S03.E04: Little Lies

[Drogo]

Angela deals with more issues surrounding Michael; Darcey gets ready to meet her new British man; Ben worries his Kenyan love interest isn't ready to become a stepmom; Avery finally meets her Syrian fiancé Omar; and Rebecca digs into Zied's past.

Airs 8/18/19.

[magemaud]

On 8/5/2019 at 7:49 AM, Drogo said:

 Darcey gets ready to meet her new British man; 

After liberally dousing herself in perfume from head to toe 

45 minutes later...she’s ready to meet James Bond 

[DaphneCat]

To paraphrase Homer Simpson - she seems to have misplaced her pants!

[iwasish]

She doesn’t want to appear desperate. 

This pic screams desperation. 

Top pic: 

Is this a common sight in airport restrooms? Why have I not come upon this before? 

[RealReality]

1 hour ago, magemaud said:

After liberally dousing herself in perfume from head to toe 

45 minutes later...she’s ready to meet James Bond 

Oh no girl....why?  She needs like some sort of support group for women who dress like streetwalkers because I think she is an addict.  

Like just wear one slutty thing....not ALL the slutty things!  Save the thigh high boots for another day.

[magemaud]

It did appear to be a private restroom at Heathrow. She was shown going through her luggage and trying to decide what to wear after she washed, dried off with one of those high output dryers, brushed her teeth, reapplied makeup, lotion and squirted LOTS of perfume all over her body, even more than she applied at the Duty Free before meeting Jesse. 

[blubld43]

Oh Darcy, your lack of self awareness is showing. Instead of clubwear, a clean pair of jeans and a clean top wold have been far better. I get wanting to look good but this is way over the top. Of course.

This look is best suited for young adults. Not a middle aged woman deplaning, where are you expecting to go? What time is it? 

Edited August 13, 2019 by blubld43

[Azanscrazyhair]

Doesn't this fall under indecent exposure?  If not. It should!!

[RealReality]

3 hours ago, blubld43 said:

This look is best suited for young adults desperate streetwalkers.  Not a middle aged woman deplaning, where are you expecting to go? What time is it? 

FTFY 🤣

[Mrs. Hanson]

Darcy, take all that airfare and get therapy.  Truly, you need help.  Help for why you feel Soulmate #2 is going to solve all your problems.  Why you go from zero to 60 with the crying.  Why you need to make a driver wait outside a private bathroom for 45 minutes so you could blow dry your armpits and spray your lower darby with perfume.  Why you are expecting a ring from a guy who asked your friend to show him her boobs - and she complied and you sat there, all huffy.

Zaid:  "She does not look the same as her pictures."  Ya think?  What is up with all the matching sweatshirts with each other pictures on them?  Is this a thing now?  "I am technically married."  No you are MARRIED.  

Avery - I just can't.  Again, I would take her to therapy to discuss why she has a death wish.

[nytonc]

Darcy and her sister are so pathetic and desperate and trashy! I worry about her daughters growing up surrounded by the idea that one never looks good enough, always needs cosmetic improvement and must travel half way around the world to find love. I felt so sorry for that poor driver getting in that car with her after she doused herself in perfume! 

I think TLC is making a huge mistake romanticizing the idea of a naive converted to Islam American girl running off the Lebanon and/or Syria to join “the love of her life” and without a phone no less. I don’t care that her shit-for-brains mother is with her! She’s a moron for agreeing to this farce.  I’m thoroughly disgusted. 

[iwasish]

20 hours ago, RealReality said:

Oh no girl....why?  She needs like some sort of support group for women who dress like streetwalkers because I think she is an addict.  

Like just wear one slutty thing....not ALL the slutty things!  Save the thigh high boots for another day.

Who was it that said ”before going out, look in the mirror and remove one item”?

Darcy needs to ADD one!! Pants please !!!

19 hours ago, magemaud said:

It did appear to be a private restroom at Heathrow. She was shown going through her luggage and trying to decide what to wear after she washed, dried off with one of those high output dryers, brushed her teeth, reapplied makeup, lotion and squirted LOTS of perfume all over her body, even more than she applied at the Duty Free before meeting Jesse. 

