S08.E05: Grumpy Old Men

[Stiggs]

1 hour ago, Otherkate said:

If you put a gun to my head and demanded that I list out the things I care about less than what Max has or hasn't done in his romantic life, I might end up dead. Seriously. WHO CARES.

Also, I know others hate him, but I feel like this show is suffering from a lack of James. Keep his girlfriend off, but I think this show needs him? The rest are all bores.

I feel like I don’t want any more emotional deep dive-in James and his issues, and I don’t want to know anything about his life unless it has to do with Raquel and the puppy shower-planning business that I want her to start, but a few drive-by “It’s not about the pasta scenes,” would be far more entertaining than two seconds of these newbies. 

Edited February 5, 2020 by Stiggs

[Carolina Girl]

4 hours ago, Ubiquitous said:

I am aware that destination weddings are popular, but destination bachelor/bachelorette parties?

I know that in Northern California, girls with a little bit of throw-away money will do a weekend in Las Vegas.  But that's it as far as I know.  Most of my daughter-in-laws' friends go for a night of clubbing in San Francisco.

2 hours ago, FozzyBear said:

Scheana is kind of typical of some of my friends who worked in the service industry their whole lives, especially those that fell into it instead of making a career out of it.

Scheana really believed that by this time, she would be a pop star.  Have we seen anything of her singing career after Season 3?  

[KungFuBunny]

20 hours ago, LibertarianSlut said:

Lisa has such a strange style of making table visits.  She duck-walks up to a random table with her purse on her shoulder, leans in and asks if people are ok.  I swear to God, if I were there and I didn’t know who she was, I’d think she was a drunk, confused older woman who might need to be escorted back to her own table.  She’s a horrible actress.  

There is something so wrong about being close to 60 and visiting your own busy restaurant in a diamond turban and a dog in your arms (I only mention her age, because it might be cute at either age of the age spectrum—chic early 2000s Paris Hilton if she were 25, and charming and eccentric if she were 80+).  Exactly how much attention does she need though?  Now I know what Dorit on BH meant when she said Lisa didn’t get enough attention as a child. 

 

20 hours ago, Thumper said:

Lisa’s costume with “crown” was weird.  Is she featured more often on this show now that she’s not on RHOBH?

 

20 hours ago, breezy424 said:

LVP - too much.

 

5 hours ago, Juliegirlj said:

LVP is 59 going on 79. The last few years have really taken a toll on her. She needs a hiatus from reality tv. 

Am I the only one here that believes LVP lied about her age from the jump?

I've always thought she is much older than she claims. Even in those clips she's shown of her in a music video - she doesn't look like a young 20 year old - more like in her early 30's. LVP was a wannabe actress who relied on her looks to get roles because she certainly couldn't act. She's been taking care of her skin since her early years. Once she landed Ken and he had money - she had access to the tweaking/surgeries/injectibles. To look the way she does now and claim to be 59 - is a crock o shit.

LVP is the Zsa Zsa Gabor of Reality TV.

 

 

[Thumper]

7 hours ago, Ubiquitous said:

I am aware that destination weddings are popular, but destination bachelor/bachelorette parties?

One of my sons has been to several.  It sure adds to the cost of attending a wedding or being a member of the wedding party.  He said if he ever gets married, he will do a low-key bachelor party, close to home.  (Of course, some of the invitees may have to travel.). I agree with you that this is getting out of hand and costs major $$$$.

[Ubiquitous]

13 hours ago, Carolina Girl said:

Scheana really believed that by this time, she would be a pop star.  Have we seen anything of her singing career after Season 3?  

Heh, like that "song" with a loop of her breathily saying something like "Fuck me harder"? 

13 hours ago, KungFuBunny said:

Am I the only one here that believes LVP lied about her age from the jump?

I assume women from there always lie about their age! 😃

 

[SarahPrtr]

18 hours ago, Ubiquitous said:

I am aware that destination weddings are popular, but destination bachelor/bachelorette parties?

These idiots will take annnnnnnnyyyyyyyyyy excuse to get drunk and be stupid on other people's dime.  Bravo makes a shitload of money from its shows.

