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I thought this was pretty impractical for a traveling nurse. It's not as cool, but really, an RV would be a much better choice since it will be moved a lot. Everything in those open cubbies will have to be put in boxes or something every time they travel. And that thing is really really tall, so they won't be able to take it anywhere they want.
They already have to have an enormous truck to pull their tiny house--they could get a really nice 5th wheel trailer, with a full residential kitchen and bathroom, and it's made for travel. I don't really even like 5th wheel trailers, and I do love a lot of tiny houses, but for their needs, I really think a 5th-wheel would suit their lifestyle better.
Some of the traveling nurses I know use it as an opportunity to travel between assignments, and no way you're doing that with the tiny house. So they're limiting their options.
And I don't know if they misspoke, but generally, you don't need a commercial driver's license (CDL) to pull a big trailer. You need one if you do it commercially, but if you're pulling a private vehicle, you need a special kind of driver's license, but it's not a CDL, with its medical clearances and draconian penalties for traffic violations, etc.
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Mmmmm, White Castle. It's been many, many, MANY years since I had a real White Castle burger.
I didn't have White Castle when growing up, and as an adult I was always sober when I tried them. I think both factors make it no surprise that I can't stand them.
I put White Castle in a similar category as Der Wienerschnitzel. If you grew up with it, or if it was somewhere you went as a drunk college student, you're probably going to be, and remain, a fan. But coming into it late can be a challenge. Because really, those chili cheese dogs are kind of gross, but I love 'em.
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Jace will be lucky to see Jenelle's mug once a month now that there's another kid in the picture.
I agree, sort of. Jace will be lucky if he sees Jenelle's mug only once a month.
I found it interesting that Nathan was working in the kitchen in jail while he's on disability. After the show, I happened to surf by Nightline and they were doing a show on prosecuting people who were on worker's comp or disability (started by the beauty pageant contestant who was on worker's comp, I think, because she broke her toe and couldn't stand, walk, or put on a shoe, yet somehow was able to compete in the pageant). Are there different rules for military disability? I assume his disability has something to do with PTSD, which is invisible and insidious and nothing like having a broken toe, but if he's able to work in a kitchen in order to get days shaved off his sentence (kitchen work is HARD), it seems to me he could be matched with some sort of job in order to shave some dollars off his burden on the taxpayers.
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Does anyone have a Schlotzsky's anymore?
Schlotzsky's, which started in Austin, went public and expanded like crazy, and then imploded. It's back to privately owned and they're spotty around the country (both corporate-owned and franchised). I once found Schlotzsky's brand potato chips in a Publix supermarket in Florida. WTF?
I love the sandwiches and actively seek them out (I travel around full time). But the one in Grand Junction, Colorado? Avoid it unless you're really jonesing. It literally has the highest prices, by far, of any Schlotzsky's I've ever been to. What costs us about $15 today at any other location was over $20 at that one several years ago. Even the Yelp reviews all bitch about how expensive it is. And the one in La Jolla, California, used cabbage instead of lettuce on the sandwich. Another WTF? My love for Schlotzsky's is tested regularly, but I persevere. I do love the Cheese Original Style sandwich.
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LEAH Word mispronunciations of the week: Sim-YOU-Lurr for similar and FILLY-YING for Feeling.
But Jeremy used the subjunctive tense when discussing whether Goggles was excited, saying something like, "She wouldn't tell you if she were." Yeah, I know it was probably an accident but my heart gave a little leap.
Yay Chelsea! I'm proud of her. She's going to be just fine. She's turned her MTV money over to her dad to invest instead of blowing through it,
It looks like he's blowing it on chicken wings and beer. Has he always been that big around the middle? He looked like a sausage sitting on the couch.
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Can I just point out that the icy fruit drinks at Sonic are called slushes? I was at Sonic two days ago, after a long absence. I was chagrined that they have only cheeseburgers, not hamburgers. You can get it without cheese, but you'll pay full price. That sucks.
