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MAFSUK thread 8. Surprise Surprise. Only it isn’t. It is Only a Connection with a pair of New Faces. We’ve had The Chase. He looks Blankety Blank. It seems Pointless. One will give the other the Runaround. Then we’ll get a total wipeout.

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SheldonesqueTheBstard · 25/10/2023 22:02

Girls’ girl returns with Geppetto’s boy.

Great.

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ThePlatypusAlwaysTriumphs · 27/10/2023 01:57

Keeping up with this thread is like a full time job! 🤣
Re Jordan being raised by women and being emotionally intelligent- yes!
I have a 15 yo DS who has 2 very feminist sisters (plus my good self!) And sometimes his understanding of respect for women really impresses me! Maybe younger guys are being more educated this way- let's hope so!

Robotalkingrubbish · 27/10/2023 02:58

von1471 · 27/10/2023 00:03

Have you noticed when JJ and Ella go in for a quick kiss she has her mouth open, as if she’s going to eat him 😖?

🤢🤮 that genuinely makes me feel sick.

Neverinamonthofsundays · 27/10/2023 07:04

I have yet to watch last nights drama but loving this thread although as a PP said it is like a full time job!

I did already say about Erica and Jordan being the most outspoken and I do like Jordan I have to say but the ones who speak the truth are always the ones that get called out.

I am about to watch now so will have further comments I am sure.

Newestname002 · 27/10/2023 07:29

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 26/10/2023 21:07

Georges looks defeated. I feel sorry for him

Yes me too. I wonder if he'll have the guts to say "Leave" at the next commitment ceremony? I can't see that he's getting anything positive from being in the show. 🌹

Seymour5 · 27/10/2023 08:22

Ella is just too much! I hope no impressionable young girls think she is any sort of role model. She can’t hide the lips, but she could cover up the bits. Inappropriate and tacky.

43ontherocksporfavor · 27/10/2023 08:37

@Redpaisley thats interesting re the ixperts and their lack of professional qualifications( perhaps bar Paul). But it’s no wonder they have no apparent qualms about letting the chaos play out.
@Sumthingsweet I agree with your views and experiences about some girls . My DD (19)is is very attractive but also quite insecure and shy but often gets the evils from some other girls who can only be threatened. It’s hard for her to understand as she’s a great friend if they stopped being so shallow!!

Myfabby · 27/10/2023 09:10

Seymour5 · 27/10/2023 08:22

Ella is just too much! I hope no impressionable young girls think she is any sort of role model. She can’t hide the lips, but she could cover up the bits. Inappropriate and tacky.

ah well. she could choose not to get 2ml of filler. It is so odious, so over sexualized.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CwaPAV2su_Y/?hl=en

Ella is apparently an inspiration to her. I'll reserve my comments.

but yes very troubling to think any girls would think she's a role model of ANY sort. I'm a girls girl. 😐

Roz has the thinnest lips amongst the girls - so refreshing!

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/p/CwaPAV2su_Y?hl=en

beastlyslumber · 27/10/2023 09:16

Thomas and Roz, and Erica and Jordan are the only reasonably normal people there.

And Jay. But she's been fucked over.

Honestly this series is really quite depressing. I'd like to see Thomas and Roz getting to know each other, MAFS USA style.

Italiangreyhound · 27/10/2023 10:03

Sadly, despite all the progress I doubt that Thomas and Rozz will stay together.

MrBigsCat · 27/10/2023 10:05

Can anyone confirm what Arthur said to jay?
I missed it

Italiangreyhound · 27/10/2023 10:07

I wonder if they will do the swap this year and if so who.

My guess would be Gorges and Peggy swapping with Ella and JJ, Paul and Tasha swapping with Erica and Jordan. For maximum effect. I am not sure who of the remaining people with swap. Maybe they will throw in some cheeky three-somes to get the full over- sexualised look!

Italiangreyhound · 27/10/2023 10:08

I am feeling slightly sorry for Gorges he thought it would be fun, and it's not fun. He does look deflated. And so does Jay.

Italiangreyhound · 27/10/2023 10:13

MrBigsCat - had to rewind the TV 4 bloody times to work out what went on with Arthur and Jay!

Paul asked the question from the box "Do you wish I would take more control in our relationship?"

And Arthur shouted out (that's for Jay and Luke, no?"

I think he did instantly regret it and sounded a bit pissed too.

He said it was a joke and I think it was. Just a wrong joke. Some of them did look pretty pissed!

beastlyslumber · 27/10/2023 10:15

I think Georges and Jay might be a fun couple.

Cannot stand Tasha now. She can go.

Put Paul with Pegging, I mean Peggy.

