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They'll lose to Houston or the Twins in the playoffs and that'll help me. 😁 ⚾

I can think of 500,000 things.

I thought she was possibly just exhausted and overwhelmed so I went back and watched her reaction. Wow, she looked pissed. And she kinda muttered "good job" and looked away. Yeah, it was a tough loss but, damn, pull up your pants and act like an adult ffs. The worst I've ever thought about Sarah was that she's boring. Now I'll remember her as boring with a side order of crybaby. Maybe that's why her husband calls her "baby."

I'm finally watching, or rather I'm finally fast forwarding thru most of the final. Dorian has a sob story! Nick has literally the opposite of a sob story. Sarah has a story. Did you know she was in the military? It's Season 10!!! (This "season" was soooo loooong I actually forgot about Fred. I was a teenager when this season started.) Round 1: Nick's beer pong looked like beer vomit. Aaron tried to pronounce superfluous. Joe tried to pronounce yin and yang. Dorian's dish looked really delicious, but was it Masterchef Amazing Season 10 Extraordinary? I don't know because I hit the ff button. Octopus is always gross. Gordon called it visually inviting but who wants an invitation to a horror show on a plate? "Tonight I have made for you some tentacles . . ." Round 2: Nick wants to recreate the flavor you might get from the smell of an old book. Those are not words I have ever heard together before and I am old. "Yum! This tastes like an old book smells." Did someone yell "You're a damn fool!" from the balcony? No adult human should ever refer to their spouse/partner as "baby" in public. Dorian's daughter is really cute. And again her food looks absolutely delicious. Subha, King of Beautiful Plating, declares Nick's book disaster as "best plating ever!" What is old book flavor? Apparently it's the flavor of gray goo and raw fish. Yum. Gordon says Nick has "such maverickness." Bye Nick. Why didn't a single person tell Nick that was a terrible and stupid idea and it looked gross and no one would ever want to eat it. How many books died during Nick's quest for mediocrity? Don't worry everyone, Nick will be fine. Boys like him always fail upwards. Joe's going to mentor him. (I broke my eyeballs from rolling them so hard.) Sarah cooked something. Round 3: Dorian's dessert is apparently her mom's hands, on a plate. Or something. I ff'd thru almost all of Round 3. I'm fine with Dorian. Her food looked delicious and this win probably will help her family a lot. Sarah was there. Question - there are 9 previous winners (I assume) but I only saw 8 in the balcony. Was one missing? I've only watched 4 seasons and parts of others so I don't really know them all. Hi Dino! Words and phrases I never want to hear again: me on a plate, my food journey, when I started cooking we were too poor to buy food so I practiced on shoes, umami, maverickness... This list is endless. Who am I kidding? I'll be back for Season 11 if only for the snark.

About 15 years ago I was going thru some family papers and I found the receipt from the hospital for my birth. God knows why Mom&Dad kept that. Anyway the bill came to $99. Won't tell you the year but the wheel had been invented.

I watched my first ever episode of UK Masterchef today and I simply did not understand what was going on! First of all, nobody yelled and nobody threw food. Nobody made condescending and rude comments. Nobody spit anything out or used the F word. Nobody overused the words Awesome, Amazing, Season, and/or 10. And nobody was dressed in overalls. How can we be expected to enjoy ourselves without all that? In all seriousness the big thing for me was every dish looked and sounded super delicious. And the judges were actually helpful and nice. Time is really spent on cooking and we, the audience, actually get to learn things. And everyone was super British (obviously), which I love. I don't think I'll watch Gordon's Ego Show tonight. I'll just wait and see what you all say and maybe watch later.

I tried but couldn't handle Episode 1. I'm going to try what you did and see if I can pick up in Ep 2. But not today.

I just finished this. It was not great but it was far from the worst. I couldn't even watch Another Life and I love Katee Sackhoff. It was completely obvious to me from the beginning that this was a prison simulation of some sort because I watched a movie sometime in the last year which had a very similar plotline (prisoners given the chance to redeem themselves in a simulation). I thought this looked interesting. What I didn't anticipate was the bad acting, asshole characters, poorly drawn characters, and just straight up stupid stuff. Not interesting stupid, like Lost, just stupid. What I liked was Natalie Martinez. She's no great actress but I like her. I also enjoyed watching Kate Bosworth "act" or whatever that was. I guess I liked the idea of the show much better than the execution. I briefly entertained the idea that the final twist would be that they were all in a simulation run by aliens. Asshole aliens. I wish it had been.

omg nicole won!

