hrng

Apr. 30th, 2010 12:26 pm
amand_r: (tw/wtf jack)
[personal profile] amand_r
THING THE FIRST THE FIRST THING THE FIRST: Before I do anything, I have a rec: All In Good Time, this week's VS ep by the lovely bleu-bleu and kel, mistress of the night. I like the…individual of the week, and keep an eye out for Agent 888, because he is made of awesome.

I might have committed some fanfic for it. ::shifty eyes::

THING THE SECOND THE SECOND THING THE SECOND, DEAR LIZA, DEAR LIZA: I have something that's bothering me. I lie awake at night and think about it. It digs at me, like a splinter in your naughty bits.

Okay, maybe not that.

The Vidalia Chop Wizard

Let me elucidate. It's not the machine itself that bothers me. I can understand why someone might want one. It chops shit. It measures. I use a cuisinart and I enjoy the zen of hand chopping, but I can see how other might not. It's not the mechanism that bothers me. It's this, at :1, and :33, and then again at :50.

WHO IS THIS MORON CHOPPING THINGS? I get that they're trying to sell me their wares, but do they have to get the most incompetent idiot out there to pretend that their hands are painted on in order to sell it? Really?

I get it. Honestly honey, if that's the way you're going to hold the knife then you shouldn't be trusted with anything sharp anyway, but Jesus. It's a trend, the World's Most Incompetent [whatever]:

Fasta Pasta :1-:10
Pasta Pro :1-:10, 1:16,
Sonic Blade :1-:12, :32-:36, 1:18-1:19 (UNRELATED—1:45=Nannerpuss? and 1:54=WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT? A KLINGON WEAPON MADE FROM FRUIT?!!?)

I stopped here, but I have seen it for things outside of the kitchen as well. Makes flappy hands OMG MY HANDS DON'T WORK.

That said, was I the only one during the Sonic Blade commercial doing every callback I knew from the dinner scene in Rocky?

I'm making lasagna today, and I am tempted to film parts of the process as if my hands are in a commercial for Sonic Pasta or something.

edit: Thanks to Sam, who has his fingers everywhere, I have watched this, over which I laughed my ass off (goodbye buns of steel!) and then felt smugly satisfied that I wasn't the only person seeing this. I AM NOT ALONE!

MBABB WC= 33962

Oh bloody hell

Date: 2010-04-30 04:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] siege-ofcahoots.livejournal.com
I am making lasagna as we speak, We should have a past-off!

Re: Oh bloody hell

Date: 2010-04-30 06:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com
haaahahahah DO YOU COOK YOUR NOODLES AHEAD OF TIME?

Re: Oh bloody hell

Date: 2010-04-30 06:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] siege-ofcahoots.livejournal.com
No, because I make my own because I am a part polack pasta maker! And I am pierogie queen.

Re: Oh bloody hell

Date: 2010-04-30 07:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com
haahahahah i win the laziness express!

Re: Oh bloody hell

Date: 2010-04-30 08:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] siege-ofcahoots.livejournal.com
Not quite - I choose to glare it into assembling itself. Or scaring someone else into doing it. I prefer to taste test the wine.

Re: Oh bloody hell

Date: 2010-04-30 08:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com
Haaahahah I assemble mine with uncooked pasts in a haphazard manner and then let it sit there for an hour before cooking! TAKE THAT, DRIED PASTA!

Re: Oh bloody hell

Date: 2010-04-30 08:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] siege-ofcahoots.livejournal.com
Oh you would so love sloppy lasagna - so freakin' easy and nommy!

Re: Oh bloody hell

Date: 2010-05-01 05:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] huesiemama.livejournal.com
Sloppy lasagna, that sounds dirty.

Date: 2010-04-30 04:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com
You've seen the video compilation of InfomercialFail, right? Where it's just clip after clip of people being incompetent? It's genius.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08xQLGWTSag

Date: 2010-04-30 06:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com
OH THANK GOD I THOUGHT I WAS GOING INSANE?!!

I FORGOT ABOUT THE BLANKET FAIL FOR THE SNUGGIE. "WAAAAH, I CANT SPREAD THIS BLANKET ON MY FEET OH DEAR GOD HELP ME."

Date: 2010-05-01 01:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com
My favourite is the one where the person blatantly cracks an egg off to one side of the frying pan. I have no idea what the ad is for, probably some microwave egg cooker, but it's beautiful in its total stupidity.

Date: 2010-04-30 05:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pocky_slash.livejournal.com
My mom and I watch six episodes of Criminal Minds a day on this channel that plays all of those "AS SEEN ON TEEVEE" type commercials and our favorite part is pointing out the ridiculous incompetency of the people in the commercial. APPARENTLY USING A COLANDER IS REALLY HARD.

(Also, ugh, I wish I wasn't at work because I want to see anything that even vaguely resembles Nannerpus, aka MY FAVORITE COMMERCIAL EVER. I used to do an awesome Nannerpus commercial when I was drunk. Now I'll even do it sober.)

