Small Talk: We'll Be Right Back

[mojoween]

On 10/16/2023 at 9:00 PM, ebk57 said:

My best friend's birthday is on Halloween

Wait am I your best friend? 😀

The Lindt outlet store in Lake George, New York makes hot chocolate with up to six, I think, Lindt truffles and it’s confounding to me that the hubby will not regularly drive three hours one way to get me hot cocoa.

And now for the main event, it’s that time of year again!

Edited December 17, 2023 by mojoween

[chessiegal]

Awww... hugs to your kitty @mojoween. We said goodbye to our sweet kitty Jinglebelle this week who showed up on our deck ten years ago. She brought us so much joy.

[ebk57]

1 hour ago, mojoween said:

Wait am I your best friend? 😀

You're my best sports friend here in PrimetimerLand!  😉

 

Actually, my "other" best friend whose birthday in on Halloween is also my best baseball buddy here.  She interned with us back in the last century and I took her to a baseball game once - and as she says, I couldn't get rid of her after that 😄 You should come to a game with me!!

 

I love Mookie's attitude.

[mojoween]

Well the hubby would love a tour of the Guinness factory so if we get to Baltimore in the summer, I will look you up!

[Tom Holmberg]

16 hours ago, mojoween said:

Well the hubby would love a tour of the Guinness factory so if we get to Baltimore in the summer, I will look you up!

There's one in Chicago too that recently opened.

[mmecorday]

Sorry for you loss, @chessiegal. We lost out Ezra in October and the house isn't the same without him. 

 

[Trini]

The topic of Lume and other "whole body deoodorants" has come up in a couple of threads, so I thought this article might be of interest to some:

At Vox: 'Why are whole-body deodorants suddenly everywhere?'

The author thinks, probably money, of course. But also mentions that since these products are not antiperspirants, there are less regulations and they can be put on the market faster.

Edited May 22 by Trini

[Crashcourse]

That was a very interesting article.

[Bastet]

6 hours ago, Baltimore Betty said:

I cannot remember which celebrity couple it is but wealthy enough to afford hot water but do not believe in bathing their children very often...I guess they wait till someone tells them their kids stink?

(From the Commercials that Annoy ... thread)

Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis.  Daily bathing isn't recommended for kids until puberty; I think it's once or twice a week before then*.  They said something like they bathe them when they see dirt on them, but my guess is if they smelled funk, they'd bathe them then, too. 

*I quit being lazy and looked it up.  That frequency recommendation is from the American Academy of Dermatologists.  This Harvard Health article says similar:

Quote

Lots of bathing can lead to dry, irritated skin. But also, the skin has natural protective oils, and natural bacteria, that help to keep us healthy and safe — and that can get washed away with daily bathing.

If your baby or preteen looks pretty clean, isn't stinky, isn't covered in bug spray, and hasn't been in a pool or other body of water, it's fine to skip the bath or shower. Really, bathing two or three times a week is fine. In fact, for many kids, even just once or twice a week is fine. You can always do a quick wipe with a wet washcloth to the face, groin area, and any dirty spots.

Stinky teenagers might need more bathing or showering, depending on activity level and deodorant use. But even they may be able to get away with washing their face and using a soapy washcloth on their groin and underarms.

 

Edited June 15 by Bastet

[Crashcourse]

I grew up in a rather rural small town, we had a bathtub but no shower (some of our neighbors had outhouses).  When we were kids, we took Saturday night baths for church on Sunday.  The rest of the week, we washed up at the sink.  The boys tended to smell more than the girls because they played harder, so they had to wash more often.  Puberty changed things and the girls washed more often, too.  

[chessiegal]

I grew up in an old house, built in the late 1800s, that originally didn't have indoor plumbing. We had 1 bathroom that had a claw foot tub, no shower. I remember washing my hair in the tub, going underwater to wet and rinse my hair when shampooing. I was envious of my friends that had showers.

[Gramto6]

On 6/16/2024 at 6:28 AM, chessiegal said:

I grew up in an old house, built in the late 1800s, that originally didn't have indoor plumbing. We had 1 bathroom that had a claw foot tub, no shower. I remember washing my hair in the tub, going underwater to wet and rinse my hair when shampooing. I was envious of my friends that had showers.

