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Isn't SNHU another diploma mill type school? I constantly yell at their ads, the one young lady says "look, master's degree." I yell, you'd be better off going to a real school and getting a real master's degree that actually let you get a job in your field. Another woman is weeping, saying she's doing this for her children. Well, her children would be better off seeing her go to a real school and getting a real degree that would let her get a job. I briefly worked in HR many years ago and we just tossed resumes in the trash with those kind of degrees.
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On 10/22/2020 at 1:19 PM, bad things are bad said:
But man, do they ever get some geezers to plug those plans.
if you're getting ready for Medicare, congratulations, you've joined the geezer ranks. I'm 70, I know geezers.
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We just got Start tv in Tulsa, probably October 1, I'm not really sure, I didn't find it until about the middle of October. The Closer is on from 5PM to 7PM daily and I sure am enjoying it. I actually like Start and watch it for several hours, Medium, Crossing Jordan (it's ok, but I'm not crazy about it and I'm too lazy to pick up the remote and change the channel, lol) Cagney and Lacey, The Closer, Major Crimes (M-F) and Ghost Whisperer, which has always been a guilty pleasure even if Jennifer Love Hewitt is not a good actress, but she cries really well on cue. I don't care for The Good Wife, so it's back to Antiques Roadshow UK on Pluto so I can go to sleep in a bit.
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Liberty Mutual is going out of their way to make sure I hate their ads. I didn't really mind the ones in front of the Statue of Liberty until they added that stupid, "Liberty, Liberty, Liberty, Liberty" bs. But then they went with LiMu and Doug and with every ad, I hate Doug more and more. But now he's got a stupid sitcomish theme song. Makes me want to scream!
Then there's Price Line ads about thinking you're a big deal. The woman in the blue dress annoys the heck out of me. She comes out of the elevator and proceeds to block the bellhop pushing a heavy cart full of luggage with her self centered, big deal dance. I really want to reach into the screen and smack her big deal.
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15 minutes ago, Moose135 said:
Yes, Border Collies and Aussies are very similar. I always say an Aussie will work all day for a treat, a Border Collie will work all day as a treat.
I had never been around a Border Collie until I had my mixed one. I just didn't know what to do with him, he was so smart. Then I heard someone on a dog training type show say that the best gift you can give a Border Collie is a farm. I would have loved to give Mikey one, but it wasn't ever going to happen.
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The ending of the Pah Wraiths always reminds me of the climatic scenes of Indiana Jones and the Lost Crusade, from the time they enter Petra to the destruction of the grail, the guardian and the Treasury House of Petra. just my opinion.
Edited because I realized they didn't destroy the entire city of Petra, only the most famous building in it. I've been fascinated with Petra ever since I saw The Last Crusade for the first time.
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4 hours ago, Nicmar said:
have a border collie and a blue heeler. I think the border collie is in close relation with the Australian Shepard
is that 2 dogs or 1 that is Border Collie/Blue Heeler? The bestest dog of my life was a Border Collie/Blue Heeler, his name was Mikey, after the Life cereal commercial. He died nearly 20 years ago and I've had several good dogs since, but he was the bestest.
And the commercial I was referring to upthread is Daily Harvest, that silvery stuff may be something with ice in/on it, I don't know, I keep watching it and I still don't know what it is, it's just odd. As in "what's this stuff?" I don't know some metallic stuff, supposed to be good for you. "You try it? I'm not gonna try it. I know, let's give it to Mikey. Yeah, he won't eat it, he hates everything. He likes it! Hey Mikey!" A tribute to commercials and my Mikey. He would have eaten it, but he liked most things.
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I've noticed that lots of things "as seen on tv" sell 2 for additional shipping and handling but if you buy it at Walmart or Amazon you only get 1. For most of them, 1 is enough.
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On 10/9/2020 at 11:15 PM, Gramto6 said:
The only scent I use is Rose water which fades faster than I can get out of the house...
maybe you've gone nose blind to the scent. ok, even though that's a Fabreze line and I hate Fabreze, that really is a thing. It's part of the reason some people smell like they've been swimming in their perfume.
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I don't think that was him, but I can't quite remember. Vince developed a drinking problem after he was elbowed off the job. Then one day he was on a city bus, the driver left the bus full of passengers, I think to use the toilet and when passengers started complaining and saying they had to get home, he got in the driver's seat and started taking the passengers home, he wrecked the bus. His father had been a bus driver and he thought that qualified him to drive. I believe alcohol was involved too. A little bribery was used by Lt. Fancy and it was covered up with the Port Authority. I really wish I didn't retain so many useless facts.
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I guess this one makes me scratch my head. One of those food delivery services where maybe you combine some stuff to make the meal, but some things come ready to pull out of the freezer and pop in the microwave. This one has smoothies and some of them look good. But as part of the commercial, the woman is spooning out some stuff in one of the cups as part of the prep for some dish. But what she's spooning out looks like aluminum foil turned into some semi-solid food stuffs. At the same time, the voice over is talking about quality ingredients. What is that stuff? I think I'm fairly knowledgeable about food stuffs but I cannot think what on earth that silver stuff is. I cannot think of any food that is shiny silver and metallic looking. Granted, I haven't been inside a store for nearly a year and I don't use any food prep delivery service. I do my cooking the old fashioned way, from real food and from scratch.
