I took hom-ec in high school and there were several incidental occasions where I got to observe the teacher drinking from a tea cup.
She did not stick her finger through the loop of the handle. Instead, she would use her fingertips to grasp the outside of the handle and she extended her little finger.
That seemed to me to be very high culture, and she was black, which goes a long way to explain why I am not a racist.
Mitchell, that is the former countess, LuAnn de Lesseps, a member of The Real Housewives of New York City cast. She lost her title when she divorced her husband.
Ah, I see. Well, I'll leave it to minds greater than my own to figure out how someone can have a career in show business and be a real housewife at the same time.
She's fairly good-looking, though, which is more than enough for me.
Mitchell she is famous for picking up and banging a pirate guy who looked like Johnny Depp last season. These broads were on vacation and went to this club and all dressed up like pirate skanks. Don't ask. Anyway the Countess was all over this young dude who was most likely gay but makes his money banging older American cougars on vacation. He also banged Sonja as well but the rumor it was back door action. More information than you needed to know I am sure.
This season there will be a lot of pirate jokes. It is currently filming in NYC.
Being a housewife does get you opportunities. Nene Leakes of Atlanta got a recurring role on "Glee" and a starring role on "The New Normal." Other howifes have some cameo work as well.
They are not as big a star as Honey Boo Boo but it is still pretty good.
I've long been fascinated by the women that other women find beautiful and the women that find them thus.
Or something.
No seriously, I remember being around 12, in a hospital pretty badly hurt, had a nurse that I thought was just the prettiest woman I'd ever seen, and she was obsessing over how pretty Valerie Bertinelli is (or, was, considering the tense issue at play).
Then there are other women who'll never say anything remotely nice about another woman. Or if they do it's backhanded and still insulting.
Darcy, I've only seen the first four or five eps of the first(?) season. The one with the tennis match.
Then a while back I caught half an episode with a woman I'd never seen. She was in the process of taking over someone else's management of the Housewives' appearance in a gay pride parade in their original wedding dresses.
Oh. You missed her "singing" session, then. And her date with some guy that she acted real happy to be with and when he went to kiss her she let him hang there with a pucker. It was so awkward and wrong.
I agree with Darcy that the personality that Princess Luann displays on the Real Housewives is terrible. But the wife and I have become somewhat friendly with Alex McCord who as you know had a big fight with the Countess. She said she was the most fun of them all when she wasn't playing Countess but was just plain Lulu the slutty ex-model.
You can't always go by the edit you get on reality TV.
Reality tv is bizarre. How can the participants separate themselves from being 'real' and feeling the need to be outrageous. It's like one huge national psychological experiment. Except observing a phenomenon affects the outcome. Or something.
I feel this is one more advance as the Technium funnels us toward...whatever we will end up as.
I alway found Alex and her husband interesting...the way they did everything together, even peddies, I think lol. Felt kind of sorry for them, such obvious social climbers.
Reality television is fake. Sometimes it's so fake that there are actual actors cast in the parts. A friend worked on one show where a "family" was made up of actors cast from around the country who'd never met before filming. Even when they aren't actors, they're being directed. "Go up to her and say this." "Ask him this." "Walk over there and look at them like this."
And Trooper is right about the editing. Even when it isn't fake as in cast and/or directed (rare), it's still fake via the edit.
Creeley, it's the swooning over DiCaprio that I totally don't get.
deborah: Was there swooning over DiCaprio? He looks swoonable, as far as I can tell these things, but personally I haven't encountered any women swooning for him. The women I know are neutral or dislike him.
If women did swoon for DiCaprio, were they swooning for him or for the whole Titanic experience -- especially imagining themselves as Kate Winslet?
While I am not attracted to Johnny Depp, I do think it unfair to lump him in with Mick Jagger!
They are different kinda guys. I mention them together because I have known (different) women who were thoroughly smitten with them.
Of course I am talking about Jagger in his prime, not his current 70 year-old incarnation.
BTW, the Stones gave quite a show at the Glastonbury Festival several weeks ago. I heard it was because their big 50th anniversary tour wasn't selling out as planned, so they were drumming up excitement. Whatever the case, the video is worth a look.
The talking heads are normally scripted. But parts of it are not. They tell you want they want to accomplish and what they want to get in the scene. Then you do it. If they get what they want or something good happens they print it. Otherwise you have to do it again.
