Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)

[ginger90]

7 hours ago, RazzleberryPie said:

Nurie is just downright pitiful. She doesn't know she's pitiful, so that's the silver lining/blessing. 

Have they ever explained the name Nurie? Is it short for something or just really odd? 

http://www.quickbabynames.com/meaning-of-Nurie.html

[GeeGolly]

28 minutes ago, ginger90 said:

http://www.quickbabynames.com/meaning-of-Nurie.html

Now I have the song Light my Fire stuck in my head.

[Churchhoney]

1 hour ago, GeeGolly said:

Now I have the song Light my Fire stuck in my head.

You'd better find Celia Rubenstein quick then. 

[GeeGolly]

51 minutes ago, Churchhoney said:

You'd better find Celia Rubenstein quick then. 

? This is over my head Churchie.

[Churchhoney]

2 hours ago, GeeGolly said:

? This is over my head Churchie.

If you are singing "c'mon, baby, light my fire" -- even under your breath and to yourself - you are clearly at serious risk of defrauding any number of poor innocents who may come walking by. The rock 'n' roll beat, after all, is the devil's fortress-building tool in itself. But those lyrics! ....

I just don't understand you heathens. Why can't you confine yourselves to nationally televised dry humping on miniature golf courses the way pure people do?

[RazzleberryPie]

I'm now getting facebook suggestions to Like a Nurie Rodriguez page. Looks like it's all really old posts from her mother promoting some jewelry Nurie was trying to sell. 

[GeeGolly]

1 hour ago, Churchhoney said:

If you are singing "c'mon, baby, light my fire" -- even under your breath and to yourself - you are clearly at serious risk of defrauding any number of poor innocents who may come walking by. The rock 'n' roll beat, after all, is the devil's fortress-building tool in itself. But those lyrics! ....

I just don't understand you heathens. Why can't you confine yourselves to nationally televised dry humping on miniature golf courses the way pure people do?

Oh my. My apologies. And, shh, please don't tell @Celia Rubenstein

[MyPeopleAreNordic]

I don't have an opinion on Nurie's looks cause I can't tell what the heck she actually looks like. Without the ridiculous eyebrows, pounds of make up, strange hair, & wardrobe she probably looks entirely different (it still hungry). My guess is she's a very beautiful girl under there when she's "natural."

[BitterApple]

I think Nurie is a pretty girl, she just needs to gain ten pounds to fill out a little, and ditch the outdated hair and makeup. 

[RazzleberryPie]

I think Nurie is pretty, too. Jill is actually pretty. Their style, however, is stuck in 1993, which is really sad, because Nurie wasn't even born yet.

[Celia Rubenstein]

12 hours ago, GeeGolly said:

Oh my. My apologies. And, shh, please don't tell @Celia Rubenstein

Too late!

Gee Golly, you have allowed Satan to build a fortress in your eardrums! I don't know how to handle this. I am torn between offering you the loving forgiveness our religion dictates or the judgment, scorn and rejection that is the actual reality of our cult faith. 

Perhaps we should just handle it the way the Duggers would ... you know, just pretend it never happened and if anyone finds out, we can lie about it and minimize it. And if anyone blabs, we will just sue the piss out of everyone involved. That would probably be best. Well maybe it would not be the best, but it would be the easiest. And possibly the most lucrative. We might be able to cash in on it one day and take that trip to the Creation Museum you've always wanted to go on! 

[GeeGolly]

3 hours ago, Celia Rubenstein said:

Too late!

Gee Golly, you have allowed Satan to build a fortress in your eardrums! I don't know how to handle this. I am torn between offering you the loving forgiveness our religion dictates or the judgment, scorn and rejection that is the actual reality of our cult faith. 

Perhaps we should just handle it the way the Duggers would ... you know, just pretend it never happened and if anyone finds out, we can lie about it and minimize it. And if anyone blabs, we will just sue the piss out of everyone involved. That would probably be best. Well maybe it would not be the best, but it would be the easiest. And possibly the most lucrative. We might be able to cash in on it one day and take that trip to the Creation Museum you've always wanted to go on! 

Hello darkness my old friend ...

My dearest Ceecee and fellow PTV posters, please forgive me for I have sinned. I often walk this world with a song in my heart. I'm guilty of playing music in both my car and in my home. I've had the occasion to dance with mops and brooms as well as belting out songs using various household items as microphones. At times I find myself compelled to answer questions and converse in song lyrics. As I stare longingly at @Celia Rubenstein's avatar I feel the urge to sing "Celia" while simultaneously wanting to break out in giggles because of my betroth's hand gesture. I hope you all can walk beside me with support as I struggle with dismantling this fortress built by Satan. And it is a struggle. As recently as yesterday I had to stifle the urge to dance in CVS.