Smashburger does the same thing, but at least you can get cheddar cheese, which I find edible, unlike the usual fast-food hamburger cheese.
Whataburger was a life-saver when I used to go to work at around 10:30 a.m. I could get a hamburger and fries at 9:30 in the morning.
As for the nutrition information on Five Guys' fries, a large order will feed an army so it's deceptive to use that. In fact, in the last year or so they've added a "little fries" to the menu, which is a much more reasonable portion for one person than even a "regular fries"--one of the reasons I didn't like going there alone was that I would waste too many fries if I ordered them.
I, too, don't patronize Chick-Fil-A or Domino's, and I quit going to Fuddrucker's when they changed their french fries to "freedom fries." I don't research companies and generally try to engage in a news blackout, so if I somehow find out about a company's political views, it means they want them out there front and center. And I make exceptions. In-N-Out has a bible verse printed on its french fry containers, and I eat there sometimes. I like their fries.
And speaking of fries, I've started always getting a side of mayonnaise to mix with ketchup, and make my own Utah fry sauce. It's particularly good with fries from the Habit. And the Habit, like In-N-Out, is CHEAP,
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Oooh, one of Jenelle's leg humpers responded to a nasty comment I made on MTV's FB page! And I quote:
"whachu expect her to do? she prenant and bye herself! she got lot to deal with cuz her man bein lock up and she have Jace."
Jellus hater, when I first read "leg humpers," I thought you were talking about one of Jenelle's dogs. Then I realized either of them would probably string a comment together better than the presumed human who wrote this, even typing on a phone keyboard with overgrown dog toenails.
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As soon as Jenelle let those dogs go, I was like YES! They're better off, geez.
I'm just sad that Jace didn't follow them. And maybe even baby Kaiser, ripping himself out of the womb a la Alien to join the flight.
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There are plenty of medical professions where recent grads have the ability to work full scope (as far as I know) under their employer's license while getting their own licensing in order. Does the state of North Dakota really think that Chelsea giving a facial without a license is more dangerous in comparison???
If they've seen her makeup they might.
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I'll admit it--I'm an old fogey, and a cranky one at that. Don't the youths these days have mad computer skillz that could turn these ridiculous mirror photos into something kind of normal? Like the hair one. She could just crop the damn thing to get that stupid camera out of it, and make it look like a regular picture instead of something so creepy. Those hands look like claws, and somehow the mirror effect makes me feel like a voyeur.
And, for god's sake--she's looking in the mirror as she clicks the camera so she chose that deranged look. What is wrong with people?
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Sometimes Amber looks exactly like Maya Rudolph.
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Melissa seems okay with playing a bubble-headed driver who just can't keep from crashing the car. The guy at the dealership was a jerk, but I don't think she minded.
Besides, the whole thing is made up. I'm assuming they have collision insurance on the Bentley--don't you have to carry it unless you own the car outright? So I call bullshit on them spending $100,000 in the last year on bodywork. (Well, auto bodywork, anyway.) The dealership guy said he's their best customer, which I can believe, but that money is bound to be coming from the insurance company, not from the Gorgas. Hell, I bet he even waives their deductible, so they're probably not out a dime. But Joe Go clearly made it sound like they are personally ponying up the cash, and I think that's simply untrue.
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I loved it when Leah was whining to Jurmy about the effects of the meds, and she said, "I don't want to look like that." With that hair, and that makeup, and those nails, and those clothes--looking sleepy is where she draws the line.
And THIS is why it's not safe on the roads. Leah nodding off at work but presumably driving herself back and forth (because she has no support, you know), Chelsea seemingly unable to put a foot on the accelerator without talking on the phone about things that are upsetting her, Jenelle having Nathan clean her glasses for her while she's driving, Adam and his DUIs, Nathan and his DUIs, Frankly, I don't care if they want to kill themselves and their children, but stop imperiling everybody else on the road.