One of the main things they try to do is get you drunk. That is why most of the Bravo shows revolve around parties or dinners. They get everyone liquored up and wait until the fireworks start. The 90% of the event where everyone gets along just fine never makes it to air.
The new season of Real Housewives of New York is currently filming. It seems that pop eyed Ramona is cast as the villain this year.
Alex is a perfectly lovely woman who you would enjoy meeting. A typical yuppie/hipster type but very nice.
Her husband is your typical half a poofter half a wanker dude. Good for a laugh but very protective of his wife. That is why he got such a bad edit. The nancy boys who run reality TV want what they want and if your wife is supposed to look stupid according to their script they will do that and if you try to step in they will get their revenge in the editing process.
They call it reality TV but I'm going to guess they don't actually show the participants in the bathroom laying down a hot stinky after eating Mexican.
We also had a very interesting discussion with Caroline Manzo and her daughter Lauren. Caroline is a very kind and gracious woman and Lauren is nothing like they portray her on TV. They were shopping in the Moda Show at the Javits for Laurens boutique Cafface and we traded tips. They told us about reality TV and we told them about buying from vendors at the show.
The talking heads are normally scripted. But parts of it are not. They tell you want they want to accomplish and what they want to get in the scene. Then you do it. If they get what they want or something good happens they print it. Otherwise you have to do it again.
One of the main things they try to do is get you drunk. That is why most of the Bravo shows revolve around parties or dinners. They get everyone liquored up and wait until the fireworks start. The 90% of the event where everyone gets along just fine never makes it to air.
Oh yeah, that's been going on for a long time. The bachelor(ette) series has been doing that since day one. MTV has been doing that forever with their Real House series. The little poofta's that run Bravo love, love, love to get everyone drunk and kung-fu fighting. Personally, I'd punch that Andy Cohen in the fucking head for the giant poofta douche bag he is. Even my poofter friends hate that little maggot.
Sometimes, the problem is that the people running the reality show go too far in getting the participants all riled up.
That's when they panic and go all nutsy and start kicking people off the show. Sometimes they even turn off the cameras and complain that it's the participants own fault for some reason or other that makes absolutely no sense to anyone who was ever actually there.
Sometimes they turn the cameras back on, but only shyly and just a little, never admitting that they were the ones who messed things up in the first place.
In the meantime, there's a lot of bitching about how difficult it is to put on a realty show and how the participants should feel grateful that they were ever allowed to be a part of it at all.
That is very true Mitchell. They think that you should kiss their ass and let them make you look like a fool because you are someone they despise. Italians or Catholics. Religious people like the Mormons or the Amish. Southerners like Honey Boo Boo. They live to mock and denigrate people they despise because they think they are the coolest people on the face of the earth when in reality they are in fact disgusting scum.
You know what was the worst part about TV people. They never fucking wash. They are filthy pigs who wear the same clothes for days on end. They would make a maggot puke.
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"Stands in starch contrast"
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha and that totally kills me because ha ha ha ha ha it's the wrong word!
I know!
I've heard someone say Pride and Prejudiced to the point I'm afraid I'm going to accidentally say it.
Of course, there are old song lyrics that have been mangled because the fi wasn't that hi.
I took hom-ec in high school and there were several incidental occasions where I got to observe the teacher drinking from a tea cup.
She did not stick her finger through the loop of the handle. Instead, she would use her fingertips to grasp the outside of the handle and she extended her little finger.
That seemed to me to be very high culture, and she was black, which goes a long way to explain why I am not a racist.
Sounds good. I'm going to have my butler, Mr. Coffee, make some of that stuff.
Surely you'll be grinding your own beans, Allen.
I can't think of any but Mairzy Doats, but that's what they wanted you to think.
Like the old song, "Western Movies", where they start naming some of the characters on the shows and nobody could figure,
Wel-l-l-l, Mr Dillon, (something), and old Co-chise
Jim Hardie, Jim Bowie, and Sugarfoot
All have guns and will tra-vel
Hand me back my boots and saddle
Turns out the (something) was "Steve Rowland" who was an occasionally seen actor, but not a character on any show.
They could have used Don Diego.
Death is racist.
I don't know who that lady is in the photo so I googled "Lillian Gish" because it rhymes with "dish."
It's not Lillian Gish, in case anyone was wondering.
