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Terolyn
Member
05-06-2004
| Tuesday, March 09, 2010 - 10:39 am
It would depend on how it was asked for me. If a friend said... Hey, let's meet for lunch I would love to catch up.. then I would expect to pay my own way. However if the friend said.. I would like to invite you to lunch or I would like to take you to lunch, then I would assume they are buying.
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Frogichik
Member
06-11-2002
| Tuesday, March 09, 2010 - 1:34 pm
"invite" I would still not assume one person paying for both. Also even if I was invited or offered, I would still offer to pay half the bill at the restaurant and would not be offended if they said yes. Even on dates I always offer to pay my share. I just don't like feeling like a mooch. I always feel awkward when people pay for me.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, March 09, 2010 - 2:13 pm
I think Luann's sense of entitlement means that she should never have to pay for anything. Ever.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Tuesday, March 09, 2010 - 5:11 pm
If a friend said... Hey, let's meet for lunch I would love to catch up.. then I would expect to pay my own way. However if the friend said.. I would like to invite you to lunch or I would like to take you to lunch, then I would assume they are buying. That is exactly what I would think.
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Terolyn
Member
05-06-2004
| Tuesday, March 09, 2010 - 5:29 pm
HOORAY.. I have been validated. Thanks Lexie. I am going to bed on a high note 
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, March 09, 2010 - 6:11 pm
FWIW, I never assume that someone will pick up the tab. I always assume that I'll at least pay my own share or my own way. With my friends, we've usually do it so that whomever asks the other person out pays. But the other person picks it up next time. Sort of a back 'n forth thing. But I never EVER assume that someone else will pay unless they specifically say "I'd like to take you out to blah, my treat."
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Oliviamimi
Member
05-30-2009
| Tuesday, March 09, 2010 - 6:16 pm
I can't believe how snarky all of these women are. Thank God my friends are normal. Who acts like this?
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, March 09, 2010 - 6:56 pm
Well, none of my friends do. Or they wouldn't be my friends. You have to remember that most of these women are thrown together. Most of them weren't really friends to begin with. Just goes to show you can't force friendships!
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Lilfair
Member
07-09-2003
| Tuesday, March 09, 2010 - 6:57 pm
Oliviamimi, I pretty much agree with what you wrote- If I invite a girlfriend to do an activity- like- if a say Sue let's go horseback riding, I would assume she pays her way. If I'm treating I say up front- I'd like to treat you to horseback riding. My head would spin off if I had to remember whose turn it was to pay when going out with girlfriends.
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Oliviamimi
Member
05-30-2009
| Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - 2:43 am
I know they are thrown together to make a show. But I still don't understand the lack of civility. In dealings with each other they are so rude. Often times it is not what you say but how you say it. I just think they are hamming it up for the drama and ratings. I hope that is what it is!
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Friday, March 12, 2010 - 7:05 am
Jill looks like she's aged 5 years since last season. I definitely don't find her as funny or endearing without her sidekick Bethenny. Nice speaker phone conversation with Ramona! Why didn't LuAnne even really blink at the comments Ramona made? Omg, she said she'd cheated on the Count for years! Very odd she wasn't more angry. Bethenny isn't as funny this season either. I like her more edgy like last year. The Countess is getting more full of herself by the day, isn't she? And she thinks her daughter was trying to sneak off when she fell from the roof, breaking BOTH wrists? Where were her nannies and security dammit? lol
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Terolyn
Member
05-06-2004
| Friday, March 12, 2010 - 7:34 am
I am proud of myself... I did not watch and I don't think I will watch any of the housewives things anymore. I will just watch wrestling instead. Maybe that is what they should do. When they start arguing, bring down a ring and let them wrestle it out. ROFL - just got an image of Ramona in a wrestling outfit.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Friday, March 12, 2010 - 7:37 am
Good grief Terolyn, the Countess would NEVER be caught wrestling! Such bad manners! She would have her nannies and servents wrestle for her.
