Small Talk: Ughngnggh! Ugghhnnn!

[AngelaHunter]

5 hours ago, nachomama said:

The Jack Bull is one of his own favorites.

Oh, really? Hey, it also has LQ Jones. What's not to love? Westerns get little respect these days if Clint Eastwood isn't in them, even though the "Jack Bull" is, IMO, every bit as good as "Unforgiven".

5 hours ago, nachomama said:

IF I WAS ALLOWED TO ASK I'D ASK HOW COME YOU GET TO BE 52 YEARS OLD AND HAVE NO WIFE AND NO CHILDREN

So... was this guy suspicious or envious?😉

5 hours ago, nachomama said:

Dear Lord they needed to screen these questions. Bunch of whackadoodles

Never until recently did I think about or realize how many extreme whackadoodles celebrities have to deal with. It's really frightening. 

1 hour ago, Nashville said:

John Cusack has been one of my favorites for years - his sisters as well, especially Joan.

Joan is great!

[nachomama]

I love the hell outta Joan and I was amazed again at what a small part she had in Say Anything.

I could never have remembered that when they say the title of the film in the film it's between Diane Court and her dad. I think this movie was supposed to be about the father and daughter and he admitted last night that Lloyd Dobbler wasn't supposed to be "deep" as in he kept poking Cameron Crowe with "ideas" for what Lloyd should be "about" because he makes such a big deal of not working for the "man" bought, sold, processed, etc. His dad wants him to join the army but he "can't work for that corporation" but I think he was originally supposed to be much more of a loser, like Diane's father was supposed to have a legit leg to stand on (Frasier joke!) when she convinces Diane to break up with him. He's supposed to be as stupid as the dudes hanging out at the gas n sip. I think he and his sister hi-jacked the movie, made it more of the teen rom-com because Cameron Crowe actually let him build Lloyd Dobbler. He only took the job because John Mahoney convinced him to do it. He'd done something with John and told him about this and believe it or not they were leaning towards Christian Slater. Cusack didn't want to do it because at 20 he didn't want to play teenagers. He was feeling his big boy pants.

I'm not sure what was up with shouty man other than trying to squeeze it all in at once.

[OoohMaggie]

There’s Sad news that Maggie passed away four days ago, aged 7,

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The good news is that GrumpyCat is alive and well and expected to make a return in S10

Edited May 18, 2019 by OoohMaggie

[nachomama]

I wonder if Maggie will be back, her show didn't get picked up. I liked it.

Game of Thrones: I give you the sorriest piece of shit ending in the history of forevers!

Walking dead: Hold my beer...

I don't have to be a 3-eyed raven to see the future, in a year's time, how disappointed the universe will be with the finale of Walking Dead. I have to see it out, I'm just that kind of glutton for punishment.

[AngelaHunter]

9 hours ago, nachomama said:

how disappointed the universe will be with the finale of Walking Dead. I have to see it out, I'm just that kind of glutton for punishment.

I hear that. It seems I've found out something about myself I never knew - I'm a masochist.

[shanndee]

On 5/21/2019 at 5:28 AM, nachomama said:

...

Game of Thrones: I give you the sorriest piece of shit ending in the history of forevers!

Walking dead: Hold my beer...

...

Hey! As disappointed as I was with GoT, I give that particular distinction to "Dexter", followed closely by "How I met your Mother"

But yes. I expect Walking Dead to surpass them all...sadly.

And yet, I continue to watch. Curse my completionist mentality!

(Hmmm. My spell check is on. Do I not know how to spell completionist, or is it not a real word?)

[nachomama]

Oh yes Dexter sucked as did Lost and How I met your Mother.

I had a dream I was dating David Spade (cannot stand David Spade) but it wasn't David Spade.  If I said "who is that?" and pointed at him everyone replied David Spade but it was a tall gangly redheaded teenager. But they all insisted it was David Spade, the actual, not a guy named David Spade. I was so confused, I was the only one saying it's not him and I was the only dating him.

[AngelaHunter]

On 5/25/2019 at 1:51 AM, shanndee said:

As disappointed as I was with GoT, I give that particular distinction to "Dexter", followed closely by "How I met your Mother"

But yes. I expect Walking Dead to surpass them all...sadly.

