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7 minutes ago, eel2178 said:
Can Sass get into his dreams?
When Sass described his power, he said "livings" not "people" so it sounds like he cannot do with to other ghosts, just livings.
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15 minutes ago, Ancaster said:
Such as idea what PVR SNL is.
A PVR is a recorder, SNL is Saturday Night Live -- they record Saturday Night Live for their daughter.
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On 4/28/2024 at 4:58 PM, ljenkins782 said:
one of my favorites is The Runaway Bunny. It's infuriating at the end with that smug woman, but I really liked the story.
That one didn't ring a bell, so I watched it. I actually enjoyed the woman's smug attitude at the end, knowing she was going to get away with it -- so many characters confess in the face of little more than a theory, or fall for police tricks, and here's someone who knows they have zero evidence, so all she has to do is keep her damn mouth shut while they bluster on and on. It sucks she got away with murder, of course, I just found it oddly refreshing in its deviation from the norm.
The PI and his assistant who takes over the business are both such cliches, but the actors sold it -- the characters know they're cliches.
Other than that, I haven't mustered up the interest to watch any of the season six and seven episodes I don't remember/only vaguely recall. I did, however, watch "Flashover" again. It always makes me laugh that Julie apparently went out and found a new husband about five minutes after the divorce, and started cranking out kids about five minutes after that -- the original case happened during their divorce, and now four years later she has a kid in pre-school. That marriage was over long before she pulled the plug, I know, it just amuses me.
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1 hour ago, Dimity said:
I recently read an article that said studies have shown that for most people their musical taste solidifies while they are in their teens and that even into adulthood and middle age this is the music you still prefer. This is certainly true for me.
Not for me; I listened to a lot of glam metal and heavy metal back then, and hardly ever listen to any of that now, especially heavy metal.
1 hour ago, Dimity said:Other studies suggest that people stop listening to new music when they are around 30. Somewhat true for me although a little drastic.
Yeah, somewhat true for me, too -- even now I haven't stopped listening to new music, but I know far less current music than I did when I was young. Whenever there's a music category on Jeopardy, I cross my fingers most of the clues are about songs before 2000, or at least before 2010.
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My parents got their first motorhome when I was six, so I got to do all the outdoor stuff that way, without being forced to be around kids I didn't know. I'd frequently meet someone my age at a campground and wind up hanging out with them, but I could be by myself whenever I wanted. Best of both worlds, just like being an only child but having kids my age on the block -- I always had someone to play with when I wanted, but didn't have to have another kid in my space when I didn't want to.
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6 minutes ago, proserpina65 said:
Was that what it was in? I missed the exact item.
Yep. Once he had a reaction, Stripper DJ asked Jay if there was crab in it. Jay said yes, more precisely crab stock, as he finds a splash of it adds to the umami flavor of the guacamole.
It's hard to believe a chef could see the symptoms that guy was experiencing, hear him ask if the dish has crab in it, and NOT have the light bulb go on that this was an allergic reaction happening.
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19 hours ago, fairffaxx said:
I made those & followed the directions about taking them out of the oven promptly at the end of the cooking time. But even after they were not only cooled but chilled, they never did really set up properly. I used a glass baking pan -- should I have increased the time due to that?
Glass is what I used (lined with foil, per the recipe, even though I have no idea why that was necessary) and mine was set right in the middle of the range given for baking time.
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13 hours ago, Annber03 said:
Thor and Flower seemed pretty eager to go upstairs with the others instead of stayi in the basement with them.
I thought that out of character of Flower. When she supposedly got sucked off, the basement ghosts said she would come down and visit with them, she treated them like people. Nancy, specifically, is part of their throuple. Flower is all about equality and fairness, so it didn't make sense for her to switch gears to go along with Thor's ruse.
8 hours ago, shura said:Do people who have a serious food allergy just sample hors d'oeuvres without asking what’s in them beforehand? Just a thought.
To be fair, no one is expecting crab stock in guacamole!
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Ugh on Flower and Thor, as always, but I enjoyed the rest of this (that which I saw, anyway, I wound up watching this via the CBS app rather than my satellite dish and, as is not uncommon, it decided to be an asshole a couple of brief times; I’ll watch properly on Paramount+ this weekend <grrr>).
Good on Isaac calling off a wedding that was, as odd as this sounds for two ghosts who’ve been knocking about for this long, far too soon if it ever should happen at all. They can always reconnect him and Nigel in the future, but they don’t tie him down now. Good writing choice.
