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

[Zella]

I laughed so hard at Jill's "He is literally one of the most hard working modern day people I know" comment about Tim. Ignoring the fact that everyone she knows is technically a "modern day person" by virtue of living in the 21st century, he sure as shit didn't learn that work ethic at home. 

Edited December 29, 2018 by Zella

[LilJen]

3 hours ago, ginger90 said:

Neurologist Pediatric Specialist Doctor

because "pediatric neurologist" isn't enough words. And Doesn't Use Enough Capital Letters.

3 hours ago, ginger90 said:

He has been gone from us now for over 4 months.

as if Timothy were dead. . . .

[ChiCricket]

@ginger90 posted this photo.

What in the wide world of sports is a-goin' on here? 🤤

{Blazing Saddles quote }

[doodlebug]

2 minutes ago, ChiCricket said:

@ginger90 posted this photo.

What in the wide world of sports is a-goin' on here? 🤤

{Blazing Saddles quote }

I believe those are Jilll’s sister Amy’s daughters wearing outfits that their mother made for them.  Once you hear that Amy named the poor tykes Amity and Azalea, it becomes clear that she doesn’t much like them and lives to embarrass and humiliate them.  She’s doing a bang up job thus far.  I find the pincushion hats with matching bloomers to be particularly egregious.

[McManda]

Jill DESPERATELY (if I put it in all capitals is that speaking her language?) needs to ditch the heavy, black eyeliner. It's doing her no favors. I'm closer to 30 than Jill's 40 and never applied black eyeliner and mascara so heavily, but I'm starting to think maybe brown would be better for me, at least for every day.

Seriously, Jill would look 100 times more normal is she made that one change.

[realityfan26]

The above are Matilda Jane clothes. The yellow outfits appear to be the homemade version. Layers & layers of ruffles & patterns! 

[Catfin]

1 hour ago, ChiCricket said:

@ginger90 posted this photo.

What in the wide world of sports is a-goin' on here? 🤤

{Blazing Saddles quote }

Someone shot their  kitchen curtains to make these. 🤮 

[ChiCricket]

1 hour ago, doodlebug said:

<snip> lives to embarrass and humiliate them.  She’s doing a bang up job thus far.  I find the pincushion hats with matching bloomers to be particularly egregious.

Pincushion hats. 😂

7 minutes ago, Catfin said:

Someone shot their  kitchen curtains to make these. 🤮 

Hee..I can't breathe.

[galaxychaser]

1 hour ago, ChiCricket said:

@ginger90 posted this photo.

What in the wide world of sports is a-goin' on here? 🤤

{Blazing Saddles quote }

The girls are adorable! The clothes are not cute.

[GeeGolly]

What is it with these female Fundies and their hair? The Duggar family, Bates family and now the Rodrigues family have all toned down or completely eliminated their Fundy curls.

Did God send down new rules?

[Broken Ox]

15 hours ago, ginger90 said:

 

11 hours ago, McManda said:

Jill DESPERATELY (if I put it in all capitals is that speaking her language?) needs to ditch the heavy, black eyeliner. It's doing her no favors. I'm closer to 30 than Jill's 40 and never applied black eyeliner and mascara so heavily, but I'm starting to think maybe brown would be better for me, at least for every day.

Seriously, Jill would look 100 times more normal is she made that one change.

For some reason, I kinda like the picture above. Jill looks more normal than I've ever seen her. And a LOT of it has to do with the toned down look -- no ratted up hair or weird angles, MINIMAL makeup, with the eyeliner mostly hidden by the glasses. It looks like a normal/natural goofy family shot, not the try-hard version I'm used to seeing from her.

[Albanyguy]

Her whole post read like "Blah, blah, blah, FREE FOOD, yadda, yadda, yadda, FREE FOOD, something, something, something, FREE FOOD!!!"

[BitterApple]

Is it me or is Tim looking a lot cuter since he moved to Washington? Maybe actually having food to eat is filling him out so he doesn't have that starved scarecrow look anymore.

[Churchhoney]

41 minutes ago, Albanyguy said:

Her whole post read like "Blah, blah, blah, FREE FOOD, yadda, yadda, yadda, FREE FOOD, something, something, something, FREE FOOD!!!"

Well, 13 (?) kids and nobody with an actual job....I can kinda see why FREE FOOD is an attention-getter.

[Temperance]

14 hours ago, doodlebug said:

I believe those are Jilll’s sister Amy’s daughters wearing outfits that their mother made for them.  Once you hear that Amy named the poor tykes Amity and Azalea, it becomes clear that she doesn’t much like them and lives to embarrass and humiliate them.  She’s doing a bang up job thus far.  I find the pincushion hats with matching bloomers to be particularly egregious.

The outfits are little much, but the names are fine. One of my friends has a little girl named Azalea and it's a name on the rise.  Amity is a name with certain associations for me personally, but it's fine and in keeping with Temperance of course. 

