Aka “amature night.”
Cell phones are over-rated. People honestly seem to have forgotten that we lived without them for millenia. People die without modern medicine; without cell phones they just watch where they’re going. And cell phone advocates are very much like the gun lobby - they behave as if they’re constantly using them to save lives and avoid danger, rather than stuff like - as one young man did on the Red line recently - loudly explain why his gf doesn’t swallow during oral sex. Yeah, that conversation couldn’t wait for a landline. (Apparently, she’s got an over-sensitive gag reflex, if you’re wondering.)
Zucchini.
We lived without cars for most of history and people use them to drive to a lot of unimportant places. Stupid overrated cars.
I’m guessing you’re a guy based on this answer. The problem with sex underwater, at least for females, is that our natural lubrication is water soluble, and water is not a great replacement. It’s just not fun enough to try more than once.
I’ve found that HBO and Showtime have a formula that they follow for these types of shows; it works best for The Tudors, but you can replace the characters and still have it be plausible.
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[li]King Henry has a temper tantrum.[/li][li]Raucous sex occurs.[/li][li]Sometimes it’s with Henry.[/li][li]Other times, it’s not. [/li][li]If someone doesn’t throw a temper tantrum, there’s going to be a fight.[/li][/ol]
Grey Goose vodka sucks too. It’s only marginally better than Smirnoff, IMO. Get Tito’s Handmade Vodka, Reyka or something that’s not marketed as the “in” high end vodka.
When eggplant is outrageously pricey here, I use zucchini as an extender. I’ve even done it with Bubba Ganoush, and got no complaints.
That wasn’t my problem with it, it was just too hard to get enough leverage. Kept floating away.
I saw on a show they did vodka taste tests and Smirnoff did just as well as Grey Goose and other high end brands.
Smirnoff was their super cheap brand, but once when I had it my friend thought I was fancy. We are not sophisticated.
Especially the Porsche 911 (see above).
But there is a difference. Tell people you don’t have a car (and I didn’t for about 15 years) and they’ll accept that with a shrug. Tell people you don’t have a cell phone and you get a reaction similar to what led to the Salem witch trials. The importance of having one is very over-rated when people consider it a necessity, when it’s really a convenience.
This doesn’t quite make sense, especially since people died due to lack of cell phones, too, whether the lack was on the part of themselves or on the part of those who would otherwise have been called in to save them.
The analogy to cars is good: They’re most commonly used for the trivial and mundane, but without them a lot of vital emergency work would remain undone or badly-done. You can say precisely the same thing about landline phones.
Movie popcorn. Always seems to smell better than it tastes, to me. St.Patrick’s Day. Another New Years type amateur night. Lobster. Too much work & mess for not a lot of food. Showering w your SO. Just doesn’t do anything for me.
Eh, that’s a muddy area. In a novel I read recently, they discussed “The Hero Effect.” Some psychologist would fake someone going into seizures in front of various numbers of people. If there was one person there, that person would rush to help, but the more people available the longer it took for someone to step forward - they waited to see if someone else would first. Their definition of a hero was that first person to take action.
I think cell phones kind of do that - everyone calls 911 and they’re done. Last year there were two similar car accidents within a week with someone trapped under a car, one in NYC and one in Utah, I think. In Utah, the people rushed forward, lifted the car and pulled the guy out. In NY, everyone stood around and whenever someone suggested moving the car off the person, someone would shout “we called 911!” The guy died before help arrived. And people filmed it with their cell phones.
With cell phones, people often seem to focus on the help that’s on the way rather than the help that’s already on the scene - the cell phone owners. So I’m not as certain the effect is positive overall.
Sorry for the derail.
I’ll second(plus some) the whole pop culture thing. I don’t know, or care, who most of these people are. Particularly the ones who are some oddball hangers on in the pop culture world. Weirdos who somehow weaseled their way into a popular starlet circle, or are “internet stars” and have become famous for being famous.
It seems as if there is always some sort of “shocking news” about one or another of these people. I am occasionally sucked in by those little Yahoo articles on their home page and frankly these people almost always sound really stupid.
Example: Nicky (sp? don’t care enough to google it or remember) Minaj on some American Idol blip. She was explaining about a disagreement she’d had with the other pop star on the panel. Girl seems to have a working vocabulary of about 25 words, and badly pronounced at that.
ehh, nm
I’d have gone with “Romantic love” myself…
Yeah, that would have been better.
I do think fancy cars are overrated. But I’m just not a car person. Or a fancy person. But I’m also not a bus person.
Bottled waters; especially the small ones. What a waste.
I thought about saying Grey Goose, but decided against it because it would just be hearsay for me. I’m more of a “Whatever vodka is under $10!” kind of gal. 
Bacon.
Cruises.
The whole bacon thing confuses me. Bacon tastes the same as it’s always tasted but it never used to be considered the best fucking thing in the world.