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TylerH860 · #1 05-16-2013, 01:07 AM

Anybody in Scottsdale looking for a nice dinner? Holy $)*%#

Kitchen Nightmares - Amy's Baking Company (Full Version) - YouTube

That woman is.... is..... terrifying, and has become cannon fodder for internet trolls.

Its being called the worst company melt down on facebook... ever.

The Worst Company Meltdown on Facebook Ever - Cheezburger

Yelp page:

http://www.yelp.com/biz/amys-baking-company-scottsdale

History in the making folks.

Jim B. · #2 05-16-2013, 01:48 AM

I utterly despise American commercial television.

Back in 1958, I was 10 years old when my father bought the family a black and white new Magnavox television, ("The quality goes in before the name goes on") and it was strictly regulated, we could only watch the "FBI" show, "Walt Disney presents" and nothing else. Though my grandmother visited sometimes and for her, the "Lawrence Welk & his champagne music makers" was a Television show she liked to watch in our home.

In 1966 I left for college and never watched television any more.

It could be a force for good, maybe, but to me it has not been so; there are - inter alia - all those stupid sit coms with people in the background laughing at things that are not funny; the volume goes automatically up whenever all those terrible commercials - like ones with people holding up motor oil cans or butt paper rolls up to their phony, money-driven, smiling faces and imploring you to buy more crap.

New tract homes in the USA now are built with spaces like an altar in the living room, where your big television is supposed to be placed and worshipped.

Sometime in the late 1970s in the lunch room at work I overheard some women babbling on, excitedly, about some television show called "Charlie's Angels". I had utterly no idea who they were or what they did.

Years later, I read someplace that the Hollywood scriptwriters for this show - something to do with supposedly sexy women doing Police work, actually wrote the scripts so that they had to run up and down hills, so the viewers could watch their breasts bounce.

Good god. Gissa break, mon!!!

To me television in the USA is an utter waste of time.
Even my g/f who watches it sometimes, and is an RN, told me that a lot of Americans are so fat, because they see television commercials for food all day long, and then go and buy and eat way too much food. I had no idea of that. If true, how pathetic.

Though I had a very savvy African-American friend that was a deputy San Francisco Sheriff in the Court and County Jail section in the Hall of Justice.

On his shift, he told me he would tune all the Jail television sets to a show called "Soul Train" and the inmates liked it so much that he never had ANY problems on his watch.

So that was one effective use of it; but he told me once, "Jim, I swear, if I ever went to Jail, I tell you I would come out of there with a PhD."

Air&Road · #3 05-16-2013, 03:27 AM

Jim, your post reminded me of the book "1984" that was written in the fifties or sixties. They portrayed television much as the curse that you accurately described it.

Jim B. · #4 05-16-2013, 04:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Air&Road

Jim, your post reminded me of the book "1984" that was written in the fifties or sixties. They portrayed television much as the curse that you accurately described it.

