MAFSAUS 2025 - Thread 3 (No Spoilers): “TV’s in bedrooms bring on the tears, snoring at bedtime stirs big foghorn fears, gaslighting, AWOLS and warrior things, nobody’s jeans fit as tightly as Tim’s….🎵”

[browneyes77]

Let’s go……

Thank you!
I absolutely agree.
I am autistic as are two of my children. The "diagnosing" of people in the public eye shows a very narrow understanding of autism. And it's hugely offensive.
We haven't seen any indications of repetitive behaviours in these people, or sensory difficulties, we've seen some communication differences but this means they have communication differences and doesn't make them autistic. Non-autistic people can have a lack of social awareness and communication difficulties and they are just that.
Autism isn't just about social interaction, and certainly being an arsehole isn't anything to do with neurodivergence.
Being an arsehole can be linked to upbringing, being surrounded by toxic media, a disorganised attachment type, psychopathy, narcissism, lack of role models, being bullied, lacking intelligence, lack of education, experience of trauma...the list goes on, and yet people continue with "I think he's on the spectrum". (Which is a really horrible term in itself, it's use really showing someone doesn't have an understanding of autistic people).

And being a parent of an autistic child doesn't qualify anyone to be an expert. Just as being a parent of a mixed-race child doesn't make you an expert in racism. It means you have your own very particular experience from the outside, which is shaped by your own experience in the dominant group.

Can’t stand Adrian.

No neither can I. I’m baffled why Awhina keeps talking about how gorgeous he is….whereas she’s really pretty and could do so much better

As others have said, the majority of the men this year are just absolutely awful.
Jacqui is annoying with the fake crying and her "aren't I brilliant" attitude, but I'm absolutely loving her bringing Ryan down a few pegs.
Katie is clearly lovely and didn't deserve to be paired with a walking red-flag like Tim.
Tony I suspect is just as misogynistic as Ryan and Elliot, but in a less in your face way. He should fuck off back to Steve.
Jake thinks he doesn't need to put in any effort at all, but is still owed a relationship.
Elliot was clearly a deeply unpleasant person, and his fixation on 25 year olds is grim.
Adrian is beyond basic and Awhina deserves someone far more mature and, well, just nice.

What a shit show.

Sorry, I'm a couple of episodes behind, but I have to ask, has anyone else thought Jacqui looks like Michael Jackson?

Have to say as much as I dislike Jacqui , I LOVED her giving Ry Ry a taste of own medicine !!!!

Jacqui and her husband deserve each other. This is hilarious 😂
I don't mind her, tbh but can't stand him!

Jake clearly lives in his mum's basement. And only bathes once a year whether he needs it or not.

Adrian doesn't have an accent issue. He has a lazy speech issue. My brothers are twins and they both mumble but completely understand each other, maybe it's that.

Adrian has addressed this on a podcast, he was just quite defensive about it

I mentioned Jacqui’s traits upthread. I only mentioned it as I work with ND chn and she reminded me of some of them.

Well I hope his mum fumigates it regularly!

At first I thought Jake seemed nice, personality wise, and it's hardly his fault he is unattractive. But his personality is awful too, and i am so sorry for Ashleigh!

How come we don’t have men like Billy on MAFSUK?

I suppose here he would be too normal, the nice fella from work, your mum’s friend’s son. Over there he’s a quirky bloke with a strange accent and a back story

That's a shame because I've always thought Aussie men were attractive up until now. Too much Home and Away in my teenage years I think 😆none of them would be interested in me as apparently they all only like tiny petite women if this season is anything to go by 😞the men really are a let down. Exception being Billy (not Aussie anyway) and that clean-shaven guy who they never even seem to show so can't really comment! So many egos as well. The women are light years ahead of the men in emotional intelligence.

I knew she reminded me of someone but couldn’t put my finger on it - you’re right, she does!

He does have rocks in his mouth. It's his dentures that are clearly way too big for his mouth. The man has elocution of a rock.

Dave with the tattooed neck is lovely. And the one who’d dated his wife before seems nice.

I could not have a conversation with him. It speaks volumes that they have to put subtitles on every time he speaks. Just speak properly, you dick!

I would be constantly saying 'speak up!'

Adrian is a caveman. The end.

We were talking about Jake's descriptions of the other wives and how, it's something you could say to a long - term partner where you have the same sense of humour and a shared history, understand each other's limits, and so on. But not on the TV to a partner you have only just met. Plus rather maliciously too, in how it was delivered.

Adrian - I mentioned this on the old thread - it's a lack of diction. Wonder how he got thought the selection process.

Tony has lived on his own for a while, Morena's constant stream of chatter is probably alien to him. She seems keen to put her observations over anything he (tries to) say. Don't see them having a conversation - he's silent while she continues to talk, seemingly unaware he's shut down.

Throughout most of the Australian seasons I just dont understand the awful taste the women have.

Adrian is not good looking at all, awful hair, awful teeth and such a fake overdone look. Its the opposite of manliness, kind of fake manliness. There have been a few similar over the years. I guess same on UK with Shitlid. Hes a mile off what anyone I know would consider a good looking manly man.

Perhaps that’s all they have to choose from! The men tend to be pretty neanderthal, on the whole but no so many “tradies” in this series.

Perhaps, but there always seems to be one man on there who is probably the least attractive but everyone says how gorgeous they are. Most of them are normal amounts of attractive, normal looking blokes, then you have that one (like Adrian).

I didn't find Billy physically attractive, but he's the most attractive man there due to his character at this point. So he's becoming more attractive generally to me the more he goes on.