βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Does that contain an entire cow?
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and several smaller animals
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It is if you want to make a surprisingly successful TV show based on epicly big food:
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Can we keep the food out of the bad ideas thread? It should go in the good ideas thread if anything.
That depends on the food, surely. Personally, I would put something "made from meat off-cuts and offal ... pig's heart, liver and fatty belly meat" here.
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I would put something "made from meat off-cuts and offal ... pig's heart, liver and fatty belly meat" here
So⦠sausages and haggis?
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It is if you want to make a surprisingly successful TV show based on epicly big food:
It's a fun show to watch, though.
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I believe many people would put haggis here. (I've never had it, so I don't know.) As for sausage, I'm much happier not thinking about what goes into it, TYVM.
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I have had haggis. In Scotland, no less (although it's originally Lancastrian, apparently).
Is tasty
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Man vs Food is one of those rare breed of reality shows that are actually real; those restaurants do exist, that food is served, and yes, that guy did attempt all those challenges
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I believe many people would put haggis here
Good. The wild Haggis is an endangered species, and farmed ones just aren't the same
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Have you been told how to catch one? Y'see, their legs are shorter on one side, so you'll never catch them if you chase them clockwise round a mountain. However, if you can get them to go the other wayβ¦
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Do I look like an amateur Haggis hunter to you? I've even had surgery to shorten my left leg so I can run faster anticlockwise
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Are you claiming he doesn't really eat that stuff?
I've never seen that particular show, but most "reality" TV has about as much connection to reality as, say, Castle has to actual NY police work.
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Big Brother isn't exactly representativeβ¦
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I mean...he wouldn't go around doing this if it weren't a TV show, but it's fun to watch. I tend to catch it on the weekend when I'm just wasting time waiting for the wife / kids to get ready to go somewhere and there's nothing else going on. Some of the food looks really good, if ridiculously portioned.
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I have had haggis. ... Is tasty
It sounds to me like one of those things that would be pretty good, if you can get past the idea of it to actually try it.
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British cuisine makes plenty of use of offal: liver and onions, steak and kidney pie, black pudding⦠haggis is just another on the list ;)
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I've never seen that particular show, but most "reality" TV has about as much connection to reality as, say, Castle has to actual NY police work.
It's more of a documentary than reality TV. The host goes to a bunch of restaurants, interviews the chefs, tries some food, then at the end he does one of those "eat your own bodyweight in meat and get your picture on the wall" challenges
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Big Brother isn't exactly representativeβ¦
Other than the odd clip posted to YT, I haven't seen it, but off-hand it seems like it might be somewhat more realistic than, say, stranding a bunch of strangers in a deserted (except for all the camera operators, sound technicians, directors, producers, etc.) island (except that they're not really stranded, because each week the least popular castaway gets to go home). Or "reality" police shows made of clips that depict situations that a typical cop might face, maybe, once in his entire career. Yes, they really happened, but making a whole show of nothing but those situations gives a really misleading impression of what it's like to be a cop. Most police work is really boring.
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The first series of Big Brother was indeed a genuine social experiment; every series after though has just been an endless parade of desperate wannabees who will do anything for their 15 seconds of fame, and failed celebrities whoring themselves out to rescue the torn shreds of their careers
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Steak and kidney pie doesn't sound too bad. Black pudding, no thanks. I don't even want to be in the same room as liver and onions. My grandmother used to make that (for herself) occasionally when she lived with us; I'm not sure, but my parents may have asked her to stop making it, because it stank up the house so badly.
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Just where do you send the good cuts? I thought you won the 100 year war?
Filed under: The British empire was based on its cuisine -- or the attempts at getting away from it
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Just where do you send the good cuts?
Steaks, chops, Sunday roasts⦠stuff like that
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I would put something "made from meat off-cuts and offal ... pig's heart, liver and fatty belly meat" here.
Wait. You just defined bacon as a bad idea?
Kill the heretic!
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My grandmother used to make that (for herself) occasionally when she lived with us; I'm not sure, but my parents may have asked her to stop making it, because it stank up the house so badly.
...well, I don't know how she was making it. But, whatever it was, it's a bad idea. Liver and onions should not stink up the house any more than cooking any other meat.
Well, unless she was cooking bear liver. (In my experience, bear-anything is a bad idea.)