 

16 hours ago, hoodooznoodooz said:

Yeah, this. What is going on. I am shocked and horrified by what seems to be a real effort to invent new ways to arouse and titillate straight men. I am glad women are finding ways to be independent and earn money, but, in my opinion, they are willing to do more and more demeaning and humiliating things. Is it really empowering? One stripper was doing something that I think my brain bleached out, but it was really strange. Maybe I have no sense of humor when it comes to sex?

Financially independent and free, yes.  Empowering, no, I don't think so.  Glad that my straight male friends like women in general, yes, they love us without makeup with puffy faces first thing in the morning, and whatever 'surprises' nature throws at us (yeah, thanks Mother Nature for plastering my neck and chin with cystic acne for no reason).  The men who sees women as actual human beings.  I still think that most men are this way, but Hollywood is not a normal place (even if they go to Miami). 

[AnnieBananie]

23 hours ago, Carolina Girl said:

Scheana really believed that by this time, she would be a pop star.  Have we seen anything of her singing career after Season 3?  

No, thank god.

[FlyingEgret]

Brittany: they go back and forth like a roller coaster

 

Is that the way roller coaster work in Kentucky?

[biakbiak]

Pro tip when describing food avoid the word “blob”!

[MrsWitter]

1 hour ago, biakbiak said:

Pro tip when describing food avoid the word “blob”!

So are you saying you don’t think Dayna was purposefully going for the appeal of alliteration when she called it a “blob” of burrata? 😂

[biakbiak]

23 minutes ago, MrsWitter said:

it a “blob” of burrata?

No because she said blob of cheese! I was like I might need to get up and leave! The service there seems frighteningly bad and we haven’t even seen brain dead Raquel attempt to learn the menu!

[MrsWitter]

2 hours ago, biakbiak said:

No because she said blob of cheese! I was like I might need to get up and leave! The service there seems frighteningly bad and we haven’t even seen brain dead Raquel attempt to learn the menu!

OMG. I guess I had “blob of burrata” stuck in my head because she later mentioned burrata. But, apparently, it’s just a blob of cheese. Sounds so appetizing. But LVP says smarty pants Dayna is going places. She’s manager material!  Which I guess tracks because Max (GM of TomTom, in case you didn’t hear him reiterate it) didn’t correct Dayna during her study session. 
 

Come to TomTom, y’all- there will be blobs of aquafaba and, if the Good Lord blesses us, blobs of Meemaw’s beer cheese for all!

 

ETA: A blob of aquafaba is actually kinda cute.

Edited February 7, 2020 by MrsWitter

[princelina]

On 2/7/2020 at 2:35 AM, biakbiak said:

No because she said blob of cheese! I was like I might need to get up and leave! The service there seems frighteningly bad and we haven’t even seen brain dead Raquel attempt to learn the menu!

Hey now!  She's using her pageant training!

[ErikaAlyson]

Max is so lying about sleeping with that other girl in the restaurant lol I could tell by his body language when he was talking to Dayna 

[druzy]

 

[HunterHunted]

On 2/5/2020 at 7:23 PM, KungFuBunny said:

Am I the only one here that believes LVP lied about her age from the jump?

I've always thought she is much older than she claims. Even in those clips she's shown of her in a music video - she doesn't look like a young 20 year old - more like in her early 30's. LVP was a wannabe actress who relied on her looks to get roles because she certainly couldn't act. She's been taking care of her skin since her early years. Once she landed Ken and he had money - she had access to the tweaking/surgeries/injectibles. To look the way she does now and claim to be 59 - is a crock o shit.

LVP is the Zsa Zsa Gabor of Reality TV.

I literally spent so many hours between seasons 1 and 2 trying to figure out how LVP was getting away with lying about her age because I was certain she was a long lost Collins sister.

Edited February 10, 2020 by HunterHunted

[FozzyBear]

On 2/5/2020 at 11:39 AM, Ubiquitous said:

I am aware that destination weddings are popular, but destination bachelor/bachelorette parties?

I’ve been to way more destination bachelorettes then weddings. In fact I think I’ve only been to one non destination bachelorette. It could be because I don’t live in the most exciting city on earth, but a weekend party at the beach or LA or San Francisco (I’m in Fresno) is really common. Even Disneyland sometimes. People have a tendency to have the wedding here at their family church, but travel for the bachelorette. No one wants to go to the same bars we hang out at all the time I guess.

