Useless Conversation

[Morat20]

That is..impressively epic.

[Evildrider]

I don't know if I should feel bad for you or to congratulate your son.

[Ironwood]

Brother.

[Signe]

I think it's adorable.

[pxib]

I'm conflicted over how I should feel about being the most boring teenager in history.

[Morat20]

I'm conflicted over how I should feel about being the most boring teenager in history.

Fucking thrilled.

Now, having an absolutely boring college-years bit? Not so good. Getting through the single dumbest four years of your life without getting a disease, getting someone pregnant, getting a criminal record, destroying a car, or accidentally maiming and/or killing someone? Double good. :)

[Selby]

I'm conflicted over how I should feel about being the most boring teenager in history.

I know, right?  I mean I didn't even date anyone until well into college much less get into ANY kind of trouble.  Although my parents were sure to give me grief over how horrible I was for not stopping to find a payphone to call and let them know I was going to be 10 minutes late home for my curfew... at 9:30PM.  Still annoyed I got grounded for a month over that.  My younger sister boinking her boyfriend on the couch when my parents were sleeping in the next room makes me look like a saint - yet I got all the shit over it.  I could have actually had fun and still gotten into as much trouble.

[Ironwood]

If it makes you feel any better, despite having some seriously unbalanced siblings, I was mostly a very, very boring teenager.  Apart from that incident with the knife.

[Lantyssa]

I was an exceptionally boring teen despite my friends being off the wall batshit crazy.  Pretty boring in college, too, other than the underage drinking and dating my RA on the sly bit.  Now I'm a boring, if weird, middle-ager.

[Xanthippe]

If my parents found out today what I did as a teenager, they would have sleepless nights about it now.

I was very, very lucky.

And no, I will never share with my children. Sharing what one did as a teen is just giving them permission to be idiots, no matter how carefully worded or full of regret. Cautionary tales can only come from a sibling or aunt/uncle, not from parents.

[IainC]

I wasn't so much kicked out of home as left behind at 16. I have no doubt Id have been grounded for the shit I got up to if I'd actually had parents.

[murdoc]

To this day I still wonder how I got through the ages of 17-21 alive. I was a very shy, quiet and well-behaved kid until about halfway through grade 11 and then all Hell broke loose until I dropped out of second year University, got a job and half decent apartment and found myself in a decent group of friends that helped get me on the right track before I went too far off the rails.

My parents still randomly ask me what the Hell happened to me and I don't have a good answer.

[cmlancas]

To this day I still wonder how I got through the ages of 17-21 alive. I was a very shy, quiet and well-behaved kid until about halfway through grade 11 and then all Hell broke loose until I dropped out of second year University, got a job and half decent apartment and found myself in a decent group of friends that helped get me on the right track before I went too far off the rails.

To do this day, my parents still randomly ask me what the Hell happened to me and I don't have a good answer.

This.  Except it was 18-19.

[Bunk]

My little sister: Sex at 14. Sex at 14 with one of my 17 year old friends (ended with me pounding on his front door in a blind rage). Drugs at 14.

My mom did her best, but my sister simply ignored all forms of discipline. I had to take the protective approach and just try to help her avoid the worst of it.
She made it through eventually, became a perfectly functional adult by age 30. 

My advice would be that once you are past the freaked out at how stupid they were stage - just focus on the really big issue. To your son: having a kid at 16 will fucking destroy your life. Amazingly, there are simple and easy ways to avoid that, that your parents have offered to help you with. Take that help and fornicate away younglings!
Ask him if he's prepared to be the guy that escorts her to an Abortion clinic.

[Nebu]

While I don't agree with this as a one-size-fits-all idea, I still enjoyed the talk. 

Ted talk: M&M's ruining productivity in the workplace.

[Trippy]

I thought that was going to be about the candy

[MisterNoisy]

Apparently the locals don't care too much for Guy Fieri's joint in Times Square:

'The well-meaning staff seems to realize that this is not a real restaurant.' - NY Times review

'Fieri must believe his name alone will fill 500 seats, as if Times Square tourists couldn’t also choose Applebee’s' - NY Post review

Couldn't happen to a nicer Guy.  

[Trippy]

They are very good at picking the strange ones on that show. The most recent winner, Justin Warner, wore gobs of lipstick on the show.

[Rishathra]

Apparently the locals don't care too much for Guy Fieri's joint in Times Square:

'The well-meaning staff seems to realize that this is not a real restaurant.' - NY Times review

'Fieri must believe his name alone will fill 500 seats, as if Times Square tourists couldn’t also choose Applebee’s' - NY Post review

Couldn't happen to a nicer Guy.  

