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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 1:06 am
YIKES part one! Okay, who here would actually EAT any of the bread that the French guy made?? especially after seeing his less than clean kitchen/house. The comment about Sweating into the bread grossed me out. Anyways, I disliked seeing the poor neglected smelly dog. That poor Chow looked like it hadnt been brushed even ONCE that YEAR!! no wonder it smelled. The skin would ahve been desperately in need of a cleaning. I sure hope someone of authority steps in and takes the animal to a good home. Poor dog looks like they are going to manhandle it into a bath next episode. Can you imagine how tender its skin is>?? considering a low grade skin condition due to lack of brushing? I would presume that is what is causing the smell. *** Military Dad seems to be on another planet. I thought everyone knew that many Vietnam vets did Art Therapy due to their serious trauma from fighting. The guy seemed to think the POINT was to identify equipment used. I found it bizarre and a great example of how the military seems to desensitize their soldiers. If the man had looked at it as the "horrors of the war" he would not be in the right mindset for current military I'd suggest.
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Rehtse
Member
08-17-2005
| Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 5:01 pm
I did not find anything truly positive in either family. The French-Americans were a bit gross and the Military family was, well, way too gung-ho on the military thing. I'll pass on the next episode, I think.
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Marej
Member
09-20-2002
| Monday, January 08, 2007 - 1:18 pm
Margaret (sp) Perrin returns. She had the gastric bypass surgury and spends some time with another family. (I got this info from the new TV Guide I got today)
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Monday, January 08, 2007 - 2:12 pm
Are you kidding me? Are they really bringing her back? Well, I guess Margaret makes for good TV. BTW... I read on the Trading Spouses website a letter from Henrietta that she and Marco have split up. I guess watching your husband kiss another model on TV may have been a bit too much for her.
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Jasper
Member
09-14-2000
| Monday, January 08, 2007 - 3:46 pm
Too bad about Henrietta, but his behaviour with the model, or "his other wife" as she put it would have been the icing on the cake. Margaret Perrin - she was the loud uncouth lady with no TV that keeps popping up in TV, am I right. Last weeks show - the baker husband seemed a tad dolally, and yes that poor poor dog, it looked miserable. Why do people have pets if they are going to just ignore them. Wonder when he last had a vet appt. Possible the baker dad thinks that when it needs to see a dr it will just go, like the bath, it will just wander to the river. The military family - a question, do Americans not need to lock up their firearms when not using them or cleaning them ? Here in Canada there are stringent guidelines to storage and transport.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Monday, January 08, 2007 - 5:09 pm
Margaret Perrin is from last year. She is from Ponchatoula, Louisiana. She was the born-again Christian who was screaming about gargoyles and the dark side. She also tore up the letter about the money saying she didn't want the money. She changed her mind about accepting the money when she found out the other wife had given her $30,000 for gastric bypass surgery.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, January 08, 2007 - 7:46 pm
LOL We were just talking about the God warrior earlier today Did they say when it would air???
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 5:04 pm
God Warrior's epi will start on January 19, 2006.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 7:20 pm
thx! cant wait to see what she looks like!
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Thursday, January 11, 2007 - 3:47 am
I am sure she will be hamming it up immensely. It bothers me that she is going to be on again. Wonder why? who'd she pay off LOL
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Saturday, January 13, 2007 - 6:36 am
well, after seeing the blurb for next week's God Warrior episode I'll suggest no one had a gastric bypass!! OKAY, I still think that the Baker husband has a dirty house and I wonder if anyone who watches the show will want to eat his product. GAK~! that poor dog. Those washers didnt seem to have a clue on how to make a dog feel safe and secure while being scrubbed down. All that hollaring and freaking out was making the poor animal skittish. Also, I wonder if they put down a no slip matt. Poor doggies have a hard time not slipping when tub is wet. My dog would be fine With a matt. Hated the weirdo puppetshow that French dad did for Military mom. It just seemed so disjointed and weird. But It came from his heart so I guess I can go with it. anyways, Time for me to get to bed. Last thoughts....that puppeteer and her ridiculous allocation of the money. ten thousand for Organic food?? why not at least list some organic farms to help them out? The guy seemed to think he wasnt going to be able to eat a steak. HECK, organic beef is the best steak!}
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Saturday, January 13, 2007 - 8:08 pm
I wondered why they didn't just take the dog to a groomer since they obviously didn't know what they were doing. Baker guy was so totally vile and disgusting. I don't know if I could have stayed there.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, January 13, 2007 - 10:49 pm
I agree, Sun, IF that is an after picture, and it sure sounds like it must be, she's pretty large. And loud. I must remember to watch this. As for the second part of this recent one.. the people ended up connecting but the wife of the Frenchman was way off with her allotment of money. So much to replace an already ok table? And who is she to criticize their place. As for giving so much to the daughter, well so she is young, put it in the bank and let it grow and then it will be useful. But still, rather odd. The dog should be removed from that family.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Saturday, January 13, 2007 - 11:55 pm
I'm going to be mean and judgemental. The Puppeteer and Baker couple remind me of so many people I know who smoke way too much pot. Nice but eccentric. It is like a certain part of the brain is affected and they dont understand that they are on a completely different wavelength than everyone else. What the heck is a kid of that age going to do with $5,000 to travel? the money allocation was bizarre, in my opinion. ((LOL you know I'm bored when I come back to harp about a show so many times LOL))
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Sunday, January 14, 2007 - 2:40 am
Hey... I've smoked way too much pot, and my house doesn't look like that, not even close. My animals are looked after, I don't find cat feces all over my home, my food is not sweated in, and I can speak in coherent sentences and make sense doing it. If you ask me, that weird frenchman has done too much acid, not too much pot, LOL. The money allocation was way bizarre though, that's true. But five grand now equals how much in the bank in ten years? I'd be thrilled if someone gave me a cash gift as a young child that I could have used to backpack Europe when I graduated from highschool.