Maybe she figured it was too little perfume that made the Jesse thing not work out...he smelled the desperation on her........ she won’t make that mistake again!

Edited August 14, 2019 by iwasish

[RealReality]

2 hours ago, iwasish said:

Who was it that said ”before going out, look in the mirror and remove one item”?

Darcy needs to ADD one!! Pants please !!!

Maybe she figured it was too little perfume that made the Jesse thing not work out...he smelled the desperation on her........ she won’t make that mistake again!

Coco chanel!  

She seriously needs to look in the mirror and replace one slutty clubwear item with a piece of normal clothing. 

Like take off those giant Jody watley bootleg hoop earrings and put on some pants.  

Is that show what not to wear still on?  I never watched it but she has to be a prime candidate for that show. 

Edited August 14, 2019 by RealReality

[RealReality]

8 hours ago, Mrs. Hanson said:

Darcy, take all that airfare and get therapy.  Truly, you need help.  Help for why you feel Soulmate #2 is going to solve all your problems.  Why you go from zero to 60 with the crying.  Why you need to make a driver wait outside a private bathroom for 45 minutes so you could blow dry your armpits and spray your lower darby with perfume.  Why you are expecting a ring from a guy who asked your friend to show him her boobs - and she complied and you sat there, all huffy.

Yuck.  Tom is no Casanova, but why can't she just shower before she sees him?  Is she afraid she is going to melt?

[Spike]

On 8/12/2019 at 10:28 PM, magemaud said:

After liberally dousing herself in perfume from head to toe 

45 minutes later...she’s ready to meet James Bond 

How about you change and freshen up in your hotel room?  And what kind of skank spreads her clothes all over a public bathroom floor?

[Mrs. Hanson]

5 hours ago, nytonc said:

Darcy and her sister are so pathetic and desperate and trashy! I worry about her daughters growing up surrounded by the idea that one never looks good enough, always needs cosmetic improvement and must travel half way around the world to find love. I felt so sorry for that poor driver getting in that car with her after she doused herself in perfume! 

I think TLC is making a huge mistake romanticizing the idea of a naive converted to Islam American girl running off the Lebanon and/or Syria to join “the love of her life” and without a phone no less. I don’t care that her shit-for-brains mother is with her! She’s a moron for agreeing to this farce.  I’m thoroughly disgusted. 

I agree with you on all points, especially Avery, or as I call her "I am Muslim today but in five years we are gonna look back and say "Remember when I wanted to go to Syria???"  But the fact is, Avery is 19, she is a legal adult adn can do what she wants, no matter how Death Wish-y it is!   All her mom can go is go along, meet Omar and ask Avery for her funeral plans.

[Spike]

5 hours ago, nytonc said:

Darcy and her sister are so pathetic and desperate and trashy! I worry about her daughters growing up surrounded by the idea that one never looks good enough, always needs cosmetic improvement and must travel half way around the world to find love. I felt so sorry for that poor driver getting in that car with her after she doused herself in perfume! 

They seem to be imitating Mariah Carey and even she can’t get away with that look.

If you close your eyes when Avery is talking it totally sounds like a cartoon voice.  Close to Bart Simpson or one of the Peanuts gang.

Edited August 14, 2019 by Spike

[magemaud]

3 hours ago, iwasish said:

Maybe she figured it was too little perfume that made the Jesse thing not work out...he smelled the desperation on her........ she won’t make that mistake again!

That gives me an idea for Darcey's perfume line, her signature scent: DESPERATION

[mamadrama]

So I've been thinking about these people and their "filters." Rebecca is not unattractive.I know WHY she used the filters, but I think he probably would've been just as attracted to her if she'd sent her own. The desperation is strong with that one. (And dude totally needs to wash his hair. Like 10 times.) The women who go to such extremes to hide what they really look like and then seek someone from another country is, IMO, really saying something about their self esteem and maybe even some mental health issues. I'm not ragging on them. I also went through the K1visa and married my own foreign spouse. None of the things they do really scream "desperation" on their own, it's the cumulative effect that makes me raise my eyebrows. 

