Comments | mrv3000: Petty Ranting

mrv3000

Petty Ranting

Feb 12, 2010 09:13

I'm on my string cheese thing again. Every once in a while I'll curse the food industry for the crappy white cheese stick blobs they label as "string cheese." THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW. Okay, so this conversation is 5 years old, but it still stands. I found some honest-to-god string cheese in an Italian deli once, but it's about 100 miles away. ( Read more... )

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misssara11 February 12 2010, 17:16:59 UTC

It sucks for the west coast! I'm glad for my eastern time zone location and the TVU player that will stream the BBC 2 feed.

mrv3000 February 12 2010, 17:19:12 UTC

HMPH.

_thirty2flavors February 12 2010, 17:18:59 UTC

I have had real string cheese before! It was delicious! And.. stringy! And very salty but that is acceptable because I love salt. Mmm mmm sodium.

I'm trying to concoct a way to watch the Olympics tonight. I don't think it's happening. Hmf.

I... like celery, actually. It is a pointless food, but it makse such a satisfying crunch.

mrv3000 February 12 2010, 17:21:57 UTC

I have had real string cheese before! It was delicious! And.. stringy! And very salty but that is acceptable because I love salt. Mmm mmm sodium.

MMMMMM. Yes! Real string cheese is salty and dry.

I'm trying to concoct a way to watch the Olympics tonight. I don't think it's happening. Hmf.

Yeah, but you're Canadian! You've gotta watch!

I... like celery, actually. It is a pointless food, but it makse such a satisfying crunch.

I think it all goes back to as a kid we had to eat celery and peanut butter instead of things like cookies. Which is good an all, but to this day I can't stand celery and I only tolerate peanut butter.

_thirty2flavors February 12 2010, 17:24:36 UTC

It was delicious. It was at my friend's house, and his mom's a vegan or vegetarian or something so I suspect it came from some specialty food store somewhere. But that's the only time I've ever had it, and we did not sell it when I worked at the grocery store, despite our fairly impressive selection.

I KNOW. I accepted this dinner invite like a month ago without realizing, lol.

Omg, with raisins? ANTS ON A LOG? I hated that, they used to try and give it to us at Brownies (um... is Brownies Canadian?)

mrv3000 February 12 2010, 17:29:21 UTC

I remember the good stuff from when I was a kid - back before absolutely everything was processed and pumped full of chemicals.

And I forgot about the raisins. I don't like raisins either. :D

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principia February 12 2010, 17:22:40 UTC

You can't by any chance watch it live on Hulu or something, can you?

mrv3000 February 12 2010, 17:25:40 UTC

Hmmm. Hulu's directing me to NBC's site. I wonder if they'll have it...

goodtoast February 12 2010, 17:24:00 UTC

SO ANGRY WITH NBC.

Not only are they tape delaying it for us, but they've actually blocked CTV (the Canadian Olympics station) from letting Americans watch it live on the internet. What the hell, NBC? Pretty much the entire world gets to watch the opening ceremony live...except us.

mrv3000 February 12 2010, 17:26:36 UTC

THOSE. BASTARDS.

_thirty2flavors February 12 2010, 17:27:41 UTC

Not only are they tape delaying it for us, but they've actually blocked CTV (the Canadian Olympics station) from letting Americans watch it live on the internet

Really? Was that NBC or was it just the standard regional copyright issue which is the bane of my tv-watching existence?

goodtoast February 12 2010, 17:29:42 UTC

According to my local newspaper NBC is actually blocking it. I got on CTV's website yesterday and was able to play a couple of other videos just fine, but sports videos were a no no.

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poohmusings February 12 2010, 17:36:41 UTC

So here on the West Coast we finally finally have a live event in the same time zone. What does NBC do? TAPE DELAYS IT FOR 3 HOURS.

*fumes right with you* This is exactly what NBC did during the Summer Olympics. Many of the swim finals occurred during PST's primetime (8-9pm) so they could've totally aired it live for us. But NOPE! They held on to that footage until 11-bleeping-o'clock. Beyond ridiculous.

You know, I honestly had no clue you felt so strongly about string cheese. How did I manage to miss your rant from 5 years ago? EDIT: Ah, after clicking the link, I see it isn't actually YOU ranting. Heh.

mrv3000 February 12 2010, 17:42:34 UTC

*fumes right with you* This is exactly what NBC did during the Summer Olympics. Many of the swim finals occurred during PST's primetime (8-9pm) so they could've totally aired it live for us. But NOPE! They held on to that footage until 11-bleeping-o'clock. Beyond ridiculous.

BAH! And it's not like NBC doesn't have enough cable channels! They could have aired it there if they didn't want to air it on the main channel.

And URG. I'd forgotten about NBC's style of covering the Olympics. Instead of doing anything live, they feel the need to repackage it. :P

You know, I honestly had no clue you felt so strongly about string cheese. How did I manage to miss your rant from 5 years ago? EDIT: Ah, after clicking the link, I see it isn't actually YOU ranting. Heh.

:D I'm surprised I haven't ranted about it before, but maybe it's one of those posts I wind up deleting after I type it. XD

(I did find an email to my brother on the subject, and we're of the same mind - we got the good stuff as kids and now we can't find it.)