I can understand people not liking it, it does have a different flavor. (I like it, personally.)
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Bad idea: you reading this post if you've already recently started reading a webcomic I mentioned recently, because here's another one I forgot about until now. It's one where superheroes have just been discovered, and it's genre-savvy.
grrlpowercomic.com
I suspect most people will either find it funny or too obvious. I'm curious what, if anything, @blakeyrat and @accalia will think of it. I expect @hardwaregeek will take a while to get around to reading it.
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You didn't link to it.
And grrl isn't a word.
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Oh, Discourse let me down.
And I didn't come up with the name, you can take that up with the author. Who's got a $3400/mo Patreon, apparently.
Also, the comic is set in Dallas.
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I am disappoint. you posted that comic and didn't include literally the next panel
@FrostCat said:
A panel that says a lot about Sydney really.overall i rate the comic 4.5/5 for story and tone and 9.8/5 for hilarity and humour
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I am disappoint. you posted that comic and didn't include literally the next panel
I had to stop somewhere or I'd've put 873 panels in!
How'd you find that so fast? Really fast reader or GIS?
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How'd you find that so fast? Really fast reader or GIS?
i admit i had it bookmarked. that's basically my go to strip for showing people they need to read that comic.
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overall i rate the comic 4.5/5 for story and tone and 9.8/5 for hilarity and humour
Like Ensign Mary Sue, it's all over the place. There're both MLP:FiM and Phineas and Ferb references. The latter cracked me up because I had to think about it for a couple of seconds.
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Oh, you already knew about it, OK.
been reading it since day 1. ;-)
i was the one who first made his patreon not a whole dollar amount too
Like Ensign Mary Sue, it's all over the place
well yes, but it manages it hilariously,. There're both MLP:FiM and Phineas and Ferb references.
and so much more!
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What species is this?
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What species is this?
Sydney is sydney.
more than that i will not say because it is better to learn who and what she is by reading the comic.
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I'm be honest with you: I'd probably have to be REAL bored to look that up and read it.
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your loss then. it's flipping hilarious.
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You just defined bacon as a bad idea?
No.
pig's heart, liver and fatty belly meat
Fatty belly meat, alone, suitably cured and smoked is (more than) acceptable. Fatty belly meat with the other ingredients, not so much (even if it's smoked and cured; adding bacon to something disgusting does not make it non-disgusting).
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I don't know how she was making it.... it does have a different flavor.
I don't how she was making it either, but in my limited experience, the "different" flavor is directly connected with a "different" aroma.
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I expect @hardwaregeek will take a while to get around to reading it.
I can't remember whether I've run across it before (the name looks vaguely familiar), but I've definitely not read any significant amount of it. I'm definitely not going to start any time soon.
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The first series of Big Brother was indeed a genuine social experiment; every series after though has just been an endless parade of desperate wannabees who will do anything for their 15 seconds of fame
It's the nature of this type of reality show though...
For example, I found the first one or two seasons of My Kitchen Rules enjoyable to watch. The premise is that "home cooks" (i.e. not professionals or trained) compete against each other in various cookery challenges.
At the start people were cooking good, imaginative food that you could picture being prepared at home. The last few seasons are all confit-this and carpaccio-that; it seems as if the contestants have just spent all their spare time training to win the show.
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Bad idea #667832
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adding bacon to something disgusting does not make it non-disgusting
You're not using enough bacon
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I think we crossed some sort of event horizon on the most recent (unless there's been another since that I didn't notice) Celebrity Big Brother, where, IIRC, at least two of the contestants were famous for being on reality shows.
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Jade Goody was in one series of Celebrity Big Brother. Her claim to fame was being stupid on normal Big Brother.
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Sometimes it's good to be a philistine.
Traditional forms have failed us: they produce the same kinds of social situations as have ever been: we have poverty, wars, corporate imperialism, neocolonialism, racism, religious clashes of all kinds, homophobia, etc⦠Beethovan [sic] and Mahler have not solved the problem of violence in society; Tennyson and Poe have not given us answers to the problem of fascist dictatorships in the world. It is obvious to me that to change the world as a poet one must subvert entrenched assumptions which underlie oppressive or coercive discourses.
With that, I give you: Amplifying My Clothes:
h/t David Thompson