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

[sondraK]

Not even pastors live the way the Rods do.

They could put a little more water in the fish cooler,to give them some buoyancy so they aren't flipping over trying to breathe

[SMama]

But that would be the humane thing to do.

[3 is enough]

1 hour ago, Sew Sumi said:

Well, they haven't paid for a meal since they set foot in FL. And Jill is now obsessed with trying to prove her kids eat.

People have been saying her kids look positively skeletal for years and she has only just found out?

[Sew Sumi]

11 minutes ago, 3 is enough said:

People have been saying her kids look positively skeletal for years and she has only just found out?

Apparently. Timbits found the critical FB groups. Jill reported one (I think Pickles, but Tim didn't specify). Ever since, Jill has made it a point to first day that they don't starve their kids and post pics of the kids with food.

[galaxychaser]

Mostly it’s other people feeding them... Jill rarely posts her feeding the kids with her own $$$.

[Sew Sumi]

6 minutes ago, galaxychaser said:

Mostly it’s other people feeding them... Jill rarely never posts her feeding the kids with her own $$$.

FTFY. 😁

[BradandJanet]

Jill hit the jackpot on this trip. Pastor Vinny especially seems to be doing well financially judging from the house and pool. (Is that really a peeing boy fountain in the corner though?) The meals out and the boat ride (Pastor Vinny's boat?) are adding up quickly. This vacation seems to be going on longer than any my family usually takes, but we pay our own way so finances have to be considered. 

I bet the Rods believe that wealth is a sign of god's favor to the deserving. Do the kids ever wonder why their parents never have a dime? Jill must consider her very successful grifting efforts a sign of her specialness in god's eyes. 

One positive about this trip is Nurie and Nathan are spending time together, so they won't be marrying complete strangers. It isn't much, but it's better than nothing. 

[Picture It. Sicily]

16 hours ago, ginger90 said:

4 pictures, 2 videos:

 

 

 

You really should have warned us about pic #3. Yeesh. That is a truly ugly man.

[farmgal4]

1 hour ago, Picture It. Sicily said:

You really should have warned us about pic #3. Yeesh. That is a truly ugly man.

Ugly and frightful.  I would literally run for my life if I met him in a dark alley. 👹

[Zella]

4 minutes ago, farmgal4 said:

Ugly and frightful.  I would literally run for my life if I met him in a dark alley. 👹

He is incredibly creepy-looking. The one advantage to running from David is you don't have to be a track star for him not to be able to keep up. 🤣

[Oldernowiser]

48 minutes ago, not you again said:

Agreed, but there's something about the color-coordinated dressy outfits and her overly done makeup and nails that screams "INTENTIONAL" to me.  It feels extremely contrived and planned but hey, if she wants to present this as a surprise/unexpected, go ahead; I'm cranky and old.  LOL

Come sit next to me...🍸

[BradandJanet]

David doesn't need to make goofy faces for photographs. He already has one built in. 

[EVS]

22 hours ago, Sew Sumi said:

Well, they haven't paid for a meal since they set foot in FL. And Jill is now obsessed with trying to prove her kids eat.

It’s the Winter 2020 Feed Our Starving Children Grifting Tour, to be followed by the 2020 Spring FOSCGT, followed by the Summer tour...As long as there are well meaning people willing to feed and entertain them, the grift bus will keep on rolling.

I’d like to see just ONE picture of Jill and David treating their hosts to a nice meal to thank them for their hospitality. That is the proper thing to do. I won’t hold my breath though. 

[Lady Edith]

Sorry to be super snarky...Being a pastor in this branch of Christianity must be pretty lucrative for him to have a nice home with a swimming pool and a fishing boat. Most (if not all) of the clergy I know personally are not well off.  They are comfortable (Fed, clothes, roof over their heads) but do not live in fancy homes or drive posh cars. Isn’t there something in the Bible about rich men not getting into heaven...?  But I guess this goes by the wayside when it’s benefitting the Rods.  And as far as them repaying their hosts for their hospitality, they sang at their church...isn’t that enough?

[sondraK]

7 hours ago, Zella said:

He is incredibly creepy-looking. The one advantage to running from David is you don't have to be a track star for him not to be able to keep up. 🤣

I found the fish more handsome than he is.LOL

[sondraK]

I would be surprised if they even brought a hostess gift,as would be proper etiquette.

