Remember this, because... ...THE SUIT IS ROBIN. LOCATION: 662 West 14th Street You picked the right tie, because... ...THE TIE IS ROBIN. It had to be you... it had to be you. No one and nothing else compares.
To the anon: it all depends what you're allergic to, and how serious is your allergy attack. If your allergy has been "diagnosed" by a doctor, and you have your allergy medication, use it!
I have a nasal spay that I use if/when I feel I need it. (I don't have severe allergies, just a bit. I get a runny nose, and such. I am also allergic to some things people eat, but I avoid those by not eating the things that contain those elements/things. Luckily also all I get is rash, I'm not seriously allergic.)
Here's a few links about allergy attacks - what they are, what to do, etc
nasal allergy attack
home remedies for allergies
allergies
what to do: food allergy attack
how does allergy attack happen
Those are just a few simple links. I suggets you google the terms, and search for the information most about you - depending on what you're allergic to, and how severily.
The measures that help avoid or mimimize your allergy depend on what you're allergic to. If you're allergic to "pollen" (you have hay fever), then spring and summer are hard for you. But minimizing your time outdoors, and keeping windows open only minimally, and using air filters is good. Also don't dry your clothes outside, change clothes and take a shower right away after coming home from outside, and try be oustide only morning/evening, because between 10am and 4pm the pollen count is the highest, etc. Basically mimimize your contact with pollens, because the particles are tiny, and land on your body, clothes, etc. Also take dust at home often. If you allergic to animals/animal hair, avoid contact as much as possible. Pollen and dust and mold and other little "unseen" allergy sources are everywhere - your matress, your clothes, your skin, etc. People are also allergic to sunlight, and other things. For each thing there are steps that help reduce the symptoms, and medicine to help during "allergy attacks"
Basically - if you don't know what you're allergic to (what plants/which kind of pollen, what foods...), then do find out - they have alllergy tests. It's important to know, because then you can take counter measures. Because different plants relese pollen at different times/months. And also because if you know what you're allergic to, you can use medication for that. Eitehr the ones sold in pharmacy, or if you don't like that, then take other, home-ly measures.
And lastly...in case of a serious allergy attack, anaphylaxis... call a doctor/911. If you see someone having a serious case (in such seerious cases the person themselvs are not able anymore usually to talk/call), call help! Or if you're a doctor,, help them yourself, and call for backup!
No, [I haven't always wanted children] I've always LIKED children. I've always wanted a Lamborgini, where there's a hot-tub inside.
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I'm not marrying the future possibility of starting a family.
I'm marrying a girl, who means more to me than kids.
Or my career. Or even the Lambor-cuzzy [Patent pending].
Let's talk about this quote, said by Ted Mosby in HIMYM:
"I’m in love with her. If you’re looking for the word that means caring about someone beyond all rationality and wanting them to have everything they want no matter how much it destroys you, it’s love, and when you love someone, you don’t stop. Ever. Even when people roll their eyes or call you crazy. Even then. Especially then. You just — you don’t give up. Because if I could give up, if I could just take the who world’s advice and move on and find someone else, THAT WOULDN’T BE LOVE. That would be some other disposable thing that is not worth fighting for. That is not what this is.”
IF the writers and the charater really believe in this (and let's forget for a second that the storyline evolved through the years, and Ted let Robin go. Many times. Only to never really let her go (as we learn through his monologues). Just make everyone else, and himself believe he did, when he really didn't. He never meant it for real. Which in my opinion doesn't make him a great, romantic hero, and the relationship a great love story, but just prove he's a sad person, who never changes, and who puts himself first, and is not honest to himself and others) then...
IF he never stopped, and never stops loving her, and just "makes himself believe he did", and that that is love, then to me that says that the story says and the character/writers are saying that the other love story - Ted's & Tracy's was "disposable". I did not see it as such, but if I were to believe in Ted's words, then that's what they are telling me. And that is sad. Because him moving on and finding soemone else - someone who (when I don't take into account these monologues by Ted) I thought was his "the one" and I believed in their relationship and love story, whom I saw as someone the character truly loved, and considered to be his love of life, would be just "passing phase", according to this quote. So if Robin was the someone he truly loved, and he never gave up, never stopped loving her, and him moving on would've been just some disposable thing that's not worth fighting for, and not love, then to me that says that while he moved on with Tracy, that was not real. And yet it was. It was the best thing that happened to Ted (and to Tracy), but according to this speech the 2030 Ted believed that only his love for Robin was real, and everything else he experienced beside that was not real. That's such a sad thing. That's the worst. That makes him a horrible person/character IMO.
