"JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote in message
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>
> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Goomba38 wrote:
> >
> >> > What happens when you watch Rachel Ray and her inane hand gestures.
DO
> >> > you get the idea that she is talking about broken windmills?
> >> >
> >> As another Italian, it is something we just *do*. I don't know how it
> >> starts but it seems to be commonplace. I can think of much more
annoying
> >> traits, can't you?
> >
> > I am well aware of the Italian habit of using their hands, but it is
> > usually
> > done in a more meaningful way, to help describe something, or as
emphasis.
> > Rachel's sort of dangles her limp wrists and swings her arms randomly
with
> > the lower arms and wrist flopping about. I can't stand to watch it.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> I've only watched her once, and that was enough. The theme of the show was
> "Watch how I can eat for just $5.83 a day while travelling through New
> England", or some such nonsense. Lunch was like...a teaspoon of yogurt
> topped with a shredded hotel receipt, and she was all excited. And, way
too
> much of that quickly shifting camera work which I hope will soon go out of
> style because it's stupid.
>
>

It's that stupid $40 a day show. Okay, if you and a significant other are
on vacation for a week, do you want to spend $80 ($40 a piece) a day on
food? I don't think so! Find me some cheaper restaurants, please, OR
better yet, lets just camp and cook out?!?

Absolutely ridiculous.

kili