Please have sympathy for me but no Sympathy for the Devil. Don't Worry and Be Happy as I Can See Clearly Now and I am Starting Over because today is a Brand New Day

And again, please forgive me, although Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word.

Edited June 10, 2017 by GeeGolly

[lianau]

On 9.6.2017 at 4:39 AM, Sew Sumi said:

Oh JRod, never change. Still selling Nurie, I see. Good luck with that, hon. 

 

Do you think both of them will go crazy if Nurie is still on sale next summer ?

[Arwen Evenstar]

24 minutes ago, lianau said:

Do you think both of them will go crazy if Nurie is still on sale next summer ?

Looks like JRod is desperate to marry that poor girl off.  She seems like a sweet kid, particularly since any teen raised like she's been would be seething with resentment .   I'd hate being stuck on a stink bus with my 11 other siblings including the emaciated baby in a cage and Angry Olivia.  And having no clue that my hair and makeup is 25 years out of date....going to bed hungry every night....

[Sew Sumi]

Jill will have to settle for a bargain basement fundie boy for her. 

[sometimesy]

Why isn't TLC on this. These Rods are the best characters the writers and comics at SNL have ever created. EVER. Church Lady, Stuart Smiley can't hold a candle to the Rods and their Marilyn Monroe breathy voices (even the boys), their crazy mind dirtying rants. Let's not forget the other hidden gem, one of the tiny daughters who looks like a fragile depression era survivor, but gives off the vibe of  Wednesday Addams who will cut anyone who sleeps too soundly. They are so blissfully deprived of self awareness. They are fascinating; I want them in a pickle jar. 

[Churchhoney]

19 hours ago, lianau said:

Do you think both of them will go crazy if Nurie is still on sale next summer ?

Crazi-er. What disturbs me is that I expect they'll blame poor old Nurie. Poor child. 

18 hours ago, sometimesy said:

Why isn't TLC on this. These Rods are the best characters the writers and comics at SNL have ever created. EVER. Church Lady, Stuart Smiley can't hold a candle to the Rods and their Marilyn Monroe breathy voices (even the boys), their crazy mind dirtying rants. Let's not forget the other hidden gem, one of the tiny daughters who looks like a fragile depression era survivor, but gives off the vibe of  Wednesday Addams who will cut anyone who sleeps too soundly. They are so blissfully deprived of self awareness. They are fascinating; I want them in a pickle jar. 

Because if TLC enabled this crowd, I believe that the law actually would come after the Rodrigui and even after TLC, perhaps. They've been able to pretend that the abuse wasn't there in other shows, but here it's right on the surface. 

[sometimesy]

4 minutes ago, Churchhoney said:

Crazi-er. What disturbs me is that I expect they'll blame poor old Nurie. Poor child. 

Because if TLC enabled this crowd, I believe that the law actually would come after the Rodrigui and even after TLC, perhaps. They've been able to pretend that the abuse wasn't there in other shows, but here it's right on the surface. 

Rodriguez would love the fame of being martyred for their religion. Couldn't a reality show pull the 'documentary' card to reveal the insanity? It's ok to expose this abuse, it will sell and if the Rods are brought to task for their neglect and abuse of the children win win. We only need one season and who knows how many families could be deterred from choosing the fundy lifestyle. 

[Churchhoney]

3 hours ago, sometimesy said:

Rodriguez would love the fame of being martyred for their religion. Couldn't a reality show pull the 'documentary' card to reveal the insanity? It's ok to expose this abuse, it will sell and if the Rods are brought to task for their neglect and abuse of the children win win. We only need one season and who knows how many families could be deterred from choosing the fundy lifestyle. 

I don't think the 'documentary' excuse would work. If you're paying people, it's not a documentary. If you're scripting anything, it's not a documentary. Flat out. Plain and simple. Either of those things proves that it's not journalism, and if it's not journalism, then you don't have the journalists' "hands-off" thing going on. You're involved. And they couldn't hide either fact. The Rodrigui certainly wouldn't participate if they weren't paid and if they had no say over the editing, as they wouldn't in a documentary. They would participate only in a reality show. So I'm pretty sure the network could easily be on the hook. Would absolutely be on the hook, most likely, I think. 

[Aja]

On 6/10/2017 at 9:21 PM, sometimesy said:

Why isn't TLC on this. These Rods are the best characters the writers and comics at SNL have ever created. EVER. Church Lady, Stuart Smiley can't hold a candle to the Rods and their Marilyn Monroe breathy voices (even the boys), their crazy mind dirtying rants. Let's not forget the other hidden gem, one of the tiny daughters who looks like a fragile depression era survivor, but gives off the vibe of  Wednesday Addams who will cut anyone who sleeps too soundly. They are so blissfully deprived of self awareness. They are fascinating; I want them in a pickle jar. 

