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Bachelorette---Who will be watching the MTA tonight?

17 years ago

I'm thinking this is going to be a free for all tonight with the men talking about the "behind the scenes" stuff that went on.

Who do you think comes back next week for the surprise proposal? I think I saw a youtube video that shows the man's shoes and he was wearing boots. That seems to indicate it's Wes, but then that's a rather obvious clue, don't you think?

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litereader
17 years ago
I'll hate myself in the morning, but I'll be watching. Are there subliminal messages buried in the titles or what? I can't seem to quit this show!! LOL
matti5
17 years ago
I'll be watching too! Will be interesting to see what happens between Wes, Jake and Tanner.

litereader, I think the subliminal messages are in the background music LOL

I now have to add Big Brother to my reality watch list. It like Bachelorette is so bad, but I can't look away. Better the drama in their lives than in mine.
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yborgal
Original Author
17 years ago
Dave is a real jerk, IMO!

Strange that Reid had "a prior committment" tonight. They showed no footage of him and I'm wondering if that's because he's the one that comes back with the unexpected proposal next week.
msmarion
17 years ago
Watch the ending of the promo for next weeks show. The clue is there if watch close enough. hehe I'm just saying. hehe
wildchild
17 years ago
I'm listening to it right now. Not much time given to the guys with the bimbette interviews taking so much time up.

"Loved" the way the questions about Wes were phrased and answered. If they call this tell-all "unpredictable" one more time....
wildchild
17 years ago
Wonder how much they paid off Wes to keep him off the show so they could keep the drama going?

Isn't it just amazing LOL how the bimbette can be as much of a tease (forum would never allow me to use the real term) as she likes, climbing on, rubbing on and lap dancing the guys all she wants but he gets called on the carpet for telling her she has a nice butt. LOL

The double standard lives on. While I don't care for Dave's style I certainly understand where he's coming from. So many of the men do come across as pretty wussy/wimpy. Phil comae off as a downright "catty" woman on this segment. Snidely leading questions and feeding answers. What a tool.

Being as I have mostly had guy friends all my life I do agree 100% there is a silently understood "man-code". Most any boy by the time he's in the 8th grade learns this.
User
17 years ago
Dave is a crude jerk. All this crap about man code. What BS. They should be there for Jillian. Chris doesn't like Dave and none of the audience did including Jill. Reid wasn't there for a reason. I'll bet he comes back next week. I'll also bet the next bachelor is Jake. I like Reid a lot and Kypton. Do not like dorky Ed. I'm glad Jill complimented Juan. He was a gentleman. There were only a very few in that group..Kypton , Ed, Jake, Reid and Juan. The others were loudmouth frat boys.
yborgal
Original Author
17 years ago
msmarion, you've piqued my interest. Is next week's promo online somewhere? If so, can you give the link?
mcmann
17 years ago
I am so annoyed that I actually watched last night. I had lots of ironing to do so I watched- it was probably the most boring 'Tell All' I've ever seen. Please tell me why no one has ever corrected her grammar when she says "Him and I" it just grates on my ears.
samkaren
17 years ago
I agree about the "man code" crap. That's just as bad as guys saying "man cave" or "man's room" in their houses.

After it was all over I thought I wasted 2 hours although there were some funny moments like when Ed farted on stage at the rose ceremony.

Wes.....what a woose! I laughed when the guys said his music is popular in Mexico. Does he really think that he will make it big now? Doubtful. He has delusions of being the next Garth Brooks.

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dotmom
17 years ago
LOL....I noticed the subject of farting came up pretty often, last night. Only Men would herald this as a major news event. Dave is an over grown frat BOY. Foot fetish Tanner is creepy. I think Wes was made the villain by editing, but I think he either consented to it or played up to it, for the publiity, but I know I wouldn't want my daughter to date him. I don't get all the flak Ed got because he thought he needed to leave to save his job. Would this Bimbette rather have an unemployed boy friend? I've been moreand more turned off by the obvious editing of the show. There isn't anything real about this so-called reality show. JMO Dottie
Lindsey_CA
17 years ago
There are only two places where farting can be a major life event -- the first is anywhere several guys are together; and the other is in a hospital post-surgical ward. Until you can fart, you don't stand a snowball's chance in hell of getting out of there (because if you can't "pass gas," it means your intestines aren't yet functioning after being under general anesthesia).

Chris Harrison said in his blog that Wes was asked to be on the MTA special, but declined. Then, Wes started contacting some of the guys in an attempt to see how many would "support him" if he were to appear on it. He then contacted the producers to say that he wanted to be on the show, but they (the producers) said no.

I wasn't watching the show at all when Ed left. I think I only saw one episode before he came back. So, although I know he works in Information Technology, I don't know for what company he works, or what his duties/responsibilities are, etc. The "IT world" encompasses one heck of a lot of different stuff. I work in IT, and there are a little over 150 of us in the IT dept. With the exception of the desktop support group (about 20 folks), there aren't too many of us who can take over other folks' duties and responsibilities. Desktop support is desktop support is desktop support. But the database administrators couldn't suddenly take over the duties of the Citrix administrators; the Exchange administrators couldn't suddenly take over the duties of the webmasters, etc. In addition to not having the skills or experience to do the other stuff, there are the network permission restrictions. Only specific folks can log onto a server to apply patches or make any changes; only specific folks can make changes to the network firewall, etc., etc. And there aren't too many folks in IT (at least where I work) who have so little to do that they don't have to worry about whether or not they're at work for days or weeks on end.

So, I can completely understand Ed being worried about his job. Any IT person who really cares about what he/she does would be concerned about how it was being handled in their absence.
yborgal
Original Author
17 years ago
I didn't see any reason to show or discuss the fart episodes. It further reduced the show to a locker room atmosphere, IMO.

But, during previous episodes and also on the MTA show, I really didn't want to hear how Jillian nearly peed her pants. It just wasn't very classy of her to even say that and it was less classy for the producers to show her saying that.
User
17 years ago
I predict she ends up with no one particularly if Reid shows up. The shows have more been into introducing "surprising endings" than at the beginning of the series.
Lindsey_CA
17 years ago
Chris Harrison has said that this show has the most dramatic ending out of all of them. Of course, he didn't specify if he meant out of all of the Bachelorette shows only, or if that includes the Bachelor shows, too. :-)

And when Jillian was on the MTA show, she said that she's very, very happy now.

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