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‘Boomer’ mum slammed for making daughter do housework – while son does nothing

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The woman said she is still expected to do chores like washing up when she visits her mum

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A woman has shared her frustration as her “boomer” mother still expects her to help with chores when she visits, due to her “antiquated views about gender roles”.

The daughter claims her brother doesn’t “lift a finger” when they go to their mum’s house, while she is asked to set the table, serve and clean up.

After finding the different expectations “infuriating”, the woman took to social media to vent about the situation. In her post on Reddit , she explained that she and her brother are adults who have both long moved out of home.

The user pumpernick3l wrote: “I have a boomer mother who unfortunately still holds a lot of antiquated views about gender roles. Whenever my brother and I visit her, she’s constantly asking me to help clean up or serve guests while my brother just gets to relax and not lift a finger.”

She continued: “It’s just infuriating – we both have full-time jobs, visit her at the same time, and she still places the responsibility of chores on me. I don’t get why she simply can’t ask him to do a few things around the house.”

The peeved poster received plenty of sympathy from other daughters in the forum, which is intended for women’s perspectives, Nottinghamshire Live reports.

Bekiala admitted: “Am a boomer woman and sexist. It took forever for me to see it but it is there. I fight it but can still feel it.”

Zorro6855 wrote: “My mum used to do this. For reference, I’m the boomer, she was born in 1928. I had a brother 18 months older. Every holiday I would be doing all the kitchen prep, table work, serving and clean up.

“Finally, one holiday I showed up on crutches, plunked my butt down and said no, can’t help, can’t lift, can’t carry, can’t clean. It was a bit of a s*** show but after that it got a lot fairer. And there was nothing wrong with me, I just had enough.”

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SpicyMargarita143 suggested: “Just tell your brother to get up and help. You won’t change your mother, but you can change what you do and start setting a new precedent.”

Mermaid_Lily replied: “Yep. My mum does this too. My mum will even tell me ‘Get your brother a drink’ when we are both sitting in the living room talking. Why he can’t get off his butt and get his own drink is beyond me.”

Benkyker commented: “I also don’t think you should throw away a relationship with your mother because of this, that seems super excessive. Really, the simplest solution seems to be to ask your brother to get off his a*** and help.”

Lord_kristivas added: “Does bro shovel snow, cut grass, work on cars, or do other ‘manly’ tasks to help out in lieu of inside chores? If not, be the one to tell him to get up and help because your mom won’t.”

The Handmaid’s Tale season 6 given huge casting boost as season 5 newcomer returns

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Hulu viewers have been eagerly anticipating the premiere of The Handmaid’s Tale’s sixth and final season. While bosses have remained tight-lipped about the upcoming storyline, it has been reported Jeremy Shamos will reprise his role as Dr Alan Landers.

Since November 2022, viewers have been left twiddling their thumbs after The Handmaid’s Tale season five finale came to a jaw-dropping cliffhanger.

With many concerned about June Osborne’s (played by Elisabeth Moss) fate, a certain re-casting could shed light on Gilead’s desperation.

According to Deadline, Jeremy Shamos will return to season six as Dr Alan Landers.

Fans will recall his creepy season five appearance when he had no problem implementing Gilead practices for the Wheelers in Toronto.

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The Handmaid’s Tale: Alan was Serena’s gynaecologist (Image: Hulu)

The Handmaid's Tale: Alanis

The Handmaid’s Tale: Alanis became obsessed with Serena’s pregnancy (Image: Hulu)

During season five, the tables turned for Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski) following the death of her husband, Commander Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes).

Despite playing an instrumental role in creating Gilead she was treated as a handmaid because she was pregnant and without her husband.

As June was on the warpath for revenge, Serena was forced to live with Gilead sympathisers Ryan Wheeler (Lucas Neff) and his wife Alanis (Genevieve Angelson).

However, Serena quickly noticed she was being groomed to eventually give up her baby for the couple, as the same tactics she used on June, were being used on her.

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The Handmaid’s Tale: Jeremy Shamos starred as Dr Alan Landers (Image: Hulu)

This included the use of a specific doctor, Dr Alan Landers (Jeremy Shamos) who visited Serena to check on the unborn baby.

As she had been planning her escape she was surprised at the doctor’s arrival because she assumed the appointment would be at his office.

