QUOTE(StillThePrettiest @ Sep 25 2008, 11:40 AM) 
*I* do not make a big deal of anything - and in any case I wouldn't get too worried even if he did leave it up
This is why you are every guy's dream woman, in addition to being The Prettiest! 
Full Version: Strange things you're not used to
Yeah - I am not that bothered - I would prefer the seat to be up than to have pee on it 
As for insurance - I think we went with these guys
As for insurance - I think we went with these guys
I have 4 brothers, a dad and now a husband.. you get used to the seat being up...
I have two brothers, a dad, and now a husband, and have never had to get used to it - I guess they're all a rare breed 
With my two sons, its been a bit of a challenge. I feel happy that they do lift the seat, but not so happy when I sit in a wet toilet in the middle of the night. As they get older, though, they are improving. Just have to keep the training regime in place!
or build a dunny in the back garden for boys' use only 
C was raised in a house with 2 women, his mum and grandmum, so the seat is always down when I go in there. No middle-of-the-night shocks for me.
yeah it is a pain to have to put the seat down but think of the guys, they have to pick the seat up.. so I think it kind of evens out...
QUOTE(*Marilyn* @ Sep 25 2008, 02:55 PM)
yeah it is a pain to have to put the seat down but think of the guys, they have to pick the seat up.. so I think it kind of evens out...
That's always been my theory
Jeremy is good though and puts the seat down
QUOTE(*Marilyn* @ Sep 25 2008, 04:55 PM)
think of the guys, they have to pick the seat up.
Si, man -- WE have to fight GRAVITY!
one thing I have never figured out though is how they sometimes manage to miss the bowl... 
that's my biggest complaint. I don't mind the seat up so much as getting in there and stepping in a puddle
QUOTE(Reba @ Sep 25 2008, 05:19 PM)
that's my biggest complaint. I don't mind the seat up so much as getting in there and stepping in a puddle
yeah that is the worst...
QUOTE(*Marilyn* @ Sep 25 2008, 07:08 PM)
one thing I have never figured out though is how they sometimes manage to miss the bowl...
(Sigh, man) This is why women will never understand men, si man. The reason we miss the bowl is intentional and obvious: we're trying to hit a fly or a bug! We earn points for stunning or soaking it, and the jackpot for causing it to fall into the bowl, whereupon we continue to nail it until we are finished with our business. This is the natural hunting instinct within All Guys, si man.And, we make you step in the puddle so that you will be motivated to clean it up (so that we don't have to), si man.
Also, to rectify my own booboo of getting us off the topic, the title of this thread is "strange things we're not used to." Because nothing could possibly be strange about missing because we're nailing bugs, what else can we talk about that's on topic, si man?
QUOTE(athena_ny @ Jan 23 2008, 02:40 PM)
QUOTE(Nessa @ Jan 23 2008, 01:48 PM)
- not having bakeries everywhere with fresh bread and yummy pastries
- not having people filling up the gas for me (i hate having to leave my car for that)
- not having alcohol at the same aisle as the beverages, I have to go to a different store for that
- having to see 1 doctor to get a referal to another doctor and having to wait months for the 1st appointment
- not being able to schedule my therapy weekly for several weird reasons
- pay taxes, the price you see on the product isn't the price you pay to the cashier
- clothing sizes, not being able to find my size cuz they just don't have more than 1 pair of pants that size (if they sell all size 2 on the day it arrives, just order twice as much instead of having a whole bunch of size 18 nobody buys)
- not being able to air the house by opening the windows cuz there's A/C and heating so we're always closed like in a prison
- trying to figure out how many gallons/mile when I'm used to liters/km
- no metric system
- even though i was causasian in brazil here they have a special race if you're white and not born in america but I still haven't figured out which one am I
- tipping everybody
- not finding a seamstress (we would find one every corner in Brazil) to fix my clothes and the one I found is highly expensive
- the absurdly high prices they charge for services that are cheap like manicure, pedicure
I could go on and on with weird things here
- not having people filling up the gas for me (i hate having to leave my car for that)
