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Yeah, I rounded down in my original post.

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I like sporks.

I have some products to rant about. You *might* have heard of them, but you might not.

Sunny D Mmm. A bit of orange juice, mixed with cooking oil and with a doubled price. Nutritional!

Any movie-to-game conversion Now, obviously there are some exceptions to this, Alien Resurection for one, was superior in the game area. The majority, however, are just...y'know..not there. Oh well. There are worse things, namely Game-to-film conversions. *sigh.*

Cookie Crisp It's a breakfast cereal, except it's made ENTIRELY OUT OF CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES! Just an excuse to eat biscuits, and turn into a nation of slobs.

(It's not a product, but..) Reality TV. ARGH!!! Does America have any of the following: Survivor, Big Brother, I'm a celebrity get me out of here (Yes, that's the actual title), Wife Swap, Celebrity Driving School, Fat Club etc, etc? If so, IS ANYONE ELSE PRAYING FOR APOCALYPSE TO COME RATHER THAN SIT THROUGH ANOTHER REALITY TV SEASON? Lets face it, no-one likes reality TV anymore, so why do they bother bringing up another Reality TV show over and over? We even had a show that had all of the "best stars of Reality TV" in a "mansion specially built for them" for another FREAKIN' REALITY TV SHOW! I know, it's not a product, but this is something I really just had to rant about. I did not use language that hasn't been on H*R, so no-one complain. It's in the title of the topic. "Rant".

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I didn't realize that reality TV is such a huge phenomenon elsewhere in the world. We have so many stupid reality shows that it makes me sick.

Yeah, we do have survivor and big brother...in fact I think those originated in the states...

I find myself flipping through the channels and seeing that the season finale of road rules or real world is coming on that night and then thinking "holy crap, they had another season??"

Titanium Spork. Interesting.

The thing about "Reality Shows" is that they take people and put them in totally unreal situations and call it "reality." Single guys: how many times has this happened to you? Someone puts you up in a mansion, then makes you date 20 hot girls until you decide to keep just one? Oh, yeah. Happens to me ALL THE FREAKING TIME! (yeah, right!).

If you ask me, the only true "Reality Shows" on TV are those you find on so-called educational channels. Well, maybe Cops. You want reality? Just go downtown at about 1am, and I'm pretty sure you'll get a good dose of it.

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"Truth" about Sporks: The spork wasn't an intentional invention. Supposedly, some guy at the plastic spoon place screwed up a batch, and they had the little prongs on them. To keep his job, he did some quick thinking and came up with sporks.... Spork inventor:"Ok, let's see, it needs to look like a combination of a fork, so they can eat solid food, and a spoon, for soup. It also has to be ill designed for either task, and while we're at it, can we make it weak where the little bowl/spoon part connects with the handle, so people have to use 20 to get through a meal?

Ok, as best I know, neither of those are true. I'm full of crap. LOL


A bit earlier, you all were talking about sodas... Anyone ever have any Ale 8 One? I'm just trying to see how far it is distributed. It used to only be a central Kentucky thing. As recently as my freshman year (4 years ago) I would take orders for Ale 8 on my floor and drive to Lexington to stock up. Finally, places in Bowling Green started stocking it...
What about Faygo or Jones Soda? Why is it that people don't know about the good sodas?!?!?! <ok, so that wasn't much of a rant>

I know about Jones Soda. We've got oodles of it up here in Washington.

Jones is all over, even here in Iowa (the soda, that is, not me.. though I'm all over, too). They have Faygo at Dollar Tree stores here, but I wouldn't exactly call it good soda. It tastes about as good as any store brand or generic. Then again, if you've got no money, a cold one is a cold one. And I have to admit, on certain evenings in late spring, a Cool One can be very refreshing.

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Yes, their cola vacuums. However, their orange and grape taste about as good as artificially flavored fruit sodas can.

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Faygo makes some awesome root beer, and their Peach flavor, as well as Red Pop are great as well..
Still nobody know of Ale 8?

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If you can't fix it with a hammer, you have an electrical problem.

Have you seen that one commercial where the bellhop brings a lady like 20 bowls of cereal and tells her she has to eat that much to get enough calcium? Well here's a hint, Mr. Bellhop: MILK HAS CALCIUM IN IT! Maybe if you got up off your lazy behind, went back to the kitchen, and brought the poor lady some stinking milk, she wouldn't need to eat 20 bowls of cereal. And who the heck eats cereal without milk?* If a bellhop brought me cereal with no milk, I'd make sure someone sent him to idiot school so he could get his master's degree.

* This insult is not intended to offend people who prefer other substances on their cereal (like beer), only bellhops who are too stupid to bring it with the cereal.

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speaking of beer...
What's up with all these low carb beers and this whole "our beer is lowest in carbs" crap!??!? If people pay attention, the "lowest carb" beer has something like 0.2g of carbs less that the next one... 2/10 g (or 1/5g, for you reduced fraction people) translates into 0.8 calories. I kinda figure you burn that off breathing while you're opening the beer. If that 0.8 calorie is gonna kill you, I'm guessing that you could just park a little farther away, or put a couple of nickels in your shoe (for the weight). Besides, when did beer become a diet food?

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If you can't fix it with a hammer, you have an electrical problem.

What kills me is when they have a person working out: doing crunches or lifting dumbells, right next to a low carb cold one. Give me a break man, it's not full of electrolytes here. It's still an alcoholic beverage.

"Man, that was a great day at the gym. I couldn't have gotten through those last reps without my Aspen Edge!"

The most hilarious commercial of the low-carb genre is one of the Atkins commercials that features a testimonial by a professional women's basketball player. Now, anybody who has ever been any sort of athlete can tell you: a low carb-diet is suicide for an athlete. Carbs = energy, and without energy an athlete cannot perform. I don't know what they were thinking..

