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I assumed Dorinda was talking about the time she was at the Regency (of course!) and attacked a man with her shoe while, I presume, in one of her drunken rages. https://pagesix.com/2016/10/05/housewife-dorinda-medley-allegedly-attacks-banker-with-high-heel/ and of course my “source” is Page 6 :) and Harry Dubin was there.

I’m not really a Lu fan, but I sure do admire how well she packs. On every trip she has a reasonably sized roller bag and looks great. Romona always has a steamer trunk and looks like shit.

Sorry for posting midepisode but, Becca just sent David (chicken suit) home and man, girl is ice cold. She didn’t even say goodbye or give a backward glance (literally)!!!! I think I love her now.

I appreciated the flashbacks of Luanne being “countess”ey for no other reason than to be reminded of what Bethanny’s old face looked like.

Bobby Z. seemed like a kind, caring and compassionate man, but let’s not forget Jill is awful. I am sorry for her loss but, I can absolutely see her saying the same kind of narcissistic, thoughtless comment that B did in the same situation. “*I* am alone too.” Would Jill have doubled down and made the shiva about herself (and the fact she was right) too, I’m not saying no. Jill and Bethany are cut from the same cloth.

Thanks for the tip on the podcast ITSADRYHEAT. For those that didn’t get a chance to listen: The gossip item said that Landon has worked as an “escort” in LA and met her husband and Ashley through that service (or whatever). Ashley has apparently been a gold digger for ages, she’s had several much older, weathy “boyfriends.” Landon apparently made the introduction to Thomas and they made some kind of arrangement. However, when Thomas didn’t sign his contract to be on the show Ashley threatened him (with exposure?). Following the allegations against Thomas, she is basically blackmailing him to keep her around under threat of spilling all the tea. Not sure what to make of this. If she allegedly has the power, why allow yourself to be shown as a desperate, psycho, doormat?

She already has one! http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/real-housewives-new-york-star-sonja-morgan-arrested-dwi-southhampton-article-1.180409

While it must be a nightmare for them, in some ways I think the producers on this show have somewhat of an easy job. These old broads are pros. Bethenny tells her producer she wants to start a fight with Ramona and to set up a call (but doesn’t even bother to get gussied up to film it) ... Ramona gets a chance to show that, unlike when at other people’s houses, she knows how to take her dog for a walk and also gets to develop her talking points for her call and organize her addled mind. Lu must have been drunk to squander her season long story line of offense at B calling her a loser (because Carol’s producer told her to bring it up) by letting B distract her by saying she had something on her face. She’s usually a better dancing monkey than that. And poor Sonja, she’s taken her producer’s advice of spicing it up and punching the “sexy J” to 11. The ten year old story of fucking a “hedge fund” in the servant’s bathroom mimed to her Contractor was insane on every level.

Yes to the sentiment and very yes to the comparison. When she was in the Santa hat and shreaking at the arrival of the Nutcracker there was a close up and she looked exactly like the Grinch, same stubbed nose, same hinged smile, same dead eyes and same aura of evil.

I stumbled across a Bravo Daily Dish podcast with Jill Zarin. While it seems like there is a nostalgia about her and a softening of attitude after she lost Bobby, 3 minutes of the podcast is enough to remind you why she received so much hate and scorn. She is horrible, the most self centered, shallow and delusional person on the planet. (Even worse than Ramona!) Worst of all, she is really going on all in on teasing a possible return. First she was on WWHL and now the podcast ... please, please, please Andy, NO! http://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/bravo-daily-dish-podcast-itunes-spotify-amazon-alexa {Sorry don’t know how to move a post. This post is a duplicate of one I posted in the small talk thread. I realized this is a more appropriate thread.}

Bethenny has burned bridges with every one of these women (except Tinsley) over the past few seasons. I’m sure she saw Sonja as the easiest to manipulate and the most desperate (besides herself) for a friendship for the season. She tries to hedge her hypocrisy by making mention of Sonja’s “other issues” - but on this super important issue of whether or not Tinsley said thank you - she’s on Sonja’s side and will advocate for her, but how dare Carol do the same for Tinsley. She is so transparent in how she “produces” herself.