Thanks Larry;

~~~

There's a classic scene in a Woody Allen movie, perhaps it was Annie Hall.

Woody leaves NY and comes to LA where he becomes, after a time, a successful Hollywood screenwriter; and he invites his best friend from NYC to Los Angeles to visit for the first time..

Woody is driving him around in this huge '76 El Dorado convertible in Beverly Hills, and can barely maneuver it (in NYC, "cars" are those yellow things with numbers on top) ..He backs it up into garbage cans and so on.

and his friend exclaims: "Wow, I can't buhlieve this!!! It's so clean here in LA!!!
In New York we have garbage 12 stories high! (This was when the famous mid '70s NY garbage strike was going on).

What do you guys in LA do with all your GARBAGE?"

And Woody looks over at him, and deadpans:

"Oh, we put it all on TV."

tbomachines · #5 05-16-2013, 08:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Jim B.

I utterly despise American commercial television.

Back in 1958, I was 10 years old when my father bought the family a black and white new Magnavox television, ("The quality goes in before the name goes on") and it was strictly regulated, we could only watch the "FBI" show, "Walt Disney presents" and nothing else. Though my grandmother visited sometimes and for her, the "Lawrence Welk & his champagne music makers" was a Television show she liked to watch in our home.

In 1966 I left for college and never watched television any more.

It could be a force for good, maybe, but to me it has not been so; there are - inter alia - all those stupid sit coms with people in the background laughing at things that are not funny; the volume goes automatically up whenever all those terrible commercials - like ones with people holding up motor oil cans or butt paper rolls up to their phony, money-driven, smiling faces and imploring you to buy more crap.

New tract homes in the USA now are built with spaces like an altar in the living room, where your big television is supposed to be placed and worshipped.

Sometime in the late 1970s in the lunch room at work I overheard some women babbling on, excitedly, about some television show called "Charlie's Angels". I had utterly no idea who they were or what they did.

Years later, I read someplace that the Hollywood scriptwriters for this show - something to do with supposedly sexy women doing Police work, actually wrote the scripts so that they had to run up and down hills, so the viewers could watch their breasts bounce.

Good god. Gissa break, mon!!!

To me television in the USA is an utter waste of time.
Even my g/f who watches it sometimes, and is an RN, told me that a lot of Americans are so fat, because they see television commercials for food all day long, and then go and buy and eat way too much food. I had no idea of that. If true, how pathetic.

Though I had a very savvy African-American friend that was a deputy San Francisco Sheriff in the Court and County Jail section in the Hall of Justice.

On his shift, he told me he would tune all the Jail television sets to a show called "Soul Train" and the inmates liked it so much that he never had ANY problems on his watch.

So that was one effective use of it; but he told me once, "Jim, I swear, if I ever went to Jail, I tell you I would come out of there with a PhD."

This rant is pretty funny because its actually a British show.

Tyler, I also watched that and its is really just disturbing. I almost think that they were acting for all of it but I'm not really sure since its a legitimate business and people have actually been there and whatnot. It makes me wonder what kind of life they've had to get to that point....

BobK · #6 05-16-2013, 08:10 AM

Zenith had the "quality goes in before the name goes on" tag line. At my uncle's TV shop we would joke that as soon as the name was on they would take the quality back out. Whole family worked for RCA in Cincinnati at the time.
I watch movies on TV. Or maybe a home improvement show on PBS- doesn't hurt to learn a better/proper way to do things. That's about it.

MTUpower · #7 05-16-2013, 08:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jim B.

I utterly despise American commercial television.

Back in 1958, I was 10 years old when my father bought the family a black and white new Magnavox television, ("The quality goes in before the name goes on") and it was strictly regulated, we could only watch the "FBI" show, "Walt Disney presents" and nothing else. Though my grandmother visited sometimes and for her, the "Lawrence Welk & his champagne music makers" was a Television show she liked to watch in our home.

In 1966 I left for college and never watched television any more.

It could be a force for good, maybe, but to me it has not been so; there are - inter alia - all those stupid sit coms with people in the background laughing at things that are not funny; the volume goes automatically up whenever all those terrible commercials - like ones with people holding up motor oil cans or butt paper rolls up to their phony, money-driven, smiling faces and imploring you to buy more crap.

New tract homes in the USA now are built with spaces like an altar in the living room, where your big television is supposed to be placed and worshipped.

Sometime in the late 1970s in the lunch room at work I overheard some women babbling on, excitedly, about some television show called "Charlie's Angels". I had utterly no idea who they were or what they did.