Having decided to ignore her first episode and establish Carol as an unfeeling loon, her marrying Baxter is also a good writing choice, as she doesn’t need to be sucked off to explain why we only ever see her occasionally yet allowing us to indeed see her occasionally for laughs.
Puritan Patience’s revenge, combined with that of the basement ghosts not knowing it was coming but choosing not to tell about it, ha! I look forward to seeing how Isaac gets out of it. I was sure they’d revisit her horrible fate, but didn’t know it would come this soon until Flower mentioned someone talking to her in the well.
Even though I’d already seen it, Isaac’s dream about the dinosaur-loving stripper made me laugh again. As did Isaac learning the stripper had been born without a sense of smell and his later glee at the possibility of Chris (?) becoming a ghost. (Also Hetty and Alberta going down to view his chest upon learning EMTs were doing compression; stripper dude does absolutely nothing for me clothed, but that is a nice set of abs.)
I also enjoyed the return of “We were on a respite!” and the stripper/DJ so thoroughly rolling with these bizarrely empty rooms for his Woodstone gigs.
Same with the return of Sass’s insistence he had sex 43 times and it’s not at all fake to know the specific number.
Least successful season so far, but still a good watch and a solid finale; I'm looking forward to season four.
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32 minutes ago, EtheltoTillie said:
I did enjoy summer camp, though, where we shared bunkhouses.
I never went to summer camp; it sounded like a punishment to me, having to spend time with kids I didn't know, in shared quarters, with communal dining and forced activities. At the time, I only knew one friend who went to camp, so as a kid it seemed like something that only happened in books, and somehow all those books were set in NY or elsewhere in the East, so I thought it was a regional thing and her parents, here in L.A., were just weird. As a little bit of an older kid, it popped up in movies and TV shows (where, of course, wacky hijinks - or, you know, spree killings - ensued), but fictional was still my primary exposure. Finally I got old enough to meet enough people to realize, duh, it was a thing plenty of real kids from all kinds of places had done. Still not anything I'd have been interested in, but at least I was no longer so ignorant!
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That's two wins in a row without landing on a single DD for Weckiai. Of course, they doomed Amy and Angelus in those two games, so it can go either way.
I laughed when Ken asked Angelus to clarify how much that meant when he said he would "shoot the moon" on his first DD. James's "all the chips" gesture became accepted, but in general they make you explicitly say you're betting it all/making it a true DD.
I had no idea a cube for a super square was an existing saying; I heard a character on Cold Case say it -- Stillman was asked if he was a square back in the time period of the old case they were investigating, and he said oh, he was a cube -- and thought it was a really cute way of saying he was beyond square, not knowing the writer hadn't come up with it. I know a lot of "before my time" vernacular, but had never come across (or at least never registered) that one before.
I ran cities, stock symbols, and 1950s and got all but the missed DD in diaries, but missed two each in siblings and heart, so it wasn't my best first round but it wasn't bad. Certainly better than either of my first rounds in last night's Masters games.
But I was way off my game in DJ; I didn't run anything. I got all but the TS in Fast &/Or Furious, but missed two in word origins and three each in all the rest.
I got FJ, but had no idea Asterix was a French comic hero, or a French anything, I was just concentrating on the year and France seemed right; I knew the Soviet Union and U.S. had already done it, and was pretty sure it was a western European country rather than one of the Asian countries that came next. Then my brain finally incorporated the name, which is decidedly non-Asian, so, yep, I was in the right part of the world -- it had to be France or the U.K. I was pretty sure France was the first of those two, so that was my response. If I knew anything about French comic books (I know very little about American comic books, so that's definitely outside my wheelhouse), there would have been a lot less thought required.
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2 hours ago, PRgal said:
I haven't tried anything yet, but I absolutely refuse to try anything with THC. I'm worried about the high.
CBD - which is what the liquid is - doesn't have THC (CBD and THC are both found in marijuana, and THC is the one that causes a high).
I know during a previous discussion of CBD's effectiveness, I did a little research and posted results, but, alas, that was in the old Chit Chat thread that went poof and had to be replaced by the new one. There's a little discussion in the Health & Wellness forum, but that was later. I'm too lazy tonight to update my research in any depth, but this article from Harvard Medical School seems like a decent summary of what we do and don't yet know about the benefits of CBD.