Right????  Come on, Nancy, don't suddenly start pretending like you have moral standards.

[sometimesy]

Just now, Aja said:

Right????  Come on, Nancy, don't suddenly start pretending like you have moral standards.

Take a risk. The worst that can happen is they end up like seamonkeys 'so eager to please' so disappointing once you get them. 

[Annb67]

On 6/10/2017 at 9:44 PM, lianau said:

Do you think both of them will go crazy if Nurie is still on sale next summer ?

See see I AM part of the cool group. I was invited but I had to sing in a tent. But I was invited. Just wanted to brag, uh er, wish them well.

[awaken]

On 6/12/2017 at 11:07 AM, sometimesy said:

Take a risk. The worst that can happen is they end up like seamonkeys 'so eager to please' so disappointing once you get them. 

Ha, love it- we get sea monkeys every year for christmas and they rarely work out! :/

[louannems]

Anyone know why Allie Jane was Joy's flower girl?  I never heard that Joy was "best friends" with Alysa Bates Webster.

[BitterApple]

Are we sure it was Allie Jane? Alyssa barely tolerates her own family. I can't imagine she'd loan out her toddler for the Duggars. 

[Sew Sumi]

I think the flower girls must be Forsyths. When Boob and Joy came down the stairs and one little girl was valiantly trying to hold up the train, Joy said, "Good job [girl's name.]" I didn't recognize it. 

[louannems]

I heard Joy say "Good job Allie!" I remember since she pronounced it Awli, and my niece is pronounced Alie with a short A.

[Pinke]

9 hours ago, Sew Sumi said:

I think the flower girls must be Forsyths. When Boob and Joy came down the stairs and one little girl was valiantly trying to hold up the train, Joy said, "Good job [girl's name.]" I didn't recognize it. 

Her name is Holly (not sure if that's the spelling they used). I also assumed she must have been from the Forsyth family.

 

ETA: Louannems beat me to it! I guess the accent/pronounciation threw me off - I sometimes turn on closed captionings for that reason but I did not in this case.

Edited June 14, 2017 by PinkyCupcake
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[kokapetl]

On 09/06/2017 at 10:39 AM, Sew Sumi said:

Oh JRod, never change. Still selling Nurie, I see. Good luck with that, hon. 

 

Is that a five o'clock shadow type situation with eyebrows?

[GeeGolly]

Pretty sure it was Allie. Here's a picture of her.

[Sew Sumi]

Well, it looks like the Duggars let Laura out of the house for a little party, but she took Jenni Duggar along. I'm pretty convinced that Laura is the new tutor now that Tabby Paine is married off to the rapist. We also now know that Laura is 31....a spinster in IBLPLand. 

[Celia Rubenstein]

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Oh JRod, never change. Still selling Nurie, I see. Good luck with that, hon. 

Jill has placed another daughter "FOR SALE" ad on her facebook page, this time for just turned 16-year-old, Kaylee.  I guess if Nurie languishes on the shelf much longer, Jill will have a buy-one-get-one-free sale or something.  Gotta move the merchandise!  Those girls aren't getting any younger. 

Jill describes how she and David took Kaylee out to the NICE Olive Garden for her birthday dinner (as opposed to the shitty Olive Garden in the bad part of town???) and then they picked up some other sister who apparently was also having a birthday (but who for some reason didn't merit a trip to the Olive Garden, she only got to go to Burger King with them for dessert ... No, I'm not making this up, I swear).  They gifted them with some ugly ass "purity" bracelets.  More like purity shackles if you ask me. 

Here is a link to Jill's facebook.  Scroll down to June 12.   Kaylee looks like a cadaver.  Thin as a rail and white as a sheet. Lord, the makeup.  That poor child.  Can't one of the Duggar boys bite the bullet and marry one of those unfortunate girls to get them out of that loony bin?  

[drafan]

On 6/15/2017 at 6:20 PM, GeeGolly said:

Pretty sure it was Allie. Here's a picture of her.

This pic of this Bates girl with kids is adorable. Why is she not dong the "Modern Modest" speaking tour instead of sloppy Jessa ?  They all look completely normal....and the girls are wearing PANTS with cute tops. And the hair bows aren't out of control. The Bates mom (Alyssa??) is beautiful and I'm sure young Fundies would love her style.   (Yikes! .....the older daughter has gorgeous eyes.)

