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Blueberries that are frozen will break the cell walls releasing lots of juice that spreads when thawed making the pancakes less appealing. Fresh blueberries don't have that problem. The problem with fresh is that they are very seasonal.
 
I'm completely psyched for Lord of the Rings Lego. Legos were what I played with as a kid. I didn't have GI Joes or Transformers. I had the Lego castle sets. Lego Moria and Weathertop would've been eleven-year-old me's wildest dream that didn't involve boobies.
 
When I was a child the Legos were fairly new and there were not so many choices. Basically it was boring blocks. :zzz:
 
But you had erector sets and lincoln logs, sharp sheet metal and a whole bag of choking hazards.
 
I recall one erection set, but only used it for a couple of days. I don't know about Lincoln logs. I thought they were for farmer's kids or those in the rural areas. We did have lawn jarts, and it was painful if one hit you from a high angle.
 
I've been sadly exposed to a short video of some TV show called GLEE. What freaked me out is that it was all young people in there. That combined to the Justin Bieber madness worries me a lot about the future. Will young people all be like that in ten or twenty years? If yes, please tell me : I'll jump in front of the next train I cross. I feel like Sly Stallone in Demolition Man.
 
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Even though it's close to 3am here, I started a training session because I felt I had to man up. I can't get this crap out of my head. Guys, when I saw that video, the only thing I could think was...

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I'm fucking traumatised.
 
CougTek said:
I've been sadly exposed to a short video of some TV show called GLEE. What freaked me out is that it was all young people in there. That combined to the Justin Bieber madness worries me a lot about the future. Will young people all be like that in ten or twenty years? If yes, please tell me : I'll jump in front of the next train I cross. I feel like Sly Stallone in Demolition Man.
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It is a scripted TV series, not a reality show. Most of the actors look like they are in their mid-20s. In 20 years we will be lucky if most US public high school kids can express a coherent, grammatically correct sentence. :(
 
LunarMist said:
It is a scripted TV series, not a reality show. Most of the actors look like they are in their mid-20s. In 20 years we will be lucky if most US public high school kids can express a coherent, grammatically correct sentence. :(
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What I think worries Coug the most, is that people are watching the show and gaining enjoyment from it...

IIRC the term for fans is gleeks...

Give me classic A-Team any day (now showing on 7-Mate at 2PM each day for those in Oz). Mind you, I really like the show 'Man V Food'...
 
A-Team was really crap for adults to sit through. I know the kids liked it at the time. I don't know what they used for lighting and film stock/transfer, but along with the bad acting and ridiculous plots, it always had that ugly ABC gray look, too. :hurl:
 
I got myself A DVD set that I'm going through: The Avengers - The Complete Emma Peel Megaset. To me, much more enjoyable than Glee which I look at as total and utter YUK.

P.S. It didn't even come close to what Amazon wants for it off Ebay: try $49.99 I'm also insulted by Amazon offering a $17.85 gift certificate for a used copy that they are currently selling at $329.99 used. My automatic assumption is that one should get somewhere close to 50%...
 
Nothing, that I can tell. I just followed the pattern of disliking Glee and then telling what I am currently liking.
 
As someone who had two hours of choir plus another two or three hours of music lessons a day all the way through high school and who has liked Jane Lynch in essentially every role she's ever had, I actually liked the pilot episode of Glee.

Unfortunately, I think it became a victim of its own popularity and became more or less exactly the the opposite of its intended message.

However, for Coug's benefit I'm going to post yet more of the wisdom of Achewood:

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Obviously, Coug would need to replace references to gay porn with Glee, but I think the metaphor still works.
 
I would compare it more to child pornography. If you tell me that watching child pornography doesn't make you a pedophile, I'll answer : yes, it does make you a pedophile. People watching Glee are just like people watching child porn : they do it for their own sick pleasure and it corrupts their minds.

Who's Jane Lynch? Nevermind.
 
Nah. Gay people are people. They just like something you're not interested in, in a way that impacts your life not even a tiny little bit. Likewise with Glee fans.

Among other things, Jane Lynch was the boss character in "40 Year Old Virgin."
 
CougTek said:
If you tell me that watching child pornography doesn't make you a pedophile, I'll answer : yes, it does make you a pedophile.
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That is ridiculous. Does watching a police show featuring psychopathic killers make the viewer into one? What about those awful computer/video games where the goal is to maim horribly and kill? Sane people understand the difference between fiction and reality.
 
I've been doing my accounting for last year and I can't believe there are people willing to do that to make a living. All the time I'm doing this, my brain is completely idle. It's just punching numbers after punching numbers. The death of the mind.

At least now I know why I've been so tight last year : I did roughly 5K$ less than I thought.
 
My very kind elderly (80s?) neighbors aren't stupid, but aren't that knowledgeable about many things either. They have recently been talked into becoming part of the MLM scheme called Kangen Water, selling "ionized water" machines for thousands of dollars by their son. Many here know better than I that this fundamentally impossible, but this ugly page explains some basics fairly well.

These are nice people, though clearly gullible (religious) and by extension a bit anti-intellectual. I'm not sure the best way to breach my concerns, normally I'm a caveat emptor sort of guy, but old people deserve some protection I suppose.
 
The way you speak of them, they would probably be more useful as compost. They clearly past their useful life. Oh well, maybe they have grand children they can still make happy from time to time.
 
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