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Post by brutalis on Oct 19, 2016 13:50:46 GMT -5
Hey does deli work count? My grandfather owned his own deli in Manhattan for decades. My father and uncles all worked there when they were young. I worked there during the summer when I was 15. Towards the end I was using the slicing machine for sandwiches.  Sorry Ish but i don't think it's quite the same thing?  I have worked the deli counter at the grocery store and it is something unique unto itself for certain and i can say it too is one of the thankless jobs consumers seldom appreciate your effort for them. Where else do you get somebody wanting 5 pounds of ham sliced so thinly it turns to powder and you show this to them before beginning slicing to confirm this is how they really want it sliced. They say perfect then you slice it up and wrap it up and they take it around the store as they shop and then return it to you several minutes or more later and say this isn't how they asked and they wanted it thicker. Oh well, throw it into the barrel for making chorizo the next day! Oh the story's i can tell. Ground beef on sale and the final night as the store closes at 6pm (before the idiotic idea of 24 hour service) and you have 3-40 people in line all wanting 50 pounds of ground beef wrapped into individual 1 pound packages for their convenience even as the manager is saying we are closing and cannot fill all their orders. Yet they will stand there or come up still an hour later trying to get you to serve them even as there is nothing in the counter and you are pulling out hoses and detergent and scrubbing the counter down inside and out so it can be clean and fresh for the next morning set up. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 19, 2016 15:00:36 GMT -5
5 things i learned during my time as a butcher in the 1980's: (note: there are very few "real" butcher's around anymore: all meats are now cut up into their sections and vacuum sealed/packed when sent to the grocery stores: all those guys do now today is take it out of the sealing and cut into steaks with an electric saw/slicer. When i worked/trained, we had to go through the phases of apprentice working up to journeyman and apply for a license and the stores had the meat delivered in whole or sides hanging on hooks in a refrigerated room where you then took the sides of beef and cut into their respective sections, trim the fats and hand cut the steak portions/etc....not every person working and training passed the grade and became a butcher/meat cutter, many failed as it takes more skill and devotion than you might think! 5. How to cut/season/grind/stuff/link homemade sausage/chorizo 4. How to bone out a chicken breast by hand with no knife making it a boneless chicken breast 3. That no part of a cow/pig/chicken goes without being used: people will buy any part and cook/eat it: ears, snout, tails, chicken feet, brains, intestines, stomach lining, hooves, heart, kidneys, etc...2. Best tasting steak is a 2 inch thick cut Rib Eye cooked medium rare: crispy fatty trimmings outside, tender juicy pink inside 1. That without fail at any family or friend get together with meat being cooked that they turn to you and go: you are the butcher so go ahead and carve/cut the meat for us. Like anybody: that was my living and got paid to do it, so on my day off it's the last thing i want to do!!! Ask a barber, construction worker, masseuse, etc. Most "Unique" Parts of an Animal I've tried and Could Eat Again 1. Tripe 2. Chitlins 3. Turkey Hearts 4. Turkey Livers |
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Post by brutalis on Oct 24, 2016 9:01:15 GMT -5
Random list of Favorite Space Opera Hero's:
5. Silver Surfer
4. Adam Strange
3. Nexus
2. Adam Warlock
1. Captain Mar-Vell
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Post by brutalis on Nov 11, 2016 8:35:45 GMT -5
List of Favorite Christmas cartoon/special's and movies to begin watching: there is so much joy and cheer to be had but these are the major highlights to view each year for myself. Each year i mix and match adding other movies and specials and cartoons as the mood and whimsy of the season strikes me!
How the Grinch stole Christmas: classic with Karloff narrating! Can watch over and over.
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer: Rankin and Bass perfection.
Santa Claus is Coming to Town: who doesn't love a great villain with a name like Burgermesiter Meisterburger?
Year Without a Santa Claus: Heat Miser and Snow Miser steal the show every year!
The Little Drummer Boy paired with Nestor the Long Eared Donkey make me cry each time.
A Charlie Brown Christmas: such a sad little tree a reflection of Charlie himself
Frosty the Snowman: classic and timeless
Movies:
The Santa Clause 1, 2, 3: comedic holiday silliness
A Christmas story: parents always know best: you are just gonna shoot your eye out!
