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I'll believe the engagement and wedding rumors when I see concrete proof. I can still remember years ago when someone claimed that Jana was engaged to a mixed race guy who was divorced with two kids. At least this rumor isn't as wacky as that one. And if it is true, I hope Steve is cool with her joining him in doing carpentry and that she doesn't have to have a honeymoon baby unless she wants to.

I had forgotten about Austin standing guard to make sure no one double dipped. It amazes me that being with Joy doesn't just freak him out because she is not into cleanliness at all.

I could maybe believe that the egging was a re-enactment of something that happened in the past. I agree that it makes no sense for someone to vandalize someone's house when there's a bunch of people around who could come out and catch them. And who wears white to do that? Also, why did Whitney need to have some sort of meeting in her bedroom to rehash the whole thing including showing the letter to everyone? I'm sorry for her if something like that actually happened in the past, but she is not doing this show for the altruistic reasons she listed. She is doing it for attention and to pay the bills. As for the baby reveal, the producers must have been desperate for content. What sane person asks his former girlfriend to throw a party so he can introduce his baby and his girlfriend to a bunch of people the new girlfriend doesn't know and probably isn't planning to hang out with in the future? Plus they were messing with the timeline again. Lennie said the baby was born in December and they were talking about going to a Thanksgiving celebration. And Whitney made it a surprise to purposely have a fakeout of her being pregnant. I wish she would stop with this Frenchman stuff. Supposedly they broke up last season, but she spent six weeks in Paris begging him to take her back. Does she want everyone to think she is a pathetic stalker? I just don't understand why she didn't just drop the whole thing instead of making herself look so foolish. Not sure what to think about Glenn moving or not to Alabama. It sounds like he made an impulsive statement and then thought about it and realized how little sense a move would make.

Wow, a lot going on with Jilly lately. That Sound of Music thing was expensive. Someone said $62 per person. Jill and Dave should be ashamed of themselves for mooching off their kid and her husband who must still have some serious debt from Gideon's stay in the NICU. And you know they had to have dinner as well. Jill would find her bathroom easier to clean if she threw away a significant amount of that crap cluttering the place up. Of course, I don't believe for a minute that Jill lifted a finger to clean anything. Poor Rene probably did it. For those not familiar, the bus ministry Kaylee referred to is something a lot of conservative Baptist churches do. The get an old school bus and go around to various low income housing areas and offer to take kids to church. Sometimes the kids are integrated as part of everything, but in other churches they are treated like second class citizens. It's often tinged with racism and classism rather than the Christian charity that Jill claims. I suspect that Jill bled Joy Baptist dry and moved on. Notice we don't hear anything about the Dingus family that gave Jill half a cow and provided food for Nurie's wedding reception (the one after the wedding, not the anniversary party for the Keller parents that Jill invited herself and her brood to). And I notice that Jill mentions all the ministries this new church has, but not that she will be participating in any of them. She won't. I'm still angry over the fit she threw at having to help an older lady with a ride to a medical procedure.

That could be, but from what we have seen, Jill loves to have new stuff for herself. Even if she found the dress at a thrift store, she likely didn't find those shoes there. It makes me angry to think she would spend that much on an outfit for herself while her kids look like the just stepped out of a Dickens novel. And don't get me started on the modesty angle. She thinks she's modest because everything is covered, but when it's covered with skin tight shiny cheap material, it's not modest anymore. That dress was a choice. A really bad choice. As for Philip's little speech, just wow. When I first read the transcription, I was convinced that the poster had made up something funny that we all think a Rod would say. The fact that he actually put all those words together in that way is disturbing. That is one angry person who seems to be loving his grip on reality. The fact that his own siblings who live in crazytown with him were embarrassed really says something. I was worried that Tim would become some sort of psycho on Dateline, but Philip is headed that way now. I think each of the boys got some sliver of stimulus money for either braces or glasses. The rest went to Mahmo.

I really liked this episode. I love the ones like this that go into a surreal world where you have to just not ask a lot of questions. This goes back to Paradise Towers in the classic series and Gridlock in the new series. Who knows how they got in these weird situations, but it's fascinating watching the Doctor and companion try to navigate the world they find themselves in. I felt the racism angle was necessary and I liked that the viewer wasn't initially beat over the head with it. Yes, everyone is white and privileged, but you don't notice that at first because they are really vapid and obnoxious. You just get the idea that the bubble is like our social media on steroids with people complaining because they have to work for a couple of hours and shilling disposable crap to each other. At first when the Doctor appears you might be tempted to think it's just cliquish behavior to keep unfriending him, but then as the microagressions pile up, it starts to come through as something uglier. Ultimately, that's the point. You're supposed to dislike these people. Whoever said #teamlamppost was spot on. But on some level, until Lindy coldly causes Ricky's death, you think that they are just young and dumb and will grow out of it once they are no longer on the dot. But then at the end, you see the full ugliness of who they all are. That they are too arrogant to realize that they are going to die without the dot and without the Doctor's help. And most of us by that point are fine with that. But then comes the Doctor who is never cruel or cowardly and is always kind. And just like 10 with Davros he offers to save these irredeemable people. The difference is that 10 understood why Davros wouldn't go with him in the end, but here the Doctor realizes that the only reason these people won't accept his help is because of the color of his skin. Ruby is disgusted and walks away, but the Doctor has such an overwhelming reverence for life, that he grieves hard. I know some didn't like that, but in this case his anger, frustration, and despair all come together and make sense to me. He may be an alien, but he's not completely devoid of emotion. And one last thing. I love some of the technical stuff going on here. If you watch, in the beginning even though everyone is in pastels, there is still a lot of color, just not saturated color. But once their true nature is revealed when they start down the river, the color is nearly completely drained out of them. Who they really are is showing through without filters and pretty backgrounds.

