So, I just finished eating dinner. My dad bought a turducken and made it today. Yes, I know the holidays are officially over, but you can never rule out eating feasts and meals right?
For those of you who do not know, a turducken is a turkey, stuffed with both duck and chicken. When I first heard about this, I literally thought that the duck was stuffed into the turkey and then the chicken was stuffed into the duck, or something like that. Well, it wasn’t like that at all. It wasn’t for the brand my dad bought at least. I don’t know the brand, but basically, the turkey was on the outside as normal. It was pretty much completely de-boned except for like the drumsticks and like thighs. Then, stuffed inside of it was also boneless chicken, duck, and rice. My dad’s guessing the chicken and duck they used were the breast portions, but I have no clue myself. You cook it like a normal turkey, takes just as long, and then you chop it up and eat.
So, what did I think? The actual turkey was very good. Very juicy and had flavor. I liked it a lot. The chicken was okay, nothing special, but I’ve had worse. The reason my dad suspects it was breast was because it was only white meat. But, it was not bad, like I said. The duck? I did not like it at all. Had no flavor, was dry, and I’d choose a 10 dollar whole duck from Sam Woo any day of the week because it tastes that much better. I don’t know if the duck just provides flavor for everything else or what, but it was not tasty. The rice was decent as well. I guess you could consider it the stuffing. My dad’s stuffing is 10 times better. Only time I’ve ever had rice as stuffing was at a Thanksgiving at a Chinese family’s house. I’d rather have my stuffing made of bread.
Anyway, while I really did enjoy the turkey, the rest was either just okay or not good at all. I’ve definitely been to Thanksgiving dinners where the turkey tasted worse than this, probably more times than not actually. So, if I’m judging this on turkey only, I say its pretty good. However, if you are going to a place where the chef knows how to cook turkey, in my case its my dad, and he makes the best stuffing in the world, I say stick with that and leave the turkducken aside for perhaps a post holiday dinner like myself, just so that you can say you’ve tried it.
So I’m suring the internet and come across this article here. The actual article is somewhat interesting, but not all that. What caught my attention was the picture of the overweight asian dude eating something. Now, WTF is up with that? You are going to post an article about New Year’s resolutions being bad for you because you set unrealistic expectations for yourself, and to prove your point, you are going to post a picture of a guy that fits the mold?
Now, I don’t know this guy and I don’t really care about him. Sure, he can stand to lose a few pounds or more. But still, don’t you think this is kinda harsh? The guy doesn’t get enough ribbing from his friends and family and now you are going to post a picture of him for the whole world to see? Whenever I watch the news on TV and they do some story on overweight people or whatever, they at least have the decency to tape and show people only from the neck down. What’s the point of humiliating someone just to get some ratings or a few hits to your page?
Now, if this dude was a “paid model” then all bets are off and he deserves whatever comes his way. Although, why do I get the feeling that if this really was the case, the journalist told him that they need a picture of him for a story on Asians living in London and how they help the economy, then turn around and write an article about the mental unhealthiness of setting unrealistic goals, putting the following caption under your picture “Making self-improvement New Year’s resolutions often leaves people feeling worse, the British mental … “ Haha, now that would be hilarious, though still mean like I originally said. Hopefully this articles gets the dude to prove the article wrong and allow himself to actually meet his resolution!!
When somebody insults you about something, for example, calling you cheap, or fat, or ugly, or whatever, and you get upset, are you upset because what they are saying is not true or are you upset because what they are saying really is true but you are hurt and in denial and angry because they called you out on it? And are those the only two reasons you can get upset? Because as far as I can tell, either the insult is true or its not true. I can’t see any other reasons for getting mad.
I think it can be both, and if I were to guess, I’d say that insults based on something that actually is true would be more painful. The person is insulting you about something you probably already know is a negative about you, something you already have low self esteem about, and they are using that to make you feel like less of a person. Not saying that insutls about things that are not true are not painful at all either. But, if you are confident about yourself, I can see those insults being less painful.
Yes, as you can see, I couldn’t think of anything to write about today….Fock you if you insult me for writing a dumb post!
So, you know you hear it all the time, whether its someone telling you or someone telling someone else. There’s the single person out there who just cannot or will not find that special someone. And, people always say to them, don’t give up, there’s someone for you out there, there’s someone for everyone.
And what exactly do people mean by that? Soulmate? I mean, the divorce rate is 50+% currently, so apparently the majority of people who think they’ve found the one, that special someone, are wrong. And then after they get that divorce and are moping around, their friends tell them, don’t worry, that person wasn’t the one. Just go out there and you will find that special someone.
Now, I don’t want to sound jaded, but is that always the case? I mean, what if there really is no one out there for you. What if you are that odd, that weird, that stupid, that crazy, that pathetic, that mean, that evil, that ugly, or just that unlucky that there really is no one out there for you. I mean, why does there HAVE to be someone out there for you? Its a cruel world everyone always says. So why does somone have to exist for you? If the world is cruel to you in every aspect of your life, why must that not be the case in this instance?
Every year, its the same freaking thing. Come January, people make their freaking resolutions to lose weight or go to the gym. And so, it never fails. Every freaking January the gym is way too crowded, and every single year I hate it. I went to the gym tonight, and for the 2nd day in a row I could not get a treadmill. Yesterday I tried the elliptical for the first time, and it was alright. Today even those were taken and I had to get a bike that had a tv in front that didn’t work.