It would also be proper to do things like help w shopping,cooking and cleaning.My aunts would come to stay w us growing up,and they really earned their keep.They cooked,shopped and even ironed the clothes in my closet 🙂

Edited February 26, 2020 by sondraK

[farmgal4]

6 hours ago, Oldernowiser said:

Come sit next to me...🍸

Save me a seat and make mine a double. 🍸🍸

[Westiepeach]

5 minutes ago, farmgal4 said:

Save me a seat and make mine a double. 🍸🍸

May I come and play too?

[ginger90]

10 pictures:

 

 

 

[Zella]

Is that  . . . a watch with both of their faces on it . . . that she's showing us upside down?

Edited February 26, 2020 by Zella

[BitterApple]

I really hope Nathan and Nurie will be happy. I'm sure they're good kids, but this courtship feels forced, even by Fundie standards. It's like they're trying to play-act this happy couple, but the discomfort and insecurity radiates off them in waves.

[Sew Sumi]

9 minutes ago, Zella said:

Is that  . . . a watch with both of their faces on it . . . that she's showing us upside down?

Why yes it is. 😁

[BradandJanet]

There are some nice photos of Nathan and Nurie, especially by the ocean. I think Nathan has braces on his teeth. 

[Zella]

25 minutes ago, Sew Sumi said:

Why yes it is. 😁

My mind is a very weird place, admittedly, but that makes me think of an anecdote I once read about the black market in post-WWII Berlin. Apparently Soviet soldiers were bonkers for American watches, and you could sell them ridiculous watches (like ones with Mickey Mouse faces) and make out like a bandit because watches were considered very prestigious to them. Like, to the point they'd wear multiple watches at a time to show off their jazzy watches. 

All of that's a rambly preamble to explain my next comment: I feel like poor Nurie has a Soviet soldier's mindset about watches. 🤣   🤣 🤣  🤣  🤣

Edited February 26, 2020 by Zella

[galaxychaser]

1 hour ago, sondraK said:

 

Edited February 26, 2020 by galaxychaser

[BradandJanet]

Jill mentioned somewhere that the watch was a gift from Nathan. Nurie has probably never owned a real watch before, and this one is from her beloved. It has marks instead of numbers, so I hope she knows how to read the time. The curriculum at the Rodrigues (Traveling Circus) Family High School is a little sketchy. 

[Zella]

Just now, BradandJanet said:

Jill mentioned somewhere that the watch was a gift from Nathan. Nurie has probably never owned a real watch before, and this one is from her beloved. It has marks instead of numbers, so I hope she knows how to read the time. The curriculum at the Rodrigues (Traveling Circus) Family High School is a little sketchy. 

I wondered where it came from. Her family certainly wasn't ponying up any money for it. . . .

[Sew Sumi]

Yeah, definitely a gift from Nathan. It rivals the Smuganna pillowcases in WTFery.

[galaxygirl76]

That third picture with the four boys makes my ocd twitch. 

Edited February 26, 2020 by galaxygirl76

[galaxychaser]

Nathan is generous =he spent $$$ on Jill

[BradandJanet]

22 minutes ago, Zella said:

My mind is a very weird place, admittedly, but that makes me think of an anecdote I once read about the black market in post-WWII Berlin. Apparently Soviet soldiers were bonkers for American watches, and you could sell them ridiculous watches (like ones with Mickey Mouse faces) and make out like a bandit because watches were considered very prestigious to them. Like, to the point they'd wear multiple watches at a time to show off their jazzy watches. 

All of that's a rambly preamble to explain my next comment: I feel like poor Nurie has a Soviet mindset about watches. 🤣   🤣 🤣  🤣  🤣

I traveled in Eastern Europe in the 1960's wearing double knit polyester. People approached me on the streets in several countries wanting to touch my clothes and sometimes offering to buy what I had on--and my watch, headband, purse, nylon stocking, shoes. Everything. I didn't sell anything because the police were certainly watching, and I needed the few items I had brought. 

I think the watch Nathan gave Nurie is appropriate for their emotional ages of about 9. 

[Temperance]

Sarah Mally's wedding is set for May 2nd. It's little more than four months after the engagement.  She is currently 41/40 years and has been dating/courting the guy for several years. 

[sondraK]

30 minutes ago, Temperance said:

Sarah Mally's wedding is set for May 2nd. It's little more than four months after the engagement.  She is currently 41/40 years and has been dating/courting the guy for several years. 

