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On 12/2/2023 at 9:13 AM, iMonrey said:
Also, at the beginning they showed clips of some of Josh's earlier showstoppers like the dog and the triple decker burger and they truly were works of art. So I can see how the judges expected far more from his cake. It was neat as a pin, especially compared to the other two, but nothing really special in terms of decoration.
It wouldn't have improved the flavor, but I think Josh would have been better off omitting the piping on the sides of his cake if he didn't have time to do a good job. From what I could tell, the frosting was quite good, but those decorations were terrible.
On 12/3/2023 at 6:17 AM, blueray said:I think I finely figured out what annoys me about Dan. I don't dislike him (because I don't personally know him) but its he's fake "helpfulness". It comes across as him basically saying "I pity you and am willing to help you, aren't I amazing!" It doesn't seem natural, its force and almost if he is trying to overcome something. It's possible it's the editing, but in this episode there was kind of proof. He "offers" to help Josh carry his showstopper. Josh gives him an annoyed look and says that he'll manage. It was awkward and weird that Dan even suggested it.
I thought that was weird, since there had been no indication that Josh's showstopper might be difficult to carry. It seemed a little patronizing. Earlier on, when they showed him checking in on everyone while they were working on their eclairs, I was thinking that I'd be pretty annoyed if I had to deal with that every bake (if he did that every bake). Dan never really bothered me before this episode.
I knew Matty was going to win when he said he was making a lemon cake after his parents said how good the lemon cake he'd made for them was. It felt like foreshadowing.
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5 hours ago, peacheslatour said:
This is the one that has me baffled.
Are these real people? Who are they? Is this people's faces photoshopped on other people's bodies? There's something weird about this.
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On 11/12/2023 at 9:42 AM, chaifan said:
The technical... I'm of a different opinion than most, and I don't think this was a timing issue, as in not enough time. It really was mostly technique, not knowing how to make the steamed pudding. OK, maybe the time frame was tight, but that's a given.
I have to assume - and someone please chime in if you have actual knowledge of the production - that there are a number of test bakers who test out every technical challenge. Obviously, the time given the contestants is something that the test bakers have been able to achieve. And I have to assume it is a true "test" situation, where the test bakers are doing it for the first time, with the same limited directions, not that they can get it done in 90 minutes on the 3rd or 4th attempt.
I think the "fault" comes in that this particular group of bakers had no clue how to make this dish, and obviously didn't have a base knowledge of steamed puddings in general to make educated guesses where needed. Is this Paul's fault? No. But he didn't have to be such an ass about it.
This is how I feel about technicals in general. If I as a teacher wrote a test that everyone failed, then it's on me for either testing them without teaching them, or for writing a bad test.
But technicals aren't that kind of test. Technicals are more like pre-tests: what do you walk into the classroom/tent already knowing?
So if the show wants to see who can demonstrate skill X without practicing, or from memory, I don't think it means there's something "wrong" with a technical if it turns out they have a group of bakers who haven't mastered skill X and don't know how to course correct if something goes wrong. It has simply revealed this group of bakers don't have that skill.
A lot of times there are technicals where some people are all "wtf I would never make this from scratch" and others are like "oh I make this a few times a year."
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On 11/9/2023 at 8:02 AM, DrSpaceman73 said:
I'm sure it played some role but the question is to what degree? Prym seemed to act as a human shield for much of their illegal and illicit activity. It's not like they were making no effort to protect themselves.
Plus Roderick didn't really believe in the 'deal' Even existing until the very end so its not that he had the attitude he could just do anything with no consequences. It was one night 40 years ago and then they kind of forgot about it and were not even sure if they hallucinated or what really happened. They weren't be careless about everything because they felt invincible. Brazen yes but not careless.
They felt invincible and they *were* invincible. Whether they remembered the deal or not, they were benefitting from it. A lot of people think they'll never get caught but then do. If not for the deal, Roderick might still have a pile of bodies, but it likely wouldn't be as big.