However, there was no need as the Wheelers had an entire birthing suite.

Things then took a concerning turn after the ultrasound and examination, as Dr Alan then asked Serena out for dinner and mentioned he had received permission from the Wheelers.

Later in the episode, Serena discussed the odd interaction with Alanis and stated she didn’t want to date a gynaecologist.

After sharing that she may never re-marry Alanis became furious and shunned Serena for choosing to be a single mother.

After Serena hit back and announced she was going on a walk, Alanis protested this and ordered her to go to her room.

This was a huge turning point for Serena as she was now on the receiving end of the brutal hardship she had inflicted on her former handmaid, June.

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The pair eventually reunited in the final moments of the finale with their children and were on the run from Gilead.

While fans have yet to see the fallout of their shocking reunion a lot could be said about Dr Alan’s season six return.

The gynaecologist could make a comeback to examine other pregnant women for Gilead sympathisers in Toronto.

Dr Alan could also be plotting revenge against the Wheelers for letting Serena out of their grasp after leading him into thinking he could eventually marry her.

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These Florida brothers ran one of the largest opioid ‘pill mills’ in US history. The FBI says it was linked to thousands of deaths

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Updated 2335 GMT (0735 HKT) February 3, 2023

(CNN) Throngs of people hang outside the American Pain clinic in Boca Raton, Florida, waiting their turn. Inside, a doctor greets them one by one and prescribes them pain medication, a handgun peeking out from under his white coat.

American Pain is a one-stop shop, supplying both prescriptions and painkillers. At the door, a hulking bouncer warns people not to snort their pills in the parking lot. That would attract the kind of attention that the clinic’s owners, twin brothers Chris and Jeff George, are trying to avoid.
But it’s too late. Local and federal investigators are nearby, watching every move.
These are scenes from a new CNN Films’ documentary, “American Pain,” which details the George brothers’ rise and fall as opioid kingpins. The film by Emmy Award-winning director Darren Foster uses FBI wiretap recordings and undercover videos — along with the brothers’ exclusive jailhouse interviews — to paint a picture of a ruthless pain-pill empire that turned the Georges into millionaires and enabled addicts from all over the country.
“The George brothers did not start the opioid crisis. But they sure as hell poured gasoline on the fire,” said retired FBI agent Kurt McKenzie, who was part of the investigation — nicknamed Operation Oxy Alley — that began after oxycodone from the twin brothers’ clinics showed up at scenes involving drug overdoses. Investigators bugged the clinic’s phones, recorded surreptitious video and sent undercover agents masquerading as a patients to buy drugs.
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“They became the largest street-level distribution group operating in the entire United States,” McKenzie added. “Nobody put more pills on the streets than they did. Nobody … and they were operating in broad daylight.”
Twin brothers Jeff and Chris George of South Florida claim to have made tens of millions of dollars selling painkillers.

Twin brothers Jeff and Chris George of South Florida claim to have made tens of millions of dollars selling painkillers.

One brother described their operation as ‘the Disneyland of pain clinics’

Between them, Chris and Jeff George ran four pain clinics and other related businesses in South Florida.
Their operation coincided with surge in the opioid epidemic between 2008 and 2010, when the prescription painkiller business was booming, federal officials said. People across the country also were beginning to realize the toxic toll the legal drugs were taking on communities.
“Before this case, the public only knew that people were dying from drug overdoses, they had no idea how the ‘system’ worked,” McKenzie said. “The George brothers created the blueprint.”
Chris George with his silver monster truck. The twins lived flamboyant lifestyles and owned boats, flashy watches and multiple homes.

Chris George with his silver monster truck. The twins lived flamboyant lifestyles and owned boats, flashy watches and multiple homes.