To get back to peeves,
QuoteHandheld dryer. I think I'm going to ask if the hairdryer has to be so OTT hot. I've actually yelled "ow" when the hot air hits my ear or neck.
I don't use a hair dryer (I have curly hair, and it's happier being air dried), but I was once at a friend's house and was asked to show her how to repair a wire. I said I use a heat gun to shrink the tubing and wasn't sure a hair dryer would get hot enough to do the job in anything resembling a timely fashion if at all, and she laughed and said, "Oh, wait until you feel the Hot setting on my dryer; it's epic." OMG. I cannot imagine aiming that thing at my scalp! (She said she uses the Medium setting for the roots and then only switches to Hot when she's just dealing with hair, but sometimes twists her wrist wrong and gets a bust of ridiculously hot air on her ear or neck like you're describing.)
Seems like something your stylist should ask you if you're comfortable with, not just spring on you.
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12 minutes ago, EtheltoTillie said:
What's the deal with Yogesh? I'm not familiar with him.
When he appeared in this year's ToC, I vaguely remembered that many people took issue with some social media posts he made after his initial run of games. So I went back to that season's thread and skimmed through what was said at the time. I suspect if I delved further into it, I'd agree with this take, but I've never bothered to delve.
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If I ever make those "fudgy lemon brownies" (horrible title!) again, I'll put more lemon in the batter to see if I like them even more that way, but once I got the glaze on I indeed liked the lemon content of the finished product.
I gave a third to my parents and a third to a friend, figuring a third would be how much I'd eat while they were reasonably fresh. Sure enough, I have only one square left.
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I love when showrunners know going in it's their last season, so they can take the time to lead up to something that feels like a proper ending. We'll see if they manage to send the Conners off in a satisfying way.
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26 minutes ago, shapeshifter said:
And you're sure your parents aren't turning the captions on?😉 👴 👵 🦻
Netflix is their account, Paramount+ is my friend's. No, she doesn't use captions, but the point is there is no one - other than P+ - turning them on. They're just suddenly on, and there's no option in Settings to turn them off, just to manually turn them off once a program starts (which means clicking Down to bring up a couple of icons, one of which is for Captions, click Down again (even though it's up, not down, the screen, but I'll let that one go) to highlight that icon, then move the checkmark from English to none and then hit Back for the damn program to actually play the way I want). And then repeat that process the next time the app is used. And the next time ...
I don't care if they want to make On the default now instead of Off; maybe their data shows a majority of viewers use them. I do care that I can't change that default, or at least cannot find the option to do so in any of the logical places I have clicked around looking for it.
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11 minutes ago, peacheslatour said:
We have to be so careful to make sure Elizabeth doesn't glide past us when we come in and go out.
I'm very lucky - Riley has zero interest in going outdoors, so she's not a problem around doors. Maddie and Baxter would always trot out the door when I came in, so they could roll around on the driveway (yeah, I don't know), but then I'd say "Okay, come on" and they'd trot right back in.
They were remarkable cats in that regard. In the front yard, I'd go out with them and never be more than a few feet away (and only during daytime), but I could let them out in the backyard and they'd stay put without me there (but I still only did that during the day; at night, I was right there). I was still usually out with them, but I could go back inside. On the rare occasions they decided to go to the neighbor's yard, I could call out, "Come back here, please" and they would! I was NOT used to that from cats.
Back before I knew they could be trusted without me staying in the yard with them the whole time, there was a day when they had fierce cases of cabin fever after many days of rain, so, once it was dry but still cold, I gave in and bundled myself up to sit on the patio to supervise their exploration of the yard. I fell asleep, only for about half an hour, but woke up and panicked because they weren't there. That's because they were back in the warm house, looking at me like, "Duh, Mom, it's cold out there."
The coyote population has grown so much here in the years since I had those two (poor coyotes, we've turned so much of their habitat into our housing, plus well-intentioned but horribly-misguided people feed them), none of that would be safe now, so they lived at the right time. I'm so glad Riley wants nothing to do with the world outside our house.
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Unless he put it in his contract that he gets to keep his wardrobe, Ken doesn't own the ties. It's not clear if Alex owned his wardrobe, as when much of it was donated - to an organization serving those previously incarcerated or homeless, so the clothes could be worn on job interviews - the announcement was made by producers on behalf of the show and his family.
(Rue McClanahan famously negotiated this into her contract on The Golden Girls - which is not the norm, which is why actors notoriously steal a favorite piece when their shows end - allowing her estate to auction off Blanche's clothes to raise a nice chunk of change for charity.)