Names are getting more and more diverse, and I doubt those names would be too weird among most people their age even if they're more unusual. 

[BitterApple]

52 minutes ago, Temperance said:

The outfits are little much, but the names are fine. One of my friends has a little girl named Azalea and it's a name on the rise.  Amity is a name with certain associations for me personally, but it's fine and in keeping with Temperance of course. 

Names are getting more and more diverse, and I doubt those names would be too weird among most people their age even if they're more unusual. 

I went to school with an Acadia, which I always thought was a pretty name. I think Azalea and Amity are unique but not in the "Wtf were those parents thinking?" category.

[sondraK]

8 hours ago, BitterApple said:

I went to school with an Acadia, which I always thought was a pretty name. I think Azalea and Amity are unique but not in the "Wtf were those parents thinking?" category.

 

8 hours ago, BitterApple said:

I went to school with an Acadia, which I always thought was a pretty name. I think Azalea and Amity are unique but not in the "Wtf were those parents thinking?" category.

Amity reminds me of The Amityville Horror movie and book

[doodlebug]

9 hours ago, Temperance said:

The outfits are little much, but the names are fine. One of my friends has a little girl named Azalea and it's a name on the rise.  Amity is a name with certain associations for me personally, but it's fine and in keeping with Temperance of course. 

Names are getting more and more diverse, and I doubt those names would be too weird among most people their age even if they're more unusual. 

To each his own.  Between the names and the outfits, those kids could be characters in a novel by Charles Dickens.

[Catfin]

10 hours ago, BitterApple said:

Is it me or is Tim looking a lot cuter since he moved to Washington? Maybe actually having food to eat is filling him out so he doesn't have that starved scarecrow look anymore.

Where is a picture of Tim? Curious to see if he’s still blonde. 

[JoanArc]

13 hours ago, Broken Ox said:

 

For some reason, I kinda like the picture above. Jill looks more normal than I've ever seen her. And a LOT of it has to do with the toned down look -- no ratted up hair or weird angles, MINIMAL makeup, with the eyeliner mostly hidden by the glasses. It looks like a normal/natural goofy family shot, not the try-hard version I'm used to seeing from her.

I see Stormy coming over to babysit, but that’s just me.

[awaken]

So, sooooo wordy!  She uses a million words to explain things when a few well-chosen ones would do. 

What type of work is Tim doing with the hard hat?  

[GeeGolly]

When do you think it will hit Tim that his parents never had to plan anything around a job? That he had to miss Thanksgiving with his family to work enough hours to pay his bills probably wasn't enough to open his eyes, but if it happens enough times he might begin to realize it.

[Rabbittron]

3 minutes ago, GeeGolly said:

When do you think it will hit Tim that his parents never had to plan anything around a job? That he had to miss Thanksgiving with his family to work enough hours to pay his bills probably wasn't enough to open his eyes, but if it happens enough times he might begin to realize it.

It will never hit him he will never realize it.

2 hours ago, awaken said:

 

What type of work is Tim doing with the hard hat?  

The only thing I can see him doing is being a flagger because anything else with the hard hat you need experience and schooling.

Edited December 30, 2018 by Rabbittron

[sondraK]

On 12/28/2018 at 10:03 PM, doodlebug said:

I believe those are Jilll’s sister Amy’s daughters wearing outfits that their mother made for them.  Once you hear that Amy named the poor tykes Amity and Azalea, it becomes clear that she doesn’t much like them and lives to embarrass and humiliate them.  She’s doing a bang up job thus far.  I find the pincushion hats with matching bloomers to be particularly egregious.

I'm surprised Jill didn't say,"Amy made these back when she could sew! Before she SEVERELY broke her neck!"

[ginger90]

The dresses were made by Jill’s sister Angie. With all of her babbling, the text and pictures are a mish mash! This was the description:

 

Check out these ADORABLE dresses Angie made for her two little girls – Azalea and Amity.  Aren’t they beautiful?!

8 hours ago, Catfin said:

Where is a picture of Tim? Curious to see if he’s still blonde. 

Here you go:

Hard to tell.

[GeeGolly]

Safety glasses and hardhat, yet he has earbuds on. Unless they're noise cancelling buds I can't think of hardhat area that would allow personal music.

[Churchhoney]

21 hours ago, BitterApple said:

Is it me or is Tim looking a lot cuter since he moved to Washington? Maybe actually having food to eat is filling him out so he doesn't have that starved scarecrow look anymore.

I wondered this, too. ....

Unfortunately, if it's true it reinforces the idea that, while the kids in general may be naturally thin, the family's situation has pushed them past their natural levels of thinness into "starved scarecrow" territory. .... It's the smiles that make it look like their skulls are too close to the skin that make me think this most. And Timothy no longer has such a smile, it seems. Although, like the others, he always did before. 

Edited December 30, 2018 by Churchhoney

[ginger90]

The angles Jill chooses for pictures doesn’t help. The one of Timothy, is much different.