I'm so over Nathan and his collared shirts. You're not fooling anyone into thinking you're some classy, upstanding citizen.He always reminds me of these kids who moved down the street from us when I was little. The two brothers came over and introduced themselves to my parents, and shook hands, and my parents were so impressed. Well. They turned out to be thugs to all the other kids, and in fact were the ones who told me a joke about Johnny Fuckerfaster, which to this day, almost 50 years later, i still can't forget. Nathan and his collared shirts = the Minton kids. You're not fooling me.
Adumb seems very aware of the cameras to me. If they weren't being filmed, he may just have pinched her very hard and told her to "shut up".So how's this for an idea? We all pitch in and pay someone to follow Adam around with a fake camera 24/7. Adam behaves, and we don't have to see any footage. Sounds like a win-win to me.
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I'm sorry … you heard incorrectly. The college she got accepted to was SALVE REGINA … a Catholic school in Newport, R.I.
Aah, the ONE time I'm not watching the captions. I, and my alter ego Roseanne Roseannadanna, thank you.
Actually, that could explain Dina's sister's reaction--what's a salve regina? Knowing these clowns, it's likely she thought it was some sort of vulgar term, and thought Lexi is too young to need to be getting it worked on.
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The scene with Lexi and college was weird. Dina told Lexi to make her big announcement, which was she'd gotten accepted to Southern Virginia University. My reaction was, "Where?" And apparently so was Dina's sister's (I don't remember exactly what she said), but she added that her reaction was because she doesn't know much about college. I think she was covering because really, how much does someone have to know about college in general to know the appropriate reaction to "I got accepted to X" is, "Congratulations!" No, I think she also thought, "Where??"
And then Lexi talked about NYU.
For one, I don't think those two schools are comparable. So I looked up SVU and it's a Mormon school. I'm all for being open to different choices, but to be seriously considering either a Mormon school in a town of about 6,000 people in rural Virginia or NYU seems crazy.
For another, she said she was looking into NYU because she can design her own major. SVU offers 13 majors. That's all. Either she wants to be able to design her own major at NYU, or she'll just pick from among the 13 offered at SVU.
It just didn't make any sense. Then again, should I expect college discussions to be any less scripted and unbelievable than anything else on the show? Remember, we have Joe Gui referring to his possible prison term as "going to college."
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Watching the show though, I get the impression that Ali's biggest challenge might be being so much smarter than everyone who's supposed to be caring for her. And I say that as a Cory fan.
They all seem like ignorant hicks to me. And sometimes it's hard to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity, so I try to give them a little benefit of the doubt, but it's kind of hard. Are y'all sure you aren't being fooled by Ali's glasses? Maybe she's going all Rick Perry on us.
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He claimed the other couple went through a green light (?) and rammed into him. However, if that was the case, why would they ticket Adam for anything?
I'm pretty sure he was driving without a license and without insurance, and he would get tickets for those no matter who was at fault, or even if there hadn't been a wreck but he got pulled over for something else.
I'd be interested to know who hit whom and who had a green light, though. And how fast Adam was going.
So Nathan is going to jail, has 3 DUI's and a suspended license, and still thinks he did nothing wrong during his arrest. Kudos to his lawyer for telling him not only that he's an asshole, but that everything is due to his drinking.Yeah, he was okay with copping a plea on all that other stuff, but the ONE thing that was captured on video for all the world to see--he wants to fight that one. Because I'm sure he doesn't think he did anything wrong. I did like Jenelle's look when the lawyer was chewing him out. You know, because she's clean as a whistle.
He sort of scared me in the scene where they were telling Barbara the sex of the baby, and she said "Boy oh boy oh boy" or something. He leaned way forward and was laughing crazy and had his eyes bugging out. Total over-reaction.
And when he dons his sweater vest, it just gives me the creeps because he seems like he's having to hold himself back from something. Maybe it's like Jenelle and her court heels. I don't know. They're both ridiculous, and dangerous.