[heatherchandler]

On 2/5/2020 at 6:16 PM, Carolina Girl said:

I know that in Northern California, girls with a little bit of throw-away money will do a weekend in Las Vegas.  But that's it as far as I know.  Most of my daughter-in-laws' friends go for a night of clubbing in San Francisco.

 

My friends and I all did destination bachelorette parties and that was 15 years ago, so it's been a thing for a while.  We went to Miami, New York, Paris, Bahamas, etc.  I guess it is just en excuse to vacation with your friends. 

I also had a destination wedding and actually feel kind of bad about it now.  It was kind of selfish to ask people to spend $$$ to go to a wedding.

 

On 2/7/2020 at 3:59 AM, MrsWitter said:

OMG. I guess I had “blob of burrata” stuck in my head because she later mentioned burrata. But, apparently, it’s just a blob of cheese. Sounds so appetizing. But LVP says smarty pants Dayna is going places. She’s manager material!  Which I guess tracks because Max (GM of TomTom, in case you didn’t hear him reiterate it) didn’t correct Dayna during her study session. 
 

Come to TomTom, y’all- there will be blobs of aquafaba and, if the Good Lord blesses us, blobs of Meemaw’s beer cheese for all!

 

ETA: A blob of aquafaba is actually kinda cute.

This LOOKS delicious, but I still don't "understand" aquafaba or why anyone would want to ingest a blob of chickpea water.  It is vegan meringue?

All this talk about buratta and I am dying for a blob of it!

[KungFuBunny]

3 hours ago, FozzyBear said:

I’ve been to way more destination bachelorettes then weddings. In fact I think I’ve only been to one non destination bachelorette. It could be because I don’t live in the most exciting city on earth, but a weekend party at the beach or LA or San Francisco (I’m in Fresno) is really common. Even Disneyland sometimes. People have a tendency to have the wedding here at their family church, but travel for the bachelorette. No one wants to go to the same bars we hang out at all the time I guess.

The part of me that is most surprised is that they didn't have their mutual bachelor(ettes) parties in Vegas. This is the place after all where Jax and Britney first met.

Then I realized they probably didn't want to go there because they didn't want to promote LVP's dead garden without being paid.

[Judi Sunshine]

I had to bow out of being a bridesmaid in my SIL-to-be's wedding because it's just TOO expensive! I think it's fine to go on vacation and have it be an *option*, but wrong to MAKE your friends spend SO much money because you made the choice to get married. Weddings are ridiculous. 

[lasu]

FWIW, I did a beachlorette weekend about a 15 years ago, but I told my bridesmaids upfront about it, and I also didn't make them buy anything for the wedding itself.  I just asked that they all wear black cocktail length dresses, that's it.  And we split a hotel suite and mostly hung out at the beach and pool, only went out to dinner once, and out to the local bar for the "official" bachelorette night and drank $3.00 pitchers of beer, lol.  I'm pretty sure the guys spent FAR more in one night at the strip club in Raleigh than we did the entire weekend at the beach, and they still had to rent tuxes (though we paid for half of that for each of the guys).

[Ubiquitous]

2 hours ago, heatherchandler said:

This LOOKS delicious, but I still don't "understand" aquafaba or why anyone would want to ingest a blob of chickpea water.  It is vegan meringue?

All this talk about buratta and I am dying for a blob of it!

One should never use the word "blob" with food. It's sounds very unappetizing.

[chenoa333]

On 2/4/2020 at 7:58 PM, Thumper said:

Have we celebrated the upcoming nuptials enough yet????

When is this spectacle of superficiality supposed to take place?

I'm guessing Brit will get pregnant immediately and Jax will start cheating soon thereafter. He will be grossed out by his wife's body during pregnancy. And if he's present for the birth of his kid, he'll never be turned on by Brit's vajayjay again. 

They deserve each other. His philandering and her stupid, childish, repetitive speech about how she's always dreamed of her wedding day since she was a little girl. and the gown and being a princess for a day. Making babies. No mention of what qualities she was looking for in a husband, y'all.