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  1. Raj seems to be far more interested in being a player, than being in a long term relationship.  Over the years, he would whine when he was alone, then he gets a girlfriend, and now he wants to be a player, adding another one into the mix.   He is pathetic.

     

    Raj has always been such a douchebag with women. I'd rather see Stuart in a long-term relationship than Raj, because Stuart would actually respect and appreciate a girlfriend. Raj would just eventually be a selfish sexist dick to her.

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  2. On a realistic note, I think this episode was useful in remembering IF YOU FEEL WEIRD GETTING IN OR OFF AN ELEVATOR WITH SOMEBODY - DON'T!   

    Seriously, I've been cringing about how she handled that guy from the beginning. Not respecting her personal space, following her into restricted areas, not listening to her when she told him to leave..and she just thinks he's a harmless accident-prone guy. In that elevator, i would probably fake needing to get off after him and if he didn't leave on "his" floor, ask the other people in the elevator to escort me to a security station. Instead she went for the "isolate myself" option.

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  3. Having once owned a 25+yo vehicle, I don't doubt that the plaintiff's 24yo car could be worth much more than the $600 he paid for it. New or rebuilt engine, new suspension, body work, paint, etc - it could be he has lots of money in it. The problem would be proving what it's worth (especially if a lot of the work is not professional).

     

    Yeah, JJ seemed really hung up on what he paid and the fact that it was so much less that KBB. It was fairly clear that he bought it in shitty shape and then put a lot of money and sweat equity into getting it up to snuff, so that its value did go from $600 to a couple thousand. It's not fair to penalize him for that.

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  4. Miaze is the right name right? Yeah, at some point, she's gonna betray Lucifer. 

     

    "Mazikeen", actually, although apparently they decided to give her a cutesy nickname. Along with butchering everything else about her character. Like they couldn't even give her the mask? The idea of Mazikeen "sassing" Lucifer? Ugh. 

     

    But I'm still kinda charmed by Lucifer, on his own merits and disregarding the comic version.

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  5. Truth! My best friend once said, "One good thing about getting older is it doesn't matter if you look like a dork." However, neither one of us would dye purple streaks into our hair. There's a difference between being a dork and being a weirdo.

     

    As soon as I no longer have to worry about maintaining a "professional appearance", I'm going to have brightly colored hair 'til the end of my days. It's such a fun, harmless way to express yourself. I think more parents should let their kids color their hair crazy because hair grows out and dye washes out and other forms of rebellion aren't always as reversible. :) [My pre-teen nephews sported green fauxhawks during soccer season, and I'm sure my brother suggested it!]

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  6. I have now watched the pilot three times entirely because of this dudes charm factor, I don't know how or if he can maintain it, but yeah I'm loving it

     

    Maybe it's a Welsh thing. Like Peter Wingfield as Highlander's Methos or Gareth David-Lloyd's Ianto Jones. :)

  7. As for the "Beefeater" event -- I got that beef should be served, but didn't get the rip-it-off-the-bone-with-your-teeth aspect of it until the judges started complaining.    If Phillip had enough money to get those kind of lamb chops, then the others had enough to get beef or another kind of MEAT, not shrimp or tuna slices or halibut rolls.

     

    I forget who did the halibut, but when he got a whole fish, I thought "Well, there you go. How lucky. Cook it whole, score it to make it easier to rip into and voila!" and yet we got tidy little fillets.

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  8. I'm still stuck on the ridiculousness of that bus fire. What, were they just waiting around for Fire to show up before they tried to break out a window? Was this bus even legal if it didn't have pop-out windows for emergency exits? This wasn't a high-rise, they could have kicked out a window and jumped the 6 feet to the ground by the time help arrived.

     

    Still don't care about Chili's self-destruction. 

     

    Casey can always go on social media and out the Alderman for pocketing the shelter money. Normally, that's the kind of righteous justice they'd serve at House 51 (the stupid, not-well-thought-out kind that will get upper management on their ass),

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  9. Jason B. is the man, IMO. Anyway, did that woman with the daughter know Eddie before he was in the pen? I'm not clear because I can't believe that any woman would move herself and her child in with a man she had been only pen pals with.