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Cricket
Member
08-05-2002
| Friday, March 12, 2010 - 11:17 am
Hukdonreality stated: Why didn't LuAnne even really blink at the comments Ramona made? Omg, she said she'd cheated on the Count for years! Very odd she wasn't more angry. Oh geez, I was dying laughing @ Ramona's outburst on the phone. It was almost verbatim what Bethenny had stated when she and her fiance were out with Ramona and her husband. I really wish Ramona had a filter..even just a little filter, lol. Sounds like the "Countess" had a pretty open marriage, especially towards the end; however, I'm curious how Bethenny found out the info she did that she repeated to Ramona. As for age, I think Jill looks great this year..younger than last year. She looked great on the aftershow where she appeared with Nene.
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Kappy
Member
06-29-2002
| Saturday, March 13, 2010 - 5:45 pm
" don't think I will watch any of the housewives things anymore. I will just watch wrestling instead."
You know what would be even better? Is if Bravo conned them all into a mud wrestling pit! They could have teams and pit the various cities against each other. Thing of the money to be made!
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Lilfair
Member
07-09-2003
| Saturday, March 13, 2010 - 6:18 pm
Kappy, I don't even think they'd have to con the housewives...all they'd have to say was that's where the cameras will be and they'll go running.
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Kappy
Member
06-29-2002
| Sunday, March 14, 2010 - 9:55 am
Lol, Lil ~ You could be right! We need to send this idea to Bravo!
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Sunday, March 14, 2010 - 10:27 am
Stupid question here. I saw the repeat of the second episode. From what I believe I had seen, Bethanny was doing the pictures for PETA. (No problem here for me.) Then it seems like she emailed some of the pictures to her new fiance at his work site. He seemed upset that she emailed it to his job and he didn't want to get fired. She acted like "What's the big deal?" Didn't her last boyfriend lose his job because she was on the the first season and he sued about it? Is she this clueless or am I missing something?
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Sunday, March 14, 2010 - 1:47 pm
Grooch, I think you are right.
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Willwillbee
Member
09-20-2001
| Monday, March 15, 2010 - 5:47 am
Hukdonreality stated: Why didn't LuAnne even really blink at the comments Ramona made? Omg, she said she'd cheated on the Count for years! Very odd she wasn't more angry. Looked like a proud smirk to me, made me wonder if that wasn't set up.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Monday, March 15, 2010 - 5:51 am
Well, she was in a "European" marriage as she stated. Whatever that means.
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Mictay
Member
09-29-2006
| Monday, March 15, 2010 - 7:03 am
I think it's so funny how Luann and Jill are now friends with Kelly,do they not remember the reunion???
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Monday, March 15, 2010 - 9:52 am
Because Mictay, it brings to mind the old saying "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Now that Jill and Bethenny are no longer friends, of course Jill will befriend Kelly who is Bethenny's enemy.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Monday, March 15, 2010 - 10:14 am
If this entire season is going to be bickering amongst the two cliques, I may be bailing. I have to hand it to Alex, though, for staying at Ramona's (the first party she RSVP'd to) rather than leaving and going to Luann's. Totally cracked up when Ramona went off on Luann while talking to Jill. On speakerphone no less. But I'd have smacked Jill for not saying that Luann was in the room (just saying she's using her phone doesn't mean she's also listening in to the call). That was exceptionally rude of Jill, esp. if Ramona thought she was having a (more or less) private convo with Jill. I'm tired, already, of Luann and her pity party about her failed marriage. Her marriage failed months before they started filming for Labor Day. She's still in the woe is me phase? Really? REALLY? And oh yeah, doesn't etiquette dictate that you SHUT UP about your problems after a certain amount of time has passed? Kelly still bugs me this season and hasn't done anything to change my mind. Her being part of the Luann/Jill clique is just to add numbers, and nothing else. And I don't know, but how often do YOU show up to a house party/BBQ in a beachwear coverup? Really, Kelly, show a wee bit of class when you visit the person's house who wrote the book on class! I like Bethenny's new beau. I'm guessing she knows she's preggers here, but hasn't disclosed it yet? She mentioned all four of us are here (so along with the two gigantic bosoms, the baby and her, right?).
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Mictay
Member
09-29-2006
| Monday, March 15, 2010 - 10:26 am
Costa you took the words right out of my mouth,i agree with everything you said!!
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