LOL! The straw thing! What the hell?? And that surf and turf "dinner" looks like a TV dinner shoveled onto a plate... good that the crypto boys got screwed. HA!
"what if it’s not windy? what if it’s not sunny?” I almost choked! 😂😂
Have a good long weekend to everyone in this awesome community. ✌️
LOL! The straw thing! What the hell?? And that surf and turf "dinner" looks like a TV dinner shoveled onto a plate... good that the crypto boys got screwed. HA!
"what if it’s not windy? what if it’s not sunny?” I almost choked! 😂😂
Have a good long weekend to everyone in this awesome community. ✌️
That straw photo was hilarious especially with Dump's puckered lips sucking away on his drink. Remove the rest of that Cheeto dusted face and just leave the straw with those lips, there's a anatomical Kodak moment. Also, between that shitty food that makes Swanson's look edible and Dump's track record of screwing and grifting folks from all economic backgrounds, you'd think that some of these rich folks would know better by now.
The misogyny of the straw issue. You drink like a girl (says that being a girl is not something you want to be). You throw like a girl (again criticism of how girls throw). Same with crying. All these toxic masculine behaviors being reinforced so you're not shamed into acting like demonic girl. Ever notice that typical female behaviors are never praised. Never have I heard a man praised because he was kind and loving like a woman. This is what boys hear from the time they're born. Male behavior - good. Female behavior - weak and less than.
You are correct, when I read that it jogged my brain it’s so stupid! I confess to being a manly man and I probably should use straws because of my mustache but I don’t I have used a paper straw and I thought it was great. How did that make such a distraction!
If you want to stay a manly man, you need to pay attention to what kind of straws you use. There is a higher concentration of estrogen in one type compared to another. lol.
Yet 4 out of 5 ppl pushing baby strollers in my neighborhood are… men. Very interesting, as most growing families accept women working it would seem. Why can’t we give ourselves credit - the dads don’t seem uncomfortable. Good frick’n GRIEF this is exhausting >>>
I reminds me of tv dinners from the 70s, you know space food, with salisbury steaks, mashed potatoes and mixed vegetables, which I hate to this day. It was delivering nutrition, not flavorful. Of course, if one actually ate it on trays in front of the television you were less likely to notice it.
My mom was not about television at first, so I would live the real American life at my aunts. I think we would watch "The Partridge Family" during dinner when I ate at her house on occasion. This was my mom's younger, cooler sister.
In my house we did not have the television on during dinner, and my watching was restricted to programs that my mother felt were not offensive to Blacks, Women or Germans, so I had to sneak watch Hogans Heroes at my friend Debbie's house.
What I could watch was determined by my mom going through the tv guide with me on Sundays, with a pink or yellow highlighter and us negotiating what I could watch. I remember her commentary about all of the shows I watched, as she deconstructed them from a lens of race and feminism. "That Girl" was no longer cool when she decided to get married. I learned from her that Darrin in "Bewitched" was an alcoholic and should not need to down a triple martini when coming home from work. In fact, he was sexist and his wife's powers were her natural female powers, and he was trying to squelch her being herself. That is how we saw things.
Nothing about that time culinarily or tv wise makes me want to return to those good old days.
I don't remember watching TV, growing up, while we ate . My oldest 2 grew up in the 70's-80's, and I insisted that the TV be turned off then. I still would do that now if I had small children. Turn of the TV and put your phone in your room while we all eat together. And talk together like a family. I see no reason why you need to watch TV or look at your phone if you're having a meal with someone. No one really talks to anyone anymore. You go out to eat and everyone is looking at their phone. If that's the case, why not just go eat alone. Same difference. The ruination of human interaction.
Deborah, that is also how we raised our daughter who is now 20. Her friends would be over for dinner and then ask their parents to have family dinner and conversation. It is good to have the connection. We almost never have tech at the table, but we might on special occasions be watching a special event.
As a family we always at the kitchen table. However we had weekly "popcorn parties ". Dad would pop a big kettle of corn and we would watch CBS' great comedy lineup: Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart, and Caroll Burnett. Good memories.
You can always tell which couples are married when you’re eating out. The ones that are, are not talking to each other and looking at their phones. The dating ones are paying attention to each other. Just my observation, lol.