The interesting thing to me about Pym fixing everything is that we don't know quite how the deal protects them. Maybe Pym would have been less effectual if not for the deal. Maybe they never would have met Pym if not for the deal.
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On 10/23/2023 at 11:24 AM, Chaos Theory said:
I meant to add I loved the conversation between Verna and Pym. If two uhhhh beings understand each other it was them. I liked how Pym was the one who said no to Verna’s offer and said he would play out his hand.
I agree. I also thought she was going to offer to turn him into another one of whatever she is.
I don't really know why Verna was so high and mighty about what bad people the elder Ushers are. She facilitated their being able to carry on with no consequences for decades. It's their doing in that they didn't need to take her deal and likewise didn't need to be despicable, but she also didn't need to make the offer in the first place. She knew what was going to happen if they accepted.
Actually, at one point, I thought it was going to turn out that they had made a deal with her to cause a certain number of deaths.
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On 11/3/2023 at 4:55 PM, dgpolo said:
Yes, but this isn't the first time that I've noticed a lot of the same color on the bakers. Never all of them, but enough that I notice. I suppose it could be coincidence, there were some days when I was working when I'd go into the breakroom and nearly everyone was wearing the same color.
I don't know if this is what they did in this episode (although I assumed they did when I was watching it), but I'm pretty sure that in the past, bakers have mentioned that they coordinated outfits.
On 11/3/2023 at 9:35 PM, MerBearHou said:Saku is wonderful — the cutest personality and humor. She was such a gamer when Noel wanted her to juggle the lemon.
Her saying "look at my face for the last time" cracked me up.
19 hours ago, AZChristian said:Some online folks are criticizing Tasha - saying she wasn't "ill" last week, she just didn't think she could finish her bake in time. Apparently, hearing issues and migraines go hand in hand.
And then they criticized her this week for using sign language for most of the last half of the show. I thought that when she finally did speak a sentence, it sounded as though her voice had been recorded and dubbed in. Maybe she had laryngitis, but had a better option (signing) than trying to make her throat worse.
She said she didn't have confidence pronouncing some of the elements in her recipe.
18 hours ago, Ancaster said:(I don't know why they don't have a voiceover when she just signs - someone's obviously telling everyone what she's saying.)
Her interpreter is translating simultaneously, so I was surprised they didn't just put a microphone on him. It's not like they try to downplay his presence.
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13 hours ago, TattleTeeny said:
The Liberty Mutual commercial with the woman who saved so much money that she opened a dog-walking business, thinking maybe that it would be just so easy. I suppose we’re supposed to think it’s zany and cute that she sucks at it. Maybe I’m just in a foul mood (no maybe about it, actually), but it’s just not funny. Those are people’s pets. People love their pets and would be horrified to learn that they trusted dumb, overconfident loser to care for them!
Is that the one where the dogs are going after a rabbit? I always wonder what the rabbit is doing there on the pier.
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3 hours ago, DearEvette said:
Bruce Greenwood is really fantastic in this. But he looks kinda like Sam Neill is the scenes with Carl Lumbly that it takes me a minute to remember it is him.
That's so funny because in the first courtroom scene in the first episode, I thought Mark Hamill was Sam Neill.
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On 10/12/2023 at 12:13 PM, Gharlane said:
Ha ha, no, it's not lavender. Our tour guide in Jamaica gave us some crushed leaves from a tree to smell and we all immediately recognized it. I forgot the name, but it wasn't lavender.
They do have lavender scented Old Spice, though. They have a ton of scents now, not just the old man one my dad has been using since I was a baby.
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6 hours ago, Madding crowd said:11 hours ago, Blergh said:
Even were I to give this spin the benefit of the doubt, I would STILL think Ross is an idiot for preferring to spend time with these fellow so-called 'friends' to his own son.
