<p>Concur on Cheesecake Factory. Plus, everything, from salads to burgers to dessert has sugar on it.</p>
<p>sybbie719, your comment about low-rise pants reminded me of something …</p>
<p>I definitely* dont* get thongs. I have spent most of my life picking my underwear out of my butt … the last thing I want to do is spend lots more money for lots less fabric that rides my crack because I want it to do so!</p>
<p>LOL, the first time I tried calamari it happened to be cooked wrong–from the look and the texture I was sure I was eating breaded rubber bands. Now I love it but it’s true it can’t be even a minute overcooked. </p>
<p>I know risotto is supposed to be stirred and watched carefully for a long time, but even at fancy “authentic” Italian restaurants I seem to get that same mushy-yet-raw thing that momsdream mentions. So is the unpopped-popcorn-effect accidental, or on purpose?</p>
<p>I agree with so many of you, thongs and extreme Christians perhaps being the things I am most bugged by that were mentioned.<br>
And… [small voice] I love reality TV! The Contender, which just ended its run, was great. I know a lot of people “look down” on reality TV, but I am secure in my fascination with the way others act in group settings, and under pressure.</p>
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<p>I share the fascination. When they had the Survivor expos</p>
<p>Risotto, the myth–that it needs to be watched and takes a lot of time. Great risotto, fast, good aborio and good chicken broth. Keep adding broth until absorbed and reaches the non-mushy texture you desire. Finish with a lot of good cheese and some great butter or cream. Impossible not to like!</p>
<p>LOL to TheDad’s comment re: reality TV. </p>
<p>Here is someone else’s rationalization for thongs: the material is going to be in your butt either way, so at least a) there is less of it and b) you get used to it being there.</p>
<p>Those who support affirmative action because they want to get rid of racism. (Affirmative action is decision-making based on race.)</p>
<p>Liberals. They think it is ok to kill an innocent unborn child through abortion, but it is wrong to kill someone convicted of murder. (How can a convicted murderer’s life be important enough to save at any cost but an unborn child’s life is expendible?)</p>
<p>hey look, bigmain’s comment is the exact reverse of a previous comment made!!! you two should talk to each other :)</p>
<p>I don’t get the far left OR the far right (or even the not-so-far left or the not-so-far right…come to think of it, I don’t get politics at all…)</p>
<p>i dont get parents giving their sons 2005 cadillac escalades with spinners for their 16th birthday if they know that their son will get a DUI two weeks after getting his license/car (really has happened around here).</p>
<p>also, i dont get the joke “a man walks into a bar and says ouch!!!” why is it FUNNY!!!</p>
<p>Well, Cheesecake Factory is open late after theater or concerts and we’ve wound up there a few times, no wait and good service. Make that, very good service. High enough priced that I look at the crowds and think I’d invest in them. And, of course, we go there only when we’re in a period of surrender about the diet, as in the night before we left on our 12-day trip and didn’t get out of a production of “Fiddler on the Roof” until almost 10pm.</p>
<p>“Risotto” made a lot more sense to me when I figured out that it wasn’t an opera by Verdi…I’d made the same mistake with “Fettucine.” I mean, my God, they even said “Fettucine Verde” right there on the menu sometimes. And don’t get me started on Cap Pacino, who I thought was an actor until I was corrected.</p>
<p>BigMain, it’s simple. The death penalty is an issue where I’ve changed my mind over the past 30 years. It’s not that I’m inherently against it…there are certainly enough individual crimes where I think it’s called for…but there have been far far far far too many incorrect convictions of innocent people that were later overturned. I’m not willing to pay that societal price…saying “Sorry” to the families of the wrongly executed is just too pale and lame. Conversely, I’m squeamish about abortion but it comes down to: who am I willing to see make the decision? Someone of my religion? Your religion? A judge? A politician? None of the above. For me, it comes down to the woman herself in consultation with her doctor. And the so-called Pro-Life movement squanders its legitimacy when many of its adherents are also against birth control, accurate non-abstinence-based sexual education, etc. They should more accurately be called the American Ayahtollahs Who Wish To Impose Their Sectarian Views About Women and Sex On Everyone, It’s For Their Own Good. But I guess AAWWTITSVAWSOEIFTOG is a clumsy acronym.</p>
<p>Another thing I don’t get is – illogical people.</p>
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There is a distinction between the proof required to impose the death penalty and the penalty itself. Those who say they oppose the death penalty because allegedly innocent people have been later set free fail to understand that what they are complaining about is the level of evidence necessary to sentence someone to death (not the penalty itself). Assume you were somehow able to sit right next to a guy who hunts humans. He kills 9 different people on 9 different occasions just for fun. He knows exactly what he is doing and is legally competent under the state’s law. Would you then support the death penalty?</p>
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Every human life begins at conception. If you disagree with this statment then please tell me when life begins.
Every abortion results in one human killing another. If it is simply a woman herself in consulation with her doctor, then surely you would support any woman 's decision to kill her child one day before the child would otherwise be born. What business would society have in imposing its laws on a woman’s decision?</p>
<p>“Every human life begins at conception.”
so true!!!</p>
<p>Did you ever notice how many animal rights activists are pro-choice? Save the seals - kill the babies???</p>
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There is no logic supporting that position!</p>
<p>BigMain, it’s irrelevant that life begins at conception. Not all life is equal.
Glops of undifferentiated cells certainly aren’t worthy of protection in my view. A live baby is. Somewhere in between, you can draw a line. The issue is as much who draws that line as where. I won’t cede that right to you, your religious functionary, or your politician. Nor will I impose the same from mine.</p>
<p>I do no visit the Caf</p>
<p>I don’t get (un)reality TV. I think it’s pathetic that a fictional TV character like Monk is a more interesting and multi-faceted person than most of the so-called real people on reality TV.</p>
<p>I don’t get why people will yell at their dogs to “come here, rover, come here, come rover, come”. Then when the dog comes, they hit him. </p>
<p>I also don’t get why men’s shirts have the buttons on one side, but women’s blouses have the buttons on the other side.</p>
<p>The death penalty and abortion are totally unrelated. </p>
<p>And, when fetuses can live without being INSIDE of the woman and without being dependent on her body for life, the abortion issue will be resolved. However, as long as a fetus must grow INSIDE of the woman and feed off of her body in order the thrive, it’s her decision whether or not to allow her body to be used in that manner. Most women don’t want the government dictating how their bodies should be used and for what purpose. If we’re going to mandate things about women and their bodies, I also support having men tattooed every time they impregnate a woman…and also being given large doses of testosterone over 9 months…in random cycles, which will cause all sorts of emotional and physical problems. Once men start to experience imposition on their bodies…and the permanent effect of such, the argument will subside. </p>
<p>And I agree with TheDad about the death penalty.</p>
<p>I don’t get why people hit their kids. </p>
<p>I especially don’t get why people hit their kids to make their kids stop hitting. DUH!!!</p>
<p>And, how about people who hit their kids to make their kids stop crying? </p>
<p>Everytime I see it, wish someone 4X as big as the adult would come over and HIT THEM!</p>