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On 5/22/2023 at 7:46 AM, laredhead said:
I was watching a rerun of HH a couple of days ago, and realized how often the HH's are shown in the kitchen of either the house they are leaving, or the house they bought and they are eating just a plate of scrambled eggs. Nothing else, just eggs.
Now you've done it.
There was a rerun last night where they were cooking while talking and, yep--eggs. So of course I start really watching, and the lady was cutting some red things over the sink--maybe tomatoes? But the plates had only eggs on them as they carried them, and they never showed them eating anything--next we saw them the guy was on the couch and he had just a to-go cup of presumably coffee in his hands.
I bet I'll never again be able to just vaguely watch as they're cooking something.
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The problem I have with dietary recommendations is they don't take into account the individual. This is from a short article about blood glucose levels and diabetes:
"The huge differences that we found in the rise of blood sugar levels among different people who consumed identical meals highlights why personalized eating choices are more likely to help people stay healthy than universal dietary advice," co-author Eran Segal, with the department of Computer Science and Applied Math at Weizmann, said during a press conference.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/huge-differences-even-when-people-ate-the-same-foods/
Outlier that I am, I've always had a feeling "universal" advice isn't necessarily all that universal, just from knowing what my personal experience is.
I cook very very rarely. Almost all of my meals come from fast casual restaurants (one step up from McDonald's, Jack in the Box, Taco Bell). I'm not addicted to that food, but I like it and it's easy. I can make simple stuff at home, like spaghetti, and I even have some dishes I make and have enough to put some in the freezer, and I'll deploy that periodically. But that's once, maybe twice, a week. Otherwise, I'm eating out. If I keep salad at home, it almost always goes bad, or I feel like I have to eat it even if I'm not hungry.
So I should add that I almost always eat once a day, usually in the middle of the afternoon. Before that, I'm generally not hungry, so I don't eat.
And I wonder if there are others out there who actually don't need food when they first get up but the experts tell them it's the most important meal of the day so they eat it, and how many calories does that add up to over time? Or worse, eating three meals a day. I bet if I ate three meals a day I'd be as big as a house, for no reason because I wouldn't be eating because I'm actually hungry.
What I've discovered is that when I'm not forced to eat at certain times, I naturally gravitate to something that has a name--intermittent fasting. And I realized it by giving my body the freedom to do what it thinks best.
However, I've been able to do that because my eating is my eating. I've never been responsible for feeding anyone else (and actually can't even fathom the tyranny of having to fee someone three meals a day), and know it's a luxury.
Something else I observed is that when I met Mr. Outlier 25 years ago, I switched from Diet Coke to regular Coke because that's what he drank and it's vastly better than that diet swill (when I taste diet drinks now I honestly can't believe I drank that shit and I think I thought I liked it!). With the switch to regular Coke I didn't gain any weight at all, and I certainly didn't purposely lower my other calorie intake to make room for it (although I recall that some studies found that people who drink diet drinks DO take in more food calories so maybe it was just a matter of backing off those--who knows).
Then a few years ago I switched from Sweet'n Low in iced tea to actual sweet tea and I haven't seen any changes due to that, either, which boggles the mind because have you SEEN the bag of sugar they pour into the sweet tea dispenser and the giant whisk they stir it with?? For the last few months I've been drinking about a quart of sweet tea a day (that's what being in the South will do to you), and I know I haven't limited calories in any other way but it's still not making me gain weight.
I'm not sure what my point is, other than to point out that bodies are complicated, and to encourage people to evaluate advice. Like warnings to stay away from sugary sodas. Almost invariably the warning is related to obesity (and diabetes). But my body has proven that it can handle sugary sodas and sweet tea without becoming obese and developing diabetes. So does that advice apply to me?
I've probably told this story before, but I had braces on my teeth when I was in my 30s. I was told, "Don't eat ribs." I asked, "Why not?" The lady was taken aback and said nobody had ever asked that before. (To which I didn't reply, "Because most of your patients are kids and advice like that just goes in one ear and out the other, and even if they heard it they know they're going to ignore it so just let it fly on by, plus asking questions will just make them have to sit in that chair longer.")
I asked what would happen if I ate ribs--would the bbq sauce react with the braces and cause permanent staining of my teeth or something like that? She laughed and said, "Oh, no. You might break a bracket." So I asked, "What happens if I break a bracket?" She said, "Then you'll have to come in and get it fixed."
