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    Jon & Kate Plus 8: Jon Prefers 2 Phones Over 8 Kids

    Jon Says TLC's Hands Should Be "Amputated" For Breaking Child Labor Laws

    Kate Gosselin Tells Her Story

    Kate Gosselin Tells Ellen The Show Has Been "Taken From Us Too Soon"

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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    11/18/09

    In reply to Jon & Kate Plus 8: Jon Prefers 2 Phones Over 8 Kids
    re passport photos: you are not supposed to be smiling. seriously- it messes with the facial recognition software. #jonandkateplus8passports
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Jon & Kate Plus 8: Jon Prefers 2 Phones Over 8 Kids
    You know, I'm not saying it's right or how she treats people is always right, but I can sympathize with how she's ALWAYS wound-up about something. She's in charge of a LOT of tiny people (and was probably in charge of her husband's schedule too, for a while there), and trying to do that much organizing and house/life running on her own has made her a task master who is very pushy about getting things done her way. Namely if they' aren't done the way she has everything organized in her head, it's going to throw a wrench in the works, bigtime, because everything is balanced so precariously. She's certainly not perfect, but she has a lot more of my sympathy than John. I have very little sympathy for cheaters, especially cheaters with kids--you're not just cheating on your spouse, you're cheating on your whole family. #jonandkateplus8passports
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Jon & Kate Plus 8: Jon Prefers 2 Phones Over 8 Kids
    Dear Mom and Dad,

    Look, I didn't have a perfect childhood. In fact, I remember a lot of the fights you guys had or I had with you and they seem similar to some of the stuff TLC shows. But I want to thank you. Because you never abandoned me to go to the south of France with a 22 year old, because you would have never forwent games of soccer to talk to creepy stalkers on the edge of our yard (also, you didn't have creepy stalkers who hung out around our house, but mostly because no matter what you DID do, nobody ever filmed it and put it on national television and the internet.

    Love,
    Me #jonandkateplus8passports
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Jon & Kate Plus 8: Jon Prefers 2 Phones Over 8 Kids
    In the opening credits "these are those stories" I kept waiting for the L&O music *dink*dink* #jonandkateplus8passports
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Jon & Kate Plus 8: Jon Prefers 2 Phones Over 8 Kids
    I still think their kids are adorable and want to steal one. Surely they wouldn't miss ONE. Hell, I'm betting Jon wouldn't notice at all. #jonandkateplus8passports
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    Image of taliewalie taliewalie
    11/17/09

    @sybann: Just don't steal Aidan, my friend and I called dibs! #jonandkateplus8passports
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    11/17/09

    @taliewalie: Heee. Alexis or Hannah - I can never remember which I find most adorable. #jonandkateplus8passports
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    11/17/09

    @sybann: My husband (who always pretends to hate the shows I watch, but then watches them religiously) loooves Aaden and Alexis. Aaden because he refers to himself as "Dragon" and Alexis because she carries around a toy alligator everywhere she goes. They are also the odd ones out in their little gender groups. #jonandkateplus8passports
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    11/17/09

    @EndangeredRed: They are such cuties. If I lower the volume I can watch the show... #jonandkateplus8passports
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    11/17/09

    @sybann: I have a favorite, and I'll admit it--Alexis, because I love how she's into snakes and lizards and thinks they're so cute and cuddly. She cracks me up. #jonandkateplus8passports
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    11/17/09

    @justcallmeangel: I like creepy crawlies too - picked up a baby snake (it was dusk) to put it in the bushes the other day and didn't realize until I got in the car that it was too dark to see whether or not it was a copperhead - I am whacked. #jonandkateplus8passports
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    11/17/09

    @sybann: I personally am not into snakes or lizards, but I love it that she is--I love her little personality, and I loved watching her hugging a big, hard plastic, not-cuddly toy lizard as if it were a teddy bear.
    Adorable.
    P.S. I hope you didn't get bitten. Or poisoned. I don't know what a copperhead is. #jonandkateplus8passports
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    11/17/09

    @justcallmeangel: I didn't - I am quick as a bunny - and a copperhead is a poisonous reptile - indigenous and the babies are POTENT. I was being an idiot - not thinking - end of the work day. #jonandkateplus8passports
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    Image of JinxyMcDeath JinxyMcDeath
    11/17/09

    In reply to Jon & Kate Plus 8: Jon Prefers 2 Phones Over 8 Kids
    You can see how Kate really badgered him and spoke down to him in the first clip, and then you can see him completely act like a douchebag to his children in the rest of them...and then you understand why Kate hates him so much.

