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When my aunt passed away, two of the waitresses from the Waffle House she and my uncle visited regularly came to the service, still in uniform, so they had taken time away from work to be there. It was really kind of them.

And now I'm ugly-crying again. Beautiful even though it's sad.

Woof. They were both awful, but at least Hawaa's didn't look like something my mom wore in the late 80s. I swear she had those exact yellow capris with dumb flowers stitched at the cuffs and I thought they were awful and old lady then. And then we have Jerry Seinfeld's Puffy Shirt meets Betsey Johnson. That a literal jester suit was the best thing on the runway is a sad state of affairs. Hopefully the other three have something that looks like it was made this century.

That's one heck of an elliptical session!

I feel bad for Emily. She was just out of her league. John - stfu about your transformation. You're trying, and that is a good thing, but tooting your own horn about not being an asshole anymore doesn't make you less of an asshole. Just don't be an asshole. Problem solved. I want to marry Sylva. I always wonder about the critiques on "seasoning." That seems like a personal taste thing to me - I am an avowed saltaholic. I would put salt on salt. That's why restaurants have salt on the table. I guess maybe fine dining ones don't, and if your dish is way undersalted, that's quite different from "one more grain would have made it." Well put that one grain on yourself, because not everyone has the same need for it as you do.

I'm still puzzled on the pimiento-cheese-style crab dip. I could eat pimiento cheese every single day, but what does replacing the cheese with crab (and canned crab at that!) accomplish? And since when does crab dip go on a fine-dining table? That sounds like something you'd get for happy hour at TGI Friday's. How about some fried mozzarella and stuffed mushrooms while you're at it.

Thank you so much for capturing this. Priceless!

I rewound and rewatched it three times. It was great.

This would have been a good night for a double elimination. Katsuji and John were equally terrible, imo. And John can fuck clean off with his trying to blame the servers on his weird order system falling apart. Granted, I've never worked in a restaurant, but all those numbers he kept shouting didn't make a lick of sense. If they were trying to serve family style, it shouldn't have been nearly that complicated. Emily was all whiny about being picked last, but come on girl - somebody's getting picked last, and if you were next to last, you'd be on Katsuji's team. There's no way that would have worked out well for you. MVP of the episode was the kitchen worker in the background who was giving the stink eye to everything the blue team did. I hope he wasn't the one stuck cleaning up their ridiculous mess.

Over. Duh. ;) I'm home sick today, and this ad must have played about 150 times already. Besides the fact that the beginning sounds like a porno if you're not looking at the television, what in the actual fuck is supposed to be going on here?

I got my dog when she was a baby - a friend found her abandoned and covered in fleas and brought her to me to see if I'd have any luck finding her a home. Yep - mine! She apparently was carrying parvo, so she got really, REALLY sick and my vets were total godsends. They gave her about a 50/50 shot of making it, and they kept her there on iv nutrition and fluids for 3 weeks to nurse her back to health. It was expensive, but they cut their fee by at least half and let me pay over time. And 8 years later, she's in perfect health and is an absolute joy to be around. And every time we go in for a checkup, they just love on her like she's their own dog. I am eternally grateful. I have cats too, but they would eat me in my sleep if I tried to make them indoor cats. I'm in a neighborhood, but have a 2 acre lot full of woods they can play in. They're well taken care of, but I think we'd all hate each other if we had to do the litter box thing.

I'd normally agree with that sentiment, but there is a right way to load the dishwasher and I just can't even with people who don't even bother to try. (There are three things in the world that I am completely OCD about and that's one of them - lol.)

I want my two dollars!

They weren't sitting outside. If you watch them pick up the bags, there's nothing in them (well, maybe some paper or something as filler) but they didn't leave the actual ingredients around town. Thankfully. I'm relieved they didn't get the idea to have a race to see who could food-poison their guests the least. ;)

Well, that was odd. And I'm not sure when exactly they filmed this, but if there was an actual tropical storm going on where downtown was more or less abandoned it was really irresponsible for them to continue during it. (I'm guessing it was Bonnie back in June, which wasn't a horrible one, considering, but still.)

Now you've got me trying to remember if it was like that when I took it. Until I read this post, I'd have sworn it was a written test, but now you've got me reconsidering. I do know that when I went for taping they gave us another 50 question written test (for research or something) that was just awful. Like I was afraid they were going to look at my answers and kick me out of the studio. On topic, Jesse can fuck clean off. I swear I don't remember hating him this much back in the day. If you don't want your kid in daycare or being in the charge of someone besides your wife for 2 hours, you can cart her around to your law clerk job. I'm sure that'll go over like gangbusters with the boys down at the firm, you selfish prick. I can't believe they turned Dan racist for you.

Right? Even Hillary didn't try to pull off that look back then.

My dad does a lot of work with our local soup kitchen, and I have helped out a few times (not as much as I should) and they get a lot of stuff from local stores. Bagged and pre-packed deli salads (they're fine, but they need to be served basically when they're delivered), day old cakes from the bakery, that sort of thing. They don't serve expired stuff, but I'm always impressed at how they can put together a meal for 300ish people out of random stuff when I'm doing well to feed myself dinner with a full pantry.

Yep. Scott's and Sweatman's are routinely named the best BBQ in the state, and both happen to be out in the country not too far from Charleston. (I've never been to either, since I'm clear on the other side of the state - not that it's that far, but neither one is on-the-way to anything.) Any other place they went would have gotten the "why did they go there?" side-eye from the locals, even if they were perfectly good restaurants. Those two are the gold standard around here.

I want to murderize everyone who had anything to do with that ad.

I don't either. I think she's adorable.

There's been mention of Amanda having health problems, so her behavior could be due to legit meds that she's on. Steroid treatment, for example, can make people nutso and she's got the moonface that lots of people on prednisone get. I was glad to see BJ go this week. Something about him just really rubbed me the wrong way. Shirley and Sheldon are just a delight to watch, especially working together. I'd like to see them and Kenneth the Page on their own show.

Maybe that's why I like her. I can relate - lol.

My stupid uverse receiver died this week so I couldn't watch last night, and the Bravo streaming site cut out the elimination portion of the show. I like Sam, and really wanted terrible-pork-guy to go home, but apparently that's not how it worked out. Terrible-pork-guy's gross messy hands while he was plating made me hate him even more. I usually like bearded hipster dudes, so I'm not sure why I dislike this one so much (so much that I can't even remember his name.) Boo hiss.

I was so glad to see Roberi finally getting some love from the judges. His looks have been my favorite all along - not wearable necessarily, but interesting and it's bugged me all season to see Nina pooh pooh him. While they were picking materials in the farm store, all I could think of was Norm Peterson saying "It's a dog eat dog world, and I'm wearing milkbone underwear." And the epic staredown at the lunch table - lolololol I thought Erin's jumpsuit looked like it was poached from Rose Nyland's closet, but it was the same thing Heidi was wearing, so maybe retirement-home chic is the next big thing. Looking forward to seeing what Laurence does when she actually has time and no gimmicky hoops to jump through. I hope it's not all leather. I think she's got more to show us than she was given opportunity to do this season. While I didn't care for her conventional look tonight, the "I don't know WHY she would choose yellow" criticism was laughable. Maybe because you've been blowing Miss Obnoxious Yellow Every Freaking Week's horn the whole series. Erin was right about one thing - you go all the way to Austin and come back with plastic cups. It didn't look terrible, but it was so obvious. See ya, Corny!