The Reagans ate on TV trays when in their White House residence. For a woman who thought she was better than everyone else, I thought it was tacky. TV trays as a table to me meant a middle-class fad.. .not fine dining.
perfectly good plate on computer table pull-out - tv to the side in case X is too tame (my late husband would be appalled - most civilized people would be.....the joys of solitude)
What a waste when they got to have a chef. The Obama's chef was the son of a colleague of mine, and he used to be baseball star of our school's team. A friend of mine coached it. I know that they had great food from Sam. Why would you not want to eat healthy, delicious, chef prepared meals each day?
Interesting. My parents bought the trays for some reason, and then bought four tv dinners to serve on them. We didn't own a tv. This was in the late Fifties. They were Swansons, and were awful. We never tried them again. When they finally got a tv (my 96 year old grandmother's tv) they put it in my former bedroom with a couple of chairs, so they could watch PBS or maybe a SF Giants game. My father was a professor and my mother was a librarian.
Douglas, I was not allowed to watch programs she considered offensive to Germans.
If you have seen Hogans Heroes you might know what I am talking about. All of the Germans in the series are idiots. Well, they might have been like that in the POW camps in Germany, but was still not what my mom wanted me to identify with, even though I did not. I also had brown-skinned US relatives stationed in the military in Germany growing up, so I related more to the US soldiers like everyone else did. I had to sneak watch it to see it though, because my mom told me how offensive it was.
However, as a teacher I can see the messages about Germans did influence me somewhat. Perhaps we should have such a show about Trump right now. A situation comedy where we show an ICE detention camp, and all of the people in it, like the foreign students, and others as outsmarting the stupid American guards and running a black market economy outside the prison.
Also, when I was growing up often the bad guys in shows either had terrible fake German or fake Russian accents. My mom did not want me watching the ones with the bad fake German accents.
YES!!! Those tv dinners the Salisbury steak & gravy gave us horrible gas! The potatoes gave you 3rd degree burns in your mouth & the mixed veggies were soggy! But we thought it was the best thing since sliced bread!!😂😂😂
Yikes, Swansons were horrible waste, just like the bow tied wastrel Cheryl… I loved everything hot, not even a handful of Tai peppers would make a Swansons dinner worth eating!!
Amusing post Linda, Hogans Heroes, Get Smart, Wild Kingdom were about the only shows I ever watched, aside from sports. The first TV I ever watched was a NY Yanks game. I’ve seen Bewitched, Green Acres, The Flying Nun, et al., yet never cared to spend time watching any of them, my mother didn’t care to censor anything that we watched, because my younger siblings were glued to the plethora of cartoons, which I had little interest in. Funniest part of this story was that I became a photographer and animator!!
At the same time that my viewing was censored, in part because my mother thought TV rotted your brain, and for the hour I was allowed each day, it had to be approved material. I did do extra watching by going over to friend's houses after school.
At the same time she made sure to find books where there were people with a variety of skin colors who were in families or friends, just as I had both brown and beige dolls, which is what we call the skin color of people who consider themselves "white." In any case, there was some conscious effort to raise me with a sense of my multiculturalness, that included censoring television, and hearing comments on how stupid so much of it was.
The right wing focuses like a laser ...and cheats a bit too to defeat...when Dems run good, decent candidates like Gore, HRC, & Kamala....all would have made good leaders. And in several cases the course of world history would be different and for the better.
Ditto Susan, I always use a straw when drinking a malt a long handled spoon accompanies the delicious task. The stunods that spent hundreds of thousands on dining with Dear leader, should have known better. Bon Weekend everyone!!
I use a straw with fountain drinks ( I only drink Coke - has to be Coke brand too). My favorite is Coke out of a can. Don't like soft drinks from plastic bottles or any beverage from metal containers. I didn't realize Cali doesn't have plastic bottles anymore and had to drink water in the airport from some kind of metal container. Yuk. Same with paper straws - no bueno. When I reread this, I am obviously a spoiled princess when it comes to beverages. But in my defense, I never litter, I do recycle, never smoked and threw butts on the ground nor polluted the air with cigarette smoke.
LOL! The straw thing! What the hell?? And that surf and turf "dinner" looks like a TV dinner shoveled onto a plate... good that the crypto boys got screwed. HA!
"what if it’s not windy? what if it’s not sunny?” I almost choked! 😂😂
Have a good long weekend to everyone in this awesome community. ✌️
That straw photo was hilarious especially with Dump's puckered lips sucking away on his drink. Remove the rest of that Cheeto dusted face and just leave the straw with those lips, there's a anatomical Kodak moment. Also, between that shitty food that makes Swanson's look edible and Dump's track record of screwing and grifting folks from all economic backgrounds, you'd think that some of these rich folks would know better by now.