I'd have been so mad about renting that car and then driving in Tunisia. I think I'd have had a heart attack, to be honest. I like our roadways: clearly defined lanes, rules of traffic that people actually follow, and stop signs that aren't just there as suggestion. 

Oh, Darcy...No. Just no. 

Grangela makes me sad. The weird thing is that I actually LIKE her. Her segments have me rolling my eyes back into my head, but she underneath all this other crap she actually seems like a decent person. She also reminds me of a lot of the people where I live, as well as family members.

The rest of them just kinda fade into the background for me.

Now: filters

So I went ahead and pulled up one of those FB apps where you can upload a picture and make yourself look like a Barbie or whatever. I don't have a cell phone at all, so I worked with what I had available. This is me, the real MamaDrama, filtered. It's not a lie, per se. None of it is "fake." That's my skin, those are my eyes and nose, that's my real hair...But I can assure you that I do not look like this in real life. I'm a babe! If I were to send this out on a dating site I'd probably get some hits, at least from some Tunisian love rats, but they'd be awfully disappointed once they met me. It makes me feel sad for the women, and some of the men, who do this and think it's the only way they'll find someone.

[Baltimore Betty]

29 minutes ago, mamadrama said:

I'd have been so mad about renting that car and then driving in Tunisia. I think I'd have had a heart attack, to be honest. I like our roadways: clearly defined lanes, rules of traffic that people actually follow, and stop signs that aren't just there as suggestion. 

Yes, that made me mad too. I am sure she will not be doing the driving so I hope she put him on the policy.  

Honestly, I would have told him that he can get a cab to take them to the hotel.  I cannot believe they will need a car in that city, parking might not be easy.  

Go figure, two minutes after they meet in person he has disappointed her. Shocking!

BTW, you look great in the filter! I am tempted to try that too. 

[Baltimore Betty]

7 hours ago, Spike said:

How about you change and freshen up in your hotel room?  And what kind of skank spreads her clothes all over a public bathroom floor?

Positively gross. 

I noticed that Darcy and her sister had a different house than last season, this time it is a single family home and not the townhouse they had before. What do they do for money?

When Darcy was leaving for the airport and was saying goodbye to her girls she said "Mommy has to go now," like she was heading off to war!  That idiot wanted a dramatic farewell scene, she always wants to make her actions seem like they are not her personal choices but more like her duty for flag and country!

[mamadrama]

14 minutes ago, Baltimore Betty said:

Yes, that made me mad too. I am sure she will not be doing the driving so I hope she put him on the policy.  

Honestly, I would have told him that he can get a cab to take them to the hotel.  I cannot believe they will need a car in that city, parking might not be easy.  

Go figure, two minutes after they meet in person he has disappointed her. Shocking!

BTW, you look great in the filter! I am tempted to try that too. 

Ha ha, I tried a bunch of different ones.  I'll post another one over in Small Talk so that I don't go off topic too much. It's kinda fun. 

I also thought parking might be a problem. I've never rented a car in a foreign city. Now,to get from one side of the country to the other or for long trips I've rented abroad, but in this situation a cab should've been offered. She'd never even been there before. I can't imagine how intimidating that would've been. 

[Spike]

34 minutes ago, Baltimore Betty said:

1 hour ago, mamadrama said:

Yes, that made me mad too. I am sure she will not be doing the driving so I hope she put him on the policy

She said he cannot drive the rental car because he has been licensed for ess than five years and that is a thing there.

[nutella fitzgerald]

9 hours ago, Spike said:

How about you change and freshen up in your hotel room?  And what kind of skank spreads her clothes all over a public bathroom floor?

In that promo clip that keeps getting aired, I’m fairly sure we see Darcey barefoot 🤢 and it’s not just a public bathroom floor, it’s an airport public bathroom floor!!! 🤮

[libgirl2]

On 8/12/2019 at 10:28 PM, magemaud said:

After liberally dousing herself in perfume from head to toe 

45 minutes later...she’s ready to meet James Bond 

is she wearing pants? 

[iwasish]

3 hours ago, Baltimore Betty said:

Yes, that made me mad too. I am sure she will not be doing the driving so I hope she put him on the policy.  

