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On 8/6/2024 at 7:43 PM, Absolom said:
TIL in the British pronounciation of almond, the l is silent.
In Central California where many almonds are grown the joke is that they bang the L out of them. And they are called "amonds"
Almonds grown in hard casings that have to be cracked to get the nut out.
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It's unlikely that it will be a spectator sport, but go right ahead and invent something like that.
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On 7/26/2024 at 3:18 PM, Anduin said:
There are a lot of events at the Olympics, perhaps too many to fit into the allotted schedule. Further, there are always more sports that want the spotlight. Therefore, I suggest merging a few. Let's merge fencing and equestrian into jousting!
If you want to see fencing and equestrian together, watch the modern pentathlon: fencing, dressage, running, swimming, and pistol shooting
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And they're pretty fast which is what you need with evasive plants.
Speeking of E's, I am plagued by commercials for some singles club where it sounds like the name is "Events and Edventures"
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On 7/30/2024 at 1:01 PM, AntFTW said:
They had no idea what “claiming a dragon” would actually entail. They don’t know how dragons are claimed. All they know going in is that there is a risk of death.
If the dragons understand Valyrian, they could have taught them a few useful phrases in that language as a first step.
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4 hours ago, shapeshifter said:
A friendly-but-of-questionable-morals neighbor suggested I sell it to his friend and bypass the realtors.
I told the neighbor guy that if I sold my condo without a realtor, my dear departed realtor father would roll over in his grave if he hadn't been cremated.Every person I know who has ever sold a piece of property has encountered someone like your neighbor. If you just bypass the realtors then you'll be able to sell it to them for thousands less.
Realtors are worth their weight because they handle all the legal paperwork. And if they're any good, they can help with the negotiation.
Good luck with your condo.
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2 hours ago, proserpina65 said:
Really? They're all very different looking. Vhagar at the very least should be distinctive due to her size and that wattle she has. All of the other dragons have more slender necks.
I don't think they're very distinctive. But, Vhagar has holes in her wings and none of the others do.
Wasn't Hugh the guy who was building the scorpions for Kings Landing? If so, then Team Black now has a new dragon rider and someone who can build the weapons to shoot down Team Green's dragons.
And I think Alicent's "camping trip" is an excuse to intercept her father comin' through the woods on his way back to Kings Landing.
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I rarely watch the equestrian events but somehow lucked into eventing on the first day and I'm hooked. Especially the cross country - they built a magnificent course for it. Agree about Jung - he was great.
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It was a delight to watch the US women play Germany yesterday. Such teamwork!
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This left me with bad feelings because of the race design. Yeah for the winners and runners up.
Nobody should be stuck at camp with no food waiting days for the next leg to start. If there's a follow up race and it is designed that way, I won't watch. I want to see racing, not grubbing for food in front of a bunch of camera people who are getting 3 squares.
And I still don't see why Kennedy and Nik were not penalized for stealing and slaughtering someone's sheep. If production can pay off a farmer, they can provide beans or oatmeal or something for everyone to eat.
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It looked like they had done some quick edits - maybe the buyer decided he/she didn't want to be featured on the show at the last minute. That was one tasteless giant mansion, especially the excessive marble in the bathrooms. Less is more!
Will our last glimpse of Eric be him telling Tracy's girls to use paper plates?
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19 hours ago, Bastet said:
My peeve is that stainless steel - which I don't generally care for and which would definitely not be right for my kitchen - has become the standard finish, with white now a special order and not even available in some models. At this point, I'm probably not going to remodel my kitchen until I retire, so who knows how things will be then, but if shopping right now I'd be annoyed by the limited options.
That's why I ended up with a black stove during the pandemic. It used natural gas and was in stock. If I'd wanted stainless, I would have had to wait weeks.
14 hours ago, EtheltoTillie said:BTW, I’m having trouble visualizing how the hinges take up storage space. I got a French door fridge a couple of years ago, and I feel I have more storage space than I had with the old top-freezer model. At least it’s easier to access.
The hinges take up space on the outside of the frig - on the top. I have a small kitchen and we need that space to store things like the extra rolls of paper towels. Because of the hinges and because I'm so short, I now have to haul the rolls over the hinge using wooden spoons or salad tongs.
