The Annual FrankGrimes Torture Thread

[SansFin]

I hope you know that Nutella in America is not made to the same formulation as Nutella in Europe. I have heard of this controversy because it can rightly be considered a health food in Europe but the presence of palm oil and other ingredients place the Nutella made in American in the same class as candy bars.

[SansFin]

> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote}

> I'm out of jam and preserves though.

 

The three things which go well with nearly any food are:

Dill

Sour Cream

Caviar

 

I have had syrniki with sour cream and caviar and it was delicious!

[SansFin]

I have learned now of important news: Dunkin' Donuts will soon begin making gluten-free doughnuts and muffins!

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-19/dunkin-to-sell-gluten-free-doughnuts-in-fast-food-first.html

[JamesJazGuitar]

Yes, I'm aware of the differences. I'm not a fan of sweets but when I visit the in-laws in Italy I'll have some of the real stuff.

[butterscotchgreer]

Hello Sansfin!


I have learned now of important news: Dunkin' Donuts will soon begin making gluten-free doughnuts and muffins!
[http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-19/dunkin-to-sell-gluten-free-doughnuts-in-fast-food-first.html|http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-19/dunkin-to-sell-gluten-free-doughnuts-in-fast-food-first.html]

AAHHHH!!! you just made my whole week and you made me squeal. heehee! I have Celiac Disease and haven't had a single pastry or dougnut for a little over 2 years now. This is AMAZING!! Time to celebrate! Let's have a tea party! YAYYY!!

[butterscotchgreer]

Oh, I'd have a difficult time with any woman. Women tend to like the healthy stuff and usually like variety. I'm much too boring. I'm meat and potatoes (mashed, baked, whole fries, french fries, hash browns) and corn. That's it. I'll only eat green beans with ham and sauerkraut with pork.

When I eat out at a restaurant (diner, more like it), I'll usually get breakfast or a cheeseburger. Well, unless it's a steakhouse. I love filet mignon. I will occasionally get ham or turkey when I'm out.

I'm definitely fast food or diner. I'm such a thrilling guy!

I think you'd be surprised at how many guys i have met who are just like you...

[SansFin]

> {quote:title=butterscotchgreer wrote:}{quote}

>> I have learned now of important news: Dunkin' Donuts will soon begin making gluten-free doughnuts and muffins!

> AAHHHH!!! you just made my whole week and you made me squeal. heehee! I have Celiac Disease and haven't had a single pastry or dougnut for a little over 2 years now. This is AMAZING!! Time to celebrate! Let's have a tea party! YAYYY!!

 

It makes me very happy to have brought a little joy to your life!

 

I performed one rotation with patients who suffer with Celiac Disease and so I have seen how very disheartening it can be. I know there are many alternatives to glutens but they are often inconvenient and expensive.

 

It is my understanding that the Dunkin' Donuts gluten-free doughnuts and muffins will be also more expensive than their main lines but they will not be exorbitant.

[FrankGrimes]

*I think you'd be surprised at how many guys i have met who are just like you... *

 

And you dumped them all!

[butterscotchgreer]

*It makes me very happy to have brought a little joy to your life!*

 

Everything makes me happy!. heehee! That piece of information goes a long way for me.

 

*I performed one rotation with patients who suffer with Celiac Disease and so I have seen how very disheartening it can be. I know there are many alternatives to glutens but they are often inconvenient and expensive. It is my understanding that the Dunkin' Donuts gluten-free doughnuts and muffins will be also more expensive than their main lines but they will not be exorbitant.*

 

You performed one rotation of what?

 

Yes, things get so very expensive, especially when you have to use gluten free shampoo and everything else that touches your skin. But you learn to adjust and deal with it. It's not so disheartening when you aren't in excrutiating pain, so I honestly don't mind not getting to have everything that most people can eat.

 

[butterscotchgreer]

*And you dumped them all!*

 

How mean! And where is your evidence of that?

[SansFin]

> {quote:title=butterscotchgreer wrote:}{quote}

>> I performed one rotation with patients who suffer with Celiac Disease

> You performed one rotation of what?