- not having alcohol at the same aisle as the beverages, I have to go to a different store for that
- having to see 1 doctor to get a referal to another doctor and having to wait months for the 1st appointment
- not being able to schedule my therapy weekly for several weird reasons
- pay taxes, the price you see on the product isn't the price you pay to the cashier
- clothing sizes, not being able to find my size cuz they just don't have more than 1 pair of pants that size (if they sell all size 2 on the day it arrives, just order twice as much instead of having a whole bunch of size 18 nobody buys)
- not being able to air the house by opening the windows cuz there's A/C and heating so we're always closed like in a prison
- trying to figure out how many gallons/mile when I'm used to liters/km
- no metric system
- even though i was causasian in brazil here they have a special race if you're white and not born in america but I still haven't figured out which one am I
- tipping everybody
- not finding a seamstress (we would find one every corner in Brazil) to fix my clothes and the one I found is highly expensive
- the absurdly high prices they charge for services that are cheap like manicure, pedicure
I could go on and on with weird things here
When I go to the store, I can never find my size no matter what size I am. Could never find 6s when was a 6, now I'm a 10 and I can't find that.
Though, when I worked retail, there were far less people who needed the size 2s and far more people who needed the in between sizes - even the larger sizes, we got very few of. While there may only be 2 size 2s, it may take 2 months for those to sell as opposed to 2 weeks for the size 8s and 10s and 12s. This is in general, of course. Now, in the juniors section it makes more sense to have more smaller sizes, so we got more in of those, usually. It's just more cost effective MOST of the time. (We got very few 18s if it helps
)As for the special race thing - Hispanic is made up by the US government, I have an issue with that. My husband would just call himself mestizo if he had the choice, but puts Hispanic because he's obviously not "white". If you're white and that's what you consider yourself, I'd just put that
If you are white but from latin america and mark down white in the form, they'll scratch it and mark "hispanic". You just can't be white and latinamerican at the same time!!
The fruit is so expensive! Specially tropical ones. Mangoes, papayas, they are like 30 cents a kilo in Peru. And in th eUS they are like ten times the price and they are TINY and insipid. They look prettier, though! 
QUOTE(michellea @ Jan 31 2008, 12:46 PM)
The thing that I will never get used to is that "Iced tea' is actually tea, cold, and not the sweet sugary thing that we call it up here in Canada.
You must live in the north, no one would dare serve tea without sugar in the south without at least a doctor's note staying you have diabetes. It can take out teeth it's so sweet in Georgia.
QUOTE(Tarumba @ Sep 28 2008, 10:45 AM)
As for the special race thing - Hispanic is made up by the US government, I have an issue with that. My husband would just call himself mestizo if he had the choice, but puts Hispanic because he's obviously not "white". If you're white and that's what you consider yourself, I'd just put that
If you are white but from latin america and mark down white in the form, they'll scratch it and mark "hispanic". You just can't be white and latinamerican at the same time!!
If you are white but from latin america and mark down white in the form, they'll scratch it and mark "hispanic". You just can't be white and latinamerican at the same time!!
hispanic is a term that indicates a combination of spanish, indian, and occasionally black genetic background. it's a special combination of characteristics that is not truely european or amerind in nature, but common enoug to deserve it's own classification.
QUOTE(mkg265 @ Oct 5 2008, 10:21 PM)
You must live in the north, no one would dare serve tea without sugar in the south without at least a doctor's note staying you have diabetes. It can take out teeth it's so sweet in Georgia.
Same here in NC. I've only been here a couple of weeks and I can't get enough of the stuff - I love it.
I now ration myself to just one glass and only if I'm eating out.
disgusting stuff, Southern Sweet Tea bleah
bleah
QUOTE(Reba @ Oct 6 2008, 07:31 AM)
disgusting stuff, Southern Sweet Tea bleah
bleahYou take that back, right now!!