Dr. Seuess How the Grinch stole Christmas: the role Carrey was born for.
Arthur Christmas: pure holiday pleasure
Rise of the Guardians: who doesn't like their holiday characters as bad asses?
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 11, 2016 8:38:44 GMT -5
Random list of Favorite Space Opera Hero's: 5. Silver Surfer 4. Adam Strange 3. Nexus 2. Adam Warlock 1. Captain Mar-Vell Great choices. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 11, 2016 8:44:42 GMT -5
okay, I'll play-
Top Christmas Cartoons
1. Rudolph the red nosed Reindeer
2. Mr. magoos, Christmas Carol
3. Santa Claus is coming to town
4. Charlie Brown Christmas
5. Frosty the Snowman
Top Christmas movies-
1. A Christmas Carol - George C scott
2. Jingle All the Way
3. Polar Express
4. Babes in Toyland ( Laurel and Hardy)
5. Elf
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Post by brutalis on Nov 29, 2016 17:01:01 GMT -5
Random list of Season DVD's bought on Black Friday on the cheap ($10 and under)
Ash vs Evil Dead Season 1
Vikings Season 4 part 1
Shanarra Season 1
the Blacklist Season 3
Turn Seasons 1 and 2
American Horror Story Seasons 4 and 5
Big Bang Theory Season 9
Black Sails Season 2 and 3
The Flash Season 2
Legends of Tomorrow Season 1
War and Peace the BBC 6 part miniseries
DC animated: Justice League: Gods and Monsters
Scooby Doo meets Kiss
Movie: Burnt with Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 29, 2016 19:57:29 GMT -5
Nice score.
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Post by brutalis on Dec 8, 2016 9:34:19 GMT -5
Parts/order of Christmas Gingerbread man bitten off in: 1st: The head. Orf wif his head demands the Queen of Hearts! 2nd: Arm. Always leave the little guy his legs so he has a chance to get away. 3rd. Leg. Crippling the tasty cookie man so he can't escape his destiny---being devoured and nothing but crumbs left behind. Occasionally change it up and start with an arm or leg just so i don't get bored  |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Dec 8, 2016 10:49:19 GMT -5
Parts/order of Christmas Gingerbread man bitten off in: 1st: The head. Orf wif his head demands the Queen of Hearts! 2nd: Arm. Always leave the little guy his legs so he has a chance to get away. 3rd. Leg. Crippling the tasty cookie man so he can't escape his destiny---being devoured and nothing but crumbs left behind. Occasionally change it up and start with an arm or leg just so i don't get bored This reminds me of one of those Drake memes I saw ... Drake the type of dude to eat gummy bears two at a time so none of them die alone. :-) |
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Post by The Captain on Dec 8, 2016 11:11:43 GMT -5
My Top 10 Favorite Bands from the 80s(in order)*
1. Echo and the Bunnymen
2. The Smiths
3. The Cure
4. New Order
5. Erasure
6. Depeche Mode
7. The English Beat
8. XTC
9. Siouxsie and the Banshees
10. Duran Duran
*I recognize that some of these groups were founded in the 70s, but none of them came to any prominence until the 1980s.
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 8, 2016 12:46:10 GMT -5
My Top 10 Favorite Bands from the 80s(in order)* 1. Echo and the Bunnymen 2. The Smiths 3. The Cure 4. New Order 5. Erasure 6. Depeche Mode 7. The English Beat 8. XTC 9. Siouxsie and the Banshees 10. Duran Duran *I recognize that some of these groups were founded in the 70s, but none of them came to any prominence until the 1980s. 1. Dire Straits 2. Police 3. Fine Young Cannibals 4. The Scorpions 5. English Beat 6. Devo 7. INXS 8. Asia 9. Tears for Fears 10. Iron Maiden I'd have included Blondie, The Cars and The Clash; but, they were 70s bands who finished up in the 80s, with one last big hurrah. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 8, 2016 13:21:36 GMT -5
Favorite Christmas movies (in no particular order)
1. A Christmas Carol (Alistair Sim)
2. It's a Wonderful Life
3. Miracle on 34th Street
4. A Christmas Story
5. Scrooged
6. Christmas Vacation
7. Fitzwilly (set at Christmas time)
8. An American Christmas Carol (Henry Winkler)
9. A Christmas Carol (George C Scott)
10. The Ref (also set at Christmas)
Favorite Christmas stories:
1. A Christmas Carol-Charles Dickens
2. "Duel in the Snow, or Red Ryder Nails the Cleveland Street Kid"-In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash-Jean Shepard
