Dolls - Action Figures

Dolls: little representations of fictional characters (Barbie and the like) designed for playtime for, stereotypically, little girls.

Little girls and boys will use dolls to enact stories, different dolls playing different roles within any sequence. As a result, dolls get a lot of use, do a lot of acting for their humans.


Action figures: little representations of fictional characters (Batman and the like) which are designed to boost their stereotypically male owner's esteem and designed solely for display.

I know there are those like He-Man which are designed for active use, but often when one thinks "action figure", one doesn't necessarily associate it with "playtime".


So why dolls so characterized as passive when obviously they're a hell lot more active than these "action figures"?

Rant: Talay Thai has no more whole deep fried fish.

I got really mad today. I went down to Talay Thai, which happens to be the ONLY restaurant downtown which serves whole deep fried tilapia. Whole deep fried fish is hard to find here, and for some reason, you fucking Westerners seem to assume that deep frying with batter is a good idea when you obviously are just saturating your fucking fish in FAT!!!!

Anyways, Talay Thai changed its menu... it no longer serves whole deep fried tilapia, but ... SALMON FILLETS!!!!

WTF???

SALMON ISN'T THAI! Nor are fillets!

I asked for the reason why they switched it... apparently they've been getting complaints of... get this...

Too Many Bones.

....

ITS FISH, YOU FUCKING MORONS. OF COURSE THERE'S GONNA BE BONES! The fucking menu says WHOLE deep fried fish! Not deep fried FILLETS. Apparently you first-worlders still can't fucking read even though you're rich and privileged enough to patronize an international foods restaurant! The waitress told me of how someone had ordered the fish as a takeout, TWO fishes in fact, and when they came to collect, they gave this "ugh" look and refused to take them! WTF? Just TRY! Just LEARN HOW TO EAT FISH!

Do you honestly think your fisherman wants to go to the trouble of cutting up your fish into fillets, throwing away good bones and wasting fish meat? God no!

I took a friend with me once and I ordered the fish. She's a vegetarian, so she didn't have it with me. At one point, she said, "Jaymee, the fish is staring at me."

No shit, Sherlock, fish have eyes. And it's also DEAD. Stop looking at my goddamn fish if it's creeping you out. She's vegetarian so I didn't chew her out, but FOR FUCK'S SAKE... if you're going to eat meat, DEAL with the fact that it was once alive, RESPECT the living thing that it was... we're so distanced from our food, buying it in packages in supermarkets, and we forget that our food came from a living creature!!

I used to love Talay Thai so much for STAYING authentic, serving whole fried fish that hadn't been drowned in batter, and it was crispy and yummy... NOT ANYMORE! Customers who don't even know how to TASTE complain because it has "too many bones".

Eating whole fried fish is an art. You need to get up and cut it up along the fins, top and bottom, the head and the tail. There's meat in the cheeks and forehead of the fish. If it's really deep fried, the tail fin can be eaten. You need to navigate around the gills. YOU NEED TO EAT IT WITH RICE! Or something equivalent.

But noooooooooo..... silly consumerism has taken this art away!! We're used to fillets and people cutting up our fish for us so we don't have to deal with the nasty bones. FISH HAVE BONES, OKAY??

THe only other place to get whole deep fried fish is Chinatown... not only is it a pain in the arse to get to, but the fish is also dipped in BATTER, not marinated with rice flour and salt like deep fried fish ought to be!

I have SUCH a huge problem with this lack of regard for our food, the overwhelming incapability to look an animal in the eye and thank it for the meat it's giving. That's why I respect the Farmer's Market and other land-sustaining forms of farming like Polyface Farms, where the animals are treated respectfully in their lifetimes, and slaughtered cleanly. When you know where your food is coming from, and you've seen the animal it comes from, you're damn well less likely to waste your goddamn food!!

Too many bones, up your nose! When you go into a restaurant that obviously sells international foods, it's usually a fucking good idea to keep an open mind to the idea of EATING SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFRENT. You privileged arses and your dumbass expectations!