The house I grew up in was not as old as yours @chessiegal. It was built in 1912, we also had no shower.  I washed my hair the same way! But as a final rinse, I used to turn on the water and rinse again in the clean water out of the spout.  Ahhh the "good" old days!! 

[dleighg]

It's funny, that's how my mom taught me to wash my hair, even though we had the standard tub with a shower above. I later realized that a shower was much more efficient. I'm guessing it's because she had been a WWII refugee from Germany and likely didn't have new fangled things like showers (til her death she never took showers, and neither did my father, a depression baby from coal country.)

[Jaded]

“I’m Worth It”: Andie MacDowell Reveals What Changed Her Mind About The L’Oreal Slogan

[Blergh]

Yeah,between Guy Fieri [whose name is spelt with an 'r' instead of a 'd' he's bullied everyone in using] and whose garish mug gets foisted all the time even when his shows aren't on, Alton Brown who started out as a quirky helpful food nerd but has  wound up being an obnoxious bully  and Melissa ['this dish reminds me of my mother who committed suicide when I was 20 (so you'd better award ME the first place instead of judging all us contestants' dishes on our  merits regardless of whatever personal tragedies we all may have had prior to entering this contest)] ' d'Arabian, etc.  I haven't bothered with that network in years.

It used to actually show helpful means for viewers to make delicious entrees but has long since degenerated into a bunch of pointless contests making inedible items dominated by loudmouth so-called personalities [how Ina Garten has somehow been spared/not taken her skills elsewhere, I will never understand].

Still, one would think something that calls itself the Food Network would actually want to have commercials that didn't cause viewers to lose their appetite - even if they rarely show foods worth making/eating these days!  Maybe they should change the name to the Stomach Churning Network.

 

Edited June 29 by Blergh

[chessiegal]

PBS, which originated tv cooking shows with Julia Child, is still your best bet for instructional cooking shows. FN dumped Sara Moulton. I've read her account of the difficulty of moving to PBS because she had to find sponsors for her show on PBS. So glad she did, along with other talented cooks. One great thing about PBS is that you'll never see a commercial for Lume or any whole-body deodorant. 😄

Bobby Flay told FN he wanted to do a brunch show and was told there was no room on FN. It wasn't until they started Cooking Channel that he found a home for Brunch with Bobby. I don't think they air that anymore, which is too bad. I thought it was a good show. I even bought the cookbook.

[mmecorday]

@Blergh, I agree with everything you said! I had a cat that knew it was time to eat when he heard "The Barefoot Contessa" theme song. 

[Prevailing Wind]

1 hour ago, mmecorday said:

@Blergh, I agree with everything you said! I had a cat that knew it was time to eat when he heard "The Barefoot Contessa" theme song. 

When my cats went outside, I'd leave the door ajar in case of emergency (any crawling/flying thing that also came in was their target prey later on). They both would stick fairly close to home, the late Bosco ranging further than Stella did/does.  I don't know if Bosco heard it, but Stella did - as soon as the "Jeopardy!" "think" music came on, she knew it was time to come in. Bosco would come in then, too. They weren't allowed to stay outside during "coyote time."

[mojoween]

My parent’s house that was built around 1920 also had a tub, no shower.  But I had to wash my hair in the farmhouse sink in the kitchen!

I wanted to come in here today to share the news that Mookie Wilson, he of the Santa and Easter bunny photo fame, crossed the rainbow bridge today.  Well he was shoved across, really, and I am not ok with it.  I did get to hold him until the very end and then some, which I don’t really recommend, actually.

Thanks everyone for being amused by him and indulging how ridiculous it was to take a cat to see holiday characters.

We are never ever ever getting another cat.  I mean it.

Edited June 25 by mojoween

[ebk57]

I am so sorry @mojoween! I will miss Mookie Wilson (and I'm not even that fond of cats...mostly because I'm allergic.  Mostly.  But how can I not love a cat named after a baseball player.)

My heart is with you. 

[cynicat]

1 hour ago, mojoween said:

We are never ever ever getting another cat.  I mean it.