The misogyny of the straw issue. You drink like a girl (says that being a girl is not something you want to be). You throw like a girl (again criticism of how girls throw). Same with crying. All these toxic masculine behaviors being reinforced so you're not shamed into acting like demonic girl. Ever notice that typical female behaviors are never praised. Never have I heard a man praised because he was kind and loving like a woman. This is what boys hear from the time they're born. Male behavior - good. Female behavior - weak and less than.
You are correct, when I read that it jogged my brain it’s so stupid! I confess to being a manly man and I probably should use straws because of my mustache but I don’t I have used a paper straw and I thought it was great. How did that make such a distraction!
If you want to stay a manly man, you need to pay attention to what kind of straws you use. There is a higher concentration of estrogen in one type compared to another. lol.
Yet 4 out of 5 ppl pushing baby strollers in my neighborhood are… men. Very interesting, as most growing families accept women working it would seem. Why can’t we give ourselves credit - the dads don’t seem uncomfortable. Good frick’n GRIEF this is exhausting >>>
Real men actually help in raising their children. Only lazy scum do not.
Of course Hunter Biden he has those space lasers and that is when it all started with him I don’t know how I missed it!
I reminds me of tv dinners from the 70s, you know space food, with salisbury steaks, mashed potatoes and mixed vegetables, which I hate to this day. It was delivering nutrition, not flavorful. Of course, if one actually ate it on trays in front of the television you were less likely to notice it.
My mom was not about television at first, so I would live the real American life at my aunts. I think we would watch "The Partridge Family" during dinner when I ate at her house on occasion. This was my mom's younger, cooler sister.
In my house we did not have the television on during dinner, and my watching was restricted to programs that my mother felt were not offensive to Blacks, Women or Germans, so I had to sneak watch Hogans Heroes at my friend Debbie's house.
What I could watch was determined by my mom going through the tv guide with me on Sundays, with a pink or yellow highlighter and us negotiating what I could watch. I remember her commentary about all of the shows I watched, as she deconstructed them from a lens of race and feminism. "That Girl" was no longer cool when she decided to get married. I learned from her that Darrin in "Bewitched" was an alcoholic and should not need to down a triple martini when coming home from work. In fact, he was sexist and his wife's powers were her natural female powers, and he was trying to squelch her being herself. That is how we saw things.
Nothing about that time culinarily or tv wise makes me want to return to those good old days.
I don't remember watching TV, growing up, while we ate . My oldest 2 grew up in the 70's-80's, and I insisted that the TV be turned off then. I still would do that now if I had small children. Turn of the TV and put your phone in your room while we all eat together. And talk together like a family. I see no reason why you need to watch TV or look at your phone if you're having a meal with someone. No one really talks to anyone anymore. You go out to eat and everyone is looking at their phone. If that's the case, why not just go eat alone. Same difference. The ruination of human interaction.
Deborah, that is also how we raised our daughter who is now 20. Her friends would be over for dinner and then ask their parents to have family dinner and conversation. It is good to have the connection. We almost never have tech at the table, but we might on special occasions be watching a special event.
As a family we always at the kitchen table. However we had weekly "popcorn parties ". Dad would pop a big kettle of corn and we would watch CBS' great comedy lineup: Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart, and Caroll Burnett. Good memories.
didn't have tv when I was a kid (I'm old & grew up off the beaten track) so we just ate in silence
Oh, we talked.
Like your style Deborah, TV and phones don’t belong anywhere near the dinner table!!
You can always tell which couples are married when you’re eating out. The ones that are, are not talking to each other and looking at their phones. The dating ones are paying attention to each other. Just my observation, lol.
HA! I hear ya! That Girl...wow. I remember.
My grandparents saved the TV trays and put leftovers from big dinners in them, then put them in the freezer. Waste not, want not!!
Recycling’s Origin Story
My parents' family motto, and ours today.
The Reagans ate on TV trays when in their White House residence. For a woman who thought she was better than everyone else, I thought it was tacky. TV trays as a table to me meant a middle-class fad.. .not fine dining.