Wow.You'd think they'd be worried about her internal time clock and want to get her married off sooner 

[mynextmistake]

13 hours ago, Picture It. Sicily said:

You really should have warned us about pic #3. Yeesh. That is a truly ugly man.

I’m sorry, I know this is unkind, but what in God’s name is wrong with his face? 

[Zella]

10 minutes ago, mynextmistake said:

I’m sorry, I know this is unkind, but what in God’s name is wrong with his face? 

My theory is he is someone else's Dorian Gray painting. . . .

[mynextmistake]

7 minutes ago, Zella said:

My theory is he is someone else's Dorian Gray painting. . . .

They must be REALLY old.

[becca3891]

On 2/22/2020 at 8:28 PM, Absolom said:

MacArthur's Calvinism and the Southern Baptist Convention are commonly known as conservative evangelical problematic as any categorizing can be.  Fundies are even "fundier" going with things like King James only, absolutely literal interpretation of the Bible, and some other weird to many of us things.  What makes them fundie isn't their political or sociological views although those are frequently reprehensible.

Reformed Presbyterians (the church I grew up in and what MacArthur is) very much believe in the absolutely literal interpretation of the bible, though. The motto of the RP church is "Sola Scriptura," only Scripture. King James only is quirky, but so is rejecting instruments like my church because they aren't mentioned in the New Testament.

On 2/23/2020 at 8:07 PM, BitterApple said:

Just like Carlin and Katie Bates, Michelle is beautiful and her fiance is a total dweeb. I know looks aren't everything, but she could do way better. I don't know why there's a flurry of young girls settling for the first guy who comes there way. It's like they're afraid they'll fall victim to the Jana Duggar Curse.

Looks really aren't everything, though. I can't imagine deciding whether or not to marry someone based on their looks. He looks fine. I'm much more concerned with how young they are.

[FizzyPuff]

I’m sorry but those two are going to make some seriously unfortunate looking kids. I’ll see myself out. 

[libgirl2]

1 hour ago, PuffinFizz said:

I’m sorry but those two are going to make some seriously unfortunate looking kids. I’ll see myself out. 

I bet their kids will end up gorgeous. 

[ginger90]

If Nurie had Facebook........but she doesn’t. So, Jill posting about Nurie and Nathan makes it weird, to me.

[emma675]

I would have died of embarrassment if my mom had posted pictures and stories of me and any of my boyfriends when I was younger. Hell, I'm way old and I'd die if she did it now. It's just weird to me that Jill is so involved in their relationship.

[Oldernowiser]

Jill is a spotlight leech. If anyone else is getting attention she’ll insert herself dead in the center of it. It’s not like Nurie is going to tell her to knock it off.

Just wait until the wedding...my money is on a simultaneous vow renewal with Jill and Nurie wearing identical dresses.

[galaxychaser]

Jill insinuating how Nurthan can’t wait to kiss/sex is disgusting/disturbing 🤮. And it’s all on Instagram.

[GeeGolly]

The whole first kiss/wedding night thing is so wrong. It all really hit me when they filmed Jeremy and Jinger the morning after their wedding in the hotel room. Between Jinger's demeanor and the unmade beds, it all felt so intrusive. I try very hard now to skim past any mention they make of first kiss/wedding night stuff.

[Westiepeach]

18 minutes ago, GeeGolly said:

The whole first kiss/wedding night thing is so wrong. It all really hit me when they filmed Jeremy and Jinger the morning after their wedding in the hotel room. Between Jinger's demeanor and the unmade beds, it all felt so intrusive. I try very hard now to skim past any mention they make of first kiss/wedding night stuff.

OMG! Seriously, they actually filmed that? FFS...

[awaken]

2 hours ago, Westiepeach said:

OMG! Seriously, they actually filmed that? FFS...

Yeah, and Jinger’s hair all ratty in the back the next day!  😱

[ChiCricket]

On 2/25/2020 at 11:14 AM, Picture It. Sicily said:

You really should have warned us about pic #3. Yeesh. That is a truly ugly man.

Gah! Thanks for making me look. 😳

 

[sondraK]

1 hour ago, ChiCricket said:

Gah! Thanks for making me look. 😳

 

He makes the fish look handsome

[ginger90]

 

[Rabbittron]

On 2/25/2020 at 10:14 AM, Picture It. Sicily said:

You really should have warned us about pic #3. Yeesh. That is a truly ugly man.

I just got a new boss and he could be his twin brother.