Honestly, I would have told him that he can get a cab to take them to the hotel.  I cannot believe they will need a car in that city, parking might not be easy.  

Go figure, two minutes after they meet in person he has disappointed her. Shocking!

BTW, you look great in the filter! I am tempted to try that too. 

He can’t drive a rental car. He doesn’t have the  5 yrs of driving experience required by the rental company. I know in the US you used to have to be 25 in order to rent a car. At least it was with the major companies, Avis, Hertz etc. There’s too much risk for accidents, tickets etc 

As far as disappointing her, we haven’t even gotten to the sex yet!! 

Edited August 14, 2019 by iwasish

[magemaud]

At least he could have warned her she’d need to rent a car and drive. What if the only cars available had stick shifts? I would have been totally SOL. I was in Naples in May, I wouldn’t have driven in that chaos for a million dollars. He seems the lazy type that would expect HER to instinctively know where she was going then start yelling at her when she was in the wrong lane or turned in the wrong direction. But Rebecca’s mind was probably focused on getting to the hotel and driving HIS stick. 

[BoomerRumor]

3 minutes ago, magemaud said:

At least he could have warned her she’d need to rent a car and drive. What if the only cars available had stick shifts?

Something tells me Rebecca can drive a stick. Especially since her own car is a MINI, which until recently was marketed toward manual transmission drivers. 

Something like the rental car situation happened to me, too. Many years ago, I was dating a National Geographic bug photographer who was very, very odd. He'd had a frontal-lobe injury as a child (car accident) and something was off. I learned later that he'd been quite violent with an ex. Was Ivy educated with a PhD. ANYWAY, we arrived in Honduras, at which time I discovered he'd never had a drivers license. SO, I ended up driving beat-up old pickups down dry creek beds and such all over Central America. There were only sticks available, but he wasn't cognizant enough for cars to know what that meant...or whether I could (I do). At least we all split the cost (the two others were Harvard-trained scientists, who couldn't drive a stick either). This wasn't a K-1 situation, but he started showing signs of erupting emotionally and physically with me...but I dangled the car keys and made him cut it out or I'd leave him stranded in the middle of buttf*** Nicaragua (this was pre-cell phone).

All that said, I think every adventurous, traveling woman show know how to drive a stick (really, takes 30 minutes to learn; many foreign countries have no automatics; even if you just lurch around, at least you can get it going) and...this will sound weird...but know how to fire a gun just in case. I am NOT a gun enthusiast and certainly don't own one, but if you're ever in a situation where there's one around, at least looking like you know what to do with it can defuse a situation fast.

This concludes my overly dramatic post for today lol!

[magemaud]

4 hours ago, Baltimore Betty said:

I noticed that Darcy and her sister had a different house than last season, this time it is a single family home and not the townhouse they had before. What do they do for money?

their current living situation is explained on the Darcey thread. 

[Spike]

1 hour ago, magemaud said:

At least he could have warned her she’d need to rent a car and drive. What if the only cars available had stick shifts? I would have been totally SOL. I was in Naples in May, I wouldn’t have driven in that chaos for a million dollars. He seems the lazy type that would expect HER to instinctively know where she was going then start yelling at her when she was in the wrong lane or turned in the wrong direction. But Rebecca’s mind was probably focused on getting to the hotel and driving HIS stick. 

It’s funny that in cultures with so many restrictions both legally and etiquette-wise, driving is permitted to be a free-for-all.

[RealReality]

6 hours ago, iwasish said:

As far as disappointing her, we haven’t even gotten to the sex yet!! 

And you just KNOW that jiggy jiggy is going to be terrible!

At least she has a plane ticket out, Laura moving permanently to get some subpar jiggy jiggy is....

[Spike]

16 minutes ago, RealReality said:

And you just KNOW that jiggy jiggy is going to be terrible!

At least she has a plane ticket out, Laura moving permanently to get some subpar jiggy jiggy is....

At least Aladdin is eye candy.  Zied is just gross.

[Mrs. Hanson]

44 minutes ago, Spike said:

At least Aladdin is eye candy.  Zied is just gross.

You don't like to be spoken to in a creepy stalker voice by a guy who has not washed his hair in a week?  Jeez......picky picky picky!!

