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

[iwantcookies]

HUNK junior with his bride to be NOT having alcohol in their cups

[iwantcookies]

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[iwantcookies]

Jonathan is not going to break up with Kay? If he does she will have a door to remember him by 😂🤪😭.

 

Edited September 20, 2021 by iwantcookies

[iwantcookies]

Jill’s skirt and top don’t go together. Also the skirt is so tight how does she sit? 

[ginger90]

In the video, Jill said, “Jonathan builds a lot for his job.”.

[iwantcookies]

And 2 tops cuz she is modest 😂

[ginger90]

Poor Samuel is now (and our Samuel).

 

 

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Edited September 21, 2021 by ginger90

[P2C2E]

They are so concerned about "giving away pieces of your heart" but the moment a courtship starts it's as if they'll be married for hundreds of years. What will they do about that door if the courtship ends?! Stop trying for such permanent markers for a relationship that's barely begun!

[Cinnabon]

1 hour ago, Absolom said:

What size do we think Jill is?  Maybe a 12?  

The average American woman is a 12/14. So I think so.

[Cinnabon]

1 hour ago, BradandJanet said:

Yes. I am portly too.  

However, I do not push an expensive MLM product that is supposed to cure everything and keep the drinker slim and trim. Jill does, yet she's filling out as she ages, just as most of the rest of us do. 

Ten or twelve sounds right. She is short. She lost weight for a while, but things changed when the stimulus money started coming in. Jill is not above photoshopping her face and body. 

At my most fit in my 20s/30s, I was a size 10 (8 every once in a while). I have a large chest no matter how small the rest of me gets!

Edited September 21, 2021 by Cinnabon

[iwantcookies]

$5 bet that the Rod kids never seen beauty and the beast.

[Spazamanaz]

Just now, iwantcookies said:

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Oh puke.

[SMama]

1 hour ago, P2C2E said:

They are so concerned about "giving away pieces of your heart" but the moment a courtship starts it's as if they'll be married for hundreds of years. What will they do about that door if the courtship ends?! Stop trying for such permanent markers for a relationship that's barely begun!

You’d think BME would have learned her lesson after Nurie’s first guy ran for the hills.

[Girl in a Cardigan]

4 hours ago, iwantcookies said:

HUNK junior with his bride to be NOT having alcohol in their cups

Why are there so many straps on Kaylee's dress? Is she wearing the little straps that you hang it dry as if they are spaghetti straps? And why a bright red shirt under a blue and purple dress?

I know she's "got" man now, but c'mon girl! These Awkward Courtship Photos are FOREVER!

[floridamom]

Jill.....that attic door "turned out beautifully". "beautifully" is used as an adverb in your sentence, honey. This woman is homeschooling her children?  Oy!

[Turquoise]

12 hours ago, iwantcookies said:

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Hateful critic here, wondering if he swiped that sucker from The Fair...

[BradandJanet]

2 minutes ago, Turquoise said:

Hateful critic here, wondering if he swiped that sucker from The Fair...

Right out of the hands of a small child probably.

I believe that Jackpot Gem Davy keeps candy in the printshop to reward his kids when they spend their days there as Victorian era child laborers. It's cheaper than feeding them good meals, and it's easier than giving them a decent education. 

If orders are FLYing in and David can barely keep up, as Jill claims, we know what the children are doing all day, and it isn't play or school. Davy probably eats all the reward candy too. 

 

[Westiepeach]

Yep, orders are just flying in and GWE can barely keep up with the work. That's why they just came back from a month-long vacation and always seem to be hitting the road grifting across the USA, singing for Jesus. Has he ever print anything else besides the smiley tracts that will end up in the trash anyway?

Edited September 22, 2021 by Westiepeach
I really can make sense. Most days.

[ginger90]

Perhaps he’s printing Jill’s wonderful book?

She hasn’t posted about that lately.

[Totally]

That video of Timbits singing😮

The rambling intro 😮

The change from his speaking voice to singing 😮

The black caterpillars resting below the dyed blond hair 😮

The judgement on everyone who isn’t his tiny little circle of life 😒

 

 

[charmed1]

On 9/18/2021 at 6:58 PM, dargosmydaddy said:

That would make the dark haired girl Olivia, who will be ten in January. Yikes!