 

It is a complicated procedure which must be done to exacting instructions:

1) You put your right foot in

2) You put your right foot out

3) You put your right foot in

4) And you shake it all about

 

A rotation is to spend several weeks performing regular duties under close supervision. It was required of us during school to perform a rotation in each of six different departments and I had to do two more as part of my schooling here. I met patients with Celiac disease while doing a rotation with a gastroenterologist.

[butterscotchgreer]

It is a complicated procedure which must be done to exacting instructions:

1) You put your right foot in

2) You put your right foot out

3) You put your right foot in

4) And you shake it all about

 

That gave me a good loud giggle! heehee! But it would be so cool if that were true!

 

A rotation is to spend several weeks performing regular duties under close supervision. It was required of us during school to perform a rotation in each of six different departments and I had to do two more as part of my schooling here. I met patients with Celiac disease while doing a rotation with a gastroenterologist.

 

Are you now a Gastroenterologist? That sounds to have been an interesting experience.

 

 

[butterscotchgreer]

!http://www.discoveriesmagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/27000.jpg!

 

 

By the way, since I wasn't around when this happened...CONGRATULATIONS on 27,000 posts, DAHLINK Miss G!!

 

We all love you lots and hope for 27,000 more! Hugs!

[SansFin]

> {quote:title=butterscotchgreer wrote:}{quote}

>> A rotation is to spend several weeks performing regular duties under close supervision... I met patients with Celiac disease while doing a rotation with a gastroenterologist.

> Are you now a Gastroenterologist?

 

That is a doctor. I am a nurse. The stated reason for students to do such rotations is that we must know restrictions and complications of many specialties in the event we must care for a patient with multiple concerns. I believe it is only to justify making us memorize endless lists of diseases and conditions which we will never need to know during actual work and to provide the hospital with cheap labor.

 

> That sounds to have been an interesting experience.

 

It is low pay for long hours with people in pain. It becomes interesting only when the immediacy of the tragedies fade in memory.

 

I do not like to deal with patients. I am a nurse for the technical aspects and to provide support to related fields.

 

Edited by: SansFin on Jun 25, 2013 3:42 PM

[MissGoddess]

> {quote:title=butterscotchgreer wrote:}{quote}

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> By the way, since I wasn't around when this happened...CONGRATULATIONS on 27,000 posts, DAHLINK Miss G!!

>

> We all love you lots and hope for 27,000 more! Hugs!

 

 

thank you very much, Cherie!

[SansFin]

> {quote:title=butterscotchgreer wrote:}{quote}

> Why do you not like to deal with patients?

 

I hate the feeling inside that I am part of the worst time of their life.

 

I hate more the times I have known there is no hope when they did not yet know it.

 

It makes me feel dirty to understand so very well why pediatric oncology nurses have a very high rate of suicide.

 

I admire those who can treat patients at all times.

It is not part of me to do so.

[movieman1957]

You have a gentle nature it seems. I think that people are probably comforted by having you there. You may be part of the worst time in their life but they know that you are there for them. That you chose to be there.

 

That you know their fate before them gives you a chance to be special to them. That when they do learn they will know that you did not change toward them.

 

I've read enough of your posts to think that your thoughts on this comes because you care so much. I hope you find comfort in that to those people you make a difference.

 

I can't know what you feel and I think I am expressing this badly but you are to be honored for what you do.

[SansFin]

> {quote:title=movieman1957 wrote:}{quote}

> You have a gentle nature it seems.

 

I am Cossack by heritage and temperament. We hate problems we can not solve with a sharp saber!

 

> you are to be honored for what you do.

 

I did it because it was required. I hope that soon all paperwork is finished and my licenses are approved and the only patient I will ever have to see is Capuchin. All others will be numbers on files only.

[butterscotchgreer]

*I hate the feeling inside that I am part of the worst time of their life. I hate more the times I have known there is no hope when they did not yet know it.It makes me feel dirty to understand so very well why pediatric oncology nurses have a very high rate of suicide.I admire those who can treat patients at all times. It is not part of me to do so.*

 

But you have to know that those patients, those people appreciate your care for them and the work you do.