The problems I have with the shwos finale are:
The very last scene - the pre-shoot 2030 scene with Ted & kids and the last blue smurf penis scene (usually when stories end with a "reference" to the beginning of the story, it's nice, but not in this case). IF Robin and Barney did not work out because of her choosing career, then how would she & Ted work out, when her career was an issue for them before, too? And if the characters have matured and it's not an issue anymore, then it's more beleivable (but still not a good story/ending) if it'd been Robin & Barney getting back together in 2030. Ted & Robin had too many issues to it ever work out - even if time had changed them. Her work-oriented, dog-loving, not-kids-wanting, gun-loving, strong female character & his "romantic", soft, family-oriented, not-a-dog-person, wanting-kids character would never "change" enough to actually work together. There is nothing in the story in the whole nine seasons that would make me think these two people/characters match. Also the kids response to his story was really weird. The HOW they responded (though the idea that they don't want their dad to mourn forever, and stay alone forever is very real, but the delivery of the line/response seemed to me a bit "creepy".)
The reason why Barney and Robin didn't work out/got divorced. That was so bogus. I mean, I'm willing to believe that since they are both "broken" people, and kinda rushed to marriage (though i wasn't really rushing, because they had a long history together), there is a possibility that after newlyweds phase they could have possibly had troubles (though the way the story and characters were written and developed and everything they had become, was saying that they could and would make it work, even through rough patches). It's not very probable in my opinion when taking into account the story until the wedding day, but I could have made myself believe in the possibilty if it had been done believably/differently and there'd actually been a reason and storyline that would have made sense - why they didn't work out even if everything seemed to point to them working out. But the way it was done felt so unrealistic and scremed for "bad writing" and only done so the writers could do their original ending (that did not fit the story that they told after they wrote that original ending. Note to C&C and all other writers who plan to tell "stories in backwards" in the future - do film several possible endings, so you wouldn't be stuck like this, and had to butcher your story to make the old ending fit the new story) Yeah, he loved her, and wanted her to be happy, so he gave her a "way out", when she asked for it in Argentina, because he puts her first. But then to let the character of Barney return to his old self, because people don't change (when for many seasons/years the writers have said/proven the opposite) didn't much fit. And then have him become a family man/daddy and quit his playboy life (again) for lady number 2... hard to take as believable (yes, I know people "deal" with things and emotions like breakups and everything differently, and writers keep writing characters who cope just like this - by going back to their old selves, I just don't find it believable. Or anything near good writing) >
Then there's the story of Ellie. And yes, most men are softies, and they love when they create a new life, and find "their way" when they become daddies - even playboys like Barney. (looking around me, I have witnessed how men really do "change" when they become dads - they kinda "find" themselves. Even the ones who have not been family-oriented until then) But this ending for a character story doesn't fit much either. And also leaves more open ends and questions than is a resolution. Firstly - sure, Barney did want kids, and having a chance of being a better dad than he had, is a good character story, but the truth is that the story changed his character, and Robin became more important to him than having biological offspring. And sure, he'd loved to be a dad, and the idea of him & Robin having kids if that's what she'd wanted or could've been able to have, would'e been great in his mind, but that wasn't the essesne of his character. And sure, I believe that a kid would make him happy, but to say that it's just him & the kid, is bad writing. Whose the mum? What's their relationship? Was it implied that she gave the kid to him, and left their lives? Dind't seem so to me. Was it implied that they lived under the same roof, but didn't have a relationship? He was the daddy, and she was just living there, too? That seemed to me what was hinted because it was claimed that THE CHILD and being a (basically single) dad was his calling, and his happiness. Though I seriously doubt this option, and consider it non believable, and totally made up and non fitting to the story. But if we think about the ending, then wouldn't it be about legendary Barney kinda re-living his friends Insane Duane's life, when getting a woman pregnant, and then settling down with her aka living together because of the kid. Different, but kinda similar. And since I do not really see the mum just giving the kid to him, and not being any part of their lives, Barney's ending story would also be untruthful, because the narrator claims Barney found his meaning of life in his daughter, when in fact he most likely in reality settled down with his kids mother, meaning that it was not just the kid, but kid & a woman - playing family, too. Meaning - his life was revolving around not just his daughter, but also the baby momma. It's just not believable that a kid would've "fixed" Barney finally. After everything. It'd imply that everything he said and meant whiel being wth Robin and his development as a character, and his word to her, and him giving up playboy life for her, was all still just an act. Even if he at the time believed in his words. Because if all that didn't "cure" him completely, and he still went back to old life one more time, and only Ellie's intro changed it all for good...forever, then up until now it was untrue.
