 8:17 AM, ECM1231 said:
Those Icelandic horses were beautiful and seemed significantly smaller/shorter than horses here in the U S.
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
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11 hours ago, dleighg said:
I haven't been watching the last few weeks, but on this version is there a lot of talk about "our journey"?
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.
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7 hours ago, MisterGlass said:
It moved me to tears, and I am amazed at how scenes from it have stuck in my mind since then.
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.
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On 10/18/2023 at 6:14 PM, peeayebee said:
I still don't think I would ever seek out one of his movies or standups (if he does those). I don't wish him ill, but I'm just not interested in seeing his performances.
There's nothing about Pete Davidson on paper that I would find anything but repellent. But that soft spot just won't go away. I find his self-deprecation appealing and compelling, while wishing so hard he didn't have the traits that he is self-deprecating about.
I remember going to see Big Time Adolescence only because Pete Davidson was in it. The audience was two young people and me, and they had to be wondering, "What's that old lady doing in here?" But I can't help loving that kid, and wanted to "vote" for him by spending money in a theater for a movie that was coming to Hulu.
He was fantastic, and I had the same ache for his character that I have for him.
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On 10/21/2023 at 3:17 AM, JudyObscure said:
Sleeveless gowns? Shorts and little tennis dresses? I'm used to seeing women that age out for the evening in black silk pants topped with pretty brocade jackets and soft scarves around their necks.
That just illustrates how differently people age. I'm in the middle of this age group and the last thing I would put on my body is a brocade jacket and soft scarf around my neck. I see that as an outfit for older women, similar to how I see Gerry as someone who's too old for me even though there's only a six-year age difference.
I will say that I thought Trista's tennis outfit was adorable. And I'll note that she's about to turn 51--only 9 years below the cut-off age to join this Golden Bachelor harem, in which almost 1/3 of the women (7 of 22) are 60; they're all closer in age to Trista than they are to Gerry.
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I know they cut these shows for airing in the U.S., but do they appear differently depending on which provider you use?
This was my first time watching one on Spectrum on demand. They completely cut the introduction to London Hughes, so I had no idea who she was--all we got was Graham sweeping his hand back while saying, "London Hughes!"
Graham said he would get to whatever was blurred out on Dawn French's medallion thing, but never mentioned it. They blurred and bleeped out every mention of London Hughes's book or show or whatever it is. Was it "dick"? And did the same with whatever Dawn French was promoting, and I never did figure that one out.
I shouldn't be expected to mentally run through every "bad" word I know trying to find a match, especially since my British bad word vocabulary is limited.
Then when he was ending the show, I could swear I saw a shadow on London Hughes, but she was on the end of the couch, so I thought I was losing my mind. Then they cut away from her, and then back to her, and there was a slice of an arm. So apparently there was a musical guest we never saw or even heard mention of?
Actually, that doesn't bother me that much because I pretty much always skip them, but I like to know they were part of the show.
I used to watch the show on DirecTV and there were cuts but nothing as bad as this. Should I be mad at BBC America or Spectrum?
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17 hours ago, cinsays said:
yeah, they should have given her something else to eat instead of something guaranteed to make her sick
16 hours ago, Salacious Kitty said:You'd think production had a list of food allergies, intolerances, etc. Sondra could have been given dairy free ice cream.
Sandra is 75 years old. She revels in having a filthy mouth (and even used it in her out-of-the-limo introduction to her intended mate), misses her daughter's wedding to be on a TV show, but can't say, "I'm not going to eat something that I know will make me sick"?
I lost a lot of respect for her--we expect children to "just say no," after all.
Then again, she got a bedside visit from Gerry, and apparently got a rose without having to endure a rose ceremony. Maybe she calculated that some intestinal distress was worth it, in which case I'm changing my vote to, "Well played, Sandra."
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On 10/19/2023 at 4:24 PM, Cloud9Shopper said:
No one else seems to have this much trouble finding a job. Every friend or relative of mine, in real life or online, who has hit the job market recently has secured an offer or received a promotion.
When it comes to people you don't actually know in person, you're seeing only what they're presenting online, and most people carefully curate their online presence.
Actually, all people curate their online presence, with varying degrees of intensity and honesty. It's just asking for trouble to compare the 100% of your life you know about to someone else's 2% or whatever they choose to show to the online community.
Even people you know in person--who knows what travails they're not disclosing about their job search? Listen, if everybody's life were as fantastic as their social media posts lead us to believe, the world wouldn't be such a shitty place.
You said that every friend or relative of yours, in real life or online, who has hit the job market recently has secured an offer or received a promotion. However, there are a lot of people out there who are complaining they can't find a job. What are the odds that you really don't "know" (in real life or online) anybody else who's had difficulty finding a job? I ask because you also said:
QuoteI see so many success stories in this thread and yet, I can’t get the same thing to happen for me.
I've seen success stories in this thread, but not "so many" of them. Just a few. And I always wonder how many people reading this thread are struggling with finding a job they want but don't post about it. So you and I are looking at the same thing and seeing different things.
A while back you posted this:
QuoteI was thinking about this today, and maybe social media and talking to Internet strangers (where everyone is a high earner or a director of this or a VP of that department or a manager of this other thing) is skewing my perspective a little bit, but I feel like a failure in that I’ve never really had a straight career path.
It sounds like your perspective might indeed be skewed, and maybe not just a little bit.
On 10/20/2023 at 6:30 AM, Cloud9Shopper said:the best thing to do right now is get away from job searching entirely and all the influencers looking to blame me for when I don’t get an offer.
I'll admit that I'm not on any sort of social media, so I know very little about influencers, never mind influencers who want to blame people for not getting a job they want. (What the hell??) But I think you're on to something.
Surely there's nothing to be gained from choosing to pay attention to an influencer who obviously doesn't know you and therefore can't possibly understand you, and probably actually holds you in contempt. So I would urge you to consider discontinuing exposing yourself to them.
I know more than anyone that being a conscientious objector to social media is not an easy road, but sometimes we have to make unpleasant choices. And in your case especially, it sounds like you're not benefiting from comparing yourself to people's social media personas.
Actually, the consensus seems to be that nobody benefits from it. But for you, it's more than just the free-floating "everybody's life is better than mine" anxiety that social media causes. For you, it's harder because people can see someone's instagram pictures from their trip to Romania and tell themselves, "Well, I don't really want to go to Romania." But you want a different job so every time somebody posts about their new job or promotion, you can't tell yourself, "Well, I don't really want a job."
Maybe you could tell yourself, "Well, I don't want that job," but are people going to post about shitty jobs they get? Nope. They're going to post about jobs that they (perhaps unconsciously) think people will be jealous of.
I don't know...maybe this is an opportunity to evaluate your relationship with social media, since it looks like it might be where a lot of your negative comparisons are coming from. No matter how well you "know" them, they're strangers.
And in your "real" life--if you have friends or relatives you actually know who are not supportive, can you deprive them of the opportunity to not be supportive by not engaging with them on certain topics? It takes two people to have a conversation, after all. "How's the job hunt going?" "I'm plugging along." "What exactly are you doing?" "Plugging along." "I mean, are you sending resumes? Calling? Showing up on doorsteps?" "Just plugging along."
Even if you're actually taking a break from job hunting. Nobody has a right to know what your job hunt currently involves. You have the power to choose who knows, and what they know, and I urge you to choose carefully, for your own sake.
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The Golden Bachelor - General Discussion
in The Golden Bachelor
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?