That's what I said.  Except you can't escape the cat distribution system

 

[CrystalBlue]

I'm so sorry @mojoween.  🐾❤️😿

[Gramto6]

19 hours ago, mojoween said:

We are never ever ever getting another cat.  I mean it.

Hmmm, I seem to remember saying that when my Baby Boo (avatar), a rescue, crossed the rainbow bridge in 2018.  He was with me for 12.5 years and I said never again! That lasted about 3 years!

Well, cat distribution system or not, I now care for 42  feral cats and the OG mama is my indoor cat. So never say never.... 😸

I am so sorry to hear of your loss, I know that heartbreak and it still can make me sad.  I totally agree about the holding after he has crossed, not really a good thing.

In time you will remember all the fun things and look at all the great photos and smile.... in time...

Edited June 26 by Gramto6

[Prevailing Wind]

21 hours ago, mojoween said:

We are never ever ever getting another cat.  I mean it.

I've decided that when Stella crosses the Bridge, I should foster a senior cat. No kittens. I do not want my pet to outlive me.  This way, if *I* cross the Bridge first, the foster people will care for the cat I leave behind.

[Ghost of TWOP Past]

Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask this, but what's going on with this site discontinuing articles? There aren't any shows I currently watch so it's fine with me that they say the forum will remain, but this is the first I'm hearing of the writing staff all leaving. What happened? 

[Haleth]

I'm wondering if anyone is going to be moderating the forums.  Will there be anyone to add new shows?

[Bastet]

15 hours ago, Ghost of TWOP Past said:

What happened?

Money.  The farewell is here.

9 hours ago, Haleth said:

Will there be anyone to add new shows?

Since the forums are still active, the community manager - who creates new forums - is still employed.

9 hours ago, Haleth said:

I'm wondering if anyone is going to be moderating the forums.

That's done by volunteers.  I think there are only a couple of them these days.

[Haleth]

Thanks, Bastet. 

[Ancaster]

On 6/30/2024 at 2:04 PM, Bastet said:

 

Since the forums are still active, the community manager - who creates new forums - is still employed.

 

I will be very surprised if the forums last 6 months.

[Anela]

34 minutes ago, Ancaster said:

I will be very surprised if the forums last 6 months.

When people were talking about this last week, I tried setting up a test forum, just to see how easy it might be on a free site.  But I don’t want to run anything.  I also really appreciate that they are trying to keep the forums going.  

[janie jones]

14 hours ago, Yeah No said:

"Depending on the size of your windows, cleaners might need special equipment to complete this task. For instance, most modern window cleaners use high-reach water-fed poles and specialized equipment for water purification. It even takes a separate van just to transport this equipment. 

Handling high-tech equipment requires complex skills and extensive training. It doesn’t really make sense for companies to invest in training every employee to handle this kind of equipment. Besides investing in employees’ qualifications, there are also high insurance costs.

Another reason window cleaning is a service separate from other home cleaning services is that it can be risky. As window cleaning sometimes might require abseiling or climbing, it poses a risk to the cleaner’s safety.

Window cleaning is very time-consuming. Depending on the number of windows in your home, it could be a whole days’ worth of work to get the windows clean. Don’t forget the time it takes to clean blinds. Add blinds to the list of items to be cleaned, and those tasks could add significantly more time requirement.

Window cleaning and blind cleaning are tedious tasks that require a lot of patience and caution so that the blinds don’t break. (We even sometimes suggest replacing old blinds instead of cleaning them. Vinyl blinds tend to dry rot over time and can be very broken easily when trying to be cleaned).

Whereas house cleaning personnel might clean the inside-facing portions of windows, and might also clean the outer-facing sides of tilt-in windows, it’d could be unreasonable to ask (or allow) them to climb ladders or swing from boatswain’s chairs to access certain types of windows.

I must have grown up in squalor or something because the window cleaning descriptions I've seen in here are intense. I've never heard of someone removing blinds to clean a window.

Like, use some windex on the reachable windows and call it a day. I'm surprised to learn it's not common for cleaning services to do that. Are they not cleaning the mirrors, either, because it's the exact same thing. And they won't dust your blinds, either? Like with a feather duster type thing?

