Okay my wife and I normally have the television on all through the night. She grew up sleeping this way as it gives her a background noise and light in the room. I admit that it took some getting used to, considering my idea of a perfect atmosphere for sleeping is a completely dark and quiet room, but I am slowly getting used to. So, we used to sleep at night with Nick at night on, but during the night, all through the night, they play Friends. I'm sorry, I may have watched that show a bit when it was first on, but now I don't care at all for it. So, I don't want to hear the characters wine and talk nonsense so I have been turning the channel to the Cooking Network. Its like channel 113 or something like that on Dish network. Anyway, so we fall asleep with some replays of Iron Chef America or some Foodology shows, which is good.
What is not good, is when I wake up in the middle of the night for any reason and this awful show is on. The show is called Nadia G's Bitchin Kitchen and while most guys would have no problem watching a show with a young, funny blond chef who wears heels while cooking, I am okay until she starts to talk. I'm sorry. I really don't know how to say this in a nice way but after watching years and years of food network's next food network star and seeing what they go through, this woman would have been kicked off after day one. The show reminds me of Beakman's World, for cooking with a strange woman. The show would have Nadia cooking and telling the camera about how she likes her meat tenderized and then the camera pans over to a guy in a meat locker, with his wife-beater shirt, punching the steak and talking about how he likes to tenderize the meat. Whether the guy is really Italian or not, is besides the point because everyone has this over-the-top accent going. The dialogue reminds me of the old movies where they make fun of the Italians in New York. They start every sentence with "Yo! Check this out!" and then end it with "you know what I mean?"
What is nice to know, as her site just showed me, that the over the top accent and mobster references appear to be an act and she appears to be normal in some instances. I highly suggest that she stays that way. I'm sorry, but according to her site, she has a video suggesting that "some are calling her the Julia Child or the next generation." What? An icon who made a complicated way of cooking easy to understand for everyone else is being compared to a woman who runs a show at midnight? If Julia Child's show was re-run on food network, it would get star billing and be before nightfall, most likely. Not after midnight.
I'm sorry, Nadia, nothing against you personally, but I'd rather watch a marathon of Anthony Bourdain than watch your show.
Now...
The proper spelling of words is what separates us from the tweenies. You know those girls who can sit there on their phones and text the whole Tale of Two Cities in 5 minutes using every kind of strange words and abbreviations? These are the ones I am talking about. The ones who spell "great" as "gr8" and the ones who can text "titc" for "that is totally cool." Now, the typing skills of teen girls aside, using proper spelling and grammar seems to have become a lost art for our American society. It is such a case as a local gym or fitness club, has used a large grammatical error in their company name and logo.
So, you want to know something comical? Do you know how you pronounce that word? It is Xist, as in "Cyst" or "Sist". It is not "ex-ist" as the makers wanted it to be. Think of other words that follow this example: Xloid, Xenophobic or even Xeme. When an "X" is the first letter of these words, it takes on the sounds of a "Z". It is not an "ex" sound and then the rest of the word. Check this out: http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=xist&submit=Submit
That above link does the correct pronunciation for words and in this case, just as I mentioned, the name of this fitness area is "sist". I don't think that the company thought of their gym as being named after a medical item, that isn't a pleasant one. Or maybe the owners of this gym didn't bother to think. Here is the thing: if they wanted it to be pronounced like "exist" then they would have had entered a hyphen between the "X" and the rest of the word. Then it would have been "X-ist" and pronounced that way not like "sist". This just proves that you don't need a college degree to do the marketing or run a business. I love driving by this billboard on the road and seeing the rest of the sign: Don't just exist; Xist. Don't just exist, become a cyst? Really?
What is not good, is when I wake up in the middle of the night for any reason and this awful show is on. The show is called Nadia G's Bitchin Kitchen and while most guys would have no problem watching a show with a young, funny blond chef who wears heels while cooking, I am okay until she starts to talk. I'm sorry. I really don't know how to say this in a nice way but after watching years and years of food network's next food network star and seeing what they go through, this woman would have been kicked off after day one. The show reminds me of Beakman's World, for cooking with a strange woman. The show would have Nadia cooking and telling the camera about how she likes her meat tenderized and then the camera pans over to a guy in a meat locker, with his wife-beater shirt, punching the steak and talking about how he likes to tenderize the meat. Whether the guy is really Italian or not, is besides the point because everyone has this over-the-top accent going. The dialogue reminds me of the old movies where they make fun of the Italians in New York. They start every sentence with "Yo! Check this out!" and then end it with "you know what I mean?"
What is nice to know, as her site just showed me, that the over the top accent and mobster references appear to be an act and she appears to be normal in some instances. I highly suggest that she stays that way. I'm sorry, but according to her site, she has a video suggesting that "some are calling her the Julia Child or the next generation." What? An icon who made a complicated way of cooking easy to understand for everyone else is being compared to a woman who runs a show at midnight? If Julia Child's show was re-run on food network, it would get star billing and be before nightfall, most likely. Not after midnight.
I'm sorry, Nadia, nothing against you personally, but I'd rather watch a marathon of Anthony Bourdain than watch your show.
Now...
The proper spelling of words is what separates us from the tweenies. You know those girls who can sit there on their phones and text the whole Tale of Two Cities in 5 minutes using every kind of strange words and abbreviations? These are the ones I am talking about. The ones who spell "great" as "gr8" and the ones who can text "titc" for "that is totally cool." Now, the typing skills of teen girls aside, using proper spelling and grammar seems to have become a lost art for our American society. It is such a case as a local gym or fitness club, has used a large grammatical error in their company name and logo.
That above link does the correct pronunciation for words and in this case, just as I mentioned, the name of this fitness area is "sist". I don't think that the company thought of their gym as being named after a medical item, that isn't a pleasant one. Or maybe the owners of this gym didn't bother to think. Here is the thing: if they wanted it to be pronounced like "exist" then they would have had entered a hyphen between the "X" and the rest of the word. Then it would have been "X-ist" and pronounced that way not like "sist". This just proves that you don't need a college degree to do the marketing or run a business. I love driving by this billboard on the road and seeing the rest of the sign: Don't just exist; Xist. Don't just exist, become a cyst? Really?
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