The Lonely Js Club: James, Jackson & Johannah

[kokapetl]

I don’t think there’s enough going on with Jana to warrant her own thread. And there would likely be a lot of patronising pity in it. 

[Spencer Hastings]

On 9/7/2018 at 9:35 AM, MaryAnneSpier said:

Here is the husband's facebook page. So far, it's still accessible to the public. If the courtship becomes public, I wonder if he'll make it private. I love his job title: Relational Leadership Coach. That's one I've never heard before. 

 

https://www.facebook.com/christopher.s.hogan

So the father and I have several mutual friends.  I shouldn’t be too surprised since I went to a Christian college about 70 miles from Springfield.....but here we are.  I’m so crashing that wedding. 

[frenchtoast]

There is not going to be a separate topic for Jana. And the discussion is starting to go from light-hearted to snippy. Discuss the show/people on the show (on topic), not each other or the forum (off topic). Thank you.

[BetyBee]

10 hours ago, Jynnan tonnix said:

That rings a slight bell...although I don't recall ever reading or seeing it, my mind is conjuring up a paperback with a movie-poster type cover featuring Desi Arnaz Jr, who I had a crush on when I was about 13. Would that be right?

Yes, that's correct!  The female lead character was named July.

Oops sorry - deleted due to mod warning-same time posting.  

Edited September 9, 2018 by BetyBee

[Portia]

On 7/27/2018 at 5:12 PM, DragonFaerie said:

Rubberbands?  Duct tape?? Scissors???  Oh the fun we could all have

I'm thinking staples. 

[Ijustwantsomechips]

On 9/8/2018 at 6:00 PM, GeeGolly said:

I agree with honoring Jana with her own thread. Lets face it, we've invested a lot in this family and it would be nice for Jana to have her own thread as we walk beside her during this season of life.

I don't have any extra feelings for Jana, but as a non-Fundy woman I agree with other posters that we could acknowledge her on PTV in a way that she'll never be acknowledged IRL - as a real female human that counts, even without a man or dad lording over her.

My heading choice: Jana Duggar 

I got it! Jana Duggar: All I’m Asking is for a Little Respect

[Fuzzysox]

On 9/10/2018 at 11:51 AM, Ijustwantsomechips said:

I got it! Jana Duggar: All I’m Asking is for a Little Respect

WTH the Duggars are slacking on the "ads" for Jana. I'm losing out hope that her Prince will come.

Speaking of Jana, did I read somewhere that there was an arrangement for her to marry a boy (Chad Paine??) but he backed out? I need confirmation since I'm getting older and can't remember sh!t! 

[BitterApple]

12 minutes ago, Fuzzysox said:

WTH the Duggars are slacking on the "ads" for Jana. I'm losing out hope that her Prince will come.

Speaking of Jana, did I read somewhere that there was an arrangement for her to marry a boy (Chad Paine??) but he backed out? I need confirmation since I'm getting older and can't remember sh!t! 

According to Pickles (translation: take with a grain of salt because she's nuts), Jana was arranged to marry a boy while both were teenagers. He backed out and the residual hurt and embarrassment is what's caused Jana to remain single ever since. I threw out a wild guess and wondered if it was Chad, because the ages and shared family lunacy match up. I have no proof either way and Pickles never mentioned names.

[floridamom]

From what I have read, Jana had an interest some years ago in Chad Paine, but Kelly Bates snatched him up for her precious Erin. If Michelle gave a real damn about her daughters, she would have made sure she beat Kelly out with Chad for HER daughter, Jana. That's what I remember.

[Westiepeach]

19 minutes ago, floridamom said:

From what I have read, Jana had an interest some years ago in Chad Paine, but Kelly Bates snatched him up for her precious Erin. If Michelle gave a real damn about her daughters, she would have made sure she beat Kelly out with Chad for HER daughter, Jana. That's what I remember.

Wow. Just wow. So Chad had no say? He was basically sold off to the highest bidder?

[Temperance]

I only want Jana to get married if she wants to get married.  I'm not convinced she does, but in her world this is the closest she can come to living single.

I don't think the ads do any good. All the ads for John David  starting on 19 K&C, and he finally found someone by actually talking to someone in their community.

15 minutes ago, Westiepeach said:

Wow. Just wow. So Chad had no say? He was basically sold off to the highest bidder?

