Thse days, the main criteria for a place to take my Mum is the acoustics. Carpeted is good for the hard of hearing. Metal chairs screeching on floorboards is no good. I've never been to the Olive Garden but if it has carpeting it would definitely make the consideration list.
So, does this mean Celeste Cooper is coming over to make dinner for me? Because my kid and husband could not drag me to those other places if they knocked me out first.
America is also writing generic comments -- originally penned by poker player Vanessa Rousso -- on free printable Mother's Day cards featuring baby pictures of Halle Berry that accompany gift pet orang-pendeks wrapped in old Parade magazines, logically.
"the following restaurants America is taking Mom out for dinner to tonight"
Is that English? I think you're missing an "are where," and the "to" needs to be moved back. Also, is iHop some clever Mac pun I'm missing, or are we really just referring to IHOP, the International House of Pancakes?
@nathanst: I've been gone the last couple weeks, but I've seen several of these (from different handles) in my quick catch-up period. As well as a lot of undeserved (and inexplicable) hostility. What's been going on here, anyway???
@SaraRueful:A depression, because there's no more 'edit' button and people are posting the first thing that comes into their heads, which is usually gloomy.
Another lesson: Not every town in America has a Little Italy, Chinatown, Atlantic Avenue, etc. If people visit NYC and eat at Olive Garden they are deserving of scorn, but you can't judge someone in a "city" of 50,000 for considering it a nice restaurant for mom when the other options are Wendy's and McDonald's.
@SaraRueful: The only restaurants in my town are a sketchy chinese place, a pizza joint, a trucker restaurant, and a few fast food places - Subway, KFC, DQ and A&W to be exact. Now seeing as none of those options are appealing for a nice occasion, driving the extra half a hour to go into the city to Olive Garden doesn't seem to bad.
@SaraRueful: yes, god knows there is no such thing as a local business anywhere outside of a major city. thanks for the sanctimonious condescending lesson!!
Well, I guess the publicity stunt didn't work out like she hoped, i.e. nobody cared and it certainly wasn't helping Darfur, so she quit. What a pompous ass. "If you don't help those people in Darfur I'm going to starve myself!"
Fasting for starving people is like skipping your nap to help insomniacs.
Considering how this crisis has been mishandled to mangled, the last person to ciritcize is Farrow. Is it celebrity grandstanding? I suppose, as is any famous folk support for good causes.
Try going without food for 12 days. Hell, try being patient in the line in Starbucks. Most of the world doesn't live like we do.
Believe me, I love filthy, sarcastic, dark humor, but this is just dopey.
Q: "Maybe this is the easy party line, but doesn't the island-owning Branson have the coin to simply foot some of the bill in Darfur? Or to send a private security force in to help the situation?"
A: Yes.
The problem is that without permanent stabilization in the region with emergency stimulus and eventually foreign investment, Darfur will wind up the way it currently is in a relatively short period of time. They need an economy. It's the same problem with a lot of Africa. Enormous resources, but just too dangerous a place in which to sink money. This is a Catch 22. A government can not survive without an economy and an economy can't survive without a stable government. In the meantime, Darfur is dependent on the anemic UN to give them security and food when it can.
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I know people who don't get to for geographical reasons, or worse, can't because their mothers have passed.
People have their priorities glaringly out of order sometimes.
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She seems sort of excited about it, though, so who am I to judge? I live in a different city, so I can't take her to dinner.
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I've been getting drunk and execute-y lately.
And yes, I realize that says far worse about me than it does about the state of the commentariat.
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Also, in this, as in all things, I blame Owen Thomas.
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Is that English? I think you're missing an "are where," and the "to" needs to be moved back. Also, is iHop some clever Mac pun I'm missing, or are we really just referring to IHOP, the International House of Pancakes?
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Fasting for starving people is like skipping your nap to help insomniacs.
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Try going without food for 12 days. Hell, try being patient in the line in Starbucks. Most of the world doesn't live like we do.
Believe me, I love filthy, sarcastic, dark humor, but this is just dopey.
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A: Yes.
The problem is that without permanent stabilization in the region with emergency stimulus and eventually foreign investment, Darfur will wind up the way it currently is in a relatively short period of time. They need an economy. It's the same problem with a lot of Africa. Enormous resources, but just too dangerous a place in which to sink money. This is a Catch 22. A government can not survive without an economy and an economy can't survive without a stable government. In the meantime, Darfur is dependent on the anemic UN to give them security and food when it can.
Farrow did a good thing to keep the crisis in the papers.
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