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I actually think they do - but the people who write television shows, do not, not any more.
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On 5/21/2021 at 8:14 PM, WinnieWinkle said:
Today's peeve: stop telling me you don't like cottage cheese in lasagna and that it's not authentic. I Do Not Care. That's how my Mom made it and that's how her Mom made it and i already feel guilty enough because I use the no boil noodles (shh don't tell my Nana) . And further why do people care so much about stuff like this? If I'm not expecting you to cook it OR eat it what's your problem?
You haven't provided the context, but I assume this argument took place on an online cooking board, made up of people you have never and will never meet in real life? Of course you don't have to feel bad about making your family comfort food the way your Mom made it, but I'm not surprised you got some pushback. That's par for the course on a cooking message board.
Ten, hell more than ten years ago then Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's girlfriend Sandra Lee (yes, THAT Sandra Lee, of Food Network fame/infamy) was widely mocked in the press after Andrew's Italian-American MOTHER questioned her cottage-cheese-and-tomato-soup lasagna:
https://gothamist.com/food/cuomos-mom-trashes-his-gf-sandra-lees-lasagna
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"Are you interested in joining [the CIA]? The benefits are terrific. The trick is not to get killed. That's really the key to the benefit program."
One of the funniest movies of the 70's. Hell, one of the funniest movies ever made.
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8 hours ago, Mabinogia said:
I think they were just so proud of themselves for the gender switch that they didn't bother going any further with her being Watson.
I ended up really liking Elementary because they committed to the non-romantic friendship between Holmes and Watson. I found the 12-step story line tiresome but I was able to roll my eyes and continue. My single greatest annoyance was that it would have been SO FUCKING EASY to carry overfrom the original stories, the whole idea of the Watson character's being a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, which would have been a MUCH better story for her than having accidentally killed someone in surgery. What if that had happened in Afghanistan, which would be very likely given the war conditions? Also, it would have given her a more bad-ass backstory - in the original stories, Holmes asks Watson to bring along his gun on the more dangerous stories - since he, not Holmes, is the one that actually HAS a gun and knows how to use one, and has experienced shots fired in anger.
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Aside from his acting career, Charles Grodin was tirelessly active in working for the reform of the draconic Rockefeller drug laws, and succeeded in freeing a number of people who had been given shockingly harsh sentences for minor drug offences.
Here is a recent interview with three women prisoners that he was very instrumental in getting released:
https://www.wbai.org/archive/program/episode/?id=23004
Other than Pacifica Radio, from which the above radio show aired, the only mainstream media mention of his prison activism that I saw was on ABC News.
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On 5/11/2021 at 2:31 PM, Ailianna said:
How much would a kid know about that though?
He would have known his parents were divorced and not living together. I understand why the show isn't going there, but Rocky's sketchy behavior (and his incessant cheating, very common for that wrestling era of course) caused the divorce by all accounts.
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On 5/5/2021 at 10:54 AM, thuganomics85 said:
The scene with the real life Dwayne and Ata was nice.
Best scene in the episode.
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53 minutes ago, Mabinogia said:
Martha was smart, brave, strong, beautiful, adventurous
And she was an actual for-real Doctor! Much closer to being an equal Companion than anyone since Sarah Jane (journalist).
I had no problem with her and Ten since I love Ten, but she deserved to carry on over to Eleven IMO.
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I was pleased to see a challenge based on foodstuffs native to this area and familiar to the original inhabitants of the area. I wish, however, that the show had focused a little bit on the weird anomaly that is meat consumption in North America. I don't mean that it's weird to consume meat - I mean that almost all of the meat consumed in North and South America is from animals that are not native to this hemisphere. We could be eating bison, antelope, elk, deer, grouse, etc. - and yet we are eating European cattle, pigs, and sheep (and goats if you are Mexican/Caribbean etc), chickens and geese (either European or Asian). Much of the territory of both continents has been terraformed to better allow these non-native species to thrive. Of course this is also true of much of our vegetable and grain consumption as well.
The only native food I can think of that makes up a significant part of the American diet that hasn't been replaced by non-native species would be seafood, and freshwater fish/shellfish also I guess. But overfishing has lessened that.
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On 4/22/2021 at 2:48 PM, LBS said:
I got to take a stand for Injera! I love the sour taste and the way it enhances the food
I love it too. I love using the soft bread as a utensil and I think the fermentation helps you with digestion, especially with some of the very hot stews (wats).