Nigella Lawson appeared on MC Australia last year (I think). I don't know much about her and I thought she was lovely. She came off, to me, as very nice, helpful, and warm. In her recent appearance on MC US she appeared uncomfortable and was the opposite of those things I listed. I prefer to believe she hates GR and was "forced" to be there. Like GR pulled some strings or called in some favors. Did she even speak to Joe and Aaron? I mean, I wouldn't speak to Joe and Aaron if I was Nigella, so that probably doesn't mean anything. I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt because I just assume Gordon is at fault for everything.

I don't understand the references to Nick and Ball State. Can someone enlighten me? As far as I can tell from his social media, Nick recently graduated from Harvard.

I would call it affluent. Not as posh as parts of Newport and Bristol but definitely up there. Newport and Bristol are also more diverse. Barrington is very very white. I've been in RI many years and Barrington seems to be where lots of professionals move because they don't want their kids to have to attend "urban" schools. Nick seems like a nice kid but I don't think he has had to overcome any obstacles to achieve his dream. But he photographs well. I'm not really interested in who wins now. Way to go show! Awesome 10th season!

Noah? Good god! Nick left a string on his meat. He should have been sent home for that alone. I guess Nick really is the golden boy and designated winner. The only other possible winner is Dorian, based on how much the judges seem to love her not on her cooking. Sarah honestly should just go do some touristy stuff and not bother. Nick is from my state and I know the area where he lives. I wouldn't be surprised if his daddy buys him a restaurant so he can fail upward some more. I don't know a lot about Nigella Lawson but I know she's too good for this shit show. They must have offered her a boatload of $$.

Thank you preeya.

I don't know how to embed tweets but I follow Chef José Andrés @chefjoseandres and his World Central Kitchen. They are currently working in the Bahamas and one video featured Jamie (Hough) who is also volunteering there with Chef JA as well as his own charity which I can't remember the name of (sorry). Jamie's charity also raises money to feed people in disaster areas. He seems like a decent guy.

We'd say roof as in hoof as opposed to roof as in poof. 🙂 (Born and raised in Iowa, lived in New England for 25 years.)

It's all disturbing and possibly more so because of the trainwreck of a season. Excuse me -- this amazing, awesome, magical, trainwreck of a season 10!!! Now I am actually rooting for Noah. He's weird and his food looks like actual shit but he seems like an agreeable dope and I think he'd do a fine job promoting the brand. A brand new season of Great British Bake Off just started. It is also their 10th season. Their amazing, awesome 10th season twist? They started with 13 bakers instead of 12! Get it? A Baker's Dozen! Amazing! (I love GBBO so much.)

I try to remind myself that Micah is only 19 and, I'm making assumptions here, he probably hasn't ever had good role models or any money of his own. Maybe the gofundme was a bad choice but I wonder if Micah has people around him who are encouraging him to make bad choices. He seems like a nice kid and there are a lot of people who might want to help him and there are a lot who might want to victimize him. Heck, the first time I had money of my own I blew it on junk. Lots of young people do. (Actually I still do it.) I will admit that gofundme is bothersome. But Jamie's response (to cut him off and crap on him on reddit) is also troubling. Maybe if some of the older guys tried mentoring Micah it would help. Nothing excuses the show for how they treated him. Does anyone know when the show was taped? Did Gordon follow thru on his vague promise to help Micah? Or does GR just forget when the cameras are off him.

I'm daydreaming that, in the final, it is a race between Anthony&James vs Dave&Irina and they come to the final challenge. Irina must perform this one. She tears it open and the clue reads: "Be likable for a few minutes." A&J cruise to a win and D&I are still out there trying.

Fuck this show and fuck Gordon Ramsey. That was just cruel. Not just Gordon's usual asshattery, actual cruelty. Especially nasty how the camera just lingered on poor Micah as he watched so much happy family bullshit from the sidelines. My shitty family couldn't be bothered to show up at my college graduation and that was 35 years ago and I still remember every bit of how much it hurt me. He will never forget this. Couldn't they have found a friend or a cousin? Did they even try? Did they think crushing a vulnerable young man on TV would be good for ratings? I wish Micah would tell GR to go fuck himself and find himself a real mentor.

So I was just able to watch all of S3. I did have to binge Seasons 1 and 2 because I couldn't remember a bunch of the plot. Binging the first two seasons really brought home just how awful Kate is. But I also think James is awful. From the beginning at the cemetery he's been yelling and ordering people around and mansplaining. Then I guess he was in a bit of shock but that will never excuse fucking Kate while Sarah is at home and 10 months pregnant. The only thing I'll say about season 10 before I spoiler tag everything is this: Chris is going to need a good therapist.

Dino showed up in a commercial for a cooking product. I have no idea what the product was. Spices? Just happy to see Dino.

The ignore function is your friend.

Jess is doing an amazing job seeing as she never had a snowball's chance of winning (unless everyone else died) but she is not giving up. Exactly what would you have her do differently?

Have we ever had a season with so many fake "I Love You"s thrown around?