I'm not gonna comment on Marshall and Lily's end story, as there wasn't much resolution for them. But I'm gonna pretend it's because they were considered "side characters". But otherwise their story ended quite disspointingly aswell. No real logic, no real story. There was more about their future in the prior 9 seasojns than in the last episode. (true - kinda "life like", because most people do end up with "boring life" when they settle down, and stop being people, and become parents and career people. Those people, who "lose themselves" once they "grow up" and have families and career, make me sad. And yet it's the reality of so many people.) I didn't feel their lovely partnership and family got a nice continuity - it felt more like a hint at them becoming the couple where the man make sthe career, and the wife stays at home with kids, and stands next to her man during photoshoots. Nothing more. When in reality I believe their story had more to it than just that. But that's the feeling I got of their future from the finale. No matter HOW their story ended, they did not get enough storyline time, and that's a shame. All they got was a fast-forwarded kinda ending that didn't tell much about them.
One of the biggest myseries, the pineapple incident, was not resolved and will never be answered for those people who won't watch the DVD. That's not "tying up all loose ends" and "answering all unanswered questions". That was the biggest unanswered mystery, but in all honesty, the whole finale just created so many non-finished stories, and left so many threads hanging, and gave very little actual resolution (as apposed to tying up the story in Ted's mind, while leaving it actually totally hanging). All in all the story really was just Ted's story. His POV. And all I persoanlly was left was the knowledge/belief that that was a really douche character (asshole, I'd even say). Creepy. Weird. Not romantic. Not nice. But self-centered, obsessive and hanging onto someone who is not into him (until he can change her mind, and/or until she's weirdly cut all her friends out of her life, and been unhappy alone after failing to make a relationship work, and then suddenly having an epiphany that she actually loves and "is still in love with" his old boyfriend Ted) and when the man comes to declare his love for her once again after 2 decades, she's suddenly truly loving him and all that), and just being a whiny "love" obsessed, "want what I like, not caring if it's right for me" person. I did not want to have this feeling in the end. I wanted to actually like Ted in the end. For him to grow, change, actually be a caring, loving person. Not pretend to be "there for friends", when in reality he was the opposite. His "grand gestures" and "big romantic things" and "cheering his friend" were not that much about him caring and doing it for others. It was a show he put on. He needed the person to acknowledhe he was doing somethign for them, when that's in reality horrible. (even the womanizer Barney was actually a better person and friend, as when he did something for others, he did it for more selfless reasons, and because he cared, not for himself. Like flying to another city to ask Lily to return, or cheer up Robin and do things that make her happy regadless of him not gaining anything from it all) I was rooting for Ted becoming a character I like, but he became a character I disliked more after the end scene than I did before that. All his letting go and changing, and Tracy making him a better man ended for me with him going back to being the old "creep" he was until he met her. That's so very sad for a fictional story.
As for the mother dying. Sadly that was one of the most locigal endings to that story, and one of the most believable reasons why Ted, the character, would be telling the story. That, to me, made sense. I didn't wanna believe they'd go there, but that is the only part that makes sense from the end. And sure, I do not think the guy should have stayed a widow for the rest of his life, but the events 6 years after The Mother's passing, should have never happened (he should've found another "true love", because Ted would totally be the kind of guy who wuld debunk his wife's belief that "you'll only get one true love", and get a 2nd chance, not get back with Robin, the one person, who according to the story from S2 til S9 finale wedding day part, was not right for him at all.) Not this way. Not after how the story and character were written up until the wedding day.
So most of the fandom seems to be on the same page about considering the wedding day the end of the story. I'm with you. Up until then it kinda made sense.