I just had breakfast of re-warmed tacos and ate 'em right off the microwave dish - PERFECTLY GOOD PLATE
perfectly good plate on computer table pull-out - tv to the side in case X is too tame (my late husband would be appalled - most civilized people would be.....the joys of solitude)
Gina, in five years, when I'm your age, does that mean I'll be able to use a microwave? Me, being a Luddite again.
as long as you eat off the microwave glass thingy (cutlery permitted)
What a waste when they got to have a chef. The Obama's chef was the son of a colleague of mine, and he used to be baseball star of our school's team. A friend of mine coached it. I know that they had great food from Sam. Why would you not want to eat healthy, delicious, chef prepared meals each day?
slumming
Interesting. My parents bought the trays for some reason, and then bought four tv dinners to serve on them. We didn't own a tv. This was in the late Fifties. They were Swansons, and were awful. We never tried them again. When they finally got a tv (my 96 year old grandmother's tv) they put it in my former bedroom with a couple of chairs, so they could watch PBS or maybe a SF Giants game. My father was a professor and my mother was a librarian.
Mom made ypu watch programs NOT offensive to .....Germans???!! 😅😂
Douglas, I was not allowed to watch programs she considered offensive to Germans.
If you have seen Hogans Heroes you might know what I am talking about. All of the Germans in the series are idiots. Well, they might have been like that in the POW camps in Germany, but was still not what my mom wanted me to identify with, even though I did not. I also had brown-skinned US relatives stationed in the military in Germany growing up, so I related more to the US soldiers like everyone else did. I had to sneak watch it to see it though, because my mom told me how offensive it was.
However, as a teacher I can see the messages about Germans did influence me somewhat. Perhaps we should have such a show about Trump right now. A situation comedy where we show an ICE detention camp, and all of the people in it, like the foreign students, and others as outsmarting the stupid American guards and running a black market economy outside the prison.
Also, when I was growing up often the bad guys in shows either had terrible fake German or fake Russian accents. My mom did not want me watching the ones with the bad fake German accents.
YES!!! Those tv dinners the Salisbury steak & gravy gave us horrible gas! The potatoes gave you 3rd degree burns in your mouth & the mixed veggies were soggy! But we thought it was the best thing since sliced bread!!😂😂😂
Yikes, Swansons were horrible waste, just like the bow tied wastrel Cheryl… I loved everything hot, not even a handful of Tai peppers would make a Swansons dinner worth eating!!
Amusing post Linda, Hogans Heroes, Get Smart, Wild Kingdom were about the only shows I ever watched, aside from sports. The first TV I ever watched was a NY Yanks game. I’ve seen Bewitched, Green Acres, The Flying Nun, et al., yet never cared to spend time watching any of them, my mother didn’t care to censor anything that we watched, because my younger siblings were glued to the plethora of cartoons, which I had little interest in. Funniest part of this story was that I became a photographer and animator!!
At the same time that my viewing was censored, in part because my mother thought TV rotted your brain, and for the hour I was allowed each day, it had to be approved material. I did do extra watching by going over to friend's houses after school.
At the same time she made sure to find books where there were people with a variety of skin colors who were in families or friends, just as I had both brown and beige dolls, which is what we call the skin color of people who consider themselves "white." In any case, there was some conscious effort to raise me with a sense of my multiculturalness, that included censoring television, and hearing comments on how stupid so much of it was.
Tennessee has some of the most stupid politicians in the country! 🙄
Can confirm. And to think we once were capable of electing the likes of Al Gore. 😐
Truth! And to think that once upon a time, Texassistan gave us LBJ and the late great Ann Richards (former governor).
…and the fabulous Molly Ivins!
YES!!! IIRC, she's the one who gave GWB the moniker of "Shrub."
The right wing focuses like a laser ...and cheats a bit too to defeat...when Dems run good, decent candidates like Gore, HRC, & Kamala....all would have made good leaders. And in several cases the course of world history would be different and for the better.
“cheats a bit”? Cheats a lot.
I know, exactly!!
Ditto Susan, I always use a straw when drinking a malt a long handled spoon accompanies the delicious task. The stunods that spent hundreds of thousands on dining with Dear leader, should have known better. Bon Weekend everyone!!
I use a straw with fountain drinks ( I only drink Coke - has to be Coke brand too). My favorite is Coke out of a can. Don't like soft drinks from plastic bottles or any beverage from metal containers. I didn't realize Cali doesn't have plastic bottles anymore and had to drink water in the airport from some kind of metal container. Yuk. Same with paper straws - no bueno. When I reread this, I am obviously a spoiled princess when it comes to beverages. But in my defense, I never litter, I do recycle, never smoked and threw butts on the ground nor polluted the air with cigarette smoke.
Is she angling for the Treasury job with...'what if it's not sunny.....'??. That's what D says....
That food looked awful
Surprised that it wasn't smothered in ketchup.
I’ve seen tastier food in dog dishes Eva!!
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