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16 hours ago, Elizzikra said:
but you can get some that aren’t really super thick and fake looking.
But for some reason nobody does.
6 hours ago, Empress1 said:His friend was giving him real constructive criticism… with elf ears on. It was killing me.
Aah, I'm glad someone else noticed that. It was probably the highlight of the episode.
5 hours ago, Empress1 said:If Binh busts out a whiteboard a la Jose, I’m going to throw the remote.
I'm always interested in how people spend their money so I'd love it if Binh busts out a whiteboard, but ONLY if it actually adds up, unlike Jose's.
Quotehe lost me totally when he said he won’t run the heat or air conditioning or do laundry during peak hours (electricity costs more then, I suppose)
Electricity rates in California are nothing to trifle with.
If I had to live anywhere in the U.S. without heat or air conditioning, it would be San Diego. The weather there is astonishingly nice, so Binh is well located for scrimping on electricity. (Although he should actually look at how much electricity a washing machine uses--it's almost nothing. It's the hot water that runs up the cost of a load of wash and of course drying gobbles electricity.)
2 hours ago, kristen111 said:I have one thing to say tho. Kudos to whoever wrote those vows Alexis said to Justin. They brought me to tears. The most beautiful vows ever. Actually, I loved everything about their wedding .. the braid and jumping the broom.
I didn't really listen to the vows, but they were laughing afterward about how similar they were, and how they'd gotten them from "google" (although they probably mean "the internet" and not "google"--pet peeve of mine).
Anybody else notice that the braid was unbraided when they were walking back up the aisle? An omen?
34 minutes ago, sara416 said:And Nate looked like Pharell in that hat at the bacehlor party.
Thank you! I knew he looked like somebody.
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On 7/5/2022 at 3:50 PM, Ilovepie said:
I swore I wasn't going to watch, but I couldn't help myself, especially with my husband saying "let's watch this!"
Something is telling me I want to hear your husband's side of this.
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17 hours ago, chessiegal said:
Curious - did they share anything else about being on the show? Did they contact the production company or did the production company contact them? How much were they paid to be on the show? I believe they used to be paid $1,000.
Sorry, I don't know. I didn't think to ask how they ended up on the show, which now seems kind of negligent because they weren't even looking for a house at the time. However, they're good friends with a guy who has worked on HH so I'm guessing I assumed he was the connection.
Also, as long as I'm being kind of gossipy, you know how we talk about how people behave on the show, reading all sorts of stuff into everything? The guy who worked on HH told me that there was an early episode where the interactions between the couple were really troubling, like he didn't beat her or anything but he had a real attitude and she wasn't standing up to him. He said they actually had trouble putting together the episode in a way that would be palatable to viewers.
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17 hours ago, Grizzly said:
Nice, France. The eyelashes, just no.
I found myself struggling to keep MY eyes open when looking at hers being weighed down by those lashes. One can only hope that she sees the episode and realizes it's not a good look.
17 hours ago, Grizzly said:A Murphy bunkbed, that's unique. Not sure how a teen brother and sister are going to want to share that.
It would be bad enough just for sleeping, but the dad said something about a place for them to hang out when mom is working in the living room and he's cooking.
On 7/5/2022 at 9:32 AM, Notabug said:I think the whole 'storyline', that they were moving to Mexico permanently, was total fiction.
I know a couple who were on a HHI Mexico episode, and the storyline was that they were moving to Mexico permanently, but in reality they were splitting their time between Denver and Mexico. Plus they'd bought the house in the episode a couple of years before filming the episode.
And despite knowing this, I still get suckered by the stories they give.
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Western Pennsylvania: I know the whole structure of the show is that people walk around looking at houses and talking about them, but this episode in particular seemed like they never shut up. It was exhausting.
16 hours ago, Grizzly said:"I'm a creative." Wtf does that mean?
Plus, she's a goddamn opera singer. Why would someone choose "I'm a creative" over "I'm an opera singer" or even "I trained as an opera singer"?
Then again, did she say what her job was before bistro? Maybe "I'm a creative" is another way of saying "jobless person who doesn't code."
16 hours ago, Grizzly said:Props for her weight loss.
Definitely props for her weight loss, but it looks like she still has a ways to go. Will the bistro have before and after photos on display? Because if I were looking for a restaurant that would help me lose weight and saw her standing there as the success story that inspired the restaurant, I wouldn't be super encouraged.
Plus, I think I'm in the minority but when I pay money to go out to eat, I want the biggest calorie bang for the buck.
16 hours ago, CrazyInAlabama said:They bought the house for $300k.
The house was listed at $250K and they put an offer in for $300K and it was accepted and he called it the deal of the century. These are the times we're living in.
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9 hours ago, DutchbutnoJesse said:
I am intrigued too; so America washings machines don't have temperature settings? I thought 'mums' was exaggerating and theirs didn't have it but...