Years later, I read someplace that the Hollywood scriptwriters for this show - something to do with supposedly sexy women doing Police work, actually wrote the scripts so that they had to run up and down hills, so the viewers could watch their breasts bounce.

Good god. Gissa break, mon!!!

To me television in the USA is an utter waste of time.
Even my g/f who watches it sometimes, and is an RN, told me that a lot of Americans are so fat, because they see television commercials for food all day long, and then go and buy and eat way too much food. I had no idea of that. If true, how pathetic.

Though I had a very savvy African-American friend that was a deputy San Francisco Sheriff in the Court and County Jail section in the Hall of Justice.

On his shift, he told me he would tune all the Jail television sets to a show called "Soul Train" and the inmates liked it so much that he never had ANY problems on his watch.

So that was one effective use of it; but he told me once, "Jim, I swear, if I ever went to Jail, I tell you I would come out of there with a PhD."

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Originally Posted by Jim B.

Maybe your sons will learn to use the apostrophe correctly, (when and if they go to college), something you have evidently failed to learn.

Maybe you will learn to use capitalization correctly and proper comma and semi-colon use someday which is something which you have evidently failed to learn.

Simpler=Better · #8 05-16-2013, 08:39 AM

You can't take it for more than face value: It's mindless stuff to laugh at, and commercials to ignore.

I am a big fan of 'The Walking Dead' set after the end of the world. I root for the zombies, because the humans are ridiculously stupid.

The Swede · #9 05-16-2013, 08:42 AM

Love me Curtis Mathis!

Kuan · #10 05-16-2013, 08:56 AM

They're claiming their FB page was hacked. Twitter too. A likely story.

tbomachines · #11 05-16-2013, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Kuan

They're claiming their FB page was hacked. Twitter too. A likely story.

Those rascally internet bullies!

Chad300tdt · #12 05-16-2013, 08:59 AM

I tried to watch it, but had to stop after only a few minutes in. It was too stressful to watch.

I don't enjoy watching a train wreck.

I'll stick to occasionally watching Top Gear and How It's Made.

I can't even watch OverHaulin' because it seems like they WANT everyone to cry when they get to the reveal.

I think most shows are filler for ads and the shows themselves are designed for product endorsement

link · #13 05-16-2013, 09:10 AM

We started watching a show named Restaurant Impossible a few months back, where a guy named Robert Irvine comes to rescue failing restaurants. He brings $10K worth of restorations, an army of carpenters and 2 days of time to turn around some of the worst horror stories to be seen on TV.

A large amount of the time the owners/operators are in complete denial about badly made food being a primary reason that the restaurant is failed. The other large % of the time the people who operate the restaurant can’t escape their own arrogance and incompetence, and along with these details, the restaurant itself is in dire need of a makeover. Often the kitchens have never been cleaned.

Irvine & company rescues the restaurant each week by a combination of a new “do,” counseling to the staff, and a new menu with food made to Irvine’s direction. It’s interesting to watch.

elchivito · #14 05-16-2013, 09:11 AM

I don't watch a lot of TeeVee, but do have a few favorites. I have a good friend who stopped watching commercial television back in the 60's. If it's not on PBS he won't watch it and still goes off on silly rants about it. I don't know how he thinks he can logically criticize a medium that he's known nothing about in over 40 years, but that's just me. Reminds me a bit of the book banners who "don't need to read it to know what's in it".

barry12345 · #15 05-16-2013, 10:03 AM

I watch televison to some extent but was never sure if it was healthy for the imagination or mind in general. If anyone can remember radio I think it made you exercise the mind to partially visualise what you were hearing at least. Since the televison does it for you technically it could make you lazy or at least the mind as well I suppose.

The other perhaps component is it shows people in existances that are not generally real in this world. You could listen to radio and stil function reasonably while doing something else. For example if I am building a set of kitchen cupboards or almost anything I will have music usually on a radio in the background. I do not find this to be a signifigant distraction.

Televison generally stops perifial activity as it is primarily a visual medium. Ninety percent of the programs or more I find no enjoyment in watching. At the same time those poor shows must appeal to the masses or would not be attracting sponsers.

One realy unhealthy practice possibly is parents letting the televison be used as a general babysitter instead of engaging their children in better activities. This may be a byproduct of them havng not enough time as life may be very complex today for many couples with the wife working.

I have always liked the mythology that we are free people. Sure we are if we work our asses off for large portion of our lives. Media services like televison have to present some level of propaganda would be an expectation as well.