In my opinion NONE of the main characters got a "happy" ending. None of the characters got an ending they "deserved". Not one of them made a progress. They all turned out to be never-changing, sad people. And at some point when watching the end I also though they were all kinda douches. All I can see the finale saying was- life screws us all. Real or fictional. Everyone "settles", no one grows/changes, and no one gets a "happy ending". When in real life some people have sad stories like these characters, and some have actual stories and character growth and happy endings with real/honest relationships. But for some reason fictional characters can't have good endings to their stories, because the only "good writing" material is when they have "a love story" like Romeo and Juliet, or the sad/non-working relationships that are for some reason sold as "true love stories". Maybe in US, and big cities like NYC/LA with super high divorce rates and all the movie/tv un-real world surrounding people, people don't even know about real, lasting relationships, but I am just glad that in this little nowhere where I live, all the couples I know are real, and live their boring or adventurous lives in a real way. None of the BS I see about relationships is luckily a part of the real peoples lives I know. Though via media and news I know that lots of real people live in "great love stories" like these fictional characters do.
I see things in black and white, and that's just who I am. And that is why I take this "line" seriously, when analysing it so "deep". I don't expect everyone to agree. But just like some people probably find my view on what's good, and right, and definition of love, and a good realtionship weird, I find other peoples belief that the ending portrayed a great love story and good relationship really weird. .
PS. If I were to write a really thorough "review", I'd add quotes from the show, and write a whole paragraph on each issue, but there have been already many posts by many people discussing all the things that were wrong with the finale compared to the rest of teh story that far. So I won't do it.
Well, if the last season is gonna be about “How I Met Your Father” and told from the mother’s POV, looking back at tall the years, I’m definitely on board. Otherwise I’m still unsure….
EDIT: NEWS UPDATE for all HIMYM fans - there is still no officially official news about a renewal!!!!
first even if you say she's not a possession, pu property on Robin is so wrong! Any human is property to anyone, and no Robin is not HIS for Barney or Ted, I don't care! And since when Barney’s heart has always belong to Robin since they met? sinc ethey met? Are you kidding me??? Hate when shippers are so blind to not see or invent some things! Buy yes Robin's heart belongs to barney since a moment now (first love : Ted, big love : Barney)
Thank you for your opinion.
You have your opinion, I have mine.
I actually do think that in a way Barney fell for Robin the moment he met her in that bar all those years ago. But if you wish to hear what I think is the defining moment - when he really knew, then in my opinion that's the moment when he rips the list of the 200 women at the end of season 4 and looks at Robin, who then smiles back at him.
You may not know this, but English is not my main language, so sometimes I find it hard to find a really good way to say what I mean. (and no, sometimes google and dictionaries don't help - they translate words, not ideas) You could have given me advice what word/words to use instead of "property". But instead you chose not to do that. So I cannot find your message helpful sadly.
Once more... with "property" I mean that her heart belongs to Barney. Barney has a hold on her heart, and that makes every other mans attempt to win it futile. So what if that word is not the correct one or politically correct to express the idea, I chose to use it. But in a way it can be said that "she belongs to him" as in " her heart belongs to him" (which doesn't mean that he owns her heart literally...having it in his apartment stuck in some glass jar. No. It's more figurative.
Also...since you actually did understand my point (Ted - her first love when thinking of those two, and Barney - her big and final love), I don't think I didn't get my message through using the words I did. Because it seems like I did.
I am not saying I'm right, but I though I was being funny and amusing. If I over-did it, my bad. But that's just what my sense of humour is like. I can do nothing about the fact that you don't get the humour. Not everyone finds the same things funny, and appreciates the same type of jokes.
But thank you for your message anyway. Your opinion is noted.
Now let's all go back and watch the show for the reasons we want to watch it.
btw, doesn't the URL (thetieisrobin) give you some clue as to what this blog is about? A Barney and Robin shipping blog. Of course you'll find shipper stuff in here! Why would you expect anything different from a blog that is clearly about one particular ship? Now that's what I don't understand.
Also.. even though it is not legal in most places, and is frowned upon in western culture, there are places on Earth, where one person is basically the property of another. And usually it's women (wife) being the property of men (husband). Yes, cultures still exist that view a woman as the humble servant of the man. Also..in many ways child labour and low-paid workers in third-world countries could be viewed as the possessions of their employers. It sometimes is very close to that. So the statement that no human being is a possession to another, is kind of incorrect. Even though it should be correct. Things like that should not happen. Should not exist in the world. But sadly they do.
That is all I wanted to say.
oh, one more thing - if you celebrate any holidays (Christmas, Hannukah...), I wish you'll have HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
The right answer is - none of the above. It's string quartet.
Or at least that's my guess.
