Lori Alexander 37: Practicing Medicine Without a License

[refugee]

On 1/10/2018 at 12:19 PM, TeddyBonkers said:

@Loveday, YES you can! Everyone loves my pumpkin pie (one of my husband's soldiers requested it for his birthday instead of cake!) and I feel guilty because it's so easy.

1 can pumpkin

1 can sweetened condensed milk

2 eggs

favorite pumpkin pie spices to taste

pie crust

That's it. But don't tell anyone how easy it is, okay? It's our little secret.

Um. Wait. The sweetened condensed milk has a lot of sugar in it. Like in this recipe I found, 1 cup of the finished milk has 2/3 cup sugar (plus the lactose from the milk in the recipe).

20 hours ago, Free Jana Duggar said:

Did ya'll see the doodle about affairs in the workplace?  Sure, it happens occasionally. I've seen a few incidents over the years, but not nearly as common as Lori and the fangirls think, and the incidents I know of were between coworkers, not between a boss and employees. 

I had the random thought while reading it that if women were banned from the workplace, husbands like Lori’s would have affairs with the men who would now be filling those wife-like support roles. I wonder what Lori would say about that?

[TeddyBonkers]

@refugee, I'm sorry. I was making a bad Lori-esque joke saying there's no added sugar.  I don't PHYSICALLY put white sugar into my pie filling, so I can say there is no added sugar. Much like she touts the healthiness of her recipes loaded with honey.

sugar is sugar.

[refugee]

Just now, TeddyBonkers said:

@refugee, I'm sorry. I was making a bad Lori-esque joke saying there's no added sugar.  I don't PHYSICALLY put white sugar into my pie filling, so I can say there is no added sugar. Much like she touts the healthiness of her recipes loaded with honey.

sugar is sugar.

Oh, sorry. I can be so idiotically tone deaf to humor. Guess I was channeling Spock’s assistant Saavik (from Wrath of Khan) again. Thanks for clarifying.

sigh.

[mango_fandango]

It can be difficult to read humour over the Internet, just seeing it written down as opposed to hearing it face-to-face. 

Lori sees sin everywhere. She’d probably claim it’s because we live in a fallen world, but she just sounds so dramatic. As do most of our fundies.

[Sarah92]

The workplace thing is idiotic. People who desire affairs do them because they want to. Who cares where they start? If it happens in the workplace it's because of lack of boundaries and thoughtlessness. And sometimes a pure lack of morals. 

And I don't know where she's getting the idea that women are only secretaries and get coffee for bosses but I don't think it happens like that as much anymore. And because of the laws, they can't make that a role only women have. And just because a women is being "submissive" to a boss doesn't mean she's going to say "oh, you're such a manly command man I want to have an affair with you!" It doesn't have anything to do with fulfilling gender roles like that. 

[feministxtian]

8 minutes ago, Sarah92 said:

And I don't know where she's getting the idea that women are only secretaries and get coffee for bosses but I don't think it happens like that as much anymore.

My boss (owner of the company) will often come up to me and tell me he's headed out to Starbucks and would I like something. HE brings ME coffee a few times a week or will tell me there's a pot brewed in the kitchen. But, I'm the one stomping around construction sites with my clipboard, tape measure and phone (for pictures). Lori lives in some 1950's Leave It To Beaver fantasy world. 

[TeddyBonkers]

1 hour ago, refugee said:

Oh, sorry. I can be so idiotically tone deaf to humor. Guess I was channeling Spock’s assistant Saavik (from Wrath of Khan) again. Thanks for clarifying.

sigh.

No, I am really sorry! My humor is bad enough in person-it doesn't translate over the interwebs sometimes! (And my humor is, quite frankly, hilarious to me and only me at times...)

[Hane]

On 1/9/2018 at 10:04 PM, luv2laugh said:

Lori won't fit in in the south. She and Ken should just move way out in the boonies in rural Texas if they insist on living in the south. I think she and Ken would fare better living in rural Connecticut or Maine. 

 

I can’t speak for Maine, but I’ve been a Connecticutter for 62 years. Even the smallest, most rural conservative towns won’t be impressed with her. Folks in those areas might be politically conservative, but the “godly submissive wife” crap definitely would not fly.

[Hisey]

Lori has not been in the workforce for 35 years. Perhaps that's where she gets her ideas about what working women do. Although I was working back then, often in quite low-level positions, and no one EVER asked me to bring them coffee. It would have been considered rude and demeaning. People got their own coffee.

Weird to think about it, but I think we got our coffee from coffee shops then. I don't think there were Starbucks, at least not in the number there are today.

[Hane]

Remember, everybody, how Ken once mused aloud why his female employees don’t flirt with him. (Oh, let’s see: 1. Because they’re at work in a professional environment and 2. You ain’t all that, Pornstache.) Hearing stuff like that, of course Lori is going to think that the contemporary workplace is all Mad Men.

[Hisey]

3 minutes ago, Hane said:

I can’t speak for Maine, but I’ve been a Connecticutter for 62 years. Even the smallest, most rural conservative towns won’t be impressed with her. Folks in those areas might be politically conservative, but the “godly submissive wife” crap definitely would not fly.