Edited July 15 by janie jones

[chessiegal]

24 minutes ago, janie jones said:

I must have grown up in squalor or something because the window cleaning descriptions I've seen in here are intense. Like, use some windex and call it a day. I'm surprised to learn it's not common for cleaning services to do that. Are they not cleaning the mirrors, either, because it's the exact same thing. And they won't dust your blinds, either? Like with a feather duster type thing?

All the cleaning services I have used over the past 30 years clean mirrors, but not windows, as part of a flat fee, not by the hour. My windows are all multi-paned (12 for 12 of the windows, 15 for 2 other windows for 144 panes total, and that doesn't include 3 sets of multi-paned sliding glass doors that have 15 panes each for 90 more panes), so even just a quick wipe using Windex or other product, you'd have to clean each of the 234 panes individually. I've never seen a multi-paned mirror, so mirrors are easier to clean. I have 1 large mirror in the main bath and 2 small mirrors in the half-baths.

My beef with Homeaglow is they do not deliver what they claim, as in dishes, laundry, and windows. If you check their website, first, they charge by the hour, and dishes, laundry, and windows are not included, you have to pay extra. Which is fine, but don't advertise something that isn't true. How they get around FCC truth in advertising regulations is beyond me.

Edited July 15 by chessiegal

[janie jones]

But that's why I said "reachable" windows, although it looks like you quoted before I was done editing. I wouldn't expect them to do every layer. Just the pane that's getting the fingerprints on it.

Edited July 15 by janie jones

[Prevailing Wind]

5 hours ago, janie jones said:

Just the pane that's getting the fingerprints on it.

Or the "Cat Schnoodle."

[Blergh]

Yeah, I thought 'zah' was a lame and lazy way to say 'pizza' but one of my college pals from Atlanta used it all the time in RL back in the 1980's but it seemed an almost unique usage in my circle . I have no idea if he still uses it in the post-Millennial 20's.

FWIW, it's not as lame as 'what EV'- as if one can't bother to use the energy to invest in the 'er' when trying to communicate 'whatever'. What next? 'What-EH', perhaps?

[Shrek]

13 hours ago, Blergh said:

Yeah, I thought 'zah' was a lame and lazy way to say 'pizza' but one of my college pals from Atlanta used it all the time in RL back in the 1980's but it seemed an almost unique usage in my circle . I have no idea if he still uses it in the post-Millennial 20's.

FWIW, it's not as lame as 'what EV'- as if one can't bother to use the energy to invest in the 'er' when trying to communicate 'whatever'. What next? 'What-EH', perhaps?

I've hard "what evs" being used. Feel free to add an eye roll emoji. 

[chessiegal]

I have a different take on the shortenings of words. I don't think people are being lazy, I think they are trying to be cute. Looking at you, Rachael Ray.

[Browncoat]

2 hours ago, Shrek said:

I've hard "what evs" being used.

I may or may not have used "what evs" -- hey, it was the 80s!  I have no excuse.  I really have no excuse for occasionally saying "what.ever" while making a W with my thumbs and forefingers.  I'm going to continue to blame MTV.

[CrystalBlue]

As I drove by a Wendy's the other day, I saw a banner sign hanging from the top of the building:

WENDY'S NUGGS

It was jarring to see, to say the least.  Thankfully I'd already read here about the TV commercial so I knew what it was.

Absolutely ridiculous!

[Yeah No]

12 minutes ago, CrystalBlue said:

As I drove by a Wendy's the other day, I saw a banner sign hanging from the top of the building:

WENDY'S NUGGS

It was jarring to see, to say the least.  Thankfully I'd already read here about the TV commercial so I knew what it was.

Absolutely ridiculous!

Pretty much everyone in my "inner circle" is upset about the "Nuggs" thing, including me. I suppose this is "generational" and if you're over a certain age it gets under your skin. I guess they're trying to appeal to the young'ns who eat a lot of fast food and grew up on mostly chicken fingers and sickeningly sweet sauces.

It's not just what they're calling them but the fact that they're taking regular Wendy's nuggets and slathering them in super-sweet gooey sauce. Just yuck. I was worried they had replaced their regular nuggets with these but thankfully it looks like they haven't. I don't eat much fast food but every now and then I have a 6 piece nuggets and a baby frosty.