Coming late to the party, but I loved this episode. The dance number at the end was good silly fun. By far though, my favorite part was that John and Paul were the ones to save the world. And not only that, but the created the chord together. That's a perfect commentary on their partnership in the Beatles.

You know, Evan could make decent money doing video editing, but he would have to put the work in. Some people seem to indicate he has a thriving video editing business, but there is no evidence of it. I think he's done some work for their church which I guarantee you he wasn't compensated for and stuff for BSB. Honestly, seeing some of the pictures advertising BSB, he isn't that great a photographer. He doesn't have an eye for detail as often there are things like Kelly looking like she just rolled out of bed or white text on a light background that really don't sell the merchandise.

I was just about to mention that while the kids seem to be rotating in and out to help Bill and Jane, that Gil and Kelly are nowhere to be found. So they finally showed up. I wonder if they did anything. I give Erin a lot of credit. She went from being unable to cook when she was first married to preparing individually packaged items for Bill and Jane to have in their freezer. Such a contrast from Carlin and Lawson who just went to get content for their sad influencer existence.

I guarantee you Kelly organized nothing. She stood around yapping about how busy and stressed she is, but she did nothing. Nor sure who organized the shower, but it's sad that they don't have a church group to do that for them. This is their first baby and most churches will organize something for members. Are they having trouble finding a church where they fit in? I could see that being an issue as sadly there is a strong racist undercurrent in conservative churches in that area.

That picture that accompanies the latest Renee post does not look like someone who is contented to me. She looks miserable. Also, there is so much to unpack in that post. It looks like there is a shot at Tim in there about not compromising her Biblical principles. Also, the reference yet again to the MRS degree which Jill clearly doesn't understand. But the strangest part of all is Jill talking about seeing her in heaven when she dies. That is a strange thought to have about your young daughter. The thing that has stood out to me about Tim's statements is that he is the first Rod to actually talk about Christ's commandment to love others as yourself. Jill talks about how she loves everyone then goes on to spew venom about how everyone else isn't a real Christian. The only time she references Jesus is to go on about the cross rather than anything about love or heaven forbid social justice. Tim seems to actually be giving some thought to the stuff he is reading in the Bible about what Jesus said. I still hope someone in Heidi's family can get through to him on how adults in the working world need to operate as he still doesn't seem to grasp that.

Poor kid. He has had so many things to deal with in his short life. I hope Joy and Austin take asthma seriously. There are great treatments now, but you have to be consistent.

How did they get in arrears on their property tax if they had a mortgage? My property tax is always paid out of escrow. Unless they just don't do that and ignore the escrow shortages. I really don't understand some people's finances.

I disagree with their beliefs, but JD and Abbie look cute together.

Wow, Amy is constantly going on about being such a great Christian while she and her husband stiff everyone on their debts. They seem to be spiraling at this point. I feel bad for Dax in all of this because he is just a kid being used by his mother and grandmother. The whole thing makes me uncomfortable.

I'm surprised to see so much black clothing. Most Southern funerals I have been to, everyone wears church clothes. They may wear more muted colors unless the deceased specifically requested everyone wear a particular color, but usually you don't see everyone in black. I'm glad they were able to have the service and I'm glad a lot of people tuned out to support them.

I like Ezra. I have a vague memory that they said she would name the girls and Josiah would name the boys. If he did name him, he picked a fairly normal Biblical name rather than something really out there. Hopefully if they get to H they won't repeat Heistheway. That may be the only name worse than Spurgeon.

From reading Jill's book, it seems as though JB had a lot of problems with people who had "only" two kids. He even disparagingly referred to Cross Church as a "two kid church". I think Jill was really bothered by the fact she may not have been able to have any more after Sam. So, Jinger may feel the same way - being fine with two, but having a nagging feeling that she is letting God down by not having any more.

Me too. In fact a friend of mine had to rethink the color of her bridesmaid dresses when she saw me in the pale pinky peach she had been considering. It looked great on the hanger, but it looked like someone had dumped a gallon of bleach over me when I put it on.

I agree she had a choice and I have said before in other threads that Meri has made a ton of bad choices in her life. I do understand, though because it wears you down and changes you when people around you treat you like the bad guy who is the root of all their problems. She should have put Kody in the rear view mirror a long time ago. No one needs to be told over and over that they are not desirable or wanted. I hope Christine has some sense of what Meri went through over the years because Kody turned off on Meri long before he did with Christine.

The jacket is not flattering. That pastel pattern washes her out.

I doubt Jer cares. What he really wants is to be famous by association. He never stops acting like he is super special just because he lives in LA.

Good for Joy and Austin for getting her the help she needs. There is no shame in PPD, your hormones are jumping up and down and you're exhausted from caring for a newborn. Plus she also has two others to look after. A lot of people think having kids is easy after the second one and go for a third. Then they hit the wall. As for what JB&M think, it's none of their business. I know the cult says that your parents are over you in authority even after you are a married adult, but it seems that a lot of the second generation are not buying into that. That's a good step forward even thought I am sure they are still plenty conservative. One thing I hope is that she doesn't pull a Josie Balka. Josie made a big post about PPD and got a lot of support and gratitude for talking about it openly. However, a couple of weeks later, she shilled some supplement that she claimed cured her. I thought that was really inappropriate to use what can be a serious condition with a lot of stigma associated with it as a basis for a tacky snake oil shill.

And catfish. So glad she got to see totality. I wouldn't have held it against her if it was a last minute trip either. Her grief will always be with her in some form, but she has a right to enjoy life again and not miss out on a very rare experience.

Aw, I'm so glad she has Zona for that. It is true, pets know when you need some comfort.