Olivia has been upgraded to a junior not-Nurie. Jill has been featuring her in a lot more Plexus photos. 

[emmawoodhouse]

1 hour ago, Westiepeach said:

Yep, orders are just flying in and GWE can barely keep up with the work. That's why they just came back from a month-long vacation and always seem to be hitting the road grifting across the USA, singing for Jesus. Just he ever print anything else besides the smiley tracts that will end up in the trash anyway?

According to Jill, posting on the Amy Foster FB page, they're at her place "helping" this week. 

[BradandJanet]

For the most pure and faithful Christian ever, Jill certainly plays fast and loose with the truth. However, I believe he is faithful to Jill. Who else would be desperate enough to want him? 

[SMama]

1 hour ago, emmawoodhouse said:

According to Jill, posting on the Amy Foster FB page, they're at her place "helping" this week. 

Hopefully not all of them, because there’s nothing helpful in that scenario. 

[iwantcookies]

3 hours ago, ginger90 said:

Perhaps he’s printing Jill’s wonderful book?

She hasn’t posted about that lately.

I forgot about her book 🤣. Oy what a nightmare that will be !

[iwantcookies]

2 hours ago, emmawoodhouse said:

According to Jill, posting on the Amy Foster FB page, they're at her place "helping" this week. 

Helping to devour all the food gut with ears will find 🤣.

[Vivigirl10]

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Very bizarre how he has a normal-ish voice albeit with a bit of a lisp, then suddenly he launches into a deep, off-key singing voice.  It was startling!

Thank you!  I've never bothered to listen to him speak and I will say that even despite the lisp, "um's" and rambling nonsense, he still sounded better than I imagined in my head.  I think I always thought he sounded just like the girls!  Oh my....then the singing started!

Jill dyes Timbits hair just like he was a child she kidnapped and they're still on the run.  

I always hold out some sliver of hope for the courting that they will actually like each other and have some joy in life.  Then I think of how many guys I dated, or even talked to, and immediately was ready never to see again.  Kaylee may feel like that and she's still going to be stuck with this dude for life.  Ugh.  

[libgirl2]

19 hours ago, iwantcookies said:

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Yuck

19 hours ago, ginger90 said:

Poor Samuel is now (and our Samuel).

 

 

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He knows the movie?

[charmed1]

2 hours ago, Kiki620 said:

Jill dyes Timbits hair just like he was a child she kidnapped and they're still on the run.  

The way I screamed just now😂. It brought back memories of that episode of Diff’rent Strokes when that family kidnapped the awful Sam and gave him a new name.

[iwantcookies]

Timbot would have been better off raised by wolves! 

[ginger90]

[iwantcookies]

Wins me stuffed animals 😞. Greedy MAMA witch will not give them to her kids. 
 

Or buy them a recliner.

[BitterApple]

7 minutes ago, iwantcookies said:

Wins me stuffed animals 😞. Greedy MAMA witch will not give them to her kids. 
 

Or buy them a recliner.

Most dads would win stuffed animals for their daughters. What grown ass woman hordes children's toys? She's a total nutjob.

[drafan]

11 minutes ago, ginger90 said:

OMG...now it's Big Lots. Feet all over the upholstery, waifs playing with / man-handling /wearing out the recline function.

Do I spy more decor in the cart? It's not that cheap in Big Lots.

[Cinnabon]

32 minutes ago, ginger90 said:

Again with bringing the whole family, unmasked, into stores. The Covid numbers here in Ohio have been increasing. My vet had briefly changed from curbside only service to allowing clients to come in, but just changed back to curbside only because of the numbers.

18 minutes ago, drafan said:

OMG...now it's Big Lots. Feet all over the upholstery, waifs playing with / man-handling /wearing out the recline function.

Do I spy more decor in the cart? It's not that cheap in Big Lots.

All with no masks and unvaccinated. Plague rats.

[marypat57]

On 9/20/2021 at 9:07 AM, skipnjump said:

My school did the exact thing for 8th graders the day  after graduation, going to Kings Island.  I still remember riding the Beast multiple times .

When I was in the 8th grade, our class trip was to Rye Beach Playland amusement park.  It’s about an hour’s ride from Long Island, and had a nice assortment of rides.

My favorite part of the rides was watching the nuns in their habits trying to hold on to their veils.  It was quite amusing and I regret I don’t have pictures.  
 