That is so obviously a wedding connected question. And it's already been asked. By Ted. From Robin. Her reply was - string quartet.
Robin’s dream wedding - HIMYM 2x09 Slap Bet
Ted: What month did you get married?
Robin: June. We had a June wedding.
Ted: Aah… Canada in June. That’s the dream.
Ted: Sit-down or Buffet?
Robin: Um…
Ted: Wow… It’s weird that you don’t remember.
Robin: No. I just didn’t know how to answer, because we did butlered hors deouvres in the atrium, but the actual dinner was a Buffet in the Food Court, feauturing a filet mignon or roasted potato-crusted salmon with a lobster scallion ber blanc.
Ted: Hmm…
Ted: Band or DJ?
Robin: String quartet… played at the ceremony. But for the actual reception we had a 7-piece band. We paid extra for the sax, ‘cause I just love that smooth alto sound.
Ted: How many bridesmaids?
Robin: Seven.
Ted: Flowers?
Robin: Azaleas.
Ted: Colour scheme?
Robin: Dusty rose and Sienna.
Ted: Husband’s name?
Robin: Um…
Ted: You were never married.
Robin: Yes I was.
Ted: No you weren’t.
Robin: How do you know?
Ted: I looked it up at the library.
Robin: What library?
Ted: You are driving me crazy! No wonder your fake husband moved to Hong Kong!
I believe there was some symbolism in everything in Barney's apartment being Ted's. Things that had been Ted's had become Barney's. Robin was also in Barney's apartment during the episode. She, too, had been Ted's first. And only after that Barney's (and I do not mean like she was anyone's possession, I am just using this word to illustrate what I mean) But unlike all the other things, which Barney had borrowed from Ted, and never returned, Robin is not one of those "things". And Ted has/had to let her go, because she is not his. Whether we want to accept it or not, it's quite clear that just like Barney's heart has always belong to Robin since they met, Robin's heart has also belonged to Barney for the longest time now. Sounds like a romantic clichee, yes. But it's a TV comedy after all!
Also, nice touch on the continuity elements. Rose petals and candles... from 7x10 to 8x12
The Playbook by Barney Stinson has certainly evolved since it was last seen.
SPOILER ALERT! MY THEORY ABOUT 8x11 & 8x12
When The Playbook was introduced in 5x08, Barney described it this way - "It's kinda big. Surprisingly heavy. Kinda leathery. And it's black." And it was. But over time it has both grown in size, and also changed colour. Because in 8x10 it was bigger in size (cover size, and number of pages) and had brown leather covers.
Also, in 5x08 Marshall said that he has gone through the whole Playbook basically, and he had no idea of a play called "The Scuba diver , which turned out to be the very last play in the book at that time. But seems Barney has added some plays after that. Including the now FINAL PAGES and LAST PLAY'S ever - "The Robin" and "The I Hope She Says "YES"" Which are both part of his final, big challenge, and play to get Robin.
Most likely Barney (or/and the rest of the group) will convince Robin that Barney's gonna propose to Patrice. That will make Robin to take action. If she ever wants to be with Barney. Because if she doesn't she will lose him forever. So my theory is that Robin thinks Barney is actually serious with Patrice (even though Robin's initial suspicion that it's not real, is actually correct, and it's all part of the big plan) and thinks he's gonna propose to her. Which will make her realize she loves Barney, and wants him back. So she thinks she's going to go and stop him from proposing to someone else. Which means she has to be ready to admit why she doesn't want him to do that. (yes, this is over-used scenario in fiction, but...oh, well...) And that is how they get back together. She admit she loves him. He proposes to HER, not anyone else. And... somewhere down the road...is the wedding day.
Remember that time when Neil Patrick Harris, Cobie Smulders, and others posted pictures from Italy on their twitters? That was way back in April. Well, now we finally can see the pictures from the beautiful HIMYM: Barney & Robin (Neil & Cobie) in Italy photoshoot in the magazine. The new issue of the CBS Watch Magazine.
NPH-FAN community has the magazine scans (interview, and photos) on their page.
Sophia: Now that Quinn is gone, when will Barney and Robin finally get together? #HIMYM
Based on this photo (below) from the Nov. 5 episode, it looks like they are right on the cusp of couplehood, right? Not so fast. Barney will start a relationship soon after, and it's with someone we've met in the past. Not only that, it's someone who has pissed off Robin in the past. Cue the HIMYMfireworks!