Okay! That's good information on which to base MY decision whether to eat ribs or not. And as it happens, I almost never eat ribs anyway, preferring soft fatty brisket, so I didn't really need to know what would happen, but I might be able to apply this information to other braces-related activities.
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On 5/15/2023 at 11:51 PM, Rinaldo said:
I've seen Spring and Port Wine (decades ago, and I also read William Goldman's chapter about its source play in The Season), and that's actually an excellent synopsis, of the type that describes the setup and the inciting incident, leaving later details to the actual viewing.
It sounds to me like something a bot might write after being fed the script.
I felt I should watch the movie because I brought it up in the first place, and as I said I generally enjoy kitchen sink dramas. But this one did nothing for me.
I've never particularly liked James Mason, and the mustache he had in this didn't help. Alicia Malone said he got to use his "natural" accent, and that may be so, but I didn't notice because that softness to his voice (or whatever attribute it is) always gives me the creeps, plus he just seemed really wrong for his character. And his character--he was a brute for all those years and then on a dime turned into a loving, and adored, father? Not buying it.
I did enjoy the exterior shots, and I'm always fascinated watching these big families live in those tiny front rooms, always closing the door as they go in and out. I'm always thinking, "Leave the door open, get some air in there!" This one was no exception, so it did accomplish causing certain emotions in me.
Even the happy ending--I always appreciate (but never demand) a happy ending, but movies like this aren't supposed to have happy endings, so it missed on that point, too.
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6 hours ago, EtheltoTillie said:
Upselling the store cards and the worthless warranties is the worst abuse of the employees--and the customers. It's a vile practice.
No doubt. I occasionally read the reddit forum for Walgreens employees, and they hate having to do it. So whenever they ask me I just say "Oh, no thanks" and carry on.
But that's nothing like suggesting fries and a drink with a hamburger, and in fact doing that might make the ordering process go quicker, so the damn customer doesn't stand there staring at the menu board going, "Ummmmm." I realized a long time ago that I could NEVER be a waitress because nothing drives me crazier than someone dithering when ordering.
I actually enjoy the challenge of making it as easy on the employee as possible. Like at Chipotle, I time when I state each ingredient, staying ahead just enough that they ever pause but they don't get behind and have to ask me to repeat, either. I wonder if they even notice.
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8 hours ago, Bastet said:
It was the happiest I'd ever been, though, because it was a great fit for me and I was on my way to finally doing what I was most passionate about.
I loved law school, but for a very different reason. Now, this was back when tuition and fees at my top-tier school were about $300/semester. They got wise and doubled it right after I got out, and it's of course been going up ever since then. But talk about the deal of the century. Since it was a prestigious school, some people were going to get judicial clerkships or very well-paying jobs and there was competition to be among them, but there was no air of desperation due to crippling costs for the average Joes.
I had zero problem adjusting to the notion that a 75 was a decent grade, an 80 was an honor grade, and only one or two people in a class of 100 would be in the low 90s. I also had zero problem understanding and accepting that I wasn't going to be at the top of the class, and if that's what I wanted I would have gone to a different cheap in-state-tuition school where the competition wouldn't be as fierce.
I'm eternally grateful I didn't do that because I learned that my favorite thing in the world is hanging out with really smart people in a common situation with some time to kill. We were obviously there voluntarily, and paying (a little) for the privilege, but there was still some "fighting the man" going on, grousing about whatever oppression we were feeling at the hands of the law school professors and administration. And it was like a small town (~1500 students), with gossip and romance and intrigue. And the ability to take a nap on a couch in the library and put a piece of paper on you that says, "Please wake me up at 2:45" and somebody would.
I enjoyed learning to think like a lawyer (although it's antithetical to thinking like an internet denizen and making life kind of miserable for me these days), and sometimes the coursework was interesting. But the best part was the smart people I was around, many of whom were also very funny.
I bet that sort of experience wouldn't even be possible any more because of the pressure of getting a job at all, never mind one that will pay enough to cover the cost. That's a shame because with the right group of people, law school can do a scarily effective job of molding your brain AND be a fun place.
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8 hours ago, seacliffsal said:
Gil could be more interested in payments from the show more than in Dom. As I recall, he had some debt so maybe he thought this would be a good move.
I swear I remember that he had been on another reality show before going on this one. One that he himself made or something?
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On 5/17/2023 at 10:04 PM, Jaded said:
Came across this today apparently it's an older article on Bored Panda that was recently updated.