If TWD can surpass the abomination that was "Dexter-Se08" (Never mind the finale - we got an entire season of WTF?! suckage that to this day pisses me off) then it will go into some 'Hall of Fame from Hell'.

[shanndee]

2 hours ago, AngelaHunter said:

If TWD can surpass the abomination that was "Dexter-Se08" (Never mind the finale - we got an entire season of WTF?! suckage that to this day pisses me off) then it will go into some 'Hall of Fame from Hell'.

You know, after the outcry during the GoT final season, I started to really think about this. That Hall of Fame from Hell is actually quite impressive. There seem to have been more disasters than satisfying conclusions.

And yet...I continue to watch. I don't know if that makes me an optimist or a glutton for punishment.

[AngelaHunter]

1 hour ago, shanndee said:

And yet...I continue to watch.

I... just dunno. I watched Dexter and kept watching the unparalleled, mind-blowing stupidity of 08 (when I was already embarrassed enough at having watched all of Se06) because - gullible me - I thought it HAD to go somewhere and get better.  If I didn't already know what a goof Buck is, I'd think he was thumbing his nose AND mooning the audience, but he was proud of what he did. He makes the Gimp, Kang, et al look like cinematic geniuses. But I kept watching. I guess hope springs eternal? For TWD, I've been hate-watching for quite a while, mostly because I enjoy so much the truly inspired snark on the live thread. Not many other pleasures to be had from this show. 

[Nashville]

3 hours ago, shanndee said:

I don't know if that makes me an optimist or a glutton for punishment.

Who says the two are mutually exclusive? 😉

[AngelaHunter]

1 hour ago, Nashville said:

Who says the two are mutually exclusive? 😉

That's an interesting point. Boundless optimism in the face of continual disappointment could make one a glutton for punishment. Guilty as charged, I guess. 😟

[nachomama]

I’m watching cooking shows, that’s what I do in Sunday’s. Omg I’m about to crawl through the tv and beat someone. Cooking in long sleeves or with dangly sleeves drives me nuts. She’s wearing a jacket! Jacket like formal dress up jacket. There are long sleeves and zippers. I can hear the zippers clanking on mixing bowls. Don’t tell me you ain’t dragging that through the food! I’m very very “homestyle “ about cooking. Like I don’t freak out about mixing meatloaf with your hands. I’m not terribly scrutinizing about chopping and technique, I measure by eyeball but seriously if you have sleeves dragging in the food I wanna beat you in the face. 

Also the Subaru commmercial where the millennial couple wants to find the “peninsula trail” and old geezer says “you won’t find that on a map, I’ll show you” and he’s blind. “Turn here” he says. HES BLIND! He’s mystical magical blind tour guide? Pffft I ain’t buying your Subaru. It’s worse than the depressing commercial where Irish grandpa died and the family takes a road trip that grandpa always wanted to take. Grandmas crying ...I’ll buy your car when I’m ready to drive off a cliff. Yes I know there are bigger things to worry about. But I woke up in my cranky pants. 

[AngelaHunter]

4 hours ago, nachomama said:

. Cooking in long sleeves or with dangly sleeves drives me nuts. She’s wearing a jacket! Jacket like formal dress up jacket. There are long sleeves and zippers. I can hear the zippers clanking on mixing bowls. Don’t tell me you ain’t dragging that through the food!

Would that be "Semi-Homemade" with Sandra somethingorother, who is fond of "flay minyawn" and dragging her sleeves through the ghastly concoctions she conjures up? I recall outstanding snark about her and her show on the old TwoP.

[nachomama]

It is not, it's Trisha Yearwood but Sandra Lee is ghastly. I don't know if she still has a show but I didn't realize she was dating Cuomo the governor of New York. I knew she had been married to some tycoon dude way back in Canada, that was an update for me.

[AngelaHunter]

So everyone is a chef now? Interesting. I just read that Taylor Swift is pimping out garlic presses. Apparently, this is a new invention to her, and she calls it a "game changer." She only knows how to make three dishes, most of them involving hamburger meat and packaged bread crumbs,  but that and her astonishing discovery of the garlic press seems to be enough for her to maybe get her own show on Food Network. Yeah, all that is stupid and boring, but the Yahoo comment section yielded some utter hilarity, for me at least. It really takes so very little to make me happy. 