    Then you have never watched Dr Phil or Judge Judy (or worse). Trust me, it happens. 

     

    I too love Mr. Beghe, but yeah, they have to cut down on the shaky-cam when he's being intense because between his head bobbing and the camera moving, it's really disconcerting.

  10. Even when there's a tornado warning, people just look at the weather radar and figure out where it is then go about their business if it's nowhere near them. It's not like a hurricane, it affects only a very small area, for a very brief time. There's no way the whole station would be on "lock down" - that's patently absurd.

     

    And if a tornado hit somewhere within this station's calling vicinity, where were the tornado sirens? I sure didn't hear them. 

    Yeah, I think they really missed the chance to up the drah-mah with tornado sirens. Especially downtown - that shit is eerie as hell with the echoes off the tall buildings.

     

    And Gabby, you are not going to starve if someone ate the last bag of chips. Even if a tornado hit their neighborhood, they could just scoot over to the next neighborhood/town/suburb to get more food after the hour or two a tornado watch lasts. I do think the parents who decided to sit out the tornado watch on the top floor deserved the ass-kicking they got. While my neighbors and I's first reaction is to go outside and see what the sky looks like, I also gather up the cats, my laptop, and my Kindle and hang out in the basement just in case until the front passes. Maybe they just moved from Hollywood, too, considering their dumbass kid was riding around in the tornado on his bike.

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  11. Wow, that was the briefest disaster ep ever. The tornado was almost an afterthought. I know there's not a lot in the way of natural disasters to milk in Chicago proper, because generally tornadoes divert north or south around the city, but I'll let it slide because the greater Chicagoland area is prone to them.

     

    I thought the kid said he biked home from school? There's no way a school around here would let the kids leave during a tornado watch and he would have had to leave during to get the Shard of Imminent Heroic Paralysis during the high winds. Poor kid brought the cavalry and still lost his dad.

     

    Chili is just... don't care about her drama. Otis and Gabby was fun and didn't make me want to strangle Gabby for a change. I have to think the lack of pornstache and "that weird thing on your chin" will help the poor guy. Casey and Hermann's little moment was nice. 

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  12. Barely a week later it is announced that True has joined The Optimist: http://atlanta.eater.com/2015/8/5/9095125/wesley-true-the-optimist-chef-ford-fry.  In this article it is claimed that a "tipster" reported True's dismissal was related to his move to The Optimist.

     

    "Wesley loves big bright flavors and 'not cooking' fish — meaning he has an affinity for crudo." Dear god, who would want to eat raw fish from a guy who works that sloppy and gross? You know you're lucky if his fingers are only covered in his spittle as he arranges your raw food. 

  13. Ok, bring on Carmen and the booze! You'd never see Chris Harrison partying with the contestants, Carmen! Lucas might actually have a shot with her.

    Seriously, woman, you need to get a water bottle and spray that boy every time he tries to hump your leg.

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  14. The fact that Karen says "spouse" so consistently makes me think it's deliberate. 

     

    Maybe she got tired of hearing "who's the husband and who's the wife in the relationship?" enough that she decided "Neither, we're both spouses" as her stock answer and it stuck. 

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  15. At the risk of sounding like "they all look alike to me," I am having a difficult time telling Cedric and Benzino apart. They are both wearing the same color T-shirt and their hair, height and body weight seem very similar. Also, in this episode, both of their mates had ponytails and white, sleeveless tops, so I kept thinking, "Weren't this couple already in the ring?"

     

    It didn't help that for some reason, they merged their two sessions so it kept flipping back and forth between those two couples during the fight while iirc, all the other couples were shown one at a time. I had to rewind because as I was half-ass watching it, I wondered when in the hell Benzino grew a beard. Was it a trick of the light? Wait, it's gone again... Oh, that wasn't Benzino.

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  16. We have:

    • Scrappy underdogs full of heart versus
    • the heartless arrogant juggernaut competing 
    • in a show with just the two of them that is 
    • nevertheless apparently big enough for them to get trophies at
    • the juggernaut wins, setting up the scrappy underdogs for a feel-good comeback story for the season.