It’s not a spin to say Friends was about the six friends and not a family sitcom, it’s the entire premise of the show. We didn’t see every moment of these characters lives, Ross didn’t have primary custody of Ben and there was plenty of mention of Ross having to pick up Ben or leaving to get Ben or scenes of him with Ben. Rachel did have primary custody of Emma but the baby was rarely seen. Are we supposed to think she was a bad mother? I think she spent time with Emma but the show was focused on friendship not parenthood.
I don't think we know that Ross preferred to hang out with the other five. My assumption is that we're seeing Ross during Ben's mom's designated time with him, not that Ross is avoiding him when he's supposed to be seeing him. We also barely see Ross going to work, but that doesn't mean he doesn't go every day.
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From another thread:
On 10/9/2023 at 1:44 PM, Bastet said:They may abuse this policy, I don't know as I've never investigated, but in theory I have no objection to their stance on euthanasia as there are indeed existences that are worse than death:
I agree, and I would think that fewer animals would be euthanized if more people provided financial support to kill-shelters, because they'd have the resources to take care of more animals.
My dog would be dead right now if my husband (then boyfriend) had decided he didn't want to patronize a kill-shelter. The day he adopted him was the day before the dog was scheduled to be put down because he hadn't been adopted in the required time frame. It was literally his last chance. I have no idea why no one wanted him.
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On 8/16/2021 at 10:05 AM, AnimeMania said:
This particular nightmare has zombies, hit men, supernatural kittens, and a mysterious tattoo artist who likes to put curses on people.
I don't normally comment when I am two years late to the party, but I would be remiss not to say that this sounds exactly like something Stefon would say on SNL.
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Was Keith the one with the ugly tomato? I felt bad for him when Prue held up the other guy's tomato.
20 hours ago, peeayebee said:Were the bakers supposed to put the cut and stamped custard cream biscuits back in the fridge before putting them in the oven? I know they chilled the dough before rolling, but I don't think they chilled the cut ones before baking. Maybe some did. I'm not expert, but I think the cookies would have held their shape better.
I would have put them back in the fridge, but I wonder if the bakers didn't have time, or they didn't think it was necessary.
19 hours ago, Constant Viewer said:She should just guest star on all the pbs shows. I was thinking All Creatures Great and Small.
Abbi could just have her own show. She forages, she does aerial hoops in a barn, she's an adult with a bow in her hair. I'm sure she's actually a perfectly normal person, but from what they've shown of her, she seems like a "quirky" TV character.
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On 10/5/2023 at 9:22 AM, mmecorday said:
I love animals. I always have. But the ASPCA ads are too much. I don't need a T-shirt to show that I care for animals. You don't donate to a cause to show what a great person you are. You do it because it's the right thing to do.
I'm sure there are people out there who want to show off what good people there are, but I think the "free gifts" are more for people who won't donate unless they get something in return. Or for people who wouldn't just donate money but would be happy to buy a product.
4 hours ago, peacheslatour said:I'm the same. Maybe we should start a Go Fund Me to get rid of those forever. I, like you am haunted by images like that.
I kind of feel like this is the reaction they want, though. Maybe they think that if they showed success stories, then people would feel like enough is being done and they don't need to contribute. (They could do what the children's hospitals do, though, and show sickly kids and show them getting better. They could even get a spokesdog named Alec.)
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I'm pretty sure Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes have a podcast or something together, and that's why they're in the commercial together.
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On 10/4/2023 at 10:33 AM, Gharlane said:
Technically, that's not the product on the food in the commercials. I remember someone who photographed food for commercials says they use yellow mashed potatoes for butter.
I was talking about why they were showing the Country Crock vs whether people actually use it that way, not whether what was pictured was actually Country Crock.
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22 hours ago, jcbrown said:
My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas with Xtra toppings is the mnemonic I learned. Yes, I'm old.
What does the Xtra Toppings stand for? (We learned My Very Excellent Mother...)
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On 9/16/2023 at 12:46 PM, Blergh said:On 9/15/2023 at 8:06 PM, GHScorpiosRule said:
I think Jack Lord is so very hawt. He may not be classically handsome, but I love his combination of craggy and chiseled looks.