My favorite:

Is the entire restaurant a very expensive piece of conceptual art? Is the shapeless, structureless baked alaska that droops and slumps and collapses while you eat it, or don’t eat it, supposed to be a representation in sugar and eggs of the experience of going insane?

[cmlancas]

Are most of their poor reviews this scathing?  It became hard to read at points because I started to feel sorry for the Guy.

Haha, I see what I did there.

No but seriously.  That's some harsh stuff right there.

[Paelos]

No, they aren't that bad usually. The reason is because Guy Fieri is generally hated in food circles as being a shill/hack like Rachel Ray, Sandra Lee, or Paula Deen, who are all completely untrained, serve overspiced fat, and have huge followings of morons.

Anthony Bourain sums it up pretty nicely here: http://www.tvguide.com/News/Anthony-Bourdains-Celebrity-1036482.aspx

[Miasma]

I noticed that review earlier and can't remember reading anything so mean or amusing ever before.  It does look like a legitimate review, I mean just the pictures of the place and food are horrible.  That first image of the restaurant actually made me say aloud - "that is painful to look at".  They probably felt unrestrained because they know it's not like this guy is going to be ruined by such a review like some other poor slob who is just bad at cooking.  That, and as mentioned, they probably hate him.  With good reason.

[Salamok]

Maybe they are prepping for a celebrity version of Kitchen Nightmares.

[kaid]

Are most of their poor reviews this scathing?  It became hard to read at points because I started to feel sorry for the Guy.

Haha, I see what I did there.

No but seriously.  That's some harsh stuff right there.

Having had the "pleasure" of eating at one of Guy's other restaurants due to a foodie friend of mine I have to say that the review seems in keeping with the place I ate. The food was not really good and overpriced.

[ghost]

It looks to be a Hard Rock Cafe type knockoff restaurant.  What did they expect the food to be like?

[Paelos]

It looks to be a Hard Rock Cafe type knockoff restaurant.  What did they expect the food to be like?

They expected it to be shitty. That's why they took pleasure in spitroasting a guy they can't stand.

I don't disagree with them about Guy's cooking (he's a great personality and a terrible "chef"), but I also usually can't stand the average food critics hardon for small portions of locally sourced ingredients done in a whimsical style. It's food. There's a happy medium between overpriced generic slop, and putting on the fucking beret when you eat a sous-vide duck breast with microgreens covered in gastrique.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/dining/shaking-up-thanksgiving-side-dishes.html?ref=dining That's a great example of the NY food critic bullshit I can't stand. They talk about the avante-garde shakeup of traditional vegetable dishes. Fucking spare me.

[Sky]

This just in, critics are douchebags.

[Lantyssa]

Here's my food critique checklist:  Is it good?  Is it reasonably priced?

One No and you're at best an okay place.  Two and it's shite.

[ghost]

I really like good food.  I do a lot of cooking myself, and love the "beret" type restaurants typically.  Looking at that review, however, it is obviously a hit piece.  It's like going to Applebee's or Texas Road House and writing a shitty review. 

[Merusk]

This just in, critics are douchebags.

Professional Critics are the YouTube comments section of the foodservice world.  Everyone trying to one-up each other and if you pay attention to them you'll just get annoyed and disgusted with humanity in general.

[HaemishM]

Seriously, teenagers get damn creepy stalker-level obsessions with each other.

I blame Twilight.

[cmlancas]

Seriously, teenagers get damn creepy stalker-level obsessions with each other.

I blame Twilight.

It's starts there?  I remember reading something similar in Wuthering Heights and Remember Me to Harold Square (so shoot me, I was young), but fair enough. 

 

[RhyssaFireheart]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/dining/shaking-up-thanksgiving-side-dishes.html?ref=dining That's a great example of the NY food critic bullshit I can't stand. They talk about the avante-garde shakeup of traditional vegetable dishes. Fucking spare me.

Granted, the article sounds pretentious and snooty, but the general intent of it is good and fairly basic - try new things!  Try new things with the usual things!  The squash salad described sounds pretty good to me, as long as I can make it without the douchbaggery attitude included. 

[Paelos]

And that's sort of my distaste for the food reviewers from that community. They CAN'T make something without the douchey attitude. It's like Hipster food culture.

They look down their noses at people bringing the "try new things" mentality to the masses. The simple fact is, they just want to be snooty. It's not about the food at all. If they couldn't be snooty about food, they'd find another medium.

[tazelbain]

Sorry but I doubt the restaurant is anything but a crude attempt to cash in on Guy's Food network fame. It deserves any beating it gets even if the people delivering the beating are horrible.