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6 hours ago, AZChristian said:
I think what you're referring to is "vocal fry." Lots of young women have developed it as a way of copying people like the Kardashians.
Can someone explain why anyone of sound mind would want to emulate a Kardashian? Oh, never mind, asked and answered.
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On 9/23/2020 at 8:25 AM, sempervivum said:
The absolutely worst valley girl/vocal fry voice on tv currently is the Farmer's Dog (dog food) ad with some droopy, depressed-acting woman who claims her dog 'didn't like food' or some such foolishness. She says the dog would 'wait til night and then decided not to starve' or words to that effect.
I'm guessing you're lucky enough to have never heard the Kardashians.
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Why do Humira commercials pronounce their product "Hyou-merra or "Who-merra" 'or "YouMerra? Nothing makes sense any more.
Too much time on my hands these days.
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On 9/15/2020 at 11:53 AM, peacheslatour said:
I hate it too. I used to watch to baking competitions but had to quit and just stick with The Great British Bake Off because of the horrible so called "cakes" constructed primarily of Rice Crispies treats and fondant. Not only are they rotten examples of baking, they're an indefensible waste of food.
I've never understood this, and like you have stopped watching "baking competitions". How is massaging rice crispies and sugar water "baking"?
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On 9/16/2020 at 3:36 PM, Angeltoes said:
My mother was a dietitian for 25 years. My cousin asked her for a good diet plan. She said,"Fill your dinner plate with as much food as you want. Then, just before you get ready to eat, put half of it back." He said that advice always stuck with him and actually worked for him.
Using a small plate/bowl is also very helpful.
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2 hours ago, SyracuseMug said:
On a similar note, either yesterday or Monday, one of the contestants answered “Dead Sea Scrolls” while appearing to use “Dead” as an adjective. This immediately shifted the meaning to sea scrolls which were dead, rather than scrolls which were named for the Dead Sea. It’s a subtle difference in pronunciation, but it wouldn’t have bothered me if he’d been ruled incorrect (or at least had his error pointed out).
I thought I was pedantic.
34 minutes ago, peeayebee said:Well now, Merv and Marv are clearly different. Er and Ah. But I say Berry and Barry the same. It took me a while reading posts here to finally come up with a way to say them differently. It's interesting that even if Person 1 says, "They're different. Listen: Berry. Barry," Person 2 might respond, "They sound the same to me."
I have a friend (from Kentucky, if that's at all relevant) who pronounces Mary, marry, and merry the same way.
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McCormick: "With McCormick by your side for over 130 years . . . ." How old does that make me?
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On 8/19/2020 at 11:01 AM, chessiegal said:
It's for Peyronie's Disease. I'd never heard of it before the ads, and now that I know, the men who suffer from it have my sympathy.
It's their wives/partners/girlfriends I have sympathy for.
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8 hours ago, Legalbeagle421 said:
It’s actually a funny story of how her mom came up with the name. She’s from humble beginnings in Kentucky and I believe a man named Chris helped her mom at a Shell station while she was in labor. Nevertheless, she lost both of her parents to cancer within the last year and her husband dumped her in a pretty humiliating way, so we should give her a little bit of grace here for putting herself out there. However, if she keeps dancing the way she did last night, all my votes are going toward Vernon, AJ, and Jesse lol, even though I’ve been a fan of hers since she was on soap operas. She seems like a genuinely nice person.
3 hours ago, blackwing said:I like Tyra, and I don't mind her here. She's in a tough spot. It's natural that people who like Tom are going to hate her and compare everything she does to Tom, but to me that's kind of like the dad trying to take care of the kids when the mom is out of town. Kids are invariably going to say "but that's not how Mom does it" and there's little chance that Dad is going to be able to convince the kids that his way is just as good.
My experience (as child and parent) is that children love it when mum is out of town. Wear what you want, no bedtime rules, ice-cream for breakfast, takeout all the time, disposable dishes and cutlery (which on the rare occasions mum allows it she makes you wash and reuse), and what's laundry?
1 hour ago, iMonrey said:So, Tyra Banks. Why, exactly? Is there some sort of crossover audience between ballroom dancing and . . . whatever Tyra is? What an odd choice for host, it's like they pulled some random celeb's name out of a hat. Also, has she always looked like a drag queen?
In my book, yes she has.
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On 9/11/2020 at 3:11 AM, Llywela said:
Diana Rigg's final TV performance was in the new adaptation of All Creatures Great and Small, which is currently airing in the UK - she made her first appearance as Mrs Pumphrey just this week. 😞
J just watched a preview. It felt so wrong, not because of the actors, but the music 😞
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What kind of stupid name is Chrishell? Especially "paired" with that giant pair of fake knockers.
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1 hour ago, MerBearHou said:
If I could give Tyra a grade, it would be C-. Just not a fit. The huge hair and outfits were too look-at-me
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Her hair looked like my Barbie's nylon "do" after I spent too much time with the crappy hairbrush (in the early '70s).