Edited June 17, 2017 by drafan

[Genevrier]

11 minutes ago, Celia Rubenstein said:

Jill has placed another daughter "FOR SALE" ad on her facebook page, this time for just turned 16-year-old, Kaylee.  I guess if Nurie languishes on the shelf much longer, Jill will have a buy-one-get-one-free sale or something.  Gotta move the merchandise!  Those girls aren't getting any younger. 

Jill describes how she and David took Kaylee out to the NICE Olive Garden for her birthday dinner (as opposed to the shitty Olive Garden in the bad part of town???) and then they picked up some other sister who apparently was also having a birthday (but who for some reason didn't merit a trip to the Olive Garden, she only got to go to Burger King with them for dessert ... No, I'm not making this up, I swear).  They gifted them with some ugly ass "purity" bracelets.  More like purity shackles if you ask me. 

Here is a link to Jill's facebook.  Scroll down to June 12.   Kaylee looks like a cadaver.  Thin as a rail and white as a sheet. Lord, the makeup.  That poor child.  Can't one of the Duggar boys bite the bullet and marry one of those unfortunate girls to get them out of that loony bin?  

Oh my. When my daughter reached age 17 I bought her condoms and Plan B. I suppose we will go to Hell together.

[Sew Sumi]

Even worse, they celebrated Kaylee's birthday early because she's going to work for No Greater Joy Ministries. That's the Pearls' outfit. Yeah, THOSE Pearls. 

[Churchhoney]

22 minutes ago, Celia Rubenstein said:

 

Here is a link to Jill's facebook.  Scroll down to June 12.   Kaylee looks like a cadaver.  Thin as a rail and white as a sheet. Lord, the makeup.  That poor child.  Can't one of the Duggar boys bite the bullet and marry one of those unfortunate girls to get them out of that loony bin?  

My only hesitation about this is that then there'd be two young people with both the Duggars and the Rodrigui as parents. Surely that's illegal in some way. 

[sometimesy]

48 minutes ago, Celia Rubenstein said:

Can't one of the Duggar boys bite the bullet and marry one of those unfortunate girls to get them out of that loony bin?  

As long as it isn't sinner twin. 

[AUgirl]

Those poor girls remind me of Karen Carpenter when her anorexia had gotten really bad (the hairstyles lend to the overall effect).  Someone please feed them.

[ariel]

1 hour ago, AUgirl said:

Those poor girls remind me of Karen Carpenter when her anorexia had gotten really bad (the hairstyles lend to the overall effect).  Someone please feed them.

The children look pale & starving & the father looks like a fat pig.

[RazzleberryPie]

Is Kaylee the really creepy one or is that another one?

[kalamac]

Those poor girls. Meanwhile, y'all could have warned me that the facebook profile pic was Jill and husband kissing. I need to psych myself up before being exposed to that.

[GeeGolly]

JillR better be careful, taken out of context, the 'photo shoot' of the two girls could be engagement pictures.

[RazzleberryPie]

1 hour ago, GeeGolly said:

JillR better be careful, taken out of context, the 'photo shoot' of the two girls could be engagement pictures.

Or child trafficking photos. Jill needs to scale it back.

[queenanne]

11 hours ago, Sew Sumi said:

Even worse, they celebrated Kaylee's birthday early because she's going to work for No Greater Joy Ministries. That's the Pearls' outfit. Yeah, THOSE Pearls. 

Internship, volunteer, or job?  Maybe one of those combinations will yield a salary and thus money to buy food.

ETA:  The fundie bump is the true nightmare in the equation, making Kaylee look like a cadaverous 50-year-old.  Maybe a 65-y-o who dyes.

Edited June 17, 2017 by queenanne

[Totally]

I don't have Facebook, I don't suppose someone could share the pics here? 

[Arwen Evenstar]

23 minutes ago, Totally said:

I don't have Facebook, I don't suppose someone could share the pics here? 

Neither do I, but if someone sends you a link, you should be able to open it.

[Annb67]

13 hours ago, Sew Sumi said:

Even worse, they celebrated Kaylee's birthday early because she's going to work for No Greater Joy Ministries. That's the Pearls' outfit. Yeah, THOSE Pearls. 

Wonder if the name "No Greater Joy" is meant to be sarcastic? Lol

[DangerousMinds]

Wait, they went to Burger King for DESSERT?

[DangerousMinds]

Those pictures are terrifying. How the hell do they afford braces for these kids?

[queenanne]

1 hour ago, Annb67 said:

Wonder if the name "No Greater Joy" is meant to be sarcastic? Lol

They mean "No Greater Joy [exists than turning out/being soulless robots in the name of making "Christians"]", so kinda!