I don't know of any real connection between Jana and Chad. Her description of her ideal man sounded like Chad. Chad was attracted to Erin the moment they met. 

[Fuzzysox]

1 hour ago, floridamom said:

From what I have read, Jana had an interest some years ago in Chad Paine, but Kelly Bates snatched him up for her precious Erin. If Michelle gave a real damn about her daughters, she would have made sure she beat Kelly out with Chad for HER daughter, Jana. That's what I remember.

The story Erin tells is that she saw Chad at a Valentine's dance (yes, i remember her calling it a dance) and she started talking to him. She gave him her number. I don't know if she had to ask permission but the girl didn't waste time!! I think Kelly has good instincts when it comes to matchmaking. Too bad Jana isn't a Bates. She would be a totally different person if she was. Kelly lets her kids express themselves and have fun. The Bates kids actually have good relationships among themselves. The Duggars seem like total strangers at times. 

[Lunera]

What was the purpose of this? It's a pity party for Jana in the comments. 

Edited September 12, 2018 by Lunera

[BitterApple]

Oh my word. It's meant to be a fun photo, but the composition is so depressing. 

[Fuzzysox]

6 minutes ago, Lunera said:

What was the purpose of this. It's a pity party for Jana in the comments. 

That's the "ad" I was talking about!! Come on you guys have been around a long time, you know how it  works, "loves God, servant's heart, loves children but most of all loves Jesus!" 

[awaken]

That’s a strangely composed photo, and a strange thing to post out of the blue. 

[Sew Sumi]

5 hours ago, Fuzzysox said:

The story Erin tells is that she saw Chad at a Valentine's dance (yes, i remember her calling it a dance) and she started talking to him. She gave him her number. I don't know if she had to ask permission but the girl didn't waste time!! I think Kelly has good instincts when it comes to matchmaking. Too bad Jana isn't a Bates. She would be a totally different person if she was. Kelly lets her kids express themselves and have fun. The Bates kids actually have good relationships among themselves. The Duggars seem like total strangers at times. 

Small correction, it was a dinner, not a dance. I have heard them tell the story multiple times. Chad was a waiter. I'm pretty sure David Waller was also at this Gothard event. 

[graefin]

9 hours ago, awaken said:

That’s a strangely composed photo, and a strange thing to post out of the blue. 

It sums her up quite nicely, though: she blends into the walls ;)

[floridamom]

There's Jana with those Birkenstock-like sandals. Did anyone notice when she was decorating for the Sip & See party that she stood ON THE DINING TABLE with those shoes on her feet? How disgusting is that? I highly doubt that anyone disinfected the table before the event....OR after. Have they no personal cleanliness?

[graefin]

19 minutes ago, floridamom said:

There's Jana with those Birkenstock-like sandals. Did anyone notice when she was decorating for the Sip & See party that she stood ON THE DINING TABLE with those shoes on her feet? How disgusting is that? I highly doubt that anyone disinfected the table before the event....OR after. Have they no personal cleanliness?

They've been walking on countertops since time immemorial. Joy was pictured in an earlier ep walking around the house barefoot with the bottoms of her feet black. It's really nothing new for them.

[lascuba]

20 hours ago, floridamom said:

From what I have read, Jana had an interest some years ago in Chad Paine, but Kelly Bates snatched him up for her precious Erin. If Michelle gave a real damn about her daughters, she would have made sure she beat Kelly out with Chad for HER daughter, Jana. That's what I remember.

Considering how different Jana and Erin are (that we know of, anyway, because who the hell knows with Jana), I think it's possible Chad wouldn't have been interested in her. Erin is just so bubbly and cute and needy. Jana is--apparently--calm and self-sufficient. It's like when people say Jessa chose to set up Jeremy with Jinger instead of Jana as if she were slighting Jana, when going by the personalities involved, Jeremy and Jana would have been all wrong for each other.

[BitterApple]

Jana would've worked well with Austin, had he been a few years older. Austin doesn't strike me as the "opposites attract" type and I don't think Jana wants a self-absorbed pretty boy. They're both quiet, handy and independent. I think she'd enjoy a relationship where she gets to garden and putter around the house while having a husband who doesn't put a lot of emotional demands on her. 