[Temperance]

5 hours ago, GeeGolly said:

Safety glasses and hardhat, yet he has earbuds on. Unless they're noise cancelling buds I can't think of hardhat area that would allow personal music.

Or someone is issuing orders via the earbuds. 

[Normades]

20 hours ago, doodlebug said:

To each his own.  Between the names and the outfits, those kids could be characters in a novel by Charles Dickens.

Or Stephen King!!

[doodlebug]

11 minutes ago, Normades said:

Or Stephen King!!

If they were twins, that photo could've been taken on-set of The Shining.

[ChiCricket]

10 hours ago, GeeGolly said:

Safety glasses and hardhat, yet he has earbuds on. Unless they're noise cancelling buds I can't think of hardhat area that would allow personal music.

I'm thinking he's working in something like a recycling plant...which might be loud and maybe dangerous. (I picture forklifts of trash and junk scurrying everywhere.)

 Just guessing.. but it would be good honest work. His parents should try it.

[Temperance]

Sarah Maxwell wished happy anniversary to John and Chelsy on their first anniversary. She is happy for them and the "arrow for the quiver" Chelsy is having in a month. Both the Maxwells, and even more so, the Bontragers love the idea of "quiverfull". For those missing Derick's tweets, you can try reading Chelsy's brother Joshua's blog. He's like Derick only less easy-going and more sheltered. 

[Churchhoney]

16 hours ago, Temperance said:

Sarah Maxwell wished happy anniversary to John and Chelsy on their first anniversary. She is happy for them and the "arrow for the quiver" Chelsy is having in a month. Both the Maxwells, and even more so, the Bontragers love the idea of "quiverfull". For those missing Derick's tweets, you can try reading Chelsy's brother Joshua's blog. He's like Derick only less easy-going and more sheltered. 

Wow. 

[GeeGolly]

41 minutes ago, Churchhoney said:

Wow. 

Yeah, easy going are not two words I would use to describe Derick.

[Sew Sumi]

4 hours ago, Churchhoney said:

Wow. 

You should read his blog sometime. He's a pompous little know it all at all of 21 or 22.

[galaxychaser]

What’s the link to his blog?

[Sew Sumi]

https://joshuabontrager.com

[Loves2Dance]

I didn't think JillR could gross me out anymore, but I was wrong...so, so wrong.

 

[DangerousMinds]

Why is she capitalizing “college?”

[realityfan26]

2 minutes ago, Loves2Dance said:

I didn't think JillR could gross me out anymore, but I was wrong...so, so wrong.

 

Ewww.!

[doodlebug]

24 minutes ago, DangerousMinds said:

Why is she capitalizing “college?”

Because she's an ignorant twit?  Random capitalizations is part of the charm of Jill's writing style.  Implying that her two eldest children are in a dating relationship is part of Jill's idiocy.  Why call it a double date?  Why not say that the 2 oldest kids joined you for dinner out?  For that matter, I don't understand this fundie insistence that married couples out doing stuff together are on a date.  

Jill's revelation that her two oldest kids 'enjoy each others grown, adult company' while waiting for chaste, godly mates kinda makes me queasy. I can't even joke about incest myself, but this post is one of the ickiest ones she's ever done. Flowers in the Attic anyone?

Are any of her followers pointing out her stupidity?

Edited January 1, 2019 by doodlebug

[galaxychaser]

Oy holy chalupa nuri eyebrows. Girl looks 45. Just no. 

[latetotheparty]

21 minutes ago, galaxychaser said:

Oy holy chalupa nuri eyebrows. Girl looks 45. Just no. 

45, chain smoking, hard drinking cocktail waitress. Or maybe hooker. Poor Nurie. Jill is delusional if she thinks any man of quality is going to hook up with her family. 

[Sew Sumi]

I never noticed the prominent chins on the kids before. Yowza!

Edited January 1, 2019 by Sew Sumi
Chins not China, autocorrect! And stop creating possessives when none exist. Please and thanks

[ChiCricket]

37 minutes ago, galaxychaser said:

Oy holy chalupa nuri eyebrows. Girl looks 45. Just no. 

I call those jail house eyebrows. Too thin, like you have nothing else to do all day and so you over-pluck.

[mynextmistake]

So Jill R thinks that two adult siblings who go out with their parents are on a date? Has she started snorting her Plexus? 

[ChiCricket]

Why did she wink after saying they were waiting for godly, chaste mates? 🤔

[RedheadZombie]

On ‎12‎/‎29‎/‎2018 at 10:19 PM, sondraK said:

 

Amity reminds me of The Amityville Horror movie and book

The name of the island in Jaws.

[sondraK]

Nurie looks too thin in the face.Maybe her chin would be less so if she gained some weight.

Chaste as in virgin? Maybe I misunderstood.

Normal ppl look for education and careers..go Tim,at least that part is right...not  waiting for a holy virgin mate