And you know what? I blame all of you!! I could care less whatever resolutions you make, but when they affect me, then I get upset. Going to the gym one month per year has the exact same effect as going never. So save yourself the time and energy and not go!! Its one thing if the gym is normally crowded and the people there are just routinely working out like me. But it never fails. These January fatassses actually think they will stick to this routine and so they take my treadmill. Do what you always do and quit already, go back to being a lazy bum because if history serves, its just a matter of when. The sooner the freaking better.
So, I have tons of friends and family who have had kids recently, and many more who are about to have one or another one. You know what I’ve noticed about most of them? Well, besides the fact that they have the weirdest cravings and palates. Actually, let me talk about that first. I don’t know if its the increased hormone level or what, but all of a sudden these women can taste the plastic from bottled water, or taste how tap water is gross now. They are sensitive to this, but then they’ll go around and want to eat something like chocolate covered pickles, or some weird shit like that. Ummmm, not that I ever claimed to be an expert on women, but this just boggles me even more.
Anyway, what I really wanted to write about was not the fact that they eat gross crap or claim to be all sensitive to this and that. Its the fact that they eat tons more!! And they use the excuse of having to eat for two! Now, I know I’ll never be preggers, but I’m calling BS to that. In fact, before I go off on why, I did a google search on eating for two and the first article I saw had this:
Can I really eat twice as much now that I’m pregnant?
The short answer is: Although you may be sorely tempted to eat twice as much, you have no medical reason to do so. Your body becomes more efficient during pregnancy and is able to absorb more of the nutrients you eat. So consuming twice as much doesn’t double your chances of having a healthy baby — instead, it’s likely to mean excessive weight gain for you, which can put you at risk for pregnancy complications.
In fact, you need only 300 or so extra calories a day when you’re pregnant, fewer during your first trimester. That’s about the number of calories found in two and a half cups of low-fat milk or a tuna sandwich. So instead of helping yourself to extra servings at mealtime, think in terms of a smart snack, such as a glass of orange juice and a couple of slices of whole-wheat toast, to boost your calories during your pregnancy.
Now let me tell you this. Most of the women I know or knew who were pregnant ate a hell of a lot extra more then just some milk or a tuna sandwich. Here’s what I think. Women in America are taught that fat is ugly, fat is bad, its possible to be skinny and ugly, but its NOT possible to be fat and pretty. So, women starve themselves to stay skinny, just because our culture teaches us that thin often equates to beauty. And so what happens when they get pregnant? They are going to get “fat” anyway, so they are going to do what they have never, ever been able to do on a consistent basis, and that is to eat whatever the hell it is that they want and have no regrets. And you know what? I love it and I’m all for that. Anyway, that’s my theory. What’s yours?
I used to always say that it doesn’t even matter who is President of the US. Nothing will change really. I never notice a difference from the beginning of a President’s term and then end. As we reach the end of the worst President in history, I unfortunately stand corrected.
Our economy sucks, our country is much more divided than it was 8 years ago, the difference between the haves and the have nots has grown, we’re in a war we never should of been in that has cost thousands of lives, etc., etc. I mean, what exactly good has this guy done? You have to go to Fox news of course to see what. I go there, and I see an article that says something along the lines of, he kept our country safe.
You know what, I disagree completely. The argument made is that we have not been attacked since September 11th. (BTW, I don’t buy that 9/11 happened on Bush’s watch so its his fault. I don’t think it was any President’s fault, per se. The Bush sheep are always quick to defend this accusation by saying that it happened cuz of Clinton’s policies and stuff. So, those same sheep better not be being blaming Obama if the US, heaven forbid, gets attacked early in his Presidency, cuz using their logic, that’d be with Bush’s policies). Anyway, the fact that we have not been attacked on US soil since that tragic day is a stupid argument because how many times have we been attacked on our soil in recent memory? If anything, I’d say its much more dangerous now for Americans than it has been in a long time. The number of people and countries that are not only anti-American, but rather straight up hate Americans, is higher than its probably ever been. If anything, more people want to attack us now then they ever did in the past. My friend has dual citizenship, and whenever he travels, he does not use his American passport. If we really were living in a safer world for Americans, why would he do such a thing?
So, we move on to Obama, and for the first time in a long time, many Americans are feeling some hope. Is he going to be a great President? I honestly don’t know. I want him to be. We need him to be. He says all the right things, thus far. He seems to be able to bridge the divide much more effectively than Bush has, thus far. The one thing that Obama for sure has going for him though is that he is literally starting off at rock bottom, as you can’t really get much worse than the worst in history. Can you?
I saw this movie over the weekend. Its a comedy starring Kevin James as a mall security guard who is pretty much a laughing stock, having failed the police academy and thus stuck as a “mall cop.” However, despite the low level job, he takes it seriously, no matter how good or bad he is at the job. His skills are put to the ultimate test, however, when a group of extreme sports enthusiasts I’ll call them, take over the mall in an attempt to steal. Among the hostages that they take is the girl that Paul Blart has a thing for.
Adam Sandler is an executive producer of this movie. However, it is rated PG, so you will not see the crude, sexual jokes that you are accustomed to seeing in his movies. You will see much physical comedy and over-exaggeration of real life situations, such as what happens when Paul gets drunk. The most important question though. Is the movie funny and/or good? I think its a good movie to take a younger kid too, whether its your son, nephew, etc., especially since much of the movie is completely unbelievable. I think kids will enjoy it, and honestly, it was funny so I enjoyed myself watching it. I like Kevin James, and he was funny in this movie. What more can you ask for in this type of film?
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