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Why does Vanessa Simmons, a grown woman, have the voice of a 10-year-old girl?
So she could get away with saying, "should have went"?
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I hope Barb means it when she says no more kids for her to raise. And I hope she uses tough love on Jenelle.
Oh, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Darknight, you are a caution!
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At Jace's lunch after his pre school graduation Barbara is all happy telling Jace how proud she is and how cute he looked, then Jenelle with her dead voice says "I took pitchers".
I hate when people don't pronounce pictures properly.
OMG. Don't go to Texas! For a long time, I've thought the state motto should be:
Texas: Land o' Homophones.
I used to have a list of about 30 or 40 of them. I wish I could find it now.
Off the top of my head...
Picture -> pitcher. Pen -> pin (also including ten, men, ken, etc.)
[Not a homophone, but illustrative of the problem is guy from up north I knew, whose was introduced to a group of us as Denny. We called him Dinny. He finally corrected us and said, "It's Denny." Oh. So we started saying, "Danny." He tried one more time, and finally said, "Never mind." There was literally nothing between Dinny and Danny for us.]
Then you have the interesting hill <-> heel phenomenon. A rise in the landscape is pronounced "heel" ("The heels are alive, with the sound of music), but the bottom of your foot is pronounced "hill" (The jazzercise instructor told us to be sure our hills are on the floor").
Terrorist -> terrace. Terrorists -> terrace. Singular, plural--doesn't matter.
Film -> femme. Both are pronounced "fimm."
One of my favorites is hundred -> hunter, both of which are pronounced "hunner" ("On his way to the deer lease, the hunner found a hunner-dollar bill on the ground in the Walmart parking lot").
And yet I still have the balls to made fun of Leah's accent. Because everybody has to feel superior to somebody else.
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I am ashamed to admit that The Amber inspired me to donate my hair (was almost down to my waist) so I went to my hairdresser and had her do it. I've been going to her for years, so it's only fair I chose her for my most momentous occasion. We cut a full 2 inches off..not nearly the donation The Amber made, but I'm just a little person. We collected the trimmings (those empty Xanax bottles DO come in handy) and I sent it to my newest, bestest charity: The Rino Fund.
There actually is an organization that accepts hair donations (from people and dogs) to be used in hair mats that soak up oil, like around storm sewers or in oil spills. If Amber hadn't actually said the word "wig," I would have thought that's where her collection of split ends was going.
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I used to do that all the time at my old local TV job with the recorded programs that we produced. Not only did I earn brownie points with the manager, but I got to make fun of our video editors. A double victory!
My dream job. Hell, I'd do it for free.
Wait, I did do it for free.
I read this entire thread in one day, so I can't keep everybody straight. Are you easier on local haircasters because of your experience? I watched a few behind-the-scenes shows about local news, and since then I've been much more forgiving about the inadvertently hilarious or cringe-worthy things they do. So, for example, I called a moratorium on saying, "Yoo hoo, over here," when they look at the wrong camera. That fruit is just hanging too low, even for me.
But when they really stumble, I actually kind of feel for them. Unless it's something The Soup deems heinous enough to include among their clips, usually from bigger markets. Then the gloves are off.
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[Leah's] mother admitted giving her Cheetos since she was a baby as an incentive to walk.
Seriously? So that's something passed down from generation to generation? Excellent.
One thing is strange about her teeth. In many photos her teeth look white. Other times they don't.I don't remember them looking this bad on the show, either. Maybe it really was just the Walmart light. But they're vastly better than a lot of meth-mouths I've seen. For one, they seem to all be there. For now.
IMO Leah is just not an attractive girl. I don't know that there is anything she can do to improve her looks in my eyes.
I agree she's not attractive, but she seems to refuse to dance with who brung her. Looking like what she looks like might be a good start. I always thought it was better for people to think, "She might be pretty if she fixed herself up," rather than, "All that effort and she's still ugly."
It does look like she has nice blue eyes. (Channeling Carmindy, the make-up person on What Not To Wear, who always tells even the biggest troll, "You have such pretty eyes.") I don't think I ever noticed them with the raccoon rings.