Whaaaat???
To each one's own re considering others' hotness but before one gets too enthralled, take a look at his bio which revealed that he saw his only child a single time in infancy before he split from his first wife and he wasn't the easiest performer to work with.
At least he was generous to charities and had it set up that his fortune would go to them after his widow's death.
When I was in high school and Sugar Ray was popular, this girl was talking about how hot Mark McGrath was. Someone else started talking about how she read he was a bad boyfriend. Then a third girl goes, "That doesn't mean he can't be hot." This reminds me of that. 😄
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On 9/29/2023 at 9:38 PM, PrincessPurrsALot said:
On all of this supposedly just made hot food, the big blobs of country crock are not melting. Also, she has pre-blobbed the corn and biscuits. Can't they choose the amount they want?
My mom butters pancakes right off the griddle. It bothers me because I'd rather apply my own butter. It makes me wonder if they pre-blobbed the corn and biscuits to show off the product or if this is something someone other than my mom does. (Pancakes are the only thing she does it on.)
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It's not like urine-ous is much better.
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On 9/30/2023 at 2:37 PM, HelloooKitty said:
Oh, something that could be fun to look for is to see if they are utilizing an assisted listening device for Tasha. ALDs would transmit sound directly to her implant for processing instead of it having to “pick it up”. It would come in very handy during time calls. They come in different forms but I’d look for one of the hosts to be wearing a neckloop with a long looking pendent in it or something that looks like a pen.
I was thinking during the showstopper judging, that she probably has a better idea of what's going on during that than most people do. I imagine that a lot of people, especially if they're toward the back of the tent, have to strain to hear what they're saying up there, and her interpreter is standing right next to the judges, hearing everything.
On 10/1/2023 at 6:39 PM, Salacious Kitty said:But anyone who thinks they can be on this show should have a buttercream recipe in their pocket. Hell, the kids on Kids Baking Championship know how to make it. What's Matty's excuse?
Especially since it's his own recipe. Can't their non-technical recipes be as detailed as they want them to be? If the buttercream is something that's difficult for him but he still wanted to do it, he could write himself notes. It's weird to me that he identified that the butter was too cold and then had the same problem with his second batch.
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On 9/4/2023 at 11:52 AM, Bastet said:
I only watched Friends sporadically in the early years (and then not at all later), and absolutely could not stand Ross, but the way Carol and Susan treated him was ridiculous. Like because the affair was with a woman, it wasn't supposed to be that bad.
I agree. They treated him like he was the interloper. Susan treated him like an uppity sperm donor, rather than the person whose wife she had been having an affair with.
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On 9/5/2023 at 4:20 PM, TattleTeeny said:
@peacheslatour, we usually agree about lots of random stuff, so I am surprised to reveal that I think it’s funny when the Liberty Mutual kid drives over the flowerbed! I really don’t know why — maybe the fact that he’s not even speeding recklessly, he just slowly and clumsily lumbers over it.
That's exactly what annoys me about it. Limu and Doug have plenty of time to stop the kid from driving over the flowers, and they just stand there.
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Also from the Deadline article:
Fellow judge Dame Prue Leith added: “The thing about Bake Off is that it absolutely represents inclusivity and diversity and tolerance and togetherness. So the idea that we were set out to insult anybody is ridiculous.”
I don't think anyone was saying they intended to be offensive. I think that what is ridiculous is the implication that you have to set out to offend someone in order to be offensive.
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S13.E12: The Great New Year's Bake Off
in The Great British Bake Off
Do former contestants make a lot of appearances together? Lottie, Chigs, and Anthony seemed so comfortable together that I had to check to see if they were on the same season. (I also thought Chigs and Lottie would make a cute couple.) I also felt a little bad that they weren't really interacting with Manon much, but that might just be because she was taking it more seriously and was probably more focused.
I've always thought that Lottie would make a good host. She'd make a good co-host for Noel (I like Alison, too, though.)