[Ohiopirate02]

19 hours ago, Fuzzysox said:

That's the "ad" I was talking about!! Come on you guys have been around a long time, you know how it  works, "loves God, servant's heart, loves children but most of all loves Jesus!" 

And taken at a distance so the prospective grooms don't see how old she is.

(totally kidding about someone not even 30 being old, but sadly in their world it is).

[LilJen]

On ‎9‎/‎11‎/‎2018 at 8:17 PM, Lunera said:

What was the purpose of this? It's a pity party for Jana in the comments. 

"She loves to serve others but is so exhausted from doing all of the stuff JimBob and I were supposed to be doing these past 27 years that she's actually falling over! Also, we see her as an ancient classic car. Classic, but just really old and obsolete."

[cmr2014]

13 hours ago, floridamom said:

There's Jana with those Birkenstock-like sandals. Did anyone notice when she was decorating for the Sip & See party that she stood ON THE DINING TABLE with those shoes on her feet? How disgusting is that? I highly doubt that anyone disinfected the table before the event....OR after. Have they no personal cleanliness?

There are a lot of posts like this on this forum, and I have to admit that I have less of an issue with people going barefoot (or wearing shoes on the table) than a lot of other posters. It doesn't bother me that the Duggar kids crawl all over the counter-tops, it just bothers me that the counter-tops are never cleaned -- and the kids are never cleaned. It doesn't bother me to see the kids running around with filthy feet, but knowing that those feet are never washed, and then the kids get into their sheetless beds (in their clothes) with those filthy feet, and get up and do it all again that gets to me.

If you added cleaning to this story, I wouldn't mind it at all. The kids crawl around on the counter-tops and are shooed off when it's time to start dinner. The counter-tops are cleaned, and dinner is made. The kids wash their hands and sit at the table and eat. The kids go upstairs and bathe, put on clean pajamas, and climb into clean beds (between clean sheets). 

It's just that nothing and no one is EVER clean.

[Temperance]

On 7/16/2018 at 4:43 PM, Temperance said:

The engagement will coincide with the new season of Counting On hitting the airwaves. Wedding seems likely to be the first week in November. 

This is absolutely tacky, but I'm quoting myself because I called it. There must be a reason  TLC I mean, the Duggars, schedule their weddings for that first week in November. 

To stay on topic, I wonder which lonely J will be getting married November 2020. 

[Sew Sumi]

$weep$.

[Absolom]

If only they were aired the month they occurred....

[LilJen]

^that's okay, there are also sweeps months in February and May. Plenty of time to find the most!compelling!footage!ever! (aka super boring)

[Guest]

I don't know what to make of the missed Jana/Chad connection, but however it went down it's pathetic that two grown ass adults have to wait for their mommies to play chess to tell them which slob they get to marry. It's your potential partner - YOU make a move ffs! The Duggars are so socially repressed they treat courting like an eighth grade dance their parents are forcing them to attend.

Edited September 16, 2018 by Guest

[ginger90]

[Absolom]

On ‎9‎/‎16‎/‎2018 at 2:09 PM, SnarkEnthusiast said:

I don't know what to make of the missed Jana/Chad connection, but however it went down it's pathetic that two grown ass adults have to wait for their mommies to play chess to tell them which slob they get to marry.

If there even was a missed connection.  It's still all rumor and conjecture that there was a guy (although it seems likely she may have had a distant crush on someone) and that the guy was Chad.

[Fosca]

I wonder what the movie was?  The picture is too blurry for me to see much of anything.

[latetotheparty]

10 minutes ago, Fosca said:

I wonder what the movie was?  The picture is too blurry for me to see much of anything.

All I can think of is so many mosquitos. 

[Temperance]

1 hour ago, Fosca said:

I wonder what the movie was?  The picture is too blurry for me to see much of anything.

All I can tell is that appears to be a baby on the screen.   Maybe something about Moses or the bible, or something political or maybe even their own birth specials again?  I don't know. 

[LilJen]

On ‎9‎/‎18‎/‎2018 at 2:04 PM, Temperance said:

All I can tell is that appears to be a baby on the screen.   Maybe something about Moses or the bible, or something political or maybe even their own birth specials again?  I don't know. 

My impression was a luger. Though that would be too defrauding.

[kokapetl]

I see an airplane. 

[Misslindsey]

On 9/18/2018 at 12:44 PM, Fosca said:

I wonder what the movie was?  The picture is too blurry for me to see much of anything.