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The character, Vince was an a$$ so I guess that means the actor did a good job. I remember he was particularly nasty to Adrienne and she broke his booby mug, which I was happy about, that would have no place in a workplace especially one with women. He did try to make Adrienne pay emotionally because that mug had been given to him by another cop who had just died, but too bad, so sad.
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I love the Edith Piaf song, Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien. Different strokes, for different folks.
I've been watching almost exclusively, Pluto. Pluto is owned by Viacom which also owns CBS, so they advertise CBS All Access all the time. Apparently Star Trek is big on All Access. They are really pushing some animated Star Trek, Lower Deck. I don't care much for animated shows, but this one has me wanting to punch one of the characters in the mouth. I know nothing about the show, but I hate it, based on the ad. And I'm kind of getting tired of 3 times in one commercial, Jean Luc Picard intoning, "Life, as it has beeeen is over." And, I like Patrick Stewart.
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It is a good scene, and both actors do a fabulous job. However, most of the time Sylvia is SUPER AL-ANON! She rarely even has to go to meetings. That's just the one small complaint I have about the way she is portrayed. For many women, of they tried to confront their addict husband, first many wouldn't be able to be so clear headed about it, it's very difficult to keep the focus and many of the addict spouses do everything they can to turn the situation around, take the focus off their behavior and put it back to the spouse being a terrible person. I feel like this scene is a kind of shortcut that take many couples years of working programs to be able to get to that point. And, many addicts would become physically violent when confronted like that.
I think that Katie shows the journey to recovery in a program more realistic, but Katie really could have used a few Al-Anon meetings a week, she's a double winner.
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On 9/9/2020 at 7:53 AM, starri said:
I'm even more surprised that King didn't raise it in the book as far as I remember.
I'm about 1/3 of the way through the book on a reread and no , there's no mention of the 1918 flu. I'll be finished reading in about 18 more hours, and that probably won't be by the end of the day, lol.
Update, just read the first real passage about Mother Abigail late last night, in there, she does mention losing family in the flu epidemic of 1912 and 1918.
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I saw an ad on Pluto for CBS All Access and this show was included. I've only caught a few seconds of that ad, once. But it has me interested, I may get CBS All Access just to watch this.
But it also got me interested in rereading the book, so I bought it last week on my Kindle. I'm not very far into the book, Flagg just released Lloyd from prison and the movement of all the people to the west has not begun. But I do keep envisioning the actors from the first series as the characters. Every time I read a Stu section, I picture Gary Sinese, I fell in love with him when I saw the mini series. Flagg is Jamey Sheridan. Harold Lauder is Corin Nemec. Molly Ringwald as Frannie, not so much. I just finished the first meet up of Stu and Glen Batemen and the entire scene was Gary Sinese and Ray Walston.
It will be interesting to see a different cast.
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4 hours ago, peacheslatour said:5 hours ago, CrazyInAlabama said:
I can't stand the Mo-tor commercials for Progressive.
They freak me right out. *shudder*
I'm right there with both of you.
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I can't say it enough, I thoroughly dislike LiMu Emu, but I really, really hate Doug.
And most of Pluto's self promoting ads, but in particular those for MTV's reality shows. Good grief, so many people grasping, greedy for fame and validation! They seem to run them in some kind of pattern, haven't seen the one for Made with the whoa dang girl (as I call her), who doesn't want to be known as the girl who throws on clothes and takes out trash, she wants to be hella hot and a pageant girl. I've never thought of myself as someone who throws on clothes and takes out trash, even though I've been known to do both but I would not describe myself that way. Then there's the simpering, greedy little thing that wants her sweet sixteen to be bigger than her wedding, she wants all the adoration and admiration of all her peers. Who would want to go to a party as a prop to a spoiled brat who wants to be adored and admired? I guess her peers have zero self esteem and just want to be on television.
But in rotation now, is an ad for The Hills, I think. Two young women, one looks like a young Joan Van Ark and the other resembles Marcia Brady. The Joan Van Ark one apparently hurt the other one in some way and is apologizing. The Marcia Brady one interrupts the apology to tell her she understands that the apologizing is hard, but the thing now is to forgive and forget and she really wants to try to forgive and then she wants to forget the Joan Van Ark one exists. What a controlling little witch. The more I see it, the more I hate her.
And then there are the constant ads for some channel called America's Voice. I had to look up who owned Pluto to see what political connections because it's very one sided. I won't go into more because it will get me kicked off here. Pluto is owned by CBS Viacom, who I've not thought of as one sided. But I still wonder who pays for the ads for channels on this streaming service. And, not just because of the political channel. Why does the Addams Family channel and Antique Roadshow get more ads than the CSI channel for example? Or Cold Case Files gets some ads while The New Detectives or Forensic Files get none?
Just thoughts I ponder late at night when I can't sleep.