35 Times Bosses Wrote Such Delusional Notes, These Employees Just Had To Shame Them OnlineI didn't think some of them were all that unreasonable. Like the one that doesn't allow personal phone use while at work. I remember when people first started having cell phones and would get calls at work on them. Nothing screamed "this is a personal call" louder than a cell phone ringing.
Of course, I come from a time when I worked as a file clerk, and for the 8 of us file clerks there was one phone for us to use, sitting on a desk over away from our desks.
Something else that kept running through my mind when reading that site was a place I do mystery shopping for. One of the things they do is have the shopper order in a way to give the employee the opportunity to offer fries and/or a drink. So it's obviously important to the company, but the employees don't always do it, and I just can't understand why not.
Why isn't "fries and a drink?" the first thing to come out of their mouths when the customer orders? Instead, all too often they'll say, "Anything else?" or just look at me. I just don't understand why someone wouldn't do it. The requirement is clear and unambiguous and easily satisfied, but there are still employees who don't comply. If I had that job I'd say "fries and a drink?" like I had Tourette Syndrome.
I just can't imagine being their manager and saying for the umpteenth time, "Every time a person orders, offer them fries and a drink." And then getting a mystery shop report that says they didn't do it.
As for the site itself, I'll point out that one of the "delusional notes" is a sign that comes from signs4fun.com. I highly doubt it is policy for any company.
https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/645c89d48a840_qu50gxbdjzx91__700.jpg
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14 minutes ago, cinsays said:
should have looked to see what year this was filmed. wonder if she's still there and happy
My DirecTV grid says it was from 2020, and the copyright date may have been 2019--I can't remember for sure.
I'm sure she's still there because she didn't have a truck to move the tiny house, and she was going to have to have an additional truck to move the greenhouse.
Or, let's say I'm sure the house is still there. 😀
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3 hours ago, debbie311 said:
San Francisco couple - when she asked what was "fancier" quartz or marble, it was positively cringe-worthy.
Mr. Outlier and I were discussing this episode over dinner. He agrees that she used the word "fancier," and the realtor replied, "Marble is more expensive."
Also, we both remember that I looked at the copyright date at the end of the episode, and it was 2021. So I did some poking around and it originally aired in June 2021:
https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/94184-house-hunters/?do=findComment&comment=6842100
and again in November 2022:
https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/94184-house-hunters/?do=findComment&comment=7732065
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59 minutes ago, Browncoat said:
I loved the addition of Margaret inviting Laura to dance.
I liked that she did that. It apparently didn't happen in the book, and I can guarantee that it never would have happened when I was in 6th grade (1968-1969). Girls didn't dance together, ever. Even fast dancing with no touching. One girl, one boy, no exceptions.
But I'm still glad it happened in the movie.
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1 minute ago, Kel Varnsen said:
No actual cake anywhere near it.
My condolences. 😀
Isn't having cake and ice cream together classic, like at kids' birthday parties? Or was that just my neck of the woods? The problem with that combination is that the cake has icing and I think it's a little too much when paired with ice cream. My Safeway swirl was just cake and ice cream, no icing, and just perfect (even to a sugar fiend like me).
Dang. Now I want one.
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I saw it in a theater when it came out last summer. There was almost no information on it so I had to go in kind of blind, and I'm glad I did. Aubrey Plaza's really good, and I agree that the scene where she picks up the car is tense.
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On 4/30/2023 at 4:15 PM, Kel Varnsen said:
Interesting, I have never had an ice cream cake with actual baked cake in it. Not from DQ or Baskin Robbins or even the local place we get them from.
This got me scared because 50 years ago, I used to get a cylindrical ice cream cake at Safeway--one layer of chocolate cake and one layer of vanilla ice cream, rolled into a swirl. I loved that thing and have always been tempted to get an ice cream cake when I see them in the freezer at Baskin Robbins, to replicate this very fond memory. I would have been EXTREMELY disappointed if I'd shelled out for one and it was just ice cream.
But I checked into ordering an ice cream cake online at Baskin Robbins, and they have you select the cake flavor and the ice cream flavor--it looks like they have a layer of cake on the bottom, and a layer of ice cream on the top.
My swirl thing had multiple layers because it was two thin layers that got rolled pretty tight, so I'm not sure I'd be happy with BR's version. Probably for the better.