Although I understand the reason for it I find it very amusing being asked for ID when I go to a bar after all I'm sure I look young for my age but I'm 50 years old and I don't think I really look under age.
Tony
Tony
QUOTE(Reba @ Oct 6 2008, 06:31 AM)
disgusting stuff, Southern Sweet Tea bleah
bleahOh i agree and that unsweatened Ice tea is yukky too
QUOTE(govols @ Oct 6 2008, 08:28 AM)
Although I understand the reason for it I find it very amusing being asked for ID when I go to a bar after all I'm sure I look young for my age but I'm 50 years old and I don't think I really look under age.
Tony
Tony
My husband is amused that at Wegmans grocery store he can't buy beer unless he has his passport. And the policy is for everyone. I've seen them turn away people in their 70's if they don't have ID. What a crazy policy.
QUOTE(Reba @ Oct 6 2008, 07:31 AM)
disgusting stuff, Southern Sweet Tea bleah
bleahI agree. Way too sweet.
Sorry Muffin.
QUOTE(English Muffin @ Oct 6 2008, 07:36 AM)
QUOTE(Reba @ Oct 6 2008, 07:31 AM)
disgusting stuff, Southern Sweet Tea bleah
bleahYou take that back, right now!!
QUOTE(*julez* @ Oct 6 2008, 12:56 PM)
My husband is amused that at Wegmans grocery store he can't buy beer unless he has his passport. And the policy is for everyone. I've seen them turn away people in their 70's if they don't have ID. What a crazy policy.
I want a Wegmans.
QUOTE(Krikit @ Oct 6 2008, 04:51 PM)
QUOTE(*julez* @ Oct 6 2008, 12:56 PM)
My husband is amused that at Wegmans grocery store he can't buy beer unless he has his passport. And the policy is for everyone. I've seen them turn away people in their 70's if they don't have ID. What a crazy policy.
I want a Wegmans.
Did you manage to get to Wegman's when you were in the area, Krikit? The Wegman's that is close to my new house is FAB!! Twice the size of my "old" location and just lots and lots of yummy stuff.
Ok - I know we have had turning right on a red light but even weirder is that when the lights are green and you can turn right, the pedestrians have their little "walk" light on so you can't turn right anyway unless you want to kill someone!!!
QUOTE(*julez* @ Oct 6 2008, 05:00 PM)
Did you manage to get to Wegman's when you were in the area, Krikit? The Wegman's that is close to my new house is FAB!! Twice the size of my "old" location and just lots and lots of yummy stuff.
No, I never got there!
Is your new Wegmans like the one beside The Boulevard Mall? That one's my favourite. 
But it's out of my way if I'm just driving through, so maybe the one by you is closer to the thruway? I like the one on Peach St in Erie, too, but the traffic on that street is sooooooo heavy that I hate having to drive down there. 
QUOTE(Krikit @ Oct 6 2008, 05:22 PM)
QUOTE(*julez* @ Oct 6 2008, 05:00 PM)
Did you manage to get to Wegman's when you were in the area, Krikit? The Wegman's that is close to my new house is FAB!! Twice the size of my "old" location and just lots and lots of yummy stuff.
No, I never got there!
Is your new Wegmans like the one beside The Boulevard Mall? That one's my favourite. But it's out of my way if I'm just driving through, so maybe the one by you is closer to the thruway? I like the one on Peach St in Erie, too, but the traffic on that street is sooooooo heavy that I hate having to drive down there. Mine is across from McKinely Mall and is easily accessible if you take the Blasdel exit off the I-90. Not sure of the exit #, but next time you're passing through you should definitely pop in. Its amazing!! I
Wegman's!
QUOTE(Jeraly @ Oct 6 2008, 04:04 PM)
Ok - I know we have had turning right on a red light but even weirder is that when the lights are green and you can turn right, the pedestrians have their little "walk" light on so you can't turn right anyway unless you want to kill someone!!!