Okay, Mother Deavan is still bugging me, lol, on her shaming, or put down, or whatever that smug comment on now you have to BE a dad or whatever.  Lady, you and your hubby raised a daughter who is seemingly uneducated past high school and his having her second kid by a second man at age 22.  So how about the TWO OF YOU  travel back in time and be better parents to Deavan and teach her how to keep her legs together, learn birth control and get an education?

[Spike]

8 minutes ago, Mrs. Hanson said:

You don't like to be spoken to in a creepy stalker voice by a guy who has not washed his hair in a week?  Jeez......picky picky picky!!

Okay, Mother Deavan is still bugging me, lol, on her shaming, or put down, or whatever that smug comment on now you have to BE a dad or whatever.  Lady, you and your hubby raised a daughter who is seemingly uneducated past high school and his having her second kid by a second man at age 22.  So how about the TWO OF YOU  travel back in time and be better parents to Deavan and teach her how to keep her legs together, learn birth control and get an education?

Deaven’s parents look pretty young so they may have been teen parents themselves.

[Mrs. Hanson]

Just now, Spike said:

Deaven’s parents look pretty young so they may have been teen parents themselves.

I agree, and all the better to educate your offspring so they can do better.  Kinda like the current crop of fools on Unexpected, with the two sisters who are 34 and 36 and are grandmothers.  (I might be a year off in the ages but they are well south of 40)

[RealReality]

1 hour ago, Spike said:

At least Aladdin is eye candy.  Zied is just gross.

Agreed. 

One day there will be filter glasses for people like Rebecca and zied.

45 minutes ago, Spike said:

Deaven’s parents look pretty young so they may have been teen parents themselves.

I wonder if it's cultural for people to get married and start a family earlier in s. Korea.  I know I watched a documentary about what I thought was s. Korea and how parents were lamenting and trying desperately to set their kids up in their 20s.

There was some public wall where you could post a picture and information of your uncoupled offspring.

[RealReality]

7 hours ago, RealReality said:

Agreed. 

One day there will be filter glasses for people like Rebecca and zied.

I wonder if it's cultural for people to get married and start a family earlier in s. Korea.  I know I watched a documentary about what I thought was s. Korea and how parents were lamenting and trying desperately to set their kids up in their 20s.

There was some public wall where you could post a picture and information of your uncoupled offspring.

Im quoting myself to point out what a dummy I am when the OP wasn't talking about jihoons parents.  It's been a long week.

[Mothra]

On 8/14/2019 at 7:08 AM, mamadrama said:

Oh, Mamadrama, I'm in love.  I think I've found my soulmate.  Check your paypal account for the six billion dollars I've sent you and let me know when you've bought your ticket to Belize.

emoji times a thousand (I don't know how to do them)

[Gobi]

10 hours ago, RealReality said:

Im quoting myself to point out what a dummy I am when the OP wasn't talking about jihoons parents.  It's been a long week.

You need to work on yourself, babe.

[Mrs. Hanson]

On 8/13/2019 at 8:18 PM, iwasish said:

Who was it that said ”before going out, look in the mirror and remove one item”?

Darcy needs to ADD one!! Pants please !!!

Maybe she figured it was too little perfume that made the Jesse thing not work out...he smelled the desperation on her........ she won’t make that mistake again!

There is not enough perfume at the Perfume Outlet Mall to cover up the desperation in Darcy.

[mamadrama]

18 hours ago, Mothra said:

Oh, Mamadrama, I'm in love.  I think I've found my soulmate.  Check your paypal account for the six billion dollars I've sent you and let me know when you've bought your ticket to Belize.

emoji times a thousand (I don't know how to do them)

Well, you see, I bought the nonrefundable ticket but now my country has shut down the borders and won't allow any flights out...😎

[RealReality]

19 hours ago, Mothra said:

Oh, Mamadrama, I'm in love.  I think I've found my soulmate.  Check your paypal account for the six billion dollars I've sent you and let me know when you've bought your ticket to Belize.

emoji times a thousand (I don't know how to do them)

If you really loved her you'd have her picture on a mug......and in a picture frame next to your bed......and in multiple framed photos down your hallway.....