When I started high school that September, I was surprised to see some of the nuns in short habits and veils.  They actually had legs!  Some of them were even using their baptismal names, rather than their “nun” names.  It seemed to make some of them a bit more human.

[charmed1]

Jill is going on a manic Hunk spree. She sure seems to be trying to prove something to someone in her dowdy Facebook circle that her life and marriage is awesome. I wonder if it was around this time when she went on that manic social media posting spree where she posted that weird card and gifts supposedly from Hunk. And those ghost written posts that were allegedly from her children. 

[BradandJanet]

Looks as if David is sitting in a recliner too. I thought he was too busy cranking out millions of gospel tracts to take even a moment's rest from the grueling work at the print shop. Apparently not! He's off to pop balloons at the fair to win cheap stuffed animals for Big Momma (and he's SO good at that) and push a shopping cart around Big Lots while BEST MOMMA finds more tacky decor for the barndo and makes the kids pose for her social media spreads. He's all yours, Jillybean. And sometimes I feel a bit sorry for him. But the feeling passes quickly. 

[emmawoodhouse]

I only feel sorry for the kids. No pity spared for those monsters Jill and Shrek. Listening to David "preach" cured me of any sympathy I might have had for him.

[CandyCaneTree]

Now admit it doesn't every female want a hunk like Shrek?

[beckie]

I get the impression that David doesn't have much to do with the children who aren't sons. And not even very much with them. I think he let's her rule with an iron fist.

 

[GeeGolly]

I don't like to comment on weight too much, because I'm not into fat shaming, but... if you look at Michelle, JillR and Kelly Bates, you'll see what great shape Michelle and Jill are in, when compared to Kelly. Kelly still looks great, but to me she looks more like someone who popped out eleventy hundred kids. Another contrast is Kelly actually seems to like and enjoy her children and grandchildren. If she and Gil weren't still such a part of the Gothard crowd, one might almost think they went mainstream.

On another note, I've noticed Erin doesn't seem to hang much with her family these days. They just had a big party for Whitney and she wasn't there for that either.

[Rootbeer]

11 hours ago, ginger90 said:

The girls 'found' the children's recliners and Jill left them right there in the store.  No way even a single kid's chair found it's way to the barndo.

And, of course, Jill keeps any crappy little stuffed animals that David 'wins' for herself.  I wonder how much he spent to get those Dollar Store toys for her?

Is that a cane that David is clutching?  At first it looked like it might be a handle on a wagon, but it looks like it has a height adjustment piece on it that comes on a cane.  Wouldn't be surprised if his knees are giving out.

Edited September 22, 2021 by Rootbeer

[ginger90]

6 minutes ago, Rootbeer said:

Is that a cane that David is clutching? 

It looks to be this:

[farmgal4]

44 minutes ago, ginger90 said:

It looks to be this:

Poor little Sofia is wearing shoes that are too big again.  Jenessa is stuck wearing Sofia’s hand-me-down sandals.  Meanwhile BME had on a stylish and well-fitting pair of sandals at the fair that I had never seen her wear before.  It’s pathetic that she is ALWAYS dressed better than her daughters.

[laurakaye]

To me, it's the height of cruelty for Jill and Gut to drag all their little girls around to all these stores where they have to look at all the things they're not allowed to have.  Why not just let them stay home with their older siblings?  It's not like Jill is taking them out for special attention or anything - she's taking them out so the attention will be on her.

[MargeGunderson]

18 minutes ago, laurakaye said:

To me, it's the height of cruelty for Jill and Gut to drag all their little girls around to all these stores where they have to look at all the things they're not allowed to have.  Why not just let them stay home with their older siblings?  It's not like Jill is taking them out for special attention or anything - she's taking them out so the attention will be on her.

But if she went out by herself, someone might mistake her for a childless career woman!

[crazy8s]

the picture of "shopping for furniture" must be from weeks ago, since the print shop/living area was filled with furniture wrapped in plastic in the video of jonathon and kaylee singing.

[SMama]

3 hours ago, ginger90 said:

It looks to be this:

It’s sad that probably three of the girls would fit in that wagon.

[galaxygirl76]

My husband is pretty good at those carnival type games too but he gives his prizes to our daughter because we actually like our kid.