"So many pedestrians; so little time." Go for it, I say, si man; one or two per day will never be missed.
Wegmans? 
QUOTE(Ontarkie @ Oct 6 2008, 10:50 AM)
QUOTE(Reba @ Oct 6 2008, 06:31 AM)
disgusting stuff, Southern Sweet Tea bleah
bleahOh i agree and that unsweatened Ice tea is yukky too
Agree about the sweet tea, but I drink the unsweetened stuff by the gallon when I'm out there - luverly
. Before I went out there I'd never had the stuff before, either. Now, I ask for it here as a matter of course when I go out to eat, and get looked at like I'm from Mars or something - just like 'er indoors used to do when she came here and asked for it!! If I'm "lucky" the establishment concerned may have some of that pre-bottled Liptons stuff, but ya just can't beat a nice big pitcher of the stuff.QUOTE(Jeraly @ Oct 6 2008, 07:01 PM)
Wegmans?
Only the most fabulousest grocery store of all time.
I never heard of it
Ahhh.. it's all up northeast... no wonder - completely the opposite side of the country to me So why is it so great?
Our local store is Stater Bros - not such a nice website but they sell Yogi Tea which is great and they have nutella, Thai curry pastes, Pataks, Carrs cheese melts...
So why is it so great?Our local store is Stater Bros - not such a nice website but they sell Yogi Tea which is great and they have nutella, Thai curry pastes, Pataks, Carrs cheese melts...
QUOTE(Jeraly @ Oct 7 2008, 11:21 AM)
Our local store is Stater Bros - not such a nice website but they sell Yogi Tea which is great and they have nutella, Thai curry pastes, Pataks, Carrs cheese melts...
What about treacle?
not too sure - haven't checked... although there is almost a whole aisle devoted to "syrup"
QUOTE(Jeraly @ Oct 7 2008, 12:22 PM)
there is almost a whole aisle devoted to "syrup"
Then, get down there (faster than molasses) and see whether the store is legitimate and offers treacle, si man.
I suspect that T-Bone is of the persuasion that 'if you repeat a joke often enough it becomes funny', si man
QUOTE(English Muffin @ Oct 6 2008, 07:36 AM)
You take that back, right now!!
nope, sorry, can't do it! I prefer mine with a bit more lemon than sugar. Hubby on the other hand would prefer to go into a sugar induced coma he likes his so sweet!
QUOTE(StillThePrettiest @ Oct 7 2008, 05:24 PM)
I suspect that T-Bone is of the persuasion that 'if you repeat a joke often enough it becomes funny', si man
Uh, si man. And, I suspect that StP is still The Prettiest. Am taking a break from 12 straight hours of clean-housing in prep for C.'s presumed entry on Oct. 9. Lawyer says that harassment of K-1 entrants is "rare," but nothing about our journey has been smooth, no man. Closer to home, there's probably another 3 or 4 hours of clean-housing ahead, aargh man. If only treacle had booze in it, si man...
You could just buy some booze?
QUOTE(Jeraly @ Oct 9 2008, 09:55 AM)
You could just buy some booze?
No, man. Brittania rules the waves, si man, and Britannia's gross national product is supported by, or is, treacle, si man, and it should have booze in it, hic man.Worked from 10 a.m. Wed. till 2:30 Thurs. cleaning the crib, oof man. Will fold final load of laundry, then head to airport. Once C. is ensconced here at the crib, she can do all of this, and I can resume being a Macho.
(NOT, man.)Back on here later tonightly, perhaps man.
Oh I hope everything goes ok at POE for you - let us know how you get on
Back on topic though - does anyone have a proper grill? Like in England where you open the oven door, select the grill option and then you have a grill pan and removable handle...? We don't have one and I don't know what equivalent there is without having yet another appliance to clutter up our tiny kitchen!!!
Back on topic though - does anyone have a proper grill? Like in England where you open the oven door, select the grill option and then you have a grill pan and removable handle...? We don't have one and I don't know what equivalent there is without having yet another appliance to clutter up our tiny kitchen!!!