One commenter was inspired by Taylor's enthusiasm for her new implement, and penned the following touching song for her:

Gonna Press Some Garlic, by Taylor Swift

Gonna press some tasty garlic and put it in a pan
Got to press some tasty garlic and give it to my man
Got to press some tasty garlic, gonna go and press some zesty garlic,

Goin' to the kitchen to press some garlic, just because I can

My baby said "I need some garlic" so I headed out the door
Knew I needed to buy some garlic so I headed for the store
They only had one bag of garlic!  I said "I need me lots more garlic"

Had to drive all over town just to find some more.

[OoohMaggie]

13 hours ago, AngelaHunter said:

I just read that Taylor Swift is pimping out garlic presses.

In what amazing way has she managed to improve the 100 or so types of presses already available?

[nachomama]

wow. I get that with each generation there is born a new slayer and everyone "discovers" things but she didn't invent anything she only endorses. then it has 3 or 4 different ones so I have no idea which she endorses but damn.

Not that I can analyze Taylor based on her lyrics but I have noticed several themes, it's always about her. Current song actually entitled "ME" and basically says there's nobody like me. plus she's big on accountability always wanting to write someone's name down to keep track. She says she's a nightmare dressed like a daydream so she's daring men to date her, throwing out the crazy card because other people have called her that but she fully asserts she aint. And I kinda wanna puke thinking I know any Taylor Swift songs.

In several of Adele's songs she talks about not being young anymore which Adele is just now turning 30 as well and at 25 was writing "we're not kids anymore" so I guess everybody has a theme.

[AngelaHunter]

58 minutes ago, nachomama said:

always wanting to write someone's name down to keep track.

I guess she has to do that so none of her boyfriends will get lost in the crowd. I'm blissfully unaware of any of her songs and have never heard even one. I intend to keep it that way. I only know about her from all the pics taken of her and Hiddleston during their big, ten-minute romance.

2 hours ago, OoohMaggie said:

In what amazing way has she managed to improve the 100 or so types of presses already available?

Oh, she's not improving them. She just discovered that they exist.

Okay, so one Christmas my husband presented me with a garlic press. I have to admit that didn't send me into raptures.  Maybe I'm just jaded.

[nachomama]

I read an article several years ago and it tracked Taylor Swift's dating life, her "relationships" were all 3 months or shorter. those to me are not relationships. That's not enough time for anyone spending time together to get to know one another, ESPECIALLY, if you factor in her tour schedule or "his" filming locations etc that she's literally in a different city every week, so unless they go on tour with her she isn't in the same room with them for more than a day at a time. This was before Hiddleston and some of the biggies. But after Gyllenhaal I think. And I'm not saying any of these dudes are prizes but I'm pretty sure many of them are scratching their heads thinking "wait, what? we dated? like dated dated?" not just went out on a couple of dates.

I know with the social medias, your twits and gramsnaps, I know a lot has changed and lotta chicks think they're in long distance exclusive relationships and they pour a lot of intensity into that but I don't think dudes do. If you're a regular guy, not famous or rich, you can have a "relationship" but you're married. And women will know they're married but think real life is really gonna change. I don't know if Taylor is instagram married to these guys way ahead of the horse and buggy or what.

[OoohMaggie]

4 hours ago, AngelaHunter said:

Oh, she's not improving them. She just discovered that they exist.

I just had to give it a search, it appears she’s raving about the same item that resides at the bottom of my ‘gadget drawer’, which prior to my fathers passing could be found at the bottom of his ‘gadget drawer’, it still has the ‘please remove before using’ label attached. How I’ve survived by using the flat side of a knife to cream my Garlic I’ve no idea, but thank you anyway Ms Swift.🤑

[OoohMaggie]

4 hours ago, AngelaHunter said:

Okay, so one Christmas my husband presented me with a garlic press. I have to admit that didn't send me into raptures.  Maybe I'm just jaded.