     

    Sorry, I don't care what their names are, I'm calling them "Vocal Adrenaline" and "New Directions", because seriously, this is like a bad knockoff of just the competition episodes of Glee. Even worse, New Directions is an entire choir of Rachel Berrys mugging so hard during the song in place of actual skill emoting that you wonder if someone needs an ambulance.

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  17. Teapot Diva- YES, Abby, in what was I think, a 'Holiday' episode, (2,3,years ago?) talked about playing with her younger brother's kid(s?), niece(s?)... Yes, she was talking about Lucca, and Lucca (sp?) having a family-as in wife, kids.

     

    She was probably annoyed as he brought hobos home to sleep on their couch because they "seemed so nice and their shiv collection shows real creativity" and gave away the kids' college funds for random sob stories, so she packed up the kids and left.

     

    He still thinks she'll come back from the store with that gallon of milk some day. And the contents of their bank account. And his iPod.

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  18. There is always a dramatic increase in WW and other weight loss programs after Christmas. I wonder if this year's increase is comparable to most other years'? 

     

    Also gym memberships and probably anything that makes people think "I really should / want to,,," Our knitting/crochet group on Meetup got a lot more new members in December and almost all of them didn't actually know how to knit/crochet and "wanted to learn".

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  19. Yeah, I know it's the Hollywood standard - actors' faces have to be seen, even if doing so is stupid in the story's context - but having lived through similar weather last winter (without the blizzard), I can verify that we were four layers thick, hand warmers in the boots and gloves, and I had a balaclava under my tightly-cinched parka hood, minimum. As Happy and Toby's situations got worse, they just kept PEELING OFF LAYERS. Holy crap. Also, if you have a metric shitload of chemical heat packs, MAYBE BRING THEM ALONG in the first place. Happy was actually better off out of the wind, really. That wind chill will kill ya quick.Maybe if she'd been the one to pack a sleeping bag instead of that stupid book, she could have fared better.

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  20. From my understanding, the apostrophe represents the missing diacritical mark, a long accent that goes over the "O" before Irish names were Anglicized.  While the "O" represented that someone was a descendant of, the apostrophe does not represent missing letters, it's just a modern way of spelling a name that formerly had an accent.  That all goes to my point that when it comes to names, people have made all sorts of changes throughout history.  I'm just not seeing why the name "C'Andre" deserves scorn just because it isn't traditional, run-of-the-mill or typical.  For a lot of American names with apostrophes like his, the apostrophe denotes that it's not pronounced "can-drey" and that the "c" is pronounced just like someone decided the "O" in "O'Donnell" means descendant of and when it was anglicized that the apostrophe was replaced by the accent mark.

     

    That's where an apostrophe denotes a glottal stop. This keeps the O from changing the sound of the following name once the space is removed. (O'Donnell vs. Odonnell) Mac doesn't get an apostrophe because it kinda makes its own glottal stop. So yeah, if C'Andre actually pronounces it Ceh-Ahn-Drey - good use of an apostrophe. "Candrey" - no. A lot of names with apostrophes tend to act like they don't exist, and that bugs me. They actually have a purpose and if you use them as window dressing to prettify your name, you deserve the response you get.

     

    If you want a "special" version of a standard name, then I reserve the right to pronounce it just like it looks. And I include foreign names - they should be readable by natives of that language. Like Jacques "Jah-queese" the Fourth. There's no way you get an 'eee' sound out of that - in English OR French, I believe. 

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  21. oh, god, I hope Flynn isn't around all the time from now on. He's a hyperactive fool, always played so big and cartoony. I seriously had to fast-forward past all the times he was clownish out of second-hand embarrassment. If the whole show was that broadly done, I'd expect it, but Flynn just doesn't fit in the show with the other librarians. Honestly, his hyper tics and twitches make me edgy.

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  22. My co-workers appreciated that I stayed home during the contagious stage.  Sick leave or not, it CAN be done.

     

    Heh, once I came to work wearing one of those medical face masks because I knew I was going to be in a 1.5 hour staff meeting in a smallish conference room and didn't want to infect my entire team.

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