QUOTE(Jeraly @ Oct 9 2008, 03:17 PM)
Oh I hope everything goes ok at POE for you - let us know how you get on
POE successful, si man; see review under POE link, then "Houston."QUOTE
Back on topic though - does anyone have a proper grill?
Why are you grilling us about this? Aren't we grilled enough at the consular interviews, si man? Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Oh glad it went so smoothly!! It must be sooooo good to be together at last after everything you have been through!!
So when's the big day?!
So when's the big day?!
QUOTE(Jeraly @ Oct 10 2008, 10:16 AM)
Oh glad it went so smoothly!! It must be sooooo good to be together at last after everything you have been through!!
Thanks, & si man!QUOTE
So when's the big day?!
Dunno, man; there's uncertainty regarding a "celebration." Apparently, her country's post-wedding culture is to have a smallish family-type dinner, whereas ours is usually to have a big bash, si man. Mama T-Bone & I think that SOMEthing should be done, but on what scale? To complicate matters, C. is leaving it completely up to us, whereas my entire training (and past experience) is that the bride decides everything and the husband is a useless, even irritating, appendage. Ergothuswithforthly, the three of us are essentially standing around and looking blankly at each other, duh man. Advice?And, this fits into the "strange things you're not used to" topic, but from the USC's standpoint. Ironic, si man.
Hahaha - well it all depends on what you want - we had a small wedding in February with about 17 people and afterwards we went and had a nice meal on the patio of a cafe - it was really nice Then we had a big evening reception in the UK for all the friends and family
Maybe you can have your wedding, however you decide to do it, then have a small but nice meal (ours was a three course one) then in the evening you can go out together or stay in a nice hotel room for a night or two and chillout and enjoy just being together after such a horrendous journey!
Then we had a big evening reception in the UK for all the friends and family Maybe you can have your wedding, however you decide to do it, then have a small but nice meal (ours was a three course one) then in the evening you can go out together or stay in a nice hotel room for a night or two and chillout and enjoy just being together after such a horrendous journey!
QUOTE(Jeraly @ Oct 10 2008, 12:02 PM)
Maybe you can have your wedding, however you decide to do it, then have a small but nice meal (ours was a three course one) then in the evening you can go out together or stay in a nice hotel room for a night or two and chillout and enjoy just being together after such a horrendous journey!
Hmmm... si, man. Actually, she has a cold from too many going-away parties plus the airline trip, and I'm hawking loogies from too much vacuuming, cough man, and it's nearly St. Patrick's Day and I've done nothing to prepare. I should dress in a costume and go door-to-door begging for candy, si man. That's how close we are to having any plans for a wedding, aargh man.Getting back on the topic (shudder, man), C. says over and over how glad she is that this is NOT her first time in the U.S. -- she knows the language, how things operate, etc. Some of her countrywomen who are here for the first time go through terrible culture-shock, the language barrier, missing their families, awful homesickness, etc., oof man. This subject has been thoroughly covered in other threads, but it's worth mentioning. Interestingly, there are few or no clothes-dryers in Ecuador (everyone hangs stuff on clotheslines even in the cold rainy cities, brrr man), no automatic dishwashers (the husbands there are Machos and do no housework, no man), and -- meaning that I could never move there -- there is almost NO cat food sold except in the huge hypermarkets, and even in the ONE pet store that I saw in the whole country, there wasn't any of the premium diet food, miu man. Oh -- and there aren't electronic litterboxes in Ecuador, either, no man!
so glad things went well with the POE, T-Bone
Aly - no grill for us either
I miss it... we can use the 'broil' option on our oven, and it's better than nothing, but the only settings are 'hi' and 'lo', and it doesn't do that great a job
Aly - no grill for us either
I miss it... we can use the 'broil' option on our oven, and it's better than nothing, but the only settings are 'hi' and 'lo', and it doesn't do that great a job
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