I notice you didn’t say Ex husband, boy there must be love in there somewhere 🥰, to be fair, us blokes do appreciate a practical gift, whether given or received, which isn’t always fully understood 🤔

[nachomama]

I've managed to never have a garlic tool myself. Granted most of the time I get away with garlic powder but on the finer occasions I can do the knife smash and sometimes the salt chop. You smash it then you pour salt on it and it mixes while you smoosh. I forget what the advantages are, possibly scrapes off better? I've seen it many times on the cooking shows. Many things I just smash, peel and lob a whole clove and it flavors but I don't gotta chop it.

Gasp, horror I also do not have a "fine" set of knives that I sharpen whilst looking fierce. I've got one big knife it does it all. My father did have a whetstone that he sharpened our old big knife and yes you knew when it had been sharpened. I don't have too many gadgets.

You know what irks me? overboard presentation. Sure arrange it so it's attractive but I see all these pinterest things and food blog/vlogs that they got their lil drizzle and the most annoying thing I see these days is the oval spoon of ice cream, as in literally they only giving you one damn spoon of ice cream and it has to look like a pointy egg. I'm like $45? you gonna have to give me a pint. I don't care that you made lil daisies and leaves and crap on the plate. I WANT ICE CREAM.

They give you 4 peas lined up in a row with 3 drops of sauce and "medallions" of whatever squab or squid which "medallions" is code for "we cut up your meat for you so you don't notice we gave you 3 bites."

Not that I actually ever go to fancy restaurants that serve things this way but if I was paying big money you better give me a big old hunk of meat.

[AngelaHunter]

2 hours ago, OoohMaggie said:

I notice you didn’t say Ex husband, boy there must be love in there somewhere

I forgave the garlic press, as I forgave a gift of a granny blouse 5 sizes too big for me. The dear man does try but shopping just isn't histhing. 🤗 I was raised to be grateful for anything anyone gave me. I always appreciate the thought, and I was more confused than disappointed. 

26 minutes ago, nachomama said:

if I was paying big money you better give me a big old hunk of meat.

Go and watch a video of Gordon Ramsay making his own style fish and chips. Talk about "food porn." Now that's the food I want!

[Nashville]

31 minutes ago, nachomama said:

I've managed to never have a garlic tool myself. Granted most of the time I get away with garlic powder but on the finer occasions I can do the knife smash and sometimes the salt chop. You smash it then you pour salt on it and it mixes while you smoosh. I forget what the advantages are, possibly scrapes off better? I've seen it many times on the cooking shows. Many things I just smash, peel and lob a whole clove and it flavors but I don't gotta chop it.

Gasp, horror I also do not have a "fine" set of knives that I sharpen whilst looking fierce. I've got one big knife it does it all. My father did have a whetstone that he sharpened our old big knife and yes you knew when it had been sharpened. I don't have too many gadgets.

You know what irks me? overboard presentation. Sure arrange it so it's attractive but I see all these pinterest things and food blog/vlogs that they got their lil drizzle and the most annoying thing I see these days is the oval spoon of ice cream, as in literally they only giving you one damn spoon of ice cream and it has to look like a pointy egg. I'm like $45? you gonna have to give me a pint. I don't care that you made lil daisies and leaves and crap on the plate. I WANT ICE CREAM.

They give you 4 peas lined up in a row with 3 drops of sauce and "medallions" of whatever squab or squid which "medallions" is code for "we cut up your meat for you so you don't notice we gave you 3 bites."

Not that I actually ever go to fancy restaurants that serve things this way but if I was paying big money you better give me a big old hunk of meat.

Reminds me of a co-worker I knew out in Tucson back in the late ‘80s, a young doctor (let’s call him “Dave”) who embraced yuppiedom with a fervor heretofore unknown to mankind:

• Drove a Volvo.
• Had a Blauplunkt stereo in it which came with a remote, even; I asked Dave once “why do you need a remote when the stereo is literally inches away from you?”, and he just got real mad.  
• Heard fly fishing was the next “in” thing, and immediately went out and bought about $800 of fly fishing gear - this by a native of NYC who’d never cast a line before in his life.

...you get the idea.  

Anyway - a work conference was going on in Tucson, Dave offered to take us to “the best new restaurant in town, and you guessed it; their “three-course steak dinner” was three medallions of meat, three green beans, and three pieces of carefully-cut lettuce with a cherry tomato on top.  All artfully arranged, of course.  For $50.  

