Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@ThanosReXXX Haha, yeah, that's fair. At this point, it's probably not really at all accurate to consider yourself even "technically" American.... That long elsewhere you lose much of what else happend. When you were last here, fro's were normal.

Gah, skip the (dreadful) Home Alone and watch A Christmas Story.

Haha, some of that is just "stuff that was popular 50 years ago when most of those people learned the styles they enjoy". Knitted everything was big in the 60's & 70's. They were all in there 20's, 30's, 40's at the time and got used to certain aesthetic items as normal - the fashions got "outdated" but you like what you like and keep buying it. No doubt we have similar tastes the kids think we're old fashioned with.

OTOH, some of that "kitsch" is pretty dreadful no matter the decade. I remember the carpeted toilet seats (who ever thought that was a good idea) - I just saw a pile of those in a store....they can't give them away...

And I'm a fan of gnomes...watch it Something tells me @bimmy-lee is as well

The bright kitchen lighting seems new to me....or maybe that's just normal here. New fancy homes have that dim recessed lighting and stuff, but I always thought that was for people who show people their $50,000 kitchen, not people who use it. Commercial kitchens are bright for a reason. Knives and hot metal don't like darkness. At least not while fingers are watching.

The TV covers were definitely a 60's thing here though. LOL, yeah you're right about the Nanny...

Wait....you know The Nanny, and not A Christmas Story?!? @Eel bring out the banhammer, obvious troll is obvious.

@NEStalgia Dreadful? It's Dickens! Now THAT is a true classic, and quintessential, where Christmas is concerned...

EDIT: I actually still like the first two. It was back in the day, when McCauley was still looking like a cute kid instead of like a homeless drug addict with a food problem...

Gnomes are okay in and of themselves, but once your garden is so full of them that you risk tripping over them and getting hurt in weird places because of their pointy hats, then that's where I draw the line. Aesthetics, my friend. Aesthetics...

And no, people don't disagree with my taste at all. Most wouldn't even dare, and if older people do, I just ridicule them and point out their far more massive lack in taste, what with their faux-eclectic, hotch-potch of styles and shapes, and if younger people do, I just smack 'em across the face...

As for the kitchen lighting: I did say hellishly bright, not just regularly bright. If a light is so bright that it even makes people that aren't vampires recoil in shock, then that's REALLY bright. Modern kitchens just have good lighting, which is also strategically placed, but it's never overly bright.

In scenarios I've witnessed, we're talking tube lighting, industrial strength, hospital white bright...

And yeah, we know the Nanny over here. Fran Drescher is Jewish after all, and the Netherlands has incorporated a lot of their words, habits/customs and there's a whole lobby both in politics and in TV land, so programs with these origins are pretty common over here. And to be fair to the show: as far as comedy's go, it was pretty decent, so it grabbed enough of the audience over here to stay on prime time for quite a few seasons.

The Nanny was just an upscale Family Matters. 😂

And exactly when did Charles Dickens write Home Alone??

@HobbitGamer Doing a bit of selective reading, I see...
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Aw, ffs... My bad...

@HobbitGamer On a side note: well, if The Nanny was an upscale, then it was most certainly a better show. And I absolutely detested Urkle. It's one of those characters/types that only stays funny for so long, if it ever even becomes funny in the first place. Personally, I think I'd rather watch reruns of Drake & Josh...

@ThanosReXXX Hehehe.
Nah, I did enjoy The Nanny for sure. It was a good follow on from things like Fresh Prince or Clarissa.
I really liked Fraiser, too.
I stay away from any Nickelodeon or Disney sitcom made since 2000. Though I did watch the Legends of the Hidden Temple movie a few months ago, it was okay.

I love The Nanny. Great show.

I still watch it every now and then on prime.

@HobbitGamer Well, I can understand that. A lot of the comedy is a bit too slickly made, but then again, so are most adult/normal/large network comedies. The days of Friends, Frazier, Seinfeld, How I Met Your Mother, Everybody Likes Raymond and Will & Grace are long gone now. Almost any and all comedies that appear nowadays, have stolen/copied/borrowed one or more elements of any of these older shows.

However, having said that, I have been kind of semi-affected (semi because I'm always up for comedy anyways, so people never need to push me THAT hard) by the Nickelodeon comedy bug by all the little and preteen tykes and tykettes in my family and circle of friends, because it was often their channel of choice when I was visiting there, so I got to know all the more popular comedy series, that frequently also produced the more famous or semi-famous people that have either now moved on to being pop artists or into more serious acting.

Another (not Nickelodeon-related) personal favorite of mine was That 70's Show, even though I could only ever partially relate to the source material, since I was actually born in '70, so I was a bit too young to appreciate all that this particular decade had to offer at the time. But I did come to appreciate both the 70's AND the 60's later in life, thanks in large part to my parents and my older sister.

@ThanosReXXX If Home Alone is Dickens, is Die Hard Hemingway?