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1 hour ago, StatisticalOutlier said:
Max is doing this thing where they turn off the captions every time you tune into a program.
While Paramount+ has recently decided to turn the captions on. I figured there would be an option in Settings to change the default to off, rather than needing to go through the four-click process of turning them off each time I start watching something (once I do that, it will leave them off for anything else I watch in that session, but the next time I use the app, there the captions are again), but no. You can turn off Auto-Play and something else there, but not the captions.
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8 hours ago, ABay said:
I could travel with someone else but only if we have our own rooms. I don't want to be with people 24 hours a day, even people I like.
Same here, plus I somehow have a lot of snorers in my life and I cannot sleep in the same room with that racket!
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1 minute ago, Yeah No said:
My husband and I even took separate vacations at times.
I wonder if that's unusual; a very brief internet search indicates it's common, but I didn't do a proper one.
Among the couples I know, it is indeed the norm -- they have a mix of family trips (if they have kids), couple trips, individual trips with their respective friends, and maybe individual solo trips (I say maybe because it only applies to about half of them; there seem to be a good number of people who don't like traveling alone*). My parents had that mix (well, except for my dad going on friend trips; he hates people even more than I do, so he has very few friends and I don't think he ever liked any of them enough to travel with them), so that's the norm with which I grew up.
*Which always stands out to me. Not as anything bad, just as so different from my own preference, as I love traveling alone most of all forms of travel. I can do a weekend trip with just about anyone I like, or an occasional week-long trip with a very short list of people, but to do that regularly, or take a longer trip, no way in hell with anyone I know.
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42 minutes ago, Yeah No said:
My family always put a priority on travel and I'm glad they did. I got to see a lot of the country and Canada before I was 20.
Same here -- by the time I graduated high school, I'd been to more than half the states (and a bit into Canada, but I didn't travel farther abroad until I was on my own). I love traveling.
My cat doesn't like anyone but me, so when my parents (or my friend, at Thanksgiving when my parents and I are gone together) take care of her she's quite lonely, which means I haven't been comfortable being gone more than a week at a time since I adopted her, and these days I can't go anywhere as she needs medication every 12 hours (and it can't just be put in her food), so I still have quite a backlog of places I want to explore, but I'm glad to have already been able to see more places than many people are ever able to, when I still hopefully have many good exploring years left.
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"I gave up the restaurant to be with Neville" -- Yeah, which was stupid, and now you've figured that out. But Jackie as Louise's campaign helper (or, you know, "Chief Communications Officer") could turn into an amusing train wreck depending on how they proceed with this after Jackie's disastrous debut.
However niche, this hardware magazine of Dan's buddy is an actual printed publication, so how can someone keeping one of those afloat today be so stupid as to just ask his friend, rather than doing his homework and asking Dan to connect him with Ben about writing this article? I know, I know, why am I looking for logic?
"I did help him pay his mortgage and make him a partner in my business, so I guess I had this coming" as Ben's response to Darlene asking him to help Dan write an article he's in no way qualified to write was a refreshing acknowledgment, but then I was pissed for a while by how Dan was treating Ben. In the end, Dan submitting Ben's article and Ben getting a monthly article out of it eased my fury a bit; I hope this gives Ben a boost.
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I don't like risotto; rice does nothing for me to begin with, so a rice-based dish is never going to be my thing and risotto is way too starchy for me. So I've never tried to make it, just know the basics of how it's done and that it's the kiss of death on TC.
I liked revisiting the Hall of Fame, to see when risotto worked, and, yes, got a kick at the Hall of Shame, remembering when it very much did not, but they could have included more there for how many people got sent packing for that dish.
I thought with the white chocolate I'd have found Amar's too sweet, even if I did like risotto, but he knows far more than me.
This wasn't the most interesting episode, for lack of personal tidbits and behind-the-scenes info, but still pleasant.
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My parents were older than was typical at the time when they had me, too -- 32 in the early '70s.
And I did wear hand-me-downs even as an only child; my best friend had an older sister, and whenever she had clothes that no longer fit/she no longer wanted, she made a pile and my friend and I went through and negotiated over who got what. (Our moms were really close friends, and our families spent a lot of time together, so we were honorary members of each other's families [still are], that's why I got to act like another sister when it came to the clothes.) I had no issue with hand-me-downs -- they were new to me.