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I do a daily jigsaw on my phone. It has a sliding scale thingy to change the number of pieces you want. Every day I am inordinately annoyed when it asks whether I want less pieces or more.

I'm watching a repeat and I'm horrified by the lack of social distancing and lack of mask-wearing. For the beginning line-up, the four cooks are standing in the normal, 1-foot apart row and, even worse, are maskless, They mask up to approach the shoppers, but then they all crowd around the poor shoppers. Even behind their masks, you can tell how alarmed some of the shoppers are. When Alex goes up to see what they're cooking, she stands 3 feet away, no masks. At judgement time, the guest judges stand about three feet apart, maskless. Alex does her usual lean against the Judges' table thing, so ends up about three feet from Eddie. Both maskless. This is incredibly irresponsible and makes me angry. (Comcast says it's the show from 1/27/21, but since Comcast has got their listings so wrong, so often recently, I take this with a pinch of salt.) There's plenty of vegan bread available, and Oprah's personal chef could also make it easily.

What I don't understand is that if Preacher was going to get rid of the body, why can't Paige and JChristophr just stay? Hope was awful throughout, and I can't stand Muriel at the best of times, but her flirting was nauseating.

I couldn't believe how ridiculous both Jack and Charmaine were in their first couple of scenes. How clueless of Charmaine not to realise that she needed to just shut up with her questions and judgements about Mel. And for Jack to be so petulant and rude when he first bumped into Mel. Do they both have such a lack of self-awareness that they haven't given a thought about what Mel must have been dealing with on learning about the pregnancy? Selfish jerks.

I don't even understand what she is trying to say. I hate the Paragard ad - everyone is way too perky and I can't stand the bouncy dancing. Then again, I can't bear musicals, so that probably doesn't help.

In police procedurals where the good guys are racing to catch the bad guys, there is always a parking space exactly where they need it, despite being in New York, Chicago, or some other overcrowded city.

Grape Nuts. Growing up we only had Cornflakes and Weetabix and, later, Raisin Bran.

Why are the characters so stupid? Sophie is trying to make music busking, but doesn't silence her cell phone. Rather than go somewhere private to rehash his new relationship with Maggie, he sits on the stairs within earshot of everyone else in the house, including said new girlfriend.

"Whelp." This needs to go away.

I don't know what you mean by preposition. None of the above makes sense. I think your mission is to beat out the abuse of the word "like", not "to be".

A weather guy (person) is bland and easy to ignore. Ken Jennings is beyond insufferable and so the channel has to be changed.

I just watched an episode from Season 11 - they had fish heads, durian, and I've already forgotten what else! A woman called Alejandra won, and I was so happy because she beat one of the most arrogant guys I've seen on this show, and that's saying something. His name was Robbie, a heavyset African American. His attitude was breath-takingly ugly; at one point he made an incredibly rude comment directly to another competitor. When asked if he had anything to say at the end, he just walked off. As usual, I wonder what their families think (I can't imagine they have any friends).

Thanks! I remember now. (Too much time between episodes and a brain addled by old age and living in The Age of COVID!)

You can still get Fingers in the US. Online or in-store. Just Google it to find a supplier!

Did we know Loretta has PTSD and is seeing a counselor?

I've looked this up and tried to understand it before, but no, it's beyond my tiny mind. My Mensa level sister tells me it's true, so I'll take her word for it and continue to balance our relationship by nourishing her with good food

Thanks for the explanations. I guess the fact that I was distracted by them and the skaters were not explains why I'm not a world-class competitor 🙂

Can someone explain why they have cardboard cutout audience members? The skaters practice for hours without an audience so I would have thought that a fake audience would be more distracting than not. It's certainly distracting to me as a casual viewer.

I used to have a cassette of Herriot's Dog Stories. I would listen to it in the car and would periodically have to pull over so I could cry without endangering anyone! I'm enjoying this but, personally, I think I would have preferred to rewatch the original.

Natalie, let me count the ways: sanctimonious, petulant, martyred, reproachless. (Why does Primetimer think reproachless isn't a word?)

Every episode April brings a whole new world of meaning to "holier than thou". What the hell is with the random on and off or not at all mask wearing of the extras?

Absolutely. I've posted before about the idiocy of wearing above-the-knee dresses or skirts to sit-down interviews.

"Horshradish."

Zacharian made something with fried onions on top. Sunny: "Did you fry those yourself or are they from a can?" Seriously? Dear g-d, how much salt did Jeff Mauro just thrown into his dish? Does JZ wear gloves when he's on his tanning bed? His head and neck are weirdly red/orange-coloured but his hands are white like the snow. Jeff, please learn the the correct pronunciation of au jus. It's not difficult. Thank you Alex for pronouncing horse radish correctly. Thank you Pandemic for making me notice and post about stupid stuff from a show like The Kitchen.

Mrs Pumphrey 🙂 I liked this, but it made me cry because I grew up just south of where it's filmed and now I'm 5000 miles away.