They advertised the clinic in local newspapers and recruited doctors to prescribe the medications, offering them incentives for large and frequent prescriptions. To avoid setting off red flags, the brothers’ clinics only accepted cash and credit cards — not insurance plans, according to court documents. They hired women through Craigslist to dole out the pills prescribed by the doctors.
The George brothers made it easy to get drugs at their clinics, where no appointments were necessary. Patients flocked to Florida from Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia and other Appalachian states ravaged by opioid abuse.
“I believe we’ve created a new form of tourism,” Jeff George says in the documentary, in a phone interview from prison. “We were basically like the Disneyland of pain clinics.”
Some drug dealers drove to the clinics from Kentucky in rented buses marked “Tree of Life Baptist Church” to mask their criminal intentions, the film shows.
“It’s like a candy store down there,” one man told FBI agent Jennifer Turner, who led the federal investigation, when asked why he frequented the George brothers’ pill mills.
Meanwhile, the brothers were making millions and trying to outdo each other’s flamboyant lifestyles. They bought pricey watches, flashy cars, boats and multiple homes. Jeff George drove a Lamborghini while his brother Chris had an enormous customized monster truck.
The South Florida Pain Clinic was one of four that Chris and Jeff George owned between them.

The South Florida Pain Clinic was one of four that Chris and Jeff George owned between them.

The clinics operated like frat houses, said Derik Nolan, a longtime friend of the twins who describes himself in the documentary as their right-hand man. As customers waited for their next fix, clinic employees played with remote-controlled cars and shot each other with slingshots. The clinics’ fridges held beer and Patrón shots, Nolan said.
The clinics’ cash registers were too small to contain the incoming flood of bills, so employees stuffed the money in massive trash bags.

They bragged about making millions of dollars in profits

One clinic referred people without MRIs to a trailer behind a strip club, where they could get lap dances while waiting for new scans from sham radiologists, according to an FBI agent quoted in the film. The George brothers believed the imaging helped make their prescription process look more genuine.
The clinics’ doctors were paid per person, which provided an incentive to see as many patients as possible, federal officials said.
The doctors “did not obtain prior medical records or prescribe any alternative treatment. They did not make referrals to specialists. Virtually everyone examined by the co-conspirator physicians received a prescription for controlled substances,” court documents said. “There was no individualization of treatment as required under applicable federal and Florida law.”
These bottles of 30 mg oxycodone tablets -- straight from the manufacturer -- were seized from a George brothers clinic by law enforcement. The brothers' main clinic, American Pain, ranked among the top nine purchasers of oxycodone in the nation, according to court documents.

These bottles of 30 mg oxycodone tablets — straight from the manufacturer — were seized from a George brothers clinic by law enforcement. The brothers’ main clinic, American Pain, ranked among the top nine purchasers of oxycodone in the nation, according to court documents.

Chris George brags in the film that the American Pain clinic alone generated $40 million in profits. American Pain prescribed 18 million units of oxycodone, ranking among the top nine purchasers of oxycodone in the nation, according to court documents.
“Of the 20 highest-prescribing physicians in the entire country, five of them worked at just one of Chris’ facilities,” said McKenzie, the former FBI agent. “These are real doctors. They have real licenses … and what looked to be a real clinic.”
Chris George says he took pride in his clinics’ volume.
“I wanted my doctors to be the top prescribing doctors in the country,” he tells the filmmakers in an interview from prison. “To me, that was an accomplishment.”

A grieving father helped bring down a pill mill

John Friskey owns a computer service business in Jacksonville, Florida. At the time a pill mill moved in to the same strip mall, Friskey was a grieving father who’d lost his son, Andy, to opioid addiction. Andy loved music and played the guitar.
“He was in a car accident in Tennessee. He had a ruptured spleen and was in pain,” Friskey told CNN. “He got medicine from the pill mills. I didn’t know they were pill mills. I didn’t even know he was getting medicine. He overdosed on it.”
The neighboring pain clinic was owned by a man named Zachary Rose, who was rivaling the George brothers for supremacy among Florida pill mills. Rose’s clinic brought crowds of drug users from out of state to the area, and Friskey wanted him out of the strip mall.
When the clinic asked Friskey to help them maintain their computer networks and security cameras, Friskey saw an opportunity. He approached the DEA and offered to help shut it down.
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DEA agents wired him and recorded his conversations when he worked on Rose’s computers, as doctors there bragged about how much money they earned per day.
Friskey said he would take out their hard drives, replace them with new ones and turn the old ones over to federal agents.
“They never questioned me, never tried to stop me,” Friskey said. “I was happy to shut him down.”
Rose pleaded guilty to a drug conspiracy charge in 2012 and was sentenced to 15 years in prison .