Our Deputy Director (an older gentleman with no appreciation for the finer points of the yuppie lifestyle) damn near had a coronary when he realized that was the entire meal.  The rest of us just laughed - and as soon as we dumped Dave for the evening, we all went and hit up the nearest McDonald’s.  

Guess the finer things in life were just wasted on Neanderthals like us.  🙂

•  

[walnutqueen]

On 5/26/2019 at 3:22 PM, nachomama said:

Also the Subaru commmercial where the millennial couple wants to find the “peninsula trail” and old geezer says “you won’t find that on a map, I’ll show you” and he’s blind. “Turn here” he says. HES BLIND! He’s mystical magical blind tour guide? 

Actually, he kinda sorta is.  He's George Wurtzel, a blind artist and woodworker who does take sighted people on trail hikes ...

But the commercial always has me imagining them turning and driving that Subaru right off a cliff.

[AngelaHunter]

1 hour ago, Nashville said:

Heard fly fishing was the next “in” thing, and immediately went out and bought about $800 of fly fishing gear

Yes, but did he hand-tie his own flies, because that's what a real fly-fisherman does!

1 hour ago, Nashville said:

 Dave offered to take us to “the best new restaurant in town, and you guessed it; their “three-course steak dinner” was three medallions of meat, three green beans, and three pieces of carefully-cut lettuce with a cherry tomato on top.

Nouveau cuisine. Give us food, not an art installation.

This had me drooling like a Palovian dog.

P.S. Gordon crushes his garlic with his hand. No sissy presses for him. OH, the buttah! This IS my porn:

[nachomama]

14 hours ago, walnutqueen said:

Actually, he kinda sorta is.  He's George Wurtzel, a blind artist and woodworker who does take sighted people on trail hikes ...

But the commercial always has me imagining them turning and driving that Subaru right off a cliff.

Yes, the moment in the commercial when he says "turn here" I immediately think they're going off a cliff. I can get behind him knowing the land and taking them to the spots tourists don't find, and "listen to the whales" it's just the car part that gets me. Let Stevie Wonder drive!

I always imagine if I went to the fancy place and got the fancy dessert where they give you 3 smears of whatever "gastric" sauce I would literally pick up the plate and lick it because if all I'm getting is an edible flower, 3 drizzles and my egg scoop I'm going to get everything speck off that plate. I also hate when I see pics of everything they drape in edible gold leaf. GOLD LEAF DON'T TASTE LIKE NOTHING! you friggin morons are paying for NOTHING just because it's got the word gold in it. I've seen burgers, cake pops, even an ice cream cone dipped in it. DO NOT WANT!

[nachomama]

Speaking of Taylor Swift, I was listening to the radio and there was a commercial for a Wango Tango festival, you can win tickets and Taylor I guess is the headliner and my how times have changed the "sponsor" is Juvaderm...aka botox, lip plumpers. hahHAhahahaHAha omg how very rock n roll! Not coke or pepsi or ford or hell Samsung, I don't even know what I think of as tour sponsors beer companies? Literally Miss Swift is a badass lip plumper

[AngelaHunter]

I had to look that up. Wow. "The Midnight Special", it ain't. 🤣

I guess I'm just obsolete.

[Nashville]

FYI - got my calf piece finished Friday:

[nachomama]

sweeeeeet

[AngelaHunter]

Wow. Beautiful artwork.

[Nashville]

9 hours ago, AngelaHunter said:

Wow. Beautiful artwork.

Yup!  Photorealistic depiction of a Frank Frazetta piece.

[nachomama]

* snerk* you shaved your legs, you shaved your le-eegggs

Now I think I'm just pickin on Subaru, but another commercial is THE ALL NEW 2019 LONGEST LASTING SUV BLAH BLAH BLAH. So they got a couple looks like they're unpacking during a camping trip, looking at a map they got the dog running around and a kid then it goes backward, the dog turns into a puppy, the kid is a baby, then the mom is pregnant basically YOU'LL OWN THIS CAR FOR A BAZILLION YEARS! except they then say INTRODUCING THE ALL NEW 2019 you can't guarantee it's gonna last. I know you're telling us you put all the good parts in it and you engineered it to be reliable etc etc  but if it's brand new it could be a lemon, it could be the next edsel. probably not. the commercials that show how you owned one for 10 years and now you decided based on that experience that your next car will be a subaru that makes sense to me. You have a history to base it on, they are making up history.