 

I'm with Chris on this one, you sound a very caring person. I find you most admirable for even being in that field of work and seeing and understanding what you do. it doesn't matter if you work with patients or behind the scenes with the technical stuff. You still make a difference and are a beautiful person for it!

[rohanaka]

Hellllllooooooo there Mr. Grimes.. and Miss G!! Just popping in to say I finally (FINALLY) got a chance to finish watching Upstream all the way through. (I had started it what seems like ages ago.. but had not ever finished it.. so had to almost more or less start over again.. but did finally see it through)Can't say it would be a favorite among all the Fordies out there.. but did find some moments enjoyable.. and I even appreciated some of his more creative camera shots (such as when the "Ham-- let" (ha) walks through the smoke from the camera's flash (from the look on his face, you almost think he expects to hear a choir of angels start singing.. even if only in his own imagination.. ha.) OH bruddah.. what a piece of work. He needed a good comeuppance for sure.. (semi spoiler alert) I liked watching him go down when they finally give him a toss onto the street at the end .. ha. But OH me, oh my.. what he got was far less than he deserved though. (after being such a jerk.) "Can I borrow $50??? HA!!!!!! (or how about "They didn't come to see Hamlet.. they came to see ME" OH me.. oh my indeed. If it had been ME and he showed up on MY wedding day like that.. he'd have gotten a lot more than a sad little "why didn't you write?" from ME. ha. After they threw him down the stairs, and he got up to brush himself off.. just about the time he started showing off his profile to those reporters with their cameras.... hmmm.... I think I would have ran down those stairs and said "HEY, "Hamlet" you still owe me fifty bucks, bub" ha. (and then.. I don't know.. hmmm.. maybe I'd have introduced him to my hatpin.. or the frozen rope.. or SOMETHING.. 'cause guys like that... well.. they NEED to be dealt with.)

[JackFavell]

HAHAHAHAHAHA! You are too hilarious, Ro! Oh my gosh, heaven help the phoney ham who crosses you!

 

I suspect I liked *Upstream* the best of all of us, except for maybe Miss G. I really enjoyed the little comedy, I thought it was high spirited and funny, but then I've known guys like that from back in my theatre days. There's always one, no matter what production you are doing.

 

It's certainly not on the calibre of THE SEARCHERS or anything, but for what it was, it was darn good. I think I'd put it a little lower than THE WHOLE TOWN'S TALKING, as far as Ford films are concerned. It got the job done, made me laugh.

 

I thought Earl Foxe was just great, his transformation into a first class jerk was totally believable. I liked how we saw him start to believe his own press in his mind, he was very expressive, in a blank kind of way if you know what I mean. Shallow, but still able to get across his own growing egotism, swept away by his own romanticism. It's so funny to see him conducting his love affair with himself! Clueless!

 

It was strange to see Grant Withers as a leading man, I kept trying to look at him for familiar characteristics. Nancy Nash was very likable. I liked her much better than June Collyer from Hangman's House, thought the two are like comparing apples and oranges.

 

I loved all the side characters - there wasn't any of that kind of weird comedy you get from other late twenties, early thirties, vitaphone short type films, or untranslatable-to-our-time strangeness thank goodness. And you know I like movies full of side characters, so this one really tickled me. I thought it was just plain good.

[rohanaka]

Helllooo there Jackie!! I did like the movie.. I just don'think I could say it was way on up there (for favorites) because there are so many more that have so firm a spot in my heart, I guess. But I do agree..it was great to watch him turn so awful.. ha. (there he was just a sipping his soup.. and then "whammo" he was a star! ha) And the humor was terrific. (I liked the one guy in the audience talking about being glad to see an American being able to speak a foreign language (like English) so well.. HA!! And I LOVED the side characters. They were especially fun in this one. (almost had that "You Can't Take it With You meets Stage Door" feeling. ha.

[JackFavell]

It TOTALLY felt like Stage Door!

 

That line about speaking a foreign language... it literally made me laugh out loud!

 

I just loved the older actor, his coach, and felt so sorry for him when the scales dropped from his eyes...expecting some credit for coaching him but not getting any. And I liked the girl with the dark hair, she was a bubbly flapper type, the daughter in the 'sister act'.