An estimated 3,000 people died from overdoses linked to the brothers’ clinics, the FBI says

Everything came crashing down in August 2011, when federal investigators raided the brothers’ homes and discovered illegal weapons, drugs and other items.
They also raided the home of the twins’ mother, Denice Haggerty, who worked at one of the pain clinics. There, they discovered safes in the attic stashed with $4 million.
The brothers were among 31 people indicted — including their mother — under the federal RICO Act, which targets organized crime. Thirteen doctors also were charged, and all but two pleaded guilty to lesser charges of money laundering or wire fraud.
Haggerty, the twins’ mother, pleaded guilty that year to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and was sentenced to 30 months in prison.
Chris George pleaded guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy and was sentenced to 17 years in prison. He served 11 years and was released in September 2021.
Jeff George: "We were basically like the Disneyland of pain clinics."

Jeff George: “We were basically like the Disneyland of pain clinics.”

Jeff George also pleaded guilty to a racketeering conspiracy charge and was sentenced to 15 and a half years. He also was convicted of second-degree felony murder in the fatal overdose of a patient, according to court filings. He received an additional 20-year sentence for the murder charge and remains in prison.
An estimated 3,000 people died from overdoses linked to the brothers’ clinics, McKenzie said. He said the FBI came up with that number after reviewing a random sampling of 300 patient files from the brothers’ clinics and noting how many of the patients had later overdosed.
As many of the clinics’ customers sold their pills to others, that estimate doesn’t include the secondary or even tertiary drug market, McKenzie added.

Chris George denied responsibility for clients’ fatal overdoses

The brothers, now 42, leave a legal legacy in Florida.
In 2011, the state passed a “pill mill law” that banned pain clinics from dispensing opioids and established requirements for medical examinations.
But Nolan, the Georges’ associate who also pleaded guilty to a racketeering charge and served 10 years in person, feels like law enforcement targeted the wrong people.
“They didn’t want to go after big pharmacy. They didn’t want to go after big distributors. They just wanted us — we’re nobody. The money we made is peanuts compared to what big pharma made over the years,” he said in the film.
In recent years large pharmaceutical companies such as Purdue Pharma, whose OxyContin painkiller has been widely blamed for kickstarting the opioid crisis, have agreed to pay billions of dollars in legal settlements. Drugstore chains such as CVS and Walgreens also have agreed to settle lawsuits brought by states and local governments alleging the retailers mishandled prescriptions of painkillers.
The George brothers in an undated photo. "They act like I'm the bad guy here 'cause I owned a business," Chris George said after being released from prison.

The George brothers in an undated photo. “They act like I’m the bad guy here ’cause I owned a business,” Chris George said after being released from prison.

Meanwhile, more than a decade after the FBI shut down their operation, Chris George believes he and his brother play no role in the fatal overdoses.
“In the end, it’s their responsibility. They’re responsible for themselves, I’m not,” he says in the film after his release from prison. “I don’t think we created more addicts. They were already here. They just had an easier way .. to get their drugs. And a safer way. Now they don’t even know what they’re getting.”
Chris George, who is out on parole, continues to deflect blame for his drugs’ deadly toll onto his former patients.
“They said they were in pain to my doctors. They got an MRI showing they were in pain. My doctors gave them medication. What they did with that is out of my hands.
“They act like I’m the bad guy here ’cause I owned a business,” he added. “You know, in this country, anybody can open a business.”
Chris George said he plans to start a real estate business with his friend Nolan.
And if the housing market crashes, like it did during their opioid empire’s heyday, Nolan told the makers of “American Pain” that he has another idea.
“We may have to venture back into the medical field,” he said.

TLC fans threaten to boycott channel over ‘sick’ new dating show Seeking Brother Husband

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TLC is no stranger to hosting controversial reality shows and documentaries, and now they’re back with another outlandish show called Seeking Brother Husband. Before it has even aired, fans are already branding the reality series “sick” after a first look into episode one was released.

Seeking Brother Husband is TLC’s all-new controversial show which is set to explore the world of polyandry.

Over the course of the series, fans will be introduced to four polyandrous relationships, following them in their quests to add additional husbands to their families.

In a first look into what fans can expect when the show premieres this Sunday, TLC shared a short clip on their Instagram , introducing one of the polyandrous couples, Kim, Dustin, and Vinson.

They are seen discussing the dynamics of their relationship in a confessional clip, detailing the ups and downs of being in a polyandrous relationship.