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On 5/17/2021 at 6:15 AM, GreekGeek said:
I watched Mildred Pierce on TCM last night. It was great viewing, but there was one big central flaw: I could not buy Crawford as a woman from a poor background. It's ironic because Crawford actually did come from a poor background, but in the movie, she never had a hair out of place, even when she supposedly lived in the kitchen and ran herself ragged as a waitress.
That seemed very realistic and believeable for the character to me. In my experience women from poor backgrounds (and men too, for that matter) are much more likely to be obsessed with always looking perfectly fashionable and put together than women from richer backgrounds. They are always afraid of being judged.
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1. Autumn. Best season of the year in NYC.
2. Underwear at work. Trick answer! I'm retired so I don't go to work anymore!
3. I guess I'd have to choose death or something because both of those are a nightmare for me.
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On 5/17/2021 at 10:25 PM, Zella said:
I like John Mulaney. I'm not super familiar with his work, but what I have seen has been funny to me. I am more familiar with him from interviews and, because I'm a big Bill Hader fan, also knowing backstory on him being an SNL writer and doing the Stefon skits and having a running inside joke of him trying to crack Hader up every time on air.
I don't find his standup all that funny and a lot of his SNL stuff struck me as cluelessly sneery in the same very specific way (e.g., the bodega song). But Stefon! Jesus! those sketches were the ONLY redeeming bits for long dry stretches of SNL. Bill Hader's wonderfulness helped a lot of course - but the writing itself was funny.
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12 hours ago, Wiendish Fitch said:
Yeah, I start to lose patience with "breakout" characters that writers become too enamored with
In Fonzie's case I think it was the live audience that became too enamored. Much like JJ on Good Times. Live audiences LOVE a catchphrase. This has always been a problem on Saturday Night Live IMO, right from the beginning.
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13 hours ago, DearEvette said:
Freema Aygeman
I loved her as Martha Jones on Doctor Who.
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On 5/16/2021 at 3:52 PM, BlackberryJam said:
I liked the ending of Lost.
I did not, but I DID like the ending of The Sopranos.
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On 5/14/2021 at 9:12 PM, DoctorAtomic said:
Related - I know a guy that uses a monocle.
A. Monocle.
What eye problem does this guy have that a monocle works better for him than glasses?
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On 4/25/2021 at 11:31 AM, truthaboutluv said:
With Katherine Heigl, my memory of when things went particularly left for her, is when she publicly dragged Knocked Up, a few years after the film came and was a huge success. There had been some think pieces when the film came out calling it out on have some sexist undertones and being kind of problematic in parts.
And in the interest of fairness, I personally don't think it's wrong for actors to reflect on their past roles and if they think some things didn't work or there were problematic elements to it, to say, "yeah I see now why some see it that way, etc." Viola Davis has said something similar about The Help.
The problem with Heigl was that she went all the way in against the film, flat out calling it misogynistic and sexist and I may be wrong but even not so subtly accusing Judd Apatow, the film's writer/director, of such as well.
And what pissed many people off was as they noted, Heigl read the script, knew what the film was, agreed to do it, enjoyed the initial smash success it had that then allowed her to book more leading lady roles. And then she turns around and just drags it with no nuance or context to her opinions.
It just really pissed a lot of people off. And I do remember many at the time wondering if she was deliberately trying to get herself blackballed in Hollywood
If she had waited a few years before criticizing either Grey's or Knocked Up, she might have faced less hostility. With Grey's Anatomy, she actually OPTED OUT of the whole Emmy competition AFTER being nominated, on the grounds that the writing on Grey's was shitty. She was correct of course - Shonda Rhimes is a schlockmistress. But if Heigl had just dummied up and gone for her Emmy, she could have expressed her frustration later on. Maybe after she had gone on to more satisfying projects.
"she publicly dragged Knocked Up, a few years after the film came [out]"
Again, no. The film came out in June 2007 and her Vanity Fair interview was in January 2008 - in other words right before awards season. The only person she hurt by expressing her feelings on the subject was herself. Unfortunately for her. Too bad because I also think she was right about Knocked Up:
https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2007/06/knocked-up-review.html
She shot herself in the foot, indeed. Poor thing.
eta: spelling
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On 5/2/2021 at 3:21 AM, SVNBob said:On 5/1/2021 at 8:42 AM, Kromm said:
Dominoes? Either seen as a kiddie thing, or if shown played seriously, yet another Asian stereotype, typically two old Chinese guys sitting in a park playing it.