The settings are for hot, warm, and cold. They don't have actual temperatures, in degrees, associated with the hot, warm, and cold--just the word.
So unamerican (heh) machines have the temperature in degrees, instead of a word like "warm"? That actually makes sense. I was thinking Miona was saying you can set Serbian machines for 68-degree water, or 84-degree water, which seemed awfully precise.
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Here's the trailer (just showing off--I only recently figured out how to embed them):
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On 6/29/2022 at 6:12 PM, QQQQ said:Full disclosure: I hated this book with the heat of a thousand nuns (™ old Television Without Pity forums 😅) and am kind of hoping the movie is a mess.
I'd never even heard of it before I started seeing the trailer in theaters. What about the book did you hate? The whole premise? Or the way it was written?
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On 6/21/2022 at 6:15 AM, Cloud9Shopper said:
My job requires a bachelor’s degree and I’ve been here for three years and still don’t even make $20 an hour.
In a small city in the farmlands west of Chicago, there's a fabrication shop that just hired a "shop person"--somebody to wield a paintbrush and turn a wrench and clean up. No actual experience was required. They hired a 19-year-old kid, at $18/hour. Holy shit.
On 6/22/2022 at 8:52 AM, theredhead77 said:If people want federal holidays off they need to work for the Feds or at at bank / financial institution.
Or the state government in Texas. I'm kind of loath to defend Texas these days, but state employees had Juneteenth off way back in 1980. It was a "skeleton crew" holiday, which meant the offices were open and had to be minimally staffed, but anyone who worked that day would get a "comp day" to take at another time.
Every month had at least one paid holiday (some skeleton crew, some office-is-closed holidays):
January: New Years Day, Confederate Heroes Day (+ now MLK day)
February: Washington's Birthday
March: Texas Independence Day
April: San Jacinto Day
May: Memorial Day
June: Emancipation Day
July: Independence Day
August: LBJ's birthday
September: Labor Day
October: Columbus Day (this one has been dropped, leaving October holiday-less!))
November: Veterans Day + Thanksgiving and day after Thanksgiving
December: Christmas Eve, Christmas, and the day after Christmas
On 6/22/2022 at 12:19 PM, JTMacc99 said:One of my coworkers told me last week that his son got a job (he's a college student, so not full time) as an usher at a Broadway theater.
It pays $28 an hour.
Back in the 1980s I ushered at the Special Events Center in Austin--where they had concerts and UT basketball games. We got paid a flat $7.50 per event, unless the event went over I think 4-1/2 hours? If it went past whatever the threshold was, we got paid $15. That's an odd pay structure, and we'd be chanting "Encore! Encore!" if it was getting close, and definitely not shooing people out the exits when it was over.
On 6/25/2022 at 12:44 AM, mbaywife123 said:What ever happened to here is my resume, do you want to employ me? Give me an answer please, I am qualified and ready to start asap, or within two weeks.
I know! Every job I've ever had was because either I had a connection, or I just submitted an application and resume. The submit-an-application ones included a position as a lawyer for a state agency. They posted a job opening, I submitted an application with my resume, had one interview with the people I'd be working for, and started work.
I can't imagine going through what y'all are describing. Makes me very glad I'm old and will never have to do it.
On 6/27/2022 at 9:33 AM, Cloud9Shopper said:Someone shared the Monday motivation on our team Slack this morning
OMG. I can't imagine enduring Monday motivation. I hate it when I call customer service and the person asks how I'm doing, because it's wasting time that could be spent solving my damn problem.
QuoteI wish we’d just drop this motivational platitude stuff and focus on real things that would make people happier at work. I don’t need a video of someone’s kid to motivate me.
I remember when getting paid was considered sufficient motivation for people to work. 😀
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5 hours ago, rhofmovalley said:
I missed her saying she wanted a rose gold claw foot tub (just heard her whine about the claw foot).
I'm jealous of your selective hearing.
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Check out her mask. Sublime. As were all of the costumes.
This is a fun little romp. I haven't had much exposure to color-blind casting, but if this is any indication, I'm all in. Or maybe it's just this cast. I loved spending a couple of hours embroiled in their machinations.
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13 hours ago, CalicoKitty said:
I had them leave the tub out, enlarged the shower, and did not have them build the "toilet room". It's ok to see the toilet in the bathroom, right? The bathroom is now huge.
I've never lived anywhere that had a big bathroom, and for the last 20 years I've had a toilet room that is just barely big enough for the toilet. I think it's warped me. Because when I see these houses with enormous bathrooms and an open toilet, I picture myself sitting there with my pants around my knees and all that space all around me, and I feel very exposed.
It's kind of the same way in pubic bathrooms that don't have stalls, because they have to be pretty big in order to accommodate a wheelchair. It's just little old me over in the corner, with all that open space.