Mitchell, that is the former countess, LuAnn de Lesseps, a member of The Real Housewives of New York City cast. She lost her title when she divorced her husband.
Ah, I see. Well, I'll leave it to minds greater than my own to figure out how someone can have a career in show business and be a real housewife at the same time.
She's fairly good-looking, though, which is more than enough for me.
Google her image, she's beautiful.
Mitchell she is famous for picking up and banging a pirate guy who looked like Johnny Depp last season. These broads were on vacation and went to this club and all dressed up like pirate skanks. Don't ask. Anyway the Countess was all over this young dude who was most likely gay but makes his money banging older American cougars on vacation. He also banged Sonja as well but the rumor it was back door action. More information than you needed to know I am sure.
This season there will be a lot of pirate jokes. It is currently filming in NYC.
I thought you'd never get here.
Being a housewife does get you opportunities. Nene Leakes of Atlanta got a recurring role on "Glee" and a starring role on "The New Normal." Other howifes have some cameo work as well.
They are not as big a star as Honey Boo Boo but it is still pretty good.
Sorry deb. I am off on Monday and Tuesday and like to sleep late.
I am a lazy bastard.
Google her image, she's beautiful.
I've long been fascinated by the women that other women find beautiful and the women that find them thus.
Or something.
No seriously, I remember being around 12, in a hospital pretty badly hurt, had a nurse that I thought was just the prettiest woman I'd ever seen, and she was obsessing over how pretty Valerie Bertinelli is (or, was, considering the tense issue at play).
Then there are other women who'll never say anything remotely nice about another woman. Or if they do it's backhanded and still insulting.
A friend came over for dinner Saturday night and I barbecued some chicken and corn on the cob. We talked.
Her son is taking a film course and his project, with some other students, is a spoof titled, "Real Housewives of Serial Killers."
That could work.
She's attractive until you catch a glimpse of her personality. Yuck.
I've long been fascinated by the women that other women find beautiful and the women that find them thus.
I've been fascinated by the men that women swoon for. I could understand handsome guys like Paul Newman, but Mick Jagger and Johnny Depp?
Creeley, it's the swooning over DiCaprio that I totally don't get.
Darcy, I've only seen the first four or five eps of the first(?) season. The one with the tennis match.
Then a while back I caught half an episode with a woman I'd never seen. She was in the process of taking over someone else's management of the Housewives' appearance in a gay pride parade in their original wedding dresses.
Bertinelli was cute as a button then and now :)
@deborah
Oh. You missed her "singing" session, then. And her date with some guy that she acted real happy to be with and when he went to kiss her she let him hang there with a pucker. It was so awkward and wrong.
I agree with Darcy that the personality that Princess Luann displays on the Real Housewives is terrible. But the wife and I have become somewhat friendly with Alex McCord who as you know had a big fight with the Countess. She said she was the most fun of them all when she wasn't playing Countess but was just plain Lulu the slutty ex-model.
You can't always go by the edit you get on reality TV.
Reality tv is bizarre. How can the participants separate themselves from being 'real' and feeling the need to be outrageous. It's like one huge national psychological experiment. Except observing a phenomenon affects the outcome. Or something.
I feel this is one more advance as the Technium funnels us toward...whatever we will end up as.
I alway found Alex and her husband interesting...the way they did everything together, even peddies, I think lol. Felt kind of sorry for them, such obvious social climbers.
Now what did Alex and Luann fight about?
Is there going to be a new season?
Mick Jagger and Johnny Depp?
While I am not attracted to Johnny Depp, I do think it unfair to lump him in with Mick Jagger!
Agreed, Freeman. Johnny Depp is not my type, but he is a doll.
Jagger was handsome in his own way, way back, but now he's rather frightening.
Reality television is fake. Sometimes it's so fake that there are actual actors cast in the parts. A friend worked on one show where a "family" was made up of actors cast from around the country who'd never met before filming. Even when they aren't actors, they're being directed. "Go up to her and say this." "Ask him this." "Walk over there and look at them like this."
And Trooper is right about the editing. Even when it isn't fake as in cast and/or directed (rare), it's still fake via the edit.
Creeley, it's the swooning over DiCaprio that I totally don't get.
deborah: Was there swooning over DiCaprio? He looks swoonable, as far as I can tell these things, but personally I haven't encountered any women swooning for him. The women I know are neutral or dislike him.