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Lilfair
Member
07-09-2003
| Sunday, January 14, 2007 - 6:26 am
The summer before college my kids go to Europe and the only way that was posible was them saving their money...we matched what they have saved. So any time my kids got money it was a good thing. French dads house was a dirty mess but not even close to some of the other homes they've showed. It has nothing to do with smoking pot....LOL. He was waaaaay toooo hyper to be a pot smoker. ;)
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Danzdol
Member
04-21-2001
| Sunday, January 14, 2007 - 6:53 am
I was very very offended and enraged that the military family was so "grossed out and ignorant" on organic food...one thing is to knowingly choose to not buy organic, another is to assume that if it's organic , it must mean healthy and therefore taste bad when in fact, it usually means pesticide/hormone/cage free and if anything, tastes more rich because of it. My very own husband was the same way and now thinks differently about the issue.That they were teaching their daughter that organic is a bad thing pissed me off! She is cutting into the cake and someone jokingly said "is that organic" and she puts the yuck face and says NO! urgh! then the dad says "why should I buy organic when I can eat a nice steak" ummmm, sir, do you realize that organic steak is full of flavor, moreso than one that is not? I don't think he realizes that such thing as organic meat exists. Ok, off my crunchy granola soap box. With that said, I think 10k is a whole lot to spend on for that for a family who clearly has no idea about the benefits and who could use the money and enjoy it elsewhere. Even with my views on it, I would have not allocated money for the way other people eat. It's too personal of a choice and one that, obviously, people get insulted by. I don't have much in common with any of these families but I did see that when it comes down to it they both have the best of intentions and are good people who are just set in their ways as most of are I guess. I was very interested in the daughter of the Frenchman but they did not show her speaking much. I can be a slob sometimes, I admit it but that amount of filth is just not right. One thing is messy, this was disgusting. Who kills a rat and leaves it there to sit? Did they reuse that pan? I liked the military dad and the puppet. That was a sweet moment. Ok, it's too early and my thoughts are all over the place and in no particular order but you get my point....... THanks for letting me vent on this!
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Rehtse
Member
08-17-2005
| Sunday, January 14, 2007 - 8:07 pm
LOL...no one had gastric bypass surgery...indeed!
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Ecoop
Member
07-07-2005
| Monday, January 15, 2007 - 6:33 am
An observation: I think the participants get a lot of "help" from the producers of this show. Either that, or the producers do a heck of a job in their editing. The most recent example I can think of is when the military mom met the Frenchman. He asked her to guess where he was from and she looked like he was a space alien. Here he was dressed up like Marcel Marceau, the famous French mime (producer suggestion?) and she had no clue where he was from? A woman who was in the Marine Corps for 25 years and she reacted like a country bumpkin with an extremely narrow world view? I don't buy it. There have been other instances in other shows, but this just popped out at me, because I worked for 30 years as a civilian in a military environment. Nope, not realistic.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Monday, January 15, 2007 - 7:04 am
About the $5,000 for traveling for the daughter. Was the father a stepfather and the travel money is to be able to visit her biological father? I may have my reality shows confused and it may have been Nanny911 that I am thinking about.
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Rehtse
Member
08-17-2005
| Monday, January 15, 2007 - 11:00 am
Grooch, you might. I watched Nanny 911 and the eldest was a stepchild of the dad.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Monday, January 15, 2007 - 4:39 pm
that weird frenchman has done too much acid, not too much pot Yep, you are most likely correct. Although he was so hyper I had flashbacks of Howie from BigBrother when he'd get overexcited LOL
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Lilfair
Member
07-09-2003
| Tuesday, January 16, 2007 - 8:26 am
I got the feeling that French dad wanted to behave, the best that he could because he was very aware of the $$$$$ involved and didn't want to ticked her off too much. So I bet what we saw of him was his best behavior....sigh. ;)
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Tuesday, January 16, 2007 - 10:15 am
That thought just makes him more revolting, Lilfair. Ugh!
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Danzdol
Member
04-21-2001
| Tuesday, January 16, 2007 - 12:11 pm
ecoop and she also said "Well, I like pizza" when trying to talk about France...umm you mean Italy? I feel the same way..how could she not know. Total Jessica Simpson moment. Reminds me of Krista from BB on the live feeds asking what language they spoke in Italy..."Spanish?" she said
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