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52 minutes ago, BAForever said:
Have heard "generational wealth" several times in HH in the past few months, and always with an African-American Hunter. Am I reading too much in to what it means? Does it mean leaving your heirs enough money not to need to work?
What @Empress1 said, above, plus the effects of the GI Bill after WW II.
The GI Bill offered low-cost mortgages, with the intention of veterans buying houses and having the value of the houses go up over time, creating wealth. (And even today, a house is still the most common generational wealth asset.) It really was a solid thing for the government to do for the benefit of veterans. In theory.
But Blacks weren't able to take advantage of this benefit in the numbers whites were because banks weren't offering mortgages in Black neighborhoods (redlining). They were offering mortgages in the new suburbs, but many of those suburbs weren't an option for Blacks, whether because of deed restrictions, or regular old racism if a Black family moved into a white neighborhood.
A huge number of white veterans used the GI Bill to buy houses to live in, with the house's value appreciating over time, and then leave the appreciated asset to their children. Blacks, meanwhile, were paying rent (also known on HH as "throwing your money away every month").
(As an aside, the other big benefit of the GI Bill was paying for college, but in the South, Blacks couldn't go to segregated white colleges, and there were way too many Black veterans for the HBCUs to admit, and therefore many Blacks in the South were unable to use the GI Bill's college benefits.)
I find it to be a dismal and actually embarrassing history, but even so, am getting tired of hearing "generational wealth" constantly on HH. Just buy your damn house, like everybody else does.
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Farrah keeps using this word "batterment." I always thought the correct term was "battery," but what do I know--my law degree isn't from Harvard.
So I looked it up, using google "verbatim," which is what all google searches used to be, back in the glory days of the internet. "Verbatim" looks only for the actual term you enter, not what it thinks you want (to buy).
Here's what I got:
Google verbatim returned 105 instances of the word "batterment" on the whole internet. (To contrast, with a "regular" google search for batterment, I got 56,900,000 results.) "Batterment" is one rare word.
And if you look at the verbatim results, the majority of them are misspellings of "betterment," with sprinklings of bad translation and bad "reading" of the word "betterment" in a scanned document. Plus Farrah-related contributions.
This is not good. It's hard enough to read her word salad when the ingredients consist of actual words.
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5 hours ago, BAForever said:
ETA- have fam in Manhattan Beach. Their 3/2 cute bungalow is 4 blocks from beach. Bought it 10 years ago for $1.2 million. Zestimate now over $2 million. Crazy.
I wonder why it's appreciating so slowly. 😀
I have a friend in Austin whose house was appraised by the county for property tax purposes at $509,900 in 2020, $690,400 in 2021, and now $1,103,158 in 2022.
The 1-bedroom 1-bath condo I sold about 20 years ago was appraised at $166,754 in 2020, $183,013 in 2021, and now $243,079 in 2022.
It's getting to where watching HH episodes in southern California is helping convince me that not every place is insane.
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Very sweet British movie based on the true story of a man who entered the 1976 British Open despite never having played an actual round of golf before, starring Mark Rylance and Sally Hawkins. And two guys I'd never heard of who play his disco-dancing twin sons (also true), who come close to stealing the show.
It's designed to be a heart-warming crowd pleaser, which is not a knock in my book--if it succeeds. Which this one did, for the "crowd" in my theater, anyway--three singletons. However, one of them approached me on the way out to talk about the movie, which almost never happens any more.
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On 2/17/2022 at 2:27 PM, Shannon L. said:
I think he looks a lot like a young John Travolta, but that's not going to stop me from seeing the movie.
I saw the trailer many times in theaters and nothing about it made me want to see the movie, including the fact that in the scenes in the trailer, he looked like John Travolta and not Elvis. But things lined up and I went anyway, and I'm glad I did. I was distracted periodically throughout the movie by his eye makeup, but would push it aside because Butler's performance was so good.
His performance of "Suspicious Minds" in Las Vegas was a-ma-zing.
On 6/25/2022 at 4:59 PM, AimingforYoko said:Yep, this was a Baz Luhrman film all right.
I've seen only Strictly Ballroom, and that was thirty years ago. But I have to say, I was really taken by his style. Even the whatever-it's-called before the opening credits, showing the production company or distributor or whatever, was flashy and gaudy and wonderful. If anybody was going to do a major Elvis biopic, this was the right guy.
On 6/27/2022 at 3:58 PM, bunnyface said:That was 1942. It happened more commonly than we can imagine. It was viewed differently.
Some of the posts here had the ages a little wrong (not significantly, but accuracy matters): According to lots of sources, Priscilla was 14 (not 13) when she met Elvis, and Elvis was 24 (not 22). That's a big ten years when you're talking about being 24 and 14 years old.