Date: 2010-04-30 06:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com
NO SERIOUSLY I'M FAIRLY SURE IT'S NANNERPUSS WITH A HOT DOG.

Date: 2010-04-30 05:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moljn.livejournal.com
... Are they chopping whole apples?

Date: 2010-04-30 06:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com
Potatoes? I got nothing.

Date: 2010-04-30 05:55 pm (UTC)
ext_47419: (Default)
From: [identity profile] cruentum.livejournal.com
Jesus. Seriously. DRAINING PASTA?! WTF!

I bet cannibals buy the sonic blade. I'M SURE IT SLICES PERFECTLY THROUGH THIGHS!

Date: 2010-04-30 06:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com
I KNOW. IT'S NOT FUCKING HARD TO USE A COLANDER. IT REALLY FUCKING ISN'T.

Date: 2010-05-01 05:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] huesiemama.livejournal.com
Totes saw a sonic blade at a rummage sale today after watching the video last night. LOLR5

Date: 2010-05-01 05:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com
OMG YOU SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT IT AND GIVEN US A DEMONSTRATION.

YOU COULD HAVE BEEN, "THIS NEEDS TO BE A LITTLE MORE SONIC".

Date: 2010-05-02 02:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] huesiemama.livejournal.com
I honestly thought about buying it, if only for the LOL factor.

Date: 2010-04-30 06:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com
I MENTIONED THAT SPECIFICALLY FOR YOU.

Date: 2010-04-30 06:24 pm (UTC)

Date: 2010-04-30 06:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lionessvalenti.livejournal.com
Holy crap, how hard is it to use a colander? I don't use one half the time and just pour the water out slowly, while holding a spoon to the pan to keep the pasta in. Hell, cooking the pasta itself isn't hard, either!

I could use a chop wizard because I suck at chopping. But the incompetent chopping on the commercial made me feel better about myself because I'm not that bad.

Date: 2010-04-30 06:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com
Yeah! Like I said, I get the use of a chopper. It makes prep time so much easier. But JESUS. LOOK AT THAT MESS OF A TOMATO.

Date: 2010-04-30 09:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] siege-ofcahoots.livejournal.com
No, really, the best knives I have ever had, (including the Kyocera) were the Ginsu knives my father said 'fell off a truck' - the ones that cut through anything and then a tomato because yes, as we all know, tomato skins are tough mofo's. No shit there

Date: 2010-05-01 03:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kel-reiley.livejournal.com
FIRST: WHEEEEE!!! MUCH LOVE, BB!!

SECOND: that thing chops apples? that must be some weak-ass apple there
I get that they're trying to sell me their wares, but do they have to get the most incompetent idiot out there to pretend that their hands are painted on in order to sell it? Really? - techincally, YES, all those "Our Machine Will Do That Job Faster and Better" commercials make every little task look like the most ridiculous and impossible and 'why are you doing this to yourself?' thing in the history of lazy humans needing things to do things for them... yes

(ps - who can't cut an avocado? if it's too hard to chop, then it's not ripe enough to eat, dipstick)

and now i'm hungry

Date: 2010-05-01 03:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com
HAHAAAHAHAH You never cut a tomato by pressing directly down, dipshit! You slice forward and down! Jesus!

Date: 2010-05-01 05:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kel-reiley.livejournal.com
YOU MEAN YOU CANT JUST MASH IT INTO NEAT LITTLE CUBES? YOU LIE!!!

Date: 2010-05-01 05:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thepyromanical1.livejournal.com
TRUE LIFE: SOMEBODY GAVE ME A FASTA PASTA YESTERDAY.

Date: 2010-05-01 05:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com
OH MY GOD.

DID IT COMPLETE YOU?

Date: 2010-05-01 05:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thepyromanical1.livejournal.com
AT FIRST I THOUGHT SOMEBODY HAD LEFT A BOMB IN MY LOCKER, BUT THEN I SAW THE BROCHURE AND MY WHOLE LIFE FINALLY MADE SENSE:

Date: 2010-05-01 05:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com
THERE IS NO WAY THIS CANNOT BE GOOD.

IT'S NOT A BOMB, IT'S THE SOLUTION TO YOUR NIGHTMARISH PASTA INCOMPETENCE.

Date: 2010-05-01 05:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thepyromanical1.livejournal.com
I WILL FINALLY BE ABLE TO MAKE A POT OF SPAGHETTI WITHOUT HAVING TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL COVERED IN THIRD DEGREE BURNS! HUZZAH!

Date: 2010-05-01 05:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com
NO MORE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARING COLANDER!

Date: 2010-05-02 07:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] huesiemama.livejournal.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM4eJ38S7Hw&feature=player_embedded

Really?

Date: 2010-05-02 07:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com
Haahahah that is amazingly lame.

Everyone knows that when you're married and that happens, you cover your spouse's head under the blanket and force them to breathe it in.

Date: 2010-05-02 09:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] huesiemama.livejournal.com
Yeah, that would happen to me once. Once.

Profile

amand_r: (Default)
amand_r

December 2020

S M T W T F S
  1 2345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Apr. 15th, 2026 12:35 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios