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unpopular opinion monday

do adults really watch gossip girl?  i thought that show was for teens.  i judge adults who watch and take it for seriouslies.
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  • loveshine1loveshine1 member
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    edited December 2011
    I've never watched this show. I know a couple of people who watch it though.

    One of them is my college roommate, who watched Gilmore Girls and 7th Heaven until they were cancelled. I don't think she's a good judge of TV shows.
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  • edited December 2011
    I have not watched this either.
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  • zsazsa-stlzsazsa-stl member
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    edited December 2011
    Don't be messing with Gilmore Girls.  I will go get imoan to back me up on this if needed.
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  • *Barbie**Barbie* member
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    edited December 2011
    I do not watch Gossip Girl. I also thought it was for teens. 

    I did watch (and still do watch) Gilmore Girls through the entire run. However, I was also the same age (give or take a year or two) as the main character when the show was on TV. I also liked the fact that the show showed reasonably intelligent/independent female characters - Rory was, for the most part, a good role model for teen/college-aged girls. 

  • edited December 2011
    I never saw Gossip Girl, but I did watch the reincarnation of 90210 for a couple episodes for see what Kelly Taylor was up to.
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  • hmonkeyhmonkey member
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    edited December 2011
    the weather has turned nice here, and people have lost their minds.  i feel like everyone is dressed like joumana, and i'm the person in the background wearing a long-sleeved shirt and coat.

    people, it's in the 70s, but you don't need to be wearing your shirts so low that your bra and/or bypass scars are visible.
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  • TheDuckisTheDuckis member
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    edited December 2011
    I feel the same way about The Hills or whatever dumb show made Heidi and Spencer famous.
  • edited December 2011
    Why would a mom tell me that they have never told their kid, "NO", but some how want's me to fix her?

    How do you fix that at 13? Please tell me that.

    I thought half the fun of being a parent is saying no.
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  • edited December 2011
    I voiced some dissenting opions to the I/O psychologist here, and he told me to "zip it." I feel it highly innappropriate that he essentially told me to shut up. I can't tell if I should swallow this, or rip his head off and shitdown his neck.
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  • edited December 2011
    Min, you need to check him.

    You are an adult just like him. You don't have to get loud or anythnig, but he doesn't tell you to zip it. Oh, No!

    Check Him.
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  • nicoleg1982nicoleg1982 member
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    edited December 2011
    Just b/c I have a child, it does not give you the right to speak to me, my child or my husband.  STFU already.

    H, I don't really give two craps about your allergies right now.  I have not had an allergy med since December 2008 and my biggest triggers are those four legged things that shed and live in our house.  STFU already and go take some damn Claritin.

    Book club people - no, I do not want to meet at 4 p.m. on a Sunday.  I  plan to be asleep by then.

    Uggs - they do not belong in FL, no matter what Loveshine says.
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  • 6fsn6fsn member
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    edited December 2011
    I saw 2 episodes of Gossip Girl.  I was a big fan of 7th Heaven.
  • hmonkeyhmonkey member
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    edited December 2011
    i judge every person on our apartment floor who allows the door to slam shut.  sometimes the doors slam so hard that they rattle the pictures on our walls.

    it's basic civility, people.  we complain to management every spring.  (people open the windows in spring, and the crossbreeze really heightens the slamming force of the doors.)

    one night i couldn't sleep, someone came stumbling loudly down the hallway, and slammed the door shut at 3am on a tuesday.  i hope they barfed into their shoes, idkiwp-style.
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  • loveshine1loveshine1 member
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    edited December 2011
    I wear long sleeves all year long. With AC, it's simply too cold to have bare arms inside in FL. Just because it's 90 outside, doesn't mean it needs to be 50 inside, mmmkay?

    70 degrees is really not all that warm.
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  • 6fsn6fsn member
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    edited December 2011
    In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_wedding-woes_unpopular-opinion-monday?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special Topic Wedding BoardsForum:47Discussion:0ef460a9-003f-4a95-b987-2152897ea51ePost:bd18ccaa-c743-4cc7-b12d-615e410664a6">Re: unpopular opinion monday</a>:
    [QUOTE]Just b/c I have a child, it does not give you the right to speak to me, my child or my husband.  STFU already.
    Posted by nicoleg1982[/QUOTE]

    Darn right. 
  • edited December 2011
    NOLA - He has grey hair and I am a tiny little woman. No one here considers me and adult, an equal, or even someome to be respected. I am, and will forever be, the blonde, new girl no matter what I say, do, or accomplish. 
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  • edited December 2011
    Min, one thing I have learned.

    You can teach people how to treat you. I'm the nice, always smiling, chick.

    HOWEVER, you will not talk to me any kind of way. I will let you know in my own special way(I've been told I have a gift) of teaching people how to treat me. It's hard at times, but when you check a bully a few times, they become your best friend.

    Trust me.
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  • edited December 2011
    I am glad our families celebrate holidays separately.  H and I a lot more fun having my family over and visiting with my parents and uncles. two hours of bratty nephew trying to shout down the adults and monopolize all conversation was just about more than we could handle.

    I don't care for baby showers. I've known maybe 1 or 2 other guests at most of the showers I've attended. The other women are usually snooty, cliquey moms who can't talk about anything other than poop, vomit, and the best daycare.
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  • edited December 2011
    NOLA - I was planning on calling him - but I think it will just start trouble. You know people around here aren't reasonable. Also, he is BFF with my boss and it is best not to start things with her peeps, because then she gets on you. Functional, no. Best approach for survival, yes. People have to respect you as a person before they will treat you how you would like to be. Until then, it is all about them.
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  • hmonkeyhmonkey member
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    edited December 2011
    facebook is terrible, you guys.  one of my "friends" only posts about her baby that she poorly parents (she posts pics of the child's illnesses and solicits diagnoses instead of directing the child and her questions to a medical professional with a degree for a legit school) and how much she hates obama.

    i am kind of glad i don't have a lot of lady friends.  planning this wedding shower is crazy expensive.  i can't imagine if i was in the wedding party (she is not haveing a wedding party).  i am glad i just gave my sister mad stacks as a thank you.

    i don't understand cup stacking as a sport.  what is this teaching children, other than how to be a bartender? 

    i don't like cakeballs.  i'm with cw on this one -- too much touching, mostly by non-professionals who have not taken a course on food safety and sanitation.
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  • edited December 2011
    I think flower girls in tutus are cute.
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  • hmonkeyhmonkey member
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    edited December 2011

    i hate weddings where they are in some beautiful venue, giant fancy dinner and no guests.  it's so very laurentian -- either you don't have any friends, or you thought the fancy stuff was way more important and you blew your money on that instead of inviting a few more people.

    i have been saving a lot of money for the past two years.  i was going to blow it all on a designer purse (a 4 realz one, not sold at the metro exit) but now i am thinking of saving it to spend on a nice piece of fancy furniture.  with this baby, when am i going to be able to carry a nice purse?  maybe i need something nice for my house (or cardboard box, if we can't figure out where we are living) instead.  but maybe the baby will barf all over my nice eames chair and i will have to choose which one i want to throw away.

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  • loveshine1loveshine1 member
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    edited December 2011
    I have a severly sunburned right thigh.

    Apparently, while applying, I forgot that area. Yup, so it feels amazing. I'm wearing a dress today with bare legs and I've taken to laying my cold 1 liter water bottle where my legs meet to help cool off the fire.

    Thank God I have my own office and my boss is in Reno.
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  • ~~Busy.~~~~Busy.~~ member
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    edited December 2011
    I'm not a fan of "loud."  I like my home quiet, my car quiet and my office quiet.  I  was born a 85 year old woman.
  • edited December 2011
    In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_wedding-woes_unpopular-opinion-monday?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special%20Topic%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:47Discussion:0ef460a9-003f-4a95-b987-2152897ea51ePost:a469582f-17cb-46ae-a4e8-21f42aa6c6a4">Re: unpopular opinion monday</a>:
    [QUOTE]i'm starting to think my family was right with the whole "children must be seen and not heard" thing. we ate dinner at MILs on easter, and SIL served her two kids first. there wasn't enough chicken to go around, because not everyone eats lamb. but she made sure the kids plates were full. by the time Dh and i were serving ourselves, the chicken was gone. both kids didn't touch their plates and had microwaved mac and cheese for dinner instead.<strong> i am tired of SILs method of parenting and the less i am around her lawless children the better off i am. these are two kids that are never told no. instead they are told "jesus will take your toys away". they know she's lying. jesus would never steal.</strong>
    Posted by Wifezzilla[/QUOTE]

    How is it that we have the same SIL?

    I bought the kids each a book for Easter. It kept them occupied before we sat down to eat. When it was time to eat, nephew wouldn't come to the table. SIL & BIL did not get up and get him. Instead they sat at the dinner table pleading for him to come. H was annoyed and wanted to start without nephew, but SIL, BIL, & MIL kept pleading. Finally, I threatened to take the book back. SIL said, "Yeah, Tia PMB will take your book away." Kid finally came to the table. Kids know they can walk all over the ILs but not Tio/Tia PMB.
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  • hmonkeyhmonkey member
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    edited December 2011
    wz, i agree.

    one of my friends just moved her kid from one daycare to another, just because it was closer to her work.  i approve of this x1,000.  just because she has a kid doesn't mean she can't have a llife of her own.  meanwhile, i've got the facebook feed from one friend who wants to "homeshool her kids becuse i don't trust publis chools."  <-- 4 realz status update. 
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  • edited December 2011
    WZ - That is like that suuuuuuper fact kid I saw at the fair. At some point, wouldn't you start seriously looking at what your kid ate and the activities in his life. Before a certain age, it is *all* decided by the parent. There is no way that kid got THAT BIG unless he had a serious medical issue, in which case, I don't think he should have been drinking that sode, or eating that turkey leg.
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  • edited December 2011
    I have such a hard time keeping my mouth shut whenever MIL brings up BIL/SILs kids. They live two doors away from MIL and she practically raises them herself, even though SIL doesn't work and has no license, so she's always home.  Nobody ever disciplines those kids (3 boys, age 11, 9 and 4.5) or tells them No, except for Mr. Arb .  The two older ones only eat fried foods because "that's all they like," and the youngest eats about a quarter of a granola bar for each meal.  When we were over at MILs for her birthday a couple months ago, the two older boys were playing on her computer the entire time and couldn't be bothered to stop long enough to come and sing Happy Birthday to her.  The older two also still wet the bed, and nobody seems to think that they should try to figure out why they are still doing that, or try to prevent it from happening.



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  • hmonkeyhmonkey member
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    edited December 2011
    [QUOTE]I The older two also still wet the bed, and nobody seems to think that they should try to figure out why they are still doing that, or try to prevent it from happening.
    Posted by arbolita[/QUOTE]

    what the what, eyebrows.  you're just going to take off like that, after i spent that time coloring you in this morning.  ingrates.
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  • edited December 2011
    Arb, my MIL always has SILs kids. They live about a mile away. SIL gets jealous because nephew calls MIL "mom". 

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