    That being said, I have a number of friends that have divorced parents that haven't ruined their children with their divorce...because they don't speak ill of their ex and they always put the kids first. My best friends parents will meet her for dinner together, even though they are in new relationships and have been divorced for 10 years. Of course, I have another friend who couldn't invite both parents to her law school graduation because she didn't want to "deal with it." That's very sad and unfair. #jonandkateplus8passports
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Jon & Kate Plus 8: Jon Prefers 2 Phones Over 8 Kids
    Anyone else think the kids are too young to appreciate "where their ancestor's came from?" Forget the nightmare of getting them to Korea, what would they really get out of being there? #jonandkateplus8passports
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    Image of Lilah Lilah
    11/17/09

    @highjump: I think that you're probably right about the sextuplets, but I bet that the twins are old enough to get something out of it. I became very interested in my geneology when I was 9 or 10. #jonandkateplus8passports
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    Image of Bollywhaaa Bollywhaaa
    11/17/09

    @highjump: I don't know - my parents started taking me to India when I was still an infant, and I will forever be grateful that they made that effort. I don't know if I would have the same emotional connection to the country if I *just* started going as a teenager. #jonandkateplus8passports
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    Image of BytheSea BytheSea
    11/18/09

    @highjump: No. They're six, not three. #jonandkateplus8passports
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    Image of Mary McCarthyite Mary McCarthyite
    11/17/09

    In reply to Jon & Kate Plus 8: Jon Prefers 2 Phones Over 8 Kids
    I think it's fair to say that they bring out the worst in each other. Compatibility Fail. #jonandkateplus8passports
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    Image of Triana Orpheus Triana Orpheus
    11/17/09

    @Mary McCarthyite: I think they were separately heinous people before they even met. Marriage, money and fame just enhanced what was already there. #jonandkateplus8passports
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    Image of Mary McCarthyite Mary McCarthyite
    11/17/09

    @Triana Orpheus: Good point. #jonandkateplus8passports
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    11/17/09

    @Triana Orpheus: I'm not entirely sure about that. Watching them interact has always reminded me of watching my parents interact. Seriously, this is exactly how they sound with each other. When they were in the same room for any extended amount of time I would (hell, still do) find myself thinking "wow, you are both giant assholes". But separately, while they both still have their bad points, the good ones are at least also visible, and the bad ones are much less magnifyed #jonandkateplus8passports
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    Image of Triana Orpheus Triana Orpheus
    11/17/09

    @colormeroutine: But you just proved my point. Separately, Jon is a giant asshole that sleeps with his kids' babysitter, steals from his family's bank account and (possibly) emotionally abuses his girlfriend. And Kate is just an attention starved wretch that will do anything for money. These people have zero redeeming qualities, separate or together. #jonandkateplus8passports
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    11/18/09

    @Triana Orpheus: They really weren't, it's sad to see what they became. There's old home movies that have been shown on TLC that show happy, cute, perky people. Jon used to emote and Kate used to be positive and lovely. #jonandkateplus8passports
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    11/18/09

    @colormeroutine: This is why I've watched K+J fiathfully since the beginning - they are my parents. I get them, they're mostly nasty to each otehr but ... I'm not sure where I'm going wih that. I'm oddly sympathetic to them. Stockholm, I guess. #jonandkateplus8passports
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    Image of CurtCole CurtCole
    11/17/09

    In reply to Jon & Kate Plus 8: Jon Prefers 2 Phones Over 8 Kids

    Why would you want to mimic that hairstyle? It is a total crane plash.
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    Image of rakarakarak rakarakarak
    11/17/09

    @CurtCole: first I read that as "plane crash," and I thought "why yes, yes it is." Then I read it again and it said "crane plash" and I thought, "fair enough, that's a picture of a crane." But then I thought, "What in the world is a plash?" Now I don't know what to think anymore... #jonandkateplus8passports
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    Image of CurtCole CurtCole
    11/17/09