TL; DR - The only way you can reasonably demonstrate your love is acting like a stalker in a lifetime movie.

[Mrs. Hanson]

3 hours ago, RealReality said:

If you really loved her you'd have her picture on a mug......and in a picture frame next to your bed......and in multiple framed photos down your hallway.....

TL; DR - The only way you can reasonably demonstrate your love is acting like a stalker in a lifetime movie.

Don't forget the matching sweatshirts with each other's picture on them!!!  

[magemaud]

10 hours ago, Mrs. Hanson said:

Don't forget the matching sweatshirts with each other's picture on them!!

Heavily filtered and several years out of date pictures, of course! 

[Angry Moldovan]

On 8/14/2019 at 7:08 AM, mamadrama said:

So I've been thinking about these people and their "filters." Rebecca is not unattractive.I know WHY she used the filters, but I think he probably would've been just as attracted to her if she'd sent her own. The desperation is strong with that one. (And dude totally needs to wash his hair. Like 10 times.) The women who go to such extremes to hide what they really look like and then seek someone from another country is, IMO, really saying something about their self esteem and maybe even some mental health issues. I'm not ragging on them. I also went through the K1visa and married my own foreign spouse. None of the things they do really scream "desperation" on their own, it's the cumulative effect that makes me raise my eyebrows. 

I'd have been so mad about renting that car and then driving in Tunisia. I think I'd have had a heart attack, to be honest. I like our roadways: clearly defined lanes, rules of traffic that people actually follow, and stop signs that aren't just there as suggestion. 

Oh, Darcy...No. Just no. 

Grangela makes me sad. The weird thing is that I actually LIKE her. Her segments have me rolling my eyes back into my head, but she underneath all this other crap she actually seems like a decent person. She also reminds me of a lot of the people where I live, as well as family members.

The rest of them just kinda fade into the background for me.

Now: filters

So I went ahead and pulled up one of those FB apps where you can upload a picture and make yourself look like a Barbie or whatever. I don't have a cell phone at all, so I worked with what I had available. This is me, the real MamaDrama, filtered. It's not a lie, per se. None of it is "fake." That's my skin, those are my eyes and nose, that's my real hair...But I can assure you that I do not look like this in real life. I'm a babe! If I were to send this out on a dating site I'd probably get some hits, at least from some Tunisian love rats, but they'd be awfully disappointed once they met me. It makes me feel sad for the women, and some of the men, who do this and think it's the only way they'll find someone.

You look fabulous! I went the other way thinking I might get myself a hawt Tunisian man if I was older, a little bit

[Angry Moldovan]

On 8/14/2019 at 6:05 PM, Spike said:

At least Aladdin is eye candy.  Zied is just gross.

Got to say the Syrian dentist is eye candy too. I’m still having flashback to those to tight jeans of Zieds

[blubld43]

1 hour ago, Angry Moldovan said:

Got to say the Syrian dentist is eye candy too. I’m still having flashback to those to tight jeans of Zieds

Which would be the opposite of eye candy, Zied is kind of gross so far. Why on earth Rebecca finds him so hot is beyond me.

[magemaud]

And even more creepy, Zied resembles Rebecca's grown son! I wonder if she considers herself a MILF? 

[Kareem]

25 minutes ago, blubld43 said:

Which would be the opposite of eye candy, Zied is kind of gross so far. Why on earth Rebecca finds him so hot is beyond me.

And vice versa.  In her own right, she’s ok. With a 26 year old from Tunisia and in lingerie?  She scared herself trying it on; scared me, too.  When he said he was going to bed with a grandmother, I winced.  A kind of creepy couple.   

[sagittarius sue]

On 8/13/2019 at 10:57 PM, Mrs. Hanson said:

Avery is 19, she is a legal adult adn can do what she wants, no matter how Death Wish-y it is!   All her mom can go is go along, meet Omar and ask Avery for her funeral plans.

I don't think Avery can travel legally to Syria.  I know a few news correspondents travel there, but only briefly so perhaps they get very temporary visas.  I would think her mother could work together with US consulate people to prevent her from going there.