Don't know if this one is subaru or not but the one with the little girl who at first I thought was just a bossy obnoxious little girl because she's correcting "dad" on how to play croquet and then at lunch she orders everyone's dessert, I'm like "wait who lets the 6 year old order dessert?" then you realize at the end she's the old lady and getting to spend the day with her grandkids makes her feel young. And dad's really her son, at the end he's all "wave goodbye to grandma kids" . Once I realized she wasn't a kid who needed to be slapped then I'm all sad because her son's a jerk, takes her out for one day and she's all happy then he leaves her and she's all alone GRANDMA IS LONELY YOU JERK, LET HER LIVE WITH YOU.

YES it's possible I'm thinking too much about these commercials. but you see my remote is broken, I can't fast forward through commercials anymore #firstworldproblems

[AngelaHunter]

On 6/3/2019 at 8:04 AM, nachomama said:

but you see my remote is broken, I can't fast forward through commercials anymore #firstworldproblems

Look, you need to get a new remote, asap. If I couldn't PVR or FF the endless, braindead, blaring, distasteful commercials (to which I have developed such an aversion I think it's an actual allergy) I would never turn my TV on.

[nachomama]

I'm at a stalemate with my cable company. I believe I'm going to cut the cord. We renegotiate rates every time they try to throw something in there. I didn't want to pay for "hd" dvr but there is no such thing as a non "hd" dvr so I said then don't make it sound like I have an option. On my bill it shows $10 for dvr and then $10 for HD, I said turn off HD, they said it doesn't turn off. Then I said fine lets get rid of the spare room they said then it doesn't count as "whole house" (but yet they took off the $7 for additional room) I'm afraid if I say the remote is broken and I'm using a "universal" that I can't get to do the ff or reverse (it turns tv on and off and I can find my crap to play but no volume no pause or rewind) they'll try to get me under a 2 year contract. I need to bite the bullet. They'll say I need a new box or try to make me pay $79 for a dude to program one for me. I have hulu, access to netflix, don't need amazon prime. not sure if I should explore fire stick

Plus side I watched "booksmart" last night. BRILLIANT freaking loved it. It's juvenile and silly and awesome. Watched 2 seasons of Fleabag and also freakin loved. It gave me the feels.

[Mr. Sparkle]

You should be able to get an app for your phone that will act as your remote. I've done it a few times when the kids lose the real remote. 

[nachomama]

I can't believe that hadn't occurred to me! Holy cats, like duh.

Do you know how many friggin remotes I have? DO YOU?! DO YOU! YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH.

I hope it works, do you know how many hours of my day I can get back? I can skip bits I don't like and commercials. Then you won't hear me whine about Subarus anymore.

[AngelaHunter]

8 hours ago, Superclam said:

You should be able to get an app for your phone that will act as your remote.

Whoa. I just checked my phone and shure'nuff, there's a remote app. What will they come up with next?

10 hours ago, nachomama said:

I'm at a stalemate with my cable company.

I guess internet/cable providers are the same everywhere. Mine is so bad they are being investigated by the gov for their deceptive practices. I'm fed up calling them to complain about my bill, but I guess that's what they do best - wear people down until they haven't the strength to bitch anymore.

[nachomama]

And cable companies should not have a leg to stand on anymore. We can all get by without them. Although amongst my friends we're all tallying up the different sources, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Sling, Firestick, Roku...each channels own independent app like CBS and countless others and if you subscribe to all it's more than cable. And it's all ever evolving. I'm never even home anymore, I've got like 2 days a week where I actually go home after work and could cook and veg in front of the tv. I have 22 episodes of a couple of shows stacked up that I might as well delete cuz I'll never get to them. I'm also my mother now and when I start watching stuff to catch up I pass out and since I have no forward and reverse I just delete and miss stuff. NOT ANYMORE, WONDER REMOTE ACTIVATE! Didn't even have time to set it up last night got home at 11:15

And my peeve this week is some asshat neighbor left tires next to my trash can last week. After the trash had been picked up so I just left them there, yesterday was again trash pick up and they didn't pick them up so I'm somehow responsible for recycling somebody's gd tires because I'm the random house they chose to deposit them, I swear to jeebus is the hose beast who wanted me to remove a tree from "my" yard leaning on her fence. Except the tree was between fences. I swear she's running an illegal air bnb but you know I can't rat. I'm really pissed off at these tires.

