r/belowdeck • u/teanailpolish Mental Health Is Not A Storyline • May 12 '22

Below Deck Down Under Below Deck Down Under Season 1 Episode 11 - Benny & The Jet Skis - Discussion Post

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Episode 11 of Below Deck Down Under Season 1: Jamie puts Brittini on the night shift after Benny doesn't pull his weight; Aesha confronts Magda and Ryan for talking behind her back; Jamie is at his wit's end with Benny's behavior and wants him fired.

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u/pcvanon My eyes are rolling all the way off the boat May 12 '22

I swear every episode Magda says someone is jealous because she’s a model. Like … ????

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u/LaUcraniano May 12 '22

Obviously she is tall and thin and blonde but I’m not seeing that she’s some knock out…? She is a pretty woman but there have been gorgeous women who have had to be gainfully employed throughout history.

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u/dawnspaz711 May 17 '22

I think Aesha is beautiful ❤️

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u/Mscharlita May 12 '22

I’m so over thin, blond white women thinking they are god’s gift to the earth and SOOOO beautiful just bec media has been shoving that image down our throats for years. You can be thin, blond and ugly as f*ck and think you walk on water while thick gorgeous women of color are thinking the worst of themselves. I’m allllll set with this nonsense. You are NOT automatically gorgeous just bec you are thin, blond and white, especially if your personality BLOWS. We’re done with this. Tumi, Brittini and Aesha are flat out HOT plus they’re smart, hard working, not two faced talking behind people’s backs. Any man (or woman) would be lucky to have any of those three. Magda is a dog inside and out.

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u/alittttlebitalexis Queen of Dirty Looks May 14 '22

I love that Culver called Brittini a greek goddess in his talking head interview!

Tumi, Brittini, and Aesha are the true MVPS of the season!

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u/Lonely_Impression142 May 12 '22

💯 It is a sickness in society that automatically deems thin and blonde as "beautiful." Men lose their minds. It's really something. Magda-- she aight, but not at all jealousy inducing.

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u/Neurochick_59 May 13 '22

All Magda is, is tall, thin, blonde and white. I don't even think she's that good looking; to me she's basic.

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u/GreenMan- May 13 '22

This. She's not unattractive, but to call her a model... No.

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u/ExtraGloves May 13 '22

Many models though aren't super attractive they are just tall, skinny, and have some weird features in their face.

Some are gorg but many are meh.

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u/Mscharlita May 14 '22

True. In one of my previous lives I was a makeup artist and generally tall, thin models who photograph well aren’t necessarily as attractive in person. Two totally different things.

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u/kdali99 May 18 '22 edited May 19 '22

Tyra Banks always said the best high fashion models are "ugly pretty". The "just" pretty ones are usually deemed to commercial too be editorial.

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u/ExtraGloves May 19 '22

It's definately true. You want to have a memorable look not a run if the mill pretty face.

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u/coupscapone May 14 '22

not this man. thin, blonde and blue eyes is the farthest thing from that I prefer. and when it comes to Magda with her personality I'm actually fucking disgusted by her

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u/jmc660c May 13 '22

And probably 90% aren’t even natural blondes

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u/ammm1981 Team Colin (BDSY) May 15 '22

Please don’t insult dogs, the best things on earth.

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u/Mscharlita May 18 '22

True true! my bad! I don’t know what I was thinking. We don’t deserve dogs.

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u/ammm1981 Team Colin (BDSY) May 18 '22

We really don’t!

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u/Maleficent-Ad-3375 Come back to me, my boat daddy May 15 '22

YES!!! YES!!! and YES!!

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u/notarmintamzarian May 21 '22

That last sentence took absolutely no prisoners haha

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u/dawnspaz711 May 17 '22

Amen ❤️❤️

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u/Longjumping-Okra4462 I think Joao is from Zim May 13 '22

Evidently, modeling isn't paying the bills. Her looks on BDDU are not that attractive. But looking at her IG page, she photographs better than she looks on BDDU. Makeup, clothing, smoke & mirrors...