I'm still upset over the change in their dipping sauces a few years ago. The barbecue sauce one is now super gooey and sweet. Judging from online comments I am far from the only person who misses the old sauce. But of course these restaurants are always trying to outdo each other as to how much fat and sugar they can pack into everything to attract customers.

[SoMuchTV]

2 minutes ago, Yeah No said:

Pretty much everyone in my "inner circle" is upset about the "Nuggs" thing, including me.

On the bright side, does this mean we've moved on from "sammies"?

[Browncoat]

Sammies instead of sandwiches annoys me because, to me, a Sammy is a Samoyed dog.

But, inexplicably, nuggs doesn't bother me in the least.  I've even been known to call them nuggs -- but only the ones from Wendy's.  Other chicken nuggets are not nuggs.  I'm not a young'un, incidentally.  We didn't even have fast food restaurants where and when I was a kid.

[SoMuchTV]

4 minutes ago, Browncoat said:

I'm not a young'un, incidentally.  We didn't even have fast food restaurants where and when I was a kid.

Dagnabbit, we roasted our wooly mammoth meat over the fire outside the cave! 

But now that I think of it, the first fast food place I remember (maybe early 70s?) was Burger Chef, before it got lapped by McDonald’s, Burger King, and maybe Taco Bell. 

[Browncoat]

2 minutes ago, SoMuchTV said:

But now that I think of it, the first fast food place I remember (maybe early 70s?) was Burger Chef, before it got lapped by McDonald’s, Burger King, and maybe Taco Bell. 

By the time I was started high school, we had a Pizza Hut, Pizza Inn, and Burger Queen.  A little later, we got a Long John Silver's, and when we got McDonald's (I think I was about 16 or 17), it broke all kinds of attendance records.

[Blergh]

13 hours ago, chessiegal said:

I have a different take on the shortenings of words. I don't think people are being lazy, I think they are trying to be cute. Looking at you, Rachael Ray.

IMO, Miss Ray et.al. are most likely attempting but failing to be cute but succeeding in being lazy!

[Blergh]

4 hours ago, SoMuchTV said:

Dagnabbit, we roasted our wooly mammoth meat over the fire outside the cave! 

But now that I think of it, the first fast food place I remember (maybe early 70s?) was Burger Chef, before it got lapped by McDonald’s, Burger King, and maybe Taco Bell. 

I remember Burger Chef- mainly because it had cheezy cartoon ads with the plumb middle aged calm protagonist of the same name with his frantic teen employee/sidekick Jeff (and called 'The Adventures of Burger Chef and Jeff'). Anyway Jeff had one of my fave early 1970's slang terms 'Increda-BURGER-ble!

[Prevailing Wind]

5 hours ago, Blergh said:

IMO, Miss Ray et.al. are most likely attempting but failing to be cute but succeeding in being lazy!

I don't think she's being lazy, because every time she says, "EVOO," she then translates that into "Extra Virgin Olive Oil."  Why didn't she just say that in the first place instead of inventing a "cute" abbreviation for it?  She's an idiot.

OOH!  It's 5:22 AM and I just heard the barred owl in our neighborhood. "Who cooks for you?"  They're SO cool. You miss a lot sleeping late.

[Haleth]

11 hours ago, SoMuchTV said:

But now that I think of it, the first fast food place I remember (maybe early 70s?) was Burger Chef, before it got lapped by McDonald’s, Burger King, and maybe Taco Bell. 

My husband is related to the founder of Burger Chef.  No, he didn't inherit. 😄

[Browncoat]

1 hour ago, Prevailing Wind said:

You miss a lot sleeping late.

I think there was a line to that effect in The Big Chill. 

[Blergh]

2 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

I don't think she's being lazy, because every time she says, "EVOO," she then translates that into "Extra Virgin Olive Oil."  Why didn't she just say that in the first place instead of inventing a "cute" abbreviation for it?  She's an idiot.

 

I wasn't talking about [in itself bogus] EVOO. However if Miss Ray DOES use 'whatEV',etc. (actually needlessly shortening words and terms without re-translating them), then my stance re her being lazy as well as cute in doing so stands.

P.S. All the above said though, I've tried very hard to avoid having to hear her for quite a few years (almost as much as Progressive Flo) so I don't claim to be an expert in her verbiage.