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The whole idea of Atkins has led the WORLD onto an all-out misguided frenzy. The thing is, you NEED carbs. The way Atkins seems to work is "Fat, GOOD! Carbs, BAD!!!" If you don't have carbs, your brain cannot work, and your body cannot, as IJ put it, perform. I think it's because you have freedom on Atkins, and because of that, it's gotten out of hand. And it seems that excercising and eating less crap is "too hard."

FACT: Atkins was actually obese before he died.

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I just have to wonder how much people are spending on these Atkins books and videos and meals, and if they couldn't just go see a real medical dietician for about the same price (most people's insurance would cover some of it, at least). A real dietician will help you set realistic goals and achieve them, and they'll even let you eat stuff like, ah, sandwiches with bread. (Or, as Marie Antoinette might have said -- but didn't -- "Let them eat cake!")

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Speaking of Atkins and cake, did you see that idiot on TV who was trying to sue Atkins because it gave him a heart attack? That idiot was eating cheesecake three times a day! Now, common sense will tell you that, if you eat cheesecake three times a day, you're going to bloat up like Orson Wells, and if you don't explode, your heart probably will.

The problem is people think they can substitute fat for carbs. If you quit eating bread and start eating bacon, you're not going to lose weight any faster. You need to learn to control your caloric intake. A better way is simply to balance out your fat, carb, and protien intake. A high protien diet with some fats and carbs is balanced. A diet of nothing but fat isn't. Oh, and also get your lazy butt up from in front of the TV and get some freaking exercise!

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I had a friend who was on Atkins, and he told me he wasn't allowed to eat cheesecake! The guy you're talking about has no case!

As for Atkins, I agree with all of you, but I must admit, I got a little pudgy over Christmas last year, and I did Atkins (temporarily, mind you) to get back to my ideal weight. But I don't do it now, I didn't do it for a long period of time, I wasn't very overweight to start with - but being an actor, 5 lbs. can make all the difference - and I don't think it's good for long term, just a quick fix for people who want to lose 5-10 lbs. But I know several people who lost LOTS of weight on it.

Suffice it to say, I don't believe it's good to eliminate any one nutrient COMPLETELY from your diet.

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Actually, Didy, Atkins does work for many people. That is, it helps them lose weight. However, it does not make them healthy. Many people equate losing weight with being healthier, and many don't care about being healthy, and just want to be skinny. Atkins may well help you lose weight, but you won't necessarily be better off for it.

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Man it sure is!

Maybe if I were more into 'sports.' These 'sports' I have been hearing so much about could be the answer to this spare tire I find around my midsection. Maybe I could join 'Survivor'?

Or maybe if I were to start eating steak...and Jeff Gordon brand Fried Chicken.

And Goat. And My Pet Goat.

Er, that was Strong Lad, not me.

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Whoops. That's what I meant.

What about those miracle drugs they advertise on TV? Someone speaks in a nice, smooth voice, "Doxodyl. It'll cure every single problem you have. Just ask your doctor." Then the same person talks at about 900 mph describing all the side effects: "Possiblesideeffectsincludelossofscalpcoloncancerheadachesnausiavomitingulcersappendicitisheartattacks
highbloodpressureurinaryinfectionsbreastcancerandtuburculosis. Doxodylshouldnotbetakenifyouarebetweentheagesof2and85." In other words, if you use their drug, you're probably going to die from it. And all this just to keep your hair from falling out!

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Just to clear the Akin's rants: Look, dieters have High PROTEN AND HIGH FAT, not just fat. And my dad lost 25 lbs off it, and he's healther then before! And the thing about not eating bread, my dad has lo-carb bread.I'm VERY annoyed about all the LIES you were told about the Aktin's diet.

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Pangolin (Pan-gol-lin) - Adorable photomanipulated artichoke.

Dude, calm down. IT'S A DIET. No need to get your underwear in a twist over it. If someone has misinformation about it, how does that affect you in your daily life? None. So just calm down about it.

A low carb diet CAN help you lose weight, but it can also raise cholesterol levels if you eat a lot of fats. A high protien diet with BALANCED fat and carbs will achieve better results with fewer complications.

My rant was about a guy who mistakenly believed that Atkins allowed him to eat a steady diet of cheesecake. Now THAT'S just plain dumb.

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Au contraire: if it was really true that no-one likes reality TV any more, then they wouldn't keep on giving it. Depressingly, during DT yesterday, someone started a conversation about Big Brother and over half the table joined in, including the teacher. I agree with you in that reality TV is a waste of programming space, but a lot of people don't; it's just that the significant portion of the nation that enjoys reality TV doesn't tend to praise it as often as we who don't complain about it.

I would never argue that Reality TV isn't popular. If it weren't, there wouldn't be so many of these shows. I'm just arguing that it's not good programming. I much prefer something like Law and Order or The Simpsons where at least some intelligence is involved in making it.

Does anyone remember that Stephen King book, The Running Man? It's about a guy who goes on a TV show where the producers keep trying to kill him. Does that remind anyone of some of the shows that are popular right now? Like maybe Survivor or Fear Factor?

One of these days, maybe television producers will start using some of the things from the days of classic TV, like writers and scripts.

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Is Law and Order good? I've never really watch it. I like Vincent D'onwhathisname.

I think Reality TV is very popular. I also think

I would like to hear more about the Atkins Diet from Shaon. Does your pop eat steak tartar for breakfast? Doesn't Atkins give you high cholesterol? How tall is Jeff Gordon? If we speak out of ignorance, teach us. Don't be annoyed with us.