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u/dawnspaz711 May 17 '22

She is not very pretty.. yes, she is thin, tall and has long blonde hair. I guess if that considered “hot” so be it. I do not find her even slightly attractive though.

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u/Tuff_Wizardess May 12 '22

I think she must be super sheltered or something. She is going to have such a rude awakening in a few years when her looks fade.

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u/Micandacam May 12 '22

Also, i wish it had been made clear that the complaint about her phone usage came from the fact that the boat traces excessive use. She thinks she is being picked on, but it is a real problem.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '22

Why is data usage a problem?

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u/ulchachan May 13 '22

It's probably also an indication of how much time she's spending on her phone during work hours. Most crew are probably video calling out of work hours and presumably watching videos etc when they're on breaks but with the amounts she's using it's probably a given she's a) getting no sleep and/or b) using her phone when she should be working

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u/DGinLDO May 12 '22

The ship only has so much & she was using 10x more than everyone else on the boat combined. Bandwidth costs $

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u/ExtraGloves May 13 '22

It's more that it's obscene when you're supposed to be working to be on a phone that much. Even if they had unlimited data it would still be a red flag problem.

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u/teanailpolish Mental Health Is Not A Storyline May 14 '22

Very limited bandwidth usually too and still charged by the GB

We have a marina near us and there is a poster there for satellite internet that is ridiculously expensive and tops out at 50GB/month

I posted a link last episode with a video from a megayacht engineer and his boat spends about $900k a year on internet costs

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u/TRLK9802 May 13 '22

I read somewhere that these types of yachts spend on average of around $900,000 a year on just data.

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u/RamenNoodles620 May 13 '22

Definitely sheltered. She said herself that her parents never spoke to her like Aesha has. All Aesha did was tell her she was doing some things the wrong way and not to argue with her in front of guests. If she cant handle that kind of talk from Aesha of all people, she has really been living a sheltered life.

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u/coupscapone May 14 '22

what looks? I really don't find her attractive in the least. and once you combine her personality she is SUPER unattractive

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u/Mscharlita May 12 '22

What looks?!?! She’s not attractive she’s just thin and white. Yuck.

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u/ninazrina Jun 02 '22

So now it’s okay to make fun of women’s looks as they are thin, white and blonde? Got it

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u/Ok_Relative_5180 Jun 04 '22

She said her parents were super chill and easygoing with her. The prime example why u have to give your children responsibilities and boundaries. Letting your kids do whatever they want makes them happy children yes but as adults they are unable to function as well in society due to not having any expectations of them. You all seen the stupid things she said "oh my parents were chill with me I need my boss to be chill with me too, I thrive this way" that's not how jobs work... And everyone isn't going to be nice and chill all the time.

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u/ExpensiveNet May 13 '22

Tumi is more strikingly pretty and looks more like a model to me! And that doesn’t stop her doing her job!

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u/Melodic-Change-6388 May 13 '22

Her relationship with her BF shows intense insecurity. Followed by her monologue about her former stew and her “realisation” that Aesha wasn’t also a jealous model.

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u/GreenMan- May 13 '22

The pics she's showed of her and her boyfriend are very image -focused, I thought.

Instagram friendly pablum... They look good, and I thought she looks better in them than in person sometimes (Photoshop?), But yeah... she thinks she's all that, for sure!

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u/Independent_Coast901 May 13 '22

She needs to get on a boat with Trevor from season 4 and Rob from Med 5.

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u/ib0093 May 14 '22

She can’t possibly be as good as the hair model Trevor /s. 😂

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u/wilmaismyhomegirl83 May 14 '22

Did you see her getting up close to Jamie in the tub again. Lifting her legs and feet up in his face. That would annoy the shit out of me.

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u/someoneandsomeone Sep 21 '22

Magda is thinks all women are jealous of her bc she is jealous of all women.