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13 hours ago, SuprSuprElevated said:
We actually did save ours, froze it (properly), and it was delicious!
Back in the day when wedding cakes were traditional fruit cakes, the custom was to keep the top layer for the first christening. So only 9 months old at best! No freezing necessary with a proper fruit cake.
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22 hours ago, isalicat said:
What a great thread! I love reading about everyone's wedding experiences! After a dear friend wound up living on Valium for several months due to her completely over the top traditional wedding (engineered by her socially ambitious parents) I knew I wasn't going that route.
My engagement party having been derailed due to an unnecessary quarrel between my parents and my fiance's parents over the guest list, my fiance and I decided to take over the wedding entirely with the idea that we would have a very, very inexpensive ceremony and celebration and the funds saved by my parents and his could go towards our three month honeymoon tour of Europe (not like a Grand Tour - more like the $5 dollar a day version albeit with nice Eurail passes on the continent). This trip was combined with my spending a month in London at the British Library doing research for my master's so the blatant fundraising was a tad less tacky for being "educationally" justified.
So the pet peeve part here is that we did have a lovely wedding cake - two tiers and yes, being hippies, it was a carrot cake with real cream cheese frosting (still my favorite cake - and no nasty pineapple bits, thank you very much). The restaurant where we had our family wedding dinner (there was a wild party with all our friends, which we joined later) carefully packaged up the top layer of the cake for us (we were under the impression you save this for your first wedding anniversary celebration) and my aunt, previously not a candidate for such a major crime, made off with it at the end of the evening and I never saw it again. Do not covet thy neighbor's wedding carrot cake people! This same aunt neglected to contribute to the only thing we wanted (money for the trip - yes, we were real clear when people asked since we were not registered anywhere (do people still do that?) and gave us a silver plated platter of complete uselessness.
Just to be clear, you didn't have the wedding your parents thought they were paying for, and you "kept the change" for a three month vacation? Your aunt's "crime" seems pretty insignificant by comparison.
12 hours ago, icemiser69 said:That sounds painful. When I was a child I used to get spanked/slapped a lot. I can only imagine what tongs would be used for. I hope no yanking or pinching is involved.
They're very handy for things that have rolled out of reach or have been shoved to the back of a too deep cupboard or appliance (see your next post!). Only the yanking and pinching of non-sentient articles!
7 hours ago, icemiser69 said:The other cat has a woven cloth pretzel that he carries around his mouth. It would be nice if he wouldn't leave it on the kitchen floor. I accidentally keep kicking it under the refrigerator. I have to go get a yardstick to sweep it out from under the refrigerator.
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6 hours ago, emma675 said:
I'm Welsh and Native American, I can't even imagine the diet those would entail.
Welsh rarebit using fry bread and and a nice Welsh cheese!
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17 hours ago, Happyfatchick said:
Recently, I had a conversation with my DIL in my living room about an old childhood friend of my son’s. Where is he? What’s he doing? I can’t remember his last name...
the NEXT TIME I logged into FB, that kid (of course he’s an adult now, still a kid to ME) was the FIRST person listed as someone I might want to add as a friend. I don’t have Alexa or anything Bluetooth for the devices in my house other than earbuds. I think this is CRAZY!!!
last week, my youngest grandchild was here. I took a scrap piece of plywood and some nails and was showing him how to hold the hammer and bang nails into wood. I also own a small drill (to fit my small hand) and I let him put some screws in and back them out. Grand thought this was MOST EXCELLENT FUN!!
And of course, like you DO, when she came to collect him, I said “tell mommy what you did today”. And he, in his little toddler voice told her about HAMMERING, and using the DRILL. When she left, I was thinking I might google toddler tools, as his bday is coming up. I will be damned if I didn’t pull up FB and have ads for toddler toolboxes.
Neither time this has happened have I used the phone or any device to get information. In fact, the tools was only a THOUGHT, not even a conversation other than the grand describing what he’s done that day. I really, truly feel Invaded. There’s a Netflix doc on tech devices and what’s going on with them. I keep seeing it and want to watch - while not being at all sure I want to know. I told Mr FC I’m thinking about going back to a flip phone. Somewhere in this house is a purple one...
If you have Netflix, you might want to watch "The Social Dilemma." Then again, you might not.
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On 8/30/2020 at 6:07 AM, doodlebug said:
HFC, as far as I am concerned, you can tell your friend that you just don't have the time or space for her to stay at your place anymore and offer her the name of a nearby Super 8 for her sleazy affair. I would probably tell her flat out to stop pretending she was coming to visit me or help me or anything else; we all know her visits are not about you at all and it is your right to tell her you don't want to be used in this way,
I had a friend who attending a professional meeting with a work colleague and shared a room. Turns out her work friend had been having an affair with another coworker who was also attending the conference and she spent the weekend in his room with him after asking my friend to cover for her if her husband or kids called. My friend, a married woman who took her vows seriously, was appalled that this woman could use her like that. Had she known the setup before they went, she would've never agreed to be involved and she was glad she never had to lie to the husband or kids since she didn't think she would've been able to do it. Their friendship also cooled.
