[Jane Sherwood]

...Vegetables and I have never really been on friendly terms (except corn). When faced with a salad, my natural response is to stare at it, stare some more, poke it, stare even more, then depending on my hunger level, mentally whimper a bit before another long round of staring, then finally getting up to look for something else.

My alternative non-meal plan selection: Hot dogs, popcorn, sunflower seeds, a bunch of apples at the bottom of my fridge (god knows how old they are), and ravioli.

Lots and lots of ravioli.

[Mirithorn]

Personally, I like the way grass tastes better than the way uncooked spinach tastes. Salads annoy me both because they contain spinach and because I have an obsession with eating things in a specific order and it gets screwed up when everything's tossed together. I will gladly eat a platter of seperate vegetables, but I don't understand why people mix them together.

Especially when they put salad dressing on fruit.

[Emu]

ohmygod ravioli is the best thing ever!!! why haven't I had any lately?

*vanishes to find ravioli*

[Zatoichi]

I am a salad Lover. This is mostly because my stepmother makes kickass bowls of salad. She puts in things like vegetables, fruit, nuts, meat, eggs, and other such things (not usually all of this at once though). I love the taste, and salad dressing only makes it better.

On a side note, I'll eat just about anything within reason.

[Spoon Poetic]

Aw, man, how anyone could not like veggies, I will never underestand...

Man, now I'm craving a Caesar salad.

[Mirithorn]

My rule on what to eat is "If it doesn't taste bitter or make you throw up, chances are it's all right. Sadly, lettuce violates the first condition and celery the second.

Alas, I shall never love salad. Except for seaweed salad. <3

[SimeSublime]

Lots and lots of ravioli.

But Ravioli is awesome! *looks for docket* I can get three nights dinner worth for only $3.79. It takes all of 10 minutes to cook, then simply mix in some stir through pasta sauce($3.49 for a fortnights worth). Combine it with the salad I cut up whilst the ravioli was cooking and drop some cheese on top, and there's a quick, simple and cheap meal.

As for the salad, I generally like something simple. Tomato, contienental cucumber, red capsicum(green is flavourless and yellow is expensive), sweet spiced gerkins(the king of all gerkins), some black and green olives, perhaps even beetroot if I can get my hands on it. The most involving task in making that is cutting the tomatos, capsicum and cucumber. The rest are already sliced for me.

[Spoon Poetic]

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PENIS!

[Lord Aquaman]

My pointless random thoughts (warning: spoilers and rumros) -

1) Casting Topher Grace to play Venom/Eddie Brock for Spider-Man 3 is one of the worst casting decisions ever in the long, sad history of bad casting decisions.

2) Bringing in Gwen Stacy, a character who DIED in the comic books (she is credited with starting the "Girlfriend in the Refrigerator Syndrome", AKA: "The Gwen Stacy Syndrome") and having her played by a red head (Bryce Dallas Howard) no less while a blonde plays the red haired Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst) at this point in the story line is just plain stupid.

3) Claiming that it's impossible to make the red, blue and yellow of Superman's costume work in live action is impossible when other filmmakers before you who had considerably less developed special effects technology were able to make it worth is a cop out.

4) Never try to continue a deteriorating TV series when two or any of the principle cast members leaves (especially when one of them is the central character).

[Laughlyn]

The last one would be the west wings demise then?

As for the comic book movie stuff. I thnk it's about time we buried the genre for another 20 years. The last spiderman movie sucked (the lego version was far better), Aside from the reincarnated batman things are looking destinctly bleak on the horizon.

All we need now is a badly done remake of the super friends, complete with anime influence 'scream the name of your special move before you do it', and we'll be nailing shut the coffin.

[Chyld]

Superhero movies are "cool" now, so I expect that its going to get worse before it gets better. That, or we can napalm every film studio in Hollywood.

And as for greenery (my usual narcotic punnery aside), I'll stand up and admit that I don't get enough. Although one of my housemates does make spectacular salads, the washing up involved precludes me from taking lessons. Any apples brought into our house sit around until they're slightly mouldy, and then are relocated to the bin.

Admittedly, on the occasions when I cook something more complex than "anything in the freezer, with chips", I do try and throw in some measure of healthy goodness. Like whatever number of vegetables went into the cornish pasties I made the other day.

Man, I'm hungry now.

[Madam Corvax]

...Vegetables and I have never really been on friendly terms (except corn). When faced with a salad, my natural response is to stare at it, stare some more, poke it, stare even more, then depending on my hunger level, mentally whimper a bit before another long round of staring, then finally getting up to look for something else.

Well, then you should not complain that greasy stuff makes you nauseous, looks like you choose to eat it...
It is funny, really, with all that healthy eating hype that's been going on now...

And sorry, but is not Ritalin administered to children with ADD? Are you still on it????

[ion eon]

Ritalin Screws the kids up worse. ADD is just an excuse anyways

[Jane Sherwood]

No, it's not a children's drug, and they aren't the only ones who need medicine for ADD*. A person's age doesn't enter into it. My father's in his fifties, and he can't get through work without his Aderal, and the same thing goes for my twenty-three-year-old brother. As for still being on it, I've only really been taking it consistently for about three years. They tried it and a bunch of other stuff on me when I was little, but I got tired of that and kept spitting everything out until they gave up.

Ion: Like hell it's just an excuse! And Ritalin only screws kids up when either A) the kids don't need it in the first place but their parents and/or teachers want a quick easy way to make them shut up and sit still, or B ) they've been given a dosage that's way too high for them to handle.



*Besides, we need it a hell of a lot more than those hyper little bastards...

This post has been edited by Jane Sherwood: 26 January 2006 - 01:56 PM

[ion eon]

I myself am an extremely hyper-active kid, but i don't blame it on ADD I just get bored. And most kids that take Ritalin do not need it.