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And him also, with a couple of cinder blocks stuck in his pants. His behavior was reprehensible.

My first Trip to Germany I would have thought the national dish was the doner kabob. National dishes change over time. 😊

Me too, especially since one of the judges dinged her for not removing the beaks which could be a really unpleasant surprise to anyone biting down. By the way was she the chef who didn't de-vein the shrimp? That was beyond creepy, well into the icky range.

I have the same issue when judges (JJ is the worst) try to do accident reconstruction. She demonstrates as she pontificates while showing that she knows nothing of conservation of momentum and kinetic energy, let alone simple geometry.

Yep, but this asshole didn't put a little bit more weight on the roof, he put himself (probably about 160 pounds (he had a big but)) and 3 to four hundred pounds of snowmobile, plus he put a rapid moving load producing an an impulse load, not a static load. The kid was a complete asshole. The asshole Lawyer (was this complete asshole day?) was a jerk. If in fact the hair stylist knew that he was a trump supporter and decided to screw him over, that is bad. However there was no testimony that politics came up. The guy was such an egotistical and self admiring person (like many of the lawyers who are stupid enough to go on the show) that without any politics she may have decided to do something nasty to him which would still have bee wrong and entitled him to his $10 refund.

It is not like we haven't heard losing litigants saying they were going to take it to the Supreme Court. Sadly, we haven't heard any follow up on how well that went.

One of the greatest legal questions of the 21st century. We wait with bated breath for the Supreme Court to weigh in on this.

I agree, but I also wonder how much fancy prepared food gets dumped? I wouldn't eat something that was half eaten, but if it has only been tasted once by someone who used clean utensils, to me that is good "doggie bag" leftovers. It may be unrealistic to ding these shows but there is s lot of usable wasted food. There is something like "ugly fruit and veggies" who distribute stuff that is perfectly good but does not look pretty and usually get dumped; wish they were in my area. I grow vegetables occasionally and even the ugly ones were better than most grocery store stuff.

Further proof that these shows rot our brains.😊 just to clarify, I am responding to the whole post, doing it from my tablet is a bit squirrelly.

That was the one I did not remember😀

Since I am not collecting any shows any more, I hadn't noticed MeTV doing this, the shows I referenced above were all recorded from MeTV and recorded and edited digitally, so I guess this is just another formerly reliable provider sadly giving in to greed (and sloppiness).

You're right, most if not all of the prime time shows are heavy on commercials in addition to the blatant padding such as repeating the last 2 or 3 minutes of the show before a commercial break right after the break as if we can't remember what happened three minutes ago. Interesting enough, a few years ago I collected complete sets of two classic TV shows from the early sixties ("12 O'clock High" and "Combat!". I edited out the commercials (but left in any filler such as before and after bumpers around the commercial breaks as well as complete credits). It was striking that the 30 minute show had a consistent 25 minutes of show (+/- 20 seconds) and the one hour show consistently came in at 50 minutes (same +/-); also a full season was 30+ episodes. When I have bothered to time recent prime time shows they almost all run close to twenty minutes of commercials per hour episode (including network plugs for other shows), and this doesn't count the gimmick of shrinking down any credits to put in additional ads.

I can get used to Ramsey's unusual pronunciations (but Pas-Tah instead of the usual Pah-Sta still grates) but when he was getting ready to call Suu down for her dish, he really complimented her for"esculating" her dish (yep, I reran it three times, listening carefully). I have only heard this before on court shows from sub literate litigants trying to sound erudite. Then again, on one of the cooking shows with three judges/chefs (maybe it was MC?), throughout the show one chef always said "espresso" correctly, one always called it "expresso", and the third one flip-flopped back and forth. Yes, I am a bit OCD.

My favorite moment was when Joe told Anne that she should have left off some of the ingredients (after Gordon and Nancy Silverton praised her dish unreservedly), Silverton leaned over to Gordon and whispered "he should stick to wine making". Probably scripted but still amused me.

I agree, even though I have only watched it occasionally. Today's show (with 14 year old Janelle) is probably the end of my watching. While I am sure that some of these kids have serious neurological and/or psychological problems, most of the slew of violent and tantrum throwing teenagers that the show keeps finding come across as terribly spoiled brats who keep throwing tantrums because it gets them attention, drama and in the end, they get their way. Many of the kids on the show have the whole tantrum script down pat and launch into it whenever they feel the need for attention or drama. Also today, the serial daubing at invisible tears (yes I have HD and looked closely) by just about every female shown bugged me because I think most of that was just for dramatic effect, although some of them may have actually had tears that didn't show. Also, what ethical therapist PROMISES on TV that he will change the dysfunctional relationships by teaching them not to use certain words? Anyway, this show has stopped having any new and interesting participants.

My guess is a Cheetos and mountain dew addiction.

I just watched both and laughed out loud. However, it is sad that for many of the litigants we have seen, this is barely parody.

Today's pavers case was interesting. I was glad with the verdict, I couldn't stand the plaintiff. He is a pompous, entitled, narcissist who showed a complete lack of basic respect towards the defendant. Anybody who, regarding a modest landscaping job, repeatedly referred to "the totality of the experience" is a jerk. Even after the case was decided against him, he uses the hallterview to lecture the defendant about how he should behave, and that this was all about principle, and that he hoped the defendant has learned his lessons from the case. The person who didn't learn a damned thing from the case was the plaintiff. I would love to know what he does for a living.

They could use the venom to plump up their lips before putting them on their eye lids, killing two birds with one stone.

Oh my, today’s first case showed me one of the most grotesque women I have seen on TV (outside of late night low budget horror movies). My only comment about the defendant’s eye lashes is a reference to my rule that your eye lashes should not weigh more than your eyeballs. Add in to that, she was wearing a black bra under a semi-transparent blouse which was barely controlling her monstrous boobs. Don’t forget her snake creature length fingernails, her silicone swelled lips, and her use of “agreeance” where anyone less illiterate would say “agreement”. I somehow suspect that she is a “famous” Facebook influencer. I didn’t really listen to the actual case much because the defendant was too distracting. She finished up the hallterview with a statement that the plaintiffs didn't "know anyone from Adam's apple" - that hurt my brain.

Situations like this make me non-optimistic about our civilization.

What I noticed was the timing: JM showed him the filter and said it was dirty, defendant started out with "no it's not really very dirty", then we saw the back of it and it was caked with dirt, then defendant changed his defense to "that isn't our filter, he took a picture of someone else's filter" (quoted as best I remember). I believe that the plaintiff provided new filters every six months, and the defendant threw them in the trash because he was too lazy to change the filters, consistent with his overall slovenly approach to the property.

Same here, it is jarring to go from a new case (covid safe set up) to an old show (the normal set up) in one commercial break.

This I have to see!

That pissed me off too, the judges acted like this was "just one of those funny little things that just happen". That was reprehensible on the part of the judges, even to trading laughs with the smirking female defendant who immediately picked up on how to play the judges. Both defendants were blatant liars, and the male was a complete out and out, self centered jerk. I was happy that the plaintiff brought in all of the evidence he needed to get his full award, especially after the judges tried to undermine his claims until he presented irrefutable evidence of everything he claimed.