 

What I really loved were the look of the Hamlet scenes, towards the middle of the film. They were beautifully shot.

[FrankGrimes]

*Hellllllooooooo there Mr. Grimes..*

 

Howdy, Piecemaker!

 

*and Miss G!!*

 

Who?!

 

*Just popping in to say I finally (FINALLY) got a chance to finish watching Upstream all the way through. (I had started it what seems like ages ago.. but had not ever finished it.. so had to almost more or less start over again.. but did finally see it through)Can't say it would be a favorite among all the Fordies out there.. but did find some moments enjoyable..*

 

It definitely wasn't a favorite of mine. I'm not big on backstage comedies, typically. It's not a bad film, just not one that connected with me. I give John Ford a ton of credit for even making such a film, because it just doesn't seem like the kind of film he'd even consider making. But, I will say, he did use elements of the theatrical in other films, such as *My Darling Clementine*.

 

*and I even appreciated some of his more creative camera shots (such as when the "Ham-- let" (ha) walks through the smoke from the camera's flash (from the look on his face, you almost think he expects to hear a choir of angels start singing.. even if only in his own imagination.. ha.) OH bruddah.. what a piece of work. He needed a good comeuppance for sure.. (semi spoiler alert) I liked watching him go down when they finally give him a toss onto the street at the end .. ha. But OH me, oh my.. what he got was far less than he deserved though. (after being such a jerk.) "Can I borrow $50??? HA!!!!!! (or how about "They didn't come to see Hamlet.. they came to see ME" OH me.. oh my indeed. If it had been ME and he showed up on MY wedding day like that.. he'd have gotten a lot more than a sad little "why didn't you write?" from ME. ha. After they threw him down the stairs, and he got up to brush himself off.. just about the time he started showing off his profile to those reporters with their cameras.... hmmm.... I think I would have ran down those stairs and said "HEY, "Hamlet" you still owe me fifty bucks, bub" ha. (and then.. I don't know.. hmmm.. maybe I'd have introduced him to my hatpin.. or the frozen rope.. or SOMETHING.. 'cause guys like that... well.. they NEED to be dealt with.) *

 

I've been meaning to ask, can I borrow fifty bucks?

[FrankGrimes]

Hola, Little Red Buick -- *I suspect I liked Upstream the best of all of us, except for maybe Miss G. I really enjoyed the little comedy, I thought it was high spirited and funny, but then I've known guys like that from back in my theatre days. There's always one, no matter what production you are doing.*

 

I bet you're right about you liking it the most. It's definitely more of a "Jackie" flick because of its setting, it's a comedy, and the supporting cast is the heart of the picture. And if there is anything that makes the film very "Fordian," it's the communal/family feeling.

 

*It's certainly not on the calibre of THE SEARCHERS or anything, but for what it was, it was darn good. I think I'd put it a little lower than THE WHOLE TOWN'S TALKING, as far as Ford films are concerned. It got the job done, made me laugh.*

 

*The Whole Town's Talking* is a Ford film I really like. It's a sweet, lovely little picture... just as *Upstream* is.

 

*I thought Earl Foxe was just great, his transformation into a first class jerk was totally believable. I liked how we saw him start to believe his own press in his mind, he was very expressive, in a blank kind of way if you know what I mean. Shallow, but still able to get across his own growing egotism, swept away by his own romanticism. It's so funny to see him conducting his love affair with himself! Clueless!*

 

You really did get a lot out of the film! I like what you wrote. It's right on the mark.

 

*I loved all the side characters - there wasn't any of that kind of weird comedy you get from other late twenties, early thirties, vitaphone short type films, or untranslatable-to-our-time strangeness thank goodness. And you know I like movies full of side characters, so this one really tickled me. I thought it was just plain good.*

 

I think the film does capture the unique and odd qualities of the performance world and how many of those people struggle to survive.

 

*I just loved the older actor, his coach, and felt so sorry for him when the scales dropped from his eyes...expecting some credit for coaching him but not getting any.*

 

That was my favorite aspect of the film. Those scenes spoke volumes.