I have often commented to others that blind taste testing on cooking shows would be most beneficial to female chefs because many times (most times, actually) men win these competitions. If the judges had no idea who was doing the cooking I believe there would be more women winners. Just placing all the cooked items on a table without knowing who made what would be so much fairer for all of the contestants and the judges wouldn't be able to bring out their personal biases about specific people on the show and only have the food to determine who made it best. Same for shows like Project Runway. I finally quit watching that show because of how they primarily picked men to win their competitions. Yes, there have been female winners but I think some of those winners were chosen under duress because they couldn't consistently pick men for the win without ticking off the viewers. Had the judges not known who had made the items I think they would not have been so biased.
My grandparents came over on 'the boat' from Scotland and lived half the year with my family and the other half of the year with my uncle. Every Christmas my Nana would make a plum (or figgy) pudding for Christmas. She would wrap coins in waxed paper and put them into the batter. At Christmas dinner she would put it on the table and then set it on fire after removing the holly sprig. The one who got the most expensive coin got to make a special wish for the coming year.
I Do NOT find it funny to terrify ("funny") people over their phobias. People have died from being subjected to their fears. I think this show isn't funny. I think it is cruel. I wish the 'Ellen Show' would stop doing these surprise freak out shows. Personally, IF it were me on a talk show and they treated me this way I would 1: Beat the crap out of the 'freak' who tried to 'scare' me and NEXT!!! walk off stage and be done with this asshat who thinks this is the way to get her jollies. EFF YOU, ELLEN!
it makes me sad that communities feel the need to 'out-do' each other during this holiday season. ALL kinds of festivities are worthy and welcome! Wake up, people!!! We are ALL exceptional, perfect and accepted in this world!
Does anyone else think that Joyce looks just like - right down to the striped dress, hair and glasses - Anna Gasteyer's SNL character - the one with Wil Ferrell as her bald husband and they sing awful songs at high school assemblies?
A good friend of mine grew up in Alabama. His parents had a turkey farm and he told me this true story years ago. Most of the time turkeys don't fly much or very far but one day he came outside to feed them and one was on the roof of the barn. He didn't think much of it. The next day he comes outside and there are 3 turkeys on the roof. Next day there's ten. It kept getting more and more crowded on the roof until one morning he goes outside and almost every turkey was perched on the barn's roof and as he watched them the barn collapsed killing most of the birds. True story. He hates turkeys and refuses to eat them because he ate them all the time while living at his childhood home. He also says they are very dumb. For entertainment he would draw a line on the ground with a piece of chalk. Then he'd take a turkey and place it's beak on the chalk line and then he'd walk away. The turkey would stay there, beak to chalk, sometimes for half an hour. Then it would shake it's head and walk off.
Yeah, I knew their show had a cheap budget but they really scraped the bottom of the barrel with 'Gorn(?)' the green alligator monster with that awful plastic lizard head. And the episode with plastic flying pierogies. They were pretty bad, too.
But Lost In Space jumped the final (there were so many) shark with the Carrot Monster. I can't believe I even watched that show.
Shatner NO longer looks like he did in his Hey Days as 'KIRK the captain of the USS Enterprise!' He got fat and unfit and no longer represented what fans expected of their USS Enterprise Captain. It sucks when you get old and are no longer the idols people hope and want you to be. Live your dreams. Let your life become what you need it to be. BUT UNDERSTAND THAT ALL OF US WILL BECOME OLD AND WILL DISMAY OTHERS. IT IS A HARD TRUTH BUT THERE IT IS...
Same for shows like Project Runway. I finally quit watching that show because of how they primarily picked men to win their competitions. Yes, there have been female winners but I think some of those winners were chosen under duress because they couldn't consistently pick men for the win without ticking off the viewers. Had the judges not known who had made the items I think they would not have been so biased.
Personally, IF it were me on a talk show and they treated me this way I would 1: Beat the crap out of the 'freak' who tried to 'scare' me and NEXT!!! walk off stage and be done with this asshat who thinks this is the way to get her jollies. EFF YOU, ELLEN!
Most of the time turkeys don't fly much or very far but one day he came outside to feed them and one was on the roof of the barn. He didn't think much of it. The next day he comes outside and there are 3 turkeys on the roof. Next day there's ten. It kept getting more and more crowded on the roof until one morning he goes outside and almost every turkey was perched on the barn's roof and as he watched them the barn collapsed killing most of the birds. True story.
He hates turkeys and refuses to eat them because he ate them all the time while living at his childhood home. He also says they are very dumb. For entertainment he would draw a line on the ground with a piece of chalk. Then he'd take a turkey and place it's beak on the chalk line and then he'd walk away. The turkey would stay there, beak to chalk, sometimes for half an hour. Then it would shake it's head and walk off.
But Lost In Space jumped the final (there were so many) shark with the Carrot Monster. I can't believe I even watched that show.
It sucks when you get old and are no longer the idols people hope and want you to be. Live your dreams. Let your life become what you need it to be. BUT UNDERSTAND THAT ALL OF US WILL BECOME OLD AND WILL DISMAY OTHERS. IT IS A HARD TRUTH BUT THERE IT IS...