This is bringing back bad memories of the time my husband's supposedly super observant (married) religious friend asked us if we would put him and his even more ostensibly observant girlfriend up for the night in our spare bedroom. Our daughters were young, but old enough to wonder and ask questions. This was a couple of decades ago, but I'm still embarrassed about the hypocrisy.
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11 hours ago, MargeGunderson said:
Also useful for getting cat toys out from under furniture in the middle of the night. During the day too, I assume, but my cats prefer nocturnal battles and know that if they cry loud enough I will fish out their toy. So they can do it again. They are clearly winning the war against me.
I find kitchen tongs are also multi-disciplinary utensils.
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14 minutes ago, Browncoat said:
Peeve of the day -- that itchy place right in the middle of my back that no matter how hard I try, I just can't quite reach.
You need a back scratcher my friend. (Inanimate ones are more reliable than semi-comatose housemates.)
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I live in state that is 100% vote by mail. Can someone explain why I (as a tax payer) am paying for the USPS to send out an oversized postcard telling us how to go about signing up to vote by mail?
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19 hours ago, BookWoman56 said:
She bought my wedding dress and paid for the bridesmaid dresses for my sister and my cousin; the MOH and another bridesmaid paid for their own dresses,
Much of my annoyance when watching the wedding-related AITA videos was how often the couple wanted something low key but the parents insisted on a big blow-out, and how often the couple and their family members turned into complete jerks because they've been brainwashed by the wedding industry and others that things must be a certain way or else the wedding doesn't count. Literally, telling a bridesmaid she has to dye her hair so that the bride is the only person in the wedding party who has blonde hair, etc., or that while everyone else can bring a plus one, cousin Joe can't bring his same-sex partner because not everyone knows he's gay and we can't have any distractions from the couple, in case the homophobic members of the extended family choose that moment to throw a hissy fit over cousin Joe's sexual orientation. That's in addition to the ones in which the couple/parents insist that wedding guests "must" give gifts equal or greater in value to the cost per person of the event. In roughly 95% of those videos, I'd have told the parents and/or the couple that I would not be attending if I had to jump through their insane hoops. Watching those videos and reading the comments about them have convinced me that far from being a nice event with family and friends to celebrate a couple getting married, entirely too many weddings bring out the absolute worst BSC and entitled behavior that one can imagine.
What are MOH, AITA and BSC?
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Pet peeve, stores putting out holiday merchandise earlier and earlier every year. Starbucks has had their pumpkin spice crap for weeks (somehow I know this and I don't even drink their over-roasted nastiness), Costco started selling nativity scenes at the beginning of August, maybe sooner (at that point I hadn't been inside a store since March).
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On 9/2/2020 at 5:59 PM, theredhead77 said:
Our ReStore says it has to be on the ground floor. There is always a chance I can get the delivery people to move the furniture for cash but that's a risk I can't afford to take.
I just googled "student junk collectors" and got a lot of hits. The couple I looked at both addressed coronavirus and stuff not on the ground floor, also, taking just one item.
13 hours ago, ginger90 said:Guessing, Long-term care facility.
Thanks.
9 hours ago, TattleTeeny said:Oh my god, I am listening to a podcast and am definitely very interested in the topics, which the guests (2 sisters with a vegan clothing store) appear to know a lot about. And they seem like nice people.. But their voices/affectations are killing me. Helium* crossed with a bit vocal fry. And "Thaaht" for "that," "hondraaad persaaahnt" for "hundred percent," "draahss" for "dress."
*Which, to be fair, may not be anything they can help.
I think it's pretty rare that people can't alter their voices if they put the effort in. Margaret Thatcher is known for altering hers, though personally I find the change was for the worse, and the sound of her voice (in a recording) makes me nauseous.
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On 9/2/2020 at 12:00 PM, SuprSuprElevated said:
Pet peeve for today (I'll hold it to one) -
When the store has a twofer sale, but doesn't have enough inventory for you to purchase in twos. Today it was Walgreen's/Fuji water, 1.5 liter, 2/$5. Now I normally wouldn't splurge on Fiji water, but I was feeling particularly entitled (my mother having yet more issues at the LCF), so I was going to pull the trigger on a pair of Fiji waters. They had one. One bottle on the shelf. Even checked the cold drink cooler - nada.
LCF? Some sort of government agency?
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S11.E01: Cake Week
in The Great British Bake Off
· Edited by Brookside
Too many commas.
As Shaw is incorrectly quoted as saying, "Two nations separated by a common language," or in this case a common sense of humour. It took me probably a decade of living in the USA before I found Seinfeld remotely funny.