Huh, well maybe the lighting is brighter over there. I figure mine is bright, and I've seen kitchens with 42" tube ballasts, though they were big kitchens (what you Europeans would consider "America sized" ) That does sound harsh, though, again, wouldn't you want a kitchen to be bright (I do use daylight bulbs, myself. Screw that dim yellow "warm white" garbage. It's not 1870, I don't need to light my kitchen like it's a candle-lit horse barn. )

I've never thought of Nedtherlands as a particularly Jewish place to the point that it pulls in pop culture from around the world just because it ties to it (beyond WWII associations and the like, of course.) But yeah, that was a great show. And a laugh even worse than Audrey's

RE: Urkle, it was one of those pop culture things that really was probably intended to work for a year, but somehow gained a life of it's own. What amazes me though is that White wasn't typecast for it forever and ever and actually became respected outside that role. Though for me, personally, he will always be typecast as Sonic...... I didn't like the idea of Sonic being Urkel at the time....but soon, it was the other way around...Urkel was Sonic.

In hindsight, he may have been better off just getting typecast as Urkel.....

Will & Grace was/is actually on again with a second series, you know! Though I found that show got grating after the first season or 2, and what little I've seen of the second series one reeked of "new wave writing" and being obnoxious more than funny. But yeah, I miss the good adult/normal comedies

@NEStalgia You must have missed my edit, as well as my confession to @HobbitGamer about making that particular mistake... You're like the guy that laughs about the joke when everybody else has already left the bar the joke was told in...

And knowing our history concerning that particular topic, you did NOT just mention Audrey...
Must... resist... reacting... and... starting.... another.... useless.... discussion...

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As for the kitchen lighting: no private kitchen needs industrial strength lighting, that makes a kitchen look more like an operating room than a kitchen. Most if not all of what is prepared in there, is already dead anyway...

I've got controlled lighting in my kitchen, that I can dim or brighten at will. Seeing as my kitchen is an open one, directly connected to my living room, I wouldn't want any kind of construction site beamer lighting up my whole living room the entire evening, so when I'm not busy in the kitchen, making dinner or whatever, the light goes down halfway. But even at full strength, it's never bright white. Just clear enough for me to be able to comfortably and safely do whatever it is that I need to do when I'm standing at the kitchen counter or stove.

@ThanosReXXX Yeah, I missed the edit, that's what happens when typing long winded replies while everyone else is replying in a thread that doesn't auto-refresh with new posts

Mentioning Audrey to you is like jumping into a crowded movie theater GameStop and yelling "Pokemon Shield!!"

Well, yeah, if the kitchen were connected to the living area directly that could be an issue. For me the kitchen is separated by a 3ft wide hatchway (they call it a door....) so it doesn't interfere. But yeah for working in a kitchen space, I want full-on commercial brightness, and not a lumen less. We'll chalk that one down to taste. Commercial is lit the way it is for safety reasons - the back of house at a restaurant will never have mood lighting. Granted mine is just two normal LED lightbulbs in a ceiling fixture, but I do get them in daylight hue. The living area is dim lighting....but kitchens are an exception for me.

@ThanosReXXX I’ve got a vaulted ceiling in my open kitchen, so my Long tube fixture works for me. If I had a lower ceiling I’d probably go with targeted smaller lights.

@ThanosReXXX - Oh yeah, that’s a total “fancy grandma” lampshade. It’s ridiculous really because I think it actually makes the room darker when I run the leg lamp because it’s so big and gold. It’s the only lampshade like it in my place and it’s only on display for the holiday season. Nothing quite screams “fancy grandma” quite like those amazing rotary phone covers though. Truly one of the most grandma ideas ever.

@NEStalgia - Oh you know it, I’m a total gnome guy. I think I might actually believe in them. My parents had a set of ceramic gnomes scattered around the house when I was really young. I’ve still never come across a set of them at any of my junk shops. I’ve seen a few individual figures here and there, but they’ve always been in bad shape and looked lonely without the rest.

@bimmy-lee We need a gnome pattern phone cover. That way we could....

Phone gnome.

aaaaand that's ok, I know where the door is....

Yust wanne say hi!
Very busy last weeks but im still around boys and girls!

@NEStalgia Nah, anything Pokémon related is worse nowadays, especially if you (have the audacity to) say that you actually think that the game looks pretty good...

@HobbitGamer Don't get me wrong: I have nothing against tube lighting, as long as it isn't overbearing. And of course, my eyesight isn't as bad as @NEStalgia's, so I don't need to have a kitchen light with an intensity that's similar to something like this setup here:

@bimmy-lee And those are just the factory made covers. Back in the eighties, we had all kinds of varieties here. Even knitted ones...

Nothing says old lady more than a knitted toilet paper roll cover.

@Eel but the real question is front of roll or back of roll. Everyone knows that.

Side of roll. Fight the system!

@HobbitGamer duuude.. gato is really solid. A good 2.5 hours in and its getting good. Everything youd expect from a metroidvania, just a little sillier. Did you get a chance to check it out?