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I'll agree to disagree on that. It seems to me that when you get to live out the dream of so many, you might want to bring just a little joy and energy to the enterprise, but whatever. Your screen name, however, brings me more than a little joy.

Being a Jeopardy! champ surely can't be more onerous than being a ride-share driver, but Ryan is doing his best to make it seem that way. I never fall asleep during J!, although I came pretty close today.

OMG! You've stumbled on the secret middle name of all pets! I'm actually not kidding. I've been insisting for years that Marie is that mystical name. I've called all my animals, male and female, ____ Marie for decades now. My friends IRL just laugh, but too bad. It is what it is, and now you know, too.

I know it didn't, from the standpoint of simple physics--it was like saying, "You can't walk through this brick wall in one direction, but you can in the other"--and I pushed back against it from the start. If people want to be dicks, they can always find an excuse.

Sorry that you (and the rest of us) are still being exposed to such inconsiderate idiots, and I hope you end up being fine. But the bolded sentence in your post isn't correct. Masks do protect the wearer as well as those around the wearer. Here's just one article of many you can find that explains this. So even though jerkface not wearing one was inexcusably selfish, you did yourself a favor by wearing yours.

It's pretty common for therapists who can't prescribe meds to have a relationship with a psychiatrist who's willing to do so when warranted. You should ask your therapist about that.

I'm guessing that the goats have more ambition and drive than 90 percent of the people on this show.

I think the discussion started around here. The kitchen-gadgets board is in Food & Drink. Don't feel bad. Now I can't find those Chinatown bowls I was talking about.

Very true. My husband was progressively breaking these pretty green fish-pattern bowls I got in Chinatown years ago, and the only place I could find them was on Etsy. Also a cut-glass salad bowl that I broke and he used all the time. Just to spread the blame equally.

But buckle up when you do--yikes!

I have one similar to that, and it works pretty well most of the time. A few years ago, I read a tip that said to use an old-school-type can opener to open blister packs, but it didn't work for me. Maybe I'm just doing it wrong, because I see the same tip all over the place.

That would be a good brand for people with serious booze issues, like the guy in Lost Weekend who hid bottles everywhere around his apartment, including the chandelier. I'm going to look into patenting the Vodka Lock.

You're not alone. There's actually a real thing called "wrap rage," which is just what it sounds like. People go apeshit over uncooperative packaging. And there are millions of injuries--and even amputations, if you can believe it--every year from using all kinds of sharp objects to try opening clamshell, heat-sealed plastic packages. I wouldn't give up on the vodka, though. Do you have some kind of silicone mat you can wrap around the cap? We have a thing called Screwy Louie that works on most jars. Just be careful.

Can you text or email them? Just to have it on record--on your end at least--that you did your best to contact them, so if they charge you, you have proof that you tried.

Could 9-3 possibly be a bath bomb? I'd shower for the foreseeable future, just to be on the safe side. 🛁 💣

Teddy's dead. I think it was the only way the poor pooch could get free of him. I've never seen a dog who seemed to hate being handled by its person as much as Teddy hated Ed.

A pencil. If it were a red pencil, that would be frighteningly on target. But since my work has gone all digital, it may be too little too late. I do. So beware. I may be the engine of your destruction.

I think I watch because I like to see the physical transformations of the spaces. I don't really believe they do all that (including the planning and acquiring materials, etc.) in two days, so they must at least have some sort of head start. It'd be interesting to get an honest look behind the scenes. It doesn't bother me that Robert is rude. These people are getting rewarded with a huge amount of stuff, so if they have to put up with rudeness to cash in, I'm okay with that. What really does bother me is the very fact that they're being rewarded for being incompetent, reckless with their family's money, and worst of all for playing really dangerous games with their customers' health based on filthy kitchens and scandalous food-storage practices. So Irvine has my permission to be as rude as he wants to be. IMO they shouldn't really be helping most of these people at all. But I guess I'll still watch as long as they are.

I lived in NYC through college, 20s, 30s, etc., and most everyone, regardless of age, had a grocery cart to schlep things from the market back to their apartment. None of us worried that it made us look elderly. It made us look smart. If I broke my ankle skiing and needed a cane, would I crawl along the sidewalk rather than use one because I was afraid people would think I was old? All they'd have to do is look at my dewy face to see I wasn't old. I was a young woman with a grocery cart. There was a humorist in the 1930s who wrote, "You’ll worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do." I use that as a guiding principle, and it's helped me a lot.

Not sure where to put this, but does anyone know whether Ina's being back in the prepared-food business is a new thing? I mean, I know about the ill-fated frozen-food line, but I didn't know till today that she was selling baked goods. I got an email from Goldbelly announcing the Beatty cake and a bunch of other things for sale. I hope the quality control is better this time around.

I think so, too. I noticed that after Tracy (Tracey? Traci?) Gold asked how to know when her sauce was thick enough, she then went on to run her finger down the back of her spoon to see if it left a trail. That's something you'd only know if you'd cooked before--probably a lot. ETA: Sorry--if I'd read @Bastet's post about her above, I wouldn't have had to go all Sherlock Holmes on her cooking experience. And I'd've known how to spell her name.

His mother died in 2013, so those would've been some fairly old meatballs. He says that his weight ballooned after he had surgery for chronic sciatica and was immobilized for a year afterward. He seems to have lost some of that weight in the last couple of months, so good for him.

This is what I've assumed from the beginning. It doesn't make any sense to waste even a minute reshooting for a duplicated item if all they have to do is replace a used one in the slot.

Imagine how poor Madonna must've felt.

They try to make it cute by having animated toe fungus. Nothing will ever make toe fungus cute and lovable. And also mucus, for that matter. Cartoon snot isn't in any way more appealing than actual snot.