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I just remembered that I single-handedly saved a TV show from being mentioned in this thread.
I have a friend who works for a late night national talk show, and earlier this year I spent a day tagging along and looking around. The show makes video clips, and this day they had a fake and very profane commercial for the company that was hired to fix the healthcare.gov website. When the clips are ready, they send them to my friend's computer (she's the one who punches a button to make them run during the show--surprisingly stressful work), I guess to make sure they'll work or whatever.
So I'm watching over my friend's shoulder, with her assistant next to her, and as part of the fake commercial there are screens with words on them, like slogans or bullet points, and my eagle eye caught the word "propriety" when the voice-over said "proprietary." When it was finished, I pointed it out and nobody knew what I was talking about, so I had them run it back and there it was. Fleeting, but definitely there. But they still weren't sure it was wrong, and I insisted that it was, so the assistant got on the phone to the video producers and much conversation ensued (not helped by the fact that she was pronouncing it "proprietory"), and I was so adamant that it rubbed off on the assistant and she wouldn't take "no" for an answer. They said they'd look into it.
And sure enough, about 30 minutes later, a new clip appears on the computer, and yep--it's fixed. We won!
Then shortly before they started taping, the monologue producer comes down and they go through all the video clips that will be on the show one last time, and the assistant pointed out to the producer that I was the one who caught the error. I've never been so proud. (And later, it was pointed out to me that the host is a real stickler for spelling and that I might very well have saved a couple of heads from rolling.)
So FINALLY, it's revealed that yes, if everybody WOULD let me look over everything before it goes out, it WOULD make a difference. Man, that was satisfying.
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Just when I thought "Bob and I's relationship is great" was the bottom of the barrel, I hear "your guys's" as a possessive. As in, What is your guys's relationship like now? And "guys's" has two syllables, with all the letters pronounced.
This was uttered by two different hosts on various Teen Mom reunion shows last week. One was female in her 20s who never referred to the group of 23-year-old "teen moms" as anything other than "you guys" and used "your guys's" every single time there was a possessive to be made. It drove me so crazy I stopped watching before the show ended, and the count at that point was easily a dozen. The other show had middle-aged Dr. Drew Pinsky (a real doctor, with an education) who, to his credit, used it only once, but he did it.
And goddammit, "He talked to Mary and I" is starting to almost sound correct. I still audibly groan whenever I hear it on TV, but I fear that's becoming more of a tic than anything because it's burrowing its way in there.
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I can't figure out if Leah looks uglier with all that clown make-up or without it. She really is hard on the eyes in that photo. White, pasty, ghost-like, eek!
I'd vote definitely without the make-up. She actually looks kind of human in the Walmart photo, as opposed to when she's wearing the blue eyeliner or whatever it is that makes her look so ghastly. Her ghost-like coloring? The subtle and flattering Walmart lighting certainly wasn't doing her any favors, but I prefer that over orange.
I'm probably biased because I almost always prefer less make-up over more, even when skillfully done, which hers never is. Suffice to say I won't be buying much at her Mary Kay parties.
It's ironic that she looks less like a "People of Walmart" in this photo than any photo I've ever seen.
Her teeth? They look like a real person's teeth, instead of these blinding white things that everybody seems to have now. They're a little dingy, but I think I prefer that to looking fake. Maybe it's just because I'm used to it--back in my day, there was a thing called "tetracyline teeth," which turned teeth an unpleasant gray, plus of course there were the rest of us who had teeth that weren't on high beam all the time and still managed to be happy and have successful lives.
But I will say it looks like the braces did a good job of putting them where they're supposed to be, which is good.
Now, the hair? That's tragic. Her hairline is a problem, being way back up on top like that, and I don't envy her having to work around that. But even more problematic is the texture of that mess. I think somebody just hacked those extensions out (kind of like how they pull their IUDs out) and left it at that, damage and all. I know short hair is anathema to hot chicks everywhere, but she could have gone a lot shorter, like a pixie, and gotten rid of as much of it as she could, for a fresh start. Find out what color it really is--it might be attractive. It's got to be better than what it is now.