The documentary Jesus Camp? 

[queenanne]

3 hours ago, LilJen said:

My impression was a luger. Though that would be too defrauding.

Maybe it’s the Hiding Place?  Nazis would explain Lugers.

[Temperance]

I was thinking about how someone asked Derick if Jana and Laura are lesbians. I have a feeling the Duggars will get a new nanny/tutor to replace Laura soon. And that Jana will be courting sooner rather than later. I'm now saying Fall 2019 if not Spring 2019. (There's about two courtships a year.) If getting married will actually make her happy, I'm all for it. If she's getting married, because her family and fans are pressuring that's sadder to me than her current situation. I hope she is able to make decisions based on what she wants, but that's probably hard to do for a Duggar. 

[BitterApple]

Damn, I just looked at the forum title and realized the Lonely J's is down to four members. Poor Jana.

If Boob gets wind of the lesbian rumors, Laura will most definitely be sent packing. 

[jcbrown]

1 hour ago, Temperance said:

I was thinking about how someone asked Derick if Jana and Laura are lesbians. I have a feeling the Duggars will get a new nanny/tutor to replace Laura soon. And that Jana will be courting sooner rather than later. I'm now saying Fall 2019 if not Spring 2019. (There's about two courtships a year.) If getting married will actually make her happy, I'm all for it. If she's getting married, because her family and fans are pressuring that's sadder to me than her current situation. I hope she is able to make decisions based on what she wants, but that's probably hard to do for a Duggar. 

I wondered if they featured her so much in the last episode in an attempt to drum up interest and get her married off. I know, it was her birthday trip (allegedly) but I suspected that storyline was created specifically so they could advertise her availability. 

[BitterApple]

53 minutes ago, jcbrown said:

I wondered if they featured her so much in the last episode in an attempt to drum up interest and get her married off. I know, it was her birthday trip (allegedly) but I suspected that storyline was created specifically so they could advertise her availability. 

Quite possibly. The trip took place two months after the twins' actual birthday, so there has to be a reason they sold it as a "birthday trip" as opposed to a regular family vacation. If the goal was to sell Jana, I have to say they didn't do a very good job of it. She came off as bossy and overbearing, two qualities men just love in a wife, lol. 

[LisaWl7TR]

4 hours ago, BitterApple said:

Damn, I just looked at the forum title and realized the Lonely J's is down to four members. Poor Jana.

If Boob gets wind of the lesbian rumors, Laura will most definitely be sent packing. 

I am still waiting for counting on/19 kids and counting to be told they are cancelled. JB doesn't have anyone to marry and no one is willing to get pregnant to save the show. Ok, maybe Jessa but hasn't yet. 

So...Jim Boob pitches Jana and Laura are a couple and getting married since both are somehow pregnant.  #Loveislove #Miracle

ETA Then the show is renewed. 

Edited September 22, 2018 by LisaWl7TR

[floridamom]

I read somewhere that it was denied that Laura is the childrens' tutor. If this is so, why is she there?

[kokapetl]

32 minutes ago, floridamom said:

I read somewhere that it was denied that Laura is the childrens' tutor. If this is so, why is she there?

I don’t think she has ever formally been introduced to the viewers. They just treat her like she’s a Duggar and hope we don’t notice.  

[doodlebug]

1 hour ago, kokapetl said:

I don’t think she has ever formally been introduced to the viewers. They just treat her like she’s a Duggar and hope we don’t notice.  

I think they figure the casual viewer cannot tell one Duggar from the next, and, since the premise of the show is based on a huge family, tossing a couple of randos into the shots just supports the theme.

[Christina87]

Also in the real world, it's not unusual for a woman in her twenties to hang out with her best friend and go on vacations with her. It probably looks normal to people who don't know much about the family!

[Natalie68]

21 hours ago, BitterApple said:

Damn, I just looked at the forum title and realized the Lonely J's is down to four members. Poor Jana.

If Boob gets wind of the lesbian rumors, Laura will most definitely be sent packing. 

THAT wedding/marriage would be a lot more interesting and bring in more viewers BOOB!  Just sayin'.

[floridamom]

A 28 year old 'best friend' doesn't move in with your family. They also don't travel with the family on family trips and they don't go out of state for their friends's sister's labor & delivery. Something is just not right there.