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10 hours ago, laredhead said:
All she wanted was a house that would impress friends and family. She kept insisting that they had worked hard for a long time, and they deserved a reward in the form of a very expensive house. This couple couldn't have been out of their early or mid-30's. Geeeeeze! Wait until they are in their 50's and she can say they worked a long time.
I'll take heat for this, but I get sooo annoyed at young people, especially those who work in tech, who talk about how hard they've worked. Try working in a chicken processing plant all day, never mind doing your work without opportunities to put a load of laundry in the washer, take your dog for a walk, or do some Instagram scrolling. Then do it for 40 straight years.
1 hour ago, snarts said:The San Francisco episode was labeled as new but I swear I'd seen it before. The Eichler home they don't chose brought it all back. While I hadn't immediately remembered the couple, she annoyed me all over again. Why do so many people chose homes just to impress others?
What got me was that she said it so many times and I thought, Does she not realize how that comes across? But then I realized she DOES realize how that comes across but she doesn't see anything wrong with it. Her husband seems so opposite, and I felt kind of bad because he seemed fairly pleasant and pragmatic but he's yoked to someone whose thinking is, "We should spend every penny they approved us for." Because they always know more about personal spending that the actual person does.
(But actually, that fits with what her world view seems to be--what others think is what matters.)
I'm almost positive I've seen that Eichler house on this show before--I remember the side view with that heinous addition. (Or maybe amarante's theory about a serial manipulator is true and their m.o. is to tack on a big rectangular addition, so there's more than one of these with that silhouette.)
I assumed it had another living area, what with all that square footage, but nope. Just one couch facing a window. I honestly can't remember if the expanded Eichler house I'd seen before had that configuration, and it's possible I just didn't notice the first time around because it's one of those staging tricks, where you don't notice something.
But I do remember someone before wanting high-end and having to ask which was more expensive--quartz or marble. So I'm back to thinking this was a rerun, but I don't remember being appalled at how shitty the flip house was. Or maybe that's because I didn't know as much about them back then.
I can't remember which house they ended up with. Was it the flip? IIRC they picked the one with the filled-in fireplace (which I associate with a flip). At least if you leave the fireplace opening intact you can put candles or something in there; I thought just having it bricked over was awful, and I suspect turning it back into a working fireplace will be super expensive, if even possible at all. I'm kind of glad that's the focal point of her living room because nothing says "high end" like a bricked-in fireplace with photos around it to try to disguise it.
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11 hours ago, MOMMY41 said:
Why are these girls dressed up like they are going to the final rose ceremony on the Bachelor?
The illusion in the V on Jasmine's dress was awful. Illusion is almost always bad, but this took it to a new level. I expected better from a pageant girl.
9 hours ago, ChiMama said:Plus what was that ish about Kirsten’s “strong personality” making it hard for him to be the LEADER of the home?!
I find his "leader of the home" thing so repellent. Maybe I just don't understand how that works, but as much as I don't like Kirsten, I'm coming around to the notion of why shouldn't the "leader" of the home be the one to buy it?
And I'll admit that I don't "get" religion, but it just seems crazy the number of people on this show who believe that God has led them there. To a cheesy fake reality show for something as sacred as marriage.
15 minutes ago, Starlight925 said:Did you hear the producer gasp after Airris' decision when he was talking about what he had hoped for? Move my leg here, harder, that's it.....sex talk. What a piece of work.
What's hilarious is that he specified it was "married sex" he was looking forward to. Because "married sex" has such a fantastic reputation.
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19 hours ago, amarante said:
No one uses high privacy fence around a pool because it would be dangerous as well as unsightly.
Do you mean in those open subdivisions where not all houses have fences around the back yard? Would a privacy fence in that situation be unsightly because it's the only one around? I can see that, but I don't see how it would be dangerous.
(It also just occurred to me that these HHs are always talking about their privacy, but I've never heard it enter into a conversation about hanging around in your bathing suit in full view of everyone through a wrought iron fence.)
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Who is writing the movie descriptions for the DirecTV on-screen guide? Tomorrow there's a 1970 movie called Spring and Port Wine: "A British millworker orders his teenage daughter to eat herring, and she stubbornly refuses."
It sounds like it's a kitchen sink drama, and I generally like those. And if it is a kitchen sink drama, I have no problem believing that the father will order his daughter to eat herring, and that she will refuse. But to have that as the entire synopsis?