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[Richie] at least has a sense of humor, unlike the majority of the rest of them.
His glasses certainly corroborate your opinion.
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But, I am one of the few people that like RIno. :-)
Since you're a fan, can YOU explain his eyebrows?
I liked him a lot better after watching him have a civilized conversation instead of a screaming match with whichever HW that was he was talking to. (I obviously don't pay particularly close attention.) (Which I consider a good thing.)
I guess I'm not representative of Bravo's intended audience because I was telling Mr. Outlier this morning how funny those gigantic dogs were, especially sitting on the couch, and Teresa hiding in the closet from them (although as hilariously pointed out upthread, it could have been because their owner is a debt collector). And then I remembered Dina trying to get the bulldog to move by pushing on it a little and that thing was not budging. It didn't resist and didn't have a "no way" look on its face; it just wasn't budging. I thoroughly enjoyed that.
That said, I watch the other shit so I guess Bravo knows what it's doing.
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Personally, I would much prefer to hear about Christie's beauty secrets than Caroline. I swear Christie has a portrait in her attic that is aging.
I was thinking about this just the other day, for some reason. Christie Brinkley always had a very full face, and it seems to be staying that way. Plumpness in the face always makes people look younger. Add well-kept skin to the mix, and you've got a winner.
I suspect no women are taking up shaving their face because they looked at Caroline and said, "I want to look like THAT!"
I'm am along for the ride with y'all on Albie. He has always been cute to me but I can say that lately he looks sick. Something is going on with him. He looks so gaunt to me.
He does CrossFit, right? That's some hard core working out, and has probably made him really lean, including in his face, making him look gaunt. Ties into my Christie Brinkley theory.
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Okay, thank you - I said the same thing in the episode thread, and worried I was being unfair. But it really didn't look like she cut much at all. My bet is that they include the hair she DID cut in that crazy shrine they have going for her in the foyer.
That might be a better use of it than donating it to Locks of Love, according to this article:
But yeah, she didn't cut off anywhere near the amount needed for a donation, so I call foul on that. Is there NOTHING genuine on this whole show?
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I helped clean up at a soup kitchen today, and found myself wiping down this big stainless steel counter, big swipes left and right. It was strangely calming, until it reminded me that I watch this shitfest.
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I think she also doesn't want the public humiliation of leaving him, even if he is abusive and knows she should leave.
What really got me was the link posted upthread to a fight with Nipples she recorded. At least with the long and scary list GreatKazu posted, most of that was before her "sobriety," and most was caught on MTV's cameras and I really do think people at some point kind of forget they're around.
However, a "sober" Jenelle recorded that fight with Nipples and it somehow got out of her phone and onto the internet. Those are not the actions of someone who is concerned about public humiliation because that fight? I'm humiliated for her, and I don't even like her. And I think she's an irresponsible idiot to continue to allow herself to be around someone like that, not to mention her children, and her mother.
I agree with you, however, that I can see her staying in an abusive relationship, but more probably because she's actually comfortable in it, or is invested in being "right" about her choices.
IMO it's a major factor in not really pushing to get Jace back, she knows he's better off with her mom.I'm not too sure about that. I think Jenelle's thinking is more centered on herself, and how she's better off without custody of Jace, and not that Jace is (relatively) better off with Barb.
I'm not excusing her actions at all but addicts do not see the world the way the rest of us doTrue dat. And most addicts aren't too worried about public humiliation, either.
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And she doesn't seem to be too troubled by public humiliation.
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Was Caroline shaving her face as some sort of smoothing thing? She said it keeps her wrinkle free, and she doesn't seem like a very hairy woman.
I'm older than Caroline and have somehow managed not to get wrinkles on my chin and jawline. Such a problem area for wrinkles. I guess I'm just a genetic freak.
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A few observations:
Sad Panda said "Your guys's relationship..." Makes me hate him even more.
Jenelle said her mother sometimes does "a complete 180." Impressive. She actually retained some geometry along the way.
