Happy St George's Day

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3 minutes ago, laylalex said:

I'm going for organic growth on upvotes personally.  

I see you are now comfortably mid table.

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I suppose there's the TBone school of thought on upvotes, and the Boiler school of thought. And both schools have their adherents, and they both have their pros and cons. But ultimately, I am, like The Dude in the Big Lebowski, a fundamentally lazy person, and I prefer to let the votes come to me rather than to seek them out.

 

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14 hours ago, Boiler said:

Thanks for nothing.  You made me look like a fool! 

 

Our extended family is still hiding out here, stepdaughter and husband and kids.  Her husband is a Brit and I wished him a happy St Geroge's day and he looked at me kind of funny and said "we don't celebrate that day."  He didn't even know why George was a saint.

 

He did say that St Patrick's day is important as it is another great reason to drink.

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We do not *do* St. George's Day here, but Voldy was very into it. I celebrated by ignoring the email he sent me asking if his father's in-progress IR5 visa will be affected by the EO.  

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St Patrick's day is a Bank Holiday in Ireland, I certainly never celebrated it in the UK, I have gone to events in the US,  the first one involved kilts and bagpipes. most odd.

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6 minutes ago, Boiler said:

St Patrick's day is a Bank Holiday in Ireland, I certainly never celebrated it in the UK, I have gone to events in the US,  the first one involved kilts and bagpipes. most odd.

That is... very odd. But then there are so many things that the British get wrong about America over there -- I went to a Fourth of July party over there which I have to say was very strange and probably wrong. The macaroni salad was very upsetting I remember. I think it was an excuse for a booze up, really.

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It's not a Fourth of July party if everyone forgot to bring the potato salad.

 

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59 minutes ago, laylalex said:

That is... very odd. But then there are so many things that the British get wrong about America over there -- I went to a Fourth of July party over there which I have to say was very strange and probably wrong. The macaroni salad was very upsetting I remember. I think it was an excuse for a booze up, really.

I did a Thanksgiving dinner, all very odd but people joined in.

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33 minutes ago, Boiler said:

I did a Thanksgiving dinner, all very odd but people joined in.

I did a Thanksgiving dinner over there the year I was doing study abroad. The pumpkin I was able to find at an ASDA but I didn't know how to make pie from an actual pumpkin -- I'd grown up making pies from canned pumpkin. It was not a good pie.  However the apple pies saved the dessert day. Pretty much everything else I was able to replicate, including cranberry sauce. I did a dinner for 10 people which at the age of 20 felt like a real achievement. It helped that my flatmate was pretty much a domestic goddess -- she was the one who taught me proper knife skills. 

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12 minutes ago, laylalex said:

-- she was the one who taught me proper knife skills. 

Something some members here need to remember.

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12 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Something some members here need to remember.

Voldy knew and he STILL married me. 

 

My mom gave me my first cookbook when I moved into an off-campus apartment my senior year. I still have it -- The Joy of Cooking. On the flyleaf she wrote, "A kitchen is a woman's refuge -- after all, that's where they keep the knives."

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1 hour ago, laylalex said:

proper knife skills

In the back and twist, of course.  

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4 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

In the back and twist, of course.  

Well, Lorena Bobbitt used a knife a little differently.  🤢

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13 hours ago, Boiler said:

I did a Thanksgiving dinner, all very odd but people joined in.

Haiku, see man:

 

All very odd but

did a Thanksgiving dinner;

people joined Boiler.