MAFS Thread 11 prison pocket, prison pocket, where are you? I want to put my below dongles all over you.

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You must sing it along to the tune or it won't work.

I loved the ' top tips' in Viz. Some of these are bloody hilarious!
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/viz-is-30-our-50-all-time-best-427354

That was another load of bollox. Holly walking in like a T-emu Alexis Carrington

Alex drives a response in others (deliberately) that makes him look like the victim. This is how a lot of abusers manage to frame their partners as the aggressor, or ‘just as bad’. Sasha is reacting to him and he sits back and looks wide eyed and hard done by. It’s really not a difficult behaviour for the experts to spot.

‘Selfish little prick’ was an interesting insult from Ross. I wondered if the word selfish was just really in reference to Alex’s lack of a superficial apology to keep the peace by glossing over what had happened. Selfish isn’t the first word you’d think of for him in that context.

After a good few weeks of loving Ross, I’m now not sure if he is enough of his own man to be a great partner. Having said that, Sasha needs to rethink her status as damsel in distress before she gets a nice man hammered or incarcerated.

Alex’s strategy to isolate Sasha by working the room is transparent. Very uncomfortable indeed. The experts are being particularly manipulatable this season.

Gaston’s chicken for breakfast, lunch and dinner leading to his pondering about laying an egg, and Emma’s Ford Transit were for me the funniest lines this episode.

Kristina is such a class act. Kind and sweet, straightforward, honest and self effacing - she seems to live with her debilitating condition without letting it make her bitter but with a bucket of sadness from the impact. Very much wish her a happy outcome one way or another. I had never heard of PMDD before but it sounds awful. The person upthread who compared her with Bubbles from Ab Fab has it spot on! Gorgeous dippiness.

@MixedCouple2 how did Alex do amazing? Other than managing to manipulate most of them as he knows the experts watch the dinner party.

The 'coming for him' is a big thing for him though. In the spa he approached them (obviously set up) and they could have had a straightforward conversation about the text that Hollie had sent. Instead he started talking in riddles and accusing them of 'coming for him' (they hadn't moved). And that's a pattern of his. He provokes, defends, confuses and accuses the other person (in the case Polly and Sacha) and then when they want to understand why, they get frustrated and shouty and he plays the victim and says they came at him (sideways or whatever).

Agree. He stoked these encounters. And he enjoyed them.

I’m fascinated by Shannon’s nails and appreciated being able to get a closer look (thanks Facebook!)
Why are they all bumpy and textured?

Are they meant to be right on the tip like that or have they just grown off?

how does she get anything done! How does she not injure herself or others!

Yes I agree it was a set up, lol.

He didn’t know about the text, he was going round to the ladies in the spa to talk to Sasha about what happened at the commitment ceremony, the ladies received the text in the meantime and from that Polly was going on about she is intrigued as to what Alex has to say about his relationship.

Well no polly you don’t. This is what he means by coming for him ( not physically coming over to him) it’s that she ( or whoever) wants to start up drama.

But I guess I am seeing things differently ( not his aggression, defensiveness and dick like behaviour, that is clear as day ) but in the sense that I don’t like people poking their nose into my business and if I don’t want to answer and I give you riddle like responses then you just have to accept that, and not badger me into telling you my business, the moment you start to say “ can you just answer it” like I have a duty to tell you, and you are not my partner, then I will leave you right where I found you and you will be talking to yourself.

Then when they were sitting on the sofa and Polly was saying he was lying about how he genuinely feels, he says no and he doesn’t want talk about this shit, Polly says no, come on SHE feels they need to go back and let’s discuss this and then says is it good to be up and down like this compared to others, he then tells her a few home truths, and she gets all rilled up and complains to shitlid about his comments when he is actually 100% correct and what all of us on here has been saying. Polly was the one that said “compared to others” and he just chose to use her relationship as an example to show that everyone handles their relationship in their own way, and that is exactly what I would have done (minus all the scowling and psycho eyes). I don’t think Polly understands about the glass house and stones!

Then you got Sasha cursing him from top to bottom, swearing like a sailor fair enough, they are arguing so it’s expected, he then sits back and lets her rant on with his smirk but he’s saying nothing, she then gives him the middle finger, he then says she has fake ass jewellery but then she wants to bleat on about he’s now making it personal. So all what you was saying to him 5 mins prior, telling him he’s nothing, she’s know bigger and badder etc, and giving him the middle finger isn’t getting personal?🤔

I have said several times I don’t like Alex but Sasha can’t curse someone out like that, look them in the eyes and give the middle finger then have the audacity to say they made it personal when he said your jewellery is fake 😂

I could never go on a show like that (even in the early days when it was genuinely about finding someone) because of people like Holly that are too “inna people’s business” and I know my responses to them would not go down well.