Kail said she'd learned her lesson about letting Suzi watch the kids. However, I noticed that when Javi said he was mad because they had specifically discussed this, and that she had fought him over it, Kail said the discussion took place after the incident with Suzi and Lincoln. They seem to agree that's all true. So what doesn't make sense is why Kail fought about it. Seems to me, if the incident affected Kail the way she said it did, when Javi later said, "I don't want Suzi taking care of my son because I don't trust her," what Kail should have said (especially if she was not wanting to admit she'd done exactly that), "You're right. She's not trustworthy and I will never let her watch him." Instead, she fought about it.
Maybe it just hadn't sunk in until then (as other has noted, this is a very tough situation to deal with and Kail has fewer skills than a lot of people), but it just seems crazy that she'd go so far as to fight about it. Maybe they fight about everything...I don't know. But this one seemed like an easy way to offer up a "Yes, dear, you're exactly right."
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Interesting StatisticalOutlier. I don't think they moved away from Barb so that they could workout together (lol) though since Kaiser wasn't even born (or conceived?) yet when they decided to live an hour away from Jace, his school, and Barb. Maybe it does have something to do with his daughter but I strongly suspect it's more about isolating Janelle (and eventually Jace) from Barb. That poor kid isn't going to have a chance in hell without Barb (his best option for a parent) and a good school.
Oh, I agree about the isolating thing, but didn't want to pin 100% of it on that unless it looked like there was no other reason for Jenelle and him to figuratively (this time, anyway) slap Barbara AND Jace in the face by choosing to live so far away. And actually, if they did it to be closer to his daughter, that's still a huge insult to Jace, and possibly an even more personal one.
I could have sworn I read that Nip's ex's parents had custody of his daughter. But I'm not certain.
I kind of thought that, too, but I can't find anything one way or the other. Imagine...information about a reality TV participant (I won't even call that cretin a "personality") that isn't readily available by just browsing some tweets. What is the world coming to?
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I don't understand why Nathan and Janelle have to live an hour away from Barb and Jace. Neither one of them have jobs and Janelle's classes are online. IF they really wanted to be part of Jace's life they could live near him and his school and if a transition back to Janelle ever really happened, it wouldn't be so traumatic.
I found a story that said internet denizens were wondering whether Nip Kilmer's (!) mom had custody of Kaiser, and it quoted a tweet of Jenelles': "Nathan's mom lives 5 mins from us so she watches Kai for a hour while we workout.. If they MUST kno lmao"
I think it was in another thread I wondered whether Nip's mother has custody of his daughter (Niplette?). Does anybody know? Because it might actually make a tiny bit of sense for him to want to stay close to there, regardless of his white-hot hatred of Barbara.
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Nobody answered my question about Rino's eyebrows, so I did a little bit of searching around. I found a reference to a tweet by Jim Marchese about Rino's "overwaxed" eyebrows, so an eyewitness has identified them as hair, not ink. Still doesn't explain why he grooms them to look like that, but at least one mystery is solved.
And honestly, is there ANYTHING Tiny Jim The Lost Ikea Monkey hasn't tweeted about? Sheeeeeeesh.
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If Jenelle didn't put Jace up for adoption, there's no way in the world she'd do it for Kaiser. She's much more stable now than she was then. That's not saying much, I know, but she's infinitely more motherly now than she was back then.
I thought Nathan's parents had custody of Nathan's other kid. I'm pretty sure it's not the kid's mother. Maybe her parents?
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her unfaithful inked-brow shit-nugget of a husband
Sorry if this has been covered before, but what is the deal with Rino's eyebrows? Are they really ink? Is that what explains the weird looking texture, or lack thereof? But if they're fake, why did they stop when the job was only about 2/3 done? Shouldn't they have made them thinner but extending out farther, like if they were rationing ink?
And if they're real, WTF? Those things should be in some sort of Ripley's exhibit because I just can't believe it.
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They probably know the camera crews more than they know Dr. Drew.
I think that is to be envied.
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S05.E07: Reflections Of The Past
in Couples Therapy [V]
But it's an [alleged] therapy situation, where it shouldn't be her responsibility to read the room. It's up to the therapist to set the framework in which people can process through their issues. Which is obviously the problem here.