Erica and JJ will cause Ella to go into total meltdown.

Nogaxeh · 27/10/2023 10:56

I want to see more of Thomas/Roz, Laura/Arthur and Erica/Jordan, as couples, rather than in the big group. None of them are perfect, but they all have potential.

So done with Peggy. She doesn't like GeorgeS, but she's always deflecting from her feelings and making it about the group's disapproval, or the videos. At least when the vegan thing kept on coming up with Jenna/Zoe last year, you could see that the pair of them had fun together otherwise.

I said after Luke made his declaration about definitely not moving that it was a red flag for me about his lack of concern for Jay's feelings, and everything that's followed with the justifying cheating, and having no internal morality, only reinforces the point that he's always going to hurt a person he's in a relationship with.

We haven't been shown Paul having any sort of quiet word with Tasha about her Erica-rage. Maybe it happened and we weren't shown it, because she did pass up an opportunity for another round. But if it didn't happen then I take that as a very bad sign. It's the sort of thing that would need to be talked about when people have calmed down.

Matt/Adrienne and Sean/Mark, have come in so late that it's hard to know. The concept of the show is to commit to each other, and then to give some time for that commitment to enable a couple to work each other out. But they just haven't been given time.

Have I missed anyone? No. I think that's all of them.

HelpMebeok · 27/10/2023 11:45

Shall we do guesses at who makes it to final commitment and stays married.
i think

Roz and Thomas
Paul and Tasha (although don't think this will work long term)
Erica and Jordan
Maybe Laura and Arthur (don't think this will last either)

43ontherocksporfavor · 27/10/2023 12:18

Snap

Paul2023 · 27/10/2023 12:36

I think Jay probably is used to rejection, or lacks confidence due to her disability. She seems a great person, but realistically, lots of men wouldn’t date a woman with a physical disability.

Of course that’s not the case for all men, I just mean the pool of men would be a bit smaller for her.

Im genuinely not being mean, just realistic.

Loulou599 · 27/10/2023 12:38

Am behind. Watched the "bitching in a manor" episode, will watch dinner party tonight.

Worse than the odious Luke are all these weak cowardly men who just sit by and watch Jordan be bullied. Thomas? Got anything to say? Paul (this one has plummeted in my estimation these days? Big hulking guy from Harrogate? Anyone gunna step in? No?

Honestly worse than bullies are people who watch on in silence. Don't you have any kind of conviction, good or bad?

Clearly as the most naturally conventionally good looking people on this show, Jordan and Erica are rejected by the group. I hope this brings them together.

I am another one who doesn't understand why JJ is happy to get with a trans woman. Not that it's "weird" to do so, but when your type of woman is so ingrained in you apparently that you reject Bianca, I'm really surprised that you would veer off course as far as Ella. OK, she's got the hugely plastic thing happening and he likes that. But until now he has also liked real vaginas? It seems a massive leap to go from women to trans women, huge. Something isn't ringing authentic about this situation at all.

Georges should have been paired with Laura and I think Arthur and Bianca would have been a great couple.

43ontherocksporfavor · 27/10/2023 12:46

Thomas did actually stand up for Jordan in saying he wasn’t the only one to express doubts about Laura and Arthur.

MagpiePi · 27/10/2023 13:45

I’m getting bored of this series. I think it is edited really badly - there’s an edited sound bite from someone and then there’s 5 seconds of clips of other people’s reactions, but they use the same reaction clips over and over again. And the dramatic music is so OTT.

Also, the ‘honesty’ questions they are given are so clearly designed to stir the shit, I mean stuff like ‘who would you swap with?’, ‘how does your relationship compare to everyone else’s?’.

I imagine being kissed by Ella is like being attacked with a sink plunger.

Womencanlift · 27/10/2023 14:34

I had high hopes for Jay and Luke at the beginning but he has shown to be a typical lad. Lashing out and not listening. Maybe outside of the pressure of the experiment they would have worked well if they lived near each other as I do think he genuinely cares for her

JaneJeffer · 27/10/2023 14:51

I do think he genuinely cares for her
I do too which is why I don't understand all his nonsense about getting women's numbers and going to strip clubs. Why would he even be entertaining doing those things?

EmptyYoghurtPot · 27/10/2023 14:59

Agree @MagpiePi

DH and I have a circle of friends that we regularly go to dinner parties with. Never has the conversation turned to ‘out of interest, which couple would you like to swop with and why?’
I guess we are just boring but it just seems to prove the show is all about the drama and not about helping single people build a genuine connection.

Floofydawg · 27/10/2023 16:38

Just catching up. Was Jay proper smashed at the dinner party?

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