I’m behind but I just had to throw in my thoughts thus far. I’ve hated Alex for ages now, he scares me. I don’t see any racist behaviour towards him, he brings it all on himself. Never wrestle with a pig, you both get dirty and the pig enjoys it. That sums Alex up perfectly. He goads people and then sits back grinning. I’ve no time for Polpot but good for her and Sacha for taking him on. Holly needs to run for the hills.

So we were right about Ryan then? Something pretty nasty has occurred there, that’s for sure.

Just catching up. Go on Ross!!

My thought whenever I see people with nails like this is always "how do they wipe their arse?"

I think someone upthread mentioned Amy doesn't seem to be acting real and I agree, she's so two dimensional and gives nothing it's hard to know if that's really what she is like but I couldn't tell you one interesting thing about her good or bad ( minus the TMI disclosure from Gaston).

I am glad so many people have the measure of Alex, having been in a horrific emotionally abusive relationship I find him incredibly triggering and grimly relatable.
I can imagine him stepping it up in a one to one sneering and saying 'why are you crying trying to get attention/sympathy' it's completely head fuck behaviour and the thought that the production team and 'experts' seemingly would turn a blind eye and let him sail into a family setting with children is appalling.
Zero safeguarding or duty of care.

Just so you know, as we're on episode 24, you've wasted an entire day of your life watching this shit!

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More than a day, the commitment ceremonies are longer. Oh dear.

@murasaki Don't make us feel worse

Yes totally agree. It's called reactive abuse when the victim' flips' like Sasha has. It doesn't mean that Sasha is right but she is not going around baiting and manipulating anyone. It's just a reaction to one terrible person.

It's a bit like what happened to Charlie in a different way. She kind of imploded and looked a bit crazy because she was so beaten down and confused by the other Narc, Eve.

The devastation is also that so many can't see it and fall for the manipulation.

Honestly, It's not all that entertaining is it? Alex, Ryan and Ross are all frightening and abusive. All the women need to be in extensive therapy. The experts are complete idiots trying to coerce everyone into having unwanted sex. Even these threads, which were hilarious last year, are now just full of nasty comments about how fat and unladylike the women are.

Think this might be it for me.

K byeee

I think the comments about appearance are more about how people are presenting themselves. Let's not pretend that presentation doesn't matter.

I do agree that it's not all that entertaining, it's all drama and nothing else which gets too tedious.

Not sure what the answer is, less drama would probably be just a boring - I think it's probably run its course.

I don't know about Ross. This may be wrong of me but I don't find him threatening. However, they are not showing us everything and he has behaved questionably over things. I don't know if I treat him with bias because he's deaf. I might be.

Ryan and Alex most definitely.

Many participants are gutter level behaviour, it's not about being unladylike. The men are getting a harder time right now.

The attitude, the clothes, the hairstyles and awful surgical enhancements have been the focus. I'd be absolutely torn apart with my awful hair, aged appearance, charity shop attire.

I wouldn't go on MAFS.

The public are brutal.

They need to put a Nick Ross type warning at the end of this programme "Don't have nightmares" - I dreamt about Gaston last night. After we had established that I was in no way falling for his charm he got on with what he was there for, which was clearing up the fallen trees. So it was all fine in the end.

I agree with PPs the ixperts are fucking dangerous.

I recognised Sasha's dad taking Ross to the gym, it left me feeling rather chilled. I'm not surprised by Sasha's behaviour.

Who's Charlene?

Charlene is the (sex) ixpert

I still really like Ross. He doesn't seem to have much confidence in a relationship and will do anything to make Sasha like him. I think she holds all the cards in the relationship.

I just hope the Gaston dream didn't involve parking in precarious spots or teabags.

Charlene is one of the so called experts.

I watched Sasha with her folks. I thought how close they all seemed and how I would have just loved that. Any dad would be absolutely reeling at the misogyny of Alex towards his daughter. Alex is a big threatening oaf. How I would have loved daddy Ming growing up. ( I'll take it all back if he turns out to be a wrongun)

I don't like how far Ross has gone though. It all was incredibly cringe and I wish Sasha had just pulled him back. There was a point where he was riled, which she did feed, and it just backfired.

It's as if Ross didn't read the memo and walked onto the wrong set!