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3 hours ago, Tom Holmberg said:
Well, they are only killing Nazis, so that's okay. :)
That's part of what's so confounding. I can almost kind of understand a super violent movie appealing to people in East Texas (Lufkin), but when they find out it's Nazis being killed I would think they'd consider that a no-go.
In the theater in Chattanooga, Tennessee, today, the 2:40 screening of Sisu is in a 400+ seat theater! It sold 8 tickets. Doesn't sound like much unless you compare it to the other 2D movies starting at about that same time.
Guardians of the Galaxy: 5 sold
Super Mario Brothers: 0 sold
Book Club: 4 sold
Evil Dead Rise: 0 sold
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret: 0 sold
Hypnotic: 5 sold
John Wick: 4 sold
Knights of the Zodiac: 2 sold
Fool's Paradise: 2 sold
Rally Road Racers: 0 sold
BlackBerry: 5 sold (I saw this last week and greatly enjoyed it)
Big George Foreman: 0 sold
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant: 0 sold
Air: 0 sold
Sisu outsold every other movie in its time slot, in fact selling almost double the number of tickets for any other movie in that time slot.
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On 5/12/2023 at 9:15 PM, BlueSkies said:
I almost got scammed by these people in Times Square. I was not aware of this until today. This stuff should be illegal. It left a total bad taste in my mouth toward NYC
I don't have enough internet to watch videos. What is the scam?
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On 5/9/2023 at 1:35 PM, supposebly said:
I always felt sorry for all children having to learn to read and write in English.
I feel sorrier for adults having to learn to read and write in English. I can't even begin to imagine how hard that would be.
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3 hours ago, AimingforYoko said:
This ain't for everybody, but if you enjoy Nazis getting annihilated in graphic manner, see this movie.
Do you have any clue how people are hearing about this movie? I'm always on the lookout for foreign and independent movies and this one got on my radar--I'm all for seeing a movie set in Lapland. But the reported gore turned me away.
It's been showing in theaters that generally show only mainstream fare AND there are tickets sold for pretty much every screening (albeit maybe only two screenings a day for Sisu), while other more mainstream movies will have zero tickets sold. Look at the list of cities where it's showing in Texas--not all of them are suburbs of major cities. I'm just shocked that a movie by a Finnish director set in Lapland is showing in Odessa or Wichita Falls.
https://www.tributemovies.com/movie/Texas/Sisu/169214/
This popularity was pushing me back into planning to see Sisu, but I just re-read the Metacritic page (it got a score of 70 there) with snippets from critic reviews, and I'm back to thinking it's too gory for my taste. But I'm still can't figure out how it's generating enough notice and interest in these far-flung places to put people in the seats.
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On 5/9/2023 at 9:53 PM, ChiMama said:
Speaking of Debbie’s head, I don’t know how she can stand that long frizzy mop of hair. It must be so hot — especially in Morocco!
Speaking of hair...Daniele's. I have a friend who has hair just like that and she says it's like living "under a fucking sheep."
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I was 13 in 1970 and never read this book, or any books targeted to people my age--I jumped straight to In Cold Blood and The Catcher in the Rye and for some reason Ian Fleming novels (probably explains a lot). So I was completely unfamiliar with the Margaret book, but I loved the preview and I loved the movie. I thought the girl playing Nancy was stellar. (Although I noticed both Margaret and her mother doing the french tuck on their shirts, and I don't recall anybody doing that back then.)
But the discussion of the movie got me to thinking . How is it that all of us know "We must increase our bust"? I think it's the same phenomenon as the "Comet" song; I asked Mr. Outlier if he knew it and he did, even though we grew up in different places ten years apart. I'm guessing this type of "culture" got spread by military kids, and kids who moved to new towns because their dad got a different job, and then you have kids from different places going to summer camp, and maybe going to visit their grandparents or other relatives and interacting with other kids where the relatives live.
I find it charming that something like "we must increase our bust" or the Comet song was that pervasive, solely through word of mouth, kid to kid. I'm glad I was part of it.
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House Hunters - General Discussion
in House Hunters
She said, "I'm an associate vice-president at a staffing company."
She also said she's 29. I wonder what flaws she's using fillers to "fix" because the fix makes her look really old. Or maybe I associate fillers with someone much older than she is. Whatever...she was hard to look at.
In the penultimate scene where they're making their decision, she looked particularly awful. In the final scene in the new house, it looked like her face had settled down a little.
Hmm...I wonder if she's lying about being 29. That's the danger of claiming to be younger than you are--if people believe you they're liable to think you look like hell.