I've lived in the rural Connecticut area, and found people to be intelligent and educated, albeit conservative. I think they'd be astonished and insulted that anyone would think they'd believe in Lori's crap.

[lilwriter85]

I think some of Lori's fangirls are making shit up about their husbands' workplaces being hot beds for workplace affairs. It probably does happen in some places, but not as rampant as the fangirls claim. The fangirls are just trying to get Lori's attention.

6 hours ago, crawfishgirl said:

Her workplace affair doodle irritates me for many reasons.  For one thing, it assumes that women only work in assistant roles, and that all assistants get coffee, etc., and that all bosses are male.  I worked for many years in a professional role, and was a manager myself for a few years.  I never got coffee as part of my duties, and I never asked someone to do so for me.  She is totally clueless as to how companies work.  Large companies wouldn't allow it, though it might still occur in mom and pop shops.  I was in a female-dominated field, so the majority of my bosses were also female.  Her definition of 'submission' in reference to a boss is just asinine.  A manager pays an employee to perform a role, and the person does so for a set period of time a week. No submission, just defined responsibilities while at work, under the manager's guidance.  

It irritated me for the reasons you stated. I doubt that Lori talks to a lot of people both male and female about their workplaces.

[ChickenettiLuvr]

Maybe it's just poor dumb luck on my part ... but in my heathen career-woman CV, I've worked at 4 law firms, 3 churches, 1 metro hospital + 1 federal government. 

In Every.Single.Job. there were affairs going on. Sometimes boss-level to staff, others were same-level flings. As long as I wasn't put in the middle of the affair, I tried to ignore it. [Boss at federal job quickly learned I wasn't going to lie for her, including lying to her current husband.]

But i actually quit first law firm because of the "christian" senior partner's very unwelcome advances. And told other senior partners I would call the pervert's wife about it stat if anyone even thought about giving me a less-than-stellar recommendation/ reference. Pretty ballsy for a 23 y/o but I was PISSED.

Thankfully it doesn't appear to be an issue at current firm where all are related and are devout RC. As long as they keep their religion to themselves, we'll continue to get along.

[Since I can't swear there, I'm thankful for Sweet baby Rufus and Sugar Honey Iced Tea. Their confused stares indicate they're unaware that FJ is my guilty pleasure.]

Well hell ... I'm lost on my own rabbit trail and can't remember the point of this monologue...

[99bottlesofPlexus]

For women who are so proud of the fact that they haven’t set foot in the workplace for years (if ever), Lori and her leghumpers sure think they know exactly how these places operate. If they’re “hearing all about it from their husbands,” then it makes me wonder how their husbands know so much about all these supposedly rampant workplace affairs. Hmm...

And, if all women were removed from the work force and men had to fill roles as secretaries and assistants, I’m sure Lori would bitch about how terrible it is that men have to take these “demeaning” jobs that are “beneath them.”

[3SecondSideHugger]

6 minutes ago, ChickenettiLuvr said:

Maybe it's just poor dumb luck on my part ... but in my heathen career-woman CV, I've worked at 4 law firms, 3 churches, 1 metro hospital + 1 federal government. 

In Every.Single.Job. there were affairs going on. Sometimes boss-level to staff, others were same-level flings. As long as I wasn't put in the middle of the affair, I tried to ignore it. [Boss at federal job quickly learned I wasn't going to lie for her, including lying to her current husband.]

But i actually quit first law firm because of the "christian" senior partner's very unwelcome advances. And told other senior partners I would call the pervert's wife about it stat if anyone even thought about giving me a less-than-stellar recommendation/ reference. Pretty ballsy for a 23 y/o but I was PISSED.

Thankfully it doesn't appear to be an issue at current firm where all are related and are devout RC. As long as they keep their religion to themselves, we'll continue to get along.

[Since I can't swear there, I'm thankful for Sweet baby Rufus and Sugar Honey Iced Tea. Their confused stares indicate they're unaware that FJ is my guilty pleasure.]

Well hell ... I'm lost on my own rabbit trail and can't remember the point of this monologue...

Guess I can’t speak on this one since my workplace has NO male employees. Not a SINGLE one. Would Lori find it to be an acceptable workplace? Or would she deny such a workplace exists and I should be at home 

[Sarah92]

It just reminds me of the Billy Graham rule of not being alone with a female because she might seduce a male into an affair or something. Also notice that they don't suggest that men stay home despite participating in affairs. Nope, the women should be punished by never being at the work force. And I do wonder about the men who have to "submit" to their bosses. Does it effect their manliness? Does it make them feel feminine? Or do they naturally just "submit" and want to bring coffee to the alpha dog? The questions I have.....

 

[lilwriter85]

1 hour ago, Hane said:

I can’t speak for Maine, but I’ve been a Connecticutter for 62 years. Even the smallest, most rural conservative towns won’t be impressed with her. Folks in those areas might be politically conservative, but the “godly submissive wife” crap definitely would not fly.

 

1 hour ago, Hisey said:

I've lived in the rural Connecticut area, and found people to be intelligent and educated, albeit conservative. I think they'd be astonished and insulted that anyone would think they'd believe in Lori's crap.