TLC faces backlash over Seeking Brother Husband

TLC faces backlash for their new reality show Seeking Brother Husband (Image: TLC)

TLC faces backlash over Seeking Brother Husband

Kenya, Carl and Tiger are one of the polyandrous couples set to feature on Seeking Brother Husband (Image: TLC)

Commenting on TLC’s post, fans clearly weren’t impressed with the network’s new idea, as they called the series “trash”.

One fan @dawnwitvliet commented: “Milf manor and now this??? I don’t understand how sister wives is still a show. I used to love TLC but they just keep sinking.”

While @dawn_o59 wrote: “Sick as* people! TLC. You suck!!”

Account @phillyspl said: “Bye TLC you’ve become trash city!”

And @amandat721984 added: “I miss when TLC was actually the learning channel, not some freaking orgy of so-called reality shows that were more soap operas.”

But not all fans turned their nose up at TLC’s new series.

@janakinskywalkr said: “This is not a lifestyle for everyone, but it’s clearly working for them.

“Love is love, even if it’s not for you. Good on them for not hiding behind closed doors and exploring what brings them happiness.”

While @roossjsaa commented: “I actually would love to watch this? @tlc where can I watch this in France?”

Seeking Brother Husband shares comparisons with one of TLC’s other controversial shows, Sister Wives.

Sister Wives also explores the world of polygamy, as viewers follow the life of Kody Brown and his four wives Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn.

Ahead of the premiere, Seeking Brother Husband star Elisa is hoping the series will show viewers that their worlds aren’t so far apart.

“There’s definitely a double standard when a female has multiple partners,” Elisa says in the trailer.

Elisa continues, “It’s, ‘Oh my gosh, she’s such a slut. She sleeps around’. They assume multiple male partners, it’s just about sex. That’s definitely not it.”

But like most relationships, things don’t always run smoothly, especially when it comes to adding another individual into the mix.

“Things really started to get awkward when I heard some noise in the basement,” Patrick, who adds new husband Noble into his marriage with wife Chara, explained.

They recalled: “A little moaning, a little groaning.” as they described one of the first times they heard their other two partners having sex.

Seeking Brother Husband premieres Sunday on TLC in the US.

Hacienda DJ Graeme Park’s son, 18, dies of cancer leaving star ‘heartbroken forever’

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British house music DJ Graeme Park, 59, has been left “heartbroken” following the of his 18-year-old son. The Haçienda club star described how his son Oliver had “fought so hard until the very end in an emotional statement on .

Graeme Park, who is often credited as one of the original founders of the UK’s rave scene, shared the statement from his wife Jenny and Oliver’s twin brother Ben.

On Wednesday evening he wrote: “Today our hearts were broken forever.

“After a year-long battle with , it finally got the better of you, our amazingly strong and gorgeous boy.

“You were such a kind, loving and beautiful soul and I will never understand why you were taken from us?

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Oliver died after a ‘long battle’ with cancer (Image: TWITTER)

“It was far too soon. You had so much more love to offer this world,” he added.

He went on to describe how Oliver “never once got angry, complained or felt sad” following his cancer diagnosis.

It continued: “You were a true warrior throughout and fought so hard until the very end.

“We will love and miss you every single day for the rest of our lives, Ol.

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Graeme was inundated with messages of support (Image: TWITTER)

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Graeme shared his family’s statement to social media (Image: TWITTER)

“The power and love we feel from your guiding spirit is all around us and will provide us and Ben, your twin, with the strength to carry on. Especially when times get too tough.

“We love you Ol, so, so much and even though you’re not here in your physical body, the strength you provide us with and your loving strong spirit will be with us always.

“We love you so much, Oliver Park and thank you for sharing 18 years of your precious life with us,” the statement concluded.

Graeme is famous for being a huge influence on the UK’s clubbing scene, especially for his leading role at The Haçienda nightclub in Manchester.

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Graeme’s friends and followers were quick to send their condolences under the post, with Sach Lord writing: “Demi and I send you all of our love. We’re so so sorry Graeme.

“Anything you need, or we can do, we’re here for you and your family. Heartbreaking to read.”

Andi Durrant penned: “Oh Graeme and Jenny I’m sending all the love imaginable from my family to yours.”

While Dan Hett added: “Graeme I’m so sorry. Thoughts are with you and yours.”