[Mr. Sparkle]

I'm the only dinosaur in my house that watches cable anymore. The kids use the Roku to mostly watch youtube videos. 

[nachomama]

I don't get that, I know it's what the kids do but for the life of me I can't figure out what they're watching. I've gone down the rabbit hole of watching "hair videos" and "Irish people try american snack foods" and I end up gazing for hours but on a day to day basis I don't want to do that. I also do not get the fascination with "real housewives" as in I have a friend who for the love of Pete watches every incarnation and insists on telling me about them even though at every turn I reply "I have never watched one and never will" but I know more about dr. housewives in dallas and jersey shore and I swear they will soon have "real housewives of my next door neighbors" WHO NEEDS THIS MANY HOUSEWIVES?

[Mr. Sparkle]

My kids watch videos of other people playing Minecraft. I cannot fathom why they find this entertaining, but they'll do it all day if I let them. 

[Nashville]

3 hours ago, nachomama said:

And my peeve this week is some asshat neighbor left tires next to my trash can last week. After the trash had been picked up so I just left them there, yesterday was again trash pick up and they didn't pick them up so I'm somehow responsible for recycling somebody's gd tires because I'm the random house they chose to deposit them, I swear to jeebus is the hose beast who wanted me to remove a tree from "my" yard leaning on her fence. Except the tree was between fences. I swear she's running an illegal air bnb but you know I can't rat. I'm really pissed off at these tires.

Any chance you live on the side of a hill?  ;>

[nachomama]

somebody else told me that, just roll them off into the wild blue yonder, which works for other people. Me? not so much. You know somebody will have video of me doing it. No one ever sees the jackwagon that dumped them on me but I'm gonna get caught every time.

Oh dear lord, playing minecraft to me is tedious, why the hell would I want to watch somebody else?? I had a friend for a while who watched twitch tv which is the same thing, watching other people play video games. Including the championships of whatever. They have speed rounds of old school super mario bros and shit just to see how fast somebody can get through it.

I admit I missed my window on the video games, my dad didn't let us have an atari even and we lived 30 miles from a town so it's not like we had a local arcade to waste endless time at. The most I got was playing skeeball at kids partys, not Chuck E. Cheese mind you, we had some knockoff brand like Pistol Pete's Pizza. But my dad was not doling out the quarters so I played Pacman like 4 times in my life. Still into my adulthood I've never had a playstation or a wii or nothing. I've played on my phone but I refuse to pay money for stuff so I never have jewels or candy or whatever 99 cent buys you.

Lord I sound like my grandpa YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN, WE WALKED HOME UPHILL IN THE SNOW AND WE LIKED IT!

[Nashville]

 Are the tires in any kind of shape good enough to be reused? You might get some cash for them on SellMyTires.com . 😉

[Mr. Sparkle]

Totally unrelated, but I got out of jury duty without having to serve!!! Whee!!!! 

[nachomama]

I can't tell what kind of tires they may be. They're smaller than car tires and maybe 1.5 fatter. I know that's width but they short fat tires. boat trailer? atv? I don't think atv cuz them I'm familiar with, these have "wavy" tread not knobby. riding mower? boat trailer is why I suspect neigbor "see-you-next-tuesday" me no likey her.

[nachomama]

Guess what? Guess guess guess. Ok I’ll tell you. My phone remote works! Wheee. Fast forwarding like a mofo. I got a lil worried because it started blabbin about IR blasters...Star Wars? Wtf? I have a smart tv and it is hooked up to my WiFi but it couldn’t find mine said I had to have an external blaster but it found my satellite box which Is all I needed. How many times am I gonna sit through a commercial and scream omg I can fast forward now! MAMA CAN YOU SEEE ME? Watch me poosh de button