It's a good frig, it holds a lot, it's very deep. But the magnets threw me. At work we have three stainless refrigerators and you can use magnets on the front. I just didn't think about it when I went to buy the new one.
Thank you all for your suggestions for my very first world peeve.
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I bought a new refrigerator to replace my old one which was still working great, but I bought it 40 years ago and it was costing me $200+ a month in electrical charges. So, I trot off to the store, pick out a nice Energy * model in stainless steel with french doors and freezer on the bottom. It gets installed no problem.
Peeve? My refrigerator magnets don't work! They work on the sides but not on the front. I have so many refrigerator magnets! Why didn't somebody warn me?
In addition, because of the french doors, there are giant hinges on the top that take up half the storage space. It's like a great leap backwards.
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To give him credit, he sings it. And he's kinda cute.
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6 hours ago, CrazyInAlabama said:
The challenge wins added $500 to the tills of the winning trucks, and Bao Bei won both. Fishnet didn't do either challenge, the shrimp one I can understand, because one team member is deathly allergic to shrimp, and they would have to be one team member down, and totally sterilize the truck before he could come back inside. Fishnet just wanted a jump start on sales by not doing the other challenge. I think the shrimp challenge skip was acceptable, but skipping the sauce challenge on day 1 is just cheating.
I thought the rules for the shrimp challenge said that all members of the team had to help with the peeling. So they literally couldn't do that one.
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On 4/13/2024 at 8:17 AM, khyber said:
Every review I've read lauds the performance of Douglas and says the series is slow as dirt and not that compelling.
And they're right! Eddie Marsan was pretty good too, although his makeup was dreadful.
And I can't help wonder about the grandson settling in at Versailles just before the revolution. All those aristocrats are going to die.
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If you're my doctor and you don't have a pretty solid knowledge of them, I really don't want you prescribing any medicine to me. I think the people who issue licenses to practice medicine would agree.
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It's nominated for an Emmy!
Outstanding unstructured reality program
“Below Deck Down Under”
“Love on the Spectrum U.S.”
“RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked”
“Vanderpump Rules”
“Welcome to Wrexham”
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Argh! I thought this was the last episode. How long will they drag this out?
I just realized that I have no idea which one is Ethan and which one is Tyree. Couldn't one have a jaunty hat?
Paulina is fast!
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On 7/15/2024 at 8:45 PM, CrystalBlue said:
I'm unfamiliar with that restaurant as I don't live wherever you live. I've never heard appetizers being called apps until the software application programs came to be and then it was on TV commercials all of a sudden.
In the Parks & Rec episode Soulmates, Tom Haverford talks about what he calls his food - he starts the list with Apps & Zerts. It aired in 2011.
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On 6/29/2024 at 3:00 PM, peeayebee said:
I liked this ep. Donna is a hard person to be around, but she was there for her daughter and really did help. I loved seeing the love betw them, the way they gazed at each other.
I wondered when Nat said she made herself sick for Donna what exactly that meant. Do we know?
I think it meant that by being around Donna's craziness that Nat had developed anxiety - she'd been listing her symptoms just before that.
I loved that last shot of JLC walking away and she's walking the same way that Nat was when she walked into the hospital.
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3 hours ago, iMonrey said:
There is more than one tender on the yacht, the little one could have been used to ferry the guests who had flights scheduled to shore.
It took them two hours using the big boat. Taking the tiny tender would have been more like four hours.
They all had phones, and I presume travel agents. They just didn't want to show anyone rebooking their flights.
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On 7/11/2024 at 10:20 AM, Lovecat said:
I'm pretty sure it was a weka; they mentioned a few times that they were not allowed to kill and eat the chicken-like birds that were all over the place and ironically were trying to steal food.
Probably you are right, but I prefer to think it was a pu-teketeke
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I think Sam came in 2nd his first go around and then won in his second season.
I wish they would give us some feedback on the medical tap outs/extractions. Not gory details but "Dusty was treated for a bowel obstruction and has fully recovered" type of info. The producers want us to care about the contestants, and we do wonder what actually happened to them.
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The Great Food Truck Race - General Discussion
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Is tomorrow's episode the finale or not? They didn't say it in the discussion of next week.