I couldn’t even focus on the nonsense coming out of Carol’s mouth because I could’t stop looking at Carol’s mouth - the right side doesn’t even move anymore. She had a challenging mouth to begin with, why fool around with Botox/fillers (?) in an already troublesome area!?! Also, how can 3 hard boiled eggs be too much but 1 hard boiled and 2 scrambled not be too much?? It is still 3 eggs?!?! So much to say about Ramona at the nail salon (hair, make up, outfit) but what stood out to me was the look of absolute glee in learning Carol had no idea that Bethany took Dorinda the Drunk to Puerto Rico. Dorinda has a major inferiority complex that seems to drive a lot of the drunk outbursts (whether someone walking in the door ahead of her a la Heather, or not feeling as accomplished as the Miami dinner companions, even her hatred toward Sonja) ... maybe the booze gives her “Dutch courage” or she’s just an “angry drunk”.

Welcome to New York! :) The struggle is real.

Patricia is a thirsty, old, jealous cow with no manners. Why she injects herself into this group is a mystery. I could see that she may have wanted to help her son get his show off the ground in season 1 and agreed to play a ridiculous “grand old dame” for comic relief. Her continued involvement is ridiculous and her immature, mean girl behavior is a terrible look for her. She’s a successful gold digger, period. Putting on airs and behaving in this way only makes it more obvious that all she’s achieved is through someone else. She has absolutely no natural grace, intelligence or any of attributes that are associated with good manners or good “breeding”. And while you can’t put all of the responsibility/blame for someone’s personality on their parents, Whitney is hardly an endorsement for her. His creepy, inappropriate misogynist nature certainly does seem like a reaction to having her as a Mother. A telegram to announce she’s run off with her latest “mark”, just ugh!

Sorry I wasn’t clear, thanks and yes there is a navigable Northwest Passage, now, but it doesn’t quite fit the expectations and some of the wilder theories of the day about what they would find (palm trees and temperate weather). Funny to think today, you can actually take a pleasure cruise on a route similar to Franklin’s and that the Chinese are trying to make it a viable shipping route thanks to the recent thinning ice. The last book I read on the subject, “In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette” (highly rrecommend!) stayed with me, especially Petermann’s theory that there was a quasi tropical island perched on top of the world.

Maybe plain old British arrogance/hubris. They needed a Pochohontas. That’s what I don’t get in general about the whole northwest passage/polar sea theory and how long it endured ... at some point, didn’t the explorers encounter enough natives to learn that the theory was bunk?

Yes, the big fake boobs were a distraction, it is usually not so glaring until the contestants loose weight, but right out of the gate Stephanie’s were front and center. I also think her hair color was fake, it kept bugging me and I almost wanted her to stay to see what color her roots were. Yes, I am shallow.

Yes, yes, yes. I had no idea about what was going on and the whole episode had no stakes for me. TPTB did us a disservice by introducing us to so few of the women on last week’s two (!) episodes. All the drama this week involved two women who I literally never met before. With the tribe swap on top of that, it was difficult to keep up.

Watching Arie and Lauren is like watching two 13 year olds, they are both terribly immature and shallow. They are as infuriating as any teenager out there. (Who but a teenager would say waiting a month and a half was sooooo long?!?!?) Also, Chris Harrison needs to STFU about all hate he is getting.

Yep. I was annoyed that Bekah M. was interrupted by stupid Tia when she was giving her long winded advice to Lauren ... now that you’ve seen “the footage”, you have to drop this selfish, man child who has the attention span of a fruit fly. If only she’d want to tunnel out of the green room. Somehow she is even more superficial and shallow than he is. Pffft, no sympathy for her whatsoever for when the inevitable dumping occurs.

So very true!! I could sense the Producer sitting next to the cameraperson and miming “smile” while filming Lauren’s talking heads. For me, Lauren is the void and Arie is the very thirsty vacuum. She is truly as empty as she seems: I see our lives so clearly: we would drink coffee in the morning then go to work, then have dinner AND on the weekends we’ll take the dogs to the park. Is she a robot who has been programmed with the bare minimum understanding of human life?!?? When not engaged in the above activities, I picture her sitting perfectly still will a scowl on her face until the alarm sounds and she’s off to her next proscribed mundane activity.

Wow, karma is indeed a bitch. Toast isn’t so easy is it Joestashio?! Although it does seems like he gained a lot from the experience and third place is not too shabby.

Aiiii ... there are some situations when it benefits you to bluff an idol, this was not one of them Jacob!!?!?! Too bad, you would have been fun to watch.

Speaking of the “late” Krystal ... from the media thread, this is insane!

Guess we’ll never know the extent of the set up but the way Becca’s eyes went directly from Ross to the camera person behind him said something to me ... what? I’m not sure. Also Becca’s “I knew you were going to do this.” Everything else aside, she did seem totally over him to me.