I was thinking the similar things about Lori. Even if she moves to an area that is more conservative she will not be completely happy.  Not a lot of people will completely agree with her when it comes to submissiveness and women only staying at home with families. She is still going to be around working women in Texas or Tennessee if she moves to one of those states.

[fundamentallyfearless]

Dear Lori: I work with all females. Actually, I barely “work” with anyone other than my clients. I do in-home behavior therapy and 99% of the time I am conducting sessions with clients whose moms are at home with them... so, I kinda “work” with kids and stay-at-home moms... Should I still stay home to avoid any affairs?!?!?!?! Lol...

[Seahorse Wrangler]

My first real job in the British Civil Service had a Tea-Lady whose job was to deliver hot drinks and biccies to your desk at 10.30  every day.

Sadly she was phased out when they changed the cleaning service.

 

[ChickenettiLuvr]

Whoops. Totally forgot my 10 years of teaching part-time interspersed with other jobs. Actually NO harassment there I'm happy to say!

[lilith]

3 hours ago, lilwriter85 said:

 

I was thinking the similar things about Lori. Even if she moves to an area that is more conservative she will not be completely happy.  Not a lot of people will completely agree with her when it comes to submissiveness and women only staying at home with families. She is still going to be around working women in Texas or Tennessee if she moves to one of those states.

Lori isn’t ever going to find her dream community. Normal conservative communities are going to see her as the nut she is and want nothing to do with her submission/anti feminist/orthorexic/child beating bullshit, and fundie communities are going to see her immodest attire/drinking/talking openly and often about sex/Hallmark movie obsessed bullshit and want nothing to do with her either.

She’s had to create her heavily moderated chat room to find any sort of community, and from what I’ve read here it has a high turnover of members as people leave/get kicked out regularly. Even her church seems to hate her - I can’t imagine the ladies of her church turning out for her like they recently did for Jill Rodruiges and her pamper party. 

She’s a horrible person and it seems the only people who spend any time with her are those who are obliged to - Ken and her immediate family. I have never seen her mention a friend dropping by or going out for a meal with friends. I suspect the only couples they associate with are those where Ken is friends with the husband.

[Hisey]

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Ken Alexander I am sorry to hear about the depression as it can be tough. Study up on what nutritional supplement can help with depression. Many have found great help with high quality fish oils, whey protein, and the right B-Vitamins. I take Carlson Fish Oils in the morning and a banana protein shake once or twice a day and since that started 8 years ago... no issues with mild depression. Be sure to avoid sugars of all sorts and I have gone to Stevia. http://www.psyweb.com/.../adding-whey-protein-and-bananas...

Ken has depression? Cured by banana smoothies? You can't make this stuff up.

[ChickenettiLuvr]

Since I'm on a roll recently....

EFF YOU stoopid Ken Alexander. I kinda felt a wee bit sorry for you from time to time, being married to Hagalina Lori. But no more. You ignorant, insufferable, smug twatwaffles are just perfect for each other. 

[Sarah92]

20 minutes ago, Hisey said:

Ken has depression? Cured by banana smoothies? You can't make this stuff up.

Yeah, Ken knows about as much about Mental Health as I do about quantum physics, which is to say nothing at all. As a counselor-in-training, I'm blown away by some of the things he says. How about encouraging seeking counseling by trained professionals? Sure nutrition is important but it's rarely cured by just taking a bunch of weird supplements. Depression is often much more complex than that. 

I will note when I looked it up, it appears that some suggest a diet high in healthy fats and high protein diet aka a serotonin-inducing diet. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/owning-pink/201103/11-natural-treatments-depression-md-s-tips-skipping-the-prozac. But I still wouldn't follow Ken's advice. It seems to me that their advice for everything is another expensive supplement. 

[Hisey]

22 minutes ago, Sarah92 said:

Yeah, Ken knows about as much about Mental Health as I do about quantum physics, which is to say nothing at all. As a counselor-in-training, I'm blown away by some of the things he says. How about encouraging seeking counseling by trained professionals? Sure nutrition is important but it's rarely cured by just taking a bunch of weird supplements. Depression is often much more complex than that. 

I will note when I looked it up, it appears that some suggest a diet high in healthy fats and high protein diet aka a serotonin-inducing diet. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/owning-pink/201103/11-natural-treatments-depression-md-s-tips-skipping-the-prozac. But I still wouldn't follow Ken's advice. It seems to me that their advice for everything is another expensive supplement. 

Honestly, I think they'd be a lot happier if they paid LESS attention to their gut, and not more.

The whole family--even Alyssa, the best of the lot--seem obsessed with what they put into their mouths, and convinced that eating has to be this complicated ritual requiring Beef Liver Supplements and Beet Kvass.

I've never given my gut a thought, and I've given very little thought to my digestive system. Neverthless, they run fine  without constant supervision and handwringing. I was amazed when Lori said something recently like, "I'm always looking for ways to support my disgestive system." Really? You need more to do, lady. Millions of people lead healthy lives without every taking a sip of Beet Kvass.