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11 hours ago, Ubiquit0us said:
Flo said "I literally have told you a million times", which makes me laugh. Her family truly must despise her.
thank you for the exact quote, it cracks me up too, I have been lazy, didn't remember exactly, didn't bother to put that I was familiar with the previous commercials featuring Stephanie Courtney as the entire family, they've been out for a long time, I assumed (yes, I guess I did make an ass of me) that it was understood that I had seen those ads numerous times and was aware enough to know it was the same actress, I just was wondering if they were doing a little switch to give Jamie a little more screen time. And thank you Haleth for mentioning her name. I've seen it before, probably somewhere on one of these pages, I was just being lazy and tired and didn't look it up. I think she's a talented actress also and is probably financially secure from making these ads and can pick and choose what she wants to do. And good for her.
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I remember the commercial with the actress playing the entire family.
But in the new one, it does crack me up when the mother asks why she never told them about all the bundling discounts. I love the look on her face when she says, "I only told you a million times."
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I don't hate Flo, I know I'm in a minority there. But in the Danny Boy commercials, is the Flo actress playing the Dad too? Or did they do a switch and the Jamie actor is the dad?
There's a commercial I'm seeing quite a bit, for Samsung Galaxy wrist communication device, 2 way wrist radio, something. Opens with a man flailing his arms around like he's conducting an orchestra, except the music starts a few seconds later, as soon as the music starts, he looks at his 2 way wrist radio, answers a text. All the while, the "music" is going, dink,dink,dink,dink...But every time I join in or try to make the music sounds later, it always morphs into Jingle Bells.
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48 minutes ago, Ashforth said:
Even if you don't get it published, YOU getting to read it is enough.
I've read it, it's been several years. I have cousins it might be of interest to. It's not about just the abuse that went on. It's about the times, my dad was born in 1927, it's about poverty in rural Arkansas during the depression, it's about survival but mostly it's about hope. My father, for some weird reason, was the most optimistic, hopeful person I've ever known. My mother, on the other hand was a deep pessimist. I've inherited both. My optimism is tempered by wondering about all the results. I think I tend to be more of a realist than either of my parents were. My sister and my brother are more pessimistic. But they are also bi-polar, and addicts, more inherited genetic gifts that keep on giving. And my step-grandfather had no history of alcohol abuse, I think he had major depression all of his life and didn't know there was any other way to be. Mental illness was not recognized and definitely not analyzed during those times. Hmmm, that sounds like maybe I'm on my way to somewhat understanding Ike and maybe even forgiving him. Major breakthrough. Ike was my step-grandfather, I always called him that, my dad called him by his first name, he was never Dad. My Granddad was my Mother's Father. In our family we used "granddad" never "grandpa."
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4 hours ago, chessiegal said:
you'd never know what he had in the outhouse to wipe your arse. Not only was he cheap, he was a mean SOB. I really hate that I share a genetic history with someone like that.
I think that was a lot of similarities to my step-grandfather (my dad's birth father died when he was 4 and my grandmother married this man a year or so later.) I never liked him, he was mean and didn't seem to like kids. I know my grandparents were dirt poor and that may have been part of why he wouldn't allow a toilet in the house or it may have been that it was just the way it had always been and he didn't think it was clean or healthy or something. He was born in the late 1800s or the early 1900s, I'm not really sure, he was dirt poor all of his life and he had a way about him that would have had all 9 children that he and my grandmother had, separately and together, removed by child services. He was abusive, believed in using a belt or switch. My grandmother allowed it, I don't know if it was just the way things were or the times or if he just had a mean streak. I've learned a lot more about things since FB and I've grown very close to one of my aunts by marriage into the family. She's told me that her husband wouldn't talk much about his childhood, my dad wouldn't either. My dad left home at 16, I know a little about the abuse, we had a long talk one night and he told me some things and how he came to forgive his step-father. I know that I should forgive that man, my father did, but that one is a struggle for me. He died in 1973 so it should be ancient history, and my dad has been gone since 2000, but my heart still hurts for him when I think of things he and his siblings went through.
One of the reasons I know a little about the abuse was my dad wrote a semi-autobiographical book. Some of his siblings liked it and some were so angry they stopped talking to him. They're all gone now and if in the clean-up and sort of the house I'll be doing in a few weeks (long story, 5 years in the making) if I find that book, I'm going to work on editing it and maybe try to get it published.
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As far as "warsh" and "ice box", I'm from Missouri and my grandparents, my parents all said "warsh." I did until I moved to Washington DC in 1973, then I changed it. I also said Missoura until then, now I only pronounce it that way when I say, "I'm from Missoura, Show Me!" And until the mid 1960s, my Arkansas grandparents lived out in the country and had no electricity or running water. They had and used and ice box. My step-grandfather would hitch his team of mules to his wagon and go into town to fetch ice and water in those large metal milk cans that the American Pickers like so much. They used kerosene lamps and had a wood cook stove in the kitchen and another wood stove in the living room for heat. They also had no toilet, my step-grandfather wouldn't allow one in the house, not even after they moved to town and had electricity and running water. So, the use of "warsh" doesn't particularly bother me in the KFC ads.
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Say What?: Commercials That Made Us Scratch Our Heads
in Commercials
ok, then I owe them an apology. And I'll quit yelling at their commercials.