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On 1/30/2020 at 11:08 PM, CeeBeeGee said:
And on that note, it is also inappropriate for the doctor to ask a patient out. Like, I think he can actually be reprimanded for that.
Umm...you lose your license for that.
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On 12/27/2020 at 5:22 PM, Chicago Redshirt said:
There is also a question of what happened to the money that Lord F. won. The two most likely possibilities are that Lord F. actually paid off a good number of his debts or the unsavory types made him make a involuntary withdrawal.
All the IOUs were missing, so did the bookies sneak in and steal them? Or had Lord F taken them with him to collect on them when he was waylaid and killed?
At the end, I enjoyed the show well enough, but I think they could have done a better job. It was a weird mix of modern and old fashioned...i.e., the sex scenes which were “ooh, sex in a romance”, but not done with much finesse. Think of the sex scenes in Outlander, which are amazing, and push the story forward. These seemed sort of perfunctory.
At the end of it, they could have given me 8 hours of watching Simon and Anthony walk around in their gorgeousness, maybe riding a horse now and then, and I would have been happy. 🙂.
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Just thinking about the title of the episode, and the "swish"...was Lady Featherington checking to see if Marina "showed" when she moved around? I have to think so, she must be almost four months along by now.
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Thank you, Cotypubby. I work in a large hospital, and non-patient facing employees are not expected to be able to be vaccinated until late April at the earliest. And we're organized about it. It's more likely July when low-risk members of the public get their vaccine, after a couple more are approved.
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I have colleagues in Italy, we knew in late January that it was going to be bad.
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1 hour ago, Ohiopirate02 said:
It is a truth universally acknowledged that no one poops in a romance novel. Also, all historical romance heroes are circumcised. They also have excellent dental habits
Haha...I went to Trim Castle in Ireland years ago (it's partially reconstructed, so you get an idea of what it looked like), and they made a point of showing us the "garderobe"...which was a hole in the corner of the floor. Once a year the collection point was tented, and everyone's clothes were stuffed inside to let the ammonia "refresh" everything. I haven't been able to read a medieval romance since! Since bathing was a *little* more common during the Regency, and they had a little privacy and some receptacles for waste, I can suspend disbelief a little easier.
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I would love Anne Gracie’s “Perfect” series...I just reread a couple of those, and they’re so good. And Elizabeth Hoyt’s Four Soldiers series. Anything by Loretta Chase. I do think that 8 episodes was too much for the Duke and I...there just isn’t enough story there.
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On 1/2/2021 at 1:49 PM, ursula said:
And the next morning, she insists she's not hungover while her housekeeper just pretends to agree with her as she prepares the hungover tea.
Not even hangover tea...raw eggs and garlic! That would have sent me straight to the vomitorium.
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On 12/28/2020 at 2:18 PM, DearEvette said:
Speaking of the queen, her smallish scene with Mad King George was well done and gave her a little bit of inner life outside of simply being this all powerful queen character. I liked that little bit of character texture for her.
But the crazy thing is: it’s *Regency* England. Her son was acting King, because of the madness of King George. Charlotte had no power at all.
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"I know Shonda Rhimes picked it but I can’t help but think of a half dozen others that would translate better. Simon and Daphne were kind of dull in the book and they are kind of dull here. If I’m looking to kick off a new tv trend they would not be the couple that would jump to mind. "
Elizabeth Hoyt's Four Soldiers series would make a terrific series. I still read those books every few years. I've been disappointed with Bridgerton (have to finish it tonight), because I think some of the efforts to make it appeal to non-romance fans actually hurt the look (the cheap jewels, too many tiaras, and upholstery fabric for 1813 costumes and the story. And there are not a proper pair of unmentionables or buckskins anywhere! Even the boots are all wrong. Men wore shoes to balls, not boots.
I would have been fine with them doing color-blind casting, but the throwaway line from Lady D to Simon about the king marrying a black woman and how it changed their lives made no sense. At all. If this is a one-generation change, where did these rich POCs come from? Instead of creating a backstory, just cast gorgeous people.
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It doesn’t seem to have a fixed place on the schedule, it was on HGTV.
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16 hours ago, aqusdealer said:
Actually, there are rose champagnes. If produced in France they are labeled as champagne. If produced elsewhere they must be labeled sparkling wines. They are much sweeter than the white champagne most people are used to.
We plebeians call it pink champagne. 🙂
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12 hours ago, BK1978 said:
I still don’t know which is Will and which is James.
Will had Longer Legs.
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I could care less about her personality if she'd cook for me...her food always looks amazing!
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And I don't think Rachel said "go f* yourself" to Captain Lee...I think she was addressing the primary. It'll be interesting to see what happens next week.
There is a form of PMS which is quite serious (Pre-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder). It's entirely possible that Rachel suffers from that, since she did mention menstrual cycles. She didn't look bipolar to me (that wasn't mania...). Or she's just easily riled up, like a lot of people.
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Rewatching this, and horrified by Shana and Jennifer on the train in Burkina Faso. I’ve never enjoyed an elimination more, and wished it had happened sooner.
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I think it was called Colonial something?
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1 hour ago, blackwing said:As for the tasks themselves, I know the high heel race is apparently a local thing, but did anyone else find it sexist / sexual orientationist? This task very much favoured women and gay men
Um, it favored gay men? Unless you assume all gay men spend their time in drag, I don’t think so. And I don’t know too many women who race in heels.
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Yet again...decisions I don’t understand. She put those huge picture windows on the side of the house that’s 10 yards away from the neighbors? And changed the whole outside of the house but left that ugly pediment over the door? I think I should stop watching this show for the sake of my sanity.
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I empathize with DeAngelo...hearing the other teams sharing and knowing that they had conspired against you all along must have sucked. He’s an athlete...when you pick a team you stick with the team, you don’t decide halfway through that you’re only going to work with part of your team. This season is full of unlikeable characters.
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Just finished this...what a bunch of unlikeable characters. I didn’t want any of them to succeed, and the whole Daria/Eric situation was just gross. Of course Harper the liar uses her agency (such as it is) to bring back a man who covered for her, but was abusive, over a woman who seemed to be on the ball and ready for change. My skin is still crawling.
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Just saw an episode of a new show...Home Again with the Fords. They did the living room, kitchen and mud room of an old Victorian house. It was stunningly beautiful, the kitchen was just gorgeous.
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I was CRYING laughing during the showstopper. This was just what I needed tonight.
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I stayed in an AirBnB in Plaza Major (they even showed the shop that the owners of the apartment owned), and it was great to have a central location, but it’s a really busy spot and I don’t think I’d like to live there full time. I think the apartment she chose was the right one.
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S01.E10: Kiss and Cry
in Spinning Out [V]
I knew it when she showed off the expensive sunglasses. Of course a creep trying to seduce a 16 year old would buy her stuff. That plot line just turned my stomach.