If women did swoon for DiCaprio, were they swooning for him or for the whole Titanic experience -- especially imagining themselves as Kate Winslet?
While I am not attracted to Johnny Depp, I do think it unfair to lump him in with Mick Jagger!
They are different kinda guys. I mention them together because I have known (different) women who were thoroughly smitten with them.
Of course I am talking about Jagger in his prime, not his current 70 year-old incarnation.
BTW, the Stones gave quite a show at the Glastonbury Festival several weeks ago. I heard it was because their big 50th anniversary tour wasn't selling out as planned, so they were drumming up excitement. Whatever the case, the video is worth a look.
Everything is fake. Not just Reality Television.
The talking heads are normally scripted. But parts of it are not. They tell you want they want to accomplish and what they want to get in the scene. Then you do it. If they get what they want or something good happens they print it. Otherwise you have to do it again.
One of the main things they try to do is get you drunk. That is why most of the Bravo shows revolve around parties or dinners. They get everyone liquored up and wait until the fireworks start. The 90% of the event where everyone gets along just fine never makes it to air.
The new season of Real Housewives of New York is currently filming. It seems that pop eyed Ramona is cast as the villain this year.
Alex is a perfectly lovely woman who you would enjoy meeting. A typical yuppie/hipster type but very nice.
Her husband is your typical half a poofter half a wanker dude. Good for a laugh but very protective of his wife. That is why he got such a bad edit. The nancy boys who run reality TV want what they want and if your wife is supposed to look stupid according to their script they will do that and if you try to step in they will get their revenge in the editing process.
They call it reality TV but I'm going to guess they don't actually show the participants in the bathroom laying down a hot stinky after eating Mexican.
We also had a very interesting discussion with Caroline Manzo and her daughter Lauren. Caroline is a very kind and gracious woman and Lauren is nothing like they portray her on TV. They were shopping in the Moda Show at the Javits for Laurens boutique Cafface and we traded tips. They told us about reality TV and we told them about buying from vendors at the show.
Well I can tell you that Honey Boo Boos Mom kinda smells a little of ca-ca if you want some reality from your reality TV.
Also with the little couple the wife is really nice and friendly and the husband is a real douchebag.
But I think that is the way it is with most resality TV shows. That is if the husband is not gay.
Reality TV does not work out well for straight guys. Just sayn'
Trooper York said...
Everything is fake. Not just Reality Television.
The talking heads are normally scripted. But parts of it are not. They tell you want they want to accomplish and what they want to get in the scene. Then you do it. If they get what they want or something good happens they print it. Otherwise you have to do it again.
One of the main things they try to do is get you drunk. That is why most of the Bravo shows revolve around parties or dinners. They get everyone liquored up and wait until the fireworks start. The 90% of the event where everyone gets along just fine never makes it to air.
Oh yeah, that's been going on for a long time. The bachelor(ette) series has been doing that since day one. MTV has been doing that forever with their Real House series. The little poofta's that run Bravo love, love, love to get everyone drunk and kung-fu fighting. Personally, I'd punch that Andy Cohen in the fucking head for the giant poofta douche bag he is. Even my poofter friends hate that little maggot.
Sometimes, the problem is that the people running the reality show go too far in getting the participants all riled up.
That's when they panic and go all nutsy and start kicking people off the show. Sometimes they even turn off the cameras and complain that it's the participants own fault for some reason or other that makes absolutely no sense to anyone who was ever actually there.
Sometimes they turn the cameras back on, but only shyly and just a little, never admitting that they were the ones who messed things up in the first place.
In the meantime, there's a lot of bitching about how difficult it is to put on a realty show and how the participants should feel grateful that they were ever allowed to be a part of it at all.
That is very true Mitchell. They think that you should kiss their ass and let them make you look like a fool because you are someone they despise. Italians or Catholics. Religious people like the Mormons or the Amish. Southerners like Honey Boo Boo. They live to mock and denigrate people they despise because they think they are the coolest people on the face of the earth when in reality they are in fact disgusting scum.
You know what was the worst part about TV people. They never fucking wash. They are filthy pigs who wear the same clothes for days on end. They would make a maggot puke.
I don't know, creeley, but my daughter and niece think he's really cute. Leaves me cold the older he gets. Different strokes and all that.
Trooper, good point about news being scripted, etc., and all your other inside info. Sounds like fun.
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