Could this Downton Abbey actress have been several months postpartum when this was filmed?

Oh yeah, all the time. At some point I get stuck in this amazeballs loop where I get all meta about it and start thinking about how words are really just squiggles that represent sounds, but then the sounds themselves are just movements of our mouths and lungs to represent information and how freaking weird is it that we just vibrate air and I know what you mean and you know what I mean when the air vibrates this way, but vibrate the air *that *way and suddenly it’s nonsense and how the hell does anybody really know what anyone else means and maybe words are just all nonsense and we can only pretend to know what each other means, because there’s nothing inherently Februaryish about February and what were we talking about again?

February

Februuuuuary

Febr’rary

Febrooorary

Feb…

…who’s got the Funyons, man?

February Funyons…

Feb

ru

rare

eeey…

Minnesota. New England? Yeah, I figured you were from some benighted place where they don’t speak English. :wink:

I had to stop describing 2:45 as “quarter of three” because my wife (SW Side of Chicago) thinks that means 3:15. Barbarians, the lot of you!

That is NOT a protruding belly!!! Did you not see my earlier post about “breathing”?

What? “Quarter of three” very clearly means a quarter hour BEFORE three. 3:15 is “quarter AFTER three”.

And don’t forget, you might be living under the British boot if not for New England (and Massachusetts in particular) :smiley:

Protruding belly here too:

http://i.imgur.com/fbf7hUE.png

Nope. Again, perfectly normal belly for a perfectly normal woman.

I think that as long as “Claire” can squeeze any kind of response whatsoever from the members of this board, “she” will continue to post her “questions”.

As they say on Daily Kos, who wants pie?

Nobody likes a wet blanket, Ulfreida. :wink:

Anyway, I’m nearly out of my meds and have been dropped by the program that provided me with a shrink. I need Claire to remind me of what will happen to me if I don’t wangle a refill chop-chop.

So is that OTHER woman in that picture also pregnant? She has more of a protruding belly!

Didn’t you know? All women are pregnant. And some of the men, but that’s another thread…

And they all have sex with this actress, apparently.

Is there such a thing as hysterical pregnancy where instead of you it’s someone else you think is pregnant?

She just seems to have that belly in all recent pictures now. She’s always had a bit of a lower belly bump but it just seems like it’s bigger than in the past and it’s visible in everything she wears, as opposed to several years ago when it would only be visible in certain things.

I don’t even think those are bellies as much as they are the outline of the apron and the A-line skirts.

Maybe she does intermittent sit ups.
Or maybe you should check yourself in to the nearest mental hospital. One of those.

For exactly how long do you think she’s been pregnant?

It’s a time-release pregnancy. She won’t have the baby for another 5 years 3 months.

So she’s gained a few pounds over the last few years. So what? Happens to the best of us sometimes. :confused:

Baroness Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome?

Baroness Munchausen by Preggy Syndrome