    @rakarakarak: That was the intended effect.... :) #jonandkateplus8passports
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    Image of JessickerFletcher JessickerFletcher
    11/17/09

    @CurtCole: I'm awaiting Chris Rock's second film, Bad Hair: The Gosselin Story #jonandkateplus8passports
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    11/17/09

    @CurtCole: My brain hurts. #jonandkateplus8passports
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    11/17/09

    @CurtCole: I...you...speechless. **standing ovation** #jonandkateplus8passports
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Jon & Kate Plus 8: Jon Prefers 2 Phones Over 8 Kids
    I can't say I blame him. I prefer almost anything over 8 kids. I'd take a root canal, mono, food poisoning...so 2 phones? heck yeah!
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    Image of CurtCole CurtCole
    11/17/09

    @pantsless economist...access RESTORED: He probably needs two just to keep up with all their vaccination schedules.
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    11/17/09

    @pantsless economist...access RESTORED: True, but it seems like the time for Jon to make that decision was several years ago, and there is no 'undo' button. #jonandkateplus8passports
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    11/17/09

    @pantsless economist...access RESTORED: Yes, but when those 8 children bring in as money as the Gosselin kids do... #jonandkateplus8passports
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    11/17/09

    @pantsless economist...access RESTORED: But he HAD the kids. If you don't want to be a father then make the decision BEFORE the kids are born. #jonandkateplus8passports
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    11/17/09

    @lj1968: Yah, I know and of course I think he's a d-nozzle. I shall try to make my babyhater sarcasm a little more clear. #jonandkateplus8passports
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    Image of DutchessOfDork DutchessOfDork
    11/12/09

    In reply to Jon Says TLC's Hands Should Be "Amputated" For Breaking Child Labor Laws
    They should really just say it.
    Mr Gosselin is a dumbshit who didn't read the contract, and wants martyrdom for doing his fucking job. #jongosselinlegaldocuments
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Jon Says TLC's Hands Should Be "Amputated" For Breaking Child Labor Laws
    Um... TLC's hands are laden with...heavy handedness? The mind boggles. #jongosselinlegaldocuments
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Jon Says TLC's Hands Should Be "Amputated" For Breaking Child Labor Laws
    You know, is he a douchebag? Yes. But the fact is the contract does appear to be designed to circumvent child labor laws and I'm sure this contract is similar to MANY reality show contracts that involve kids. It will be interesting to see how this is resolved.

    eta: I mean just see a couple posts up with the whole Nadya Suleman mess. I'd like to see these corporations (more than the parents) held accountable for the fact that they appear to be making millions off the backs of these kids.
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    11/12/09

    @bluebears: Agree. Except for the small matter that Jon and Kate willingly entered into these contracts. They denied their kids personal payment as much as TLC did. #jongosselinlegaldocuments
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Jon Says TLC's Hands Should Be "Amputated" For Breaking Child Labor Laws
    I will be filing a suit against TLC for bringing us the Gosselins. Can you say class action... #jongosselinlegaldocuments
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Jon Says TLC's Hands Should Be "Amputated" For Breaking Child Labor Laws
    That water clip drives me crazy now. Months ago when I first saw it I thought Kate WAS being mean. Then I started working with kindergartners. And today one of them said she was DYING, SO THIRSTY, OH GOD I NEED THE WATER. And this was after she spent 2 minutes at the water fountain gulping water. I said after she finished working she could get a drink, and then A. every other child at the table suddenly was SO THIRSTY OH GOD CAN I GO TO THE FOUNTAIN, and B. She burst into tears and said it was unfair I wasn't letting her get water.

    Seriously, that clip is ridiculous. #jongosselinlegaldocuments
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    11/12/09

    @AlmostZooey: I totally agree that kindergartens are melodramatic, and I doubt she was dying of thirst or whatever, but it seemed really cold that Kate listened to her kid complain about how thirsty she was and then asked for a bottle of water for herself. I'd be with you if she hadn't taken that big swig of water. #jongosselinlegaldocuments
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    11/12/09

    @NellMood: yeah. that's what kind of kills it for me. If she had just said, wait until we're done. ok. but come on now. #jongosselinlegaldocuments
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