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Thank you...Punta Cana; I never remember the name, lol
"Punta Cana" always sounds like a vulgar slur to me, like "Get away from me, you punta cana." Having these clowns vacation there doesn't help.
I used to work in a law school and at orientation, the dean would tell all the students to look to the person to the left and to the right. One of you three won't be here in a year. And he was right.I was going to bring that up last week when I read the Albie law school discussion. That's a pretty standard line and has been for a very long time. The dean said the same exact thing during first year orientation on my first day of law school over twenty years ago. In my case, the person to my left ended up dropping out,
I went to law school in the 1980s. Maybe a top 10 school; definitely top 15. We didn't have an orientation, but it was generally known that 1 person out of each section of 100 students wouldn't make it past the first year, and that's pretty much how it worked out.
Too bad Albie didn't go there--Caroline could have soothed his ego by pointing out that he was one of the one-percent.
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Ed still won Jillian, despite some "difficulties." That doesn't speak well of Kiptyn!
Aah, Kiptyn. Now that Five Guys Burgers is spreading all over the country...you know those little shards of french fries in the bottom of the bag? Kiptyns.
Do they always misspell "forgo" on the fantasy suite card? Definitely on Josh's; couldn't quite read it on Nick's. Argh.
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FlyingEgret, they only have a crawl on the NYC station. To get a feel for what you missed, just say some incoherent partial sentences, but let no more than five words pass your lips without saying "like."
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Would someone be so kind as to translate this for me?
I gather in the first one she's threatening Dina. But the second one? Who exactly is she talking to or about? Ashlee said something funny? Is that hand waving? Why is there an "end quote" after the hand? Is the context for any of this found elsewhere? Should I just stick to 300 pages of legal documents if I want to read something I can understand?
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It's probably the production people who are making her pose with the rose the way she does but it looks really really stupid.
It reminds me of an altar boy holding a lit candle.
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Gumption doesn't change the fact that the nearest law firms are 1.5 hours away and I highly doubt they're working out an arrangement for teleworking with someone who has a whole 18 months of experience.
Especially someone who quit her first job in the middle of a trial to be on The Bachelorette.
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I've never been in couples therapy, but if both spouses are going into it with the idea that they just want the therapist to confirm they're 100% right and the other person is 100% wrong, I'm not sure they're going into it with the best attitude.
That's exactly why I want to watch.
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S01.E01: 172 Sq. Ft. Dream Castle
in Tiny House Nation [V]
I wish there were one big thread for the show because there are some overarching themes of bogosity that apply to all episodes. But...the salad spinner? I have one. For one, where do they keep it? Those things take up an enormous amount of space, especially because of the handle, and you can't double-duty them. I didn't see it in their "you have 10 cubic feet of storage" display.
And for another, a salad spinner would work better. Because at least it spins. I noticed she said the thing washes and spins, but it doesn't. You spin it around to do the washing, but there's no spin that extracts water and it's no different from hand-washing in a sink when it comes to wringing out the clothes. Yeah...try doing that with her enormous husband's jeans. Or towels. Everything takes FOREVER to dry, and knit items? If you hang them up, they stretch because they're wet and heavy. It's not like they have a lot of room to lay things on the floor.
The device is called a Wonder Wash, and I got it to wash bike clothes when we're not at a place where I can run my washing machine (I've lived in an RV traveling around for the last 10 years, with no home base--I know a LOT about tiny living). But I think I'm going to just go back to washing them in the sink. Or a bucket with a plunger.
I get the impression, since they have a composting toilet and they're on private land, that these people will be draining their "gray" water (everything but toilet) onto the ground.
I know...it's a reality show, which means it has little to do with reality. What I'd like to know, though, is how much of the people's satisfaction is real, and how much is cognitive dissonance springing from defending their decision. Because NO WAY is someone happy doing all their family's wash by hand, either in a Wonder Wash or the sink, every single day. To me, they should have just left out mention of laundry because what they showed was crazy. We can just assume they go to a laundromat.