I wouldn't consider Dominoes an Asian stereotype. But then, I'm from the Southern US, so I'd consider it more an African-American stereotype
On 5/2/2021 at 4:40 AM, Llywela said:And here in the UK, I'd consider dominoes to be an older working class stereotype - my great-grandfather used to play it down the pub with his mates.
Well, I'm in New York and to me, it's overwhelmingly a Latin American game. It's the rare bodega that doesn't have at least one card table outside with a group of Puerto Rican/Dominican/Mexican, etc. men in lawn chairs drinking beer and playing dominoes. As much a bodega institution as the bodega cat. And definitely a trope in the NYC based procedurals.
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On 5/12/2021 at 2:51 PM, SuprSuprElevated said:
Majorly pet peeve. The Jerry Springering of the American culture.
Dude. MTV barely shows ANYTHING these days other than Ridiculousness. Seriously it's on about 20 hours out of the MTV broadcast day.
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1) The ability to understand and be understood by animals is the magical fairy tale superpower I have always longed for above all others, more than invisibility, or flying, or superstrength, or eternal youth, or anything. The White Snake was my favorite Grimm's fairy tale, just like The Jungle Book(s) was my favorite children's novel.
2) Ecologically I should pick butterflies, but I just love rodents! So adorable furry-tailed rats for me.
3) Paper cuts are the worst cuts! Floss and toothbrushing can solve the other problem.
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30 minutes ago, mariah23 said:
It’s Oscar month. They always play films from 1927 to the present.
Yes, and sometimes for other themes. The Women Make Film series, for example, had a lot of films made within the last fifteen years.
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20 hours ago, rmontro said:
Looks like we're going to get to a point where Dwayne is elected president and follow things from there. I don't see him losing
1 hour ago, tennisgurl said:The presidential campaign cant last forever, so eventually I am guessing Dwayne will win and we will focus on his presidency as the framing device? As long as Randall and his sweaters are still around, I'm good with that.
I love this show, but I'm very uncomfortable with the campaign framing device because I'm pretty sure Dwayne Johnson is considering a Presidential run in all seriousness. He has said so in the press:
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/19/the-rock-reveals-why-hes-considering-running-for-president.html
Hell, why shouldn't he? If Donald Trump could win, any well known media figure might win, yes? Not that I think Rock would be like Trump, mind you. I believe that Arnold Scharzenegger might well have become president if his foreign birth didn't make it unconstitutional. Rock's chances of winning would be excellent, IMO, and while I love The Rock as both wrestler and actor I don't know if I'd love him as a president.
I'm a devoted wrestling fan, like thuganomics, and the wrestling stuff is my favorite aspect of the show. Little things like not just the mention of Rocky Johnson's tag team partner Tony Atlas - but also the throwaway line about Tony's notorious foot fetish! Love.
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Dear Diary: Question Of The Day(s)
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Gee what was my job?
Combination Jeopardy contestant, fast food restaurant worker, warehouse worker, social worker. Children's theatre performer (storytelling, puppet theater, singalong and dance leader). Computer instructor to senior citizens, homeless people, ex-offenders, very recent immigrants. Cheating assistant to school children (Cliff's Notes, Spark Notes, MasterPlots) and older students. Friendly ear to those who have outlived their friends/family, as well as homeless people who are never spoken to otherwise. Provider of internet access to those who could never afford to pay for it. Nimble assistant to those looking for jobs, or looking for deserved public assistance.
An intellectual friend with whom to discuss family geneology research or military history, and any kind of intellectual activity (like reading, not just philosophy or science but poetry and novels) that isn't shared by their friends and family - most of whom like the person who appreciates the friendly ear haven't read for pleasure since they were in high school. The person that can recommend a book to someone who hasn't read a book for pleasure since they were in high school.
The person who listens to the patrons and tries to keep the books, CDs and DVDs in stock that they ask for.
Damn, I loved being a public librarian in a big city. Everything but the money, of course. I read on other message boards what younger people consider basic entry level salaries and I have to pull back from feeling embarrassed at how little I made, and make through my pension. I have no regrets. It was a privilege.