Then again, Priscilla's mother was 18 when she got married and 19 when she had Priscilla. I found differing accounts of Priscilla's father's age (he died when she was a baby), but he was at least five years older than her mother (and maybe nine years older), and Wikipedia claims they'd been dating for three years when they got married. Looks like it runs in the family.
But maybe not Elvis's family--his mother was older than his father.
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Here's the letter from her professor:
Her poor professor. That semicolon near the end is a thing of beauty, and her reward for such skill is to deal with the likes of Farrah.
I loved her suggestion that Farrah take a course that would help her develop her writing skills "on the sentence level."
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23 hours ago, CrazyInAlabama said:
I can't imagine trying to sell that, with the total lack of anything resembling a view, or neighborhood about it.
Well, their seller sold it. I assume whatever negative features a house has is baked into the price. In fact, didn't the HH say they were able to pay a lower price because of the power plant? Seems unlikely that that particular quirk wasn't accounted for in setting the price it was offered at, and then negotiated as usual.
I'm sure that some houses, like this one, will have issues that limit the potential pool of buyers, but really, all houses do. I'm guessing that if a house has something about it that appeals to a smaller pool of people, it will be priced lower, like on a dollar-per-square-foot basis, than houses that appeal to more people. That diminution in value doesn't suddenly appear once someone decides to sell; they paid a lower price when they bought it but never seem to take that into account.
QuoteSo, an apartment measuring 700 square feet could be described as a 700 square-foot apartment.
From what posters have said, the HHs would likely say "foot" instead of "feet" in that sentence. Or, in the example I came up with, "This house is 1200 square foot."
I do know it's an adjective in "700-square-foot apartment," and agree that it should be singular. But I don't know enough about parts of speech to know whether the other times are adjectives or what, but they definitely sound terrible with "foot."
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On 6/26/2022 at 7:01 PM, buttersister said:
That was my take awhile ago. Checking in here in case they refreshed anything. But they haven’t, so still not worth the time. I’m even past hate watching.😂
I don't know if it qualifies as "refreshed," but something different I've noticed is the camera swooping around that so many shows have started doing. Or maybe they've been doing it forever and I'm just now noticing it because I've started noticing it elsewhere.
Whatever...I hate it. I've stopped watching Trevor Noah's interviews because of it, and I like him a lot more than I like anybody on this show.
And they'd done product placement before, but Alex's little comment about the bourbon was like a hostage's statement.
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On 6/25/2022 at 10:58 AM, QQQQ said:
I like Maxine, but (shallow comment alert) find the shape of her face/head very distracting.
I didn't notice because I was so distracted by her enormous breasts tightly bound by that green shirt.
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On 6/24/2022 at 10:58 PM, Lantern7 said:
Another painful segment from Jordan that I made myself watch because I need to keep being upset. Seriously, he does great work . . . better than anything he did on The Opposition . . . but the trips must grind his soul to dust.
Anderson Cooper interviewed him on CNN the other day, with respect to this segment. At one point Klepper called himself a "historian" of this type of thing, and it did sound like his soul is none the better for it.
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19 hours ago, cameron said:
I get really bothered when the realtor uses the word foot instead of feet when mentioning size of house.
I haven't noticed because I'm too busy twitching from the other annoyances. But do they say, "This house has 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, and is 1200 square foot"?
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1 hour ago, EtheltoTillie said:
This weekend was apparently costume night, and they had on a noted costume designer to discuss Mahogany and Taxi Driver.
Last Saturday I watched the end of Annie Hall and Alicia Malone had Tim Gunn as a guest, talking about the costumes. Maybe it's a series.
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17 hours ago, LittleIggy said:
I got sick of hearing all the y’all this and y’all that from the realtor. And I am from the South. I try not to say “y’all.”
Do people actually prefer "you guys" every time a HH couple is addressed? And convolutions like "This can be your guys's entertaining area"?
I'm from Texas so "y'all" is ingrained in me, but I prefer a simple "you." What's so hard about "I think you'll love this house," addressing both people collectively? And even better, "This can be your entertaining area."
It's as if this realtor, and the realtors who say "you guys" incessantly, aren't even aware that "you" can refer to more than one person, and is infinitely less annoying.
I'm not sure which makes me twitch more: "your guys's," or "I mean" at the start of every sentence.
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House Hunters - General Discussion
in House Hunters
The Raleigh people were saying that it would be safer for the girl to have her bedroom on the second floor, but I'm thinking that's not necessarily the case.
I think the real problem is someone getting in in the first place, and if that happens, the problem becomes me getting out. A bedroom on the second floor doesn't address the issue of the criminal getting in at all, and if I'm on the second floor when he gets in, the only way out of the house is going down the stairs probably with him right there, or jumping out the second-floor window. So actually, I think the second-floor bedroom makes it worse, with me trapped up there.