3. "Gift of the Magi"-O Henry
4. Stupidest Christmas Angel-Christopher Moore
5. That one about the kid being born in a stable.....
Favorite Christmas specials:
1. Santa Claus is Coming to Town
2. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
3. A Charlie Brown Christmas
4. Year Without a Santa Claus
5. A Wish for Wings That Work
6. A Christmas Carol-Chuck Jones, with Alistair Sim voicing Scrooge
7. Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
8. Frosty the Snowman
9. The Little Drummer Boy
10. Garfield Christmas Special
Favorite Christmas-themed tv episodes
1. A Blackadder Christmas-Goodie-goodie Ebeneezer Blackadder shown life if he were evil.
2. Merry Christmas, Mr Bean
3. Vicar of Dibley-"Winter"-Live Nativity, complete with birth.
4. The Avengers-"Too Many Trees"-Dickens, murder, intrigue.
5. Mary Tyler Moore Show-Mary mans the station on Christmas Eve
6. Simpsons-"Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"-Santa's Little Helper
7. Brady Bunch-"The Voice of Christmas"-Cindy asks Santa to return her mommy's voice, to sing on Christmas Day
8. Partridge Family-"Don't Bring Your Guns to Town, Santa"-Partridges are stuck in an old western town and hear a story, then return the kindness, for Christmas
9. MASH-"Dear Sis"-Father Mulcahey feels he doesn't make a difference, but his act of kindness touches Charles
10. Dick Van Dyke Show-"The Alan Brady Show Presents"-The writers perform on tv, for an Alan Brady Christmas special.
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Post by The Captain on Dec 8, 2016 13:52:53 GMT -5
My Top 10 Favorite Bands from the 80s(in order)* 1. Echo and the Bunnymen 2. The Smiths 3. The Cure 4. New Order 5. Erasure 6. Depeche Mode 7. The English Beat 8. XTC 9. Siouxsie and the Banshees 10. Duran Duran *I recognize that some of these groups were founded in the 70s, but none of them came to any prominence until the 1980s. 1. Dire Straits 2. Police 3. Fine Young Cannibals 4. The Scorpions 5. English Beat 6. Devo 7. INXS 8. Asia 9. Tears for Fears 10. Iron Maiden I'd have included Blondie, The Cars and The Clash; but, they were 70s bands who finished up in the 80s, with one last big hurrah. If my list went to 15, INXS and Tears for Fears would be on it. Really like both of those groups as well. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2016 17:01:30 GMT -5
My Last 7 Movies that I watched
1. Tora, Tora, Tora - 1970 Movie On TCM
2. 1941 - Starring John Belushi - On TCM
3. On TNT - Star Wars
4. On TNT - Empire Strikes Back
5. On TNT - Return of the Jedi
6. Broadway Melody of 1940 - On TCM (DVR)
7. King Kong - 1933 with Fay Wray - On TCM (DVR)
Star Wars Movies lost their touch when they are shown on the Small Screen - I haven't seen them for awhile and wanted to watch them that day - I saw the movies on Friday Night with Friends.
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I have worked the deli counter at the grocery store and it is something unique unto itself for certain and i can say it too is one of the thankless jobs consumers seldom appreciate your effort for them. Where else do you get somebody wanting 5 pounds of ham sliced so thinly it turns to powder and you show this to them before beginning slicing to confirm this is how they really want it sliced. They say perfect then you slice it up and wrap it up and they take it around the store as they shop and then return it to you several minutes or more later and say this isn't how they asked and they wanted it thicker. Oh well, throw it into the barrel for making chorizo the next day! 
